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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH 1 PANACEA! SB By OSCAR JONES (Associated Newspaper' WNU Service.) about from her wrestling hold and, handing her the book she had been scuffling with him for, he had placed both hands on her shoulders and told her soberly, with a hint of huskiness in his fine voice and a trace of eager hope in his deep blue eyes, of the love he had always felt for her ever since he had first seen her as a motherless little flapper of 15, and he a serious, sober interne going across with the A. E. F.! And shaken beyond her control, had flashed him a wonderful look from her misty eyes and begging for time had fled to hide, in the sanctity of her room and dream. And now dad was homing in in true professional fashion. Why must medical men think they can hold their finger on the pulse of a nation and prescribe cure-all- s for every one? Just as if, mind you, she were one of his nasty old experimental germs ready to bite Dr. Bill and lay him low! But morning proved another thing, could and that was that Lou-Ando a heap of thinking during ten hours of night, and, according, she was hurriedly packing her bags and wiping large alligator tears from either eye as she worked, thinking of the note she had written Bill Lou-Ann- e, door flew open a bang, and for a long moment Dr. Ritchie stared at his demure daughter, so busily typing statements on the rickety old office typewriter; then with a ponderous sigh he went slowly over to his medicine-cabinand sat down at the small desk there. After a long moment of thought, he swung around to the girl still busily typing and eyed the soft h of guilt on her smooth cheeks and noted the added sparkle of mischief in her merry eyes. It was too much, more than even a practiced surgeon could stand and with something strangely bewildered in his voice, for all its stern rebuke, he said: you dont have to tell me you did it, but it would help a heap if youd tell me why! He here Dr. Ritchie blew his nose violently was my best friend, as was his father before him! What, asked Ritchie innocently, have I done to make that a past tense, dad? Up to last night I thought you couldnt even chase a refractory tonsil without the collaboration of Dr. Bill! Well, thats true, my faith in Bills skill is almost beyond the realm of human faith; and now The old man stared winkingly out of the window at the brown landscape. Yes? Now? prompted swinging around from the typewriter and looking at her father with very much the same light in her eyes that a mother might have when looking at her son. You know well whats happened, roared the aroused professor of ailments and medicines. Youve gone and egged him into falling in love with you after letting him romp with you as a friendly playfellow all these years! And, thundered the furious doctor, you may thank yourself for ruining his career, for he wont be worth a dented picayune THE office et rose-blus- Lou-Ann- e, Lou-An- ne Lou-Ann- e, from now on! And Dr. Ritchie glared malevolently at the ceiling, chewing his short, stubby mustache and rocking back and forth on his heels, far too experienced in warfare with this strange daughter of his to trust even so much as a glance in her direction, much less a thought as to what she might be thinking. He knew hed need every one of his mental cylinders when she did start the defensive! Uh, came in a soft, husky voice from the region of the typewriter, back of Dr, Ritchie, you recall, of course, that you married, and lots of folks call you successful despite the blight of having me around. And Dr. Ritchie gasped as though hed had a dash of cold water flung in his face. He hadnt thought of this! It would receive my whole blessing, he defended with stiff dignity, if I even remotely dreamed that you had such honorable intentions in mind! Well, went on the husky voice, you never can tell. Im only twenty-and I do seem to have faint six recollections of other offers of matrimony before! Bah! snorted Dr. Ritchie, scornfully. He has the nicest blue eyes I ever did see, dreamily commented and for a brief moment it seemed as though this remark were going to precipitate an unseemly death by apoplexy for her enraged father, but he was spared, and with a roar not unlike a pampas bull he charged out of the room and stormed up the stairs, listening with acutest ears for the mocking laughter he fully expected to hear. e But for once Ritchie was not moved to laughter by the actions of her explosive parent. She was, indeed, looking off beyond the distant horizon, and one versed in such things might have said that she was probing the future with wistful, hungry eyes, for despite her record as a man-hatee had in reality known her moments of unhappiness, and it was not because she played with each succeeding victim And then tossed him away again, carelessly, but rather because she was searching ever for some one to conform to her ideals, and failing to And that some one or, rather, finding in each one something that violently clashed with her ideals, she went on hiding the wistful hurt under a teasing, gay V Lou-Ann- e, Lou-Ann- , r, Lou-Ann- -- banter. And now, suddenly, last night she had been fooling in rough, tomboy fashion with Bill, as had been her wont ever since she could remember, (Bill was 36 and she 26) and of a sudden he had twisted her ne for his own good! She guessed shed live up to the honor of the Ritchies if it was the last thing she did and required such minor sacrifices as giving up the one and only man she had ever been able to tqlerate during all her stormy, tempestuous life! Speaking of Sports Its Popular Champs 1,727 for Gabby, Veteran Cub Backstop ROBERT McSHANE By TXHEN Charles Leo Hartnett, Chicago Cub catcher-manage- r, strapped on his protective armor to catch his 1,727th game, he established a record which is expected to stand for decades to come if not forever. The new mark was made with Gabby catching Bill Lee in the second Wrigley fields series with the runner-u- p St. Louis Cardinals. Though a Cub victory would have been in order, the Cards had no sense of the fitness of things in general, and whipped the Cubs 4 to 2. The previous day the situation had been reversed, with the Cubs on the long end of an 11 to 3 count. Thus was relegated to the p k the set by Ray Schalk with the White Sox from 1912 through 1928 (1,721 games) and with the Giants in 1929 ash-hea- 1,726-mar- long-standi- (five games). which has a somewhat U ISTORY, tarnished record for not repeat- 11 ing itself, broke down completely when Adrian Quist and John Bromwich, two young tennis stars, annexed the Davis cup for dear old Australia. Just a quarter of a century ago two other Australian youngsters, Norman Brookes and Anthony Wilding, received the trophy symbolical of international court supremacy. After they won the title they marched off to war. Tony Wilding never returned. This years gallant twosome from down under received their sailing orders from the Australian war office less than an hour after their Howvictory. order ever, the for immediate sailing was re- scinded through the efforts of Team Captain Harry Hopman. The council of the Lawn Adrian Quist Australian Tennis association informed the team by cable that it agrees the team complete original program and return Octo- other catcher in the two major leagues has ever approached these ber 10. marks, and it will be a long time, The groups action was welcomed if ever, that another one does. Sim-by officials of the United States Lawn Tennis association. The Australian victory was a popular one with the huge throngs who witnessed the battles on the Merion Cricket club courts at Haverford, Pa. Where, demanded a stern voice' One reason for the popularity of that made her nearly jump a foot, their Lou-Anvictory was that they came do you think youre going, to win the cup. When from behind Ritchie? . beat Bromwich and Bobby Riggs And found herself lookbeat Quist in the Frankie Parker Pullman her from ing up dusty it seemed matches, opening singles chair into the wonderful blue eyes that an Australian defeat was cerof Dr. Bill, who after that first' tain. The odds still seemed insurglance threw caution to the winds,1 when the Aussies defeatmountable from' not even considering a lady Hunt and Jack Kramer at Joe ed Boston who occupied the chair op--, doubles. posite, as with a catch in his voice e he gathered into his arms A complete reversal of form enand sat down again in her chair, sued in the finals. Quist played with everything he had, defeating wiping the tears from her streaky little face with his own immaculate cocksure Bobby Riggs 6 and handkerchief and praying with all Parkers forehand col3 was whipped and his might for an extra long dark he lapsed, tunnel. and 1 by Bromwich. Dad said that Id your It is likely that Australia will recareer; that I was a vamp, and I tain possession of the cup for sevjust couldnt stand it, not when 1 eral years to come. The present And Bill nevloved you so, Bill! Charles Leo Hartnett European situation will see to that. tears er did know that Friends and tennis fans can only were of fear; fear that he wouldnt pie mathematics proves that it will the follow her in time! be at least half a decade before hope that the champions escape was that fate Tony Wildings. Dr. Ritchie Perhaps, just perhaps, another challenger will stand a knew more about diagnosis, prechance to better the marks. scribing and cures than even Bill Dickey, Yankee catcher, has At any rate, he the best guessed! chance. He stands closest gave them his blessing! to Hartnett with more than 1,300 big league contests behind him. As Days Grow Longer Dickey is only 32, and may in 1943 catch up to the 1,727 record on a Cold Grows Stronger basis of seasons. However, This continues a series of articles According to an old proverb, As Gabby is confident that he will have featuring outstanding football players the days grow longer, the cold the record well up in the 1,800s, at from schools throughout the nation. After December least. fPatdt their records during the coming grows stronger. 21 the days lengthen and the sun, season. which has been seen farthest south, Dispute Settled appears farther north each day. The actual number of games Emmett W. (Punkin) Wood, There are severed reasons why our Hartnett the most valuable back, cant caught by during past Navys coldest weather usually comes after 18 seasons wasnt settled until rewhen he didnt play remember quite this. The ground continues for National The football. cently. league, through many weeks to give out more heat its baseball service bureau, was doAfter graduating from the vacant than it receives from the sun. As inits an ing outstanding backstop lot gridirons in his home town of snow increases in depth on the The Red Book listed Gab- Wilkinsburg, Pa., where he was justice. colder it becomes surface earths at 1,650 games throughout 1938, born October 24, 1917, Emmett atat the surface and cools off the air. by whereas the American league, tended the local high school, where winThe Far North, during its long its official statisticians, un- he won letters in both football and ter night receiving no heat directly through covered a Hartnett caught in track. This two-wa- y sport love caroff the air above 1929, and game from the sun, cools his total at 1,651 ried over to the days he attended listed it, and this accumulated cold air games. the Staunton Military academy. overflows into more southerly reThe one game Gabby caught in There he did the kicking and passfew A December after gions. days 1929 caused the mix-uThat was ing for the football team, and was a 21, or to be more exact, on January the which had been lost a valued member of the track squad. game 2, the earth receives the most heat in the Entering the Naval academy game Chicago played against from the sun for we are then nearNew York Giants on September 22. at Annapolis, est to it, only 91,340,000 miles away, It was the in June, worked Md., only game Gabby as compared to 94,450,000 miles in behind the in that season of 1936, he conplate The Northern hemisphere the July. sore arm, a baffling ailcentrated his does not, however, get the full ad- mentgreat efforts on footand went with neicame that vantage of this greater intensity of ther rhyme nor reason, but which ball. During the sun in January, for winter days him inactive through hll the his kept plebe are short and the suns rays slant year save that almost forgotten aft(fres h m a n ) greatly. When there is snow on ernoon. he played year the ground, the sunshine we do get quarterback, is largely lost by reflection, and the Merriwell Finish and for the heat that is absorbed is used up in past two seaAccording to Gabby, his greatest melting and evaporating the snow. sons he has moment in almost 20 years of halfball came last year when he played Old British Ships back and fullhome run durhit a pennant-turnin- g One of the sights of the Thames, ing a dark ninth inning against the back on the the famous old training ship varsity squad, Pittsburgh Pirates. Thousands of is giving place to a more fans were just as thrilled as the an winning modern vessel, the N each seagreat Gabby at the great Frank son. steel bark Peking, which has been Merriwell finish. Punkin acquired by the Shaftesbury Homes Gabby, nearing bis thirty-nint- h and Arethusa Training Ship society. a short, is 1922 Cubs in birthday, joined the 7 inches tall, and The Peking, like the old Arethusa, when 5 feet he was a rookie. chunky lad, will be moored at Greenhithe, where He has a lifetime weighing 175 pounds. He can kick, batting average there is doubtless a long life of use- of an even .300, and and run, and was Navys highpass is perhaps fulness before her in training youngest point gainer last year, having Cub fans as a batmost admired sters for the navy and merchant ter. In 1930 hebybrought in 122 runs. scored six touchdowns and nine service. She was built in 1911, while In 1937 he put on the longest for extra points. hitting goals the old Arethusa dates back to 1849. streak of the season when His classroom record isnt dimmed he clicked She was in the navy during the in 26 by his gridiron prowess. In 1934 straight games. Crimean war and was the last Britwas selected as he Leo the Lion Hearted lays claim to halfback of western ish fighting ship to go into action Pennsylvania, under full sail. There is no episode no greatest single game. The no- and in high scool won the highest has eluded charm always him, combined scholastic and athletic in the. Pekings history so romantic hit as that, but the German company to but, he says,withIve had the pleasure honor which can be accorded by a lot of great pitch- the student which she belonged has owned many of working body. ' ers. famous sailing ships, among them one regret concernhas Navy only And a lot of pitchers have had the the Pamir and the Parma. And the Punkin Wood. Thats the fact ing of working with a great that he Peking was one of the best of them pleasure graduates this coming year. catcher. No ne Lou-An- ne Lou-Ann- 6-- 4, 6-- 1, 6-- 3-- 3-- 6, 4. 6-- 0, 6-- 6-- Lou-Ann- es Lou-An- ne Gridiron Topnotchers 100-ga- p. big-leag- ue Are-thus- a, four-mast- ed tic all. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) 1 Farm Topics business recovery VITAL TO FARMERS Employment Revival Would Aid Agriculture. . i By DR. O. B. JESNESS Solution of a considerable part of the farm problem must be looked for in industry rather than on the g farm. Colorado State college is serious consideration to the interlocking of these two major American enterprises. Industrial and employment recovery concern the farmer because increased purchasing power among consumers means improved demand for farm products. Suclj recovery also will aid agricultural adjustment in that more opportunities for work will be provided for the excess farm giv-'in- population. Unsatisfactory prices and income for farmers have led to programs seeking to raise prices by holding production or supplies offered on the market in check. There is not an adequate market to absorb at satisfactory prices all of the products farmers produce. Agriculture is carried on by such a vast number of individuals that adjustment of production to a depressed market does not come readily. It presents a decided contrast to manufacturing in this respect. The fact that agriculture cannot readily adjust production has paved the way for government adjustment programs. To the extent the troubles of agriculture are the results of surplus output, the remedy must be either market recovery and expansion, or actual curtailment of the industry. Markets have been curtailed by the depression. For the future, land prices, need to be kept in line with prospects for long-tim- e returns. There are problems of soil conservation and land use calling for public attention. However, soil conservation needs to be treated as a problem of itself rather than to be used as the vehicle for benefit pay- -, ments to increase the agricultural income. In the future, greater recognition probably will be given to the fact that the individual operator has responsibilities in the matter of caring for the soil and other resources. In a democracy, public policy is shaped by public opinion. This requires that the average citizens must think seriously about our problems and arrive at sound judgments.' That thinking must recognize broader considerations of general-welfarrather than to spring only from narrow self-intere- st. Music Fan Radioizes Entire Vermont Farm Music while he works. Thats the pet hobby of H. O. Van Vliet, a farmer of East Charlotte, Vt., on whose large farm one may hear philharmonic orchestras and concert ensembles from early morning until late at night. The magazine Radio News tells the story as follows: Van Vliet has installed radio speakers in practically every building on the farm, all of which are controlled from a master speaker set in his house. It all started because Van Vliet, a busy and industrious farmer, is ardently fond of classical music. But because he had cows to milk, fields to plow, wood to chop and other bam labors to perform, he missed many of his favorite programs. So he set about remedying that situation. He bought several old speakers for a couple of dollars each. Using extension cord, he set up a speaker in the woodshed, another in the cow bam, one in the chicken house and still another in the large horse barn. To these he added three in his house; one in the bedroom, a large cabinet speaker in the living-rooand another in his kitchen. The entire layout didnt cost over $12. He still has one problem unsolved: he cant find a station broadcasting classical music at five a. m., the horn: when he hitches his suspenders and starts out for the barn to milk the cows. The radio minded farmer complains that he has to spend an hour or two in the barn the first thing in the morning and all I can get on that consarn radio is jazz music from Boston. Asked if music helps the chickens to lay more eggs and his cows to give more milk, Van Vliet replied, I know definitely that animals like music. When I turn on some soft, pleasing music out in the farm buildings, the hens and cows respond to it immediately. m |