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THURSDAY, JA N U A R Y 7. 1M2
TIMES. WILLAMINA. OREGON
2
. BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN
DISTINCTIVE
Old Man River Ousts the Jobless
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By THORNTON W . BURGESS
PETER RABBIT TRACKS HIS
NEIGHBORS
T WAS a perfectly glorious night.
I Meadows
Mistress Moon flooded the Green
and the Green Forest with
silvery light, and the white snow which
covered everything helped to make still
more light. In fact It was almost ns
light as day, It seemed to Peter Rab
bit. In spite of all little Mrs. Peter
could say he had started for the Green
Forest just as soon ns jolly, round, red
Mr. Run had gone to bed behind the
Purple Hills.
•‘It's just like visiting a new world,”
thought Peter as he reached the edge
of the Green Forest. “I do wish that
Fuzzy wasn't so timid.” By Fuzzy he
meant little Mrs. Peter, who you know,
It Was Whitefoot, the Woodmouse.
was once Miss Fuzzytail. “She thinks
that Just because my coat is brown
and everything else is «white it is a
great deal more dangerous here than
when there Isn't any snow. She doesn’t
know what wonderful hiding places
there are everywhere now. The snow
has bent down all those little hem
lock trees and the lowest branches
on the big hemlock trees so that un
der them are the most wonderful caves.
Why, I can Jump out of sight almost
anywhere here. Hello! I wonder who
made those funny tracks. I believe I'll
follow them and find out.”
The tracks were just the tiniest of
little dots with a tiny little line be
tween the two rows. That line puz
zled Peter. You know he Is not
used to tracking his neighbors. Of
course the double row of dots were
the prints of tiny feet, but what made
the line? Peter followed ns fast as he
could, which wasn't so very fast, be
cause the tracks wound about so much.
Presently they led to an old log cov
ered with snow. In one side of It was
a little hole, and right there the tracks
ended.
•'Hello I” called Peter.
“Hello yourself and see how you like
it I” replied a squeaky little voice.
Peter chuckled. He knew that voice.
“Why don't you come out and be po
lite when you have callers?” he said.
“Did you say callers? Who is with
you, Peter Rabbit?” asked a squeaky
voice.
“Well, a «tiler. If you like that bet
ter. There Is uo one with me,” replied
Peter.
Right nway a pretty little head with
the loveliest soft eyes appeared nt the
hole. It was Whitefoot, the Wood-
niouse. “Excuse me, Peter, If I seemed
to be a little bit Impolite,” said he.
"I have to be very carefid these days.
I can’t afford to take any chances
when there are so many hungry peo
ple about. How did you find me?"
“Easy enough,” replied Peter. “1
just followed your tracks, though I
didn’t know whose they were.”
Whitefoot sighed. "That is the trou
ble with snow—It Is n regular telltale,"
said he. “One cannot move while it is
soft without leaving tracks. It tells
all one's secrets. Better watch out,
Peter, that some of your enemies don’t
catch you by means of your tracks;
they are very easy to follow."
“I'm not worrying,” declared Peter.
“If they can see my tracks I can see
theirs, so It Is an even thing. It Is
great fun to follow tracks. By the
way, Whitefoot, how do you make that
funny little line between your foot
prints?"
“With my tail, of course. How stu
pid of you not to know,” replied White-
foot “A long tall Is rather a nuisance
sometimes," he added.
Peter chuckled. “Mine doesn’t both
er me,” said he. I’m very glad to have
found out about your tracks. Next
time I will know them. Now I am go
ing to see who else I can follow. If
isn’t often I have such a chance, and
it is great fun. I expect I shall learn
a whole lot a1>out my neighbors.”
“Watch out that they don’t learn
some thingsimhout you that you would
rather keep secret," warned Whitefoot.
But Peter Just laughed and went on
his way.
(Æ) by J. O. L lo y d .)— W N U Service
If thus you think, no other man
Is much inclined to think you can.
Who doubts himself has built a wall
Around himself the first of all.
And now must spend his strength and
time
His self-made barrier to climb.
New H arv ard C aptain
PROGRAMS
On Your Radio
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COUNT VON LUCKNER
TEADY rising »if the muddy waters of the Mississippi has resulted In the
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abandonment of many “residences'* In the little villages established on Its
shores near St. Louis by more than SCO Jobless men. These settlements nre
called Merryland, Tintown, llappyland, etc. In the picture "Mayor” Gus
Smith Is seen at the right with a few of the citizens.
How high he climbs, how low de
scends.
Depends, whatever fortune brings.
On him, and not on other things—
Not on his luck nor on Ids lond,
the water. If light stock Is desired
use veal nnd do not brown. Cover
with two quurts of cold water. Have
the bones crushed and simmer for
two nnd one-half hours. Do not al
low It to boll. Now add the vege
tables nnd cook another hour. Strain,
chill nnd remove fat. It Is now ready
to be serve»! with other vegetables or
noodles.
Pineapple Salad.
FOUR GOOD THINGS
you want to serve an ex
W HEN
ceptionally nice frozen dish, try:
Place a ring of plnenpple on lettuce
and arrange three balls of cream
cheese on each. Fill the center with
mayonnaise and serve.
1931. W estern Newspaper U nion.)
Will Show How Crop
Estimates Are Made
Apricot Henri.
Take one can (two and one-half
pounds) of apricots, put through a
sieve, add to the fruit one-fourth cup
ful of lemon Juice, one and one-half
cupfuls of orange Juice, one cupful of
sugar and a pinch of salt. Mix well
and freeze.
Crop Reporting Board Will
Take Listeners Behind
the Scenes.
Orange Blossom Salad.
Peel small navel oranges and re
move all the white membrane Slice
firm heads of lettuce In three l^ rth s-
inch slices, place nn orange on the let
tuce and open the fruit so that It re
sembles the petals of a flower. Mois
ten the fruit and lettuce with a snap
py french dressing and top with a
spoonful of mayonnaise mixed with
whipped cream.
Divinity Balls.
And, even if he scales the top,
There Is another thing to stop
His progress: 'tls the twisted wire
Of folly, habit and desire.
The brambles that will bar his path
Are often but the fruits of wrath
From seeds that he himself has sown.
I bid you never plant your own
And you will find a passage through
The pits that others set for you.
If you yourself no pits have set
Of futile sorrow and regret.
Yes, men will fall, and fall again,
Because they drag a ball and chain
Of foolish pleasure, doubt or fear.
But, if you keep your vision clear,
Your purpose true, your morals clean.
Life has no bounds, luck no desroesne.
How far a man may go, my friends,
Carl H. Hageman of Lorain, Ohio,
right end of the Harvard varsity 1031
eleven, who was elected unanimously
to captain the Harvard team for the
coming season. Hageman is nineteen
years of age and has earned an envi
able reputation as an all around In
tercollegiate athletic star.
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Cook one and one-fourth cupfuls of
■agar, one-third cupful of light corn
sirup, one-fourth cupful of water, one-
eighth teaspoonful of salt to the hard
ball stage. Leave the saucepan over
the burner after the heat has been
turned off. Beat one egg white un
til ^tiff. Pour over the hot sirup very
slowly, beat until the mixture holds
Its shape. Add one-half teaspoonful
of vanilla, one cupful of sliced dates
nnd one-half cupful of nut meats; mix
thoroughly and turn out on n marble
slab, make Into balls and roll In toast
ed or tinted coconut. This makes one
nnd one-fourth pounds.
Basic Energy Soup.
Take two and one-half pounds ot
veal or beef soup meat nnd bone.
Brown half the meat before adding
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By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
The girl friend »aye her husband I»
eo modest he watches the bathing girl»
through the wrong end of hi» tele
scope.
(©. B ell S v n d leato . »— WNU
S o r v le a .
T y p ic a l A m e r ic a n Seen
A typical A1 «•>■!<• a Is one who
doesn't resent slik bids b • •anse lie ex
pects to wear otic Idnii'clf some day.—
Minneapolis Star.
Milliner Sits as Judge in a Soviet Russian Court
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Walls, fences, borders, what are they,
That shot and shell may shoot away?
The barriers that hold us back
Are not the forts that men attack,
But barriers we seem to build
Within ourselves. The world Is filled
With men who failed. I wonder why?
So oft a purpose seems to die
With not a battlement before.
Peace has defeat ns well as war,
And more dreams die by their own
hand
Than some attack some foeman
planned.
Well, first we build a wall of doubt
About ourselves—ourselves shut out
From cities that we dream to take.
The wall the first of all to break,
Whatever victory we want,
,1s chat old wall that savs ”1 ca n ’t ”
Listeners will lx- taken behind the
Scenes to hear an explanation ol
how the government Crop Reporting
Board prepares the estimates of crop
ami live stock proiluctlon which Its
members announce regularly In the
National Farm and Home Hour when
W. F. Callander, chairman of the
hoard, speaks In the Department
period of the National Farm nnd
Home Hour on Tuesday, January 12.
Callander will describe grnphlcnlly
how the Board analyzes statistics
collected from 300,000 farmers, and
from this mass of (lata makes the
monthly estimates which are con
sidered the most authoritative In thq
world.
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For stockmen, a group of three
economists »»III explain the recent
course of prices for beef cattle,
hogs, nnd sheep. In the program of
Wednesday. January 13.
• • •
The Federal Farm Board will eon.
tlnue Its series of talks during 1032
setting forth the progress made In
various lines of co-operntlve organ*
Ization.
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Future Farmers will hear their
special monthly program on Mon
day, January 11, nnd on Saturday,
January 1C, there will he a broad
cast of the monthly program by the
National Grange.
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Count von I.uckner, noted German
sea raider, who spins yarns of the
seven seas In the radio series “Ad«
venturing with Count von Luckner.4
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HIS typical scene In n Moscow
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criminal court shows Comrade Hoi
kina, n former milliner, presiding. II
Is what William I. Hlrovlch, represent
ative from the Fourteenth congression
al district In New York city, describes
ns a part of "the finest and most hu
mane prison system In the world.”
Doctor Hlrovlch recently completed n
visit to the Soviet states to study
their prison system nnd Judicial ma
chinery.
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Thirty-two measures of music writ
ten during the closing announce
ment of the National Farm nnd
Home Hour, Is the speed record o f
Harry Kogen, director of the Home
steaders orchestra. As the announ
cer began, Kogen became aware of
the fact, that two of his violinists
did not have the music for the
"Honieslenders’ Waltz,” the closing
theme number. Kogen wrote and
finished It In the nick of time.
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Aiming to stress the Importance
of forest fire prevention, the United
States Forpst service will hrqndenst
Ihe second In n series of dramatic
skits on Thursday, January 11.
“With Uncle Sam’s Forest Rangers”
features episodes In the life of an
“old ranger” nnd Its youthful cub
assistant.
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The Future Farmers of America,
will present their regular monthly
broadcast In the National Farm and
Home Hour on Monday, January 11,
featuring news of Future Farmers
activities and talks by their leaders.