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PAGE LUBBOCKtTEX.) MORNING AVALANCHE, WED. JUKE 7, 1944 ia.n»iin« TfXIB. Member of Associates fzta PLEDGE lo flag Believe 11 Or Not-By Robert Ripley M6rmng Avalanche WINPOW6LAS HAS A RIGHT SIDE AND AWRON6SIPE Liberty and Justice ior all. Let Us Prove Our Worth AMERICANA on the home front will share A- today, and perhaps for many days, a fe ing of utter futility which may seem ma Epochal events are trans- pirihg. History is being made.

The future of life for those living today and for those to come is in the process of determination. In this solemn setting, we Americans a home become starkly conscious of thei helplessness. About all we can do right now is-to wait and hope and pray. So far as trans piring events are concerned, tne home fronter's opportunity to help has passed Americans today must answer to their individual consciences for what they did, or failed to do, to aid in the preparations for for today, and for the days to But, sometimes it is true, as the poet said, that they also serve who only stand and wait. those us at home can serve, at lease a little, if the fates have decreed that they must stand and wait.

Possibly it will be helpful to the future, if not the present, if we at home will guard against expecting too much. Perhaps it will be some slight service' to 'the cause in which all Americans are joined if we at home will resognize the full enormity of the undertaking upon which the Allied fighting forces are embarked. Possibly we at home should remember that the enemy has'had as long to prepare, his defenses 'as the Allies have had tq get ready for the incomparably more dif' ficuit attack. We at home may. also serve if we.

steel ourselves for whatever of good or bad the immediate, future may hold. We must 5 be on' guard against the sort of disappointment -which breeds dispair. True, it may' seem at first though that, if events go badly, it won't make much ference how the horned front may react. An unshaken 'home morale can't be put -to by men fighting for their'lives. But-let' remember that "despair on the home front certainly could hot be helpful.

It might be hurtful, even fatal. A strong, firm home might not win a war. But weakened, desparing home front might lose it. So, let's hope; and pray for the best. But let's pray at the same time that we, at home, shall have the courage to face squarely what- eyer.

may Let's pray that, when im- events have, become history, the home- front will have proved itself worthy of -those who offered, them lives upon the fields of lie National Whirligig The News Behind The News WASHIHGTOX By HHE military and diplomatic status of that the city is occupied'by Anglo-Amsrican orces is one of the Allies' thorniest problems. Con- idention dispatches from neutral attaches stationed here have given the shivers to President Roosevelt and Prime Minister -Churchill. obvious reasons no nation wants to destroy he Eternal City and bring down condemnation.cn tself. As Hitler spared consequence of Ambassador Bill Bullitt's left Mussolini's 'former Capital virtually unharmed. -He did it solely for statecraft and political reasons.

The Allies need the Italian citadel because, the military, diplomatic and psychological boost the seizure gives to their cause. INVENTION: President Roosevelt has an annoying habit of using fictitious stooges.to illustrate a political or economic point. Bill Murphy, of the Philadelphia Inquirer has figured out that FDR has re- sorted'to at least 20 imaginary characters. in his various attempts to ridicule'his When he attacked the newspapers, he put Into the mouth of an unidentified words never been said. When he assailed business, bankers and farmers, he relayed human anecdotes tended to reveal.

that certain members of those" groups sided with him as against their own The device of the "unknown spokesman" was'invented by Teddy Roosevelt, but his seventh cousin has improved and perfected it. GUFFAWS: FDR used the scheme once too, often, however, at a 'recent press conference. In discnss- newspaper stories of present and prospective i i-i 4 nf ttf Side Galbraith RRSTSON OF THE FIRST SON OF THE FIRST SON OF THE FIRST SON OF TOE FIRST SON OF THE FIRST SON OF A FIRST SON iiiE jiBWSpowEl lea wj. yi cacui 1 pj- inflation the President told of a foreman" "Well, Judgt, with bolh of your daughters gelling marned ttus month. his troubles 'to the White I.

Suppose you'll be able, lo sport a new pair of. shoes before long who frequently brings his troubles 'to the White I. Suppose you'll House. (Imagine a "foreman" breaking into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. in these days!) 1 LJ AnH This worker complained to the about Plere In Babe Sound MADE AN8 BASE HE HtTA HOMER- FAK.EOTO TOUCH SO HE RAN AROUND AGAKf STREET IN EUROPE Ld RUE de BRUTUS, IN ROUEN 18 INCHES WIPE England PitiUtation price of a large bunch is only 59 cents in Washing- -JL HP, HT ton.) The man's wife complained bitterly because dCllMC JL 0 JL CXCIS of the' excessive cost.

But Mr. Roosevelt resolved their doubts and fears regarding inflation. He asked, ''What do you mean, with your pay receipts, by buying fresh as-. us in the dead of winter?" A conscientious correspondent shot back, By WILLIAM KEYS Associated Press June G. BY ANN PENDLETON Copyright.

IDIX Uowcll, Soikin, nijtribulcd, 19U. NEA Service. Inc. The real-life adventures of a society girl who goes to work in a war plant. TO LAY MY HEAD Chapter II Not the field, the Park, I was told by Mrs.

Schwartz of the stationery shop. The Park, and that ramshackle long building which faces the station was the Rug Mill. Surely I had heard of Johnson's? No? What part did I come from, if she might ask? Oh, New York. Well, all sorts and kinds were coming to Moore City now, foreigners IrcJm all over. here girl's from York," Mrs.

Schwartz called to her husband in the back there was a sort of despairing "see a t's happening 1 in her voice. There wasn't any reply, but resently Mister, an ovenvhelm- ngly stout man with an incongru- rents pcjple charged now, and the nice rooms I could have had for S2, if I had come to Moore.City three years ago. At something after five I got away, with five addresses to in vestigate. By six I ht.1 finished them all. At the only one which lad looked at-all possible I had aeen told that women were always doing laundry and therefore, men were best.

I would get back to the station and catch the train, I decided; come down Sunday morning and try again with the day me. Once more I started down the stre'e us fox-face, came to the door stood knew a men went to New York, and stood looking me over. Fight The Jojinson I probably would be extremely difficult to exaggerate -the importance to Lubbock county, and to the South Plains, of a meeting ior. 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon in -99th District 'courtroom in the Lubbock courthouse to discuss 'Jbhnspri grassl the eradication probably would be few. Texas ter'prVs'idMtV'isThat-fhTsame 'foreman' "told I dissenters-'to Prof.

Ralph H. Ga- us about last January, when he bought excessively briel, a. Yale university Protessor priced straw-berries?" who wrote in the New There was noa-eply from the.head Quarterly: journalistic 'guffaws in which he'did is an empire in its own i right. To drive from the dry grasslands of the Panhandl.i across the lowland cotton country to the 'Gulf ports on 'to the' eastern oil to pass through half the material phases of American It is always crowded and there are no provisions to permit trainees to stay with their wives. Women are charged $1 per night for tribvitors' audience in.Louisville.

Bob has attention to the. Blue Grass state.because there is every Sen- ate Majority Leader Alben Barkley may be licked 'Y. next November and this border commonwealth may I us the shelter. It is an emergency measure to keep them off the streets. "Trainees must avail themselvakA of what quarters 1nff are left Texas has which lead me past Schwartz's to the railroad.

There was an agitated hallooing and the sound steps. From the house 'I had just left a small boy came in pursuit. "Mom says she knows who'll take shouted after me. "Wait. I gotta take you there.

It's Miz Nelson. Mom says she ain't so Eussy." Mom was right. Mrs. Nelson, a twittering old lady whose unpleasant yellow house had quite a pretty yard, rented me the best room she had for four dollars. "Starting work up' Kerry Kraft?" she asked me, and, fluttering with pride, I said yes, and happily added, "As a She took my hand snd patted it.

"Never mind, girlie," she said. "You'll get better work some dayl You'll earn a living, and you've no call to be ashamed." Ah, strange new world! (To Be Continued) in 1932. "And," continued His Honor, "although St. Louis had been Republican for many years, turned out.the rascals "and from then on elected Democratic administrations" in the. society; of'nations.

The' individualism, and the hopefulness of a frontier which has jiist'-passed is confirmed and When en magnified by. an industrial revolu- arose he "I deserve no creditor these tion that is just Texas mayoraUy vfctories'in St. Louis. -Here" is.what.we yet very did to win: You have heard- about coat-tailing to a I A mP a n. rTafinnal candidate so "as to carry the.court- plague of the farmer has made its appearance: in some farming areas of the So farmers and Ian downers have called together to organize a fight to to out the pest before it gets good start.

The highway department, rail. civic clubs, the. county government i and others have enlisted in the fight. Not many people from any. other part of Texas, possibly from most other parts of the-United need be told anything about Johnson grass.

Most of them have seen a lot, heard a lot, about this pest. If anyone who knows anything about the grass ever "has had a kind word to say about it, we have heard it. Frequently the language em- "ployed'anent this subject is not suitable for polite company. The most thorough precautions frequently have not been sufficient to prevent a Johnson grass invasion. Once started, it spreads with airi almost incredible rapidity.

It takes complete possession of the land it invades. It i almost It thrives when most other crops wither. It is extremely difficult to eradicate. In many' Texas counties, the first question asked when a land deal is in prospect is "Do. you have Johnson grass?" If the answer is, "Yes," the deal frequently is off rieh he remarked.

"Fellow named Bill Maloney." He stared at me disapprovingly. "Died he said, and disappeared. I had gone into Schwartz's saper store to ask my way to the Plant on my arrival and she had outlined a complicated bus itinerary. Finally, after I had noted it all ilown, she made the. revelation that it -would be both quicker and' easier to walk.

It had been easy, but not particularly quick. I' had to walk along Main Street, with two movies and six blocks of two- story buildings xvhich were shops; along Maple Street, Oak," Chestnut, all treeless and all identical, with frame houses, "squashed close together, children, one-car' garages, faded Red Cross stickers in the windows and wooden animals stuck Into the grass. There ought to be a drug store or a hot-dog place somewhere, I. thought, plodding along toward Kerry Kraft, hot, hungry and apprehensive. There wasn't Moore City's residents don't go in for casual refreshment.

The Avalanche-Journal Station: 1340 On Your Dial igh suf fers in value. Johnson grass is one pest that Lubbock the South Plains do not want. If it has begun to appear, then no time is too immedi- ate and no effort is too great for the fight -to eliminate it. There was, however, ice cream at Mrs. Schwartz's.

Finding, when emerged from Personnel, the plant bus would take me back hat neighborhood, I decided to start my house hunting from there. They'd given me some addresses and'teleohone numbers at the. Plant:" Perhaps Schwartz would let me know which, if any, of these might be possible. Maybe there Y. W.

or a hotei, somewhere to lay my head Sunday night, to start out from Mon day morning. Well, there was the American House, Mrs. Schwartz admitted, but I wouldn't, she was wsnt to go there. "I ain't saying it ain't clean enough," she added laatiiy. sr.x« t-u- enow vhey'd use set a good table back in my father's day." Since her father's time she hadn't heard anyone say whether the dining room was still open or not.

She WEDXESDAT, JUNE 7 Morning 1:00 Musical HerelHe. 7:30 Newsiest. 7:45 Farm News. 7:50 Rhythm Parade. 8:15 Headline News.

8:30 Breaktast Club. 9:00 Sweet 9:15 My True'. Story. 9:40 Lanny and Ginger. Jfewscast.

10:00 Sons of the Pioneers. 10:15 Breakfast 'at Sardi'E. 10:30 Gil Martjn's News. 10:45 Personal Shopper. 11:00 Boake Carter.

11:15 You Ask 'Em. 11:30 Accent on Rhythm. 11:45 Farm Program. Afternoon 12:00 Stamps CJuurtet. 12:15 Texas Rangers.

12:30 Drug Store Cawboyj. 13:45 Noon News Edition. 1:00 Snoop anri Scoop. 1:05 Words and Music. 1:30 ladies.

Be Seated. 2:00 Morton Downey 2:15 Hollywood Star Time. 2:31 Music and Stulf. 2:55 Markets. 3:00 Music and EtuH.

3:30 Time Views the News. 3:45 Hillbilly Swing. 4:00 Treasury Salute. 4:15 The 4:30 Baseball Results. 4:35 Interlude.

4:45 Diet Tracy. 5:00 Terry and the Pirates. 5:15 Jimmy Allen. turn and Abner. 5:45 10-2-4 Ranch.

Evening 6:00 Fullon Lewis. Jr. 6:15 Johnson Family. 6:30 Local Kewy. 6:35 United Prfss 6:40 Baseball 6:45 All Star Dance Parade.

popular, national candidate so "as to carry house and City Hall. i "Well we did more than-that. Our local.orgam-l zation took a strangle, hold, a scissors, a full NeU son and on Franklin Roosevelt. We staked everything on him, and that is why explain why he and every other office-seeking Democrat the President to run for a fourth They need him, so-they think, to re-elect their boy Note: The present mayor.of St. Louis happens to be a Republican.

It seems that. Hanriegan's and presumably FDR's, lost its power. That is why Sen. Bennett Clark, a Roosevelt foeman but a buddy, thinks he has only a 40 per cent chance-for re-election. WINNING THE WAR By Albert leaders consider that Mr.

Roosevelt's JL stand in sharply differing, from Mr. Churchill regarding is an effort of President to curry favor with liberals in the coming election. Franco, who has never, recanted statement that he hoped Hitler would is held in oppro- bium not only labor elements and radicals but also by substantial groups of voters usually, independent in politics. the Republican-party the Willkie bloc looks with favor on any statesman who speaks boldly against the Madrid dictator. The subject of Spanish relations.

has always One Killed. 4 MiSSing plagued the time of the civil war a great T-omilar simnorters ODDOS- Radio Program 7:00 1:25 7:30 8:00 9:15 9:30 0:00 0:15 0:30 0:55 1:00 United Press News. Interlude. War Commentary. Lubbock Army Air Field Prog.

Design for Dancing. Freedom's Fighting Men. First Nighter. Raymond Gram Swing. Sermons In Miniature.

With Wings. Varieties In Swing. Henry J. Taylor. Chez Paree Orch.

News Summary. SIGN OFF. Paper Sponsors Contest 'To stimulate production of livestock, feeds, the Paris News is'sponsoring a $150 war bond feed contest among live- stock growers in Northeast Texas, and Southeast Oklahoma. Thirteen prizes starting-with the first prize of -in. Series War bonds: and tapering to 10 prizes of S25 each in War'bonds will be awarded the contest "is to.

have farmers consuming their; own feeds and stop excessive demands the markets -which creates serious shortages and causes losses to oiir. farmers," explains the News. contest steering committee is- headed by A. L. Edmiaston, -Lamar county agricultural agent.

After Planes Collide many-of the President's regular supporters opposed aid to the Loyalists. ELLINGTON -FIELD, June 5. It can be said here on excellent authority that (U.PJ—One Army flyer was known Mr. Roosevelt never sympathized with Franco. Im- dead and four others were miss- pdrtant members the League of Nations did not.

ng today after two navigation want the United States to interfere and the Presi- planes collided in flight I dent bowed Geneva and those in his own State near Alexandria, yesterday dpartmerit whose judgment he felt obliged to ac- afternoon, it was announced to- ept. day. 'I When the North African drive was about to be The dead: Lt. Chester T. Pick- haunched, he went out of his way to appease'Fran- i officer, Iowa! CO( because military advisers feared trouble Strange as it may'seem to laymen, our generals not believe Hitler could, invade the Iberian Millard F.

Rosenberg, 41, Oak- Peninsula without the proud Spanish nation's try- land, Joseph R. Gass-h ng to bar the if its" ruler had unlocked man, 20, Lancaster, Pa. Ed- a jj the resulting disorder and uncertainty i TT-, 01? I li CT cring, 25, student "ity, Iowa. The missing: Lt Richard I. Harris, 23, Sacramento, Lt.

mund B. 26, Middle- ion, Conn. Only one of the planes crashed. Nazi ultimate success.would have thrown off. General Eisenhower's timetable.

The second returned safely to El- PRYING: Ever since, the slightest nod from Wash- THHE woman who enteredi the fice the billeting officer of Camp Welters, near 'Mineral Wells, had -a baby her arms. Her husband was a trainee at the camp. She had no place to go. When told that the office had no rooms available, she. sat oh the floor outside the office, in a near collapse, She had 'wandered through the streets of "Mineral Wells, seeking an apartment, a room, anything; The situation in Mineral Wells is typical in Texas where war- congested Army or Navy towns strive' in vain to accommodate wives and' families of men in the armed -services.

Lt. William T. Thornton, Camp Welter's billeting officer, explained the problem. "At. present, no rooms or apart- available 'anywhere in Mineral Wells through the hous- permanent personnel arc situated.

Remembering that fully. 25 per cent of available housing is substandard, many a trainee's wife who finally does find a room must be content with inferior living conditions. "That, or walk from door to door tor a place to sleep." Little Gain In Housing The lieutenant said 'Men- eral Wells was. a city of BiOOCi population'prior to establishment of the camp and that the has increased, to 13,000 with very little gain in housing. Of the permanent personnel of the camp residing live in Mineral and about 500 in Weatherford.

few FHA homes here," Lieutenant Thornton stated, "but no' program was established for housing military except one "housing project which was designed for civilian government, employes and non-com. missioned officers of the first 1 three grades." "This, of fice makes 2.500 physical inspections annually to set standards for renting to permanent personnel, but "we cannot inspect or. control not available to "From the standpoint of 'good judgment -and common sense, should leave their-wives at home." The officer said soldiers are warned to be sure of their financial status attempting to have their wives stay at one of the hotels in Mineral Wells, explaining thst "Days' go by. rapidly'and the- hotel bill mounts." A Criminal Appeal court dccis- ion making sun time, rather than standard time, applicable in enforcing child labor statutes has evoked much talk about time differences. E.

K. Mead, the Dallas Times Herald, an astronomer by hobby, explains time differentials in lay language: Every astronomer and navigator that 1 clock or standard time varies from sun time according to longitude because the earth devolves on its axis once every 23.57 hours. For conve i mechanical lington field with no a'mong the personnel. injuries 5ngton to Madrid has brought vigorous protests from an extremely influential segment of the electorate. ifl'f At Lift Ml LUG Whatever became of First Aid classes? And how many who took these courses now know the difference between a traction splint and a The -One Minute Sermon To revery thing there is a season, and a lime to every purpose under, the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die, a time to plant, and "a time to pluck up that 'Which is planted: A time to kill, and a time to heal; a timf; to break and a time to build up; A time weep, and a time to laugh: a to'mourn; and a lime to celesiastes 3: 1 through 4, would, however, find out for me if I wanted.

After a while we began talking over present possibilities. Miss Bates's, bni; she guessed her rooms was took; Miz Horner's, but hers was took too most likely; Miz Purson's, now that would be real nice for me, if she didn't charge too high. Four most likely. Would I feel. Mrs.

Schwartz asknd diffidently, like paying four dollars? "They'll hold out your pay on you. you know," warned me "Hold it two weeks. Like now, if you was Jo start Monday, Friday ou don't get no pay till next Friday, and then all you get wiU be days Eighteen dollars," she added. One's financial affairs, it appeared, were no secret in Moore City. was a i o'clock train.

It was already 4:30, and Mrs. Schwartz off ca the high a period oi years I have developed a habit which comes in pretty handy when you write for a living. As ideas come to the train, in bed, at the lunch table scribble them down on the hack of envelopes. Then, wiit-ii I got enougli C-f these enevlopes into my pocket! so that no more fit in, I look over them bsfore throw them away, and see whether there isn't -something to write about. Here is one I just came across: trust a man who doesn't trust others." I wrote that one after I mst a fellow who has to get everything in wri'ang.

Whatever he does, there must always be a signed agreement. If he lends you S10, he wants an IOU: if he pays a bill, no matter how small, he must have a receipt "Why do you do that?" I asked him. "Because you can't trust people," was his reply. "Why cant' you trust people?" I asked him. He answered before he had a chance to think about his ansvar.

"Because most people are chuats if they gel a chance," he said. a you have it. Only a pcn.on who is a cheat at heart suspects others of being chsats. I happen lo know, that this particular fellow will squeeze the last nickel out of a deal. I would never trust him, because he doesn't trust his fellow man.

TJERE "To have friends you must be a I remember why I that note. It's about a fellow who makes lots of money, who has a beautiful home and many acquaintances, but not a single real frisnd. The acquaintances are either people who want favors from him or who like his-liquor and his food. But if he lost his money, or his job tomorrow, he ould be completely alone. This follow has no frionds because can't be friend.

He entertains only people who are socially worth-while to him or those who can help him to.climb. To him friendship is capital that must bear interest. 'What's the moral in thesa two notes I took? Oh, nothing much, except that I agree with Emerson that you get what you give, and, come to think, of it. there's something similar in the Bible Isn't there? Many other Americans who preferred Franco to the Communist republic he overthrew, have cooled as the generalissimo has shown continued animosity to ths democracies, including our -Apologists explain Mr. Churchill's stand'on the, ground that Britain is a maritime empire whose world trade interests coincide with tho.se 'of Spain and Portugal, two other colonial powers.

Also that to him Gibraltar is worth the price of a verbal bouquet any day. But certain insiders in diplomatic circles find is another note I scrib- an unpublished reason for the buttering. It is that if-the Allias plan to ssssuU the flat plsins of southern France between San Sebastian and as Boche radios have is imperative to have a mollified Franco on outright flank. And, if additional invasion forces should swing around Spain instead of crossing the.Chan- nel, slip through the Strait of Gibraltar and attack the "under belly of Europe" between Marseille and Trieste, we do not want our movements reported to Berlin as a result of observation by prying, hostile Spanish eyes. (Copyright McClure Newspaper Syndicate) "Both sexes are interesting," asserts a novelist.

Yes, but the opposite one is considerably more so. ing office," he said." "We never turn a soul away if can send them somewhere. The community runs a dormitory for wives 'and children of trainees who must clocks revolve every 24 ical) hours and the world by. i national agreement has been di- y.ided into 24 time zones, one hour apart. Here's an e-ample: When the sun crosses the 90th "meridian (Chicago and New Orleans are or.

this meridian) all clocks in the central time zone register noon but the sun doesn't cross the Dallas noon meridian uhtii the 12:27 p. have shelter, but it is Friday, I because it takes Mother Earth 27 Saturday and-Sunday nights only. minutes to.turn that far. Funny Business A great deal of juvenile delinquency could be prevented if parents would follow this simple procedure: Give the youngsters something useful to do; t'o) make them do it. "Insane Man Runs Amok in Headline.

In Washington it's a wonder anybody noticed. "Truth lies at the bottom of a well," but the mudslinging politicians never dig quite that deep. you work or not has little bearing on how Ion? you will live," sayj a physician. It does in our case, doc. If to stop -working, -we'd have to stop eating.

"li geilin' loo hard to keep good help, no they hired a crystal gaserl".