The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 24, 1930, Page 4

: THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1930 The Bismarck Tribune independent THE STATES OLVES! NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) i 1 if i } as @ whole is going to have to do a good deal of inten- sive thinking during the next decade if it is to prosper as it ought. That ‘Spring-y’ Feeling! A Summer Gypsy Nation Published by the Bismarck Company, Bis-| You get something of a conception of the extent to N = Las tas Pa, / tyege fates } Marck, NN. and entered at the postoffice at Biamarcs | which the American people go touring about in their ail / : i as ap Due mete. Present ano febtenn | autos every summer when you learn that the hot dog o seseseseedeceeoel and soft drink stands along the roadside do a total busi- ness of around $500,000,000 a year. This figure is furnished by Dr. Julius Klein, Leawnodsld| secretary of commerce. He finds that there are now between 110,000 and 125,000 roadside stands; that more than half of them keep open all the year around and that new ones are being added at the rate of 3,000 a year. Half a billion dollars is a sizable turnover for any business. The hot dog stand is pushing its way up into the rank of major industries. Some organizing genius} probably will come along presently and loop a few thou- sand of these establishments into one vast, coast-to-coast chain; meanwhile the industry, unique in a land of great mergers, is composed of innumerable small, one-man con- cerns—a new field for individualism in the business IN REGARD 70 HEALTH ¢ DIET WILL BE ANSWERED GRCCOY WHO CAN GE 0 CARE OF THIS PAPER ENCLOSE STAMPED HODRESSEO ENVELOPE FOR REPLY | \AR0G HE. COV HEALTH SERWCE LOS ANGELES: CAL. HELP YOURSELF TO GOLDEN SUNLIGHT If you haye never taken sun baths you should resolve to begin this year; if you are aceustomed to taking them you will not need to be told to, as you no doubt already know ‘the benefits and Jeasures of sun bathing. Spring is the best time of the year to begin acc yourself to the sun’s rays so that your skin wiil have achieved its coating of tan before the hottest days. By beginning sun bath- ace z Fe BE a8. cf & the sunlight will improve the circula- tion and general health. The sta » @ good tonic. Take all you can get of : Dr. McCoy will gladly answer personal questions on health and diet addressed to tim, cars of The Tribune. Enclose a stamped addressed envelope fer reply, Lill Member of The Associated Press Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use tepublication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this newspape: and alsc the & at. Begin moderately and you will local news of spontaneous origin published herein All | world. ing now, with short exposures and in- | thrive and grow strong in its healing rights of republication of al) other matter herein are} It isn't the size of this business that is interesting, aeaee Aye Sn Ka the time | rays. also reserved. however, so much as it is the meaning back of it. The umm: e you So accus- eaabias (Official City, State and County Newspaper) number of tourists must be simply stupendous for the fens Caen te COE REE DA Bere hot dog and pop sales to rise to half a billion dollars. rong Foreign Representatives 6MALL. SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK Railroads Do Their Bit ‘The railroads of the country have been doing their bit toward the restoration of normal industrial and busi- ness conditions the country over, as a means of undoing the mischief of last fall's stock market debacle, by push- ing their improvement programs, a report of the Ameri- ran Railway association discloses. During the first three months of the year, capital ex- penditures by the roads for new equipment, additions and betterment to railroad property were $23,772,000, it is shown by replies to a special questionnaire vent to class 1 roads, to ascertain the extent of their coopera- tion with the policy of President Hoover to rebuild busi- ness and maintain employment. This is $11,772,000 above the estimate submitted to the president at his industrial conferences at Washington last December. This expenditure was a considerable increase over what it has been in corresponding periods in other years. It went $95,344,000 above the first three months of 1928 and $96,653,000 above the capital expenditures of the first quarter of 1929. Purchase of equipment was more than doubled, amounting to an expenditure of $89,070,000, com, pared with $37,642,000 for the corresponding period of 1929. Roadway and structures expenditures aggregated $134,- 702,000, compared with $89,477,000 for 1929. “In the first three months this year, the railroads in- stalled 24,739 freight train cars, an increase of 16,195 cars compared with the number installed during the same period in 1929. Locomotives installed totaled 189, compared with 118 in the first three months of last year, and compared with 435 in the first quartcr of 1928. On April 1, the railroads had 37,117 freight cars on order, compared with 42,561 on the same day in 1929. Passenger train cars on order totaled 688, compared with 615 on April 1 last year, while locomotives on order on April 1 this year amounted to 442, compared with 372 in 1929. Capital expenditures actually made in the first three months this year for locomotives amounted to $14,064,000, compared with $10,517,000 made during the correspond- ing period of last year. For freight cars, expenditures amounted to $62,962,000, compared with $14,168,000 in the first quarter of 1929. ' ‘Total capital expenditures for roadway and structures made by the railroads of this country irr the first three months this yar amounted to $134,702,000. This was an increase of $45,225,000 over the same period last year. Capital expenditures for additional main track, yards, |; and sidings, in the first three months of 1930 to $27,608,- 000, compared with $20,089,000 during the corresponding A EE EE OS TT $10,356,000, compared with $8,502,000 in 1929! For shops and engine houses, including machinery and todls, ex- Penditures totaled $8,361,000, compared with $5,479,000 in 1929. For station facilities and office buildings, capital expenditures amounted to $23,774,000, compared with $11,607,000 in 1929. Bridges, trestles, and culverts ab- sorbed $15,801,000, compared with $12,572,000 in 1929. For all other improvements, $48,802,000 were expended 4n the first quarter of this year, an increase of $17,571,000 compared with the same period in 1929. Our Problems a Woven Fabric ~ ‘We are ailing socially and industrially all over not {n spots. This is because of the complexities’ of modern life. That is why the farm problem is a matter which the entire nation feels. That is why our unemployment Problem is akin with that of England and of France and of Germany. That is why militarism in any of these countries or Japan, why unrest, whether it be in Mexico = or China, and bolshevism in Russia make themselves felt in this land in some symptom of-reaction or an- other. The symptoms are the growing pains of social, economic and industrial evolution. Thus we cannot take up one problem for solution swithout working into another where their threads cross ae tangled skein the moment we try to work in that with some palliative ovjective in view. The whole social Panorama spreads itself out before us the moment we set out from a given point of disturbance to investigate and remedy. The other day the Michigan Real Estate association met to consider ways of relieving agricultural. distress. George Friday, chairman of the association's agricul- tural committee, thereupon made this proposal: “The only solution to the rural problem today is to move a third of the farmers into the cities. The re- maining two-thirds will then till all on the land and . each farmer will be able to make a living. The gross income of the farmer today is an average of less than $2,000 a year. This is far from enough. The average income of the balance of the population is above $4,000 @ year. : ¥ “Gradually we are driving the farmers into the cities. | Their farms are being foreclosed and/their numbers are decreasing annually. But this is not fast enough. If, by educational methods, we can convince many, who are now failing, to sell out while they still have something left, the problem will be solved within a féw years.” Mr. Friday's solution at least escapes the pitfalls that i y i g 4 ‘ 5 Suppose that a third of our farmers could be moved into the cities. This very possibly wopld solve the farin i i ‘anything by solving the farm problam in such a way that it increases the number of job-hunters in the cities at the very moment when industry is providing a dimin- ishing number of jobs? Ou: problems all seem to tie in together this way. Zouch one and you have to touch them all. The nation | i i = z period last year. ‘For heavier rail, expenditures totaled | “what part of your home making do you dislike most?” | Editorial Comment | That sales figure reflects a spread of the vacation habit greater than anything the world has ever known before. The surface of the earth has been pretty well fur- rowed, in the course of history, by the migrations of its Peoples; but was there ever anything like this annual migration of Americans and Canadians? Millions of men, Women and children go roving every summer. | They make the wanderings of the romantic gypsies look | puny. ‘They cover a whole continent. . the oceans look like; coast folk swing over the moun- tains and have a look at the midlands. Mountains and lakes and rivers and sea beaches and deserts slide under the wheels of a million cars, and provincialism goes out of existence under a million sets of rubber tires. The whole nation shuffles itself each year, and Mr. Average Citizen, perched behind his steering wheel, does more traveling in one month than his ancestors did in all And—just to set the picture in its real proportions— the incidental food and drink bill of these roving tour- ists comes to half a billion dollars. There never was anything remotely like it before. Its ultimate effects can hardly be estimated; but you may be sure they will be profound. The American spirit, 50 years hence, will be infinitely the richer because of this background of wandering. The Tireless Farm Wife Who works hardest on the farm? ‘A survey has reached the conclusion that it is the farm wife. Figures for the whole United States show that her hours are 51 a week, while those of her husband are but 48 The agricultural department of the Uni- versity of California developed this as the result of cir- culating a questionnaire among the farm women of California. *The information is of interest in this state, where agriculture is the main industry and where some of the conditions of the pioneer period still persist on the farms. The information obtained in California very probably could be duplicated in this state, the drudgery perhaps exceeding that revealed in the former. In the California test, one question asked, “Do you feel the need of more time for home making?” brought 131 “yes's” and 67 “no's.” Broadening this question to; include “What activities?” 53 answered sewing and mend- ing, 26 family and children, 17 gardening, and 15 clean- house. in answer to “What part of your home making do you enjoy most?” 145 said cooking, 63 sewing, 41 care of chik dron, 41 housework, 27 beautifying home, 23 garden and chickens, and stveral mentioned cleaning, washing and ironing. Dishwashing led all others in returns to the question, This task drew 74 votes; cleaning, 73; washing, 34; iron- ing, 40; cooking and meal planning, 35; mending and sewing, 31; mopping and scrubbing, 20; and picking up after family, 5. | To the question “Does any of your work tire you physically?” 187 replied affirmatively. Washing tired the largest number—80—while scrubbing, dusting and clean- ing, ironing, sweeping, gardening and being on feet fol- lowed in order. Terrible Power (New York World) 4 ‘The picture of Signor Marconi aboard his yacht in the harbor of Genoa pressing a button and projecting a radio beam which turned on the electric lights in Sydney, Aus- tralia, halfway around the world, is something to stir the imagination. Many people who are still fairly young can recall the wonder and admiration which were evoked when this same Signor Marconi succeeded in transmitting for the first time a feeble wireless signal across the Atlantic. Today we may converse with Lon- don by telephone as easily as we do with Yonkers. But to transmit power to the other side of the earth without wires and in sufficient amount to close an electric switch and set lights to flashing or wheels to moving 1s a new sort of achievement. Its possibilities both thrill and appall. The accomplishment thrills when we think of the ways in which it may finally be put to productive use, but it appalls when we also remember that it may have equally great capacity for destruction. It makes us believe that Perhaps the scientists and cngineers were not merely dreaming when they prophesied that in the next great war cities may be destroyed without invading armies and siege guns but by powerful rays projected from a reat distance. Such things would be no more marvelous than many of-the scientific achievements which have been witnessed during the life of the present generation. But they would be more terrible than any destructive de- vices which scientific warfare has yet been able to per- fect. Appalling as this appears to be, it may after all Prove to be a boon to humanity. Conceivably the best way to put an end to the folly of war may: come through mechanisms which multiply its hotrible follies. Dwellers in the interior go spinning off to see what; their lives—and does it in incomparably greater comfort. | @—- nl Today Is the | Anniversary of QUEEN VICTORIA'S BIRTH On May 24, 1819, Alexandria Vic- toria, queen of Great Britain and Treland, in whose reign England is said to have arisen to a greater posi- tion in the world than it had ever attained before, was born at Ken- sington Palace, She was the only child of Edward, fourth son of George III, who died when she was only eight months old. On the death of her uncle, William IV, Victoria succeeded to the throne at the age of 18. Three years later she married Albert, prince of Saxe- Coburg-Gotha, by whom she had nine ebi4ren, Her reign was distinguished by rcat movements of vast importance. In the thirties came the first victory for the reform of the system of elect- ing members of Parliament. In the forties the battle for cheap food was won, and the tax on imported corn | removed. In the sixties the cause for national education was won, and the Education Act of 1870 passed. The strict standard of propriety which she set for her court had a wide social influence and was reflect- ed in the literature of the period, which has become known as the Vic- torian era. aT, | Maxie Rosenbloom, New York's “Harlem Hoyden,” was named the best in the light-heavyweight division last year in a consensus of 75 boxing critics. BEGIN RERE TODAY vertualty, When Kai oMfee, Phi re him back to is Phillipa there at harmony te Alan ae makes Phil and refuses t ‘Angered, out been iseed Natalte ts, NOW GO ON WITH TRE STOR’ CHAPTER XVI quiry about Natalie. Common Causes of Crime (Minneapolis Journal) Illinois’ director of public welfare has been studying the prison population of that state, to determine com- mon characteristics. Here are his findings, in relation to home, church and school: The school experience of the average prisoner is about half the average school experience of all the peo- ple of the same age. The men are the twenty-year-old, unschooled boys of Illinois, with whom and for whom the schog] contact broken at too tender an age. inert not know | the difference between right and wrong. They do not respect the property of their neighbor, nor his person. They have never had any regular work. been idlers since youth, They are unmitigated and constant lars. They are always unhappy They are sour, discon- tented and sore. They have come to believe they are too smart to have to acquire place in life by hard work. Yet thei> raw intelligence is greater than that of the American troops in the World war. Eighty per cent of them are boys for whom the home contact was broken by its disruption before they reached brad Hed understanding and conception of their place in y. ‘The average boy in Illinois has less than ten hours @ year of religious and moral instruction. These are common facts about Illinois prisoners. If they hold in Minnesota, they may point to conditions that are making potential prisoners of Minnesota boys. They may explain some of the juvenile delinquencies that have disturbed. or should disturb, the thoughts of intelligent citizens here in Minneapolis. They have hurried away. Natalie's failure to come down breakfast was too unusual to be given him the chance to do s0, wanted an explanation. things into it. And prise, and said. “Well?” returned, “If I'm to bell fe what I see, packing. “Apparently there's list,” she said, Perhaps you would be willing tell me where you are going?” Natalie te Husban © 1950 BY NEA SERNICE INC. NATALIE CONVERSE tries to her Y ner jence him. He confides fi secretary, PHILLIPA WEST, whe bas been waiting for this op- 6 Hewever. a pleas- Lake “GHE'S in ber room, sir,” the maid answered to Alan’s in- “Thank you,” Alan said, and nored, he felt, A few mothents ago he'd have been glad to go without seeing her, But now that she had He found her leaning over an Open suitcase on her bed, packing she was dressed for the street. She looked up at him, as he hesitated in sur “What's up?” Alan asked bluntly. “Can't you see?” Natalie coolly looks ap if you're going somewhere,” Alan replied. Natalie calmly continued her reason for you to consult an ocu- \ Alan in turn grew sarcastic. “My eyesight may be good,” he retorted, “but I've no supernatural powers. Straightened up and looked at him with nothing but an ‘ “The day has come when no candi- Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, dry law reform advocate, * ek being interested in public questions is not enough.”—Alfred E. Smith. * ee “Rhetoric is the gasolfhe, but we must also have the machine.”—David Lloyd George. . ses * “It is casier to be sentimental than to be intelligent.”— William Lyon Phelps. ee ¢ “One of the causes of anti-Semit- ism is that the Jew succeeds in busi- ness.”—Rev. Dr. Jacob Katz of New York. se & “Getting married cautiously is no safer than being a cautious automo- bilist in a swarm of traffic.”—Rupert Hughes. xk * “It is easy for clever governments to induce men to surrender their lives.”"—Emil Ludwig. * Oe OK “Man desires to fill the cup of life to the ‘brim, and modern civilization hastens to cater to his wants.”—Sir | arthur Keith, eee “It is as important for the purpose of thought to keep language efficient |as it is in surgery to keeping tetanus uplifted brow changing the expres- sion of her face. : “I'm afraid it may sound like comedy to say it,” she told him. Alan flung out a hand. “Oh, the whole thing is very funny,” he de- clared bitterly. “Why not get a laugh out of it?” “Yes, why not?” Natalie agreed. “Well, I'm going home to mother.” “That isn't a joke in this tam ily,” Alan answered. “You've done that before.” “I know,” Natalie sald quickly; “but those were . . . just visits.” Her voice hard an@ thin as she sald this, and she looked at Alan with eyes that were as bril- Mant and cold as ice. Alan heard and saw these things; but be did not see that her knees were pressed hard against the side of the bed to sive her body the support she sud- denly needed to keep standing. He stared back at her unbellev- ingly. She bad cried wolf so many times before, that be could not take her in earnest now. “You aren't threatening to leave me, are you?” he asked, his in- credulity evident in his voice, “That,” Natalie said, and stooped x [over to go on with her packing, “is what makes it fumny. And it isn’t threat. It's a fact.” falie!” Alan's face was white Row. “Don't get excited about tt,” Natalie cautioned him. “You might have expected it, you know.” to |, Sudienly Alan felt weak. Natglie,” he said, and went over to Ss | sit on foot of her bed, “I can’t understand why you were going away like this—without a word.” Natalie refused to look at him. “Oh, I'd have left a note on your pillow,” she said lightly. “And as for going without a word—you've been doing that quite regularly.” “After a quarrel, yes,” Alan ad- mitted, “but you've thought this out im cold blood,” he added ac- cusingly. “In @ cold house,” Natalie cor- rected. “Something went wrong last night, and we didn’t have any it | heat for three hours.” “Are you going home to your mother because of that?” Alan re- torted, feeling even more guilty than Natalie had hoped she could make him feel. His remark, which Natalie con- sidered sneering, fired anew the ill- feeling toward him which had been dying down since he came into the room. to] “I'm going because I've had enough of being humiliated and neglected,” she cried hotly, “You aren't the only one who's “But he no date can successfully carry water on one shoulder and gin on the other.”— dg eS J bacilli out of one’s bandages.”—Ezra | Quotations || Pound. acuucel OO “Half a loaf may be better than no economy.”—Lord Wakefield. ses “Any marriage must grow, QUICK-WITTED THIF Elyria, O.—Mrs, Harold M. Horace evidently isn’t so well acquainted with good imitator. One night recently she heard a noise in the kitchen. “Zs that-you, Harold?” she called down- stairs, “Yes, dear,” came the reply. Thinking it was her husband Mrs. Horace went back to sleep. Later the real Horace came home to find the house ransacked. THRILLED TO DRUGS Washington —The hunt for a thrill is what causes many persons to be- come drug addicts, according to the U.S. Public Health Service. A survey \taken of 1225 confirmed addicts by Dr. W. L. Treadway of the service, showed that 112, or about 10 per cent, traced their downfall to such thrill tests of habit-forming narcotics. Rube Marquard, former National league pitching star, still can fling ’em. Hurling for Jacksonville of the Southern league, which he manages, he recently blanked the Montgomery, Ala., club. been humiliated,” Alan shot back at her, as the memory of bis own wrongs swept over him. “Then if we make each other 80 unhappy, why should we continue to live together?” Natalie de- manded. “I’m fed up on it!” She didn’t mean it so much as Alan thought she did. He happened to recall at that moment how many times had said she would leave him. Maybe she was fed up. He found it, all at once, less difi- cult to believe, Hadn’t he, himself, thought at times—when he was cool, too—that they might be wast- ing their time in trying to make a go of their marriage? An echo of his own doubt re- turned to him now. It helped to overcome the shock he had expert- enced upon coming face to face at last with the oft-averted crisis— the parting of their ways. And there was—although he was hardly conscious of it—a thought in the back of his mind that he could find sympathy and under- standing with Phillipa. He did not feel so utterly hopeless and de- serted as he would have felt had this scene with Natalie taken place 24 hours earlier. Natalie was disappointed in the way he took it. She had not meant to leave without seeing him. Had he not come to her, she intended to send Frances with word that she wanted to see him in her room. She expected him, in spite of their quarrel, to seck to keep her from going. Not that her mind wasn't fully made up; she'd decided not to change her plans, no matter what he said. A long-distance telephone call, put through to her mother the night before, bad resulted in her sudden decision to pay her parents a visit, But she hadn’t meant it to be a final separation from Alan. Pique and outraged pride had caused her to use the old threat when Alan came to her and “acted like he thought I was bluffing,” as she put {t to herself. : Had Natalie admitted to herself at that moment that she had been bluffing, and hadn't let Alan’s in- credulity drive her to see her bluff through, she'd have realized that ‘his attitude was only a manifesta- tion of his own pride. Natalie was one of those women who think too little of a man’s pride, and too much of their own. A touch of humility, of tenderness, on her part would have brought Alan to her feet, ready to assume all the responsibility for their quarrel, But Natalie hadn’t learned that bread, but half a mind is dangerous t times, |almost unbearably tiresome to both Persons involved.”—Sherwood Ander- “It takes time to realize that just son. her husband’s voice, or the thief who |Tecently ransacked her home was a health which such activity brings, without having to fear sunburn. The sun treatment should be taken by everyone. The sun is free, the treatments cost nothing, and now that summer is near, one of the greatest health messages I can give you is to go out into the out-of - doors and enjoy plenty of sunshine and fresh air. Sunlight is one of the oldest and best of health treatments, but we are now just beginning to understand some of the scientific reasons why the sun adds to our health and to our joy of living. If you take your sun baths Properly, by the end of summer you will have a good coat of tan and you will have absorbed much of the radi- ant energy of the sun which in some way is picked up by the blood from the surface of the skin. There is no advantage to sunburn. In fact, you should avoid exposing your skin too much at first, as it is neither the sunburning nor the tan- ning which does you good. It is the absorption of the sun’s chemical rays. If you allow your skin to become burned, you injure yourself just as water or in any other way. The ultra-violet rays of the sun enable your body to manufacture a substance similar to vitamin D, which allows your body to use calcium which you need for your bones, teeth, hair and nerves. While the sun is best in some high mountainous region, it is still very good at any place where it can reach you and you may as wall enjoy it right where you are living. You need not be afraid to take sun baths even in cold weather. If it is very cold you should move about to keep warm and if it is warm you need not do so, but you should turn over occasionally to give the sun a chance to reach the body evenly. Children who are taking the cure for tuberculosis may be playing in the snow with little or no clothing, and still they are not in- jured by the cold, once their skin has become accustomed to it. For most people taking sun baths, it Is advisable to keep the head cov- ered, especially on hot days. Begin with short exposures, say three to and increase slowly about ten minutes per week. In this way the body tans slowly and evenly and no bad effects are felt. Not only is the action of the sun- light advisable, but also the action of Hunter RUTH DEWEY GROVES success in anything, marriage in- cluded, rests largely upon a give and-take basis, fresh air. Any exercise or games which are enjoyed while absorbing much as if you were burned with hot | #0. Question: Mother writes: “I have @ little girl four and a half years old who has been suffering from the skin breaking out on her face and arms in a large number of boils and stys. She was an artificially fed baby, giving principally condensed milk with sugar and cereals, She was al- ways overweight and seemed to be in good health, except for the skin con- tinually breaking out. She also had & Case of pinworms last fall. What would you advise?” Answer: The skin troubles which your baby is having were probably caused by the excessive amount of sugar and starch in her early diet. These would make her fat, but not healthy. It would be a good plan for you to give her a three or four day acid fruit fast, using either apples or oranges, at intervals of a month apart, and in between using a well balanced children’s diet in which the starches and sugars are reduced to a minimum. Short daily sun baths should also prove helpful. Neuritis in Injured Arm Question: F. B. writes: “I had a severe fall in a tennis court two years While running backward for a ball both feet went from under me and I fell on my back with my left hand behind me. The wholse arm is often very sore, just like an electric shock running through me. I am afraid I may have hurt my spine be- cause my neck, shoulders and back, down to my hand are sore at all times. A doctor alvised massage but it doesn’t seem beneficial. I have nd Power to grasp. anything in that Answer: It is possible that you may have misplaced some of the bones or Ngaments in your arm or upper back when you fell. These might press on the nerves of your arm, causing a form of neuritis. I would advise you to have an X-ray picture of the arm and back taken by a good osteopath or chiropractor. He should be able to determine whether or not a mis- placement has occurred and if so cor- rect it. Hot applications will prob- ably give you some relief. (Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) -————————____. | BARBS i st A family of kittens was found in the white house the other day. Pos- sibly it is one of the lost litters Sen- ator Johnson is looking for. zee If the vogue started ky Dartmouth students for wearing shorts takes hold, the ladies will have a fine chance to reciprocate the interest men have taken in ve legs. ss The Soviet football tear which was recently denied England was probably considered better at Russian than the home talent. ee * Newfoundland has imported 100,000 hats this year. But this does not She'd been hurt, through Alan, and whether he was guilty or not, she made him suffer. That one who is made to suffer unfairly may seek solace for his pain is another lesson she had not learned. Not that it would have helped her much to kndw this, She was blinded by her emotions. They hid the fact that she and Alan were at a crossroads in their life. And when he stood up and quietly told her that he hoped she knew what she was doing, she did not know how to handle ituation, He should have pleaded, begged her to remain, according to her idea of what ought to happen if he loved ber. “I guess we're both fed up with things as they are,” Alan said very soberly. “You're right to go, Nata- le.” He was trying to be sensible, and was about to add that separation for a while would perhaps be good for both of them, but to Natalie it seemed that he was more than will- ing for her to feave, She felt a sickening despair take hold of her, but she fought it out of her eyes and her voice when she answered. “Yes,” she sald, “I am right. It's degrading to live as we have!” Alan looked at her haughtily- held chin. His disposition to sug- gest a remedy for the ills of their marriage vanished under her hauteur. The slow flush of growing anger replaced the pallor of his counte- mance as Natalie went coolly on with her task. Under the pile of silken garments that she appeared to be rearranging in the case her hands shook’ pathetically. Alan got to his feet. “Well, hav- ing degraded ourselves,” he said frostily, “do we have to make mat- ters worse by being foolish? It seems to me I've heard that this sort of thing,”"—he waved his hand in the direction of Natalie's pack- ing—“is done with grace and charm —in other words, my dear, it's best done in the manner of smart Eng- lish comedy. Among the better peo- ple, I mean.” His tones, light as they were, dripped with the acid of sarcasm. Natalie looked at him in silence. Every word he uttered convinced her more certainly that she had lost his love. Still her pride urged her to answer them in kind. “Well,” she cried, “what are we to do to be gay and charming?” (To Be Continued) mean necessarily that they plan more rousing sendoffs to trans - Atlantic flyers. e* & Hockey, a news item says, is threat- ening to replace boxing as the main- stay at Madison Square Garden. ‘Well, rubber battles were always more interesting. _ 8 * *& A man is riding on a bull from a Texas town to New York. On his ‘way to the ee market, no doubt. x ® ‘Then there was the Chicago grocer who was so naive that he thought a Pineapple was something you ate. * s* Even though crime is said to be on the wane in Chicago, columnists have reason to be grateful for this much. see * “More guns ordered as men howl.” * Headline over Ohio penitentiary story. As babies, of course, they cried for it. -* * The United States has 49 per cent of the world’s telephone lines. So we have a monoply of lines AND rackets. se Isn't it about time for that Indian to announce the approach of his ? 150th birthday’ (Copyright, 1930, NEA Service, Inc.) Penn state will meet Harvard in football in 1932. Their last game in 1931 tied 21 to 21. - FLAPPER FANNY Says: Every wedding dress is finally al [amen ,