The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 23, 1932, Page 4

Ait tra Ma THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1992 ean caine ten denimlseie nes ae aan tea hl SEROTEC ISAS The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper *\ ‘THE STATE'S OLDEST 3 NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) * Published by The Bismarck Tribune Comany, Bismarck, N. D., and en- tered at the postoffice at Bismarck as Second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher. Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year......$7.20 Daily by mail per year (in Bis- marck) ........ seeeneeerescees Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck) ....... Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 ‘Weekly by mail in state, three years ........ .. 2.50 ‘Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year ...... seeees ‘Weekly by mail in Canada, per year ateee 2.00 Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation 150 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 news- paper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) MAN M EBA MAD SOmM AMO cee oe Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, LEVINGS & BREWER (Incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Father Stands the Gaff | Father, says a Northwestern Uni- versity professor who has been 100) ing into the matter, is just a family football these days. He pays the bills but he gets kicked around, and if he’s lucky his children tolerate him rather contemptuously so that they can have an ally when they get into @ fuss with mother. This sounds rather doleful, al- though it isn't especially new. It has served as the basis for innumerable Jokes on the stage and in the funny magazines, and the idea probably cc- curred to harassed family men away back when the pyramids were being built. Every time a man arises to bc- Jebor tbe young generation for its| flighty irreverence, he probably has something of the family football no- tion in his head. So there isn’t perhaps, much in getting excited about it. 4s, and always has been, up to fath to stand the gaff. That's what he’s there for, and if he can't stand it, it's just too bad. It would be nice, of course, if all of us couid bring up children who would look upon us as oracies of| serene wisdom and gentlemen of :r-! reproachable kindliness and chivalry. But we can’t. We really aren't any} ef those things, and our children usually are smart enough to find it! cut. Just at first, perhaps, we get away! with it. A child of five or six has one| ON ewe ees er re To it lasts, Dad gets a full dose of thai one whom you love holds a wildly exaggerated idea of your merits. But by and by the child gets older; and as he does so he discovers, sadly, that Dad—is just dad; a frail human! being who is not especially kind, and| who looks a bit grotesque on any sort of pedestal. So, in the course of time, father becomes, if not the family football, He has to pay the price of his chil- dren's disillusionment. There's no help for it. be to live up to all the things *he ginning; and anyone who has becn idolized by a six-year-old must know that that, unfortunately, is impos- sible. Making Restitution A man walked into a Kansas City drug store the other day and insist- ed on giving the manager 50 cents. He explained that the store had giv- en him‘50 cents too much change up- wards of two years ago, and it had been preying on his mind ever since; so, having given it due thought, he finally came in and made restitu- tion. Little incidents of this kind aren't uncommon. Many storekeepers have experienced them. Public officials are forever getting tiny sums from oonscience-stricken citizens who got away with something on their tax . | bills a decade or more ago. It hap- _ Pens all the time. But the funny thing is that it’s al- most always on such picayune little Wrongs that conscience does its most effective work. When a man decides to make restitution for some long- fs generally something under five @ollars. We scem better able to live with mortal sins than with venial faults, And this, very likely, is due to a queer quirk in human nature; a quirk ' that enables us to get along with our the smart of much larger debts which “ever will be peid. 3t may be that that is simply our of recognizing that we are heip- For ‘the really damaging mis- that we make—the bits of folly blindness that keep us awake { put it right and hope that conscience .20! association to promote a nation-wide «2. §,00|Planting of trees to commemorate «+» 6.00] Washington's birth seem to be meet- {@ campaign which deserves the sup- _] happiness. {will have a variety of strictly com- | It is interesting chiefly because it idol, and that idol is Dad; and while} peculiar mixture of pride, joy and! uneasiness that always comes when| something faintly approximating it.! His only escape would) youngsters feel about him in the he-} cad misdeed, the total cash | tered, years ago, the youth whose ideals we carelessly demolished, the person whose life we helped to make bitter by prejudice or misunder- standing—these things we cannoi remedy. To try to turn back the clock is foolish; to try to set right an old wrong is, in many cases, equel- ly futile. So we pick out some little thing, will be appeased. Worthy Memorials The efforts of the American Tree the 200th anniversary of George} ing with a good deal of success. To date, more than 9,000,000 trees have been planted as a result of the cam- paign, and the work is still going on. It goes without saying that this is Port of every citizen. For many de-} cades the nation’s one desire seemed to be to cut down its timber as fast as possible, with no thought for the future. A more sober and sensible; viewpoint now prevails, and it is| realized that the job of reforestation | is one that simply must be under- taken, The Washington bi-centennial tree planting campaign not only provides a good way of honoring the memory of the nation’s first president; it also seeks to arouse Americans every- where to the need of increasing the country’s supply of standing timber Admitting Foreign Mates The bill now pending before con-, gress which would admit to this country the foreign-born husbands or wives of naturalized Arherican women and men is a measure that ought to be passed as a matter of course. | In general, the sentiment of the country is undoubtedly squarely im favor of strict immigration restric- tions. We discovered, some years ago, that the melting pot wasn't! functioning perfectly, and cutting down on immigration was nothing more than ordinary common sense. But the law must be humane and reasonable. To admit to this coun- try the mates of immigrants who have become citizens would not ap- preciably swell the total of incom- ing foreigners. And it would. relieve a good deal of distress and avert a lot of unnecessary suffering and un- Commercial Submarines One of the most interesting bits of news of the winter has been the disclosure that Simon Lake, the fa- mous submarine builder, is now test- ing a new “vest pocket” sub which mercial uses, such as recovering lost treasure from the ocean floor and gathering in shellfish more rapidly and economically than surface shivs can do, may mark the beginning of a us?- ful sphere of activity “for the sub- marine. Heretofore this type of craft—one of the most remarkably ingenicus of all mechanical contriv- ances—has been almost exclusively 4 weapon, an agent of destruction. It is good to learn that efforts are to} be made to find some work that it! can do in time of peace, entirely un- {connected with naval affairs. Rosenwald’s Wisdom One of the finest things tie late Julius Rosenwald did for the nation was to preach and act against the establishment of perpetual trusts. | Himself one of the greatest givers | the nation has ever had, he had the wisdom to see that times change from generation to generation, and that it can be highly risky to tie up a huge sum of money for all time to be devoted to one specific cause. He felt that a charitable bequest should not exist from generation to generation, under the rule of a dead hand; instead, he preferred to sec j such a fund spend its money and do 'its work with comparative rapidity, leaving to future givers the problems of future times. Mr. Rosenwald thus not only gave lavishly, but gave wisely as well. Editorial Comment | Editorlals printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with The Tribune's policies. Discretion and Valor (Duluth Herald) “Alfalfa Bill” Murray, governor of Oklahoma, looks like one of those homespun, honest, fearless men who will dare anything for the people and for righteousness. He does not have the appearance of a man who ever, in all his life, has had to mince any words. And when it is perfectly safe, | he never does mince words. But he has just demonstrated that he has discretion as well as valor, and that sometimes the former out- weighs the latter. He made a speech before the Anti-Saloon league yester- day, giving copies to the press in ad- vance, e contrast between what he wrote and what ne aciuauy said shows that he was far more daring in the safety of his office than he was out in front facing the leaguers. In his written speech he said: “It is my judgment now that prohibition will not Lge the wisest legal. solu- tion of the liquor question.” But in his spoken speech he sang thus small: “There is a pomaibillty, the final solu- jeg ila ee liquor control will not be bition.” wrote; “I should hate to have it said that I rode into the gover- nor's chair on a wave of fanaticism or astride a beer keg.” Apparently he thought that that Phrase “wave of fanaticism” was comming, pitty closely home when utter fore an Anti-Saloon league convention, because when it came to making his speech he didn’t breathe @ word about it. things for whith we can by any means, make restitu- ‘The friendship that we sha'- So, though “Alfalfa Bill” may look and sound like a man of valor, after this nobody ever can say that he Jacks that discretion which is the better part of valor. though accustomed to watching vo- gues travel in cycles, finds itself a bit ale or charged water. baffled by the sudden return of the! A newspaper of the period reported | “Society had been expected to Several |gowns had been made expressly for the occasion. But about dressing hour, led with the naughty nineties and rain began to beat down in torrents When that famous'and the society ey une o cae ‘younger generation” swung into be- |next-best and a majority ing with the World war, the notion gowns worn had swept over more than | | of parading and peacocking about for |One ballroom before. “sweet charity's sake” was believed to} have gone the way of red flannels andjcame a definite part of the social old-fashioned “charity ball.” that was presumed to have been bur- “mauve decade.” a big-business basis. tions had learned how to stage na- tional and local drives and the goal) was invariably set at millions instead of at the few thousands usually netted by a social function, thing, and in a bigger and flashier way—with crooners, folk and movie stars adding a certain “celebrity” these times. seems to know, became gala public events in New York in the early fif-| ties, with the old Academy of Music as the setting. This spot, the center|, - of opera and culture, was just of Union Square and the “who's wht traveled for miles by carriage to get) there. champagne about the neighborhood. Burlesque | houses, movies, shooting galleries and} Chinese restaurants now decorate the | old scene. | tinct Waldorf that put the “charity | ball” in the social place that it came} to occupy in later years. { toric event, Mrs. Vanderbilt had hired | the entire New York Symphony Or-| . TREASURY SURPLS I v1 Cast SEEN/1929) OB Sod aoctibberes SS soldier. * Tf all the gold in the United States’ were melted into a lump it would fill a box car. But with things as they re, it probably wouldn’t have a filver lining. x oe OK Just to prove that they don’t want Manchuria, the Japanese are going right on into China. es * & Pittsburgh averaged a murder a week in 1931. But with women hav- ing the privilege of making too, this Leap Year, maybe they can bring up the average a little in 1932. (Copyright, 1982, NEA Service, Inc.) Ane Maky i GERMANY’S DEMANDS | On Jan. 23, 1918, Germany demand- ed all Baltic provinces from Russia. The demand was not answered on this date. The all¢Russian convention of the Marine hospital at Petrograd. A. I. Shingaroff and Professor E. FP. Kokoshine, cadets and former min- isters of the provisional government, were murdered by the Bolsheviki in the Marine hospital at ePtrograd. Germans gained a footing east of Neiuport, but were expelled in a jeounter attack. The French transport La Drome jand the trawler Kerbihan were sunk rosch. | sos |was charged. this “outrageous” sum was chargt New York, Jan. 23.—Manhattan, al-| that: Here was a good old society pageant |@Ppear in its best finery. petticoats.” . |map—but to a generation coming up Methods of raising money for al-!just before and after the war it was most any cause had been placed on |little more than a phrase to be en- countered in novels and articles. And now, the Manhattan social domos will tell you, the entire nation will take Huge organiza- the old custom again. Youngsters of the new era were in-| year or more! clined to giggle when they. saw old| (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, ‘Inc.) prints of grandma and grandpa in the glittering ballrooms of yesteryear. “How quaint,” they would observe. SL | Quotations But here they are doing the same!» chorines, stage| Setiously, * oe & Charity balls, as near as anyone Famous eating spots and) resorts were scattered; But it. was the opening of the ex-/ To give particular class to this his- | STICKERS | | | SAW LADS CHEER | ~ Can you rearrange the above letters to form the name of a famous statesman of the present time? > the world.” [= THis CURIOUS WORLD PARASOL ANTS carey SAVES OVER THEIR HE; OiKE & nee ASS Because of the nature of the en- |tertainment, the dinner and the mu- isic, the fabulous price of $5 per person The tale goes that | widespread complaint wert up when ed. However, it was explained that this “would include champagne” and so the protests were stilled and about 3,000 persons turned out. Today the $5 would barely buy a round of ginger ‘Thereafter the “charity ball” be- Nor is that the only old-fashioned jrevival you're likely to see in the next there are not enough unveilings or enough hangings in touch so necessary injNew York City—Rev. Charles H. FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS. Timid: skilers always feel “on top of | chestra, then headed by Walter Dam- | Parkhurst, veteran crime fighter, New jy mines off Marseilles. Forty-five men wete lost on the La Drome. York City. aa People’s Forum BR eld Ase trouble Sainte sires Batton blest Rt el ag the unwillingness of the public to 4 buy—Richard' Whitney, president N.|| teseeraint religious autiectar watch Y. Stock Exchange. attack individuals, unfairly, or ** * which offend good taste and fair play will be returned to I want to be known for my. acting, time seem but foothills in a long lint of achievements as we move for- ward.—Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., presi- when the price does not go up and he holds on.—Charles E. Mitchell, international banker, New York Clty. f BARBS _ SSS SSS ee Democrats are jubilant about the recent overturn in New Hampshire. Moses will have a tough time leading} bonds it must pay interest. the Republicans out of this wilder- ness, the writers. All tetters MUST be signed.. 1 not for my body—Jean Harlow, movie || If y.u wish to use a pseudonym, actress, sign the pseudonym nd your: a eK own name beneath it. will re- spect such reque ‘@_ reserve Our past accomplishments will in || the right to dele! uch parts of letters as may be necessary to conform to this policy. dent, General Motors. ‘WHY NOT? * Bismarck, N. D., A speculator becomes an investor Jan. 22, 1932, Editor, Tribune: sideration. * ok Ok comes the owner. , did férget and raise my voice?” " your voice when you were talking HREE KINDS wouldn't want bim, would you, Cissy?” “L would. Of course I would. You don’t understand. The more 1 think of it, the more it seems like it was all my fault, And yet—I was so tired Thuraday, and I told you, Mr. Correy was rude to me, and he'd never been rude before, and everything went wrong all day. I scorched the dinner, and Grand had a preachy streak and was row- ing about you and Kenneth. I just kept thinking that when Barry came everything would be all right. And then when he came he'd had the letter from that Mr. Amming- ton, and be was all out of sorts, and he said that about my not de- veloping frying-pan querulousness after we were married. Warning me what he'd have in @ wife, And then he went on, and it came out that he thought cooking was im- portant. Think of it, Ann! Cooking really fmportant! I tried to laugh it off by saying we'd get @ menu for a marriage license, but he wouldn't even smile, Not that J thought it was smart=-but he usual- ly laughs, And—let me see, where was 1?- Anyway, I am @ good cook, if that’s all he wants. Iam @ good cook, aren’t I, Ann?” eee “you're @ wonderful cook. Of course you are.” Mary-Frances knocked on the door and opened it. “Cissy, tele phone—” and Cecily was in the hall before Mary-Frances had time to NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXXII . bcs ipasarenars there something about his book?” Ann asked. “Yes, But that wasn't my fault. Could it possibly be my fault that that hateful creature in New York sent back the last two chapers of Barry's book and said that they bad fallen flat? Reasonably, Ann—not because I’m your sister or anything could that have been my fault?” “Darling, of course not. How gould it be?” * “Barry thought it was my fault,” Cecily said. “He didn’t say go right out; but he acted as if it were my fault. He said that he'd efther to spend less time with me or more. He meant get married, and he knows I can’t right now. He had to blame someone, and he wouldn't blame that wonderful person Mr. Ammington, so he blamed me. When Mr. Ammington returned the chap- ters in May, and Barry was seeing me all the time, then, his prai was so extravagant that Barry said he saw himself in New York quell- ing the literati with a look and a, gesture. And now, just because these aren’t so good, he blames me. Maybe he didn’t blame me, | don't know. Oh, Ann—Ann, what am I going to do? What am I going to do?- What—” “Sh-h-h, honey,” said Ann. “I was talking kind of loud then, ‘wasn't 1? But that’s just because I'm so—so wretched. I don’t usual- ly. You said 1 didn’t. Ann, 1 couldn't have screamed at him, do you'think? I don’t know. 1 can't remember. When he wouldn't an- swer me, and wouldn’t answer me, Bo matter what [ said. Think of it, Ann—we came almost 15 miles, and he wouldn't answer me: just drove along with that terrible expression set and white—on his face, 1 felt as if I were going crazy. 1 felt ‘as if I had to make bim speak— say anything. 1 may have raised my voice. Ann, do you suppose 1 had a headache, but—" Cecily ran on down the stairs, hoping, Ann knew, to hear “some thing.” Those aching hopes for in- definite somethings, which one never heard, or which, hearing, burt so unbearably. She crossed the room and rolled the blinds up from the open: windows to let in the gentle gray twilight. Where, she wondered, were Phil and Letty at the precise moment; and what were they doing? Since that night in May, Phil and’ Letty in Ann's thoughts had been as concurrent as thunder and lightning, and in. con- sequedice she was growing-more and more deft with slamming shut the doors of her mind and locking them securely against the onslaughts of a storm. This ‘evening she them uiore readily than-usual by merely saying, “Poor Cissy,” and she locked them with a smug, “Silly!” and went to meet Cecily at the top of the stairs, “Come into bathroom, honey, and wash your face, It will make you fee! better.” : “He didn’t go to Gretchen’s party after all,” Cecily said, as abe al- lowed Ann to -lea@ her. into. the bathroom. “I am a sight!” she de clared, and put a still more miser- able expression on the face in the mirror while Afn filled the wash basin with water and stole a pinch of pink from Rosalie’s batb-ealt jar. “It made all the di /” to bim, It he'd do that, you Coaily, “whether 1 didn’t wish him, “Dear, bow can 1 tell? But 1 can tell this—if he loves you be won't’ stay away and not try to ™make up just because you tatsed Daily Health Service Why People Most ‘Alcoholies Have Defects in tied) Escape Reality and Find Surcease for | East elect lacie oa By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American -j prison “Medical Association ‘The Ple ind lquora, have some deféct of heredity. tions of some mental weakness. being relieves. ae & This virtue in alcoholic liquors prescribe them. great, ith question as ta why some peo- | Yellowlees, points out that. certain excessively in alcoholic ereas others do not, has been one which has long given con- cern to the experts in pharmacology, Phystology, psychology, nervous and Mental diseases. In general, all are agreed that chronic alcoholics are the ‘result of some inadequacy to face the problems of life and in moa} cases: The defect in heredity does not indicate, as most novelists presume, some alcoholic ancestry, but rather the occurrence in previous genera-_ ‘The| In those cases in which the drink- chronic alcoholic, before succumbing to his habit, has usually suffered sorhe nervous symptoms of one kind or another, quite frequently a state of Gepression which alcohol for the time one of the reasons why physicians Scientifically they have the ability. to induce a state of euphoria or a feeling of well being, which particularly in the aged is of portance. One of the British physiologists expresses this particular virtue in alcohol in the following manner: “In the terrific conflict between what he has been taught to desire and what he is allowed to get, a man has found the alcohol a sinister but effective Drink : and Drink to eir Problems Take to peacemaker . . . @ way out of the house of reality.” Another British observer, Dr. D. ‘cases of alcoholism represent an.en- deavor to relieve an unconscious mental tension. In case of those who are periodic drunkards, that is those who only occasionally indulge in excessive drinking but who are usually temperate or who may even abstain entirely from alcoholic liquors in the intervals, it is found that the outbreaks occur when some uncon- scious mental tension has accumu- lated until the breaking point. The or the escape from reality occurs in a sudden debauch. ing is habitual, the mental problem is) more constantly in the mind of the individual, and he is’ frequently found to have not a weak will or a bad character but an unsatisfactory emotional life. The physiologists who have been primarily concerned with the effects of alcohol on the human body be- gan with the generally accepted view that alcohol is not a stimulant but a depressant of the nervous system. The lower centers of the nervous sys- tem are the first and the easiest to be depressed; hence, there seems to be a stimulation of the higher levels, It is this stimulation and the re- moval of the repression which gives rise to the feeling of exaltation, and which makes the alcoholic talkative, emotional and easily disturbed. is Reserve bank. needs money, it simply sends them to a Federal The | to the state: 1 Federal Reserve bank then may legal- pases tite enjoyed exclusively by member banks . Respectfully, ly issue Federal Reserve Notes up to their face value, and sends the money to the bank owning the bonds. The bank sending in the bonds will still get the interest on the bonds and also the money. ; If an individual or a trust company HERBERT J. ROBERTS, Campaigns By Air and get money. which money is issued. What say, “It’s Marta. 1 told her you) }make yourself any happier, dear, said) out and dogered money? Whenever a state or any of its; The answer is easy. The only rea- subdivisions wishes to make improve-|son why the state cannot do that is ments, aid the unemployed or entail | because the Federal Reserve Act does any other expense not taken care of |/not give them that right. If it did, ‘by the general levy, it must issue billions of dollars in the United States bonds and sell them. Upon these| would be saved to the taxpayers An in-/every year. dividual bank or trust company buys| Why not write to your Congressmen the bonds. Ordinarily a bank be-|and Senators and ask them to have inserted in the Federal Reserve Act An Ohio man, out of work,-bas de- | If the bank owning the bondsja clause extending that power now owns the bonds they may use them ‘to secure credit at the local bank. In that case also the bank may send them to the Federal Reserve bank The bonds, in any instance, are legal security upon meant is that the presses are set in motion atid brand new bills are printed. Now,. if those bonds are good se- curity upon, which to issue paper money, why cannot the state, or any of its subdivisions go directly to the Federal Reserve bank, deposit its bonds as security and get the brand new bills at cost, saving for itself the interest? Why is it necessary for the state to pay interest. to private parties. Here is a point for careful con-jor concerns at all, in order to get is Associated Presse Photo With the roads in northern Maine blocked by snow, State atoe Am thur G. Spear of Portland took to the air in his campaign for the re-: publican nomination for governor. He uses his own plane which is equipped with skis. LOVE KAY, CLEAVER || STRAHAN | to go—he had to go then; whether he didn’t wish to go.” “Men are like that,” Ann said, and squeezed a face cloth out of the water, and tried to wash Ce cily’s face for her. “Don’t. You dab so. I'll do it.” She did it, thoroughly, splashing and dipping her head to the water like a boy. “I suppose he left town on Fri- day,” she said, and took the towel Ann handed to her. “Where did he go?” “albany.” “That isn’t far. miles, isn’t it?” “I don't know, China.” Ann sald, “You do?” “Yes, I'do, And then I wouldn't be hoping all th time.” oe sport hope,” Ann advised, and filled an eye cup with Grand’s boric acid solution, “What is he doing in Albany, for pity’s sakes?” “I don’t want that eye stuff. The new hotel building I told you about. He wasn't going. He'd talked his uncle out of sending him. Don’t— I don’t. want it, Ann.” “Ot course you want it, What will you say if Grand or Rosalie asks you what you've been crying about?” “Bor once—just once in my life T’'ll give myself the dear delight of telling them it is none of their business.” “Ceolly! or Only\about 50 I wish it were I must say! You won't by being mean and making other people unhappy.” “My word, Ann, you do preach, don’t yout” “I'm sorry. It 1s contagious, maybe, Did you have an overdose of it at supper this evening?” “I didn’t go down. Mary-Frances set it out for them.” “I'm hungry,” Ann said, “Let's to down and find something.” “I couldn't eat, . = couldn’t think of eating, I really have a bad head- ache.” “Come watch me eat, then.” Ann put an arm around Cecily’s waist and pulled, “L wish,” Cecily said, as they. went down the stairs together, “that you'd tell me how you manage that serenity of yours. I'd give almost anything for some of it. I’m not sure that it is genuine; but there is iristienad &0 sort of—clean about ‘They were in the lower hall be fore Ann answered: “I’m afraid you'll think I’m preachy again, honey, but I’ve thought a lot lately. 1—well, I've had lots of time alone to think. And one thing 1 thought sort of seems/to fit in with what you sald about serenity being clean. I don’t know, but I think that sor row is something that should be Dut away and left alone; that it is something that shouldn't. be taken ” and solled’ “Angel Aan!” Cocily said with @ | 1931, by bleday, Doran and Co. & affection and an amused tolerance; ~ because, after all, What did Ann— what could Ann know about real sorrow? Ann, who confused sortow with her best undies—who thought of it as something dainty to be 3 wrapped in tissue paper and put away in a drawer with sachet pow- der. Ulta moon poked out from be tween two small sprawling clouds and blotted black shadows, industriously, into the silvery white ness below as Earl said, “Yeah, but Usten, hon. Butt'll' be out of the hospital in a week now, and he wants his car—see? ‘Nother thing is, I got to get back to Denver and deliver that damn—pardon me— desk to the other guy and get off my bonds. See?” “Beloved,” Mary-Frances an- swered, “I wish you'd: remember about my not saying ‘see’ all the time. I love it, of course;- and 1 wouldn't change a thing about you for the world, if I were the only one, but it would give people who didn’t know the depths of you and all a kind of false impression of you, That’s why I wish you'd stop. I don't want people who—” “Sure, I know. But listen, hon. What I was getting at was, how about that classy little vaudeville act? I'm telling you, hon, and I'm not Kidding you a bit, that you'll never have a better chance for cleaning up money, and cleaning it up easy—see? You give me your promise, a long time ago, that you'd think it over—see? Give it your consideration and all. But you won't do it. You won't look at it serious, ror—" “Heart's dearest, I have. Honest and truly I have. I've talked it over with my friend and everything. And I just think the same thing— that unless a girl has exceptional beauty and talent she is foolish to select the stage for a career.” That was Ermintrude’s mother talking. “Oh, yeah? Well, that’s where you're ,wrong, Frankie. That's where you and me differ—see? And maybe I'm in a position to know & little more about it than you are. If @ couple. has the looks and the act, they don’t need bardly any talent, Besides, I told you, I got telent, And it isn’t like you couldn't do steps nor anything. You got the eee rudiments down pertty good; and, anyways, mostly you'd just feed me see? You and I in a little act that this guy in Denver would fiz up for us—we'd get swell bookings, and I'll tell you why. I can step, See? You got ‘the looks, see? The public is sick of red-hot mammas. They want something young and in- Docent; see? A little hot stuf'com- {ng from you—the' contrast would go big. You got a sweet voice. Like T've been telling you all along, you're the perfect ideal awn-jew-nay type. You know that, sweetness?” (To Be Continued) Ply Bs, apy ts