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MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1942
With confidence in our armed
forces — with the unbounding de
termination of our people—we will
gain the inevitable triumph — so
help U3 God.
—Roosevelt’s War Message
Star-N ewsProgram
To aid in every way the prosecution of
the war to complete victory.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Seaside Highway from Wrlghtsvill*
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension of City Limits.
35-foot Cape Fear River channel,
wider Turning Basin, with ship lanes
Into industrial sites along Eastern bank
south of Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, via
Orton Plantation.
Development of Pulp V*- od Production
through sustained-yield methods through
out Southeastern North Carolina
Unified Industrial and Resort Promo
tion ti Agency, supported by one county
wide tax.
Shipyards and Drydocks.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate nospltal facilities for white.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouses for Export Buy
ers.
Development of native grape growing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
TOP O’ THE MORNING
He who wanders widest, lifts
No more of beauty’s jealous veil
"hen he who from his doorway sees
The miracle of flowers and trees.
—Whittier.
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More About Dieppe
Ever since the Commandos conducted their
spectacular raid on Dieppe there has been no
end to the news of that event. Claims and
counter-claims, human interest articles, stor
ies of individual and mass heroism, have
crowded the newspapers. And because the
raid itself was a daring undertaking and may
have set the pattern for other, even greater,
invasions of the Continent, the public has
taken all that has been offered and is still
asking for more. But little or nothing has
been written about the lay of the land and
the waters in the region.
The coast near Dieppe presents both favor
able and unfavorable physical conditions to '
invaders. Out of the English channel rise the 1
sheer, white cliffs of Normandy, here and '
there cut by river valleys. A rocky shelf, 1
dry at low tide, extends all along the Dieppe 1
coast, generally not more than 200 yards
wide. 1
To invasion forces, one disadvantage is that
the beach shores on which landings may be
made from small boats are often in the shad
ow of commanding bluffs, from which the
enemy could launch counter-attacks.
The whole northern coast of France is con
sidered dangerous for normal shipping be
cause of its many offshore rocks and shal
lows, its unequal depths, and its tricky cur
rents. On the other hand, hazards which are
known may turn out to be advantages in mili
tary operations where special craft may be
evolved to meet the necessities. The preval
ent fogs of the area, too, though feared by
peacetime® mariners, are today valuable for
protective cover. Toward the eastern end of
the English channel, where Dieppe is situated,
the fogs are so common, especially in sum
mer, that the land in some sections is almost
never clear of mist.
Dieppe itself has an extraordinary harbor.
The break in the chalk cliffs, made by the
estuary of the Arques river, takes the form
of a narrow entrance which leads first to an
outer, 16-acre harbor, and then' to the inner
port, the latter with an area of 10 acres.
Early Norman settlers named it Diep, because
of its deep, sheltered position.
The port has seen history made since
Homan times. It was an important French
naval base during the 17th-century wars
| against England, Si**in and the Netherlands
for control of the seas. In the late 1600 s. it
was bombarded by a British fleet, and dur
utg the Franco-Frussian War of lb70 it was
! occupied by the CiCJrmans.
Several miles west of the Dieppe entrance,
the little river valley in which the village of
[ Pourville is located, is the only point on this
'section of the coast which slopes to beach
level. East of Dieppe, the shore is again high
and steep, sharply cut by a number of small
streams.
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Situation In Orient
News comes out of Chungking which loses
none of its importance through the anony
mity of its source. We know only that the
authority is a “prominent Chinese strategist
,and competent observer of Japanese affairs."
He declares that Japan is in a position to
open a powerful offensive against Asiatic
Russia at a moment’s notice, and gives his
word for it that a German-Japanese agree
ment exists which calls for the Japanese to
attack the Soviet Union when Stalingrad falls
into German hands.
Japan has some thirty divisions in Man
churia, fully inplemented, according to this
authority. All preliminary arrangements are
complete. But they may not be carried out.
The attack on Siberia is subject to delay
or abandonment, according to the turn of
events in European Russia and also to the
way affairs shape up in India. Japan’s at
tention has been diverted to some extent from
Siberia to Indian with the aid of the sheeted
Gandhi.
This Chinese observer is of the opinion that
if Japan does not strike in Siberia before
September there will be no hostilities in that
area at least until next spring. The reason is
obvious. If winter overtakes the Nazis again
in European Russia and freezes Hitler’s
armies before they have won a decisive vic
tory, Japan would have launched a Siberian
campaign with little gain for its pains.
It would seem, then, that the holding of
Stalingrad until winter returns is a major
necessity, not only because the Russians
would still have a flank from which to harry
the foe but also because it would be a signal
to Japan to lay off in Asia’s far north.
As for an invasion of India, this Chinese i
strategist declares Japan is well prepared to
strike the first blow when she wishes. There
are five divisions of Japanese in Burma and
two in Malaya. With a tremendous force con
centrated in Manchuria, eight or ten divi
sions could well be spared for reinforcing
the armies in the south. Japan’s plans call
for no more than four divisions to start an
invasion of India and only twelve for its later
stages. If its estimates of the need are only
approximately accurate, it is obvious that the
campaign could be undertaken without mate
rially weakening the strength of its armies on
the Siberian border.
In any event, tlje Chinese strategist is
convinced that Japan will undertake no major
campaign this month, and that when one is
launched it will be governed by events in
India and in European Russia. There is a
distinct advantage for the Allies in this, if
his assumption is correct. The United Na
tions will have so much more time to pre
pare their Pacific offensive, which cannot be
safely delayed beyond the arrival of winter
in Europe.
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Paring Taxes
There has long been an earnest effort to re
duce the state, county and city tax burden so
that the taxpaying public may the better meet
the demands of federal taxation. Senator
Wiley of Wisconsin adds his voice to others
already heard in the crusade.
“Since the war is a national life-saving ef
fort,” he says, "every commonwealth should
take steps to reduce the tax load of its citi
zens, so they can better pay the federal tax,
which will be enormous.” And the senator
adds this practice “should be followed by coun
ties and cities—where feasible.”
It is not entirely plain in North Carolina
where substantial cuts can be made, consid
ering the sharp reduction in revenue from
gasoline taxes and the approaching slump in
auto license fees as automobiles have to be
taken out of service through collapse of their
tires.
But with a legislative session in the offing
it would be well for the members who will
then gather at Raleigh to spend some time
meanwhile in figuring ways and means to
offset this and additional reductions in pub
lic revenues without jeopardizing public serv
ices which must be at par even in wartimes.
How this city and New Hanover county
can pare their budgets is not apparent, but
neither the City Council nor the County Com
mission can afford to dismiss the matter out
of hand. As Senator Wiley says the federal
tax will be enormous: and, as he fails to
add, will grow even greater before the war
bill is paid.
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Brazil In War
It would seem that Germany deliberately set
out to draw Brazil into the war on the side
of the United Natiohs. The persistent sinking
of Brazilian ships, in view of the number, can
not have been the independent act of U-boat
commanders. There must have been some
order from Berlin to intensify the submarine
campaign off Brazil’s shores. With subsid
ance of ship sinkings in United States waters,
as a result of our intensified patrol and con
voy service, the Germans obviously deter
mined to turn to the next best target, re
gardless of the fact that the new campaign
was directed against a non-belligerent nation.
What Germany expects to gain is not wholly
apparent. It may be that tfie German war
plans definitely include invasion of this hemis
phere, for which Brazil is best situated geo
graphically. In this case, the Nazis would be
attempting a landing in an enemy country,
not in neutral territory. Even so, the time
now available to Brazil to prepare her' de
fenses will work against an enemy expedi
tionary force.
What Germany will lose by taking on an
other enemy people is easily understood. Bra
zil is a rich storehouse of raw materials,
which may now be tapped by the United Na
tions, particularly by the United States. Her
resources cannot fail to help solve some of
our war production problems, in which mate
rials are a vital factor.
Transportation to the United States will
figure in utilizing Brazil’s natural resources
for the United Nations war program, but it is
conceivable that the new system of patrol
and convoy, and an unnounced but efficient
further step in protecting shipping, will en
able us to move ships from Brazil to North
American ports with increasing success.
Whatever the reason* behind Germany’s ac
tion in driving Brazil into the war, the Axis
stands to lose more than it could possibly
gain. Brazil is indeed a welcome partner of
the nations arrayed against Hitler and his
scheme of world domination.
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Washington Daybook
By JACK STINNETT
WASHINGTON — These are strange days,
but none is stranger than that recently when
Bernard M. (for Mannes) Baruch, the 72
year-old patriarch of war production, was ap
pointed head of a three-man board to give
the public the lowdcwn on the rubber situa
tion.
Baruch has been in and out of the war pic
ture for 25 years. He has bounced around in
so many government advisory jobs that his
latest appointment as chairman of the rubber
commission is something of a laugh.
But don’t toss it off so easily. There are,
in Washington, two schools of thought about
Baruch’s new job as chief of the B-C-C com
mittee (B for Baruch; C for Dr. James B.
Conant, president of Harvard; and C for Dr.
Karl Compton, president of Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology).
One school leans to the idea that the com
mission was appointed merely to give prestige
to the coming orders on conservation of rub
ber (mileage control, rationing, etc.). The
other claims that Baruch and his associates
form the only team in the country that can
straighten out the rubber muddle.
Take it any way you like,' the phenomenon is
“Berny” Baruch. There is no more spine
tingling sight in Washington today than to
see this gaunt, white-haired old man holding
his conferences on a bemch in Lafayette
Square. It’s just across the street from the
White House, but that isn’t nearly as impor
tant as the fact that it’s just across the street
from Baruch’s hotel.
He likes the outdoors. When he’s in New
York he hardly ever misses a day tramping
around the reservoir in Central Park. When
he’s at “Hobcaw,” his South Carolina plan
tation, he hunts, fishes, rides horseback. In
Washington, Lafayette Square is about as far
away as he can get from the center of ac
tivity that is his hotel suite.
Baruch brings into the muddled rubber pic
ture an even more muddled political and
social personality. He never has objected to
being called a gambler and the fortunes he
has won and lost on Wall Street make it a
deserving title. (But he won’t play bridge for
more than nominal stakes.) He has been dub
bed “advisor to the Presidents” and indeed
he has been. (But he has backed more wrong
men than anybody in the national picture to
day—A1 Smith for nomination and election,
and Governor Ritchie for the nomination
against Roosevelt, to mention only two.)
In spite of the fact that he has been identi
fied with Wall Street most of his life, he prob
ably fought longer and harder than any one
man to take the profit out of war. For 20
years or so, he battled for agricultural re
forms and his farm plan, with considerable
variations, was the basis for the New Deal
agricultural aid program.
Out of his World War activities as chief of
the War Industries Board and later investiga
tions came the M-Day industrial mobilization
plans which were forerunners of our present
conversion to all-out war and incidentally the
basis for Nazi war industrialization.
He has been a vigorous proponent of over
all price, rent and wage controls and has fre
quently expressed his dissatisfaction with the
half-way measures of our present anti-infla
tion program.
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Quotations
We must form here (in England) the best
army the United States has ever put into the
field if we are to perform our future tasks
successfully.—Lieut.-Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower, commanding U. S. Army forces in
European theater.
* * *
I was repeatedly forced to sit down Japa
nese fashion on the floor and was beaten for
hours with rubber hose and leather belting.
—D. Edward Hugher Miller, American citi
zen held by Japs.
* * *
When the proper time comes, I am sure our
President and England's premier will give
the word to advance, but in the meantime
let us refrain from doing anything which might
force their hands. — Gov. Herbert Lehman,
New York.
* * *
They will have to turn combat planes out
faster than I can use them. I must have
enough airplanes to win this war.—Lieut.
Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commanding general,
U. S. Air Forces.
* * *
There is a priority on time these days,
just as on everything else.—Dr. Erwin Ad
man, Columbia professor.
* • *
It is not good for the public to feel that
■ all the glorious work toward winning this
■ war—and toward winning the peace which
' will follow—is performed by the men in uni
: form. — Daniel L. Marsh, president Boston
! University.
• * * *
As long as we have surface navies the
’ causes 1jhat brought about the battleship will
■ bring it back again. It may be a different
. type, but it will still be a battleship.—Ad
. miral Arthur J. Hepburn, U. S. Navy.
* * *
1 When victory comes we shall stand shoulder
. to shoulder in seeking to nourish the great
. ideals for which we fight. It is a worth
while battle.—Prime Minister Winston Church
r ill, to President Roosevelt. I
JUST A SAMPLE
Civilian Defense
Timetable
BASIC TRAINING COURSES
High school room 109 at 8 p. m.
Fire Defense A: Every Monday
General Course: Every Tuesday.
Gas Defense B: Every Wednes
day.
FIRT AID 10 HOURS
High School Gymnasium at 8 p.
m.
A special course for messengers
will begin in about 2 weeks.
First lesson: Every Monday.
Second lesson: Every Tuesday.
Third lesson: Every Wednesday.
Fourth lesson: Every Thursday
Final lesson: Every Friday.
FIRST AID 20 HOURS
Begins Wednesday, August 26.
Grand Jury Room, Court House, at
9 p. m.
(SPECIAL COURSES
Fire Defense B: Every Thurs
day, Fire Dept., 4th and Dock
Sts.
Police Course: Every Thursday,
High School room 109, at 8 p. m. ’
TRAINING COURSES
(Colored)
All classes begin at 8 p. m.
First Aid: 10 hours, Wednesday
and Friday nights, at Gregory
Community church, 7th and Nun
Sts.
Gas Defense B: Monday, August
24, Gregory Communitl church,
7th and Nun Sts.
—
If you hear or observe anything
suspicious in character report it
promptly to:
Wilmington Police, 5244.
Wrightsville Beach Police, 7504.
Carolina Beach Police, 2001.
Captain of the Port, 2-2278.
County Defense Council, 3123.
Sheriff, 4252.
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As Others Say It
TWO OF A KIND
It was iit Wisconsin that an ab
sent-minded professor said to the
plumber who had forgotten his
tools. “That’s all right, my good
man. I’ve forgotten what I wanted
you for.”—Detroit News.
Raymond Clapper Says:
Political Rallies Needed
To Continue Democracy
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
NEW YORK, Aug. 23—It wasn’t a
bad thing to knock off from cover
ing Washington and get back into
political reporting for a few days
this week.
You say this is no time for poli
tics. That’s the way I felt when
I walked into the Democratic State
Convention in Brooklyn. Several
thousand people pulling at each
othre in that convention holl didn’t
make much sense to me. It was
revolting at first to see men and
women — on the day that Allied
troops were being cut to pieces
making a landing in France—
marching around the convention
hall yelling for Bennett or Mead.
The whole scene seemed incongru
ous, so out of place in a time like
this, such a waste of energy over
affairs that are trival by compari
son with the job the nation is en
gaged in now, that I was about to
write something along that line.
But I am glad I didn’t. It was
a ridiculous performance in one
way—just as all political conven
tions make an absurd circus out
of the process of self-government.
Yet we always do it that way in
America. And having always done
it that way perhaps there was some
point in going through the usual
routine again at this particular
time.
We can’t have politics as usual
now any more than we can have
anything as usual. But I’m not
so sure the country would benefit
by suspending this sort of thing.
We shall lose a lot of things before
this war is over. We are losing
them of necessity now. But one
thing we must cling to'as the key
to restoration of other things that
are being suspended now—that is
the habit of self-government.
We cannot exercise self-govern
ment as freely as in normal times.
We must accept many restrictions
that we do not like because the
government at Washington consid
ers them necessary. It cannot be
i any other way if we are to win the
war. A politician who tries to get
elected by slyly leading his con
stituents to think he will help them
escape from the hard denials of
wartime is a dishonest politician
who is doing harm to the country.
But there is something to be gain
ed by continuing the forms of self
government, even though a good
deal of the substance has had to be
taken out of it for the time being.
In this Democratic state conven
tion here, the delegates exercised
their right of self-government to a
high degree. They nominated their
candidate for governor in a vote
which went against the President
and his political associates. They
did it knowing that their names
would go on the list that could be
used for future reprisals. Noth
ing much was involved as between
the two candidates themselves.
Both Bennett and Mead are ordi
nary average public men. One
would make about as good a gov
ernor as the other. Yet a majority
of the delegates had given their
pledge to vote for Bennett. Thy
carried out those pledges even
though it meant defying President
Roosevelt.
The nomination of Bennett in
stead of Mead won’t nave any great
effect on the course of history. But
the fact that American citizens
are still able to carry through the
forms of independent political ac
tion may mean a great deal. If
this war runs for several years,
as it is very likely to do, all of
us will find our lives and freedom
of action increasingly circumscrib
ed. Before long a man probably
will work at the job the govern
ment order, not a job of his own
choosing.
The government is drafting hu
man lives to win this war and it
will draft anything else it needs
to win this war, as it should We
can endure that without qualms
about t-'io future of self-government
if at the same time we are able
to preserve the institutions of lo
cal self-government out of which
our free way of life grew. Be
cause out of that can come, at
the appropriate time, .the restora
tion of self-government on the larg
er scale.
So perhaps this sweating, noisy,
bellowing convention, with its ri
diculous placards and its d
meaningless oratory, was—for all
of its seeming inappropriateness—
serving in effect to preserve that
one precious thing which is the
marrow of America. I don’t want
to make too much of the point but
I think there is something in it.
Factographs
The catcher’s mask worn in
baseball is a carry-over from the
much older sport of fencing. The
first mask was used in 1877, and
was regarded with deep suspicion
by early backstops, who treasured
each bruise they received in a
game.
* » *
The British income tax system
is 100 years old today. Wonder
how many folks accepted invita
tions to the birthday party?
* * *
Natives of New Guinea catch
birds of paradise during their
early morning "choruses to the
sun, which they perform at sun
rise The natives shoot and stun
the birds with blunt arrows 1
The Literary Guidepost
BY JOHN SELBY
“Nearer The .Earth,“ by
Beatrice Borst (Random
House; $2.50).
The Avery Hopwood Awards at
the University of Michigan have
turned up some very good talents,
and not the least of these is Be
atrice Borst, who won the compe
tition last year with a novel she
calls “Nearer the Eearth.” This
if, "° such book as was Maritta
Wolff’s “Whistle Stop” _ that
brutal performance was one of
the best novfels of its season, or
any other season. Miss Borst is
not trying to shock or to sear or
^ny of the other things that
Whistle Stop” did.
What she does want to do is to
show the slow maturing of a well
born girl. “Nearer the Earth” has
its tense moments, but for the
most part it is a smoth and gen
teel narrative without horrendous
features. The writing matches the
purpose of the book; it is finished
and quiet and usually sensitive.
It centers mostly about a girl
named Karen whose father is a
successful mining man in a small
city where his wealth marks him
among men, and marks his fami
ly as well. The Greenwalds have
KarenSe ^ ™atch their Position
Karen and her sister Roberta
have their governess and there
are plenty of servants about all
the time. Karen is the younger of
the girls; she is also the least dis
tinguished. Roberta is wilful, it
is true but at least she has a cer
tain of color and isn’t quite so
much of a mama’s darling.
For a great many pages the
reader is carried along on the
smoth flow of the Greenwald
family life. It is a pleasant—al
though he may wonder how it
happens that the girls play baby
games so long. It is interesting,
but there is the strange fact, tfcat
Mr. Greenwald, who is presum
ably a very fine business man
does not protect his family with
insurance. And even when Mr.
Greenwald died unexpectedly the
changed circumstances do not at
once smother the family in pov
erty. Miss Borst is too shrewd to
allow that to happen.
But gradually things do change
and since that is the point of the
book it would serve no purpose
to explain it all here. Karen does
grow up, mentally and sexually
and in all other ways. Traedy
^ c°me- eventually; the world
does change; life does continue i*
spite of it all. The Greenwald girls
mirror everything, and there is
book"d ° another Avery Hopwood
Interpreting
The War
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWfd
(Wide World War Anahcn’
The Japanese have bee- f
more or less defensively
and a half months nov': r ,t*°
they swing over to a strong
sive soon, one may well
their inactivity since the hvn:
Midway in June. ‘‘le ol
The trouble certainly is no, „
they lack military and"naval L“11
to strike. They have the *ei
equipment to attack Siberia w
if they want to do so. Thev f'1'
the ships and troops to rrat '
other thrust at India.
Hawaii, Alaska or any of w3'
lands guarding the u" s.-A-li'
ian supply line.
And until now they have has* I
will to fight always on the 0«» '
sive. Belief m the attack has hi'
their basic military tenet. ' 5
Two months ago—even two
three weeks ago—any well-inf,
ed military man would have laV
small wager that by this time**.!
Japs would have pitched into th
Red armies in Siberia. One of
Tokyo’s traditional military aw
has been to remove the threat of
the maritime provinces from -n
Japanese homeland. Vladivostok
is within easy bombing distance d
Japan.
Now military men are savin-,
that perhaps this very danger cj
bombing has made Tokyo caution;'
Significantly related to the inactiv.
ity in Siberia is the fact that i
about four or five weeks the
weather will make any militari
operations there virtually impoi
sible; so if the Japanese intend to
act they must act quickly.
Only a few days ago reports
came out of Australia and New
Zealand that the enemy was be
lieved to be marshalling a con
siderable naval force to smash the
American armada in the Southwest
Pacific and isolate the Marines in
the Solomon Islands. But the Ma
rines in the Solomons are still there
and their supplies are still going
through.
It may be, of course, that as a
matter of cold realism the Japs
r.ese admirals have learned not to
plunge headlong into action with
the full force of Allied might in the
Pacific. Since early spring they
have lost war and cargo snips
heavily at Lae and Salamaua, New
Guinea; at Tulagi; Solomon Is
lands; at Midway Island: and it
Kiska Island, in the Aleutians.
The Tokyo warlords made good
their c9n.que.st of Burma, but
pulled back closer home the am
phibious forces which threatened
India after Brig. Gen. James Doo
little and his bomber squadron
proved that Tokyo was not isolated
from attack.
More recently they started a
campaign to secure their cities
against attack from the Chinese
mainland, but soon afterward
American air forces in China went
into action against Japan's con
tinental bases. And today’s news
from Chungking is that Chinese
forces, counter-attacking, have ad
vanced well into Chekiang and
Kiungsi provinces to throw the
Japs’ war machine into reverse.
It seems to be generally accept
ed among American experts on the
subject that the Japanese are cap
able of desperate action when a
situation demands desperation.
They have squandered masses of
men in China and they lost untold
thousands in the Philippines cam
paign.
They can replace their slain sol
diers with new recruits. But the
ships they -ose in sea battles an
any factories they lose by aer.a
bombardment cannot be quickly i -
placed. ,
Perhaps this has taught them
think twice before plunging m
some costly new adventure, u a,'
when they attack again it n™51
with full- realization of the co.i
they will have to pay.
I Is That_So!
A Mediterranean island suddenly
appeared above the su‘*ce,, t
disappeared, just as rapid y
have read about that wha
A. F. flyer bombed. rmsta»nD ••
for a U-boat.
* * *
For the fourth straight year -
looks as though Mussolini
clinched the title of the •_
most outstanding minor leag '
* * * -est
Thieves stole a furnace in *
ern town. This answers •
tion, which no one asked.
is a cold stove hot.
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The American gambling
of “Bingo” is called "Lotto ■
gasque.” There’s a game m "
a fast talker, finishing secor..
still win the first prize,
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A most pitiable f‘Sur£^e: |
Grandpappy Jenkins, is a*
playing a $100,000 golf cd- I
looking like 30 cents. j
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It’s items like these ■ jjjy
Dad satisfied with b '
afternoon lawn mower ^
Grass in the Florida =
grows to a height Srea:
six feet.
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be
The ant-eater is said to t0
of the most difficult anlir' :t
kill. Its hard protective "' a
too tough to be pierced may
knife, and although its sk ‘ ejj
be battered, the animal is
stunned.
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A girl intellectual, moans
dock Dumkopf, is often /.'
grammarous than glamorous
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Stage your picnics in V°ut
backyard wo are advised
adds Grandpappy Jenkins- j
the home-talent ants and
ers one of their own ton