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Show lAKEIT gr FROM DAD SSr11 Do Nice Girls Pet? "You look sleepy umlght Bob, too much partj Inst night Think yon t f k.. A stayed at It pretty late." Bob made no reply, lie was quite ab-sorbed with his thoughts. Then sud-denly he got up and crossed the room toward his father with d expression on his face. "Dad, 1 wns dlsnp- - nntnfpn tn the, nnrtv and Its been troubling me ever since. You remember how many times you have told me 'hands off' with the girls. I've been wondering If that was just a notion of yours for certainly none of the rest of the boys have ever heard of such an Idea and certainly do not practice it. But what I want to know Is, Dad. do nice girls pet?" Immediately Mr. Smlthhcngh under stood the mood. Suddenly It dawned upon him as never before that his tnd was growing up maturing; that he had come already to the place where he must face social questions and ar-rive at a personal philosophy. "So that's what's bothering you, Is ttt Well I'm not surprised except, Bon, at the way you put the question. Why not turn It around and share the responsibility T Do One boys pet? Surely it Isn't entirely up to the girl to decide, Bob, and your question smacks too much of the old and cer-tainly outworn Idea that anything a man can get by with with a woman Is all right; that when things go wrong It's the woman's fault Bob get It straight that's one of the surviving Ideas of the savage 8e. In all social questions the man Is equally respon-sible with the woman or more so not-withstanding the fact that for genera-tions society has allowed men to have their fling as they say, but have pos-itively outlawed with a bitter Injustice the woman who has accommodated the man. - "One of those times I'd like to dis-cuss with you this whole question of a double standard of morals. It'a a big question now and I'm afraid we'll have to say that many, many nice girls and fine boys do pet "Let's start here, Bob. Petting In any form Is but the expression of the Inevitable dawning and development of the sex In life. Healthy boys and healthy girls are naturally drawn to each other. It Is nature's law. With-out It, all progress would end. There would be no marriage, no homes, no children and no race. "It, on the other hand, every boy and every girl, as they pluuge Into young manhood and young woman-hood, could have an Intelligent broad-gaug- e education along sex lines and have right attitudes toward each other established before 'petting time' comes the problems and dangers would be very greatly minimized. "It Is, 'however, because most young people, even In this enlightened day, have no adequate understanding of such things that they just follow along their physical Impulses as far as so-cial custom will let them, experi-menting, as It were. Petting, my boy, Is but a popular and slang expression for the age old play of making love. "True love and courtship are the most sacred things we humans know, so to, through Ignorance, drag them down to the level of cheap pastime, Is to very greatly belittle your own and totally unfit some fine girl for the great love tiiat will some-time come to her and be the main spring of her life. "Petting involves Intimacies usually associated only with those who have pledged themselves ns future mates. What real fellow wishes to have any part whatsoever in breaking down a girl's natural reserve by a willingness to handle or paw-ove- r or spootl with her even though she permits it for surely with the loss of her reserve conies the loss of t. Cheapen her thus In her own eyes, yon havo dealt a serious blow tc ber character. "Pawing over, spooning and close dancing that are Indulged in merely for the sake of physical thrills are apt to arouse emotions which may be checked with difficulty. ... "So, Bob, this 'Indoor sport' of paw-ing "ovei is a pretty dangerous and shoddy one for a thoroughbred to In-dulge in when he understands. "Now I know full welt there are foolish girls who demand such atten-tions; who have been led to believe that boys Insist upon such familiarity and who consent In crder to be popu-lar and to 'get Invited.' It Is true that too often girls who refuse get left out, but . Bbb,' that's Where the boy come in when he de-liberately seeks- as his partner at social affairs that sweet girl who would rather die than be pawed over by firs' one and then another Ignorant youth. Such practices as common 'pet-ting' will disappear from well-bre-gatherings. Don't ever let anybody fool you boy. One of the chlefest assets of a desirable girl friend Is her utter unattalnableness by all ordinary methods. Have always a grand good glorious time be a regular guy you know bow, I despise a sissy but re-member ou are a Smithhougli, re-spected tnd honored. Make the girls of your choice happy to accept your Invitations because of your fine self-respe-for both yourself and them." . 1930, Western Newspaper Union.) "ffl 1 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ffh M,S BAM. who is th. j f AS fiW'-C-" and also all the and employees '''' - .. of the biggest .' jsJ K5er S' Z'5Z'' J- fNCLK In the world.. JZ has some big . , .f'"-'- . to pay. One of the ,;inJ$ZV &mxi8ttwitm Is the bill which Man Mars, who 1 deals In war, brings around every year and after he has left Uncle Sam finds that he has handed over to this dealer In wars nearly h of all the money which he had laid aside to pay all of the expenses of running this business which operates under the name of the United States of America. For instance, this year Uncle Sam will have to nav to Oltf Man Mara Above One of the best known build-ings In Washington, D. C, is the Pen-sion building which stands In Judiciary Square about halfway between tha Capitol and the White House. It is built of red brick and has a remark-able frieze, depicting the various di-visions of the army In action, which runs all the way around the building. Four hundred by five hundred feet Is the size of the building and the offices are built around a huge hollow square. Filing cabinets In this building hold the documents which pertain to the record of every man who ever enlisted In the army. From theae the pensions of the vaterana are computed. Inset Col. Earl D. Church, United States commissioner of pensions at his desk. 8,099 widows by the regular array. These, with the pensioners previously mentioned, made a total of 477,015 persons who received a total of 9 from Uncle Sam. There were 18,279 fewer persons drawing pen-sions in 1929 than in 1028 but the total paid the last year was $924,517 greater because the level of expendi-ture was raised by new legislation which Increased pensions to Civil war widows more than seventy-fiv- e years old. The history of pensions for veterans of American wars goes back to the earliest days of the republic. Ou June 20, 1770, even before the Declaration of Independence had been adopted, the Continental congress appointed a com-mittee to "Consider what provision ought to be made for such as are wounded or disabled In the land or sea service." This committee made a prompt re-port and on August 6, 1770, the first national pension act in America was passed by the Continental congress. That part of the law fixing the amount 1 erty as proof of their alleged depend-ence upon government bounty for a livelihood. As a result, the names of many pensioners were stricken from the rolls. Up to September, 1822, as many as 18,800 claims had been ad-mitted, although at that time there were actually only 12,331 pensioners on the rolls because of the effect of the law of 1820. In 1832 a law was passed which granted full pay for life to all who had served at least two years tn the Revolution and proportional payments to those who had served less than two years but more than six months. In 1836 there began the enactment of a long series of pension acts In favor of the widows of soldiers of the Revo-lution, restricted at first to those who had married before the close of the Revolution. These grew more liberal later until pensions were granted to all widows, regardless of the date of marriage. Out of these pensions, and similar ones for widows of veterans of later wars, grew many abuses of the pension system, for it became a staggering sum of $828,000,000. Is almost $100,000,000 more than total cost of running the entire government back In 1910. It than one-ha- lf the cost of the entire nation of France for year. It Is almost equivalent to anual cost of maintaining the Itha of the United States, France Japan. Back in 1917 when It announced that It would require to run our government were those who shook their and wondered "what we are to." ; Now, 13 years after that "billion-dolla- r year," we are the necessity of spending nearly that amount, paying for wars which ended long before most of us were w born. If anyone wants a lesson against war, let him talk to Gen. Frank Iilnes, head of the veterans' bureau, or to CoU Earl D. Church, United States commissioner of pensions, and from them learn something of the cost In careers, lives and money of the mere aftermath of war. Being more or less Intangible, it Is difficult for us to visualize those first two careers and Uvea but for the third, let these figures from the government budget for 1930 tell their own story : (WORLD WAR) VETERANS' BUREAU Salaries and expenaea t 4, 500,000 Prlntlna and binding-- 125.000 Ullltary and naval compen- - aatlon 191.450,000 Medical and hospital serv-ices 81,850,000 Adjusted service certificate fund 112,000,000 Ullltary and naval Insur-ance 116,250,000 Hospital facilities and serv-ices (,000.000 V. 8. government Ufa fund 17,400,000 was as follows: "That every com-missioned officer, officer, and private soldier who shall lose a limb In any engagement, or be so disabled In the service of the United States of America as to render him Incapable afterwards of getting a livelihood, shall receive, during his life or the continuance of such dis-ability, the one-hal- f of his monthly pay from and after the time that his pay as an officer or soldier ceases." The resources of the Continental congress, however, were very meager, and therefore It asked the states to make payment of the pensions and In-corporated the following provision In the law: "That It be recommended practice for young women to marry aged veterans In order to benefit by a government pension after the death of their husbands. The pension rolls of the Revolution had scarcely grown to their peak when the United States became engaged tn another war the War of 1812 to add to Its list of veterans and depeudents drawing pensions. And the same thing was repeated later at Intervals of two decades with the Mexican war and the Civil war. The first law pen-sioning soldiers of the Civil war was a disability pension act of July 14, 1802, which provided for the disabled survivors, for the widows, orphan children and dependent members Of those who died because , of wounds received or disease contracted while In the service of the United States and In line of duty. Bates for total dis-ability ranged from J8 to $30 a month, according to rank, and these same rates were applied to the widows of the soldiers. Successive laws, begin-ning July 4, 1SG4, and culminating In the recent act which Increased the pensions of Civil war widows more than seventy-fiv- e years old, have In- - creased the rates, setting fixed rates for various kinds of disability. The passage of the arrears act tn 1879 added greatly to the burden of debt which Uncle Sam beurt because of the wars In which he has engaged. This act provided that all pensions which had been granted or might hereafter be granted should date from' the time of disability, provided appli-cation were made before January 1, 1830. The effect of that law Is shown by the fact that the total sum paid for pensions Jumped from $32,000,000 in 1879 to $56,000,000 .In 1880, the greatest Increase In any one year In the history of our pension system. A bill to establish service pensions for persons In dependent circum-stances was vetoed by President Cleve-land in 1SS0. A similar hill was passed June 27, 1890, providing that to the assemblies or legislative bodies of the several states to cause payment to be made of ail such half pay or other allowances as shall be adjudged due to the persons aforenamed on ac-count of the United States. The Continental congress also placed the burden of administering the law upon the states. As the states were to pay the pensions, It was perhaps only fair thnt they should have the right to determine who were to re-ceive pensions under the law. The states, however, were also at times In a precarious flnunclnl conditlqn, and payments were uncertain and Irregu-lar. Many of the pensions were soon far In arrears and remained so. After the Constitution had been adopted and the new government had been organized. It continued for a time the pensions which had been pre-viously grunted and assumed their payment Soon, however, a strong de-mand arose for a new pension law, and on March 23. 1732, the first pen-sion law passed by the new govern-ment went Into effect. The main pro-vision of that law was as follows: That any commissioned officer, not having-- received tha commutation of half pay, and any noncommissioned of-ficer, soldier, or seaman, disabled In tha actual service of tha United States, during-- tha lata war, by wounds or Total 1597,175,000 PENSION OFFICE Army and navy pensions. .. 1221,000,000 Salaries, pension office 1,225,000 Investigation pension census 105,000 Faaa of examining; surgeons 450,000 Total $222,780,000 UNITED 8TATES SOLDIERS' HOMES National homes of disabled volunteer aoldlera f 8,689,100 Grand total Mor will the paying of Old Man Mars' bill this year be the end of the matter.' Next year It will be the same, only larger, and the next and the next and the next uutll the esti-mated peak Is reached In 19GS. For, even though by that time Uncle Sam probably will be throngh paying pen-slon- s for the War of 1812, and the C Mexican war, he probably will still be paying some for the Civil war and certainly some for the Spanish-America- n war. And then there are the World war pensions yet to be paid. We haven't come to those yet, but It seems certain that we will come to them. As the number of our World wsr veterans grow less, the needs of the aging survivors and their families and dependents will Increase. And no one dares predict how far In the future Uncle Sam will be paying out World war pensions. all persons who had served 00 days In the war and who were suffering from any mental or physical disability of a permanent character which in-capacitated them from performing manual labor might receive pensions ranging from $0 to $12 a month, ac-cording to the degree of disability. Widows of soldiers who served DO days who are dependent upon their dally labor for support could receive $8 a month. The War of 1812 has been over 115 years but during the fiscal year which ended June 30, 1929, the government paid $50 a month each to 11 gray-- haired women whose husbands fought under the American flag when it had only fifteen stars In Its field of blue. The Mexican war ended 83 years ago but until September of last year Uncle Sam was paying a monthly pension to Owen Thomas Edgar who served In the navy during that war. And when be died at the age of ninety-eigh- t there still were 730 widows of Mexl-ca- n war veterans on the rolls of the pension bureau. The Civil war has been over 53 years but last year pen-sions were being paid to 50,045 sol-diers who served In that war, to 89 nurses and to 181,235 widows of vet-erans. Other pensioners last year were 178,-- . 804 soldiers, 414 nurses and 28,043 widows placed on the rolls by the Spanish-America- n war; 0,574 soldiers and 4,000 widows by the Indian wars ; I 45 soldiers and 15 widows by the I World war and 14,758 soldiers and i other known cause, who did not desert from tha said aervice, Khali be entitled to ba placed 00 tha pension lift of the United Stales, during Ufa or the con-tinuance of auch disability, and shall also ba allowed such further sum for tha arrears of. pension, from the time of auch disability, not exceeding the rate of the annual allowance, In con-sequence of his (Usability, as the Cir-cuit court of the district In which they respectively reside, may think just. Later there grew a demand for a pension law not based upon disability Incurred In the service and Id his an-nual message to congress on Decem-ber 2, 1817, President Monroe recom-mended such a law. A bill was passed by the bouse on December 24, as a sort of a Christmas present to the veterans of the Revolution, passed by the senate Immediately afterwards and approved by President Monroe on March 18, 1818. The loose wording of this law, how-ever, made frauds easy and the grant of pensions became a public scandal. A law passed In 1820 required all pen-sioners already on the rolls and future applicants to file a statement of prop-- In addition to the pensions granted under the generals laws, many clulms for pensions, some of them rejected by the pension bureau, have been passed by act of congress. In fact the consideration of pension bills forms a large part of the nctlvity of congress, as will be seen by an Inspection of almost any Issue of the Congressional Record. As this article Is being writ-ten many such bills are belug Intro-duced In the present session of con-gress, all of which will add to the staggering total which Old Man Mars has collected from Uncle Sam foi wars long alnca past , l Abaprbina reduce thickened, JevoUwi tissues, Curbs, filled tan-V- T dona, aoreneaa from braise or If strains. Btopa upavla Umecaaa. 1 1 Doe not blister, remove Lair or 1 tayuphorsa, $2 JO at druggists, HM or postpaid. Valuable home book IT 1- free. Writ for it today. A V f Hona Iwd Urta ewetBnt fj fLe'UM sale" '"" Now kxm; bee aot i Jt".PDri. li rood ,..Hit. oacd A beorhinefnrrrwtth area t eatress. " ti. F. VUUNR. lnc:jMmnSt,,SpinTiel(l,MaM. Money in Bananas Cooperative plan flelde ttetMndoue proBta raiaias ' ad anarkettas bananaa. Clop dure oaale. You de a work, nonlelr plua prohta para reuf MI volt-se-teal should eara IMJO to tlooo Marly lor roe. without further eapeaee. 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' JeMs!". :.JtA Read the proven directions for check HrfSarit' i Ing colds, easing a sore tbjtt; reUevinj . !r ' J headaches and the pains of neuralgia, - U V'ii neuritis, rheumatism, etc j You can always count on ita quick 1 comfort. But if pain ia of frequent recurrence see a doctor aa to ita causa. B8A.YEB1' ASPIEiiHRJ Aspiria Is the trade mart of Beyer Ifaanfadnrs of Uaocawaticaddeatsr at gtifryHrsrtl OKe KITCHEN CABINET (A 130, WwUrg Newspaper Union ) "How raat and profound ia tha Influence of tha aubtlla powdera of heaven and aarth. We eeek to per-oai-thani, and wa do nut aea lham, wa aak to hear thain and wa do not hear them: Identified with tha aubatance of things, they cannot ba separated from them." CODFISH WAY8 One way of serving codilyh, which la usually very popular, is with hatted notatoes. The codfish la parboiled, broken into small pieces and added to a drawn butter sauce, or a rich white sauce, or simply plenty of butter added and served hot with the potatoes. As fish bulls, there Is nothing better for break- - fast or a luncheon dish. Tarbotl tn a large piece, drain and lay In melted butter and baste It while heating either on the range or In the oven. Serve when the butter has been well soaked in. Scalloped Cod. Flake one and one-ha- lf cupfuls of soaked codflnh, or the fresh may be used If available. Chop one onion, one green and one red pepper, removing the seeds and white fiber, a tablespoonfiil of chopped ca-pers or green pickle. Arrange the codfish tn layers with the peppers and cover the whole with half cupful of buttered crumbs. Bake, adding one and three-fourth- s cupfuls of white sauce with the codfish, before ' the crumbs are added. Codfish Souffle. Take two cupfuls of mashed potatoes, one cupful of shredded codflsh, two beaten eggs (separate the whites and yolks), add one-hal- f of a green pepper diced, one-ha- lf of an onion chopped fine, and two tablespoonfula of melted butter.' Mix all of the Ingredients, adding salt and pepper and fold in the stltHy beaten egg whites at the last Bake In a buttered baking dish In a moderate oven. The onion and pepper may be cooked In the butter, then added to the fish and egg yolks. Serve with string beans, green peas or onions. Codfish Pis. rut a layer of nicely-seasone-d mashed potato In a well buttered baking dish, cover with a layer of codflsh which has been par-boiled and cover with plenty of but-ter. Cover with another layer of po-tato, brush with egg and milk and bake in a hot oven until the potato is well browned on top. Serve from the dish with cabbage cole slaw, using vinegar enough to make the dish snappy In flavor. Good Things We All Enjoy. At this season of the year when we enjoy pork roasts, chops and spare- - rlha. trv thle m t a-- .:A...J Roaat Stuffed Spare-rib- Rub the outside of the spareribs with sea-soned flour snd stuff with the following: Onion 8tufflnfl. Take one pint of bread crumbs, one cupful of corn meal, one chopped onion, one tart apple also chopped. h of a cupful of chopped celery, two tablespoonfuls of butter and salt and pepper to taste. Mix with hot milk to moisten. Place In the spareribs and roll. Bake as usual, Spanish Beans. Soak a pint of navy beans over night, cook In the same water until the skins slip off easily. Turn Into a bean pot or casserole and add one onion, one cupful of tomato, one small green pepper, one pimento, three tablespoonfuls of molasses, one teaspoonful of mustard and otie-hnl- f cupful of pork cut Into small dice. Cut the vegetables into dice and bake as usual. English Chicken Salad. To one d fowl add a .tablespoonfnl of salt, herbs tied In a small cloth, using two sprigs of thyme, one of marjoram, a bay leaf, two sprigs of parsley. Simmer until the fowl Is tender. One half hour before it Is done add one-hal- f pound of bacon cut Into bits. Remove the largest bones from the fowl and arrange a layer In a baking dish, cover with one-ha- lf pound of mushrooms that have been SHtited In butter five minutes, or use the chicken fat; add hard cooked eggs, using three cut Into slices. Continue until the dish Is full. Add three cupfuls of the chicken broth which has been slightly thickened by cooking with flour. Cover with flaky pastry in triangles, hake until well browned. Season well be-fore adding the pastry and If wanted especially good add some rich crenm and less broth. Hot Toasted Cranberry Sandwiches. Broil cold boiled ham In a hot fry-ing pan, lay on buttered toast cover with hot cranberry sauce and sprinkle with chopped cheese, Camisb with parsley and serve. Cranberry Jelly seems to puzzle mnny cooks to get It Just right. If the directions are carefully followed good results will always be obtained. Cook four cupfuls of cranberries In one cupful of boiling water twenty. minutes, put through a sieve and add two cupfuls of sugar; cook five min-Hte-stirring well. Pogr Into molds and chill. . Curly leaf dock, field sorrel and horseradish cooked together, make an especially good dish of greens. Artificial Rain Making On Mount In the Crimea, Russian agricultural society Is try-ing to create clouds and rain by spray-ing high voltage alternating electricity Into the air. These ambitious at-tempts grew out of g conducted by William Ilulght x Huntington Park, a few years ago. -- Los Angeles Times. John's Mother Praises Doctor There Isn't a moth-er living who won't agree that no hulf-slc-child should be the subject for an ex-periment with medi-cines of unoertnln merit When your child Is bilious, head- - achy, half-sic- feverish, restless, with coated tongue, bad breath, no appe-tite or energy, you know that nine times out of ten It's a sign his little stomach and bowels need purging. And when you know that for over fifty years leading physicians have endorsed one preparation for this con-dition, there doesn't seem to be any reason for "trying" things. Elch, fruity California Fig Syrup clears the little stomach and bowels gently, harmlessly and In a hurry. It regulates the bowels, gives tone and strength to them and to the stomach ; and helps to give your child new strength, energy and vitality. Thou-sands of Western mothers praise It Mrs. Joseph W. Hill, 4300 Bedford Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, says: "I'll never forget the doctor who got me to give my baby boy, John, California Fig Syrup. Nothing else seemed to help his weak bowels. That was when he was just a baby. He suf-fered a good deal before I gave him Fig Syrup, but It stopped his trouble quick. I have used It with him for colds and little upset spells ever since. I consider him a Fig Syrup boy." Insist on the genuine article. See that the carton bears the word "Cali-fornia." Over four million bottles used a year, Mad at School A little miss, age seven, and In the second grade, was relating to ber father the happenings of the day at school and said: "Daddy we made 'cock-eye- d Susans' at school today." FavorsA by Natura His Wife How do you like my per-manent ave? It cost me only $3. Mr. Baldwin Years ago nature gave me a permanent haircut and It nevei cost me a cent Simply Explained ne (hopefully) I've never seen Such dreamy eyes. She (fed up) Hint's because you've oevcr stayed so late before. Ideas of Worship " The various modes of worship which prevailed In the Roman world were all considered by the people as equal-ly true; by the philosopher as equally false, and hy the magistrate as equal ly useful. Edward Gibbon. Average Farm Siaa The overage size of American farms, taking into consideration the farms of tha entire United States, Is about 140 acrtHi. Of course, this figure varies somewhat from year to year. It Is es-timated that about 80 acres of the 140 la Improved land. European Pawnshops ' The government pawnshops of France and Belgium are known as Monts-de-Plet- originally "Monts de Pltle" or Banks of Charity. They are colloquially known aa one's "aunt" U for Wheat Straw Wheat straw, formerly a waste-produc- t of the farm, ta to be utilized In the manufacture of Insulating boards. |