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PAT T EPSON
Nation of Mendicants
T hose of Europe who first
sought liberty and opportunity
and settled on the eastern seaboard
of America were a hardy, ener
getic, capable and se'C-sufficient
class of sons and daughters from
many nations and of several races.
Their descendants, American
born, possessing the virtues of their
parents, were the pioneers who
pushed westward through the east
ern mountains, across the great
central valley, over the western
mountains to the Pacific. They
turned the sod and felled the forests
to create the American farms; they
built towns and cities in which
millions could live and prosper;
they erected schools and churches
that they, and their descendants,
might enjoy a culture they had not
known; they built factories in
which to utilize resources of the
land they had conquered.
They did those things on their
own. They did not ask for, or
expect, help from any source.
They achieved by their own
energy and their own capabili
ties.
From the dangers and hardships
they endured without complaint
those pioneer ancestors of ours
carved for themselves and built a
nation, the mightiest and most pros
perous on earth to-day, in which
their progeny enjoy tfce world’s
highest standard of living of this
or any previous time.
From those pioneer ancestors
from whom we have inherited so
much in wealth, in comfort, in cul
ture and comfortable living, it
could naturally be presumed we
should have inherited some of their
virtues—their energy, ability, and
self sufficiency. But have we?
They asked for no help in ac
complishing their tasks. To-day
more and again more of ns,
their descendants, are not will
ing to carry on when doing so
means work, effort and thrift.
Millions of the descendants of
the hardy, capable, self-suffi
cient, thrifty pioneers are de
manding a hand-out from gov
ernment. They hope for, and
are being promised, govern
mental care from the cradle to
the grave, with no help on their
part needed.
Those descendants of a race of
hardy, capable, self - sufficient,
thrifty, pioneers want comfort, yes,
but they do not want to work for
that comfort; they want culture,
but they expect it to be handed to
them without effort on their part;
they want the pleasures and the
good things of life, but they want
these provided for them by govern
ment, while they bask in the sun
shine of park benches.
The only compensation the ever
increasing number of “gimme”
mendicants offer for the luxuries
they ask for is votes, but for those
promised votes our elected public
officials seem willing to sacrifice
the wealth, the liberties, the op
portunities that were built for us
by our pioneer ancestors.
To pay for votes they would tear
down the structure we have inheri
ted. It is only bjr continued exertion,
by an ever-watchful scrutiny of
events happening from day to day
in Washington, coupled with prompt
protests when called for, that we
can maintain the liberties, the ad
vantages, the opportunities we have
Inherited.
It is not alone the impoverished
or the improvident who are asking
government handouts, but the mil
lions include the “haves” as well as
the “have nots," the young as well
as those of mature years. Many,
all too many, government checks
are going to the well-to-do and the
wealthy, and to those young enough
to work for what they want
• • •
The people of each state
awards a hero's crown to their
representatives in Washington
who succeed in bringing home
a slab of that presumably
“something-for-nothing’’ bacon,
a chunk of coin from the federal
treasury.
The people glory in supposedly
looting 'that nation’s strong box. As
an example: California has suc
ceeded in securing many millions
from Washington for irrigation and
flood control projects of value only
to California. It all represented, as
the people believed, “something-
for-nothing.” The fact is the people
of the state pay for it all and more.
.For each $1, the national govern
ment spends on those California
projects, it collects from the people
of the state $1.28. There must be •
rake off for the bureaucrats.
• • •
England needs American food
and raw materials for which we
will not accept English pounds and
shillings but demand payment in
dollars. England’s production costs
of manufactured commodities are
too high to enable her to compete
with American-produced commodi
ties in America, and for which
we would pay in dollars if we
bought Because England is not
selling for dollars she cannot buy
with dollars. That is the crisis
over which national and interna-
ttpnai conferences have been held.
FIRST LADY OF THE GARDEN HOSE . . .
Oh, Can You See by the Lawn's Early Blight?
. . . BATTLES FOR THE THIRSTY BLADES
By H- I. PHILLIPS
MISS PRIDGETT'S LAWN
I N ANY PROLONGED dry spell
there is in every community the
man and woman who find an out
let for a full expression of their
sense of sacrifice in all-out solici
tude for the lawn. Here they make
the ultimate effort, the grand fight
the supreme battle. Their heart
bleeds for every blade of grass.
They are shaken to the depths by
the tiniest yellow patch.
In our neighborhood Miss Ara
bella Pridgett Is easily tops as
the great lawn lover. In any
moderately dry spell she can
go to extremes, but in a real
drought, when the reservoirs
are low and the water supply
critical, she is a study in devo
tion to the cause of the ever-
damp lawn. Then she becomes
years, Tune *ith a n ,,
a first lady of the garden hose,
, a duchess of the sprinkler. The
lawn is her first thought at
dawn and her last at night.
• • •
Famous battlers for great human
causes have shown less energy.
Fighters to ease the plight of un
dernourished peoples have shown
no greater energy. Yes, a water
famine is threatened, families are
urged to go easy, orphan asylums
and hospitals have been cautioned
to watch the outlets, but with Miss
Pridgett her grass is a “must,”
with top priority. Lincoln showed no
greater concern for the slaves.
Clara Barton was no more zealous
for the sick and wounded.
• • •
She was marked. Her mother was
frightened by a bare patch in a
green hall runner or something.
She has a bare-patch complex.
Were she with Noah in the flood,
she would have come aboard the
ark with two lengths of hose and
two sprinklers.
* • •
Her lawn is an astoundingly vivid
green when everything else in
hollyhock heights is sere and drab.
You can see her busy about it
morning, noon and night, every
fiber of her being astir over the
thought one little blade may be
thirsty. She is haunted by a fear
of dry patch. One hose is not
enough. Miss Pridgett has two. And
her second love is the sprinkler.
She likes the wide, full-throated,
fast-revolving type. When not
watering the lawn she goes win
dow shopping for new automatic
sprinkler models.
• • *
A grand canal mood marks her
premises. “It Ain’t Gonna Rain No
More” is her theme song. She
shoots the waterworks not only on
dry hot days but even when it
rains. Her faith in Providence and
the elements is shaky. Let it rain
all night and she is out there with
the hose in the morning.
Miss Pridgett’s slogan is “The
HOSE must go on!”
• • •
Yoo hoo, move the larger sprink
ler over a foot, ladyl There’s a
blade there that seems undrenched
• • •
Hitler’s yacht
Ain’t so hacht;
So whacht!
In a visit to the Grille, once the
yacht of der fuehrer, we are sure
we should imagine that great
nautical figure, that wonderful ex
ponent of all fine sea traditions,
rolling and pitching in a terrific
storm and bellowing “All is lost!
The microphone has been swept
away!”
• • •
/ go to tht movies, end what do
l get?
Romance and romance, and more
of it yet.
I turn on the radio, l go to a show—*
More mushing between a dame
and a schmoe.
I pick up a pulp or I pick up a
slick—
Again it's a rooster chasing a
chick.
It’s most revolting; it makes me ill—
'Cause I’m a Jack without a Jill.
—Tom Weatherly
• • •
The American association of uni
versity professors upholds the right
of all teachers to be communists
provided they keep it out of the
classrooms. This is like saying U
is all right to carry lighted match
es in a hay loft provided only good
will is shown toward the barn.
• • •
We liked Bill Vaughan’s crack hi
his K.C. Star column; “The woman
scorned is now surpassed in fury
by the babe who never even met
the guy, but shoots him anyway."
• • •
The active head of a yacht
club is called a commodore. A
commodore is a cross between
a humidor and a matador. He
has to be kept damp like a
humidor and bull-throwing like
a matador.
Being a commodore entitles you
to wear a motorman’s coat, whit#
duck pants and a cap.
• • •
There’s good news in the eco
nomic picture. A slight slump i*
reported in the slight slump.
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BY INEZ GERHARD
S OMETHING NEW will be added
to “Take It or Leave It” on
Sept. 11 when Eddie Cantor takes
over as quizmaster of the oldest
of the jackpot quiz shows. Cantor
has spelled Phil Baker on the show
twice, in 1945, now steps in per
manently. He has been quite a
pioneer in radio—when he came
into it studio audiences were kept
EDDIE CANTOR
behind a glass screen, seen but not
heard. Cantor, used to theatre
crowds, brought them into the open,
then developed the pre-program
show, to get the crowd into the
right mood before the show went
on the air. Format of "Take It or
Leave It” remains the same, with
those $64 questions.
Bill Goodwin, playing a movie
producer in Warners’ “It’s a
Great Feeling,” lies and lies
and lies—in an oversized double
bed, in a pullman berth, in a
lawn swing and on a chaise
lounge. He’s supposed to be ex
hausted from being harassed by
Dennis Morgan’s and Jack Car-
son’s efforts to try to make an
actress out of Doris Day, cast
as a studio waitress.
“Where Men Are Men” marks
Chester Conklin’s 310th picture in
nearly 37 years; he’d have made
more if he hadn’t retired for eight
Then he came back strong. You
will see him in the hilarious “My
Friend Irma” soon.
Publicity tie-ups are queer things.
Shirley May France, 16-year-old
miss who aims to swim the Eng
lish channeL will do it as an
amphibious press agent for Edward
Small’s historical opus, "Black
Magic.” A country-wide personal
appearance tour is scheduled after
she comes home, plus some radio
appearances, then she’ll be groomed
'nr a screen career.
N O ONE would have believed
Ray Sharon capable of strata
gem. One look at him and you
would have catalogued him in the
reserved, conservative class of
young men who adhered to the ac
cepted patterns
dictated by pro
priety and con
vention. He was
a good looking
boy with soft
brown eyes and a sensitive mouth.
He worked as a clerk in the South-
port Trust Company. There was a
future there for him.
It occurred not even to Ray that
the fine reputation he had could be
used as an asset, cashed in on. Not,
that is, until Phil Clairmont came
to town.
Clairmont had been born In
Southport. At 18 he had gone off to
college and not returned. He had
been a football hero, an All-Amer
ican quarterback. After graduation
he had sold bonds and coached
football teams and written maga
zine articles on gridiron tactics
and given a series of lectures over
the radio. He had made quite a
success.
Two winters later Phil re
turned to his home town for the
Christmas holidays. The folks
gave him quite a reception.
They held parties for him and
asked him to talk at this
function and that. He stayed
through New Year’s, which
was longer than he intended.
The reason that he stayed was
Sheila Farnsworth, who taught
the seventh grade.
Sheila was a native of Southport.
She had wheat-colored hair and
blue eyes. She had known Ray
Sharon all her life. She liked him.
When they grew up and Ray be
gan taking her around, she was
quite happy.
P HIL CLAIRMONT met her at
one of the many parties that
were held in his honor. He remem
bered who she was and was quite
surprised that she had grown up
and blossomed into something that
was easy to look at.
Sheila was, after all, only a nor
mal girl. Phil Clairmont was
famous. When Phil took an interest
in her she was flattered. It gave
her a recognition that most any girl
would have delighted in. No one
blamed her. No one condemned her
for it. If anyone felt about it at
all it was a sensation of envy. A
few wondered about Ray Sharon.
A smaller few felt sorry for him.
Occasionally she saw Ray and
thus it happened that one wintry
night Ray and Sheila set out in the
former’s coupe for the distant town
of Merkdale to attend a banker’s
ball there. It began to snow before
they were a half hour on the road.
“We’d better take the old road
through the woods,” he said. “It
will shorten the journey by five
miles.”
Sheila thought this would be a
good idea. They left the main high
way and cut through the woods.
But neither anticipated that the
storm would reach such propor
tions. Two miles from the highway
they got stuck.
Ray didn’t mince matters. He
confronted the situation squarely.
The chances were even that both
would perish. At any rate, he had
something he wanted to ask Sheila
in case he didn’t get a chance later
on.
He asked It. Sheila thought
of many things, among them
what a ninny she’d been. Ray
was the man she loved, the only
man she could ever love. With
death staring her In the face
she realized this to be a fact.
She put her arms around Ray’s
neck and told him exactly how
she felt.
An hour later Sheila dropped of]
into a doze. When she awoke she
was lying on a couch before a blaz
ing fire. Ray was feeding her hot
soup.
No one could have believed Ray
Sharon capable of stratagem. He
was too definitely catalogued.
Which is why not even Sheila sus
pected that he had planned it all;
that he knew about the camp, had
stocked it with firewood and pro
visions, had stalled his car on pur
pose, had removed most of the fuel.
It had required a courage which
he had never suspected he pos
sessed to cash in on his assets.
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Embroider This Lamb on Linens
Insecticides Urged
In 'Hopper Control
Declared Better Than
Use 01 Poison Baits
Farmers have access to easier
and better ways to protect their
crops against grasshoppers than
by the use of poison baits.
Any of three newly-developed in
secticides — chlordane, toxaphene
or benzene hexachloride — are
recommended by the U. S. depart
ment of .agriculture for general use
against ‘hoppers on a large number
of crops.
Another well-known insecticide,
DDT, doesn’t work against grass
hoppers.
Experimental work with the three
insecticides has been carried on by
federal and state agencies long
enough to be sure of the results.
Each has advantages and choice
should depend on special needs.
The type of sprayer or duster used
makes little difference so long as
the insecticide goes on evenly and
in the right amounts.
All three insecticides are both
stomach and contact poisons. Un
der field conditions, chlordane and
toxaphene are best as stomach
poisons.
Chlordane is best as a spray
made from an emulsifcn. For half-
grown and most full-grown hoppers,
use one-half pound of actual chlor
dane per acre. Double the dose for
full-grown or big, yellow grass
hoppers. Chlordane is a slow killer
and results are not apparent at
once. But hoppers stop feeding as
soon as they swallow a good dose.
The killing effect of chlordane lasts
about 10 days.
Benzene hexachloride is best as
a dust, although it may be used as
a spray made from wettable pow
der. Use at the rate of three-tenths
of a pound of actual gamma isomer
benzene hexachloride per acre or
30 pounds of one per cent gamma
isomer dust per acre. (Directions
on the package will tell you how to
get this concentration.) The effect
of this 1 insecticide lasts about two
days.
Toxaphene or chlorinated cam-
phene can be used as a dust, as a
wettable powder or as an emulsion.
The emulsion usually lasts longer.
Toxaphene is available in 10 or 20
per cent dusts. It gives good results
at the rate of 30 pounds of 10 per
cent dust per acre. As an emulsion,
it should be used at the rate of one
and a half pounds of actual toxa
phene against small hoppers or two
and a half or three pounds against
large hoppers. Toxaphene is effec
tive for about 10 days.
ll the hoppers are confined to th%
field you want to treat, you can
do a good job with benzene hexa
chloride. But if the pests are mov
ing into your field from the outside,
you’ll be wise to use the longer-
lasting chlordane or toxaphene.
Agricultural Aids
The Goslens, of Winston-
Salem, N. C., may not be grad
uates of a farm school, bat
their advice Is followed by hun
dreds of thousands of farmers
throughout the south. Their
122-year-old Blum almanac is
full of bold predictions, safe ad
vice, witty sayings, and is the
market place for nostrums,
household aids, etc. William
Goslen and Junius Goslen, Jr.,
are shown here admiring the
almanacs. On the wall is the
portrait of Junius W. Goslen,
who published Blums before
them.
PUZZLE NO. 12
Water Soluble Chemical
Effective on Quack Grass
Quack grass can be killed with a
water soluble chemical, according
to R. F. Carlson, Michigan state
college horticulturist. Tests have
proved that quack grass can be
controlled through use of a chem
ical commonly known as TCA.
Quack grass is one of the great
est nuisances on the farm and in
the garden, and TCA is the best
chemical available now for its con-
troL Carlson said.
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tiny rounded toe style for the very
young baby; open toed bootees for
six months or older. Both pairs
are easily and quickly made.
Pattern No. 5974 consists ol complete
crocheting instructions, material require
ments, stitch illustrations and finishing
directions.
Send 20 cents in coin, your name,
addxess and pattern number.
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Pattern No. 5981 consists of 6 hot-iron
transfers each measuring about 5 by 4
inches, color chart, stitch illustrations
and finishing directions.
Send 20 cents in coin, your naxnn#
address and pattern number.
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