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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
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PEAS, WEEVILS AND APHIDS
Ima Dodo is hysterical with fear.
We never saw her so upset, nervous
and apprehensive.
"How can I get out of this? Do
you know any iniluential politicians?
Would a letter to the President do
any good? Would I be tried by
Jury? Oh dear, oh dear!" she bab-
bled on.
"Now look," we began . . .
"I just didn’t know! I mean it
was just an oversight. Should I
maybe get a lawyer?"
We clapped a hand over her big
mouth and shoved her into the near-
est chair. "What's this all about?"
we demanded.
"It could be two years and $10,000
even," she cried.
"What have you done, robbed a
bank, set Ore to the orphan asylum,
talked back to an OPA scout or been
found in an auto while in motion?
Speak!"
"I was Just spraying,” she bawled.
"What were you spraying?”
"Peas,” she sobbed. "And beans."
"You’re supposed to spray peas
and beans. Stop shivering. It's
legal."
"But I wasn’t spraying the peas
against pea weevil or pea aphid,”
she cried. ”1 was spraying them
for other bugs.”
"What of it?”
"And that Isn't all. I'm not sure
I was spraying the beans against
Mexican bean beetle. It’s too, too
terrible. They’ll be after me any
minute. Phone a lawyer, please!”
"Who cares what you were spray-
ing a pea or bean for? It makes
no difference."
"Oh, but it does,” sobbed Ima.
‘There’s a federal regulation as
amended January 23, 1943, Section
1189, I. Look! It's right here on the
spray label ...”
Ima showed the label. It read as
follows:
The use of this spray Is restrict-
ed by WPB’s Conservation Or-
der M-133, as amended Jan. 23,
1943, to the following uses:
1. Peas. Against the weevil
and aphid.
2. Beans. Against Mexican
bean beetle.
3. Cole crops, other than cab-
bage. Against caterpillars and
aphids.
"See!" sobbed Ima, as we finished
reading. "It's all so clear.”
"Woman,” we said severely. “Do
you mean you used a spray without
being positive what you were spray-
ing?”
"I’m sure I hit a caterpillar In-
stead of weavils and aphids on
the peas,” she wept. "And I have
a feeling I sprayed aphids on the
broccoli. Heaven knows what was
on the beans!"
This was too much. There was
nothing to do but consult counsel
and give herself up. We so advised,
hoping for the best. Maybe she can
prove it was an accident
• • ,
AXIS PRISONER SONG
A little trip, a little camp,
A little work, some chance for
smiling;
A little rest, a little hope,
A little peace . . . and no mors
helling!
• • •
HUH!
Mr. Morgcnthau says that by the
end of the year the average family
should be putting 25 per cent of its
income in War Bonds. It is Howard
Smith who cheers the idea but points
out some difficulties. Twenty per
cent of the income is deducted for
new income tax; the cost of living
is up 20 per cent, and a man Is sup-
posed to give 15 per cent to various
charities, city funds, Red Cross
drives, etc. This totals 80 per cent.
“That leaves 20 per cent for rent,
food, clothing, transportation, fuel,
light, doctors, hospitals, medicines,
education, state taxes, entertain-
ment and maybe cigarettes," says
Mr. Smith, exclaiming "Who dat
man!”
• • '•
IDEA OF HOLLYWOOD
Out there the men wear dinner coats,
All conversation's witty;
The sea holds naught but pleasure
boats,
And every woman’s pretty.
Washington Dipestj
FDR Must Take Helm Again
To Achieve National Unity
Administration, Congress Must Get Tough
In Throttling Various Pressure Groups
Seeking Advantages for Few.
By BAUKHAGE
Notes Analyst and Commentator.
In Hollywood, yes, life is gay,
To all the world I say It.
At least I guess that It’a that way,
For that’a how Aims portray It,
• • •
DEFINITION A LA WASHINGTON
Effective Teamwork — Trying to
operate a six-horse hitch with the
horse-collar on the driver, the whif-
fletree where the wagonstep should
be, and with a horn replacing the
reins.
• • •
An all-time high for defeats Is be-
ing set in a good many Victory gar-
dens.
• • •
Can You Remember —
Away back when all you worried
about in summer was whether
moths would get in the whitc-flanne!
pants?
• • •
OBSERVATION
I always can
Detect the man
I Who aimed to get
A week-end tan.
! He sports instead
, A lobster-red , . .
I That Is if he
Can leave his bed!
WNU Service, Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C.
In the next few weeks decisions
will be reached which will affect the
length of the war and they will not
be made on the military fronts.
They will be made in small town
offices, leaning across fences, down
at the post office or the court house,
on front stoops, at the Elks club, in
the lodge rooms and after meetin’s
of one kind or another in every
middlesex, village and farm in the
country.
They will result from conversa-
tions between the congressmen,
home to mend their 1944 fences,
and their constituents. The nation
faces • crisis on the home front.
Unless It is solved in the common
sense American way, it is going to
prolong the war months, and per-
haps longer. Its presence has al-
ready delayed the capitulation of It-
aly, according to some of the more
pessimistic pessimists around
Washington.
As success on the battlefront
grows, the efforts of those trying to
support a total war are being de-
feated on the home front.
Two Events
Two events mark the low in uni-
fied effort for victory. One was
when a reporter, with no evil in-
nuendo in his mind as far as I
know (and I know the man), asked
the President if he would make any
comment for background on the
statement that although things were
going well on the battlefront, they
were not going so well on the ad-
ministration front (meaning home
front). The President replied with a
castigation of the press and radio.
Some of their representatives, he
said, were encouraging governmen-
tal friction. He could have given a
blasting, rip-roaring answer which
would have encouraged the coun-
try. As it was, he made some of
the men whose Job it is to interpret
the news to the country, too mad
to be objective.
The second event which marked
the nadir in shoulder-to-shoulder ef-
fort on the home front was when
congress came within an eyelash of
killing the use of any and all subsi-
dies which would have broken a
wide hole In the anti-infiation dam.
Let me state immediately that I do
not believe that subsidies is the pan-
acea for our inflation ills, but to
have wiped them out completely at
that time would have meant jerk-
ing the one, wobbling support we
did have right out from under the
price-control structure.
Since then the President has
perked up and taken a positive
stand and congress on second
thought modified its berserk mood
and evolved a compromise.
Now It Is up to the people. If
the congressmen are convinced that
they can afford to go national and
not be defeated a year from No-
vember; If they are convinced that
the people will support their votes
If they vote for what they think the
country needs and not to suit the
pressure groups that sit on their
desks all day. the crisis will pass.
him the workman Is making all the
money at an easy Job.
The workman will face higher liv-
ing costs—and he certainly has to.
without a wage raise, until some-
body comes along and tells him the
farmer is getting rich and tlial
is why his food costs go up. And
so on.
The reason why I believe this is
because I receive letters like the
following:
"My husband is 67 years old
—working and making $38 00
a week when tax is taken out.
We are buying two war bonds
each month—but we have a son
in the navy—and one designing
aviation tools in a plant in At-
lanta. Perhaps he, too, will
soon be In the service, though
married he has no children—
yet.
"We are like many—trying to
carry our end of the war effort—
but we have many friends and
relatives who though making
hundreds a month don’t buy a
bond. These same people went
through the depression—with
Jobs—while we took it the hard
way. Our two boys suffered
from malnutrition during those
years.
"Don't you think this makes a
difference In point of view? You
see we suffered — making us
think. My boys bought war
bonds right from the start. Their
dad and I feel the need of a de-
cent world to live In. too, for we
had to live in a deprived world
for several years. It gave us a
different slant on life. We want
a decent world for our children
and grandchildren—and other
people’s children.
"Selfishness and greed will
have to go—if we are to have
that decent world.”
If a congressman’s constituents
talk to him that way, we won’t have
much more trouble on the home
front. Hitler will have to begin wor-
rying again.
STtev5CRE£N RADIO
By VIRGINIA VALE
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
JUDY CANOVA, the Flor-
al ida comedienne who made
hog calling pay dividends, is
coming into her own this sea-
son, after years of being fea-
tured, co-starred, and every-
thing else but starred. With
"Sleepy Lagoon" Just finished for
Republic studios, the lanky hillbilly
immediately started her own star-
ring roles In two mediums, films
and radio. In August she goos to
Columbia Pictures, to star in an ox-
That very good mystery, “The
Fallen Sparrow," will be filmed by
RKO Radio with a cast so good that
it's got to be fine. Maureen O’Hara,
who co-starred with Charles Laugh-
ton in "This Land Is Mine,” heads
it.
Crack-Down Necessary
The objectives are pretty clear.
In the first place, the President
has got to take the helm again. He
has got to crack down. He has got
to see that dissensions do not break
out. He has got to see to it that the
secretary of the treasury comes out
with a clear-cut tax and savings
program which will absorb the in-
flation dollars. Congress will have
to support that programr
The pressure groups whose pur-
pose it Is to get their members
more money for products or wages,
will have to be throttled. This
means that the administration has
to be tough. Congress will have to
have courage. The people will have
to support their elected representa-
tives.
The vast majority of Americans
are perfectly willing to carry their
share of the load. They are not
willing to make sacrifices if they
believe someone else is getting the
benefit and shirking their share.
The farmer will work the skin off
his hands and take a meager reword
it's for the good of the country
and the boy he spared to join the
army. But not if somebody tells
Diary of a Broadcaster
The Washington atmosphere af-
fects strangers who tarry long with
in the shadow of the Washington
monument or the Capitol dome. It
affects not only the so-called higher
species but the citizens of cat-and-
dogdom a3 well. Today, I came
down town at an odd hour—an in-
teresting hour. I was a little later
thap usual. The war workers and
the boarding-house cats and the al-
ley pups, which wait until the work-
ers are out of the way, had vanished
on their various duties; only an in
dolent and disreputable Tom still
paused to massage its hips against
a garbage can, and a yellowish part-
fox terrier, certainly part, and from
his brush, certainly more fox than
terrier, lay in the exact center of
the alley where anything that ran
down the middle gutter would even-
tually reach him.
These creatures sniff at protocol
and treat it as they do anything
else they sniff at. But that hour is
also the hour of the pet parade, for
the handsome creatures that strain
at leashes. The most unhappy per-
son I meet at this bewitching hour
is a thin little relic of a butler, who
is literally torn between losing his
dignity and his grip on one of the
embassy great danes.
No men like to walk dogs. All
dogs like to walk men. But one
gentleman dog nurse dared me to
stare him down. He was being led
by a stiff-legged aristocrat, a young
wired-haired fox, as white and
starched as if his proud mamma
prepared him for a birthday party.
Then there was the sad-eyed cocker,
who dropped its eyes, sadder still
when it realized I had noted that
its mistress was wearing a far too
informal house dress for polite
street wear.
And then, there was the little one-
by-flve, it undulated along with a
rather forced smile. It was a dachs-
hund and probably anti-Nazi. It was
hustling along like a caterpillar in
high gear, trotting with its hind
legs, and hopping with its little tur-
tle-paws in front.
I even met a feline on a leash, a
great big tortoiseshell Thomas—it
looked as if it was safer that way
for the rest of us—all I could think
of was "tiger, tiger, burning bright
in the jungle of tire night."
Those publicity questionnaires
which Hollywood stars fill out for
their studios are frequently a source
of amusement. George Sanders, for
example, who co-stars with Mar-
guerite Chapman in Columbia’s
‘Appointment in Berlin," came
across the question, "What did your
parents want you to become?"
Whereupon Sanders promptly wrote
Self-supporting!"
-*-
Eddie Cantor made his first trip I
East in a year to launch a new Lib-1
erty ship, look for talent for his
new picture, "Show Business," and
to raise money to admit 6,000 young-
sters from Nazi Europe Into Pa!
estine; the British government had
agreed to admit them if they could
be provided for. Cantor gave the
arrangements a good start by adopt-
ing 500 children himself. Incident-
ally, said he, he could always use
a new name for his radio show |
--
If you liked Helen Haves' radio I
drama, “Bid for Happiness," look |
forward to seeing It in pictures.
Samuel Goldwyn has announced that I
when Teresa Wright returns to the
movies this autumn she will be fea-
tured In a film based on the air |
show.
Peggy Allenby, of NBC's "David I
Harum,” has learned to make her
motto, "Never expect much." Once
a radio director phoned her that
she was perfect for a certain part
on his show. She rushed to the stu
dio—and found the part consisted ol
one piercing shriek! But as a mat-
ter of fact, it was one of the highest
paid screams ever screamed over a |
radio network.
The American soldier's average
coffee ratjon is 40 cups of coffee a
month.
The Arii.. rvice Forces is the
largest employer of women in the
United States today, with a total of
379,300, or approximately 38 per
cent of the more than 1,000,000 ci-
vilian workers employed in ord-
nance plants, depots, etc. •
The German occupation forces
have "ceased quarrying” for large
stone blocks in the southern prov-
ince of Vestofold, the Stockholm
newspaper Aftontidningen said in an
article reported to the OWI. The
Germans had intended using the
stone for victory monuments, the
article said. Waste labor obviously
will not be countenanced.
Records for Our Fighting Men,
Inc.—Bob Hope, president—has al-1
ready sent more than 300,000 new
and popular discs to the services for
distribution. This year’s drive lasts
all through July; look up your old.
scratched or even broken records
and turn ’em in. They’re sold as
scrap to record manufacturers, nnd
the net proceeds go for new records |
for the men in the armed forces.
Harry Sherman ought to receive |
a medal from Western picture fans
With almost 100 of his Western dims I
still currently playing to audiences
all over the Allied world, he Is pre-
paring 16 more Americana stories
for release in the near future. "The
Daddy of Hopalotig Cassidy scries"
is given credit for bringing Zane
Grey’s books to the screen as well. |
ODDS AND KNDS—Al JoLwn will
play him fell in the Jesse Laslty-U in-
ner picture, “llhapsody in llltte” . .
And Oscar Levant trill play hintsel/ I
in the same film . . . Anne Baiter yets
the role Janet Cttynor played in the
silent version, when “Shite Lair'' is
re-ntade, hy 20th Century-Fax . .
Tallulah Bankhead returns in the Al-
lred Hitchcock picture, “Lifeboat,”
which promises to he one of the year's
most dramatic, pictures . . . James
Cayney bouyht “The Stray Lamb," hy
the late Thorne Smith, Irani the estate
of John Barrymore—it's nnollpcr of
those wacky comedies, and film lolks
wondered if he planned to appear in it. I
Pattern No. B445 Is In sizes 10. 12. 14.
10. 18 and 00. Size 12 dress takes 3 yards
30-lnch material. Jacket Hi yards.
Due to an unusually large demand and
current war conditions, slightly more
time Is required In filling orders for a few
of the most popular pattern numbera.
Send your order to:
Aborigines of Australia
Still Live in Crude State
Although the white colonization
of Australia began in 1788, the ma-
jority of its aborigines still do not
know how to cultivate land, make
clothes or build a shelter other
than a windbreak, says Collier'*.
These people have always been
looked upon os little more than
animals, In fact, up to 40 yeari
ago, a settler merely required a
permit to “shoot, poison or otHer-
wise kill” them at will.
SKWINO C1RCI.K PATTERN DECT.
5 JO South Writs St. Chicago.
Enclose 20 cent* In coin* for each
pattern desired.
Pattern No...............Size........
Name.................................
Address..............................
JUDY CANOVA
pensive production, ’’Louisiana Hay-
ride"; at present she has the honor
of replacing At Jolsou on the air,
Tuesday nights.
-*—
Mrs. Robert Donat saw her hus-
band for the first time in two years
at a recent Hollywood preview, but
only on the screen. Robert insisted
on her going to America when the
war clouds gathered, but he re-
mained in England. The picture was
M-G-M’s "Tartu," in which he plays
a swaahbuckling secret agent—it'll
be ready for the rest of us to sec.
Dozens of Uses
V/'OU’LL find dozens and dozens
* of uses for this sleek sports en-
Isemble. Grand for your figure
and summer sports.
And Nary a Drop Was
Spilt Alony, the Way
A young Scottish couple had
moved from their country cottage
into a modern house. All theii*
goods and chattels arrived safely
—with the exception of the rain
water tub.
After the wife had pleaded with
her husband that this was an asset
to her household, he said he would
go and get it that evening.
As he had not arrived home at
12:30 a. m. his wife became wor-
ried. At 1:15 a. m. the back gate
slammed and there was a dull
thud. In a few seconds the door
opened to reveal a dishevelled
and perspiring man, who re-
marked:
Ee, lass, ’A’ve 'ad job wit’
toob. Thee didn’l tell me it were
full o’ watter."
Creature of Many Names
The cougar, Fclis concolor, the
large member of the cat family
found in the western part of both
Americas, is known by 19 different
names in this country alone, some
of them being puma, catamount,
silver lion, purple panther, moun-
tain screamer and Indian devil.
YOU
CAN'T
BUY ASPIRIN
that can do more for you than St.
Aspirin. Why pay more? World’*
teller at 10c. Demand SL Joseph
What’s in a Name?
The name Adolph comes fron
an old Gothic name which mean!
“Father Wolf.”
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IMPORTANT
NOTICE
TO HOME CANNERS
The Glas3 Top Seal Fruit Jar Cap for Home Canning was developed
as a Wartime product to conserve metal. It consists of a Metal Band,
Glass Lid and Rubber Ring.
Because of the difference in the nature of these three materials this
Cap mutt be used differently from any other fruit jar cap. If used properly
it will give excellent results. If not
used properly, results will be bad, in-
cluding failure to seal and breakage of
jars. Following are simple instructions
for use of the Glass Top Seal Cap and
must be followed carefully.
METAL BARB
GLASS LIB.
RUBIER
FITS HERE-
SEAL -
HERE
For compliti canning
instruction* send ten
rents for your copy of
tho Ball Ulus Book to
Bull Brothers Company,
Muncio, Indiana, U. S. A.
1. Do NOT use in Oven Canning.
2. If processing, (cooking in jar),
leave 1 inch space in top of jar. If using
open kettle, leave A inch space in top
of jar,
3. Fit rubber around projection on
bottom side of lid.
4. Place lid so rubber lies between
lid and top edge of jar.
5. Turn bands tight, then loosen
slightly (about % turn). Bands mutt
fit loosely during processing (cooking).
This is Important and must be done to
insure best results. If using Open Ket-
tle, screw bands tight as soon as jar is
filled.
6. After processing, screw bands tight
to complete seal. Remove bands 12 hours
after canning.
DO NOT TURN FILLED
JARS UPSIDE DOWN
/
'J
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This Information Is published In the Interest of home
canning and preservation and conservation of food.
BALL BROTHERS COMPANY
MUNCIE, INDIANA, U. S. A.
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