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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN r 5VGRANVILLE CHURCH -a. a- -IsrT LHTUI AH J .irtdy o their way l j,(t recelres aoU Itfl wrnln them U ha to nrn bck. m UU V'TZm Lee. .p.!I..ini to the troptas. Jl f f only ftr r, u. b of chi.f r organised tnril I ..ct of Wettme. I'L Libre to Bud tora's V . . eonremtloB wit T Hl Iraras that Mltea- ..om, 0.. J P (or Senor MonUya. '..doa of the company Jt1t impltloui. jflga WITH inn (HATTER IH Lj-dofI for Puerto So- tt His launch wa built 'Tboj ipeed, and bucking JJul the coast would alow .totter. Cfeek it took the combined Cfelh Lee and Curt to keep U of mischief. U, i downriver boat snug-Ci snug-Ci berth with the ease ol 1 Hire a pair of tooti, ,irrench railway train's. -Uplink was wheeled to jfjride and the Job of b completed. Ijgtiji was unmistakable trf bearing, very clearly I ft pelo, the gente prln-ten prln-ten countries. He wore (bites, crisp panama on Ubilr. Straight from the ( Bttle group he came. L apologies, Mr. Cur-i Cur-i Curtis," were his first k rpoke with very little tag!) the timbre of his njed his Spanish origin. I I deep bow to Lee, held ud to Curt "I have been i busy . since ah, Mr. f unfortunate happening. k discovered by now the I Med a new Chief Engi- )tt boys in hand, hold-Iktoest hold-Iktoest with the selection Vtie, gaudy straw bat for item, from stock piled a Jul vendor's head, while i led Curt on a quick Its docks and facilities I fads, two items instantly im-two boxes forty feet I ride, and quite thin for Curt cocked a I sen. aid briefly, "Spare 1 hoars two planes. One i tied up for weeks once wing, so now we ioi band." i you're had considerable I job planes." m the monosyllabic re- M are they?" h tocrenational question, lart made no difference ! i another what Montaya I Jrt the question brought I fnck glance from eyes f beady black here in the pt big receiving shed j wgueness in reply. Jta the bodega was piled fkmli bearing the stencil pwn chemical firm. Curt them, looked them Jl toosiderable Interest. W the sou before plant-sbt plant-sbt "Over-acid, I sup-Penturies sup-Penturies of flooding." Meftnitely stamped Mon-4 Mon-4 st this, but was imbued im-bued away by a smile .'ntn, white teeth. uirus," the senor re- "is a question that wte the head of chem- we have a chemiral toenies. uttl you. he mav ho wer your questions. "wunt on it," he said. ' ash of teeth, "fir ."" Jealous of his the- we shall get W.N.U. SERVICE Senor Montaya eyed Curt a mo- meni. "I am quite sure along. Mr. Curtis." They took a rapid look-see In the port office, Montaya introducing curi casually, then returned to Lee and the children, seated on their pile of luggage. The boys' leashes were on them again, much to their audible disgust. A pair of quick toots now came from the river steamer that had been loading all morning, even as the Pisces docked. The baggage was hauled aboard, the little party followed. As they headed slowly upstream, Senor Montaya made hii guests comfortable under a deck awning. Iced coffee was served as the children, chil-dren, exhausted from heat and excitement, ex-citement, slept on a sarape spread on the deck, each Jealously clutching his new hat. big as himself. To Montaya Jeff said casually, "I suppose there's no reason why you shouldn't say who recommended me to you?" "No, none," admitted his host "It was Mr. Mitchell." "Mitchell!" "Yes, himself. Though perhaps unknowingly. I explain. Many times I had to warn him about his attitude toward the men under him. Of course, I what do you say? ah, yes, I hounded him to get the work done, for we have much to do before the rainy season, and it has not gone too ?fr m jri if i Senor Montaya preened himself. "A good site, no? The whole year tht-re are winds that sweep across this face of the mountains in late afternoon and evening, but never does the wind come up from the old swampland. The result? We are happy to have no malaria here where we live. "This makes the senora more comfortable, no?" He pointed as the car rounded a curve and the town came into fuller view. "You see that long, low building? Our hospital. Larger than we need, perhaps, but it Is more better to be prepared. Across the plaza is our clubhouse. That building of two stories sto-ries which looks out over the valley from between, it it our administration administra-tion building. The ground floor is commissary where the tenora can get anything she needs. We are very proud of San Alejo." "Reason to be." grunted Curt. "Good layout" "So we think, too. There is nothing noth-ing to break our view. In back of the club we have the swimming pool, the tennis courts, also the schools three of them. For the different dif-ferent ages of the children, no?" And now the car took another curve that brought into sight the farther down-slope of Mt. San Alejo. Below, about a kilometer from the town, was an exceptionally long, cleared field, with a broad well-worn strip down its length. A branch of the railroad led to it around the base of the mountain. "Good sized field." Curt commented. comment-ed. "You've several buildings besides be-sides hangars." "Yes." Just the one word. "But is that a fence I see around the field?" "Your eyes are sharp, Mr. Curtis. Yes, the field does have a fence. Our chief pilot nearly lost his life during his first month here because of a native's mania for souvenirs. We had not thought to properly protect pro-tect the planes. It is a serious thing to risk one's life in the air, Mr. Curtis, Cur-tis, so I felt I should put a fence around the field." Curt saw a flash behind the living-quarters. "Swimming pool?" "Yes, a small one. I do all I can to keep the men contented. It is much worth the cost it pays well." At the far end of the field was a sizeable copse of trees, and Curt wondered that they should be 'left standing within the field. Before he could see more, however, another switch-back of the climbing railroad lost the field to view. The motorcar, laboring up the grade, came out onto a level stretch, picked up speed, and at once they were In the heart of the small town. "It is late," Montaya was saying. "You have yet to unpack and get settled. I will take you to your house now. I trust Senora, that the cook and house servant we furnish you will prove satisfactory." Lee made a vague sound in reply. "In the morning," Montaya turned to Curt "if you will come to my of- Each Jealously clutching his new j flce at elght j WU gpend the day hat big as himself, well But certainly I did not want him to antagonize the workers. "One can ah, drive some men, others not. It is a fine point to know how far one can go with workers. work-ers. When I saw the many enemies ene-mies Mr. Mitchell was making, I thought 'But this is unfortunate.' I feared ah, an 'accident.' So It was happy for me that I led him into talk of competent engineers. You were one he mentioned above others. oth-ers. You see?" Two hours of fighting the current upriver, and they found at Tempujo another modern dock, with a long floating stage built to allow for the rise of the river in flood-time. Now, the river at low point the wharf towered high with you. We shall how do you say it? ah, yes, buckle down to work." The sidewalks were not wide enough for the group abreast Montaya Mon-taya walked ahead, carrying the two children whose shoes made smudges on his spotless coat. The boys were silent with this stranger. Lee wrinkled wrin-kled her nose in distaste at the se-nor's se-nor's faultlessly tailored back. "Hal" the murmured. "Look at him. the dark lilyl" "Sh." Curt tightened his hold on her arm. "He may have ears," he whispered. "Well, I don't care," the muttered resentfully. "Look how he carries the kids. He likes children? I laugh, ha-ha." Montaya deposited the boys care-full care-full before a hedge of hibiscus, above them. Their opened the wire gate, smiled them baggage was swung upward in a cargo net a deckhand riding the hook to avoid the stairs, while Curt and the others climbed the long fliffht nf stpna from the floatine I expect will produce ttage to the landing above. ter fruit thnn . . . .1. ... , i- spread Deiore mem, on me oniy ! rise w, AttUU lui imica aiuus una tide of the river, was a small town built arrowhead-fashion around a fan-shaped railroad terminus of storage tracks. Montaya pointed out a centrally located bungalow. "Your Tempujo office, Mr. Curtis. There is sleeping accommodation there for you. There will be nights when you are unable to get back to-San Alejo." Montaya led the party to two mo- t turnino ihi. i Montaya pulled at T up unusually red r--iuy swn. i rJW to Work, alnno ltk You Jre responsi- ojiDeeru g work .s-3JW .s-3JW as Dr. Toenjet "Agricultural Super-Z!'.Mt Super-Z!'.Mt Laestockia- )JJden?" u Ctract employees 'JSV"0 BreSwed- ,rn here a. pilots. kJ need two full-time Cr01 charge of that kn. " rJC nen mull- V? n dlnng this no. C?We awhile Kb hi lUl ' mU: Xtoll' f telling NKb?line8? Well, Sfr.N rne 'tfa L d 01 your ven-m ven-m Interest t -omy wanderln.1 torcars, automobiles with flanged I grief yhis morning she was buried. I wheels- to operate- on the- narrow gauge railroad tracks. Side windows win-dows of the sedan bodies rolled completely into the framework, making all-weather cars for the variable va-riable qlirnate., , Montaya ordered the two motor, boys ahead with the baggage, while he drove the Curtises in the second car. Off they sped across the flat, uninteresting un-interesting country. Far off on Curt's right was what appeared to be a ' trtmendoiis salt field, but he knew it couldn't be that Lime, went his thoughts, laid by airplane before planting. San Alejo sat prettily on an out-Jutting out-Jutting hump of the range a full thousand feet above the flats, and the railroad took to sharp curves and steep grades in climbing to the town. Slanting down from a bowl of summit! abova was a pipe line, indicating a reservoir. through onto the neatly scythed lawn where a mango, a fast-growing tree, already offered some shade to lawn and house. He was about to turn away with a gallant lift of his hat, when Curt mentioned Mrs. Mitchell for the first time. "We were close friends with the Mitchells a few years ago. It must have been a terrible blow to her," he said. "I think we should exprest our regrets as soon as possible." "Ah." Senor Montaya pulled at his lower lip. "It was a most terrible terri-ble shock to her, Mr. Curtis." He cast a glance at Lee. "I ah, had not meant to speak of it before the senora, but to be. sure she will have to know. Mrs. Mitchell ah, com mitted suicide only yesterday. From A sad affair, yes. inai was wnai delayed me." Curt managed a blank face to hide the disturbing shock, but Lee was frankly astonished. She reached for Curt's hand. Not until Montaya-was out of hearing, however, did she exclaim: "She never! Zora Mitchell commit com-mit suicide? Not Zora! She wasn't the type. Besides, she never cared that much for him." "She never seemed to," admitted Curt" slowly: Tbey were a -aool-enough couple." He turned to the house. Absently he held Lee's hand as they climbed the steps. But bis free hand. In his pocket was crushing Zora Mitchell's note. Before going to bed that night Curt held a lighted match to the noU. But tha words were burned igto his mind. (TO BE CONTINUED) Kathleen Norris Says: No Shortage ol Jobs for Women of 50 nll Syndicate WNU Features. Civ your roe afternoons every week to the tick of the neighborhood or to your hospital kitchen and you'll not have to ask again for the right to do "something "some-thing for the boy." By KATHLEEN NORRIS THIS article is written for women of 50 years and more who have some time to spare, cannot enter upen defense jobs with regular regu-lar and difficult hours, and yet are passionately anxious to do something to help our country in her hour of need, and bring nearer the glorious hour of a good and honest peace. Such women speak to me and write to me every day. I am never in any group but what they approach ap-proach me. "My daughter is working work-ing in a machine plant and the boy is in uniform, but what can I do? I must do something!" they say. Well. Til tell you oaov thing that you can do, a thing that embraces a thousand others. You can help our woefully small and insufficient army of doctors and nurses. We have not enough now, and we are going to feel a dangerous shortage later on. You can do what the writer writ-er of this article hopes to do, follow a Red Cross primary training by a special course in midwifery, learn to handle women through normal confinements, and welcome new babies into this war-clouded world for the young mothers go right on having them, God bless them, and that work must be done. SM Babies, No Norses. Ia one western town whose normal staff was 17 doctors, four are left The obstetrician among these told sne that he bad listed among ward, clinic and private patients exactly 300 babies who are due before April. Asked about nurses he said: "There are NO nurses!" and he spoke with considerable feeling about families who keep one nurse or even two for routine chronic invalid care that might be handled easily by the idle women of the family. "It ought to be stopped and I believe it will," he said. Only a few days later I chanced to look, on a hospital visit, into one of those large, clean pantries that hospitals have on every floor, sink, cabinets, gas stove, hoppers, and so on. It was a shocking sight Trays, pans, basins, tumbled linen, piled dishes were everywhere; the nurse who flashed in and out again was perspiring her face on a very hot day was the color of wax but she smiled gallantly as she said: "Last year this time we had 70 less patients pa-tients and 39 nurses. Now we have 13 nurses for the whole crowd!" Well, I don't know that I'll ever qualify as a licensed midwife, bus I knew right then and thtrt that 'until that pantry looked very different I had a war Job. And . in a clean apron with a box of soap flakes and a mop I came back a few minutes later. It takes study and skin to deMrer babtesy btrrthe -wornirl'lrfiO" washes dishes and assorts sheets and sterilises bandages frees a graduate grad-uate nurse from that work, and has her place, too, in the great war story. ... . . My reward that day was to feel many a young strong arm go about me for a second, while many a grateful grate-ful voice said in my ear: "You're an angel!" and nobody could ask more genuine happiness trsan that Health an Obligation. . Glvt your . free aftcrnpojia .every. week to the sick of your neighborhood neighbor-hood or to your hospital kitchen, and you'll not have to ask again lor the right to do "something any. thing for our boys!" Get in touch with your doctor, and he'll give you a list of patients who merely need beds made or soup heated. And do what you can to keep your own home people well; don't tolerate any of the minor ills that ITS THERE If you have not yet found a tear job, you haven't looked hard enough. You may not find it in a factory, if you have no special ikill. You may not find it in the armed force$. But you will find it in a hot-pital hot-pital where there are floort to be scrubbed and linens to be sorted. You will find it in the home of a sick friend. You will, perhaps, find it right in your own home if you have been relying on someone else to do a dozen little things you could do for yourself. And finding it, says Kathleen Norris, Nor-ris, is your job. lead to serious trouble, not this war winter! Health is an obligation that we owe America, while her youth and power and glory are committed to this tremendous adventure, and it's mother who holds that responsibility responsi-bility at home. So if Dad is making too long and tiring a shift of cars and trains and busses to get home, see whether you can't find the simplest, the plainest little quarters nearer his work. If the working girls come In weary and cold, have a cup of hot soup or malted milk ready. This idea of a warming drink before a hearty meal is one that dietitians everywhere ap prove. To get very tired and hinv gry often means that a hearty meal doesn't get digested before bedtime by the cold and weary stomachj The hot drink, the comfortable chair and pleasant news all- help to make dinnertime a success. If cold feet and backache and headache and nerves and restlessness restless-ness at night are chronic, they are apt to have one cause constipation. Lack of exercise, long sedentary hours in the factory or office, and lunches of pastry, strong tea or coffee, cof-fee, sweets, accentuate it. Mother can do a lot about that with the introduction in-troduction of raw vegetables at dinner, din-ner, salads of lettuce, chopped carrots, car-rots, apples, cabbage, spinach and by serving a dark rough bran bread. And make desserts laxative; prunes, apples, figs, oranges and grapefruit can be served in about 300 ways, all helpful. Hot tomato Juice, hot prune and apple puree are medicinal enough, at are ginger bread and ginger-molasses cookies to cure many of these cases of chills and aches and nerves, and to hold off the colds and bronchial and laryngeal conditions to which they lead. Get your family through this winter without a night of lost sleep or a sneeze and you will be doing your share of the big job. Na Shortage of Jobs. - If the-youngsters are tired and nervous enough to complain; if they demand " starches" ' and gravies and heavy meats, take them into your confidence. Explain that you are meeting all sorts of war conditions; shortage of fuel, difficult transportation, transpor-tation, higher prices; the need for closer management of finances, beef scarce, bananas gone, domestic help unprocurable, and insist that they co-operate to the extent of remembering remem-bering overshoes, drafts, overfatigue over-fatigue and by eating what Mother tells. them to! .. Oh,- thre.4n'-t going to-be ny shortage of Jobs for us older women, as the war months go on. The only question is whether we are going to be willing enough and humble enough to step into them. And I think we are. I think we pre6ently will 4ave an arroy of mothers and wives quietly filling the menial and minor positions that free the younger and more experienced women for actual war servjees. bi .lam Limits Its Dowry Girls employed in British post offices of-fices must serve tix years before becoming" entitled to the dowry given by the government to women 'mployees who resign to get married. Nola Lemon William Conawell, New Orleans, has a Ieman tree from which he picked a Ieman four and three-quarters three-quarters inches long and four-' and five-eighths inches thick. Sara Is On the whole, we like a murder mystery play in which it turns out there was no murder. There's a chance te laugh. Mary Land? A woman speaker of the house has been named in North Dakota, among other places. Schmeling a Marine Max Schmeling is a member of the U. S. marine corps. America's Max is a resident of Casey, Iowa. lee Breakers Arctic seals break holes in the iee for breathing. Ocean Cablea Oceanic cables af tha world aggregate ag-gregate about 80,000 miles. Cherry Pit (til A few years ago J. G. Ma tin, cherry grower of Sturgeon Bay, Wis, stepped on a cherry pit and. found It left a grease spot on th floor. Today he is a millionaire making oil used for cosmetics from 1,000 tons of cherry pits a year. Flat Pencil For the reader addicted to malting malt-ing marginal notes, there's a new flat pencil which also serves as book mark. Froten Microbea Revived A Russian scientist claims in have brought to life microbes and other specimens of small marina life after they had been frozen foi thousands of years. For Perfect Sleep Busy families should provida quiet bedrooms for perfect sleep. 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