Wanna Buy a Horse?
A feu• months ago this question, if addressed to an automobile
owner, would bring a laugh. Today the horse has the laugh. Out
in the Vest and the Middle IJ est horses are still plentiful, but in
the East they are scarce. And yet there is a firm of horse auction
eers operating in Greater New York—Potters and Greenberg—where
private sales on horses arc held every day of the week and special
auctions on Fridays. Photos show you ichat goes on.
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This might pass for a picture of the Axis high command, but
actually it is one of some of the steeds uniting to be auctioned off.
Not a gift horse. Deftly the
buyer tnkes the horse's tongue
in one hand and examines the
teeth, to determine age.
Horses have many foot ail
ments, and seasoned horse trad
ers know all about them and just
u hat to look for.
Frequently a piece of harness goes on the block iitsteail of a
horse. Here you see a halter going to a bidder for three dollars.
Auctioneer Greenberg is knocking it down.
This man has taken on the dif
ficult job of selling a horse to
the auctioneer.
tf hen bidding lags on a horse
the animal is made to strut his
stuff, as shown here.
It Is No
Disgrace
tfrfcrseJ W
Hy
KARL GRAYSON
Associated Newspapers—WNU Service
THE Griswold family, with the
exception of Old Bill, had
gathered in the library of the
stately Griswold mansion, to
discuss ways and means.
Old Bill Griswold, for forty years
Ashland's leading citizen, and for
the same number of years president
of the successful and heretcnore
flourishing Ashland Rug Mills, was
on the verge of bankruptcy.
‘‘It's a pity,” Rilla, daughter of
the house. 19, blonde, dazzlingly
beautiful, belle of Ashland’s young
er set, was saying. "It's a pity fa
ther couldn't have told us this was
going to happen. Warned us of it.
It’s—it’s all so much of a shock.”
Allen, two years his sister s
senior, handsome as she was beau
tiful, gestured disgustingly “He
didn’t tell us," he explained, “for
the same reason he never told us
about any of his business troubles.
He probably thought he could pull
out of this hole as he’s pulled out
of others. Dad's a brick, and al
ways has been. We oughtn’t to crab
now."
“I’m not crabbing, silly. I’m
merely saying he should have
warned us, so we could do some
thing about it."
"Do something? That’s a laugh!
What can we do?" Allen swung one
leg over the arm of his chair and
scowled.
"There’s a lot we can do, Allen.”
This from Stanley, 23, a product of
Harvard's 1941 graduating class.
"We can get jobs. We can sell our
cars. We can move into a smaller
house, sell this one, and take care
of Dad. He's always taken care of
"Hello, mother," he said, and
came toward her and placed an arm
about her shoulder.
us, given us everything we could
ever want. Now it’s our turn to
take care of him."
At this point Old Bill’s wife, moth
er of the children, sweet and gentle
to look upon, entered the conver
sation. "It isn’t so much the
money,” she said. "We could get
along somehow. It’s the disgrace.
Whatever will people think?”
"Think!” Allen bounded to his
feet. "What do we care what they
think’’ Anyway, they couldn’t think
a thing. Why, there’s hardly a man
or woman in this town that Dad
hasn’t helped one way or another.
He hasn't an enemy in the world.
Everyone around here thinks he's
about the finest man alive. That's
why he’s broke now—because he’s
spent all his money helping folks
who were down and out.”
Stanley smiled gently at this and
looked at his brother reprovingly.
"It’s easy, Allen, for folks to think
and say a man is great when he
has plenty of money and is generous
[ with it It’s when he’s broke that
, a man finds he’s alone in the world."
"You’re wrong, Stanley. Dead
: wrong.” Allen strode over to the
fireplace and leaned against the
| mantel. "You’ve been away at col
lege and you don’t know how Dad
| has been helping folks. Personally
I have more faith in humanity than
to think they’d turn against him
now They may not be able to help
him financially, but they won't con
demn him for going under. It isn't
as if he wasted the money.”
Stanley shrugged and lapsed into
silence. And after a while Mrs.
Griswold got up and went out. The
children watched her go sadly. They
pitied their mother and Old Bill, too.
They had lived their lives. There
wasn't much to look forward to.
Nothing much but failure and dis
I grace. It was a burden hard to
bear.
Mrs. Griswold went to her room.
She wanted to be alone. It wasn’t
easy to be brave, to look at the thing
as the children looked at it
Sitting s^t her dressing table she
smiled a little wistfully, thinking of
Allen Poor Allen. He had always
been something of an idealist It
was a pity his illusions had to be
so rudely shattered; a pity he didn’t
understand people better. Even
Stanley, stating those bitter truths,
had failed to shake his faith.
Mrs. Griswold caught herself
wishing that Allen could have been
right, that people were like that;
unforgetful and appreciative. But
they weren’t. Otherwise, they’d all
be like Old Bill Griswold. And there
was only one Bill Griswold.
It was three o’clock and Bill
! would be home any minute. She
j must be brave, for Bill's spirits
would be low. This afternoon he was
to sign the papers that would reveal
to the world that they were failures.
She shuddered involuntarily at the
thought. Even now Bill must be
| facing Benjamin Cheney. Ken Morse
j and Nat Murray. Friends of long
I standing. Men who had loaned him
i money, knowing that Old Bill’s word
; was better than his bond, that their
| investments with him would be safe.
Poor Bill. A man had to have nerve
and courage to go through an ordeal
like that. A man had to have it to
face the future, too. For those three
men would despise him hereafter.
They’d look at him with accusing
glances and talk about him behind
j his back.
No, it wasn't the money. It was
the disgrace that was hard to bear,
the future that would break their
spirits. The wound to their pride.
You couldn’t blame these men.
Their attitude was something in
evitable, something that must be
faced and conquered.
The front door opened and closed
and a man’s voice boomed out a
greeting to the children below
stairs. Mrs. Griswold almost
winced That was Old Bill come
home. Bluff and hale as ever, al- j
most jovial.
She looked into the mirror for a
Anal inspection then stood up, smil
ing. Old Bill was standing in the i
doorway behind her.
Hello, mother, he said, and
came toward her and placed an arm
about her shoulder. “Well, it’s over.
I’ve just come from the shop—”
“I know. Bill. I know.’’ She was
talking to him much the same as
she would have talked to Allen or
Stanley or Rilla when they were
children; looking up at him, pat
ting his shoulder.
“Mother, you’ve been fine about 1
all this, you an<I the children. A
man couldn’t ask for much more in I
his wife and children."
“Why shouldn’t we try and under
stand and help? Haven’t you al
ways given us everything, always
been kind and good and understand
ing with us? It would be pretty
small of us to turn against you now."
Old Bill laughed and held her
closer. "You sound like Allen—”
He paused. “But, here, I must tell
you what happened. They—Ben and
Ken and Nat—they’ve taken over
the business, and I’m to run it as
always. They’ve appointed me gen
eral manager. No one will know
but what the place never changed
hands.”
“Bill! I don’t understand!”
Old Bill laughed. “Well, they
talked it over and decided they
couldn’t petition me into bankruptcy.
You know it takes three men to do
it—and well, those three old coots
didn't want to go on record as the
petitioners of Bill Griswold into a
state of bankruptey. Sentimental old
fools. They hemmed and hawed
around and talked a lot about how
I’d helped them at one time or an
other as well as a lot of other folks,
and finally Ken Morse summoned
up the nerve to flatly refuse to sign
the petition. After that Ben and Nat
did likewise, grinning like a couple
of school kids. Sort of ashamed of
their own weakness, you know. Then
pretty soon Ben declared he hated
to see the business go to pot any
way and suggested that he and Nat
and Ken take it over and give me
a job, if I’d like to work for them."
Old Bill's voice was bluff and hale
as always. But he was holding his
wife in his arms, looking over her
shoulder. She couldn't see his face.
And suddenly she didn’t want to.
It might prove embarrassing. And
so she stood there, holding him, pat
ting his shoulder, appearing not to
notice that the huge frame was
trembling slightly.
It would be over in a minute and
Old Bill would be himself again and
everything would be all right. Then
Mrs. Griswold was going to leave
him alone with his thoughts; she was
going downstairs and find Allen and
say to him, “Allen, you were right.
It hadn’t occurred to me that folks
must feel the same toward your fa
ther as we do. I hadn’t taken into
consideration that they are as hu
man as we." And she knew Allen
would understand.
Production of Toluol
Aided by New Formulas
Toluol, basis of TNT, which is
trinitrotoluol, and other chemicals
important in preparing for Ameri
can defense, will be aided with new
formulas announced at a meeting of
the American Institute of Mining and [
Metallurgical Engineers in New
York. They were developed by Dr. |
H. H Lowry, director of the Coal
Research laboratory of the Carnegie
Institute of Technology, with the as
sistance of H. G. Landau and Leah
L. Naugle.
These formulas make it possible
to determine accurately in advance
the properties and amounts of coke
and by-products obtained from the i
carbonization of coal. The chief by
products are tar, gas, ammonium
sulphate and light oil. The latter is
the raw material from which toluol
is obtained.
In addition to giving scientific con
trol, which assures more accurate
planning in the production of the
coking by-products, Dr. Lowry's
work also makes possible greatly in
creased economy, by eliminating ex
pensive oven tests. One steel com
pany alone, he stated, has been able
to save many thousands of dollars
in the single item of eliminating the
sulphur analysis of coke.
Carrying Dr. Lowry’s work a step
further, M. A. Mayers and H. G.
Landau, also of Carnegie Tech's
Coal Research laboratory, an
nounced a method for controlling the
properties of pig iron and the econo
my of its production in blast fur
nace operation.
LEGUMES, GRASS
VERY IMPORTANT
Adjustment to Cropping
Plans and Erosion Needed.
—
By P. E. JOHNSTON
(Professor of Agricultural Economics.
University of III. Agriculture College.)
Each farm should now produce as
much as possible of the crops for
which it is adapted, but should also
grow enough legumes and grasses
to maintain a high level of yields.
We need to adjust as never be
fore our cropping plans to variations
in soil type, slope and susceptibility
to erosion. It is important that the
increased acreages of depleting
crops be grown in areas where
yields are high and where they can
be produced with a minimum of ero
sion.
In farming, we are not interested
in producing the maximum in 1942
but in hitting a level which can be
maintained for a five- to ten-year
period if necessary.
Provided efficient land use and
feed production are maintained the
limiting factors of livestock produc
tion will be labor and equipment,
but each farmer will be responsible
for obtaining the maximum live
stock output for each bushel of corn,
100 pounds of supplement and each
ton of hay.
Livestock Housing.
The high cost and scarcity of
building materials will preclude any
rapid expansion in housing facilities
for livestock or any material expan
sion in livestock equipment. Effi
ciency in the use of available build
ings and equipment is therefore im
portant.
Of even more importance will be
the necessity to obtain the maxi
mum production of each farm work
er, as the supply is being reduced
by the transfer of farm workers to
industry and the army. The short
age of labor emphasizes again the
urgency of increasing the efficiency
of livestock production, as livestock
and livestock products are so es
sential for domestic consumption.
Farm Workers1 Exemption
Efforts made by agricultural
organizations to find what author
ity local draft boards have to ex
empt farm workers have resulted
in statements by officials in
charge of the draft that local
boards can exempt necessary ag
ricultural workers.
Farm help needed to produce
milk and dairy products, eggs and
egg products, poultry meat prod
ucts, and hogs and lard products
are considered as engaged in the
production of commodities of the
greatest importance. Producers
of soybeans, sugar beets, com
mercial vegetables, cattle and
calves, and sheep and lambs
are considered to be doing work
of distinct importance.
This information indicates, it is
believed, that local draft boards
have been given considerable
latitude in making decisions re
garding exemptions of farm help.
It seems apparent that a man
needed to produce foods listed as
being of the greatest importance
would be considered more eligi
ble for deferment than a man
producing foods designated of dis
tinct importance.
It also appears obvious % that
men engaged in producing any
thing in either of the two preced
ing lists can be given preferment
over men producing wheat, cot
ton, potatoes, and many other
crops. Wheat and potatoes are
good foods but the problem of the
nation right now is to create an
army and at the same time to
obtain materials most needed in
the immediate future.
Before exemptions can be
granted for farm work or for any
industrial or business defense
service, the local board must be
given proof that the man is actu
ally engaged in the line of work
for which exemptions are allowed.
Prize Pulls Given Free
The American Jersey Cattle club
has announced the gift of 1,000 reg
istered Jersey bull calves to the
farmers of America, a war-time gift
to the nation. These “Victory
Calves,” all born in 1942, are to be
given as outright gifts by Jersey
breeders to 1,000 lucky dairy farm
ers. Many of the bull calves to be
given away are sons, grandsons,
and great-grandsons of champion
bulls and champion cows that hive
made history in the show ring and
in official production tests.
Feeder Cattle Suggestions
(1) Purchase feeders to fit the
feed, labor and equipment available
on the farm (choice 400-pound steer
calves use 55-60 bushels of corn and
three-fourths ton of hay and com
mon 900-pound steers use 8 to 10
bushels of corn and lVfe tons of hay),
! know length of the feeding period
; and plan ahead for cattle to use
pasture; (2) market the cattle in the
period of normal price peaks and
(3) feed a balanced ration for the
type of cattle used.
Patterns
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*• ily—what about this frock? Yes,
there is a new look about it—it
has that long torso top which
grown-up frocks make so much of,
dart fitted to reveal the slimness
of the waistline—and it’s tied in
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The Questions
1. In what state in the United
States is there a Thames river?
2. What is a hobble-de-hoy?
3. From, what source comes the
expression, “Something is rotten
in Denmark’’?
4. What is a chanson?
5. How many hands high is a
horse thpt is five feet tall?
6. Ascorbic acid is better known
as what?
7. How do we determine the
date of Eastdr Sunday?
8. What is the difference be
tween ordnance and ordinance?
The Answers
1. There is a Thames river in
the state of Connecticut.
2. A lad between boyhood and
manhood; an inexperienced, awk
ward youth.
3. “Hamlet” (Act I, scene IV).
4. A song.
5. Fifteen hands (a hand is four
inches).
6. Vitamin C.
7. It falls on the first Sunday
after the first full moon after the
21st of March.
8. Ordnance refers to artillery;
military supplies or stores. Ordi
nance pertains to established rule;
rite or law.
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HOUSEHOLD
lllflTSifi
That new waffle iron should be
brushed off with a stiff brush,
wiped with a damp cloth, dried
with a soft cloth, and slipped
into an oilskin bag after using.
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Don’t drop that iron. That’s the
chief reason irons have to be re
paired.
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To remove a fresh grease spot
on a rug, cover the spot with blot
ting paper, then press with a hot
flatiron. Cover the spot with
magnesia, let it remain for 24
hours, then brush off.
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Are you sure your chimney is
properly insulated where it passes
near wooden walls? Rock wool,
asbestos or other insulation may
prevent a fire.
stimulate unpleasant
stomach symptoms. May
cause heartburn and gen
eral stomach discomfort.
The Bismuth and Carbon
ates in ADLA Tablets re
lieve sour stomach, acid
indigestion. Your druggist --“
has ADLA Tablets.
Do You Like Jingle Contests?
Raleigh Cigarettes are now run
ning another series of weekly con
tests for those who can supply the
best last line to a jingle. Over 100
liberal prizes each week. Watch
this paper for details.—Adv.
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