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Janey was in there, of course, behind the
cashiers desk - the only unmarried girl among
four hundred men, Don't be mistaken though;
she wasn't the Post sweetheart. 1t had taken
me three months to get where ! was with her.
Even before opening the door caught
glimpse of her through window; and it's
strange how everything seems to turn over in
side you when you catch your girl Unexpectedly
like that She was calling something to some
one across the room laughing, cne hand push
ing soft brown hair back from her face Then
the door opened and banged behind me- shut
ting out the wind but not the DUST and all
her lively animation was suddenly gone.
She had heard knew that Someone had
already told her Twas to give Steve hiswash ride
first thing in the morning.
She stood there small and frightened-look-
ing, misery in the depths of her dark brown
eyes. For we'd been in love with each other.
We'd even made plans for an uncertain future.
But that was before advanced training brought
her brother to Dry Lake; before we'd had too
hot talk about him one night.
Perhaps if I'd ever had sister might have
handled her better. couldn't understand her
blind devotion, as if Steve could do no wrong.
1t was fine but still so blind. And perhaps it's
true as she said, that I'm too stubborn about
orders. Yet if you don't train strict obedience
into an Army, what have you got?
Steve came directly into my fight and when
he disobeyed instructions, gigged him. Once
he was grounded for week. I'm sure he never
complained to Janey. but she could see the
flight reports, good and bad, chalked on the
cadet board Then one night we fought it out.
lou can't look back on moments like that
and remember what was said and done. can
bring back now only the stirred emotion in her
voice, and the things she accused me Of was
being too severe with Steve. He loved flying,
but he was high-strlng | was stubbornly try
ing to hold him too much in line.
tried to make her understand that this was
war, that the training had to be severe;
couldn't let Steve get away with anything,
even for her. But through it all there was
sunk hollowness inside me, knowing things
could never be the same between us again.
In the end her voice dropped to murmur OF
despair We were sitting in the dark on rock
beyond the Post. She turned her face from
mine, eyes rapidly blinking. "All right, Mitch
Have it your way. But I'll tell you this: II
Steve doesn't graduate - if he's eliminated
here - She didn't finish, leaving it hanging
over my head.
1t was still like that now, this afternoon,
when she stood looking at me across her cash.
iers counter, knowing was going to wash her
brother out of the Flying Corps.
She has a way, when deeply troubled OF
shaking her head slowly, soft dark hair gently
swinging, her eyes on you. mo, Mitch sne
said. mo, you can't do il"
didn't say anything in reply. Wed sald
all before.
Her brown eyes pleaded, softened. You
can't, Mitch! You simply can't It's only
week till he graduates
Tlo~o ,,.n ~ $500 .rr,,;pu ouaiy, HE should
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I'm TRYING to be honest about it - about
Glenn Stevens can be more impersonal
- now. Steve had the wash ride coming,
that's true The Board had already passed the
order to eliminate him from the Flying Corps.
The ride was only matter of routine, last
stiff flight to wash him out
Still, there was a girl in it. Perhaps there
shouldn't have been, but there was. And be-
cause of her, l want to feel that Glenn Stevens
honestly got what was coming to him after all.
remember there was wind blowing that
afternoon, hot and dry from off the hundreds
of miles of Mojave Desert around the Army's
new advanced training field at Dry Lake
There was something irritable in its steady
blowing. And remember how it kept forcing
little ridges of brown dust beneath the closed
window of the Commandments Office, as three
of us, all instructors, sat there waiting for
Colonel Winton to get an unpleasant piece OF
business over with.
Washing an advanced student pilot is seri-
GUS. The Army has a lot of time and money
tied up in him, to say nothing of the emotional
wallop you hand young cadet. And Glenn
Stevens was hot pilot. But that's what we
were waiting for, to learn which of us was to
wash him out.
1t came in moment after Colonel Wlnton
reviewed Steve's record, which we all knew
pretty we'll You'd think by the time cadet
reached advanced flying there would be no
more need for rigid discipline. He's had ten
weeks of primary and ten of basic. He isn't
jackpot any more. When he comes to advanced,
his one aim, supposedly, is to learn how to fly
our twin-motored AT~9s, and fly them in the
way we teach him; they can be suicide ships.
By that time a cadet ought to know what it
means to disobey military orders. Glenn Stew
ems had never learned.
1t was all there in his 20l file - record OF
black marks. He was caught flying out of
bounds too often; the school area OF forty by
sixty miles wasn't big enough for him. Our
fight pattern for an AT9 is strict one, with
plenty of altitude for safety. Steve, when he
thought supervisor wasn't failing him. went
down and cut sagebrush at two hundred and
twenty miles an hour. Things like that His file
was long list of them. Little things, you can
Evening star., 1943-01-24

or remedy as muscular WEAKNESS. You can't
relax mentally by simply stopping work.
Your mind won't stay blank. The best plan
seems to be that of handing it some new work
to do. Psychologists say that millions of vic
tins of mental WEAKNESS could acquire pep
by finding fresh spare time interests.
Sound sleep provides the ultimate in rest,
but thousands of mental workers these days
are saving they're too tired to sleep.
Physical exercise can be marvellous cure
for tangled nerves and insomnia, provided
we don't overdo it, and warm mot hot
bath is another good remedy. In some in
stances it is not actually fatigue but nervous
indigestion brought on by worry which IN
duces sleeplessness. In these cases, glass OF
warm milk before going to bed will help.
Psychologists say that the right mental
attitude can be a powerful fatigue deterrent.
At plant where howitzer carriages are
being turned out like hot cakes, the COM
pany psychiatrist pointed out to me stocky
Young man in an undershirt who was feeding
2O-pound steel plates into power press as
tall as two-story building. 1t looked like a
mighty tiresome sort of chore to me, but the
doctor smiled and shook his head.
THAT fellow used to be on the malnte-
nance gang" he said. "All he did was to poke
around looking for steam-line leaks, but ne
was always gripping about being tired. | got
him transferred to this job and he's perIed
up hundred per cent. You see, running that
big press makes him feel like big shot and
that more than compensates him for his in
creased exertion.'
1t is not work alone which causes fatigue.
The neople we work with can make US tired,
too, and so can other factors such as oao
Evening star., 1943-01-24
Does the press Of wartime work make you weary?
Here are ways you can fight of that worn-out
feeling, stay on the job and have pep to spare
by Clarence Woodbury.

ventilation, excessive noise and poor lighting.
Studies conducted at the Hawthorne Chi
cago) Works of the Western Electric Com
pany prove that employees are more subject
to WEAKNESS when bossed by foreman OF
the old-fashioned. slave-driving variety than
when supervised by sympathetic one.
Quiet, Please
OBSERVATIONS made in the Home Office of
the Aetna Life Insurance Company showed
that when noisy clerical rooms were quieted
the pep of employees increased and work out
put jumped 10 per cent. Yet brass band will
inspire tired soldiers to extra effort, and soft
music can bring mental relaxation.
Indirect lighting is always less firing than
direct illumination, and recent reports from
British factories say that fluorescent-
lighting, the nearest artificial approach to
daylight, has greatly increased production.
Unhappiness, from whatever cause, is
great source of fatigue. Worries, emotional
upsets, thwarted ambitions, inner conflicts
and suppressed desires psychologists tell US,
can wear us out even if we get all the vitamins
we need If we have hidden troubles or fears,
the psychologists say it is wiser to talk about
them than to brood. The airing of ones woes
is always restful in itself. and sometimes our
friends can help us to overcome devltalizlng
worries.
But of all the cures for the ''droops," per-
haps the most valuable - and simplest -
is plain, honest patriotism We shant get
nearly so tired. doctors insist if we only re-
member, as nation, that the work we are
doing today is more important than any work
we have ever done before.
The End
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AVA time in our history. To crush Hitler.
more of us are working harder and at higher
speed than ever before.
This increased strain on minds and nerves
and muscles is beginning to tell. We can't
afford to get tired, and yet rest homes and
sanatoriums are doing booming business.
The Mayo Clinic reports that it has record
crop of tired businessmen on its hands. Every
where, people are feeling tuckered out.
have just made an investigation of this
national problem of fatigue. | visited plants
and factories where war production is at its
most feverish pace. talked with doctors and
psychologists, personnel managers and indus
trial engineers. made complete survey of
the ''droops."
Fatigue, discovered, may be caused by
almost anything from an infected tooth or
nagging wife to an unpaid bill or fear of the
boss The remedies are just as varied. Some
times change of diet or more rest will perk
us up surprisingly. Again, we merely need
hobby or new attitude toward our work.
AT one war plant which l visited. was
impressed by the zest of a girl worker whom
they called Babe Babe wasn't any bigger
than minute - but she was swinging five
pound mallet with the gusto of blacksmith,
driving wooden pegs into casting patterns,
and she kept it up for eight hours every day.
do you ever get tired?" asked her
mot any more" said Babe. Il used to feel
kind of stepped on at the end of the day, but
my boy friends gone into the Navy and
figure that every time smack one of those
pegs I'm slapping another JAP"
By simply dramatizing her work and
tying it up with her own intimate inter-
ests, that girl has reduced the weariness
her job might otherwise have induced.
Many-sided as this subject of fatigue is,
the experts are agreed on one point we can
do something about it. We can't hope to over
come WEAKNESS entirely. but we can modify
it by following certain sane habits of living
and thinking.
If you feel tired all the time, the first thing
to do is see your doctor for a checkup, for
often fatigue is caused by real disorders.
The next step is to look to your diet. In
spite of all that has been written about vita
minis, doctors say that literally millions of
Americans suffer from chronic tiredness be-
cause they de MT eat right For top efficiency,
they insist that each of us should have two
fruits, three vegetables, milk and eggs daily
Best Remedy
HEST is, of course, the classic remedy for
both muscular and mental fatigue. Industrial
engineers say that the average employees
weekly production will decline rather than in
crease if he works more than six eight-hour
days a week; and, regardless of the kind of
work we do, it should be broken up by fire.
quent short rest periods.
What should we do to relax during these
rest intervals?
| was told that the most important thing
is to shift position. If you are seated at your
work. get up. stretch, take stroll to the water
cooler. If you work standing up, sit down or
lie down for moment when you get your
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Wearable Two Ways.

pICTURE this dress in Bingham
1 with ric-rac around the neck,
buttons to match and the belt of
contrast. Thus you'll veal it for
home duties. Picture it, too, in
soft, solid color rayon crepe with
a fresh white collar-this is the
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Army-Navy E Pennant> Sign
Of Champions Flies Over
Reduction Plants of A. {. NJ. Co.

swell the output of strategic and vital
metals-copper, zinc, manganese, lead
and others-which have so many es-
sential war uses. This pledge was
given as a part of the nationwide
determination to produce and pro-
duce and produce to destroy our
enemies.
Representing the Army at both
programs was Col. Lloyd T. Jones,
San Francisco, who awarded the flag
in each ceremony, while Naval Com
mander Bert H. Creighton, Seattle,
presented the "E" pins.
The challenge for continued high
performance was met by the deter
mined reply to increase production
levels by D. M. Kelly, vice president
of the Anaconda company, plant
managers in both cities and labor
leaders representing the employees in
both Anaconda and Great Falls.
On Jan. % at the Anaconda Junior
High School auditorium a number of
distinguished speakers, besides those
already mentioned, told of the Won
derful production record achieved in
that smelling community. They in
cluded Gov. Sam C. Ford, master of
ceremonies; George C. Heikes, di-
rector of the zinc division of the War
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legislative Notes

The senate passed a bill repeating
the Hitler law" giving the governor
hire and fire power over state ap-
pointive officers and employees.
Three senate memorials, calling for
deferment of farm youths from the
draft, completion of u. S. highway 2
and designation of mustard seed as a
war crop, have been recommended
for passage.
Summary dismissal of any state
department or institution head who
allowed expenditures in excess of
appropriations is asked in an appro-
priations committee resolution which
appeared in the house of represent
atives.
Montanans may continue to vote at
primary elections without first de-
claring their party allegiance, the
state legislature decided. The senate
killed by voice vote a bill which
would have instituted a "closed pri-
mary" for this state. The action came
in committee of the whole after
tensive debate.
The Montana house of representa-
tives killed a bill by Representative
Republican, Glacier, which
would have staggered the terms of
city aldermen. The vote was "a to &.
Aronson said the measure would have
assured city councils of experienced
men.
The dissection measure, introduced
the house appropriations COM
will propose a two division
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Award Conferred
For First
Time in Montana

A new flag, the pennant of cham
pions, flies in Montana skies!
The flag, patriotic in color, has
been presented to the men and wom-
en-, the employer and employee of two
great reduction plants of the Ana
conda Copper Mining Company by
Undersecretary Robert P. Patterson
of the War department. The Navy
participated in the award which has
been conferred because of ~"excel-
lence in the production of vital and
strategic metals" required by our
armed forces in the war.
The metal = producing reduction
plants of the Anaconda company at
Anaconda and at Great Falls were
honored in simultaneous orders of
the War and Navy departments. From
these plants come the metals for the
machines of victory in a stream that
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never has been matched before here
a.. aa.Iurlaso alca il 4la s.Ga.ll

never has been matched before here
or anywhere else in the world.
Matching the "E" pennants, float
ing proudly from the halyards of the
two plants, are the distinctive "E"
pins, worn in the lapel with abound
ing pride by the men and women
who make these war metals and
whose sustained efforts won for their
plants the pennants of merit.
Veteran workers of the plants were
especially honored at the presentation
ceremonies, receiving at the hands
of the representatives of the Army
and Navy the insignia in token pres
entation for the thousands of en-
ployes.
The ceremonies on Jan. % at Ana
conda and on Jan. 20 at Great Falls,
conducted by the Army and Navy,
marked the formal presentation of
the flags to the plants and the in
sigma to their employees. At each
program Army and Navy officers
complimented the stats and man.
agement of the two great depart
ments of the Anaconda company and
pointed out that only one per cent of
the nations wal plants have been
awarded this highly priced Army
Navy pennant for excellence. 1t is the
first such award made in Montana.
The Army and Navy speakers urged
continuation of the fine production
record in these plants and labor and
management, shoulder to shoulder,
promised not only to maintain the
high standard set on this segment of
the home production front, but to
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Production Board, Washington, D. c.;
W. E. Mitchell, manager of the Ana
conda plant; Mayor Ralph Thorson;
Walter Dooley, recording secretary
of the Anaconda Mill and Shelter
mems Union, and Sid McCallum,
president of the Anaconda Building
and Metal Trades Unions.
The following evening Howard A.
Johnson, chief justice of the Montana
Supreme Court, was master of cere-
monies at the Great Falls meeting.
Besides Colonel Jones, Commander
Creighton, Vice President Kelly and
Mr.. Heikes, the speakers were: R. B.
Caples, manager of the Great Falls
plant; Herbert L. Donaldson of the
craft unions of Great Falls, and John
Clark, secretary of the Mill and
Smeltermen's Unions of Great Falls.
Mayor Ed L. Shields of the Electric
city opened the meeting.
One hundred and six veteran en-
ployes who have seen 40 years or
more of service in the Anaconda
plant, rel signally honored. In Great
Falls II such pioneers of production
were highly complimented and ap-
plauded. The Oldest employee of either
plant in point of continuous service,
George Bertsch who has been So
years with the company, was the
first Montana man to receive the
Army-Navy "E" pin for excellence,
and Commander Creighton, who
pinned the insignia to his coat lapel,
pronounced him a champion of cham
pions in the home front production
army.
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department handling financial and
property matters under the state
board of examiners. The state ac-
countant would head the financial
division, and the state purchasing
agent the property division.
BY adoption of an adverse commit
tee report, the senate killed a house
bill which would have abolished the
board of entomology and transferred
its duties to the board of health.
The senate accepted favorable COM
mittee reports on house bills to pro-
vide a $4,000 deficiency appropria-
ton for the agriculture department
and transferring the balance in the
educational bond interest and sink
ing fund to the general fund.
Governor Ford notified the senate
he had signed four senate bills and
two joint memorials. Six bills have
been passed on final vote, including
a uniform vital statistics law and a
measure permitting county and state
officeholders to run for other offices
without resigning.
Letha! gas would be substituted
for the hangman's Zoe in Montana
under a bill which appeared in the
state senate. Senator Olmstead, Sweet
Grass county Republican. its sponsor,
said the measure provides for exc
cutions to take place on prison
owned grounds" at a site to be desig-
mated by the state board of prison
commissioners.
The house committee of the whole
killed a measure which would have
provided a minimum monthly wage
OF $16O for policemen in second class
cities.
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Bird War Victims

Thousands Of ducks, gul1s, and
other aquatic birds are meeting
death in troubled waters of World
War II. Torpedoed ships or de-
stroyed submarines set afloat oil
which coats the surface of the wa
ter. Birds are attracted, land in
the oil, become soaked, and are
unable to fly.
In time the fuel oil peculiarly
penetrates the natural oil on the
birds feathers, and water reaches
the skin-this chills and kills the
birds.
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ASK NE u
ANOTHER {
A General Quiz
The Questions

l. What instrument is used to
measure illumination?
2. How are postage rates fixed?
3. What was Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur's fathers rating in the
U. S. army at the age of twenty?
4. Which of the coast lines of the
United States (Pacifc, Atlantic or
Gulf of Mexico) is the longest?
S. How many beats does the hui
man heart make in "a hours?
6. In which ocean is the inter-
national date line?
7. Rocky mountain sheep are
popularity called what?
8. A student of conchology is
concerned with what?
9. Who was Evangeline's lover
in the poem by Longfellow?
10. Women's WORKOUT silk stock
ings given as scrap r used for
what purpose in the war?
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Black Widow Spider

The black widow spider is right
fully called a widow for she eats
her spouse Immediately after mat
ing. Drop for drop her enom
is the most potent poison created
by a living organism. It is Is
times stronger in concentration.
than n of a prairie rattle
snake.
However, a rattlesnake is en-
bowed with much greater charge
of venom-as much as 200 black
widow spiders-and is therefore
more deadly.
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The ANSWERS

I. A photometer.
2. BY congress.
3. Colonel.
4. Atlantic.
S. More than 100, 900.
6. Pacific ocean.
7. Bighorn.
8. Shells and mollusks.
9. Gabriel.
10. Rewoven into powder bags
for big guns.
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No Pushing Nature
We must 60 slowly and gently
to work with Nature if we would
get anything out of her.-Goethe.
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version you'll want to make to
wear for business or for social
events.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1722-B is de-
signed for sizes "a. Sc. 80, 40. AZ, "A,
46 and 48. Size SO requires, with short
sleeves. 33A yards 39-inch material. 70
yard for contrasting collar.
Send your order to:
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Young Belle.

CHE'LL fancy herself quite a
young lady in this lovable dress
with V-neck and cute bodice treat
ment. The tiny pulled sleeves and
sash will make her look still more
feminine and irresistible.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1743-B Is de-
signed for sizes 2. 3, 4. S and 6 years.
Size 3 requires It's yards 35-inch material.
6 yards braid trimming.
Evening star., 1943-11-28
{. U. Cage Team Bull
Around Three Vets;
70 Games Listed

The 1884 edition of Catholic
University's basket ball team under
Coach Johnny Long is being built
around three veterans-Fred Rice,
Dick Scanlon and Johnny Mercak.
There is fair group of freshmen
on the Cardinal campus from which
to draw other starters. The Cards
again will compete in the Mason
Dixon Conference after being sur
prise semifinalists in the last title
tourney.
To help round out the club, Long
has scheduled several games against
service teams around here, and SO
far the Cards have a20-game sched-
ule. Opener will be on December 3
against Fort Belvoir at the C. U.
gym. Most of the games this year
will be home tilts.
Under Longs current plans, Rice
and Mercak will continue in the
forward position they handled last
season. while Scanlon is being
shifted from center to guard.
The schedule so far:
December 3. Fort Belvoir 13. Washing
ton Naval Communications Annex "A,
a3d General Hospital Of Fort Meade: II,
at Gallaudet.
January 10. Ganaudet: IL. at Bridge
water. s. ct Johns Hopkins 80. at Wash
inston College. Chestertown 25, Lovola
%. at 0uantico Marines; %, U. Of Mary
land at College Park
February l, Juniata: 3. Washing ton Col
flege: 5. University Of Delaware at Will
minston: 8. Maryland: 10, Loyola al Balti-
more: IA. American University: 16. Johns
Hopkins: 12, University Of Delaware; 25, at
American u