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a Ls RAE Yk _ tm Sh thinking. > is, if ghe'r willing. H bout Ha, / { 3 tne. crazy ii TEN Fo PS Seth ENE ERB i A Home For Young Dan y MAUDE NORMAN Along the highway trudged a ~girl. Cradled in her left arm was a blanket-wrapped bundle, From her right hafd swung a heavy suit case. | A car braked to-a stop as she paused to rest. "Want a ride?" the driver called. } ~The man opened the car door, tak- "ing "the suit-case from her hand. "Say, that weighs a ton!" he ex- glaimed. "Don't tell 'me that's a baby you've got there" : / "I'm going to my husband's peo- ple. They're really not his own people, but they raised him." "How come they're letting you walk? It's none of my business," seeing her quick flush, "but a fel low can wonder, ¢an't he?" "They don't know I'm coming,' she said. "But | had no other place to go and | thought they might let me stay and work for my board. 1 want my baby to grow up in the country growing, instead of being cooped up in one room in the city. "That's rich. You're leaving the city for the country and I'm doing just the opposite " "You mean you're leaving all this," her hand indicated the green fields they were passing. He laughed - harshly. © "Looks pretty, doesn't iti But there's a lot of hard work goes with it." + "You work hard in a city too." "Sure--but you - know you're at. Here, you work your head off, then a freeze comes along or a hail storm or something and all -your hard work is gone. I used to have great plans about what 1 would do on my farm when I got out of the sehvice, 'Say, what's the matter with him? Is he sick?" as a loud wail issued from the blanket. "No, he's cold and wet and hun: gry--and--" her voice broke, "so am I, hungry, 1 mean." With an annoyed exclamation he turned the car around: "l didn't in- tend going back," he scowled, "but I can't stand having that poor little tyke cry like that." "Where are you going?" ed, hushing the baby. "Back to the farm--to give you a chance to take care of the baby and rest a bit yourclf. You ncedn't she ask- be afraid, my aunt and uncle are there." ) "I'm not afraid," she "You look just like a picture my "husband had of a buddy of his, 'only "your hair4isn't fed as his must have been, because Dan always called him 'Red." She smiled. always talking about his wonddrful Red." , The car almost went into the ditch, "Say, name." "Dan Webster." "Well, I'll be darned! No wonder your face is familiar. You're Sally! what's your husband's Dan had a picture of you he was al- ways showing me. So you're Sally! What _d'ya knowl" "You're not--" _ "Sure, I'm Red. The fdllows cal led me that because my face gets red so-casily=Say--whliere is old Dan? We lost sight of cach other when he was sent to the Pacific and I was kept in France. Why are you alone? He's not--? "She nodded. Red was silent until they had- turned into the driveway of a pleas- ant old farm house. "Llere we are," he said cheerfully, getting out. "Take. care of young Dan.and I'll have Aunt Sarah fix you a lunch . of those eggs and that milk you were talking about." Sy "And you're leaving all this," she breathed, "for the city." "Nope, I've changed my mind. I "guess all that was wrong with me was, 1 was lonegoms, I've been an was my best frien and 1 don't believe he'd mind me taking care of his wife and baby-- to ask. But someway, I think Dan would rather you would stay here Ip Aunt Sarah than go to br Ee Wr A a who knows "what will happen in a year or co. After all, young Dan will rol a . . 1 think "I like it here, "r father. 1 think you'll like Sally." Sally raised misty blue eyes, 1 think Dan wounld be pleased," she said softs, where he can see things * where- retorted. - "le was ¥ Na Te ENE AL SR TOR Se AEG on ENS ER A a oe ye Wo OTERO ERR RIIN] (2 CARNE RIN RT YS 0 SEAN AAT NICS LT Public Enemy Number 1--The Common House Fly THEFARM FRONT Joh usgll. During the war a well-known cor- respondent was stationed in Italy and 'one evening dropped in for a 'meal at a litttle restaurant. Over 'the door he noticed a big sign read- ing GUERRA CONTRA LA MOSCA (War Against Flies). But when the waited brought him his meal, the correspondent saw that the platter was rimmed with flies, with some of 'them even struggling in the spaghetti itself. "Hey, waiter," he cried, "what about that sign over the door WAR AGAINST FLIES?" sighed the waiter. "We did have such a war here once-- but the flies were victorious." * * * That little tale is just by way of introducing the fact that a declara- tion of war against such pests was recently made on a national scale by the Junior Chamber of Com- merce of Canada. From coast to coast rural and urban communities are being urged to rid themselves of flies, mosquitoes, rats, weeds and a horde of other pests which have plagued mankind for centuries. * + _* "Fortunately we are well equipped to fight a pest war today, as science has forged weapons which our grandfathers never though possible. We have hand sprayers and dusters --power-dr» /n and turbine spray- even experimenting with airplanes and helicopters for. laying down lethal patterns of weed and bug killers. The dawn of a pest-free world is here but the fight can be won only if everyone contributes some effort, no matter how modest. : * * * A famous authority on insect pests recently made the statement that the .common housefly is the most dangerous living thing within the United States or Canada. This, could apply cspecially to Canadian fapms, where flies are present in astronomical numbers during Sum- mer and early Fall * * * Because of the nature of its _ breeding places, and its habit of crawling over all manner of filth, the fly is a carrier of many disases of man, domestic animals and poul- try. Many health authorities agree that it is largely responsible. for the spread of dysentery, typhoid fever, and many parisitic worms. "The sign is quite true, signor,"-- ers--and. acrosol bombs." We are Like any other campaign against discases and insccts, fly control should be carefully planned to take advantage of the insects'-habits and breeding customs, so that attack can be made from every possible angle. . Entomologists give the -fol- lowing advice for practises to be followed in all "all-out" anti-fly war, » -* * Manure piles and other known breeding places of the fly should be sprayed with a fifty per cent DDT 'wettable powder, mixed at the rate of one pound of powder to eight gallons of water. This spray- ing will destroy both the develop- ing maggots and the egg-laying adults. * > * Fvery four to six weeks walls and ceilings of barns and stables 'should be sprayed with a solution containing one pound of fifty per cent DDT wettable powder in one gallon of water. This amount of spray should cover approximately 1,600 square feet of surface. ' * R * / » k Farm animals should be sprayed with a solution of one pound of wettable DDI" powder in from ten to twenty gallons of water. With 'this protecetion against the bother- some pests, they should show ap- preciable gains in weiglit, and cows will be 'much easier to handle milk- ing time, . yx As for the home--a fly-free house and kitchen is made possible by the use of DDT household sprays around window sills, doors, screens and all "other places where flies gather, or are likely to try and enter the house. N + + Russia grows millions of tons ot sunflowers every. year. The Gov- ernment of Queensland announces that it will devote half a million acres to the.growing of sunflowers, chiefly for the purpose of feeding pigs. And tlre British Government is examining their. value and it is probable that the three million acres, now being planted to peanuts in Central Africa, for the purpose of obtaining vegetable oils, will be planted in rotation with sunflow- ers. + * * "The average amount of oil in sun- flower sceds is 30 per cent, only 6 er cent less than that in peanuts. Sunflower oil is edible, with a pleasing odor and flavor and is said to be even better than olive oil because it remains liquid at lower temperatures. For use in paints it transcends, the drfing qualities of linseed by a margin of cight hours. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher "I certainly don't see how you can call being jerked around by fish a vacation! I" / : ' 2 1% 1.3 as THE RUINS THAT WERE ONCE BERLIN BY BUNNY WILLIAMS (In London Calling) On the cold, drizzling morning my train pulled into Berlin station the city streets were bare and life~ less. 'Those bare, lifeless streets and the massive, jagged heaps of * bombed buildings are my most vivid and my most lasting impres- sion of Berlin. 2 "I was taken by volkswagen to the hotel am Zoo--or 'near the Zoo, which accommodates visiting news- paper men and women, There I met Gabrielle, a German- Jewish girl, home for the first time since 1934. Through her I had an entree to the average, middle-class German home; with her | learned my way about Berlin, and from-her I heard of the gallant fight that German culture is putting up against an al most complete lack of newsprint and a thousand other obstacles. Toward the end of our ten-day stay, Gabrielle and I went to some of the night clubs where the miser- ies of Germany can be forgotten only by a handful of people--the few who have, somehow, guarded their savings, or have done well out of the biggest 'racket' of all in Ger- many--the black market. Middle-Class, German Home The typical, middle-class, German home that 1 visited consisted of the three, remaining, sound rooms of a white-stone villa on a lake-side. The greater part of the building' was a crumbling ruin, where a bomb had struck it; so all the furniture, pictures, family treasures that had been salvaged from the wreckage were cluttered into the three rooms, It was a ..ouschold of five, Some- one suggested that we should: stay to supper. We declined, thinking of the Berliners' rations, but our host: ess insisted. She was away in the kitchen for some time, and 'when he returned, she said with sonie embarrassment 'Well, at least, you will have a ¢up of tea with us.' So we drank black, unsweetened tea: there is rarely sugar, and never: milk, to serve with it. "This. family was actually well houscd. Not - only thousands of homeless Germane and prisonérs-of- war returning almost every day from the Russian zgne," but the families of the occupation national- itics who live in Berlin, have to be housed, so room gpace for the Ger- 'mans is rationed. Few single per- sons are allowed more than one room, and the congestion in flats is terrible. . There is scarcely any lab- our or materials for building, so Berlin's richest black market is in building-dockets and renovation- permits. } Marriage Bureaux Gabrielle told me that the short age of housing was partly respons- ible "for the increased popularity of Berlin's marriage burcaux, and ask- 'ed would [ like to go with her to one of them. Although it was. in a side stg" 5ff the Kurfurstendamm --that is the Mayfair of Berlin, still --it was a murky, dingy place. A' greasy, cringing little man greeted us rather patronisingly, un- til Gabrielle explained pointedly that we were not clients. Then he be- came voluble, and described his two ways of doing business. Patrons, he told us, may pay 100 marks a month, entitling them to' attend two parties a week on the club premises. They dance and drink non-alcoholic drinks (he was emphatic about this), and some of them look for accommodation. Or they pay 500 marks, and then each is given a scries of personal intro. ductions and left alone with the new acquaintance for fifteen min- | utes or so. When the two parties in this group bcceme engaged, they are supposed to pay another 500 marks. The little man complained that he was turning away hundreds of pros- pective clients, because he had not the staff or premises to deal with them. He showed us his list of clients--ranging from "a princess through the less exalted tanks of the German aristocracy to business men and women, factory workers, and so on. In Berlin, there are three women to every two men, and. the hoardings are bright with the advertisements of lonely young Ger- mans for 'soul mates.' If the soul mate has two rooms to her credit, she is an even better proposition and a much greatcr attraction, The Black Market I came to the conclusion that Bes- liners today are really prisoners within the four sectors of their city. Most of them cannot afford any type of outdoor or indoor amuse- ments, except an occasional theatre, Their tennis clubs; swimming baths, golf clubs and lakés have, with rare exceptions, been t4aken over by the four zonal authorities, all of which use the Olympic Stadium--in the British sector of Rerlin--for their competitions. The smartest of all golf clubs has been takén over by the Americans, but.a few survivors of the old German Club are using a nearby building as their club house, and they are playing golf agin. They represent the small section able to hang on to a few fragments of their old way of life. Few Berliners can move between the suburbs with any- comfort or' speed; the lines need repair, and there are few trains and trams. Accommodation and transport are recognized.;as being two of the greatest obstacles to the rehabili- tation of Germany--apart from the lack of food. And communication within Berlin: is still a problem. There ard. few telephones; postal services are so inadequate that letters inside the city itself take from two to ten days to deliver. So most firms employ large staffs of message boys. . Income tax in Germany is increa- ibly high: it begins low in the scale at fifty ger cent. And salaries are low. The legal value of the mark is sixpence, the illegal, and truer value is a halipenny. Professional and business men may earn from" 500 to 1,000 marks a month--from £12 to £24, at the lcgal rate of ex- change; typists and clerks, corres- pondingly, £6 to £12 a month, labourers from £4 to £5, Many industrialists keep double ac- counts; the accounts the authorities do not see may indicate that the firm is producing double its quota, and they are a full record of the firm's 'black' dealings--which begin with coal, najls, and glue, and may : % ; end in food, clothing and house- hold commodities. 'Income' and 'salary' are almost _ meaningless terms today, for there is no food in the shops, no clothes, no saucepans nor furniture for the pcople to spend their money on. The weekly ration costs very-little, but it is incredibly small, and often unobtainable. Germans told" Gab- 'rielle and me quite frankly that it would be impossible to live, with- out 'going black.' 4 wr iy The black-market story is too Jong _to_ tell. now, but you probably ~ all know that cigarettes, coffee, and soap can be treated as legal tend- ge in- Germany. , You can pay a erman taxi-driver in cigarettes in- + stead of marks--lie would prefer you to, for he then sells the cigar-. ettes for five to eight marks each. Berlin by Night In the drab, isolated suburbs, I saw many German children and 'their mothers. Most of the children were tidily dressed, and looked well- "fed and healthy. Of course, every- thing in German homes, disorgan- ized as they are, is 'for the children.' "Women of the professional class in Berlin frequently work, whether they are married or not! Many married women without professions try to find work in British or Am- crican houscholds, for that means more food. . WT School and health services are gradually being built up, as the number of schools and hospital beds . increases . slowly, Some Germans "would agree with us that conditions were improving, but many said 'No!"" ' ' 1 have tried to present a fairly general picture of Berlin by day. At night it is different, at least in the city. The ruins become suddenly alive. There are queues at all the theatres and cinemas. Most of the theatres escaped the ~blitz, and the German theatre is practically as it was before the war. Goethe, Shakespeare, and Schiller are more often played than the 'moderns; costumes in theatre and ballet are exquisite, and there' is nothing lacking in acting and stage- craft. Berliners spend .as much as they can possibly afford on the Hitler's Auto Now Just a Used Car--Christopher G. Janus, 3 managing director of a Chicago importing firm, waited two years for a new car, without any luck. Finally he accepted a car from Sweden in payment far a shipment after Sweden clamped down on exporting dollars, It turned out to be Hitler's custom-built, ornate Mercedes-Benz, in which the Fuehrer rode in parades. It's shown being unloaded in New York. theatre, and, today, it is their only luxury, And as cinema. prices are lower, the quedes for them are longer. Many Germans | met have seen The Overlanders in Berlin. and loved it. Little Social Life Boys and girls in the average in- come group may go to an occas- ional dance organized by one of the political parties, but most of them have hardly any social life. In restaurants, a German may buy a pot of weak, black tea or ersatz coffee, without anything to eat-- though sometimes it is served with butterless sandwich--for only a few marks.. But, if he is very well off, he may go to a high-class, blagk- market restaurant where he can eat as good a meal as you can buy any- where in Europe for thé equivalent of £5 to £10 sterling. But the people who can afford these prices -are rich industrialists, some of the old, rich class who still have money, and, of course, the black marketcers. The thing that struck me most about the night elubs was their cosmopolitanism. The dance band at the - Alhambra was a good ex- ample of this. The Alhambra is a club hidden in the ruins of one. of old Berlin's smartest residential quarters. There 1 saw a long-hair- ed Pole playing excellent dance music; the violinist might have come from anywhere east of the Danube; the man who played the double-bass "was a Mexican, the trumpeter. a Ru- manian, our waiter was French, and the vivacious women-entertainer was a Russian. But Gabrielle used to say: 'These pcople are all Ber- "liners--no nationality.' At last he did speak. "Juanita," he said, "there is just one more thing I want you to do for me -- then your work with mie will be finished. I want you tg get that money I took from Flash Conroy ---- it's in the cave here -- and take it to the Corpus Christi Mission. And this time I want.you to stay there. Padre Vincente will take care of you and your future." Juanita looked down at him for. silent, speechless minutes. "And you?" she said finally. "Your work is done also? You, too, will come to the mission?" "Maybe," Valdez said, and slow- ly shook his head. "Maybe later. -- not now. Because, Juanita, my work is not finished. It's finished here, Peace will come to Deep Water Valley again, and my own private debts have been paid. But my work will never be done so long as there are people in the whole wide West who are oppressed. I'm an outlaw -- I can't ever change that -- but I cai make up for many things by helping others who need help, I'll be all right again pronto, and then "I'm riding -- to wherever folks need help." . Juanita's hand reached down to clasp his tightly. ; "We ride," she whispered firmly, And looking into her black eyes, sceing there the determination and sacrifical purpose, Michael Valdez knew that nothing he could ever say would change Juanita de Ceuvas' decision to ride the danger trails at his side, to share his lot, whatever that might be. CT After a long time he said softly: "We ride first to the mission Juanita." I laughed - happily "Padre Vincente will be surprised when he is asked to perform a marriage ceremony for a man who said he would never marry, And there is a blind man down there I 'believe will be mighty happy--for 'his son." "I know," said Juanita softly: "I know blind man will be'much happy. I have talk to' him." "You. have?" Valdez was vastly . surprised. "Why, you never told me. You talked to him -- what did he say?" : ! "He say to me, 'Follow your heart, little senorita.! Me, I have follow you, El Cabballero Rojo." ..The carabaom, or water buffalo, is the national beast of burden in the Phillippines. ; ---- So Now You Havé to go to University To Learn--of all things--Horseshoeing While we have yet to hear of any great 'revival in the buggyswhip business, it's a fact that in at least three United States colleges-- Mich- igan State, Rutgers angsCalifornia-- 'they have courses designed to turn out graduates in--of all things! the ancient art of horseshoeing. More colleges soon are expected to be offering similar 14-week courses, with no worries about placement of the graduates. Accord- ing to the president of the United States Trotting Association, the young. men who complete these courses are simply rushed into wait- ing jobs. The tremendous demand for their services comes from prac: tically every state. of the union. The reason,it seems, is the wide- spread revival of harness racing, which is now flourishing in the U.S. from coast to coast and from the Gulf of Mexico to points in this country. « Trained in 14 Weeks Most of the old time horseshoers have departed this earthly scene. til recently, few youngsters tried to replace them, and the sport of harness racing got into a bad way as a result, Half a dozen 'years ago or so, less than 4,000- trotters and" pacers campaigned annually 'in the JU.S. In 1947, however, the number was close to 9,000. Yet there were fewer horseshoers than back in 1940 and 1941. As a result, the man who owned a trotter or pacer, and\need- ed shoes in a hurry, often found } a himself in a serious dilemma. "Then servicemen, returning from the wars and secking some trafle or "profession which could be quickly learned, sensed the opportunity mn horseshoeing. Colleges were ap- proached on the subject of introduc- ing courses mm the art. The three mentioned responded quickly, and it was discovered that youngsters could be adequately schooled in the fundamentals of horseshoeing with- in 14 weeks. Shoes Made To Order Shocing horses for.harness racing, however, apparently is a specialize d branch of the business. Even in the case of running horses, shoes can be manufactured in wholesale quantities, since they are standard- ized small, thin. plates. But shocs for a harness horse must be made to order. A style of shoe which would fit a certain harness horse perfec'y might: be all wrong for another and cause him to go into frequent breaks in his gait. ~~ : As in the case oi cvery other ac- cessory: to locomotion, the tendency now is to make horseshoes lighter and lighter. In the old days, two- pound shoes for harness horses were - no exception, 'the thought being that so much weight would -cause them to hold "truly to their gait. It has since been .proven that trotters can move along in' a faultless way with six-ounce shoes, and the present aim is to make them considerably lighter. ' ' < By GENE BYRNES REG'LAR FELLERS--No Respect For Age TAKE THOSE oT THINGS ERE AND J BEDROOM SLIPPERS BURY THEM! MY Mom SAYS THEM CAME OVER IN NOAKS ARK!