Show - - f 11444--44i4ta- l shot ignke tritittitt- ---7----------"---- ole - lr - nit FLZ1J rg —Established Amil 15v1871 Lou monalls bv loll Lake Tribuiso VbIlabinglOonspiap i t i - Time Wee Passag of the measure extending Military servici for selectees and other members of the armed forces is not step toward war nor is it abreakWe of faith with the soldiers themselves by their government In the first place It is another step in the defense of the nation declared necessary by army leaders for the completion of training plans and by the- president in view of the in emergency Th action of the congress serves notice on any potential foes that this country is resolved to establish an army large enough to defend our shores and skilful enough to operate the great war machine being built in our factories if the need arises It proclaims to the world that the United States will have something More than an "army on paper" Those who contend the action breaks faith with the soldiers should reads the selective service- act Mel which reads section 3 (b): 'Each man inducted shall serve for a training and service period of 12 consecutive months unless sooner discharged except that whenever the congress has declared that the national interest is imperiled such twelve-Mont- h period may be extended by the president to such time as may be necessary in the interest of national defense" This clause enacted a year ago served notice on selectees and citizens that the service and training would be extended in case of national peril Opponents may deny the national peril but in the opin ion of the president and in the judgment of the majority of congress the peril doss exist Some military experts would wait for the landing of hostile forces on our shores or for the roar of enemebombers over our cities before admitting 'the existence of a national peril Their counterparts no doubt gazed with surprise as the nazi troops marched into Paris shaking 'their heads and declaring it can'tI be so That the peril exists few unbiased Americans wiLt doubt Obstructionists will deny it but d leaders of our government declare it does exist and the majority of people who read with an intelligent eye agree If we escape the terror of actual war the paeans of gratitude will drown the grumblings of the obstructionists and the soldiers will return to civil ILte healthier stronger and wiser for their added term- of service ' an-eth- er ' - ' ' so-call- - - Defense Against Inflation JIrged by Leon Ilendeison Neither Leon Henderson nor any ether student of current economic probr lems in-oout of the administration pretends knowledge of any single cure-al- l for the evils of inflation or any certain preventive but many of them agree that price control offers the most logical point of beginningfor an attack on the probkm Primarily the most important job for this nation is defense All others must be subordinated to this and all solutions to the inflation problem must either assist preparedness or avoid interference with it Fortunately many measures for defense go hand in hand with this other problem Paring of civilian buying to pre- -' vent soaring prices in a market of declining production releases2nore—indus- tries for arminlAitatatio'n taxation to prevenborVuiplus of money in the consumers' market also puts more money in thi treasury for pr!parcsincsspurchar Int - Mr Itenderson admits that wags lmust be kept within bounds" but would exclude the regulation of them from price control measures "No group in the coun try" he says "ought to take advantage of the special situation arising out of heavy government purchasing to get unwarranted or indecent raises in the charges it makes to the community" Along with the price ceiling plan Which most of us as consumers applaud and a wage ceiling plan which few of us as wage earners will cheer comes retail credit control Proponents of this regulation cite it as one of the chief causes of inflationary trends Mr Henderson himself told congressional inves tigators that the month" buying should be curbed as of the drive to prevent inflation Somepart of the larger companies dealing in tMs form of credit have already taken steps to shorten contract terms and increase down payments The whole program is being designed to help the nation to avert a war by preparedness to make it formidable if come and to cushion its economy from shocks when peace returns to the ' world Thus far "civilian sacrifice" has been merely a phrase It will become morrof a realitY as the days go by and civilians had better start "Conditioning" themselves for the approaching ordeal s "dollar-down-dollar-- a- ' war-shou- ld - - w: ? 3 4 : hs a-r- closed e !1 Employment and good wages attract men and 'Women of all ages classes and conditions of life— easy and uneasy money In swift and steady circulation gives every favoród settion the outward appearancó of a boom town or a newly discoverwt "diggings" in a gold country The more dangerous phase of a modern war is thó depression Sure to follow an inflation Period But the high tide of prosperity is the most perilous for intlividualsspecially women and house-:holdeYigilancó and prudence ought to be the watchwords of-al- l citizens Describing a condition that exists In the nation's capital and other eastern titles an observer has transmitted some experiences and observations over "The Tribune leased wire" which may explain a 4 tt I By Paul Mallon - 1 'N !: BUT WE'RE 1 y:3171totlArefti I 4 YOU t t) t ::pt 4f 1k ' et '111L41 szr t kA1':1) t5:t4 40015106 f14)111111 4 Volgr's44 ' ee d' '1 1 ' t ' 1 -- 4 Ic 4 ii 414014117 t C o‘attaaPc A o1 4 o- le woe — - — - I:Pr- 1:0eV ?!tort:14:?: - 'il el : N fie "t ki' -- vt:740vg41r41!4w74ivelib 44"4' '04te - 41Z I ICf-l-v'- Presented Proposal REG- - As soon as Chairman Ickes had I ( : ':- - sriSk - I 4i r - - Senate Committee Hampers :Army's 114onpitatige Plans (Note-zIckopha- ! - f Action of the senate appropriations 'committee In refusing an army request for funds to purchase additional ordnance !to equip larger armee forces will no doubt be hailed :in Berlin as another Inside victory for be nazis Undersecretary of' War Robert P Patterson had asked an increase of 91347000000 in the army ordnance appropriation for the purand other pose of purchasing-Morei-tankItems to keep plants bUly until December 1943 Ind to Insure ithe manufacture of war machinery On art lncreasing scale Patterson told Ole committee that they "are items that take quite a long time to manufacture It would be most Unfortunate If we 4ivereIcaught short In them because of the time necessary to Senator Adams of Colomake rado opposed the bill on the grounds that it would be more lequipment than that needed by the "contemplated" army and Senator Nye of North says it would mean the outfitting of an expeditionary force It is difficult ta'Anow what war this i countrywill need before the emergency passes but of one thing we may be sore—England: wished for a "needless" surplus fter Dunkerque s the" materials New York iliffhliohts By Chatiesa Des0111 NEW YORK—Heart to 'heart: Will readers please not sentrine things that they want returned? Zr I werelo return all the relics manuscripts clipping old: newspapers and pictures that are sent me without return postage with a request lor their return I would go broke at once It is rule of my There is shop never to return:such-Itemno use writing in weekslater and enclosing postage since I baNSto filing system to care for these Iternsel'134 pleaSe do not expect even It you enclose post' anythlarleturned age The extent 'Of correspondence connected with the column Makee it impossible to It Is a cardinal look after returns principle of all businesses that you must not expect the return oflAnything sent without solicitation These statements May soOnd harsh That's because you are unable 10E put yourself in the columnists place4 I try to Make a personal answer to every correspondent and itt-i- ono of my greatest pleasures to do this zOnly rarely does regular correspondence pile up so that a few letters especially thosa atkingquestiona-re- - But the quiring- - research go unanswered "please return" mall looka like 'a haystack Astute stamp collectors have had their eyes on a buried treasure on Broadway for many years Its the nomplete eorTeipondenc filo of ' Trinity church Not a letter has been destroyed since 1828 and the correspondence of the church authorities ana ministers domestic and foreign has been extenalvei "You just can't receive quantities of mail over such long period without having a certain percentage ot 'valuable postal items In your pile" says Emfl Bruechig dealer who sells to Park avenue clients1: Some of :the bestl findsi he says ha come out of barrels and boxes trunks and telescopes in'etttics ofbtd homes The really energetic stamp dealer is always wilting to take a limited chance on :4t miscellaneous in an old barn or pile of correspondent :attic Herbert Hein linotyper Of St Joseph and Benton Harbor Mich wasOln my shop for a brief call He war interested in letters about typesetterathat have come to me during the last year Be says plenty of linotype operators etre since it makes no clifferebte But be has never known a haitdsetter WhO- - actually held the stick in his right hand and setwith the-leGelett Burgess author humorist and lecturer has many bobbies' but his crazy is rated 'highest by many of his friends Many hours Of painstaking labor have gone Into construction of At miniature town in which twinges do vatidevilW turns and I presume the'slob as defd la -- s -- left-hand- ed ft viiJag en-to- r-sai- m' way) a-si-ngle e4P' t 'tI''ii:filioA3 It ' t'' 'P4- - lilt ' ili: iti ' : a' - Li 4111 MO etla r:boloor1 lif - 01 - ' c Tr Forging Ahead ' -- onow"" ) 4 (--)-41IN 01 loe- t : 4 r ::4 wa44-o'- Ars- 04 - Aof 4 Pi'''''41'4L -to : : !itccr i-t- 17 'Iv' 1 i '4 - 14) ' 7044-'1et7"41 -4- i Wawa tut' tommecosso eibitortelmr nts once Thus progresses defense unity In the government calling loudly for unity among its people Tax Increase Looms Get set for a- stiff further upping or-th-e ate finance committee not only broadening the income tax base but expanding nuisance taxes Mr Morgenthau's testimony represented a change of administration policy front Finance Chairman George is agreed defense Fact is the expenditures this fiscal year (it will be- $22000- began July 00000- 0- When the house wrote the $3500000000 revenue- raising bill expenditures were calculated at only $19000000000 If the treasury was to carry out Its program of raising of the money by taxes (neat by the senate would borrowini) thus have to add nearly $2000- 000000 to the bill It won't add that much but the situation will require broadening the base to bring in new small income taxpayers in bulk Strangely the Germans are not bombing the famous large red hydroelectric power dams which would seem to be the best and easiest industrial targets Here the authorities believe the nazis are deliberately saving these for their own use later is they saved some roads in Poland Nazi plan for administering a conquered !twits is supposed to call for occupation only of the half dozen key industrial cities power centers railheads Rost of the country cannot be garritoned so-call- ed - - two-thir- ds - The British believe they are forging ahead of the Germans in pilot training The scope of the commonwealth air training plan centered in Canada Was emphasized by Mae-Donald Ile would not give figures but said that the number of trained airmen being turned out is twice earlier estimates The British elf training program is now being augmented on American fields British officials have given our gcwersment assurance that they Will have trained crewe-fo- r every plane that either they or we turn out as fax ahead as they can see they have reached the point wher they can furlough their bombing pilot flights About 30 long f11ghts-- 4o the Ruhr or' farther—are all that British airmen believe : a bombing pilot can make efficiently They consider him ready then for three or four mOnths of recuperation—which Amounts to transferring him to an activisreserve front which he can be called for further bombing service lit time of need By contrite German pilots recently shot down and captured have made as many as 1215 flights without a furlough latkewise the large removals of German air squadrons from west to east for the RusWart campaign indicated that the luftwaffir 1 was not so large as many liad thought At the same time many planes were left grounded in the west They may have been intended as a strategic reserve but in the face of heavy British attacks they have remained relatively inactive This again points to the possibility that the Germans are running short of pilote—ifinot of lubricating it are running Whether or not short now the Britis are confident they have no pilot trainingiprogram comparable in size with their own irhey suspect the tuft watts- made the mistate of counting ors an early victory- - with the heavy superiority of 1940 and POP which it had In the summer did not plan for an airT force two three or roar times greater as tile British are doing e Br 1titseh mEci:tp eproiwe encr tul rebuttal to the argu- ment that Germany fan be bombed into defeat is the experienc of the British them-selves For 10 months they underwent the heaviest blows the luftwalle could muster Their morale reindined unshaken and their production for war purposes continued to rise Yet Britain is a much more concentrated target than Germany not to mention German-occupie- d 'territory The latter is about 20 times the size of Great Britain And while British ports and industrial centers are within rkatively easy reach- - of German air fields In Irrance Belgium and Holland many of the most important German targets are far away from British air Ilelds The arguments of the airpower eatmaestri are plausible To put full faith in them d may be wishful thinking Many men do not believe the war can be won so Al-ree- The Public Forum Editor Tribune: The question-has been advanied as to which Is the greater enemy to our constitutional tovernment the warmongers - of Washington or consummate a peaceful termination on! the bases of n - sat-r-bu- og I By Ham Park radio I'll get my neighbor to Who led tell what happened 1es-4f thing-may-work-- with Tribune Reader Defense Against Soviet Editor that - ace'? ' - The culturiet Of those Who live in fear Of not being properly Misunderstood he was perhaps One It Is said Ife labored' long his garden And hard Of weeds then carefully planted Thistles —Ellis Foote A Flash in the Pan—Or Pants? w piercedthe 1001518118 in the south— The nazis claimed today But what the press forgot to telt - Or Germany to say Islust which way the Russians faced When they were pointedly disr gracecil —Pegasus - Nolen on the Cuff Department E L Smith Milford invites me to attend the Beaver county fair to be held in Milford on It would be September nice to see him Dr Rollin Shannon George Jefferson and other friends down there If I can possibly make it I will but I can't say for sure Besides right now rm so fagged out from the festivities of the past month that I'm practically a tottering wreck And the permanent blush I wear prevents me from receiving any sympathy Congratulations to Chief Vet-tefor his suggestion to the city COMMISSIOrl that parking meters in front of the gutter "autd traps" be removed and "No Parking" signs be painted on the curbs And Its about time something was done Bob Hunter has been rectivink congratulations from the boys in the cigar store for the nice crop of new fuzz he's rats-in- k on his head It is not known whether Bob is using Andy Glimp's recipe or not but whatever it is it is getting results -7 nt Tribune: the Says 'The British and American dy ' - - Los Angeles Daily News July 8: eige Senator From Sandpit Husbands are like automobiyou take care of them you don't have :to be getting new ones all thatime—Judge The Bridge Club Meets Girls did any of you read that article iin the Ladles Home Journal by Jane Lindley? It's called "Hail to the Chief" and is about how a woman should greet her husband when he comes home from work It says that Just a! few moments before your husband arrives you should sit down and think him As soon as he entabout ' tens the house he'll unconsciousthat you've been thinkly sense and are eagerly ing about-hisort awaiting him Well that worne-- of whose husbands have regular hours The day I read the article I tried it '4 had dinner all ready to put on the table PO I sat down and etarted to think about my lord and master I sat and thought and t no hos thought and band My dinner was spoiled and my thoughts about him— well—I could havl been arrest' ed for them He arrived about 2 a m and he may have MIconsciously sensed that I had been thinking about him and Waiting for him but he avoided any mention of the matter Yes girls these articles on be-lall sweetness and light are all right in theory but they're pretty hard to put into practice Itty dear I wonderif you'd mind turning on the radio? It's time for my favorite program and I'm just dying to know whether the man poisons his wife so that he can marry a young girl I think these radio dramas are a blessing to us women—in a way ' they make us feel111more sat'slife The fled with our lot ones 1 listen to the heroine has no much grief and sorrow in her life that I actually feel that I'm lucky in spitcof all I have to put up with I beg your pardon my dear? You Say you can't think with the radio Forgive me for saying it but judging byI I the way you play cards—well never mind the i ng 4' - 3 Forum August I says: 'Vern the British pay for anything this time?" She seems to forget that they are paying with Rome-thifar more important than all the money in the world— human lives Some people seem to put money before anything W E DeWitt criticises the "Union Now" plan I agree with him to a certain eNtent and I believe that most English' peo - at Beitioth Payments Editor Tribune: Florence Selby in a letter to The Tribune broitherhood and fellowship love Freedom of speech is another factor of great importance a constitutional prerogative which Li being sacrificed on the altars of bigotry by a certain class even those who soar in thee higher brackets of rational-Influencwho would deprive all those that inalienable right who do not agree with their narrow-gag- e philosophy and would close their lips by force had they the power to do so I have in mind Lindbergh Wheeler and their associates in ' pie are not iin favor of union now eitheri All that is necessary at the present time is tor the demdcracies to help each other all they can until Hitler' is overthrown and after the present war is over it might be a good idea for Americans Ind Englishmen to be a little more friendly toward each other Some people in our country insulted when union now fig brought up but at the same time these same people suggest that Canada join us not realizing that-th- is Is an insult to Canada suggesting that they are riot as good as we are After the present war is over a great deal of work could be done to make the United States and the British empire friendlier toward each other As they trade more with each other and are more alike than any other country there Should be a friendlier feeling between them than there is at present: views as those who condemn them for doing so Such malign invective insulting satirical thrusts as have been cast on their characters would bring a of shame to the face of blush a ' true-bloo-d American while to a grandiloquent Wendell Winkle or a redoubtable Harold I Ickes it would have the ring of par excellence in matters of American patriotismof freedom of speech I would To these high-up- s suggest they prove their state: ments or change their coneluSiOn$1 Sylvester Earl Virgin Utah the warmongers of Germany and Tokyo? While we have ample reason for believing the question is a contrOVersial one that the enemy within is a reality that sooner or later must be reckoned with that it has been predicted by reliable Sources that this republic will be ravished by revolution yet there is comfort in the supreme confidence that the sovereign citizens and their representatives will By Our Reide0 opinion Even admitting they are in the wrong yet they have the same right to express their Wants Free Country - The Proposition was net very subtle'It was that the power pet-ic- y committee be made the central agency for the defense power program and that all projects be submitted to the committee for approval and coordination According to the Ickophants who backed the idea It would make each of the agencies represented on the committee (F P C WWA v A etc) agents of the corn mittee Just incidentally (although no one mentions this) it would take the chairnianship of the prize awaY from Mr Olds and give it to Mr Ickes' Now no official here likes to engage Ickes in contrOversy for reason(' Which mustbet so widely apparent by now as not to require restatement but this was a little too much One daring member of the committee (not an Ickophant) boldly contended the federal agencies were established hsr act Of congress and therefore IC wu legally impossible to make therd agents of Ickes' committee- Set up bystatute they could net be agents of another organization On this note the meeting adjourned "indefinitely" that is with no future meeting scheduled Proponents of the Olds plan Including the 0 P M defense power experts retired' to await Ickes' third assault - which they expect shortly hoping the next one will show some improv-emen- t In clevernem as well as practicability over the first two But the problem of how to steal the show from Olds is not going to get any 'easier for the Ickophants Olds is supposed to have received some R Y C money already and is going ahead with his program construction to start at t ed i - J- - t r- ? bEsa ! mAN4Nc ::VI:1''"'Aew p v- :1 - the meeting to order one of the Ickophants present offered a proposal is not my word but that of some government officials to describe the little clique of for men S B C attorneys who are hovering around' Ickei trying to make him power czar so he can Ickesate the power situation as he is now Ickesating the oil industry and motorists It rhymes with sycophant in more than one 4e- e g' - - 4t 4' l 1 trot7-i- : 00 411 4 1' Vfts i) 7 - - It 't: 4 t -- - ' Ar irN r'wm 100prc- - 1 - Pia I 1) It r00 - — ' r ‘ l o : a - ? :tiel a: - tr'!rtb?':'4 '' - ':z''6 k It' 1 tA t- e-7 v '4 1111''"imi64(414614::- "fte4111 C0944Wct1:47Z4r4411t44iiti:i4:s:4' 6 f 'Z' 4--- - - atift AtoA 4 ‘104141404145101'N4 " -- — P4 f 40006' - dik gr'ipOC4 VP istAiLty 4' TotA "i:'1A 61 ro apt la awiii :4 -- dintit -- Wpse1 r1 L gob into submission by superior air power has ' been supported by two recent British OD visitors to Washington- ' dal ' The first vas Ctiptain Harold Balfour British undersecretary for air and the see ond Malcolm 1lacDona143 former minister for colonies now high commissioner to Canada Their views partially offset the more oithodort military conceptthat the cpertmu armies must be beaten in the field The latter' Wu Implicit in the interViews given a few weeks ago by the British Generals Wavell and Auchinleck from which it followed as they frankly stated that the British would need an American expeditionary form Both views are held in high official circles In Great Britain as well es here- It would be short-sightfor the British or any other ggvernment determined tc1 destroy the nazi regime to rely on strategy Obviously the destruction of the German armies in the held would bring about the total defeat of Germany Whether defeat or the overthrow of the nazi rule can be brought about by air power combined with the blocks ade and propaganda must remain a matter of conjecture until the test is made - This test however is almost certain to come first For with American aid British air power is now being built up rapidly while there are signs that the Itiftwall bas reached its peak 1:' — ' allitoroo )) : il LA : :-'- 1 "'"IltitilooA '3 - Aip' ‘ leoree ll'a I' 41 19111 By Ernest K Lindley The theory that Germany can be bombed A: 14 amzerlerzil a - s- - - I 5 ) 1' - -t -- z-0- 00001" J op- - 7-111- 01Td" - 1 N OW - - I ! -t Aefar F' dill - dop et to- 1 e' NG - i: m if - ' 7 41 ItItCr"'4' N A:NvNI:stsv1:stl'iut4t) 14‘) t tit t t r A :-- oLE7'74 141'll'ia voAtt ) - 1 : sx iN ' ' ' Its WASHINGTON Mr Ickes having been left at the post in the race for control of the rich new power defense program coined for another 'race of his own devising in private a few days back You will recall in fhe first one Chairman Leland Olds and his federal - power commission Ten off with the- - high voltage stake while Mr Ickes was still In the stable Mr Olds rushed a comprehensive plan ifor power expulsion to the White House before Ickes could get there with a substitute Thereupon Mr Ickes denounced the Winner's re lie port 61 a hodge-podg- e stopped this direct denunciation method of Attack after one stab but it was generally expected he would be back again with something new shortly True to form this-puweek Secretary Ickes called a meet-l- ug of Something called the fed- eral power policy committee Of which he is chairmen He is supposed: to have dominated it in the past through its legal counsel Ben Cohen although the latest congressional directory says the counsel post is vacant And Ickes' controtmay have been vacated well 'Committee Vice Chairman Is MrOlds and the Members an government officials- Carmody of federal works agency Chairman Lichen of S E C T V A Director Dave Lillienthat Harry Slattery R E A administratorWar Undersecretary Patterson R C Chairman Schram Bonne-vi-le Dam Administrator Paul J Raver ( ' ' I t 1 Wishful Thinkers See Victory in Bombing of Nazis a 71i Mantilltg-- '1 called- left-hand-ed Perils in Prosperity— Boom-Tow- n Joys and Sorrows Now— t rs ed better-informe- - certain unpleasant occurrences in this part of the nation Large numbers of workmen Ind a corresponding increase in payrolls have altered the ordinary aspect of ltfe t He say's: "Living no longez is an art It is a feat Business is So unprecedented ly good that no one wants your business If you eat In a res4urant you await your turn in Line If You go' into a shop you wait on yourself arid corral a clerk later If you have a toothache You may be able to have it treated next week" Traffie troubles' crowded buses park' ing problems are not the: only perplexities thatsonfrent the public i "Crime has increased sorapidly14hatNvomen are afraid to go out Alone at night— With an esti of the vast workers' mated three-fourtomen of many of them composed :army no longer even :young girli sex crimes Purses are novel nor are they solved snatched in broad daylight and wOmen motorists chive WIth their tar windows rftliPlitt t t - Tribune Is a member of the Associated Press The associated Press it exclusively ontitisd to tit for nProduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise Aredited in this paper and : also the local news published herein Salt Lake City Utah Thursday Morning August 14 1E944 Military Extension 31easure Proclaim s Nation's Resolution Don't Look the Scenes of Current News gfilnintroT ' goy— mments have no intention 'of permitting Russia and its soCial system to fall heir to ail of Europe if the nazis are defeated in the east consequently bases (in Iceland and later suggests the News in Mores the Cape Verdes and at Dakar) for the immense task of establishing an Anglo- Ametrican receivership for Europe in 'the 'event a soviet Victory becomes a pressing need now while increasing Russian resistance is beginning to raise doubt as to whether the Germans can Conquer the soviet union" So the capitalists are plotting a easily counterrevolution against Rusa sia to stage "comeback" should If the Russians manage to keep fighting their spearhead littler tail to breaking- the heartof the German army the save the world for capitalist deend will be more clearly in view The Brit ish may be able to land trocips on the fringes mocracy Who are these economic royalists going to use for of Etirop& but It is doubtful )f they ten IMMO gunfodder? After Russia saves ' ter for a long time to come a force powerful England aa well as herself from enough to invade Germany "the beast of fascismIU will the :ruling classes then plot her cruci'Won? Five and one-ha- lt lion youth held their convention hard-heade- - -- -- -- 819411elphia The closing plenary session afiel— July 'considerable discussion adopted a resolution opposing an American expeditionary force out of concern that it might be Used for imperial intervention All aid to the soviet union was pledged and a stand taken against fascism at home or abroad The English people's front met August ift 1941 at London and an economic aye- tem was planned for that will emancipate all B r iln's- Oppressed subjects and 41110 conform to soviet union democracy The people's front ' of all nations will speedily follow England's lead and a righteous social system will rule' the world Olive Carroll ! - Pioche Nev- - A selectee wearing size 14 shoes was inducted into the army One nay at camp his commanding ofcer missed him and asked: "Has anybody seen i Private Draftee?" ' And from the rear of the vin answer: "Yes pant came the over to the next sir he has gone crossroads to turn around" Not a strike has been called in our defense industries sine Ant nazis jumped on the reds: but let's not go into that When you analyze a coincidence you destroy — Christopher Billopp 'Says - itle's Present' 4- IrsvfnocrietheJrint AhnadodtaMryaryopeansboulx rdboxsaysin Unci great excitement and exclaims Jim How wonderful!" lt's a hair ornament Mary says it's just exactly what she has wanted She asks Uncle Jim if he picked it ' out all by himself and Uncle Jim beams an affirmative Mary says he has the most rear-velous taste And to think that he took time ' off from :important business to search the for a present for her! shops Mary says she doesn't see how Uncle Jim could have guessed that a hair mita ment has been her heart'sdesire for ever so long This is the handsomest one she bas seen Uncle Jim really ought not to giveher such lavish presents She just doesn't deserve them Mary says all the girls will be- envious of her now She looks at herself in the mirror and remarks that the ornament matches her hair to perfection She says not one martin a hundred could boast such exquisite taste She cannot make herself believe be thought it up all by himself She just bets some- body hinted to him And she rushes over and gives im a good big hug And Uncle Jim departs exulting over the fact that he has given his niece so much joy and happiness And when he has gone Mary looks despairingly at her mother- and "What do you think?" And her mother says "The same as you It will never do But probably you could exchange It for somethinfeyou reilly need" And Mary says "Uncle Jim's a 'perfect dear But why will he go off and buy things on his owe? 'It would have been so easy to Coin to nis first and ask me what I want' "Oh s - - - res ChnstopherBillom |