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■ ■J■ THERE IS TODAYS s 8u JOSEPHINE LAWRENCE I * '' /?, CHAPTER II Sarah Daffodil acts in every ' capacity for tin* four-family house in Garset after her hus band's death. In February, 1941 23 year old Andrew Thane and Candace Moore, who plan to he married the following- week, in quire about the Molding apart ment advertised in the morning paper. /Sarah realizes that it may not be wise to rent to a couple of youngsters with the selective training law hanging over the. boy’s head. but their youthful charm wins her over. “You’re Andrew Thane, aren't you?? I guess you don't know me but I’m a neighbor of yours— King Waters. We lire in the same house—my wife and I are direct ly under you—on the second They shook hands gravely. His wife. King promised, would be up to call on Mrs. Thane be fore long. “She wanted to let her have time to get settled. I’Ve gone down with you on the same bus two or three mornings, but there was always a crowd and l hail no chance to speak to you. Andrew 'I’hauo read the first paragraph of baseball comment, then forced himself to mumble conversationally, “Pretty fail service on this line.’' Transportation was tempora rily speeded up. King- assured him, because of the apnroapbing spring ejections. “But the service we are getting now will seem de luxe comput'd with what we’ll he getting once we’re in the war” That night King Waters men tioned to his wife that lie had spoken to young Thane in the bus. “When are you going up to call on Mrs. Thane?” "Oh. sometime. Why?” He had thought sip. might he able to dispose of a couple of tickets lor the Legion’s fair and bazaar. Waters suggested. "You know I’Ve got to get rid of sixty His wife said that he had onl'v himselt to thank for that “You always, were one to bile off more than you could chew.” Her cro chet hook flashed swiftly. .“Made up your mind about giving the committee one of Vour S“!S? • 1 -VOVl tT”t'one with a mistake in it. a dropped stitch, or something?” nertvTV T"' "’v sP*€*iuls is pel eet and you know it ” Her husband took his unlight fned,,fhr fl'Ti! his n,outh , ll, .with apparent interest •enlaced it still unlighted. “K,n; “Well, what?” When do you think you will KVt up to see Mrs. Thane?” know-MsT"' h,':i,V(‘"s' do 1 know . IShe ,s„ t |lolm. <)llt in„. ,.j te',yto'" V<'t,K"1 -so,hl’thing bet to do With my evenings than running around calling „„ lvonu“ who don t take enough interest in their homes to >tav there I suppose, though. f won’t have any peace until | g-„ to =et. and try to sell her a couple of tickets. Waters said, reproachful pati e»u-e heavy on his tongue, "Fun ny how you tool about doing* any thing* for the Fog ion. Hol e 1 was: willing* to give mv life in the last war and you—and a lot of dames like you—stall when you ’re asked to help fellows who need help now.” His wife turned the radio dial and an impassioned tenor voice besought listeners in to sample the merits of a new dessert. Em ma Waters said coldly. **| don't believe you were so crazy about the war until you found yourselt safely on* of it." "Is that so? Maybe [ wasn't crazy about the war, but I was ready to do my duty Not like that young fellow up stairs who is apparently all set to claim ex emption. It’s a disgrace, the way marriage applications have jump ed since the selective training went into effect. Falling oer each other at the city hall to get a marriage license so they can hide behind some woman's skirts "You were drafted," Emma Waters crocheted a chain of stars at top speed. “Well, what's that got to do with it? I did what was asked of ine and l stand ready to do it at. in. if we go into this a second 1 • mo. I’m going to see what 1 (mi do about getting a commis His wife shrugged her narrow shoulders, An airplane, flying law,, droned over the house and the noise seemed to partake of motion like a shudder. “There's a good chance Mrs. Thane will in here tonight.” Emma Waters said. They had made each other’s acquaintance in the cash grocery she revealed in response to her husband’s curious prodding “But why’s she coming here?" “I asked tier. I can’t get Pearl for any day but Thursday next week* and I want to see if Mrs. Thane will exchange garden days with me. She said her husband studies nights, so 1 thought it would be better to have her come down tiian for me to go up.’ iShe might have said something about it. Waters grumbled, pulU ing down his vest and jerking his tie straight. .The door button buzzed and he hurried to answer Candace Thane, ushered pon derously into the living room*, looked like a doll in contrast to the thick outlines of her host. The girl had to thread her way through an eddy of low tables and chairs, to reach Mrs. Waters “The news from across the pond isn*t getting any better." limp, extended hand. < “Nice of you to come. King:, get a chair—not that one. some thing lower. T guess you don’t know my husband, Mrs. Thane.” “Only by sight,”’ Candace smiled. “My husband and Mr. Waters are fellow bus commut “What I wanted to ask you.” said Emma Waters, “is whether you’d be willing to let me hav'e the laundry and yard this Thurs day.” Her laundress, she ex plained. usually came Wednes day hut this week had served a notice that her home affairs re quired her attention that day. Wednesday was as convenient is any other day for her. Can dace admitted cheerfully. “We -end out the big things every oth r week and I can do the small laundry almost any time. If Mrs. Maffodil doesin t care—” "Laws, she neer interferes vith the tenants arrangements. It’ll he only for this week and hanks a lot Mrs. Thane. King, aren’t you ever going to settle King Waters said. “I'm on my way out. You folks like it here, Mrs. Thane'.’ l.eginning to feel settled?” “It's lovely." The girl's bright -erenity suddenly sparkled, "We re crazy about the apartment and we re looking forward to the summer when that grand big .awn out back will be green. ’ Her host chewed reflectively i)ii his frayed cigar. "Can't look very far ahead. I'm afraid. A lot of tilings can happen between now and next summer. She looked at him intently, the glow in her large eyes, faded. “I'm afraid most of you young ample are going to come face to face with reality before many months are over. The news .from u loss the pond isn't getting any better, vou know” “Andy won't claim exemption Candace spoke gently, her smooth forehead unruffled. “1 don't suppose you and Mr. Thane would be interested iii a couple of tickets for the Ameri can Legion bazaar and fair? A lot of prizes and a bang-up good supper. Friday and Saturday lights next week. My wife’s talh ug of donating one of the fancy spreads she makes to be rattled df." He held up two orange col ored slips. "Proceeds go to help he disabled veterans at the Me norial Hospital. They couldn’t go. their week ends were always planned ahead. Candace regretfully declined. She would, however, take the two tickets. "We’re always glad to do what we can for the disab led veterans. Mr. Waters. 1 can dispose of more tickets if you'd like me to I can sell them to friends at the office.’-’ "How many tickets you think you can sell — at seventy-five cents apiece? A dozen—swell!” She was, he told her, a swell person and an example others might well follow. "People would completely forget those boys in the hospital if we didn’t prod them.” “I wish 1 knew where I could get a woman with a car.” said Tom Fitts into the telephone. She and her husband occupied •J-li, across the hail from the Waters, but the two families could not be called neighborly. 1'oni possessed a nervous driving energythat found expression in a dozen different channels and kept her constantly and actively occupied. She was a thin, tall woman with a hard, bright man ner and a will power that netted her chairmanships almost auto matically. Efficiency was her fe tish and everything around her, from her severely tailored gray Tunnels to her chromium-colored hair, cut short and swept back from her face in sharply carved rolls that looked as inflexible as glass, suggested mechanical per fection. "Well. I have some one in mind ” She appeared to clip off each word she uttered and to lot it drop into the phone like a netal bead. “No. she hasn’t a car —at least so far as 1 know. But clerical training. Makes a nice ;nipression. Yes. Call me hack at this time tomorrow and I’ll let vou know.” •She replaced the handset and glanced speculatively across the breakfast table at her husband, who was watching the coffee per colator. Toni boasted that she "binned her day while breakfast ing and certainly the table rep resented a fusion of interests with nutrition coming out a poor second. The telephone, several leather-hound engagement books, two calendars and a number of memorandum pads with attach ed pencils fenced in Toni's place Bert Fitts, a gi izzled. placid gentleman of perhaps fifty-live or sixty who had no figure to lose, deltly spread thick apricot preserve on a fresh slice of toast and genially inquired, “Well, what's cooking?” “This is a terrific week for me, his wife informed him. Her husband pointed to the percolator. “Throw out that cold slop and have a hot cup.” “No more. That reminds me 1 must call up Hess about the nu trition classes. And I'm down for two speeches on "Preparedness' this week and I’ve pledged a day Lo the British workrooms.” The placid man poured coffee, did not raise his voice as he said casually. “Women like you have colossal nerve to advocate this country’s entrance into the war’ “Well, I’d like to know what you mean by that! Women arc citizens, aren't they? We have a right to an opinion, haven't we? Look at the time and the effort and money we give to alleviate 'he suffering caused by this war. I’il like to know why we shouldn’t advocate anything we happen to believe in!” She lifted the hand set as the telephone rang and a nigh-pitched Voice began to chat .er rapidly over the wire. 1 don t precisely advocate onr entrance into the war,” she said now, pushing the phone hack. “I think we ought to help Britain in every way and if she needs our men, why then—’’ Her husband was silent “It's the women who have to uphold a nation’s ideals.” Tom recited. “You admit that, don’t "I don’t know what you’re up holding and I doubt whether you do. he told her. replacing the cover on the jam .jar. "Women whose men will be in service— like that girl on the top floor— tav’e some right to argue, per haps, though I’m not at all sure. After all, it s the men of military me who should do the talking— he.v’ll be staking their lives. His wife frowned. She had >een christened Amelia. She be ta n to gather up her books and oencils. “I must get upstairs to all on that Mrs. Thane. She may >e glad to do a little work for us —Mrs. Waters told me she holds ome kind of clerical position.” Footsteps sounded in the kitch •n, the door clicked. “Morning, Mrs. Fitts," Belle, the cleaning woman called cheerfully. Toni Fitts encountered old Mrs. Peppercorn in the hall that evening as she prepared to mount he stairs to the third floor. Stair •limbing afforded an excellent pportunity to slim the calves uid thighs, the beauty parlor in structor had told her. so that when Mrs Peppercorn had reach ed the second landing on her'way fo the street the old lady was a 'ittle alarmed to see a tall thin woman balancing herself on one leg with her other knee pressed against her chest. “Oh—good ev'ening.” Toni l'’itts resumed her normal stance “I’m on my way up to see your new neighbors. I don't suppose vou know whether the Thanes are home. Mrs. Peppercorn?” (TO BE CONTINUED) EXTRA FOOD Extra food will help shorten the war, save American lives, and help write the peace. RATION REMINDER GASOLINE—In IT Hast coast states A-O Coupons arc now good. In states outside tin East coast area A-S coupons are now good. FUEL OIL—Period | coupons are good through January 1. SUGAR—-Stamp No. 11 t;ood for 5 pounds through Nov I. Stamp No. -it in Hook poor be comes (food Nov'. 1. and will be good for 5 pounds through Jan 15. 1944. Stamps No. 15 and 1(1 (food for 5 pounds each for home canning- through October .'! I. SHOEJS—stamp No. IS good for one pair. Stamp No 1 on the •‘airplane" sheet in War Ration Book Three becomes good for one pair November 1. MEATS. KAI'S—Brown stamp 0, E. and E good through Oc tober .10. Brown stamp G. now rood, expires December 4. Brown stamp II becomes good Octobei >1 and remains good through December 4. PROCESSED FOGDs Blue damps X. 5' and /, good through November 10. Green stamps A. and 0 in Book Four become rood November 1 and remain rood through December 10. TO PROVIDE MORE SOAP An increase ol about it per cent in toe nation's soap supply, without using additional fats anti ails, is expected under adjusted soap formulas recently preset di ed by the War hood Adiminstra aon. Two formulas call for a lar ger use of domestic non-fat mii .erials, principally rosin, us a substitute for fats Buy Higher Analysis Fertilizer* Farmers purchasing mixed for rilizeis can save money and at the same time contribute to the war effort liy buying higher an d.vsis fertilizers, -ii-cording to War Food Administration oifici als. Higher analysis fertilizers will cost more per I (Ml lhs. than those of lower plant food value, but the cost per pound of plant food is lower. To help the ferti lizer distribution program farm ers should apply for fertilizer needed for fall and next spring as soon as possible and take de livery ot it during the fall and winter months. Can Sti'l Send ome Gift* Christmas packages for soldi ers overseas which have been re turned to the sender because of an improper address still may he mailed, according to the War Do partment. The original wrapper, bearing the endorsement, “Re turned to Sender. Insufficient Address," must he submitted with the correctly addressed package to prove that it origin ally was mailed before the Octo ber 15 deadline. Christmas pack ages also may be mailed to sol diers going overseas between now md Christmas. When the sender • resents his package, to the post office for mailing he must bring ■ he change of address form con taining the APO address to which the package is being sent. Get Point* to Send Food Oversea Persons who wish to send a package of rationed food oversea may get the necessary points by applying to OPA Those who wish to have the dealer from whom the food is bought arrange for shipment, may make the purch ase without giving up ration points, since OPA will replace the point Value of the foods the dealer exports. When extra rat ion points are issued, a copy of the export declaration or a cer tificate of mailing must he turned over to the OPA office which granted the points. Return Ration Books in Mail Finders of lost ration hooks may drop them in the mail with out prepaying postage or enclos ing them in envelopes, accord ing to OPA. On payment of a fiv'e-cent postage due charge, the Post Office Department will re turn the lost hook to the person whose name ami address appear on the cover. When the addressee cannot be found, the Post Office will forward the book to the nearest rationing board. Produce More Household Goods Increased production of cast iron skillets, kettles, dutch ovens and flot irons for household, in stitution, commercial. and other uses is permitted under a recent revision of U I’ll older L-20-e To Col'ect Old Clothing*, Rag* A nationwide collect ion cam paign for discarded clothing, used fabrics. and rag's being plan tied to meet heavy induslrial and military reuuit enienti for wiping cloths, according to WT’II. Offici als enipltasi/ied that they do not want clothes that the owner will wear again or can use. The discar ded clothing also will he used for local relief and relief and reha bilitation purposes aluoad. Mate ritils collected will he separated and classified for best possible use. It is expected that the col lect ion program will lie handled by individual states and coin mu Urge* Farmer* to Colect Scrap lit support of th. all out "Vic tory Scrap Hank" drive to collect iron and steel scrap. Marvis lottes. War Food Administrator, itas urged farmers to couth their farms fot all possible scrap. Pointing out that next to indus try, the greatest source of heavy wrap is the American farm. .Mr Jones said. "American farmers are doing the greatest food pro luction job in history. However it \ve are to insure ample steel for wartime production, millions of tons of scrap iron and steel must come from our farms ill the next six weeks. Tire Help for Truck Owner* Truck owners who have tiro rationing certificates but are un able to get tires because local quotas are used up and those op erators unabl(. to get eertilieat.es' bccatise of depletion of quotas -oon may-get help through the Office of Defense Transportation Instructions on procedure for re porting sit ell cases soon will he issued to the ]42 OUT district managers. After eases are repor ted OUT wilj clear shortages with tile Office of thp 1,‘libber Difee tor in at effort to get the neces CORN PRICES SET Maximum prices for white ear corn are 2 1-2 cents a bushel less than shelled yellow or while corn of like quality and grade, under a recent OPA ruling. White snapped corn is 1-2 cents per bushel less. The Commodity Credit Corporation will continue, to pay the corn producer for ain advances in the maximum prices of corn through December 2 1. 1943. Report on Third War Loan Final figures for the third War Loan showed 18,94-3,000,000 worth of bonds sold, Cnder Sec retary of the Treasury Daniel W. Hell reported recently. Sales to individuals, the lirst objective of tile drive, exceeded the live billion dollar quota by 277 milli on dollars. Extra Ration Points for Some Persons who' reside in remote areas and are unable to obtain heir minimum nutritional re quirements of fresh milk will be ddijred to receive extra ration points to purchase additional am ounts of rationed meats, fats, and dairy products, according to OPA. Use Synthetic Rubber for Elastic Thread Synthetic rubber may he used A 62 year record of 2-Way heTp* t*$«t directions on lobef. Used aa a tonic, Cardtii usual ly pepa up appetite, aids di gestion, and thus helps build energy icr the "time” tocome. Started 3 day* before your time, and taken as directed, it should help relieve pa n due to purely functional causes. ill garters, suspenders, founda tion garments, and underwear. All restrictions on the manufac ture of elastic thread made with synthetic rubber have been sus pended by WPB until April 1, 1 !M4. Jf Irrigate More Farm Land War food pi oduction will be increased .materially by 111-10 through the extension of pirriga tton sei v ice to iiearlv KOO.IHUI acres of land on 1-t Bureau of Reclamation projects in Arizona, ('tilifoi nia, (trcgoii, Colorado, idaho South Dakota. Ctah and \\ ashinglpii. the .Scci clary of the Interior announced recently. More Paints For Civilians Civilian requirements for es sential. paints ami Varnishes will he more nearly met as a result of the recent amendment of Food Distribution Order 42. the WPB has reported. The order increased from bll per cent to dll per cent the amount of drying oils that can be consumed in the paints, varnishes, and lacquers 56 Priaonrr of War Camps ■Hole 'ban I III, imi prisoners of war art* now held in aG per manent Camps in the (■'. S., the j War Department has reported. The ratio of (leimans to Italians is approximately three to one. in addition to the permanent camps there ar,* many teiiipora rv ones set up to house prisoners n areas with labor shortages. Vgricull ural work done by pris 'iiers includes harvesting fruit ft, 'tomatoes., potatoes peanuts, col on, sugar beets, and corn. Only I few prisoners have escaped and ■very old* of them has been cap ■tired wii tiiu a few hours. POTATO PICKERS HONORED About b110 farm workers from Kentucky, Oklahoma; .Arkansas, »iicl West Virginia credited with wiping to save .Maine's bumper •otato crop, stopped in Washing (iii, D. ('.. recently oti their way 'none and received a Vote of hanks on the Capitol steps from I'CnatOr Kalnuh I). Brewster of Maine. Senator Allien W. Bark ley of Kentucky responded for the states from which the wor ! tiers came. .Maine's potato crop bis year reached an estimated 1" 1 million bushels. 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