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The midland journal., 1946-05-24

THE STORY THUS FAR: "Mentally
ill,' Tom Fallon had described his wife.
Meg shivered as she went on home. Jim
MacTavish was happy as he announced
that he had sold the farm. They quar-
relied, and Meg called Larry for ad-
vice. He told her no sale was valid with
out her signature. Late that night Meg
was awakened by knock at the door. It
was Tom FaIlon, who said that Martha,
his wife's sister, had fallen and hurt
herself. He wanted to call a doctor.
Meg called the doctor, then rushed to
the Fallon home. Martha did not want
her to come in, but Tom allowed her
to enter and bandage the injured ankle.
blood-curdling cry came from the
next room.
The midland journal., 1946-05-24

W@AsMS AVh mt VusSS' AO~ S'"1
here"
with my own eyes! How long has
this-this disgraceful business been
going on?" he added, his voice thick
with righteous anger.
Megan stared at him, wide-eyed
and bewildered by the depth of his
anger.
81 don't know what you're talk
ing about" she began.
"Don't try to lie out of it," he
snapped at her furiously. II heard
Standardization man come to the
back door and tap, for all the world
like some-street bum beneath the
window of his-ight O. love! And I
heard you 60 down to him-1
couldn't believe that you would
leave the house with him"
"If you heard so much, Dad, with
out even sufficient interest in my
affairs to ask a simple question,
then you must have heard me tele-
phone DR.. Alden"
"I heard nothing of the Sort" her
father cut in furiously, playing the
role of an outraged father and en-
joying it, she was little sickened
to realize. ~ only heard you creep
down the stairs to let him in. Then
little later, l heard you come up
stairs and get some clothes on. You
then went out with him and you've
been gone more than three hours!
My daughter! A MacTavish-this,
Megan, is the last straw. I do not
propose to have you carrying on like
some common-wanton-"
Megan's eyes flashed with anger.
''That's quite enough, Dad!" she
said. "You don't want to know the
truth"
II don't propose to have my in
telligence insulted by some weak
kneed silly ie!" he blazed at her.
you're going to listen to me just
the same" her voice cut across his.
''Mr. Fallon came here to use the
telephone to call doctor. His sis
ter-in-law, who lives with them and
takes care of his invalid wife, had
fallen and hurt her ankle. She was
in pain. l called the doctor for him
and when I found he couldn't get
there for more than an hour, went
over, as any good neighbor would,
and made use of some of my First
Aid training"
Her father sneered at her.
"And that was exactly what
meant by some weakened, silly
lie." he told her shortly. "You
sneaked out of this house and were
gone with that mana married
man, whose wife is a bedridden in
valid, and were gone three hours"
"Dr. Alden was there. I'm sure
he would be glad to back up my
story" she interrupted him.
"It's likely that I'd go around ad-
mitting to people in this dizzy little
hick town that / don't even know
where my daughter was for three
solid hours after midnight? Oh, no,
you are perfectly safe in offering me
a lie like that" He was lashing
The midland journal., 1946-05-24

HERE'S one of the most exqui-
- site crocheted doilies ever
made-it's an heirloom piece lent
me by a friend who collects lace.
The Irish crocheted dolly is IA
inches in diameter, has 10 "roses"
around the edge and 16 cal
monds" radiate from the center
rose. Makes an ideal centerpiece
for luncheon table - use plain
The midland journal., 1946-05-24
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Crochet Lovely Heirloom Dolly

white linen oblong place mats
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To obtain complete crocheting instruc.
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address and pattern numbef.s
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The midland journal., 1946-05-24

LESSON TEXT-Luke 1918. 20: 1s:24-3O:
19:l-lO.
MEMORY sELECIToN-The kingdom Of
God is not meat and drink; but righteous.
ness. and peace. and Joy in the Holy Ghost.
Romans 1877.
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Lesson for May 26

Lesson subjects and Scripture texts Sc
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education: used by
permission.
The midland journal., 1946-05-24
PRCVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
CUNDAy1
CcHooL Lesson

BY HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. d.
OF The Moody Bible Institute OF Chicago.
Released by Western Newspaper Uniorf.
The midland journal., 1946-05-24

Il don't know how to thank you.
Evening star., 1946-11-24

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The Star is proud Of its dominance in classi-
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The Star as their medium because they know
The Star is welcome and interesting visitor in
most Washington homes. It is read in more
Washington homes than any other newspaper
for it has won their respect and it holds their
confidence.
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The Peoples Meeting Place

Thousands Of people meet each other every
day through the Classified Advertising columns
Of The Star
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their wants, they name their terms, they strike
their bargains, they close their deals. Here
there are no middle-men, no soliciting agents,
no high-pressure statesmen. Here are the
people talking to the people, people looking for
people, people trading with people people with
things they are willing to SELL people looking
Evening star., 1946-11-24
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26

that the Moscow government has oeen
using it's controlled press to good ad-
vantage as a strictly propaganda agent
The full truth of conditions, whether
at Paris or sessions of the Foreign
Ministers and the Security Council, has
not been vouchsafed to the Russian
people. In consequence they see only
what Moscow wishes them to see and
form their opinions of the United States
and Great Britain solely on the one
sided news in their papers and the con-
slant attacks upon American and Brit
ish leaders, who have, with proprlety
and force, opposed the Soviet Unions
campaign to control not only eastern
Europe and a large part of Asia but
the world at large.
It would be inappropriate to assume
that Russia's dream of conquest IS re-
motely similar to Hitler's, but there IS
reason to doubt that the communists
are as determined to effect a world rev.
~olution by boring from within POLITICAL
ly in all countries as they were immedi-
ately after the bolshevist revolution.
The world power which stands be-
tween a war-weary world and peace is
the Soviet Union.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26

What makes this conference so different
from the last Tin 1919 is that it is not a con-
fehence of European countries. They have
been shattered and the spirit Of Europe has
been broken.-Dr. Raoul Fernandez o. Brazil,
Peace Conference delegate who was present
at World War I Peace Conference.
II UNRRA is discontinued before provision
is made by the United Nations to carry on the
work, chaotic conditions are bound to ensue
Which will wipe out much OF the noteworthy
gains made by UNRRA during its three years
OF operation.-Herbert H. Lehman, former
UNRRA director. =
We have made tragically little progress to-
ward the establishment of a lasting era OF
goodwill among nations. We might as well
accept the grim truth. Our peace efforts are
oeinz obstructed. And the blame rests square
ly on Russia.-John Stelle, national command
er. American Legion.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
Between War And Peace

From the viewpoint of the Soviet
citizen the price of peace is not a high
one, it is merely for the United States
and Britain to follow the lines for world
cooperation as elucidated by his own
government"
This is the conclusion of Drew
Middleton, in an article from Moscow
to the New York Times. Mr.. Middleton
notes that dissatisfaction and apprehen-
sion over lack of progress at the Paris
peace conference are growing among
Soviet citizens. In the last week he saws
ne has been asked by total strangers:
why is the United States taking such
q belligerent attitude toward us?" And
only the night before he filed his dis
patch, he declares a Russian officer
wanted to know, "Why do Americans
seem to want war, why don't they CO.
operate with Soviet Union?" Another
Russian on the previous Sunday, after
an air show, said to him: Il hope YOU
will tell the Americans that the Soviet
Union is strong enough to take care of
itself if you persist in seeking war;"
Of course Mr.. Middleton might have
replied to the inquiring officer by ask
hg why the Soviet Union refuses so
persistently to cooperate with the Unit
ed States for peace, but he would have
wasted his breath.
It must be apparent to any observer
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
Nick enney On
BRIDGE
By WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Less than 70 years ago natlonal
bridge tournaments were unheard
of. Today tournament bridge is
increasing in popularity by leaps
and bounds and the American Con-
tract Bridge League is already
planning an international tourna-
ment in 1948. Few authors have
attempted to write about tourna-
ment or duplicate bridge. How
ever, there are some very interest
ing comparisons between rubber
and duplicate play. Today's hand
is an example.
At rubber bridge South should
allow West to play the hand at
two hearts. He cannot expect O
make a game when North is un-
able to bid. Hence he can gain
only a part cor b. bidding, and
if things go poorly, he may be
doubled and 60 down about 800
points.
At duplicate bridge, however,
South must reopen the bidding.
He cannot afford to let the oppo-
nents score ITO when perhaps he
can score that amount himself.
South must realize also that even
if he does not make two spades,
it may not be doubled, and this
would NEAR a loss of only 100
points against a loss of ITO If the
opponents can make two hearts.
With this hand South has no
trouble making two spades, losing
two hearts, a spade, a club and a
diamond. If West bids three
hearts, he would be doubled by
North, and that contract would
surely 60 down nj trick, pos
sibly two.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
A House Divided

When Arkansas democrats hold their
state convention on September 6 a pro-
posal is to be presented for looping the
twelve southern states from the national
democratic party and organizing them
into a Democratic Party Of the South.
By this means, the proponents claim,
the South can acquire the balance of
political power in coming Southern con-
gressional and later the national presi-
Dental elections.
The sponsors, namely the Democratic
figure that by taking this step, and
throwing the South's voting strength
Committee of Phillips county, Arkansas,
behind Republican or Democratic candi-
dates, according to the South's best
interests, the new party would gain the
whip hand and dominate the ballot box.
1t is obvious that the Phillips county
Democratic Committee has forgotten
two outstanding cases in which victory
at the polls went to the opposition as
the result of just such a split as it
proposes. Back in 1896 the democrats
split, with one faction supporting
Buckner and the other Bryan. AS a re-
suit Mckinley, the republican, was elect
ed President. Then in 1912 Theodore
Roosevelt walked out of the Republican
convention and was nominated as presi-
dental candidate of he Progressive
party, and the Republicans nominated
Taft. This split carried Wilson into
the White House.
Neither the eloq1ence of Bryan nor
the popularity of Roosevelt could carry
either to victory. The reason is not
hard to find. They were examples of the
house divided against itself.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
Air Secretariat

Some three hundred educators, gath
cred at the Congress on Air Education
in New York, heard C. R. Smith, chair
man of the American Airlines board,
declare that absence of a clearly defined
national policy for air has prevented
airlines from giving maximum public
service. "One of our principal defici-
encies," he said, lis lack of a clear cut
evaluation of what we expect air trans
portation to accomplish. We have no
national objective and, therefore. no
understandable program for accomplish
ing a sensible objective"
He blames the situation in part on
too little constructive curiosity about
the potentialities of the airplane. In
directly he blames the schools. saying:
I'VE have failed to develop a program
that will permit the influence of the in
formed educator to bear with sufficient
directness upon the formation of public
policies" There is a great issue to be
settled-the choice between regulated
competition" and designated mono
poly"-but he has found little attention
given to it in the classroom.
1t has always been a mystery to US
that in the land where flight in heavier
than-air machines was first perfected,
aviation has never led the world, save in
the closing period of the recent war.
Other lands recognized the value of air
transportation, whether for commercial
or battle purposes, more quickly and
expansively than we. Even at the start
of World War II we were so far behind
Germany that it required about three
years to catch up. And now that the
fighting war is over our military air
force is all but immobilized, and our
former Allies are forging ahead more
rapidly than we in gaining the more
desirable now commercial air routes.
The same situation is noticeable in
the domestic air field. AS an example
Wilmington had to wait years for air
service, though it was prepared to ac-
commodate it long before the War De-
partment took wei Bluethenthal, and
even now, with one of the country's
finest airports and business aplenty
available, the service is inadequate.
Maybe the surest way to put the
United States in the air position to
which it is entitled would be to create
a new Cabinet portfolio to operate in
dependently of the military air forces.
Commercial air travel can become great
enough and important enough to justify
such a move. Certainly broader study
of aviation in the nations schools would
be advisable.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
TheLiterarv
Guidepost
BY w. G. ROGERS
ANIMAL FARM, by George
Orwell Harcourt, Brace;

S1.75).
Farmer Jones was slipping; he
let his place go, and tapped the
beer barrel in the scullery too
often. One day while the hired
hands were off hunting instead of
tending to their jobs, he got drunk
in a tavern in a nearby English
village and forgot to feed his stock.
This Was the last straw that
broke the pigs, horses, donkey's,
cows, hens, pigeons, dogs, and
cats back, and the animals kicked.
butted, bit, pecked and scratched
the Joneses and their help clean
oft the place.
The barnyard rebellion, though
occasioned by hunger, resulted
from a careful plot. Under the
leadership of al old boar, the
four-footed malcontents had met
in the dark of night to consider
their countless grievances: They
labored from dawn to dusk solely
for the benefit of the human race,
and their inexorable doom was
knife OF mallet in the slaughter
house. The curse of England, they
decided, was Man.
With Jones routed, they organ
lied, formed~committees. d r e W
up seven commandments and set
about planting and harvesting fo-
their own good: Boxer and Clover
would haul their heavy loads for
the animal kingdom alone; eggs
would no longer go to market, nor
chickens to the pot; birds and
beasts would rule the roost.
But there develop special COM
munal problems the solution of
which leads to, Or reveals, the
rivalry OF two boars, Snowfall
and Napoleon. Leadership had
fallen to the pigs as a class and
the two young boars pit their wits
against each other on every con-
ceivable issue. With SNOWFALL de-
feated and put to flight, Napoleon,
makes the community over as he
wants it to be. In their ignorance
he seems wise, and by constantly
h reatening them with the return
of Jones, he scare them into &C.
cepting what only seems better to
evade what only seemed worse.
New generations learn with thei-
first peep, bray o. bark to praise
our leader, Comrade Napoleon"
l thought for some pages that
0rWell's satire was intneded prin-
to make a couple of pigs
W OF Stain and Trotzky, but l
~. rluded that he meant to make
out of you and me, too. He
nay be anti-Communist, but he's
lso a pessimist. There'u always
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
Religion

BY T. ELLIS
ANCIENT HOUSING PROBLEMS

ANCIENT HOUSING PROBLEMS
1t has been my good fortune to
visit many of the most celebrated
archaeological excavations -Kar-
max and Memphis and CHA in
Egypt; Babylon, Pampeii, Ninevah,
Asshur, Susa, Persepolis, Ur of the
Charles and the many diggines in
Palestine, Syria and Asia Mino-.
OF the precious fiads-palaces,
temples. libraries, graves. and in
scrptions-tae scholars have writ.
ten unanimously. But I do not re-
call having seen in print n dis
cussioas of the dwellings Of the
common people. They are so manv
and so pitifully small, that thew
mirror the miserable life of the
long-dead poor. These areas. with
their lack of space and convent
ences, and their intense congestion
show how far civilization has come
in providing for the common neo-
pie.
So housing problems are nothing
new. The most ancient of ruins ne,
veal the meagerness of human ljv.
ing equipment. Still man has surv-
lived and progressed until TODAY tho
world conscience is insisting 1,no,
a good home for every one, A.
tiquity built great temples: We
would glorify that temple of the
Divine which is a human life
We pray for better homes for al
mankind; and we especially prav
that these may be Christian homes
with Christ PRESIDING 49, ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
u. S. Food Controllers Worry Greatly
About Looming Surpluses Of Grains

For September these allotments,
among others, of American wheat
and flour grain equivalent have
been made: United Kingdom, 49,
$40 Tons; India, 224, 900 tons;
UNRRA, for UNRRA receiving ma
tons, 234, 500 tons, and to miscel-
laneous areas. including Africa and
Asia, 95, 1000 tons.
Rice eating countries appear to
be in for shorter supplies than
those partial to wheat. Requests
from India, China, and numerous
other rice consuming areas are
more than double existing sur
pluses. Already allotments cover
ing the last half of 1916 total 1924
900 metric ions, including 270, 600
tons to Malaga and lesser amounts
to smaller areas.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
BY MORRIS j. HARRIS
ASSOCIATED Press News Analyst

Famine is expected to continue
to stalk the world during the COM
ing year, but food producers and
controllers in the United States are
beginning to worry about possible
SURPRISES.
The Department of Agriculture
is looking for ways to keep farm
ers within federal production con-
trolls, lest Congressionally ordered
support prices for farm prod
ucts prove a bounty leading to pro-
duction that might become an ex-
cessive burden on American tax
payers.
International famine authorities
estimate that during the year
ahead requirements for bread
grains will be from 5000, 900 to 49,
600, 900 tons more than available
supplies. The crux of the question,
in their view, will be how to fl
nance surplus stocks and get them
into the hands of the needy.
The United States already has
earmarked a probable" 400, 0OO,-
900 bushels of grain and grain prod
ucts of 1916 production for export.
The largest corn crop in the ma
tons history appears to be in the
making, the harvest being estimat-
ed at well above 5000, 00O, 900
bushels. This, however, is a minor
item among the famine relieving
grains, as most of hungry nations
show little enthusiasm for it.
Food production in Europe for
the coming year is expected to be
about 80 per cent of prewar levels,
in terms of calories, while rice
crops in the Far East and Malaga
will be far short of before-the-war
standards.
These are the estimates of pro-
duction in Europe during 1946-1947,
in %calories per person per day:
Denmark, Sweden, Yugoslavia,
and Romania. above $500; Czecho-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26

slovakia, Bulgaria, and Poland, O.
400 to 1900; France, Spain, Switzer-
land, and Finland, 1000 to 1900:
French North Africa, Italy, Portu-
gal, Netherlands, Norway, and
Germany, 1000 to 1850; Greece,
Austria, and Belgium, below 1900.
For comparison, prewar con-
sumption in Mediterranean Eu-
rope is estimated to have been
about $500 calories per person
daily; in the Danube basin and
Poland, 200 calories daily; in all
the rest of continental Europe, q
$50, and in French North Africa, g.
300 ~calories per day.
Although the United States has
prospects for the greatest crops on
record, causing officials to think OF
ways to curtail the next paintings,
ALLEGATIONS to needy areas, except
ing wheat, are being made with
caution. Distribution will be based
on Of need.