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jxeE FOUR THE JOURNAL. PLATTSMOUTH, A SKA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14,-1946 1 IS- J5 . Copyright, 1946.' NEA Service. Inc. i'.Hi ' THE STORY! Betsy admits to Xaria that nhe has oprnt the day A 'vrith, Pen Dohdn, Fen needn her. he says. She nhrnss off nna's query about Trover, who ban loved Betsy since childhood. aua reminds Betsy that Uownes has a wife, even It he doesn't lire with her. VIII "DETSY'S face flushed. "I know Pen isn't any plaster saint, Nana, but if he had a wife who was interested in what he was do ing, who was everything he want ed, he would be different, I know." I said, "Do you think you are everything he wants, Betsy?" Her head went up proudly, "I know I am." I said, "And this wife in Con necticut, Betsy. Do you think she was once everything he wanted?" She said, "He's changed. His ideas have matured. He wanta something real from a woman; something more than just the wish to be Mrs. Penfield Downes." I said, "Do you think he'll change again?" She bit her lip and didn't an swer me. "Why doesn't he get a divorce?" I asked. Betsy looked t me surprised, "I've just told you. She likes be ing Mrs. Penfield Downes. She wouldn't hear of it." I started to say, "Do you be lieve that, Betsy?", but I stopped before I said it and made a fool out of myself. For wasn't that the very thing we were saying about Phillipa? The old saying about the view depending upon where you stand went through my head. Where Fletch was involved the situation looked one way; where Penfield Downes was in volved it looked another. I said, "Betsy, do you love Pen Downes?" She flung tip her head, "Yes," she said, and she was terribly proud to say it aloud. "And he you?" I asked. She said softly, "Yes, I know he does." She flung her arms high and threw back her head. "He has told me a hundred times, in a hundred different ways." T SAID, and I hated myself for A it and for the edge that crept into my voice, "Did he ever tell you in a simple sentence that couldn't be misunderstood?" She looked at me. "I've just told you," she said shortly, "that Pen loves me. I know." I said, "As your brother Fletch loves Dru Ellis?" She swung around, startled. She said, "What do you mean?" "Just that," I said. "Fletch loves Dru so much that until the day Phillipa releases him, he will never speak of it. Never so much as touch her hand." Under my breath, I added, "Again." It wasn't quite the truth I was tell ing, but something had to be done. "When a man loves a woman dearly, Betsy, he wants to come to her with clean hands and an open heart. When he merely cov ets her youth and beauty, when she is merely a conquest to satisfy his ego, he comes to her with flat tery and easy caresses. Fletch loves Dru with all his heart." Betsy was still shaken. "Fletch and Dru," she said. "I never guessed." I thought to myself, "There's something to think about, young lady." I hoped I had started a train of thought which might counteract the one that Mr. Pen field Downes had started. But I wasn't sure. When Fletch had said, "We can't go on this way," it had been Dru who said, "There is no other way for us." I wondered if Betsy, who was so fiercely loyal and so much too tender, had the strength to answer that way. Certainly Pen Downes would not respond as had Fletch to that same answer. Betsy's reaction, which came very swiftly, was totally different, hoped, She left my room abruptly, say ing, "I must dress. We're going to Ann Quillman's for dinner." I knew who was meant by "we." At the ddbr she turned and asked, "Will it disturb you if I leave the doors open? It is so hot." T SHOOK my head and settled t" back In my chair. I must have cWed off, for I was startled to hsar Er t.-y call out from her room. "Is that you. Tliil? Will you come in a mo men, please. I want to talk to you." ' . I heard Bctv's door open nnd close and then Phil's .voice sound ing as usual as though it needed defrostins. "Well?" Betsy's voice was warm with her intenseness. "Phil, why don't you divorce Fletch?" The ice was gone from Phil's voice, too, when she answered, "I like your nerve, Betsy... What right do you have to ask me that?" Betsy's voice rushed on, "You don't want him, Phil. You don't care anything about him. If you ever had a spark of affection for him at all, let him be happy." "Let him be happy!" Phil re peated. "What about me?" Her voice rose shrilly. "Oh, I get it. It doesn't matter about me. I'm not a Willson." Betsy replied slowly, "But you are a Willson, and it does matter about you, Phil. You aren't hap py either. You can't be. You would be much happier living some other way, and Daddy would see that you had enough to live on." Phillipa laughed, "You know, Betsy, you have a hell of a nerve talking like this, but I think for the first time I like you. You're honest enough to admit that what I do now matters because I'm in the Willson clan, and you offer to buy me off! The rest of the God- Veteran's Wife Warned Not to Probe Army Life and Try to "Forgive" Him ,The wife of the returned soldier should keep in niind that he was living in a man's world and that it will take time for him to read- however, from what I might have 4 Almighty Willsons wouldn't sloop Yugoslavia Is Hit With Hard Winter BELGRADE Yugoslavia is .in the grip of a hard winter with deep snow blocking roads and impeding transport to vitally necessary sup plies. UNRRA workers making ditions. overland journeys that ordinarily: A special shipment of army ra tions obtained by UNRRA from surpluses is on the way for distri bution to areas which are snow bound the worst and also for dis tribution to truck drivers who are making heroic efforts to get sup plies through despite blizzard con- are a matter of hours now find J . that they take up to seven days. 1 Use Journal Want Ad i OPEM FOR BIISirJESS I Plumbing and Heating Specialists s m I We have cpened a plumbing and heating busi- g ness in Plattsmouth fcr sales, service and repairs. We will install gas furnaces, stokers, and 'oil furnaces, j also selling automatic gas, electric and oil hot water heaters. Too, we will sell electric pumps and wind- j mills or service them. See us for better prices. , 1 just. She should also, realize that he has been growing while she may have, been waiting. Warning her against probing .into possible affairs he "niay have' had while away.' Dr. Ilarynia writes: " 'I found that I was a man and could act and feel .like a manvI am n6t going to give ; that tip.' That was the end of a talk with a young sergeant who had just came back. He had changed. Hey needed to be met with an accept ance of that fact. It will be wise to face the almost certain fact that he is never going to be the same. He and others like him will returned having grown and devel oped, discovered new potentiali ties in themselves. Women must be prepared to do the adjusting themselves and learn to live up to the challenge of their men. "No one doubts that the goal of all soldiers' thoughts, through all their time away, has been home. But the idea of borne to the man who had never been seri ously threatened may be a very different thing from that it is to that same man after years of army life and months of danger. After the first exciting but terrifying business of being physically con verted from an individual into a tiny part of a mass of OD, distin guished by a set of dog tags, there began to be built up in these men a sense of being part of some thing. The sacred army family, the outfit, was born. He belonged there. There he was an insider and everybody else was an out sider. Together they " sweated it out. Apparently these, men found out something about the realities of brotherhood, or democracy or whatever you want to call it that doesn't harmonize too well with what they found at home. "They found out that . they weren't just boys dressed upn soldier suits waving toy ' ..guns. They were men. This was a uniquely male experience and. for many of them, the first time thev KANSAS CITY, Mo. 01' Dob-jhad felt anything to be that, bin and the Missouri mule are be- j Sometimes this masculinity may ing honorably discharged. (have gone to the soldier's head. From cavalry center's, remount 'There has been a lot of deploring stations, and mule pack training going on about soldiers' vices, and bases,' animals surplus to the needs: no doubt they are to be deplored, of the peacetime army are being j But they can and must be under turned over to the surplus pro-rstood in their real significance or perty disposal program and sold at we may find ourselves uhnece's public auction to buyers through-jsarily pained by them, out the nation. "The principal evil doings to According to John E. Kirchner, i which soldiers always have been associate regional director of the prone are wine, women and dice. remain a part of his past, buried and excluded. ' "Sometimes it . is; the women to whom the man returns who feels the discomfort and ' change. One young girl complained that she felt her husband to. be so dif ferent, so changed. He was a boy when she had known him and he had returned a man and made de- Fftrnham mands on her she couldn't meet. She had stood still while he was growing. "The job to which the man is returning is not an inconsiderable part of his life. He has all sorts of hard adjustments to make. Some of the men who have given their wives and'themselves im mense satisfaction by their achievements in the army in terms of rank, will return to jobs which cannot give the same kind of lift. They know arid understand the vast unimportance of it all. They have learned that any job is equal to any other. But they will be sensitive to any sugges tion from those around them that they have somehow failed to get a civilian job equal to their army position. Unless the women , can see the job problem in all its reality and significance, men are going to be forced into positions of defensiveness and resentment. They will have enough heartaches about it. What they must have is the sure acceptance of themselves which doesn't waver in face of the unessential." to such low bargaining." (To Be Continued) Army's Surplus Animals Being Sold at Auction WE ALSO DO PUMP WORK PHONE 146 620 1st Ave. GLENN PANKONIN Plumbing and Heating Just West of Wiysel's Garage EmflBiaiiB J Just Received! New Jamesway OIL and ELECTRIC LIMITED SUPPLY SHORTS and BRAN EARLY ORDER DISCOUNTS On BABY CHICKS War Assets Corporation Region 8 with headquarters in Kansas City, 1600 riding and draft horses and 3620 harness and pack mules were sold at a series of six auction ale . held . . during the last two months of 1945. Attending these sales have been buyers representing riding acade mies, resort establishments nd dude ranches located in all parts of the country, seeking the army trained horses. The bulk of the mule sales have been to traders from southern states where ani mals undergo their reconversion from packing .army supplies to working the cotton and sugar fields of the south. One Mississippi man purchased five car loads of mules at the December 31 sale in Kansas City. Dobbin's average age at mus tering out has been ten-and-onc half years, his height 15 hands and . two-and-one-quarter inches,, .and 'his weight 1090 potfnds. The mules have been of a much younger var- iety averaging four to ten years in : age, but the height and weight have been nearly the same as the ; horses. 1 Mr. Kirchner, announced anoth jer sale to be held in Kansas City ;0n February 18 at which 73 mares, 1 137 riding and 30 light draft hor ses and 626 mules are to make j their change oyer to civilian life. : Information regarding purchases at this sale may be obtained from the War Assets Corporation re gional office located at Troost Ave. kand Bannister Rd. (95th St.), Kansas Cty, Mo. The song and strong language they can mix with all three. 4 "Drinking, swearing and .gam bling is easily. accepted in. com parison with the fear aroused over the soldier's attitude toward sex. The wives and sweethearts of men always feel great anxiety when there is separation. If the man is away, may .he not be un faithful and lose jus attachment to his wife or girl "friend? The fact of being cut off from the familiar and loved women does not act on men in a way to make them want to forego sexual ex pression. He never feels, that it s a replacement of the love and de votion he has for his wife or wants to have for some womari who will be entirely his, All of this women must understand or they will be hurt and possibly resentful. Worse that that they ntay want to 'know all about it," with the idea of forgiving the errant man. That is likely to be the Poorest possible way to ap proach it. It is far better disre garded as part of the experiences not to "be shared .or exposed. It is for him finished, if it ever hap pened. He intends that it shall Rickenbacker Heads AAF Aid Society Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker will assume the presidency of the AAF Aid Society, and organization de signed to aid Air Force personnel and their families, according to the Grand Island army air field public relations officer. The society recently held a nation-wide drive to obtain a larger membership. The society furnishes funds to help with the support and education of the children of Air Corps men who lost their lives in the service. Membership is limited to wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters of the air corps men and air WACs. Captain Rickenbacker, hero of World War I, served as advisor to the army air corps during World War II. He gained headlines in the second world war when he was forced down at sea during a fly ing tour of the Pacific area. . Other officers include: Mrs. Henry II. Arnold, vice-president; Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, vice presi dent; Lt. Col. Cail II. McClure, III, secretary; and Mr. Robert V. Fliming, treasurer. V A Couple of Old Heads Signal Corps Is Taking Civilians As Technicians signal Corns Is 1 24 3 isnide ARMY AIR FIELD, GRAND ISLAND, NEBR., FEB. 12 The Army Signal Corps now is re cruiting eivilians to take the places of enlisted technicians now sta tioned in the Phillippines, Japan, ad Korea the Grand Island army air field public relations officer revealed today. Attractive jobs are being of fered civilians skilled in the main tenance and repair of radio, ra dar, telephone, and electrical pow er, equipment, and in several other classifications. These appointments, for a mini mum of one year with transporta tion furnished both ways,, carry salaries ranging from $1.50 to $1.70 per hour for a 40-hour week, with provisions for over time and night work differential. Quarters and subsistence will be provided ' by the army at a cost not to exceed $40 a month. These civilian employees will participate in annual and sick leave creidts. They will receive necessary medi cal care, hospitalization, and com pensation for service-connected injuries. They may make purchas es at quartermaster sales stores and outlets of the army exchange service, and they may participate in army recreational facilities. Positions to be .filled include electricians, central telephone technicians, telephone and tele graph installer-repairmen, auto matic telephone system mainten ance men, powermen, telephone repeatermen, manual switchboard installer:repairnien, . teletype mechanics, telephone and tele graph wire; chiefs, electrical in strument' repairmen, radio repair men of several classifications, high speed automatic radio operators, fixed station transmitter attend ants, cryptographic. repairmen and ROTC Band Concert Is Set for Sunday LINCOLN, Neb. The Uni versity of Nebraska's ROTC band will present its annual mid-winter I concert at the coliseum here Sun day afternoon at 3 o'clock, undt-r the direction of Don Lentz. Two I student soloists will appear with I il 1 1 v r . c . 11 ' T" me Dana: margarei .uouun, dkh ver City, cornetist, and Phyllis Fischer, Shickeley, marimbist. The band will make an earlier appear ance at 12:30 p.m. on a statewide broadcast, at which time Chancel lor C. S. Boucher will speak on the occasion of the university's char ter day. .Vtt.J .j. f 1, -'a W I ;,V A. Connie Mack discusses 1946 baseball prospects with Bob Feller at Iowa farm bov's baseball school at Tampa's Cuscaden Park- Cass Engineering Company Consulting - Designing Manufacturing Robert M. Mann Phone 2S5-W Complete Line of Feeds and Remedies We Deliver Willis Hatem By Plattsmouth Sales Barn Phone 19 The Time Shop ' John Bissing Prop. 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