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Show THE BULLETIN mstro&s tool WMU Service. ' Scroore. who didn't believe fta Christ ma I, was visited by bis dead partner one Christmas night and warned that ha was forfinf his own chains with kia selfishness. Ha was told that three Spirits would visit him. The first spirit bowed Scrooge his former self and the TlXht-fifto- d THE STORY SO FAS opportunities for happiness which he had missed. The second spirit led blm to the home of his poor elerk, Bob Cratehit who came late for Christmas dinner his employer had kept him over-UrAsked If Tiny Tim, the Cratchlt'a crippled son. would Uva, the spirit ro- - n. plied that be would die unless shadows east by the past were changed by the future. Scrooge, who had turned dowa sppeals for charity, who had said If people starved it showed there was "surplus population," bad become a repent ant man. (Now coatla-- e with lbs story) INSTALLMENT FOUR ' It was a great surprise to Scrooge to hear a familiar, hearty laugh. Scrooge recognized It ai his own nephew's, lie found himself in a bright, dry, gleaming room. noble adIt Is a fair, justment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing In the world so Irresistibly contagious as laughter and even-hande- good humour. Scrooge's niece, by marriage, laughed as heartily as he. And their assembled friends roared. "He said that Christmas was a humbug, as I live!" cried Scrooge's nephew. "He believed it too!" "He's a comical old fellow." said "that's the Scrooge's nephew, truth; and not so pleasant "However, I believe his offenses carry their own punishment, and I have nothing to say against him." 'Tin sure he Is very rich, Fred," hinted Scrooge's niece. "What of that, my dear!" said Scrooge's nephew. "His wealth is of no use to him." "I have no patience with him," observed Scrooge's niece. "Oh, I have!" said Scrooge's ephew. "I am sorry for him; X couldn't be angry with him if I tried. Who suffers by his ill whims! Himself, always. Here, he takes it into his head to dislike us, and he won't come and dine with us. What's He don't lose the consequence? much of a dinner." "Indeed, I think he loses a very good dinner," said Scrooge's niece. "Well! rm very glad to hear it," said Scrooge's nephew, "because I haven't great faith in these young What say you. Topper? , housekeepers. " had Topper clearly got his eye upon one of Scrooge's niece's sisters, for he answered that a bache lor had no right to an opinion on the subject Whereat Scrooge's niece's sister the plump one with the lace tucker: not the one with the roses blushed. After a while they played at forfeits; for it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself. Stop! There was first a game at blind- man's buff. Of course there was. And I no more believe Topper was really blind than I believe he had eyes in his boots. My opinion is, that It was a done thing between him and Scrooge's nephew: and that the Ghost of Christmas Present knew it The way he went after that plump sister in the lace tucker. He always knew where the plump sister was. He wouldn't catch any body else. If you had fallen up against him (as some of them did). on purpose, he would have made a feint of endeavouring to seize you. which would have been an affront to your understanding, and would instantly have sidled off in the direction of the clump sister. She often cried out that it wasn't fair; and It really was not But when at last he caught her; when, in spite of all her silken rustlings, and her rapid flutterings past him, he got her into a corner, whence there was no escape; then his conduct was the most execrable. For his pretending not to know her; his pretending that it was necessary to touch her headdress, and further to assure him self of her identity by pressing certain ring upon her finger, and certain chain about her neck; was vile, monstrous! No doubt she told him her opinion of it when, another blind man being in office, they were so very confidential together. behind the curtains. There might have been twenty people there, young and old. "Here is a new game," said "One half-hou- r. Spirit Scrooge. only one!" It is a Game called Yes and No, where Scrooge's nephew had to think of something, and the rest must find out what; he only an swering to their questions yes or no, as the case was. The brisk fire of Questioning to which he was ex posed, elicited from him that he was thinking of an animal, a live animal, rather a disagreeable ani mal, a savage animal, an animal. that growled and grunted some times, and talked sometimes, and lived in London, and walked about 'the streets, and isn't made a show of, and wasn't led by anybody, and didn't live in a menagerie, and was not a horse, or an ass, or cow, or a bull, or a tiger, or a dog. or a pig, or a cat or a bear. At every fresh question that was put to him, this nephew burst into a fresh roar of laughter; and was so inexpressibly tickled, that he was obliged to get up off the sofa and stamp. At last the plump sister, cried out: "I have found it out! I know what it is, Fredl I know what it is!" "What is it?" cried Fred. Ti' m A .nn. JVM, ITnM- - Srnuui.iui0i!" w - www O Which it certainly was. Admira tion was the universal sentiment, v though some objected that the to "la it a 'bear?" ought to have been "Yes." "He has given us plenty of merri ment I am sure." said Fred, "and re-nl- NO We . . Enjoy STAG E3SCRE By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) of Time has THE March to the rescue of all of us who have an interest in someone affected by the new selective service law. In "Army and the Men U. S. A." we are taken inside training camps and shown how tho young men in the nation's rap- dly expanding eitizen army live, what they learn, what they do for amusement, - Howard Hughes finishes waving his magio wand over Jack Beutel we may have a new star en our movie screens. Bentel gets his chance as one of the leads in the new Hughes film, "The Outlaw." He hails from Dallas, where he had r experience, and wasn't getting far in his ambition to succeed In Hollywood when he got the Hughes assignment When e roof, shop, below a where iron, old rags, bottles, bones and greasy offal, were bought Sit ting in among the wares he dealt In, by a charcoal stove, made of old rascal. bricks, was a gray-haire- d nearly seventy years of age. Scrooge and the Phantom came into the presence of this man, just as a woman with a heavy bundle slunk into the shop. But she had scarcely entered, when another woman, similarly laden, came in too; and she was closely followed by a man in faded black. "Open that bundle, old Joe," she sick-bed"and let me know the continued, they were cheerful; on foreign value of Speak out plain. I'm it close were at home; not afraid to be lands, and they the first nor afraid by struggling men, and they were for them to see We knew pretty it in their greater hope; by wen that we were helping ourselves, patient poverty, and it was rich. In alms before we met here, I believe. It's house, hospital, and Jail, in mis- no sin. the bundle, Joe." Open man ery's every refuge, where vain But the gallantry of her friends In his little brief authority had not made fast the door, and barred the would not allow of this; and the in faded black, mounting the Spirit out he left his blessing, and man breach first produced his plunder. his precepts. taught Scrooge It was not extensive. A seal or not am Justified I me if 'Forgive a pair of sleeve-button- s, two, a pencil-casin what I ask," said Scrooge, looka brooch of no great and ing intently at the Spirit's robe, "but were all. They were sevI see something strange, and not be- value, examined and erally appraised by longing to yourself, protruding from old Joe. a a foot claw?" or skirts. Is it your The laundress was next Sheets "It might be a claw, for the flesh and a wearing apparel. there is upon it" was the Spirit's two towels, little silver teaspoons. sorrowful reply. "Look here." a pair of sugar-tong- s, and a few From the foldings of its. robe, it boots. brought two children; wretched, ab "And now undo my bundle, Joe,' ject frightful, hideous, miserable. said the first woman. "Spirit! are they yours?" Scrooge Joe went down on his knees for could say no more. the greater convenience of opening "They are Man's," said the Spirit it end having unfastened a great looking down upon them. "And they many knots, dragged out a large and cling to me, appealing from their heavy roll of some dark stuff. fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This "What do you can this?" said girl is Want Beware them both. Joe. and all of their degree, but most of "Ah!" returned the woman, laugh an beware this boy, for on his brow ing and leaning forward on her see that written which is Doom, crossed arms. unless the writing be erased." "You don't mean to say you took "Have they no refuge or re 'em down, rings and all, with him source?" cried Scrooge. lying there?" said Joe, "Are there no prisons?" said the "Yes I do," replied the woman, Spirit turning on him for the last "Don't drop that oil upon the blan own words. his "Are with time kets, now." there no workhouses?" "His blankets?" asked Joe. The bell struck twelve. "Whose else's do you think?" reScrooge looked about him for the "He isn't likely plied As not the last to takethecoldwoman. Ghost and saw it without 'em, I dare say, stroke ceased to vibrate, he remem die of anything "I he didn't hope old of Jacob the bered prediction Marley, and lifting up his eyes, be- catching? Eh?" said old Joe, stop held a solemn Phantom, draped and ping in his work, and looking up. "Don't you be afraid of that" rehooded, coming. turned the woman. "I an't so fond of his company that I'd loiter about STAVE FOUR him for such things, if he did." of the The Last Spirits "Spirit!" said Scrooge, shuddering "I am in the presence of the from head to foot "I see, I see. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come?" case of this unhappy man might be my own. My life tends that way. said Scrooge. Merciful Heaven, what is this!" The Spirit answered not He recoiled in terror, for the scene "Ghost of the Future!" Scrooge exclaimed, "I fear you more than had changed, and now he almost any spectre I have seen. But as I touched a bed: a bare, uncurtained know your purpose is to do me good, bed: on which, beneath a ragged and as I hope to live to be another sheet I- -y a something covered up. "If there Is any person in the man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do town, who feels emotion caused by it with a thankful heart Will you this man's death," said Scrooge quite agonized, "show that person not speak to me?" It gave him no reply. The hand to me, Spirit I beseech you!" The Fhnntom spread its dark robe was pointed straight before them. "Lead on!" said Scrooge. "Lead before him for a moment like a wing; and withdrawing it revealed onl" The Spirit stopped beside one lit-ti- e a room by daylight where a mother and her children were. knot of business men. She was expecting romeone. "No," said a great fat man with d knock At length the a monstrous chin, "I don't know much about it either way. I only was heard. She hurried to the door, and met her husband; a man whose know he's dead." face was careworn and depressed, "What has he done with his mond though he was young. gentleman. ey?" asked a 'There is hope yet" he said. "I haven't heard," said the man "If he relents," she said, amazed, with the large chin, yawning again. "Left it to his company, perhaps." "there is! Nothing is past hope if This pleasantry was received with .such a miracle has happened." "He is past relenting." said her a general laugh. "It's likely to be a very cheap husband. "He is dead." "To whom will our debt be transfuneral," said the same speaker; "for upon my life I don't know of ferred?" "I don't know. But before that anybody to go to it Suppose we make up a party and volunteer?" time we shaU be ready with the "I don't mind going if a lunch is money; and even though we were not it would be a bad fortune inprovided," observed one gentleman. deed to find so merciless a creditor Another laugh. We may sleep They left the busy scene, and went in his successor. into an obscure part of the town. tonight with light hearts, Caroline!" There was a beetling (TO BE COXTIMED) It would be ungrateful not to drink his health. Here is a glass of mulled wine ready to our hand at the moment; and X say, Uncle Scrooge!' " "Uncle Scrooge!" they cried. "A merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to the old man, whatever he Is!" said Scrooge's nephew. Uncle Scrooge bad imperceptibly become gay and light of heart But he and the Spirit were again upon their travels. Much they saw, and far they went and many homes they visited, but always with a happy end. The and Spirit stood beside pent-hous- clatwbers. A tcnevaiioa program eofaplcte-Novcm- ber nukes disss accoauaodatioa. aa Mutual value. Park your car ia our new, odcra arage si sslresuly low rates. and how they are being welded into defensive fighting force. The film shows what has been done to provide comfortable living quarters for the young soldiers; it shows as well how the nation's Industry is concentrating on orders for the gigantic defense program. It's a picture specially meant for all draft eligibles, their families and their friends. 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Farm Income in 1938 had a gross farm Income of $9,709,000,000 from farm production and government payments, it Is reported by the bureea of agricultural economics. The estimate includes cash Incomes from marketings, government payments under conservation programs, and the value of farm products retained for farm consumption, Farmers Biggest Island Australia is the largest island in the worldso big, in fact that it is often referred to as a continent It contains 2.874.581 square miles. Despite the fact that Australia could easily support 150,000.000 people, only about 8.000.000 persons live there and most of the interior is still unexplored. I the Suit the Soil and Science little-theate- Eleanor Powell has finally com pletely recovered from that operation that kept her on the sidelines aU this time, and will start work soon in "Lady Be Good," which was PUT THE "EXTRAS" IN CALIFORNIA ORANGE JUICE s, ELEANOR POWELL e, "Bed-curtains- !" 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Jill Esmond, a talented English actress whom yon hear on the air as Emily Bronte, author and narra tor in "Wothering Heights," spent her last night before leaving England in a Liverpool shelter, reciting fairy tales for hours on end to keep a group of children enter 1 Friend or Foe Spasmodic Joy talned. If yon haven't been listenThe man that makes the best I Joy, like the ague, has one good ing to "Wuthering Heights" you're friend will make the worst enemy. day between two bad ones. missing something; it sets i high mark In radio serial drama. air-rai-d Loretta Young unintentionally stole the show from Santa Claus the other evening. On her way to a radio rehearsal, she parked her ear in a lot near the theater just as a Santa Claua parade was passing. Hundreds of mothers were holding their children high enough to see Santa Claus; somebody shouted: "There's Loretta Young!" and instantly backs were turned on Santa Claus while everybody gazed at Loretta. 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