Way Back When ? ?
f IN EN "dusters" were con
sidered ' the thing** and
were worn by nearly everyone.
rulletl the />/iow>*:r<i/?/? (a
little hot i< ith u lur$c horn motmted
im it I u "htlkinn machine."
The auto gas tank was under
the front seat cushion.
A census of toothbrushes in
the average town of 5.000 peo
ple would not have required
numbers going beyond the unit
column.
.?Ill of u? uore uriulet$ (knitted
by urandma ? in the u inter.
Hitching posts were essential
features of every "parking lot."
Churches had a tuning fork
to set the pitch for hymns.
TIP? -
vjardeners
GARDENING AS HOBBY
^'ARDENING as a hobby can
be made to pay excellent div
idends. As ar. example, a Mis
souri woman reports she made a
net profit of $300 from her two
thirds-acre garden in a single sea
son. Figured at market prices,
food used fresh was S230; food
canned, $80; and food stored, $71.
Seed and sets cost her only $20.
There are two major requisites
to obtaining garden profits of this
kind. They are, willingness to
work and the use of quality seed.
It is important also to devote
considerable space to multiple pur
pose crops like beets, onions, and
tomatoes ? crops that can be used
in a variety of ways
Here, briefly, are the uses of
principal multi-purpose crops: On
ions ? green, as relish; mature
bulbs fried, stewed, or as season
ing: bulbs for pickle, and relish
making; tops for seasoning; bulbs
for storage. Tomatoes ? fresh
fruits for slicing or stewing, for
immediate table use; for canning,
or for making tomato juice, or to
mato catsup; green tomatoes for
frying, or for use in pickle rel
ishes, or in pie filler (like mince
meat) ; yellow fruits for preserves,
juice, or immediate tabic use.
Cabbage ? fresh in slaw, or sal
ad; cooked for table use; canned
as kraut, or stored. Beets ? tops
for greens: roots cooked fresh,
canned, pickled, or stored.
QUINTUPLETS
use MUSTEROLE for
CHEST COLDS
Mother? Give Your CHILD
This Same Expert Care!
At the first sign of the Dionne Quin
tuplets catching cold ? their chests and
throats are rubbed "with Children's
Mild ^fcisterole ? a product made to
promptly relieve the DISTRESS of
children's colds and resulting coughs.
The Quints have always had the
best of care, so mother ? you may be
assured of using ju3t about the BEST
product made when you use Musterole.
MORE than an ordinary "salve" ?
warming, soothing Mustercle helps
break up local congestion. Also made
in Regular and Extra Strength for
those preferring a stronger product.
Light for All
Those having lamps will pass
them on to others. ? Plato.
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? ADVERTISING
represents the leadership of
a nation. It points the way.
We merely follow ? follow to
new heights of comfort, of
convenience, of happiness.
As time goes on advertis
ing is used more and more,
and as it is used more we
all profit more. It's the way
advertising has ?
of bringing a profit to
everybody concerned,
the consumer included
Washington. D. C.
GUNPOWDER EMERGENCY
In the public mind America's Na
tional Defense Problem No. 1 is pro
duction of airplanes. Actually, how
ever, it isn't.
War department chiefs haven't
been advertising it, but their great
est worry is gunpowder. You can't
fight a war without powder. And
up until recently the annual powder
production of all U. S. factories was
only 12,000,000 pounds, which would
last us a few short weeks in war
time.
In comparison, the United States
produced 5GC,GuC.uOG puuuua of pew
der at the end of the last war, and
had partially built factories which
would have produced another 500,
000,000 pounds a few months after
the Armistice.
It happens that nitrate is the key
to gunpowder production. Manufac
ture of powder is a simple and
speedy process. But it is made from
explosive ritrate, and nitrate pro
duction is far more difficult.
There are two kinds of nitrates,
natural and synthetic. Major source
of the natural is Chile. But it has
two big drawbacks: (1) the desper
ate shipping shortage; (2) the prod
uct's inferiority to synthetic nitrate
for powder purposes, although good
enough for fertilizer. Use of syn
thetic nitrate for explosives is far
more efficient, less expensive and
militarily more desirable.
In the United States there are only
two big producers of synthetic ex
plosive nitrate ? Allied Chemical and
Dye corporation, at its giant Hope
well, Va., plant; and duPont.
First hitch was objection to the
government's plan of i nporting Chil
ean nitrate, thus permitting Allied
Chemical's Hopewell plant to stop
making fertilizer and devote its en
tire capacity to explosive nitrates, if !
necessary.
The chemical industry fell on this :
plan like a ton of brick. Backed by
certain army officials, it hotly de
nied that the nation faced a nitrate
shortage. Hopewell's full facilities,
it was argued, would not be needed
for powder purposes.
The defense commission then
i turned to developing new plant fa
: cilitics. Here good fortune seemed
to smile. TVA still had its World
war nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals.
When the defense commission
moved to use this government-owned
j plant, it again ran into powerful op
position from big business, particu
I larly from the duPonts, tactitly en
j couraged by the army. However,
j weeks later, the defense commis
sion finally had its way and the plan
was approved. Defeated, the du
Ponts did the sporting thing and of
fered to sell TVA latest types of
j oxidizers, thus expediting renova
tion of the Muscle Shoals plant.
TVA and defense commission
heads were delighted. But their
pleasure ? and duPont's willingness
?was short-lived. When it came to
installing the machinery, duPont de
manded a guarantee that it would be
used only to produce explosive ni
trate and never fertilizer, in which
duPont is heavily interested.
This was rejected flatly by TVA,
which pointed out that even if it
wanted to, it couldn't accept such a
restriction under the law. Further
more, it didn't want to.
DuPont remained adamant, re
fused to lend its machinery without
the guarantee. So TVA had to go
into the market, order new ma
chinery for the government.
NO MORE HARDTACK
Hard tack, that celebrated butt of
doughboy jibes, will be largely elim
inated from army field rations if
Donald M. Nelson, energetic co
ordinator of defense purahases, has
his way.
Nelson has worked out a novel
scheme to make U. S. army fit-id
rations the best in the world.
The defense purchasing chief and
his aides have discovered a substi
tute ? canned, irradiated bread.
Large quantities of this have been
ordered for the army. Hermet
ically sealed in small tins, suitable
for carrying in a knapsack, the
bread will remain fresh indefinitely.
In addition, every soldier in the
field will carry a second tin of a meat
and vegetable mixture containing all
the essential vitamins. The two
cans together will give him a bal
anced diet away from camp.
? ? *
EAST INDIES OIL
The Dutch Shell Oil company has
secretely planted with "sleeper"
mines, which can be detonated at a
moment's notice if the Japanese
set foot on the island. In that case
millions of dollars worth of hold
j ines will be blown up or fired.
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. Ll'N 1>QU 1ST. D. O.
Dean of The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
tReleased by Western Newspaper Union.*
Lesson for March 16
Lesson subjeets and Scripture tests se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education: used by
permission
THE LORD'S SUPPER
LESSON TEXT? Luke 22:14-30.
GOLDEN TEXT ? As often as ye eat this
bread, and drink this cup. ye do show the
Lord's death till he come.? I Corinthians
11:26.
The Passover least had (since
that great and awful night of Israel's
redemption out of Egypt's bondage)
pointed forward to the Christ ana
His cross as the fulfillment of the
[ype of redemption by the shedding
jf blood. But now the hour had
:ome for Him to give Himself in
death, and He set aside the Pass
aver (because it has been fulfilled)
to establish the great Christian
feast of remembrance ? the Lord's
table, showing forth His death till
He come.
I. The Last Passover ( vv. 14-18).
Our Lord looked forward with in
tense desire to the Passover which
He now observed with His disciples,
for it was the last feast of that kind
recognized by God. All that it had
foreshadowed of deliverance and
hope was fulfilled in Him who now
sat at the head of the table. He
had moved forward with resolute
purpose and desire to the day when
His mission on earth was to be ac
complished, and He was to become
our Passover (I Cor. 5:7).
The fact that He had looked for
ward to it with desire does not in
any sense minimize the deep dark
ness of either Gethsemane or Cal
vary. Remember that, when in the
garden he faced that hour and
thought of the possibility of the cup
being taken from Him, He said 'o
the Father, "Not what I will, but
what thou wilt." Praying concern
ing the same matter (in John 12:
27), He said, "Now is my soul
troubled; and what shall I say? Fa
ther, save me from this hour: but
for this cause came I unto this
hour."
II. The First Communion (vv. 19,
20).
Taking the unleavened bread and
the unfermented wine of the Pass
over, which had *ust been observed
by Him for i'ne iast time, .lesus es
tablished a new feast, the Christian
feast of remembrance, which we call
communion or the Lord's table.
As we have already suggested, it
is a feast of remembrance. "For
as often as ye eat this bread, and
drink this cup ye do show the Lord's
death till he come" (I Cor. 11:26).
At the' Lord's table His followers find
spiritual strength in remembering
His death for them, and they elso
ft id joy as they remember that He
is to come again. In doing so they
testify to the world that they be
lieve in and cherish these truths.
This feast is also rightly called
"communion," for down through the
ages and until He does come the
saints of God have at His table sweet
communion, first of all with Him.
and then with one another.
We also note that our Lord spoke
of the cup as "my blood of the new
testament." The word 'testament"
means "covenant." The Lord's ta
ble therefore speaks of our alle
giance to Him, of our loyalty to our
Lord, and devotion to His service.
III. Betrayal and Strife (vv 21
30).
Someone will say. "That point
does not belong with the other two.
Both the feast of the Passover and
the Lord's Supper are for the joyful
remembrance of deliverance and re
demption." The objection is well
taken except for one thing? we are
dealing with human beings as they
are. not as they should be and could
be by the grace of God.
Here in the inner circle of the
twelve there was one traitor. It
seems impossible, but apparently
Judas had maintained such outward
conduct as to turn no suspicion in
his direction, even though all along
he had in his heart the blackest of
treachery against his Lord. It is a
sad and soul-searching fact which
is here revealed, that it is possible
for one to make a high profession
of faith in Christ and even so to live
as to give no c?use for criticism,
and yet to be unregenerate and in
fact the enemy of Christ.
What about the strife regarding
position? Shame on us, for it still
goes on in the church. Not even
the remembrance of our Lord's
death and the reminder that He is
coming again is enough to keep men
from wanting to be greatest.
May the spirit of Christ get Isold
of some self-seeking Christian as he
today sees Christ as the One whose
body was broken and whose blood
was shed for him.
F OS ANGELES. ? The original
^ purpose of spring training trips
from the snow banks of the North
into the sun of the South was to get
a ball club in con
dition for 154 cham
pionship games in
daily battles for
nearly six months.
In the last few
years that original
purpose has been
changed ? and sadly
warped in the
changing. The main
purpose today is to
pay expenses
through an extend
ed and extensive ex
Grulluri Rica
hibition schedule that is beginning to
run beyond all reason.
?."W2lei! winter comes," as the late
Mr Shelley remarked, "can sprint
be tar behind?" Well, "the hounds
of spring are on winter's traces,"
and the hour of the sunland march
re "gain. Not so nvich to con
dition ball clubs, but to play from 35
to 50 exhibition games before the
reason opens ? exhibition trips that
cover thousand of miles; one-night
jumps; different types of playing
fields, m shape or out of shape; and
changing weather conditions that
are none too helpful.
TKTa^i \? ,^e baU Pla>'ors about this.
They 11 tell you. Especially the old
timers who are working to get
fading arms and fading legs ready
for the long haul on ahead. They
are none too keen about the cold
i" a,nd the rains of late March
and early April that insist upon ap
pearing year after year above the
deep southern belt.
Another Angle
i y?", f?cce a dai'y competitive
schedule of 154 games, one of the
Tii* andicaps ahead is staleness.
The big drive usually comes in
August and early September. But in
b^i Ti?,hy cases ba" pIayers and
time TK,vaihe W?!? down at ">at
"me. They have been hammering
way at exhibition or championship
games since early March
"1 k?ow." Babe Ruth told me "I
oi?d for thVe had 3 much better rec"
rnd for the pennant season if I hadn't
?h?hvrCCd tG Play * s? ?ny
trf nU. games- In my time I had
to play in over 600 exhibiticn con
tests. largely on the way north. That
means four full seasons, where you
were supposed to give all you had
I know I always did. I bel^ve 20
games are all any club should play
before the big show opens." *
John McGraw told me the simn
^lVentvme time uefore he died.
Twenty games are just about
ST? he said' "before you open
ny big league schedule. That still
ritre'tch."6 than 170 ba" Kames *
games u!ant1h'Pltyed many more
games than this because of the ex
hibition money involved. McGraw
was thinking at the time of condi
tioning a ball club for a pennant
rfce~to have a team ready fir the
sSKamsu-s
UkZVbSfg eonhibiti?n SCheduIe is
Ty Cobb's Example
Ty c,?bb thinks along the same
lines. In talking to Tv art "J J ,
a?o the citizen It Menlo Park SaW
The best thing a ball player c&n do
eHhlrPby tT thr?Ugh the
?ng exhibi,?orLa1onesVefdro^ ^
cry 'earn 6?y ?
gami, are Entirely too'rnany"'1'0"
by wMktaV,^7, bT worki"* them
to7 tel? me I'd ?* Xh<7
>t least I trleTO&ffi#- ??
?"d } managed to last 24 year. H
',ba.d.n 1 Practically lived on my leg,
a" the year around I would h,!
dropped out long before I d,d -
Best Pitchers
of^lftimt^hh6. ^,ea,tCSt Pitchers
f- Walsh heads ^ tha?
five-year stretch. 0r any
markabfe/'" Ty "says y"i" re"
year when he won '40 game,
saved at least 10 or 12 ?!!?,
worked in 66 games thi? e
Even a Walsh could not keep^D
M chance "o^keen !T*' SO he had
Pitchers as
exander and others," he aSJed
Queer Oaths
Three Indian women who were
witnesses in a case at Port Arthur
danced past the judge instead ot
taking the oath. This, according
to their religion, bound them to
speak the truth. If they then lied
they would incur the wrath o!
their ancestors. In British courts
Moslems swear on the Koran, and
Sikhs on the Bhagvad Gita, their
equivalent of the Bible.
When a Chinese takes the oath
he raises a saucer above his head
and smashes it to the floor, say
ing as the fragments fly: "If I
tell a lie, may my soul be shat
tered, like that saucer, into a thou
sand fragments."
at the first sign of a cold. m?*.
A up your mind to noli u
much of the miming, inmlng
soreneai and stuffy condition of
f8 P0881*1*- Insert
Menthols turn in each nostril . Also
rub It vigorously on your chest
You'll be delighted with the wsy
Mentholatum combats cold mis
ery and helps restore comfort
Who Is Rich?
He that is proud of riches is a
fool. For if he be exalted above
his neighbors because he hath
more gold, how much inferior is
he to a gold mine! ? Jeremy
Taylor.
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Wretched Minds
How wretched are the minds of
men. and how blind their under
standings. ? Lucretius.
Scornful Silence
Silence is th? most perfect ex
pression of scorn. ? George Ber
nard Shaw.
DON'T BE BOSSED
BY YOUR LAXATIVE-RELIEVE
CONSTIPATION THIS MODERN WAY
? When you feel gassy, headachy, logy
due to c'ogged-up bowels, do as million*
do? take Feer.-A-Mint at bedtime. Next
morning ? thorough, comfortable relief,
helping you start the day full of your
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million! Feen-A-Mint doesn't disturb
your night's rest or interfere with work the
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gum laxative, yotxrwclT. It tastes good, it ?
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FEEN-A-MINT To#
You can depend on the spe
cial sales the merchants of
our town announce in the
columnsof this paper. They
mean money saving to our
readers. It always pays to
patronize the merchants
who advertise. They are
not afraid of their mer
chandise or their prices.