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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-21
BRITISH DACHSHUND

Most unusual household pet in
Washington is owned by the British
ambassador, Lord Halifax. Believe
1t or not, he has a German dachs-
hund.
The envoy bought the dog from a
kennel in Virginia shortly after his
arrival in the United States.
NOte-The dachshund was widely
used by American cartoonists dur
ing the last war as sinister sym
Dol of Germany, and some animals
were mistreated by misguided
ZealotS.
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SUPERINTENDENT?
tBen wNU serviceI

" your most absorbing problems in
the World are those OF meal planning,
getting the attic cleaned or seeing thai
young Teddy toedrS his rubbers, then
you don't deserve TO lire in a demOc.
rGcy. At least. THAT'S The toay Kathleen
Norris feels. Her rierU is that you
should exercise your mind-siudy,
read, discuss, digest The corld changes
going on about you. Don't miss this
sraightto-he-point argument.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-21
By KATHLEEN NORRIS


- that democracy work for
1t. Democracy can only be
proved a success, among the
varied types of government the
world has tried and is trying, if
every one of us wakes herself
out of the slumber of centuries
and asks herself what democ-
racy is, and whether it's good
thing, and whether it's worth
fighting for.
And when say fighting"
don't mean with guns and
bombs, for my own profound
belief, after more than twenty
years active service in the
cause of world peace, is that no
gun and no bomb ever did any,
thing to defend democracy or
establish anything else that is
good.
mean fighting with Gods own
weapons of brotherhood, service.
sympathy, understanding. These are
wisdom, understanding, counsel.
torttude, knowledge, piety and fear
OF the Lord-all of which are the
true weapons, and the powers of
EVIL can never stand against them.
Democracy Challenged.
Our fight for democracy must 20
on In our homes, through the little
daily jobs that we have to meet and
solve, and unless it succeeds there
1t is going to fail in the world. For
never since its very beginnings has
II been challenged as it is challenged
today
a democracy-which in our form
is republic-means that the people
rule. They look at their candidates.
they decide which ones they like,
and they put those men into power.
Fasclsm, Nazi-ism and Communism
mean that the people are told what
TO do, eat, spend, wear, think and
say. Monarchies and Czarisms and
oriental rule also meant this. The
thin little fringe of places and poo
pies who believe in democracy is
/
percentage indeed. Unless we de-
fend it it will vanish from the earth.
Good men and wise men from the
days of the Greeks and Romans
have been dreaming of world repub.
llcanism, world democracy. Plato
dreamed of it, Sir Thomas More
dreamed of it. Washington saw the
great vision, and through bewilder.
ment and assertions, treason and
poverty and failure and despair,
brought it to birth. We possess it.
What Is Freedom Worth to You?
But how much do you care about
it? How much is it worth to you
that America shall go on as Amer.
lea, free OF speech. free of press
free to worship God in her own way?
Do you care enough to read one
or two books Of the thousands that
are being circulated now telling you
what other countries arc doing, and
how their ways differ from ours?
Are you willing to say some evening
in the near future George, let's 70
to that meeting, or that rally. or
that lecture or that debate, and see
what these candidates are like and
what they are promising and plan
ning?"
Do you care enough TO know the
answers to your Children's questions
when those children speak airily OF
the superior methods Of Russia, OF
slightingly OF the greatest country
in the world, which is their own.
II you don't, il you still think the
most absorbing problems in the
world are those OF getting the spare
room blankets cleaned and being
sure The lower pie-crust is good and
crisp, then you don't deserve 70 be
an American, you don't deserve TO
live IN . democracy. and you're do
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-21
GUARDING THE CAPITOL

If you visit the United States Capt.
tol in the near future don't carry
an isolationist banner or anything
more explosive than a cigarette
lighter, or you may wind up in the
brig. Tightest police restrictions
since World war days are being put
into effect at the Capitol building.
Under a plan devised by Speaker
Sam Rayburn, Sen. Harry F. Byrd,
chairman of the senate rules COM
mittee, and Arthur E. Cook of the
Capitol police board, all visitors
will be required to check packages
before entering the building.
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governments.
Every Voice Needed.
Don't think that because Won live
on limited income in a rented
house and run just a little over the
budget every month that your voice
isn't needed and isn't valuable.
Great national changes don't neces-
sarlly come from privileged men.
Lincoln, Napoleon, Stain, Mussolini,
Hitler and countless others knew the
sharp touch of poverty and lived the
first third of their lives in obscurity.
The reason the dictators have
gained so strong a hold is because
nlne-tenths of the men and women
they rule are abysmally ignorant of
what is going on, of their own rights
and powers. Don't keep yourself in
that group unless you want to see
our own country menaced by the
forces that are honestly convinced
that the dictators' way is the right
way.
Our share of citizenship now, as
American women, is to demonstrate
Just what is true democracy, to per-
feet our own system. 1t is for us to
do away with unemployment, pow
erty, slums, to discourage false phi
losophies, to upbuild the faith of orr
great forefathers.
II you can do that for the smallest
spot IN the smallest Of our towns or
villages, you will be doing an in
calculable service to America. The
ways OF doing it are infinite.
First Line of Defense.
Study unemployment and HOUSING
ana disqualification and sanitation in
your own community, for instance.
flnd out why youngsters in high
school and college are taking to Eu-
ropean ideas; gather the Youngsters
INTO your house for debate and cof-
Zee and doughnuts, once a week
stop lamenting that UNDERGRADUATE
morals are something deplorable
ana the half-baked Communism
those children are talking is really
frightening, and do something about
1t. Let them know that under their
own Constitution they can introduce
any changes they wish; that il is
the miracle and privilege of democ-
racy that it can change and devotion
with the changing world
women who are unwilling to make
this effort, to uproot themselves
from the age-old laziness of not
thinking or acting at all in national
and international affairs. women
VINO don't know the names of tbeir
representatives in Washington. nor
| now those representatives are vot-
| ing on questions Of vital importance
to every wife and mother. needn't
be surprised or Mortified if Ameri-
can democracy really does totter I'M
der oppression from abroad. War
naturally destroys democracy for
the time being; the individual can
not have any opinion in war. he
obeys, and he does nothing but obev
He serves in the ranks or in the
munitions factories, he kills. is
wounded, dies, without one moment
OF freedom. This is inevitable.
Plan Necessary.
But when the wars are Overland
someday they will be ended then il
VIII be for US TO build a new Amer
lea, even as they will have TO begin
to rebuild shattered Europe. And
that will be the time for us 70 de-
eide between q dictator who will tell
as that he knows exactly what we
must DO, or follow q wise and safs
democratic nlsn % oar ourn
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WALLACE FINDS NAZI
PROPAGANDA IN MEXICO
J PREWRE4Rs0N


Behind the scenes, Henry Wallace
played quite a part in the Mexican
u. S. agreement to work out JOINT
plans for national defense.
1t was Henry's job, during his trip
to Mexico, as vice preSidcnt-elect,
to put across some quiet diplomacy
with new President Avila Camacho
aimed TO smooth out all u. S.
Mexican problems. This he did,
and became completely "slmpatiCo'
with high Mexican officials.
However, Henry also brought
back a very worrsome picture of
Nazi activity in Mexico.
Being a farm boy from Iowa, and
skeptical about the Zimmerman al
fair during World War | when the
German foreign Office invited Mex
leo into an alliance against the
United States, Henry went down 10
Mexico as an unbclicvcr as far as
Nazi propaganda was concerned.
But he came back, his skeptiClsm
gone.
The great mass of the MeXican
people and the Mexican government
are sincere believers in friendship
with the United States, Henry found.
But small minority. plentifully
supplied with Nazi-Fascist cash, has
been doing its best to poison friend
ly relations.
In fact, there were some indica-
tons that the Nazis might even go
to such lengths as outright sabotage
or damage to the United States in
such way that Mexico would get
the blame, thereby stirring up ami
mostly between the countries.
Note-Last year $4,000, 900 in U. S.
greenbaCks was taken TO Mexico
from New Orleans by Count Robert
of the Italian legation, presumably
for propaganda purposes. Count
Roberti is the son-in-law of Ogden
Hammond, cX-ambassador to Spain
and a leader of the move to CO.
operate with Spanish Dictator
Franco
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-21
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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-21

Grayson, who's not quite eighteen,
and is being hailed as a real dis
covery.
Eighteen months ago, when she
sang at Los Angeles musical, she
attracted the attention of Metro ex-
ecutives. Before the afternoon was
over she had an appointment with
Louis B. Mayer-the next day she
had a contract. After that she
checked in at the studio school
took a regular high school course,
had lessons in music, diction, make
up, dramatic training.
She has a magnificent coloFatura
voice, can sing c above high C, and
it is predicted that she may become
one of the greatest cOIOraturas the
world has ever known. She's de-
lighted over being in pictures-but
in another two years she's going to
tackle the Metropolitan opera.
Hortense Monath, who recently
appeared as soloist with the NBC
Symphony orchestra, has made a
name for herself as a concert pianist
in both Europe and America, play
ing with many of the most famous
orchestras.
She really has a second career;
she brOwses in the musical litera-
ture Of the ages and brings forth
each year a series of programs for
the New Friends of Music, one OF
New YOrk's more important must
cal organizations. She thinks there's
too much samenesS about most mu-
steal programs she also dis
approves of intermissiOns, encOres,
stage seats and prima DONNA dom.
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There's no telling how many Of
our future radio stars will succeed
because Fritz Block, producer of
Your Dream Has Come True"
gave them a start. Auditoning for
the program is no ordinary affair.
The entire week preceding a broad
cast is spent in listening to the many
people who want to appear on the
program; when it's difficult to make
choice between actors, a record
ing Of the voice in question is made
and the radio department makes a
decision.
As big name actors and actresses
have no meaning on this program,
the unkBOwns have a wonderful OPP
pOrtunity-and under BlOcki's skill
full tutelage they are sure Of getting
excellent training.
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ODDS md ENDS-Frank CaDra raid
StODO i0r nm opinion during production
~ Meet John DOe"-hHed $50 extras 10
secure their reactions 10 hCo rerSiOnS Of a
speech By Cnry Cooper . When radios
"Hrnry Aldrich" reached the screen
Jackie Coupe, played Henry" IN The frH
ttcO episodes: notO that he's ouigrOun The
role, Jimmy Lydon takes ouor Mean.
uhite Ezra Stone goes right on being
"Iicn,)" IN the air This is England
The short brought Opey By Harry Hopkins,
- being released by Columbia Picfures
Lana Turner tried eight different
eoi6msi before she found the rigKi one
to' her role IN "Dr. Jskyu and Mr.
hyde
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-21

Lacking Essentials
1t is a great misfortune neither
to have enough wit to talk well
nor enough judgment to be silent.
La Bruyere.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-21

Late to Understand
We never know the true value
Of friends. While they live, we
are too sensitive of their faults;
when we have lost them, we only
see their virtues.-J. c. Hare.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-21
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dirty, we must brush it; when It
is ragged, it must be patched; but
we keep it as long as we cam
BalZac.
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By VIRGINIA VALE

DARAMOUNTS 1.-The Lady
i Eve" is certainly one of the
best picturcs that has come out
of HOLLYWOOD in years and years;
it's the third excellent picture
in a row for Preston Sturges,
who wrote and directed it. Henry
Fonda acquires new laurels as
a comedian, Barbara StanWyck
is completely delightful, the
rest of the cast (Which includes
Charles Cobun, Eric Blore and Will
liam DemaIc5O couldn't be inn
proved on.
The company launched the picture
in New York with something differ
ent in the way of cocktail party.
night club was turned-more or
less-into a Garden of Eden, and
five pretty girls were engaged to act
as Ewes. Since there's a snake that
plays a prominent part in the pic
ture, one was provided. DR.. Ray
mond l.. DitmarS, curator of rep
tiles at the Bronx zoo, was present;
he felt that the party would do much
to dissipate the popular phobia
against snakes. A consultant psy-
chologist theorized on perfect wom-
en- in general and the five Ewes in
particular. Then Emma, the snake,
departed for the zoo, and the wom-
en- guests breathed easier.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-21

Whether you're an ANDY Hardy"
fan or not you mustn't miss Andy
Hardy's Private Secretary" if you
want to see the debut of one of film
dom's best bets. She's Kathryn
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-21
Every Voice Needed.

ing your bit to aid the totalitarian
governments.
The Omaha guide., 1941-11-22

This paper IN mad arrangements With DEE HAMMER to send at you
request. q special prepared hart that will enable YOU ID read your "
character as well as that II Others An YOU need % Is send ! SELF
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AVENUE. CHICAGO. ILLINOIS.
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A Prominent Business
Woman Praises Mme.C.J.
Walkers Preparations

2 II use Nine. c. J. Walkers
preparations exclusively be-
cause l get results from them
that am unable to get from any
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known business woman the
other day.
The secret of the remarkable
success of Mime. c. J. Walkers
preparations is in the fact that
they were blended by the late
Madam c. J. Walker to reach
certain definite conditions of the
hair. skin and scalp, and today,
after over thirty-five years on
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withstanding the fact that the
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they are still in demand every
where. o
o Nine. c. J. Walkers Glossine,
although more than thirty-five
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Mime. c. J.. Walkers Brown
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The Nine. c. ]. Walkers won
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The Omaha guide., 1941-11-22

energetic disposition and Is
physically restless. Those who
write with an angular hand are
natural born workers. They arc
not stopped by Handicapped
stacles serve to make them
more eager than ever to reach
their goal.
Other characteristics of the
angular hand are-an enthus-
iastic disposition. practical
tastes, and an emphatic. posi-
tive. aggressive. self-reliant ma
ture. The angular writer is
prone to praise those who are
worthy of praise.
In conclusion it may be said
that angular writing indicates
a person to whom it is not
necessary to give suggestions
one who will go his or her W
way. working faithfully and in
the majority Of cases success
fully.
mo greater comfort on earth"
see yourself as others see you
your Assets, Handicaps, Person
atty and Emotions.
The Omaha guide., 1941-11-22
communication devices.

We have about a hundred diff
erent military research jobs under
way and a large proportion of the
1000 scientists and engineers on
our Bell Telephone Laboratories
staff are devoting their full time
to this work.
Our manufacturing branch, the
Western Electric Company, is sup
plying great quantities of tele-
phone and radio equipment for the
army and navy. Among the
many things that are being pro-
duced are tens of thousands of
radiotelephone sets for training
and combat planes. Also, there
are special field telephones, switch
boards and wire for the army, and
complete communicating systems
for new ~battleships and for air
craft carriers. There are many
other new devices, such as, for III
stance, a new microphone for the
pilots of fighting planes which fits
around the pilots throat, so that
the sound of his voice can be
heard clearly, without interference
Er0, ~@:-n Al &c @I;- .,1,- ~
designing and making Of military
equipment is an important part of
our defese responsibility and is in
addition to Jul regular but great
ly increased telephone task.
In conclusion, I want to express
my sincere appreciation to the
$50. 900 men and women of the
Bell System for a big job being
done in the best Bell System TIA
dition. The credit for this big
job first goes to them. Then it
goes back further to the system
of private initiative and free en-
terprise which made it possible for
them to develop their skills AID
their abilities. And then, finally,
the credit goes back to the very
system all of us now are working
to defend. our own American
democracy.
The Omaha guide., 1941-11-22
BY Dee Hammer

Angular writing is the sub
ject for my opening lesson in
graphology, the first in a ser
les of a complete course.
These lessons will prove in
valuable to those who study
and keep them. They will pro-
vide a key not only to ones
own character but also the
characters of friends and ac-
quaintances. Readers should
clip each lesson, and refer to
them from time to time.
The most important point to
note in reading handwriting is
the slant Of the letters. One
of the most common forms Of
writing is that Of the angular
type. This includes every hand
which shows angles in the for
nation of the various letters.
especially the M and IN.
Angular writing denotes a
person who is primarily active.
He or she is mentally alert,
grasping the slightest details
from a conversation. This per-
son Is of a nervous, quick and
The Omaha guide., 1941-11-22
MY NEW 1912 ASTROLOGY
READINGS ARE READY.

Mrs. 28-I have been reading
your column for a long time and
enjoy it as you help people. Now
I have a problem. My husband
and I have been married for two
years. The first year we were
lovely as we loved each other so
much but now things have chang
ed. He is so jealous if 1 go across
the street and he is staying out
too. Tell me what to do
Ans: Both you and your hus-
band need a good old fashioned
SPANKING. go. 1T is very unfort-
innate that you two people could
not see far enough ahead to be-
have yourselves and live true to
one another. Your husband isn't
doing anything that you aren't.
both of you are to blame. Now
stop this running around cheating
and live true to one another and
you can get along and be happy a.
gain.
The Omaha guide., 1941-11-22

ALI Modern Furnished Apt, For
Rent-WE. OTIS.
The Omaha guide., 1941-11-22

Ans: There are advantages
and disadvantages regarding 10th
men. The first man is the father
of your children, but you two have
separated and lived badly for the
whole IL years. The new man
loves you Is honest in wanting to
marry you. Now you r going
to have to choose the one that you
love the best. but be sure you
marry. do not try any more Of
these partnerships ventures for
they nearly all lead to sorrow.
The Omaha guide., 1941-11-22

Furnished Roo 2213 North 18th st.
The Omaha guide., 1941-11-22
REAL A FOR SALE
221s MAPLE STREET

A modern 7 room house arranged
with A rooms down; 3 and bath up.
Exterior sided with asbestos shing-
les. Monthly payments are $24.50.
Owner leaving town and wants to
SELL IMMEDIATELY. Will sub
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Mr.. MANSFIELD. KE- 02S0
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2520-22-24 PATRICK
Solid BRICK Triplex, structurally
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few minor repairs AS 3 units this
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ly; good possibilities for convert
ing into 6 small apartments. Of
fered at $3.50 CASH, but want
your offer. Owner will consider
cash only.
Mr.. MANSFIELD, KE- 02S0
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The Omaha guide., 1941-11-22
Is Your Laxative a
Popular One?

good laxative. Spicy, aromatic,
easy-to-take. Punctual and thor
ough, yet usually gentle in its ac-
ton when simple directions are
followed.
The main reason for all this is
a "tonic-laxative' ingredient in
BLACK-DRAUGHT that helps to
tone lazy intestinal muscles.
The Omaha guide., 1941-11-22

In laxatives, as in people, it
takes Something extra" to get to
the top and stay there.
~BLACK-DRAUGHT has been
one of the popular laxatives with
four generations of Americans.
That's one reason you ought to try
this all-vegetable medicine next.
You'll discover an all-around