Show V THE GARLAND TIMES Kathleen Norris Says: The Parasitic Mother BoD lE'CSCREEf&RADIO' By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Syndicate— WNU Features a continent away Columbia Pictures had to reshoot an entire scene for “The Impatient Years” because he stole it from Jean Arthur and Lee Bowman Cameras whirred while Jean and Lee went through a 'fender farewell near a railroad staUon newsstand They did a swell Job But wnen Director Irving Cummings screened the rushes next day there on a magazine cover was Mr Hope perfectly in focus with a wide grin splitting his face Naturally the mood of the scene was completely ruined! Shortly before her variety hour left the air last month Kate Smith got a taste of working on Sundays when she- was a guest on four Sunday shows— "We the People” "Siland ver Theater” "Bandwagon” "Hall of Fame” When she returns to the air in September she’ll be heard from seven to eight EWT Sunday evening — it will be the first Sunday series in her entire radio career — Pat O’Brien costar of "Marine Raiders" has been ssked to make a recording of a "Knute Rockne" pep talk adapted to war Instead of football for nse In the official training schedule of every marine going through the San Diego boot camp The request came after O’Brien in San Diego for the filming of the picture was a guest on the marines' radio pro“Halls of Montesnma" gram and ag "Rock" gave his boys officer a pep talk Commanding Col George Hail had the idea of having Pat record the talk as t permanent feature of training — Of all the roles which Jay Jostyn District Attorney" has enone of bis favorites is that acted of a virile sea captain He played station many It on a midwestem years ago on a series based on the men and adventures of was it very very salty And Jay who at that time bad never been on anything larger than a had a wonderful time "Mr Eddie Cantor who’s spent the last two months in New York broadcasting from nearby hospitals and service headquarters Is on his way en route Eddie back to Hollywood will play his "Pnrple Heart" circuit of rehabilitation hos- pitals by Harry Many howls provided come during his Savoy s before the broadcasts Recently nights) (NBC Thursday he walked on stage was introduced and asked the by Jimmy Wellington audience to take out their handkerand wave them at him chiefs "Thanks" said the Crown Prince of "that’s the first clean Confusion laundry I've seen in months” — ODDS AND ENDS — Special footage for Kay Kyser’t Columbia picture Battleship Blurt" will be filmed in Rocky Mount N C his home town of Jeckim Flower Parry in an Coogan returns to “the screen role in Hollywood Canimportant Of all the movies in Neta teen" York soldiers tailors and marines receiving free tickets et New York's “99 Park " one night recently most wanted A to tee “Back Home in Indiana" new tong by Cole Porter “Don't Fence Me In" will be sung by Boy Roger s and his Sonr of the Pioneers for their musispecial appearance in the Canteen" cal extravagana“Hollyv'ood Republicans Promise Farmers Fair Share Of National Income By BARROW LYONS — Corrmtpoodmt markets" If Warner Bros stick to the facts and during the making of "Night Day" the Cole Porter they’ll have to hire Xavier Cugat and his who wdrk for Metro for the film One afternoon some years back the boys were rehearsing at the Waldorf when Cole Porter walked in with a he had Just written He asked Cugat to have them play it— it was "Begin the Beguine” involving a divorced woman and her Miss Crawford regrown daughter cently worked in a scene in "Hollywood Canteen’’ playing herself she number with danced a Jitterbug Dane Clark Let's Face Facts ——WNU Staff Hope is quite a THAT Bob Though he was half JOAN CRAWFORD UTAH WASHINGTON D C There is a plank In the Republican agricultural platform that goes to the heart of what the farmer wants “We propose It reads: an American market price to the American farmer and the protection of such price by means of support prices commodity loans or a combination thereof together with other means as will assure an income to agriculture that is fair and equitable in comparison with labor business and industry We oppose as a subsidies substitute for fair Union After being under contract to Warners’ for more than a year without making a picture Joan Crawford is set for her first starring picture for them It’ "Mildred Pierce” a story GARLAND to “I told her that live permanently I felt uncomfortable with my father" By KATHLEEN NORRIS Y MOTHER is 38 g so and dally active married to a man of 28 writes Mary Lou from Seattle “She divorced my father when I was 12 8 years ago and on the day when the di vorce became valid was married to Tony He is an American citizen but foreign born and incapacitated by lameTwo ness from war service years ago my father also married His wife is a fine sweet girl of 23 they haveababy boy "Since the day my mother left my father he has never tailed to avail himself of the arrangement by which he was to have me for every Saturday night” the letter goes on "and happy times those were for me We always went to the park beach or a kid movie I always had and cones and was taken late in the afternoon to the (arm of my father's aunt where I was queen As I grew older Dad with me kept me in town for dinner showed me in a word that he loved me When he married Pat they both were my friends no no but Just artificiality flattery genuine pleasure in being together I adore little David and he does me t died last year "My and mother Tony and I moved out to the farm now mine but mother hated' it and we only stayed a few months Then it was rented and last month dad took it over working on it in what spare time he has — he is a captain stationed near here — getting vegetable beds and fruit trees into working condition We expect this heavy crops year Pat loves the farm little David flourishes there and I am never so happy anywhere else Mother’s Second Divorce this is my problem "Now My mother had a handsome money settlement at the time she divorced because she wanted It my father He gave her practically that way he had and started out everything from scratch Two or three months ago I told her that I felt uncomfortable in such small quarters —she and Tony and I have a apartment —and wanted to live perThis with my father manently made her furious and she then told me that she had decided to divorce Tony in spite of the fact that she has through his management lost practically all her money and he can never contribute to her support She represents to me that it is my duty to stay with her help her solve the problem of maintenance and build a life for ourselves toThis prospect drives me gether simply frantic "I know I am young to decide such a question and I do want to do what Is right but my visits to the farm are sheer happiness Pat and I cook gossip together share the together care of kitchen and baby so haplife with my mother pily and my is one continual I am compromise a and love my first little class my work seems to me as as now Just and any important I don’t know that 1 could stand factory or assembly line hours "Mother says that unless I help her through the wretchedness and change of this second divorce that she will kill herself My school by shopped " mm happy on ‘ha farm in such small quarters A DAUGHTER’S Just and wanted DUTY much does a girl owe her mother ? Should she twist her life about endanger her career court a nervous breakdown to take care of her how parent? Si ary Lou’s mother received a large money settlement when she divorced Mary’s father She then married a foreign-borman 10 years her junior named Tony Now after she and T ony have lost the money she wants to divorce him and to live in a small apartment with Mary Lou Lou prefers to live on she owns with his young wife and little boy It is close to the school where she teaches and Mary Eou thinks that she is assisting the war effort as much by teaching and raising fruit and vegetables on her farm as she could by working in a factory in town Mary a small farm and her father the way Is eight miles frorruthe city but only two from the farm so that would present no difficulty Please advise a troubled and crying girL" Poor little troubled and crying Mary Lou you really are facing a most difficult decision and I’m afraid my advice won’t dry those tears It is that you stay with your mother for the present spending in the entire every single year at the farm with your father Not that your mother deserves this consideration and sacrifice — she doesn’t Not that it isn’t extremely selfish of her to ask this of you — it most certainly is Not that these mothers are worthy of divorcing their children's love and companionship— they aren’t Girl Mast Stand by Mother But because if she really intends to divorce Tony she needs you as little truly as any poor evacuee on a European highway might need you She must have company someone to talk to someone to listen to her eternal her abuss of Tony No matter bow hardened how a woman is divorce Is s painful experience Friends won’t stand by her as she hopes they will She’ll be criticised she'll come- home from disagreeable sessions in the lawyer’s office to utter loneliness and If ever a woman thinks depression of suicide it Is at such a moment You must be her comfort and stay for awhile But make it very clear that you have your night each week with your father Don't ever be cried or coaxed into giving that up In this way your life will be gentle consideration and help to her from Monday to Saturday and escape to the environment you love —to your own farm and your own people every Your mother Saturday afternoon will have to find work of course You can't be expected to carry the whole financial load The day will probably come when she not you will suggest breaking up your establishment — she is still young enough to be attractive Leave all that to time Buy Lean Meats Even though most meats are now unrationed there is still a need for wise purchasing Remember it is the lean meat that provides the proteins vitamins and minerals you need Usually the solid cuts without much bone are better buys even at high point va lues Take home the bones and trimmings you pay for Simmer the bones for soup stock Use the trimmings to flavor dressing vegetables and other foods Render the fat for cooking One need reflect on this only a little to realize how far the farmer and the Republican party has moved from traditional at the moorings post of the good old law of supply and demand as the principle price determinant Although the plank does not mention parity prices viewed in the light of this plants history parity price and parity come are implied It means that the organized farmer realizes that to prosper a way must be found to control farm prices and that farm income must be held in fair relation to the income of labor and business Of course this means that an equitable share should go also to labor and to business Obviously this calls for national machin- -' ery to determine what income actu-- ! ally is going to the various segments of society j Congress is the only body In a position to pass final judgment on what is a fair share for each although labor and business may raise objections because about 74 per cent of the congressmen come from rural arearf Anyhow if the implications of this plank are squarely faced it holds promise both for the farmer and for the city worker This plank does not sound as though it had been written by any interests that desire to purchase farm products at low prices such as the millers or meat packers Governor Bourke B Hickenlooper of Iowa who was the chairman of the Republican agricultural subcommit-te- e which drafted the farm planks assured me in a long Interview In that no pressure was Chicago brought upon the committee by commercial interests to influence the farm plank “The committee held regional hearings in Chicago Salt Lake City and New York” he said "and nowhere was it approached by milling or railway Interests — at packing least to the best of my knowledge and I think I would know" This idea of protecting the farmer's share of national income probably is typical of the rejuvenated Reit doe publican party Superficially not fit into the picture of the Republican party as the party of the great industrial interests It Implies that the share of the farmer has been too small in the past which only mean that the share of som else has been too great on Labor Stand s At the hearing held by the agricultural subcommittee it was clear that the Grange and the Farmers Union felt that the share of many industrial workers bad underpaid not been too great The American Farm Bureau federation has not taken as generous a stand toward labor the plank needs definition Certainly and clarification In respect to some of its Implications Governor Hickenlooper said he believed industry was beginning to accept the idea that adequate income for the farmer and industrial worker was good for Industry also Another extremely interesting plank is that which declares for "arrangements which will enable farmer to make necessary adjustments in production of any given basic crop only if domestic surpluses should become abnormal and exceed manageable proportions" Apparently there ia a limit even to the political concept of an economy of abundance It may be presumed that one of the evidences of surpluses would be becoming unmanageable the tendency for market prices to fall below support price In other words production is to be controlled only when development of new uses for a commodity government purchases of surpluses and commodity loans fall to do the job We hope those remedies never prove to be too late to sustain farm income in "fair and equitable comparison with labor business and dustry" "Sound ' irrigation projects administered as far as possible at state and regional levels" is included In the last paragraph of the farm platform Thia is an extremely controversial plank and straddle e seIn the Central Valley rious conflict of California where large corporation farms have been highly developed the big farmers are anxious to modify the operation of the Reclamation act which makes it necessary for farms of more than 160 acres to dispose of the balance of if they reland above that amount ceive water from the new project Tiny First Clothes MICEST present you could pos- sibly give a young mothe- rcharming pretty and practical set of little dress petticoat panties Grecian Gown and romper Make them of yery A BEAUTY of a nightgown small patterned dimity which you can easily make for or of colored percales pastel yourself It’s in one piece and the low neck and trim waistline ovely Barbara Bell Pattern No 1982 Is re achieved by means of a wide tor sizes 8 months 1 2 3 years requires 1H yards of 33 oe ihirring finish through which satin Slzs 1 dress material play suit 3b yard aUp silk or velvet ribbon ties are run and pantiea yard Use rayon chiffon crepe satin or trous-teacotton toft batiste for this SEWING CIRCLE gown! 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