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CHAPTER V ■\Big hearted Sarah Daffodil acts every capacity for the four family hftuse in Garset after her husband’s death. The frugal, el derly Mr. and Mrs. Peppercorn and the newly-wed Andrew and Candace Thane occupy the two top-floor apartments and below them middle-aged Bert Fitts and his wife—who is too engrossed in war activities to care for her home—and King Waters, veteran of World War I and his wife, Emma, a devotee of fine crochet ing. The Peppercorns wish to help a destitute family foundjby Hen. the junkman, sheltered un der his scrap metal. Mrs. Pepper corn calls on Mrs. Fitts to ask her aid but Mrs. Fitts is not in terested. It was Sarah who overheard King Waters as she waited in the cash grocery late one afternoon It was funny. King was saying to a group of sympathetic neigh borhood women, how sentimental a man could be. Sometimes he was half ashamed of his soft heart, but sometimes he was ra ther glad he wasn’t as cold as “Now you take the papers re cently,” he patted the evening paper rolled in his pocket. “I can’t pick up a paper these days that I don’t see the name of some town that I remember as a lad in olive drab. Lord, Lord, the things we saw and the things we did.” ■Sarah selected her loaf of bread from the rack, so no im mediate chance of having it wraped and turned hqr attention to King, who was now relating that the American doughboys were the most generous in the “No one will ever know the number of French orphans our outfit adopted. We just made opr selves responsible for every youngster as soon as we moved into a town. Those kids, plenty of them, didn’t know white bread and chocolate bars had been in vented. I tell you, I’ll never for get the look in their .eyes as they held out their hands to us. There is something about a child in distress that breaks you all up. I always used to go to pieces. The women murmured, but Sarah detoured around a crate of pineapples and spoke with firmness. “Good afternoon, Mr. Waters. You are just the person 1 want to see. Mr. and Mrs. Pep percorn are in great need of a little assistance—they're trying ,to. rehabilitate a destitute family Father." mother and six children, living under piles of scrap in a lined wnat had been uccompli.su fcd for the Beimers to date. A,bit |^f cash would help incalculably, *ahe said. “J'ust imagine an entire family almost nuked and on the verge of starving. I don’t believe you saw anything'much worse than that in France.” “It’s entirely ditlerent here,” King Waters looked unhappy. “No one starves in this country.. We have established agencies to hundle every emergency. Red tape operated against the Beimers, Sarah countered. “Oh, well, they _ can t expect to have their case attended to by pushing a button. It’s taken time for them to reach their present leVel, naturally it will take a lit tle time to lift them up.” He made it a practice not to contribute on impulse., Waters stated, edging toward the counter and trying to attract the busy clerk’s eye. “It discourages the trained wel fare workers who have made a study of assistance and who can be trusted to take hold in a prac tical manner.” Sarah gripped her bread firm ly. “That’s what you think.” Even the Government, Wat ers reminded her. discouraged individual a n d indiscriminate gifts. “The only charitable de ductions they allow you on your income tax returns are for con tributions to organized charities’’ It did not improve Sarah’s temper to be overtaken on her way home by Toni Fitts who was not one, so she said, to discuss her neighbors. “But I can’t help tiiinking it’s a little funny that Mrs. T£,ane has been sewing ev <:.v nigiit this week for those proteges of the Peppercorns. Yet she told me point-blank that she couldn’t give ev'en one night a week to war relief, because she must spend her evenings at home with her husband. I do like peo to be consistent. I trust I am.” Mrs. Thane’s husband had worked with her, Sarph declared resisting her temptation to bran dish her loaf of bread. “Besides you may be interested to know that Mrs. Beimer is an English woman. She has two brothers with the British Army. I’ve beer wondering whether any of the societies you work with would do anything for her.’’ “Everyone was swamped. Hod been asked to give to so manv causes,” T'oni murmured. "I doubt whether the women would feel obligated to help a woman like that under the circumstances.” Early in June Emnm Water? heard the first faint rumors that production of refrigerators might be curtailed. “Of course I don’t believe it really, not for a mo Sient. Still, they sav the country > going to need more and more letpl and you never know what they’ll reach out and take next. It was Tuesday the Waters] Garden Day. She had asked Toni Fitte to spend the afternoon "with “it's entirely different here,” said Walters. “No one starves in this country.” her but that restless person*com plained that she could not go away from her telephone. They solved the problem by placing one of the extensions on the win dow sill of the living room which overlooked the garden. Toni was expecting to hear from the new ly organized office of the Civili an Defense. No one knew yet what the duties of the v'olunteers would be, but Toni was firm in her determination that there must be becoming uniforms. “About refrigerators.” Mrs. Waters explained, “It seems to me that if there is likely to be a shortage it might be a good thing to ask for new refrigeratois “You mean here?” She had spoken to Sapah Daf fodil. Mrs. Waters revealed. • “I pointed out that while the h boxes we have now are in fair condition, if the prospect is that they can’t be replaced within three or four years, they’ll be pretty well worn out.” Toni Kitts stared absently at the toe of her heavy tan brogue. She said slowly, “I’d like a larg er box. 1 may have to do con siderable entertaining this sum mer. In a way it’s up to me to get the women interested in Ci vilian Defense.” “Well, you know how Sarah is.’ Mrs. Waters slapped at a dy- “I had quite a time getting ; her to see hhe logic of the thing and then she agreed to replace ' the old boxes only if all the ten- I jants were willing to pay five I dollars more a month, beginning ! ' in October when the leases are* signed. “You mean she would raise the rents'.”' Toni glanced toward the house, lowered her voice. “What in time— why, that isn’t fair. It will improve her proper ty, won’t it? Why should we pay more? ’ “I’Ve wdndered lately about Mrs. Thane—’’ Toni studied the initials on her smart cigarette case. “It may all be my imagina tion.” “You don’t think—” Offhand she’d say that even a couple of idiots had more sense than to bring a child into the world in its present distracted state. T'oni murmured. She real ly hoped she was doing the Thanes an injustice. “With him likely to be called for training any day, you might say, they ought to know better.'’ “King says it’s perfectly dread ful, the number of young coup les who are havin" babies for no other reason than to have the man deferred. Not of course that the Thanes are like that— still this is no time for them to be planning to hav'e a family.” As Emma Waters had foreseen neither the Thanes nor the Pep percorns would agree to an in crease of five dollars a month in their rents. The present re frigerators were quite satisfac tory, they insisted, it was posi tively wasteful to think of re placing them. “Of course the rent should be increased, if w« ask for new. expensive equip ment. but we don't ask," old Mr. Peppercorn argued. Andrew- Thane was equally firm. “We can’t possibly consid er any increase in rent. Things ire too uncertain.” By the middle of June the rarden was lush with white lilac ind wine and white peonies and the close clipped emerald lawn Sarah Daffodil's pride, had tri umphed over the city’s dust and -.oot. The Thanes, who had taken their vacation at tlihe time of their marriage, and would have no time off for another year, turned to the fragrant open space in fervent gratitude. An unrea sonable blanket of heat had shut down early in the month and the beaches began to report record week-end crowds. One hot sunny morning Can taee Thane eame to Sarah and uinouneed that they had engag ed a cleaning woman for a Ualf fay each week. “I wanted you to know, for I'll have to leave the key with vou. One of the girls ■it the office recommended her to me—her name is Zither and she’s perfectly trustworthy.'’ “Her name is jyhat?” Sarah fanned her self with a palm leaf fan neatly bound with green tape The girl’s name was Zither, Cundnce /repeated fcoberjy. Against the grateful coolness of tho gray linen slip cover that shrouded the couch, her small face looked too white. “Has she a surname?’' Hoi*!.” Candace admit ted, soft laughter running under her words. iSarah promised to let Zither into the apartment and the next week a young, light colored wom an arrived promptly at Friday noon to clean the Thanes' apart ment. “We could get along without i anyone to clean.” Candace, the! budget envelopes spread out on the table in the breakfast nook, fingered two one-dollar bills co vetuously. Andy frowned, “Not in your condition.” They both laughed, because one of Candace’s friends refer red constantly to her ‘condition’. Candace tucked two dollars into the , envelope marked ‘household help.” Andy's curiously old hands counted out five one-dollar bills, slipped them in the env'elope lettered “Baby Fund.” His dark, thin face was earnest. “Say, we j want? to make sure he gets his birth certificate mailed to him when he’s born. My father has n’t a birth certificate and he can not get a job in the defense plant where Fred means to apply j for a job when he’s finished his welding course." Fred was An-i dy's younger stepbrother. Why can’t your father get a! birth certificate?” Candace noted that that Andy was preparing, to count the contents of the ba- ] by fund envelope, so she went around the table to sit with him on the bench. A great many older men were having a terrible time about their birth certificates. Andy ex plained. pulling his tiny wife comfortably into his lap, against nis shoulder. His lips brushed her cheek. “Births were recorded haphazardly ififty-five years ago Hundreds were nev'er sent in by doctors who did as they pleased about it. You see. darling, appar ently the early Town Fathers didn’t like statistics any better than you do. though let us hope they pronounced the word more successfully than you. Say sta tistics, Dace.” Candace stuttered. “Sta-stat statics.” She laughed under his chin. “But you needn’t be so critical. Say ‘gnarled,’ Andy. He rolled the word like mar bles under his tongue and ad mitted they were even. Quite suddenly his young smiling face stilled to seriousness. He said “The papers tonight seem to think thai bill exempting men *28 or over, will pass. I came home on the bus with Waters, lie’s all upset about it.” Candace stirred. inat would let Halsey Kenneth out, would n't it?” ‘‘Yes. Only the bill hasn’t been passed yet. He’ll he tewn ty-eight in September, but lots can happen before then.” “Andy, darling?” “Uh-huh.” “How do you feel about war?. If you should—have to—go? Andy considered, his chin resting on her gold-streaked hair "I guess I think of war as a dir ty. difficult job that, when thrust upon us, has to be done.” he said slowly. “There’s no honor nor glory in it and mostly the fruit is bitterness and hate. Yet a man can’t refuse to fight, as I see it, unless he is willing to give up all that other men will fight for in his stead.” “Do you wish you were 28? I iust wondered.” “So that I’d be released auto matically' by the exemption clause? I don’t know, Dace. 1 have a funny feeling . . . Even if the bill is passed—well, noth ing seems permanent to pie, any (TO BE CONTINUED! WIIJ.I VM R. LEIGH 4/"AN’E picture is worth a thou U sand words." So runs a Chi lese proverb. The truth of this is strikingly exemplified in the paint ings of \Y. R. Leigh, who is to hold a one-man exhibition, free to the public, at tlie Grand Central Art Galleries from January 11 to 29 in clusive. It is Leigh's Americana contri butions to our twentieth century art which constitute the arresting interest in his work. In addition o his characteristic rendering of .ndicns. frontiersmen and cowboys, here will be in this exhibit four f his series of large paintings on • hich he is now concentrating. Prominent among these is, the ■rilling and gripping episode of icahontns' rescue of Captain John niith Perhaps the fact that Mr. .oigh is a descendant of Pocalion-. os partly accounts for the vividly iramatic rendition of this spectacu lar piece (■!' arl. Tito event, occur ring in lfiOV. constitutes one of the most dramatic and beautiful of all historical episodes, yet it is an n dnishing fact that ::.".t> years have elapsed before a serious approach • o this theme has been made by a competent American painter The scene of the rr ■ was prnC' ■ ■ i “Pocahonta*** is one of the paintinp- in NX illiam I show nl the (.rand f'entral Ai l (.allcrie-. J ."> \ andi Nork. Janiiarv I 1th ilirniudi January 2(Jth. Airain* Ills Indian liili(**nn'n of Algonquin .. the "rent (ihief l»v two wive* and two ad\i-cr.-. avail- tiie rxrnilii Smith. Kiigli-h founder of iho colony of Virginia seconds before the bludgeon fall-. Hie. appeal of i sways her father to spare the prisoner** life. ». I.ei"h*- one-i'i i rbilt A\chile. !\ • t a background i'ovliatan. flank m of Maptain J? . In the breath' not far from the present town of Williamsburg:; Va. An incident. raroly hoard of. much loss soon, is tlio "Xavajo Fire Dance." another of this series. At first plan.ee most Americans would take tliis for a eannihal rite in the South Seas It has never been suc cessfully photographed. since the camera pointed into a hla.vng light, cannot adequately record the scene: this is the first time it has been painted or even illustrated. "Visions of Yesterday" pictures an old Blackl'oot, a former warrior, standing behind a plough and team: he has paused to contemplate a bison skull, and his emotions are revealed in the cloud-buffalo hunt seen in the evening sky. ‘■Westward Ho!”, the fourth of the series, depicts a breathless and sanguinary conflict between Indians and emigrants. Kxhaustive research has gone into the carrying out of these magnificent canvases Of this series. "Custer's Last Fight 1 and "The Lookout" are in the Frank Phillips Museum of Okla homa There is the "Maya His torian" owned by the August licet,, seller Foundation. Xew York, and the "Stampede" and "Boomerang Throwers" in the Huntington Mu seum Six of Leigh's works are i anil "T!n> Hamy UniitinT Grot by Kdw.ird i. imheny Kiili <■ owners are the Hake of Win■ former Kin r of Kntrian I. and ' Into Kir^ ; : r ;u-in. I Mr. Lcift.ii. w.i ■ ma.vi.cr painfc I the Afl-ie: o Hall cf ilm Ann j Museum of Natural" lli torv, 1" ! acc omivini I Ctrl A1:•'(.;• in l!>.. ! to the "(liul; i Htiuent." 1 ho J a member of !>'" Car! A Carle | pod it ion in V noth trios i | undertaken i > proeitiv mat land data from whir'll to con | the habit at fcrr.n: • < f • ■ A it Hall. V.iiii. a is utlr<iue ..I History Mas r!::: . On this sf-ootni was accotni'an >• d by Traohatmn. foiuvhr hasen School of K, 1 whom he :t- - l j; of inspirational in;. Nothing < n '.-l t. • than these "rout s; Hall, and fair! ■ h-s t tioned la ' - v I e-.d j.< ihere that is i. r* . and in, Mr. Lei."h • ::1 !>■■ ;■ , ■ oVtVy tv ellt ditrinz ,v r.tat i • atiy explain his * -es to inter* visitors who attend the exhibit at the Grand Central Galleries the Grand ... ct.: Mon at 4: SOIL Conservation NEWS By R. J. SEITZ 0. R. .Jenkins, Route 1, Gas tonia. hail an acre of Volstate soybeans harvested several days ago. J. A. Rhyne, Jr., who com bined them said “they were the best he ever combined.” He har vested about 22 bushels per acre. John F. Ferguson, Route. 3, Gastonia, in Union Church Sec tion is improving about five acres of pasture. He is applying one ton lime per acre and disk ing lespedeza already establish ed. Next spring, he plans to open furrows four feet apart, use fertilizer and manure and sprig with bermuda grass roots. Then follow wjtli a seeding of dallis grass and additional lespedeza. The Wajker Urns.. RF1), Res semer City, are improving and sowing about, six acres of pasture for winter grazing. The land has been limed and a mixture of small grains and rye grass drill ed in with 200 lbs. fertilizer per acre. This field will give them considerable early grazing for MAUMAAUAMMMMMJIa ' their milk cow \Y. Kd Rhyne, Route 1, 1 >:» 1 - : las, on Highway .No. :PJ 1 harvcsl i ed liOOO |hs.. korean lespedexa 'seed several days ago. an aver |age of about odd |bs. of seed per acre. Mr. Rhyne follows a sys i tematic rotation which enables : him to produce his own seed. j Top race lines were staked this past week on the following farms; Meek Cobb, J. O. Hen dricks and I.lord .Jenkins, all Route One, Gastonia; C. I„. Ratcli ford, Route '1. Ressemer City ami j Mrs, Beulah Matiney, Route 1. Lincolnton. Since there is a shortage of bone meal, livestock growers can substitute deflorinated rock phasphate. '1 per cent by weight of the grain fed. says Dr O. O. Shaw of State College. Since most cotton warehouses are practically full of cotton aim j there is little demand for it ox wept at low prices, growers should | store their crop on the farm and make application for loans thru' the local AAA office, says I* F. Holler Extension specialist. BONE MEAL COTTON Kitchen Waste Fats ..VWd-dViW DO YOU NEED A— RUBBER STAMP? “WE HAVE EM” THE EAGLE PUBLISHING CO. DIAL 2101 CHERRYVILLE, C. «WW^W.\VAW\V.WAW.V.,.W.‘.,.,.v.' V.V.VAV.WAV.V/W/J Keen Records On Poultry Flocks I’oilllryiiu'ii will lii.ii that tin* keepiuu' ol' rucords an the (locks ijs to i > i •oduct ion it lid costs of feeds aiot other supplies will pive nilich valuable in format ion to the pi cover. says (' -I. Matipin, Kxtelisiolt poultry specialist at X. C. State Collette. lie points out. thiit this is pai t icularly nec essary at this time because of the hieh cost of footle “Contrary to the preailintr opinion, demonstration. flocks records show that the hiphost av erage returns above the feeding costs arc secured in the sprint; of the year when egg prices are often the lowest,” reports Mau pin. Many growers ask about the feed costs of producing a dozen eggs. The records show that this was lowest in March, April and May, when egg production was highest. The highest .ost of pro ducing eggs came ill October, November lind December when the average production was low and egg prices were high. The peerage feed costs was 21 cents per dozen during the winter as compared with It! cents in th" spring. According to Man pin. the records clearly show that good breeding and proper flock mana gement nay excellent dividends High production per bird means low cost of production per ,h z en eggs. 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