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/ HERE'S ONE for the belleve-it-or-not records at Central. Mrs. Marguerite Sights, seventh teacher of Decatur Central schools, has five brothers and sisters in her room.’ And none are twins, They are Paul and Robert Rossiand James Sparkman, Patricia and James Chyron and Furral Wallen and Robert and Masterson. , , , But this isn’t all. Dean Thorn studies teacher at Decatur Central, dissame thing in his third period world his- ~ tory class. And none. of his five sets of brothers-and sisters duplicated those of Mrg. Sights. His little © “family” group includes Dorothy and Maxine Cooper,

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. George Plummer. Mrs. Sights and Mr. Thornberry say this is the first time such a thing has happened . during their several years of teaching. . . . Mrs. Clarence Jackson, wife of the State Chamber of Commerce executive vice president, had a guilty conscience the other night about not having déssert for dinner. But - she soon made amends. She went to the drugstore ‘ out on E. 42d’ st. and took Mr, Jackson home a pop-

Thought World End Due ;

THERE'S AT LEAST one youngster who's happier ‘ today than he was this time last week. And what's more he has renewed his life. ambition. Walking near

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School Room Kin walk and started tuning in on one of the stations. “I hope they get something about'\that end of the

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world,” he told .one of the passersby. “I wanted to be a scientist when I grow up but I guess there's not much chance for that now,” he explained. , . . James Lake who lives down near Garfield park says his corner groceryman refused to: sell his son milk in return for a “square squat” bottle. The grocer said the square squat was a kerosene bottle, ., It took teamwork for the Warne family, 6270 Park ave, to take home the blue ribbons in the garden show at school 80. Their prize tomatoes and lima beans came from their garden in Boone county. Mrs. A. H. Warne and her daughttr and son, Margaret and Richard, were among the winners. Mr. Warne and Allan Jr. weren't eligible to enter or they might have taken home prizes too. . .. Business is on a downward slide at the city’s army goods stores, But most of the places plan to keep open, war or no war, They'll probably handle government surplus materials for civilian use. . . . Right now, quite a few civilians are already customers at the stores. They're buying sec-ofid-hand army blankets for one thing. ... As far as the soldiers themselves are concerned, they want nothing G. I. or that even resembles anything G. 1 Otto Diamond, head of the Diamond's army store on S. linois st. said one soldier from Lima, O., took just 10 minutes from the time he got off the train until he was on his way to buy civilian clothes. He

Pennsylvania and Washington sts. early Friday morn- went up to Strauss’ and bought an entire new out- * ing, he put his portable radio set down on the side- fit. “Boy, I couldn't get into it: soon enough,” he said.

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A CAT out in Mickleyville has been killing quite a few chickens belonging to Mrs. L. R. Chapman, 1335 Lindley ave. So Mrs. Chapman set a trap for Mr, Tom under an. upside down wheelbarrow. But when the trap sprung, the victim was no relation to a cat. It was a big, fat ‘possum. Mrs. Chapman thinks the ‘possum and the cat might have been in partnership. ... Mrs. Lawrence Moore, 1304 Shannon ave, is worried about what shell feed her chameleon this wintef. The lizard-like pet has its home in a box on a window sill in the Moore home. Mrs. Moore bought it when the circus was here in August, Until now, she says, it ate flies. But she’s worried about the menu when the flies are gone. ,,. Mrs. Walter Walker, 308 N. Bradley ave., is impatiently waiting for the navy to find her husband’s records in San Francisco. She had been waiting for Shipfitter 2-c Walker to come home from overseas’since last July. He got his orders finally on V-J day and when he landed in San Francisco this month he learned he was to be discharged. Mrs. Walker and her son, James, spent hours decorating their new home which Shipfitter Walker never has seen. They've made a big welcome home sign and have hung crepe paper streamers and ' bells throughout the house, Mrs. Walker even had made plane reservations to meet her husband in Chicago where they were to spend their belated honeymoon. He has called home from San Francisco five times since Sept. 13, each time thinking he'd be home within a few days. But now the ndvy says he has to wait until his papers are found.

Margaret and Richard Warne . . . two of a prize-winning trio.

Hen-Pecked Tojo By Gerald R. Thorp

TOKYO.—Hideki Tojo, the military midget, who not afford to buy a home there as had all the other once thought he might have a hand in ruling the Posies, but were Jopoed to on, Tojo'b a rid in reality just a henpecked husband, t wasn't long before Mrs. Tojo began nangworl a d real 73 the Toad Te 4 cal ing on the back fence, wailing at length about her prodd ge ol po POWET 51d man’s deficiencies. by a greedy and ambitious wife. And in Japan, un- One of the neighbors recalls her frequently saying, like America, that's bad—very in a sad vein: bad. gills. “Since Tojo is not really capable, like your husIt seems that most of the peo- band, I have to be content with this. I just cannot ple of Tokyo know about Katsuko . compete with my fashionable neighbors.” Tojo, and now that the war's over He discovered one day somewhat to his bewilderthey feel free to talk about her. ment, that he was at last premier, and relaxed in the For years she has been Public belief that Katsuko must finally be content and start Scandal No. 1. pulling her punches. But that was not the way it ud the rsh place, JB aietko happened. too much, about politics 5 Y297 yma Je I es His Privileges Limited things over which no self-respect- TOJO HAD the power to pass out Annie Oakleys for the government gravy train. But he didn’t even

ing wife and mother should con- . : - cern herself. And, although there have the privilege of taking care 3f his old pals of the geisha house days.

is no direct proof, she is strongly suspected of failin B z Pee : The missus dictated his every choice. Her friends

to keep a hot skillet on the. stove and, in general, of not giving a darn about housework. : and her relatives got all the fat jobs. And all the : : : Japanese were snickering behind their fans at the Keeping Up With the Joneses most amusing and humiliating plight of the little % : man, who was supposed to be in the driver's seat. MANY YEARS ago, when Tojo was a mere major, Only recently she played another lousy trick on his wife, now 56, shocked polite society by discussing Tojo, the Japanese will tell you. When Tojo ather husband in public. tempted to end his dishonorable life with a pistol

At that time the Tojos did not know where their shot, she was nowhere around, a sure sign that she next yen was coming from. But she insisted that had Do inten; of doing HkeWiSe: pails vines: sad they live in a very fashionable district. They could 1 ] Ine.

Aviation

By Major Al Williams

I HAVE just finished reading a most remarkable and illuminating book which should be read by every airman—and others interested in preserving their God-given blessing of good eyesight. The title of this book is “Sight Without Glasses,” by Dr. Harold M. Peppard, and it is published by Blue Ribbon Books, Inc, Garden City, N, Y. Like aimost all other airmen I was blessed with remarkably keen vision, I accepted this blessing,

or at desk work where the vision is focused from a distance of approximately 18 inches. And the eye muscles are held in tension to maintain this vision

Now, think of the man who uses his eyes reading

range. This is the range of vision of the average office worker or business man, and this strain goes on year after year. With no call for long-range focusing those muscles become feeble while the short-range muscles become fatigued. The average individual suffering from such eye fatigue assumes that there is

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Overseas Air Travel Holds Big Future

(Second of a Series)

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Seripps-Howard Staff Writer NEW YORK, Sept. 25.— Overseas air transport as a glistening new tool to forge better world relations politically, socially, economically— that’s the vision of America’s top airmen. They have the brains, the ambition, the organizaiion and the planes to do the job. The stakas are big: no one knows quite how big, In 1910 no one could foresee the whole future of the automobile. ‘Today many nations are racing to get Into international air transport. The British, French, Swedes and Dutch were flying the Geeans commercially before the war. They have their own plans for ex-

pansion now, n . .

eign air development is weighted in prestige and security as well as in commerce. Three U. 8. airlines—Pan Ameri= can, American Export, Transconti=nental and Western—have been licensed by the civil aeronautice board to fly the North Atlantie. The board has before it recommendations from its examiners that Pan American and Northwest Airlines fly to Asia, United Airlines to Hawaii and Western Airlines into western Canada. Decisions are ahead on U. 8. air transport through the Caribbean, South America, South Africa and other areas. ” ” n FOR many years overseas air transport as far as this country was concerned meant Pan American. It trimmed a lot of foreign competition, American export came in to do a good job of Atlantic flying before the war began. Numerous U. S. domestic airlines flew the oceans during the ,war under contract to the army and navy. Pan American urged one big company for this country's overseas representation—a . community comspany in which other airlines would

SO HAVE other countries; for-

Below, the Lockheed Constellation, which U. S. Air Lines expect to use in North Atantic service. |

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Left, Juan Trippe, head of Pan American Air Lines.

on to Paris and Rome and do the same, and so on, to the Middle East or Par East. If this were not per~ mitted, it would have a constantly diminishing uneconomic load. » n ¥ BUT ENGLAND, France and Soviet Russia, three of the most im~ portant nations in world aviation, haven't come in on the Five Freedoms deal, Ohly China and the U, S., among the larger nations, have. So have some smaller countries, But as an idea to be accépted worldwide, it’s hardly thriving. That means we've got to dicker with one country at a time. Most

home terrTtory and North Africa. France would like to get into inter-

own territory.

the works. Presumably the allied

Eire and Sweden but still are ne-

of them have signed the first two of the Five Freedoms, meaning we can fly over their territory or land for technical—but not “business— stops. This doesn't go for Russia,

ENGLAND hasn't been willing to let U. 8. planes discharge and pick up passengers there, then fly on

did nothing about preserving it, but rather carelessly abused it. I am reminded of a man who once wrote, “Half 6f our funny, heathen lives we are bent double trying to gather up things we have tossed away.”

diately demands glasses—crutches for his eyes.

Change of Focus

a quick, light, easy closing of the eye done inter-

nothing that he can do about correcting it and imme-

THERE ARE three things that every healthy eye does, blink, center attention and shift. Blinking is

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participate, But other airlines feared to other countries. Nor have the Pan American domination, and they|U, 8, and England been able to thought they could fly the oceans|agree on how traffic across the as well as anyone else. Unless con-| North Atlantic should be split up, gress changes it, the field will be Eighty per cent of overseas air

traffic, it has been estimated, wili originate in the U. 8, and this

Whether you know it or not,

mittently by every normal eye. It keeps the eye

BUT YOU can’t get in an air-| country’s airmen believe schedule

there are eye practices which once adopted as habits moist. The moisture has a definite antiseptic and can prolong your accuracy of vision, far beyond the cleansing action and it lubricates the eye. In cold 4 usual “glasses stage.” For instance (without going weather it keeps the eye warm, and it protects the v 3 into technical details) the focusing of your eyes t0 eye in dry, dusty weather. In the split second inaccommodate distant or near objects is a matter of tervals of the blink the muscles of the pupil have

the exertion of the muscles of the eye. There is a chance momentarily to relax their tension.

one set of muscles which is exerted for distant vision. The only part-of the eye that sees perfectly clear

There # another set of muscles to focus the eye for is in the center of the retina and is no larger than tered by this country.

close-up vision.

i Overworking Muscles i WITH THIS to go on, you readily can see that detail of the object at which we are looking.

the head of an ordinary pin, This is the part of the eye that catches every detail. We do not form the visual habit of seeing each and every minute | Chicago last fall, would have al lowed U. 8. planes to fly and do think she may run her own alr-

i a man’s normal occupation will cause one group of n eye muscles or the other to do more work, hence to be strained. As a sample of muscular exertion, hold your arm straight out and check the fatigue and pain that eventually registers.

My Day

HYDE PARK, Monday-—~Ne one will begrudge Secretary Stimson his well-earned rest. He has had a long and very remarkable career in public service, and the nation owes him a great debt of gratitude. He must. often have wanted, in the past few years,

Visual hunting means rapid change of eye focus, It can be made a habit—a mighty good habit. The normal eyes shift as a habit, but we can lose this habit, too, to develop eventually the vice of fixed eye focus—the stare.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

No scientific discovery can long remain secret when the fundamental principles involved are so widely known; and in this particular case, the fundamental principles of atomic energy and its release were widely known even before the particular

The Five Freedoms, proposed a

business within another country

plane and fly just any vhere over- frequencies should give us credit seas. International boundaries and|for- this. laws have to be considered. There| Russia didnt show up ab all at must be treaties covering under- the Chicago aviation conference, No standings. That brings up what|one here knows what she has in has been called the “Five Freedoms” mind in internation aviation, of international air transport, fos-| Some U. 8. air industry people

an international air conference in

say the Soviet eventually will cot| operate .in world aviation, Others doubt that she'll let planes of other nations cross her borders. They

lines out to Berlin or Stockholm to

connect up with international air-

These freedoms would have given lines reaching such points,

other nations the same rights here. A U. 8. overseas plane, for ex-

ample, could fly to London, dis-| THE U. 8. is negotiating now with

national air transport herself and is in no rush to let other nations, which have ajrlines and equipment ready, to get a head start in her

An agreement with Italy is In

governments will let’ outside airlines into Germany at. a_reasonable time. We" have agreements with

gotiating with Portugal, another stepping stone to Europe and beyond for routes across the Atlantic. Cheap, fast air transport opens an entirely new vista in foreign travel for Americans, most ajrmen believe. : » » ¥ PAN AMERICAN'S Juan Trippe has forecast a $100 transatlantic fare to London pegged on mass transportation with huge planes. That was before the C. A. B, put three airlines on the North Atlantic. A $300 fare might be about right in the next stage before the really big planes are flying. W. A. Patterson of United Airlines says conservative authorities foresee a 19-hour New York-Mos-cow flight for $250; 43 hours New York-8ingapore, $580; New YorkMexico City, eight hours and $110; New. York-London, 14 hours and $186; New York-Rio de Janeiro, 19 hours and $266; New York-Sydney, 42 hours and $567. ~ ¥ . THERE'S disagreement even among airmen as to post-war overseas air passenger traffic volume. Mr, Patterson, one of those who argued for a single large company, foresaw a relatively narrow market.

But many alrmen are much more

bullish; they think the element of speed and time-saving which will

and back brings an entirely new element to Atlantic travel. In other days, nearly two weeks would be spent in travel, but in the future the vacationer will be in Lopdon the morning after leaving the U. 8., would have two full weeks over there, and return again over-

there has been a steady increase in the number of Americans going abroad. The average yearly number returning from overseas in the’ 1921-1930 decade

gest, it’s anticipated, in high price: items where fast transport has : definite advantage—books, camera bearings, works of art, surgical in instruments and the like.

BUT FROM OC. A. B. Chairman Welch Pogue comes & prediction that U, 8. overseas travel will double in the next 10 years and that “a major portion of the trafic” will be carried by air, There's the same optimism on air cargo. Pan American carried 1,700,~ 000 pounds across the oceans in 1941; - it expects to carry 30,000,~ 000 pounds of air express in the

Pan American talked, in the days

Left, the giant 204« p ass e nger Consolie dated Vultee airplane

Sumner Sewall, president o

American Export Air Lines.

before the fleld was opened to al U. 8. carriers, cf cargo rates of 2’ cents a ton mile as compared wit 80 cents in the past; in som classes of goods even 10 cents a to: mile was suggested.

” - » PAN AMERICAN foresees a bi

cargo business in small machiner and parts destined for remote, in accessible areas. It’sees an expand ing field in lighter weight mer chandise—a modish new women frock to be carried from New Yor. to Mexico City, for example, wit an addition of only 30 cents to i price. It has rushed a 3000-poun: special machine parts shipment {: Ecuador and a three-billion un. shipment of penicillin to Brazil.

The air cargo business will be big

American Export Airlines has ob tained four-motored C-54 transport

from the government to be used a interim equipment until it can ge its big Lockheed Constellations anc

their big brothers, the Constitu tions, which will carry 125 passen gers sitting or 60 with sleeping ac: commodations. » » ” ¥ FIVE TRIPS a day to Europe i the - schedule American - Export 1 shooting at, according to Presiden

Sumner Sewall. And with agree ments already made between the U. 8. and Eire and Sweden, two o the nations on the route allocatec to it, American Export may bs fastest to get going among the American contenders. Both Par American and American Export have been operating regularly inte Foynes, Eire. Export’s flight plan for the Constitution calls for 15 hours from New York to London; for the Constitution to come later, 11 hours. The airmen see a vast amount of business ahead with South Amere« ica, too. Flying time to Rio de Jas neiro, Buenos Aires and other cape itals will be cut, and so will fares, On the commercial planes today is takes 3% days to fly to Buenos Aires; after the war it will be done in less than 24 hours. It costs more than $500 today, but $200 has been talked of for post-war,

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| fo remind people of his efforts to awaken Great Britain and ourf selves to the menace of the Jap- ! anese when they first entered i Manchuria. He is a farsighted

developments for this project were undertaken. , The technical and engineering details will soon be dis~ covered by other scientists in other lands, It seems to me that this discovery has made imperative an educational undertaking in every country in the world. Every man, every woman-— everywhere—must grow up knowing that since this discovery of how to use atomic energy for destruction,* annihilation faces them unless they learn to live in a peaceful world and to allow the policing of the world to be done by an international agency. The sovereignty which each nation will have to renounce is not too high a price to pay for the continuation of our civilization. .

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great deal of himself at an age Almost every country in the world has the needed

used by those who are in desperate straits. The day we found the secret of

when most men would have felt themselves entitled raw materials for the manufacture of these bombs, to retire and claim immunity to further work. Our and the little countries can do it as well as the big ude to ones. i : 1. As the approaching time‘was His able assistant, Secretary Robert P. Patterson, All that is needed, to destroy, is to act first. Are is well suited to follow in his footsteps and will give we going to live in constant dread of all our neighthe same unselfish service’to his country. : * bors? Exéept for the completely happy-go-lucky . I have been somewhat disturbed lately to read person, able to wipe out all thought of the future, no statements in the public press by members of con- one could go to bed at night with any sense of ; whith seem to assume security, Once a weapon is discovered, it will always

barricade grew where the sclentists and army men were huddled from the tower. for protection. No one was sure what the bomb would do, with into action, There was a terrific what force it would explode, or blinding flash. It lit up the diswhether the explosion would en-

gulf them all.. It was the most ‘crucial experiment since inquisi<

: ‘tive man started to probe into announced, minute by. minute, the great forces of nature. Everytension in the earth and timber one was ordered to lle face down

on the ground with his eyes away 2. The robot mechanism went tant mountains. Then after an

interval of seconds came a deaf- ~ ening roar and a powerful blast

_of air. Two men who had remajned standing were hurled from their fect by the blast miles

awdy from |the experimental atomic bomb at the Alamogordo

air base.

3. Those who dared look at the blast said a huge fiery cloud of many colors shot 40,000 feet upward. It lit-the horfson like a dozen brilliant suns, An observer

make it possible for average two-

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six miles away was blinded by the glare. The light, persisted for several seconds. The clouds of boiling dust and smoke arose to the like a rapidly growing mushroom, and were scattered by the substratosphere

4. The light was seen for a radius of more than 180 miles. A woman motorist 150 miles away

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on the New Mexico-Arizona bors. der said the mountains were fl Juminated for about three seconds. - wexactly like the sun had come up and suddenly gone down again. Near Albuquerque a blind girl was said to have exclaimed “What was . that light?” when the skies were suddenly illuminated. : . Tomorrow: The First Tost Is 8

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