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The quality of cork improves each time the tree is stripped
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BUY WAR BOMBS
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Lady Devil Dogs in Washington; Iekes in
 For Making Big nii

war cabinet, and undoubtedly the head of war labor and manpoWer set-ups.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-11-11
Observe Precautions for
Growth of House Plants

A few precautions must be fol-
lowed if you wish success with house
plants. Wash the leaves regularly
to remove all dust and dirt that col
lects on them. This allows light
and air to get to all the breathing
pores in the leaves, so that they
can perform their functions prop
erly. A few plants, such as Saint
paula and the primroses, have the
downy fuzzy type of leaf that should
not come in contact with water, and
such leaves should be cleansed by
brushing with a soft cloth or brush.
Don't place plants in drafts. Don't
overwater. On the other hand, don't
allow to become excessively dry.
Keep the air moist through vapor
pans on radiators, moistened peat
moss beneath the plants, or by set
ting pots on gravel-filled troughs
that have an inch or two of water
in them for evaporation, yet do not
allow the pot to rest in water.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-11-11

When the soldier talks about "the
skipper" he means his captain,
the head of his company. And
that's just what the title captain"
means. It comes from the Latin
word "caput" meaning "head."
Another leader high in the Army
mans favor is Camel cigarettes
they're first choice with men in
the Army. Biased on actual sales
records from service mems own
stores.) When you're sending gifts
from home, keep in mind that
carton of cigarettes is always most
welcome. And though there are
Post Office restrictions on pack
ages to overseas Army men, you
can still send Camels to soldiers
in the U. S., and to men in the
Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard
wherever they are.-Adv.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-11-11
Clear Pecan, CroUes

Clearing low producing trees and
all foreign timber from a pecan
grove often may double production
in relatively short time. Accord
ing to j. F. Rosborough, horticultur-
ist for the Texas A. & M. college,
this cleanup has the further benefit
of aiding in. the control of certain
insects and diseases, and facilitating
the harvesting of nuts. In all cases,
however, it should be followed
through with the elimination of
Stumps and sprouts.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-11-11

In various parts of the world, trav-
e1ers have seen fish and frogs &C.
tually raining down. Waterspouts
may pass over bodies of water and
suck up great quantities of these
water animals along with the water
and then pour them down at some
distant place. Then there are frogs
which lay their eggs in water stand
ing in the cups of leaves in trees.
When these eggs hatch, the tadpoles
swim about in the little cups until
they are transformed into frogs. If
windstorm strikes the tree these
little frogs may be blown out and
''rain down" upon the ground. Even
though it has rained frogs and fish
it does not follow that it ever "rains
cats and dogs"
Ledger Syndicate.-WNU Features.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-11-11

dangerous as it may be the cause of
short circuits. The main switch box
should also be far enough removed
from the lightning rod cable so that
bolts of lightning cannot jump from
the cable to the switch box, short
circuiting the wiring.
Infammable roofs often are ig-
nited by chimney sparks, or sparks
blown long distances from brush
fires, bonfires or forest fires. For
this reason infammable barn roofs
should be recovered with fire-re-
sistant materials such as asphalt
shingles or asphalt roll roofing.
Lanterns should never be placed
where an animal or workman can
kick them over. They should not be
hung on a Irvine from a dusty and
cobweb-covered ceiling. They should
be kept away from drafts and away
from any Accommodations of combusti-
BILE materials.
Smoking should be prohibited in
the barn at all times.
Spontaneous combustion of hay is
one of the most common barn fire
causes. All hay should be properly
cured before being stored in the
NOV and should be inspected fire.
quently for signs of heating. Roof
leaks creating moisture will start
the heating process in cured hay.
In addition to these precautions,
fire-fghting equipment should be
kept on hand at all times to tackle
any blaze that breaks out despite
all carefulness. Each farm should
have long ladder, hose, buckets of
water and sand reserved solely for
fire use, and fire extinguisher. To
be effective these things must be
kept in sound condition and in a spot
where they are Immediately avail
able in an emergency.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-11-11
CLASSIFIED
D E P "A r + M E N r
BIRTH CERTIFICATES

Birth Certificates. Send soc for blank and
full information for any state in the Union.
United Birth Certificate Service, 3O9-SL
Riegler Building, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-11-11
WACs SAIL FOR ENGLAND
BY Doris FleesOn

(WNU Feature-Through special arrange
nent with Woman'S Home Companion.)
There were $50 American girls in
the First WAC Separate Battalion
with whom I sailed to Europe. AS
we boarded the transport, each girl
wore a tin helmet, dress uniform,
utility coat, pistol belt with first-aid
packet and canteen, shoulder bag,
mask. Shoulders bent under the
heavy musette-but hours of hik-
ing had enured the girls to this bur-
den.
Each WAC carried over her arm
a heavy topcoat, hiding within its
folds heaven knows what of last-min-
ute impediments.
Forward march," Capt. Mary
A. Hallaren, commanding the bat
talon, barked from the dock as she
set off at the head of the column,
carrying her full pack as easily as
anyone in the ranks. WACs are on
the average huskier than American
girls used to be, but for a leader
they have gone back to the Napo-
leonic tradition.
Once I asked Captain Hallaren her
height. Her demure answer was:
''You must be five feet to be WAC"
Her troops call her Captain Peewee
or Captain Five-by-Five. It has been
suggested that Captain Hallaren's
small size disarms men, helps her
to get along with them so well.
Though small myself, I've never
noticed it makes any difference.
Precise Rhythm.
The troops backs looked grim as
they swung along in precise soldier
ly rhythm that makes all men Of
fcers jealous.
Captain Hallaren never doubted
that her troops would stand the test
of the ocean voyage with its close
quarters and possible hazard. Since
March, she had been commanding
her battalion, preparing it for its
task. The troops gave her shil-
lelagh to celebrate her appointment.
Her five companies were formed
in obedience to a request for clerks,
stenographers, telephone operators
to serve with the air force. The
average age of the auxiliaries is
about Is. They are pretty, homely,
fat, slim, blonde, brunette, Protes-
tant, Catholic, Jewish-a cross Sec
ton of America. Nearly all are high
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-11-11

school graduates, few are college
graduates. The officers are drawn
chiefly from colleges and the aver
age age is SO.
Captain Hallaren is SO, comes
from Lowell, Mass, and is gradu-
ate of Massachusetts State Teachers
college. She also studied at Har-
ward university. The fact that she
had Travelled for Is summers in
Europe, Latin America and the Near
East-often with pack on her back
was help, she thinks, in prepar-
ing her for the job with the WACs.
Sunday services aboard ship were
well attended by the WACs. Officers
who censored their mail reported
that the girls wrote their families
that the services seemed like link
with home.
1t was strange to realize that this
transport of good-tempered friendly
people was actually task force and
as such rich prize inviting to the
enemy, that the sea was the haunt
of killers who would destroy us in
stinctively as wolves tear dogs in
the forest.
The transport was crowded to
point that no self-respecting sardine
would tolerate. Each voyage is such
tremendous enterprise, so expen-
sive to arrange, that it must pay off
in manpower. Eighteen WACs slept
in one cabin.
The approach of debarkation time
was easy to recognize. An attrac-
tive young American, Captain Sher-
man, came aboard ship to welcome
us with good news from Sicily, and
gave us the first of the security lee
lures that began to lombard our
ears with increasing frequency.
Step on British Soil.
The sun was in their faces when
the WACs first stepped on British
soil. The honor of being the very
first went to Sergeant Rosekrans.
In the train shed the Royal Scots
Fusiliers' band struck up Sousa's
''King Cotton march. Then once
again we were on troop train.
The train moved and the WACs
sped through pleasant green coun-
tryside that may long be their home.
After the train journey of several
hours was over, the WACs Shout
dered their musettes and marched
two miles to a replacement depot.
A cheerful Baptist chaplain, c. C.
Strippy of Wollaston, Mass, gave
the girls their favorite hands-across-
the-sea story. He told them about
the recently arrived private, dizzy
with orientation, who was asked by
an officer how he liked the British.
The private replied: "Sir, we like
the British and the British like us,
and them's ORDERS"
The chaplain joked that yesterday
was the first cheerful baggage de-
tail he ever saw. He said he was
admonished to look after their spir-
itual welfare and he was going to do
it, mo matter what the odds"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-11-11
Danger of Fire Turks
Constantly i'm Barns
HazardsM BeRenoved
BY Simple Precautions

Barns generally house the farm
er's most valuable livestock, equip
ment and feed; yet, the barn is
packed with fire hazards. But to
all practical purposes, all of the
major causes of barn fires can be
eliminated if the farmer will prac-
tice simple precautions and be con-
stantly vigilant The National Fire
Protection association working with
the Department Of Agriculture, has
compiled a list of these dangers.
Cobwebs, dust and litter of all
kinds should not be allowed to &C.
cumulate around fuse boxes where
they may be ignited by short cir
cults or around high-speed machin-
cry where sparks can set them
ablaze. Knotting Of electric cords is
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-11-11
Dogs Parasites

At least 500 kinds of internal
parasites infest domestic dogs and
cats, and many cause marked in
jury and death to their hosts. Not
infrequently, the eggs of some of
the parasitic worms even find
their way into the animal before it
is born.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-11-11
Healthful Ala ska

Alaska is regarded as the health
lest of all the war fronts-no body
lice, tetanus, malaria, or bed bugs.
Evening star., 1943-05-02

Continued on Page B-3, Column 81
Evening star., 1943-05-02
Marvin Jones Learned Hard Way
Will Bring Practical knowledge to International
Food Conference
By Frank I. WeHer,
Associated Press Writer,

A man who knows how hard it is to
plow dollar out of the ground, because
he's done it.
That's the way friends describe Marvin
Jones, farmer-lawyer from the Texas
Panhandle whom President Roosevelt
chose to head the United States delega-
ton to the international food conference
at Hot Springs, Va, starting May 1S.
Many experts from foreign lands will
be there, but Jones is rated the key
figure because, no matter how you look
at it, the experts say it's this country
which will have to feed most of the
peoples left after this war is ended.
When Marvin Jones name came into
the picture, lot of people asked, who
is this Jones, anyway"
Well, Marvin Jones has lived a life
which falls into the pattern often called
"a typical American success story"
He was born on a Texas farm near
Valley View, farm still owned and
operated by his mother, who makes her
home with him in Amarillo.
Teaching at II.
He never attended grade school or high
school, but nothing could keep him from
getting an education at the family fire.
side At II he was teacher of the one
room school where he learned reading,
writing and arithmetic
After teaching for one year, he rented
some cotton and wheat land and became
q taf,onf for Yic Ior
lars sent him through Southeastern Uni
versity where he completed the four-year
course in three years.
About that time he figured he'd never
get out of the clods unless he became a
lawyer. So he took a three-year law
course at the University of Texas in two
years, won prize in oratory there and
went to work for lawyer in Amarillo.
He contacted law in the raw He went
out on small town jobs, frequently Sleep
ing in the courthouse, on pile Of straw
in the open or on the floor of a hotel
dining room when lodging accommoda-
tions were scarce.
He got pretty tired of this in eight
years and began to think again. as he
did when boy, about going to Congress.
He ran for Congress as Democrat in
1916 against John Hall Stephens. who
had represented the Panhandles 50
counties for nearly 20 years-and won.
Music Box Helped.
Sometimes he thinks his Ford car
which was new contraption in those
days, cornered the votes. His district had
an area of 1000 square miles-almost
as large as North Carolina--and was 45O
miles from one end to the ether. Jones
visited and spoke in places where people
never before had seen a. candidate for
Congress. He told them that what Texas
needed was good man on the :Agricul-
ture Committee.
Marvin carried A Of the So counties in
the district. Maybe it was because of his
last speech, as the last speaker in a
crowded tent on blazing hot day. The
man who had concession on the tent
kept music box playing while his three
opponents talked, and Marvin gave the
guy two bucks to shut 1t on while he
spoke.
Young Congressman Jones soon found
that redeeming political pledges was not
SO easy In Washington. There were 43A
other members OF the House who had
some Ideas, too. He didn't get On the
Evening star., 1943-05-02

plifier, some 1000 yards from the house,
into which he planned to pipe" the
music and have it return some thousand
fold.
Likes to Cook.
He revels in the kitchen and fire.
quently prepares whole meals for his
guests. (Ask him, sometime, about his
Murphy sal-ahd" Simple broiling of
a steak becomes ritual with him, while
his impersonations and dialect stories
make him closer than a son-in-law
(Which he isl to John Olsen of Olsen &
johnson, of the aforementioned "Hellza-
poppin'."
Perhaps the fact that he has known
both fortunes high and low roads has
helped Bill retain the common touch of
his smalltown forebears and the eternal
curiosity of Mark Twains GRANDCHILDREN.
(He was born in the same Hannibal Mo-,
that sired Twain and his beloved hellions
of boyhood, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
Lear, limited to grammar school edu-
cation and veteran at 16 of World War
Navy service as wireless" operator, de-
cided early it would take too long to
become an admiral" and that the quick
est road to independence lay in selling
his ideas to the highest bidder.
One of his earliest triumphs was a
"B-battery eliminate" who doesn't
remember 'em? In 1929, he developed
the first automobile radio to make use
Of the now-familiar vibrator. He re-
vamped and improved radio-tube con-
struction.
BY this time definitely "in the money"
he bought his first airplane and, with
aircraft radios not only cumbersome but
high-priced and short-ranged, equipped
1t with his own idea of set.
It captured the fancy of experts-and
opportunity knocked.
Developed Magic Brain"
Along came the depression, but, never
lacking in ideas, he pulled back on for
tunes road in 1884 by developing an idea
which RCA introduced as revolutionary
means of radio-tuning magic brain)
He got $4,000 for that, plus five-year
contract as consultant at $25 900 a year,
plus a minimum annual engineering fee
Of $4,000.
He gave that up after year, however,
because Il didn't want to be hog-tied.
-. didn't want any man or anything
for = boss"
Recent years, particularly those since
(See LEAR. Page B-3O
Evening star., 1943-05-02
Fight on Trade Pacts' Extension
Held Menace to Postwar Amity
Close Vote Is Seen in House on Program Which Is
Aimed at Curtailing Economic Causes
of International Conflict
By FeH1 M orley'

It follows that the more the emphasis
on the postwar Importance of the Hull
program, the stronger the demand for
symbolic amendments restoring greater
measure of congressional control.
Although its accomplishments to date
can easily be exaggerated the Hull pro-
gram is undoubtedly built around a lib
eral and intelligent formula for the
gradual re-establishment of a healthy
international trade. And it Is difficult to
see how the Secretary of State can be
fairly condemned for bluntly saying that
you cannot build functioning political
lnternatlonalism on basis of intense
economic nationalism
The point is we'll argued by Otto Tod
Mallery in a readable little book entitled
Economic Union and Durable Peace"
which has very appropriately reached
the bookstores just as the reciprocal
trade agreements program reaches the
first real crisis of its nine-year life. The
program is not merely heartily indorsed
by Mr.. Mallery. 1t is also used as the
basis for an interesting proposal of in
ternational economic union which would
gracefully sidestep controversies over
political leagues, federations and inter-
national police authorities.
Mr.. Mallery, however, agrees with Sec
retary Hull and therefore disagrees with
Walter Lippmann, in maintaining that
very fundamental issue is involved In
the question of whether or not the Trade
Agreements Act shall be again extended
without substantial amendment We
might as well determine now. he saws
whether the principles of the Hull reci-
proclty trade agreements are to be the
foundation of our postwar policy"
The much advertised political solidar-
ity Of the United Nations" has lust been
seriously affected by the open breach
between Soviet Russia and the Polish
government-in-exile That makes it
timely to remember that such economic
solidarity as the United Nations possess
is really founded on the trade agree
ments program
And that also makes it timely to sug-
gest that If this program is abandoned
the situation will be sadly akin to that
OF a team which, despite much grand
stand enthusiasm, has seen two men
rapidly retired by the strike-out route.
Under that metaphor, only Military Ef-
flclency would remain to bat in this par
ticular inning of what might sardoni-
cally be called a World Series" of dis
order.
Evening star., 1943-05-02

Agriculture Committee until 1920, but he
was still there when Mr. Roosevelt be-
came President in 1888 Vice President
John Nance Garner from Jones home
State, had much to do with getting him
job as boss of the committee, where he
wrote most of the law that went into the
New Deal farm relief acts.
Catches But Won't Eat Fish.
Jones was not exactly a New Dealer,
although he went down the line with
the Roosevelt administration.
/ He has been judge of the United States
Court of Claims since 1910 and lately he
has been farm adviser to Stabilization
Director James F. Byrnes.
Today, at 81, Marvin is almost as slen-
der as when he first came to Washing
ton. He has no middle eats things
that won't make you too fat-if double
dose of Southern fried chicken almost
every day in the week won't make you
fat-and is getting little gray.
He is within inches of being feet
tall, weighs 165 pounds, plays lot of
golf and reads just about every biography
of great men there is in the Library of
Congress. Friends say he spends more
time there than the custodian.
He will fish anywhere he can find a
nickel's worth of water, but you couldn't
get him to eat fish ii it were the last
thing on his ration card.
He plays q shrewd game Of bridge
his one big relaxation. He plays to win
and won't talk during game.
Afterward he will invite all and sun
dry to, be his guests at Western
movie. The more shooting in the pic
ture the better he likes 1t.
He likes to tell stories about lawyers
he once knew and the big deeds they did
People around here sometimes get tired
of it.
They say at the White House and at
the State Department that President
Roosevelt and Secretary Hull have great
confidence in Jones. Veteran reporters
recall that members of the House, busy
with other duties, always said of Jones
farm bill.
I'VE haven't had time to 60 through
it, but II Marvin says it's good one
well vote for it."
A record IN the House gallery says that
Jones never failed to get ! bill passed
which is more than can be said Of most
chairmen Of major congressional COM
mittee.
Evening star., 1943-05-02
Menace to Democracy Is Seen
In Dwindling Teaching Staffs
Situation Growing Steadily Worse With No Remedy
in Sight, Warns Office of Education,
Citing Empty Classrooms
By Jane Eads,
Associated Press Writer.

The growing teacher shortage and
other effects Of war on Americas school,
children are knocking the main cor
ner stone from under democracy" some
Of the Nations educators say.
1.-THE situation Is getting worse and
50 far there is no remedy" the United
States Once Of Education warns, predict
ing that unless some immediate means
are found to solve the problem, educa-
ton will suffer an unprecedented loss"
without teachers and without pupils,
the war effort and democracy itself must
suffer -. without an informed citizenry,
democracy can not exist" DR.. Benjamin
Frazier. the education Offices senior
specialist in teacher training declares.
Here Is the general shortage picture:
Fewer teachers everywhere {. . fewer
pupils . colleges closing for the dura-
ton vacant public school classrooms
:. unframed teachers :. :. in the war
centers, overcrowded classrooms and
overworked teachers =. everywhere in
creased truancy, delinquency, illiteracy.
Measures to Combat Problem.
War-borne causes Of the teacher short
age:
Entrance into the armed forces F.. u. . low
salaries leading many to take jobs in the
Government, business or war industries
-. other teaching jobs :. plus the IA
miliar causes, marriage, retirement,
death.
Measures being used to combat the
problem:
Draft deferment salary increases
-. using inexperienced teachers (.
hiring teachers from other localities and
out of the State recalling retired
teachers -. reinstating married teachers
-. extending the retirement age ). re-
training teachers for other courses =.
discontinuing courses .. increasing the
size of classes.
None OF these measures, the Office of
Education says, has applied the brakes
to the downhill slide of standards. 1t
offers some figures:
1900 Untitled Positions.
Last October there were $500 untitled
teaching positions in the public schools
and an estimated 2,70O faculty shortages
in the colleges. In addition, close to
10000 teachers, new to their jobs, were
placed on public school payrolls. Colleges,
too, experienced many requirements
1900 of them.
Evening star., 1943-05-02

OF all British institutions, the one most
usually misunderstood by Americans Is
the House Of Lords, the upper cham
ber" Of Parliament, whose outmoded
privileges and theatrical pageantries
often inspire outright resentment among
those who do not realize the great con-
tributions OF this historical body to the
evolution of orderly government.
In an effort to Offset the prejudice of
Americans and others who believe there
is no place in a modern world for such
undemocratic privileges as enjoyed by
the British peers, DR.. Arthur L. Good
hart, professor of jurisprudence at OK
ford University, has written for the cur
rent American Outpost in Great Brit
ain a concise history of the House Of
Lords and its functions
DR.. Goodhart was born In New York