Beauty on Production Line
| Helps 'Keep ’Em Flying’
Women are playing a vital
role in the uar effort, prin
cipally in the great aircraft
factories. Some of these at
tractive women might easily
be carving out a career for
themselves in the movies,
but they are content to star
on the production line.
The pretty worker at the
Curtiss-Wright propellor
plant shown above stands at
the apex of a V formed by
two lines of propellors.
5 These girls wear various types of protective headgear while they
I produce the tools to whittle down the Axis. The girl at the right
I nwides the touch of the eternal feminine with a flower in her
hair. (Photos approved by war department.)
Marge has her luncheon on the
•job in a big aircraft plant, u here
she is one of hundreds of women
who are kot'ping ’em flying.
v
| An office worker before the war,
this girl noil’ works a milling ma
; chine on a bronze nut-line in the
I Curtiss-W right propellor plant.
Anti here is an ex-laundry girl 1
doing an important bit to help
leash up the Axis. She is proutl
to be helping Uncle Sam.
This plastic - masked worker
now operates a lathe on a nut-line
as expertly as any male machin
ist. She was once a stenographer.
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‘The People’s Choice’
FIFTY years ago this month oc
C curred an event unique in Amer
ican political history. For on July
5, 1892, a convention of the Popu
list, or People’s, party nominated
Gen. James B. Weaver of Iowa for
President. Weaver has the distinc
| tion of being the only man who was
ever the leader of two different
"third parties” and as the head of
one of them he received the fourth
highest number of electoral votes
ever given such a candidate.
Born in Ohio in 1833, Weaver was
graduated from the law school of
| the Ohio university at Cincinnati at
; the age of 22 and migrated to Iowa
j to practice his profession. At the
outbreak of the Civil war he enlist
ed in the Union army and came out
of it a brigadier general.
After the war Weaver returned to
Iowa to resume his law practice but
was soon called to public office—
first as a district attorney and later
as assessor of internal revenue.
Dissatisfaction of the farmers
with the financial policies of Presi
dent Grant resulted in the forma
tion, by inflationists who wanted to
issue a large amount of paper
money without regard to specie pay
ment, of the National Greenback
party in which Weaver was a lead
er. In the campaign of 1876 the
Greenbackers nominated Peter
Cooper of New York for President
but he polled only 80,000 popular
votes and failed to receive a single
electoral vote.
In the congressional elections of
1878 the Greenbackers did much
better. They polled more than a mil
lion votes and elected a number of
congressmen, among them General
Weaver, who served until 1881. In
the meantime he was a delegate
to the 1880 national convention of his
party in Chicago and there became
its nominee for President. Because
of Weaver’s popularity in the West,
the Republican party was greatly
alarmed over the possibility of his
taking away enough votes from
them to assure a Democratic vic
tory. But their fears proved ground
less for the Greenbackers were able
to muster only 350,000 votes and not
a single one in the electoral college.
In '1884 Weaver was elected to I
congress by the Democratic and
Greenback-Labor parties, was re
elected in 1886 but defeated for a
third term in 1888. Meanwhile, a
i new “third party" had sprung up to
j champion the cause of the farmer
i and the working man and rapidly
gained adherents. In the state and
congressional elections of 1890 this
Populist, or. People’s, party carried
, the legislatures of Kansas and Ne
I braska, elected nine members of
i congress and forced 34 others. Re
publicans and Democrats, to pledge
themselves to carry out Populist
ideas about free coinage of silver,
j issue of paper money to be loaned
directly to farmers on the security
of their crops, abolition of national
aanks, government ownership of pub
lic utilities, establishment of a post
al savings bank, and a graduated
income tax and prohibition of alien
land ownership.
Most or these ideas were incor
porated in a book. "A Call to
Action,” which Weaver, the former
| Greenbacker. had published in 1892
and when the Populists held their
nominating convention in Chicago
that year he became their candidate
for President. This time he did bet
ter than he had done as the stand
ard-bearer of the Greenbackers. He
corralled 1,041,028 popular votes and
received 22 electoral college votes.
In his own state W’eaver received
only 20,095 votes but he did much
better in Kansas, where Populism
was rampant. There he was given
162,845 votes.
This was the climax of Weaver’s
political career. He never again
aspired to high political office al
though he served as mayor of the
| city of Colfax, Iowa, from 1904 to
1906 and died there in 1912.
During its short career the Popu
j list party gave to American political
history more picturesque char
acters, perhaps, than any party be
fore or since. One of them was
Mary Ellen Lease of Kansas who
as a campaigner for the Populists
rejoiced in a variety of sobriquets—
"Mary Yellin’,” "the Patrick Henry
in Petticoats,” and "the Lady Ora
tor of the West.” But she is best
! remembered for the advice which
| she roared at the delegates to the
Chicago convention 50 years ago—
"What you farmers need to do is
to raise less corn and more hell!”
Proof of
Love
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By
BARBARA ANN BENEDICT
Released by Western Newspaper Union
“ T T’s only a matter of time,
I Malcolm Goss told the girl,
| before you’ll love me. I’m
sure of it."
There was nothing of conceit in
his manner, and Angela shook her
head. “Time hasn't anything to do
with it. I’m—we’re not the same
kind of people."
Malcolm frowned. “You've hard
ly given me a chance to plead my
cause. Stay a little longer anyway,"
he urged. “Wait until the first snow.
It’s beautiful on the mountains.
You’ll like it.”
Angela gazed up toward the high
flung peaks of the Lockton range.
Mentally she pictured their snow
laden slopes beneath a wintry sun.
“Yes," she said. "They must be.
Everything is beautiful up here.”
She turned to him, smiling brightly.
"All right. Until the first snowfall,
then.”
It came sooner than they expect
ed. Two weeks later the sun dropped
into a bank of clouds at mid-after
noon. It began to snow shortly aft
er dark, lightly at first, developing
by morning into a raging blizzard.
Angela was delighted, thrilled. But
by the second day she began to
doubt. And on the third day with
the storm still raging, she sought
"Oh, 1 hate you for this!” she said.
out the clerk in the tiny mountain
hotel.
"When,” she asked, will the
stage leave fqr the railroad?”
He looked at her curiously and
smiled. "Next April. Possibly
May.”
“There’s no way of getting
out before then?”
“None. Ridge Peak is always
snowbound from October to April.”
"But—but the Pass? Aren’t there
dogs?”
The clerk shook his head. “It’s
been done, once or twice. And at
tempted a half dozen times.”
“You mean the others failed?”
He nodded. “Mighty dangerous
business. Only a fool would try it.”
The door behind them opened.
Malcolm Goss was standing there,
watching her. Furious, she confront
ed him.
“You knew! You knew all the
time! You thought if I had to stay
I—you—1” She left the sentence un
finished. Her eyes blazed.
He regarded her solemnly. “You
really mean that?”
"Of course I do. What else am
I to think? Oh—I hate you for this!”
She turned away, but his hand
gripped her shoulder, swung her
back.
“Listen. The storm's about
over. It hasn’t been as bad as
it seemed. Mostly wind. We
could make it—over the pass—if
you care to try.”
His voice was a challenge. For a
moment their eyes clashed. Angela
tossed her head. “When can we
start?"
! "In an hour. Get your things.
Leave as much as you can behind.
Dress warmly. I’ll arrange for the
. dogs.”
He left her. She went to her room,
sorted over her things, made up a
bundle of the bare necessities. Wait
ing for Malcolm, she wondered
whether the new feeling that as
sailed her was renewed anger—or
fear.
In an hour she went downstairs
again. Malcolm was waiting, talk
ing to the clerk. The latter looked
worried.
“All right. We’d better get go
ing.” Malcolm came across the
floor, glanced at her bundle approv
I ingly and nodded toward the door.
There were furs in the sleigh and
he tucked them around her. The
snow had stopped. There were rifts
in the clouds. She lifted her eyes
to the peaks of Lockton range. They
were white, a whiteness that was
sinister and mocking. A little trem
or ran through her body.
Toward sunset she dozed; when
she awoke they had stopped. A fire
was burning and she could smell cof
fee. A full moon was riding high
above the hemlocks in a sky free
of clouds.
I Malcolm arose from his squatting
! position before the fire. “You’d bet
ter get out and exercise a bit Cof
fee and bacon ready in five minutes.
Angela climbed out of the sleigh,
conscious of cramped limbs. “Do
we camp here?" Her tone was mat
ter of fact.
“No. We'll not camp at all.
The moon's bright, and the wind
may rise any moment.” He tried
and failed to keep anxiety from
his voice. Angela looked at him
and then glanced up through the
trees. Already their crowns
were beginning to sway gently.
She had no way of knowing what
a rising wind might mean—not un
til they reached the height-o’-land.
A gale was blowing. It was as
though another blizzard had come
up, so thick were the swirling parti
cles of snow.
Angela burrowed down in the
robes. She tried not to think of
what the clerk had said. Hours lat
er they stopped. Malcolm Goss ap
peared beside the sleigh, a blur of
white.
“Cold?” She heard his voice above
the roar of wind.
“Not a bit,” she flung back gayly.
“I like it.”
He hesitated a moment, then re
turned to the gee pole. Angela was
secretly pleased with herself.
Angela never knew how close
to death they came that night.
But she guessed at least half
of it. She remembered dropping
off to sleep again. When she
awoke it was daylight. The wind
had died. Men on snowshoes
were milling about the sleigh.
She saw another dog team—and
then she saw that they were
transferring something from be
hind her to another sleigh.
She heard a man say: “Oh, 1
guess he’ll live . . . Wonder why
the crazy fool tried it? . . . Who’s
that dame?” The voice died. An
gela struggled to get out, but the
sleigh was in motion again, and the
other team had gone.
Later they stopped at a cabin.
Someone came and helped her in
side. She was surprised at her own
helplessness. Looking around, she
saw Malcolm stretched out on a
bunk, and she flew to him.
He was conscious, but she knew
enough about frostbite to realize the
danger. Turning, she ordered the
men to bring her cold water and
cloths.
Hours later Malcolm returned to
wakefulness. He looked at her and
grinned. Angela felt a twinge of
pain, as though pricked with a knife,
though she knew it was nothing
more than conscience. She had been
thinking about her gayety up there
on the pass. Now it seemed like
levity.
“I knew if you gave me time I’d
make you love me.”
She looked at him, suddenly real
izing what a fool she’d been. She
put her thoughts into words, and
he grinned.
“We’re both fools,” he said. “Only
a fool would attempt the pass—Glad
we did though — otherwise — you
might never have known!”
Suddenly she was on her knees,
her arms about his head. “Oh, Mal
colm, you are a fool. A great big,
lovable fool. That’s—that’s why I
love you so.”
He nodded. “Sure. Every man
has to make a fool<c>f himself over a
woman sometime in his life. I—I
just chose a way that was different.”
His eyes closed. She left him
sleeping. Outside, she looked up at
the pass. It was no longer sinister
and mocking. It seemed to smile.
And she smiled back.
Psychology Found in
Greeting Cards Noted
A recent nation-wide survey con
ducted by expert psychologists re
veals the importance to the public
of greeting cards. It was learned*
that:
Greeting cards are a means by
which people who find difficulty in
expressing themselves may easily
and gracefully convey their greet
ings and good wishes to others.
Greeting cards help to celebrate
holidays and occasions of special
significance. Thus, in providing ral
lying points for the closer unifica
tion of our people, they help to
preserve, in our social structures,
values which otherwise might be
lost.
Greeting cards, at a time when
many separations are occasioned,
and many disruptions of family life
take place, help to overcome the
anxieties of loneliness, and make
people better able to cope with the
difficulties confronting them.
The emotional impact of the
greeting card on the recipient is
best demonstrated by the fact that
most people who receive greeting
cards preserve them for at least a
little while before disposing of them.
When discarded, greeting cards go
on to serve a further purpose by
yielding their raw materials for re
processing.
The survey further discloses that
any restriction in the distribution of
greeting cards would result in the
use of some substitute for the ex
change of greetings and good wishes
—and that this substitute would re
quire the use of paper in equal or
greater amounts than now used in
the production of greeting cards.
Thus, the greeting card serves the
public interest, providing emotional
outlets and social gratifications on a
desirable non-wasteful basis.
Remarkable
Man is the only meat-eating pri
mate. Goldfish can survive freezing
of the water they swim in. A single
housefly, if all its descendants lived
and bred, would be an ancestor of
2,000,000 flies at the end of one sum
mer. A male swan is called a cob;
a female, a pen; a young swan, a
cygnet. Natives of Burma believe
the slow loris doesn’t eat but lives
on the rays of the mooo.
NEW IDEAS I
A SMARTLY flounced blanket
chest with contrasting cushion
is a useful addition to any bed
room. It serves as a convenient
seat; and extra covers are right
at hand on chilly nights. A pair
of these, covered to match
spreads, would go well with twin
beds.
Plan the size of your chest to
fill your needs and space. It may
LIME WITH
OIL CLOTH
OR WALL
PAPER
PASTED ON I
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SEW THROUGH
WELTING
LID
be made of one-inch pine and
should be about 15 inches high
without the cushion. Make the
flounce with double fullness—that
is, twice as long as the space it
is to fill after it is gathered. The
cushion may be filled with cotton
padding, feathers or down.
* • *
NOTE: Book No. 8 of the series of
booklets offered with these articles gives
directions for flowered blanket protectors
and a bedside bag for books and maga
zines. Also many other things to make
for almost nothing from odds and ends
to be found in almost every home. To get
a copy of Book No. 8 send your order to:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Drawer 10
Bedford Hills New York
Enclose 10 cents for Book 8.
Name...
Address.
FARMS FOR SALE
CASH FOB YOUR FARM, or ranch. In
16 days. The larger holdings and
estates our specialty. Successful selling
service since 1912. Write for informa
tion. NEBRASKA REALTY AUCTION
CO. CENTRAL CITY, NEBR.
FOR SALE ~
TWO 12 FT. CUT MODEL A OLIVER
COMBINES, one 15 ft. Cut Model C
Nlchols-Hhepard Combine, one 22-40
Hart Parr Tractor. T. W. IIAUTIGAN,
HORNICK, IOW A.
FOR SALE ~
196 ACRES, VERY PRODUCTIVE Ir
rigated and subirrigated land. Ample
improvements, near Central City, on
gravel road. Only 156 per acre. WRITE
M. A. LARSON AGENCY, CENTRAL
CITY, NEBRASKA.
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CLASSIFIED 1
DEPARTMENT
HELP WANTED 1
Cardinal Construction Co., General Build
ing Contractors, have a contract at Sioux
Ordnance Depot near Sidney. Neb., where
a large number of carpenters, laborers,
& other skilled mechanics will be employed
during the next four months. Work is get
ting under way & workmen are not re
quested to start coming in on their own
accord. It is, however, suggested that
skilled building mechanics or laborers de
siring employment write Cardinal Con
struction Co., Box 99, Sidney Neb., at once.
CREMATION
Tiny pearl onions make tempt
ing garnishes for vegetable salads
or canapes.
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Equal amounts of coffee and
heated milk, sweetened to taste,
make an appetizing drink.
♦ * ♦
If you perspire too freely, throw
a handful of salt into your bath
water.
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When ironing no matter what
the article, the important thing is
to continue to iron it until it is ab
solutely dry.
ooo
Apply several coats of boiled lin
seed oil to the soles of your shoes
and let dry thoroughly to conserve
themm
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fire Women Better
Shoppers than Men
GRANTING a woman’s reputation for wise buying, let’s trace the
methods by which she has earned it. Where does she find out about
the advantages and details of electrical refrigeration?What tells her
how to keep the whole household clean — rugs, floors, bathroom
tiling — and have energy left over for golf and parties? How does
she learn about new and delicious entrees and desserts that surprise
and delight her family? Where does she discover those subtleties
of dress and make-up that a man appreciates but never understands?
Why, she reads the advertisements. She is a consistent, thought
ful reader of advertisements, because she has found that she can
believe them — and profit thereby. Overlooking the advertisements
would be depriving herself of data continuously useful in her job
of Purchasing Agent to the Family.
For that matter, watch a wise man buy a car or a suit or an insur
ance policy. Not a bad shopper himself! He reads advertisements, too!