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Carbon County news., 1943-12-31
LIGHTS OUT

WPB officials are worried about
the American public's prohigate use
of electricity and water. Proposals
have been studied to ration electric
ity, but these have been set aside
in favor of voluntary economy.
Few people realize that extra
lights or a dripping spigot mean
waste of coal or fuel oil. Some cit
les have no meter control of water,
with a resultant high consumption.
Chicago is one.
It's an Americans privilege to
take a bath, but he takes so many
more baths than Europeans that the
U. S. per capita consumption of wa
ter is more than twice that of Eu-
rope. WPB doesn't say so officially,
but it implies that six inches of wa
ter in the tub will make you just
as clean as a full tub.
The worry comes from the prob
lem of keeping war plants provided
with light and water. Electric COM
panies which have always promoted
heavier use of electricity C"buy a
new toaster or iron'D are now spend
ing money to advertise conserva.
ton.
Note to WPB: One of the most
wasteful users of light and power
is the government itself. Practically
all government Offices are over
heated.
Carbon County news., 1943-12-31
BE BROAD-MINDED
IN 1914

The ner0 year is going to be
confusing for narrOtO-minded,
shOrtSighted people, in the
opinion of Kathleen Norris.
Peace, if it comes during 1914,
is going to present netU chaL-
Lenges to us all. 1t is going to
be the broad-mmded mdiUid-
uaIs roith the ability to see the
logical results Of UariouS pro-
grams r0ho are going to get the
most from 1914. She mentions
many Of the problems tohich
r0iH accompany peace, such as
the conflicting territorial aims
tUhich haze made Europe a
battle-ground for approximate
" 5000 years. Difficulties like
this rUiH not be solUed merely
t0ith the signing Of an armi-
stice. They require patience,
tolerance and faith.
Carbon County news., 1943-12-31

ter squawk of pleasure. We pre-
pared to take our departure; Roger!
bowed and smiled.
Il wish your husband a safe jour
ney, sonora, and speedy return,
he said, and we withdrew to oul
arana, tagged by the still silent chill
dren, while the pulque sellers wife
stood in the doorway of the hut tc
observe our departure.
We had logged along for some dis.
tance in the direction of the bust.
ness district when l remarked,
Some grist for the mill there"
eyes, Barry. There is confrma-
tion of the conclusion we reached
last night. Pedro ran out on us at
Sam Chatfield's, hurried home, re-
mained briefly and then fled to the
mountains for an indefinite stay. He
carried with him the belief that he
not only saw the murderer of Cheese
bro, but can identify him. He fears
the consequences if he is made to
identify him.
you're right, of course" 1
sighed. But where does that leave
us, Hunt?"
"It leaves us with simple ex-
planation of the crime-when Pedro
is captured and returned to Mazat-
Ian. To the jefe del policia, Senor
Otilio Lombardo, will fall the honor
of solving the murder of Kitty Chat
field, as well as that of Chesebro,
when his men bring in Pedro"
''But there's no evidence that the
two were done by the same hand"
NO." admitted Rogers, as we
drove along the shady streets,
there is no evidence of it; there's
only hunch on my part, and a
very, very faint hunch at that. Per.
haps no more than a wish that it
be so. Simplify things enormously,
wouldn't it, Barry?" he said, look
ing at me with twinkle in his
mild blue eyes. Lets go and talk
with Lombardo and urge upon him
our belief, and perhaps spur him on
to greater effort in bringing back
Pedro" He turned to the driver and
said in Spanish: "Senor, take us,
please, to the police station"
Rogers asked for Lombardo at
small desk, and the courteous occu-
pant assured US that we should see
he jefe at once. But it was some
.en minutes before we were shown
nto small room where Lombardo
sat alone.
I'VE came" Rogers said slowly,
only to offer what help you think
We can give toward the solution of
he murder of our friend, James
That is very kind of you, gentle
men,"
Carbon County news., 1943-12-31
ISi $,I }Iz,s4gcs,,~ So SOMBREROVA x11915 E

Elsa Chatfield, Hollywood artist, is dis
inherited by her Aunt Kitty who died
from an overdose of morphine. Hunt
Rogers, professional sleuth, and Barry
Madison, an amateur detective, go to
Mazatlan, Mexico, to solve what they
believe to be Kitty Chatfield's murder.
On arrival, they find that Elsa's party
had preceded them by plane. During
fiesta at the ranch of Sam Chatfield
(Elsa's father), James Chesebro is MUIR
dered. Lombardo, chief of the Mexican
police, questions Pedro, the pulque man,
after questioning all the guests. They re.
enact the prologue to the death of Cheese
bro. While this is going on Pedro, the
star witness, makes his escape into
the mountains.
Carbon County news., 1943-12-31
DWINDLING AAA

Budget estimates for the next fs-
cal year are not yet public, but
here is one estimate which will come
as blow to farmers.
The famous 'Triple-A," which
saved farmers in 1888 and has al
ways been synonymous with the New
Deal, is about to be cut drastically.
1t is the Roosevelt administration
which is making the cut, not con-
gress.
In fact, Budget bureau first pro-
posed, in closed-door hearings, to
eliminate AAA altogether. This pro-
posal was ruled out, but Budget then
made a SO per cent slash from 400
to 200 million dollars.
Taken together with the near elm
ination of Farm Security admins
tration, the AAA cut indicates how
far farmers have come back eco-
nomically.
Carbon County news., 1943-12-31

| is away, sir. l do not know wher
he will return"
A man was lurking inside the
house as we talked, just beyond our
view. l had heard him and so had
Rogers. At last overcome by curl
osity he appeared suddenly behind
the woman in the doorway. 1t was
not, however, Pedro as l suspected.
but man whose face was familiar.
Rogers glanced at him.
Good morning." he said and
smiled. The man returned the greet
ing hesitantly.
my brother, jose" the woman
said.
"And did the old dog die, senor?"
inquired Rogers. I recognized then
the Individual who the morning of
Elsa's attack on Chesebro was put
ting to death with chloroform an old
dog near the stables.
"Oh, yes, sir. Quickly, as you
said he would"
"Senor," began Rogers, "the
chloroform-teum me again who gave
it to you"
"Senora Chatfield, sir"
"Senora Chatfeld?"
Eyes. She of the golden hair"
Rogers suddenly elevated Pepe to
the thatch of the roof where with
dutter of wings and wildly clutching
feet he re-established himself,
about to stare down at us
with his wicked little eyes and ut
Carbon County news., 1943-12-31

helped justly and wisely, or they
will be made continually the prey
of predatory nations. We and our
Allies will certainly have to demand
inspection bases after the war, so
that no steel mills anywhere may
begin to work night and day to pre-
pare for the world-slaughter of 1860
So perhaps the most important
don't" of the New Year is, don't
be too quick to decide, condemn,
worry, over the peace terms if they
are broached this year, which some
wise men and all praying women
hope they may be. There will be
good men and wise men at the Peace
Table, and thank God they will all
WANT to do right; down to the last
and least important one of them they
will all intend to be fair. And in
that is a great hope.
Don't overlook another possibility
for 1914. 1 mean the talk and dis
cussion about the maintenance of
tremendous armed forces for our
protection here and the safety Of our
interests elsewhere. There is no
other way; there will not be any
other way for many generations to
come,
So if, like myself, you are wom-
an who has WINGED away from mill
tarism, don't be too stubborn about
it. Keep an open mind. We are
not belligerent nation, but just as
we keep tremendous police force
in our great cities, SO we must keep
national police force now.
Twenty-Five years ago l had no
vote. But if had had one l think
would have used it against our
participation in the World Court.
America Must Share
World Problems
But | see now that we must be
involved anyway. So it comes back
to my original contention, that if
we can trust Russia, England.
China, the Scandinavia and our own
people to draft an honest peace,
we must face our share of RESPONSE |
bility for that peace, all over the !
world. You and l would be very |
anxious if we heard that New York |
or Chicago had determined to aban-
don all police protection, and de-
pend upon the other great cities to
prevent vice and abuse. Nationally
we are somewhat in the same posi-
tion; peace has to be guarded every
where, and it's everyone's job from
now on.
When that first Peace Committee
meets L hope our churches will be
thronged with men and women from
morning until night, hundreds of
hem, thousands of them, spending
all-day vigils, slipping in during the
loon hour, stopping on the way
home at night, filling the surround
ng streets with streams of pilgrims,
n the old medieval way, to prove
hat we believe in the old promise,
knock, and it shall be opened unto
you, seek and ye shall find, ask and
'e shall receive"
Carbon County news., 1943-12-31
MAIL BAG

GIT, Great Neck, L. 1.-The
Caucasus mountains are 1900 feet
high. But the passes through which
Stain flew en- route to Teheran are
$4,000 feet III. L., Chicago
All Argentine meat exports are
bought by the British government,
which then resells part to the U. S.
army. Thus, U. S. soldiers are eat
ing Argentine beef bought from Brit
ain. Value of Argentine meat ex-
ports last year was 139 million dol
lars.
Carbon County news., 1943-12-31
Unarmed Combat

One of our most beautiful film
actresses, visiting a military hos
pital, asked a soldier: "Did you
kill a German?"
The soldier said: eyes"
"With which hand?" asked the
actress-and then kissed the hand.
"And did you kill a German?"
she asked the man in the next bed.
81 sure did," he told her prompt
ly. II bit i'm to DEATH"
Carbon County news., 1943-12-31
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

{. There are 1898 Mexicans in the
U. S. army, and $50 Cubans.
q Agricultural experts are intrigued
with Aston Warnings book, Roots
in the Earth" a boost for the small
farmer.
q Smiling Jimmie Davis, author of
'You Are My Sunshine" and candi-
date for governor of Louisiana, sug
gests that all candidates conduc.
their campaigns in the form of a
bond drive for Uncle Sam. Maybe
the man who sells the most bonds
Ihould be elected.
Carbon County news., 1943-12-31
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
Bell syndicate.-wNU Features


- into the new year with
a whole set of prejudices ano
determinations, for it is going
to be one of the most amazing
years ever poured out OF
Times big mysterious bag. 1t
may we'll be the most impor-
tant in our life as a nation.
For 1914 may bring us
peace. And we have to face
tomorrow's peace with just as
much courage, sanity and
faith as we're facing today's
war.
You have faith in the war,
even though you don't under
stand all about it. Have faith
in the peace, too. You won't
understand all about that,
either.
Don't forget that the ideals of our
great Allies are not our national
ideals; they never have been. When
Russia, England and Scandinavia
speak up at the Peace Table don't
be surprised if they surprise us, and
perhaps shock us. In Europe every
nation is close to danger zone. We
don't know anything about danger
zones, for our nearest enemies are
thousands of miles away.
New Conditions in Europe.
Don't forget that their enemies are
right next door. Don't expect France
and Germany and Poland and the
Balkans to 60 back to any ante-war
status. They can't and they won't.
There will have to be new borders,
new regulations. And probably, in
creased powers for some of the ma
tions that have been fighting for de-
cency, security and peace.
Don't begin to worry, and to write
letters to the papers, if some of the
very things for which we have been
fighting appear to be temporarily
when the first treaties are
Perhaps they must be.
Perhaps those troublesome little
European states that are always
drawing greater powers into these
agonizing world catastrophes, must
be ruled and held in check for
awhile.
That isn't really the serious ques-
ion. The question is just what
,erms will be offered to all the
smaller countries, and just how re-
,ponsible are the offering powers. If
hese terms promise all the cruelty
wrecked nations security from star
,ation, homelessness, war, then they
will be good terms.
And those good terms will be in
initely more important than any
question of borders, races, terrific
ial rights, mandatory powers and
II the other meaningless words tha:
nade such an ethnic mess of Europe
fter the last war.
Russia is conspicuously peace
,ving country. Scandinavia contains
group of the wisest-governed na-
ons of all. America boasts an
nprecedented unafraid friendship
18th her neighbors; not in one hun
red years have Canada, Mexico,
le Argentine, the Central Ameri-
an powers or Brazil heard our guns.
hina is too wise to believe in rapine
lurder, aggression, war. Any peace
pom which these powers decide will
= a good peace, even though it
aves much to be settled as years
pen and perfect better relation
Zip between the nations and a wiser
lardianship of the Warlike elements
y the peaceful peoples.
Allies Need Outposts Against I
Aggression. ;
Don't attempt to right all the I
rongs of the long years just at
st. Remember that there are GER i
in island nations, like the Philip i
mes, for instance, that are infinitely [
ettered, and admit it, by the con- :
olling interest of a stronger power. '
here are islands that must be ,
Carbon County news., 1943-12-31
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MOT all the Pennsylvania Dutch
were free-hand artists and
you may not be either. The early
Dutch artisans often used stencils
for the main part of motif and
added a few flourishes to give
free-hand effect. You may do that
too or you may stencil the scrolls
and fiourishes on chairs, chests
and gay gifts until you get the
feel of this type of decoration.
All of these quaint motifs are
symbolic. That is the Dove of
Carbon County news., 1943-12-31
DISCOVERY 1SREIs as COLDS RELIEF

(home medicated mutton suet)-which
grandma used for coughing-nasal con-
odern geS5on muscle muscle aenes 81 f o. cG.dsteaehes
So their families get relief from these
colds miseries with Penetro, the salve
with modern medication in a base con-
tanning old fashioned mutton suet. 25c,
double supply 35c. Demand Penetro.
Carbon County news., 1943-12-31
Valuable Cent

Collectors have paid more for
the U. S. cent of 1893, in relation
to its face value, than for any
other coin in history. In recent
years, specimens in perfect condi-
tion have brought as much as
$1,000 or 10000 times their origi-
nal value.
Carbon County news., 1943-12-31
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LABOR PREPARES FOR 1914
More government officials are
gradually leaving to become asso-
ciated with farm and labor unions.
The CIO Committee for Political
Action has now recruited:
C. b. Baldwin, former Farm Sc
curity administrator and short-time
state department official, and
Raymond S. McKeOugh, former
congressman from Illinois, and for
mer OPA regional director for In
diana, Illinois and Wisconsin.
Meanwhile, Aubrey Williams, for
mer director of the National Youth
administration, has Joined the Farm
ers' union.
Carbon County news., 1943-12-31

Peace that you see in the upper
left corner of the sketch. The
tulip symbolizes Lily Time or the
golden age of peace and plenty
promised the Dutch settlers in the
New World. The pomegranate bud
and fruit symbolized Gods boun-
ty. The blade, the flower, the seed
and the heart of man were SYM
bols used in decorating furniture,
pottery, glass and tin. "Hex"
signs were for luck and to keep
away evil.
NOTE: Mrs. Spears has prepared stem
Cling designs for II authentic Pennsyl-
vania Dutch motifs with color guide and
directions. There is a large design for
cupboard doors, designs for chairbacks,
dresser drawers and chests. Also borders
and small motifs for decorating bottles.
boxes, jugs and tinware. These designs
may be used many times for gifts and
for bright touches in every room in the
house. Ask for Pattern 262 and enclose
is cents. Address:
Evening star., 1943-05-15
Hopeful Siqn

Much condemnation has been
heaped on the head of bureaucracy
since this war started and there will
be more of it before this war is over.
All the more reason, therefore, to
give credit where credit is due. In
this case it is due the Office of Price
Administration and the War Food
Administration for their joint as
surance to the harassed citizen that
1t is illegal to force him to buy, with
his ice cream, an equal amount OF
Sherbet or some other frozen confec-
ton. This practice has been going
on for some time and it is to be hoped
that some day Of judgment will de-
cree fit punishment to those respon-
Sible for this gastronomic crime.
The innocent customer, knowing he
could not get tube of tooth paste
without turning in an old tube, ac-
cepted without complaint the edict
that made him purchase a frozen
mixture OF indeScribable content
along with his ice cream. He thought
it was part of the war effort. To
learn that it is not, is one of the
most hopeful things that has hap
pened in Washington since gasoline
was rationed Other civil liberties,
one believes, may be just around the
corner,
Evening star., 1943-05-15
Test of 'Subversive'

The next test of House sentiment
on retaining in the Government
service persons accused by the Dies
committee of membership in sub
verSive" organizations will come in
the form of vote on an amendment
to the pending deficiency appropria-
ton bill, to be offered by Chairman
Kerr OF the special committee in
vestigating the fitness of the accused.
This amendment would forbid pay
ment of salaries to the three men
found guilty by this committee.
In view OF the background of this
unusual series of secret trials"
there seems little doubt that the
House will approve the amendment.
Time and again the House has sup
ported the Dies committees activi-
ties and has indicated its suspicion
and dislike of those whom the COM
mittee accused. The present system
Of trial by Mr.. Kerr's committee was
In the nature of compromise with
members who wished to take more
precipitate action. House leaders on
both sides of the aisle emphasized
Evening star., 1943-05-15
A U. S. Monetary Crisis?

From the Quebec LEvenement-Journal.
The American Congress refused to Mr..
Roosevelt the right to reduce the value
of the dollar with relation to the gold
reserve of the United States. For once,
it may be said, Senators and Congress-
men were quite right in opposing the
demand of the Government All de-
valuation of the national standard would
have involved an injustice to the holders
of Treasury securities, to landed pro-
prietors, and even to certain foreign
standards This inf1ationary procedure
would have been harmful to the Ca
madam dollar, among others, since Cam
ada has stinted itself for three years
and half to acquire reserve of Amer
lean dollars. 1t is true that by this
means the United States could have
undertaken the resumption of price
stabilization. an operation useful to its
war economy. Through not having
realized this sooner, it seems that the
consequences may be painful for the
Treasury at Washington. Judging by
the price levels now reached In the
United States it looks as though the
country would soon be passing through
q monetary crisis. 1t will have to find
more gold or silver for its reserves and
raise the tax levels still higher.
Evening star., 1943-05-15
AirmuiI Anniversary

Many Washingtonians remember
the beginning of airmail in the United
States twenty-five years ago today.
The scene of the start was the Polo
Grounds in Potomac Park. President
Woodrow Wilson attended the take
off" of the first plane, piloted by
Lieutenant George L. Boyle. The
list of other celebrities present in
cluded Franklin D. Roosevelt, then
Assistant Secretary of the Navy and
K. Kambara, postmaster general OF
Japan. Major R. H. Fleet of the
Signal Corps announced that the
craft used for the pioneer run" to
Philadelphia and New York was "a
machine of the Curtiss type, equipped
with 150-horsepower Hispana- -Suiza
motor, capable of making ninety
miles an hour and carrying three
hundred and fifty pounds" Four
bags, containing approximately five
thousand five hundred letters, were
put aboard the crate" Each en-
velope was supposed to bear a
twenty -four-cent stamp, hurriedly
manufactured in the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing for special air
post purposes. The design of these
labels had for its central motif
representation Of plane moving
Evening star., 1943-05-15
SILVER SPRING, Md.

Lear Sir.
Again we ask your help.
"A cardinal built her nest within two
feet Of our front porch in some ever
green bushes. Two birds were Matched
and we paid no attention at close hand.
They were in the nest several days,
maybe four, were there at noon, but
about dusk the nest was empty-one
egg left unmatched.
"One Of our family said they heard a
commotion during the afternoon but
was afraid to 60 too near Now the nest
Is still there, not disturbed in any way.
Were those baby birds old enough to
fly at four days, or squirrels eat young
birds, as some folks claim, or did the
chipmunks eat them?
Again, singing sparrow built her
nest in a juniper bush and was behaving
like all good mother birds I saw her
sitting quietly about II o'clock
Then the same thing happened The
bird gone and the three eggs lying in
the nest broken and empty. What hap
pened to them?
Her nest is still there in perfect con-
dition.
Il do not think any cat has been near
our laWn-no one around our neighbor-
hood has one. If the dogs did this ugly
work, would they not have broken down
the nests?
I'VE are all very much distressed and
hope you will find out the cause of our
birds being stolen or killed. Many
thanks for your assistance.
Very sincerely, J. H. B."
snakes or blue jays might be responsible
Unless one sees the deed, there is no
telling which is the culprit.
Grackles, the large, purplish- black
birds often called "blackbirds, are very
bad when it comes to destroying the
young of other birds.
The writer here will never forget the
summer morning several years ago.
1t was very early, just after dawn.
A clamor came from the fence, where
cardinal had a nest.
Before We could get downstairs band
of grackles had torn the legs and heads
off four baby robins.
The young birds had just gotten so
that they could perch on the top of the
fence, and this led to their undong
The grackles did not want to eat the
small birds, but merely destroyed them
for the pure lust of it.
This is something not unknown in the
world of human beings in recent years.
X X
Dogs never rob nests
Sometimes dog will catch birds on
the ground
Cats will snare baby birds out of nests
and for. that reason all friends of birds
who also are friends of cats should see
to 1t that their own four-legged pets are