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Evening star., 1942-10-11
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.IARNE
! PIE

"X/Es SIR. when you see what extra
/ tender, faky crust you get Spry's
easy 2-step way-when you hear your
folks praisin' it to the skies-l Just know
you won't 20 back to ordinary shortenin's
again, says Aunt Jenny. MAKE this won
derful pie today. Notice how the delicate
Sprycrust seems to bring out the FULL
flavory goodness of the apples, sweetened
with part sugar an part honey an perked
up with lemon juice an spices"
Harvest Apple Pie
recipe Spry n teaspoon
P;acr,st cinnamon
6 large tart apples. n teaspoon
sliced thin nutmeg
% cup sugar teaspoon lemon
u cup honey juice
IL teasnoon salt tablespoon butter
Roll n of dough and line 9-inch pie
plate Combine apples, sugar; honey, salt,
spices and lemon juice. Fill pie shell with
apples. Dot with butter. Moisten edge OF
pie with water. Roll remaining dough for
top crust and cut few Sits to permit
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to the train. She wouldn't cry
about him. She could kill him
when he said things like that
about her, while her nights
we're filled with dreams OF him;
an ardent, loving Jimmy, who
somehow always managed TO
laugh at her before she woke up.
And now he was going away.
She remembered all the pic
lures in the papers of the boys
who married pretty Australian
and Irish girls. Lennie's heart
sank even more. Some cute lit
tie girl would grab Jimmy up
before he knew what was hap
pening. Well. she intended TO
make ono last attempt. Shc
would kiss Jimmy goodby, and
If he could find anything SIS
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steam to escape. Fit top crust over fruit
and seal edge Of pie. Bake in hot oven
(425o F.) so to 60 minutes.
Spry Pieerust
Mix 2A cups sifted ALL~PURPosE FLOUR
and teaspoon SALT Measure out n cup
sPRY and divide into two equal parts.
STEP for Tenderness in first half
of Spry until as fine as meal.
STEP 2 for Flakiness- cut in remaining
Spry until particles are size of large peas.
Add 5 tablespoons cold WATER (no
more, no less, mixing thoroughly into
dough. Makes enough pastry for one 3
inch 2-crust pie.
Save this recipe
Make all your pastry this easy 2-step way
and be sure of tender, flaky crust every
time with no hint of off -havors to smother
the taste of the filling Use Spry for lighter,
FULL FLAVOR cakes-crisp, digestible
fried foods. Change to purer Spry today
for all your baking and frying!
Evening star., 1942-10-11

Outside, the moonlit yard looked brighter
and somehow different 1t looked to Lennie
as though blight lay on everything. Jimmy
was gone. She felt sure of it.
small light was burning in the Boswell
living room, but the place looked deserted
when she ran up the front steps. God. please
let him still be here she sobbed.
"Whoa there!' Jimmy emerged from no
where and stuck an arm out to stop her.
She fell into it, gasping thankfully. Still here!
He hadn't left yet, by some miracle. She
cutched his arm, trying to stop the sobs still
shaking her. "Oh. Jimmy! was afraid you'd
gone''
Jimmy stared at her, his dark eyes brilliant
in the moonlight. ''You were - Len! Why,
you're crytngr' She felt his arm move "Lennie
>. crying" There was wonderment, soft and
tender in his voice.
lIENNIE shut her eyes and hung on to the
blessed reality of his arm. She couldn't help
how Jimmy felt about crying. He was there,
and he wasn't furious because she was late.
1t was late. Why wait till they got to the
station? There might not be time. then. or
something might happen. She'd kiss him now.
She raised her lips; opened her eyes.
Something in Jimmy's face stopped her.
Something in the intense awareness OF his
eyes as he searched her face She caught her
breath silently. Jimmy was looking at her as
he'd never looked before.
"Why, you're - you're beautiful, Lennie -
Couldn't be Just the moonlight, could it?'
His arm frightened. "Or is it the tears? never
saw you this way before. Never saw you cry -
didn't think you could What's up?'
Lennie shvered slightly. She was afraid
to move or speak. Nothing must break this
SPELL Jmmy's arm around her was her only
contact with reality. In minute he would
remember that he had to leave. If time would
only stand still for little while! This was so
much like one of her dreams, she didn't want
to remind him he must go.
Don't cry. honey!' Jimmy said huskily.
"Tell old Jimmy what's the NATTER
Lenne snuggIed her face against his chest
81 was dreaming that you married an Aus
tralan girl. woke up and - She couldn't
bring herself to remind him how late it was
Jimmy tilted her head back. so that's it!
And you thought | was gone Tenderness
spread over his face "I'm glad you dreamed it,
honey. Glad it sent you to me like this - SO
soft and different -- or I'd never have really
known YOU never have known how sweet
and lovable you arc! And was feeling so
lonesome and sort OF lost that uldn't sleep
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right as to face, figure and disposition. But
not Jimmy He just didn't see her as woman.
She was the girl next door he had grown up
with, and she might as we'll have been his
sister or even his brother. Fought up with
would be more accurate. The first time she'd
laid eyes on him, they'd fought. Literally
She had been eight at the time. She knew
some people had moved into the house next
door, but she had just seen man and a
woman So she felt it was still all right tor her
to get up in her favorite perch, the big tree
lust inside the other yard. She remembered
how indignant she had felt when someone
asked: "What are you doing in our tree?'
She had glanced down and there was Jimmy;
q tall. slender boy few years older than her
self. staring curiously up at her out of large,
dark eyes.
She had pointed out that it was as much her
tree as his, because she had sat in it Tor years
and he had just come there
He hadn't seen the logic of that, and told
her to get out or he'd come up and get her
ont. She had never been one to duck an issue
or fight, so she had promptly Climbed - or
as Jimmy said later - flown down to defend
her rights.
And so scratches and cut lips marked the
beginning of their friendship. Since then,
they'd fought with and for each other ndls-
criminately Jimmy had been frail as boy,
and her support had turned the tide OF several
battles for him,
She worried now about Jimmy's health.
He had tried to get in the Air Corps year
ago, and they'd turned him down. Since then,
Jimmy had been what he called building him.
self up, 50 they'd take him. Lennie had ialth-
fully clipped all pictures and ads OF men with
bull nccks and obscendy bulging muscles,
and tackled them up in Jimmys room
JIMMY would never lcok like one OF those
pictures. Not with his poets eyes and lean
checks - and the wide, curved mouth that
she had wanted to kiss for so long. She turned
her face into the pillow and deep sobs racked
her. She would never kiss him. probably.
When she was with him it was constant
battle to keep up with him. Wlsecracks were
what he wanted from her
Oh, yes, it was safe to let her go with MN
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-24
zs:IaS9RI!A|
 BELLS IN

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play,
 And ioild and sioeef
 The ,oords repeat Of peace on earth, good-ioiH 10 menl And thought hotc, as the day had come. The belfries ot all Christendom
 Had rolled along The unbroken song or peace on earth, good-iciH to men! Till, ringing, siUinging on Us iody, The tcorld reuolped from night to day 4 poice, chime,
 4 chant sublime Of peace on earth, good-ioiH 10 men! Then from each black, accmsed mouth The cannon tiundered in the South And roith the sound
 The carois droicned Of peace on earth, good.iCHl to men! It teas us II an earthquake rent The hearfh.sfones ot continent,
 And made forion
 The households born OF peace on earth, good-ioiIl to men! And in despair I botUed my head; "There is no peace on earth" said; For haie is strong
 And mocks the song OI peace on earth, goodiciH 10 men! Then peoled the bells more loud and
 deep.
 God is not dead; nor doth He sleep! The Wrong shall tail,
 The Right prerail, :. With peace on earth, good-ioiH 10 menl"
 -Henry Wads,oorih LongfeHoi1.
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bring us that wagon, Mama?" she asked. That's all Jimmy and want Just that wagon"
 The woman tried to smile I'm afraid not, darling"
 Shortly suddenly realized that he was free to go on. Still he hestitated
 But, Mama" the boys pleaded, we wrote to him. We told him where we live now
 Shorty stepped forward impulsive- ly. Pardon me, Madam" he mur- mured, pressed the precious five dollar bill into her hand, and walked quickly away. Not, however, before he heard her gasp of delight
 He stood on the curb, unaware of the freezing wind, as happy as he had ever been in his life Tonight he would sleep in the city jail :. common tramp. But tonight he had done something of which he would always be proud. A hand settled on his shoulder, He turned, recognized the gray-hair- ed man who had given him the money. For an instant Shorty was frightened.
 I'm sorry, sir" he said q want ed to tell you of your error right away, but you left before I could. I haven't the money now"
 The man smiled Don't worry over that" he said quietly Tt wasn't an error"
 Then, what :. ?'
 My companion ana 1 made you the subject of a wager" the man explained. He claimed the first thing you would buy if you put your hands on some money would
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-24
STOCKING ON
 CHRISTMAS IS
 OLD TRICK

Christmas just wouldn't be Christ mas to American boys and girls without a visit from St Nick.
 According to history, St. Nicholas in real life was the Archbishop of Myra and lived during the Fourth century. Tn the Middle Ages, he makes his first traditional appear ance in the legends of the North land.
 One legend concerns St. Nicholas eve, which originally was celebrat- ed on the sixth of December Young ladies, it seems, would hang up their stockings in hopes that St Nicholas would fill them with dowries. After time, St. Nick and the stocking hanging custom was incorporated into the celebration of Christmas.
 Another Ie g end says that on Christmas eve the spirit of St. Nich- olas rode across the land on great white horse followed by the hosts and innocents slain in Bethlehem by the order of Herod. Children of the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-24

Christmas Eve. Tn the entrance drive on huge apartment building, Shorty Cavendish huddled in a vain attempt to protect himself from the cold. His normally genial face was pinched and drawn, and his roly- poly body shuddered as the wind bit through his pitifully inadequate clothing.
 Shorty was broke. For six weeks now he had been tramping the streets, hoping and praying to find a job. Only the day before he had been turned out of his rooming house, his clothing and other pos sessions confiscated by sharp tongued landlady.
 Yet what bothered him even more was the gnawing emptiness in the pit of his stomach.
 It was then his attention turned to the two men on the corner. For some time they had stood regarding him, the younger man sometimes gesturing his way, the older one shaking his head. Shorty shrugged. Maybe they were plainsclothes of ficers Anyway, he was going to hit them for dime.
 He approached the men. Do you happen to have an extra dime, Mister?"
 The older man reached into his pocket, drew forth a bill and hand ed it to Shorty with smile. "Mer " Christmas" he said, then turned away.
 Shorty stared at the bill, his heart in his throat. Five dollars. The man must have made a mistake. But when he looked up his benefactor had melted into the crowd.
 Shorty remained undecided for a
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be a bottle of liquor. l disagreed. After we saw what you did do with it, we couldn't just walk away" His eyes played briefly over Shorty's s fat little figure, and he cleared his throat. Our lodge is giving party tonight for some children from the Clearview Orphanage. We need a man to act as Santa Claus, and if you don't mind my saying so, you'd take the part splendidly After that we could arrange to give you a job as assistant janitor at our hall. Would you be interested?"
 "Interested?" Shorty choked. Mister" he said slowly, you've just offered me ticket to heaeven. 7
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-24
How Happy Pierre Paid
 For His Special Yule Gift

Many touching. snd very human stories about Christmas and the Christ Child are being told and read at this time of the year.
 Ore of them, related recently by movie producer in Hollywood who ste.ed he heard it at a little French shurch in bis West coast town, fits h, very well with the spirit of Christ Eas.
 According to the story repeated, a member of a sectarian order was erecting a little vignette of the Ma tivity scene. A short time after the scone was erected, the tiny figure of the Christ Child was missing.
 The loss was reported immediate ly to the rector of the parish who came hurrying to the scene of what looked like a theft. On the way back, feeling very sad because of the loss, he was almost struck by boy in a little red wagon, rushing down the street. The rector knew the happy little boy very well. He was Pierre, the local Bakers son.
 Just as he was about to speak to hin he suddenly noticed the missing hgure in the boys wagon.
 Tt was you, Pierre" he cried, ~who stole the Christ Child"
 Pierre, silent. said nothing and hung his head.
 After being scolded and asked shy he took the figure, the tot be- gan to stammer: q wanted a red wagon, this wagon. for Christmas. l prayed for it in His name, telling
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moment, then turned and walked as swiftly as his half-frozen feet would permit toward the restaurant Through his mind was racing won derful dreams.
 He merged with the crowd in front of toy shop, felt himself damned tightly against the display window. A small boy and girl stood beside him, their noses pressed to the cold pane. staring in mingled awe and anticipation at the big red wagon on display Then he noticed the woman who stood behind them. She was shabbily dressed, and on her face was a look of despair.
 The little girl glanced back, eyes shining. Do you think Santa will
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the International Society of Stock ing-hangers.
 Our ancestors brought St. Nick to America, where he has grown round and fat and jovial, traded his great white horse for eight magic rein deer, and his pack bulged bigger and bigger
 This year Santa's pack may be minus a few luxury products and mechanical gadgets, but that doesn't matter as long as there are mamma dolls, sleds and drums and picture books; toys for the children.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-24

Northland filled their wooden shoes with oats for the Saints horse and set them outside of the door; in the morning, providing the children had been good, the oats were gone and the shoes were filled with nuts and apples.
 Eventually, the boys and younger children, the wives and husbands, and even the grandparents, decided the girls were getting too much the best of things; so, they all joined
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-24
FOR TIE DOG

t(The greatest friend of man, the playfellow for CT lighter moods and the protectofSof our homes and children)
 Collar-flat for a shcrt-haired dog, round for a long-haired one. Leather leash
 Blanket, either knitted or woven. Why not house of his own for the yard?
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Him that if I did get it would give him a ride in it. For it is His birth day, you know"
 The kind rector, tears in his eyes, had not words of reproof, but kind- ness for thoughtful little Pierre.
 I'm sorry, son, that didn't un- derstand. You are quite right. It is His birthday. You have given Him more than any Magi ever gave to Him on the day of his birth, many. many years ago"
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If it's a small house pet-a rug or a pillow.
 Several cans of dog food Sponge and dog soap Some big bath towels for drying. Ball for plaything
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-24
CHRISTMAS CANDLES

Christmas tree candles date back to the very earliest times in the Christian era. The Yule candle, of goodly size, lighted early Ma -ivitv scenes
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-29
CHECKED FOR TWO MONTHS

Leon Henderson, frank and aggres-
sive head of the Office of Price Admins
tration, reports that the upswing in the cost
OF living has been checked for two months"
He believes that initiation can be stop
ped because the American people will not
commit hari-kari." He insists that stabil-
ization of wages and farm prices is neces-
sary.
While regulation is new thing and
there is "commendable resistance" to
minute rules, the Price Administrator IS
confident that ''as the seriousness of the
situation deepens. American labor and
American farmers will accept the same dis
cipline that retailers and manufacturers
have so magnificently accepted"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-29
SMALL ITEMS AND SCRAP

The average American is inclined to
overlook the contribution that he, or she,
can make to the effort to save metal for the
war effort. This attitude is understand
able, but it is very important that every
man, woman and child take positive action
TIC salvage critical metal and to avoid it's use
whenever possible.
Along this line, Charles l.. Sheldon,
chief of the Containers Branch of the WPB,
says that if every American family will
eliminate the purchase of one can of can
ned food every week, the practice would
make available almost 900 tons of steel
over 2, 900 tons of tin and about II 900 tons
of rubber annually.
This steel would construct 5000
medium tanks, or SO Liberty ships, The tin
would meet the needs of $50 75-MM
Howtzer and the rubber would be enough
for 1000 jeeps.
Another example of the effect of
small savings when practiced by millions
of Americans, comes from Mrs. Nellie Tay-
loe Ross, who is Director of the Mint She
points out that a lack of copper caused the
mint in September to produce only $4,000
600 1-cent pieces about half the production
level of the summer months.
She then observes that if every Amer
lean family returned to circulation ten of
the pennies now boarded away in chill
d1ens banks, old purses and stored-away
summer suits, America would have 1000
more tons of copper for munitions.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-29
GREE ENTERPRISE" AND SUBSIDIES

1t is intriguing to hear careless oracles
boast about the initiative of American in
dustry~ which is given credit by these glib
takers for every development that occurs
in practically any field of human endeavor.
The fact is that there is no worth
while American industry in existence that
does not owe its prominence and its exist
ence to the favors of beneficent govern
ment which, through legislation, tariffs,
subsidies, bonuses and grants has fostered
ard supported these so-called products Of
'free enterprise"
The airplane industry is often cited as
an example of what free enterprise" can
accomplish in this country, as compared
with what governmental operation accom-
plished in other nations AS a matter Of
fact, before the war began the civil opera
ton of airplanes in the United States was
possible only because the nation spent vast
sums of money to promote the development
of aviation.
Moreover, the airlines that were estab,
lished IN the United States, and TO foreign
SouHIIACo, WSIS IUcId1ly Z SuDSlQ1Z6u
through mail routes This is amply demon
.strated by the recent decision of the Civil
AeroIauticsf Board, which fixed mail rates
On an-American's Pacific routes to the
Orient and New Zealand.
Service was begun on a route from
San Francisco to Auckland, New Zealand
on July l, 1910. The rate, just established.
gave the company per cent return on its
investment in operations for four months
Thereafter, the rate on the New Zealand
line and one to China and Singapore was
liked to provide an average net return of
Ill per cent on a $7,318,6 45 investment
We make no objection whatever as 10
the establishment of these routes or of the
contribution of the government which
made them possible. We merely point out
that the entire project is result of gov
eminent payments, with free enterprise
doing the operating and the nation footing
the bill. Under such a system "free enter
prise" takes no risks, the government
makes no profit and free enterprise gets
the industry that is erected upon the sub
sidy of the nation.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-29
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print 1t
without fear and without favor; never be
afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right;
always fight for progress; never be the Or
gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique,
faction or class; always do its utmost for the
public welfare; never tolerate corruption or
injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue,
commend good done by Individual or organ
ization; tolerant of others rights, views and
opinions: print only news that will elevate
and not contaminate the reader; never COM
promise with principle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-29
Today's Horoscope

HOROSCOPE childbn ia
Today gives an emotional tenn
permanent. Great attention will
probably be paid to small details,
which is one of the saving quail
ties of this degree. The heart is
conferred in the task, and with
this combination a good position
in life will probably be achieved
through patient and laborious
toll.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-29

Most of the larger manufacturing COM
panies are now engaged in manufacturing
war material and when the war is over they
will resume their former manufacture of
commercial articles. In the meantime
however, the public will forget their peace
time productions and the companies will
suffer as a consequence unless they kept
their names and manufactures in the pub
lie eye through advertising, so the advertis-
ing will be continued by the former pro-
ducers as a recognized necessity to keep
their names and the names of their peace
time products before the consuming public
in lder to maintain goodwill and be in a
position more effectively to regain their
normal markets after the declaration of
peace.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-29

War news seldom contains anything
about the losses Italy is suffering yet an
Italian war communique reported that
Italian losses on all fronts in the month Of
September totaled 1896 men, including
1904 killed, wounded or missing on the
Russian front
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-29

This writer has often wondered whe-
Their grcwn-ups have the proper conception
OF the Importance of the children in their
community. There are many ways in
which they can render useful service to So
ciety and, at the same time, acquire val
liable experience, The recent scrap metal
orive, which wasRuch decided success, il
illustrates the idea.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-29

The school children OF Key West de-
serve cur congratulations for their splen-
did work in collecting scrap metal, even if
the hunt was pleasure and afforded them
an opportunity to edo something in con-
nection with the war
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-29

By weakening the power of the in
Cividual through exorbitant taxation, the
whole structure of our economic life is
weakened. The goose that lay the golden
eggs must be nurtured and keptalive other
wise hey cannot perform
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-29

Today's Editorial: THAT the
Casa Marina hotel will not be
cpen for the coming season is un-
pleasant news for Key West.
However, there are other hos
telries and accommodations to
suit every purse, and they will be
the gamer"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-29
Today's
Anniversaries

1775-Jean B. Faribault, mid
West pioneer, fur-trader, lead
merchant, born Canada. DIED
st. Paul, Aug. 20, 1860.
1784-Robert Hoe, first of not
ed family of printing-press max
ers, who came here penniless,
born England. Died in New
York, Jan. 4, 1888.
1815-Daniel D. Emmett. orig
inator of the first minstrel COM
pany author of Dixie" 1859,
born in Ohio. Died June %,
1904.
1828-Thomas F. Bayard, Della