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Editorials
Borger Te*«»
Wednesday October 8. 1941
P*qp 2
Relax And Slay Sane
A lot of recreation expeits and professional fun
instigators are considering in convention the genera
prospects for play, and being pretty darned serious
°bOU From^he President down, one after another, they
have repeated something that is pretty clear to any-
body Who thinks about it for a moment namely, it
all work and no play makes Jack a dull bov jn or m
ary times, oil work and no play in times hke these
are likely to bring the man in the white coat kn°ck,"9
on the door. Dr. McCracken president of Vassa
College put it with greater dignity when he told t e
National Recreation Congress that without the spirit.
of play the world will go mad.
That is pretty obviously true, and it requires no
experts to tell the average man that a judicious mix-;
ture of work and play is the right way to live. |
There has to be a certain amount of spontaneity ;
about play, however, for it to have full vale. |
When 70 000 howling baseball fans watch the;
classic clash of Yanks and Dodgers, the first thing |
to note is that they are having a whale of a good time
The second thing to note is that nobody told them
they had to go to the game; nobody was fining them
if they didn't appear, or checking up on whether
they went or not. Nobody was telling them when to j
cheer or what was cheerable. They were all at the
park because that was where they wanted to be,
hence they were relaxed, and for a couple of hours
the world was well forgotten. And that is as it should
be. !_
That is the American way to have fun and to get ^
the kind of relaxation that really does some good. In,
the dictator countries they recognize the need tor
relaxation, too, so there are camps and resorts, and,
games. But they can't possibly be any fun with that
insiqmficant looking fellow with the mustache gazing
down from every wall; after 1 1 hours at the factory
it can't be very helpful to have some brawny Storm
Trooper come along, tap you on the shoulder and
say “Come on, now' It's time to have fun. Heil Hit-
| |//
What is fun, anyway-5 Why, a little time to do
what you want to do without interference; to lose
yourself in what you would be doing all the time it
you could, whether it is yelling for a homer, trolling
for bass, or remounting a stamp collection
Give opportunity and the people will find their
own fun.
Delftfiftff Gunn!
To Display lit
Military Strength
The total mmI'iitiv nf the Tmih
Defense Guard will -tiuf itr
stuff" un two nrcHiilnni this xvwk
w ill ttn* Intention "f letting the
lore I gentry know just what they
have In the way of home defense
protection.
The first half of the double bill
ine will be shown tonight when
the company will meet at the Le-
gion ball as 7:15 o’clock and from
there go to Phillips: where the
Phillips Civic club will be enter-
tained.
Tomorrow night the company
will parade before a throng of
fans at Bulldog stadium between
halves of the Borger-Tnhoka foot-
ball game. The members of the
company are asked to meet 7:30
o'clock tomorrow night in Legion
hall.
II
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• —V
NU Sm vita. Im
Women And Responsibilities
A conference of national leaders will assemble
soon at Stephens College at Columbia, Mo., to dis-
cuss “The American Women and Her Responsibili-
'eS President James M. Wood of Stephens believes
that the education of women has tended to place
too much emphasis on their opportunities rather than
on their responsibilities, and that this emphasis should
be shifted somewhat because “women, far more than
men, will determine the world of the future.
It seems a topic well worthy of discussion Not
everybody will be able to attend But everybody can
hove o one-man forum, ood ask himself: "In oil my
thoughts about my rights and opportunities, have
I thought enough of my responsibilities A moment s
reflection will show that no society, certainly no tree
society, can operate unless rights, opportunities and
responsibilities are inseparable partners.
It Never Reigns, But It Bores
Today we nominate for Forgotten Man His
Highness Aaimone, Duke of Spoleto and King o
^ °a Last May, after the Germans had conquered the
Jugo-Slavs, they allowed Italy to set up a paper puppet
state in their territory. It was to be one of those sub-
colonial dependencies of the New Order in Europe,
and the Italians were to be allowed the privilege of
holding it down. The House of Savoy furnished the
Duke of Spoleto as head holder-downer, called
"King"
That was in mid-May. But things aren t going
so well in the “Kingdom of Crotia " There are a lot
of Serbs there who don't want any part of “King
Aimone," and they're saying it with bombs.
Four months, and you and I and everybody had
forgotten that this man hod been proclaimed o king
at all Another 10 months and he may have forgotten
it himself.
Most startling fish story of the year: New York's
39-year-old aquarium is being torn down.
Getting money before spending it is excellent
for preventing gray hair_
"Doll House City"
Built By Germans,
Fools Red Bombers
'ISTANBUL, Turkey, Oct. 8—
l/P)—American travelers arriving
from Rumania reported today
that the Germans had built a”doll
house city of Plesti” about 10
miles outside the real Ploesti, im-
portant oil refining center, to mis-
lead Russian bombers trying to
destroy the refineries.
The fake city, they said, was on
a scale of one-third the area of
the actual city and stood only
about three feet high.
It is complete to the last de- |
tail, with every refinery and all
the chief buildings represented,
with an accurate street plan, and
even electric lights which may be
left burning during the night to
attract the Russian planes.
There is a miniature railroad
with tracks to catch the moon-
beams.
Model oil storage tanks can be
set afire whenever a bomb lands
nearby, the Americans said, to
convince attacking fliers that they
had scored against an actual tar-
get.
From the air the whole thing
is so deceptive that Ploesti itself
has not been touched by any night
raids and has been only slightly
damaged by day, said the travel-
ers, some of whom had lived in
Ploesti for several years.
Recruiting Agent
To Select Borgans
For Army Service
Sgt. Robert Short of the army
recruiting station in Amarillo will
be at the Borger post office to-
morrow- afternoon from 1 to 5
o'clock.
Sgt. Short will interview any
young man interested in any
branch of the army or the air
corps. At the present time there
are excellent openings in the Phil-
ippine Islands. Hawaii. Panama,
and Puerto Rico.
Marines Seeking
Recruits Locally
Two “leatherneck” recruiting
sergeants wil be in the post of-
fice Friday and Saturdav to in-
terview. examine and accept ap-
plicants who are unmarried and
between 17 and 30 years of age
for the Marine Corps.
Accepted applicants will be fur-
nished transportation to Oklaho-
ma City for final enlistment and
transfer to the Marine Corps base
at San Diego. Calif.
The recruiting sergeants are au-
thorized to accept an unlimited
! number of men for both the four
year, and the “duration of the
\ national emergency" enlistments.
Sanford Kiwanians
Hold Ladies' Night
Ladies Night was observed by
the Sanford Kivvanis club Mon-
day night in the Sanford Com-
munity Hall.
Frank Strech was program
chairman for the event and the
Rev. Lee Perry was master of
ceremonies.
| Welcoming address was given
I by Claude Mullins, with Mrs.
Clyde Page giving the response in
behalf of the ladies.
The club members sang a Ki-
wanian song, dedicating it to the
ladies and the fairer sex reci-
procated with a like number.
Edda Maria Easley, the club
sweetheart, favored the group
with piano selections.
find Mill
Well
Aged Descendants
Of Indian Chief
Favored In Court
CHICAGO, Oct. 8—(VP)—Two
j granddaughters of a Pottawato-
j mie Indian chief were given court
i permission to live beside their
j burial ground in Chicago’s subur-
j ban forest preserve to' the end of
! their days.
The title claim dates back to
I 1843 when President Tyler grant-
1 ed 1,280 acres of forest to Chief
Che-Che-Pin-Qua because the In-
dian befriended white settlers af-
j ter the Fort Dearborn (Chicago1
j massacre.
Tyler ordered the land should
i not be taken from the Indians
I without presidential consent. As
Chicago and its suburbs grew
around the patch of trees, the
land was untouched, occupied by
i only a few Indians
In 1921 President Harding sanc-
tioned condemnation of the two
square miles as a county park, but
the Indians protested. Yesterday
the circuit court ruled that Mrs.
Catherine Boettcher. 66. and Mrs.
Frances Winter, 64, could retain
36 acres of their inheritance un-
til death, w-hen the last of the old
hunting ground and graves will be
incorporated in the park^
Adobe Walls
(Continued From Page One)
traction.
"Local businessmen are asked to
underwrite this year's Adobe
Walls Ceremonials to the extent
of $50 each, signing a note in this
amount. Several have signed more
than one note, feeling that the
event is well worth their support.
"The more of these $50 notes
that we have in hand, the less
any possible deficit could cost
anyone. It is our belief that the
event will be self supporting,
based on the publicity it is re-
ceiving in all of the big news-
papers of Texas and Oklahoma;
however, it is possible that a
nominal deficit may occur. Such
a deficit will be prorated equal-
ly to those responsible citizens
signing notes.
"We sincerely appreciate the
line spirit in which Borger mer-
chants and businessmen are get-
ting behind the Hutchinson Coun-
ty Fair Association, sponsors of
the celebration. At the rate the
notes are coming in. we hope to
have that part of the work done
this week, leaving us free to de-
vote all of our energies to pro-
moting the big show-, itself," Stahl
concludes
Texas Crops'
Prices Jump
AUSTIN. Oct. 8 —(/Pi— Aver-
age prices received for Texas
farm products climbed further in
the month ended Sept. 15, the U.
S Agricultural Marketing Service
reported today.
Some items, especially cotton
and cottonseed, were up sharply
for the month while practically
all prices were markedly higher
for the year.
Wheat was the strongest item
in the grain group at 99 cents a
bushel on Sept. 15, up 8 cents
from a month ago and 37 cents
higher for the year. Corn, at 62
cents, dropped two cents for the
month but was 16 cents above a
year ago. Rice dropped from $1.10
to 93 cents as the new crop began
moving to market compared with
61 cents a year ago.
Cotton lint advanced during the
month from 15.2 cents to 16.9 The
mid-September price was almost
double that of a year ago and was
the highest mid-month price since
October. 1929.
Roundtree Earns
Rapid Promotion
Neutrality
(Continued from Page ONE)
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or whether it would seek both
the arming of merchant ships and
allowing them to touch belliger-
ent ports immediately.
He said, however, that the arm-
ing of merchant vessels, now
prohibited by section 6 of the act.
would be the least drastic change
that might be made.
"The arming of ships, as a
matter of timing." he said,
"might be the most urgent."
Barkley said he personally
favored repealinq both sections
which would permit the arming
of ships and their travel to des-
ignated combst zones and bel-
ligerent ports, but emphasized
that was "merely my personal
opinion."
Staff Sgt. William Roundtree,
brother of Mrs. A. E. Massey of
Phillips, rapidly went through
three grades in a year and a half
with the 19th engineers at Ft.
Oro, Calif., to reach his present
rating.
Roundtree is now second bat-
talion motor sergeant and con-
struct im foreman. Since his en-
listment he has decided that the
engineers have the best branch
in service He has another broth-
er. F.dgar. at Camp Barkley. Abi-
lene.
Motor Caravans
To Advertise
Indian Pageant
A motorcade of Borgans will
carry word of the Adobe Walls
Indian celebration to most of the
towns in the Texas Panhandle
this weekend. The caravans are
sponsored by the junior chamber
of commerce.
Three trips will be made: one
southwest Friday, southeast Sat-
urday, and North Monday. The
special attraction the trippers will
take with them is a group of In-
dian children, who will give im-
tiifru
fUlliOl ( hiirnlrt1
tv nation Uhl
1 ci son, Hob Lin
comb.
The caravan rout*’* i
Fridas Panhandle. Allan
Canyon! Hartley. Dalhatl, Strut
ford, Dumas and back Saltin'
Claude Clarendon. Hodle.r
ington, Shamrock. Mcl-eaii and
hack Monday Pampa Mnimi.
Canadian. Perryton. Spearman.
Stinnett and back
Hitler s Armies
(Continuad from P«o» ONE)
declaring their counter-attacks
were growing in intensity and
| that 4.000 German and Finnish
troops had boon killed and many
more captured in an 18-day bat-
. tie along a river.
The crisiz in Russia's struggle
on the central front was. admit-
ted by Red Star. Soviet army
newspaper, which said the Ger-
mans had driven salients into
Red defense lines by hurling
great masses of reserves into an
all-out offensive.
Soviet dispatches, nowever, de-
clared that Russian counter-at-
tacks had inflicted bloody losses
on the Germans in at least two
salients — in the battle-scarred
zonijs of Vyazma. 125 miles west
of Moscow, and Bryansk, 220
miles southwest of Moscow.
“The Fascist command has
thrown into battle considerable
forces of aviation, armored troops
and infantry," Red Star reported.
"The fierce battle is raging un-
h
..«rnw front begun Oil
,,l in a new and vast sei
i, .i of iisttieu ”l annihilation
In ttu Vya/fnn area alone. sex
, i,il Soviet armies are rnrlH led
nut tlu'ii fli - tnirlion in proceed
mg irrevocably.
Santa Clause To
Tote Heavy Pack
AKRON, O., Oct. 8 - -i/P> -Santa
I clans probably will tote his heax -
icst pack of toys this Christmm
but there will be few style chang
CS in 1942 playthings because ol
i defense priorities.
Thomas Smith, new president nf
! yuletide would be the largest in
the U. S. Toy manufacturers assn
; ciation, said today toy sales this
years -- possibly reaching an nil
time high — but that Santa could
forget about new mould and die
i machinery for next year because
j there wouldn’t be any.
! Smith said that increasing use
of plastics was being made in toy
manufacturing but that even those
materials were feeling the pinch
of priorities.
Manufacturers, already looking
ahead to next year, will try to
keep their output at a maximum.
Smith said, because "American
made toys have become instiuti-
tional."
. It takes 499 seconds for the
light of the sun to reach us when
it is at a distance of 92,000,000
miles.
• SERIAL STORY
MURDER IN PARADISE
BY MARGUERITE GAHAGAN
copvmoHT. r*4t.
NBA SERVICE. INC.
• CHAPTER I
(REELING the frosty glass under
*■ my hands and the luxury of
those elegant chairs into which
erne can sink low and still look
graceful, 1 xvas all prepared for
a chatty half hour with the girls,
catching up on the gossip and
nexvs now that I xvas no longer
with them I remembered hoxv
much a half hour like that means
to a school teacher at the end of
a hard week tussling xx.th high
school sophomores who don’t care
if Shakespeare wrote plays or car-
ried a football.
But 1 never did drink that tall,
cold concoction with all the pleas-
ure I anticipated.
I suppose memories of Paradise
Lake and fresh mint will always
affect me that way. And the sound
of Finn McCool, Maudie’.s black,
hutlon-eved Scoitie, thumping the
floor xvfil always cause the hair
to stand up on the back of my
neck.
Paradise Lake was supposed to
he quiet We had the assurance
of dozens of friends who had gone
there during the past 20 years
and xvho took pride in the fact
that dance halls, hot dog stands,
and juke boxes had no place there.
Maudie is our mother and we
three are her children. At least
she still calls us children, although
looking at that touch of gray over
my left ear, I cant rightly say
that any one of us is in the adoles-
cent stage. The boys—Thomas and
William—started out as news-
papermen, following in the steps
of our late father, James O’Con- '
nor. But then William went into
advertising and Thomas into pro-
motion. And I, Mary, was nothing
more interesting than a teacher
who. when vacation finally ar-
rived, felt the need of a rest.
Maudie probably would have
preferred a livelier place than
Paradise Lake because Maudie,
While she can look like a Park
Avenue dowager when her white
hair is curled and she’s sporting
one of those exclusive little num-
bers that manage to give lines to
an 180-pound chassis, is really the
problem child of the family.
Maudie likes people—any kind of
people, and excitement in big
swallows.
I taught Lit. I in school and my
knowledge of nature was out of
Shelley and Wordsworth and not
from experience, so that the first
week of going back to the soil
was enough to keep me occupied.
• * *
W HEN I finally emerged from
” my seven-day coma, I looked
around to see how Maudie was
standing the quiet. She had been
very firm on our arrival as to her
intention to reduce.
"Salads, liquids, and rowiog will
do it,” she said. "And for you
I'll fix another menu with Jersey
milk, and home-made bread and
pies and cakes, and real country
butter—"
“You've been getting around.”
“Well, everyone gets acquainted
quickly at a place like this. I went
to the inn for the mail and we
chatted a bit. His name's Chris
Gordon and he's been here for
years. A native I guess you’d call
him. But not a farmer, definitely.
And then Miss Morris told me
about the bread woman, too.”
"Oh, you've met her?"
"Yes, and so should you. She'd
be a lesson in what not to become.
She's a spinster.”
I let that left-handed compli-
ment go by.
“I bet that pretty niece of hers
doesn't have much fun stuck up
here with her all summer,” she
added. "Her name's Jeamc. like
Jeanie With the Light Biown Hair,
and her hair's light broxvn, too,
and her eyes are blue She's young
—about 20—and if she doesn't
kick over the traces pretty soon
Mis* Millie will turn her into a
tight-lipped old maid."
"It's none of your business and
"To bring her here—that other girl—and flaunt her
right under Jennie's nose . . . it's cruel!" Maudie said,
tears in her eyes. “They were at the inn last night when
I was there, and I guess the girls had met before because
Jeanie seemed to know Margie.”
“Herbert Cord's a fool," I answered. "He's playing
with dynamite; probably get his ears pinned back, too."
The words were prophetic.
don't go trying to educate the
child,” 1 said firmly. Maudic’s
flair for taking people in hand and
for introducing the romantic note
is xxell known to all of us.
"I've no intention of butting in,"
she said with great dignity, and
marched to the kitchen to cat the
piece of chocolate cake I hnd
passed by at lunch.
* * ♦
• ‘•IT S a disgrace," she said that
x evening after bringing me the
papers from the inn. "It's a dis-
grace the way that man acts
Bringing his fiancee right here un-
der JAnie Morris’ nose.”
"All right,” I said, "let’s have
it." Once I’d thought I was in
love, and so by the lime she hud
told me the story I was feeling
as Maudie felt. Jeanie Morris
lived with her aunt. Miss Millie,
about a quarter of a mile from
us doxvn the lake. Miss Millie had
"aised Jeanie, and summers were
always spent in the big whfte
house off by itself. Probably Miss
Millie never intended Jeanie to
get too intimate with the summer
crowd, but summer folks have a
way of nosing in where they’re
often not welcome, and that was
what Herbert Cord did.
11 was three years ago that he
had first met Jeanie and what the
cottagers thought was just a sum-
mer romance began to look like
the real thing. Herbert Cord was
about 30, big, blond, hale and
hearty. He had some kind of busi-
ness in the city and he radiated
sophistication when he came to
the inn for week-ends.
* • •
II Y the second summer everyone
** took it for granted that they
were engaged, although old Miss
Morris refused to acknowledge
that her niece or Cord even knew
one another. No one knew just
what clashes there must have been
between Jeanie and her aunt, but
Jeanie continued to swim with
Herbert Cord, and dance with him
at the hall when name-band-
I
1
I played at Round Lake a fexv miles
ixxay. and slop in for a sandwich
..t the inn evenings.
"Bui this ummer," Maudie con-
jtinucd, her voice growing more
agitated a - she unfolded the story,
this summer Cord arrived with
a girl—a Margie Dixon, and in-
troduced her to everyone as his
| fiancee. Of course since no cn-
I gagement was announced between
the mart and Jeanie 1 suppose he
had a right to change his mind.
But to bring her here—the other
girl. 1 mean—and flaunt her right,
under Jounie’s nose It's cruel.
And it's hurting the child.
"You can see it in her eyes,"
Maudie said with tears in her own.
“1 saw her look at him last night.
They were in the inn xvhen 1 was
there, and I guess the girls had
met before because Jeanie seemed
to know this Margie. Oh. every-
thing was fine. But you can imag-
ine how Jeanie must feel with
that girl—and 1 muxt say she is
good-looking in a dark-haired,
green-eyed sort of way—hanging
on Herbert Cord's arm, and acting
in that possessive style."
“He’s a fool,” I said “And he's
playing with dynamite, too You'd
think he xxould know enough
about women not to deliberately
set such a stage. He’ll probably
get his ear* pinned back before
his triumphant visit’s over.”
I could hear my own voice say-
ing those words when 1 stood be-
side Maudie late that night on the
path through the little woods neat
the cottage, and looked down at
1 (he body of Herbert Cord My
, hand shook so that the flashlight
wavered in circles.
"He got more than his ears
! pinned back.” I whispered. His
j head xva turned so that one ear
| was doubled over, but more im-
jportant than that was the fact
j '.hat he was dead and that his
! body crushed the bed at mint un-
jder it and made the night heavy
I with the tuns;y odor
(To Be Continued >
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