Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, June 6, 1946
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T H E STORY T H IS FA R : Alicia It a
caller a l (he M arTavtsh home, and Jim
M a rT a v lib , always with an eye tor a
pretty woman, Hnds her attractive. He
Is flattered ehen the widow asks him to
( 0 over to her house to help her. Law
rence M artin, with whom M e i has kept
company lor two years, calls that night.
Rejected tor m ilitary service, Laurence
had tone Io (he county tea l Io work (or
old Judge Graham. Jim MacTavIsh an-
ajunces guiltily that he Is going tor a
walk. When Laurence arrives he Is In
good spirits and announces that Judge
Graham Is going to retire within a year
and wants him to take over. **I want
you to m arry me. Meg.” She hesitated
a long time.
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' to rise to it. " I t ’s only that—well.
I you have taken me a little by sur
prise—”
“ Oh, come, now, Meggie—not
‘this is so sudden,' ” he protested
mockingly.
“ I know—I do sound like a fool.'
she admitted quite honestly.
The raillery was gone from his
voice and his eyes when he spoke
again.
His tone was quiet and
steady, his eyes gentle and warm.
“ You have known all along, Meg
gie. that I love you. I think it first
started when we were kids. Every
man has somewhere in his mind or
his heart, or both, a picture of the
ideal—and there’ s never for a mo
ment been anyone but you in that
place for me.
Everything I ’ve
done, every thought I ’ve had for the
future, has had you all woven into
it and through it. It's been pretty
bad these last two or three years
watching you struggle to hold on to
things here and not being able to
help you. But now—well, all ‘that’s
changed, Meggie. I’ve got an in
come that is modest enough in all
in the back of the barbershop, which,
she knew, was a favorite meeting
place for some of the rather raffish
citizens who were his particular B y
aul allon
friends. And with that explanation,
she crawled into bed and finally fell ltrl^isrd by Wrstarn Newspaper Union
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asleep.
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The news of her engagement to
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TOO BIG A JOH FOR vs
Laurence was accepted without any
Sn ,
. . .
WASHINGTON. — The food cam
surprise whatever in Pleasant
paign
is
running
into
ever-deepen
Name
Grove. Mrs. Stuart summed up the
ing difficulties
attitude of the town when she said,
A d d re ss
1 he sweeping publicity campaign
comfortably. “ Well, It ain’ t no 'Sur
to
induce Americans to save for the
prise to none of us. ’Course, we're
all mighty glad and we know you hungry in the rest of the world
Special Street Cars
ceased the moment the coal
and Laurence are goin' to be happy.
strike became serious, but only
As late us 11)12, A m e ric a n s tre e t
He’s a fine boy and you’ re both lucky
temporarily. There was no use con
ra ilw a y s hud in o pe ra tion , besides
to get each other.”
CHAPTER V
sidering food saving when a fuel
76,000 re g u la r passenger ca rs,
Megan, doing the Saturday morn
tie-up and transportation curtail
n e a rly 8,000 express und fre ig h t
ing baking, with Annie's assistance, ment threatened spoilage of in
He was freshly shaven. Immacu
ca rs, m u ti cu rs, fu n e ra l cu rs and
lately groomed—and. she told her
felt her cheeks warm as she man
definite proportions. But the tenor
e x tra -fa re p a rlo r cars.
aged the conventional reply.
self, almost a little surprised, he
of the campaign had made every
w as downright handsom e.
He
You all goin' to live in Meaders- one believe that the problem of
looked less than his forty-nine years,
ville, I ’spose?” Mrs. Stuart went alleviating
world
hunger
was
holding himself erectly, as though
on, accepting with relish a slice of simply dependent upon a resolution
ALL YOU
A T LOW
in an effort to disclaim the threat j
the hot gingerbread Annie offered.
WANT
COST
by the American people to eat less.
of impending overweight
Megan paused in her kneading of
Any objective investigation w ill
For a walk? At this time of
the smooth white dough that was prove these following greater facts
night?” she protested, surprised.
going to be hot rolls when she had to the contrary:
“ It's seven o’clock, and there’ll
finished with it.
FROM WHOLE MILK
(Al No matter what our sav
be a moon." her father told her
“ I suppose so,” she admitted al
WITH THI
ings,
we
will
not
be
able
to
give
almost curtly.
most reluctantly. “ It wouldn’t be
the world the bulk of foods we
IDEAL
ELECTRIC
CHURN
A S B R IG H T und cheerful as can
very sensible for Larry to try to go
Eftty. Sim ple, require« o n ly
have promised.
be
are
these
yellow
canary
de
Almost before she had finished
to and fro, on the bus. It’s too un
•» lew m in u te* io nuilte it.
(B) We have moved so late
signs—use the 6 by 6 transfer mo
there was the brisk ring of purpose
certain.”
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that we are not simply taking
tifs on tea towels, on cottage cur
ful footsteps on the old bricked
( om plete w ith a J g al. S anitary g la*» ja r
Mrs. Stuart nodded understand-
food from our tables, but have
tains, on the corners of a soft ye l
walk, and a moment later the outer
ingly.
ACE
MFG. & DISTRIBUTING CO.
become involved in promises
low or green luncheon cloth. Oth
1377 Haight Straw t
door opened and Laurence came
“ I reckin then you'll sell the
which will cause a fast and
Son Pranclica 17, CahUrnU
er
colors
needed
are
red,
green
in, beaming as he saw her, greeting
fa rm ," she contributed wisely.
AGENTS WANTED
sharp decline in our own food
and blue.
her eagerly. He shed his light top
“ Sell the farm?” Megan repeat
production.
coat and hung it with his hat in its
ed in astonishment.
“ We really
(C) For this year, and pos
accustomed corner of the closet be
haven’t had time to discuss that,”
sibly two or three, we will get
neath the stairs.
she admitted finally. “ We aren't
less meat, butter and cheese
going to be married until the spring,
"That looks good.” He greeted
than in the war years of ra
the open fire and stood before it,
and that w ill give us plenty of
tioning. Our diets will be
time—”
warming his hands. “ I t ’s a bit nip
changed to cereals, vegetables
py out tonight, and darker than a
“ Well, now, I dunno," Mrs. Stuart
and fruits which should be
The Baking Powder
pocket. I was glad of my pocket
countered, licking the last fragrant,
available in sufficient quantities
flash before I got here.”
w ith the
spongy crumbs of the gingerbread
to stave off hunger here.
“ There is no moon?" asked Me
from her fingertips. “ Folks that’s
The need of many sections of the
gan in surprise.
going to farm a year always wants world for food has now been estab
“ Not yet," answered Laurence.
to get in and settled by January, lished beyond question, although
C labber G irl it today't baking pow
“ Not before nine, I should say.”
or February at the latest. If you’re the earlier whooping-up campaign
der . . . the natural choice for the
He stood, tall and boney, and a
going- to sell, you better let folks contained much hokum about non
little stooped, as though his height
know right away. Reckin you won’t existent needs. An army news re
modern recipe. It» balanced double
had run away from his weight. His
have no trouble gettin’ a good price sume currently quotes Brigadier
thick, dark hair was brushed neat
oction guarantees just the right action
for the place, farmland bein’ higher General Fisher of our occupation
ly back from an intelligent fore
than it ever has been before
forces as saying the German farms
in
the mixing bowl, plus that final ri»e
head. His eyes were brown and
“ I suppose so,” Megan agreed are the most prosperous in the
steady behind the hornrimmed eye
to light and fluffy flavor in the oven.
She was secretly, if unashamedly.
— . world today. Another sim ilar re-
glasses, his jaw was square and
I g» d *'hen MrS' Stuart 10011 herself j port of equal authority says there
dogged, his mouth thin-lipped, rath
are no starving Bavarians. The
er generous but pleasant.
With the last of the baking in the British m inistry has announced suf
Suddenly he grinned at her. and
stove, and Annie safely in charge, ficient stores of food in that nation
said, "Well? Do you see anything
Megan stripped off her apron, went to meet rationing quotas in all
different about me?
Have I
out of doors, and whistled to the lines, even butter and cheese
dogs.
changed?”
which are practically non-existent
Megan’s eyebrows went up a lit
in “ white” markets here.
U IM A N
A N O
C O M T A N r .
l i i t i
H A U T I.
IN D IA N A
tle.
"No — has something hap- |
Reaching the top of the hill, where WHERE SHORTAGES ARE
pened?”
Laurence turned sharply, so that the big flat stone lay at the foot of
The European shortages are
“ Well, the old Judge called me in j he was sitting sideways on the the tallest, most majestic pine, she largely in the Russian occupied
lounge,
facing
her
squarely.
sat down and drew up her knees
this afternoon, and told me that he I
areas, plus Italy, Greece and some
plans to retire next year,” Lau
and encircled them with her arms. parts of France. The two ships
rence told her eagerly. "The old conscience, but it can take care of The dogs rushed about, delirious
diverted from England by head
fellow’s getting on and he is pretty you, Meggie, and I promise it w ill with joy.
man La Guardia of UNRRA, went
Below her to the left she could
tired. But he wants me to take be easier for you than it has been in
to Russian occupied zones. Yet the
over, beginning now. so that in a the past I ’ll see to that! So—w ill see the roof and the backyard of
need
in actual hunger areas is real.
year he can slip gracefully out of you let me, Meggie? Because I the Westbrook place. There was
love you and because I can’t visu the remnant of an orchard on the So is it also on the other side of
the picture and I can carry on!”
the world, in India, China and
‘ "ITiat's splendid. Larry—but no alize any kind of life without you.” slope back of the house; shrubbery the Philippines,
There were tears in her eyes, and that had never been pruned and so
more than you deserve,” Megan
To meet these needs we have en
her heart gave a warm throb as grew riotously tall, formed a sort of tered upon a complete upsetting of
told him swiftly and eagerly.
He nodded, his eyes very steady she turned to him and said, “ Yes, hedge along the front. The nearest our economy to the point of promot
and very serious behind his rimmed Larry—if you’re sure you want me. ’ neighbor to the Westbrook place ing further reduced production,
Laurence said huskily, “ As it 1 was Stevens, which was around a particularly of livestock, all forms
glasses. “ Thanks, honey,” he an
could
ever be as sure of anything bend in the road and so out of sight of animal foods, poultry, hogs,
swered, and went on before she
of the shabby little old house.
could take note of the endearment, else in my life !”
Behind her, Megan knew the sheep, dairy and beef cattle. Our
" I t affects you, too, of course. That
Ridge
sloped into a valley that was beef cattle population, which last
He
took
her
into
his
arms,
awk
is, I hope it does.”
threaded
by the small brook that year numbered 83 million, has run
His smile was confident, assured. wardly, as though she had been
watered
her
own meadow, and that below 80 m illion and is going down
Obviously he was so sure of her something so infinitely fragile and
widened
out
a little so that there fast. On a prewar ratio to popula
that his qualification of the state precious that the slightest careless were rich bottom lands bordering it. tion, we should have over 100 m il
ment had been merely a surface touch might destroy her; yet there It was a peaceful scene in the mild lion beef cattle. The pig crop has
was a strength and an urgent ten
matter.
been lim ited to 31 million, which is
" I t ’s no secret to you. Meggie, I derness in his touch that made her autumn morning. Here in this shel about three-fourths of what could be
tered
coastal
country,
winter
played
She
that you’ve been my inspiration all . heart stir unaccustomedly.
a mild hand; there was hardly ever considered normal.
these years, and you must have I loved his very awkwardness, loved
These curtailments were forced
any
ice, seldom a killing frost. Two
known all along that as soon as I the fact that when he bent to kiss crops a year grew from the farms, because wheat and corn feed stocks
her,
his
lips
touched
her
cheek
be
got to the point where I felt sure I j
and life was peaceful and placid have been cut in order to send
could take care of you, I wanted fore finding her lips. She was the Or it had been until Alicia Steven them to the rest of the world. In
one
love
of
his
life;
his
inexpert
you to m arry me,” he went on !
son came to live here. Megan jerked short, by sending feed abroad we
quietly. “ I ’ve got to that point now. i ness, his confusion, told her that
i And the fact that he had not had her thoughts away from the un can do no more than produce three-
so—w ill you, Meggie?”
enough experience with other girls pleasant riddle of Alicia Stevenson, fourths our usual number of pigs.
But for some queer reason, Me
to be deft and smooth with her en- because she had something of far A government order denies chicken
gan hesitated before answering. l deared him to her.
more importance, to herself at feed to any poultry raiser having
Hesitated so long, her eyes on the [
least, to think about.
more than 80 per cent of the num
fire, her hand lax beneath his own, ! There were so many things to be
Mrs. Stuart had taken it for grant ber of chickens he had last year.
that Laurence looked at her in sud considered, so many problems to ed that Megan would sell the farm This w ill force a 20 per cent re
Driving with impure oil in your car, truck or tractor can do
den sharp alarm and said quickly. ' I be settled. But tonight was no time when she married Laurence. No duction
in
poultry
population.
as much damage as driving with no o il. . . it just takes longer.
“ Hi. look here, lady—it ’s polite to for them. Tonight it was enough body who knew Jim MacTavish While there are no particular re
j just to know one's self deeply be could visualize him running the strictions on beef cattle feed, it
speak when you’re spoken to.”
Dirt, grit, carbon and sludge increase wear on moving parts
“ I ’m sorry, L a rry.” She turned loved; to know that she was first farm or even living there after Me cannot be purchased, and unless
and lead to breakdowns, costly repairs. But, with the new
to him in quick, contrite apology. in Laurence’s thoughts, as she had gan was gone. He’d take the money the farm er has corn, oats and hay,
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“ I t ’s just that—well, I scarcely been for a long, long time.
Megan got from the sale and run he must sell his cattle. Sim ilarly,
of
an inch are filtered out. Result: you add trouble-free miles
know what to say.”
When he left, with fifteen minutes through it and be “ on” Laurence the government is promoting the
to the life of your tractor, truck or car!
Laurence was surprised ' and a to catch his bus. she went slowly and Megan's hands for support the sale of hogs, at lighter weights than
little dashed. But his hand closed up the stairs to her own room and rest of his life. Megan was unapolo- usual—which w ill decrease produc
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more warmly over hers and he said sat for a while in the darkness. !it getic for the thoughts; she was not tion further.
with an effort at lightening the by the silver square of autumn conscious of any disloyalty towards
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“ I wish—it could be yes’
she self that she should feel, not the ex knew him so well that she did not not undertake a world food export
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admitted frankly.
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Laurence turned sharply, so that newly engaged, but only a weariness Jim would look after himself. She store normal livestock supplies in
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he was sitting sideways on the that seemed to drug her limbs and didn’t even expect it.
nothing to lose, with Fram I
*
two or three years. Only poultry
lounge, facing her squarely. His to slow her heart.
She looked out over the beloved and pigs can be restored in less
thick, dark brows were drawn to
acres of the old farm. Not to be time, and pigs require about nine
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She was still awake when she here when the early spring broke, months. I f we have a good crop,
eyes were apprehensive.
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“ See here, Meggie, what are you zled, she looked at the little clock row and turn back the rich dark our own food situation w ill be no
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optimistic
government
expectations
ing all coy on me?” he demanded past twelve! An incredible time for ground and witness the age-old,
equipped, have him make the Fram Dipstick Test. The Dip-
on the wheat crop are already run
anxiously.
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“ Of course not.”
She tried to when he had left the house at seven. food and sustenance from the dark
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“ Of course, I didn’t do it with
been
born
to
it;
she
had
inherited
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’
the proper build-up,” he admitted mark the caution with which he it, not only from her mother but winter wheat crop w ill not justify
with a little crooked grin. “ Maybe mounted the stairs, the wariness from her mother’s people before any such guess on the year a« a
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I should have dropped on one knee with which he walked, heavily On her, people who had turned their whole.
w ilt t u r n d a rk i n color a lm o s t as soon as p u t in t o th e en g in e.
in front of you, with one hand on tip toe, past her door to his own backs on a known and beloved Scot
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my heart, the other outflung in a room. Only by straining her ears land, who had faced the terrors and ment does not promote expansion
W here such oils are used, filte r cartrid ges m u s t ba changed on a
pleading gesture, and spid some could she hear his door close. And hardships of a brand new world, that of production. It got aroused about
m ileage or h o u rly basis.
thing like, ‘Miss MacTavish—Miss then she gave herself a mental they might have land that was their food a little too late for that. To
Megan—may 1 call you Meggie? shake and got up to prepare for own. Land that had been cleared feed the hungry abroad there is
WiU you do me the honor to accept bed.
by her forefathers, land that had nothing to be done now except to
my undying devotion?’ Shall I do
The explanation of her father’ s been fed and watered by the very curtail domestic consumption, and
it that way?”
late return was quite simple, after sweat of their tired bodies; every enter the country largely upon a
“ Don’t be an id io t!” Megan was all. He had been playing pinochle inch of the place was part of her.
fru it and vegetable diet for an in
grateful for the lightness and tried with some of his cronies, probably
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