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Show u. thlee1 Norris Says: Sweetheart in Uniform S. Paratroops Simulate Attack on Village BINDING TIES Being engaged to a serviceman service-man you have just met is as unwise as being married to him, Kathleen Norris thinks. For the ties in either case are binding and rarely lead to anything but grief for both of you. You may meet someone else, and so may he. And each of you, if you are at all honorable, honor-able, will hesitate to hurt the other's feelings. So dance with your sailor, soldier or marine; meet his train when he comes home for a visit; write to him. But don't prom ise to marry him! ,it junior lieutenant in the navy, a darling boy. We became engaged ittimytosea- UTHLEEN NORRIS FEATURE of thes? war ,earS) to me, is a ium-w ium-w full of letters from .Ik) have fallen in love, marines, sailors and sol- i'm answered several 'edofthem that I believe " m 1 J mistake lor a giri 10 - v. woman irom sxjuic up L or state, a man she town only a iew weess kk, and a man who is riewar areas. ' icourse romantic and i a sudden marriage et soldier and trie gin ne jiuift, the girl with whom he dancing and picnicking lor sting weeks. But alter ail nothing of each other, and ijiamour of war dies away, M boy comes home a man, m tie question of a job, a i i new kind of life arises, it i H me that their chances of til in love with each other PI slim. '., it not marriage, how about baits, then? But engage- i tan be almost as troublesome ictalvows of marriaee are. iisthe case of Alma, typical of of cases. Alma is iiina girl, she writes from Fort t rts Hasty Enea cement. fit September," says her let- went to visit cousins in New id there I met a junior- bit in the naw. a darlins fan Macon, Ga., who was just in is. We became engaged. i my cousins were also en- t servicemen, and one of already married to hers. N way to sea, but I wore K until Christmas day. Then lawyer in my father's of-ilked of-ilked to me very seriously Kind I began tn rpaliTo that plwas not still feeling to " oaa leit at first This 32, is in every way the ;Iever knew in my life; ' always thought him MweirLand Red when he told me that "never been anyone else In tor him hut xi-... "c ous r1 G WP an m. . i is, - vufiemer occa- imitations because of an aa only lasted three ; result was that my love ;to Fred, and I would wuuiai m me world vw. s ne nopes. rj spring. p i i, , C may be called.. ft n v ajr m"ew xorK . r1' OT Shnira -..j i i.sood-bv T t tiH i . prom- fe.Bm w. fa any adult 013,1 any fa me; in every way of BnvTCh''orI Ceij ways laikea ' he would wan ;riar ereas my father bi."' devoted tnPr -v "ne. IshaU NlourT5nser shall , - ice. nKfUomes J saf , . ie giru SrJlVearta to our tW,?.yoIike.Dromi$: aock when he comes back, but don't promise to marry him, don't get engaged again! The. war may not, and please God will not, last very long, but however short the time it lasts, it will change him, and change you. He will go to other dances, meet other girls. And nine times out of ten you will have to write him the hard letter that tells him you have forgotten him, or he will be racking his brains to think up just the right phrases to break to you the humiliating news that you are jilted. So why give yourselves all this misery? Why not dance with him, and go about with him, and write him letters, but when you must part, why not say: "Now remember, I like you tremendously, and if we like each other this much when you come home, we'll be married, but we're not engaged!" And in your letters be sure to tell him that you are going about pretty much as be fore, with this boy and that, and sign yourself "your loving but not-engaged not-engaged Alma"? That will let him know that he isn't breaking your heart if he writes you that he wants to be free, and will let you know that the news of your engagement to another man won't fall upon him like an enemy bomb. Some weeks ago I had in this column col-umn a heart-breaking letter from a serious, much-in-earnest, deeply loving lov-ing bride whose young sailor husband hus-band wrote her from Central America Amer-ica that she must not announce their marriage because none of his friends knew of it, that he thought they would both be happier free, and that he had come to the conclusion inai five weeks acquaintance wss not enough time upon which to base a lasting affectioa And if this letter is hard reading for a girl at home, it is ever harder reading to a lcnely boy far away from everyone and everything he loves. Honorable Course Is Hard. The honorable course for Alma It a hard one. She should wait until Bill comes home from the war, and then tell him the truth. He may come home indifferent, but he may be one of the faithful kind who can't wait to get back to the girl and renew re-new the delights of their early love. To have Fred, the older admirer, with everything to recommend him, deliberately attempt to wesn her affections af-fections away from Bill dres not say much for Fred's generosity of spirit, but much has to be forgivej a man who loves, and who may be ser.t away at any time. Nor doe? Alma's fickleness particularly reflect dignity dig-nity upon her character. But for Alma's consolation be ft said, the chances are Bill ISN'T going go-ing to break his heart The nances are that those three delirious ffets in New York didn't make a much deeper impression upon him lb" upon her. 3 nai y J Bel! Syndlct-WNU Teaturet. ' 4 . ! :raf : Pn 1 J writ ,) Wl vM t M t,. fc .in l 'j t ft -l r - f 1 4W. - . ? linn i ....... . '. . ... . ' . . -X. ik V- ...... .w. . .. tuij.w.uf',.; a'W" ,.'r. 3.1 ---V,:. . . i 8 , i OoattaTdSw fP aratr?01,erf! picture '"Sht (top. gives a worm's eye view or U. S. army paratroopers Z i Jot tVnVu I'll"1 P,anCS iUTlBS manevers in Alabama. They're landing in the most advanta- rifle "fir. !h?i 7 may 8 a" a attack on vl,,age- Be,ow: Now wUh a b,ast of mach,ne un trans I'Jvfnl ,?806 toward lhe "vi"a" ty're to occupy. They watch for snipers' fire and booby traps. Having reached thn nntskirfs t, ..m . man cnooses ms own route or approacn ips. Having reached the outskirts of the village (upper left), each the unit advances from house to house. Child Care Reduces Absenteeism at Aircraft Plant wf. -n- , ii i . " . if if"'l - 'td wli j Mrs. Ethelmae Woodbury (left) Is a carefree mother as she performs her drilling job at the Grumman aviation plant, Freeport, Long Island, Is-land, because she knows her children chil-dren are being cared for during working hours at the plant's child care center. This plan has cot absenteeism ab-senteeism to the bone. Two views of kiddies who are tinder protection during their parents' eight hour absences ab-sences at the plant are also shown. v Yanks Stop General Rommel's Drive '.. Blind Assembly . General Rommel's drive at Kasserine Pass In Tunisia was tempo-rari'v tempo-rari'v stopped when American forces staged successful counter attack at that point. Armored forces smashed ahead through Italian and German Ger-man positions, capturing many prisoners and crushing heavily armed enemy posts. Here the driver of a wrecked Italian car is being removed by American soldiers, after the attack. Cincinnati Reds Train in Indiana McKechnfe ETOUDd m a . f, .iiana naiverslty. In Eloommgton, ma. su'ins "S'I,u,s ----- - jis ens a!wost revcren-y, knei- its c-nter of tircle- Mstimrer of the Cincinnati Reds, Bill "Deacon" McKecnni- r,o. 1. Mittager o. . 0UIld ra!cs- win be daring The sqnad Lonnie Frey, second baseman, is en Denied WWW KAJ Ji DREW PEARSON Washington, D. 0. SOrilOMORE CONGRESSMEN The President's heralded meeting with congressional freshmen had an unheralded sequel on Capitol Hill Day after the White House party, 19 second-term house Democrats held a luncheon in 'Speaker Sam Rayburn's private dining room,- at which there was considerable good-naiured, good-naiured, and some not so good-natured, grousing about the President's Presi-dent's relations with congress. Object of the luncheon, arranged by Rep. Oren Harris of Arkansas, was to enable the second-termers to "console" each other for not being Invited to the White House for a party when they were freshmen. Among others, Rep. Sam Russell and Eugene Worley of Texas took great delight in joshing Ray-burn: "Sam, why can't you get us an invitation in-vitation to the White House?" However, the luncheon took a serious se-rious turn when scrappy Rep. Edward Ed-ward Hebert of Louisiana lambasted the White House for not consulting with congress on new legislation, and criticized his colleagues for submitting submit-ting to White House "dictates." Observing Ob-serving that only 23 of the 43 Democratic Demo-cratic freshmen of the last session ses-sion survived the November elections, elec-tions, the Louisianan declared: "If a lot of us had paid more attention at-tention to our constituents instead of to White House advisers, there wouldn't be so few of us here today, to-day, In the last year of Huey Long's tenure, he controlled both houses of the Louisiana legislature completely complete-ly ejept for one man. But Huey didn't try to ram through any bills without letting each man know what was going on and making him 'feel like he had a stake in the program. We in congress haven't been treated like that." Hebert said he held no enmity against the House leadership, adding add-ing to Rayburn: "I've always been very fond of you, but I've never been able to vote for you on a national ticket I hope I will be able to cast my ballot for you next year, either as top man or running mate on the Democratic ticket." ' - This brought loud cheers from the luncheoners and blushes from Ray-burn, Ray-burn, who responded with a fatherly lecture urging those present not to let personal animosities influence their actions in congress. AMERICAN BOMBERS , Despite the criticism you may hear of American planes, U. S. air men who have studied the current bombings of Europe say privately that one American bomber is worth five of the British. American planes are heavily armed and heavily armored. Able to protect themselves, they operate oper-ate in the daylight, with precision bombing, whereas the British planes, flying at night, must lay down a pattern of bombs over a whole area, hoping that the princi pal target will be hit British planes can carry a heavi er load of bombs, but the fewer bombs carried by the American planes are more effective because they go straight to the target Further, American planes have suflered fewer losses proportionately than the British, both operational and combat losses. In fact the American contribution contribu-tion is so important that the all-out all-out bombing of Germany must await the availability of more U. S. planes. Most people think there is a heavy concentration of American planes in England now, and that the current round-the-clock bombings are the big show. Neither is correct There was a concentration of U. S. planes in England last summer and fall, made with intended publicity. This had the effect of sending the Nazis scurrying all over western Europe Eu-rope to mend their defenses. Then U. S. air strength was pulled out of TTncrlanri fnr fh mlactnn It ki4 Kaah This blindfold test of disassembly j fa and assembly of ZO-mm. cannon is jfrjca .q.Uilte.r,!r,!!l!L0.,.ih.ei U- S. air strength in England is Gems of Thought WHOEVER could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, be-fore, would deserve better of mankind . . . than the whole race of politicians put together. Jonathan Swift. I live For the Cause that fcir.J asuiUmce, For the Wrong that needs resistance, For the Future in the distatr-e, And the good that I can do. -CF.ORCE L. BASKS. Fortune, who gives and takes away all other human blessings, has no power over courage. Ariesto. Suffering and Achievement Men regard suffering as an evil thing, which the world might well be rid of. This idea is typical of a good deal of modern sentimental-ism, sentimental-ism, which Ignores the history of suffering and its part in human achievement. Dr. A. P. Shepherd. CLASSIFIED D E PAR T M E N T RAZOR BLADES KENT BLADES H bit trfM OulMandim Wad Vala BIRTH CERTIFICATES HOW TO OBTAIN PROOF OF" BIRTH few dv. Kntlr V. 8. A. Bon4 -l (M). Fra! at Birth Bnt Monica, Calif. BULBS Brightaa Yonr Garden. Plant Rnnuneulug. '00 flowering ilr.e bulbi prepaid, $1.00 cash. Tull cultural Inatructlcna. 10 Anemona nilbs free if you mantlon thl caper, fater-.on fater-.on Bro K9 OUt Si., Idi Itwaod, Calif. Multiple Sandwich No sandwich comes anywhere near approaching the smorrebrod of Denmark in size, variety and color scheme, says Collier's. Laid alongside along-side one another butter side up on a large tray are eight slices of white, brown and black bread covered with generous portions of anchovies, sardines, sar-dines, cheese, veal, lobster, smoked salmon, roast beef, raw oysters and goose' liver. Animal Talk Several dictionaries of animal vocabularies, which alphabetize and define "words" that animals use in communicating with one another, have been compiled. These include one on wolves by Pfungst, cats by Romer, horses by Von Maday, monkeys mon-keys by Learned, hens by Schmid and reptiles by Landois. Tree 'Swallowed' Tree A fir tree that had "swallowed" another tree was discovered in the sawmill of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company of Springfield, Ore., in 1926, reports Collier's. When the log, four feet in diameter, was cut in two, another separate tree, 13 inches in diameter, was found in the middle mid-dle of it. Meaning of Education Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave . . . It means training them into the perfect exer cise and kingly continence of their bodies and souls John Ruskin. NO ASPIRIN FASTER than genuine, pure St Joseph Aspirin. World's largest seller at 10. None safer, none surer. Demand St Joseph Aspirin, ment training school plant. of a Detroit Raises Silk Worms f A 4 v t : f 1- "L I 4 T- James V. Leong of Los Angeles visualizes a billion dollar silk Industry Indus-try in America after a year of experiment, ex-periment, in which be raised a triple crop of silk worm eggs. Leong shows spools of fine threads ready for weaving. Motor-driven machine spins tue fine silk from cocoon. 'now being built up again, and when the time comes, the two air forces combined will stage the show intended in-tended to knock Germany out of the war. MEXICO BARS MIGRATION No one is advertising it, but Mexico Mex-ico has slapped a temporary ban on the recruitment of its workers for .farm jobs in the United States. i This was expected to be one of jour big sources of farm labor in .the Southwest However, no Mexl- can laborers have been Imported in more than a month, despite feverish efforts by the Farm Security ad ministration to bring in approxi mately 00,000. Mexico is not keen about the recruiting re-cruiting program, and some time ago notified the state department that it was reserving the right to specify the sections of Mexico where labor could be recruited. Pea son given was that Mexico couldn't afford to have labor drained from industrial sections. Meanwhile the Farm Security ad. ministration has submitted orders for 6,000 Mexicans, but is still wait ing for an okay to begin recruiting. Note: So far we have imported 9,300 Mexican farm workers under 30-to-30 day work contracts. SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT RUBBER aHeUMHUaUlHSatfa Saad-baa ring aadt titgh ap In rvhfcar traas whan rip o4 with an avdlbla pep. The pad, about the aiie of eeeae ago, contain formation of ea which explode when ripe ena) throw the aaa at for e 100 feet. The f ranch call rntber eaontctaaa Iron Indian term meaning "weep-leg "weep-leg tree." Ninety per pant of readjMo Sate that plague car owner eon be voided. Checking edr prenurei white tire pro cool, before inflating in-flating will ehow vp tubes that are losing an abnormal amount of preuare due to lew leak. Temporatnrea, Topography and lyuoa of roads as wall as dririnq habii of owueis aoooont ior wide variations In mileages iron Identical faxes. These lectors mar aoootuit ior tiro rorning ta from twenty ta twenty-fare twenty-fare thousand aulas of sersioe in Chicago whereas ixom seven to eight thousand miles may be tbo mileage . it will leader is Texas. rich Isa Bay War Savings Bonds |