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, "" 21 Aeduonnisd 1 SU Eat R RA BRN BRINE SF EW a PV ds RE SAE ig a TLE a Ro Ll PR OFA SAT SK dss 4 AAR PAS =e ¥ a eh next night. "Winthrop, __that he loved _another. 0 'Elaine and almost collapsed: "had ever seen: lived happily gver after, A a ¢ Pastor SEE Becomes a Man , : WS tra a ten Basil - Winthrop's father had al- 'ways made, his decisions; had con- ducted =the boy's dffairs, -organized- his life, superintended his doings. Basil was an only child: His mother was dead, and because he: had in- herited his mother's. mildness of © "manner, and becaise his father was 'avdomineering type, Basil, follow- ing the line of least resistance, had allowed these things to happen. His father 'was wealthy and generous; so why not-let the old man run the - show? Basil thought. He ceased to think this when he © met the girl with the red hair and blue eyes.- She was selling: kisses at a charity bazaar. Five dollars a kiss. Basil only had $30 in his pocket, but he stretched cut the six kisses that amount would buy so - that other customers got tired .of . waiting. After' the bazaar,--he drove the girl with the red hair to the hotel where she was staying. He didn't ask her name; she didn't volunteer it. But they, made a date for the As he entered the front hall his father called to him. Basil hesi- tated; then squared his shoulders md went toward. the. voice. > senior, . seent®d in 'a ood mood. "I've just metian old, riend of mine, son. Sarah Morti- mer. She and her daughter, Elaine, are spending a few days iii-town. © 8on, I want you to meet them.. Nothing would please - me more than to see you and Sarah's daugh- ter married." ? .___-Basil stared. This, ._he__ thought 3 was the payoff, His father had ar- ranged everything else in-fiis life, but by golly he wasn't! going to pick his wife! W Lr "Dad, -you're - taking. too: much granted. I can't marry Elaine." it) in loye with someone else." "Someone else? Who?" "I--er--don't know her name." "1 see." Winthrop, senior, rose and patted his son._on the arm, "Basil continued to ses the. redheaded girl, and each time he saw_her he loved her more, "I've arranged a dinner party for tomorrow. You'll meet Elaine then." . But Basil. didn't meet Elaine then. For 'the first time in his life. he felt the electrifying qualities. of manhood - warming his blood. In- stead of attending dinner party, he held. a clandestine meeting with the redhead. They had a swell time together. By mutual "and silent agreement they decided not to con- fide to each other their identity. - Afterward, Basil had some re- gree His father was a powerful nfluence. He could - make things decidedly uncomfortable. And the - red-headed girl who apparently, had been used to nice things, might not be so interested in him if she, knew he was penniless. 1 Winthrop, senior, arranged. an- other meeting with Sarah Morti- mer -and daughter, [t wag, he de- cided, to be the test. If Basil re fused to follow his wishes this time ~--well, he'd have to get under way in: taking his drastic: steps. When, Basil heard about the ar- ranged meeting he.came to a deci-' sion. He would meet. this Elaine and tell her in front of his'father Then he would- keep an appointment with the red:-headed girl and propose marriage, . That, he -decided, was the only manly thing .to do, and Basil had suddenly become a man. So with his father 'Basil went .to thé hotel where the nreeting had been. arranged. Mrs. Mortimer and Elaine received them in their suite rooms. . Basil took one 'look at'. hair and freckles She had red 3 it --and-buck-teeth- She was about the | homeliest looking creature Basil Moreover, she gig- gled. ABET, Basil didn't wait for the dinner to get under way, He made his speech. then and there, then headed for the door. His father accompanied him gi Into the. corridor. . "Son," 'said the old man, "fors "give me, I didn't know what I was getting. you into. Go marry your red head. She couldn't be any worse than that" . : "Thanks, Dad" .said- Basil. And « he went off and kept his date with the. red-head, whose name, it proved," was Mary Smith, He pro- posed and 'she accepted and they By Richard Hill Wilkinson: "Scotland's New Forestry Village Wagons loaded with busbands, wives and children atop of furniture wended their way along. the Gouk= stane Bury .to a milestone :marked Ae, "which will" have .'a place "in tomorrow,s history books. Ae, just notth of Dumfries in southein Scot- land, Is Britain's first. new forestry village; . +t : Forestry has come to mean for Scotland a great deal more than the growing of trees and "praduc- "tion" of "timber for industfy. The "combination "of the forest. and the = Svillage © dependent on it marks a - hitherto neglected means. regettling men and 'women in the . sparsely. populated highland glens and lowland, valleys. Ten families "have occupied their homes in 'Ae Cand another 16 are moving info Louses almost completed. Soon the village of "Ae will have about 90. houses with a population of nearly 400. : The Forest of Ae is just 20 years A "old, and 9s still a forest in the making. Of its area of more than 10,000 acres, some 3,000 acres have been plated. Already its thinnings .are. vielding about "3,000 long tons ot timber annually - for pit props and fencing -stakes. When fully planted, 'the forest will produce an- nually more than 7,000. long tons of timber. : The plantations are composed en- produce the softwood timber needed in such enormous quantities by modern industry. Among the most - popular species is: the Sitka spruce, a native of the western coasts of North Ainerica, which, strangely, grows moie rapidly in Scotland . than its European relatives do. The for _ ~I--tirety oi --conifdrons trees; which 'Scots pine and the Japanese larch- 'are other varieties which add -orna- ment to the forest by their con- trasting foliage. : The road along the valley runs ~through--the farmland, with --the | plantations: rising on the steeper hillsides. This is typical of what happens when new forests are cre- ated in Scotland," the best land being kept under cultivation." But. forestry is a vital industry: for : Britain. Twice in the present cen- "tury its woodlands have been stripped - to" meet war 'emergencies. Two-thirds of all the timber stand--- "Ing in 1939 was felled and reserves - sacrificed to save shipping "space. The result was the gravest timber \_shoitage Britain has ever known. Trees take time to grow, and careful planning 18 proceeding: to create 5,000,000 acres of productive * woodlands. in Britain in- the next 30 years. This involves government planting of 5,000,000 acres of bare ground, and the re-stocking, mainly. 'by private owners, of Britain's ex- ieting 2,000,000 acres of woodlands. In Scotland alone, the Forestry Commission has 150 forests' and this number will increase. The villagé of Ae is but a fore- runner of 'other forest villages "which will be created In Scotland to ensuré that "Britain's hillsides yleld as much timber as its. land -can produce. Before World War II, 95 per cent of pit props used in Britain were imported, but within -years-one-third of these will be 1 yeare.on € ~~ Got Really Tough 'When Abrgham Lincoln a dentist, said, *'T felt that . As 'Kids Would Like To Know Too! + At 11a boy thinks of baseball and bubblegum and -- --_ just maybe, youth being what it is--of hydrogen bombs; Eddie, Rutsky of Cleveland Heights; is just such a boy. ~ At breakfast the other morning his father, Dr. Paul P.: Rutsky, and mother discussed the horrendous bomb. Eddie began asking questions: "Some of these questions I could not honestly answer without being: cynical," Dr. Rutsky, the replies would destroy his faith in his parents, teachers, government and humanity in general. His being taught idealistic and democratic principles in school made tne 'ashamed that I had. not the wisdom and choice of words to answer." Curious, sensitive, persistent: Ilddie Rutsky was determined that someone . should: answer his question: "Why the hydrogen bomh?" So he wrote a letter to President Truman, a letter his "= "father came upon and which is reproduced here.; He hopes he'll get an answer.. { ; J . ad b . . ey Man's Best Friend? i P:h-o-0-ery! ai 4 A Texas collie named Lip, we ' #7 read, fell in love with his owner's' Sa CR #7, automobile. HE wanted to sleep 3 rd SP "itear the cat, even in wintry" weath- =.= LER 42 st 1 Az 1} Self-Help" Among Animals and Birds "Certainly there is something in "lustinct," especially the* instinct of self-preservation. A ghéep with in- ternal trouble will deliberately seek out particular herbs which it knows _will be "helpful' 'to_it and eat them. A cat similarly afflicted will go for grass in a big way. Foxes occa- siorfally get jaundice, a complaint accompanied by fever, but' usually manage to cure themselves simply. by going without food™or a.day or two. v Bis : Birds,' too, have the safe sure instinct for self-help. They will which dries: over the fracture and acts as a 'splint. : , Others, having sustainéd a super- ficial flesh wound, will look around . for some soft substance, suchas sheep's' wool, and twine it around 'the ifijured part with their beaks. 'Again, birds of 'the hawk tribe sometimes get "liverish" when their food. is not just ifght. Then a vic-- tim - will often be seen -deliberately eating grit and even small stones, both of which prove an excellent physic foi such complaints. In doctoring themselves the crea- tures of the wild have an jmport- ant advantage over their. human counterparts. They are not cursed with imagination. They never worry about the possible dangers of blood- poisoning or picture the dire cala- maties which 'all to often beset the more imaginative human, "The result is that Nature has idedl conditions in- which to, exert her own healing powers, And unless the injury is too severe a shock to- -- a [Pry affast who white, J Joma bt pevnen. La planet ~ a a Witigte, 8.9, Mops). ott 4 EAE LE ML i Gav Ay Fopas es, V trv i ilar i EH Lincoln lore contains many stor- ies of 'the Great Emancipator's leriiency toward military offenders. Scarcely ever 'did he decline to re- mit sentences--at least to: some - extent. However, when faced 'with a situation that threatened the stability. of the Union Army and thus, victory "itself," Lincoln could be ruthless--and was. - This is 'proved by a_ Lincoln light and now. inthe noted Alden S: Condict collection in New York, Lincoln had to. combat a sinster home-front evil: - It was- the "sub __pronpuncement recently come. to: stitution racket" spawned by the . loose draft law of that day. This measure enable any man drafted for. service to buy, Lor stitute to take his place. : Like Prohibition years 'later, this" was duck soup for the hoodlums and gangsters. A substitution . facketcer would « collect ,-his $300 from a. man drafted in 'New. York, "signi up in the army atid: within a « few. days desert, He. 'would then hop over to, say, Jersey City,- as- sumé another name, contact another "willing. draftee with $300, and re- peat the performance. . $300, a, sub- : ane There . were. thousands of these racketéers. How: Union Army strength was sapped is indicated - by the fact that "Bounty Jumpers" accounted for. more" than 268,000 desertions, Xk Lincoln's firm attitude toward these. racketeers is shown by the message shown here, referring to an. appeal for éxecutive clemency by five men convicted of the crime _.and sentenced to.be shot as traitors. Here is. the text of the telegram * 10. Maj}.-Gen:. George C. Meade, hero of Gettysburg: . 8 es ~~ "Washington, D.C. EAE August 27; 1863 - Major-General Meade, Warrenton, Va, : Walter," Rainese, Faline,- Lae &' Kerhm "appeal to me for mercy, ° without . glving ay 'grounds for it: whatever. '1 understand these. aré 'very flagrant cases, and that you deeih their punishment as being indispensable to the service, If 1 - _plaster--a -broken---bone--with--mud,--|-- the victim's nervous system, or like- ly to cause death by a loss of blood, a speedy. cure is ubually effected. Wounded animals will perform i amputations upon thmselves to save their lives. There. was a remarkable "instance of 'this not long ago on a farm. R ¢ ; "A rat had been raiding a -barn of fodder, and the farmer had sus- "tained sich 16sses" that he determin. de at last on drastic steps, and set a breakback trap. It was much against his will. for being a humane - man he detested these snares. - Next day the raider was caught in the trap by one leg and was still alive. Intending to end the animal's suffering, the farmer approached the trap, but before he reached it the rat freed itself by biting clean through its own leg bone. Next moment it was gone. Gone, yes--but not to die.' To-day- that three-legged rat Is ~still occasionally .seen about the farm, "for the farmér says quite plainly that he hasn't 'the heart to shoot it of try to trap It again, so profoundly was he impressed by its courage and endurance. gil "As a matter of Tact," he says, "I don't helieve 'Old Tripod' as we call him, would ever allow himself to be trapped again, Rats are. canny, and aren't: usually taken twice by the same means." i ---- A-Bomb Effect "Felt 2000 Miles Ficton writers are 'not the only people -who_ tackle "whodunnit! problems. One of the biggest photo- graphic: companies in America found that their films 'and plates wviere getting fogged during stor- age. That was In New York--a few . months. after the first test atomic bomb had been secretly exploded in*New Mexico, well over . two thousand miles: away. At that time, the photographic company did not know that there had been an atomic explosion. But they traced the fogging trouble to the strawboard of the boxes used for storage. This strawboard, made specially for them'by a paper man- vfacturer in Indiana, was giving off unusual radio-active particles. © By the time their investigations had- got as far as this, the New Mexico explosion was no longer a war-time secret. But even this did not solve the "mystery. The ~In- diana mill was a thousand miles from the site of the test bomb ex- plosion; and the radio-active straw- "board had been made three weeks after! J : Then it was realized that the paper mill drew water very hedvily from a river, and the river was found to be the source of the radio- active vontariination. batches | of strawboard were made soon after heavy rains la.the catch- ment districts of ths. river, the board fogged films and plates even more. Minute amounts of radlo- active aubstances, formed in the . 'New Mexico explosion, had fallen upon soils over a wide area. Rain _ washed them into rivers, and then the river water put-them into paper and board made at the mill This amount: of Idioactiviey: _would not endanger health, tho : In® fact, if _ it was enough to cause fogging of photographic plates. Indeed, she sine company had had similar trouble some time beforé, when the' fogging was traced back to radlo- active cardboard 'niade from vaged waste. Faulty salf-luminous dials made of cardboard at a war- time factory -and had. gone into Jralvage for re-pulping,-and-the-tiny-- amount of radio-active paint from this source had been enough to give fogging trouble. Rs Ice Worms T hey're Not Jokes. Now Until very recently you would --not-have been in Alaska more than a week before some veteran of a dozen polar winters told you--vith a broad wink--about the ice-worms- that crawl across the ice cap. The veterans - rolled up with laughter when last spring a Cana- dian "explorer said- he saw scores of ice-worms on one of Alaska's smaller glaciers, for the Alaskan classes -ice-worms- with , the Lach Ness Monster--they are something to joke about, "a relative of the wiricorn." - But they are'no longer able to. pull the greenhiorn's leg about worms that live in arctic ice for sal- hundreds of years. Because a Bai- Msh explorer has returned from the giant Seward Ice Cap with a bottle- ful of glacier-worms. He is Dr. N. EK. Odell, and his bottled worms cap § remarkable career of exploration. Odell climbed to within 2,000 feet of Evorest's. summit and saw Malory and-Irving- leave their last gamp for the srest. , of the ed peak, never to be seen' again. Twice he has been to Spits. bergen, and last autuifin he ¢mb the highest mountain ia Canada, 15,000-ft. Mt. Vancouver (on the. Yukon-Alaska border), 'which hed never been climbed before. It wus here, on the surface of the Seward + Glacier, that -he saw--and saught<s- the legendary ice-worms. He de- ucribes them as "bits of wriggling' black snow." We have yet to earn what the --ice-worm finds to eat in polar glaciers, how it breeds, 6r how long t lives. What we do know is that when Odell touched them they very quickly "died--the warmth of his" hand literally burned them -up. There are about 5,500 islands and islets -around .the of the _ Rritish Isles. : coast *| . Nothing, we have believed, ¢ould .eotton against the white |. Cor, When, at last, the old bus was sold, "Tip refused to eat. His master had to ask the new owner to bring the * cat. wheie Tip ecpuld: find it Tip 'did, and he's eatjug again. But, 'apparenty, "he's taken up residence with the eaf, not his' master. This is a bit of news that could shake. our confidence as dog lovers' "to its very foundations. Have 'we - ibeon/ wrong all along? Is it merely infatuation for some heartless thing we own, not affection for ourselves alone? : or a = Sn pay us more guileless flattery, un- sullied by. ulterior -aims, 'than the unfailing, tail-wagging exuberance of Elmer's: welcome home. Could _ it be, after all, just some tawdry attachment to our watch chain? And that soulful gaze from Hilde- garde's big brown eyes as we reach down to scratch behind her furry cars! Maybe it's just a special kind _ of canine ecstacy at being .close to that old, overstuffed easy chair. Perhaps she thinks the >chalr does the scratching. We tlon't like to contemplate such notions. -We'd much rather dlsmiss Tip as_an styplcal, abaorm- "al, egregipus,® teratogenetic canly , familiaris, * ér_ the - whole story as just anothér tall tale from Texas. Really Busy Bees After, experiments lasting four- - teen years, eclentiste have succeed __ed in breeding bees which are more "industrious than thelr ancestors. These busier bees have been pro- ° duced by Insemdnating queen bees artificially: under microscopes. The "solentists bred and oross-bred var--- lous types of bees untill they got _|---_exactly-the-insect they were see ing. Fhe new breed has already Rois) that they ean produce more ney than any other kind of bee. "Thay are also healthier, gentler and i. more resistant to -dlsease. or Merry Menagerie-By Walt Disacy Wee TA Se a : . 5 > -- "Oh, I'm terribly sonry--I dldn's know it was loaded!" : IF STRIKE ~~ ONE GAME WHERE BOTH SIDES LOSE - -- \ND FIRM GRANTS AN INCREASE OF Su IT TAKES THIS LOM TO RECOVER LOST WAGES 8 WEEKS WR | - " XR | bite : - (| ds ¥ 1 ee Nobody 'Wins 'A: 8trike--Newachart above shows graphically h $0 make up the wages he lost through being on strike. lost about $400; In addition so strikers themselves, In the thousands lose wages: through being Jald off because of material 'shor ow long-a- worker-has to faboe recent steel atrike, each worker of workers in other industries tagees caused by the strike," -_ am not mistaken inthis, please let . them know at once that their. .ap- peal is denied. : : ig A. Lincoln, - This stern message 'sounded the . death knoll of the sordid business, | | ( [i (C7 2 f rl : By Arth ur Pointer