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* '• : ; 7 v*. Txlminmi aay, tjctoDer »o, 41A9*1A2 V;r Kathleen Norris Says: Buying Victory Bonds Is Self-Protection Ml Syndicate--WNU Feature. 'U 0$I t 0 1 S Released by Western Newspaper Union. Our National Anthem (It *>• wrlttca Its years at* thU bmA. V*r mrc tkaa a eentary and a taarter Aaaerleana hare keen aiagtaf U. Bat kew •Mr ef theai > kaew Ul OTUB TniB Q£ WROTE IT Humoro THE OTHER GUT Twice Told Tales •f fetarwt Takea Ik* Fflu of it* sf Tears Ac* Pagf Three1'" , of which he' has previously been the manager. \ ° , a TWENTY TEARS AGO - Collisions s Alba snllisions ar* source of all crystals. railed =£ red bj ':>.a J Dentist--Yes, I suppose those teeth could be improved some. They're the first set I ever made. But then they won't look so bad if you don't smile much. Victim--Smile! What d'ye think I've got to smile about? . It's the guys that look at me that'll do the grinning. , Weston Bacon, who during the past Statement or the Ownership, Mai year 05 more has been employed at the ment. Circulation, Etc., Required N. H. Petesch drujr store, started the Act of Congress of March 3, work in the Chas. J. Reihanspergv^. 1 1933, hardware store on the west side this Of The McHenry Plaindealer, week. , lished weekly, at McHei Farmers about this section are com- October 1, 1942. plaining regarding the scarcity 0f State of Illinois, '• t ^ help. Some of the farm owners we . C°un*y °* Mcllenrjr. m. : •---- are told, sire forced to do their own Before me, "a Notary Public in aft? work. < ~ for the State and county afceaaM, Miss Emma Thelen, who during the ^®*"*°na'ly appeared A. H. Mosher, past two summers has conducted a i ' "®vin« been duly sworn accord, home bakery on Washington street in ! !n*.to law' (,.ePoses and says that lw this village, has retired from the Jlf .mana&lnK~e(*'t!or of the McHenbusiness here and has gone to Chi-!?3' Plaindealer, and that the following iago, where she will engage in a sim-!!", v t® the best of his knowledge and ilar line of work. -- belief, a true statement of the owner* Since the replacement of the flash- Mid nThn^Hnn0 fir ^ ' T't a'0r£l can have the same by catling at this boards at the Fox river dam the Water ! ^ .. . . ,?Wn.|* office and proving ownership ! in our beautiful stream has once more , T i o't r"1"'by. ^ been raised to a point where poweri?fon /n pLy? f embothed ,n see" boats navigatiojo is made safe, U°n 411' Posta! Uws SIXTY YEARS AGO Found on the road between Mc- Henry and Volo, a baby. The owner Francis Seott Key watched the. British bombard Fort McHenry throughout the niglit of September; 13, 1814. Then "by the dawn's early light" he saw ti at "our flag was still there." * THIS INSPIRED HIM . . • -• Reprieve • Y:.'; My ; little boy had been re^J bad It maae me very, very ^d ' Y Y ' Tq have to whip the Utt'-e lad- " I'd have you krow. 1 I started out to whip the tad *- tyben he said: "Wait Oar ball team Wbn." I was so glad I let him go. ' V:Y Y Y • Y Y' •>'" j We learn that F. W. Mead of Richmond had his horse, buggy and harness stolen on Monday night. No clues have been obtained of the thieves or j property at last accounts. ' Y\ 'Y-F. G. Mayes wishes to inform, the? ^public that he can be found in his new . store with a full stock of ready made i Clothing for the fall and winter trade. P. Leickem has sold his. building , north of Riverside Block You do is sensible, even a selfish thing when you buy Victory Bonds; you do a rt thing in a businesslike way. It is self-protection, nothing nobler than that. , By KATHLEEN NORRIS THE probability is that you and your husband* have invested a certain amount of dollars in Victory Bonds and Victory Stamps. And you probably feel a little thrill of pride and patriotism with every dollar so invested. But the real truth is that there iB no reason here for complacency. You do a sensible, even a selfish thing when you buy Victory Bonds; you do a smart tiling in a businesslike way. For if there is to be an America tomorrow, your bonds and stamps will be the most valuable things in it, and if there isn't --an impossible hypothesis, which I put in merely for illustration--nothing that you have hoarded or saved, money, property, stocks, will be worth what is classically known as a tinker's dam. More than that. If we of America rise to this situation, not with a sense of being generous and reckless and wholehearted, but because we appreciate the facts of the case, this country will be spared inflation. Our financial authorities could create that inflation now, very simply. They have the power to float billions of new bills amongst us; we wouldn't full realize, seeing these new bills, that every one of them meiari't that what you and I have in the bank was worth that much less. It Is Self-Protection. So buying bonds is self-protection, nothing nobler than that. If we don't, we lose what we have. If we do, we keep what we have and add to it valuable investments that in ten years will be redeemed at interest. You'd get the general idea fast enough if someone went to your bank and drew out one-third of your money. A thief who did it would be punished to the full extent of the law. But this wouldn't be a thief ^ this, would be a person with perfect rights, who might remind you, as he went away with your good money, that in another three months he meant to come and get another third. If your comment on this is, "That's outrageous!" the real answer is simpler still, "That's war." We are in a desperate battle now against forces that may gain power ever all the world, or that may be eurbed and controlled for 100 years. Curbed and controlled until the horrors of militarism and invasion die away into the sunrise of a saner day. We can't stop now. We can't go back to the comfortable day when one hundred dollars in the bank was one hundred dollars, and nobody could take it away. Ten Per Cent Is Too Little. The only thing we can do to save what we have is to invest in America. They are talking now of "10 per cent" investing. That seems to me too little. My own suggestion would be that every family give one-third of its income to the government for safekeeping until the day of peace. Wages are high now; salaries have ballooied upward, and every man who wants a job--and quite a few who don't--is at work. Hearts are opened to deeds of courage' and to the facing of changes; many of us who have never seen any good in war itself are nevertheless determined to find good in the enlarged opportunities of sharing and brotherliness that wartime emotions bring with them. We are all knitting, cooking, writing letters to camps, gathering up AFTER THE WAR You have heard it said many times that anything worth doing is worth doing well. Why, then, should we not give our best to the war effort? For surely there are no higher aims than ours should be today. Unless we demonstrate our faith in those aims by doing our best to realize them we must not be surprised if others doubt their value. After the war is over will we be able to say with pride, "This is the democracy I helped preserve"? Or will we have to listen while a conquering enemy tells us that democracy could not have been worth while if those who enjoyed its benefits did not think enough of it to fight for it? We cannot all fight with guns. But we can fight with dollars--mnd fight ntnv! Y ' O r I ' n d e t "Now children," said *he-Sunday school teacher, "I've tcld you the story of Jonah and the w! ale. Willie, can you tell me what the story teaches?" ' "Yes'm," said Willie." "It teaches that you can't keep a good man down." f?\Vm. M. ("arroll. Attorneyr ;" V;! 'i Woodstock, Illinois , J - « Notice of claim DATfif ^ ^ month The pnce paid we beheve was v, » , , - „ r, . - : j;Estate of Cora M. Bassett. Deceased Notice is hereby givvn to all persons -- - --.-- to Stephen P. "Smith, and will give possession this FIFTY YEARS AGO and Regula- , -. tions, printed on! the reverse of this ^ ^ form, to wit: •' \ ' 1- That the names and address*^" j of the publisher, editor, managing edl- ,itor, and business managers are: ^- '1 ?•= Publisher^ Chasv Renicli, Woo4r^ ^ rstock, ,: -'u , -'.V' t Editor, A. H. Slasher, McHenry, llL Managing Editor, A. II.. Mosh^H ^ McHenry, III. _ _ 2. That the <'W^';is;'CittjS. F,' Reaich, Woodstock, 111. ""si ,3. That the known bondholders^ - mortgagees, and other seci-rity hoM« £ \¥ ^ •; -v ' SfNUttOUft < H. C. Mead, commander of McHenry Post, G. A. R., will start on Saturday next for Washington to attend the National encampment. Jay Gilbert, of Chicago, Spent Sunday with his parents in this village. jHe is en^gaed in the wholesale groc- J ery house of McNeil & Higgins. • | We learn that a son of Peter Millfer |Who resides near Volo. died at W»ukegan last week of typhoid fever. Married -- At the church, at Johttp- <:.burg on Thursday, Sept. 15, by the i Rev. Father Mehring, Peter Adams I and Miss Clara Krumpen, both of Johnsburg. [that Monday, December 7,,l942;i»-the ers owning or holding 1 per cent i claim date in. the estate of more of total amount of .bonds, moft> i CORA M. BASSETT gages or other securities are Amor- Deceased, pending in the County - B ^a"ona^ Court of McHenry County, Illinois, and that claims may b? filed against the said estate on or before said date without issuance of summons. LISLE E. BASSETT, Administrator. (Pub. October 8 - 15 - 22) • PORTY YEARS AGO Be Careful With Lights * When blackouts are called, everyone must be careful with candles, lamps, and lanterns to prevent fires, | warn agricultural engineers. Flashj ligVts are safer for moving about, and it is wise to have an extra set of cells and a replacement bulb on hand. . ^ I J ' "Marriage is odd; you and one and make one." . **How singular!" | - Rev. and Mrs. F. A. Miller will add one | occupy the rooms over Petesch's drug Store until the new parsonage is ready for occupancy. tinfoil and rubber, active in many ways we didn't think necessary or possible a few years ago. What we women have to get through our heads is that no service to the family compares to the service that is investment in Victory Bonds. It is small use to get into uniform, keep office hours, collect packs of cards and packs of cigarettes for the boys, and at the same time to say dreamily, "I did buy two dollars' worth of stamps from Marion and I meant to. buy more, but I forgot." Wonld Prevent Inflation. Victory Bonds ought to come next to rent and grocery bills. If the government could count on one-third of the national income in the next two years, we wouldn't have to have inflation. We would be the only country that ever capie through a war without it. But while women are under the delusion that buying Victory Bonds is a pretty and loyal gesture, done partly to please dear Louise Baker, who sits at a little- table selling them in that hot department store five mornings a week, the government's vigorous determination to spare us inflation is jeopardized. Our fate is in our own hands now; it is for us to decide it. One woman I know finds herself today with an income of something like $350 a month. Up to this time it has hovered irregularly around $140. She is putting $100 a month into Victory Bonds. Three of her four children work, and she insists that one-third of what they earn shall be invested that way. She does her own work; ,the family table is the same plain old table; the girls put aprons over their office clothes and do the bedrooms and the dishes; the small boy sweeps porches and runs errands just as he did before the aggregate monthly family income was approximately $700. .1 said something, praising the spirit of this woman, but aba laughed it off. Excellent Opportunity. "Wonderful?" Milly Carter echoed scornfully. "There's nothing wonderful about it. It's a chance to fix this family up for life: In ten years these girls will be married, and each one will have a good sound investment that will mean a home for all of them. I never dared hope for such an opportunity. America is still the/ land that gives the wofking people the best break," Milly concluded, her eyes on the flag that flies cheerfully above the shabby Carter home. "I'm taking advantage of it as my ancestors did, that's ell." This flagstaff stands on the same, spot where stood the flagstaff from which was flown the banner that inspired Francis Scott Key to write THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER O, say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. 0, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of ihe brave? On that shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty hoit in dread silence reposes; What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines in the stream 'Tis the star-spangled banner, O, long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. who so " Catastrophe Easy enough to Look cheerful When her rcses wash off lifthe rain But the girl worth while Is the ons who can sm;le • When her skirt succun.bs tO the • strain. Wooden Map of Ohio ^ A.Btap of Ohio, made of inlaid-sections of wood representing each county, adorns the southeast corner Decision "What decided her not to get a divorce?" 'There was another woman willing to take her husband as soon as the decree was made absolute." i y, I vuuntj' | AUUI 119 HI vThe second story of Evanson'sstere of the conference room set aside for building i* being fitted up into living' the governor in Ohio's new $6,000,- rooms and will be occupied by Dr. I 000 state office building now near- Chamberlain and wife. . j ing completion. Its purpose is to Last week'Will Sayler sold his fine i provide a ready reference for the team of three and four year old Mor*' t?overnor ®nd his cabinet in discussgans to H. H. Hitchcock of Wilmette , rog the affairs of state. On a Limb "Have you been swimming, Tommy?" "No, mother. I took off my clothes to take a sun bath and ono of the fellowa pushed me into the water." for anreven $400 spot cash. • The iron work on the Johnsburg bridge is completed. The workmen will now lay the flooring and pull the old pile from under the structure, a tedious.task. » ^ . THIRTY YEARS AGO Summertime Little tender squeezes Now and then a kus Fill a summer evening Btfmming full of bUiRB; Extempor* "So your wife read you a lecture when you got home last night." "Read it? No, it WAS Quite imtwomptu." the And where is that band vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and battle's confusion, A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terrors of flight or the,, gloom of the grave; ' 1 And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and th* hom* of the brave. O, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the war's desolation; Blest with victory and peace, may ! the heaven-rescued land i Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. ; Then conquer we must, when pur cause it is just, i i And this be our motto--"In God is j our Trustf" j And the stsfr-sp&ngled banner in j triumph shsll wave -O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. Key's poem was first printed in i ! the Baltimore American on Septem- ; ; ber 21. Later it was distributed in ' ' handbill form and set to the music ' of an old English drinking song, "To ! Anacreon in Heaven," composed by-! ; John Stafford Smith. The man who j, ! joined the words of "The Star Span- j gled Banner" and the tune of "To ! Anacreon in Heaven" was Ferdi- | nand Durang, an actor then serving in the American forces near i Baltimore, and he and his brother | first sang it in public in the old j : Holliday Street theater in Baltimore I late in September, 1814. Frankness " "Has the doctor a large practice?" "So large that when people have nothing the matter with them he tells them so." Courting In courting this is ever true "For no one but a drummer Would have the nerve to spin up to The girl he loved last summer. , P>rof. and Mrs. A. E. Nye Have moved frapi the Mrs. Marjraret Bonslett hous<e on Waukegan street to the McOmber house on the east side, recently vacated by James Perkins and family. j Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Besley have rented a home at Woodstock and will jtake up their abode in that city next week. Mrs. Mayme Lamphere and son, ; George, who have been at the county ! seat for some time, will make their {home with them. . j The fence which until recently has enclosed the public park will be sold ! at public auction to the highest bidder on Saturday next. | J. W. Smith, the popular theatrical | man of this place, who during the i summer has conducted an airdome a> Riverside park in this village, on Tuesday of this week took over the management of the Central opera house, Tropical Paradise line the gleaming coral beach at Nassau, and when the northern lands are shivering in the grip of snow and * leet, the Bahamas are like a veritable tropical paradise. At Nassau, the capital, the water is warm and unbelievably blue, so that the sand looks whiter and the palm trees greener by contrast. Ttie beaches are ideal, sheltered as they are by the jutting coral reefs that surround the island. Seek Their Level "There are people so constituted that if you sir.k to their level they think you sink a good deal further." LIFE SAVCft 19* 2. SOMCBOOY fOROOTTO MNL ainsKNK NWDffiCK FIRST/ A. H. MOSHER, '• Managing-Editor. Sworn to and subscribed before ilNf° this 6th day of October, 1942. EARL R. WALSH, (SEAL) Notary Public. AUCTION CHARLES LEONARD. Auctioneer On account of poor health, I have decided to quit farming and will se!T at public auction on the Mair farm located on Terra Cotta ave., Crystal ? Lake, Route 176, just across the tracks on the left side of the road, northeast of the city limits commerMS | i ing at 1:00 oVloek, on -- - » •• WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER tf § ' 4 GOOD HORSES ; 2 sorrel mares, 6 years old, 3,200 lbs.; sorrel colt, coming 2 years; sorrel colt, coming 3 years; about 111 . j lone year old hens; milk goat. 12 ton mixed hav; stack second en|*'V: - ting hay; stack of straw; about 200 bu. oats; some old com in crib; abont 12 acres good corn, standing; a be at f | one load soy bean hay, cut; set breech- i ing harness; 6 milk cans, strainer aad stir; 1,000 chick size metal brooder house; 6x6 ft. brooder house; ®xi> ft. brooder house; Simplex brooder ett stove;. 3 self feeders. Water fountain; lot baby chick feeders and waterers; 12-ft. oak dinging table; piano; tractor on rubber, also set steel wheels; tandem tractor disc, 7 ft.; 2-bottom Oliver tractor , plow; disc harrow, 12 discs; 8 disc convertible harrow; walking plow; potato planter; Deere corn planter; 2-section drag. { McCormick mower; dump raksf De^rinpr corn binder; single rowOlivef cultivator; 2 walking cultivators; shovel plow; 3-inch tire, wood wheel wagon; silo filler; iron wheel wagon; rubber tired wagon with hay rack aad box combination; bob sled; stalk cut* ter; drum oats sprouter; garden seeder; garden cultivator; snow scraper; gravel Scraper; bone grinder; rook ' cutter; corn sheller; snow fence; platform scale; hay rope, fork and pulley; small tools too numerous t* mention. TERMS -- All sums of $25 and ue«. der, cash. For credit see your banker before day of sale. FRANK E. ANDERSON Home State B«nk of Crjsul fiifcn^ • Clerkin? - J •jL'JZ WAS THE PAYMENT ASKED BY FRANCIS HOPKINS ON IN 1780 FDR "DESIGNING THE FLAG AND GREAT SEAL OF THfi UNITED STATES " c "You know very well I saved youilife once--and still .you refuse me." "Bobby you know very well that I intended that Percy Millionbucia* should save me that time." > Duck vs. Hen .^SThe ungainly duck waddles and staggers. For grace biddy beats a mile- Call a woman "a hen" she looks daggers, v But call her "a duck" and she'll smile. Guilty Party , "Where did you get that biack eye. Mike?" "Why, O'Toole's just back from his honeymoon an* 'twas me eilvised him to get married." Simple Arithmetic The circumference of a circle Is found by multiplying the diameter by 3.1416. To find the diameter of a circle, multiply the circumference by .31831. For the area of a circle* square the diameter and multiply by .7854. Northern Ireland Northern Ireland has a parliament of its own consisting of a house of commons and a senate. --:ry:. ' ; . 'Crane-Berry*. ~ Cranberries are borne on Slender carved stalks resembling somewhat the neck of a crane. From this comes the name crana-berry, later modified to cranberry. • i- .. . Big Shot : The 16-inch gun is the largest pnd has a range of approximately 30 miles using a projectile weighing about 2,340 pounds. For Night Rune Planes on| a night rim in Germany-^ dre equipped with a device which ignites i charge of magnesium powder under each wing just before lagging, doing away with many ground lights at airports. Never Handle Money' . Women of the British royal family who never carried handbags- since it was "beneath" them to handle money, now carry a purse for cosmetics and incidentals. Ladies-in» waiting continue to handle the money. . Good News A front tire on a bicycle is good Jar about $,000 miles. I Are yon entitled to wear a "target" lapel button? You are if you are investing at least tea percent of yoar income in War Bonds every pay day. Ifs yoar badge of pa* Steel Cooling Controlled Tougher and more shock-resistant and ductile high speed steels can be made by a simple method of "controlled cgoling" during manufacture. m DID NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THE CLAIM / hopkin^ON signed THE PECLARATfON CF{- INDEP£NCEnCE fsjjrVV TERfHY- 'NOREW CARNEGIE DISPLAYED OLD GLORY AND THE BRITISH UNION 3ACK ro&mm r AT SKIBO CASTLE