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to have the precious turkey dinner CsOme
Jim as SeIf-respecting as Jack himself, as
hard-wOrking, caught in this fearful and
never.knOwn-befOre situation of mo jOb"l
he has to share with him, and is only con-
cerned about the way to do it. The papers
will show him many ways. But one of the
most valuable and telling is to keep up
the daily patrOnages as nearly as you can.
When you continue to ride with your same
taximan you have taken home from the
station for years, you are turning little
wheels and making big ones keep going.
You are giving the taximan your usual
share toward his Thanksgiving dinner and
keeping your country from depression
that fearful word! NatiOnally-and per-
sonally).
The father" of 1921 trudged home
through the darking woods, eyes on the
light smoke in the air from the tiny house
with the huge chimney with its four crooked,
steep, yawning, heavenward passages
mOthering fireplace in each rOOm-the
tiny house under the hemlOcks and chst-
nuts. Out of it flies young woman in a
gray gown and a snowy collar and cap,
and two young branches in miniatures Of
their parents dress cap, buckled shoe.
collar, buttons, and all. And standing in
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the snow on tiptOe the young woman
wreathes arms about his neck and breathes,
"OH, JOHN! THEE HAS THE TURKEY!
AND NO INJUNS GOT THEE!" And the
young "brancheS" clutch his cOat-shirtS
and give bOisterOus thanks!
The father of 1881 trudges home through
the city lights. There is jOstling crowd.
The Puritan father was alone. There
MAY be trees across his evening sky, but
many times there looms instead the bulk
of buildings, lighted, noisy. He filings open
a vanished door, and young woman in
dark dress with an apron over it flies to
him shining eyed. Two young "branches,
buttOned and beIted, bare-kneed, arrive at
his knees. They are not dressed like their
parents-but in other ways they are much
like the little olive branches of 1921. And,
standing on tiptOe, the young woman
wreathes her arms around his neck and
breathes, "OH, JOHN! YOU'VE BROUGHT
THE TURKEY-AND YOU'VE GOT
JOB"
There are no "Injuns" to chase this
modern young father. but there are other
things to buck in the bringing home Of his
THANKSGIVING Turkey!
NELL BRINKLEY.
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Most people forget, and many of us
never knew, that Thanksgiving Day
originally and practically was a thanks
giving for the harvest of the past year.
A Festival to celebrate the goodness of the
land. MOdernly speaking, it is a National
holiday to give thanks for the good for
tune and the benefits of the year that is
closing. Most of us do not link this day
up with any ardent feeling of gratitude
but think of it as holiday.
This Thanksgiving it is difficult for the
glib writer to say, BE Thankful" For
there are so many who can find so little
to give thanks for, in the months behind
them, and so many who give such fervid
thanks for so little, because that little
came near being nothing at all. Yet this
hard year has brought many people
strangely tOgether-brOught a real SYM
pathy to ight-a real concern for what
is to become of the other fellow into the
heart of the fortunate One-a grave effort
to actually share with the other fellow,
and make him feel at the same time that
the hand that is offered with something
i'm it is the friendly hand and not the
CHARITY one. This year Jack realizes
that if some unknown Jim's children are
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29 DAYS IT'LL }
They re all made of zephyr yarn

ribbed that they're leg -'o-mutton
copies. They can puff above
the elbow in the very latest
dress fashion, or they'll lie flat
and smooth with the cuff turned
back-if you're conservative by
nature and frown on period
styles. This is a cardigan
sweater that buttons into hand.
made buttonholes-that'S one OF
the. reasons you'll be willing to
pay more for it than you would
the usual slipover type. In most
any color combination, the price
is just about Sc.
Sweater Ensemble
There's everything unusual
about the sweater on the right.
Just listen. It's a part of a set,
with beret and scarf to match.
The loose, lacy knit they're
made of looks hand-done. 1t
beautifully works four harmonl-
Gus tones of colorS into all three
pieces. The sweater itself is an
overdose with a collarless yoke
neckline that's monotone p:b-
BILE knit. Short little sleeves
seem to grow right out of it.
And the pebble knit belt has
metal buckle matching the metal
buttons at the neck. At
one side of the lacy-knit beret
is a monotone insertion of pebble
knit, like the sweater yoke. The
scarf is nice and wide, and has
fringed ends. The perfect en-
semble set for college girls-or
for outdoor winter wear, any
where. And can you think of
more practical Christmas gift
for SO?
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Advice to the
Lovelorn
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX
Be Firm, but Kind

OO "a AAS DS@S ASS
Dear Miss Fairfax:
Perhaps you can help me
solve my problem. I am girl
20 years old, and I have been
going with Bob and Kenneth,
both wonderful boys. I like
Kenneth real we'll, but I am in
love with Bob. Both have asked
me to marry them. I am 60
ing to marry Bob, but what I
want to know is, how am I go
ing to tell Kenneth? He has
told me several times that if I
gave him up, he would do some
thing desperate. He said if he
couldn't have me, no one else
would. I hate to hurt him, but
I love Bob, so I must do some
thing. Kenneth is away on his
vacation, and I'm frantic, be-
cause when he returns I must
let him know. PAT.
Of course, Kenneth is going
to feel badly when you tell him
that you are planning to be mar
ried to Bob, but, if he is a fine
boy, as you say, he will not do
anything desperate, either to
you or to himself. You might
tell him that you have been try
ing for months to let him know
that he' could not be the one,
that you like him and value his
friendship, but that you are go
ing to marry Bob.
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or req.
Very Different Knit
Then we asked for something
in an unusual knit-and found
it. After all, nothing could be
very ordinary that's called Ret
ten rashal," which means that
particular way of knitting things
our second sketch attempts to
show. OF course, you'll have to
really see the sweater to ap-
preciate the distinctive air Of a
stitch like this. We can't de-
scribe it. Feebly, we just say
it's a very different lacy knit
in a combination of bright and
dark colors, with the darker
color as the trim and stripe.
That rounded high, U-neckline
is finished with handkerchief in
the same dark shade, which can
be brown, rust, navy, green or
black. The bottom of the
sweater and the cuffs are ribbed
that way that fashion likes so
we'll this season. And the price
is less than we'd expect
actually, little more than Sc.
Even for Conservatives
Our third sketch shows a
sweater that you'll probably say
isn't unusual at all because it's
the surplice style you've been
seeing everywhere this season.
But this one has several new
details. The lacy weave, for in
stance. in a narrow striped de-
sign; the high slit pockets; a
tight-fitting, deep-ribbed waist
line; and those sleeves so deeply
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With eVeryb BODY wearing
sweaters, and wanting several
more. you're inclined to wonder
whether there are enough diff
ferent styles to go around. 1t
takes the kind of investigating
we did yesterday to prove that
all of us could go downtown
tomorrow, and each one find
a really individual sweater
blouse. The stores leave no ex-
cuse this season for anybody
having one just like her neigh
boris. That's blessing, too,
because'you'll still look individual
when you meet the suit you're
wearing coming down the street
if you have on a sweater
that's as really different as the
ones we've seen.
Telling the SaIeSgirI
And they weren't hard to find.
We just said. I'VE want a
sweater that's unusual" The
salesgirl thought that in these
collarlesS days we might like
the slip-ovar sweater we've il
lustrated at the left, above.
Which proves we did. 1t has a
little turn-down collar. with a
loop tie in front that's stitched
down. The ribbed cuffs and
collar and waistline, and even
the tie, are edged with narrow
white stripes. But the real
stripes - the wide ones - run
through the center of the sweater
and sleeves--three contrasting
colors, if you please, all on
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Our Rhymins
Optimist
By ALINE MICHAELIS

By ALlNE M1CHAEL1S
BY ALINE MICHAELIS
So many words that laugh and
sing,
AS gay as April hours:
So many words whose meas
ureS bring
The scent of vanished flowers;
But no sweet word I ever knew
Can tell the faith I have in
you!
So many words like stars that
shine
Across the nights abyss,
Abrim with promises divine,
Words tender as a kiss;
But not one word that I can say
To tell my hopes for you each
day!
So many words with power to
paint
LIES beauty, like a gem
Words colorful, exotic, quaint
For fancy's diadem;
But not one word of all will do
To tell my boundless love for
you!
(CopyTight, 1881. by International
News Service)
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Bv ERICH MARIA REMARQUE
Your HedIth
and Proper
Diet
LBy DIR. Logan Clendening-

All I know about the clinical
congress of the American Col
lege of Surgeons. held in New
York recently, is what l read
in the papers. l was invited to
be present, as journalist, and
was told that every opportunity
for publicity and interviews
with prominent surgeons would
be put at my disposal, but 1
was unable to attend.
The conspicuous feature of
the meeting. to judge from ac-
counts, was the absence of any
indication of the scientific ad-.
vancement of surgery. The dis
cussionS we're concerning pub
licity, and teaching the public
about cancer, and social medi-
cine and ghosts and magazines
that print criticisms of sur
geons, but there seemed to be !
no indication that anybody hay
done any real work or mad
any real discoveries.
Sheer at the Occult
There was TRADE against
Spiritualism, and sneers at Sir
Oliver Lodge and Sir William
Crookes, who dabble in the
occult, but it sounded a great
deal like tackling a dummy or
shooting a cigar store Indian.
DR.. George w. Grille appears
to have made his speech on the
adrenals again; he might we'll
be advised by his friends not to
do that an more. I heard him
speak in medical meeting
about a year ago; after about
an hour of it, a very thought
full doctor who was sitting next
to me, turned and said: Have
you the slightest idea what in
heaven he is trying to get at?"
And this relieved me because
I had been trying to figure
out the same thing and think
ing it was my own stupidity
which prevented me.
The fact is. of course. that
surgery today is in a sort OF
position of suspended ANNA
ton. No real advance in its
methods has been made for
we'll over 20 years. Its great
stimulus was given to it by
Lister and the development Of
the aseptic method. This, COM
bined with the already de-
veloped science of anaesthesia,
created a great field of work.
But it has now been pretty
thoroughly explored.
Surgery Is Losing Ground
Through the work of many
men surgery attained to a
technical perfection that put
it for time as the leading
department of medical prac-
tice. It still enjoys all the
benefits of that great period
of inspiration. Average sur
geons today have ATTAINED to
a dexterity that the greatest
pioneers of the art could no5
have learned.
AS a matter of fact, surgery
is losing round. Internal medi-
cine has made so many dis
coveries that they have rem
dered large parts of surgical
treaties of Is years ago ludi-
crously antiquated. The X-ray
especially is taking over oc-
complishments that formerly
were exclusively surgical. Dia-
thermy and other electrical
methods are doing the same
thing. 1t is hopeful sign.
1t means fewer surgical op-
erations. In this all truly good
surgeons rejoice.
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To Be Continued

Copyright. Erich Maria Remarque,
1881 distributed by United Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
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g = brown or green or tile or blue
The Washington times., 1931-11-26
TO BREAK UP
A COLD
IN A JIFFY
Feel Like a New Person
In Just a Little While

People have found out that
new-fangled ideas and notions
don't break up colds. So millions
have turned back to first princi-
Piles and use what they know
breaks one up in jiffy. Even a
''little" cold is too dangerous to
trifle with.
The thing to do is to get Hills
Cascara Quinine at any drug
store. Take two tablets now.
Then follow directions on box.
Drink lots of water, too-that's
all.
Soon you'll start to feel like a
new person. Things will loosen
up, your head will clear; aching
go-youT1 be back on the job
With a wallop.
Get Hills now. 1t is a scien-
tific formula made to do one
thing Dell' to knock a cold
not to cure a thousand ailments.
Get your money back if it doesn't
work with ttDice the speed of any
thing else you've ever tried.
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T ~ ~ ByHeA thor D.,
WesenF 'front.'
A Story Of the Aftermath
Or the World War
CHAPTER 40

We have won. At slow drink
Ing they might perhaps have
seen us out; but we have had
special training in the express
method and to make them take
1t at our pace was our saliva
ton.
Swaying and tottering, we sur
vey the field with pride. Besides
ourselves. not a man is left
standing. The postman, who at
the same time is the bartender,
is resting his head on the coun.
ter and wailing intermittently
for a wife who died in childbed
while he was away at the war.
Martha. Martha" he sobs in
a weird, high-pitched voice.
Don't mind him." says the
barmaid, "he always does that
at these times" The lamenta.
ton offendS our ears, and any
way, it is time to be going.
Willy picks up the Mayor and
I take the lighter, more wizened
village clerk, and so we trundle
them home. That is the final
touch to our triumph. We de.
posit the clerk outside his own
door and knock until a light ap-
years. But someone is awaiting
the Mayor. His wife is already
standing in the door.
Good heavens!" she cries.
"The new schoolteachers! So
young and such topers! A
pretty beginning, I must say!"
Willy tries to explain that it
was an affair of honor, but gets
sadly mixed.
Where would you like us to
put him?" I ask at last.
Let him lie!" she snaps. We
dump him down on sofa. Then
Willy, with a smile like a child,
asks if we might have some
coffee. The woman looks at
him as if he were a Hottentot.
But we brought your hus-
band home for you!" explains
Willy, beaming. Not even this
hard-baked old woman can with
stand such SllblimelY uncor1-
sciouS impudence. Shaking her
head solemnly she pours out a
couple of large cups of coffee,
meantime giving us a good scold-
ing. We say "yeS" to every
thing. 1t is always best at such
times.
From this day on we are re-
garded as men of standing in
the village. and everywhere are
Saluted with respect.
MOnOtOnOuS Days
Uniformly, monotonously, the
days follow each other-in the
morning four hours teaching, in
the afternoon two. But be-
tween, all the hours of sitting
about, running around, alone
with oneself and ones thoughts.
Sundays are worst of. all.
When one does not want merely
to sit in the pub it is simply un-
bearable. The headmaster, the
only other male teacher besides
myself, has been here 80 years
and has made use of his time
to become an expert breeder of
pigs. He has won many prizes.
But beyond that there is moth
ing one can talk to him about.
When I look at him I want to
clear out at once, SO dreadful
is the thought that some day
I shall be like him.
Willy has settled in much bet
ter. He goes as an official per-
Sonage to all the weddings and
christenings. When the horses
get collie or the cows won't
calve. he helps the farmers with
his advice and support. And
in the evenings he will sit with
them in the taverns and fleece
them at Skat.
I have no wish now to lounge
in the pubs; I prefer to stay in
my room. But the hours are
long and strange thoughts often
creep out of the corners-pale,
wasted hands, beckoning, threat
ening; ghostly shadows of things
past, but strangely changed;
memories that rise up again of
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In the following eight-card
problem, hearts are trumpS; q
is to lead; w are to win all
the tricks against any possible
defense. The holdings are
given below. Try solving it for
yourself before reading the eX-
PLANTATION.
wJ-10-6-3
Js7-4
H8-2
vx Y Ao.,o.5.4
:k.5.s.a : A B xo.lo
%Q-J-9 y %10-7
AA-J-9-7
JSA-3
AK-6

It is evident that z can win
three tricks with his top cards,
and that Y can win four TRUMP
tricks. The whole problem is
to squeeze both A and B so
that one of them must unguard
one of the three plain suits
(non-trump SuitS). Have Y
trump a lead of rs lowest
spade; then lead one trump.
The object of this lead is to
determine which suit B will
unguard. The problem is at
once solved if B lets go a
spade, as z can then win the
one trick required to complete
the eight tricks sought by ZY.
A low diamond will put z in
the lead and another small
spade will be trumped, leaving
rs Al good for two tricks,
with certain entry through his
top club. Under no circum-
stances can B discard a spade;
B must discard either club
or a diamond, and z must
follow BIS discard. Suppose
that B discards his lowest
diamond, and that 2 does the
same. Then Y must lead
card of the suit from which
both B and z have discarded.
Next, z must lay down his
top spade, and Y must discard
from the minor suit, of which
z holds two cards (as thus
played here, Y must discard a
club. A can let go a club; B
has to follow suit. Next
low spade must be led from z
and trumped by Y. A must
discard so that he holds the
winning diamond and two
clubs. Of course. B is obliged
to follow suit. The holdings Of
the four players are now as
shown below:
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1t happened in Memphis But it might have
happened anywhere And the st. Louis Post
Dispatch" tells about it thus
"a dignified gentleman, who later turned out
to be H. r. Fuller, representative OF a college
textbook firm, dropped in at police station in
Memphis the other day to ask a question. He
wanted to know if the Communist Party had a
meeting place in Memphis and if So where 1t
was Though not an affiliate himself, he had
curiosity to look in on the proceedings OF the
comrades.
mo sooner had he asked the question than he
found himself locked in a cell, and there he re-
manned for 48 hours friend learned OF his
plight and tried to see him, but the wary police
declined to let such dangerous character have
a visitor. Finally the miscreant was released
with a lecture
1.-THE Police Commissioners explanation Of the
incident was laconic and naive: OF course, when
he came in and wanted Communist headquarters,
they locked him up"
Now we might regard Mr.. Fullers being locked
up rather lightly but the worst of his misfor-
tunes was not mentioned. He did not find the
Communist Party.
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TO BE CONTINUED.

3. How is the Soviet Union solving the prob
lem Of increasing the intensity of labor and do
ing away with the wastage of material?
Intensity and productivity are increasing in
our industry, thanks to the advancing technical
Improvement. In the year 1881 the sum OF
$1,000 million roubles will be employed for tech
nical Improvements in Soviet industry. In this
way we shall increase the productivity, and by
technical improvements increase the intensity
Of labor. Our chief aim is to make working
conditions easier with the aid OF modern ma
chimes. We already have the shortest working
day in the whole world. Fifty per cent Of our
industry is working only hours day. and we
are already thinking OF going over to the six
hour day. The five-day week has been intro
duced in 80 per cent Of our industry. We are
Of the opinion that these measures and the
growing consciousness Of the masses on the basis
Of socialist competition and the rise Of the
9hoak-hq1gadea viii enable u 70 achieyo the
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Millions OF Fresh Workers Needed
in Soviet Union
Iron, an Interview With Comrade KraveI,
Deputy Peoples CommiSsar for Labor.)
BY PAUL SCHIFF (Moscow).

From an Interview With Comrade KraveI,
Deputy Peoples Conlmissar for Labor)
BY PAUL SCHIFF (Moscow).
Shortage of Skilled Workers.
THE tremendous pace of development in the
year 1880 has already increased the number
of wage workers by 2,l68,0o0, not including the
wage workers in agriculture. If, therefore even
in the year 1929 the Labor Exchanges still had
100000 and in 1890 $4,000 unemployed on
their books, whilst at the same time there was
a general increase in the number Of workers
employed. in fact even a shortage Of 100000
workers. this anomaly was simply due to the
circumstance that the Labor Exchanges were
not in position to divert the workers at the
right time to the place where they were
CURED that owing to their whole organization
they were not in position to refrain the work
ers. mis- state Of affairs is now being radically
changed In the economic year 1881 100000
people will be required, who must be given
place in production for the first time. We are
planning to engage 2,3l4,00o skilled and 1,532000
unskilled workers Gin all 3,66000O in produc-
ton. In addition, we have to find substitutes for
those $4,000 workers who have to be absent
from the factories while attending technical
schools and other educational institutions We
intend this year to train 100000 workers in the
apprentices schools and In the mass schools for
the young workers: $4,000 workers are to be
given an intensive training.
The Administration Of the Cadrcs.
As, unlike Western Europe, we have COM
pletely liqudsted unemployment in our country
there arises the problem, from where are we to
obtain the workers required in industry The
old Labor Exchanges are being converted into
cadre administrations. It is their task to Sc
cure fresh workers to train them and 10 dis
tribute them according to plan From now on
they viii register those ceategores Of workers
who have never previously worked as wage
lsarners. s1ch e hogssgyx 4 g ~ & To6ks
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support. We have recently invested 250,000000
roubles in children's homes and children's kit
chens; and all these methods serve to induce
the worker to stick to his Job. In view Of these
principles 1t is obvious that there can be no talk
of compulsory labor. There are Of course cases
where an administrative fight has to be con-
Quoted against the so-called birds Of passage"
This fight is organized by the workers them
selves; the State has nothing to do with 1t. The
workers form commissions who pass judgment
on their work mates who. like birds of pass
age" change their place Of work without reason,
thereby harming production We know no sys-
tenn of compulsion, but we have system OF So
cialist discipline created by the workers them
selves We encourage this discipline. And we
have right to do so, because we are doing
everything that can be done in order to improve
the life Of the worker with regard to his ma
r.qulremsut., I'M RslSSt ittaal !
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What Do They Mean
By peers?

The dictionary tells us that the word 'peer"
means: "One of the same rank qualities, en-
doWments character, or the like; an equal
From Seattle, we get the following bit Of in
formation which voices justifiable anger:
1.-THE u S. Constitution is supposed to grant
people jury trials. People are supposed to be
tried by their peers Yet in Portland, Oregon,
where 10 workers are being tried for criminal
syndcalism,' only property owners can be on
the jury. There is law in the state of Oregon,
that jurors must own certain valued property.
PEERS indeed! Penniless workers tried by
property owners Workers who are organizing
other workers and menacing the profits of those
who possess wealth-being tried by their peers!
This is the type of fair trial given to workers!
This shows how the bosses uphold their holy
CONSTITUTIONAL F."
We agree 100 per cent with A. F. And this
thing, we think, ought to be brought out and
exposed as far and as wide as possible.