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Show Pace Six The Cache American. Logan. Cache County. Utah Kathleen Norris Says: HOMER, CROY Adopted Babies WN.V.StRVlCC BU Syndic!. TIIK STOUT formtr Ohio sod II TillS rfM trulr FAS! Amo Cray, la Ui Clrtl War, left atir Maryilll, rt At first the calf wouldnt pay much attention to the saw, but Jims arms would be working back and forth and the blade would be going Then all of a sudden the calf would begin to pitch and kick snd bellow and white slobber would run down on my hand. "Hold him, hold him!" Jim would pant, his elbows working. Off would come a horn and blood would squirt out of the holes in the 11, Sanib marrlrA lu Ur ot aaolhrr covered (o plooetr, od ooa a wo, Homer, bora. Homer of a y rllrtl recollertloa cloa blrb blew lh tod bars dowa aad vreched lh orchird. lundijr aa lailllutloa of lh fro; farm, Tb aelfhbor would (tlher after dlaaer aad fact lh welfhtt of Iha ileert. Amo aiaalljr woa. II wai aa icctlral farmer aad bad aa irepUaaaUjr beea mlad. Hi aao aim a la bo a good soft horn part of the head. Then farmer aad develop Homer Into a real Jim would lean over farther and farmer. Amo believed that tb farm start on the other horn . . . Jim would take out a stick he had ai lh oaljr plac worth whll. padded with cloth, daub it into his Ur can and swab it on the spurting CHAPTER IV horns. Little by little the blood would stop. "I always wait till they Will It mean supper?" stop bleeding. The teschew looked I don't think o. I think all you capable. I'll say that for her need count on Is dinner." "You cant tell by talking to 'em, Then Ma would say, "Jim always Pa would say. lfb-lo- g n room, Jim," and Jim would say, "How much did you pay for your rocker, Amos?" and Pa would say, "Six eighty, wasnt it. Sussn?" Jim wss always a great hand to know the price of everything. As Jim was rocking and picking, he would aay, "Well, you got your moneye worth," Ma would come to the door end say, "Is your wife coming to the chapel Sunday?" "I expect so. Shes a great hand to go to church." "I'll get to see her. then," Ma would say and go Into the kitchen. At last Pa would say, "I expect wed better go back," and we would all get up and start, ma a little in the rear. It wouldnt be long till the saw was again going After a while the calves would all be on the tame side of the fence, walking around and shaking their heads and now and then giving a HlMd by Wtra Nwppr WNU Ttatur. Union. POSTWAR AGREEMENTS IN' AIR WASHINGTON. Put together what has been msde public in Moscow, London and Washington recently upon the postwsr program, snd you will have an understanding of the situation which repudiate most of the oratory on the subject, now filling the American ether with such a din as to exclude any aolld STILL IP fact Mr, Churchill returned from Moscow announcing to common no agreement had been reached on the Balkan or Poland with Stalin, but a working arrangelikes chicken. I'll have Homer run ment had been perfected for fact. Let him go." "That's Moacow-Londo- n down a chicken." cooperation durHarve would raise the heavy be wed ing the remainder of the war. up early Tuesday morning board and the calf would bellow. and get the chores taken care of stumble His words indicated, and indeed out, shaking his head and "How long you goin to feed, all official and the horses turned out to pasture, pronouncements confirm, Amos?" Jim would ask. as we wouldn't need them today. bellowing. that Russia maintains the upper Is "The best to ask for their thing Then wed all go out on the front "I'll hold them a year at least. I hand in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, recommendations. Even then you've don't believe in porch to wait Pretty soon we would Jugoslavia and perhaps Hungary turning light stock. see one of the neighbors coming got to Uke a chance," Jim would while the British have kept it In "That'a see I "SUU Just It, the a she was lookin nice way ay. across the field and Pa would say, Greece. of? Jim bis would and say wipe "Go out and wave, Homer," end I girl" Churchill said would be "That don't mean she would be a saw and go to the tank. "Ill get Impossible until agreement would go out to the fence and wave he could get Roosethe off rest home. at my hat In a moment Harve would good teacher." velt with Stalin, and they "You want your check now?" Pa have together wave back. 'It sure don't," Jim would say and met only once, at Teheran, alwould ask. most exactly a year ago, where the Pretty soon he would be at the give another shove on the saw. Ba grateful to Cod that you eon taka an unlortunata child or two into your "If you wouldn't mind." Jim results were about the same namefront porch and Pa would say, All morning It would go on, the and give a waif uhota lifa might otherwise be blighted a better chance. homa, would say politely and Pa would ly a military agreement for war Have you got your gloves?" and number of calves in the pen grow end me to the house for hla inHarve would slap his hip pocket and and a complete delay of political By KATHLEEN NORRIS delible pencil RESENTFVL say. "Right here. agreements. take ail sorts We'd put the team on and the RUSSIA We would talk neighborhood news NOT AGREED this strange Childless women generally dehorning chute would rise out of and crops. Harve would say, "Ive Since then Russia declined to of ours; on wheel the the holes. Scattered lota And com. down Pa of got for children. Barbara is on the new league of nation yearn agree three-fourtof the wives of would say. "It was that wind of July ground would be the horns; some formula at Dumbarton Oaks, mainsuch a one. She has a fine would have little patches of hair the world are in constant aptwelfth. And Harve would say, "It home and a loving husband. taining it wanted unanimity required seems to me we get more down clinging to them. Pretty toon the of the Big Four powera to act prehension of having children Six years ago they adopted a chute would be iwaying and teetercom than we used to." Pa would against any future aggressor, or she too fast. The other twenty-fiv- e baby girl, Babsie, who satisfied toward Pa would and the road It about "One ing ay, good thing It (or us) could veto any war moves per cent is even more Barbara's maternal desires for matures Just as well." begin picking up the horns and against aggressors Involving her or miserable because the babies a time. Then she wanted anburying them so the smell of blood us even though all the other nations Ma would say, How la your wife come. wont cows other. They obtained little that the wouldnt night keep wished to act. getting along with her grapes?" and Barbara White is in the latfrom giving down their milk. who was also very loveSonia, Harve would say, "Shes got bags At that time Churchill hoped a ter category; her tragic letter able. With two children Bardrippln' from everywhere. If I get Dehorning day would be over. new agreement at the undersecrelies before me as I write. baras heart teas filled. But after I went to bed I could still tary level would be made immediup in the night I bang smack Into "Benny and I have been married we Then one." would all laugh. hear the calves giving their plaintive ately, but It has not been forth After two years, however, 11 years. After five years, with no "Her hands are all discolored. I bellows, and I would feel sorry for coming. mother demanded her Babsies hint of a baby coming, I persuaded Now Moscow announces through don't know what ahe'i goin to do them. and Barbara reluctantly child, We to both to him agree adoption. when Sunday comes." At about this time I got my first her newspapers she will not send Ever since Barher had hoped for children, we had evgave up. to the international civil"The Lord will overlook that lesson in life. At least it Is the delegates can bara has been life other supply, ery blessing ian aviation conference at Chicago, trying to get anMa would say. Ma was strong tor first lesson" I can remember: other unwanted baby. Several because the "fascist nations" of in health, friends, fortune, devotion the Lord. My mother raised chickens and, to each other, but our hearts ached times she has come close, but Pa was for the Lord, too, but not since she was not strong," I had Spain, Portugal and Switzerland for one more. have each been invited. time the mother changed Just because somebody's hands were to help her. She liked to study Six years ago we adopted a delimind. her We have all tried te assume stained. them, and especially the way they cate, unwanted baby, six weeks old. that the objections continuously It wouldnt be long before Jim The unsuccessful quest is aftreated one another. One day, as Under my love and care she grew advanced Moscow Vert would come over the brow of relate by we were sitting on the porch and only Barbaras whole outto be an exquisite little creature fecting to "details," but the only actual the hill with his dehorning chute the chickens were scratching in the look. She is envious and rewhose charm made even strangers postwar agreement reached of rattling along on its two wheels. yard, she said; in the street notice her. When Bab-sl- e sentful of women who achieve Jim would be standing In the front any Importance baa been the was two we adopted a little sla"Chickens are Just like people motherhood, although they are Bretton Woods financial arpart of the chute, his head not much and ter for her, Sonia, dark-eye- d They have ways of grading each othd and often obviously which be than the rangement, boards, may only higher er just as we have. They look up vivacious, a lovely contrast to the undesirous. So bitter is she confirmed (the partly exchange f We would go out to meet him, all Ben' down on to some hens and they look and older girL For two years becoming that she falls into arrangement will be ratified if except Ma, because she didnt like I revelled in happy parenthood, then others. The hen that keeps her of dollar rate the the is fits of despondency. She is properly to think what the dehorning chute came the blow. Babsies mother feathers oiled and makes the best fixed but the Morgenthau bank stood for. I didnt either, but on a Knock down the asking Miss Norris for advice had married again, was prosperous, s nests. impression is the one they respect will have tough congressional in this personal crisis. farm certain things have to be done. most. She's the one that gets the wanted her child back. Our state sledding.) Jim would open up his toolbox and ing smaller and the number in the tidbits and she's the one that gets avipiiun law, stupidly enough, inIf Russia does not enter a civilian sists that the real mother shall know d get out his Jumper barn lot growing bigger. Finally the last peck. less joy of motherhood has roused with brass buttons on the sleeves. Pa would pull out his watch by its are like that. The ones aviation arrangement for the new who has her child, and Babsies in me so deep a resentment, so Then he would get out his saw which leather strap and say, "Well, I ex- thatPeople the best appearance in air world, she will remain an iso- mother came straight to us, and up painful a sense of the injustice of lationist nation which no one is perhad a steel frame, and a long thin, pect we'd better go to the house the put of we gave her up. or home, or posilife that I am becoming unbalanced; way money, vicious-lookinmitted to fly over without special Then he and see if there's anything on the tion, blade. Parting with her had all the bitnot that, really, but given to fits get the most respect. Every the same as before would turn a thumbscrew till the table." arrangements, terness of death, especially as the of henyard is run that way and every despondency I cannot seem to blade was so tight it would go ping! Jim would put down his saw. Ill human group is run that way. Now the war, when her isolationism enreal mother is a careless, selfish break. For the sake of a wonderful abled her to conceal from Hitler and type wholly unfitted for the care of a when he picked it with his thumb-nai- L go to the tank first." husband and a lovely child I ask you watch, as you go through life, us the size of her military establish Jim would squint one eye and Jim would go to the galvanized and see if it dont work out! sensitive, precocious child. I have your help. ment not seen Babsie since, though I sight along the blade as if it was a iron tank by the windmill and get It was such a whimsical idea, I Without considering the right or loved her as I believe few mothers gun barrel "I think Id better give of? the worst. Then we would all That help must come from within, but my wrong of Russias it a rip or two." walk to the house over the corn- could hardly believe it; positions so far love their own children. was only you can cure yourout hen Barbara, a that mother pointed developed, does not our own oratory We then applied for another self. But I am sure that a wider His hand would go into the box cobs, and Pa would bring out a pan as my sound was and it the exactly leader, of water fully silly? hot and put it on the wash and out would come a file and he child, a long slow process, for chil- look at the situation will help you mother said. This was not only true dren available for adoption are few. to philosophy or rather to would begin to dress the savage bench in the yard. Jim would pick STALIN HAS RESISTED with the also simple but the with teeth. While he was doing this, we up the soap and scrub himself, lean- roosters.- hens, Stalin would have answered all Finally we were promised one; boy common sense. The world is in a of sort head a We had or girl, we did not care, nor did we bad way, it will take millions of would exchange news. ing over so the water would drip on rooster who was really cock of the negatively. Indeed he already has "How is your down corn? Pa the ground. When he finished he walk. Something had happened to by his actions. He has resisted know, for this baby was unborn. capable and warmhearted women would go to the roller towel on the would say. note. agreement before the end of the war, The unmarried mother, 18, had like yourself to cure it. Countless back porch, dry himself, and give his voice; there was a hoarse Is obviously against acceptance of come a long way from home to women have been roughly separated would voice his a Ive got lots of it. Just lots," Jim the towel of morning to show how po- Early a have her baby in secret, and had from their children; countless oththe league without the reservation then the would say as he sighted along the lite he was. pull be the first one to go off; never to look upon its ers suffer the agony of seeing those determined Dumassociates his demanded at teeth. "It was that wind of July other roosters crowed in exact turn. We would all go in and sit down at and is clearly not letting any little face nor know who took it. children bewildered, hungry, homebarton, twelfth. A We had a vivid illustration. One whole burning summer day less. Mothers are working in mens agent get the power of sending his "That's what I told Harve," Pa the table. Pa always asked company to say the blessing, but that was on hen, that was a leader and got the army anywhere in postwar. I waited at the hospital for my jobs, homes are broken by divorce, would say with satisfaction. this was a workday. If last peck, was caught by a hog child and when it came the young the sum of juvenile delinquency has Sundays; no Now wants one to let these Jim would take his place at the this had been mother drew it to her heart and reached unprecedented heights. Sunday and Jim had and her feathers were tom out so reget disagreements beyond front end of the chute with his saw, had on his he could that she presented a lugubrious apsaid with tears that she never would clothes, good True, many women who bear chilMoscow is although demption, and Pa and Harve and I would start have asked the So Pa pearance. That hen lost her leaderof her dren constantly are totally unfit for the cost with blessing. it, telling part skittish less than we plainly to drive the calves in closer and bent over his and thanked the ship and never got it back. secret what it might. Seeing my motherhood, and many children livabout the possibilities of any discloser. Theyd throw up their heads Lord for what plate we were about to reas it was, and my disappointment the hospital authorisimple Homely Gering in underprivileged homes are the agreements helping and roll their eyes, because they ceive. By the time he finished, Jim mother's bit of philosophy made a ties promised me another baby, soon less fortunate than those you might mans because announce they knew something was the matter would be looking over the table, to be born. But here again the adopt. theirs to the press. However, deep impression on me. The chute was shaped like the But take a wide, far look at the "Homer was a big help to us this mother, another young girl, refused would as Churchill the father March Nazis say, In puts it, my letter V, There was a series of and be grateful to God that would say as he me, and I came home empty-armeJim situation, out to the clean morning, "most time is that important hope its Homer, on holes each side through which reached That was a year ago. Once since you can take an unfortunate child or the fried chicken. for would will division and arise heart the my among smokehouse, poles could be pushed. Wed round then I made an attempt to find a two into your home, and give a three great powers. "I guess hell be a help now, hit the floor. Work. I would have up the calves closer and closer, child. A friend in another city told small waif whose life might otherends and loose odds would Pa and all a the move all to Nazis the In say are laugh theyd truth, sometimes one calf ahead, someonly liquiof a poor woman who already wise be blighted a better chance. me the little. down knock out, times another. dating both themselves and their has five small children, who Huey!" Pa would is Forget your own humiliation in havcan tin lids that country by continuing to resist in nests, tighten the Tall like his mother, aint he? call and wave his hands and a calf to accept charity, and who ing humbly to beg for children from obliged over the nailed been knotholes, had a such because would fasten his eyes on the opening stupid hope, politiMa would straighten up a little. dreaded the burden of another, as women far inferior to yourself, reand sweep. The stove, from one cal disagreements are everywhere of the chute and start forward in a Then say, How are your boys, it means the sacrifice of a good job. member only that you can give joy corin a was to season another, to kept considered the necessecondary little Then trot wed make Jim?" hopeful But she merely laughed at the idea and safety, love and care to the ner, and now I would have to haul sity of Nazi destruction. At the a dash and slam the poles behind "Shuckin today. of the middle the in set it it out and same time there is no need that of adoption and said that somehow helpless creatures who so need it. him. Jim would be watching his Youve got a nice pair of boys floor. she could manage. Whether the woman who actually we be fools. chance and take the big heavy of this on me has been bears a child does that child a faThe effect there, Jim," Pa would say. Good a When everything was ready. Pa great number of our Obviously board, shaped like the letter U, and workers. very bad. I have everything now vor is a disputed question. But there would say, "All right now, well Jam it down over the calf s neck so people are thinking and talking in that I ever is no question of the benefit behad, including a beautiI would Jim do, guess theyll still think the work. this More calf the is ful wouldnt move. There the rub, past They to know myof four. But stowed upon some forlorn little deregirl say modestly. calf would stand, kicking and bawlHe would fill a candy bucket a 1919 and all this country must do self sterile and to be obliged to beg lict by a woman, can give it a safe Pa would mention some of the third full of brine, and sit down on is to want a league in accordance ing, his sides thumping in and out. of these luckier women the price- - and sheltered childhood. with their theory. "Let him quiet down, Jim would neighborhood news that Jim had told a little bench outside the smokewould be to and Jim, obliging, The possibility of secret armahouse and slosh the ham up and say. "Its always a good idea to us, An Adequate Lunch Needed let the first one quiet down. Gives tell more. Ma would get the things down; then he would pull the ham ment should be eliminated. An unOne big meal at night wont make as she could as off the range quietly the others confidence." up on the bench and rub in salt and controllable international committee up for a scanty breakfast or lunch so as not to miss anything. brown sugar so the ham would not should have the right to inspect not Wed lean against the chute and served to the school child or the facnew brooda out wifes but My tryin Russias, and should develop skippers." The meat had only ours, let him quiet down. worker, says May E. Foley, extory I told her she been salted down in January, after make constant public reports. "A girl was around to see me er, Jim would say. nutritionist at the Massachutension They should have access to plants, about the school, Jim would say. needn't do so much work, but you we bad butchered, but he always setts State college. Lunch should know how women are." "Did she come to see you, Amos?" gave it this extra rubbing just to being prohibited only from exposprovide a full third of the days nuI know, Ma would say, then sit be "sure. ing business secrets and purely non"Not yet." tritional needs. It should consist of Then all a would military processes. drop the last few He would take a butcher knife, "Well, I talked to her. But you down, with a fruit or vegetable, a hearty food cant tell anything from talkin to inches. which had been worn down to a know the realities of peace and war such as eggs or cheese, whole grain At the end of the meal, Jim would 'em. I guess hes all right now." or enriched bread, something sweet, point, and make a bole in the shank prospects. could we Russia to If out we his quill toothpick and get open up Jim would give his sleeves a hitch, get end of the ham, run a piece of heavy and milk. When a thermos bottle is and lean over the top of the chute. would sit there talking more easily wire through and bend it into the and consent to this one step Gerused, hot soup or chocc.ate esn be many and Japan could be well man"Hold his nose till I get started, than at the beginning. form of an included. You can give joy and safety . Pa would say, Come in the front aged under the same open rules. Homer. Grab his nostrils. (TO BE CONTINUED! Troubles hs ill-fitte- y.pp ) mud-dauber- blood-staine- g mud-daub- , |