Lincoln Nebraska State Journal from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 5

in war work iiKifflimiitiiHiiiiititmMiiiif By Eleanore Fogg ffhitham We see by the paper that Lincoln now has women jury members. A step forward, it is also a practical mater of expediency since it is easy for the men still in i to their presence is essential to their jobs. In other i ies where women have served as jury members they have proved elves most capable. The passage of bill making this i ble in- olro Tiro Mrs. ucipeu e.

im. by Mrs. Roscoe Hill's excellent presentation of the facts before the various committees when they held their open meetings. She was also busy lobbying when the county health bill was up before the legislature. A.

member the League of Women Voters to whom they can, and do, point with pride, Mrs. Hill says she enjoys working with them because they are "definitely an action group," and she very much dislikes having to drop a job before it is completed. A member of the executive board of the council of social agencies, the advisory board of the university Y. W. C.

A. and one of the organizers of the public health nursing association--these things the mayor undoubtedly had in mind when he recently appointed Mrs. Hill as the only woman member of the committee of five to go to Topeka to look over their county health unit. Last week she was appointed chairman of the committee of 14 to survey the local situation in regard to a health unit here. "Being born the eldest of seven on a farm is excellent training for learning to do things for yourself and not waiting for somebody else to come along and do them for you," explained Mrs.

Hill when I asked her how she held down a position in her husband's office with one hand and ran her home and two children with the other. "It's more a matter of a habit of mind than how much work you have to do." Mary Ulrich Entertains children Miss Marguerite Hac will en- 125 children in a series of Christmas parties to be held Wednesday and Thursday afternoons and evenings in her music studio. A large Christmas tree will decorate the studio and Santa Glaus will visit every party with favors for the guests. Wednesday afternoon the party will be for 70 children between the ages of 2 and 5 years and a display of mechanical toys will be shown. Assisting Miss Hac will be Mrs.

Charles Nowacek, Miss Virginia Thurtle and Mrs. Ervin Alexander. Wednesday evening- the senior piano group will be the guests of Miss Hac. The entertainment will consist of a piano recital followed by games. Thirty boys have been invited to the Thursday afternoon party.

A piano recital and games will be entertainment and Mrs. Carl Vanderslice wil be assistant hostess. The Thursday evening party is for 15 junior girls. After a piano recital and games, refreshments will be served. Kesterson- Johnson Miss Jean Leona Kesterson, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. L. J. Kesterson, of Albion, became the bride of Lloyd Richard Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs.

R. -Johnson, of Loretto, Dec. 12 at 12 o'clock in Grace Methodist church. Rev. F.

E. Pfoutz read the double ring ceremony. The bride wore a soft gray suit with deep blue and gray accessories and a gardenia corsage. She wore a gold sweetheart bracelet and matching necklace, a gift of the groom. Mrs.

Floyd Bryan, the bride's sister, was matron of honor. She wore a dressmaker suit of pecan brown with dark brown accessories and a corsage of yellow rose buds and sweet peas. Floyd Bryan, of Lincoln, served as best man. After a. short wedding trip the couple will live on a ranch south of Loretto.

Holiday visit Miss Adrienne Waggoner, a student at the University of Nebraska, left Tuesday for to spend the holidays with her father, Herbert S. Waggoner, and Mrs. Waggoner. Accompanying her was Miss Patricia Williams who will spend Christmas with her parents there. Birth announcement Lt.

and Mrs. Willard Bronson of Carmel, formerly of Lincoln announce the birth of a son, Willard Gardner, on Dec. 17. Both parents are graduates of the University of Nebraska where Lieutenant Bronson played on the Cornhusker football team. Priscilla club Mrs.

C. Lawrence entertained the Priscilla club Tuesday at a Christmas party and gift exchange. Officers elected for the coming year were: Mrs. Ben Milow, president; Mrs. C.

G. Lawrence, secretary; Mrs. William Duntz, assistant secretary and Mrs. R. H.

Woodruff, reporter. Holiday guests Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mapes, of Nebraska City, will spend with Mr. Mapes' sis- Mrs.

W. A. Graham, and Ot. Graham. Mr.

and Mrs. Edwin Ulrich, of Ainsworth, announce the en' gagement of their daughter, Mary, to Pvt. Robert Wayne Wood, son of DP. and Mrs. R.

W. Wood, of Burwell. Miss Ulrich is a graduate of the University of Nebraska. Mr. Wood is a junior in the dental college of the University of Nebraska, where he is a member of Xi Psi Phi, honorary dental fraternity.

The wedding will take place Dec. 28 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ulrich. Today's events Lions Christmas party, Varsity theater, 11 a.

luncheon at chamber of commerce, noon. Optimists Christinas party, Lincoln, noon Co-operatives, chamber of commerce, noon. Ivre club, Lincoln, 3:30 p. m. Fraternal.

Liberty lodge No. 300, A. F. A. Christmas party at 1635 6 p.

m. College View lodge Knights of Pythias, 8 p. m. East Lincoln lodge No. 210 A.

F. A. Christmas party, 27th and 7:30 p. m. Social tnd Club.

Cambridge-Lincoln club with Mrs. Theo Miller. 817 So. 24th, luncheon DeWitt-Lincoln club with Mrs. Halph Waybright, 1 o'clock luncheon.

Churches. Temple Baptist: Sunday school pupils Christmas program. Havelock Christian Science: Christmas program, "A House Built Unto David," 7.45 p. m. Church of the Brethren: Sunday school play, "The Star Shone," 8 Vine Congregational.

Sunday school Christmas program, 7:30 p. m. Reorganized Latter Day Saints' Children's division Christmas program, 7:30 p. m. First Baptist: 8:30 young people's caroling party, meet at church.

Notices for Sunday fraternal pare should be In thin office by Friday this week, a day earlier than usual. Interesting vacation Cadet James B. Townsend, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.

Brierton Townsend of Denver, who is a second year man at the U. S. military academy at West Point, N. will be a guest during the Christmas holidays at the home of one of his classmates at the academy, James G. Christiansen, son of Brig.

Gen. and Mrs. James G. Christiansen. Brigadier General Christiansen is chief of staff of the army ground forces.

Cadet Townsend will be a dinner guest at the home of another classmate, Cadet William Doran Clark, son of General and Mrs. Mark Clark. Cadet Townsend who is a Phi Kappa Psi, formerly resided in Lineon and attended the University of Nebraska where he was also a member of Persmng Rifles. From Virginia Mr. and Mrs.

Howard E. Carpender of Bristol, are spending the holidays with Mr. Carpender's brother and family, the Gerald Carpenders, Holiday guests Miss Elaine Lmscott, who has been teaching at Wakefield, arrived Thursday to spend the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.

H. Linscott. A son, Mr. Wayne Lm- scott, and Ivlrs. Liinscott and small daughter, Cheryl Ann, will arrive Saturday night from Chicago.

Mrs. Lmscott will spend a couple of weeks Lincoln. Sioux City guests Mr. and Mrs. Jud Spayde of Sioux City are in Lincoln to spend Christmas with their son, Norton Spayde, and Mrs.

Spayde. Additional holiday guests will be Mrs. Spayde's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John W.

Carey, who will stop enroute from the west coast to their home in Sioux City. Two Nebraskans get silver stars WASHINGTON. (X). The war department announced Wednesday the silver star to 2nd Lt. Alvin E.

Chfistensen, field artillery, St. Paul, and T. 5th Grade Howard L. Sturgeon, infantry, Gothenburg, Neb. The citation accompanying Lieutenant Christensen's decoration stated that it was for gallantry in action in North Africa.

While his battery was engaged in a tank action, and under heavy fire, he helped carry the wounded to first aid facilities and displayed great courage in locating and obtaining information about forward gun sections and in recovering' disabled vehicles. Sturgeon covered the withdrawal of an assault gun platoon in Tunisia. After all vehicles had successfully i a he manned his own vehicle and drove thru heavy fire to his new position, stopping enroute to assist in the recovery of a Bofors gun. 10---Churchill much better LONDON, (m. Prime Minister Churchill has made such rapid strides toward recovery that daily bulletins on his condition have been discontinued, the ministry of information said Wednesday.

Wednesday was the first day since his illness was announced Dec. 16 that no bulletin was issued. Patri KIPPING in school means that the child jumps a class -without doing the work assigned to that division. It is a bad practice and one that does the skipped child an ill turn. Children grow by experiences and not by words, memorized tacts and marks recorded In a book.

School courses are laid down by experts who, in agreement with the people the community, have selected them for their values to school children. These courses have been divided into units, each tied to the one before and following. If one is left out, there is a break in the line and that means the child suffered that break in his learning. "Ahead of His Class" The skipping is usually done in the early grades. Bright children memorize swiftly, talk glibly, and are through -with their work before their classmates.

"He is ahead of his class, is wasting time, ought to skip and get ahead." Why? Why lose that unit of work? Why hurry through school? Where is he going when he gets out? Any sensible teacher will agree that the child who completes his work long before the rest of the class should have a more extensive course and fuller opportunity to learn. Give that to him. Keep him busy applying the work he has learned, doing more reading, helping others about him. But don't skip the class above. Where Inexperience Is Noted We have had pupils in the first years of high school who did not fit in anywhere, class or playground or society because they had been hurried through school on the basis of their achievement in studies without regard to their physical growth, their psychological and social growth.

Children live in a children's world. To develop normally they must live among children. Those who learn out of books with ease and rapidity have not outgrown their need for companionship with children their own age. They must have that in order to grow normally, and to live adequately. When they are placed among young people who are matured where these are still childish, they are deadly unhappy and their normal health and happiness suffer.

Let children have their full complement of years for growth. Give them every opportunity for enriched growth that they can accept. But let them have normal associations with their own set lest they lose their way in life completely. Skipping will not serve here. It is harmful to the child it is intended to help.

'Greater love hath no illustrated OMAHA. 'JP). The people who knew Johnny Parle when he was a small boy could look back Wednesday 'and discern the qualities in him that won the medal of honor. For Johnny Parle was a good boy--he did what he was supposed to do. Off the coast of Sicily last July 10 the 23 year old Omahan did what he was supposed to do, and saved his men from disaster.

An ensign on an LST boat, Parle had swung the smaller landing boats on the davits, ready to lower them into the water. A smoke pot in a boat near the bridge became ignited accidentally. It was loaded with explosives--no one was in it. Parle jumped into the boat and put out the fuse. The pot itself remained a spurting flame.

Had the explosives gone off the whole LST, jammed with men, would have gone up like a rocket. Ensign Parle wrestled with the smoke pot, hoisted it over the rail into the water. A week later he died in a hospital in Bizerte from the effect of the smoke and fumes. Parle's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Vincent Parle, have eight other children, including two sons in military service and a daughter who will be married next Tuesday. Plan streamlined P-F-L program Plans for streamlining the Nebraska pasture forage livestock program in 1944 to assist in solving basic problems related to these three farm commodities and to help with wartime food production were outlined at the college of agriculture. Meeting to discuss the P-F-L program for next year were outstate county extension agents-, the state P-F-L committee, district extension agents and representatives of o-s i agencies. C. E.

Alter, Alma, chairman of the South Platte united chambers of commerce pasture-forage-livestock committee, and P. H. Stewart, representing the Omaha chamber of commerce's P-F-L committee, sat in on the all-day meeting. Other co-sponsoring groups such as the Nebraska Livestock Breeders and Feeders association, the Nebraska Dairymen's association and the Nebraska Crop Improvement association were also represented. The complete details of the 1944 pasture-forage livestock program wil be discussed with county extension agents when they hold their annual conference in Lincoln the first week in January.

Up prices figs and nectarines WASHINGTON. UP). Retail price increases of about a cent and a half a pound for frozen figs and one cent for nectarines--a smooth skin variety of peach--were announced Wednesday by the office of price administration. The increases, on the 1943 pack, result from boosts in packers' prices authorized by OPA and increased payments to growers recommended by the war food administration. The packers' increases to cover raw material costs will be limited, OPA said, to the amount of the increase in growers' prices of the fruit.

Thursday, December 23, 1943 LINCOLN JOURNAL Open 1O a. m. to 9 p.m. THURSDAY only Regular Hours Friday 9:39 to 5:39 CLOSED oil day SATURDAY, CHRISTMAS HERE'S tingling excitement in the air! Santa Glaus is on his way with a full pack of Christmas delights! Lighted trees are glowing in the windows--there's gay laughter and eyes are sparkling. It's the Christmas season, perhaps nostalgic, yet determinedly gay! It's the spirit of America--all tied up with red ribbon and green holly! Yes, Christmas is almost here --and for you last-minute shoppers, MILLER'S give you these suggestions--with a wish that your holidays are happy ones! Give your high-schooler a "WARDROBE EXTRA" "BLAZER" Jackets term these "yummy" because just what she wants--and she'll wear it with every skirt and sweater she owns.

They're pure wool flannel and come in red, navy or brown with white edging--or red with navy or vice versa. Sizes 10 to 16. For the entire family's enjoyment. GLOBES IMPORTANT addition to your library and gift that every member of the family will use and enjoy. Trace the global warfare follow your soldier-son's progress-it's educational fun with these distinctive globes.

The Air Age Globe (as shown) Others at 7.50 Miller's Book Section --first Floor pure wool SWEATER 10 95 (Our Ceiling Price is 12.95) Miller's Girl's Shop--Third Floor Hot Plate" SETS THREE heat-resistant PADS in charming patterns for your holiday table! A thoughtful gift for your dinner hostess. Attractively boxed ready for giving. 65c and 75c set Miller's Domestics--Fourth Floor For "Granny" KNITTING BAGS she's prodigious in her i i here's the answer to your gift problem. Miller's has a new shipment of handsome new knitting bags some with wood frames, mostly handle styles in a variety of rich fabrics. 1 50 $1 Bone China DINNERWEAR in the new "AMERICAN BEAUTY" pattern The pure loveliness of the American beauty rose has been translated onto fine Bone China.

A rich gold decor is added to the striking quality of this new dinnerware. Now in Miller's open stock --for your own selection and for gifts. a ttarler 5-pc. place setting-- EAUTIFLJL, fine wool sweaters arrive from South America--with "made in Argentine" labels--They're the classic pullovers he likes best of all! Choose from this assortment of colors: Camel, Blue Heather (light or dark), Oxford Grey, Tobacco Brown, Beige, Bermuda Blue and Burgundy Red. Sizes 36 to 44.

7 95 Miller's Men's Wear--First Floor 8 40 to Miller's Needleart Section--Fourth Floor Fine --Fifth Floor Christmas-morning conversation: SON: It's the "JUNIOR PILOT" Sheepskin jacket 'exactly like a pilot's flight jacket with the heavy sheepskin-fleece lining- zipper front and the high collar thnt fastens with a ftrap-and-lmckle. Two front pockets for hand-warming. 16 95 Sizes 10 to 18-- A I COATS (sizes 6 to New SWEATERS (sizes 10 to 16) to 5.50 Leather BELTS--SI to 1.50 Gift Miller's Boy's Shop--Third Floor THE BEST GIFTS OF ALL THIS CHRISTMAS ARE WAR BONDS --LET'S GIVE ALL WE CAN! mtLLER PAlflE SPAPFRf.