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Wed'neso'oy, Februory 2, 1944 The Attonto Constitution Health Work 1 HAROLD MARTIN They'll Do It Every Time By Hatlo Lady in White Tells Her Story ERNIE PYLE Proposes Monument To Pin-Ups in Italy St White. She is in ankle-length Tic Finally Everybody lenffth nf timp. who has ever been In Atlanta any I sunnnsp. has seen the Ladv in IN ITALY, Feb. past our Army has 1- (By worried always in snowy white, or soft pastel shades of blue and lavender and soldiers didn't have a very good idea of what the war around them was all about.

This was largely because the Army never ago a definite program of making our combat troops better informed was inaugurated, and it is taking effect now in many phases of our operations overseas with which I am not acquainted. But I have seen one example of it in the air forces. "TWAT GUVS PRACTICALLY ON WW DIDN'T KMOW GlM- A MR.ROOKUM-&2 WHO? K.P. Rl3HT KJOW-HElS 1W6 LET WAS HEAD Of I HE WANTS A 2 1 7 OrH-H-H-W-H-GuY wwo -SOLD A SECOND- THE DRAFT BOARD, I SIXTY-DAV SEND HIM IKI HAND JALOPY TO GIMLET EH WELL, HE KMOWS 1 DEFEGMEMT. I a lj wpc; LC-r AND LAU6HED AT WM WHEN MOW, ALL Rjc5HT xfTw "P5FZ: -rX SuXXS LHiE WES r-Mi3HT AS WELL.

SO RSZ- I sw A6HOST! Hi BACK AND CLOSE. I UP THE BOOKS-VOUfeE 3 Eveiw -T ff1 aI ID HIM WHO WAITS-' rr-1 i i AJNM OR. FUN AT THE. UII I III! II Ju 4y ORAFT BOARD'1 "AMT 0ECNACO LEWIS CHICAOO, ILL. jr OLLIE REEVES Just a Rhyme a Day It makes us proud as proud can be, it thrills us to the bone To think our rich old Uncle Sam has touched us for a loan.

ft Wireless) In the the some because told them. But several mrmtha cause he had fallen in love with a picture. Looking at a pin-up girl is pleasant, and sort of academic. Everybody carries pictures of his own family, anyway, and gets them out on the slightest pretext. I've looked at thousands of pictures cf wives and three-month-old babies of soldiers, and have said Hmr'" beaukful!" and "My what a strapping youngster!" until red in the face.

Don't get th idea that I mind it. Not at all it gives me an excuse to haul out my own pictures and show them right back. But from this vast experience cf looking at pictures of other men's wives I've got one definite cross-section impression, and that is how much alike so many women in the world look. Don't shoot, boys, I didn't mean YOUR wife. The reason I have brought up the subject of pin-up girls is to tell of a pin-up gallery in one room occupied by six mechanics of my dive-bomber squadron.

Tacked on their walls are three dozen of the most striking pin-ups you ever saw. Before long the squadron will have to move and give up Its present nice quarters. When it goes I think the pin-ups should left there and the room roped off by the Italian government as a monument to the American occupation. .111 bet the place, if given a few centuries time, would become as historic as Pompeii. LASSETER TO SPEAK Dillard Lasseter, of the War Manpower Commission, will speak on "Manpower Problems After the War" at the Decatur Rotary Club meeting at 12:30 p.

m. today at the Candler hotel. MRS. GANDHI AILING BOMBAY. Feb.

lP)Mrs. Mohandas K. Gandhi, wife of the Indian nationalist leader, had another and severe heart attack yesterday and her condition is very weak, an official bulletin said today. She has been ailing for months. Save Paper Save your waste paper.

The blueprints for war industry, the maps, the orders, the casings for the bullets of Invasion, food packages for soldiers they all require paper. For collection, simply separate your paper from ether trash for collection by the city sanitary department in the downtown area, or, in the residential section, collect your papers and magazines and call one of the following numbers for a pickup truck: JA. 2224 JA. 2627 WA. 2035- WA.

1340 WA. 0481 The many bills he has to meet In the bomber group which I have been visiting, pilots come down to the enlisted men's mess hall every evening and tell them what happened on their missions that day. Our squadron flew three missions on this particular day, so three pilots' came down that night one to describe each mission They brought maps with them and told the soldiers exactly what they were trying to bomb, how success ful they were, how much flak they ran into, how many enemy fight ers they saw, and what road strafing they did on the way home. They also told the men why each point was selected to bomb, and what its destruction would mean. The pilots made it informal, and one of them who had had a rather tough mission wound up by saying: I think I earned my pay to day." The next one got up and said "Well, I didn't earn mine." EASY RIDE His flight had had an easy ride.

encountering no fighters and little flak. Later I was with a squadron of 20 bombers and sat In on their early-morning briefing. The brief ing officer, before starting on the details of the forthcoming mission, gave the crews a complete summary of the ground war throughout the Italian and Russian fronts in the previous 24 hours, as brought in over the teletype sys tem. All this is a good thing. It's easier to fight when you know what the other fellow Is doing and how he is getting along.

At this 20-bomber field one of the enlisted gunners finished his allotted number of missions the day I got there. He was Sergeant Lester C. Eadman, of Wiyaumega, Wis. Sergeant Eadman has been overseas 15 months and was wounded in the leg by flak last winter in one of the raids over Tunis. Eadman just cleaned up and loafed all the next day after his last mission, and he looked mighty satisfied with everything.

A lot of pilots and enlisted men who have finished their missions get married as soon as they hit home. Three gunners in this same group went home together recently and all, three were married within two days after they got to the States. PIN-UP CONTROVERSY There has been a controversy in The Stars and Stripes over the pin-up girls vs. the girl back home. One soldier wrote in and said the picture of his one-and-only was good enough for him and to hell with pin-up pictures.

But he had a lot of dissenters. Personally I don't see that there's much conflict. I've never heard of a soldier writing to his real girl to' break off the engagement be And he can pour it out as fast as we can pour it in. Of all the folk we know, we'd rather have him in our debt For when he sets a date to pay, the payment will be met But when we owe a doctor bill or cannot pay our rent Do we sit down and write a letter to the President? You betcha life we don't; we know we'd never get our paws On any of the stuff that's in the till of Morgenthau's. We do not write our congressman and tell him of our woes We take our overcoat and amble down to Uncle Joe's And that's the way we pay the doctor bill or meet the rent We give them all we get less Uncle's thirty-five per cent.

We wouldn't dare suggest that Uncle Sam should ever go And make his supplication where the three-balled shamrocks grow. One never can accumulate a wad to fill the sock If his time is spent in finding something else to put In hock Our faith in Uncle Sam is strong his faith in us is dim And we often wish he'd credit us the way we credit him. rose, and always with hats and shade. Nobody ever saw her speak to anyone, and she always walked alone, and by the mystery with which she surrounded herself she puzzled Peachtrees denizens and set their tongues to wagging. The favorite story was that she was the widow of a very wealthy man, who lived in the small side street hotels to conceal the fact that he was rich.

Many times in recent years. have wanted to stop her on the treet and talk to her and find out her story, whatever it might be. But her stately dignity seemed to advise against such a procedure. So I got Harry, the newsboy from whom she buys her paper every V. 7 THE LADY IN WHITE In Other Days day, to tell her who I was and why I wanted to speak with her.

He told her and nothing happened for awhile. Then she wrote a gracious note, arranging the meeting. STILL DEVOTED Her name is Anne Beauford Houseman. She was born in Brunswick, and was educated at Wesleyan Conservatory, at Shorter, and at Brenau. She is the former wife of a one-time Atlanta and Birmingham businessman, and though they have been separated for 25 years they are still devoted to each other and correspond regularly.

She lives and walks alone by choice, knowing and speaking intimately only with God and His Son, and "with the great people cf that other world than this." She is oblivious to the stares of those she passes on the street, and if one of them should speak to her she would not answer. They sometimes do, and she walks on un-hearing. It is not that she does not love people nor desire friends. It is only that there are so few can join her in the realms where her mind dwells. Though she seems to walk the rtreets unseeing, she is, in reality, "loving and blessing all those ebout her." Her feelings toward the world she ignores she has set down in a poem called "A Song for You." which goes: "As I walk along the streets or sit among you, as I watch you while you rest or come and go I would like to say to each one 'Dear, I love you.

This is something I would like for you to know. I would like OFFICE SUPPLIES LITHOGRAPHING -PRINTING STATIONERY-OFFICE FURNITURE BLUE PRINTING PHOTOSTATING DRAWING MATERIALS 1 1 250 Nazi Agents Filter Into Canary Islands NEW YORK, Feb. 1. (JPy The Moscow radio quoted advices from Lisbon today as saying that 250 "Hitlerite agents" had filtered into the Canary Islands and the Spanish West African colony of Rio de Oro during the last four months through the Spanish port of Cadiz. "Most of these agents were transported to the Canary Islands and to Rio de Oro by air," said the broadcast, which was recorded by the United States Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service.

"Moreover, the Spanish authorities did not hinder them in any way. Among the spies who left Spain are some Germans and Shows Gains Elimination of "open prostitu tion" in Georgia was reported by the State Health Department in a summary of its venereal disease control program and other activities in 1943. Director T. F. Abercrombie, in a review submitted to Governor ArnalL said that "state and local health departments have co-oper ated with military and law en forcement officials continuously" in combating prostitution and the spread of venereal diseases.

The number of new cases of syphilis reported for the first If months of 1943 was listed as 524 compared to 25,042 in 1942, and Dr. Abercrombie said "this reduction would seem to indicate that we are catching up with the 'backlog' of old, undiscovered cases." As of last December, 267 control clinics were being operated in 147 counties, as against 251 clinics in 144 counties at the end of 1942; The director said that "of great importance" also has been the es tablishment of federal hospitals at Savannah and Augusta for the quarantine of "infectious," pro miscuous or unco-operative indi viduals." NEW "WARTIME FIELDS In spite of wartime curtailment of the staff of Georgia's Health Department that led to a crisis at the tuberculosis sanatorium at Alto, the department has carried on an extended program and branched out into new wartime fields, Abercrombie said. More than half of the 705 per sons employed by the State Health Department resigned during the past year, as the Armed Forces drained off doctors, nurses, engineers and laboratory technicians, Abercrombie said in his annual report to the Governor. While the department was able to replace its clerical staff fairly well, it was not possible to replace the highly skilled professional and technical employes. ALTO'S DIFFICULTIES It has been difficult to operate the state tuberculosis sanatorium at Alto because of inability to se cure sufficient and experienced personnel, the commissioner re ported.

Average daily patients last year was 500, as compared with 593 in 1942. Further reduction patient load may be necessary in 1944, unless the employment situa tion is relieved. To help relieve the loss of per sonnel in the various county organizations, counties having full-time health officers have shared these officers with adjoining coun ties, the report said. Full-time health or nursing services were established for the first time in many counties. Georgia's birth rate continued its wartime climb in 1943, with an 8.8 per cent increase over the record year of 1942.

The 1843 death rate showed a decrease of 0.8 with decreases of 13.1 per cent in stillbirths, 5 per cent in infant mortality and 4.2 per cent in maternal Approximately 85,000 certified copies of delayed birth certificates were issued last year, an increase of 10,000 over 1942. Hardwick Rites Set for Today SANDERSVILLE, Feb. 1. (JP) Funeral services for Thomas W. Hardwick, 71, governor of Georgia from 1921 to 1923 and former United States senator, will be held here tomorrow morning.

Hardwick died last night of a heart attack. Born in Thomasville, December 9, 1872, Hardwick attended Mercer University at Macon and later studied law at the University of Georgia. He was ad mitted to the bar in 1893 and be gan the practice of law in Savan The last elective office held by Hardwick was that of governor. He had previously served as con gressman and as United States senator. Hardwick was married for the second time in 1938 at the age of 65 to Mrs.

Sallie Warren West, of Sandersville, who survives him. Other survivors are his daughter, Mrs. Fred Rawhngs, of Sanders ville, and two stepdaughters, Mrs. James Daniel, of Sandersville, and Mrs. Arthur Edge, of LaGrange.

Fulton Planner Cites Mexico for Its Parks Mexico was advanced yesterday by Tull C. Waters, chairman of the Fulton county zoning and plan ning commission, as an example of planning for beauty and utility. Returning from a two-month study of Mexico, Waters said combination markets and parks are within walking distance of every home. He said this contrasts with crowded conditions and narrow streets in the United States. Many Mexican streets are 200 feet wide, Waters added.

Philippine-American Clubs To Meet at Capital The President's War Relief Control Board has called a meeting of all Philippine-American Clubs February 8 in Washington, D. Mrs. Charles Cook, president of the Atlanta club, said yesterday. The club representatives will discuss recently released publicity on Jap atrocities to prisoners interned in the Philippines and may ask for full and immediate insur ance and salary compensation for families of casualties on Bataan and Corregidor. The Washington board has in vited representatives to act as "observers to see that the interests of the heroes of the Battle of the Philippines are properly protected." Rough Hands Enjoy soothing comfort, prompt reiiei witn world-known, mildly medicated, emollient PRed that tall and stately woman, dressed gowns of another era, that are shoes and accessories in a matching to give to you the blessing that you seek, or help you this to find; I would like to share each grief distressing, bear each burden pressing on your mind.

So I do the thing my heart so truly longs for. So I whisper 'All is well now, never fear. Here's the bless- ing that your heart so deeply longs for, and here's a song for you to sing "I love you, dear She rises every morning at 5 in a little West Peachtree street hotel whose address she will not divulge and prays for an hour her special prayers, first to become polarized with God, and when this is accomplished, for the health or the happiness or the suc cess of those she has chosen to pray for. She prays for these in absentia, and frequently for peo ple whom she has never spoken to. Then when the bustle of rising around her hotel disturbs her thought, she washes the white and rose and lavender dresses spot lessly clean (she makes them all herself now, though once she bought them at the finest stores, paying a hundred dollars for a gown) dries them and presses them, and walks the 10 blocks downtown to breakfast, pausing only to feed and commune with six families of sparrows along the way.

STOPS AT HOTEL She stops first at the Henry Grady, taking a seat In a corner of the lobby where she can see a huge picture of Douglas MacAr-thur, whom she admires with an ardor that is almost earthly, and for whom she prays every night. Sitting here, she concentrates, silently, of course, upon bringing The Lieht from above, through her own spirit, into the hearts of the Doliticians and drummers mat mill about the Grady lobby. They do not know she is doing this, she says, but she can sometimes tell that she has brought harmony and peace and a sense of joy to them. Her prayer in the lobby goes: Oh Mighty I Am Presence, I call forth the Mighty I Am Presence of everybody in this lobby and their hieher mental body and charge their higher mental body to take charge of the human body, dissolve the density and mortality out of it and lift it toward its essentials. Mighty I Am Pres ence charge every breath of air in this lobby with the ascended Master's conscience and substance which cannot be regulated but compels perfection in every one who breathes it." Havine brought peace and har mony to the Henry Grady lobby, Mrs.

Houseman goes to the movies, where she blesses the soldiers whose Pictures are in the news- reels, and the ships being launched and all the generals wno appear on the screen, and also the people in the theater. PRAYS IN ROOM She stays in the movie througn two or maybe three snows ana comes out late in me Buernuuu to set a bit to eat and then she goes back to her hotel, where she goes directly to i er room wunoui speaking to anybody. There she prays for MacArthur, particularly, and for Winston inurcniu, ana iur one other reciDient of her bless ing whose name she will not di vulge. In other years, in ner nome ai Lithia SDrines. she has written poems, many of which have been published in the papers and national magazines, and fairy stories such as "The Golden Butterfly, which the senior John Temple Graves praised highly, and many short stories.

She is also a writer of songs, "The White Rose" being one of them which in more flush times she had printed at a cost of $45. Another is her "Love bongs of Woman to the Work Man of the World," which is now. available for publication. Her monumental later woric, The Seventh Devil According to the Gospel of St. Magdalene," is still in manuscript, due to the fact that she has only the one copy, which she hesitates to entrust the mails for fear it might be lost en route to the publisher.

A fluent woman who, once the ice is broken, talks without re straint, with graciousness ana humor, she admits that though she does dwell in the metaphysical realms the greater part of the time, life's little annoyances do sometimes reach and irk her. She still recalls, with amused embarrassment, the time she lost her temper with the lady who stayed too long at the writing desk in the Henry Grady lobby. "I inquired of her," said Mrs. Houseman, "whether I might bring her a nightgown, so that she could spend the night." To give employment and to get employment. A Want Ad in The Constitution equally effective in both cases.

LOWEST FACTORY PRICES LARGEST OPTICIANS IN AMERICA Principal at this firm awn a large ahafn af faetory-to-eui-tomer retail aptical iearlora In A mar lea. Peachtree N. W. At 5 Points Oaen Sat. Nifhtt ti I P.

M. STORES IN PRINCIPAL CITIES FOUNDEO Face the Future Civitans Hear Mrs. Holmes The American 'Red Cross soent 48.000.000 durinff 1943 for relief work and will raise that figure to $60,000,000 during 1944, Mrs. Grace Bok Holmes, of the National 'Prisnnpr nf War Srvir Staff. told members of the Atlanta Civi-tan Club at a meeting yesterday.

"We have been working steadily for two years under a policy of getting the relief overseas first, then talking about it," she said, "and much has not been heretofore revealed about our activities." The Red Cross, in co-operation with the Army, Navy, Post Office and similar government agencies, sends five different types of pris-nnpr narrels to EuroDe. she ex plained; a "standard" food parcel. which every American prisoner rprpiups nnrp week: another food parcel, paid for by our Allies, sent once a month to Allied prisoners; an "invalid parcel, containing special nutritional fnnric fnr sJrk nrisoners: a medical kit, with first aid for 100 men for a month, and a "on capture" parcel, between 10,000 and 12,000 of which are delivered monthly to transient camps. Air Engineers Open Sessions and machinery problems confronting the south were discussed yesterday at the opening of a two-day session of Vio oriitViractrn section of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers. The meeting, wmcn orougm 1 pneineers from all of the southeastern 'states to Atlanta, is being devoted almost exclusively to discussions of ways and means of producing the crops that are so essential with a minimum of manpower and machinery.

Some of tne ouistanamg agricultural engineers of the United States are in attendance upon the meeting, which is being presided hv Walter N. Danner section chairman and professor of agricultural engineering at the University or tieorgia. CourtApproves C. of Ga.Budcet SAVANNAH, Feb. A $1,466,620 improvement budget of the Central of Georgia railway for 1944 was approved here yesterday by United States District Judge A.

B. Lovett. Of the amount, $925,802 will be spent for additions and betterment, $234,032 for operating expenses, $141,093 for depreciation reserve, and $165,693 for salvage, according to the petition filed by T. M. Cunningham, attorney for Merrell P.

Callaway, trustee. The 1944 budget, the petition said, is $282,480 above that of 1943. Two items contributing to the increase are $127,043 allotment for replacement of a truss span over the Cahaba river in Alabama, and a $90,434 increase for shop machinery and tools. Middlebrooks Awarded James Laurie Prize Thomas A. Middlebrooks, chief of the soils mechanics division of the U.

S. Corps of Engineers, formerly of Yatesville, has been awarded the James Laurie prize by the American Society of Civil Engineers at their annual meeting for his paper on "Fort Peck Slide." A graduate of Georgia Tech, Middlebrooks has been with the U. S. Engineer Department since 1928. During the construction of the Fort Peck Dam in Montana, he was chief of the soils and foundation section for the Fort Peck Engineering District.

Middlebrooks is the son of Mrs. B. H. Middleton of 1003 Gordon street. An empty house is more expensive than a Want Ad in The Constitution that will rent it.

Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On rvnmn1dnn raUcves nrnmnt.lv be cause it goes right to the seat of the t-rnuhia tn ViAln loosen and exnel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to sootne ana neai raw, in-named bronchial mucous mem- Toll vmir rtmtreiKr. tn spll vnil hntfia nf rranmnicinn TOith t.ViA un derstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CkEOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis require a hunk of tin many Spanish and French nationals. "Lisbon quarters say that these Hitler agents are assigned especially to wrecking work in French Africa." The colony of Rio de Oro adjoins French Morocco on the south. The Canary Islands are located about 60 miles off its coast.

ORM ANDY TO GO OVERSEAS NEW YORK, Feb. 1. (JF) Eugene Ormandy, conductor of the Philadelphia orchestra, will go to Australia this spring under the sponsorship of the Office of War Information to present a series of concerts with several symphony orchestras there. Ormandy plans to leave soon after the' Philadelphia" orchestra's last concert" of the season May 7 at Ann Arbor, Mich ATLANTA AUTjUCT with Facts Every business worthy of the name takes inventory and makes a financial statement periodi-cally. This statement lists what the company owns and owes, along with a complete record of the year's operation.

It is just as important for you, as an individual, to know how you stand, so you can face the future with facts. A personal financial stafement provides valuable information for you. It's a wise idea to make one each year at the same time to see Just how you stand just what progress jou have made. Knowledge of your personal affairs is especially important today, with the war bringing increases in taxes, higher costs and many other radical changes in living. We will, on request, supply forms for personal financial statements.

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