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my with the whole chemistry department
When Connie Little was elected class presi-
dent, all the fellows voted for her because she
was 90 pretty. And not BRAIN in her head
81 wouldn't say that, " he said weakly. But
it oomforted him to realize that the unfair
ness had been noted by Others. And immedi-
ately he found himself recalling Professor
Psychology 100 Jellowe's much spoofed die
tm: The relations between the sexes are
singuiariy complicated. For convenience
have divided this inchoate mass of feeling
into ten segments, ranging from A - Active
Hostility - to J. Passionate Infatuation.
He perceived he hid slipped imperUepdbly
from A to c. Or perhaps d. But Joncie."
be Protested. you're something else-"
Look. Bil." she laid her right hand On
his ann. Il want You 10 help me be the sort
of person I'd like 10 be; the sort IN hive to
be If Ctmlogas going to win Saturday.
YOU'RE all right just - you me, Joncie."
He found be was speaking with total snc1-
ity. You're dong swell job. We're all for
you. I'm for you. ="
II wasn't necessary to finish IN words.
Much to his surprise his arms were around
her and her face turned toward his. Rapidly
he slipped through an mchoate mass of feeling,
past Segment E and even past Segment F.
In THE boathouse on Saturday afternoon,
forty minutes before the start of tbs Chuloga-s
Dorchester event, Mac had last word with
Bill. The coach seemed edgy but confident.
Getting on with Joncie all right?"
''An right"
Good. We almost had the spark Thurs
day; we'll get it today. just one trouble with
Joncie - too polite Make her speak up
''I'l see she does it, Mac"
Bill stepped outside the boathouse. He had
spent the morning with Joncie. To her he had
devoted every chink of allowable time be
tween Wednesday evening and the present
moment. He had made complete about
face on the subject of eds. Whatever the
rest were like, and maybe he'd judged them
too harshly. Joncie was an exception.
Hello. Cap" 1t was Oxy. the reporter,
again. We'll, you sure got the right party to
fill in for Condor. Joncie's swell girl We
were IN DFamatics -Four together"
Though it's must" for keepers of scrap
books to be nice to the press, sometimes it's
difficult. At the moment Bill was not CONVEX
sationally disposed. you don't say"
"And is Joncie good! She could go on the
stage tomorrow"
For some reason the information was dis
pleasing. That's fine"
Her father brought her up Used to take
her on hunting trips. One night in Alaska
she shot grizzly. Around here she has to
do bit of acting to make folks think she's
fragile"
Bill managed chatty. 'Yeah?"
"And game for anything. Last year on
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his heel. he headed back to the boathouse
He reviewed his infat1ation for the little
snootfie. Not only had she twisted him
around her little finger. but she'd called the
shot IN advance. He felt sickish.
Five minutes later Joncie appeared with
swing, buoyancy, chic that should have
struck the spark in any crew. Over her white
Jersey she wore a sports jacket: her good
looking legs were only half hidden by shorts.
Hello. Bill - Why, what's the matter?"
He STARED at her and then raised his eyer
till they hooked over her head. Nothing"
But, there must be something. -
Mosquito bit me Female. Full of poison"
'Piease, Bin, what Is it? Have done
soucGhing or sid something's
Don't waste your hung power. You'll
wear yourself out befoCe the race"
A they padded upIake to the starting
point, he noticed with satisfaction that a
mach Of Jo0cie's face Is was not hidden by
megsphone and smoked glasses radizted
worry.
Besoce the stnt she tried again. 'Bin,
you've got to speak up" Her voice. low and
whispering. didn't carry past the stroke.
IAN right. Tell me what to say"
I'VE haven't chance unless we're all
working together. What's your grudge against
me, Bill? With you this way. we can't win"
No Hudge I'm just about to oongratu-
late you. You told your roommate you'd
make me fall for you and sure did Smart"
He was grati6ed to observe the weather
pinkness of her cheeks become a red fame
bill don't you see that was before -
it was -" she stopped.
Sure know Just college prank"
bill -"
The summons from the referees boat cut
in. Ready. Chuloga? Ready, Dorchester"
At the crack of the gun Bill, now back in
Segment A - Active Hostility, thrust too
deeply into Lake Chuloga's bright blue
waters; and with the first stroke Dorchester
took the lead The miss hadn't been inten-
tional, but Bills unspoloen comment was
heartfelt How do you like that. yoa lille
d0ssble-crosseT? With anybody else toe might
scis. Will yox no.
Its all right, Bill. Well get them.
Come on, Chuloga."
ON The referees boat the Dorchester coach
showed all his white teeth. You've got
good eight. Mac. They're pulling together -
now" To this crack Mccall said nothing
With smile as blithe as that on an Easter
Island idol, he gripped the rail. -.
bill, we're trailing. Let's raise the stroke"
said Joncie.
Bill scowled, and from thirty-foM lifted to
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HOO0 NA8ANs AvA0e@- NY AZ t<ALAAA6 oo6~s&H~
now" To this crack Mccall said nothing.
With smile as blithe as that on an Easter
Island idol, he ripped the rail. =.
bill, we're trailing. Let's raise the stroke"
said Joncie.
Bill soowled, and from thirty-four lifted to
thirty-six. But Dorchester was inchmg stead
lily ahead. At the half-mile she lay almost
length to the good
Joncie appealed to the crew Ten to catch
Dorchester. :. Everybody. now. O'se -.
From the shore, Chuloga's sons and daugfi-
tiers cheered the squirt. as with ten big ones
followed by ten more, the home eight rallied
Then Chuloga fell back.
Broken by hnts, the thrust of oars and the
roll of sliding seats, soto voce conversation
rapid-fred between COX and stroke. On has
part it was mostly monosyllabic.
Bill, please, please listen. Hxn -. We
can do better"
Fine
Don't be that way, Bill -. know I've
hurt you.''
''Me?" He found a grim comfort in her dis
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I'll
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Her father brought her up. Used to take
her on hunting trips. One night in Alaska
she shot grizzly. Around here she has to
do bit of acting to make folks think she's
fragile
Bill managed chatty, ''Yeah?"
'And game for anything. Last year on
account of the war she decided she ought to
know how to drive an ambulance; so she
went to one of those classes three nights a
week, and what that girl doesn't know about
the insides of car is nobody's business
Bill closed his eyes. If he had been obliged
to say something he would have riposted
with snappy, mo comment"
Her roommate told me Joncie decided to
make you fall for her. How about it, Bill?
You know - not for publication"
Bill laughed. The laugh and the words
which followed were somewhat hampered by
his teeth, which had clamped violently to-
gether. Think nothing of it." Turning on
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~Y GoLLY, a man can always
learn somethin' new.
Here / been goin' around
for 40 years or SO thinkin' that
earthworms was useful only for
fishin' an for early birds to quar-
rel over.
Well, they turn out different.
saw an ad in the paper the other
day that said "Domesticated
Earthworms for Sale" l thought
it was gag. So / tried it on Bushy
Barnes from down at the news
stand.
"Bushy." l says, you have
heard of lion-tamin' an fox farms
an mink ranches. But what would
you think of guy that raised
earthworms?"
! WOULD think he was a great
help to the nation" says Bushy.
Now that's just fine" l 60
on, thinkin' Bushy is stringin' me
along. II suppose you keep 'em
for pets, or maybe sell their skins
for retreadin' tires"
"You wouldn't know, chump.
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but science don't overlook nothin'.
1t has been found that the lowly
earthworm is the gardeners best
friend. A worm oozes his way
through the ground eatin dirt
an dead leaves an whatever.
His digestion is wonderful because
he dissolves all the minerals an
the vitamins an things an leaves
a trail of rich crumbly humus an
topsoil along his path - just what
a rosebush or a strawberry plant
needsr'
you amt kiddin'?" l ask him.
You really mean earthworms pay
for their keep"
Just that" says Bushy. An
maybe the reason you are such a
lousy gardener is that you are
always diggin' up the worms for
fishin' instead of givin' EN- a
chance to do their rightful job
down in the ground"
So there you are. An I'm Just
waitin' till the next time my wife
calls me a worm so l can tell her
how useful worms is!
WALlY BoRfN
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1. GOOD MOTTO Which
branch Of serUice is kHoOn as
the "Can Do" boys?
The Seabees u. S. Naval
Construction Battalions. Their
motto is Can do, will do -
did
H. NJ. S., Culfport, Miss.
z. GLASS HOUSES Why
may zoe hare houses Of glass in
the postwar era:
Because glass can now be
sawed and milled like lumber.
!, IMMENSE Ho,c does
Ne,o Guinea rank in Size among
the ,rorLd's islands?
Second largest in the world,
with $4,000 square miles.
Greenland is the largest.
4. BIGGEST What name
has been given our biggest
bomber, the B-29?
SuperfOrtress.
s. ~PNEAPPLEs" -. Hand
srenades derived their nick
name "pineappies' from, their
shape and the yello,oish-oraHse
paint ,chica corered their sur
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"A news observation-disclosures game

face. .No,1 they are being paint
ed Olive drab. Why?
To prevent the enemy from
getting n good view as a ''pine-
APPLE approaches and having
time to take cover.
s. OUCH! Hoo much is
this ,car costing us per hour?
approximately $I2, O00, 900!
7. HICH-PAYNC -. Which
sections hare the greatest pro-
portions Of their populations
paying income taxes?
Latest Treasury releases
show that the leaders are ~
District of Columbia, ~ Alas
ka, 90 Nevada.
L. L., katolah, ". Y.
3. A. +. I. What is the
Armed Forces Institutes?
1t is a correspondence school
which thousands Of our men i'm
outposts are using to get high
school and college credits.
Courses in 81 subjects are open
to any enlisted man after four
months of service.
Conducted by ~ A..~
THIS WEEK
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CORN BORER:
Ne1U Treatment

1rked by the corn borer's dam
age, 29-year-old John Bell of Wat
seka, ILL.,, hit on the idea of curling
the pests by making the stalk of the
plant distasteful.
A soil expert for a fertilizer con-
Germ, Bell worked for three years on
his project, reaching the point where
he planned to submit his product to
the University of Illinois agrono-
mists for testing.
Mixing commercial fertilizer with
combinations of minor plant food es-
sentials, Bell spread his product over
III acres of a 42-acre corn plot in
tested by borers. Shortly after, it
was seen that the borers began leav-
ing the treated tract, which yielded
% bushels more than the other acres.
Although the compound absorbed
by the stalk is unpalatable to the
borers, it is not toxic to livestock,
tests showed.
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EUROPE:
Blast Rocket Guns

While U. S. and British troops bat
tied the Nazis at close quarters in
southern Italy, waves of Allied
bombers rumbled over northern
France to smash at German rocket
gun installations.
Both on the U. S. Fifth and Brit
ish Eighth army fronts in southern
Italy, doughboys and Tommies en-
gagged the Germans in hand-to-hand
fighting, Lieut.. Gen. Mark Clark's
men fighting for mountain peaks
thanking the road to Rome, and Gen.
Bernard Montgomery's warriors
striving to clear the path to the
highway hub of Pescara.
AS reports continued to seep into
Britain and the U. S. of the Ger
mans new rocket gun capable of
hurting an explosive charge of from
to 81 tons about 20 miles, Allied
bombers combed the French chan
mel coast around Calais to blast at
the installations for the new weapon.
Ban King
Charging that the war minister
of the Jugoslav government-in-exil
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u. S. Food Production
And World Needs

A detailed analysis of the worlds
food, fiber and tobacco needs and the
part the United States must play in
supplying them now and in the post
war period, has been made public
by the National Planning associa-
ton.
IF the United States were to adopt
minimum diet and direct its
present food-producing resources
and agricultural labor accordingly"
says the National Planning associa-
ton "a on-governmental organiza-
tion), there would be enough food
left over to feed another one hun
dred and thirty million people,"
The report, "World Needs for u. S.
Food and Fiber" was prepared
by DR.. John D. Black of Harvard.
DR.. Black is also a member of the
Food and Nutrition board of the Ma
tional Research council and on the
Economic panel which is advising
the United Nations Interim commits
sion on food and agriculture.
Home production must and can be
expanded to meet the needs of the
United Nations, the armed forces,
our own civilians, and to aid starv-
ing countries, the report contends.
But even with greatly expanded pro-
duction, it holds out little hope for an
end to all rationing for a year or
even two years after the war.
"a highly efficient, low cost, bal
anced human diet can be compound
ed from whole wheat, potatoes, peas
and beans, whole milk, vegetable oils
and carrots and tomatoes" says DR..
Black, "but at the same time, any
reasonable statement of food needs
must recognize not only the difficulty
of changing food habits quickly but
also the production factors which
can diversity the diet considerably"
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BOLIVIA:
Ne,U Government

First order of business on the new
Bolivian revolutionary governments
calendar was compromising survi-
vors of the 10 striking tin miners
shot by troops under direction of
the ousted Gen. Enrique Penaranda
last December.
AS calm was restored in the coun-
try, u. S. withheld recognition of
the new government, to determine
whether it was successful pro-Axis
coup in view of the fact that the
guiding light of the movement, Paz
Estenssoro, was once locked up in
connection with pro-Nazi activities.
U. S. interest in Bolivia centers
around its rich tin and quinine re-
sources, among the last left to the
Allies following Japan's occupation
of Malaga and the Indies. The revo-
lutionists have expressed a desire
to continue favorable business rela-
tons with the Allies, matter on
which General Penaranda himself
had hedged.
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Gems of Thought

Be what your friends think
you are; avoid being what your
enemies say you are, go right
forward and be happy.-Pom-
eroy.
The soul of a philosopher runs
away from his body and desires
to be alone and by herself
Plato.
1t is something to have an in
fuence on the fortunes of man.
kind; it is greatly more to have
an influence on their intellects.
For every tree is known by
his own fruit. For of thorns
men do not gather figs, nor of
a bramble bush gather they
grapes.-Luke 6:44.
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Lean, Aged Mountaineer'
Breaks Down Allied Distrust
Secretary HuIPs Determination and Sincerity
During Visit to Moscow Broke Barriers of
Suspicion. Russia Now Real Ally.
By BAUKHAGE
Ne,os Analyst and Commentator.

oneness of purpose, the sincerity, the
unwavering determination of this
hardy son of Tennessee that broke
down the barriers of suspicion and
distrust and found a common way
for Russia to march solidly shoulder
to-shoulder with Britain and Amer
lea in this war and to give promise
that the three would face the peace
afterward with the nearest thing to
International altruism, that this
weary world can expect.
Moscow paved the way. Teheran
sealed the covenants. 1t killed once
and for all the controversy over the
second front" and struck the ca
dence that brought the Allies march
ing in step toward victory. How was
this accomplished? By convincing
Russia that it was not the plot of the
capitalistic nations to let her bleed
white on the battlefelds so that she
could be throttled in the postwar
world.
About Chang kai-shek
We cannot omit from any discus
sion of these meetings what Amer
lea achieved when she brought
Chang Kai-shek into the picture. The
Chinese believe in America. They
think we have decent ideals. But
they assayed US as a still more or
less kindly, Indifferent people who,
without much thought, would dance
to the British tune. And Britain they
diStruSted.
They know now that America had
the breadth of view and the acumen
to use that word again in its best
sense-to bring China into the higher
councils of the Allies. 1t was Hull
who insisted that China become a
co-signatory of the formation agree
ment at Moscow. 1t was America,
Hull, Observation-Disclosures you wish
to credit for the act-who brought
Chang into the Cairo conference.
Strangely enough, America, near
er to Europe by the racial ties Of
great part of its citizenry, is even
closer to Europe's culture than the
residents of the tight little British
Isles themselves. Yet Americas ig-
norance of Europe's real needs and
thoughts is vast compared to that
of England's statesmen. But Amer
lea does seem to understand the Far
East, can sympathize with it, and
once America assumes the position
to which her mighty power gives her
the right, she can be the real in
terpreter between the East and the
West. And lacking an interpreter,
the East can only become a great
potential enemy, protagonist of ra-
cial hatreds and racial wars.
America won her spurs at Moscow
and Teheran, all we can ask is the
support of the people so that she
can wear them with the honor she
loves, with the power she has.
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the cocksure chieftain of the South
west Pacific was preparing to return
to the U. S. for conferences in Wash
ington, D. c.
1t was pointed out that MacAr-
thurs reigning goal is to lead Allied
armies back into the Philippines.
However, from General MacAr-
thurs advanced headquarters in
New Guinea's jungles, a spokesman
for the general said: There is no
foundation whatsoever for the state
ment that General Macarthur ex-
poets to 60 to Washington in the near
future for conferences"
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Sixteen Latin-American republics
and the United States have joined in
a war against malaria.
A check for SIS, 1000, 900 has been
delivered by the French Committee
of National Liberation to foreign eco
nomic administrator Leo T. Crow
ley in payment for civilian supplies
shipped to French North Africa I'M
der the terms Of the Lend-Lease act.
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q G 81 Lie ITS .. In the weeks new.

EGGS: So splendidly have Amer
lean hens responded to the call for
more production that eggs are COM
ing into wholesale markets in great
er volume than they can be sold or
stored, dealers report. They attrib-
ute the increased supplies partly to
the fact that last springs pullets are
now beginning to lay. Another fac
tor is the lack Of government pro-
gram for dried eggs.
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STORAGE:
Seek to Ease CIut

With U. S. food storage facilities
crammed, many meat packers have
been selling pork products below
ceiling prices or in carload lots at
discount. At the same time, it was
revealed that the War Food admin
istration prepared an order restrict
ing storage of such meat special
ties as hogs heads, bones, OK tails,
tripe, hearts and liver to 10 days
without permit.
Meanwhile, VIA extended its
price support of $13.75 per hundred
weight to 27O to 300 pound hogs,
because, O packers have been buy
ing bargains outside of the 200 to
270 pound support range and guar
anteed weights have been piling up
in the yards; (2) farmers have been
sending 200 to 27O Founders off to
market to get the $l3.75 top.
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Indexing Names

The latest system for indexing
personal names enables clerk to
locate quickly even those that
sound alike but are written differ
emily, says Golfers, such as Kelly
with IA spellings, Snyder with %,
and Burke which is also written
Bork, Byrk, Bhourque and 36 9TH
er ways. Each entry is listed al
phabetically under the first name
in the section containing all sur
names with the same chief conso-
nant sounds. Hence, the card for
Lily Burke" however spelled,
would be filed in section Brk under
Lily.
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B K E F S by Baukhage

Royal Air force home stations are
encouraged to grow their own vege-
tables.
The mint has embarked on a ma
tion-wide drive to draw small coins,
especially pennies, out of hiding and
into the hands of merchants as
means of reducing metal-consuming
demands for coinage and to in
crease supplies of change.
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Records Phone Talks

A new portable device picks up
and records incoming and outgo-
ing telephone conversations with a
sapphire stylus on roll film, one
loading of which will take down is
hours of talk. Recording by in
duction, the machine does not re-
quire any physical connection with
the telephone instrument or the
wires, even being able to operate
some distance from them.
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RICE: This year rice production
reached the highest level in history
at more than 70 million bushels, AZ
per cent above the ten-year aver
age, 1922.
BOMBER: A new super" bomb
ing plane that is called better than
the BIO, itself new wonder, is now
in production, according to the
chairman Of the house military af-
fairs committee.
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GREAT BRITAIN:
Migrations Planned

Actual contacts of many Britons
with the many parts of the king
dom's far-fung empire have aroused
their interest to resettle in Australia,
Canada, New Zealand and South At
RIGA after the war.
Circulating among the population,
numbers of soldiers from the domin-
ions have acquainted Britons with
opportunities existent in their coun-
tries, and British youth now being
trained in South Africa have inter-
ested folks about its wealth and eli
mate in letters home.
But while dominion representa-
tives in London have been besieged
by inquiries as to taxes, education
and resettlement financing in their
countries, the dominion governments
themselves were said to be chiefly
concerned with Unemployment of re-
turning war vets before immigra-
ton.
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street, these three big
words have tended to
color the 1914 presiden-
tial picture.
Recently Macarthur
talk received two strong
Stimulants:
First, there was the
war departments rul-
ing that there was no
bar to any officer ac-
cepting a political nom
ination.
Second, the rumor
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had made a BLASTING"
deal with the Germans
and org anized civil
strife against patriotic
elements, Josip (Tito)
BroZ's communist
backed Partisan forces
forbade King Peters
return to the country
until after the war.
Broz's action followed
the attachment of U.
S., British and Russian
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RUSSIA:
Match Wits

Russian and German generals
matched wits along an 800-mile front
as winter fighting flared to major
proportions in the east.
While the Reds surged into Ger
man lines guarding the Baltic re-
gion, the Nazis threw strong tank
forces against the Russians on a
400-mile stretch further to the south.
Thus did one attack act as lever
against the other.
The Russian drive was concentrat-
ed on reaching the shores of the Bal
tic sea: Q) to cut off Nazi armies
in the Leningrad region from those
to the south, and (2) to cut off ship
ping at present helping supply them
over Baltic lanes.
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TEA towels as gay as your
L dishes are possible with this
new transfer. Applique does the
trick, with bright-colored pottery
dishes providing the motifs. Add
ed gaiety is achieved by placing
the dishes on shelves above a strip
of colorful shelf paper. There are