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Althoff Hdwe. m Miss Mary Jencks attended a bridal for a girl friend at Barrington Saturday. Bernice Justen, Rosalie Whiting, Shirley Hawley, Amy Harrison,, Howard Shepard and Loren McCannon attended a Sophomore farewell party for Wayne Newell at the McHenry High School Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Louis ^.bendroth of Elgin spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Jennie Bacon. Mr. and Mrs. Fred WSedrich, Jr., and daughters were visitors at Powers Lake Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fwiy and family of Blue Island, Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Montanye and son of Woodstock, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Jackson and family of Richmond and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Olson and sons were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs; $. H. Beatty. " • sday dinner guests qf Mrs. Roy Neal were Mesdames Ralph Simpson, Pat ^Cojrne, R. Remer, Cora Flanders and Miss Soper. Miss Marion Peet . of "Elgin spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peet. " ttSfl Alice Mae Low of Waukegan t the weekend at her home here. Mr. and Mrs. Lunkenheimer and children of Pistaket Bay spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Neal. Mrs. George Young spent Friday with her sister at Lake Geneva. Mr. and Mrs. George Shepard and son, Howard, spent Saturday afternoon with her mother at McHenry. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Freund were supper guests Friday evening of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Neal. Mr. adn Mrs. George Young spent Thursday evening in the Matt Blako home. Main Street * West McHenry RINGWOOD Word was received here Thursday that Mrs. Kingsley, music supervisor of our school, is* ill with the mumps. Wayne Foss spent Saturday in Ciji- LOOKINQ FORWARD by Franklyn Waltman Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins most appropriately chose the beginning of the Lenten season {o make his business appeasement speech at Des Moines. Lent always is a period for donning sack cloth and repenting for sins of the past. On the whole, Harry Hopkins did a good jdb of penitence in that s Some have regretted that Mr. Hopkins along with repenting did not also see fit to recant specifically some of the New Deal heresies, such as reckless spending, responsible for our present economic plight. Others have questioned his motives and sincerity. eW do not propose to indulge in such criticism. Accepting the Biblical instruction that "joy shall be in Heaven over one sinner, that repenteth more than over ninety and nine just persons, wKich shall need no repentance," we throw our 'hat into the air, rejoicing over the Hopkins speech. ' He Talked Common Sense ; " •< Whatever may. be the Commerce Secretary's motives and no matter what he omitted to say, his Des Moihes address constituted good sense. It has been so long since .anyone cjwi1 nected closely with the Kcw Deal talked good sense in the economic field that the occasion calls for loud and prolonged cheering. The Hopkins speech was impressive chiefly because of the Commerce Secretary's recognition of the importance of businss confidence to any permanent program of economic recovery. He perhaps is the first outstanding New Deal figure who has not hooted at complaints that business lacked confidence and that therefore economic progress was impossible. Realistically Mr. Hopkins recognized that "among many business men there exists a widespread lack of confidence" and he recognized the further fact that "lack of business confidence is and has been a hard stubborn fact, and may be as real a deterrent to re- Mr. and Mrs. Robert Howe, Gladys i stored business health as any we have Shepard and Alan Ainger were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Stohlquist at Woodstock. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Stephenson called on friends in Hebron Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Olson and family spent Sunday afternoon with her parts at Ostend. Leonard Brown of Crete, 111., was a visitor at his home here Saturday. This community was saddened by the death of Elbert Thomas of Ostend who passed away at his home Sunday afternoon. He has many friends here who will miss him. The community also saddened by the death of Mrs. James Perkins of McHenry who passed away Saturday at the Victory Memorial hospital at Waukegan. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Stephenson received quite a thrill Wednesday when they received a telephone call from son, Paul, who was aboard thej Aquitania on his way home from London. They received the call at 12:30 but could not seem to make good connection until 4 p. m. He said they were in the middle of the ocean. The connection was so clear, one would think he was in the same town as they were. Mr. *md Mrs. J. A. Dewey of Stockton spent Sunday with the tatter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Jepson. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Walkington and Mrs. C. J. Jepson spent Thursday afternoon with relatives at Waukegan. Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Butler and family and Shirley Butler spent Sunday in the Paul Marcks home at Harvard. Mrs. William Wlurtzinger and children and Miss Mercedes Lindemann of Woodstock spent Thursday afternoon in the S. W. and I<onnie Smith homes, Mrs. Fred Wiedrich and daughter, Mae, called at the EUjab Coates/home at Crystal Lake Mond^yT^-^*^ Mrs. Roy Wiedrich sperft Monday and Tuesday with tier parents at Richmond. Silas Fisher of Huntley spent Sunday afternoon in the Harold Wiedrich fcome. Mrs. Jennie Bacon and Miss Mae Wiedrich were callers at Mrs. Hiller? at McHenry Tuesday, afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Brown visited friends at Woodstock Sunday afternoon. Mrs. A. Ruehlman and children returned home Sunday *rom a week's visit with her parents in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Young spent Friday and Saturday in the home of their daughter and family at McHenry who are sick with the flu. Mr. and Mrs. Bratz and daughter, Marie, of Chicago spent Sunday in the A. Ruehlman home. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wiedrich and family were callers at Crystal Lake Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Fred Wiedrich, Jr., and daughters, Georgia, Helen, Mary Ann and Betty, attended a bridal shower in the home of John Blackman at Wilmot Thursday afternoon. Harold Snyder of Chicago visited Wayne Foss Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs, P. E. Saunders of Fontana, Mrs: Frank Johnson and daughter, Janet Kay, of Harvard spent Thursday with their mother, Mrs. Fred Wiedrich, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Harrison and family spent Sunday in the Henry Marlowe home near Huntley. Will Fisher is visiting relatives at Plymouth, Iowa, for a couple of weeks. Mrs. Fred Wiedrich, Jr., and daughters, Betty Jane and Mary Ann, were visitors at Waukegan Friday afternoon. Mrs. Robert Howe and Mrs. C. L. Harrison attended a Home Bureau meeting at Woodstock Saturday. to deal with. Mr. Hopkins pointed' out, business confidence is "a state of mind" and "a psychological condition affecting our conduct and actions." Things that are strange disturb confidence those that are familiar promote it. Thus he said it is not surprising that business confidence has been badly shaken in recent years. New Deal Hubbabl Although Mr. Hopkins did not be* come specific -- and that is pardonably -- he undoubtedly had in mfnd the fact that during the last six years 01# New Deal experiment has followed another. Business men have not known from one , month to another what their taxes would be -- or even the form of taxation -- what ndw labor obligations might be placed on them or whether the national Administration wished to encourage or discourage those combinations of trade banned by the anti-trust laws. Likewise they have not known -- and do not now know -- the effect that deficit financing will have on their instments and their In short, the New Deal, like the Treasury, has been on hour basis" -- and run on that basis. It is not so much what the New Deal has done but the manner in which it has done it that has. been such a disturbing influence. Business men usually can adjust themselves to any set of rules if they know the rules and feel they will not be changed next :-- month. Mr. Hopkins evidenced an appreci- v ation of this situation and gave expression to it. Thus his speech mark* ed progress in getting this country back to a basis on which a permanent economic recovery can be built. It is true, of course, that his speech will mean very little unless it is translated into action along the lines which he. so clearly indicated were necessary to promote recovery. Deeds Speak Loader Than Words Translating Mr., Hopkins' words into deeds is no slight task. Indeed, it is a gigantic undertaking which, due to past commitments, the Roosevelt Administration may find impossible to achieve. Moreover, there is a ques* tion whether other key figures in the New Deal appreciate the need for] , such action as much as Mr,1 HopkinW ' apparently does. Nevertheless, the turn toward common sense, even though it does not bring forth immediate fruit, has not been taken a minute too soon. At least this much has been accomplished: an outstanding New Dealer at last concedes that there has been a great deal of substance for most of the criticism that has beei) hurled at the New Deal in recent years. And that, my friends, QleSNAPSNOT GUIL YOUR CAMERA LENS A camera with an anastigmat lens, f.6.3 or faster, is a great help In < ing clear, sharp indoor pictures such as this. ^ DEBUNKER By John Harvey Furbay, Ph.D. TEARING first-rate ••• quires good eyes. One 1s your "eye for pictures,'" your ability to recognize a picture when you see it The other Is your camera's "eye"--Its \v';' •' Copurifht by Public Ltdgtr, Inc. 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