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because I don't know anything
about cooking"
The sergeant sat back and
drummed happily on the table.
"Great gods!" I shouted. ''pm
not going to be a cannoneer, am r."
'No, Private Hargrove," he said
after another long pause, you're
not going to be cannoneer. We're
going to give you a job where you
can use your natural talents"
There was a distinctly sadistic
tone in his voice. waited.
you're going to be a first cook,
Hargrove," he said fondly. mot
just a plain cook. A head cook!
A king in your own kitchen, a man
of responsibility. Amt that lovely?"
"You can't do this to mel" I
roared, when my breath returned.
''It's against every decent human
law! don't know anything about
cookingl I want to be a cannon
eer!"
Sergeant Goldsmith's eyes wan
dered guiltlessly to the ceiling.
"You don't know anything about
cooking, huh? That's bad, boy,
that's bad! Why, you're supposed
to be on shift right now"
Sergeant" said, 81 couldn't
fry an egg right now if it had di-
rections on the package"
You're in the cooks battery,
amt you? You've been going to
cooking school and you've been sent
to a kitchen for all these weeks.
You're supposed to be graduated
any day now. What have you been
The Ely miner., 1943-09-16
Jones Vas Handicapped
In Not KnotUing NeighbOr

'Those new people across the
road seem very devoted to each
other" said Mrs. Jones to her hus-
band who was well hidden behind
a newspaper.
A rustic of the sheet was all
the reply she received, but she was
used to that.
''He helps her clear the table
and wipes the dishes after supper.
I just noticed that"
'H-m-m," and another rustic Of
the newspaper.
Every time he goes out he kisses
her, and goes on throwing kisses
all down the road Edward, why
don't you do that?"
"Me?"snorted the man behind
the news, ST don't know herI"
The Ely miner., 1943-09-16
CHAPTER TX

By this time, the evening bull ses-
sions have worn themselves into a
very definite routine. If Corporal
Ussery is there, he lectures on how
he'd run the Army; if it's Private
Terrence Clarkin, he tells how he
used to direct the intricate traffic
affairs of Radio City Music Hall
when he was assistant chief doorman
there. Unless Private Henri Geld
ers is stopped, he'll start violent
argument among the butchers over
how to cut a steak.
McGlauflin will talk for hours
about the beauties of the lakes in
Minnesota. Grafenstein will deliver
discourses on how he would run the
Wisconsin football team; Pappas,
about Alabama's Crimson Tide. Ma
ciejewsk will sermonize on the ut
ter baseness and treachery of wom-
anhood.
Lately, however, the sessions have
come more and more under the
sway of Private Merton Hulce, a
mad Irish lad from Muskegon, Mich
igan. Private Hulce apparently
didn't stop at kissing the Blarney
Stone. He must have stolen half
Of it to carry with him.
Hulce's chief topic of converse
ton is his mothers fabulous family,
the Smiths, all of whom seem to
get enmeshed in every war that
comes along. His grandfather, who
was a captain in the Coast Guard
at the outbreak of the last war, was
transferred to duty at guarding mu-
nitions dumps and such for the dura-
ton of the war.
According to Hulce, one of the
munitions guards with his GRANDPA
theirs detail was approached late
one night by an officer of the guard.
''Halt!" shouted the sentry, and the
officer halted. Advance to be rec
ognized!" said the sentry, and the
officer advanced. The sentry for
got to order ''halt" again and the
officer came within a foot of him.
Suddenly the officer reached out and
snatched the rife from the guards
hand.
This was an exceedingly uncom-
Portable position for the guard, espe-
cially in that time of war. He might
even have been sentenced to death.
The officer stood there just looking
at the guard for fully a minute.
''What would you have DONE" he
asked in a terrible voice, eff an
enemy had got your gun like that?"
The guard trembled for a moment
and recovered. 81 would have
snatched it back, SIR" he said, like
THAT!' And the officer stood there,
empty-handed.
Hulce's grandfather, who told that
story, is now about sixty-fve, his
grandson says. He was asked to
come back into the Navy three
months ago as a captain. Being
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In the midst of this fiery hell he
saw a peach tree with peaches grow
ing on it.
Smith, he's back. With him in the
armed forces today are two of his
sons and two of his grandsons.
Merton had two uncles in the last
war, both of whom Jared exceeding
ly well when you take practical
view of it. Neither tired himself
out. The first crossed the ocean
nine times playing the clarinet in a
troop ships band. The Germans
torpedoed the boat once and the
holes in the side were stuffed with
mattresses. Hulce's uncle rode back
into port, still playing his clarinet.
That was the goldbricking uncle.
The other uncle served as kay
pee on the trip across. Carrying a
tray around the deck, he was heck
led several times by a person he
soon grew to loathe. Eventually the
Irish wrath of the Smiths rose to
boiling point. Uncle Smith lifted
the tray high overhead and wrapped
1t around the heckler's neck. He
spent the rest of the war in con-
fnement.
Then there was the cousin, grand
mas sisters boy. Serving in the
front-line trenches, he grew suddenly
hungry one morning. Looking out
Of the trench, he saw a peach tree
growing there in the midst of the
fiery hell, and there were still
peaches on it. He tried to sneak
into the tree, but the enemy's bull
let's found him. He was carried be-
hind the lines. Just as the stretcher
bearers laid him down, an enemy
shell exploded in the center of their
little group and none of them were
ever seen again.
This happened at exactly ten
o'clock on the morning of Novem-
Der II, 1918-one hour before the
Armistice was signed.
LINGERIE NOTE: Our winter
uniforms were issued to us today,
and, since we had the afternoon
off, we spent all our time until re-
treat trying on the pretties and pa
rading before each other. The
clothes were aIl-wool and the tenn
perature was all-heat, but all was
vanity.
We knew what the trousers, shirts,
ties, blouses, and overcoats would
look like, but the remainder of the
wardrobe came as complete sur
The Ely miner., 1943-09-16
ASK ME- =
ANOTHER I
A General Quiz
The Questions
, ~ OCIICI VI SOT%
o. O. g. O. O. O. g. g. g. G. O. g. g. CO. O.

1. How high is the dome of the
Capitol in Washington, D. c.?
2. What name do the Scots give
to a lake?
8. What is the ightest metal
known?
4. The words cumulus, stratus
and nimbus generally refer to
what?
5. What President of the United
States was a bachelor?
6. Where did Alexander Graham
Bell give the first demonstration
of the telephone?
z. The king of what country was
killed while mountain climbing in
1884?
8. What was the city of Oslo's
former name?
9. What season of the year does
the word vernal pertain to?
10. In what way does the paper
money paid to our troops in the
Mediterranean area differ from
our money here?
The Ely miner., 1943-09-16
FARMING is 'KNOW-HOW,'
NOT MERE OWNERSHIP

NOI MEhE OhNEhSu1r
THE VALUE OF ACRES as farm
land is determined by the price at
which the products Of those acres
can be sold, not for year but over
a considerable period of years. In
. .1917-l8, with food products selling
at extreme high prices, farm
land prices-not values-doubled and
trebled. Farmers mortgaged their
home acres to buy more acres with
the expectation of continued profits
resulting from a continuance of high
prices. Insurance companies and
banks loaned money on the basis
of those high land prices. They bid
ravenously for the privilege of max
ing such loans.
By 1921, with the war over and
the edge taken off the food demand
in Europe, the high prices for food
products disappeared, but the un-
paid mortgage was still hanging
over the head of the farmer. AT
normal prices for his crops he could
neither reduce the principal nor pay
the interest. The land he had
bought was not worth in peacetime
what he had paid for it in wartime.
The farmer had gambled and lost.
He had expected high food prices
to continue, but could not control
the law of supply and demand. The
banks and insurance companies took
over thousands of farms on which
they could not realize the value Of
the money loaned.
Again there is worldwide de-
mand on America for food. Again
there is an abnormal price for food
products, though not nearly so high
as the price of 1918. Again the
price of farm land is shooting up
ward, but this time it is not the ex-
perienced farmer who is buying.
Now it is the man from the city
who is attempting to hedge on the
threatened initiation. When it is all
over, when the last shot has been
fired, when the starving people of a
war-torn world have been fed, when
food prices are again back to nor
NAL, then it is probable the expert
enced farmer can add to his home
acres at bargain price. The city
farmer, sadder and wiser, will be
moving back to the city. He will
have discovered that successful
farming must have back of it a
know how"
The Ely miner., 1943-09-16
FEDERAL PAYROLLS
STILL GOING UP

THE NUMBER of bureaus of the
federal government grow week by
week by executive decree. Despite
the efforts of the Byrd committee to
reduce the civilian expenditures of
the government, the number of civil
ian employees increase each month.
As long as last December the total
amounted to 1865, 900 and it is now
well beyond the three million mark.
To that great army of employees,
the government paid as salaries
In December total of S436, ,950, 900.
Of that total of civilian employees,
29O, 900 are in Washington and, in
addition, another $1,000 are en-
ployed by the District of Columbia.
To that $4,000 the government paid
in December the net sum of $50, ,200,-
600, to which the District of Colum-
bia added S2,485, 900.
The federal government has dis
tributed throughout the states a to-
tai of 2,315,000 civilian employees,
exclusive of those in Washington.
Their job is largely that of regulat-
ing the activities of the American
people.
In the number of civilian en-
ployees, the federal government is
nearing, if it has not surpassed, the
number of such employees of all of
our local and state governments.
Last December there were en-
ployed by all Of our township, mu-
nicipal, county and state govern
ments total of 3,237, 900 people.
That included county, municipal and
state police forces and all school
employees. To these employees was
paid total of 1894, ,261 900 in De-
cember, as compared with the fed
eral government civilian payroll of
S436 $4,000. What the end is to be
is definitely up to the American
people.
The Ely miner., 1943-09-16

uuceQ aS many DILL
liant ends as Yale
had done in the last
so years.
Supporters from
several other uni
versities came along
to pick up the chal-
lenge, but when the
smoke had cleared
it SCENE ed to the
voting jury that Mr..
Olcott had just
about won his case.
Tf Wy q G - L.
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See Here,
Private Huf'gr0ve!
by Morior, Hurgrove ..xss,sss
ION HQfgrOVe

fcation together with more than usual
amount of KIP duty have caused him to
become pretty well acquainted with the
Company kitchen. Private Hargrove
has become rather well versed in the
many angles Of "goldbricking" and other
The Ely miner., 1943-09-16
RECOGNITION FOR CHINA

1T WOULD SAVE FACE" for the
only Chinese government we recog-
nize if congress should grant to the
Chinese the same immigration priv
ileges granted people of nations 9TH
er than those of the Orient. Under
the quota system, as now estab-
ished, 107 Chinese immigrants could
enter the United States in any one
year. The number is meaning
less, but according China the same
treatment as other nations means
much to the Chinese. 1t would abro-
gate that idea of white supremacy"
from which China has suffered for
many years. She has earned that
recognition.
WHEN STATESMANSHIP must
become subservient to the cheap
game Of politics it will be good-by
to craftsmanship and the republic
will cease to function.
WE DO NOT NEED to care what
form of government Germany or
any other Axis nation may have so
long as we are careful to see that
they have no facilities or opportu-
nifty to again prepare for war. If
they want dictator, let them have
one, but put guard over the die
tator.
A FOOD ADMINISTRATION bu-
reaucrat proposes to increase the
output of milk and cheese by ory,er-
ing farmers to increase the number
of female" steers on their farms.
WHEN JOHN AND BILL and
Henry come home from the war,
they are going to be interested in a
peace that will insure them the free
dom to work and job to work at,
and, as near as possible, an assur-
ance that there will not be another
war for their sons to fight in order
that freedom may live.
The Ely miner., 1943-09-16

THE STORY so FAR: Private Marion
Hargrove, former editorial employee of
North Carolina newspaper, has been
inducted into the army and is receiving
his basic training at Fort Bragg. He has
been classified as 4 cook. This classi-
The Ely miner., 1943-09-16

Due to an unusually large demand and
current war conditions. slightly more time
is required in filling orders for a few Of
the most popular pattern numbers.
To obtain Monogram Designs and Pat
tern for the Nightie pattern No. 56o61
send Is cents and cent for postage with
your name, address and pattern mum.
ber to:
HOME NEEDLEWORK
$50 South Wells st. Chicago.
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The AnsUers

l. It is 287 feet.
2. Loeb.
8. Lithium.
4. Clouds.
5. Buchanan.
6. Boston, Mass.
z. Belgium (Albert y.
8. Christiania.
9. Spring.
10. The seal of the United States
is printed in gold and was so print
ed to prevent the Axis from cir
culating U. S. currency seized
from banks in Europe.
The Ely miner., 1943-09-16
Other Colleges

Michigan has had her Oosterbaan
Alabama her Hutson-Vanderbi
her Bomar and Wakefield Stanford
her Moscrip and Topping-while
Notre Dame has had a fine general
average from year to year.
Harvard had her Campbell and
Hardwick, two of the best.
Among Notre Dame ends there
was a stocky fellow named Knute
Rockne. One of the best ends that
football has known is now an umpire
by the name of Cal Hubbard.
Before big Cal became a tackle
he was great end at Centenary
and Geneva. Bo Mcmillan rates
Hubbard the best all-around football
player he ever saw. Hubbard at ESQ
was as fast as fast back. Both
Army and Navy have sent more
than few high class wingmen to
the field. Especially Army.
But if you care to go back as far
as 1890, I believe the high average
for able fiankmen will go to Yale.
hASo1 SO4A4S away IA11O dullOSt
forgot one Alonzo Stagg, now a top
coach at 81.
If the argument had turned to the
best passing colleges the contest
would be much closer.
TCU can offer Sammy Baugh and
Dave O'Brien. Lou Little at Colum-
bia can present Sid Luckman and
Paul GovernaI.
Notre Dame and Michigan, move
well up with such men as Gus Do
rails, George Gipp, Benny Friedman,
not overlooking a young fellow by
the name of Bertelli.
Duke had star entry in Ace
Parker, one of the best all-around
backs that football has known.
But when You get down to what is
technically known as "brass tacks,"
i think we have to slip the chaplet of
wild apple blossoms to TCU in honor
of Baugh and O'Brien, and to Co
lumbia for Sid Luckman and Paul
Governali.
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Hinkey, "the disembodied spirit"
who began the parade of fine Yale
ends around 1889.
Hinkey was four-year All-Amer-
lean, one of the best ends of all time.
Later on Olcott himself was high
class end and after that Tom Shevlin
and Tod Rafferty, came along to
strengthen Yale's claim.
Both were great ends.
After that John Reed Fitzpatrick,
now General Fitzpatrick, came along
to add further prestige to El's
prominence on the fanks. Kilpat-
rick was 200 pound track man who
played football with fire and fer
vor seldom equalled.
Yale then offered Doug Bomeisler,
one of the games deadiest tacklers
In spite of bad shoulder.
Shortly after BomeisIer left there
were Fishwick and Scott and after
these two there were Larry Kelly
and Choo-choo Train, a strong COM
bination.
Kelly was one of footballs best
receivers and Train one of the best
defensive ends of his time.
Yale has had other good ends, in
cluding Comerfort. So the above is
only a partial list. But when you
have such names as Hinkey, Shev-
lin, Rafferty,, fitzpatrick, Bomeisler,
Fishwick, Scott, Kelly, Train, you
have something to argue about.
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army pastimes. He claims, however,
that shooting the breeze" or the 'bull
session" is the soldiers favorite recrea-
ton. At this stage of training some Of
the boys are experts in the art. As we
pick up the story he is discussing this.
The Ely miner., 1943-09-16
I5o;!![!3fu i

THE argument started in the lock-
L er room when Clarence Olcott,
a former star in Blue, asked if any
other college or university had pro-
The Ely miner., 1943-09-16

a PERFECTLY straight piece
4 of fiowered rayon silk, chiffon
or cotton-narrow velvet or silk
ribbon and charming monogram
makes this lovely nightie. 1t re-
quires the minimum of cutting and
sewing and achieves a maximum
charm in appearance. Do the
monogramming in color to match
the shoulder and waistline ties.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 4
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-08-12
Lynn Says:

Jelly Forum: Pectin is the
magic ingredient that makes jam
liam" and jelly ''jel." There
must be a just right amount of
it. Pectin is a natural jellying
substance found in fruits and her,
ries, but when the fruit or berry
is shy on it, a liquid or pow
dered form Of pectin may be
added.
Melt paraffin for jelly in
small pot over boiling water. Par
ATTN should not be smoking hot
because it might lend a disagree
able odor to the jelly or jam.
It's possible to put up fruit juice
to be made into jelly later il you
do not have enough sugar to do
it during the summer. Prepare
fruit according to directions CIV
en- in the jelly recipes but do not
add water to the recipe. Squeeze
the juice in a jelly bag if it is
for jelly. Fill hot sterile jars
with juice and process in a boil
ing water bath for 20 minutes.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-08-12
Dishwashing Regulations

In most communities, the regula-
tons regarding dishwashing call for
the use of hot soapy water followed
by rinse in boiling water or live
steam. They specifically forbid
sloshing the glasses hastily in cold
water, as it is well known by health
authorities that transferable germs
are not removed from the rim Of
glasses in that way.
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Ey,,lSs St..JOSep1l(
M393.W ASPIRIN
GlI19O W0RIGS IRRGEsT Seller At I0s

The gaily enameled unit insignia
you see on a soldiers lapels and
overseas cap are reproductions of
his regimental shield displayed in
the center of the eagle on his reg
mental flag It's a part of U. S.
Army tradition. Traditional, too,
is the Army mans preference for
Camel cigarettes. (Based on actual
sales records from service mems
own stores.) It's a gift from the
folks back home, that always
rates cheers. 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?, 1943-08-12

Odd pieces of lumber and ply
wood or even old packing boxes
may be used to make simple chair
frames and there are no priori-
ties on cotton padding and sturdy
cotton covering materials.
A simple frame for a chair Of
this type is shown here. 1t is pad
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-08-12
Make This Chair Frame of Scrap
Lumber-It's Quite Easy to Cover

ded with cotton batting basted to
pieces of unbleached muslin cut
to fit the back and well over the
sides of the seat. A separate cush-
ion filled with cotton, down or
feathers is then made for the seat.
Either plain or figured material
with contrasting seam welting
may be used for covering.
NOTE-Mrs. Spears has prepared de.
tailed dimensions and directions for max.
ing this chair frame. Pattern also gives
step-by-step directions for covering the
frame after it has been padded. Ask for
Pattern $50 and enclose Is cents. Address:
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with your golden
brown biscuits or
rolls in the cold
Of winter. Do you
need more than
that to start you
on a spree of jel-
ly : making? My
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kettle, filling last fraction of cup
with water if necessary.
Place over hottest fire. Add pow
dered fruit pectin, mix well and
continue stirring until mixture
comes to hard boil. Pour sugar
in at once, stirring constantly. Con-
tinue stirring, bring to a full rolling
boil, and boil hard l minute.
Remove from fire, skim, pour
quickly. Paraffin hot jam at once.
You'll enjoy pickles, too, for your
winter menu pickups. I've found
some perfectly 100
delightful recipes ,L<S e.
for you which will 81 ~
not take too much &:%A I'm
sugar - just in fGlin n1S- ZN@,ED
case you want to W.
use most Of the
sugar on jams and jelies. Remem-
Der that you must use a pure apple
cider vinegar and good, firm, fresh
cucumbers to get nice, crisp pickles:
*Cucumber-Raisin Pickles.
cups sliced cucumbers
cup salt
cup white vinegar
/ cup sugar
6 tablespoons raisins
tablespoon celery seed
tablespoon mustard seed
Soak cucumbers overnight in salt
solution made of l cup salt to
gallon water. Drain. Combine re.
naming ingredients and heat to boil
ing. Add cucunbers. Boil 10 min
utes. Pour into sterilized jars and
seal at once.
Like fruit drinks for winter? You
can make delicious nectars out of
fruits easily and use them when fresh
fruit juices are no longer available:
*Peach Nectar.
Select sound, ripe fruit. Peel and
crush. Combine cups fruit with
cups water and heat slowly to
simmering. Press through colander,
then through fine sieve. To each
pound of fruit pulp and juice, add
"a pound of sugar. Bring to SIM
mering temperature. Stir until sug-
ar is well dissolved. Pour into clean,
sterile, jars. Put on cap. Process
30 minutes in a water bath at SIM
mering temperature (180 de-
grees F..
If you haze canning problem, ,Orite
to Miss Lynn Chambers, Western Ne,Os-
paper Union, 30 South Desplaines
Street, Chicago, I'LL. Please enclose
seIf-addressed envelope for your reply.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
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Jelly Seasons Here!

Think Of the good cheer in spar
king, quivery dish of jelly to 60
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There's a great interest in jelly
making in spite Of sugar rationing,
for many is the smart homemaker
who realizes what spark and zest
those little bits of bright-colored jel-
1y can lend to wartime meals. So,
60 out into the berry patch, and
let's get started on a batch of jelly.
Cherries, plu1ns and blackberries
are coming into season and make
splendid jellies. They're all easy to
handle and make nice, rich, luscious
jellies:
*Ripe Sweet Cherry jam.
makes 6-omce glasses)
81 cups prepared fruit
cups sugar
/ box powdered fruit pectin
To prepare fruit, pit about 21z
pounds fully ripe cherries. Crush
thoroughly or grind. If a stronger
cherry flavor is desired, add a few
crushed cherry pits to fruit during
cooking.
Measure sugar into dry dish and
set aside until needed Measure
fruit into s. or 6-quart kettle, fill
ing up last cup with water if neces-
sary.
Place over a hot test fire. Add
powdered fruit pectin. Mix well and
continue stirring until mixture
comes to a hard boil. Pour in sugar
at once, stirring constantly. Con-
tinue stirring, bringing to full,
rolling boil and boil hard / minute.
Remove from fire. Skim. Pour
at once into sterilized jelly glasses
and paraffin at once.
*Ripe Plum Jelly.
makes J medium glasses)
cups Juice
4 cups sugar
box powdered fruit pectin
To prepare fruit, crush about 8
pounds fully ripe plums. Do not
peel or pit them. Add "a cup wa
ter, bring to boil and simmer 10
minutes. Place fruit in jelly bag
or cloth, and squeeze out juice. Add
small amount Of water to pulp in
jelly cloth and squeeze again, if
there is a slight shortage of juice.
Measure sugar into dry dish and
set aside. Measure juice into sauce