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WMm- ff I ; jpp; * . « • - • frfegt Two THE M T PLA1NDEALER Thursday, May 18, 1944 •y Kathleen Norris Says •••MMaipiMMWIiilfc. • , I iittoaiiiaLiMiiifr His Wife Is a Flirt Bell Syndicate.--WNU Features Mm j m Carry Disease Rats carry a number of human diseases and livestock diseases, and eat stored vegetables and foods as well as farm feeds and grains. Dehydrated Shipments The equivalent of 200 head of cattle --in the form of dehydrated beefhas been shipped in a single airolane. Spice Consumption Americans consume 50 mijlinn pounds of raw spice pepper nually. 4 JOHNSBURG (By Mrs. Arthur Klein) Saturday evening guests in the Jos. J. Freund.home were Mif. arid Mrs. Gus Moritz, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Miller, Miss Clara Miller and friend, and Mr. and Mrs. John M. Pitzen. Miss Ann Schaefer spent a pleasant weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Flo Outbreaks Wot the past decade, outbreaks *)! "A"-type flu have occurred each January of the odd-numbered years --1933, '35, '37, '39, and '41. KEEP 1SSPIRA T IOMAL :.•_ LETTERS FLOWING TO SERVICEMEN "isn't there any way of getting it through the heads of the girls at home that they one us something too. and can help an anful lot just fcv being loving and faithful and letting us know it?" It is tragic that such a question should arise in the mind of any- American soldier. Civilians one a debt to all men at the battle* fronts tvhich can never be paid in mere coin. Only by constant devotion and acts of inspiration can u e begin to shoic our appreciation for the supreme risk they are making. A soldier's u ife, who forgets this and adds to her unpatriotic actions by doing things uhich cause her husband to uofry and question her loyalty, is an aid to a fifth-columnist almost as surely as if she were on the enemy's payroll. wlf ske does teri/e, she writes of things and places atid people 1 don't knou, or muyLe dislike. She doesn't put uny crosses at the end, the way she did at first* rT By KATHLEEN NORRIS HIS week brought me a letter from a soldier who is down in the hottest, loneliest, hardest fighting of all; the fight to take island after island in the South Seas, and so conquer Rabaul, and so move nearer to Tokyo, and the end of the w a r . n v v v ' ; * • He has been married almost two years; he adores his wife. He loves the memory of their first little home, the happiness of sharing the new love and the new life together; he is 27, had never eared, for any woman before. The wife, Patricia, is 21. "Often these days the mail comes in and I don't get a letter at all," writes Private Joe Carter. "If she does write she writes of things and places and ,people I don't know, or maybe dislike. She doesn't put any trosses in at the end, the way she . did at first, or tell me "that she misses me. I've been pretty heartsick over it, for I haven't any mother, or anyone else who writes to me, and I get awfully blue sometimes. Lots of the other fellows get letters with newspaper clippings pasted in, snapshots of their kids, descriptions of how Christmas was .and what's going on at home. But Pat doesn't think of any of those things. : ' -v-"... Wife in Bad Company. " "Now, what gripes me is this," the letter goes on. "Lately, Pat moved in and is sharing housekeeping expenses with a girl I hate, because she's just no good, and everyone knows it. This girl always had plenty of money, and she keeps a goodlooking flat, with plenty of cocktails and old-fashioneds and all that. Pat never was that sort, and I can't sleep nights worrying about how this older girl will get hold of her and influence her. All Pat ever said was that Dotty had decided to go straight and had a job next to her in a machine shop, but one of the fellows from our town who got out here lately told me he often saw them in the saloon together after hours, and that Pat ahd Dot were sharing the same flat. "I don't like to write her a sour, mean letter from here and tell her that if she pulls any fast ones on me I'll drop her once and for all. But goshf," says the letter youthfully, "it certainly is the limit to be 'way out here, seeing what we see, eaten up by pests, longing to get home to cool rooms and showers and the old car again, and to have ' your wife suggest that she's having a swell time without you. Isn' there any way of getting it through the heads of the girls at home that they owe us something, too, and can help an awful lot just by being loving and faithful and letting us know it?" Earl Cordoni in Chicago. j ' Mrs. Marion Schoenholtz and child-! ren of McHenry and Mrs. Ben Freilnd j visited Mrs. Delia K. Miller Sunday afternoon. , : Mr. and Mrs. Roy Newell of Chi- j cago are spending a week with Mr. I and Mrs. John M. Pltzen. ! „ Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Oeffling and1 Mr. and Mrs. George Hiller attended ; the farewell party in honor of Harold Vycital in McHenry Sunday. ; .Ship's Cook 3/c Petty Officer Ed- Ward Frett surprised his wife and ; Is friemjs Wednesday when he had a / ! Mx-day leave. He returned to Nor- ! / j folk, Va., Sunday. "Cooky" Frett has ! a New York, APO address. ' j Last Week Sunday visitors in the Ben J. Schaefer home*" to see Pfc. | Ralph J. -Schaef^r, whp was home on j furlough, were Mr. and Mrs. Roy j Schaefer and family .of Chicago, Mr. I and Mrs. Earl Turner, Joy Ann and j Skippy, Mrs. James Coarson, Mr. • and Mrs. Ray Schaefer, Judy" Ann j and Patsy, Mr. and Mrs. Charles • Rogers and son, Mr. and Mrs. Tony Mele, Mrs. John Jerak, Mrs. Vernon Jerak and daughter of Chicago, Mrs. ; Delbert Smith of Grayslake. Mr. Smith was unable to attend, as he was nursemaid to his two children, j Bobby and Diane, who were con-1 fined with the measles. We expect j Delbert to have them next. Sunday evening guests in the John Schmitt home were Father Foffel, Miss Mary K. Schmitt,^ Miss" Hazel Sondgrath of Sterling, Mr. and Mrs. John Lay, Mrs. Dorothy Himpelmann, son, Richard, Mr. and Mrs. Math Lay of Spring Grove, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Klaus of Cicago, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Weingart, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Freund, and Mr. and Mrs. Jos. S. Schmitt. Father Foffel has been a Chinese missionary for the past 15 years and was recently released from a Jap concentration camp. He gave an interesting talk of his experiences in the school having known Sister Confirma, our 7th and 8th grade teacher in China. 1. Miss Mary K.-Schmitt, Miss Hazel Sondgrath and Father Foffel of Sterling were dinner guests in the Frank . Freund home Monday. . . Miss Marilyn Turner and little Jerry Coarson are able to be out ( again after having the measles. Pfc. Ralph J. Schaefer left for j Camp Mentuchion, N. J., * Saturday night after having spent a nine-day furlough with friends and relatives. Mother's Day guests of Mrs. Lena Hettermann were Mr. and Mrs. Bidwin Hettermann and three sons, Mr. and Mrs. John Herdrich and two sons, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Stilling, son and daughter, Mrs. Olivia Keenan, Betty - Lou and Tommy, and James Hettermann. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Stilling was christened Richard Xee, with Rev. A. J. Neidert officiating at the ceremony. Mrs. Leo King and Leo Freund were sponsors. Guests in the home were Mr. and Mrs. Peter Freund, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Stilling, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Freund and Charlene, Mr. and Mrs. Leo King, Donna Mae and Harry. Mr. and Mrs. £eter Freund, Jr., something to him, There is news from all his' old crowd; if he has a chum who is still at home, call that chum, anti ask him for a detail or two. If there are children, include a story about each one, take earner^ shots of them, have those who can w^rite scrawl a line or two to Daddy. And always.--always--always paint a picture of the future that includes him, yourself, home again, love again, peace again. Dream dreams for him of your little farm, or your tiny cabin up in the mountains or near, the lake, tell him his fishing; ( line and his tennis racket are waiting, and end with a few fervent words that will let him know that you are were Sunday afternoon guests in the sharing every moment of his tremendous sufferings and his tremendous sacrifice. "You don't know how eager Bud Harold Freund home, Geraldine Freund having made her first Communion Sunday morning. | Mrs. Frank S. May, Mrs. Jos. G. and I are to get home to all the j HuemSftn, Mrs. George Hiller, Mrs. plans!" wrote one of the two sons of an Illinois' woman, who sent me a copy of his joyous letter. "This can't last forever, and when you write us of what's waiting--the new pups, the Sierra trip, the way you've fixed up our rooms--well, there isn't a man here doesn't envy us! Thank you, Mom/" , Today gives every wife an opportunity to be cruel or to be kind. She may either build now for the dignified, happy, home life of the peaceful days to come, or she can snatch at- a little dangerous and ephemeral excitement and ruin her chances of ever finding real happiness .as. a wife. 'Lena Hettermann, Mrs. Math, Adams, Mrs. Wm. Britz, and Mrs. Arthur Klein attended the D. of A. Mother's Day banquet, Monday evening. Mrs. James Coarson and son, Jerry, were visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Schaefer Sunday. Visitors in the Earl J. Turner home Thursday evening were Pfc. Ralph J. Schaefer, Mrs. James Coarson and son, Jerry, Roy Schaefer, Ben J. Schaefer and sons, Charles and Harold and Miss Dorothy Michels. A late dinner was served and cards furnished the evening's entertainment. . In that last simple sentence lies a tremendous truth. The Wiv^who are here at home can do a mighty service for their men, and if they are true and patriotic Women they Will do it. "To shake a man's faith, courage and hope for the future is fifth-column business; it weakens his patriotism, it causes him a desperate, "oh-what-the-hell's-the-use" feeling. Arid that discouraged, lonply, angry feeling may make an enormous difference when some small but all-important act of valor or daring is to be done. Write Soldier Loving Letters. In common kindness and charity write that soldier of yours hopeful and loving letters. If you write only weekly--and it's a very good idea to have a special time dedicated to the writing of letters--then during the days tietwe^n keep him in mind. There are small items in the papers, jokes, poems, thai wiii m«u)n Cats Licked by Booby Birds, but Army Wins And now the hazards of war include booby b,irds. In the course of building the airport on Ascension island, the war department disclosed, birds of the tern and booby family insisted on nesting at the foot of the runway, making plane takeoffs dangerous. The army imported cats, which promptly took care of the terns, but the boobies, which are so called because of their apparent stupidity, were smart enough to catch the cats and carry them. off. Finally the army imported a bird expert who advised stealing the eggs of the booby and covering the nesting places with chicken wire, which proved effective. (The booby birds are no relation to the filly-loo birds, which slide down icebergs at the north pole on their tail feathers, shouting "Finyloo, filly-loo," which means nothing in English, but to them means "Gad, what a sensation!") Fox '•River Picnic Grove (Formerly Opatrny's) Fox River Grove, Illinois pPX,* fii x- W BOOM NEW DANCE PAVIUQU ; Everything New * . . • Opens May 27, 1N4 • . ' : Picnics 1 - «- - . v Business--Social--Organization or Private . Write or phone now for information or reservations, FOX RIVER PICNIC GROVE R^^Grpve, 111. v - • Chica^gd i; Phone: Cary 2171 . • Phone: State 5796 -!»1 v5 ; ; i t , 1 John £ "Deithloff Sentry Mm-' For Truck and Passenger Can TIRES AND TUBES We have a complete stock of both passenger and truck tires. You can now have your tires retreaded without an CPA order, v Bring them in. TIRE AND TUBE VULCANIZING Trade in your old battery on a new FIRESTONE. We allow $2.00 for your old one; . Freund OFFICIAL TIRE INSPECTION STATION MAIN ST., WEST M'HENRY PHONE 294 'VtJ J' 'W John Deithloff, who began his "North Western" career in 1909, is well aware of the importance of his job; He says,"War has the right-of-way now and we've all got to do • our pa" to see tbat ^ aod materials are transported safely." John's work calls for patrolling some 20-odd miles of track between Proviso Yard and Valley, day in and day out. He inspects ... he tests ... he checks. Automatic block signals, automatic crossing gates, wigwag and flasheiysignals--all these and more must be maintained in perfect working order. Safety decrees it--victory demands it. **North Western" depends on John Deithloff and men like him to help safeguard its right-of-way. But this ex-Marine fighter, who fought overseas in World War I, has something extra special to be proud of--three sons and a daughter in service. O * Emulating their father's example, 21-year-old Richard and 20-year-old Donald are members of the Marine Corps--now somewhere overseas. Seaman Allen, 18 years old, is serving on the U. S. S. Hazelwood. While Ruth, who enlisted a year ago, proudly wears the uniform of the WAVES. i But it matters little to the Deithloils where they serve in this war just so long as they are privileged to serve. How grateful we should be that here in America there are millions like them! tt*VINO AMCJtICA N WAR AND PIACE FOR ALMOST A CENTURY " *tttlCAGOand NORTH WESTERN LINE A SPECIAL WARTIME SERVICE FOR FARMERS When you need help on buildit- ypunelf farm equipment . . , P U B L I C S E R V I C E Farm Representative^ Ancient Instrument. The astrolabe is the most ancient of all navigational instruments. Columbus carried one. Few if any living persons could now operate this device; a skilled ^hipjnaster once used it to take observations of many heavenly objects. Movable discs and pointers made it possible to tell time, compute latitude and perform many other problems with the astrolabe. The instrument hung vertically from the finger of the observer iw vu taking his tifhta. City 2,100 Miles Long Honolulu, capital of the Territory of Hawaii, is a city 2,100 miles long. The city's boundary includes Palmyra island, 960 miles south, and Kure Island, i,204 miles northwest. Haul More With Less • With 22,000 fewer locomotives and half a million' fewer freight car*, the railroads are transporting 55 per cent more freight than during the list war MM*. -*t a lower < ost. Canals Used With Rails ' For Transport Supremacy More than a century ago--on July 4, 1828--two men iurned spades which started a rivalry between railroads and canals. President John Quincy Adams broke ground for the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, and Charles Carroll of Carrollton began construction of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The rivalry continued until the outbreak of World War I. Canal traffic reached its peak in the 1850s, declined when the railroads crisscrossed the country. Canal transportation was cheap, but it was also slow, and railroads made their bid for business with the new element of speed. In 1917 pressure on rail facilities by troops and war supplies revived canal transportation as a natural supplement to railroads. But the revival was short-lived. Post-war development of motor transport and the rapid extension of motor highways diverted public interest in can^_^ The Current World war has given canals new life. Rail lines are jammed. 1>©oDtrains are tailed by flatcars loadethvwith jeeps and landing barges. Freight trains bulge with food and clotHing, iron and steel and coal, materials for building munitions plants and plane factories, timber from forests and scrap from the four corners of the United States. Motor transportation is hampered by spotty gas shortages. You'd be surprised at the number of time and work-savers that can be made from the odds and ends of materials lying around your place. That motor of , yours can be made portable and rigged /up in a jiffy to a corn sheller, milk stirrer, elevator ... those sockets, bulbs, and scraps of lumber are just waiting - to make a brooder that will save your pigs, chicks, lambs--even that old wash basin and a bulb can be made into a dandy poultry water warmer. . v Here's the point. By building1 your own farm helpers,, you're going to find more hours on the chore clock. Your jgoing to lick the labor shortage, sidestep the inconvenience of not being able to purchase new equipment--you're gojAWJIWi & O 0 0 t ing to produce more with less labor at lower cost. And one of our Farm Representatives is the man to help you. Many of you may already know some of these men... for years they've been specializing in home-built electric farm aids which have resulted in greater speed and ease where farm' chores are concerned. The advisory service of. our Farm Representatives is yours for the asking. If you have a problem or are looking1 for a new way to do it easier and quicker, drop a card or phone your Public Service office and a Farm Representative fcill be glad to stop out to your place for a chat and offer many worthwhile suggestions. It's Simple, made-in-a-minute dp- •. vices likef this water warmer (just a bulb and a can for protection) that put an end to water warming ' worries. Ouy„Farm Representative can show you variations of this one that wilFwork with }our hog or poultry waterers. Make It a Portable motor and you.'v« got a hard working helper that's readjf to go places and get things done. There are many ways to mount a motor ao it will roll right up to an elevato|,. grinder, hay hoist and do a quicker,, easieriob. So Important to efficient farm operation is the construction of brooders and other home-made electric aids that they have become well covered subjects in high school ag passes. Noth ng C\>nip'.i< aU> I ah. ir. irs Farm •Lrfe approved milk stirrer... r d ihink of the time and milk that it can save. Charces are that yon hnve all the materials needed for a stirrer--just waiting to be sssemWed. A crd or phone call w;ll bring the p'ans. o WAR BONDS will buy "four country's fuUw. in PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS 101 WILLIAMS ST., CRYSTAL LAKft V . Phone Enterprise 4100 s . / .