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1^ rSHumsxdf^ â- * -w t â- w*. ** 'fe -1* â- * £ T Dancing Shoes Bf CHARLES DOBIAN While a vast throng of theatrc- Soers passed through the exits of >« Orpheum, the beautiful blond* attraction left quietly by the stage door on the arm of her most ardent admirer, the owner of the theatre •nd a string of others. At the curb stood Max Berber's limousine, and just ahead of it, a taxi. Four maudlin "Collegians" having a singsong, obstructed th* antrance to Berber's car, but mad* â- way while the lady stepped in. Then suddenly three of them gave Berber the bum's rush, while the fourth clambered in beside Paula Pauleen, tap dancer extraordinarj'. Max spluttered and fumed while the three kidded him. A letter was pressed into his clenching fist and his car keys were frisked from him. The taxi jumped forvi-ard, and in a moment was followed by the lim- ousine carrying the dancer and four members of the notorious Scar- l«t Gang in evening clothes and top hats, still simulating drunken col- legians, singing to drown out the •ries of" the distressed dancer. In the Holland Tunnel the sing- song ceased and one of the gang said to the girl: "This is something new in kid- aaps, sister. We're all jolly good fallows, members of a theatrical troupe (to the general public). But ion't get us wrong. We'd rub you •ut as quick as any Broadway mug M you failed for a minute to join <he spirit of our little game. Your big boy has just read our demands hi a note left with him." "I'll â€" I'll pay you," chatted th* Mttle dancer. "Please â€" my contract I must dance every night." The car sped along for thirty miles rid turned into a narrow road, icense plates were switched and another fifty miles sped by. They stopped at a railroad village and nj Hbk. ^ ^. I^B dAtaB cH ':'?^, â- & 'wKm'^m '% i- S'f^ ^i^W "This is something new in kidnaps, sister," said one of the gang. parked the ear on a side street. They ahanged their toppers for peak caps and entered tlie railroad station. "Oh, you're the troupe from the opery house,' grinned the operator. "Though there was two girls in the party." "One of us a female impersonator, haw! Iiaw!" lauglicd tlie spokesman. The operator laughed too, and began stamping the tickets. "Trains not <lue for thirty minutes yet," he apologized. "O.K. brother, we'll put on a little show while we're waiting." He strode over to Paula. "Smile." sis- ter, SMILE," he hissed, and out loud, "Come on, Sally Rand, give the gentleman your best imitation of a fan dance." Paula was ready to faint but en- »ered into the game by dancing a whirling tap number that had the operator's ayaa popping. Soma sing- around. ing followed and a bottl* waa paasad "Now, another danc*," ordarad the master of ceremontas. "Just a slow one," pleadad Paula, "I'm very tired." "Oh, all right," yawned tha fal- low, Sht mad* a long slow stride straight to th* operator and whis- pered. 'Listen 1' Then she perform* ed a painfuly punctuated dance with more body unduations than foot- work. The bottle passed around again and the operator went to his key, took an order, sent one, and in a few minutes the train was in.. They boarded it. Sargo was a small city. A taxi was ready waiting for them and whisked them out into the country where they got out in front of a big house. Every shadow exuded a police officer. Eight of them had pinioned the four "collegrians" before the door opened, and two more seized the servant Paula promptly fainted. Two of- ficers carried her to safety. "This house has been under sus- picion for a long time," said an of- ficer to Paula. "When that opera- tor's message mentioned 'Sargo' we posted a squad at the house. Here's the car now which followed their ta.xi from the depot." Oh, yes, Paula's dad had been a station agent and had taught her to tap dance the Morse code. Mistakes Other Folks Have Made When our baby had measles, we listened to friends' advice on how to care for him, instead of taking him to a doctor. .A.s a result he got too hot, took a bad cold, and the measles settled in his throat The only way we could tell he was crying was by his mouth's being open and tears on his cheeks. Hereafter I'll take my children to competent doctors. â€" Mrs. M.K. I set down a can of lye. while doing my family wash, and my two-year-old daughter ate some of it. We rushed her to the hospi- tal. After two weeks of treatment we were able to carry her home. We had a large medical bill and untold anxiety because of my care- lessness. â€" Mrs. A.K. f left my fine Jersey heifer iu the same pasture with the horses, instead of keeping her to herself just before calving. \ colt kicked her, causing her to lose the calf. I shall not make this mistake again!â€" T. K. Killing our bes't laying hens with anti-freeze was my biggest mis- take. Last spring when I drained my car, I left the pan under the car and the chickens drank the solution. The next morning some of tlie hens were too sick to fly off the roose. some were dj'ing, and the rest were dead. â€" C. W. H. I repaired my five-room house inside, instead of first putting a good roof on it A few days after ceiling and papering the inside and screening th* porches, a spark of fire from the kitclien flue landed on the bad roof, and I lost my entire house. â€" E. B. M. Relying too much on old or faulty farm equipment can prove very costly. Last fall I neglected to .*- place worn harness for my wagon. The harness gave way while I was riding a loaded wagon, caus- ing the team to run away and throw me in front of two wheels. .\s a result I suffered three months with a broken heel and badly cut foot, and still cannot walk. â€" T.T.W. People who insist on drinking before driving are putting the quart before the hearse. gpy#ii:^ Gregory f ♦ HoMS OWNERS WHO HAVE CISTKRNS WILL PINO THIS SELF-CLEANINQ STR<MNERA SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF KEEPINfl THE EAVE CON- DUCTOR PIPES FROM CLOa- OINO. CUTANOPENINO IN ONE SIDE OF THE PIPE OUST BELOW THE TIN BAFPLE PLATE SOLDERED INSIDE. SOLDER SEVERAL STIFF WIRES TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THl PIPE WITH THE FREE BNDS PROJECTNO OUT OF THE OPENINa AT AN ANGLE. LEAVES AND TRASH WILL SLIDE DOWN THE WIRES AND OUT THE OPENiNS. If vour mtchen chimney is slocked off from tht wind »v a hiohtr fart of the house it isn't NKCMSARV TO PUT A LONA tXTIN- tlON PIPS ON rr TO PRIVINT OOWK- MAPTS. A •MUT-\RON SHtLP SUP* POI^TtD ASOUT TWO INCHU ABOVt THt TOP OP THt CHIMNtY tSJUIT At tPPI«TIV| At AN VCTtNtlON PIPt IN FRtVtMTINt DOWNORAPTS AND >S NOT to UKtLV TO Bl 9L0WN OVEN tV HItH WINDS. High Steppersâ€" Circus aerialists Betty and Benny Fo.x do a sky dance 168 feet above Chicago's Michigan Avenue on an 18-inch pedestal which projects 12 feet out from a hotel roof. They did it to herald the opening of their circus. Strictly Honest The theatrical producer was giv- ing an audition to a man with a new act. Producing a puppy from his pock- et, the man placed it on the piano, whereupon the puppy calmly pro- ceeded to play part of one of the operas. "Wonderful 1" exclaimed the pro- ducer. "I'll give you $500 a week for that." "But that's not all," said the man, producing from another pocket a parrot, which perched on the piano, sang an aria from the opera to the puppy's accompaniment. Almost speechless by now, the producer managed to bring; out an offer of $1000 a week tor that." "Er â€" er." said the man, nervous- ly, "before you decide. I must tell you this act's a bit of a cheat. You see, the parrot can't sing. The puppy's a ventriloquist.'' Odd Communities In Finland Good Neighbor â€" Josephine Bonilla is a real asset to the good neighbor policy. She was chosen queen of the Miami Good Neighbor I'rograni. Jo- sephine is well quaHhed for her hands -across -the -border title, since she's from lT;n aiia, Cuba. Finland is a country of water- ways, but its largest stretch of water is the great Lake Ladoga, Here, on some forty islands and islets, 2.000 monks who have been outlawed from Soviet Russia are working out a successful com- munal life regardless of-~the troubled world. ' From the forest lands of the islands the brothers secure ade- • quate lumber and make resin and turpentine. Some work as bakers, others as carpenters and joiners. There are tailor monks for robes and vestments, cobbler monks, blacksmith monks. There is even a co-op store run by these Russian brethren in Lutheran Finland. As soon as visitors arrive by steamer at the largest island â€" area 24 square miles â€" tlie blackrobed brothers in their tall cylinder hats are there on the quay to act as porters. They run their own hotel and a restaurant. .\nd since they know that their visitors appreciate entertainment they even stage a church service lasting nineteen hours! Another of Finland's strange communities is Mariehamn, tha capital of lost ships. Commercial saiUng ships of any size are no longer being built, but Mariehamn is continually buying up the sur- viving veterans, reconditioning them and putting them into use. The Mariehamn fleet has but one owner, who operates his business on amazingly simple lines. He is a one-man company, doing everything himself in his own hoine. Having no office salaries or rents to pay, hia sailing is sheer proht, and as he pays scrap prices for his ships, he can still count upon the vessels to be worth their weight in scrap whenever he decides to get rid of them, Looked Ahead Jake was a worthless and impro- vident fellow. One day he said to the local grocer: "I got to have a sack of flourl I'm all out and my family is starvin.' ' ' "All right Jake," said the grocer. "If you need a sack of flour and havt no money to buy it with we'll give you a sack. But, see here, Jaka, there's a circus coming to town in a few days, and if I give you a sack of flour, are you sure you won't sell it and take your family to the circus?" 'Oh, no," said Jake. "I got the circus money saved up already." THEFAEM FEONT tif^tm^i South of the border a number of newspapers have been "rapping" tha use of DDT for ^praying in dairy barns â€" some of them even going 10 far as to say that the DDT is responsible for the "virus "X" disease of man and the "X" disease of animals." • • • Now â€" following a meeting of the principal government agencies con- cerned with the use of insecticides â€" the United States Department of Agriculture has come out with an oflScial statement. It says, "There is no evidence that the use of DDT in accordance with the recommen- dations of the various federal agencies has ever caused human sickness due to the DDT itself." • • • "However." the statement goes on, "minor to.xic symptoms may be produced by coal-oil and various solvents used in DDT and in prac- tically all other insecticide mix- tures" • * • "Totally without foundation" is tiie way the statement deals with the publisjied reports that DDT is responsible for the diseases men- tioned in my tirst paragraph. Both these diseases had been reported and recognized before DDT was ever used. Our o%vn Ottawa Department of Agriculture has something to say on the subject. To protect farmers from buying insecticides that are either worthless or highly danger- ous, .all such preparations sold in Canada come under the provisions of the Pest Control Products Act No pesticide is jillowed on the market until it has been analyzed and approved by technical officials of the Department And if such pre- parations are used IN .ACCORD- ANCE WITH THE INSTRUC- TIONS ON THE LABEL, they will be effective for the purpose for which they are recommended and will have no detrimental effects. (The capitals are mine, as I be- lieve that most of the trouble with DDT has been because people DIDN'T follow the directions properly). * « • Officials of our Department of .\griculture say that spraying dairy barns with DDT â€" particularly with oil solutions â€" should be done when cattie are NOT in the stalls; and that special care should be taken to make sure that milk and cream cans and milking machinas are not touched by the spray. « * • This is because DDT in oil solu- tions can be absorbed through lh« skin of animals, and will be found both in the milk and in the animal fat However, there has been little or no difficulty in spraying cattle themselves with DDT, when wet- table powders are used in water. The water spray won't penetrate the skin, and the residue is not absorbed by the tissues. • • • BUT EVEN WITH W.\TER SPRAY THE UTMOST CARE SHOULD BE T.\KEN TO SEE THAT MILKING UTE.VSTLS DO NOT CO.ME IN DIRECT CONT.\CT WITH THE SPRAY. • • • There are still some farmer: wha believe that chemical fertilizers are ruining our soils; but if you are one of them, I have to tell you that the facts seem to be against your belief. No e.xpenmenis h^ve ever shown that chemical fertilizers are in any way detrimental to <»>il. • • • Over in England there'? been a test going for almost a century â€" 95 years to be exact â€" using man- ure on one patch of wheat, and chemical fertilizers on a similar patch. The plot receiving 1.392 pounds of complete fertilizer eac'i year out-yielded the plot treated with an annual application of 15.7 tons of manure. During the past five years the yield was â- '.4 busliels per acre greater. So it would seem that this patch of soil hadn't been poisoned or harmed aftL-r receiving chemical fertilizer annually for 95 years â€" which is quite a stretcli of time. • • • From what I hear more and more farmers in southern and central Ontario are getting interested in sunflower growing â€" although just how many of them are going so far as to put in a real crop I really cannot say at tiie moment. • • • But from Buenos Aires comaa word that is rather interesting. This report says that, compared with 1948. the area sown to sun- flower this year has increased by 2S per cent â€" to a record figure of almost four and a half million acrea. • • * This is because .\rgentine farniera have found that their sunower crop is much more profitable than corn- Besides that maturing wheat cropa that were killed by heavy frosta have been replaced by sunflowers. • * • And, in case you don't aheadjr know it lots of folks think that sunflower seads â€" or at least tha insides of them â€" are better eatingt than peanuts. I have a friend â€" he cams from Russia years ago â€" â-  who always has a handful or so fas hia pocket Puts one edgewise ba- tween his teeth â€" oracka open Cfaa hull, sueks out tha "innards," and reaches for another. Try it some- time. Where Chinese Reds Shelled British Sloop â€" Ihe cross in tii« Yangtze River marks the spot where HMS .\tnethyst, a British sloop, was driven aground by Chinese Communist shelling. Th« location is Rose Island, 80 miles east of Nanking (1). Help, in the form of warships, is racing to the scene from Shanghai (2). Coiumunists hola the north bank of the river (shade area), with the Nationalists in control of the south bank. ARCHIE by Montana