CHAPTER r\VKNTY-FIVE ANNE STOOD silently on the wfiart ami took a deep r (. qer rigarel, then bit w out the smoke slowly. You I. : t know i «■ mlieil, did you'’ sli 11;. P.usseli. 1 rave it up for I'albot - as I gave up other things lonigh’ is ‘he first tune I danced I used lore to dance Now yon can lecture me on both mv bad habits t 'I an." •^he sat down on a pile that was Just tall enough tu.ss.ll seemed very tall he stood in front of | er Sh> cm.M si.e past him to a house or "the island" that was all lighted up Hi’ .|* hr.-t/e ouehed her '’ah as ’he laughed, laving: "Don't you know just how to he el n “No. I don't ” “Hut you wi re shocked when you saw i was kissed tiy Dan. weren’t • ou ?'' He took her land “Anne, Pm serious ” “3o am I ” She drew away and made a gesture with hei cigaret "If I feel like kissing your hrothei there is no r. asun whv ! shouldn't I'm quite fond of him And he car be verv charming when he want; to be He was tonight Also I must be going back as I h ft he front door unlocked Die f it —.an 1 just met on the street might be a bur glar '■ She stood up and snapped hei cigaret a wav It didn't taste good She hail gotten out of ttie habit o smoking It belonged to anothei period of her life Smoking wen' with Dwight Dwight was dead anc buried as far as she was concerned He had been like the arc of flami the cigaret drew pahlv in th< moonlight before it hissed out h the water On the bottom it niigh be rubbled a. by a crab .ho wouh fiad it inedible. Hassell took her arm and the began to walk off the pier. She hai never known him lo be so silen and uncertain of himself. She rath er liked that, as she had enjoyei Dwight Raynor's confusion in the lobby of the hotel. “I want to talk ab-.it Dan,” he •a:d suddenly. She laughed very softly. “1 dare say you warned him about me. loo." "No. i didn't talk to him. I tried to go to bed but l couldn't sleep." “As had as that? I'm sorry. Weie you thinking of me?” “Ye.s, Anne.” Something .n his voire made her stop smiling. She looked up at him quickly. "It CO Noah Numskull _ &QSH 1 DoHJ yNOVJ whE^ my next Yacht ComiN6 please !; help DEAD NOAH= ARE CONTROLLED PRICES UNPOPULAR WITH THE PROFITEERS because theyyanV make "cents' ? IBVW WAYAJE FT WAYNE,'Nt> DEAR. NOAH^IS a WAFFLE: •JUST A PANCAKE THAT HAS BEEN EE TREADED? NILES -JOMFS, SAMPiECO, CAL L'lltribklad Oy K.i.g FitCiil bji.Jivilc Lk Noah Numskull NEW//AtA!A€R and ,y 0 PAYS and Y£>P, „ DEAR MOAH= ISN'T U TRUE THE^BAD BRAKES"ARE THE ONLY BREAKS THAT MAKE THE AUTO MECHANIC HAPPY c MRS M M-WEBSTER _TOLEDO* O' DEAR NOAH' DO ONE ARM PAPER MANGERS WORK FOR HALF PRICE? EMILY MAY PATTER SQM DULUTM/MINM — Cmlnl LjtfJ I, Kin| l->,!■■'•• fr>T-d • ■ ’* I’" _ ■**★***★*★ + * + ltt IbaN of w astir paper will make 1,911 cartons con taining ten car trtdfes for inflat llf life boata. Save mat* papar! " AMERICA, WHAT NOW? 1 FEDERAL Tax Revenue Lm - LJi.kUM-. rail-ill —mmmmm mmmm-m . i. rnju-wiwu ■■ ■ ■ ■ | n f During 19-13, American business not only won the battle on the production front but it stlso paid into the federal treasury almost half of the taxes collected by the federal government. Total federal tax receipts for the fiscal year ending on June 30, 1943, amounted to a little more than £33.5 billion, of vhirh aim. - t £10 billic-u was collected from business in c -rporati-.n ir. on- and excess profits taxes. The federal government received £0 £< billion in personal income taxes from individuals, not including payioil taxes deducted for social security, which amounted to an additional £1.3 billion. The combined revenue from liquor, tobacco, excise, estate and gift taxes, us well as from miscellaneous taxes, totaled approximately £4.5 billion. High income taxes on business and individuals may he excusable when national income is at peak levels but they would a-t as a brake on the economy in the postwar era, preventing the mainti nance of high employment. NELSON MEETS STILWELL IN CHINA « . 4 . \wpr rmirmnn Donald M. PCclson is sliowii °^lEAVUh G^n Joseph C.Iuiwell, head of the American forces in tha talking with Gen Jos P the lattel,s headquarters. Nelson is on a JJSSlSS to W U. S. Signal Corps Kadiophoto. (InUrnatumott. Wisdom Teeth Useless By LOGAN CLKNDKNI\G, Ml). THK SMALLKST ana of the human i.nme which has created tor it-ell a medical specially is the third molai tooth—or wisdom tooth. Comparatively the special ties of the eye or the ear and throat covet- huge areas, because Hr. Clendening will answer questions of general interest only, and then only through his column. both eye and ear specialists have to know a great deal about the brain, and he ides the functions with which they deal, seeing and hearing are most intimately asso ciated with human personality and happiness. Hut the wisdom beeth in spit.' of the name given them have nothing to do with wis dom or personality or brain func tion. They rate a specially simply and ahute on account of their all tiled inherent cussedness. Wisdom teeth are really ves tigial structures, hut they don't know it. We don't need them, but they insist on climbing aboard and only too otten, like extra passen gers generally, they make trouble. Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1 think it was, said that we are each like an omnibus in which all of our an cestors are riding and every once in a while one of them sticks his head out of a window and embar rasses us. Bo with these vestigial structures--the appendix and pos sibly the tonsils are other exam ples, of value only to undertakers and surgeons. They are as out of date as dodo birds and fascists. A hundred thousand years from How wisdom teeth may be really vestigial, like human tails. As a matter of common sense I am sorry that evolution took the turn it did and made tails completely vesti gial structures. I was wrapping and tying a package the other day and a tail would have been very useful—to bold down the knots. Semi-vestigial Third Molars The third molars, upper and lower, are semi-vestigial because the jaw of modern man is not big enough for them. Our ancestors, the cave man or pitlieeanthopus, made good use of them. He had a large prognathic jaw and he pr«.li atily cracked open hones with his teeth to get the marrow -,i he needed hie heavy ones. But in this day and age of the receding dun they are pure trouble. They insist on coming in to the picture after all the oilier teeth are in place and a fellow is all comfortably set. for life. At the age id wisdoin, a* some i \ nil -.op posed when he nicknamed them. They don't even begin to calcify in the jaw until the age of eight to ten years, while the lii-t pei ma llei. t molars are ealcilied at birth. And they don’t try to push up into place up til somewhere between the seventeenth and thirtieth year. Often Imparted Besides this they often get laid down sideways and when they start to grow they push against the roots of the other teeth and get impacted. They may grow out in any direction. One specimen shown in the rooms of the London dental society blithely came out on the outside just beneath the angle of the jaw. In performing these gyrations they make all sorts of trouble. People at the age of "wisdom" who have neuralgia in either upper or lower jaws should think of an uii erupted third molar as the cause. They may do even worse things. Upson records patients who had insomnia, melancholy and serious nervous disorders. Lyons reported four patients with epilepsy wh OSti seizures entirely cleared up after removal id’ impacted, unerupted third molars. The X-ray has really put the science of third molar surgery on the map, because with it the exact position and condition of the teeth can be seen. To treat the complicated cases really requires tlie services of an expert. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS D. E. A.:—Is it possible for a teen age child to get rid of asthma? Answer: Yes, when it begins young the child often outgrow. asthma, just as children outgrow infantile eczema, both diseases being caused in the same manner. scoff's SCRAP BOOK gy R J SCOTT rSCQAPS-, K THE OLD HOME TOWN - ■ ■ By STANLEY /now,now,otey,Calm U' M .C#' \Youj3SFlp its the i A'A': V W" _ ( FIRST BRUSH AMI' J ^ ~ > P° >B(?OOM SALK SMAM iVy~''H\ ^ . Aji^r [the: GIRLS HAVE.SEgNp S > K- ■ \ ’ .. (IH MOfilHS • ITS all; ■ . 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