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0 bab eh OA heh ted ch ete Oh ee ED. OT ee Sadia aintnce THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1931 BISMARCK TRIBUNE =_ THE ag An Independent Newspaper f THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER r (Established 1873) Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck 8 second class mail matter. D. Mann .. President and Publisher Salty Subscription Rates Payable in Advance by carrier, per year .... Daily by mail per year (in Bism: Daily by mail per year (in state, outside Bismarck) .... Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year . Weekly by mail in state, three years ‘Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year Weekly by mail i, Memter of Audit Bureau of Circulation rere heehee ter aca A Member of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All Tights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS [ k ‘ <Incorporated) t; Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Queer Things Happen Queer things happen in this world and not the least rare is that of a high officer of the U. S. Army preaching @ sermon to a large number of clergymen wiio responded to @ questionnaire, sent out by a modern magazine. ‘The question asked was what would be the attitude of the ministers of the gospel toward service in the armed forces of the nation in the event of war. A surprising number of them replied that they would have nothing whatever to do with the bloody business; that they were Ppacifists and the country would have to fight its battles without their help. General Douglas MacArthur, army chief of staff, was asked by the magazine to comment on the situation pre- sented by this unwillingness of a large number of soldiers of the cross to assume their share of the burden as sol- diers of the nation. i A good many of the ministers expressed themselves as strongly in favor of U. S. entry into the League of Nations! so General MacArthur first asked if they realized the} basic principle of the League was force to be applied by joint action against any nation refusing to obey the League's mandates. He observes that we skould have to keep 500,000 men under arms constantly in order to) be able to carry out its mandates. -. ‘The general hoisted the clergymen on theif dwn petard, 80 to speak, when he quoted the Bible in support of his attitude. He said: “A few questions occur to me that could ap- Ppropriately be asked these clergymen. In stating that they were in favor of the United States tak- ing the lead in reducing armament, even if com- pelled to make greater proportionate reductions than other countries might be willing to make, did they know that the existing total of our land forces, including regular army, national guard, and organized reserves is about one-third of one per cent of our population? Did they know that in other great countries, except Germany, whose army is limited by treaty, this ratio is from three to forty-five times as great? Did they know our total forces in actual size are exceeded by those of at least fifteen other nations, although in population we are exceeded only by Russia, China, and India? Finally, did they consider the words of Our Lord as given in the 2lst verse of the 11th chapter of St. Luke:.:‘When a strong man armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace’? “In all modesty may I not say to the opponents of national defense that Our Lord, who preached the Sermon on the Mount, later in His career declared: ‘Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword” St Matthew, 10th chapter, 34th verse. Hi It is my humble belief that the religion which He came to establish is based upon sacrifice, and that men and wmen who follow in His train are } called by it to the defense of certain price- less principles even at the cost of their own lives. And I can think of no principles more high and holy than those for which our national sacri- fices have been made in the past. History teaches us that religion and patriotism have always gone hand in hand, while atheism has invariably been accompanied by radicalism, communism, bolshev- ism, and other enemies.of free government.” | Since the clergymen were answering a questionnaire, | not making a speech, it is impossible to learn the de-;, tails of their views and hence we hear only one side ot| the question. Nevertheless, the statements of General| MacArthur are worth considering. He is right when he Says that religion and patriotism always have gone hand in hand, that a slackness in the national attitude is ac- companied by a laxity in the morals and religion of al People. | | A Fine Record | From the standpoint of the proportion of the total tele-| phones in the world now interconnected by wire or radio channels, as well as from that of the number of nations thus included in an international speech neighborhood, it} might appear that telephone scientists and engineers will soon find themselves “sighing for more worlds to con-; quer.” Subscribers whose telephones are connected with) America’s nation-wide service may converse with the) users of a total of 32,600,000 instruments, or 91.5 percent, | | over their households as “Number one wife.” | Wives often are no more than servants to wait on the {husband and his “No. 1 wife,” and are purchasable in |ing trouble for the proprietors of Siamese harems, Free- |man tells us. takes third place with 10.3, followed by Denmark with 9.6, Sweden with 83 and Australia with 7.9 telephones per 100 population, The size of the country, the nature of its development and character of the population all have combined to put. this country far in advance of those in the old world in developing telephone facilities. The record of its tele- Phone industry is one of which the United States may be proud. In few other fields is its leadership so wholly without ehallenge. And in the most telephone-minded nation of the world, Bismarck takes rank as one of its most telephone-con- scious cities, The average city of less than 50,000 popu- lation in this country has 12.1 telephones per 100 persons. In bismarck the ratio is 28 telephones for each 100 per- sons. The significance of this fact is clearly demon- strated by the data which show that the average is about 25 per 100 in the 50 American cities having a population of 200,000 or more. Reform in the Orient Herself a monogamous wife but opposed to laws elim- jinating polygamy in Siam; a child bride but opposed to child marriages. This is the picture of Queen Rambat Barni of Siam, current visitor to the United States, drawn by Andrew Freeman, American who once edited the king's newspaper in Bangkok. Freeman, wise in the ways of the orient after long resi- | dence there, explains that the little queen prefers to lead her people rather than attempt to drive them. | As one of the few absolute monarchs in the world, King Prajadhipok might order the abolition of polygamy if his wife asked it, since she is said to wield over him the influence which occidental wives commonly exercise {over their husbands, but the queen is opposed to unset- | tling the traditions of the country by a harsh order. | Instead of advocating laws against polygamy, the queen ; has encouraged girls in her country to take public oath | that they will not marry a man who practices polygamy. ;Her influence is a power in the country and as a result | the better-class Siamese are finding fewer girls to choose} | from if they wish to organize a harem. The better-class! ‘girls are following the queen's suggestion in this respect and hence many of them are winning husbands for them- | selves alone. | This action is peculiarly efficacious in view of the} fact that only the better-class Siamese can afford more than one wife and it has been customary for them to ; obtain at least one woman of birth and culture to preside | ‘The minor the market for as little as $44.50 each, Freeman says. This fact, and the further consideration that Siamese women are acquiring new ideas of independence, is caus- Some men have wives who will not live with each other and hence have to maintain more than. one establishment for them. As a result, the Siamese harem is going the way of the Turkish harem, sinking in the wake of economic neces- sity as new ideas come into being in the remote parts of the world. And in Siam a great share of the credit goes to the little queen who is attempting to lead but who refuses to scourge. It cannot be said of her that she, like Bret Harte's “heathen Chinee” has “ways that are dark and tricks that are vain,” even though she is an oriental. On the contrary some of our own reformers might well adopt the tactics which have been so successfully employed by this little brown woman in dealing with one of the pressing evils of her own country. She should be given credit for remembering, when she sought to effect reform, that polygamy was an established insti- tution in Siam and that the father of her own husband boasted a high count of more than 600 wives, Quick on the Trigger Complications, perhaps international in character, may loom as the result of the shooting at Ardmore, Okla- homa, of two Mexicans, cousins of the president of our sister republic. It is probable that a formal investigation may be asked to determine why two students, on their way home from a year in college in this country, were shot down by a deputy sheriff after a brief argument. The reason for the shootings, as explained by a fellow deputy of the officer who fired the fatal shots, is that the boys were armed and started to leave their automo- bile while they were being questioned. The official said the youths were informed that he was an officer and that the boys “read every word” on his gold star before anything happened. Somehow this rather suggests a moronic attitude on the part of the deputy sheriff. To begin with it indicates.a rather overwhelming pride in the possession of that gold star. In the second place one senses a greater trust in its presumably magic power than in the ordinary common sense which a public official may be expected to use. The owner of that star scems to have failed to make it clear that he was a police official. He apparently thought that everyone was as interested as he in its Possession. ‘This was unsound reasoning when applied to an Amer- ican citizen and more unsound when applied to visitors to this country. At the very best the man probably was too quick on the trigger. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with The Trib- une's polici We Wonder If It Is the Times? (Valley City Times-Record) ‘We stated the other day that William Anderson, Farm- er-Labor candidate for mayor of Minneapolis, had & good chance to win the election in the Mill City, and We were not far wrong—he won by a handsome majority.! The bugaboo of Townleyism did not seem to scare the voters of Minneapolis any and the fact that Leach made @ poor record when he was mayor before, contributed to of all the telephones in the world. These telephones are} distributed throughout thirty-one countries which com-/ prise most of North America, the southern part of South! America, most of Europe, a district in northwest Africa, the eastern part of Australia, and Java. ‘This does not mean, however, that telephone engi- neers will shortly find themselves without wide fields of opportunity. Even after international service has been extended to the relatively few important countries which it does not reach at present, much will remain to be done before the world as a whole has been brought up to any- thing approximating the high development of telephone service already reached in the United States. ‘There were 34,526,629 telephones in the entire world on January 1, 1930. Of these, the United States possessed 20,068,023, or 58 per cent, Europe, with 10,035,580 tele- phones on the same date, had 29 per cent of the world’s total, or one-half as many as the United States. The se@maining 13 per cent of telephones were distributed widely throughut the rest of the world. During 1929, the total number of telephones increased by 1,962,409, of which increase 45 per cent resulted from telephone ex- pansion in the United States elone. ‘The foregoing data are taken from a compilation of telephone statistics of the world just completed by the ‘American Telephone and Telegraph Company. ‘The United States, with 16.4 telephones for each 100 of {ts people, has nearly nine times the relative telephone development of Europe, which has only 1.9 telephones for @ach 100 people. Canada, with 14.2 telephones per 100/717 population, is the only country whose telephone density jin putting him on the shelf. Mr. Anderson's victory. The women of the city were opposed to Leach for his lack of enforcement in the city while mayor, and they joined forces with the Labor party Then the Minneapolis Journal came out and said that it could not support | Leach on his past record, or Anderson either, so the | battle went to the Farmer-Labor forces by a sort of \“don’t give a damn” campaign. Other things also entered into the Minneapolis cam- paign. For some time there has been # feeling of unrest on account of unemployment, general conditions, and a feeling that the country was going to the dogs in many ways that has a tendency to draw support to the Farm- er-Labor movement regardless of the platform or any- thing else. Townleyism seems to thrive on present day conditions and if these conditions maintain we would. not be very far astray were we to make the assertion that unless there is a mighty trend upward the same’ sort of feeling will govern in the nation next year and on a cold, snowy night, cent between them, Belasco saw a 25-cent piece on the path. The “crap back to me,” the producer said. —, wih Gilbert Swan New York, June 11—The late David Belasco left more legends and anec- dotes behind him than wealth. ~ Half @ dozen volumes could be de- voted to the colorful and amazing tales scattered over a lifetime that had included everything from melo- dramatic adventure in the early west to esthetic contemplation in his mu- seum-like offices. detail in production and stage direc- ieee gave rise to a hundred amusing les. His attention to There was, for instance, one con- cerning a series of rehearsals wherein he could not get from a leading act- ress a piercing shriek that seemed to fit the scene. every key, but none seemed to suit the maestro. She was about to give up, when Belasco went back stage for & moment. He returned with a needle borrowed from the wardrobe. gave the actress a quick jab. Natu- rally she shrieked. She had shrieked in He “Ah, that’s more like it! Now you know what I mean,” softly comment- ed the wizard. ek x Spinning yarns of his experiences out in the “great open spaces” when Nevada was the scene of the historic rush, one of Belasco's favorites con- cerned a dice game. appearing in one of the mining camp theaters. A fellow trouper was an in- curable gambler, and together they had left their pay at the roulette wheel. He had been Wandering toward the playhouse without a fame” was the only one in which so small a sum of money could be ‘wagered. Back they went to the gaming tables and, letting his money double with each pass of the dice, the young actor enjoyed phenomenal luck. He ran the quarter into a small fortune of about a thousand dollars or more. Then they left, ate heartily and celebrated. The following morning it was gone —played back on the games of chance and tossed away. ee OK After Lenore Ulric, who had started with Belasco, left her assured star- dom to go with another producer, one of the drama critics who had known her for many years told her she had made a great mistake. Miss Ulric listened to the critic's advice and signed back with Belasco not long afterward. The critic met Belasco a few days later and the “governor” seemed par- ticularly pleased. “I hear you got my star to come ay Just Can’t Keep a Good Flyer Down! By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Med- ical Association, an@ of Hygeia, the Health Magazine The progress of scientific medicine is, no doubt, chiefly responsible for the increase in the cost of medical education, the increase in the cost of medical care, the rise of specializa- tion, and the tremendous development of hospitals. Modern medical education requires at least eight years of a young man’s life at an annual expense of $1200 a year. Modern scientific diagnosis in @ difficult case demands the use of a tremendous amount of scientific ap- paratus and the application of the highest medical talent. In the hos- Pital, such apparatus is made general- ly available; in the hospital, also, the Services of many physicians in vari- ous specialties are easily accessible to the patient. Hospitals have increased from ap- proximately 1000 in 1900 to 5000 in 1910, and to 6719 in 1930, There are today almost 1,000,000 beds available in hospitals, and at least-two-thirds of all of the physicians lcensed to practice in the United States are as- sociated with the hospitals in some manner. Of the 98,491 physicians now associated with hospitals, 45,000, or almost 50 per cent, are specialists, contrasted with some 45 per cent of specialists in 1905. Another factor has been the de- velopment of technical assistants in medical care, including dietitians, physical therapy technicians, X-ray technicians, nurses, orderlies and so- cial service workers, so that today, in addition to the 155,000 physicians li- censed to practice medicine in the United States, there are at least 2,- 000,000 additional workers who devote Daily Health Service Rising Cost of Medical Care Due to Progress of Science High Price of Education and Apparatus Is Laid to Greater Knowledge of Disease Practically all of their time to the care of the sick. Since labor cost is one of the highest costs in any serv- ice, these facts must be considered in connection with the cost of medical care. 5 The development of university Practice, group practice, medical cen- ters, contract practice, industrial Practice and similar changes in the nature of medical practice, has been the response to an attempt to decrease the cost of medical care by lowering the cost of the overhead through bet- ter distribution. In every scheme that has been de- veloped the chief fault is the lessening of personal relationship between the Physician and the patient. It is hu- man nature for the worker to feel his responsibility to the source of his in- come. It is safer for the patient if the physician feels that he is respon- sible primarily to the patient. Any Plan that lessens the responsibility of the trained physician to the pa- tient or that denies him the reward of individual effort of superior ability is detrimental to the welfare of the Patient. It must be remembered in this con- nection that medical education in this country has been improved con- stantly and that the medical profes- sion of the next generation will be in general of a much higher grade than that of the present. It must be re- membered also that research has shown that 90 per cent of the diseases affecting human beings can be diag- nosed and treated by a general prac- titioner with the amount of equipment. he can carry in a handbag. It is only the remaining 10 per cent of difficult and serious diseases that requires hos- Pitalization and the co-ordinated Services of numerous specialists. ——-— am grateful for this service and I'd like to pay you for it.” Laughing as he spoke, Belasco reached in his pocket and handed the critic a new and shining quarter, * * * A friend he never forgot was a clown who befriended him when he was a lad trouping in South America. Young Belasco fell ill and could not go on with the show. The clown stayed behind too and raised money for the boy's care. Years later, deciding to take a stage name while trouping through the west, he adopted that of his clown friend and for many seasons used the name. HILBERT SWAN. Gl (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) ‘What this country needs is some Americans down in Washington.— Former Mayor Thompson of Chicago, an upheaval in politics be the result—the people in their present frame of mind will vote for a change no matter whether the change augurs for good or ill. It is the state of public mind, and the party in power usually suffers as @ consequence although it is really not responsible for it. ‘The tremendous loss in the stock market, the depletion of farm prices, general unemployment and a rather bad business condition is anything but encouraging to the party in power. You remember the depression when Cleveland was elected president—the people got an idea they wanted a change and they voted for a change— and it was small change at that—but the voters got the matter off their chests and that helped some if it did not help financially. . The heavy support given Anderson by the Labor unions. backed with the poor record of his opponent, has placed him at the head of the city of Minneapolis. Maybe he to be a good man for the job—timé alone as ae prove will tell. But the result shows the trend of public senti- | that of the United States. New Zealand / ment and you cannot get away from that. pedestauns ARE INJURED JUST By FALLING, THAN ARE INJUREO BY AUTOMOBILES THIS CURIOUS WORLD Y oT NENIN His: APREVARICATOR OF OVINE LAW AND OF SACRED DOCTRINES ANO NORTHCLIFFE’S ARRIVAL On June 11, 1917, Lord Northcliffe, Proprietor of the London Times, the London Daily Mail and-other publi- cations, arrived in New: York to take up the duties of head of the British commission to the United States, which post had been tendered him by Premier Lloyd George. Northcliffe's assignment was to co- ordinate the work of the various British organizations already engaged in the task of supplying British war and other needs. His appointment was not a diplomatic position. Each of the allied governments had numerous commissions engaged in various duties of assembling and pro- curing supplies in this country. The head of the French commission was Andre Tardieu. Baron Moncheur, former Belgian minister to the Unit- ed States, arrived in New York with the Belgian commission June 16. A commission of Russians, consisting of 40 members, arrived in Seattle three days previously. . 7 Quotations 1 OO Greater than war and the noble spirit it produces, greater than the valor and devotion of war's deeds is the spirit that can overcome war.— Dr. O. C. Kiep, German consul in New York. / <* * Tam convinced that marriage 1s the most sucpessiul social institution that we have yet devised.—Ida M. Tarbell. * * * Man is not half through his evolu- tionary process—Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, noted anthropologist. xe Patriotism, the greatest form of in- sanity from which the world ever suf- fered, is rampant everywhere and the result in zoing to be another war.— Charlie Fnaple. ia! If everyone's conscience is the voice of God, we have a very cont God.—Rev. J. B. rdin, i Stickler Solution 1 ND LAW SO | 1D TO. LEARN. SYNOPSIS: Bert Rushe attains his life ambition and becomes & big league older broth was climbing up to the on the side in the show who can’t see him, Finally he is to have a talk with him. him, or change her mind, Whi AVIS wanted to see me! seasons in minor leagues. iat tt ine Ry eae seatie e Fein, ead he falls in love vith a girl delighted to learn ether she will believe scandals about His famous While Bert he was also making big money that she wants is the big thing Bert wants to find out, That was something—a great deal—wonderful! : Of course she wanted to tell me that Mona had rite i ip. That would be doing her part. But she ean ie paints but that Mona was scared into denying it—she would never believe but that much of it, at least, was ‘He ut I followed her father out. ; I spotted the big car and I had given Red a signal to | gust as soon as we played the [ri aipaniase ative atators <1 * recos crossed. the space where the big car was parked. ‘She saw us coming and got out of the car. That was natural, as she had friends there and whatever she wanted to say wasn't for others to hear, “Hello, Bert—how does it feel to be in the major league?” was her reeting. ott feels all right—but, it feels beats bie a ee @ look at you again,” I declared. eELook out for him,” her father said, with a wink at me, “he’s full of tricky curves—and blarney.’ Mr. Merrill moved on to his friends’ car. | “Come and See Us” _| “I'm glad you made it, Bert—you were always the sort to fight for what you wanted, or work for it.’ “I’m lucky in baseball, Mavis.” “That is what a baseball player should be.” I was getting nervous, I had to | know something. “It couldn’t be that Mona Lorrin got a letter to you so soon,” I said. “Well, Bert, she communicated with me.” I smiled, but it must have been a rather bitter smile. Mona had been so frightened about the threatened suits that she had undoubtedly used "OOF srdered her to do it, What d “T ordered her to do lo i ic time is short, Bert, and the best thing that you can ido is to play out your season and ‘then come out and See us.” | “Do you mean it, Mavis?” | “Yes, we can talk things over. I've j2 lot to say—really, Bert, I was proud of you when I saw you play today. I must run along, our friends are waiting and we have a long dis- tance to drive to their country place. Father and I are going on home from there. Promise you will come out _after the season?” “Promise? (Try and prevent me from coming.” “I must run,” she said. I think she saw that I wanted to take her in my arms, for she stuck out her hand. We shook hands. ulled her hand away and “In the fall!” she said. “In the fall, as fast as an air- plane can get me out there at the ead our last game of the sea- son, She waved and went @o her friends. Her father called out. Their driver started the car and they disappeared. I went back to my friends in a sort of golden haze. It was because Mavis wanted to have-a talk with me. She wanted to explain a lot of things, I could understand all of that, and I wanted to have the chance to try and put 4 one more plea ior her to believe me, Harry's bitter crack that she would never believe the truth came to me. It might be true, but I was going to put up a big fight to make her understand, make her have confi- dence—to win her. “You must have got money from home,” Hadley said as I joined them, “with that grin.” “Oh, just some good news,” I muttered. I took the three of them to dinner and I saw to it that it was a rea! good dinner. Then I took them to a Sunday concert that I knew was a wow! It was midnight when I put. them on their train. Even then I didn’t sleep well and 1 am afraid I played a slo; ami be? next day. ij i ppt seme 0 We played on and on, thro the season. We didn't get ae down to the bottom at all, and we couldn’t quite get up near enough to the top to get a ‘chance for the world's series, * (be SES SE ee ce | Marking Time I was between the devil and the deep sea, in a way. I would cer- tainly have liked to play in a world’s series—not that I needed the extra coin, but for the thrill of it. And on the other hand, if we did get, the pennant and have to play in the series that would mean just 80 much more delay before I could Beauliful Country mazsion teat at aN country mansion was Seater Shae my an ‘0 get ead of my story, this was the bbe! that th big censation happened, when E: "Ss wife was burned to death in a houseboat Where she had been living with the *Desplts may favtat ee t love o} the season ‘Seemed to drag. bac sure I played my best, but thoughts - of seeing Mavis were always coming ia ee making the time seem to There were a lot of games when I didn’t play. I had a little sickness once from @ bad fish, I think, that laid me up for a week. Altogether I played in forty-one games through the season, and itched 304 . I gave only h the Season and struck out 296. ii It was considered Righty good for oes on ie oe ee. ferry’ ni and I was glad of tT Was aise secretly glad that we didn’t, as the close of the season approached. For I became more and more anxious to Bet °8t to Son Cuarde and me my loved Mavis, ‘The Cards won in the other bag e last time that I saw Harry, it was m.* cinch that the Loopers “I suppose you'll be on and watch the fun,” said. . “Sorry, Hany can't do it.” “Get out! Don't tell me anything would | make you miss a world’s “Not usually, but this ts un business, to make trip,” tried toexsiain, Ne & SP “The young lady?” | “And thers are ite ‘who “Ant re are make you miss a neds werent _ “Not girls—just one—the girl.” “All to fad your the matrimonial “Nothing Uke it,” I assured him. And so I didn’t 1 series that year ‘when Hery's cute fit copped it from the Cards. I couldn't see it very well, as I Jast_game I was all set to go. I left Buekbee my forwarding address and told him that it was urgent business and I was flying to the Coast. % If he was curious he didn’t say & word, He gave me my last check right then, in advance of the last game. I shed my uniform in record time, grabbed my two big suit cases and beat it out to a waiti car. From there to a flying field. Within an hour from the time finished the last game of the sea- son I was up in the air, headed for the Rockies, for California be- yond, and Mavis Merrill at San Guardo, When we arrived I cleaned up at the hotel and hired a good car. It didn’t take me long to drive over the foothills to the beautiful Mere rill estate. Mavis came from the wide ver< anda as I entered the driveway. “But Bert, how could you? How could you get here so soon?” “Wings,” I said. “You really came by plane?” “It was the quickest way I knew. If there had been a quicker means, @ rocket like one they are going to shoot to the moon——” Her laugh stopped me. After dinner we went down the terrace, the same place where I s0 stupidly thought her cousin was her intended husband. “I wish I could make you believe the truth about Mona and her slanders, Mavis,” T said. “Did you threaten her, Bert?” “TI did—I threatened law suits and dire things if she didn’t tell you the truth—that she had lied about. everything.” “I know you did.” iNot Unless You Ask Mell ‘Have you seen Dolly Dawson? she teil you, Mavis?” “I saw Dolly, or rather, she saw my name on the Plaza register and saw me. Bert, I was in Mona’s bree in the next room all the ‘ime you were there and berated , Why—why didn’t you I was ashamed, ashamed to have believed such lies without trying to prove them, without giving you a chance—” “And now you believe?” “TI believe in you, Bert.” “Enough to marry me?” “Not unless you ask me!” And it may be believed that 2 asked her again, Mr. Merrill found us out on the terrace in the moonlight when he got home. I turned to speak to him about Mavis. “You don’t have to ask me, Bert,” he said, “Mavis told me long ago that she intended to marry you this fall—and Whatever Mavis says, goes!” So we shook hands on it, THE END. [BARBS I ———— ° Well, anyway, the movie business is fundamentally “sound.” * OK OK An Indiana woman found $17,150 in government notes in four jars she dug up in her garden, Bottled in bond, as it were, * * * Next to picking the right opportun- y, the best chances for success ap- pear to come in picking the right horse. * OR The trouble with crime in this country is that too few gangsters are hung up after they are “framed.” D * * % jaune drinks are on me,” as the clumsy soda jerker said spi milk shakes, ene * ek * Talkies aze not going well in Italy, We read. Mussclini apparently is too big a factor to compete with, Auto junk o shee loing ‘uto junk shops may not be d such a rattling good business these days, but the turn over is high, * Ok Well, anyway, business during the air maneuvers was looking up, (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) ——— The food and drug departmen the U. S. Department ch Actiaiitars Was unusually active n March. It sezed nearly 200 shipments of adul- terated or misbranded foods and drugs, including 88 ordinary medical Preparations, 65 food products, eight lots of inferior ether, seven denti- frices and nine antiseptics. ———— A survey made by the Unive: Idaho indicated 27.6 per cour atthe farms in the state work, used electricity for was almost @ continent's width generally ee ee ee canoe, Suprs = ONE et ‘The girl who is too independent has to paddle her own ».¢€ » eS a the 2 a ae eon i Stanenrhuies & 8 ne