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notches before Mrs. Lackey brought around the apple pie. We'll
never get tired of meeting good fellows and dining at heavily
laden tables.
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eight marriages in the Chandler AAA relief office during 1941.
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No use pretending,
Any more,
That I've got the stuff
To make a go of it
Alone.
I haven't.
And I can't-
So why try
To kid myself
I have.
Or my neighbor, or you?
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and thread and watching the food budget pretty close, isn’t it fine
to be alive these tangy January days'1 I'd hate to miss any of it
and when the curtain falls for me I hope to bow out of the picture
saying. "Thank you, life, for a lovely time.”—Waurika News-Demo-
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I've tried all that—
it didn't work
All my smartness.
All my boasts.
All my alibis and excuses
Were a flop-
Now I'm coming clean,
Asking you, straight.
To give me a hand!
I'm not bright.
I'm not brave.
I'm not kind.
I m not patient,
I'm not even
Really honest, God.
MAYBE. OF COURSE,
Some of it isn't
My fault.
Maybe
I’m not to blame
if I'm not a master mind
And haven’t got
A heart of gold
Or a spine of steel.
But. even so.
I might do
The best I can
According to
My limitations.
But I don't
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No use fooling!
I never yet
Have really done
The best. I could —
Nor even half the best!
I'm sick
Of messing along
Like this—
I want, at last.
Before I quit,
To hang up
Some sort
Of a record.
Not for myself.
Not for rewards
But just
For the sake
Of knowing, for once.
I've played fair.
PLEASE. GOD,
Out of Your Beauty,
Out of Your Truth.
Out of Your Courage—
Give me some
And help me
Pass it along.
Help me be game
When I'm feeling yellow.
Help me to grin
When I'm feeling sunk.
Help me to shoot straight
When I want to lie.
And to keep on plugging
When I want to loaf.
And, for the sake
Of all the love
That's been given me.
Help me to give some
To the other chap
Who's up against it.
I'm asking it
with all I am.
And I'm backing it
with all I've got.
And If You'll
Come across
For the time that's left,
And be my partner, God.
I promise, honest—
I'll do my darndest
Not to let You down.
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If meat prices go much higher, a grease spot on a man's vest WkshinrtonisEoweyer, priorities
will be considered an ornament.—Southwest Courier.
Carroll Elliott at Mangum is breaking in a new suit of clothes
gently by wearing the pants with an odd coat, and then the new
coat with some old pants. Says he dares not come forth with the
new suit all at once because his co-workers, some of them feminine,
who are used to seeing him in a sort of ashcan ensemble, would
whistle at him, and he can't stand the whistling.
A Worker’s Prayer
By ELSIE ROBINSON
GOD, HELP ME
With this job!
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That was incorrect. It was an under-statement of fact. Miss Ro-
berta West lets us know,that 11 persons working in the Chandler
farm-aid office answered the call of the wedding bells during the
year, that two more have married already this year, and that nine
other workers are hopeful.
One strives to think of uses for all
the red tape now being unwound in
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AGAIN we have had enough fish to eat. P. C Lackey al Blanch-
m ard came back from a trip to the gulf with a boat load of trout,
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Judge Milton Thacker filled his office with red leather and
chrome chairs of modern design but for personal use clings to an
old fashioned swivel chair which has served him many years.—
Mangum Star.
"Mebbe I'm a little old but all these years I've been wait-
ing for a chance to do something about all that junk I've got
with ’Made in Japan on it!"
DEAR EDITOR:
SOMEDAY somebody with courage and a penetrating insight
into human nature will do a corking piece on the changes
he has observed in the faces of people as they grow old.
It is surprising to me that alert essayists have avoided the subject
so long but I guess it s because most people who write for publication
have occasional moments when they yearn for the companionship of
friends.
Any writer who wrote truthfully and honestly of the changes he
had seen occur in human faces would be hammering for admission to
a hermit's cave. For each and every one of his acquaintances would
swear he had him or her in mind as he described the invasion of smooth
checks by wrinkles, the fading of ambition's fire, the dimming of sharp
eyes and the souring of once-pleasant maps.
No man, I think, has lived past the half-wav mark of three score
and ten without having been shocked to his toes by the transformations
that have taken place in the face of some friend, relative or acquain-
tance he has not seen for many years.
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hide what we are thinking they are not very effective masks for hiding
what we have been through.
Observantly yours.
Possibly you haven't attended an old-time pie supper in a
long time, and you may wonder how much money they raise at '
one of these rural events. Well, down in the Hennepin community, 1
out from Pauls Valley, the pie supper the other night netted S35.
No pie sold for less than $1.25 and some of them brought $2.50 1
each No. these were not bakery pies.
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"You’re probably right. Mrs. Dixon. He can’t eat all the
cakes you send him. But I still remember when I was in the
army there was a boy in my company uho had a mother like
you!"
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speare—in days gone by.
"A message for Miss Maxwell
some government page would say.
Who is it from?" I would veil it
comes from Stratford on Avon ' the
flunkey would say, ... from one
W Shakespeare." "Let me see the
seal, I would say, "I don’t believe
it . . . it s probably for Queen Bess "
It s collect milady . . . nine pounds.
two shillings, sixpence.’
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rubber in Oklahoma would have been hooted, but now, where you can walk ad saving all your old newspapers and string
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Let me see." I would repeat, and
snatch the sealed missive from his
Euileless hands. And there, sure
enough. Will would have had a
message penned for me in our secret
code outside the script. "They
have found out about us." I would
read quickly, "beat it quick."
xarolAna BsviERSEihetuswalk honestly, » in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in the chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.—Romans 13.13.
this morning? Ballyhooey—I couldn't sleep and              Ahry tr AgA        v_ _ rI                              In due time the allies will produce a Joshua who
counted ’em all night.—Pathfinder.                        U)KA—()MA (      |         I INPC            will make the Rising Sun stand still.—Norfolk Vir-
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Matter-of-fact os the manner in which we greet the seasons is the
. way we accept the skill of the movie make-up artist who remodels the
face of a screen star who portrays a character who grows old.
But when we see hollows come in the cheeks of those we know
when we see pouches develop under eyes, when we see hair thin and
gray, when we see chins sag and mouths become loose, when we see
brows furrow with deep wrinkles we turn helplessly with an unuttered
prayer to some power to stay the race of time.
Nothing of the kind is more disconcerting than a visit to the old
home town after an extended absence. Maybe that is the device this
brave writer of the future will use to present his ruthless picture.
While the impact of such an experience is fresh he will be haunted
by the faces upon which grief, hardship, privation, self-sacrifice un-
i equited love. envy, jealousy, disappointment disillusionment defeat
: success, illness, intemperances, devotion and struggle have left their
indelible marks.
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Preacher D. H. Corwin is handy to have around in a pinch.
Clerks at Turner's grocery were swamped the other day, so
the Baptist pastor donned an apron and helped them through
the rush hour. He made a good hand, too.—Nowata Star.
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By ELSA MAXWELL
T WAS walking, last week, along
1 the palm-fronded sands of
Palm Beach with a tall, broad-
shouldered, sun-bronzed stamp
collector . . . and his conversa-
; tion, stirred by Siroccos, oscil-
i l a t e d between romance and
philately, "It is strange, Elsa.”
j he said, "that you’ve never mar-
| ried.”
"Poof, poof.” I said, and kicked at
a sand crab.
Suddenly he began to picture the
pleasures of an evening spent with a
stamp collection. "Just think," I said,
"of the life I would have to lead if I
j were a stamp collector's wife."
A wonderful life," he said imagi-
natively . . . picturing to himself
oceans of stamps plastering my dress
—like sequins. "Wonderful, all'right."
I said with the left corner of my
mouth. "After dinner, you would say,
"Excuse me, my dear, I've just gotten
hold of an uncancelled batch of un-
j perforated, ungummed, underdone San
Salvador earthquake issues . .
without watermarks, without pictures
i and printed upside down.' ...”
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Oh, no. I went on, "there's no
romance for me in any professional
Eluc-licking, benzine-dunking, phi-
lately fiend—I'll stick where I be-
long without benefit nt hinges
or albums.” Just the same I ve
known ome fascinating philatelists
in my life. The late King Alfonso
of Spain was one. Alfonso had such
a mad passion for stamps, that,
even as a boy, his mother had to
put brakes on him.
since anything seems possible to the industrial chemist. it
causes no surprise to learn that one of our great petro-
leum companies expects to start making it soon.
All the raw materials are here—petroleum for butadiene
and coal to help petroleum produce styrene.
The state even has many metal ore deposits, to say
nothing of raw materials for plastics. Some day an automo-
bile may be made and completely equipped and fueled with '
Oklahoma raw materials.
Stewart Harral, the big public relations man at the uni-
versity, spent the recent holidays with his folks at Durant, and
his mother, Mrs. Lane Harral. hoped to have a little chat with
him during the several days he was there but found it dif-
ficult to do so except on the golf course. However, he was in
his place at the home dining table three times a day.
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Most people say they would be glad to pay taxes if they had
the money and that holds good until they get some.—El Reno
American.
Oklahoma a Natural for Decentralization
HXPERTS on the evolution of cities are almost unanimous
— in the belief that this war marks the end of a great
epoch—that of the indefinite growth of huge cities. The war
itself has brought a sharp turn-about, and decentralization
from now on will be the watchword.
This process has already set in very definitely in the
British Isles. Because of bomb hazards, great industries have
been moved into remote counties and camouflaged, some be-
ing underground. Studies by British architects and city and ,
regional planners, received in this country, show a very 1
marked movement in this respect.
The trend does not stop with factories. Big insurance
companies, banks and other metropolitan business and fi- l
nance companies are moving from London into the country. i
Naturally wholesale and retail trade follow.
British planners generally agree that this is to be a
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And He Went About the World Doing Good
By ROBERT QUILLEN
STANDING In a barn door back of his home in Johnstown, a
• boy of 16 saw a 75-foot wall of whirling muddy water roar-
ing down upon him. He started to run to the house, and then
saw his father motion to him to get on the roof of the barn.
He Mas on the roof, clinging to the ridgepole when the water struck.
The house collapsed and disappeared The barn was swept from Ite
foundation. The impact of the racing flood knocked other people from
other roofs, but the bov held fast.
Below the city, houses. trees, box cars and tangled debris crashed
against a railway bridge to form a dam The flood became a whirlpool
many miles wide, whirling with the speed of an express train Other
people, on other buildings. were hurled into the chaos at the bridge
and there drowned or burned, but the spinning barn was carried safely
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A moment later the barn was caught by a tangle of wreckage
lodged against a three story brick building and a stone church. Trees
and heavy timbers shot out of the water and crashed on the barn
roof, and the boy jumped them one after the other, timing each
jump to the split second.
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A box car shot out of the water, high in the air, and the boy seemed
doomed. But at that moment the brick wall gave way and the barn was
swept aside. Other people clinging to wreckage were held in the whirl-
pool until they were killed by the churning debris or swept away and
drowned, but the barn was carried out of the maelstrom Into smooth
backwater. It struck against a brick building, and once more the boy
Jumped with split-second timing and landed safely on the roof. -
Why ? Why did he so miraculously escape so many times while his
people and thousands of others were killed?
He lived to face the world alone, an orphan boy without a dime He
worked his way through school. He became a doctor.
In later years, backed by the power of the humanitarian Rockefeller
Institute, he went all over the world on errands of mercy— fighting epi-
demic disease, teaching the rules of sanitation, persuading governments
to co-operate in making their people safe. He went about doing good
and countless thousands lived who would have died except for hint The
work he began is carried on by others, and the good that will result
is beyond measuring.
He is the famous Dr Heiser. Maybe chance saved him, but the story
of his life, modestly told in that great book, "An American Doctor
Odyssey," should comfort and encourage those who believe that AnN
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say to the paRP bov handing him back
the letter . . with the seal still un-
broken, there's been some mistake.
Take it back to this W Shakespeare
whoever he is—and never let me see
hair nor hide of you again." Van-
quished. he would vamoose.
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TN the I nited States it was necessary to use great metro-
- politan defense plants at first, because they were on the
ground, but as soon as possible, the process of decentraliza-
tion has been followed. Plants are being established in the
smaller cities and towns or in purely rural environments, far
from sea-coasts and national boundaries.
In Oklahoma is a ready-made background. Oklahoma
City, largest city and capital, is not large enough to be hurt
by the general process of decentralization. Its defense proj-
ects are located from five to 20 miles from congested areas,
stimulating the building of separate communities.
THE OKLAHOMA PUBLISHING CO.
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sent at.the owner's risk and The Oklahoma Publishing Company expressly repudiatea
any liability or responsibility for their safe custody or return
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The overwhelming majority of tire users want to see the rules
honestly and fairly enforced. Mr. Big and Mr. Little must look ex-
actly alike to the local boards.—Chickasha Express.
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The town of Grandfield maintains a water cutting-off
utensil which is lent to any citizen who wishes to cut off
the water in cold weather. When any citizen comes to bor-
row the gadget he always promises to bring it right back.
Frank Patterson, city manager, now repnrts the thing has
been lent to 20 persons this winter and 19 of them failed to
bring it back. In the meantime Mrs. Rosa Aven's pipes burst
and gave her a cold shower she wasn't looking for.
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hoity-toity practices. Sir Rowland Hill
introduced the prepaid postage stamp
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posted after May 6. 1840. was decor-
ated with one or more of these little
Pieces of colored paper.
Imagine becoming engaged to a
pnilatelistmand having your marriage
sealed with a stamp instead of a
kiss. In time you might even for-
give him for pursuing "that other
woman ' half way around the world-
out "that other stamp?" Never!
Senator Soaper Says:
WITH the draft picking off more
vv and more of baseball's elite, the
next world series may be between a
couple of Townsend clubs.
Fortunately, the car radio is not
suited to installation in the horse-
drawn buggy, as there is no point in
upsetting Dobbin with wild cries of
"Heigho Silver!”
A famed biologist thinks the great
American sense of humor will defeat '
the Jap. Particularly if one has a
gun trained on the fellow, while sav-
ing "This one will slay you.”
One hears no more of Nazi flame-
throwers, those dreadful devices which
sounded ideal for sitting in front of
through the long Russian evening.
faddists' dream, but a deliberate development, based upon
considerations of economics, industry and general welfare
and made practicable by the revolution in modern transpor-
tation.
permanent move, since peace-time conditions as well as
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Queen Maria Christina once eave
her secretary blanket orders never to
let the youthful Alfonso pay more
than 100 pesetas (then about $18)
for a single stamp. But the romantic
and dashing Alfonso soon found a
Way.out. He dug up a dealer that
would sell to him on credit. Once the
stamps he wanted were delivered
and safely hinged into Alfonsos
album—the dealer would present his
bill: to the queen. There was nothing
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redfish, sheephead, mackerel, etc. and invited us down for a din- But I think that the most fascinat-
ner with Blanchard’s big shots. We had to let out, our belt two ing think about the whole business "of
stamps (a business, incidentally. which
runs over six million dollars a year for
collectors items alone i . . . 1s the
way they came to be used.
The first postage stamps were
printed in England, exactly 102 years
ago Before that letters were sent
the way collect messenger boy deliveries
are made today. I can picture myself
getting a message, say from Shake-
HE Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce has adopted
- the far-sighted policy of encouraging industry in every
city of the state, knowing that the central city and capital
will profit ultimately by everything that brings prosperity
to the state at large.
Then we have farm chemurgy and billions of dollars'
worth of mineral resources, distributed almost everywhere—
coal, gypsum, building stone, glass sand, cement material,
natural gas, petroleum, manganese, porphyry, dolomite,
caleche, bentonite—even copper and iron. These will nur-
ture decentralized industries.
Oklahoma has a magnificent set-up for the new day |
that lies beyond war.
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When the automobile manufacturers get back into the
business of turning out cars for everyday use we hope they
will have their engineers devote some extra study to the project
of perfecting a little gadget of some kind that will prevent
the horn from going wild. It does seem that spending an extra
10 cents somewhere would do away with this nuisance which
is so embarrassing to the women drivers, bless 'em.
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E R. Walker, who now lives in North Dakota, come back to
his old home town. Elk City, last week for the first time in 47 years.
How long has it been since you visited your old home place?
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The fellows who are working on the tax bills surely will
not overlook the possibilities of shoes. If the family car is to be
taken off the road every pair of rubber heels, if any, and pure
leather soles, should be good for a two-dollar tap.
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Out at Carter the other day they had an auction sale of
all of the local rodeo equipment. It probably means there will
not be more than 50 rodeos to see in Oklahoma during 1942
unless several others follow Carter’s lead.
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it to the members of his own family but don't think for a minute
he doesn't gallop to the nearest mirror to see it what life and time
have done to him are as evident.
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. The Mold from rebellious Norway is
that Vidkun Quisling has been III for
a month. it is not believed this is
from anything he ate at, testimonial
banquets.
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The women, bless 'em. Mrs. Wilma Black in the tag agent's
office in Cleveland county, tells the Norman Transcript that a
woman, speaking in a voice that hinted exasperation, phoned
to ask why there were so many cars in town with the prefix
28 on them. She was told that 28 is Cleveland county’s new
serial number, and the Norman woman then wanted to know
where Cleveland county is located.
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