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Show e E xZ- THE LEIII SUN. LEIII. UTAH most ittle ucklin in see the po quu enecti r a child iow ducks, ckground, feet and i ound the ' has prcr ' t!1'8 Say i; I uirppHnn. . inting, ster." rk. rnmi. .ijjic 3r making it; Keicn are The numb;: Address: 'ETH SPEA! r 10 for Patter tided Co nple FrtJ 'ink ibit of it: ing laia: s easy, k vf use to lice and? ;he monr i eret w t Lerara m thus. i Etimc n, day ctively igthti ;. which sist coli ply Tits ion and ike-up cj ; doesirt ia Sui !3 onto! m table CM ie fee. Kathleen Norris Says: list IFiot ,4rc You Doing? , versati Ben Syndicate. over lj gs ar,ir A : 8". Yon . ,ies ut of sc. ppynjH en, faathro 4 1 y(V ..7 l;v i j i w w "i wax m P0U6LAS RyAN -s, p----f1;- tWntfitna htit. cifn. rrnr1etTi anA men flock to the counter after work By KATHLEEN NORRIS WOMAN asked me the other day if the. letters I .auote in these columns ire genuine letters. I could nswer her truthfully that ftvery one is a real true hu man problem, but that I gen- ?raiiy sniit aoout we exact fenrf substitute for the real liames other names that ferent particularly identifi able, like crown, BaKer, Davis, Smith. In the fifteen vears durin? which I have I o been answering letters in this fweeklv article. I have never !hetravpd a pnnfiflpnrp or heen accused of publicizing what was meani to oe private information. in-formation. l So whpn tnrlav T mint th lptters of several women you may be sure wj are real, live American women wom-en who have handled the difficulties f war times, each in her own way. In every case, they are women who have discovered that the only cure for nerves and sleeplessness and bitter bit-ter anYTPtipfi In thacA riava fa nnrlr hard work, and plenty of it mere is a job for every one of us COW. and th nnlw hnnnw mnmon in , w... M"fW " the world today are the women who we busy. Get absorbed in some hetoful aettvitv tret "at a smootn bed,, a reading light nd a book look like heaven to you very night and you'll get through this crisis successfully. To be idle, reading the papers, listening to the radio, brooding over world-madness, is the shortest way to a breakdown. ... &Vvtu UUAK U3 VUUIUCUi Well, then, here's Mrs. Brown of Kansas City, aged 29, with two ff Joung children. Mrs. Brown boards I children at one dollar a day, keeps them overnight for two dollars a 3 light. She has fnim nikr litla customers, whose mothers are war Kers ana find the comfortable &own home and garden a miraculous miracu-lous help. They call for their chil- i en every afternoon. Other young mothers, who need a day in town, or a day weekly for the Red Cross, fladly avail themselves of the rown nursery. Two little brothers tave stayed day and night for a month; Mrs. Brown gets $65 per month each for this care. Does she get tired? Oh, yes, too wed to do anything but drop into bed after small boots have been weaned and small clothes laid out ter dinner. And what does Mr. Brown think of it? He likes it. His Sa'ary hasn't gone up in the last years; other expenses have. It was Brown who recently said to his we that her nursery activities had removed the last gnawing worry J? he had, in making him feel ?at should anything happen to -the spectre that haunts all fsbands and fathers! she could care of the children. Then there is Mrs. Davis of Oak-nd, Oak-nd, Calif. Mrs. Davis' husband and wth sons are away in the services; f e Meditated opening a boarding no"se; changed her house Instead JP Rei Cross canteen .... F ai arsvv r.' ? WNU Feature. : j MnJclet hnt hntn ihntn tiroA mai nnX hourt!" ," GET A JOB! Get into some useful war work, Kathleen Norris advises all women who are alone because be-cause their husbands or sons are away in service. Even women who have a little spare time can do something useful and at the same time occupy their minds, and calm their nerves. There is no cure for war jit-ters jit-ters like hard work plenty of work. People who come home too tired to do anything but drop into bed dorCt worry much they're too exhausted. Jobs are everywhere not only in factories but in restaurants, hospitals, Red Cross canteens even your own home! One married woman with two children cares for two or more children of war workers. Another runs a "soup bar" near an airplane factory. Many women are making a tidy income in-come serving in some useful way. The money can go into war bonds, or a savings account for the time when HE comes home. into apartments. Living space is at a premium in that city and her old-fashioned old-fashioned 12-room house made seven fine flats, in one of which she lives. Soup Bar Makes Money Another smart woman is Mrs. Baker of Houston Texas. Mrs. Baker lives near a big plane factory; she had opened a soup bar. Nothing but soup, crackers and cookies, but how the tired men and women flock to the counter after work hours! She has "rush hours" of course, but also she has a steady trickle of customers from 10 o'clock in the morning until she closes the bar at nine at night. She has two girls helping her; serves two soups daily. One a cream vegetable soup, the other a regular meal, like Italian minestrone. Beans, peas, noodles, macaroni, tomatoes, soup bones everything goes into it She charges 25 cents a service and free helpings are taken for granted. Not the least contribution to the safety and order of postwar America comes from these women who are proving their independence, who have struck out in simple, well-worn well-worn grooves to establish themselves them-selves financially. Perhaps the millions mil-lions of magnificent nurses and Red Cross workers, the women who are giving their whole lives in the army or navy services, are showing a higher type of patriotism, because of a completer sacrifice. But there is many a man out on the battle fronts now who would be glad to receive a certain type of letter from the moping, self-pitying little woman wom-an he left at home. A letter saying that she has waked up and is busy and absorbed and that when he gets home there will be a neat little nest-egg ready for a celebration. Eggs are Protein Food Unrationed eggs are a source of one of the best protein foods and so take the place of meat. In addition, addi-tion, their present low cost makes them an excellent source of practically prac-tically all the known vitamins except ex-cept vitamin C and of several minerals min-erals needed in the daily meals. Those who wish to buy eggs now . at low prices can easily store 15 or 30 dozen or more in crocks or wooden tubs or metal pails, with the use of water glass. Such eggs will keep for many moaths. Hitler, Rommel, Visit 'Atlantic Wall' I I - sjiwz&f i yr. ...... jvx.y ?rsriM" we. irri .r v-iV '-"trrdEV nantes &r- Eleventh-hour inspection tours of the vast Axis coastal defenses known as Gennany'a "Atlantic Wail" are being made by Marshal Rommel, according to news dispatches, which say that Hitler has made personal "pre-invasion visits." Rommel is reported making day-by-day tours of areas shown on the above map, which provides a general picture of the coastal fortress. Broken line indicates territory referred to as "Rommel's defense zone." Swastikas indicate points which have been mentioned as "Rommel's command forts." Reconditioning Program Reclaims Wounded MM f tftnmtrttrtt r rrrs. , t , At A ff fr tf r w? , ntnrrr.rtr.tr w V W I rf.fr trrrrrrrt -W' t V W - ' Wl Wtf; LC-f The function of the England cent soldiers and officers before being sent back to dnty. In picture at top, Sergt. VIo GhezzI, former national na-tional PGA champion (1942) instructs a class, using golf clubs for exercises. Lower left: Two soldiers, both wounded in Sicily, exercise on the pulleys. Each was recipient of the Purple Heart and other decorations. decora-tions. Circle: Sergt. Sam Goldman of Cleveland, Ohio, leads a class of soldiers in abdominal exercises. Kings and Queen of Health f , XL1 'v- A ' . sfVSl, 1 C ' u " y' ' 'f I ! V '1 I i a vy 1 iltir r iif irnl ' it,,, - m..n mm.M,i , mm As nno r th nrpliminarips nf flpalth dav. the healthiest bov and eirl from the Children's Aid society's city-wide centers (New York) were chosen and crowned at the society's west-side center. And here they are (left to right) with nurse Odalovich. Viasco Cardoza, 5V4, king; Marie Romans, 5, queen; Hilton Douglas, 6, king of Negro children. Floods Sweep Mississippi River Valley t ' - f -v f-- ! - I I f , .n-n-iDi-nCTn - irniiriiiini'niwiiii nf-fl fftrifnt' r i- - - 1 ftimufrf .v ... ., nrwrm, . hatfvfli Floods have been sweeping the Mississippi river valley, with the water at an all-time high in the St Louis terrain, inundating great stretches of agricultural land, making many homeless, and wreaking on-told on-told property damage. Here is water flowing ever the chain of rocks oridge highway, where break in the Chouteau island levee loosed great floods of water. GREAT BRITAIN FRANCE General hospital at Atlantic City, N. J., '!'T t m r.'" u. n .i tni, J wtw"$ BRUSSELS GHENT M-i!r LUXEMBURG PARIS S. Rommel's coastal fortress V Hi. is the reconditioning of convales 'Fashion Note' Miss Linwood Gisclard, Louisiana belle, who holds title of "Maid of Cotton," shows her dress to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt at the canteen fashion show in Washington. The dress is made of some $2,000 worth of war bonds and stamps. WAC Summer Gear "G. I. Jane" proudly exhibits a new summer uniform as an enlisted member of the WAC. The blouse and skirt are of the same tropical worsted material, as that worn by officers of the crrps. if ! w "" r 'i-- K f. -ax ' - f t - . i i 1 II www Ki Jy DREW PEARSON Washington, D. C BIG VS. LITTLE FARMERS Forty years have elapsed between the big-business battles of Teddy Roosevelt and Cousin FDR, but one issue which plagued the former 'is also plaguing the latter and is now before congress. It is the question whether government irrigation, gov ernment water, and government rec tarnation shall benefit the big land owner or the small. The issue is now one of the hottest dghts both in California and in con gress, where Secretary of the Inte rior Ickes .has been called to testify on a rider which Congressmen El liott and Carter of California have skilfully smuggled into the rivers and harbors bill a rider permitting big landowners in California's central cen-tral valley to benefit from government govern-ment low-cost irrigation. The question in Teddy Roosevelt's day was whether any farmer holding hold-ing more than 160 acres should benefit bene-fit from government irrigation. The Issue arose when the land kings of the Far West wanted to develop their ranches and speculative holdings through irrigation at government expense. ex-pense. The West was for it, but the East objected. Eastern states claimed they would be footing the tax bill and that Western irrigation would come out of their pockets. The West replied that the irrigation projects of that day would provide benefits for small Eastern farmers who mi grated westward tomorrow. After a terrific battle, Teddy Roosevelt won out Congress ruled that government - irrigated land tracts must be limited to 160 acres. That law still stands. But Republican Repub-lican Congressman. Carter of Oakland, Oak-land, Calif., and Democratic Congressman Con-gressman Elliott of Tulare, Calif., have ganged up to change it with a rider exempting the central valley Irrigation project. Their amendment, already passed by the house, would mean that big ranchers in the central valley could benefit from the new irrigation project proj-ect no matter how extensive their holdings. Even more important it would mean that a lot of new land, not extensively cultivated at present would be subjected to cut-throat speculation. Ickes for Small Farms. Secretary of the Interior Ickes, who has supervised the expenditure of $150,000,000 on central valley irri-gation, irri-gation, is determined that the benefits bene-fits shall not go to land speculators and big ranchers, plus some of the big liquor companies which have bought up California wineries. The issue, according to Secretary Ickes, is whether the U.S.A. is going to become a nation of large landowner's land-owner's hiring Okies and tenant farmers, or'whether the nation will feature medium-sized farmers operating oper-ating their own land. NOTE Business men in the central cen-tral valley are split over the issue. Many merchants believe that medium-sized farms rather than poorer farm labor make for better business In neighboring towns. The Fresno Chamber of Commerce calls 60 to B0 acres of figs an economic unit for a family, or 80 to 120 acres of alfalfa. al-falfa. The Chamber has sent out booklets urging settlers to take ur small land tracts. , FOUR-Fs. Despite all the army howls for i-Fs to get into war plants, it remains re-mains a fact that physical examination examina-tion in many plants is so stiff that they can't get in. In fact, the physical physi-cal in some plants is stiffer than in the army. Many a patriotic 4-F has worn out shoeleather making the rounds of war plants, only to find that he can't get in. A punctured ear-drum, for Instance, is considered just as important im-portant in a war plant as in the army. In recent weeks, belated steps have been taken to relax some of these physical restrictions, but much still remains to be done. So you can't blame a lot of the 4-F-ers if they aren't in war plants. Another difficulty which the War Manpower commission might well dig into is the fact that anyone can quit work in a vital war plant but without a certificate of availability, cannot transfer to another war plant at least not until after a 60-day period. In other words, you can step out of an aircraft factory or a synthetic rubber plant and go to work in a barber shop or at a bootblack stand, or just loaf at home. They are not essential industries. But if you want to switch to a munitions plant you ran't without a certificate of availability avail-ability (which you probably can't get), or without waiting the required -ooling-off period of 60 days. MERRY-GO-ROUND C Busy as he is, President Roosevelt Roose-velt will soon be called upon to settle set-tle the problem of whether a rail worker's vacation week is six days or seven. Railroad workers were granted a week's vacation as part of the wage compromise last year, but the railroad executives now contend that FDR meant the vacation should be six days, not seven. If the railroad rail-road workers get seven days, they can stay away Sunday, which is a holiday anyway, plus Monday, or an ictual total of eight days. - t CIRCLE? I 8615-C 2-6 yrs. Mother, Daughter Vogne THE, "mother - and - daughter" unmia rt Irlontirnl r-lnthpa 19 in. :reasing small wonder, too, when Ihey both adore the same sort of pinafore play dress! Use polka jotted chambrays, flowered mus lin, pandy-striped cotton or ging-aam" ging-aam" for this engaging fashion. Pattern No. 861SC is in sizes 2, 3, 4, 5 ind 6 years. Size 3 requires 2 yards of 35-jich 35-jich material; 8 yards ric rae for trim. Pattern No. 8615 is in sizes 11, 13, IS, 17 ind 19. Size 13 requires 3 yards of 39- jich material; 11 yards rlc rae for trim. Due to an unusually large demand and urrent war conditions, slightly more time m required In filling orders for a few of Uie most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery Street San Franciico Calif. Enclose 20 cents In coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No ...Size Name Address stop The comedy quiz starring THURSDAY NIGHTS 10:30 P.M. 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