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r j4|Tf^-'€r I'OUNGSTERS-HELP WITH HOME-CANNING! ; > V $ r Dcn't worry if you're too young "'"lor the WAACS or WAVES. There's anolner important job for you. Savq ' aill the extra vegetables from your / Victory Garden by home-capning. A . .few jars a day take littlo time and ^dd up to well-filled shelves by the • .- end of the season. Food costs are • high in the stores and may be higher, but food grown at home still costs • few cents a jar. There's a deep satisfaction in »P*rowing and canning your own food. j-Wait and see. You'll take inventory •<>f your garden each day to see "Which vegetables are right for the table and how many extras there are to put in glass jars. Make it a point each day to gather everything at its prime, and make it a point of honor to get the extras into glass jars before they lose freshness. That's the big secret of delicious, nutritious, home - canned foods-- freshness. Home - grown, homecanned foods often»have many more vitamins than those bought at the store, because they are fresh. And when you get a reliable homecanning booklet, you'll be surprised Photo Courtesy £all Bros. Co. at how many different things may be put away for later use in glass jars. Be sure to have the very best canning instructions and recipes. Ope fruit jar company offers a Blue Book free with a coupon packed with each dozen jars--or for ten cents if you haVe no coupon. The instructions are easy to follow. It is not necessary to have elaborate or expensive equipment. Form a canning club and have fun while you can! Lowly Mussel May . S . (truce-Spurned MoUuik Coming Into Own, BOOTHBAY HARBOR, MAINE.-- The lowly mussel -- spurned by Americans * but long a delicacy in England and Europe--may come into its own as a result of the war There are miles and miles of the Ifclam-like bivalves bedded down and Untouched along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. "We can' flood the country with mussels and our offshore beds will hever* dwindle," says Arthur B. Greenleaf, Maine's fisheries commissioner. "We've got more mussels than anything else--all we need are people to eat them." v People in Europe have been eating 'them for years. France Consumes 400,000,000 pounds annually; Great Britain takes care of 35,000,000 pounds. But they never have caught |>opular favor in this country, and Iio one knows exactly why. r They're tasty, more tender than clams, and meatier. Some rate them Superior to both clams or oysters. They can be prepared in any way that other shellfish are: steamed lind eaten with melted butter, fried, 'toasted, or in chowders or fritters. A dozen Maine fish packers, looking at those undeveloped mussel !rfbeds, are starting to do something } about bringing them to the American ! market. They're going ahead with | plans to can the bivalves for appre- | ciative markets across the sea and i for markets that they hope to create at home. The packers have been assured of | priorities on tin and they expect a ; ready sale through lend-lease. Can- j ning for domestic consumption will i be on an experimental basis at first, | "but canners hope that the mussel j will become a welcome wartime ad-1 dition to the American diet. FLYING COLORS By John M. Jenks FIR^T FLAG OF THE UNITED COLONIES WA$ NOT A FLAG- OF fi£B£LL/ON/ " IT6 13 STRIPES FOR-N# GOLONIES COMBINED WITH THE BRITISH JACK INDICATED THE HOPE OF EVENTUAL COOPERATION WITH THE MOTHER COUNTRY*- NO BBJULATIOM FLAG OF TRUCE PROVIDED ar THE U.<£. ARMY* Oft NAVY i m 46 Syndicate HE 5TAR<? AND STRIPES WERE not floujn BE4IDE THE STATUE OF LIBERTY FOR YEAR$/(wy>-»»D Nazis Fail to Convert Dutch to 'New Order' f LONDON.--After more than 2xh fears of German occupation, the Dutch Nazi party has not ye£ been able to enlist any significant sup- 'jport wkhin the country or even to iinify its own ranks, Max Blokzijl, thief of the Dutch Nazi Press Guild, Admitted in an article published in the German newspaper West Deutcher Beobachter. Blokzijl asserted that the opposition to the Nazis was not as determined as "radical and reactionary elements picture it." He declared: "The reaction exists mainly in certain educated circles, whose members willd terror as a weapon to keep hundreds of • thousands of %rorkers dependent upon them away from the New Order." He claimed, however, that the parly had grown from 30,000 members fri 1940 to more than 100,000 now, although its leader, Anton A. Mussert, tarly in December admitted that he had only 35,000 Nazi sympathizers. Expressing fears that the conversion of the Dutch to Naziism would be most difficult, Blokzijl said that workers expecting social security benefits from the old regime and farmers sticking to old traditions could not be won over to the New Order, while teachers were equally "stubborn" and continued to reject the "New Ideas.". He placed his main hope in the youth of Holland's cities, despite the Jailure of his own recent effort to recruit young party members in Amsterdam. He revealed that the Dutch ^Nazi Youth Storm numbered 20,000 members. JReich Army Gut to Six 1 Million by Walr Losses LONDON.--Losses in Russia and Libya have reduced German army strength to fewer than 6,000,000 effectives, according to. reports reaching Allied circles recently. Gfermany is believed still to have an army of about 7,000,000 men, but at least 1,000,000 and possibly 1,500,- 000 of these are believed to be wounded or otherwise unfit for ac-, tion. Military experts have said that Adolf Hitler's army once totaled 0,000,000 soldiers. German losses in 3 Vi years of fighting are believed to total some 5,000,000 men killed, wounded or captured. mi iHi. ; Service) \ ^ - j'/•<% .-j, v British Pubs Will Post Maps of United States LONDON.--Every pub in Britain soon will display two new wall decorations, one a large map of the United States with the names of states and Jarger cities in bold type, the other a chart showing what in- ); signia is worn by American soldiers, ^ sailors and marines. f ' The program is being handled by the ministry of information, but distribution will be by the Brewers association. The idga is to «nable the British to know their Americans bet* ter. AWH-tatrd SN*I« Np»pm CHATTERER'S LAST CHANClg pHATTERER 1"HE RED SQUITl- REL, running for his life and without the least hope, suddenly saw a last chance to escape from Shadow the Weasel. That is, he saw something that might offer him a chance, He couldn't be sure until he had tried, and even then he might escape from one danger only to run right into another equally great. What Chattgrer saw was a big brown bunch near the top of a tall chestnut tree, and he headed for that tree as fast as ever he could go. What was that big brown bunch? . Why it was Red tail the Hawk, who was dozing there with his head drawn down between his shoulders dreaming of the Warm southland. Now, old Redtail is one of Chatterer's deadliest enemies. He is quite as fond of Red Squirrel as is Shadow the Weasel, though he doesn't often try to catch one, because there are other things to eat much easier to get. Chatterer had had more thian one narrow escape frqm old Redtiil, and was very much afraid of him yet here he was running up the very tree in which Redtail was sitting. You see, a very daring idea had come into his head. He had seen at once that Redtail would just as soon have Shadow the Weasel for dinner as himself, and a very daring plan had popped into his head. "I may as well be caught by Redtail as Shadow," he thought as he ran up the tree, "but if my plan works out right I won't be caught by either. Anyway, it is my very last chance." Up the tree he scrambled, and after him went Shadow the Weasel. Shadow had been so intent on catching Chatterer that he had not noticed old Redtail, which was just as Chatterer had hoped. Up,, up, he scrambled, straight past old Redjtail, but as he passed he pulled one of Redtail's long tail feathers, then ran on to the top of the tree and with the last bit of strength he had left leaped to a neighboring spruce tree, where, hidden by the thick branches, he stopped to rest and see what would happen. Of course, when he felt his tail pulled old Redtail was wide awake in a flash and, of course, he looked Up the tree he scrambled and after him went Shadow the Weasel, down to see who had dared to pull his tail. There just below him wja? Shadow the Weasel,, who had jiist that minute discovered who was sit ting there. Shadow the Weasel stopped short Then like a flash he dodged around to the other side of the tree. He had no thought of Chatterer now. Thing? were changed all in a flash--quite changed. Instead of the hunter he „was now the hunted. Old Redtail circled in the air just overhead, and every time he caught §ight of Shad * ow he swooped at hfifn with great cruel claws spread to clutch him. Shadow dodged around the trunk of the tree. He was mofe angry than frightened, for his sharp eyes had spied a little hollow in a branch oi the chestnut tree, and he knew thai once inside of that he would have nothing to fear. But he was angry clear through to think that he should be cheated out of that dinner he had : been so sure of only a few minutes before. So he screamed angrily al old Redtail, and then, watching his chance, scampered out to the hollow and whisked inside just in the nick of time. Chatterer, watching from th< 1 spruce tree, gave a great sigh .of re lief. He saw Redtail the Hawk posi himself on the top of a tall tret where he could k£ep watch of tha-. hollow in which Shadow had disap peared, and he knew that it would ; be a long time before Shadow would dare poke even his nose outside Then as he was rested Chatterei ; stole softly, oh, so softly, awa\ ; through the tree tops Until he was 1 sure that Redtail could not see him. Then he hurried. Yes, indeed, he j hurried then. He wanted to get just I as far away from Shadow the Weasel ! as he could. CHURCH SERVICES 'g Catholic Church Masses: Sunday:^OOl, 8:30,. 10:00,' 11 Holy Days: 6:00; 8:00; 10:0(4,'^?> Week Days: 6:45 and 8:00. * ^ First Friday: 6:30 and 8i00. „ )"• Confessions; Saturdays: 3:00 p. m. and 7:00 ft. Ok Thursday before First Friday-- - After 8:00 Mass on Thursday 3:00 p. m. and 7:00 p. m. Msgr. C. S. Nix, Pastor. ^ Patrick's Catholic Church MaiseSi "* ^ - Sunday: 8 : 0 0 , 1 1 ^ 0 ^ S ! Weekdays: 7:30. ' - First Fridays: 7:30. On First Friday, Communion distributed at <6:30, 7:00 aad before and durin? the 7:30 Mass, 3 Confessions: •- Saturdays: 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Thursday before First Friday: 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. and 7jOT it 8:00 Rev. Wm. A. 0*Rourlre, pastor. Aeeeapaaied Sir Walter &aJelfh Newport, mi the Gospe peninsula. Province of Quebec, was so named by American Loyalists there in honor of Newport, the navigator who accompanied Sir Walter Raleigh fc>. A » « r t c a . _ , . . * . -V Grates Require Attention •% The importance of careful firing t# • 1 prolong the life of grates is emph#^ sized. The first and most impo®» v tant point in the care of grates jii: ^ the frequeht removal of the ashes the ash pit. The ash pit is a stotw % age chamber for air, not ashes. A|f 1 is necessary for the combustion ait* ' any fuel. Unless there is sufficient" air below the grate bars to codl them, they will burn or warp. Fai|» ure to remove the ashes as often a# " necessary causes a wasteful fire jfli well as warped or burned grateg. Another important point in the carf of grates is to prevent the format -- tion of clinkers which are likely tiK w i lodge in the grates. • ' '"\-2 if DR. H. S. FIKE St. John's Catholic Church, Johaabarg Masses: Sunday: 7:00, 8:30, 10:00,, 11:15. . Holy Days: 7:00 and 9:00. Weekdays: 8:00. First Friday: 8:00. Confessions: Saturdays: 2:30 and 7:$Q. , 1 Thursday before First FrHay: Z:8f and 7:30. Rev. A. J. Neidert, pa*tor. Zion Evangelical Lutheran Chunfe Divine Service -- Nine o'clock. Sunday School -- Ten o'clock. Rev. R. T. Eisfeldt, Pastor. * Community Church Sunday School: 10:00 a;m/ Worship Service: 11:00 a.m. Junior League: 6:30-p.m. Epworth League: 8:00 p.m. Rev. J. Heber Miller, pastor; St. Peter's Catholic Cliftrcfc, v Spring Grote Masses: Sundays: 8.00 anil 10:0®. v " Holy Days: 6:30 and 9:00. v Weekdays: 8:00. . First Friday: tf:00. Confessions: ^ Saturdays: 2:30 and 7:16. ^Thursday before First Friday: 2:80 and 7:15. Rev. John L. DaleiHen, Pastor. Veteriauiri^-vrfen RichsMnd Road "ilcHENRY, IL^. W Charlie's Repair Shop Sign Painting - Truck Lettering Fnrniture Upholstering and Repairing CHARLES RIETESEL McHENRY FLORAL CO. -- Phone 608-R-l -r- One Mile South of McHenry on Route 31. Flowers for all occasions! €> •ft A. WORWlfcK raOTOGRAPHEB Portraiture - Commercial Photography - Photo-Finishing Enlarging - Copying - Framing Phone 275 -- Riverside Drive McHENRY, ILL. Wonder Lake Ev. Luth. Church (Missouri Synod) Sunday school--10:00 a. in." D i v i n e s e r v i c e s -- 3 : 0 0 p. m.J . l^L. PFOTENHAUER, P*stor Volo Bible School Volo School House' Sunday School--10:30 a. m. -Worship Service--11:30 a. pu Preaching by Mr. Jevne.. f£teO INSURANCE pLA,S EARL R. WALSH Presenting Reliable Companies <Vhen yoa need insurance of any Uai Phone 43 or 118-M Green & Elm McHenry Grace Lutheran ChMMil \ Richmond v Sunday School: 10:30 a. m. Adult Service: 11:00 a. m. John W. Gable, pastor. McHENRY LODfcE A. F. & A. M. McHenry Lodge No. 158 meets the first and third Tuesdays of each month at the hall on Court street. Phone 43 Jfernc#J; Kno _ATTORNEY AT LAW w-<)FFl('Ei HOURS -- Tuesdays and Fridays Other Days by Appointment M c H e n r y . . . . ! l l i n < Telephone No. 300 Staff el A feeihansperger Insurance agents for all classes of property in the best companies^ WEST McHENRY - - ILLINOIS A. P. Freund Co. Excavating Contractor Trucking, Hydraulic and Crane Service. --Road Building-- *Tel. 204-M McHenry, I1L O X} V o o c WANTED TO BUY We pay $3 to $15 for Old or Injured Horses or Cows Standing or Down if Alive. Matt's Mink Ranch Johnsburg - Spring Grove Road Phone Johnsburg 659-J-2 CALL AT ONCE ON DEAD HOGS, HORSES & CATTLE We pay phone charges. S. H. Freund & Son CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS Our Experience is at Your Service in Building Your Wants. Phone 56-W v McHenry Horses Wanted I B U Y Old and Disabled Horses. Pay from $5 to $14 ARTHUR W. WERRBACK Phone 844 439 E. Calhoun St. Woodstock, I1L TEL. WONDER LAKE 158 DR. C. L. WATKINS Dentist ' . • Office Hour*'- Tueeday & Saturdays: 9 a.m. to 5 p.*. -Evenings and Sunday Mornings by Appointment! Lookout Point Wonder Lake, life. Patrons Must Share Theater Programs NEW YORK. -- Theater-goers here have to share their program The Playbill, which serves every legitimate theater in the Broadway area, said that it would have to curtail its consumption of paper in,common with all publications because of government restrictions. Only one copy will be given to every two customers. True Dreamer • ^iDad. can you tell me Wh4t a prodigy is?" - ' "A prodigy, my son, is a boy whe can be persuaded to get his mind or the third dimension instead of trying to get his feet on third base." phcrne McHenry 677-R-l i --- Basement Excavating-- NETT-S SAND & GRAVEL Special Rates on Road Gravel and Lot Filling . . Black Dirt; • iPower Leveling and Grading. J. E. NETT Johnsburg P. O.--McHenry •o PHONE 15 X-Ray Service DR. J. E. SAYLER --" " DENTIST Office Hours •;# By Appointment Only Green and Elm Streets, McHenry Tow Dim-Out Methods Berkeley, Calif., is using two meth- ] ods for marking dim-out areas. Th# first method consists of painting eleo» j troliers and street lights at dim-out area boundaries u distinctive blue color; the second, painting the words "dim-*)ut' and "end of dim-ouf' on the pavement at boundaries of such areas. The paint contains a type of material which acts as a reflector so the markings are more distinctive than ordinary paint. Vicious Circle "Why are you crying, Bobby?" "Because Tommy slapped me." "But why didn't yoU~ slap hin back?" "Because then it would onif tee h.. turn again." • 1 '• - Lifts Down Cornstalks *A special fender a few inches from the ground, to prevent tradtor wheels from riding down leaning cornstalks, is successful when binder, enailsge cutter or picker to used. Order your Rubber Stamps at The Plaindealar. Honoring Coelldge Oalvin Coolidge was the first person while alive to be portrayed on a U. S. coin. The Sesqui-Centennial half dollar of 1926 shows Calvin Coolidge and George Washington. Good Brakes Save Your Tires -"Keep 'Em Rolling" If yws are having brake trouble, bring yotnr car to Central Garage's trained mechanist for expert brake relining. Remember, good brakes give your tires the chance to give you the maximum service at minimum cost. Come in today to our State Approved Safety Lane for a complete check-up. CENTRAL GARAGE , FRED J. SMITH, Prop. ^ Phone 200-J Towing Johnsburg O C f