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Show THE LEH1 SUN. LEW. IfTAII thleen Norris Says: Celebrities Join Up With Uncle Sam Kg) OH THZ Tm Writing Bill' Bell Syndicate WNU Features. Sir " -1 bring, rfi If fcXf, n H jwjtwj fi7T W id Bjjlr,, TO. Mspread end jm RTHA r ocijj .SPIf :? Worifil tJosepiJ Island! andsia i olrJ (low w sea .ountaiii Jit fmrnf boy, acknowledging, thii birthday gift, $aid that not only he 1 ho twrj one of hit pals liked to listen to the home recorded record, W wr cgain." KATHLEEN NORRIS THEN you write to the uniformedboyyoulove ' don't feel that the let- feed lecessarily be- long. regularly and briefly. If as foreign service send Iter by "V-mail," which lay by air. Don't let your feel himself forgotten. se letters to our boys ot too easy to write; On ide, we don't want them ink we are lonely and ayand on the other, noth-w noth-w desolating to those far nm borne as to believe that ra't loved and missed. It is i to be ingenious enough to rath between these pitfalls. j rears ago my father told it when writing to a regular pondent it was a good idea to time and place. I still find i letter. You give him the picture. Tell him that "it is efore dinner; Dad is giving i walk around the block and setting the table. I cut a lot ad bronze chrysanthemums n with the fire and the Bwy make the room look Tm wearing my old blue but Sis is going to the movies Mw-who may be called any ). b the way and looks i ner black velvet I can cmbread baking and . hear tows' baby rebelling" against , K usual." That sort of s takes him back home. What Not to Write. a other hand, what does he hm sages and pages of stuff f tm "Well, I suppose you are T having an intprostino tim but winter here, we listened I President's speech and sin-tope sin-tope this dreadful war will f over. Winter is upon us; F'Jl probably have no snow I you are, as climatic condi-met. condi-met. There is no news, town f 13 ever, everything is just "je. I am going to work with I 0088 as usual tomorrow." LT0Ulletter a little home Watch the papers for i "Men the friends he Z ftesportj that interested paste the actual cUppings, f much mere interesting f,mere WaUona of them, f Dtetrated weeklies that Is ! musing, put those In, ittfa town takes the i5S'?mde3r comic sec fcptdiS,,fdman toemto a u m me family .ndthe sol7 LITTLE THINGS A frequently quoted definition defini-tion of morale is that it is "o lot of little things." So is a good letter, and a good letter from home goes a long way toward helping morale. Kathleen Kath-leen Norris tells of the disappointed disap-pointed private who ashed his mail-sergeant to run through the pile of mail just once more in the hope that the expected ex-pected letter was there after all. Then ,Ve walked away, saying, "Gee, that's funny." It is funny, too; funny that we don't take more time to write, when a letter from home means so much to our boys. wav'';f - J - ir A - r Jf Af 35 Si that ? Pages ar&fhis smaU-boy chnrac'.eristics. and Great Treat, jHrnl'dearec- I 3? and shipped the Grandfaer and SC:,. "roth- mu .of tte girls in the l)en.,.:gIe, appropriate to nrZbr.ouShtthe partici- lingl Kfc,.ry the farawa. SCim,E ttis birthday Knl7 he himself W'Pals liked to over again. Nothing lifts the heart like the right sort of letter, and nothing creates such a permanent ache of discomfort as the wrong sort. Even at home here, in our protected lives, we all know the little prick we carry about with us all morning when we have heard from poor Carrie, who says that Mama is very blue. The beef and coffee shortages are something some-thing awful; George wasn't accepted because of his deafness and the weather has been something awful. And on the other hand, a letter with cheerful news in it, a letter with a laugh here and there, full of affection and confidence and courage, cour-age, will buoy one for days, even "though it comes 'thousands of miles from across the world, from a writer one may not hope to see for a long, long time. "D'you mind running through those D's again," a young soldier said in my hearing years ago. We were standing in the camp post office and he was watching the mail-servant mail-servant going through a bunch of letters. The man shook his head, nothing for Private Davis. Little Niece Had Right Idea. "Gee, that's funny," the boy muttered, mut-tered, going away with a little drooping droop-ing of his khaki-clad shoulders. He was right here in America; his people peo-ple at home knew where he was. Another man showed me more than once showed all of us more than once, the letter written by his 12-year-old niece. Kate hadn't forgotten forgot-ten him, anyway! Kate had included two snapshots of his Airedale and had informed him that she was learning to cook. She would make an ice-box cake for him as soon as he came home. "Kate's the only one who's written," he said. The mother of an 18-year-old soldier sol-dier sent him a box this Christmas with the usual cigarettes and cookies razor from Dad, fountain pen from j Mother. In this box she put 12 small inexpensive gifts so that Tom, if he asked a few pals in for a little Christmas celebration, would have something to give them as souvenirs of the occasion. She remembered ( that a boy of 18 hasn't outgrown all Men In all walks of life are answering Uncle Sam's call for fiffhter. In photo at left, Lient. Charles Gehrln. ger, former Detroit Tiger slugger, is shown leaning on a wall decorated with basebaU photos as he studies a map or the Lnited States. Center: Two sons ot the late emperor of Austria and Hungary are examined at r ?'e,a', fr ,ndnctIon 10 0,8 tf 8. army. They are Karl Ludwlg Hapsburg and Felix Ludwig Hapsburg m 7,1' J boys enUsted " privates. Picture at right shows Stirling Hayden, yachtsman husband of niaaelelne Carroll, slinging lead on the rifle range at Parris Island marine corps recruiting station. Army Dogs Serve as Messengers to Men at Front x . si r K' w . ; IU? 'r. I Civ f' " "Cp? 7 '-T E 4J f"T ' w4x - Carrying pigeons on their sides at the front line Is a duty that army dogs often perform. In picture at left, dogs are shown at a simulated front line position, while the men prepare to release the pigeons to the rear for more aid for the medical corps to help with the wounded. A soldier writes the message. Right: Here Bin Tin Tin in illustrates how a dog would bring a message from a command post at the rear of the detachment de-tachment holding the front lines. These dogs would prove ot inestimable valaa '4a, detachments and other units during actual warfare. . Private Wins $1,500 Air Medal Competition -' 7X yf v , - .: vr jP : ,1 , '1 , ' i 1 kr A 7.-" Private Walter Hancock of St Louis submitted the winning design for the new air medal. Private Hancock entered the competition while be was yet a civilian. Word that bis design won the competition came at the end of a day of KP at Camp Livingston, La. Picture shows Hancock, left, receiving $1,500 check from CoL W. M. Dixon, finance officer, TJ. 8. army. Inset: Cast of the new air medal designed by Private Hancock. The Home Town Boys Lend a Hand iiwirWy- ufc rifts - HJ HJt !Lr-i?k t"j4r' sf'Tr IV would immensely enjoy the excite ment that a distribution of pencils, pens, wallets, pocket-knives, handkerchiefs hand-kerchiefs and garters wculd create. Collect Interesting Items. We want them to believe that we are thinking of them all the time, and the best way to do that is actually actu-ally to think of them constantly, save up bits of good or amusing news for them as we used to surreptitiously carry home to them the small cakes and candy from a party. War to every one of them is a desperate and thrillkig adventure, but even the most extraordinary experiences have their long dull stretche. if rvy j Natives, who know new uunea lerruory even mo juuSw htrJened Aussies and Americans, carry the wounded past a machine gna est Transporting the injnred from the line ef battle Is merely ane Important Im-portant function of these dark-skinned men and boys whs act as porters, prides and carpenters. , Somewhere in India r. f Capt. James W. Snyder, U. S. army Intelligence officer, who In civilian life was a historian. Is shown In conversation with veteran Indian In-dian guide. This picturesque native served in China daring the Boxer rebellion. The ribbon decoration is for service with the late Lord Kitchener. Kitch-ener. He also served under Lord Roberts. Riding High Personally we are of the opinion that Sergeant Baycnra belongs In the air force. If be can make a motorcycle motor-cycle fly Just think what be could da with an airplane! The sergeant is aa Instructor la the uotorcycla school at Camp Lee, Ta. . Washington D. C. THE GENERAL'S TWO WIVES There was much more than meets the eye behind the departure ot Gen. Hsiung Shlh-fel, head of the Chinese military mission to Wash lngton. It had its intriguing personal per-sonal side, but also it went deep into the vitals of our most difficult war problem. On the personal side, It happened that General Hsiung bad two wives, which In China is a criterion of power and prestige. But it also happened that Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Kai-shek. educated in the United States, does not approve of two wives. When in China, Madame Chiang does not interfere with the military appointments oi her husband. But In the United States, General Hsiung is reported to believe that the situation situa-tion might have been otherwise, and that the U. S. A., big as it is, might have been tod small for both of them. FARM FIGHT A group of presidents of land grant colleges, headed by President H. CL "Curlev" Bvrd of the Uni versity of Maryland, called on Sec retary of Agriculture Wickard tne other day. Behind that call was one of the most important fights which will come before the present congress. con-gress. Actually the land grant college presidents came to propose an agricultural agri-cultural program which they think will overcome the food shortages. But behind this is a plan to put control of the farm economy back into the hands of the farm bureau and the powerful farm lobbies. It is a fight which probably will keep up a running fire all during congress. con-gress. Background of the fight goes back to early in the Roosevelt administration adminis-tration when Henry Wallace, then secretary of agriculture, delivered a speech in which he criticized his own agriculture department for helping only the "one-third upper-crust upper-crust farmers. The great mass of the farmers, he said, the tenants, the little farmers, and farm labor, got no help from the government Wallace was referring to the fact that the American Farm Bureau federation, the Grange, the National Co-operative Milk Producers, and other organizations with powerful lobbies in Washington, had always influenced farm policies and domi nated the agriculture department Working hand in glove with them have been the land grant colleges, the state commissioners of agriculture, agricul-ture, the county agents, and the farm extension services. These groups controlled agriculture agricul-ture locally, even when Washington was supplying a majority of the funds. HITLER OR JAPAN? Another factor, however, goes much deeper and is one reason behind be-hind reports that Gen. Joseph Stil-well Stil-well may return as head of the U. S. military mission to China. This factor Is the Chinese argument argu-ment that Japan is a greater enemy ene-my than Hitler, coupled with the fear that after we have defeated Hitler, we will make peace with Japan at the expense of China. This fear is one which cannot be laughed off easily. In fact it will take a lot of persuading to dispel Chinese worries. They know that a lot of the career gentlemen, powerful pow-erful in the state department have contended that Japan should have her place in the sun. They know that some of the state department clique tacitly favored Japanese occupation oc-cupation of Manchuria, while the British almost openly supported it The realistic Chinese, therefore, argue that after Hitler is defeated Japan is more than likely to propose pro-pose a compromise (as she got Teddy Ted-dy Roosevelt to do to end the Russo-Japanese Russo-Japanese war) whereby Japan gets a slice of China and the world gets a rest from war. The realistic Chinese also know that they could make peace with Japan tomorrow by giving her several sev-eral treaty ports and a slice ot the North. In fact, the Japs probably would like nothing better than a peace which would permit them to withdraw half a million men from China and use them against us in the Pacific. Finally Chiang Kai-shek has his own troubles with his generals, many of them pliable to Jap wiles, especially "silver bullets," which the Japs claim is the easiest way to win wars. ' ', ' , ' f So Chiang needs something to show to keep his generals in line-either line-either more arms, which be is not getting; or a treaty from the United States pledging we will fight io the end until China is absolutely free. ' Instead of such a pledge, Chiang has a military mission headed by a man whom the Chinese don't like-General like-General StilwelL Joe Stilwell comes from the old school which didn't particularly par-ticularly like the Chinese, and the Chinese make no bones about the fact that they don't like him. He insists on doing all bis business busi-ness direct with the generalissimo, talking to him only. As a result Willkie was given'a message to take back to Roosevelt to get General Stilwell out of the picture. rEAR Mrs. Spears: Recently U I sent for your stamping pattern of Mexican figures and used them for two sets of tea towels tow-els and pot holders and a pair of curtains for my grand-daughter. Her husband made racks of them that also helped to give the kitchen kitch-en a gay air. A triangle shelf to fit In a corner near the sink was put up. It had an ordinary bathroom towel rod 1 YaiM 1 1 Hows screwed to the bottom, arid painted, paint-ed, cut-out scallops nailed tm the front. For the pot holders, he scalloped both edges of a 4 by Vt-inch Vt-inch board; painted it; screwed a brass cup hook in the center of every ev-ery other scallop and then nailed it up over the stove. 6. B. S." NOTE: You will enjoy these gar Bar-ores. Bar-ores. There are more thaa 2S oa 4ti transfer; all different and easy t do. Mexican Pattern No. 203 is U oeata It ordered or-dered dlsect from MBS. RUTH WTETH 8PBAM Bedford Hills New Drawer II Enclose 10 cents for Pattern Na. SOS. Name....,.;...., Address............. 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