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PALACIOS BEACON. PALACIOS, TEXAS
Kathleen Norris Says:
Wait Until After the War
Bell Byndlcata.—WNU re«ture».
MARRIAGE LICENSE
BUREAU
“Don’t jump into a wartime wedding just for the thrill of it.“
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
YOUNG army man writes
A*
J \ me from Florida that he
L V. was married in March
a year ago to one of the girls
at home, in a small Iowa
town. He and she had known
each other from school days;
a sort of understanding had
existed for some time between
therti, and when he was called
to the service, they decided to
be married at once. Just one
more of the countless war-
time weddings that are going
on in every town this very
minute!
Now he has been away from
his wife for 11 months, and has met
his dream girl. Nita is exquisite, 18,
her family is rich and entertains the
servicemen lavishly. She and Max
are deeply in love. Max writes home
to Sally-Ann that their hurried mar-
was a mistake. Will she set
free? He can never love any
other woman than Nita.
He encloses Sally-Ann’s answer.
She is furious, which seems to him
unjust. Gosh, can't a man be hon-
est, any more! Sally-Ann says that
she hasn’t told anyone of his insult-
ing proposal, because “he may as
well know that if he intends any
such course he may just as well not
plan to come back home. Nobody
will speak to him, his uncle won't
want him in the business, Sally-
Ann’s father won't give them that
house, and Max's mother will break
her heart. So there!
Thinks This the Real Thing.
“What to do?" concludes Max’s
letter. "Nita will have a bunch of
money some day, so that end of it
doesn't worry me. I’m not crazy to
go back home anyway. But the thing
is, Nila's a pretty excitable sort of
girl and she says that if Sally-Ann
doesn’t come to her senses she'll
kill herself, or m;, or Sally-Ann—
of course I know she won't, but it
gets me in a heck of a fix even
talking about it. I'm sorry as Sally-
Ann is that things have come out
this way; she's a fine kid and I’ll
always like her, but a man certainly
wouldn’t be fair to go home to his
wife while he was loving another
Woman, would he? Set me straight
on this if I'm acting like a fool, but
please remember that with Nita and
me it’s the real thing."
That's one letter, to match the let-
ter I quoted here a few months ago;
the let’-r of a girl at home, her
young husband overseas, who had
fallen in love with the finest catch
of the town, the man popular,
charming, rich, successful, about
whom she had woven all her girlish
dreams. And the soldier husband
three years younger than herself, a
man without means, who had never
had a job of any sort in his life!
Now, my advice to all these young
persons, and thousands of others, is
first, don’t marry a man just enter-
ing the service at all, unless the
circumstances are unusual. Don’t
Jump into a war-time wedding just
for the thrill of it.
And secondly, if you do marry,
stick to it. Let the message of a
divorce-wanting wife or husband be,
"After the War." Let neither one
grant a divorce now; not the heart-
broken bewildered boy to whom his
POSTPONE WEDDING
The most serious decision in
life is the choice of one's part■
ner in marriage. Hasty, ex-
cited marriages, under the
strain and glamour of war, are
all too frequently headed for
the rocks. Wait until the war
is over, advises Kathleen Nor-
ris, who receives thousands of
letters from servicemen and
their brides, either or both of
whom want to find a way out
of their nuptial bonds.
It’s so easy for a couple to
think they are in love when a
man is leaving for camp, or is
“going across"! All too often
it’s a passing fancy, but they
decide to get married right
away . . . then when the “real
one” comes along, it means a
broken marriage, or a broken,
heart—or both.
Become engaged—yes. All
your dreams can be woven
about that sweet day when you
can be wed in the glorious se-
curity of a new and peaceful
day. But don’t rush into a war
marriage just for the thrill of
it. Don’t be married in war-
time unless the circumstances
are really unusual.
But if you do marry, stick
to it... at least until after the
war. Don’t ask for a divorce
now, and don’t give your per-
mission for your spouse to ob-
tain one. This is no rime to
take steps that will bind you
for life.
... .‘m Vm far*.
GASOLINE FROM THE FARM
The American Chemists society is
(old that enough gasoline to supply
America's cars of the future can be
made from cane sugar, sweet pota-
toes, corn stalks and other farm
products. Fine! Now If somebody
will produce a good road map from
a head of cabbage and show us how
to make an all-hot out of radishes
we will feel all set for happy week-
ends in the postwar world.
_•_
It will be like driving over hill
and dale In a vegetable dinner.
_•_
but it is going to seem funny to
sec a sign on the gasoline station,
"CLOSED ON ACCOUNT OF THE
CORN BORER."
_•_
And we don’t think we will feel
quite right when we take the car In
to be gone over and hear the
mechanic say, as he examines the
carburetor, "It’s a sugar case. This
car has got to go easy on sweets.”
_•_
The convention of chemists hears
that farmers will find a new and
perhaps better living in raising
“gasoline.”
0_
Exit the man with the hoe; enter
the man with the hose.
_»_
'He's got a wonderful farm" you
will hear somebody say. "He raised
aver ten thousand barrels of furl
last season, despite the bad
weather."
0_
It may even reach a stage where,
looking at a load of hay, you will
naturally wonder whether it's high
test or regular.
_•_
And how, we wonder, will we feel
about corn and sweet potatoes when
we know that they are full of gaso-
line? There was something about
iweet corn that always appealed to
us, but we thought of it only as a
vegetable, particularly nice at
clambakes and Elks* picnics. Now
we shall always feel after eating a
Few ears that we should go in to
have our carbon removed and
valves reseated.
_•
The same way with sweet pota-
toes. Who can ever feel the same
about a sweet potato in the era
when even as you take a second
helping you feel that you are
keeping some poor fellow from get-
ting his share of gasoline?
_•_
What bums us up is that there is
no way to get gasoline from a
tomato. That's the only vegetable
we have ever been able to raise.
• • •
IF SHE CAN COOK, OKAY!
TO YOUR
Qtwlh
/by DR. JAMES 1
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by DR. JAMES W. BARTON
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
RISE IN TEMPERATURE
Or. Barton
There’s a, dawn coming ,
young wife writes airily from all the
safety and comfort of home that she
has found someone else. Not the
dazed bride who has been writing
love letters and sending cookies to
the boy in camp, only to learn in
reply that he has met Nita, and
wants instant freedom.
No Time to Change Minds.
This is no time for a boy far from
home on a battle front to decide
that he doesn’t love his wife any
more, or for a young wife to write
her soldier that she has changed
her mind. These are times for
stability, trust, faith, constancy.
Love — of parents, of home, of
wedded men and women—is all that
is going to pull us through this
crisis.
Max’s fancy may indeed have
been captivated in his loneliness, his
homesickness, by pretty little affec-
tionate Nita. But, on the face of it,
Isn’t he planning to be a sort of
hanger-on of Nita's rich father, after
the war? Does he think for one
minute that Nita is going to like
to come to his home town to live,
where every one of his old friends
knows how he treated Sally-Ann?
Does he think that after awhile he
isn’t going to long for the old ways
and the old voices, the familiar
street corners, the memories he has
shared with his true wife?
War is nightmare. Max might re-
member that there’s a dawn com-
ing after this darkness, when we
will all ‘awake.
Destroy Moths Now
Dry cleaning kills moth eggs and
any larvae already hatched but does
not insure moth resistance. The dry-
cleaned articles must be sealed im-
mediately in sealed boxes or bags or
in clean, tight trunks, closets or
chests.
Washing in a strong solution of
neutral soap also kills all moths but
does not protect against reinfesta-
tion. The larvae will drop off a gar-
ment exposed to bright sunshine.
Eggs can be removed \yith a still
brush.
The girl who is a good cook is
Homing into her own again after
years of deflation. Her glorification
is at hand. The high cost of eating
out, coupled with what you get for
your money. Is making dinner at
home seem a major treat.
_0_
For years the gal who could cook
was denied just acclaim, due to the
mushroom growth of restaurants,
luncheonettes, taverns, etc., where
a dinner saved expense and bother,
without destroying the digestive
tract.
•
This was the era when restaurants
put out a fairly good meal at a
reasonable price. Not only that, but
they threw in a little air of solici-
tude and courtesy.
_•_
Dinner for two in the medium-
class place would cost $2.50 at the
outside, with cocktails at twenty-five
cents. Today if you get away wltb
a check for less than $5 you're get-
ting sandwiches. The run-of-the-mill
lunchrooms are charging twice what
they did before Pearl Harbor. Even
the dogwagons require a bankroll
for successful attack.
0_
And it’s not the decline in quality
and quantity that hurts as much as
the absence of anything like atten-
tive service. The best waiters have
gone into the war effort. And the re-
placements have come frorri the
beaneries.
•_
The old-time smile, gracious man-
ner and customer-is-always-right
mood has gone, and the poor pro-
prieter isn't wholly to blame. Help
is so hard to get that he has to
stand for anything.
_0
The customer had objected to a
nail in the mashed potatoes and the
failure of the waiter to bring him
a fork.
0_
Three cheers for the little gal who
is handy in the kitchenl
_0_
One of the biggest laughk In the
movies this year comes in a short
episode in which the customer is
made to apologize to a waiter for
hurting his feelings.
• • •
'She may not be a beauty, but
she’s a fine cook," used to be a sort
of apology. Today it's becoming a
major decoration with palms and
stars.
«
Home cooking never seemed more
wonderful. Or so Important to the
budget.
A physician about to start on a
day’s fishing trip had an early break-
fast, walked to a nearbystoretomake
a purchase but just "didn't feel
right." He took his
pulse, 108 while ait-
ting, and his temper-
ature, about 103. He
went back to bed,
called in his next-
door neighbor, a
physician, told him
about his pulse and
temperature but felt
no pain or distress
anywhere in his
body.
The neighbor phy-
sician carefully ex-
amined him but could find nothing to
cause the rise In pulse and tempera-
ture. His pulse and temperature re-
mained high for a week, so he re-
mained in bed absolutely free of
pain or other symptoms. As tem-
perature and pulse became normal
by the end of the week, he arose and
went about his work, none the worse.
Neither he nor his neighbor physi-
cian ever knew what caused the
rise.
When a case with a rise in tem-
perature is in hospital and cause of
rise is unknown, it Is called P.U.O
meaning pyrexia (fever) of unknown
origin.
What may be the cause of some of
these cases of rise in temperature
with no apparent cause? In Clinical
Medicine, Dr. M. Pinson Neal, Co-
lumbia, professor of pathology, Uni-
versity of Missouri school of medi-
cine, in discussing this matter says:
“What about the patient with a
fever where no cause is evident—
rash, pain, cough, diarrhoea, lungs
or other condition? Among the com-
mon causes not easily recognized
are the severe type of goiter, dan-
gerous growths, tuberculosis, syphi-
lis, heart disease and nervous ex-
haustion."
Goiter can be recognized by means
of the metabolism test which shows
rate at which body processes are
working.
Growths can be detected by means
of X-rays and barium meal. If
growth is on skin, breast or uterus, a
small portion can be cut away and
examined under microscope.
Tuberculosis can be detected by
X-rays of chest and examination of
sputum. Syphilis can be detected by
the usual blood tests. Heart disease
may be detected by electrocardio-
gram. severe pain in chest, breath-
lessness.
What about nervous exhaustion?
How can this be detected? It has
been found that "there is an ever-
increasing number of individuals
who are physically and possibly
mentally exhausted and living in
anxiety states who have prolonged
unexplained fever without any or
ganic disease.” Rest, relaxation, re-
lief from responsibilities, and a bal-
anced diet bring temperature to
normal.
• • •
Put Seasick Sailors
On Shore Duty
News
Behini
the^Ni
By PaulMallon^s?
Recently I was reading of the
number of cases of seasickness
among officers and men of the naval
services. In Annals of Internal Med-
icine, Dr. R. S Schwab reports his
examination of 115 naval personnel
with chronic seasickness severe
enough to bring them to the hospital.
He found that 50 per cent of these
men showed abnormalities of the
digestive tract. By use of the bari-
um meal and X-rays, the following
conditions were discovered: (a) ir-
ritability of the upper and lower
openings of the stomach, (b) in-
crease in flow of stomach digestive
juice even when patient was fast-
ing, (c) some increase in the num-
ber of "folds" or creases In the
lining of the walls of the stomach,
and (d) loss of peristalsis.
A large percentage of persons who
suffer with seasickness show nerv-
ousness and emotionalism.
Dr. Schwab makes the definite
statement that “a man with pro-
nounced dizziness, nausea, vomiting,
headaches, with fear and discourage-
ment is not as able as one who is
not so affected. This difference is
not easy to measure but it involves
alertness, skill, temper, resistance
to infection, cold, heat, and immer-
sion in the sea.”
Men who suffer with chronic sea-
sickness should not be allowed to en-
ter the service. If already in the
service they should be given jobs
ashore if their abilities are of value
to the service. We will await with
deep interest the trial of the new
cure for seasickness discovered by
Drs. Wilder Penfleld, Montreal, and
C. H. Best, Toronto, and their asso-
ciates.
QUESTION BOX
Q.—Can you give me a remedy
for a cough caused by phlegm?
A.—If cough brings up phlegm you
need a remedy to cut or loosen
phlegm. See your physician. Don’t
buy a cough medicine to stop the
cough.
• « •
Q.—What causes excessive stom-
ach gas?
A.—Most cases of stomach gas are
caused by sluggish liver and gall
bladder.
Relaused by Wealern Newspaper Union.
INTERNATIONAL SIDE-STEPS
BV ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON. — Treasury Sec-
retary Morgenthau is Bgain taking
up the postwar world bank proposal
in which the basic idea is that the
United States contribute the bulk of
the money, but forfeit a control com
mensurate with its investment.
State Assistant Secretary Berle is
In London negotiating for a postwar
air agreement, but, he says, not con-
sidering the acquisition of air bases
for the United States. Ex-Governor
Lehman is working on food reha-
bilitation plans, whereby we contrib-
ute the food, and other officials are
laboring on world WPA plans which
call for the United States to finance
reconstruction.
The working basis upon which nil
are proceeding in all these things
seems to be approximately the
same, namely, that this country must
give but not take. Our negotiators
seem inclined to look at this nation
as rich and powerful, and they wish
to be free with its power as well as
Its money.
They are perfectly sincere. Their
premise is that we must "help" the
world, but they follow it so deeply
that they want to repudiate every
thought of gain for us as unworthy,
any thought of acquisition as almost
a sin.
• • •
LONG RANGE VIEW
But take the long range view. Sup-
pose we spend and lend postwar
money throughout the world for Its
rehabilitation. At flrat sight that
looks like real help, and it is—tem-
porarily.
It is just about the same help as
a shot In the arm, only that, then
come the after-effects. After the
money is spent, or when the loan
cannot be repaid, you begin to get
the real appraisal of such help.
Foreign nations cannot repay ex-
cept in goods, but we can take only
a very limited amount. For them to
borrow more and more money from
us never improves their position,
only plunges them further and fur-
ther in a debt they already cannot
pay.
But to give them the money out-
right helps them only temporarily
also. If it enables them to build
industries that compete with ours, it
hurts our trade, weakens our posi-
tion for good in the world, and gives
them some improved positions as
against us—but does It "help" the
world as a whole?
Of course not. It only helps
France, or Poland, or whatever na-
tion, as against the United States,
which really hurts the world, If you
assume that our leadership and our
superior position Is good for the
world in the first place—as you
must.
The only way a real constructive,
economic “help" could be achieved
is if we get something productive
economically out of such gifts and
loans—if we get business, for in-
stance, that improves our people or
trade, or airfields that strengthen our
position and our leadership.
This is not nationalism, imperial-
ism, or such tommy-rot; it is the
simplest common sense.
OFF ON WRONG FOOT
The whole thing, therefore, seems
to be getting off on the wrong foot—
the idea of giving unbalanced by
acquiring, the notion of weakening
the world, not building it up—and I
mean weakening in every respect,
because a man who makes a loan
to another man who cannot repay
weakens both himself and the donor.
This can only be justified as charity,
not economics.
Hie handling of the situation de-
mands wisdom, and restraint, on the
world bank. The first questions that
must arise from any common-sense
standpoint Is whether it is needed,
whether existing exchange facilities
(already managed completely by
our government) are not enough for
any good use.
Second question Is the mainte-
nance of the American dollar value.
If it Is maintained as a respectable
norm to the people of our country
and the world, will this not In itself
'help” the world more than a flfty-
cent dollar or a worthless dollar?
Most of these agreements will
have to be submitted to congress
for appropriations or approval. If
the agreements merely raise a fight
and get into politics (and they cer-
tainly will on this current basis)
what benefit to the world? Does it
not seem possible that they may
lead instead into a complete nullity
of any sound practical effort to help
the world?
• • •
WARREN AS KEYNOTER
The surprise designation of Cali-
fornia's Governor Warren as key-
noter (spokesman) for the Republi-
can presidential convention has
been generally attributed to Gover-
nor Dewey. Actually it was con-
ceived and engineered by National
Chairman Harrison Spangler.
The idea had not occurred to
anyone else. Political writers were
speculating on Clare Luce, Senator
Vandenberg, Leader Martin and
many another. Mr. Spangler said
nothing, but put his man over.
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• • •
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hail storms, pourers of water on
gods, sellers of grasshoppers,
cradle swingers and professional
identifiers of witnesses.
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