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COUNTY COERT
establish birth
Wiggins. Sara
William Owen
Jimmy coldly. “She’s had almost
as little experience on a show boat
I bin in close contact with fer miny
years—is a fine, honest an* fair
One mon
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has brains,
tj is Amer-
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organizashun. But, th
they air patriotic, an’
cans.
Seven towns in the country are
named Dixie.
• Buy Defense Ronds and Stamps
Texas has towns named Tele-
graph and Telephone.
Buy Defense Bonds and Stamps
happen to them, ■ %H
Poll;
is hold
n
can safely leave it o him to solve,
He’s a pretty determined young
man, you know. 'He’s very fond of
—” 111 'V 1 .. n I । । i
Uncle Jake Sez" to breaght to you eachr Wednesday
. . by the following
Texaco Dealers
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.000 Canadian dollars, exceeding
450 millions. Canadian imports in
taled 1,448,685,000 Canadian dol-
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Ya kin see poliytick
If, as Rayburn, war ah’ navy
heads an’ even Knudsen, say they
little strikein’ now, then
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I BIN so mad all week even chaw-
I in’ tobaccie don’t taste good. It’s
them pollytishuns up in Washing-
ton what has boiled me over an’ I
ain’t th’ only one in this neck o’ th’
woods. All over. Texas folks is
meetin’ an’ condemin’ wurkers what
won’t work more then 40 hours a
week t' help win this war.
—ooooo—
It’s one o’ th* most serious like
things what has cum up t* disrupt
th’ unity o’ this nashun what wus
so well established after Pearl Har-
A
What in hell do they know ’bout
LIBERTY an’ rtf American Way?
They live ten or twelve in one room
an’ love it. They don’t give a deru
whether they talk a bath or set
once a month. I has seen ’em. How
fer cud ya git with them birds
talkin’ patriotism?
—ooooo—
Several yeers back big firms, sich
as th’ packin’ bouses, even in Fort
Wurth, imported Polacks an’ others
fer cheap labor. They wus all grown
an’ ignorant. They had no time t’
go V school an* nobuddy gived a
dam whether they becum Amer-
icanized or not.
— ooooo —
I eign trade for 1941 show that total
values were the highest since 1929.
Exports of $5,145,786,000 and general
imports of $3,345,058,000 made a total
value of almost 8% billion, as recorded by
the Department of Commerce. Increased
era t’ have jobs an’ git more pay
then they ever has in history.
THEGJMPS e’eusEoSoN
Home Thieves, Take Heed
TROY, N. Y. (UP).- The Sand
Lake Association for Mutual Pro-
tection Against Horse Thieves has
reorganised with a full set of offi-
cers and announces that it is ready
to do business.
---Work or Fight----
— OOOOO —
I’m in favor o’ tabor unions fer
what they was first organized fer.
Ettrp
—----2— upon the character,
or stabding of any firm, individual o
2, will bo gladly corrected upon belrz
publishers*^ attention. -
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— ooooo —
Me, like every other American,
is fed up on these labor racketeers
tailin’ Americans what wanta wurk
an’ Americans what wanta fight
whin an’ how long they kin wurk
as' what they’ll have t* fight with.
—ooooo—
Th’ time cum two months ago fer
EVERYBUDDY t’ do EVERY-
Hollywood
IOLLYWOOD — Often in your
H travels around Hollywood you
meet them: sweet young things,
shy. full of pretty dreams about
the fine artistic things they hope
racketeers form their own party an*
see how fer they’H git with th’
American voters.
MMEnMWFBG/rEEE:
f .AN BONDS LEFT ------
< FRts2*.opaad
Six month* to
advance___
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at the Galnesyille, Texas, Pos toffies
as Second -class Matter.
HE MS ID BEAT
THOSE WNBB^
MAT. 18*25* * ther^cMmim*at the Uhl tod
States: +
UNHLEcAKE
-- Sez
Show Boat Girl
Yep, th* union labor sittyashun is
different in all parts o’ th' U. S.
But, right NOW it's up f our lead-
ers t’ adopt a war time policy t
cover all parts. RIGHT NOW.
OPPORTUNITY AT HOME
TNHE thirtieth anniversary this month of the
A of the Camp Fire Girls organization will be
celebrated chiefly by work to win the war. In
California, for example, members have volun-
teered to check neighborhood homes for emer-
gency equipment. The Camp Fire Bicycle Corps
is helping the Red Cross. “Home Volunteers” are
learning to manage their homes and care for
younger children, in order to free their mothers
for wartime activities.
It was in 1912 at a camp in Maine that a hand-
ful of girls thus first joined together to make
well-rounded, useful citizens of themselves. Dr.
Luther H. Gulick, founder of the organization,
and the progressive educators cooperating with
him realized that “character is made predomi-
nantly during leisure hours.” Since then 3,000.000
girls have had an enriching experience in Camp
Fire.
Having developed through the democratic
living of summer camps, the "fortifying-the-fam-
ily" activities and various other phases of Camp
Fire training, 321.000 present members are now
equipped to make themselves useful to their
homes and communities. The immediate need of
the organization is for volunteer leaders, and
surely this will not be overlooked by women who
have equipped themselves for just such work.—
Christian Sciehce Monitor.
lamp-lighter. Tell her about that,
Melissa.”
Talk With Mother
Beneath the bright, soft blue of
the Indian summer sky, the golden
yellow of the sunlight, the table
seemed to sing with color. Melissa
looked on, wide-eyed, enchanted,
like a child as she talked/ answer-
ing questions, telling about life
at the Point and Gran and the ter-
ribly important lamp that had to
be kept clean and burning and
filled with oil.
After lunch was over Mr. Mar-
ston tentatively offered Melissa a
cigarette.
“I don't smoke,” she answered,
smiling. “Gran used to smoke a
pipe now and then, but she said
I mustn't learn until I was at least
sixty, when I’d need something
comforting and soothing.”
what's going to
rather unpleasant, didn’t it?” she rying?" she demanded lightly, de-
admitted frankly. “I didn't mean ospite the look in her eyes that told
it, my dear—not the way it sound- Melissa she spoke from her heart,
ed.” . “And whether you love Jimmy or
Town Topics
By A. MORTON SMITH
rHE FEDERAL GOVERN-
I MENT which designates a site
closely adjacent to Gainesville for
an army camp, doesn't leave th?
community the entire burden of
solving its financial problems aris-
ing from the influx of people.
It wax brought out at the city
council meeting the other night
that the expanding of water and
sewer systems to care for an esti-
mated 5,000 increase in civilian
population, prpbably will be"paid
for in full by the Federal Works
agency.
We were told recently by SU-
PERINTENDENT H. O. McCAIN
for that she was a Mississippi L”
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spoke. Melissa knew that this was
Jimmy’s mother.
"I’m glad you could be with *
us today, Melissa," said Mrs.
—OOOOO—
Rockin” th’ boat, hell! It’s nA-
blooded Americans eryin fer ac-
Jimmy said in a swift, almost
pleading tone, “Mother, you
won't—"
Mrs. Marston said firmly, “I
think you can safely trust me, my
boy.” !
Jimmy colored a little and his
eyes fell away from hers. "Oh, of
course. I just meant that—well,
she doesn’t know me very well
yet, and I’m not positive that she
likes me well enough to endure
the sight of my baby pictures, my
first little shoes or the last of my
yellow curls," he said grinning a
ittle.
her nothing more ancient than
your graduation day photograph ’
said Mrs. Marston, and with her
hand through Melissa's arm she
drew the girl into the house.
Melissa said instantly, not real-
izing that the very promptness of
her answer was almost an insult
to the absent Jimmy, “No!”
, Mrs. Marston's head went up a
little and a, chill in her eyes re-
placed the tears. “But, my dear,”
she protested, a little resentful.
“Melissa probably didn't know
what you meant. Mother,” ‘ said
Probate Docket
Applications to
records for Doris
Elizabeth Davis,
-F"
States totaled $1,004,392,000 in 1941, com-
pared with $744,231,000 in 1940. These
figures compare with exports from Can-
ada to the United Kingdom in 1941 of
$658,228,000 ($508,096,000 ini 1940), and
imports into Canada from the United
Kingdom of $132,282,000 in 1941 ($136,-
510,000-in 1940).
room with its .very.old mahogany
rubbed to a satin gloss, its faded
damask hangings and its very fine,
thin Persian rugs.
This is my own private sanc-
. tum," said Mrs. Marston, waymg
Melissa .to a deep, comfortable-
1940 by
19416 _________
lars,-367 millions greater than in 1940.
dropped a light kiss on the girl’s
flushed cheek. “And now I'm sure
Jimmy, will think I’ve kept you
long enough. He wants to show
you over the place,” she said, and
led the way down the stairs again
and to the terrace where Jimmy
and his father were waiting.
Jimmy flung away his cigarette
away and stood up as his mother
and Melissa came across the ter-
Marston, and for all her cordial,
pieasant friendliness of her eyes
were very keen and shrewd as
they took the girl in from the top
of her small white hat to the tips
of her small brown tipped white
slippers.
“It was very good of yuto ask
me,” said Melissa promptly and
frankly.
A man jn golf knickers and a
rather battered-looking sweater
came around from the back of the
house. Two beautiful collies leaped
about him, yelping; when they
saw Jimmy they hurled them-
selves upon him with such force
that they almost knocked him
down.
Jimmy's father was cordial and
pleasant, as Mrs. Marston had
been; but his eyes were quite as
shrewd, quite as sharp in their
swift, almost inimical scrutiny of
her.
“I enjoyed your singing very
much, my dear, on opening night
at the River Queen," he said
lightly. ;
“I wanted to come along,” said
Mrs. Marston artlessly. “But
James* felt the crowd might be a
bit rough—” Instantly she caught
herself and looked in swift apol-
ogy at her husband and a scowling
Jimmy. “I’m sorry. That sounded
lip WB 8
BEATUCL
_ Meanwhile, an American congress that includes
AL FIGURES on United States for- • only one or two members of parties definitely
identified with labor, and that has just a few
unionists in its personnel, is permitting itself to
. , -.2 „ । toward relieving the. financial
as you have. The River Queen is having his own way pressure, as they have been known
Melissa said stubbornly, ‘So am to produce hundreds of dollars
weekly in towns where there is no
Mrs. Marston laughed and , such demand for parking space as
there will be here.
And after the construction pe-
riod. the council and the citizens
could decide whether they would
want them permanently, or pre-
fer they be withdrawn.
Our neighbors. Denton, Sher-
man. Denison and McKinney have
tried them out. Some of the towns
prices swelled values, although even on a
quantity basis exports were 20 per cent
above 1940, and imports were 19 per cent
not is his problem. I think we
THING they kin t* produce weap-
ons o* war an’ git b’hind Uncle Sam
100 per cint. It ’peers verybuddy
has dune this *cept a majority o’
congressmen an’ th* labor racket-; .
eers. Now, th’ American pee pul is is, very
fed up an’ want action, NOW. “
her tires stolen, her pet poodle .
Nicholas fall in the pool, and her A
husband come home —with smug ■
trouble—from victory bond work 1
in Canada.
On the big night she finished I
work at 5:30 to hurry to a beauti- 4
cian’s and but for sister Olivia |
De Havilland (“bless her heart!") I
she might have had to accept her 2
Oscar in her "Constant Nymph"
ginghams. Olivia, herself a con-S
tender for the award, went shop. J
ping for a dress, selected one and |
brought it to the Fontaine set 1
where Joan was too busy to model |
it. So Olivia taxied .to a dress- 1
maker's modeled it herself and J
had it altered, bought accessories, a
and delivered the ensemble to ’
Joan.
' Even so. Joan barely made it to 2
the Biltmore Bowl and arrived '
AFTER dinner.
greater.
Of kiterest are Canadian foreign trade
statistics, the highest figures for both ex-
ports and imports in Canada’s history. To-
tal exports from Canada were valued at
1,621,003
GET READY!
IF THIS COUNTRY is attacked, a start
I will undoubtedly be made with incendi-
ary bombs. The most common type of
these bombs—and the most effective type
—is light, small and safe for an enemy to
handle. A single bombing plane can carry
2,000 or more of them. And each of the
bombs is capable of starting a major fire.
The moral of this is clear: One of the
first and most essential steps to be taken
in defense of this continent is to perfect
fire defense. London and other English
cities would not exist today if their fire-
fighting organizations, professional and
volunteer alike, had not produced mir-
acles. Experts are convinced that it is
perfectly possible for an enemy to reach
and attack our principal industrial cen-
ters from bases located in Europe and the
Far East.
Here, then, is a real civil defense job.
Relatively few American cities and towns
have sufficient fire-fighting equipment to
deal with a big attack. Relatively few
communities have as yet developed ade-
quate fire prevention and fire - fighting
forces. The improperly prepared commu-
nity is wide open to tragedy and utter dis-
aster.
There is no time to lose. In every town,
no matter how small, fire-fighting train-
ing should be given to civilian groups.
Additional equipment should be purchased
as fast as possible. German fire raids on
English cities have slowed to a standstill
for just one reason: The British have
- learned to cope with them and rob them
• of their terrors. An enemy does not waste
materials and energy when it becomes ob-
vious that the results obtained are not
’ worth the price paid.
In short, fire—whether it comes from
within or without—can be licked. It need
hold no terrors for an informed, prepared,
equipped people.
-----V-----
INSTALLMENT CREDIT
HURTHER restrictions now placed on in-
I stallment selling, effective March 23,
require larger down payments and shorter
maturities; and, in addition, embrace new
classes of consumer durable goods.
DoWn payments are, doubled on some
goods, and maturity is decreased from 18
months to 15 months for most categories.
Some goods are regulated for the first
time. Such as bicycles, lawn mowers, sil-
verware, cameras, clocks, watches and
floor coverings.
With many varieties of installment
goods even now impossible to obtain be-
cause of plant conversion to war work,
and with other goods beginning to disap-
' pear from the markets, there is wonder
about reasons for the new restrictions.
Application of priorities, together with ra-
tioning measures, have brought quick and
effective results in curtailing' consumer
purchising in many lines. The question,
therefore, is whether the new restrictions
are necessary.
Her big night was Jessie L Las- j
ky’s. too. and Joan liked that for ’
a reason. It was Lasky. producer |
of Oscarish "Sergeant York.” who ,
discovered Joan in a local stag: i
production of “Call It a Day' after |
Olivia's little sister had spent two 4
years trying to get into pictures, j
There used to be talk of a "feud
between Olivia and Joan — talk 3
that caused increasing speculation
when the sisters became Oscar ■
rivals.
“That talk!” says Joan. "I‛s J
because some people just will add 2
two and two and get five! We like I
each other. We're just normal sis- I
ters — I don't mean that every-
thing's honey all the time. Do you,
know what she did when they .S
gave it (the award .tome? She 8
rushed over and exclaimed. ‘Well, 8
we’ve got it!’ She was swell.”
Ditto Joan. j
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Pembroke, Laura Lillian Maddox,
Augusta Lee Maddox. Bonnie Fran-g
ces Huey. Charles Combs McCros-i
key. Bryan B. Butler. Georgej
Thomas Palmer. - Lawrence Caivin
Thornbrough, Mary P e r v e l i a j
Butcher. Clyde Raymond Butcher.!
dows; voices clamored, “Evenin'
Marse Jimmy. Evenin’ suh.” And -
white teeth gleamed.
To be continued
WEEKLY REGISTER
fzk SaEo
SiE months. in One year, la
vance---------- advance
ment is moving with tremendous vigor to meet
the Japanese threat. It has enacted a national
mobilization law and one of the first moves under
that law was to order the compulsory enlistment
of certain unions employed in defense work; the
workers have been organized under a military set-
up, with army pay.
• This step, a very drastic one to American
eyes, was taken by a Laborite government. A-l
of the members of the cabinet are members of
Autralin’s Labor party. They have not hesitated,
in a national crisis, to apply the stringent defense
measure to labor union members; and the latter
have accepted the new order of things.
Perhaps it will take a crisis similar to that
which Australia faces, to bring labor in this coun-
try to a similar sense of duty and responsibility.
race. He looked swiftly and
sharply at Melissa, as though
anxious to see if ther lay any
trace of the subject of his mother's
private chat.
“And now you two run along.”
said Mrs. Marston cheerfully.
“BUt be sure, Jimmy, to stop in
and see Aunt Cindy. - She'd be
heartbroken if she didn’t get a
chance to tell 'the young miss’
fortune. She’s in bed. but the doc-
tor says company doesn't bother
her.”
Jimmy nodded and took Melis-
sa’s hand in his, drawing her with
him down the garden steps and
along the drive toward that double
row of small red brick cabins be-
yond the house.
As Jimmy and Melissa walked
along, each cabin became sudden-
ly populous. Children tumbled out
of them like raisins out of a burst
box: dark faces peered out of win-
be dictated to by a powerful labor lobby and is re-
fusing to enact measures that demand even a lit-
pe extra from labor.—Wichita Fam Times.
_ bor. Th’ thing is gittin’ worse all
Courtesy Pays at Henhouse • th’ time an’ if Congress an’ Frankie
EAST LANSING, Mich. (UP).— Roosevelt don’t do sumthin’ peepul
Prof. C. G. Card, head- of the will git madder an’ madder.
Michigan State college poultry de- .
partment, says hens are more pro-
ductive if poltrymen knock on the
henhouse door before entering. He
says it keeps the flock's eating
routine from being disturbed by a
sudden entrance.
do? Well, I’d git.
Republican party An’ maik a truce
not V bring th’ dO-hoor week an'
labor policies int’ th’ political cam-
paign. As REAL Americans both
sides oter do this. Then let th’ labor
icks, V my way o’ thinkin’
‘ So, then whet . . . ,-2 . _____ ~
* heada o’ th’ labor move in Washington until it
1 stinks. Our tax money an’ th’ war
has maid it possible fer union wurk-
BUT THESE ARE PROBLEMS
that the city must work out itself.
For example, the city police de-
partment will have to be greatly
increased in personnel to meet the
needs of the large increase in pop-
ulation. There must also be in-
creases in the personnel and
equipment of the fire department
to give the type of protection
needed for the increased property
.. involved, much of which will be of
the temporary type of construc-
tion that creates fire hazards.
And undoubtedly the office per-
sonnel and maintenance depart-
ments of city offices and utilities
must be increased. So it appears
that the city council faces a con-
siderable problem of financing.
F
t*
th’ 49-hour week? I figger Sam
Rayburn ain’t scared o’ th’ Texas
It wudn’t taik Franklin ten min- labor vote. He jist wants t’ back up
■tes t* tell that Perkins gal t’ git his chief,
out an’ stay out. He kin easily find
‘nother job fer Hank Simpson. He
cud call Sam Rayburn an’ th’ other
Roosevelt leaders an’ tell ’em t’ call
off their dogs—that be had maid a
mistake an’ now knows th’ Amer-
ican peepul air again th* 40-hour-
week.
have kept them. Others have dis-
carded them.
Mr. Marston * laughed.
; ---------------V-
FOREIGN TRADE
ry mad "2
rarely you sec ■■ “a
it happen as it AEP8k
should. You see, 246 2
lor instance, oneene 208
of them named Ehhdi
Joan Fontaine capture a dream
called Oscar.
CwriF* 1927 b)
^Qnris K. Kiso .
Us folks down here in Texas
I don’t realize th’ serious part o' this
labor union bizness over th’ U.S.
We bin more or less open shop ham
an' at least 99 per cint o’ our labor
union men speak English. An’, too,
that persintage is good Americans
— ooooo —
But, go to Pittsburgh, West Vir-
ginia, Detroit an’ other places.
Gosh, I wint through sum aluminum
mills in Pittsburgh one time an’
tried f interview sum wurkers sn’
I had t’ contact ten ’fore I cud find
ONE what spoke English. They is
member5 o’ unions up there what
cum t’ this country 15 yeers ago an’
still can’t speak English. They live
in their own colonies an’ do what
th’ labor leaders say.
Member of the Associated Prosa. UaUod fr—a
Teru Press Association, and International Circu-
lation Managars''Amsoctation.
BT MAIL in Cooke, Grayson, Denton, Montagu*
wse dountles, Texas, and Love county, klahoma:
One month, In ad- »a months, to art-
vance -___-___Bte vance —— .-IXM
3 month* in advance---------2125
Uno year. tn advance------2------$5.00
When sntocripUon is not paid tai adyancs sr^ iw-
ewed within one week after expiration, straight
pries of H eents per month will he charxs*.
’ 'rT:T DAILY BMGIZTK* ” ~
BT MAIL,OVTSIDE. OF Cook* Orayson. Denton,
Montagejjwie ounties. Taxa* and Love county.
Contemporary
AUSTRALIA DRAFTS ITS LABOR
rAHE Commonwealth of Australia, now bracing
j itself against invasion, has a cabinet that was
installed just a short time ago. Its govern-
“how can you be so terribly sure?
After all, Jimmy is a very attrac-
tive boy. I assure you other wom-
en besides his mother think that.”
“He is attractive—he’s sweet!”
said Melissa eagerly. “I like him
'a lot! But I'm not in love with
him.”
Mrs. Marston nodded, the chill
melting a little as she smiled.
“Oh; but you will be. Before you
realize it, you'll wake up some
day to realize that his charm, has
worked and that you are mad
about him.”
“No,” said Melissa instantly,
and saw relief in Mrs. Marston's
eyes.
“Please don't resent my having
asked that, my dear,” said Mrs.
Marston gently. “It’s a mother's
perfectly natural anxiety. After
all, Enderlie is very old, and I feel
that we of this and of Jimmy’s
generation owe something to the
past. We owe them decency and
honesty and descendants of whom
they need not be ashamed.”
“Of course,” said Melissa husk-
ily. “But I'm not in love with-Jim-
my and I don't intend to marry
him, so you don't have to worry—”
i Mrs. Marston stood up, took Me-
lissa’s hand and pulled the girl up
to stand beside her. “Who's wor-
Exports from Canada to the United
States in 1941 were valued at $599,713,300
as compared with $442,984,000 in 1940.
• Imports into Canada from the United
r j
The Word of God
God Has Given Every One Some Talent. He
Expects Us to Use This God-Given Power to Help
Humanity, at Home, in Social Relationship* in
Church and School. We Betray a Trust When We
Hide a Talent: And-I was afraid and went away
and hid the talent in the earth.—Matt. 35:25.
chdited to it or not otherwise credited in We
toPto and ale* to toeal —w ninr*u
la eato of erroiw oroMinrtato neenrring la logai
or other advertisements or omisslons onchedle
«kto, the pubtshers da ant haM themelves 1iail
fon.dapnatjen.further.than.te emount received to
E“8 EOE G96A A6VOrC08OMUS.
By ROBERTA COURTLAND
Chapter 15
Mother Takes a Hand
yr WAS a big. squarely built,
I solid-looking house of red
brick that had mellowed be-
neath the onslaughts of winter
, storms and summer suns for many
years. The slim white pillars that
supported the roof of |he small
semicirele at verandah were shin-
ing white, as was the window trim,
but the floor-length slatted shut-
ters at the windows were of dark
green. The shrubbery surrounding
the house was very old and care-
fully tended. The lawn that lay be-
fore the house was like a velvet
rug, and it was dotted and dappled
by the sunlight that found its way
between thickly leaved branches of
ancient live-oaks.
Beyond the house at some little
distance there was a double row
of small red brick cabins, with
trees growing along the path that
lay between them. Off to the left
were the barns and outbuildings.
At the right lay a green meadow
where sleek, thoroughbred cattle
grazed and • several handsome
horses threw up their heads and
stared at the car with soft, mild
eyes.
' As the car came to a halt at the
steps, a woman came out of the
house. She was tall and gracious-
ly moulded, her printed silk frock
smartly cut and exquisitely sim-
ple. her silygery gray hair beauti-
fully dressed about her lovely
face. There was a family resem-
blance. so even before Jimmy
Joan Fontaine isn’t shy or naive
any more. She's as poised as Mrs.
Brian Aherne should be, but she
isn't, hallelujah*, too poised to
show that winning her Oscar prac-
tically floors her whenever she
thinks of it.
Right now Joan wouldn't take
even a consolation prize in a
glamour race. “I look like the
wrath of God,” she says, truth-
fully. As star of “The Constant
Nymph" she wears no make-up.
her hair hangs in strings, her
wardrobe is ginghamy, her shoes
are battered sneakers, out at the
tpe.
The Oscar event came in a
tumultuous Fontaine week, during
which she worked on her current
picture, made re-takes on “This
Above All," discovered termites in
one room of her home necessitat-
ing its replacement, had her house
redecorated and burgled , twice,
Davis, Stella Marie Spaeth, Rus-
sell Lee Coxsey, James Vernon
Moore, Charles Archibald Reynolds,
Robert Manuel Nickle. Odessa Lu-
cille Nickle. Retha Bell Nickle,
Louis Lenord Nickle. Mary Nell
7adanCdiouiala
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1942.
to do in pictures;,
a little n a i v e A
about it, too, and ■
afraid you’ll ■
think they’re r
just amusing!
nitwits.
You wonderfs
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looking chair. “When I come in
here and close the door, nobody
dares enter without permission.
It's the place I fly to when I'm
angry or hurt or puzzled—or tired
and frightened."
“I can’t imagine you ever being
frightened of anything,” said Me-
lissa impulsively and warmly.
Mrs. Marston took a cigarette
from a little crystal box on a
small table beside her and, won-
deringly, Melissa saw that her
hand trembled a little as she light-
ed it.
“That’s where you’re wrong, my
Department of Education authori-
ties that the government also
would finance the building of tem-
porary schools to house the in-
creased number of students, would
pay for the services of additional
teachers and wuld make such
supplemental appropriations neces-
sary to care for increased living
costs of present teachers.
The Texas Public, Health service
has advised DR. H H. TERRY,
county health unit director, that
the federal government would es-
tablish a health center here, fur-
nishing all the money necessary to
construct and equip a suitable
building, f the city furnishes a
site.
The State Highway department
and the federal roads bureau have
already started the wheels rolling
toward paving North Grand ave-
nue from curb to curb, and the
graveling of the highway north of
the city is under way.
Thus we see the various types
of assistance already assured the
city, with more to come.
One year, la
1$100 advance _
"HE BOOKS on the first important gov-
l ernmental experiment in “social en-
gineering”— Arthurdale, West Virginia—
are now closed. This undertaking,
launched back in 1933, was to have served
as a sort of pattern for an ideal commu-
nity. Vine clad cottages were erected on
garden plots. A modern school house and
community center were provided. House-
holders were supplied with garden tools
and seeds and even cows to make them
partially self-sustaining. Social diversions
were encouraged.
The government invested $2,646,000 in
the experiment. The Farm Security ad-
ministration has now announced that the
property will be turned over to the house-
holders at a valuation of approximately
$175,000. They now have the option of
buying for from $1,000 to $1,500 home-
steads which cost about $16,000, or occu-
pying them on a rental basis.
The householders have been slow to take
advantage of this offer. The industries
which were to have afforded them em-
ployment have not materialized. Some
of them have gone to work in the mines
and war industries. Some of the vine clad
white cottages are boarded up. They
Stand as weatherbeaten reminders that
communities grow from within and cannot
be set up from without to accomplish
whimsical purposes.
J-----V----_
ALONG THESE LINES there
has come a suggestion to this col--
umn which we pass along to our
readers to ponder.
The suggestion has been made
that because parking space will be
so scarce during the construction
period,,that the city would do well
to install parking meters and re-
ceive some revenue from the use
of the streets by the great num-
ber of newcomers.
It is pointed out that few
Gainesville people who Work down-
town do not have private parking
places for their cars, and that
shoppers would welcome the op-
portunity to get parking space on
business streets, just as they do
in Dallas or Fort Worth at a nomi-
nal cost.
And the person who suggested
this plan believes the revenue
from narking meters during the
construction period would go far
her voice, taut, almost a little
harsh. “Right at this moment I‛m
more frightened than I can ever
remember being. I'm frightened
of what you may do to—Jimmy.”
Melissa drew a long hard breath
and her hands clenched hard in her
lap. But she did not lower her
head and her eyes met Mrs. Mar-
ston’s unflinchingly.
“Please don't be afraid about
that.” she begged with utter sin-
cerity, "because I wouldn't hurt
him for anything in the world.”
There was a mist of tears in
Mrs. Marston's eyes and her smile
was faintly tremulous as she said
huskily. "But, my dear, how can
you be so sure? He’s in love with
you—and that gives you a terrific
power over him. Are you in love
with him?” —
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Fashions and style will be ignored by
the War Production board. The chief of
the textile branch, which will soon issue
an order affecting women’s apparel, an-
nounces that “it is our desire to more or
less freeze the existing silhouette.” The
object, he adds, will be to prevent radical
changes in style.
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sounds like quite a character, this
Gran of yours,” "he said pleas-
antly.
There was a quick mist of tears
in Melissa's eyes, and for a mo-
ment she could not answer him.
Mrs. Marston said quickly, "And
now Im going to take Melissa off
with me for a little quiet chat.
You two men stay here and wran-
gle about politics and the war.”
Jimmy protested swiftly, “But
I wanted to show Melissa over the
place— "
“You can show her the new
puppies and the kittens later,”
said his mother firmly. "Right now,
Melissa and I have important
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