The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 1, 1932, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, e Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) i, Published by The Bismarck Tribune “Company, Bismarck, N. D., and en- ‘Yered at the postoffice at Bismarck as ‘eecond class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN _ President and Publisher. __ veh eatranataliganiatielantsaaat aaa | Subscription Rates Payable in i Advance Daily by carrier, per year .......$7.20 Daily by mail per year (in Bis- Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck) ............ Daily by mail outside of North Dakota 5, 6.00 ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 Weekly by mafl in state, three Dakota, per year .........+ soso 100 ‘Weekly by mail in Canada, per | year... 00 Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation 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 spontancous origin published here- in, All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER (Incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON So edeeh ied naman Our Kaleidoscopic Politics Economic unrest has upset Political | alignments in North Dakota. Party | and factional lines have broken asun- der. Thousands of voters are off the reservation and the old stale political shibboleths will not win them back. It is difficult to distinguish the men of Jephthah from the Ephraimites. The bitter class struggle has gradu- ally ameliorated. The farmers and the business men in North Dakota have long since bur- ied the hatchet. They are both in the same economic boat and they realize | their interests are identical and that nothing can be gained by feeding the devastating fires of political dissen- sion and strife. In Bismarck recently, the break- down of the Nonpartisan League, as a militant, fire-cating organization, was evident. In fact the handful of dele- gates gathered in a smoke-filled room, | Tepresented no great burning cause nor an aroused electorate. It was hardly a representative caucus. Po- litical hate, so rampant a few years ago, has grown milder in the last eight years. Political leaders who thrive ‘upon the clash of classes and grow fat) in arraying one against the other are | now straining for a “paramount” issue. Just what issues the I. V. A. organ- ization can resurrect at Valley City is a matter of speculation. The people; of North Dakota, generally speaking, | realize that there can and will be no; extension of the so-called industrial | program whoever wins. Neither is! there any threat of the state involv- ing itself in branch banking in such perilous times as these. Many who have identified themselves with the| League in past campaigns are opposed | to branch banking and will resist any efforts of the hot-heads to plunge the; state into any such foolish experi-/ ment. In fact the great demand for tax re- duction comes most militantly from the rural sections where the Nonparti- san League draws its heaviest votes. ‘Townships dominated by men of! League affiliations have taken great- er strides toward tax reduction and Telief of the public debt burden than hhave the organized towns and cities, supposedly of I. V. A. inclination. ‘That is on record and should be an- wer enough to the political faction which for years has been using the Ted menace to garner votes and cam- paign funds. Such a danger is out of the picture and to throw fresh fuel on this fire is to do the state an in- jury. Farmers and businessmen alike are tired of the contention which has/ torn the state apart. They are look-! dng for and demanding a constructive | program which will make for better economic conditions in this state and the political party or the individual candidate who seeks to climb into of- | fice by lambasting tactics may find that such a campaign is not popular. ae OK i If the farmers and business men j have buried the hatchet, and The ‘Tribune from its study of the situa- tion believes that they have, it is time the politicians followed suit. It should be possible to have a cam- paign confined to real, rather than imaginary, issues. Voters should pierce through the sophistry of spe- cious and unfair political tactics. It is not a newspeper’s function to tell any- ‘one how to cast his ballot, but it is ‘The Tribune's hope to clarify the 1s- sues and give all sides of the state land national campaign as they de- -_* * ‘The I. V. A. faction can well tone p its style of campaign. And it ‘will be just as futile for the League go up and Gown the state lambast- capital and appealing to class elou ‘The farmers and busi- ymen are fed up on the old style pt eating about the political bush. Phey want more than political heat the’ party bell wethers will find t voters’ dander does not rise as pas of yore. It is just as well to some of the bulls who have been a sting the china these many eel paigns. Let the spell-binders strike ‘@ more conciliatory note. The state would welcome a Moses who had courage to cut loose from all old and decaying alliances, Decline in Income Taxes Before congress passes & new reve- nue bill the treasury probably will know, on the basis of the March re- ports, how much revenue will be forthcoming from income taxes dur- ing the remainder of the current fis- cal year. That knowledge will aid in the formulation of a tax plan and might contmbute either to the pas- Sage or defeat of such @ plan. During the first eight months of the current fiscal year income taxes yielded $638,121,300. There are yet to be collected in this fiscal year two in- Stalments of tax on the anaemic in- comes of 1931. It is estimated that the total yield for the year will be ;$900,000,000. Income tax receipts two years ago totaled two and one-half times that amount and nearly twice as much last year. None expects the income tax re- turns for 1931 incomes to do anything else but fortify the treasury’s de- mands for higher taxes or for a dras- tic cut in federal expenditures. The former involves other levies than higher income rates and the latter means drastic salary cuts, and a gen- eral retrenchment in governmental activities and employment. The sug- gested alternative of more borrowing is untenable as a threat to national credit, which must not be impaired. Taxation is the true test of a dem- ocracy. Partisan politics and polit- ical expediency may dictate the next tax plan or the American principle and ideal of equal taxation for all may prevail. Whether democracy wins depends upon whether a major» ity of congressmen are strong or weak, far-sighted or near-sighted. Unemployed Money Much is being heard nowadays about dollars at work. What does it mean? A dollar in a savings fund is the most simple form of investment and is @ typical dollar at work. Any dollar that carns something for its owner is a working dollar. And every dol- lar that earns for its owner is creat- ing capital, credit, business or em- ployment for others. Moncy in the bank earns interest; in securities, dividends; in business, | profits; in industry, profits and wages; in life insurance, capital, div- idends and protection. In each in- stance it is money at work. Dellars at work dig mines, turn mill wheels, till the soil, provide employ- ment and create profits and credit. But what does the idle dollar do? It toils not, neither does it spin. It has a home only, and its home may be in| jan old sock or a straw mattress. Nor| jean it claim greater security than the working dollar. The idle dollar is out of a job, does not work, cannot earn. In a year's} time, in 20 years, as long as it is kept in idleness, it will be the same old dollar; it will not have increased a penny’s worth. Thrift and caution do not require ithat money be hoarded. Billions of jdollars invested during the period of inflation are worth a hundred cents on the dollar today and are still) working and earning. And many dol- | lars hoarded during a period of de- flation will be lost to the hoarders forever through fire and theft. About the only place where a con- Servative is handicapped is at the necktie counter. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. ‘They are published without regard to whether they agr ee with The Tribune’ Trash of the Air (Quarterly Journal, University of North Dakota) ‘There are over 12% million radio receiving sets in the United States and more than 50 million radio lis- teners. In North Dakota alone there are approximately 60,000 sets and nearly 300,000 listeners. What, for the most part, do we 50 million listeners hear when we turn on our 12%2 million receiving sets? A cheap lot of trashy enter- tainment (?) mixed up with an ob- noxious cacophony of commercialized bombast and claptrap, all of which is; designed for the average nitwit, who- | ever he is. | It is 7:30 o'clock almost any night} in the week (except Sunday). Let us| turn the dial to Station STYX./ Toothless Tom is crooning the latest moronic moan for Ave cigarettes. We switch the dial to Station MUT— Toothless Tom again. Now we move to Station JAR—“Ape cigarettes do not cause split palate.” A minute later we run the dial up to ROW— Toothless Tom is now crooning “Just One More Squall.” Yes, sir, Tooth- less Tom is on the air from coast to coast. “Hello, New Yawk—Hello, Los Angeles.” We snap the switch in utter disgust and among a few vio- lent oaths. But should we be so hasty? Think of all we have learned in our maneu- vering of the dial. We have heard isn’t it a fact?) that there are no other cigarettes like Apes; that Apes are roasted by a secret patented pro- cess; that Apes are benevolent, hu- mane, gentle, and gracious to our windpipes; that Sadie Sapply has smoked Apes ever since she put on her first transformation; that Apes contain the finest calico and straw that can be bought on the markets of the world—yea, even the universe. Other evenings at the same time or at other times we hear Chowder- head’s Band of Dunderpates extol the wonders of De Lirious Coffee; Gowk and Gawk, that inimitable pair of burnt cork sleazers, broadcast their imbecilic drivilings of idiocy for What'll You Have? New York, April 1—It has been breezed about for many a year that you can find just about anything you might wish, however old or unique, in New York. For instance, suppose you wanted a weasel! What would you want a weas- el for? You'd be surprised! To get rid of mice and rats, of course. In low- er New York there's a firm that has been renting out weasels these many years, A weasel, in case you don’t happen to know it, is a natural enemy of any rodent. All you have to do is to turn one of the long, contortionistic animals lose in a building and the weasel will go down drain pipes and through rat holes until the last pest. has been conquered. One merely goes into the store and rents so many weasels at so much per night. Then the weasel keeper goes to the top floor of a building with a little cage, lets loose his hunters and then waits downstairs until they've gone through the buildings and call it a night. In case one of the ani- mals fails to show up, there's a way of detecting its whereabouts. A tiny bell is attached and the sleuthing is merely a matter of keeping an ear open. The weasels have all been trained to return, and this in itself is quite a job. But since this strange business has been going on for some 25 years or more, there's quite a family now. x * Bear Up! At Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street, STICKEBS Using the letters in the word MON- ASTERY, see if you can make a four- letter word and a fiveletter word to take the places of the dots in the first line; different four-letter word and fve-letter word for the second line; a three-letter word and a six-letter word for the third line, and a two, three and four-letter word for the fourth line. In each line the words must make sense when read to- geher. € ‘Twaddle’s Magic Mouth Softener; or Giddy Gertie who at the age of 87 retains that silly senility she had at 20 by the daily use of Nestor’s Anti- Dotard Cream. Good Fishing Along the Potomac! jthere is a cop who was stopped the lother day by an artist, asking this seemingly insane question: “Do you ; know where I can find a bear? I need fone for a picture and don’t want to jrun way up to the Bronz 200.” The accommodating policeman re called that there was 2 fellow down in MacDougall Street who took a bear out with a hand organ. The artist departed. A few hours later he had hired a bear for the afternoon. ‘ee Flowers for Rent In Eighth Street, near Washington \Square (Greenwich Village) there's a little basement flower shop where plants are purchased not for wed- dings, funerals, birthdays and such— but for commercial artists. Rarely are they sold. They are rented. The® shop-keeper learned some years ago that artists in the Village zone go sleuthing about for certain flowers to be used in still life paintings or sketches. The artist rarely wanted to keep them for long, so the plants are rented out by the day and collected afterward, to be used all over again. All the store- keepér has to do is learn the artist's tastes and keep the plants growing. xe # | Slap-Stickers’ Friend Just west of Broadway in the upper Forties, there's a gent who invents and manufactures all sorts of stage slap-stick instruments. An old-time juggler himself, the artisan now wor- ries about fiddles that will break into a hundred pieces when whammed over a clown’s dome; about Indian clubs that will make strange sounds when plopped upon a comic phiz; about FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: Even cne time is too often to two- time. _ ALL FOOUS DAY. AS FAR BACK AS THe “Caveniuansiicentuny i te ORIG! Was “THE OAY’S EYE,” ere onnce me. BECAUSE IT OPENED ONLY INTHE DAYTIME. wt tables that will collapse and chairs that will lose their legs. But his proudest device is an imple- ment that looks something like a huge wooden mallet. It works with a trig- ger in the handle and shoots off a cap with @ resounding “Bang” when the instrument appears to come down eo the pate of some pan-faced fun- ster. And a neat little business it is, he will tell you, what with stage acts al- Nag looking for some slap-stick nov- elty.... Yes, you can find the darndest things in this man’s town! TOPAY ANeiesaky GERMANS MASS FOR ATTACK On April 1, 1918, German troops, stopped in the great drive, were re- ported massing on the western side of the salient formed in the Allied lines, { fortify and improve their po- German attacks on Grivesnes were by the French. Several new capture of villages near Aleppo. Turk- ish resistance was reported weaken- ing. ‘The liner Celtic was torpedoed off the Irish coast, but was able to make Port successfully, Paris was bombarded by the long- range German fun. Casualties were not announced. Repeal is a long way off. The drys can hold the line if they fight—F. Scott. McBride, general superintend- ent, waphaticae League. ‘The crucial time in the long fight for the liberty and the liberation of the American people has arrived.— ma J. C. Linthicum, Mary- s * © Next time we will put it over. The People are still 3 to 1 for throwing out national prohibition, The ma- jority always rules in the end.—Henry H. Curran, president, Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. 7. The wets know none of these bills will pass Congreas but they consume time, waste money in printing bills and speeches and are of no help in solving the problems of enforcement. —Mrs. Elf Boole, president, National Ww. Cc. T. U. eee IT have read dozens of famous nov- els, many of which should be operated on for gangrene at a point approxi- mately two-thirds of the way through. —Prince George, youngest son of King George V of England. ig, | Barbs Now they're booming Gene Tunney for the U. 8. Senate. If that Chicago referee could do the counting, Gene ought to be a cinch, _ * # # An Ohio woman was awarded a di- vorce because she found lipstick marks on her husband’s shirt front. Just another argument in favor of red silk shirts, ee % Celebration of April 14 as Pan- American Day will have at least one good point. It will remind everybody that Charlie Curtis is still vice presi- dent, * # % ‘The dining room is the most ineffi- cient part of the house, an architect By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Balter, Journal of the American Medical Association - ‘The infant mortality rate is ed number of deaths under one year 0 age for each one thousand children born alive, The control of deaths among infants is e problem to Mee health SET Weal given special nt years. attention in Saget} eater ot such deaths has constantly fallen a day the infant mortality rate in community is taken as a standard measurement for the health condition mmunity. ote taut be remembered, however, that the infant mortality rate is the result of many forces, including the social and economic status of the com- munity, the customs of different races and nationalities, the health knowledge of the people and the pres- ence of hospitals and medical centers for suitable advice. For 1930, Chicago and St. Louis led all other large cities with a rate of 54, Cleveland had 55; New York 57; Phil- adelphia 59; Los Angeles 61; Detroit and Baltimore 65, and Pittsburgh and Boston 69. These are our ten larg- est cities. In each case, except that of Boston, the rate for 1930 was lower than for 1929. # # * Show Improvement A few "altles in the United Btates worse, it may become totally super- fluous, * # * And now Chicago presents a “croon- er” murder, Well Chicago has always been first along those lines. (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, = f Schrunk Rie tecnenbrssreretvere mere By MARGARET MARCHANT Gust Witt, Fred Merkel, Edward Stroh and Roy Marchant helped John Witt move. Roy Marchant and daughters Mar- garet and Irene spent Monday and Tuesday at the John Witt home. Thomas Novak motored to Wing Thursday. ’ Annie and Ted Stroh spent Tues- day evening at the Emil Zelmer home. James Kozineck was a Wing shop- . per Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. J. Stroh and sons, Ed- ward and: Paul, were Wednesday vis- itors at the Marchant home. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Nolan and fam- ily spent Sunday at the Mrs. Elizabeth Schuh home. Gustaph Witt, Ed Stroh and Herbert Hoffman spent Sunday visiting at the Marchant home. Ted Merkel returned to the-D. F. McClellan home Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Anton Novy were Sun- day guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. Rauhul. Herbert Hoffman of McClusky call- ed at the Henry Schuh home last Sun- day. He got some horses for Carl Knudson. Mr. and Mrs, R. G. Marchant and says. And if this depression gets any daughters, Margie and Irene, Mr, and/ Daily Health News Infant Death Rate Shows New Drop remarkable improvement ° of |47 and 44, and Portland, Oregon, shown fy infant mortality rates in some are 60 low that they represent an ex- traordinarily healthful situation. is One small city in Pennsylvania, a rate of 259, but it happens to beth location of an important state inst! 7 tion for children, and it draws infan' from all over the state. For many years large cities in Ore- gon and ‘Washington have be toundingly low rates. Thus has a rate of 37; Spokane and Moe) & rate of 41. ‘ eae Chics as & ral 5 ont Park, a prong of Chicago, has & rate of 28 and Evanston rate of cdl ‘This should show the advantage 0! good air, sunlight ‘and plenty of room health. for keeping oe ig Industrial Rates High saa eral industrial centers in cl aepronimation to Chicago have rates much higher than the city proper; thus, Blue Island has a rate of 71 and Forest Park a rate of 80. ‘Altogether, however, most of the cities in the United States may be very proud of their advancement in this field, When it is remembered that many of our large cities had rates as high as 200 and 300 but three de- cades ago, we have strong reasons for congratulations, yd, Mrs, Kate Plattner, Edward Biren, and Gust Witt spent Saturday evening at the J. E. Witt home. James Leyes called ia the E. M. Nolan home Sunday evening. Helen Holcup spent Sunday at the uhul home. Pane. Jakie Roth of Schrunk entered the hospital this week. Gust ‘Witt started wid for Ar- ‘Tees Monday morning. er and Mrs, Henry Roth of Tuttle are spending a few days at her par- jents’ home, the William Witt's. Gust Witt went home for the week- end. He helped his brother John the last week. ‘Thomas Ryan has been ill the past week with the flu. SLOPES STUDENTS NAMED Grand Forks, N. D., April 1.—Three Missouri Slope students at the Uni- ersity of North Dakota have been Placed on senior committees to make arrangements for commencement week. They are Florence Mudgett, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. C. F. Mudgett, Bismarck, and Maurice Dorfman, Wishek, executive commit- tee, and Paul Robinson, Garrison, an- nouncement committee. SAWYER STORE BURNS Minot, N. D., April 1—(?)—A gen- eral store at Sawyer, about 17 miles southeast of Minot, was destroyed by fire early Thursday morning. J. G. Hayelena, proprietor of the store and building, is a pioneer merchant of Sawyer, having been in business there 29 years. Se ‘The American doughboy carries 75 Mrs. L, C. Marchant and baby son,| pounds of equipment. | BEGIN HERE TODAY ELLEN ROSSITER, beaatitul LARRY ung artint. whe led, were yout” NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XLIII pestuously. his answer. Suddenly the git say. “No—I—I—I didn’t get mai ried.” , easy to explain everything. it was too late. more desperately serious, “You couldn't! marry anyone else. me!” say,” she faltered. & short laugh. y nearer. to y that?” I guess that’s what I mean see you didn’t say a word.” “It didn’t occur to me,” he sai faintly scowling. “‘It’ last note of yours. T'd lost you. tonight?” he demanded. “No, I don’t know.” “It was because I thought and ran. " me worse than anyone ever wi! again. Fhe told me—and that’s all ther iat” LLEN’S heart was beating tem- Larry waited for . said what she had not meant to Over and over she had told her sick and guilty soul it would be so Now Ellen had never seen Larry more deeply moved, You covldn’t Tell me you couldn't because you belong to “That's an odd thing for you to “I know it is,” he agreed with i She sat perfectly still, her blue eyes on his and one of her hands clasped in Larry’s. He leaned “You mean I hadn't any right she said, a little uncertainly. “You damned hard for ms to be bonest now. It's hard for me to remember how smug and complacent I was dur- ing those days before I got that It's easy enough to remember how I've felt since—half crazy from thinking “Do you know why I came here would help cure me—help me see this place was no fairyland. When I saw you again and thought you were lost to me I almost. turned Then I thought I'd have to show you that you couldn’t hurt me, though really you'd hurt So I danced with Tony, “That day you wrote the note 1 |to me at the store—you didn’t feel this way then?” Ellen ques- tioned. “No, I didn't,” Larry confessed, groping for the words, “I wanted mcther to meet you because 1 liked you. I liked you a lot from the first, Ellen, but I didn’t real- ize I loved you, that you we: whole life. And then moth: “Didn't want to meet me,’ completed the sentence. He went on, neither denying or affirming her statement. “I was content that things should drift along with us until you showed me they just wouldn't drift.” “But you were engaged,” she Pointed out, wondering that the fact that had once made all her days so wretched seemed now of no importance, “True again. But that didn’t seem important to me. I did think of telling you, thought of it several times, but I er seemed to find just the right occasion. You know how that is, don’t you?” ee H® stopped and then went on again. “You'd understand better if you knew Lis “Bowes. She slips in and out of two or three engagements every season: There was a time when I thought 1 cared for her enough to be en- gaged, even to think of marrying her. Her family was delighted and mother was too. But then Liz came home from Europe, I had your last note and knew I'd lost everything, everything in the world, Ellen. “I went out to your house that. night, Ellen. Did you know that? Your mother told me you never wanted to see me again.” “Mother did what she thought best,” Bilen said slowly. ‘You hadn't any idea what I went throigh that night,” Larry said passionately. She shook her head in correc- tion, “I think 1 do know.” “How do you know? Tell me how?” be demanded bungrily. But she could obly look at him, her lips unsteady, ber eyes bright with tears and her hands pressed in his. “Can you understand, Ellen, how a man might subconsciously think a girl would wait when there wasn't any reason for her to wait except that she loved him? Can you ‘magine how a man might be so stupid and conceited and selfish? If you'll only forgive me you'll never be sorry.” Her heart overflowed with love and forgiveness and warm paip. “Why, Larry, sweetheart, don't talk that way,” she said gently. “I won't let you say such things about yourself. Of course I for- give y-- I could forgive you any- thing. He seized irk re W id, it Hand and pressed it to his lips. “Ah, you're sweet, sweet, sweet,” he muttered, joes this mean we're en- gaged?” she asked faintly. “You bet it does,” he laughed. cit) re “It'll be no long engagement, either. We'll go tomorrow to get the rings.” “Isn't this fun?” Bilen said on! along breath. “We're both of us: crazy, just plain crazy! Your! mother will hate me. Don’t tell me she won't because I know. The people you know will call me a taxi dancer. I heard Lona Clen- denning that night, you remember —that night at your studio. But all that just doesn’t seem import- ant! The important thing is that T love you, Larry!” “The important thing is that we love each other and that we found it out in time,” he amended. eee Artur. that they talked and talked. Dancers, chattering and laughing, drifted past the lit- tle table but to Ellen the others were only dim shapes, vague as the mvsic which seemed to come from so far away. Only Larry was real. Only Larry and the fact that he loved her and the swift plans they were making. ‘They arranged their own future and Molly's and Mike's. Ellen laughed at Lerry’s desire to adopt @ ready-made family but she was touched by it, too. It would be the best thing in the world for him declared irresponsible Larry. He really meant it. They talked of his work and of how Ellen would help him. Mentally they hung his pictures on the walls of the Metroplitan and on the walls of the Louvre. They selected a place to live and furnished it com- pletely. They talked of the years to come. 5 Afterward they stepped out on the balcony to watch the rosy, flaring lights of Broadway and Larry laughed excitedly because the glow turned Ellen’s hair to a deep sullen red, As she leaned dreamily against him, Ellen thought that tomorrow she would tell him of the.one thing which had not been mentioned. They met, as arranged, next morning on Fifth avenue. He was late and as Ellen sat waiting in the lobby of a smart hotel she grew absurdly nervous, What had delayed him? What could have delayed bim? She tried to ap- Dear easy and as much at home as the others about her. She kept her small hands folded and her small ‘feet quiet and averted her eyes fr:~ the clock. All at once she saw Larry swing through the revolving doors, Again the day was glori- ous! He glanced hurriedly about and caught her eyes. Both smiled with infinite content and Larry moved twiftly across the room, “We're starting out with the biggest chrysanthemum you ever saw,” he eald, tucking her hand under his arm. “It’s in a window around the corner. An exact mat “. Bllen, for your hair!” A moment later they were point- Ing out to an {nterested florist the bloom in question, The great, shaggy, russet flower was pinned firmly to Ellen's coat collar, o= was in ecstacy on the trip Larry here, to know that he was proud of her and that he loved her was incredible, self was incredible, The air was cool and sweet, the sky a bright, electric blue and the sun so bril- Mant that all the busses seemed freshly painted, dows had never displayed mere chandise more enticing, tempting, more desirable. Ellen wanted to dance and sing. stead she sedately matched her pace to his and felt the petals of the shaggy mum against her cheek with every step. street and a small, select jewelry shop, @ shop so aristocratic that for decades it had carried no sign to guide the shopper. walked down a long, into an atmosphere of almost ca- thedral-like austerity, Ellen tried to look casual and dignified but did not succeed. She looked ez- actly what she was—a rapturous, half embarrassed young girl with flushed cheeks and brilliant eyes. sl bent their elbows on the shining counter and pondered over dozens of rings while the watching clerk suppressed amused smiles. engagement ring was an easy choice, guarded by emeralds. Both ex- claimed at once o' said they did not need a box. Ellen trembled, blushed, agreed. Glory flashed on her finger and slory flashed in her heart. more difficult. out a second tray and then a third, All the rings were dignified and simple, so similar that to any ex- cept lovers there would seem to be no choice. suddenly. clet set with diamonds. It might have been a twin of the ring at home that was locked in Ellen's dressing table. with the memory. asked, surprised, bind her back. would be better to have th - ding ring more simple?” Oh Dealed, confused and hi frightened. broke in the clerk, ful smile. After a moment errant sat baht agreed that aps they should ch. thing plainer, something plainer” but white gold carved with minute orange blossoms, ring to be engraved. down the avenue. To have The day it- The shop wins more In- They reached Thirty-fourth As she silken rug as absorbed in the was, The two The @ clear blue diamond it. Larry Selecting the wedding ring was The clerk brought “Here it 1s!" Larry cried out, He held up a slim platinum cir. Her face paled “Don’t you like it?” Larry “Try it on.” Ellen’s hands were clasped bee “Why I—don't you think it “The young lady {s right,” Ellen sent bim a misty, grate- of dis. The “something was not platinum at all They left the (To Be Continued) 4 Ree a « 1 ] t eo aya | 5 : : 1 s 1 r i ] 1 1 1 E: ’ 2 1 t 1 ‘ F P t 3 1 ¢ c: 4 é 1“ «8 SJ of 1 : q } f Les ae 2 1 ! . 1 1 1 3 ! : : ‘ ; 775 haps a { é , r 1 « : ] : + ve } 1 ‘ ee as Ny | { wi 7