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where they were. He could look
them up after he came back from
White Rock, with money in his
pocket. Money from Macleod.
I'll go tonight, for the out
fit and five hundred dollars" he
said. Half down, rest when l
come back"
''Tis preposterous. 1 could get
any of a dozen to do it for fifty"
Byrne shrugged his shoulders.
''The trip is no worth Sic an
amount" Macleod went on. His
speech thickened to a Scotch
burr, sure sign that the subject
was important.
'T'm not considering the value
of the trip" Byrne answered.
I'm considering the risk to my
life. A big risk, Macleod. The
weather's none too good. If the
spring thaw beats me to White
Rock may never get there, or
back"
you're good woodsman,
Byrne, you ken the trails-and l
can trust We. For that I'll offer
We a hundred dollars"
Il thank you for your good
opinion" said Byrne dryly. "You
flatter me. But that's my price"
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and switch their tails endlessly
through fly time and probably never
kill dog gone fly.
But it isn't pity alone that should
make us humans concerned about
flies on cows. Fighting them, COWS
use up energy from food that might
better 60 to make milk.
Tennessee Extension made
some tests which showed that
when cows didn't have to fight
flies, milk production went up
from so to 1879.
Best treatment for insect control
is to get rid of breeding places. of
course Removing manure piles,
straw piles and other places where
flies breed, will help cut down the
pesky population. Also, using DOT
in Wettablc powder form, spraying
inside the barn and on the animals,
will make a big difference.
Follow directions on the package
of powder and repeat sprays every
two or three weeks during fly time.
Talk to your dairy plant fieldman
or county agent on the subject.
They have the latest information.
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Grain and Hay Build Milk Volume

Cometime in the next few weeks,
~ probably the condition of native
pastures will be such that your cows
are going to have to put bride on
their appetltes, since they'll have
tough time getting a bit in their
mOuths-blt of food, that is.
If that happens, you surely can't
hold your milk production high I'M
less you give the COWS a good ration
of supplementary feed. grain or hay
or both. As | said a few weeks ago.
COWS on pasture need from 100 to
, 80 pounds of grass daily to main
~-tain milk production and keep them
in good health. Pastures have to be
good to provide that much.
In the late summer, grass
grows more SLOWLY than it does
i'll the spring and the feed value
is lower. The good d3irylman,
looks TO a balanced ration, to
make sure that his cows stay fat
and his poCketbOok fatter.
Boarder COWS will not be worth
the cost of extra feed. Guess you can
say that bOarder COWS are not worth
their keep anyway, which is another
subject. But good coWs-COws pro-
duclng a pound or more of butterfat
every day-will pay you back IN
more milk. The extension services
have proved that feeding good COWS
supplement while the animals are
on grass, brings back more dollars
in milk than the feed costs.
The Minnesota Extension
Service has a table of recon-
mended feeding which is disable
anywhere. 1t tells you how many
grounds of grain or how many
cfbounds of high quality hay to
feed your cows, based on the
breed and the daily production
of each COW.
It's something we'll worth study
ing and | suggest you write the Ex-
tension Service, University Farm,
St. Paul, Mimi, and ask for copy
of Bulletin No. 218. Send a nickel II
YOU live in some other state.
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l know better trails at this time
of year. shall catch him before
he crosses the barrens."
She opened the door again fol-
him, and he was gone, bent ir
the night like timber wolf, ven
geful and cruel as the biting frost
1t was just twenty-four hours
after Dick Byrne had left Bison
Crossing, sixteen hours after
Peace River Jack-Kinoceti, now
that he was on the trail, which
was not peace trail-had started
after, when another visitor ar
rived at Bison Crossing. He was
not totally unexpected by The
Macleod, though visitors were
rare at this season. He came on
business that the weather might
not postpone.
There was weekly stage, a
sleigh, that had dropped off Dick
Byrne on its route to St. JoSeph's
Mission and Spruce City. This
man came in a special runnered
conveyance arriving behind a
pair of tired, sweating, smoking
horses that turned back on COM
mand of the passenger. They
could rest at Twenty-Mile, five
miles south of Bison Crossing.
And they would be glad to rest.
1t had been hard going. Snow
was falling, steadily, neither
moist nor dry, but clogging, and
threatening a chinook. All lights
were out when Sergent O'Rourk
of the Royal Canadian Mounted
dismissed the driver. Titularly he
was trooper, a horseman, but
now he was afOot. He turned up
the collar of his regulation fur
coat and drew down his minkskin
cap after he had adjusted the
snoW-shoes he had brought with
him. He had been to Bison Cros-
sing before and he made as
straight for MacLeod's as the
growing drifts permitted.
Macleod himself came to the
door at the persisting pounding,
flashing the ray of an electric
torch on the intruder
"ORourke, of the Mounted, "
said the sergeant. Il want a few
words with you, Macleod"
Alexander Macleod threw
pitch pine on the backlog. then
other wood The fire famed and
blended with the light of the
draWdoWn ceiling-lamp that the
trader lgnlted. He offered liquor,
which OROurke refused. The SER
giant also seemed to prefer his
own pipe to MacLeod's cigars.
He had eaten, he said, and was
not hungry.
you'll stay the night?" asked
Macleod.
I'm thinking that I'll have
to-" answered O'Rourke. Il need
some supplies, in the morning,
when I'll be leaving"
Some special trip" asked the
trader.
O'Rourke grinned at him.
standing and turning his muscu-
lar lean body in front of the fire,
his parka off. his scarlet coat vi
vid
"A special trip, Macleod. On
the Kings business. And thu Do
mlnion's. You're a keen man. YOU
might guess why I'm here. where
IS your nephew, William Mae
Lcod?"
The trades brows drew to-
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White Rock Trail

He could see the struggle going
on inside the man. Something was
stirring the very soul of Alexan-
der Macleod. 1t went deeper
than money Or trading. The ira
der sighed.
''You press me hard, but you're
a trusty man." he said. "Tis a
bargain then, gin We start within
the hour. I'll close the store and
get what We need myself. MARKELL
serve We supper. And I'll gil you
a the money in advance. 1 trust
We, Byrne. Ye must gang
through"
The Macleod could be liberal
when it paid him to be. He left
nothing necessary out of the
equipment, choosing it carefully,
packing it with experience. After
he reached White Rock, Byrne
planned to go out and take the
stage at Horsehide when the
weather mended. Until then he
could use one of the abandoned
cabins, stay with Old Nipegosis,
in a pinch. Then he would find
Will and Marion.
/ Marie, Algoni squaw and house
keeper for The Macleod, her face
wrinkled like the bark of an
old hemlock, her eyes sullen,
brought Byrne a savory meal,
with pint of good Burgundy.
She was a good cook, but Byrne
felt an ancient grudge still hot
in her old veins. There was ha-
tired there, suppressed, of all the
white mans race. Many Won
dered why The Macleod kept
her. Byrne fancied it was be-
cause he sensed her enmity and
loved to handle it, subdue it to
his will. For much the same rea-
son that the trader had kept an
eagle Gagged until it died Of long
ing for the crags.
Marie lit the lamps and closed
the shutters. The old squaw was
eminently efficient, but whenever
she entered the room behind his
back Byrne had curious and I'M
pleasant mental picture of a
knife between his shoulder
blades.
Macleod showed him the mes
sage. Byrne had expected some
sort Of a packet holding symbols,
at least to have the envelop in
Scribed in Algonquin ideographs.
But the address was written in
MacLeod's bold English script.
TO NIPEGOSIS
BY the hand of Richard Byrne
The envelope was sealed with
wax. Macleod wrapped it again
in oilskin, handed it to Byrne,
laying down also a money belt
with the price tucked into its
compartments.
I've put in new pipe and
half pound Of my own tobacco"
he announced. "Thero are beef
cubes and rice, besides pemmi-
can and tea Do We wish a rifle
as we'll as the Colt?"
Byrne decided against the rifle.
1t meant eleven pounds extra
weight. If he had to get meat, he
could shoot grouse with the re
volver. 1t should be sufficient
for orotcotion Tha danger ID not
lie that way. Though he was not
quite so sure as he made ready.
O"ca again the sinister sug@es-
ton of eerie menace came to h'm.
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He shook it off. Macleod opened
the rear door of his house, CLAN
ced about him.
Good speed to we, Byrne," the
trader said. This affair deals wi
my honor. 1t cas- for haste. Ye're
we'll paid-in advance. Let none
o'ertak' we between here and
White Rock"
The woods swallowed up Dick
Byrne. He made no fire that
night. The morning saw him pres
sing north. At this season a man
took his life in his hands when
he hit the trial.
The Macleod was abed and
asleep when there came a scratch
ing on the frosty panes of the
room where old Marie slumbered
as lightly as a she wolf.
She heard it instantly, and was
up, a robe about her bony frame.
She opened a door and shadow
seemed to glide in, squattlng
down in the corner of the room,
talking in tense, rapid whispers.
1t was her foster-son, Kinocetl,
known also-and mistrusted-as
Peace River Jack, a half-breed,
hating all whites, not recognized
by his own, save Marie, who had
sucked him.
Il had word from Singuish that
Byrne was here, talking with
Macleod" he said. "Singuish did
not find me until a little while
back"
Il thought you already on the
trail to White Rock" said the
squaw. "You said. :"
There is plenty of time. No
one man get here from the Post
for twenty-four hours, and no
one, even a relocated trooper,
pass me on the TRAIL" he boosted.
THE rest will not be ready to
leave until tomorrow. l came for
the cartridges. Did you get
them?"
did l ever fail you? But
Byrne has left with nightfall to
go to White Rock. He bears a
message to Nipegosis. Macleod
gave him five hundred dollars to
carry it swiftly and secretely."
"Ha!" The breeds eyes were
momentarily luminous, like those
of a wild beast.
''He set down the numbers Of
the notes." warned the squaW.
You remember what happened
to Namish? 1t is not easy for a
breed to change note
Peace River Jack grunted. He
loved money, but he loved his
liberty far more. 1t was said that
Macleod notified all other ira
ders Of the numbers of the bank
not-s he was dispensing, sent all
old ones to the bank to be eX-
changed. He remembered what
had happened to Namish.
The thousand dollars l shall
get from the government will be
all right" he said. Il will not
touch these. But Byrne will never
reach White Rock. AS for VIII
Macleod :"
1T is the girl l hate most. said
the squaW. with her white skin
that must BE- kt<t so dainty, her
linen that must be changed and
washed. She told me that l was
dirty, lazy, that l did not clean
the corners. There should be no
corners"
Peace River Jack grunted a
gain. A squaW's sentiments did
not interest him. He had got his
cartridges, and he had cot start
ling news. His mood was a little
grim. H. had to forego a pleasant
nights carOuse.
Il 60" h. said abruptly. By
rne is good for a white man, but
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VIII was merry; he might be
careless. 1t would blow over. The
best thing to do was to say moth
ing. Plainly Marion had stood by
Will. Byrne had looked forward
for weeks to seeing his pal and
his sweetheart. But if they were
not here, that closed it. He was
not going to get out of Macleod
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CHAPTER. III


o1NOPSIS. Dick Byrne returned
70 Bison Crossing, after having
peen in MusketOOn trying to sell
Us invention of a portable saw,
ne intended to have his pal Will
RlacLeOd go on trap line with
MIN, and he wanted to see Mar
ION, Willis sister. He received
word that Alexander Macleod
wanted to see him. Macleod ask
ed him to carry a message to
White Rock. Dick was told that
Will and Marion had left town
Their uncle, Alexander Mac
LeOd, seemed glad they had gone
Macleod offered to pay Dick
well and furnish equipment, food
and dog team. All plans were
completed for Dick to start fol-
White Rock that night.
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COWS NEED HELP
SWATTING FLIES!

Vou can get up and chase both
ersome fly around the room but
a COW has a bit more trouble using
Arizona sun., 1947-11-14

small bedroom is often decorating problem clever
homemaker do spacious
has been made to look larger by using max
cause provides comfort and propooned
endabe would
been used corner For the final touch
window shade matches the color of the dpee match
the color OF shades draperies the wall
much larger. =
Arizona sun., 1947-11-14
NAACPNews

The N. A. A. c. P. announces
another step forward in the eco
nomic field.
Mr.. Oliver Bailey of 1921 E.
Washington street has been en-
ployed by the Lee Jew grocery
store located on the corner of 18th
and E. Washington. Mr.. Bailey was
recommended ito Lee Jew by the
president of the N. A. A. G. p,
who is still insisting upon the Ne
gro race to trade where we can
work. Much credit is due to Mr..
Mckinley M. Johnson for this job
being opened to Negroes.
Mr.. Bailey is a former student
of A. and I. state college of Nash
vile Tennessee. He also served in
worlds war no. 2. MAY the bless
ings of God crown the democratic
spirit of Lew Jews grocery CO.,
and may other worthy Negroes be
given a chance to prove their worth
to our American way of life". L. E.
Nelson.
Arizona sun., 1947-11-14
This Changing Phoenix

AS the saying goes time brings about change-how
true Fifteen years ago Phoenix just stop the road
to California Just place you happen to wander upon.
You nothing but hot desert and gila monsters and
black widow spidersbut look at it now it is fast becom
ing the Metropolis of the West In few years it will be
called "Out Where the West Begins
most encouraging part about is it is sweeping the
Colored population in it's stride Negroes buying land
building homes real homes homes anybody would be
proud to and live in which the Negro will
to be floating and migratory type of citizen which they
have been called in the past.
At the present trend, in years there will be popula
on of 900 Negroes Okemah and Broadway districts
alone 95 of the land between 18th and 10th Sts from
Henshaw to Rosser Road will be owned by them New
age is being opened and sold without trouble. New
Schools and better schools being planned to meet the
rapidly increasing population in the neighborhood The
Progressive Builders Association who purchased 100
about two has completed and have under
sruction "A beautiful homes and plans to start another
unit of many These homes range in price from
to Is thousand dollars each
Arizona sun., 1947-11-14
Hearings On Child
Labor in Logging
Work to be Held

: The secretary of labor has given
notice of a public hearing to con-
slider an extension of the scope of
child labor hazardous occupations
order No. for logging occupations.
The proposed revision would in
clude within the scope of the or
der most occupati ons in the log
ging of pulpwood, chemical wood,
excelsior wood, cordWood, fence
posts and similar woods not now
subject to the 18-year age mini
mum under the Fair Labor Stand
ards Act. 1t is also proposed to
make permanent some of the war;
time exemptions from the order
and to terminate others. -
The hearing will be held in Wash
ington, D. c. It will begin on De-
cember 3, 1947. Interested parties
should file briefs or statements
with the secretary by December 2.
Intention to appear should be filed
by November %.
Copies of the proposed revisions
and of the report of investigation
Arizona sun., 1947-11-14
Workers Shocked
Bv Food Prices

American workers have been
shocked in recent weeks by soaring
food prices, especially meat, butter,
eggs. Cost of living is on the up
ward march again, this time due
almost entirely to the food bill.
While prices of many other items
show signs of stabilizing, food
prices have gone up about 10 per-
cent in the first nine months of
1947, by preliminary estimates.
Prices of items other than foods
have risen only 3 percent, but since
food is almost half the workers
budget, these drastic increases have
brought the consumer price index
up 6 percent from January to Sep
tember and IL percent over Sep
tember 1916.
For workers, the postwar rise in
living costs has been a tragic eX-
perience. What real progress can be
made when wage gains are can
celled by a rise in living costs?
Today, workers are paying almost
40 percent more for food than at
the end of OPA in June 1916, and
% percent more for their entire
living cost budget, while weekly
pay of the average factory worker
has gone up only IA percent (from
$43.31 in June '46 to $4929 in
August 40.
Back of the 1947 rise in workers
prices is an even sharper increase
on wholesale markets. This springs
decline in food prices which brought
hope to all, has been completely
reversed by swift upward sweep
from June ito September. :,
Arizona sun., 1947-11-14
Pincers Threaten Female Waist

- A leading corset manufacturer
warned women today that fash
ions new look" threatens them
with a gigantic pincer movement
that may cut off their wind, i'm
pair their health, and add little to
their beauty.
Sigmund kunstadter, president
of the Formfit Company of New
York and Chicago, charged that
the pincer movement is being
applied by Paris corsetiers who
have introduced a tiny new cor
set that achieves the new look"
Of bulging hips and bosom by
pinching in the waist as much
as three inches.
american women have the
most perfect figures in the world"
he said. "Why change them?"
"Women in search of new look
might we'll remember that the
beauty of the natural look is
never old. Certainly there is no
need to ,encase women in waist
pinching corsets that were proved
Arizona sun., 1947-11-14
Nh1MMMd
Mxall57II!|IIDp

Approximately $50 disabled vet
Grams in Arizona are in immediate
need of suitable training facilities
to accomplish their vocational re-
habilitaton, Villain T. Hardaway
Manager of the Veterans Admins
tration Regional Office at Phoenix
said today, in urging employers
who have training opportunities in
their establishments to contact the
VA at once.
"MoSt of these veterans are not
seriously handicapped, and can per-
form efficiently the jobs employers
have" Hardaway declared, pointing
out that their abilities should be
considered, rathe rthan their disa-
bilitieS."
Some of the training objectives
for which facilities are needed in
clude automotive mechanic, body
and fender repairman and painter;
electrical appliance and motor re-
pairmen, motor rewinder and line
man; radio serviceman; cabinet
maker and furniture repairman, as
well as clerical, sales and other
mechanical trades.
Disabled veterans have been Civ
en- thorough vocational aptitude
and interest tests under the VA
counseling and guidance program,
and their disabilities in no way af-
feet their competence for filling the
training opportunities they seek"
Arizona sun., 1947-11-14
Father Emmett
Flayed by L. A.
Race Halter

The following letter was written
by an indignant man to Father
Emmette Mclaughlin, Supt. of st.
Monica Hospital.
Los Angeles, California
Oct. 16. 1947
Dear Sir
No normal member of any normal
non-negro family would ever under
any circumstances want negroes
marrying into his family.
That feeling is entirely Christian
and sound and wholesome. Any
other feeling is cheap and decadent.
Therefore negroes are different
from all other persons. Intermar-
riage with other races, German
and Italian and Swedish and Mexi-
can etc., is both wholesome and
desirable.
To face the facts and! admit that
negroes are simply different in
the vital point as described above
is just plain honesty and common
sense and justice to all.
Surely you are willing to recog-
n1Ze In0So ldCLS dIlU 10 REALIZE IIldL
any attitude to trying to force
negroes upon other persons is one
hundred percent wrong. Negro
segregation in every way is only
fair and just to everyone in recogni-
ton of the truth that negroes are
different, being undesirable in in
termarriage while intermarriage
among all other groups is fine and
wholesome.
Won't you please stop being one
of the trouble making individuals
who ignore the basic truth about
negroes? If not, the world would
really be better without you.
Sincerely,
J. B. Whitley
Arizona sun., 1947-11-14

ruinous to health 40 years ago.
Corsets are meant to mold the
figure, not comfort it."
1T was just such an extreme
fashion move-the popularizing of
uncomfortable garments - that
brought on the reactionary COR
setless era of three decades ago
when women with leSs-than-
perfect figures sagged without
restraint" he said.
Most women and men believe
in curves and indented waistlines
for the female figure. But they
also want something new, some-
thing better, not something that
grandmother finally discarded"
American women don't know
how close they came to being en-
meshed in the "new" waist pinch
ing corsets in the late 193O's,
Kunstadter said. Certain fashion
designers planned such an inno-
walton then, he asserted, but were
stopped by sensible women and
the energetic efforts of reliable
corset manufacturers.
Arizona sun., 1947-11-14
TALENT AT THE PIANO

Little Miss Roberta Louise Lewis,
talented 5-year old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. A. R. Lewis, played the
piano accompaniment for the kim
dergarten Rhythm Band" at Dun
bar school at the Halloween party.
Roberta Louise played at the
Conservatory of Music, at Chicago,
Illinois, at the age of 3 and at
years made her first musical ap-
pearance on the radio.
Arizona sun., 1947-11-14

Hardaway said. He explained that
the government shares the cost OF
training these veterans through a
subsistence award program.
Firms interested may obtain fur
ther information by calling or writ
ing the Training Facilities Section
of the VA Regional Office at Phoe-
nix, or from A offices at Tucson,
Flagstaff, Yuma, Whipple, Globe,
Douglas and Window Rock.
Arizona sun., 1947-11-14
CHURCH news
Wesley Methodist Church News

Wesley Methodist Church News
Wesley Methodist Church will be
host to a group of Ministers who
will be in Phoenix for five days
in an intense Crusade Drive"
The Ministers will be available
if any persons wish to be visited;
get in touch with Wesley Methodist
Church.
This crusade is being promoted
in the true interest of winning
souls for Christ. This aid is not
restricted to any denomination.
The visiting Ministers will be
entertained by the Pastor and
Members of Wesley Methodist
Church. One night of dining will
take place on East Broadway at
the neighborhood Church.
Saturday Night, Nov. Is the
young people of Wesly will go on
a ebay ride and weiner bake" to
the neighborhood Church on East
Broadway. Trucks will leave Wesly
at z pm. and return at 1O:3O pm.
IA S11Ac11 ACS W US CllC1 SCO w SOVS1
transportation.
Wesley Methodist Church Sun
day School department opened it's
doors at the usual hour, 1000 AM.
The lesson was taken from Pro-
verbs 3:13-26 Subject "Wisdom
Literature" Class discussions and
lesson reviewed by Rev. A. l..
johnson. Attendance 35, visitors 2.
Morris Ward, Superintendent
Services began at II o'clock with
the opening processional.R Reading
of announcements, Solo Mother
McChree," and an inspirational
sermon titled brotherhood was
delivered by Rev. A. L. Johnson.
Rev. Johnson asked each Metho-
dist church member to read the
current issue, Nov. 9 of the Life
magazine and learn of the origin
of the Methodist Church.
Members of the church remained
after church for the taking of
pictures.
Arizona sun., 1947-11-14
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express appreciation
to each and everyone for lovely
cards and flowers and expressions
of kindness and sympathy during
the recent loss of our Mother.
The Tapp Family.