The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 31, 1932, Page 2

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, MAY.31, 1932 ie Bismarck Tribune |Pe!ovs sports that the world offers but Allied positions on the flanks were |Gerard, Manchester, Conn., and Mar- ° zi ° preparing for the coming of a baby. ‘An Independent Newspaper | ®dventuresome men. Pulling a ‘Cal Coolidge’? But it is absurd to imagine that trif-|being held without great trouble. | garet Eisele, Cincinnati. THE STATE'S OLDEST It isn’t a sport that draws a great ling incidents, which ordinarily would} French reserve divisions began to| So some of the girls Eee tl ay ‘stablished 1673) Far le ker Goan (a ni ants not selously ‘affect, the woman, 85-| arrive a roe the remnants of [me that one of the most famous of = not live close enough to high moun- dreadful consequences if she happens| the divisions which had received the | the old Greenwich Villagers was Polly, Published by The Bismarck Tribune | tain peaks to be able to indulge in it. to be looking forward to the visit of] full shock of the first See ba last us aU ay! best , Bismarck, N. D., and en-|But in all countries—in the United a little stranger. It is absurd to imag-| American troops were in the lines|known exclusively as ne tered at the postoffice at Bismarck @s| states. in England, in Germany, in 1. DO NOT CHOOSE ine that casual mental impressions of |near Chateau-Thierry and it seemed |she arrived from Evanston, TIL, to help second class mail matter. Q ab y TO GO TH the mother can alter or control the| probable that they would be involved | put the Village on the map ... GEORGE D. MANN Canada and elsewhere—there are lit- CHICAGO / inexorable ways of nature in the|in severe fighting within the next 2¢ * * x President and Publisher. tle groups of men to whom mountain- :. growth and development of the child. | hours. AH, THERE, HOOPLE! ———--——= | climbing is the sport of sports. It would be more reasonable to fancy] Despite gains by the Germans, Al-| Just because he’s accepted a movie ae nace Payable in To climb far above timberline surprising ae rans pet snake sun- lied bier bird cher nts bores may one ket a hac aaalys { i ning himself under our lawn swing) that it was a matter 0! e unt never “go > %j Daily by carrier, per year ......$7.20/drained of bodily strength by th: would cause you and me to Hired balance of power on the western front gett . heen eye \siheed i Daily by mail per year (in Bis- rarefied air, hewing paths out of solid scales or a forked tongue. was transferred to their forces. in to say thai patent arrived, too ‘marck) ...... o 2.20] 5 1 As I write this there comes an in- jate for me to see 1t at tne liventor” Dally by mail per y st feet Gaeta Penh teed ae quiry from a girl who was born with Show ... It’s a returnable umbrefia ~ outside Bismarck) ............ 5.00 | Pridges of snow and struggling up an cleft palate and hare lip, which she with a homing pigeon attached . . . Daily by mail outside of North j unblazed trail to heights that only attributes to the ill health of her He is now working on a self back-pat- Dakota ...... 6.00 | two or three other human beings have ee eis her mother's health ting device. ece ———— | ever visited—it is a thrilling and ven- or ill heal nothing to do with ; ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00| pone ee Guts the pres it) ‘and now she contemplates marry- | NOTE TO TOURISTS: | Weekly by mail in state, three A ecru ae Lael 3 ing but hesitates for fear any children New York's ola en one an sweetly by sual outside of Warts 0 | Bie abe tae uae tas ot tier the doo-foot observatory of the Laura bade outside of Nor — She says there had been no other in- z 150| Now that “Bill” Langer and others stance of it in her mother's family as Gilbert S Rockefeller te tit of Riverside Weekly by mail in C: far back as they have been able to Wavimeiittaaeheciy | Church... A 20-mile vista opens, even re ent: Seis 0iieasc. S00 oce ere oe Hide Olt ae She trace Tf this girl marries and hs) —— with a mist clinging to the nearby ’ — administration, they might go back children her children are no more Hudson... { |AIN ] | Member of Audit Bureau of for an issue as does the Fargo Forum likely to have such a defect than are sft etthdl teh And to these startled ears the other Circulati New York May 31.—Notes on noth-| evening came, over the ether from Los ccomnend so frequently and put in the spotlight your children or mine or anybody res ticul nA everything in Nee, a “gin rickey” program with — | of pitiless publicity the bond sales of else's. Even if a child has hare lip/ie in particular and everything !n| Angeles, a "ein Teeey Pax vem.” Member of The Associated Press | P or cleft palate or both, the defect may| general: ‘Times are so tough that| instructions on “how to mix ‘em. eine f Associated F Press is exclusively the Nestos ci ahi esi bist be remedied by plastic surgery if the| Peggy Hopkins Joyce now goes about PEACE AT LAST ie for republication ; could move over into afer's four operation is done in early infancy. M ‘ with a news- of all news dispatches credited to it | vears of bond sales. If the I. V. A's The concept of maternal, prenatal eter Tite miedo siete si Madusa, Madras—From now until or not otherwise credited in this P aire : impressions as applied to mental or | P@Pe! ee 1999 this old world will be the most F newspaper and also the local news of |@re wise they will keep skeletons in emotional effects upon the unborn|bracelets set in agate, no gems will|peaceful place in’ the universe, ac- 4 spontaneous origin published herein. ;the closet. Remember, all political child, has even less to commend it|come from that! ... But maybe she's| cording to predictions of Palani 4 All rights of republication of all other | families have them. than has the fancy of physical mark-| trying to save the price of a press|SWamigal, Indian seer who is attract- matter herein are § also reserved, | a5 ing. What artistic, cultural or other agent ing large crowds here. He says “the mi er O1 ie , 5. Newspaper) ee, Pal militant press not to go too far back as any vicious traits either may have, | idea arrived too late to be of any value |Say what would happen in 1999, how- Foreign tatives for issues. The last four years of a are as likely to be inherited by off-|to his newest and dullest play, “Too jever. ‘i SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER mounting state debt and expenses tS spring as is the personal appearance, | Good to Be True” .. . Shaw had pre- 4 (incorporated) should keep his candidates busy ex- ~OR 1S THERE SOMETHING We or the type of stature, or form of par-| pared the following wheeze: “If you're IAGO NEW YORK BOSTON |piainin \\ AN ents, but any such influence upon the|going to the theater to forget your eee BEHIND it? \W NW unborn is determined many years be-| troubles, then go to the Shaw play Paul Block's 10. 1d bi eal 2 \ > fore the advent of the little oe attal in be reminded of ee ted An at- | ‘aul Block's 10-year-old boy's worry ~ ann} ° and the mental, emotional or spiritual] titude which may have had some- | The Philosophy nai Vagrant about Mayor Walker making both \\ = life or experience of the prospective |thing to do with the play's early de- | Bete eee oF & slilin borderins ends meet on $25,000 a year put a bril- mother in the comparatively short pe-| mise... . (the waterfront in New York City there | ; aw 4 hi ‘dadey'a head, riod of Her expectancy has practically| It’s gray flannel trousers for the . is a city dump where, until recently, |/@mt Idea in his daddy's head. ft nothing to do with the question of the| golf links this summer, boys, instead eee ‘a number of vagrants put up rude |meant more than a quarter of a mil-| ———— — | child's disposition, talents or traits. |of knickers ... Or, at least, they'll , n you place the numbers from B te ! lion for “Jimmie” anyway. What out that the mother had ren-| Search scientific medical literature | try to make you think so... And Jo- 2, mclusive, mn the abave squares so that | y pointed e ad re! “ ‘ {Shacks and made their homes. The |. wxias” won't think of! dered first aid to her husband when|# minutely as you wish and call to seph Lhevinne, famous concert pian- each of the honzontal and vertical rows | city ber to clean up the dump the ll the authorities} ist, waits until the end of the season ‘of squares and the two -to-comer Rav any, ie PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE he sprained hls ankle th the fleta one | te,,Witness stand all the Hunn et to play his best tama... Tho Wiscotl-| |. agonal vows wl dt (00? _ other day, and the vagrants were sent! 1» these days of economic stress, day two weeks prior to the baby's|!™ adhd eispert for the idlotle ithe lkeae re Hite vacation ‘etOunids cscisnbilbichihehnindkstl bed | 2 2 sy ‘or the see ee packing; but before they went 4) ysayor “Jimmie” Walker must realize ili birth. But this explanation was not |COVel 08! a Tipntal emotional} Just to show you what the great newspaper reporter had a little talk| 04 of Math ej tl go good in view of the fact that the| olen thet a menial, oF tf Le ema toe DAE “ | with one-of them. that a friend in need is a friend in-|| signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease || defect showed a cessation or delay Fe ose ihe miental or enioe ‘Thomas, recorder of Hollywood's film- a | ‘This man had lived in his little deed. diagnosis, or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, self- || in the development of the foot dating | tional integrity of her child. flams, waits until he gets to New York | seesie naces addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in ||back at least two months. That is to| “at any rate, let us give the little|to buy his youngster a cowboy and an * ; Shack for seven years, eating what he 5 z ink. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. ||say the defective foot had developed | stranger a fair break, and the best way | Indian suit ... Ay could find and getting along, some- Editorial Comment Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. normally up to the seventh or eighth| +, go that is by keeping the prospec- *x OK | how, without elther work or money.|) os scious ahow ane month of ‘prenatal ite) and eee #5 tye cmottien in ‘ay Happy: cteet fal | BE OAT OU en iat 5 ealabind 4 Rane teuclit Sirersoall JS GIVE LE - . If she hi ugh| And for those who wish to celebrate He was quite unabashed about his|| trend of thought by other editors. LET Us - Nickel ee oa Potential defects prior to process of development in that foot Hid GH ee ss Seance swig aie “old home day” here are a bevy of { status as a vagrant, and he explained: || They, are published without regard STRANGER A BREAK | A had been interrupted or retarded. The vont iid ssid it the erstition of|notes on what the home town girls : | “I didnt come here ‘cause I was dis- With The Tribune's policies, Sy Dr. Witiem Bendy |g viere Knowledge or understanding ) wonderful part of it is that such in- “marking” to give her a moment's|are doing in the big city. Talented @ appointed in love, lost a fight, went |'"———__________—--__|_ To the physiclan human life is an | One erine crubleet eupeene Aolarpres terruption or delay “e Seer et Pro- | anxiety. and ambitious beauties from over the a . y! Py pees seh ecur' ‘arely. Eve an i other such thing. I just guv up, and (New York Times) {mpress him so much, provided itl misinformed is that of “marking” the) There is no question more difficult | a Of seven Albertina Rasch specialty | I wanna be left alone.” In the May Curent History Mr.|comes to a natural end. No one in Mipebae ae EaReyGlay aa eee to answer than this one, which con- TODAY Sy dancers in “Face the Music” you'll | For some reason there is something] Theodore Christianson, a Republican | the fullness of years envisages death | schoolboy or schoolgirl shoul ‘“ feb fronts me every little while: A young ISTHE = find that Mary and Kathleen Van- ling about that perfectly | who. w ale ; more calmly and philosophically than letely di mother's first born has had some such | noy come from Atlanta; Melva Cor- rather appealing abou perfectly| who was six years governor of Min-|{f0rwsician who has in countless [completely dispels this superstition, | congenital defect. | She is now looking WORLD WAR neil is from Santa Barbara; Vida Mc- | frank statement, “I just guv upand 1| nesota, tries to show us, disinterested- | eases witnessed and aided the launch- | fn Greed. foe, omeeiott eana; | forward to the birth of her second ANNIVERS ARY iain, trom Portland, Ore, Virginia SS anGk/Baclaft alone—haven't all of|iy and without intrusion of personal {ing of new lives, Birth and death; |too gbeud when. considered dn the coe cone eee te thos tin tens Bethel from Yakima, and Valere Huff, |! ‘us, at one time or another, felt ex-j opinion, the general feeling of Mid- | the beginning Paps aioe re ag light of such knowledge. ean is likely to have the same | » 0 san Francisco, cauarebatee Se fj sermon st stirred the soul, s : in “The Cat anc le”—Dor- * * actly like that, and wished that we| westerners in the present discontents. | the awe oe hie ince ebra ealst ‘of the| 2 Say this superstition is cruel be-| The truth is that any child born othy Lane, Amsterdam, N. ¥.; Liza { could do just what this ragamuffin| True to its old habit of experimenting, | man as this miracle of the coming in- |°@uSe it causes much needless anxiety | to any parents may have a congenital © GERMANS REACH MARNE Guigon, Richmond, Va.; Frances} did? which so differentiates it from the | to the world of a new human life? and worry for expectant mothers at} defect. Lightning sometimes does| On ‘May 31/-1018/1Getmanstroopein| We", ‘Newark, N. J., and Georgiana oad ‘There seems to be something about] rast, the Middle West wants to try| It may be true in the statesman’s |& time when they should ‘be cheerful] strike twice in the same place. The| On May 3}, Itt, PS "| Orr, Springfield, Mass. ' l Prodern life that induces that feeling ee : me sense that all men are created equal.|2%4 happy. Unquestionably the ef-| second child is as likely to have a the Chemin des Dames sector contin-| mq Wynn's “The Laugh Parade” ia e some new device. The Mid-West! t+ is not true in the broader sense. |£ect of this emotion, fear, anxiety or | congenital defect as is any child ever | ued their great drive, reaching Cha- specialty steppers include Florence every s0 often. Life is carried on|wanted the McNary-Haugen plan.|Too many children are born defec- | Worry is injurious to anybody's) born. But how to answer the eX-|teau-Thierry and other points on the| Nelson, Portland, Ore.; Mabel Barry, nowadays, in good times as well as in| The East wouldn't have it. The farm- | tive, physically defective, terribly and health, and the prospective mother | pectant mother's question so that she | ya mne Minneapolis, Minn., and Mary Wilkin- aqfuhseris good deal of s strain,|ers resented this, not because they| sometimes hopelessly handicapped. 1°00 Ber unborn child are nov inuniine:) may have the greatest jassicance? : son, Dehver. While the RKO vaude- , h hi er falls vi to| Were sure that the project was a cure|am referring now to congenital de- One of the main*reasons why the| Any injury or severe shock impairs| Fighting in the center of the huge| ville artists include Helen Carson, Ok- | Beemer ee onever, tals vickin -f0 , °| fects, as physicians call them. Con. | incident or circumstance to which the} the expectant mother's health quite | salient created by the German offen-|lahoma City; Rose Gale, Des Moines; |To some people, setting-up exercises for the agricultural surplus but be- , as phys aud aplenia? qi Pp the feeling that he is pacing away in| cause they thought they ought to|genital means simply that the condi- marking” is ascribed by the inevita-| gs much as it would if she were not |sive was intense throughout the night,) Ruth Fisher, Salt Lake City; Gertrude are upsetting. a treadmill is more fortunate than|nave a chance to make the trial, at tion is present when the child is born | ble old harpy fails to impress the en- most of us. their own expense, under government | and has no other significance. They lightened mind is the incongruity of So, occasionally, there comes a re- action; a time in which we find that we have ceased to care very much | sponsorship. Instead of getting what | they wanted, they got the Farm Board jand the Grain Corporation, which they didn’t want and didn’t believe are familiar enough to everybody and we need not name them here. They happen in every family. Nobody is too good, too rich, too strong, or too the explanation—the maternal im- Pression occurs at the wrong time, either too long before or too long after the development pause or ab- normality. Then besides, the tales healthy to bear a child with such a responsibilities of in, eae epee es oF every cay) | defect. It is the eternal doom of b ‘a time in which we are possessed by| Contrary to the common Eastern fabricated by these vicious gossips are too far fetched and the manifesta- the MAN HUNTERS © P \impression, low and rofitable | fate, and that’s all we know about it. r be this childish but very human desire to Saeieaty es fneteid oie i Ae | A fair general knowledge of embry- pon Sri epegct argo ae y MAI 93: NEA SEI Ic. : . 4 «| Price ¢ ees i bles one to understand how BY BEL McELLIO | | ‘give up and be left alone.” The va-| acreage. To pay taxes and interest reall meet aetesea Sisgnen ‘al. | though he have no knowledge of em- ‘ Senay Ldiedacoase vi \the farm is a re, u vi grant in his shack on the waterfront; the farmer must plant more. Thus though we cannot understand why bryology. may be an unlovely spectacle, but we know moments in which we almost envy him. Luckily, these moods never last very Jong. We snap out of them, sooner or later, and the work of the world gets done about as usual. But we re- member how we felt, and when this homeless loafer voices his simple | philosophy we have to admit that we | know exactly how he feels. The Kreuger Disclosures ‘The farther the investigation into the affairs of the late Ivar Kreuger is pushed the more astounding the whole thing becomes. The disclosure that the famous “match king” had personal debts and indirect liabilities of more than $168,- 000,000 at the time of his death is one of those things that ordinary folk can hardly credit. Here was a man, apparently, who| built up a house of cards on a more colossal scale than anyone before him had ever dreamed of. Great finan- ciers and small investors seem to have been alike in the way they were hood- winked. The tragedy of it, of course, is the fact that it is the more or less inno- cent bystander who suffers the most. | A revolver bullet took Kreuger beyond the reach of financial worries; but his debts are very real, and present indications are that many of his cred- itors will get little or nothing on their Be Careful With a three-day week-end at hand in which most persons will have op- portunity to make trips or take their ease as fancy dictates, it might be ‘well to inject a word of caution into the preparations for the holiday. If people would make up their minds before starting on a trip that they will.drive carefully on crowded highways, not stand up in unstable ‘boats and otherwise observe the same rules of prudence they exercise every day in their business affairs, the death ‘every holiday would be less likely to contain their names. : Only the Strong— The death of the two scientists on the high slopes of Mount McKinley fis a tragic reminder that the climbing the spring wheat acreage of Minne- sota, Montana and the Dakotas this {year will be nearly 3,000,000 acres more than last year. To the protec- tive tariff the Mid-West has stuck steadily, but the Hawley-Smoot dose {was a little too much. It 4s begin-| ning to sink into the farmer's mind, since he lost the foreign vent for his surplus, that Europe can pay her debts to the United States only in goods. If these are shut out by the tariff, Eur- ope will have nothing left to buy our surplus crops with. The many bil- lions of foreign dollars poured into foreign bonds and railroad and indus- trial investments represent to the farmer a policy of unwisdom. Why wasn't this money left at home to make credit cheap? Investors and farmers would both have been better off. Bills introduced by Western sen- jators to refinance farm mortgages at jvery low rates get their support at home from the readiness of the gov- ernment to lend money abroad after the war and more recently to help banks and railroads. The Mid-Western farmer regards \the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion rather as a preventive of further and worse disasters than as a remedy for the disease from which the coun- try suffers, The banks, railroad com- panies, insurance companies “have been given their respite.” Is there nothing more to be done? Only when prices go up can money be safely bor- rowed or lent. In the view of the Mid-Western farmers increased com- modity prices are “the absolute pre- requisite to a return of prosperity.” Production can’t be cut so long as low prices force the farmer to increase production. Price-fixing by law has had its friends, but it is a doubtful remedy. Inflation is now the expe- dient most talked about. There is no agreement yet about the means. “It will not necessarily be silver, although the shade of William Jennings Bryan is again moving over the prairies.” It might come through the Glass- Steagall act, if the Federal Reserve Board were not too conservative to employ the power granted it by the new law. It now takes 1,200 bushels of wheat to pay the interest on a $10,000 mort- gage; in 1920 it took but 240 bushels. Mortgages are not being paid. There they happen. We know, for example, that so-called hare lip (a cleft or notch in the upper lip) is due to a cessation or delay in the natural pro- cess of development of the structtres involved; every human being has “hare lip” and cleft palate and vari- q | alleged “marking.” genital “clubfoot.” The parents were on a farm. The explanation the neighborhood fishwife broadcast was plausible enough to the ignorant: She A single instance will suffice to il- justrate the general run of cases of A child had con- 28 Postscript. 29 Small island. 50 Largest island in Europe is 31 Mineral Great ——? spring. 53 To court. 33 Bulb flower. 54 Series of ep! 35 Tidy. cal events. 36 Pretense, 56 To build, 37 Wealthy. 57 Strikes. 38 Diamond. 58 Kindled. 40 To total. 60 Fish, 41 Wrath. 61 Opposite of 42 Variant of “in” “An will be no restoration of buying powe until prices‘get high enough to pay debts; and till that power returns un- employment must continue. “So says the economist of the wheat country, and he is gaining many followers.” Wouldn't inflation defraud the cred- itor? No, answers the farmer. lent dollars worth 100.cents. It would be unjust if he should get back dol- >is @ purchasing power of 200 cents. - There is abundant evidence that such ideas are getting into the agri- cultural mind. It will not do to ig- nore or ridicule them. They must be dealt with patiently, tolerantly, and—we hope-—with convincing argu- of lofty mountains is one of the most | ment, cs ‘ud Island Question 62 Waste_matter, 15 Merriment. HORIZONTAL Answer tq Previous Puzzle 16 Sesame 1Chiet acti: = MONTANA SERIA] 15 sn} Bimvortant a ISITMESICIAIRIE ME LIDIOL) 19 Encircies. fruit industry PREC IUITEINSHEEIEIL| 21 witticism. ‘in California TRIAL DEUIPEESIO] 22 adverbial 9 Border ISITIA Wy word. 10 Stir CIQIUIL OMB] 25 To restrain 12 Beret aa IPIAIRIRIEIOMEE| through fear. 13 Profound SRR CIRMEORIUITIE ISMAIL) 27 Prickly 15 To coquet IRE ME SIORIOSHISMEAL|L| 30 To loiter 17 Ceremony. SORE MICE INT EMECILION] 31 Ocean. 20.Sea eagle, TLL WIE INEEINOIUINE 32 Conjunction. 21 Herb. CHAMOIS! IGIRIOOMED) *4 Falsehood 23 2000 pounds. - 29 Crowd. 24 Behold! 44 Eggs of fishes. 63 Scope. 41 Electrified 25 To put on. 46\Lad. VERTICAL particle. 26To bowl un- 47 Railroad. 1 Bird, European 43 To slumber derhand, 48 Label. warbler. lightly. 2 Side bone. 45 Before. 3Type measure 46 lota. 4 High. 47 Wagon track. 5 Blood. 49 Mineral prod- 6 Preposition. uct in Alaska 7 Nominal value. 51 Colored por- 8 To eject. tion of eye. 11 Fell into par- 52 Maple shrub. tial ruin. 53 Local position. 13 To sketch out. 55 Male title 14 Irregularly 57 Caress 59 Toward 61 Upon notched. Sie i BEGIN HERE TODAY SUSAN CAR fal, in secretly in i DUNBAR, miilional: for herself, p to them, Susnn has been engag to her former employer, ERNEST HEATH, but Heath overheard asked her to br to jusan and ruin Bob's life if she m: NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XLVI 66TPHAT’S exactly what I mean,” said Mr. Dunbar. The faintest shade of regret tinged his vo! Susan sat silent, her hands locked in her lap. Her mind was in con- fusion, Yesterday everything had been clear sailing. It had all Susan fought a battle with her- sounded so simple, so easy. Even self that morning. Bob was Bob's report of his father’s anger had had a far-away, unreal aspect. Older people were always troubling themselves about things that really didn’t matter, Susan had thought. houses and Stocks and bonds, money. What did they count wi weighed aj Bob had agreed with her. would be married very quietly. had en offer of a job on a ranch in Montana Some man he had known at college was experimenting with wheat and there was a little tenant house they could have. Susan thought of herself simply and ously as a farmer’s wife. It all seemed quite idyllic. Now purse-proud old man with his talk of inheritances had come to 6 everything. She felt a little sick as she tened to him. on, smoothly and persuasively. “I know you wouldn’t want to stand in his way—we all go through these puppy love affairs—” She felt in a daze, Was it true that her love for Bob would bring him only unhappiness and ill tune? Would he tire of poverty and of her with it? The poison of the older man’s cunning barbs in- fected her heart. Perhaps she Po» had been fools. Perhaps had been -vrong to think that could be so simple and straight- in their rosy dream, had visioned it. Through ber misery dawned the realization that her caller had repeated a ques- tion. She looked up, her eyes cloud- forward as they, ed with painful resentment. “I beg your pardon, I’m afraid I wasn’t listening.” He said, “I will make it w your while if you let him go.” “on!” 20 and beaati- DE- NISB ACKROYD, who wants Bob separate versation between her and Bob Ic inst her love for Bob? They His voice rumbled All the pain and wound- ed pride of the girl surged to the surface. Shoe stood up proudly and menacingly. She said in a voice that trembled, “I think you'd better go before I say something I'll re- gret. After all, you are Bob's father.” He was won to reluctant admira- tion but he could not leave without attempting to justify himself. His carefully moulded sentences flowed on, Susan stared at a point some inches over the man’s head, expres- sionless. 2 “Don’t be afraid,” she said bit terly, “I shan't do any harm to your son.” The man, a power in the down town world of affairs, departed feeling somehow humiliated and routed. DB ed. a ice. to come at eight and through alter- nate chills and fevers she tried to make up her mind what to say to bim when he arrtved. She had ex- plained to Aunt Jessie who had re mained singularly unmoved by the news of the girl’s change of plan that the caller had been Bob's father. Aunt Jessie had tactfully refrained from asking questions. She had seemed gentler since her illness. Aunt Jessie was looking forward to making a long visit to her sister who lived in southern Minois, “I'm going for a walk,” Susan told hev, abruptly a few minutes later, Scarcely conscious of the direction she was taking, she board- ed a street car headed for the busi- ness district. She must do some thing, She must keep active, She stopped at a drug store telephone booth an’ called Ray Flannery. “Well, stranger, where have you been ‘eeping yoursélf?” Ray de- manded. “I've missed you like the dicker -.” . “Can you have lunch with me?” f can asked, Ray agreed with en- the:iasm, Half an hour later ov-r the square, white-topped table in a s ct shop Ray stared at Susan with frank ‘aterest. “Cor: into money or some thing?” she w’ ted to knuw. Sus: tried to explain. Her aunt had been ill, she said vaguely, and she had been’ needed at ho: Ray seemed satisfied with this answer. “Say, the new girl in Heath's office sure is a lemon,” Ray con- tinued. “She looks like something the cat dragged in.” ‘ Susan smiled, She had heard about Migs Smith from Jack War- ing but Ray's description seemed unduly harsh, hen He had Joy- had this poil Ms- for- and she life orth hear,” Ray rambled on. “What do you knew about that?” Susan flushed. “He was talking about making a trip before I left,” she said evasively. “I don’t know. I always kind of thought -he was buzzing around | you,” said Ray. GUSAN changed the subject but not for long because inevitably with Ray the talk turned to men and romances. Ray was never in- terested in abstractions. After a lite sparring Susan burst out with the question closest to her heart. “What do you think—I mean what would you do if you were go- ing to marry a person and someone told you you'd be spoiling his life by doing it?” she floundered. Ray’s shrewd eyes searched her face. “What aro talking about? I don’t get you.” Susan began to outline little squares and triangles on the table's gleaming surface with her spoon. “It’s this way,” she said. “I'm engaged—it's a secret and you mustn't tell anyone—te a boy whose family 1s frightfully rich. His father is going to cut him off with- out a cent if he insists on marrying me.” Ray gasped. “It’s just like in the movies!” she exclaimed. Susan ru ed on, eager to un- bu.cen herself. “Well, tha. was all right. We talked it over -nd he didn’t care and 1 certainly don’t. But today “is fauer came to see me snd said I'd be ruin‘>g his son's whole life if I married him.” Her voice broke. “I don’t know, It’s s rt of—got me. I don’t know what to do.” “You're willing to take him with- out the money?” asked Ray. “Willing!” Susan was frankly aghast. “I was glad when he tvld me it was going to be that way. I thought ‘| gave us a better chance to make a go of it. But now I'm not certain. He's always been rich and maybe he'd be lost without all the things he’s been used to. Maybe]: he'd blame me for being the cause of his breaking away from his fam- ily and friends. I couldn't, stand that,” she finished wearily. Ray planted her two smal! on the tab ‘ou listen to m she said. “Don’t be a fool!” “I want to do what's right,” Su- san insisted, eee RAY doll-face with its fringed, mascaraed lashes and its fluff I e m w believably childlike, The words which issued: from those painted “The old man’s gone away, 1 adult. i ed her bitterly. one chance of happiness go and be sorry for it.” Sky girl hé’d married. |Ray continued. apartment on the drive and a mink coat an! what-not. That,” Ray told her, “was all the bunk. I was kid- ding myself. poor, Mamma and I, and I said to ously. lapsed into a fit of musing Susan said, aren’t at all the same. don’t be like that! chance and see what comes. You don’t want to be an old maid all your life, do you?” on, know who he is but he must be o. k. it you like him—before something happens. said Ray wistfully. short we have to take-chances, That's the only way to find out what it’s all about.” “Don’t do as I did,” Ray remind- “Don’t let your She was thinking of yebb, of course, and the rich “You know how I used to rave,” “All about an We'd always been yself I was tired of it. When Sky -sked me to run off with him gave him a lot of smart talk about what I had to have before I'd settle down, He took it seriously, and the first thing I knew he'd gone off and teamed up with that other girl.” Susan had been listening seri- When Ray finished and “Of course our problems I wouldn't ‘ind being poor and Bob knows it. What I want to be sure of is what ill inake him happy?” Ray snorted. “I’m telling you Take. your The two girls, so absurdJy young, both sobered at the thought. “Of course you don’t,” Ray went “Then grab this boy—I don’t We're all such fools,” “Life is 50 She gathered up her gloves. Ray sighed, “Whew, this is a warm day for March!” divert the conversation into live- lier channels, you want to get out of this man’s town to some place where you can see the sky?” She was trying to “Doesn't it make Suddenly through Susan's mind flashed the thought of the ranch Bob had described to her—herself in a printed apron, her hair blow- ing in the wind, picture. She wondered how she had allowed a middle-aged man with @ dull concept of life to let her think she could abandon it. It was a pleasant “You're sweet, Ray,” Susan- sald humbly, “Don't try to kid me." The other Fi girl blinked and there was a tear on the end of her foolishly beaded lash. “Come along and don’t forget of yellow curling hair. looked un-|to ask me to the wedding.” “I won't,” Susan promised. She hurried along the street with lips, however, were unmistakably | dancing steps, (To Be Continued)