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^nmdaar, March* 1M2 •:®i-g-'fll 1 -i "•' £• ' tn MaBBm-i3^ni>B*ijft- * * '•' '% pi'V',"'« "'•"; ,s is-i^. 3 v •>- f •• * *?& 'J- - ,» f* >;.*, $ * < - I-,*-. **.. W. WJHBD GIVSS'UB * i S 'fHEWB IN THE WORLD " OF RELIGION TODAY" Daring the ten years from 1929 to 1989, the Catholic population of China increased 28%, according to the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. During this same period there was an increase of 607c in the missionary forces; 48% increase of Chinese clergy; 45% increase of Chinese brothers; 46% increase of Chinese sisters; 83% increase in the number <rf dispensary treatment per year; 149% increase in the number of pupils in Catholic elementary schools. In 1989 the Catholic population WM estimated at 3,182,960. Auaday, Feb. l, was observed by the Baptists of the world as a day of "united thanksgiving, prayer, and testimony " In connection with this day, British Baptists celebrated the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the founding among them of the Bap- • tist Foreign Missionary Society la 1792. "That," says Dr. Rushbrooke, president of the Baptist World Alii- •poe, "was a year of war and confusion; but precisely then God brought a new and glorious thing to pass. Sorely it is conceivable that amid the turmoil and distress of a vaster war, he may bring to birth something yet more splendid." t«Z> Kathleen Norris Says Women Pay Great Price for Indiscretion^ r m* (Bell Syndicate--WMU Service.) Lights of NewYorlc by L. L JTEVINSON SOLON MILLS « Something of the suffering of the Chinese and the way in which Christian groups are trying to help the victims of war is pictured in this report from Dr. John Hylbert, of Tinghai, Chekiang Province: "Daily new inmates arrive, little wasted babies and chuaren li-om other islands where there is famine. Already we have two overflow War Relief Nurseries; these are full, yet room must be found, for these little newcomer^. Many of them are too far gone to save their lives; they can only be made warm and comfortable until God takes them to Heaven. Old men and women also anive begging for a place in the Hospicee for the Aged. These are full, not an empty bed, and there is a waiting list of those in the town who want to come in. Urgent cases have to be received in the hospital until there are empty beds, lne hospitals, too are full, with bad cases of dysentery and malaria. All are poor, free cases; no •Miean pay these days." , - A new Methodist chureh was recently completed by the Chinese Christian fishermen of Bagan Si Api-Api on the island of Sumatra. This village is now rated the largest fishing community in the world--formerly it was second to Berger, Norway. For thirty years the Methodist church has had a chapel and a school here. One' hundred seventy-eight Hokkien Chinese children are in the school. Government figures show that the revenue from opium sales diminished from 1,500,000 florins in 1925 to 500,000 florins in 1940 in this region because **ef the sentiment created against it by the Christian community, f , if m Seems queer to think of American soldiers in Dutch Guiana, especially in Paramaribo, the capital and principal city. When we were there, war clouds had not even begun to darken the sky. So no soldiers were on the streets and white-faced buildings stared peacefully at the river down which flowed sugar, rice, bananas. ^ ^ coffee, cacao and other products Mr. and^M^. ~Hen^ Autert! enmn a# hart UC,U/ AW€rU Mr. and Mrs. William Watts visited relatives in Fox Lake Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Morris Hoven and daughter, Phyllis, moved Saturday from the Henry Berry house to the Mrs. Minor farm. Genoa City. Mrs. Joe Adams has been confined to her home thtf past three weeks witn a severe cold. ' Mr. and Mrs. Ray Geiser of Wadsworth spent Sunday in the home of some of which had come from tar into the interior and some of which were transported in canoes hollowed out of great logs. In addition, there were boats carrying bauxite, that hard, clay-like deposit which ts- the source of aluminum; and aluminum of course is the reason why the United States is interested in the Dutch colony which is a pocket in the shoulder of the upper East coast of South America. We recall also the sugar warehouses on the water front since raw sugar, under a tropic sun, makes its presence known in a way unpleasant to the none." C1 t'1 "Hie German public is buying more Bibles and more religious books than ever J^efore," says a recent Swiss Catholic traveller in that 'country. "Sermons are much better than used to be. The clergy is conscious of the call of the hour; there are only too many questions to be dealt with, and the people are more receptive to the ord of God. The church is the only piace where the Germans of today can still hear a comparatively free, true, courageous word. I was rejoiced and fstonished to see that these preachers are now over-cautious. Their preaching fs up-to-date, and deals exclusively with the fundamental truths of Christianity; and they courageously defend the rights of personality and the uniqueness of the Christian faith over against the exaggerated nationalistic theories. With what tense attention do the masses iu ct^wded churc&es *Mig opontfce words Of theeetetofred* jprieets!" The American Baptist Foreign Mission Society and the Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, both with headquarters at 152 Madison avenue, New York City, have issued a call for young Christian people to prepare for and enter Christian service abroad "to help reconstruct a broken world." The call is especially for nurses, doctors, teachers, and evangelists. * • - - ? • Vernon J. Knox, Attorney NOTICE OF CLAIM DATE Brtate of Edward F. Kelter. Deceased. Notice is hereby given to all persons that Monday, April 6, 1942, is the claim date in the estate of EDWARD F. KELTER, Deceased, pending in the County Court of McHenry County, Illinois, and that claims may be filed against the said estate on or before said date without issuance of summons. LILLIAN M. KELTER, Executrix. (A*. March 6 - 12 - 19* Wm. M. Carroll, Attorn* Woodstock, IUnoia NOTICE OF CLAIM DATE IKili of Henrietta Krepel, Deceased. Notice is hereby given to all persons that Monday, April 6, 1942, is the claim date in the estate of HENRIETTA KREPEL, Deceased, pending in the County Court of McHenry County, Dlinois. and that claims may be filed against the said estate on or before said date Without issuance of summons. GERALD J. CAREY, Executor, - * (ftb. March 6 - 12 - 19) Peanuts Principal Export JPjjeanuts are the principal export at French West Africj juj p^iqal tiffin, * Fir*! Sfen!uct:.v'DerT>y '•* .. The first Kentucky Derby was run «t Church;J! Downs. Ky., in 1875. Mankind's Enemies Hie flea is (Hie of mankin My married life wot perfect until n neighborhood. The story of mtr affair u save me from what is going on note. NBy KATHLEEN NQRRIS O LANGUAGE is enough to convince young boys that theft and forgery are wrong. And not merely wrong in being punishable crimes. Wrong because of what they do to a boy's character, even if he is never found out. Wrong in boyhood, because the stolen quarter or the forged school excuse are steps to more serious forgeries and thefts, and once schooled well in those directions it takes heroic fortitude --it takes indeed a complete change of personality, to resist later temptations. In the same way I wigh I could find words impressive enough to help girls to see just how great is the price women have to pay for that thrilling "giving in" to the young lovers of school and college days. x If your husband told you, one of these cosy winter evenings, that during his senior year at college he supported himself entirely by stealing and forging, you would be horrified. You couldn't laugh it off, tell him that it didn't make the slightest ' difference to you. Ycm could not honestly say, "I love you for what you are, dear, not for what you were." " Having sold his honor once, you toould feel'--and the world would feel --he might sell it again. And in exactly the same way a man knows that a girl, who was reckless in giving her favors in girlhood, is not going quite suddenly to attain an entirely different position toward what ought always to be the sacred symbol of her honor. These are old-fashioned phrases, and to girls mine seems an old-fashioned attitude. But I can assure them that, viewed in the light of later years, they will see the,, whole thing differently. It would be easier for a young wife to explain to her husband that she lifted some money out of , the department-store cash register when she was working there years before her marriage, than to explain that she was intimate for a few months with one of the men who known to her husband in business. '• ' Buried Secrets Reappear. Of course, if she can avoid it, and hope permanently to avoid it, a girl doesn't tell her prospective husband these things. But that security isn't always as sound as it seems. Hardly a day goes by without bringing me a desperate letter from some young wife who has supposed her secret long forgotten and buried. Many of these women say that, feeling it would be more comfortable to admit to the affair before marriage and start on an apparently honest basis, they have softened the story by saying that the man was "someone you never met. He died the following year." This does smooth things over for the moment. Few men, especially in anticipation of an immediate marriage to an adored woman, will waste time on jealousy of a dead man. But matters are much worse when the perverse turn of events brings this man into contact with the family again, and the unsuspecting husband is perhaps cordial to him. So that the wife must either make a clean breast of the whole thing, or put up with the insufferable situation of having a secret with one of the guests of the house that would crush her husband's pride and faith in her if it were made known. man I knew in college turned up in our mot new. AU the leteom m the world can't NOT WORTH IT No amount of good advica -will keep some girls from saying to themselves "Everyone else does it, why shouldn't /?" So they willingly give away their future security and peace of mind. Perhaps they do "get away with it" for a while. But sooner or later they must come face to face with their earlier indiscretion, only to find that it really wasn't worth it after all. Be sure to read Kathleen Morris* advice to the "J. G." of this letter, a happily married woman whose girlhood folly threatens to destroy her home and the love of her invalid hutband. Such a case is that ol "J.G.,M who writes me yfrom Georgia: "When I married my husband, I loved him," says her letter, "but now after 11 years of unclouded happiness I know that my early love was only a shadow of what real love could be! He is not a strong man; we live for our" garden, our books, and our one daughter. "Reggie was invalided after a terrible bout with pneumonia four years ago, and we took what capital we had and bought a tiny farm, which my nine^year-old Raehael and I have brougmno the point of being an asdet rather than a liability. Meanwhile Reg had started writing, little bookish essays at first, for which he was not paid; later more ambitious literary studies, one of which is to be published in book form in the spring, Our lives were perfect-- perfect perfect, until a man I used to know as a college student turned up in the neighborhood. "The story of our old affair is no new one to you. I thought it concerned only ourselves. I was away from home for the first time, and 'every pther girl did it, why not I?' The 15 years between that time and this have been disciplinary years, and I know they have made me a finer and wiser woman than anything that was promised by the nature of that girl of 19. "But all the lessons in the world can't save me from what is going on now. I suppose you would call it blackmail. Victor amuses Reggie, who calls him a 'rough diamond,* and Victor wants to come and live with us. He has no job, no money, no ambition. He has grown heavy and lazy, but on the three occasions when he has called he has, as I say, made himself amusing, and outlined what he would like to do with the farm to develop It. "Oh, Reg wouldn't divorce me or leave me," the letter concludes, "but his faith in me, his pleasure in what he calls my 'lily' girlhood, would receive a terrible shock. He is not strong; he cannot go about as other men do. He has so few pleasures! His utter pride irt Raehael and me is the greatest of them all." I've written "J.G." telling her that the only way out is the way of full confession. That-meana she can dismiss the odious Victor in no uncer tain terms and then resume her happy way of life with no further refer ence to the cloud that has come up so suddenly. Victor will have her old letters, of course, and she the sting of old memories. And Reg will have to replace his idealistic love for his wife with something less fragile--less perfect. I wonder what her answer would be today if she could hear that girl, of 15 years ago, asking, "What's the difference?" Free Beer .. When a brewery vat overflowed into the city water supply of Joliet, 111., residents got a kick out <gf turning on their faucets to ^ keer flowiqjg from tie tape. GMa Make Own 8hoes The girls of Franklin high school In Seattle, made their own shoes this yew at % cost of less than $2 • pair. feiade the shoes themselves-- w||h the aid of beys in thi Charcoal Production When 70 per cent of the volatile element is burned out of wood, the part remaining is charcoal. If 89 per cent of the volatile element 4$ burned, carbon remains. Finland Debt Finland borrowed $8,281,926.1"? from the United States for relief and rehabilitation purposes after the* World war. Although she has paid back $5,891,291.77, interest charge# momit so still owes New York #as in tht-g^'W-ft^w and ice, bur in Paramaribo, the temperature was 126 degrees. That a may account for the fact that not a' vehicle was to be seen on the main street and only a few casual strollers, all with black faces which was not to be wondered at since the entire white population of the colony is only about 2,000. But Paramaribo's main street was of much interest to us not only, because of its picturesqueness, but because we had been told that the British, in long-ago days, had traded Paramaribo to the Dutch for New York. Therefore the main street of Paramaribo was the Broadway of the city. We had never seen Broadway when the temperature was more than 100 degrees and it looked pretty well melted at that. Nevertheless there were still crowds and some were ih a huyy. • • • We arose early and viaited the market. Paramaribo was busy then. Through the nights, meats, fish and vegetables had been brought in by canoe, oxcart and other primitive conveyances. There were great heaps of dried fish which were handled much as one handles laundry. Also there were flies. But what attracted us were bush Negroes who had come in to do their trading. Descendants of slaves who escaped from their masters, they live in the jungle much as did their forefathers in Africa. A piece of calico, worn toga fashion, was enough for a costume. To me, they looked like bronze statues that had become animated-- the finest physical specimens I have ever seen. Certainly much finer than ever appear on Broadway. , r - j L J . * ' . • ' Wonder tf ffll* who met our ship as we neared the mouth of the river is still on the job. He came out in a motor boat with a floursack clad lad as his companion. The boat was hoisted to the deck by means of ropes. Because the tide was out we couldn't get over the bar. Might have conversed with the pilot except for the fact that though he was shiny black, he spoke mostly Dutch. Did learn that he had a wife and 16 children. Noted efficiency strange in the tropics. When we were in the harbor and his boat was being lowered, his assistant started the motor so it was running' when they hit the water. Maybe he was in a hurry to get home. • • * A recent report showed that New York city--quick trip up from Paramaribo, eh what?--cleared about a qtarter «f a million dollars in 12 months through dimes paid to visit the observation deck at La Guardia field, parking lot foes, etc. The observation deck is popular with New Yorkers because celebs are always arriving by airplane and New Yorkers certainly like to goggle at celebs. There is also a chance to show off by naming them as they land. Celebs are easy to spot since there are always camera men on hand to greet them with flashing bulbs. Advertisements for a 11-but-forgotten plays still on mid-town walls ... In one Broadway hlock, soldiers wearing the uniforms of the United States, Canada and Australia .. . Also some tailors in uniforms 1 can't identify ... A crowd collecting as a cop starts to write out a ticket for an unfortunate motorist who has, broken the rules in some way . . . and who looks mighty embarrassed because of the attention he is receiving from the curious . . . Hot dogs and hamburgers sizzling side by side in the window of one of those eat-and-run places ... An extremely pretty girl frowning as she views herself in a window mirror . . . But I can't see anything wrong with her. (Ml Syndicate--WNU Bcrvtee.) OLD AOS ASSISTANCE PAYMMTB Of STATE . CONTINUE TO MOUNT The combined January and February meeting of the Solon - Richmond Home Bureau was held at the home of Mrs. Willis Gardner on January 23. At tiie business meeting which began at 10:30 a. m., the unit elected as delegate and alternate to Farm and i Home week, Mrs. John Sanderson and Mrs. William Gardner. Since neither was able to go, Mrs. Edith Turner repesented the group at Urbana. The responsibility of holding a Red Cross Home Nursing class in the community was discussed. The Home Bureau plans to sponsor this course as soon as an instructor is available and the class may include anyone--not just Home Bureau members. Call Mrs. Ralph Thomas for further details. A pot-luck dinner at noon served as a money-making project to help finance sending the delegate to Urbana. The afternoon program included a book report, "They Came to a River," given by Mrs. John Sanderson; a report of the Out conference by Mrs. Walter Wmn; a discussion and display of modem synthetic fabrics by Mrs. C. Osborne and Mrs. John Sanderson, and the. home advisor's topic, "A Bit of old Fashioned Politeness," by Mrs. Sweeney. The Mai-ch meeting will be Friday, March 6, at* the home of Mrs. William Gardner. Chester Kilpatrick of Antioch spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kilpatrick of Solon. Mr. and Mrs. John Sanderson visited Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Turner Sunday evening. Roy Nordstrom and son of Fox Lake called in the Frank Kilpatrick home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Brown of Aurora, Dwight Osborne and Ronnie Burdick of Roekford and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Osborne and Johnnie of Solon were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Osborne Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Bell and family spent Sunday with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bell. Mrs. Lizzie Merchant, who is caring for C. J. Jepson, Ring-wood, spent Sunday in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Henry Aubert. Mrs. Walter Watts returned home Friday after spending three weeks with her sister, Mrs. Andrews of Elgin. Fred Rogers motored out from Chicago to take his mother, Mrs. Rogers, and son, Gene, to spend the weekend with him. The Bill Bauman family have moved from the Edworths farm £o a farm east of Spring Grove. Robert Carlson is confined to his home with scarlet fever. Mrs. Susie Bulkley an3T Sidney Meeker of Libertyville visited their brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Pester. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Osborn and Mrs. Frank Foley of Richmond visited in the Vern Palmer home at Harvard Sunday. William Osborn is staying in Sturgeon Bay. Wis., where he has employment in the ship yards. Mrs. Frank Kilpatrick motored to Chicago Friday returning Saturday evening with Mr. Kilpatrick who has Upent the last two weeks in Chicago. Complicated Exchange Central Iran has one of the world's most complicated systems of foreign exchange control. Arthur C. Lueder, state auditor of public accounts, last week announced that old age assistance payments in the state for the month of February again increased to a new high figure of 149,766 amounting to $3,785,019.00. This represents an increase of $53,- 473.00 over January when 149,510 Illinoisans, 65 years of age or over, received $3,731,5466.00. In McHenry county 479 recipients received $11,460. The number was the same as in January but the awards dropped from a $11,476 total. Auditor Lueder at the same time announced that aid to dependent children warrants issued for February again increased to the new figure of 21,234 amounting to $690,101 and benefitted 47,985 needy children. This represents an increase of $90,- 475 over January when 18,468 warrants were issued amounting to $599,- 626. In McHenry county twenty warrants amounting to $581. were distributed which benefitted forty-one children. ANOTHER nr< m CASH PA TO FABMER8 SHOWjf January figures on cash payments to dairy farmers in this section wefc released last week by the Bowman Dairy company. During the first month of 1942 the total cash payments to farmers delivering milk to the Algonquin, Big Foot, Crystal Lake, Harvard. Huntley, McHenry and Ring' wood receiving plants of amounted to $257,679.64/ "Again the total cash payments tf farmers show an increase over tlf previous month," said F. H. KuBbuo, Jr., vice-president of the Bowman Dairy company, as he reloaded the January figures. "It is an encouraging sign when for the past several months a gradual increase has been noted. Milk and dairy products are playing an important part in the development of our Victory program because such foods are vital for the welfare of our armed forces, our civillni population and allies. Bowman bt proud of its fine farm family and are all working together to do our j<* m the difficult days that lie ahead.** CfcSNAPSUOT GUILD v .PHOTOGRAPHIC PARTIES For HAVfc you ever heard of photographic parties? The chances are you have. But have you ever given one? It's s guaranteed method Of having a good time. ' _ How can you five a snapshot flirty? Well, let's take the case of lite photographic scavenger hunt. First. I'd suggest that you invite all your camera-owning friends to meet at your house sometime in the afternoon -say at 2:30 on Saturday Then it's up to you to prepare sev erai general assignments for every bfdy to work on--for the Idea of a scavenger hunt ts to give people picture-making assignments, send them out to Oil them, and then fix a time limit by which all pictures •est be banded in. , For instance, one of yoor general assignments might be:--"Illustrate the phrase, 'a bad egg.' " That would lea to quite a bit of leeway in In terpretation. One participant might choose to photograph a tough-look Ing gangster-type model. Another player might show a person looking at a broken ben's egg and holding kind of party, conduct a photographic scavenger hunt. It's lots of fun--winter or summer. ^ his nose. And somebody etee. hr setting ap a still-life study, couk) create a tough-tooklng little msn out of a hard boiled egg by the use of a few props aud a paint brash. Or another assignment might be to picture a young goat, as abova. Just use your ingenuity and yoe won't have any difficulty getting a long list of suggestions, but hold yourself down to three or tour ..liesignments. And whatever you decide upon, place a deadline on the picture- making--a time by which every- Lody must have their prints la if they are to compete for the prises. If you wish you can set that time for later that evening, or you can arrange a second party for the print judging later in the week. A* for Judging prints. Idea Is to let everybody decide the winners by popelar acclaim. Ton can give small photographic merchandise prises tor the best picture of the day. another tor the first man back with all of his prints, and a third tor the most original work.' John van OetMer the best Private Soldier, AWOL, Flags Wrong Motorist BOSTON.--The next time Private Vincent Higgina, 19, Boabury, attached to Fort Devens, is absent without leave, he probably will be careful about his hitchhiking activitiea. Obliging mo torists, who picked Higgins up in Dorchester were special police officers Leo Devlin and Arthur O'Shea. Coorult the, WANT ADS 4* * : Utz-l