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9 " ^ i- A **" *^r '. ~r V*. ' / . ^'-r> •'-^' ,v.*" ' ' A- .- s •. ^ , *v*y &¥*:'*' J*t i" '47, **5 **« . **• * «M "***""' *'*' *** *a. , £-; - -*s\ **' ', v>';. : •- fhimday, November 5,19lS THE HcHZMST FLAHO>KALI& ~a\- :: t. 1;-.-,xk>^"'.--'i* - %.,>; -£*••• ••'•;•wZ*v . ' -I •' * W-"&. % - #«. « <x • ,|M V , _ . , , ' ? V " W t g t a i t n M Not That Aaaooiated Newspapers--WHU Features. HEN Rod Brooke proposed to Hazel Emmons, she didn't exactly laugh at him. She said: "Rod, the man I ! J.. j marry must be strong and brave ri|nd fearless. He must be able to protect me, to light for me, to--if 4 .-necessary--die for me." She paused find looked down at medium-sized, • ' ftieticulously garbed Rod and smiled ' „ tnaternally. "I'm sorry, Rod, but \ - that's the type of girl I am." - , -J" Basel was the best-looking and.. ••', »o«t popular girl in Turners- ;• . rille, a member of the dramatic society, and (the daughter of the "v",i town's most distinguished eiti- " .^V-'-V WB. 1 '" r Rod's face took on a wounded . look (very nicely registered), then smiled, flicked an imaginary ' / • ,fP^ck of dust from his coat sleeve, '/and said: "Oh, 1 didn't know that. • ^However--" And he shrugged, , picked up his spotless Panama hat, • -placed it carefully atop his blond Curly head and departed from the bailiwick of Emmons. Hazel was not exactly annoyed, but she was vaguely disturbed arid troubled. It hadn't been quite as the had anticipated. Rod should ' have carried on a bit, looked more grieved. If, in fact, he had staged # bit of pleading, even threatened to leap into the river, Hazel would have liked it better. She went up to her room, closed and locked the door and sat down to consult with her inner emotions. Aft- % Presently the McCarthy hulk was sprawled on the ground. er all, Rod was quite a^oy around Turnersville, about the best that the town, or nearby towns had to offer. Perhaps she should have snapped him up. Hazel's sense of the dra matic always had warned her to hold her horses, as some day the proverbial knight would come galloping along on his snow-white charger and make Lochinvar love i to her in the moonlight. But practical reasoning conflicted with this fancy, because you cannot hold your horses in a small town for several years without finding yourself holding the well-known sack. However, Hazel could not rid her mind of the cherished thought that the man who would win her hand must be a bearcat for physical courage and endurance, et cetera. Pondering the situation at the moment, she qualified the restrictions so that they might include the boy just thwarted. In a word, Hazel agreed with herself that if Rod could prove himself courageous and possessed of protective instincts, even though ^bested in battle, she would reconsid er her decision. Bat Bod must he tested, and to do this Hazel solicited the services of one Johnny McCarthy, a stoker employed by her father in his woolen mill. "You understand," she said to Mr. McCarthy, "I don't want you to hurt Mi. Brooke. You may, of course, bruise him up a bit in order to make the thing seem realistic. But nothing serious." It is doubtful whether the powerful Mr. McCarthy grasped the significance of Hazel's purpose (in fact she had always seemed a little queer to him) but he understood the value and denomination of the bill she tendered him, and agreed to play his part. Thrilled as she had never dreamed she could be thrilled, Hazel arranged everything very nicely and conveniently. At the point where the drive of her father's vast estate joined with a by-street, she, and Johnny McCarthy waited one moonlit evening, listening to the approaching strains of an off-key whistle. The • whistler was dapper Rod Brooke, meticulously garbed as usual, and not without his spotless Panama hat. Rod was quite alone, and as he neared the Emmons' estate entrance he saw a vision that caused him to cease his musical efforts and hasten forward in all haste. "Here, here," he said, laying a restraining hand on the arm of Johnny McCarthy, which arm was at the moment encircling Hazel Emmons' waist. "Come, come, my good man. You appear to be making a bit of a nuisance of yourself. Loose the woman at once!" Mr. McCarthy looked over his shoulder and leered. However, his reply was drowned by the screaming pleas of the seemingly terrified Hazel to be saved. Her exact words were incoherent, though if she had spoken with profound diction and articulation it is doubtful whetTie* Rod would have heard. For at that moment Mr. McCarthy made a pasp at him in such a vigorous manner that Rod shuddered. ,< • Mr. McCarthy, astonished at his" failure to connect, made haste to recover his-equilibrium and renewed; the attack. But immediate renewal; was impeded because Rod's fist haid found its way to Mr. McCarthy's jaw with a hairy force that caused the Emmons' stoker to grunt. Ail* other blow caught him flush on the mouth, knocking a solid front tooth loose of its moorings. f Now Mr. McCarthy was ordinarily a man of patience. But this was going a bit too far. All in a flash he forgot Hazel's instructions, forgot, the lurge denomination Of the bill she had tendered him, and concerned himself with but a single thought: Vengeance! Be came plunging Into the - fray, head lowered, ham-like fist flaying the atmosphere. Rod had retreated, not far, bnt far enough te avoid collision with Mr. McCarthy's knuckles. Be directed a powerful haymaker at the stoker's solar plexus. The mill worker grunted and buckled up. Rod then leaped forward and began pommeling the McCarthy visage with such effectiveness that presently the McCarthy hulk was sprawled on the ground and the McCarthy mind was temporarily unconcerned with matters of a worldly nature. At this point in the drama, Hazel, hfcld speechless from the first, let out a shriek and flung herself with a nicely executed dramatic gesture around Rod's neck. "Rod! Oh, my darling! You were --superb! Oh, it was grand! But, Itod, could I have doubted you? And to think I even insinuated you were not the brave, strong man I so longed for. Precious, you will forgive me, won't you?" Whereupon Rod led Miss Emmons gently but firmly to one side, sighed deeply, flicked a bit of dust from his coat and shook his head sadly. *il|azel, this was merely an emerg€ ncy^measure. It isn't in my line at all. I don't fancy being the sort of man you require." "But, darling, you won't have to. Why, goodness me, now that I know you can protect me, I hope you don't think I would encourage such things as common street fighting." Rod still looked sad. "Hazel, you don't understand. There is one other thing I don't fancy. And that is a woman who needs protecting. "Some women are like that, you know. They must be protected. They require it and it's bothersome. I'm sorry, but that's not the type of man I am." Rod picked up his Panama hat from the dust, set it jauntily atop his curly blond head, and continued on his way. Standing by the gate, Hazel could hear his off-key whistle becoming dim in the distance. Washington Digest; Wheat Price Minor Factor 'JUNIOR MISS" IS STARTING EXPECTED LONG RUN AT HOME ImproVif 1/1 archandising, Manufactunng [hods Boost Baker's Bills; Raw Material Cost Relatively Negli P.1eti Check on Healing System Before Winter Sets In Now is an excellent time to plan and begin repair and renovation work on roofs in preparation for winter, and to check over all sections of the heating system of the home in advance of the resumption of furnace operation. When winter snows pile up on the roof, weak spots in the shingling or other type of roofing may result in leaks which often spoil interior decoration materials such as plaster and wallpaper. In this connection, a little checkover of the roof now and the completion of any necessary repair work may preclude the necessity of future, greater expenditure an renovation of the interior wall coverings of the home. While the roofing is being checked, the eavestroughs and attached draining pipes also can be looked over and any desirable repairs or improvements made. The provisions for ensuring continuation of the roof drainage around the chimney, where it projects out of the roof, will bear a particularly close check, as a weak spot in the roof drainage easily may develop there. Cool September and October eve nings may require the use of a small amount of heat in the furnace before winter actually arrives. It is deemed advisable by housing authorities that householders check their heating systems at least annually and August is a good time to do so. Keeping the heating system up tc scratch is desirable both for the protection of the home against pos sible fire hazard and for maintain ing a high degree of heating efficiency. An efficient heating system pays dividends by keeping costs down. Among points that may bt checked to good advantage are the furnace grate, or the gas outlets ir the furnace; the chimney pipes in ali parts of the home; the hot air vents, if that system is in operation, or tht steam pipes and radiators. In homes using coal furnaces par ticularly, the chimneys should br cleaned thoroughly to insure fire protection and efficient heating Metal parts of the chimney system should be checked over carefully tc determine if there are any badly rusted or weakened points. After the necessary dtjeck-overs have been made, the required repairs can be planned well in ad vance. v. English Pope Adrian IV was the only English »ope (1154). Everybody's Scrap r Everybody's rubber scraps if wanted for Everybody's Scrapl Baeaos Aires Buenos Aires electrical refrtg- Itors are sold by many different ids of stores, one being a store „ Which deals Ja ma's wear. atoi kind So Says Be The lady protesteth too much, methinks.-- Shakespeare. Slowly States as great engines move slowly.- Francis Bapon. _ • • Taps Th< name Akron is a Greek word meaning summit. By BAUKHAGE Analyst and Commenlmtar, % . Vs daughter of Waukegan called on Mrs.; Prank Klapperich Saturday evening, i Mr. and Mrs. Adam Bildner were Chicago callers Sunday. Irvin Schaefer and Roman Schaefer of Waukegan spent Sunday in the hontc. of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J.'Meyers. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Tamasy of Chicago were eallers here Sunday. Mm(s Katherine Althoff of Elgin 0rder your Christmas Cards spenll Sunday in the home of her -j^,e Plaindealer. mother, Mrs. Wm. Althoff. ! Art Peters spent Sunday with Mr. The Beautiful MTOVAI! mm CRYSTAL LAKE. ILL. McHewry Co*3. Leading Theatre WNU Service, 1343 B Street, N-W, - Washington, D. C. The recent debate in congress oyer the stabilization of prices and wages goes as deep into the home and the farm and the factory as any national issue ever has. I received a typical letter on the fubject--a query about the relative cost of wheat and bread, what the farmer gets and what the baker charges. In trying to answer it; I found a mountain of statistics and a wide variance of opinion; but it pvas a childhood memory which gave me the most convincing part 61 the answer. First, the letter from my listener in Bismarck, N. D.: "Before you put too much blame on farm products for the rise in the cost of living, please explain soon in one of your radio talks, why during World War I, when wheat was selling for $2.25 to $2.50 per bushel, that bread was selling for ten cents a loaf while now, posted local prices at this point, are 92 cents (for wheat) and bread -retails at 13 to 15 cents a loaf . . . " Now the memory: It was a clear summer morning. School was just out and there was a treat in store for me. I got up long before the family was awake, slipped into the summer kitchen end poured myself a glass of milk and put a couple of cookies in my pocket. As I went quietly out the front door, I tiptoed across the stoop where the empty pan with a red milk-ticket lay beside it. I walked down Locust stieet to Arthur Barnes' house just in time to climb into the bread wagon beside him and his father. We crunched down the driveway and through the empty streets to the New York Central station. Before we got into the freight yards the train from Buffalo was rolling in. By the time Mr. Barnes had backed the wagon up to the freight station platform the bread crates were waiting. Fast Delivery We stood beside the crate. Mr. Barnes was in the delivery wagon. I wasn't nearly as adept as Arthur, of course, for he had much more practice in extricating and tossing the loaves and he often had to wait a" second or two, while he toyed with the unwrapped loaf before I had managed to toss mine to Mr. Barnes Who deftly caught it and put it in place in the layers that rose from the wagon's floor. This lack of dexterity on my part made me a little nervous and one loaf went wild. Mr. Barnes reached out nobly but it hit the side of the wagon and caromed over into the cinders. Mr. Barnes was a man of deeds, not words. He leapt out of the wagon and recovered the treasure. I looked sheepishly at Art. There was half my pay gone, surely. But no! Mr. Barnes was frowning, he looked around, whipped out his knife and with a few expert incisions removed the cinders, gave the crust an affectionate stroke with his bare wrist and leapt back into the wagon with it. The loading continued in silence for a moment. Then Art leaned over and said in a reproving whisper, "Don't aay no thin' about that." It was that concern over a possible aroused public opinion over a lapse in our sanitary discipline which foreshadowed one of the developments that has increased the cost of bread. The incident I have described took place about 1898 and it reveals some of the primitive methods of the baking industry which sanitary laws, popular taste, cost of labor make impossible today. Take the most obvious: packaging. Can you imagine bread being shipped in crates and massaged by human hands today? Yet even as late as the time of which my correspondent writes, 1914--wrapping bread was unknown in many communities. This one sanitary measure is only one of many which have made the cost of bread higher--the conditions with the bakery have changed even more radically. Of course, labor the most important factor. In 1914 men worked much longer hours for much less money. "Junior Miss," with seats selling for five weeks in advance, and an extra matinee announced for Thanksgiving, makes the Harris Theatre, Chicago, „ the meeca of all laughter mlded lovers ; and Mrs.~ Stanley ^Zollonerat Chicago!1 ol: the best, in stage entertainment.! Mr. and Mrs. Darell Kirk and This Max Gordon production of the new comedy by the authors of hilarious "My Sister Eileen" is loo&ea upon as a loop fixture for some time to come. One of tiie reasons for the great, success of "Junior Miss' 'is that it: deals with the daily life of an ordinary j family, and every spectator, grownup or adolescent, sees something of him- j self, his own folks or his friends, in j the characters on the stage. In this j respect "Junior Miss" is very much | like "Life With Father," which also brought home to the audiences the ludicrous aspects of everyday family life, although girls are the central juvenile figures in the lively comedy at the Harris instead of boys. Judy, the junior miss of the title (superbly played by blonde, blue-eyed and dimpled Lenore Thomas), is a . very young lady whose idea of what life really is has been acquired from the movies and therefore she dramatizes the most innocent situations in terms of what she has seen on the screen. This applies also to her boon companion, "Fuffy" (an irrepressible character splendidly played by Peggy Romano), and between them they almost bring disaster upon Judy's family by deciding from an innocent happening that a "crisis" such as they saw in the picture, "Wife vs. Secretary," is developing in Judy's home. The result is that in trying in her own Cost of Ingrediemit And when we come to the content of the bread, of which wheat, the commodity which most concerns my listener, is the most important, we find it almost negligible in figuring the cost of the finished product. Experts studying the question, state that there are few food commodities in which the chief raw material provides so small a fraction of .the final cost as in bread. According to Current statistics it would take an increase of 60 cents a bushel in wheat to cause an increase of one cent in a loaf of bread. Compare this with potatoes for instance. When a housewife buys potatoes, she pays only for the spuds themselves plus the cost of handling. Now all of these factors are mentioned merely to justify an increase in the price of bread since 1914. Officials concerned with food costs _ _ nwne rnes \+c aoriel fluilie ttiof uw (akran am me a i mthia t they ,i mpu. lsive, _ im, agi,n ative wayy to save do not all justify the amount of the her home Judy almost wrecks tt. But increase. There is not complete agreement on that subject by any means. Some members in the department of agriculture say that bread could be sold much cheaper and still yield a profit to the baker. Probably one of the most important factors in the price of bread is the fact that the public just prefers to pay more for it than to bake it themselves. As one official said to me: "In the last war when I lived on a Kansas farm the women in the small towns in the vicinity as well as the farmers' Wives baked their own bread. Today you'll see the bakery wagon making deliveries right out in the country. Perhaps if the women who still bake their own bread charged for their own time, they would find it cheaper to go to the bakery. Meanwhile, it is another case of charging what the traffic will bear-- and in this case most of the traffic is willing to bear it." There is one comforting thought for the farmer. When Price Administrator Henderson puts into effect the measures to stabilize all prices not quite. After many harassing and laughable incidents father is vindicated and the family saved. Fine performances are given by Lois Wilson and Eddie Nugent, as the sorely beset parents, by Eileen Clarence as Judy's snippy elder boy crazy sister, by Harry Ellerbe and Adrienne Marden who furnish the love interest, by Loring Smith as a blustering big business typhoon and by Doro Morande as an acid tongued maid. JOHNSBURG FRJ. & SAT. NOV. 6 - 7 Lum and Abner with Zasu Pitts in BASHFUL BACHELOR" Bill Boyd, Andy Clyde in "Twilight on the Trail" SL N. & MON. NOV. 8 - 9 Sunday cost, from 2:45 p. m. Wallace Berry, Marjorie Main in "JACKASS MAIL" He's thrillingly funny! Plus latest March of Tine 18c Tax 2c TUESDAY SPECIAL It* Tax lc L«e Bowman, Jean Rogers in " Pacific Rendezvous" WED. & THURS. NOV. 11 -12 Joan Crawford, Melvin Douglas in " They all Kissed the Bride" A Grand, Fast-Action Comedy / That Wed. and Thurs. Event McHenry, Illinois f FRIDAY - SATURDAY Veronica Lake - Robert Preston (1) "THIS GUN FOE HIRE" Pesuiy Singleton - Arthur Lake ft) "BLONDIE FOR VICTORY" Also World News SUN.-MON. NOV. 8-» The Life of Lou Gehrig, with Gary Cooper - Teresa Wright Walter Brennan - Babe Rath M THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES" Also Novelty and World News Producer's Demand Increased Admission Price Adilts--Matinee 40c incL tax ; Evenings--55c incL tax Children--Th« usual price 15c. including tax TUESDAY -- NOTICE! Ia order to save war supplies aai rubber, this theatre will be closed on Tuesday of each week! WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY Irene Dunne "LADY IN A JAM" Mrs. Jack Bode of North Chicago spent Thursday here. Mrs. Delia Miller entertained the Five Hundred club Thursday afternoon, prizes being awarded to Mrs. Peter F. Freund, Mrs. Charles Michels and Mrs. Fred Smith. Mrs. Wm. J. Meyers and son, Le- Roy, and Miss Evelyn Michels called on Mrs. Walter Freund at Ingleside Friday afternoon. Our entire faciliuas «re at your service. -- Funeral Directors -- Phone McHenry 103-R Residence, McHenry 112-W Green Street, corner Elm -- McHenry Mrs. Ray Horick of Woodstociv he will still have to let wheat go up spent Thursday with her mother, Mrs. quite a ways before it hits its own Stephen H. Smith. ceiling--parity. But bread, for all its ye.ast, won't be allowed to rise much more. : • v V .Vs'\: Aviation Accident* Show Marked Decremte ----. The number of crashes of mili- M rs. Delia Miller spent Wednesday with her. daughter, Mrs. Eddie Frett, of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Young and daughter of Spring Grove spent Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe P. Michels. Mrs. Margaret Landre of Chicago tary planes in this country reported is spending a few days with Mr. and recently in the newspapers has; Mrs. Joe Karls. served to disturb some people. Officials in Washington have received many letters on the subject. One which I received recently from an obviously intelligent woman, may be typical. In it, she meticulously listed the number of accidents, reports of which had been published, all of which involved fatalities to military personnel. There were 77 deaths within a comparatively short period. The writer was shocked and asked if the cause might not be an organized campaign of sabotage. Because I felt that there should be some official comment on the subject, I talked at length with an officer in the air force. The rate of accidents In flying in this country today, he told me, is 68 per cent lower than it was in 1930. I think the adjective "remarkable" is justified when you think of the number of planes that are in the air now as compared with the number 12 years ago. We are not allowed to reveal the number of planes now flying but General Marshall recently stated that the goal of the air force was two million men and one hundred eighty-five thousand planes by the end of this year. We know that we are well on our way toward that goal. With these facts in mind the number of accidents seems incredibly low. One reason for the reduction in the number of accidents is the Air Force Safety program. This program is in charge of a colonel who has the authority to give orders to a threestar general if he violates any of the safety regulations. The air force goes on the principle that it is just as important to prevent the loss of planes and men from accidents as it is to prevent their loss at the hands of the enemy. " „ - Mrs. Peter F. Freund and daughter, LaVera, Miss Dorothy Michels and Miss Lorraine Freund were Waukegan callers Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bode of North Chicago were -callers here Saturday evening. Mrs. Tarnow and family and Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Jackeim of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Freund and son, Billy, of Ingleside and Mr. and Mrs. -HELP-W ANTED Lathe and Milling- Machine operators, or men with mechanical background who can be trained to operate these machines. Our factory is operating 100 per cent on defense. Apply in person ~ ' tO • • THE FRANK S. HOUGH CO. LIBERTYVILLE, ILL. B R I E F S by Baukhage America's bombing planes are the lethal successors of the weaponless planes which were used exclusively for observation purposes in World War I, says the Aviation News committee. • • • The Rockefeller foundation is providing yellow fever vaccine free to the government for the use of the armed forces. A Berlin correspondent of a Swedish newspaper has stated that the total number of foreign workers in Germany is now 4,000,000 including 1,500,000 prisoners of war. • • • Economists estimate that we will have about 3 per cent more cows in the dairy herds of the country this year than we had last and about 3 per cent more cows next year. * Sixteen Peaks Sixteen peaks in the Great Smoky mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee are more than 6,000 feet higher-'- Aircraft Detection Scientific research in Britain has given the Allies many powerful, weapons of war. British scientists invented and perfected "radiolocation," a revolutionary discovery in the detection al approaching aircraft. • . j " \ Cold Stuff ' He receives comfort like cold porridge.-- Shakespeare. |5,000,040,OOi By November, 1941, British empire purchases in th? United States since the outbreak of war had amounted to over $5,000,000,000-- more thui 10 times the value of goods exported under lend-lease to that date. 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