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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-01-24
fisk Me 4nother
Q. A General Quiz
The Questions

l. In what country is the stone
a unit Of weight?
2. How many Presidents of the
United States have been elected by
the house of representatives?
3. Friday is named after what
goddess?
4. How long is the Grand Can
yon Of the Colorado river?
5. Who was the first to hit upon
the theory that the earth moves
around the sun?
8. Are any state universities
non-coeducational?
z. How many battles of the Civil
war were fought off the coast of
France?
8. Have all large American
cities gained in population in the
last 10 years?
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ty began singing at conventions and
banquets.
She went to Hollywood, sang on
the radio, lost her job and had to 90
on relief. She was singing on the
streets for pennies when Sam Wood,
the director, discovered her. Her
second picture was "The Roundup;
she's working now in LAS Vegas
Nights" and next will do 1.-TWO Bad
Angels" and she's just signed a
brand new contract with Paramount.
Ka.h.r,nt espbura ha. had her
revenge on the people who not SO
awfully long ago considered her
"poison ut the box office"; her now
Metro picture, "The Philadelphia
Story" topped All records for New
FORKS huge Radio City Music Hall
for the last i've years. Cary Grant,
James. Stewart, Roland Young and
Ruth Hussey give her perfect sup
port. Miss Hepburn evidently knew
that she had o good thing when
she found "The Philadelphia Story;
she Is still starring In the stage YER
sion-she Is part owner Of the play
and she Is full owner Of the picture,
as well as its star.
~
The success OF "Teeny," Fibber
MCGEE and Molly's little ~ betcha!"
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not done SO. So after some hesita-
ton, believing the whole thing to be
dreadful misunderstanding and
mistake. ! wrote him honestly. His
answer came today. It was cheer
fui, friendly. casual, and answers
absolutely nothing. He says he Ia
terribly busy but will come around
soon. This mornings paper lists his
name as q guest at q smart little
theater supper given by one of our
prominent society women.
II know he likes me better than
any new-found friend. We have
known each other for seven or eight
years. although the specially init
mate friendship only began last
spring. For the first time in INV
life am In love, and cannot have
the whole thing terminate this way,
and yet have my pride to consider
and don't want to overstep the line.
In what way can attract him back
to me, for know that 1t would take
little to restore the old happy con-
fldence."
Love q Fleeing Fever.
Both Forty-four and Sixteen are
fooling themselves. They know In
their own hearts that until an en-
gagement Is announced and the ring
safe on a woman's finger, q man Is
as free az air. A few loveletters,
few exquisite memories are all that
remain to the woman, and at most
they would 60 only to prove what we
all know anyway, that man In a
tickle animal, as woman Is, and
that once that fieeting fever called
being in love Is over. it ia OVER.
Any attempts to restore 1t only be-
Titles the woman in the mans eyes.
No man needs any reminder II he
really wants to see a woman. In
the happy frst stages Of an affair
she has a thousand proofs of this.
He finds excuses for messages, meet
ings, exchanges of notes.
Her life is one blissful reminder of
his devotion.
Go Bravely On.
When it stops, the only thing to
do is to make the most of catering
memories, and 60 bravely on to the
next exciting friendship. Re
proaches and reminders will only
annoy him, and destroy the remains
OF his affection.
For Sixteen, Of course, life holds
deeper and truer emotions; she will
laugh at her little-g girl tragedy some
day, and regard the object of IL with
indifferent amazement. But for For
ty-four the matter is more serious.
1t Is a real calamity to have
glimpsed, at that age, after the lone.
ly and Woodworking years, what
companionship and q home and the
devotion Of fine man might mean.
and to relinquish it will be q hard
slow painful task.
Women pay high for everything
they get in this life; love means
more to them than it does to men,
and married life offers them induce
ments that 1t doesn't hold for their
mates. Children cost mothers in
finitely more than they do fathers;
they have a higher value to their
mothers. But of all things for which
women pay an incomplete love-affair
is the most expensive; Anne il going
to need real philosophy In the next
few months.
To stop fooling herself Is perhaps
the shortest cut to peace. The soon
er she does that, and poor little Six.
teen does that, the happier they will
be.
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gui, lS no naSn IN
the pan. Marian
Jordan, who plays
"Teeny" as well an
MOLLY" was one Of
radios pioneers In
adding q child's
voice to her roper
toire Of characters.
She did her little
girl routine fully II
years ago in Chica-
60 as part Of Kali
tenmeyer's Kinder
0nFfnn nnn - -
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By VIRGINIA VALE

released by Western Newspaper UnionJ
VX/HEN talk began of $4,000
w airplanes a year, the Amer
lean public was surprised to
learn that it takes at least five
men on the ground to keep one
man in the air, but the picture
makers of Hollywood consid-
cred the number rather small;
you see, they use anywhere
from thirty to forty persons be-
hind the camera to keep one
actor in front of it.
In a scene made for THAT I'm
certain Feeling" in which Merle
Oberon appeared alone before the
camera, there were 35 persons on
the set to help her make shot
which will last Is seconds on the
screen. If you're interested, the list
included two assistant directors,
cameraman, camera operator,
two camera assistants, ten electri-
clans, three carpenters, two prop
erty men, four sound men, a paint
er, q wardrobe woman, a makeup
man, body makeup woman,
hairdresser, q still photographer,
playback operator, pianist for Off
stage sound and stand-in. The
thirty-ffth was Director Ernst
Lubitsch.
Betty Brewers ship has really
come in at last BettY's the attrac-
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NO WONDER she looks sweet
- as pie and decidedly pleased
with herself! This little miss, with
the bows in her curls and her doll
by the arm, is wearing the newest
and best of pinafore-jumper FASH
ions, and one that you should make
up Immediately for your own
small daughter. The pinafore-
jumper is SO deliciously full, below
that down-scooped cut in the front,
and the sash bow in the back &C.
cents its saucy flare. The little
guimpe is plain and tailored, as it
should be for school and kinder
garten, with round, tailored col
lar and a little neck bow.
Send for the pattern right away
(the number is $500. Make the
pinafore-jumper Of checked ging-
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tive but not beauti-
full youngster who
made such a hit in
Rangers Of For
tune" remember?
She's been the bread
winner for her fam
lily of Ave for a year
she's Is now. Her
family migrated
from Joplin, Mo-, to
Sacramento, Calf,
in a fivver, but her
father couldn't find
work fhare md Pat.
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ODDS AND ENDS

q FranchOi Tone has signed up to make
hco pictures year for fee years Jor Uni.
UeTSgl
81 Charles Boyer cO-ssaTs 10Th Deanna
Diurbin IN "Ready for Ropaacs" which
Deanna is
q JaHes CGgney and the nsIOly-toed Beue
Darts wH cO.Sfar IOg the first time in The
2 ide Came {. D. d."
q Blns Crosby and Boo Hope are going
to play gOl for Britain. They've an.
nonnccd that they SOiR begin golfng tour
~ March, teamed sOith tao golf profession.
ais the proceeds going "a British War relief.
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FACE THE FACTS
tBen syndicnte-wNU Service i

Stop fooiins yourself l. The sound
adpics Kathleen Norris siues 10 uoD,.
en- in love ,0iih men uko do not re.
arn their affections. When . brief
PERIOD OF mutual love Z terminated,
hey ny desperately TO restore the old
oonds Of affection. Miss Norris advises
hem that fhs shortest iooy 70 peace is
70 realize the lore affair 10 OYER. She
odn''ts this may be hsarfbreakins
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As Fe Go, Preach

And as ye go, preach, saying, The
kingdom Of heaven is at hand. Heal
the sick, cleanse the lepers. raise
the dead, cast out devils; freely We
have received, freely give.-Mat-
thew x, 7-8.
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BY KATHLEEN NORRIS


that said the same thing;
- one from Nancy, a girl of
Is in Los Angeles, and the other
from Anne, a woman of A in
Boston. Each one was fooling
herself and each one wanted me
to 60 on with the fooling.
1t was the old question. II
know he likes me better than
anyone else; he was unmistake-
able in his attentions and inten-
tons for months, but something
has happened-he was away, or
/ was away, and now for some
weeks he hasn't telephoned or
come to see me-"
The girl Of 10 is quite desperate
II wrote him twice." she writes.
land then returned q book he had
loaned me, and telephoned him to
see If he had gotten it. He was az
nice as he could be, and said he
would telephone as soon as he was
free for an evening, but that was
a week ago, and I'm just sick about
It'll ! hear he Is going with another
girl, not seriously, but he has taken
her out twice, and 1t makes me feel
just heartbroken. will never like
any one else as well, and I seem
incapable Of getting any interest in
life except thinking Of him."
Older Woman's Case Sadder.
The middle-aged woman L. less
despairing. but after all, her case
In sadder, for at A love-affair
bites pretty deep, and one is not
at all sure that there will be an
other coming along in a year or two
to heal the wound.
II was unhappily married more
than 20 years ago." says the Boston
woman's letter. 1.-THE marriage
was a mistake from the first, and
after seven months Of it we were
divorced; my daughter was born
some months later. This marital
failure was bitter experience to
me, and for years took no interest
whatever in men, devoting myself to
my child and my profession. am
department head Of a preparatory
school for girls. My daughter, now
20, was married a few weeks ago.
She has been the one great interest
in my life until recently, when l be-
came extremely friendly with a doc
tor, widowed, two years younger
than l am, and in every way the
man / have dreamed Of all my life.
He is successful, good-looking, popu-
lar, music-loving; his daughter, an
only child, has been with US in the
school for a year.
BILLY began paying me real at
tention last spring-a happy time for
mel We took both daughters on
little trips, he dined often at my
little apartment, sent me books,
flowers, telephoned every day and
finally asked me to have a photo
graph taken especially for him,
which l did
Her World Stops.
Then, quite suddenly, just three
weeks ago, everything stopped. I
was stunned. No message, no tele-
phone, no dates; it left me feeling
scared and blank. / wrote him,
tried to resume the old easy tone,
but felt that / failed. After some
days he did come to dinner, but he
brought his young office associate
with him, making the meal a three
some that was an utter loss to me.
Il made a luncheon engagement
with him, knowing that something
must be very wrong. and determined
to be quite frank with him and ask
him what had happened to break I'D
our friendship. However, on the
morning OF our luncheon he tele-
phoned the office TO say that he could
not keep the engagement, but would
get IN touch with me soon. He has
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dos first network children shows.
Fibber MCGEE and Molly weren't
even names on q radio script until
six years later, when Don Quinn,
the Jordans' script writer, thought
them up.
y
II the "Quizx Kids" are among
your radio favorites prepare to see
them on the screen before long.
They're making = series Of shorts at
ParamOunt's Long Island studios.
The star performer Is sure to be
that very young man, Gerard Oar
row, who ranks with John Kieran
Of Information Please" when II
comes to natural history.
y
Don't be surprised If you happen
to meet your favorite radio stars
and discover that their voices sound
altogether different than they do
when you hear them on the screen
or radio. Rudy Vallee, John Barry
more and Billie Burke are outstand-
ing examples of this difference in
voices; theirs are all pitched lower
naturally than they are when they
come over the air.
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In Turmoil

In seasons of tumuit and dis
cord bad men have most power;
mental and moral excellence re-
quire peace and quietness.-Tac-
tus.
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CHRIST'S CONCERN
FOR THE LOST

LESSON TExT-Luke 1S:l.lo
GOLDEN TExT-The Son of man In CONS
o seek and to save that which was lost
luke 1910.
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The success OF "Teeny," Fibber
MCGEE and Molly's little 81 betcha! I"
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Of his organi-
zation in the
national de-
tense effort.
Mr.. Frey, one
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-01-24

JOHN P. FREY, president of the
- metal trades department of the
A. F. Of L., announces the mo
strike" and full co-operation policy
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WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL r. PARTON

Consolidated Features-WNU Service.)
NEW YORK.-Just how far DR.
' Arnulfo Arias, new president o
Panama, will cooperate with the u
S. A. in defending the Canal Zon,
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Betty Brewers ship has really
come in at last. Betty's the attrac-
Evening star., 1941-03-16

AMERICAN. Louis Adamic, author of the
important article on this page, was born
in what is now Yugoslavia. He came to
this country as poor immigrant boy of
fourteen. Today he is an American citizen.
During twenty-seven years in this Coun-
try, Adamic has lived in or visited every
state. He has been factory hand, miner,
a steel worker, a sailor, pilots clerk in
Los Angeles harbor, an American soldier
in the first World War. As writer, he has
spoken eloquently of and for the 38 OOO, 900
new Americans" who have come to this
country in the past century. We are
happy to welcome him to this page, which
is dedicated to building better America
4 X 4
HI-YO. Hard-riding Western sheriffs are
still found in real life as well as in the
movies. For example, Sheriff Lon Jordan,
Evening star., 1941-03-16

of Phoenix, Arizona, is champion steer
roper and bronco buster. The F.B.I. says
he is champion sheriff, too
Sheriff Jordan was colorful figure at
the recent rodeo in Phoenix As in many
other Western communities, the whole
town goes cowboy during rodeo week.
Any man caught without cowboy raiment
is promptly clapped in a replica frontier
Jail until he pays fine and decks himself
out. Everyone plays the game with a
laugh and enjoys keeping the 'Old West"
up to date.
Evening star., 1941-03-16

TEA WAGONS. A friend in England
writes us about typically English feature
of London's fire department It h e
Y.MCA's mobile tea cars. Tea cars are
light trucks equipped with stoves to boil
water for tea, cook eggs sausages, etc.
On major alarms they clatter through the
= streets along with the fire engines and
often remain on twenty-four- hour duty to
serve the weary fire fighters. M.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-21

the matter with somebody and
they are not hurt or sick or IN
bad luck how can they make the
tears come TO their eyes2 Ethel
Ses do you mean me or my
mons? I SEES ! mean YOU and
Ethel ses we'll Joe ! Just start
feeling sorry for myself. ] ses
what are you sorry for yourself
about Ethel2
SHE SIS about anything and
everything Joe but nothing in
particular. II / burn myself
making your dinner that helps
me feel sorry for myself II !
cannot find something ! am
looking FOR that helps too. II
does not take much TO make me
feel sorry for myself and start
me out on q real good cry Joe
SIS well that IS the craAeSt
thirs ! ever heard Of ! scs now
! viii be worrying all day LONG
about YOU sittiHg here st home
feeling sorry Tor yourself and
Ethe, Sos O you must never
worry about that Joe ! do rot
have those crys every day. Some
times ! DO not have one once IN
tao or three months and you
would never have known about
them II YOU had not come IN un-
expected today and caught me-
with my ewes REQ DO 1 look
terrible joe
I SIS no sweets but Will
very lust the same and Ethel
ses zoe s., IS TOO bad you do not
know as much about ladies as my
pops ard then YOU would not
worry about me crying DO you
know what my pops Ses Joe2
J SOS wla.7 Ethel ses my pops
Sos ne ladies you want 10 worry
about are the ones who never
trt.
SIS we'll EJho. maybe YOUR
pops ls right and sAo Scs yeS and
ue ls always uebt Sos but you
never CRY much when am
around and she Ses no Joe but !
often feel Ike it and YOU know
Why r. is because ] am so
happy when Z am With you and
! srs Ethel Just FOR that am
golng 70 give you another kiss
and take you 70 the movies.
Yours truly. JOE TURP
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-21
l5ng
About
Town
By Arthur
.(Bu$s)Baer

Strangers 10 the city OF
broken hearts and busted
tenders called New York
are astonished at the num-
Der OF natives who walk
along gossiping with
their shadows.
That's a strange habit New
Workers have. And a strange
habit that has New Workers.
When YOU spot a New
Yorker walking along buIzinE
like n bee, he h also giving
himself the nod. In the
Ethics we mean that he IL
agreeing with himself.
You never see a native
talking To himself and shak-
lnE his head In the negative.
There Ia no doubt Of the
high type Of audience. II
you watch a self talker long
enough. he will stop and clap
his hands. lie II not calling a
taxi or killing a mosquito.
lie IL applauding himself.
Lawyers and doctors do
most Of the interpretive SER
mOniLing, Followed closely
by Wall Street brokers and
newSpa permen. And also by
the first cop who spots their
quaint system OF broadcasting.
The Ethics Of Talking To
Yourself off the screwball
rOstrum are simple and elias
tic. You start with a frOwn.
then YOU raise your eyebrows.
bust into laugh. and say:
"Abbistrat targent Ollabay the
threegadds."
You are giving yourself the
double talk. liza wagon backs
up. just brush the dandruff
off your collar and 20 quietly.
The Ethics wishes 10 state
that people also talk TO them.
selves in Chicago, Boston. Los
Angeles and Washington.
But they are all visitors
from New York.
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there Ethel have you oeen cry
ing? She ses yes ! have Joe.
! SES why what's the matter
sweets? Have you heard bad
news? She seS no Joe ses
are you sick2 She ses no, Joe |
ses did somebody come here and
insult your ! ses If they did YOU
tell me who and Will give them
a clop on the chops Ethel seS
no Joe nobody insulted nc
Nobody has been here al day
long.
7 SIS well did J say anything
10 YOU this morning 10 make
YOU cry? II did I don re-
member II and ! am sorry baby.
She ses no Joe YOU did not say
ANYTHING ses what's the mat
ter then? Ethel scs nothing S
the matter Joe.
SHE SIS Joe there is noihlps
20 tell YOU was lust crying
that's all. ! ses Ethel there had
10 be some reason. l ses do yoL
break a finger nsll2 She Ses no
Joe. ses did thew forget 70
send your new dress from the
store? She scS no Joe There
was no reason AZ all ! just teli
like having a GOOD cry 80 l hao
It. Don YOU ever teel IKE
having d 5000 cry Joe
I SIS SEE here Elhe. YOU
know vcrY well never CIV eN-
cept once in a while al me
movies when the little boy gets
hurt and brings the fellow ard
the dame back together again.
I ses ! never heard OF sJch a
thing as somebody CRYING Tor
no reason a. al.
ETHEL SIS O pooh Joe
Every lady cries once So awhile
Just 70 make herself feel better
I have seen nv mons cry FOR
hall AZ hour ar a time aUc S9e
always felt Vonderfg. after
wards. You WOULD have bought
her hesrt was breaking rne nay
She cried Joe
! SIS Ethel you mean she
cried half an hour when she
had no reason 20 cry Ethel
ses that's right Joe. can cry
louder than my mons but not
as long.
I SIS now wait a minute
Ethel Sos E~there Is nothing
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-21

me daily. After I've read Il. my
roommate. Ned Russell, Of Unit
ed Press, gloms II and then II Is
mailed 10 Quent Reynolds at the
Savoy where group OF more
than two dozen American re-
porters live. Quent passes "
from hand to hand until all have
read IL. After which II Is re-
turned 10 me and ! send IL TO
The American Eagle Club where
they are kept on file in the read
ing room. Once a month the
Eagle Club librarian gathers a
months supply. pastes the
thumbworn columns onto card
board and sends them TO the
club rooms of The American
Home Guard. I do not know
your gross circulation over here.
hot ! can say that virtually
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-21

every American male between
the ages OF Is and IS gets a
gloom at your sass. Understand
Beaverbrook invited you TO come
over. Come on!
AFTER ] READ Quentin Rey-
nolds Lord Hush Hush" IN n re-
cent Golfers ! knew 1t would
have been a waste OF time for all
concerned. Reynolds revealed
how AZ American correspond
ents go screwy because OF CEN
sors) trying to get the news back
TO their editors. And how ridicu-
lous many Of the deletions are
and how the blue-pencilers
leave In things that might be
dangerous-but omit stuff that
is in every nations intelligence
dept II ! went II would be
70 diR . story.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-21
Charm
Schools!

Here's something new Mel
Potts OF New York City would
like to see all the girls studying
CHARM!
Dear Miss Robinson;
In colleges these days they
teach girls TO be geometricians,
statistlcians, physicists, adding
machines and athletes. Why
not teach them 10 be what Ma
ture intended them TO beat
tractive, aIiuring females? How
about . course I'm Charm? What
could be more practical and
worth while?
THE girls In our school could
certainly use some OF Il. There
should be a little less emphasis
on Latin and more on grace and
poise. II would help the girls
get better grades In the social
as well as in the scholastic
world.
No denying the girls try hard
erouDh--iook az the expense
and effort they 90 through try
INC 10 be attractive. But they
need professional ddrtcc, lest
the oiri Nature intended to be
The simple, appealing type try
20 be a Gidmor Gtrl--with dis
dStrous results. They can't ALL
be Gldmor GtrlS-moSt succeed
only IN looking plain foolish.
But every girl can learn TO
walk gracefully. TO wear clothes
and makeup that suit her per-
soBaIlty and to converse intel
ligently with men and not guSh
meaningless nothings.
Mel Potts-age %.
2609 Aqueduct ave.
Bronx. New York City.
$50 price.
"Let there be music." cries
Lucille williams Of San MateO,
Calif.
Think ~ the natural talent
that is wasted because many
youngsters cannot afford Ia
take music lessons. There are
thousands Of young people who
have the markings Of good must
clans, but they never have the
chance to develop their talent.
IL Is important that musical
training begin early. and II the
parents cannot send their chill
dren To private teachers. the
public schools should give them
the elementary training which
viii start them on the right
road. Later. when they are old
enough 10 earn money Of their
own. they can get advanced in
struction from private teach
ers.
Lucille Williams. age "a
A 10th ave,
San Msteo. California.
$40 prize