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Evening star., 1941-08-03
AND THE CORNERSTONE
IS FAITH
by will vNhittenburg

p RAsT month the girl said "Yes" Today
the home-loan department of the
- bank said Yes" Next week work
will begin on our new home.
But:
81 still do not advise it," my uncle
said. Building costs are rising"
There is war coming and you might
have to 60" someone else warned.
"You are wrapping your whole future
up in one package. Your marriage, your
financial success. everything will 60 if you
put your savings into the down payment
on a house and then lose it. Travel lightly
in these times, my boy; excess baggage
might drag you down"
Perhaps we should be afraid. Undoubt-
edly there is wisdom in this advice - but
not enough wisdom to hinder the deter
mination of typical young American
working couple who are willing to stake
everything they have on the future of their
country.
Not that we are plunging blindly. We
decided to 60 ahead with our building
plans only after seriously taking inventory
of our own future and of the nations
future.
After all. we are merely youth, risking
today against tomorrow. Our tomorrow
depends upon America as whole. 1t de-
pends upon the man who works beside me
every day and upon the girls who work as
stenographers in the Office with my fiancee.
1t depends upon the men who sit at desks
and plan ahead. 1t depends upon us all -
every one.
So we shall risk our savings in down
payment on our home. We shall do it
willingly and with high hope. Because l
have faith in the men who work with me,
because my fiancee and have faith in our
leaders to steer America straight, we will
take chance. We stake our future on
America. And, in turn, we feel that
America stakes her future on us, on our
not being afraid.
w KNOW that uncertainty produced by
world events vitally affects even such
small atoms as us. But is this reason
enough for us to scurry like rabbits into
some dark hole of fear? We are not totally
without fear in the face of the world crisis,
but our hope is greater thing than fear.
1t was the same with the American
pioneers.
And what of other working people like
us who have already built their rows and
rows of homes along the streets of America?
Is not their risk as great as ours?
Shall they stop making the payments on
their homes? Shall they refuse to buy the
Evening star., 1941-08-03

refrigerator the stove, the new furniture
they really need, because people across the
ocean are dropping bombs upon each
other?
Not to our way of thinking.
Just what. then, are we being advised
against? AS we see, it is merely against
starting. If our home were already finished
no one would advise us to stop making the
monthly payments. They would tell us to
fight to keep making them So we shall
fight to get our home started.
This is not recklessness 1t is the faith
and courage upon which American institu
tions were founded, and upon which our
way of life depends. We are merely re-
spending to the spirit of America - the
spirit that spurns security when security
means compromise with hope, ambition
and faith.
1HE bank will say to my neighbors -
the painters, the carpenters, brickmasons.
electricians and plasterers: Here is
job for you to do, job for young
couple who have confidence in you and in
the future; we must - and do - have
confidence in their future"
Thus, in building this home. we in our
small way help others to gain confidence;
we give them work in the same way that
the owners and employees of local business
and factories create job for us.
In the next few weeks, Americans will
look with satisfaction at the progress of
the National Defense Commission. During
that time we shall look at newly placed
joist in our home and experience the same
kind of satisfaction We, too, are preserv-
ing civilization. We are erecting another
solid rock at the base of democracy "a
home
Already. the very thought of home
has kindled new flames of ambition We
beat the starting whistle by wider margin
when we 60 to work mornings now. Zest
for work during the day has increased If
depressions do come, if war, sickness and
other misfortunes visit us, we shall have
more courage to fight them.
Such small things as the pride of accom-
plishment in having planted new piece of
shrubbery in front of our house; the ex-
pected joy of puttering about kitchen of
our own; the satisfaction of the final pay
ment on favorite piece of furniture -
these are the things that spur us on to
building a home of our own.
Pessimists, free advisers and negative
critics we shall have with us always But
unless we get started we may never have
the one thing so vastly important to us
and to the nation - home of our own,
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"MY BABIES" Maud Tousey Fangel is
the young lady - on the bright side of
fifty - who painted our baby cover this
week. 1t is whispered that Mrs. Fangel has
painted more baby pictures than any other
brush-wielder in the country. She started
the right way. of course. She had baby.
And, first thing you know, she also had a
model. Now every picture she does is a
portrait of real little one This means a
daily struggle" she says IF | were to
get impatient or irritable, the baby model
would reflect my mood - and where
would be!'
She collects her subjects in assorted
ways. Occasionally she visits a nursery
home Once she advertised - but the line
of eager mothers and damp progeny that
formed in front of her door was too long
to handle. Usually she finds cute baby
on the street or in home and talks to his
or her mother.
She calls all her models my babies" -
and, after looking at her pictures, we can't
blame her.
MOTHER. The author of the lovely little
poem on the cover is Harriet Eager Davis.
She is the author of children's books and
poems - and the mother of three sons.
MIRACLE. One evening, so the latest
Berlin story goes Hitler was catching up
on his reading. Accidentally he picked up
the Bible and read with avid interest the
story of the Red Sea. Immediately he
sent storm trooper to get one of Ger
many's leading rabbis out of concentra-
ton camp. When the robed old man ar
rived, Hitler wasted no words:
DO you think the miracle of the Red
Sea could be repeated"
Gould be-"
We'll" said Hitler. Il could use mir
acle like that now. Suppose we fix every
thing up for your people - cut out the
concentration camps and the persecution.
Would you play ball with me?"
iiic oio Hidh tlousnl ioI Hlliule.
II know the ancient words, of course
but would have to have the. wand the
Israelites used
rs it still in existence?"
"Oh, yes!"
Where is it now?"
The rabbi smiled little:
in the British Museum"
SIGN on Shanghai tailoring shop:
RESPECTABLE LADIES HAVING
FITS UPSTAIRS. M.
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Carried up bale of hay or load of grain.
And went shopping for Paullie's groceries.
Then the steep road was closed and the
plane was the only outlet to the outside
world Paullie went to bridge club and
church, and the boys went to Sunday
school in four minutes fiat, with Delmar
landing almost on the church steps. And
his seventy-year-old mother went to town
several times week by plane.
SOS. He has met sickness more than once
with his plane. His older son, six years old,
had an acute appendicitis attack. He called
a hospital to have an ambulance at the
edge of town, flew the boy to the roadside,
and had him at the hospital in twenty
minutes A car would have delivered him
in three hours - too late
The boys both handle the ship in the
air" and talk learnedly about letting off
a little bank on the lee side of an eight"
ALMA HELM
Evening star., 1941-11-16

rangers. especially those of the
go with spells of weather, but
more southern parks. have ever to
contend with the flower and shrub
Snatcher. And, strange as 1t sounds,
violations of the ban on picking and
digging often are unintentional
Blind to warning signs. some Wis
itors commit minor or major desc
crations OF the landscape without
realizing it is park taboo Then
there are the willful violators. The
rangers have worked out a variety
of techniques to treat both types
of individuals.
As practiced in the PiSgah and
Nantahala National Forests and the
Great Smoky National Park. the
penalty system ranges from a warn
ing 10 fine 1t depends on the in
dividual and his alibi. and the ran
gers use of psychology to bring
about the best net results A simple
Warning-nothing mOre-is reserved
for the more conscientious of the
unlntentiOnal viOlatOrS. Where will
fullness gees hand in hand with the
illegal bouquet, the technique varies.
Most lenient OF the penalties for
the knowing violatOr is the surren-
der Of the flowers. Those with
shrubs may be required 10 plant
them again. In the more extreme
cases, arrest and payment of a fine
avenge the Government. But there
are variations even for the arrest
system.
A recent case involved car
loaded with flowers. The woman
motorist was ordered by a ranger
to relinquish them Sum total of
the conversation was that she
wouldn't do it: she was a Mrs. -
she said, naming as her husband
politician. The ranger decided to
argue no further. He let the car
proceed, but took the license num-
Der. A few days later. the woman
who had found the flowers irresti-
Evening star., 1941-11-16
BY JACQUES FUTRELLE, Jr.,
Travel Editor.

Bona fide travel for pleasure by
American citizens faces little or no
curtailment under Fridays proc
lamation by the President clamping
down on the free movement of aliens
from the United States, or in the
requirement that on and after Jam
uary 15,l942. passports will be neces-
sary to go to certain lands beyond
our continental borders The status
Of travel to Mexico and Canada re-
mains the same, even after January
Is of next year, for these two neigh
boring countries are specifically
exempted from the passport re-
quirement under the forthcoming
regulations.
The passport order is effective i'm
med.ately for British territory in
the Western Hemisphere on which
United States defense bases are
being constructed.
For legitimate tourists who are
American citizens. the passport or
der is only a theoretical change.
Whereas now, many of the coun-
tries the American may visit re-
quire passports for entrance. the
prospective orders make the re-
quirement one of the United States
Government also, before the tourist
can sail. AS most of the Pan-Ameri-
can republics already demand that
visitors carry valid passports, even
for short stays, practically nothing
new is brought into the tourist. pic
ture
The proclamation does, however,
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BILE received notice from the dis
trlct park headquarters. There had
been an infraction of the park rules.
the letter said, and the penalty in
her case was SIS. Prosecution in
the Federal courts TO collect was
the alternative.
Solace to the rangers is the fact
that the public generally obeys the
injunction to leave the beauty for
those who follow. Offenders, par
ticularly the willful variety, are
few and far between.
If survey conducted by a Miami
Beach hotel holds true for Ameri-
cans generally. winter vacations
at least those in the land where
summer spends the Winter-are to
be extended beyond those of the
1910 season, despite defense.
The hotel management sent out
10000 questionnaires. asking: DO
YOU intend to return here during
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In. 9 season? II So will YOU Of New York restaurant for av.

the l94l-42 season? II 50, will you
increase or decrease your length of
stay?' Tabulation of replies indi-
Gated II per cent would stay longer
at Miami Beach. II per cent de-
cided on the same length of time,
with 3 per cent uncertain and
3 per cent saying the defense
program would force them to curtail
their stay.
Five thousand northerners who
usually take in snow sports were
questioned on their plans for the
coming winter. A number-not an
nounced-agreed to try Florida"
some Of them for the first time.
Speaking of surveys, the Hotel
and Restaurant News reports an
interesting sidelight on travel by
listing the votes" of lat patrons
Evening star., 1941-11-16

Of a New York restaurant for fav.
orite meat poultry and sea-food
dishes. Roast beef led such rivals
as chicken, pork, veal, oysters and
mackerel The votes were
For roast beef. 372: fried chicken.
1853; roast chicken, 80: chicken Ia
king. 181: roast lamb, 1852; pork
chops. 157; veal outlets, l56; fried
oysters. '144; Irish stew, $50; grlddls
cakes with sausage, l2l; roast pork.
109; blue fish. 10l; broiled chicken,
80. creamed chicken. 81; meat and
spaghetti, Il; baked sausage, 70;
lamb chops, So; oyster stew, 65;
shrimp salad and mackerel, 63 each;
crabmeat salad. 62: goulaSh, So;
beef stew, As; founder 33; lamb
ragout. 80; assorted sea-food plat
ter, II: clam stew, 13
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w. N.U. Release

Il guess you already know Bob
Graham" Roper said. "You know
how warrior gang of Cleve Tan
ner's jumped down on him. on some
thin excuse, and run him off his
range. They even took over his
house and his windmill and his cor
rails. Now, l aim to hand back that
range to Bob Graham; he's waiting
IN Blgspring for the word. Your part
OF the job rs simple enough-you
Just 60 and take it away from the
Tanner bunch"
Simple, huh? Just how do you
figure this SIMPLE trick is to be
done?"%
"a lawyer in San Antonio kept
the Rangers off when Tanner
Jumped Graham. Now we've got an
other better lawyer in San Antonio
to keep them off when Graham
jumps Tanner. The only question is,
who's got enough salt to grab that
range-and then hang onto it,"
And what do we get out of all
this?"
Graham takes over the outfit and
runs it. You hang around and help
him, and see that he doesn't get
run off again. For that you get a
half interest in the outfit. You split
It among you any way you see fit.
I'll back Graham with cattle, and
what other stuff he needs"
Nate Liggett said, "Bill, 1 don't
see where we come in for no adj
vantage"
IF you're satisfied with the lone
wolf stuff you've been pulling, I
haven't got anything to offer YOU"
Roper admitted. But I'll tell you
this-the boys that string with me
now will see the day when they'll
run Texas; and Cleve Tanner, and
Ben Thorpe, too, will be busted up
and forgot"
Its a hefty orderl'
Maybe it is. This Graham bust
ness is kind Of experiment; it'll
work if you make it work. But if
1t goes through okay-it's only the
beginning, you hear me? You string
with me little while; and maybe,
by God, Wen show couple of peo-
pie something :"
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Pres. Roosevelt Disappoints
Hopes OF Negro Citizens
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the Old World despite the fact
that members of his own family
had come to America seeking
opportunities not to be found in
the land of their birth.
Also, following the pattern
of the demagogic Southern Demo
cratic politicians Mr.. Byrnes
Ielected to damn Negroes on
|every occasion possible so rs to
commend himself to the favor
of his collective, bucolic consti-
tuency.
We have referred to him as a
reactionary politician: He has
fought favorable, child labor
legislation Suffrage for Women,
the Wage-Hour bill, appropria-
tons for Negro education, the
Anti-Lynching Bill. and practi-
cally every progressive measure
designed to make this land
worth living in.
His special venom and passion
!ate OratOry was reserved for
Negoes. Always alert, he oppos-
ed Federal appropriations for
Howard university, by making
his little points of order"
whenever that appropriation
came before Congress, until nc
was disarmed by a bill put thru
a Republican Congress- by Re
|publicans, and approved by a
Republican President, Calvin
Coolidge, authorizing statutory
legislation for such aprOpria-
tons. ~
He spoke for and voted for
Jim-Crow policies in recent army
Legislation and sought to mega
tive every provision that would
Prevent discrimination against
persons on account Of race and
color" These samples will sufii-
&c to reveal his prcjudiced, jaun-
diced mind:
They Gmmigranto) have nc
capacity for assimilation with
our white people. They must
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want to know who actually owns
range rights on the Graham stand"
The hard-bitten little man across
the desk from Roper was still cadgy.
When 1t comes to ousting a man
from possession"
You know who 'ousted' Bob Ora
ham and his family from possession.
Cleve Tanner took over that outfit
by main horse-and-gun power, with
out decent cause or reason. Every-
body knows that. I'm asking you
now"
Taylor and Graves are already
doing everything that can be done
to regain possession of Graham's
outfit" Maxim said, smiling.
1t was the smile that Roper liked.
Suppose l hold the Bob Graham
lands, and Bob Graham's family
are living on it.
Bob Graham hasn't got possess
SION" Maxim said.
Suppose he did have?"
"Ncver could happen. Ben
Thorpe"
Shut up a minute" Roper said.
I'm not asking you to put Graham
back in possession of his range. I'm
not asking you to save him from
being put off again in the way he
was before. What / want to know is,
can you head off some cookcd-up
legal interference with Graham, aft
or he's in possession again."
Fred Maxim thought it over. "I
can only promise you that l can
cause considerable delay" he said.
Months of delay?"
Providing you can show possess
sion-Ill keep you clear until hell
freezes"
That's all 1 want ="
Still July, at Willow Creek
A barren range of hills, sand hills;
golden in the dawn, purple in the
twilight, barren always. Beneath
them, what had been the Willow
Creek camp of the old King-Gordon.
In the clubhouse nearest the river,
five men Longing around a little
room.
"All right, you hard guys" Bill
Roper said; you know who told you
to come here. Dry Camp Pierce
told you TO come here. Maybe he
told you what you could lool; for
here, huh?"
These four gunfghters who met
Roper here were none Of them older
than Bill; yet each was famous as a
killer in his own right. OF them all
Bill Roper alone had no name, no
reputation. Yet, in respect for the
name of Dusty King, they had come
to hear him out.
Nate Liggett, a round-faced kid
with eyelashes that looked as if they
had been powdered with white dust
said, well, what seems to be your
offer?"
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CHAPTER VIII

Hot, dry days OF early August
AS the first sun struck with a red
heat across the plains, the Tanner
men who held the Graham ranch
were already saddling. All over
Texas, cowmen were throwing to-
gether the last trail herds of the
year; it was time for these Tanner
men to roll their chuck wagons
again, to round up the last of the
trall-fit stock that remained in the
herds which had belonged 10 Bob
Graham.
Out from what had been the Ora
ham corral, three riders swept
through the dusty dawn; but they
had hardly left the pole fences be-
hind when six other riders confront
ed them, rising into their saddles
like Comanchcs, out of the brush.
The strangers closed in a scmi-cir-
Gle, unhurriedly, their carbnes in
their hands. In another minute or
two the three Tanner riders were
grouped II u defensive knot, while
from the 5cmi-circle of the raiders
Nate Liggett logged forward to talk
it over.
Il don't think you want to 90 on"
he said. Il don't even think you
want to work for this outfit any
more"
Trco nights later, one hundred and Gjiy
miles uiCGy-
With the approach of dusk, a pc
n1tli0r linl,f lo,y r
the Potreros. In a reach of open
grass a herd of five hundred head
punched loosely-tame, heavy cat
tie, already well removed by breed
/ ing from the old, wild, long-horn
strain. But they had not punched
voluntarily. They shuff1ed restless
ly, watching the brush! something
, was happening around them that
they did not understand.
AS the light failed, the figures of
horsemen emerged from the brush,
cutting mile-long shadows into the
fiat rays of sunset; the huge, heavy
shouldered man who signaled to his
spread-out cowboys by turning his
horse this way or that, in Indian
horse language, was Dave Shannon.
They did not harass the cattle.
Only, between sunset and the next
daylight, no COW took a step other
than in the direction of the Next
can border E.
Dry.graS season; Texas scorched b.
The hot WindS-
All across the southern ranges a
peculiar thing was happening. AS
word spread from twenty points oil
disturbance, certain of the older cat
tlcmen began TO sense that there
was curious, almost systematic
order to what in itself seemed &
widespread disruption. All over tn,
Big Bend country, eastward alnos
to the well settled Nueces, west
ward beyond the barren Pecos
/ northward to the fever line, wa
breaking a spotty. wave of raids o
an unparalleled holiness. Far apart
but almostfsimultaneously, hell hat
busted loose in a great number o
places, covering more than half o
Texas.
IN, " ITO BE CoNIINUEDJ sVsTs
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And you want me to take EN-
on the other side-is that the iGce?"
Il want three dollars a head,
american gold, paid off as the cat
tie come out of the water :"
Ropcr's ways Of gathering his wild
bunch were diverse, as diverse as
the saddle men he gathered. One
way or another, picking up man
here, three more there, he got all
he needed, and more.
But certain other things had to be
done, in order that the wild bunch
would have work to do, planned in
such a way that something would
be accomplished that would stay &C
complished.
On steamy afternoon early in
July, Bill Roper sat in Fred Max
ms San Antonio law office. Maxim
was an attorney who, some thought,
had worked under a different name,
somewhere before;' but here, assur-
edly he was in no ones pay.
I'm not asking the likes of you
what's what" Bin Roper said. 81
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Agents from Mt. Nebo Bap-
fist church are soliciting homes
for the accommodation of dele
gates who will attend the Fiat
Top Baptist Association with
Mt. Nebo church as host in mid
July
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Churches

A minstrel under the direc-
ton of Miss Catherine Hairston,
was given at tn World War
Memorial building Tuesday. The
proceeds went to the junior
missionar society of the First
Baptist church.
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Daily Vacation Bible school
Of the Presbyterian church will
begin next week, if Mr.. Hough
who is confined to his home with
a lame knee is able to be out.
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have some society. aud we fear
they would turn 10 the Negro
race mingle with then, and 50
aggravate our Race Problem as
to make it hopeless.
IF the Negro does not care
to live in this land without
political and social equality,
then he can depart for any
other country he wishes ......
There are in this country co.
100000 white Peep determined
not to extend politica! and
social equality to the ten million
Negroes"
As Supreme Court Justice,
Mr.. Byrncs will be compelled to
take this oath
Continued on Page 4
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Seats for no

The throne Of Persian King Chos-
ross II in the Seventh century was a
teweled affair big enough TO include
seats for 800 mobiles, and set on
wheels 50 that the'king could always
face the sun. T., - -
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KEYSTONE News

Mrs. S. Adams and daughter
were visitors in kcytonc We'd
nesday. = ~
Ms. u. Fl. Prunty left Thurs
day to see her mother in Wash
ington and to enter Penn uni
versity in Philadelphia.
Robert Greer is taking his
summer work in Temple college,
Philadelphia.
Joseph lmghram, linotype
operator for the Times, and wife
spent the weekend in Cedar
Grove, the guest of his mother.
Mr.: Henry Britton of Nc
Dowell was a business visitor
IN keystone Thursday.
Mrs. Matte Bushnell of vi
Wan visited Us on Monday.
Elder Bryson preached a very
excellent sermon Sunday night.
MIR. and Mrs. Carl Tucker of
Northfork, were business visit
ors here Wednesday evening.
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Lessons FROM THE EARLY
CHURCH

LESSON TEXT Corinthians 3I.l5
GOLDEN TEXT-For other foundation
can no man lay than that u laid, which is
Jesus Christi Corinthians 3.ll