The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 20, 1932, Page 4

The Bismarck Tribune] **!2 40s not merit public conti- | An Independent Newspaper ‘THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, BismarcR, 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 .. Daily by mail per year (in Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck) ............ 5.00 Daily by mail outside of North Dakota .. seeees 6.00 Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 Weekly by mail in state, three Weekly ty mail outside of North Dakota, per year Weekly by mail in 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 | veterans may be reduced. Many in-} spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER (Incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Cause for Honest Shame Enough has been disclosed in the senate investigation into the stock market to prove conclusively that one of the causes for the wild boom of 1927 to 1929 was the unprincipled ac- tion of many newspaper writers in promoting the sale of certain stocks. , Unknown to their superiors and publishers, newspaper reporters and financial commentators boomed this or that stock at a time when every security was going upward. The re- sult was to create a public demand for the shares in question and the manipulators unloaded at a handsome profit. Usually the newsmen got a few thousand dollars for their betrayal of ® sacred trust. Only a few of these men were “cut in” on the real profits and participated in the big money. It | jare little more than graft. |titled to more consideration at the dence merits little else. And so, at the same time we blush for the financial writers who violated the newspaper code, we feel sorry for | {is severe. The Bonus Is Beaten 'ernment’s refusal to honor ‘claims. been rather a remarkable demonstra- |the whole veteran question. jequalities exist and some men are drawing compensation from the gov- ernment under circumstances which For another, the men who are en- them, They got relatively little for itheir breach of faith and the penalty ( | Now that the bonus bill has been {beaten in the senate, the financial $7.20 | Centers will breathe more freely and ;@ large number of war veterans will} be a little more peevish at the gov-) their | The march upon Washington has | ;tion and the men assembled there will now disband, but echoes of that bat- ; tle will be heard for many years to 50 | come. 6] Regardless of the propriety of the march or of the demand for or the rejection of the bonus, some benefi- |cial results may come from the at-| |tention which has been centered on} For one thing the net cost to the |government of caring for World war | { common sense and common decency {are entitled to nothing, should result jin a net saving even after those who ‘have been dealt with unfairly are Properly cared for. A third prospect is that the injus: upon the veterans when it adopted the bonus in its present form, may be corrected. The loan provisions of the bonus enactment are unfair and could be changed to advantage. The veteran holds, in his bonus cer- tificate, an unmatured government bond. That payment will be made when due is just as sure as that the government will discharge any of its other obligations. In view of this fact, loans made upon the certificate should not carry a rate of interest higher than is paid on securities of similar worth, for the man who loans would not have made their offense |¥P0M @ bonus certificate takes no risk. less reprehensible if they had, but the Telatively low pay proves how easy it was. to corrupt them. Of course, speaking in a technical sense, it was not actionable corruption for them to boost the sale of this or that security and many of them may have done so in the earnest belief that the tips they dished out to the public were really worthwhile. If so, it would not be the first time that newspaper- men were so deceived for they are just as susceptible to unbridled en- If the government is functioning and solvent when his time comes to col- jlect, he will get his money. Steel Prices and Prosperity An interesting commentary on the chances for a return of prosperity in the near future is provided in a cur- rent bulletin from the Alexander ; Hamilton Institute, which estimates | that the steel trade cannot revive un- | til there is a 31 per cent reduction in steel prices. thusiasm as men in other lines of | | steel industry slashed prices so heav- Newspaper work is the only great) profession without a pretty strictly | work, defined code of ethics. It has few! hard and fast rules and these merely But the newspaperman learns, about the time he can recognize print- | er’s ink by its smell, that no one who | is true to his craft lets the public down. Public interest and public ad- vantage represent the cornerstones of his creed. No newspaper which does | - not merit public interest has any real claim to its field. It must tell the news tc the best of its ability, im- Partially and fairly. In the smaller centers, such as we} have in North Dakota, the doctrine of individual rights often is rec- ognized. Newspapers in this state, for | instance, rarely go prodding into the private lives of individuals, and when | they do, it always is with good reason. | News, which might otherwise appear | in print, sometimes is withheld be- cause of the fact that it would work an injury to the individual involved | or to some innocent party. This is done on the theory that, in such’ cases, the public is best served by| granting consideration to the individ- ual. If the appearance of a news} story, for instance, would inevitably be followed by the discharge of a man from his job, it is not a matter to be| taken lightly. Honest editors pray in| such circumstances that their deci- sions, whatever they may be, are jus- tified by the facts and by the tenets of common sense and ordinary de- cency. But the acceptance of money or other material favor, either to print a story or to withhold a story from publication, has long been regarded as @ cardinal sin in the newspaper pro- fession. The very fact that such cir- cumstances exist indicate that the | . whole business is tainted and the pre- In 1921, the institute points out, the ily as to offset the increase in the value of the dollar. These bargain prices led to a flood of new orders which eventually brought the indus- emphasize principles. This is neces- | try to a record high production; and sarily so because of the rapidity with | the steel industry for years has been which news flows into and out of the newspaper office and the fact that each individual case or story has angles peculiarly its own. regarded as a barometer for Ameri- can industry in general. In this depression, however, steel prices have declined only 13.5 per cent, from the 1929 peak, although the av- erage price of all commodities has gone down 32 per cent. Barring in- flation, the institute asserts, the steel trade cannot revive unless it brings prices down very materially, Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors, They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with The Tribune's policies. The Baseball Napoleon (New York Times) Mr. McGraw has been often called the Napoleon of the national game. From the bench he directed battles on the diamond in which victories were snatched from the jaws of defeat. His was the mind that planned not only separate games but the strategy of campaigns that lasted from April to October. His genius could lift a team from the foot of the list to a champion- ship. As a judge of players in whom was the promise of greatness, none surpassed him. He could sift the wheat from the chaff as no one else could. There was the day in 1902 when he took charge of the demor- alized and lagging Giants and re- duced the team to fourteen huskies, | veplying to the protest of a director that he would ruin the ball club with the classic remark that “we can fin- ish in last place just as easily with fourteen men as with twenty-four.” In the new manager's first full year the Giants fought their way to sec- ond place. The next year they won 106 games and the pennant. McGraw himself began in a small way on a@ sand lot in the village of Truxton, N. Y., which had a popule- tion of three hundred, and there is a story that in his first professional venture in a very minor league he made nine errors in one game. It was Perhaps this experience that made sumption is that it is dishonest and not in support of the public welfare. Because of this view, not one of the ™men against whom suspicion has been directed in the stock market investi- gation remains on the payroll of the mewspaper whose confidence he vio- Isted. Practically none of them have ‘been able to obtain similar employ- ment elsewhere. ‘The medical, legal and some other professions have boards which may Place the names of offenders on a Aplack list. The newspaper black list, ‘while not official, is just as effective. | the confidence of his readers. Every him tolerant of the “slumps” of some of his best players. His habit was to raise their salaries as a warning that they must not do it again. McGraw tried to convert the English from cricket to baseball, and quite natur- ally he failed. But in Japan he scored @ great personal triumph. Jap- anese teams became really skillful. His name is probably better known in Havana than that of any American statesman. Baseball may almost be regarded as the national game of Cuba today. The loving cup bestowed upon Mr. McGraw at his silver jubi- lee on the Polo Grounds was a trib- ute to true greatness in the national game. He had rivals, but by general acclaim — even theirs them all. Mexico City was built on land that bottom, jhands of the government may get it, | for the adjustments may be made up- ward as well as downward. Elimina- {tion of those who, by the laws of tice which the government worked) \ { 1 | + And We Thought They Were Loaded for Bear! V7 Ze | | | Sees erie SN By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis, or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, self- addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. WHEN YOU GET ALL HOT AND} ing from muscular exertion. It has no THEN CHILLED TRY TO KEEP | bearing on overheating from any ex- eg hot air. ‘No possible heum somes from, . jot air. sible harm comes A reader who puis a question which as sudden cooling as one likes, after » Only they ha arras: absolutely no good reason’ why any- so much, bebe to read pists hols body should hesitate to go an ewitne exposing themselves to a reeze,|ming when overheated from the say from an electric fan, when they | weather. The matter of sweating has verde heated ie perspiring is nothing to do with the question in hard work or play or exercise. any case. Contrary to a popular no- reader doesn’t believe that is harm- ed fostered by the teachings of near- less but would like to be convinced. | doctors and queer-doctors who just di- I have never believed it is harmless. yine things and never bother much All I contend is that no one suffers| about physiology, there is no possible any illness from such exposure. Tj harm in the sudden suppression of know very well that too sudden cool-! profuse sweating, whether the sweat- ing off after warming up that way is| ing is produced passively or by active likely to bring a lot of soreness and | exertion. Jameness in the muscles involved. That | is a mechanical effect. It is un- pleasant and for a while it may partly disable the victim, but it never makes him ill. The working of muscle in-!_ volves the burning of fuel, blood,in your column, namely, the occa- sugar, glycogen or animal starch, as sional sniffing of a pinch of boric acid it is called. The combustion of this produces an acid akin to lactic acid. Lactic acid is the acid which is pro- duced in souring milk by, the fer- mentation of the milk sugar (lactose) by the lactic bacillus which is natur- ally present in milk in large numbers. When the work or exertion is violent of course there is an increased oxida- tion of blood sugar and an increased production of the acid ash. The cir- culation increases in volume and rate at the same time, but sooner or later, according to the individual's physical condition, the production of acid ma- terial gets too far ahead of the ca- pacity of the circulation and then the acid waste matter begins to accumu- late in and about the overused mus- cles. That has something—we don't know just how much—to do with physical fatigue. Anyway, the work- er or player begins to tire and takes a rest. That gives the circulation a chance to catch up. If the individual is in good physical training, he will not suffer any great soreness or fa- tigue next day, even though he be | careless about cooling off too quickly. ‘ If he is in poor condition, unaccus- | I KE RS tomed to athletic activity, he is likely i to find himself pretty sore next day, AEEKLPRST even though he is as careful as a mu- seum mummy about undue exposure Out of the above words, see if you can make a four-letter word and a five-letier to the air. Too sudden cooling of the surface word which, when spelled backwards, will make two more words. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Boric Acid Sniffing more relief for chronic catarrh (oh, oh, maybe it’s sinusitis) than I have obtained in 10 years of experience with nose and throat specialists.— (W. A.) Answer—The most recent remedy tage over all previous efforts—namely that it is the one being tried at the time the ailment happens to be clear- ing up. This accounts for a lot of testimonials. Relapse to 014 Habit Having been bothered with consti- pation for many years I procured your booklet and studied it and it worked fine for a period of seven weeks. Then I ate some cheese and the trouble came back .. .—(M. 8.) Answer—The man convinced against his will holds to the same opinion still. Cheese has nothing to do with it. way of thinking, that’s all. I notice you still call it a trouble, which means | you still regard it as an ailment. of the region reflexly tightens up the circulation in the muscles beneath, and retards the carrying off of the acid waste matter, which then acts as @ local irritant, and so causes soreness and lameness. All of this applies only to overheat- — he excelled ) | That's why I insist that readers writ- ing for the booklet on “The Constipa- tion Habit” tell me they have the ha- bit. I have no treatment or cure for constipation. ‘he booklet merely teaches how to break a habit. Inclose with your request a dime and a stamped envelope bearing your correct address. (Copyright, John F, Dille Co.) TODAY » 8 1S THE WORLD R | ANNIVER ARY +0) RAINS AID ITALIANS On June 20, 1918, torrential rains in the mountains had so swollen the Piave that the only two bridges which survived the intensive air and artil- lery fire of the Italians were swept away by a rushing flood. ‘This natural aid was a distinct ad- vantage to Italian troops attempting to drive back Austrian forces. Many I want to tell you that a suggestion | powder into the nostrils, has given me! or treatment always has an advam/| Your old habit is stronger than your | — | positions held by the Austrians. within Dai has happened and “]| the Delta were submerged, opening channels for the Italian naval floats, each armed with 6, 9 or 12-inch guns, to penetrate the enemy lines. Cantigny, and advanced over consid- erable ground at Belleau Wood. Brit- ish and French troops made success- ful raids from Ypres southward to the AMONG THE NEIGHBORS New York, June 20.—In and about those myriad resorts of the “Flighty Fifties’ — where you ring-the-bell- and-ask-for-Tony — considerable per- sonal credit is being taken for the sensational switch of John D. Rocke- feller, Jr., to the ranks of the pro- hibition repealers. Whatever the merits of their boasts, certain it is that they brought the New York speakeasy situation almost to Mr. Rockefeller’s front door. For several years he could number among his fairly-close neighbors a collection of the better thirst parlors. They were just up the street and down the street; around the corner and be- yond the back yard. ee % And when John D., Jr., purchased the property for the Rockefeller (Ra- dio City) Center, considerable sec- tions of New York chuckled over the fact that—for the moment at least— a Rockefeller was in possession of one of the city’s thickest speakeasy areas. To be sure, the buildings were soon torn down—but 49th and 50th had fairly swarmed with whisper-lows. ee * While from the official town resi- dence of Rockefeller, Jr., at 10 West 54th Street, a good pair of binoculars might have revealed raiders at work and at play and bibulous boys and girls going their various gay ways. Fifty-second to Fifty-eighth and Park Avenue to Sixth Avenue has long been a veritable checker-board of popular drinkeries. * # * On various occasions rumors spread that Mr. Rockefeller had led a move- ment to do something about it. And didn’t get very far! All of which may or may not have had something to do with his final decision. But not many blocks from the severe Rockefeller mansion, a bit of back-slapping might have been ob- served accompanied by such com- ments as: “Well, I guess we done it, all right.” * # # ROCKEFELLER ROUTINE Such is the discipline of Mr. Rocke- feller's town life, however, that the events in his own neighborhood may have reached him only through the newspapers or reports of intimates. For, during those periods when he dwells in 54th Street, he is up at 7:30 and at breakfast within an hour. He * @ 1802 By NEA SEAMICE, Inc. L-20 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XII HE telephone shrilled. Cherry dropped the brown felt she had been about to pull over her head and reached for the receiver. “Hello,” she said eagerly, expect- ing to hear Dan's voice. “Is this Mrs, Phillips?” It was a stranger speaking. A man whose voice she did not recog- nize. Cherry said yes, this was Mrs. Phillips, and waited, “This is the clerk downstairs,” the man went-on crisply. “Thet some one to see you—Mrs. O'Fallon the name is.” “Who? Oh—oh, tell her to come right up! Tell her to come right away!” A few moments later when there was a light rap Cherry ran to the door, pulled it open and threw both arms about the short, stout figure on the threshold. 3 “Sarah! Oh, I'm so glad to see you. I’m so glad—” The rest was muffled against Sarah O’Fallon’s substantial shoul- der. ‘Sarah’s generous arms had gathered the girl into them. She was a Sarah transformed by a long dark blue coat and neat black tur- ban, but her eyes were as blue, her cheeks as pink as Cherry had al- ways seen them. “Cherry darlin’! Old Sarah’s vision seemed eud- denly blurred. They were glad tears that glistened on the round, pink cheeks. She patted the girl's shoul- der, mumbling endearments that were half audible. “But Sarah—!” Cherry exclaimed, laughing. There was a suspicious sparkle on her lashes too. “You're crying! You mustn't do that. How did you know how to find me? Ob, there's so much I want to tell you, Sarah, and so many things I want to ask! Here—come inside. ‘ Sit down! Sarah, you haven't told me how you found out where I was, Aad you are crying. How's Moth- er—?” The questions came one after the other without a moment’s paude for replies, At last Sarah, mopping her eyes, managed to get out, “You shouldn't have done it, Cherry. You shouldn't have run away like you did.” ler severity utterly trans- parent.’ Sarah's eyes were on ber is being driven to the Standard Oil On the western front Americans took German trenches in front of or Roosevelt groups in California would consider an boned with on McAdoo contingent, w! bone dry. —James D. Meredith, California Roosevelt sae) * As long as Europe persists in closing its ears to the voice of history, no progress at all can be achieved by its \statesmen.—Ex-King hes of Spain, * # Our aim is to aid the new Man- choukuo government in making Man- churia as safe, peaceful and orderly as any country in the world.—General Shigeru Honjo, Japanese commander in Manchurie. (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) > Barbs | —_——+» Despite all the argument over who won the World war, so far there hasn't been a suggestion to call it a draw and fight it over. ee % Arms Parley Delegates War Over Reductions, says a headline. Well, that’s one war we won't have to pay for, anyway. , ny building by 9 o'clock and is usual at his desk within a half hour. ‘His lunch time is 12 to 1. Two to five are his hardest working hours in his office. When he departs, all per- sonal memoranda and reports requir- ing quiet concentration go home with him. His office hours at home are unlimited. In winter he takes many such cares with him to Ormond Beach, Fla. Dur- ing summer intervals he commutes to the Rockefeller country estate. Seal Harbor, Me., oy td - retreat. Rockefeller, Jr. As for 4 pores: Set has for years found it chiefly in his Incidentally, intimates say that he is an accomplished violinist; in fact, something of a virtuoso. | ‘Until about eight years ago, he gave | ». little or no attention to outdoor sports. Unlike most he has never gone in for yachts or racing stables or polo ponies or other hobbies of the rich, . Neither did his father. Only at the urging of Rockefeller senior, did he finally take a fing at golf. ‘The 54th Street home is a five-story affair, requiring some 25 servants to operate. Slightly less pretentious mansions, in 54th or, 53rd Street and there- abouts, ‘ire about 25 waiters and bartenders to wait tg customers, * # * * American bondholders lost billions in foreign investments in 1931, a banker says in explaining the depres- sion. That’s what you get for listen- ing to bankers. AN ACTOR’S MEMORIAL A note from Leo Carillo, the actor, saying he will soon build a theater eR # novelist says. American men are saps, a British Well, he needn't think in Los Angeles on the spot where his mother and father were born... An interesting memorial, if you asked me! AND CAN SHE WHISTLE? Never having heard mention that “the peanut vendor” might be mar- ried and have a family, the appear- ance of a daughter ,has surprised Broadway. She is “Marianna, the peanut vendor's daughter,” and Don Azpiazu, who started the original craze, has just brought her in from Cuba. A tuneful little thing! that’s very original. Wall Street found that out years ago. # *e * So far the only thing the Republi- cans and Democrats have agreed on is that the farmer should get higher prices for his crops and that food prices in the cities should be lowered. (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: £ U. 8. PAT. OFF i“ As the physician to the president of our great nation, I know President Hoover to be physically strong and powerful and alert mentally, because ; he keeps himself trained daily —Cap- tain Joel T. Boone, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy, and physician to the White; House. i * * % ‘We have been stripped of many ma- terial things, but the best remain—| Jove, the pursuit of truth, home, ; friends, sympathy, beauty of nature. ! —Dr. Frank 8. C. Wicks, Unitarian! minister, Indianapolis. 1 e+ * ‘We are confessedly the most lawless | educated nation in the world, with| gangs of criminals, racketeers and, gunmen roaming our streets, seeming- ly more powerful than the police—aA. Caswell Ellis, director of Cleveland College, Western Reserve University. |The bathing girl who gives you a stony * e * istare isn’t the only pebble on the It is inconceivable that either Smith | beach. former charge, anxious and ador- ing, while she pretended to scold. is Please, Sarah, don’t begin thi just the same you shouldn't have done it! I read in the papers about you bein’ married and all. My lit- tle Cherry! I couldn’t believe it!” “I'd do it again,” the girl sald proudly. “Wait till you know Dan, then you'll understand—” oo. Ts older woman was sitting in the big overstuffed chair. Cher- ry who had perched on the arm of the chair suddenly slipped to her knees directly in front of Sarah. “Dan’s—wonderful!” the girl said, raising starry eyes. “I'd do it again for him!” “You mean you're really happy?” “Happier than I've ever been in my life!” Old Sarah slipped a band over the girl's. “May the Lord take care of you and help you to keep that happiness,” she murmured. “Maybe if you feel that way it’s for the best—" “Of course it is!” Cherry insist- ed. “And really, Sarah, there wasn't any other way!” For Sarah's benefit she reviewed the scene of her last evtning at home. With “oh’s” and “ah’s” and frequent nodding of her head Sarah listened to the story. Cherry de- scribed the marriage and the cele bration with Dan's friends. Then it was Sarah's turn to take up the narrative. “Such a night!” she began. “I hope I'll not live through another one! All that we knew was that you'd gone and your mother was cryin’ her eyes out in her room and your father down- stairs pacin’ back and forth like a wild man. Half the night it went on and not a wink of sleep did I get! And feelin’ guilty as I did for knowin’ where you'd been off to in the afternoon. I was afraid to speak and afraid not to. Oh, it was ter- rible! Then in the morning we saw the papers and read how you'd been married. I guess your father took on even worse than he did the night before. He didn’t leave the house until almost noon. We could hear their voices—his and your mother’s —but it was your father that did most of the talkin’. Finally he left and your mother eaid she had a headache and was not to be dis- turbed. She stayed in her room all day, but she had me bring the news- papers and it was easy to tell from the way her eyes were swollen and the red lines around ‘em that it wasn’t headache—” “I’m sorry,” Cherry sald slowly, “I didn’t know she'd feel so badly.” “What? Not feel badly? With her daughter that seems almost @ baby still run off and marryin’ someone she doesn’t even know? Not feel badly? Oh, Cherry!” “Would sho let me come to see her?” the girl asked hesitantly. Sarah shook her head. “That's ithe worst part,” she admitted. “I (©igp2 or a soece we. your father that’s so set against it. That’s why your mother sent me—” “Mother sent you!” “Of course, Late yesterday aft- ernoon she rang and said 1 was to &o out of the house somewhere and telephone the newspaper office and see if I could find out where you were, Well, I did it and some girl with a nice polite voice said you was at the Bismark hotel. So when I told your mother she said I was to get your things packed and send them to you.” “Oh, Sarah—” “No, I—I've decided . don't want them. It's all right, isn’t it? They haven't been touched—” Miss Lacey opened the box- and shook out the dresses. Regretfully she admitted that it would be all tight. Was there anything else she could show Mrs. Phillips? Some thing she'd like in exchange? Cherry said no, there was noth- ing else. And now that the things had been returned there wouldn't be any bill would there? Miss Lacey wrote something on a slip of paper. “Just present this “Well, I thought before I did that |@t the credit desk,” she told Cher- {t would be better to come down |T¥- “They'll give you a receipt.” and talk to you and see how every- ve thing was. Your mother said yes, that’s what I should do, but I mustn’t let any of the others know about it. And none of ‘em does know! So you tell me, Miss Cherry, what to pack. I think your mother liked the idea of my comin’ to see you so I could tell her how you was and if you want to send her a note I'll be glad to take it. But I wouldn't write letters because pure your father wouldn't like at.” (CHEBER, was on her feet. “Of course I'll write,” she said. “Sarah, you're an old darling, You'll come to see me often, won't you?” “Well, I'll try to. We'll have to be careful, though. It wouldn't do for your father to find out.” Half an hour later Sarah O’Fal- lon departed. Stowed away in her purse was the letter Cherry had written to her mother. The trunk with Cherry's clothing, Sarah prom- ised, would be delivered in the aft- ernoon, “Don’t fret,” she told the girl as she hesitated with one hand on the doorknob. If you're sure you've got the right boy things'll come out right! Young folks have to go their own way, I guess, You can let me know if you move and I'll come when I can.” Cherry went down the hall with her. She squeezed Sarah’s tightly as the door of elevator car slid open, “Goodby, Darling.” “Goodby.” Back in her room the girl glanced at her wrist watch. Almest noon. One thought and one only was in Cherry's mind. With sudden en- ergy Cherry hurried to the clothes closet and dragged out the big box from Stanley's, A minute more and she was pulling on her bat and coat. Sho left the hotel and walked to the department store with the box under her arm. Miss Lacey was in the French room, waiting on anoth- er customer, Cherry lingéred until she had finished. Then she ex- plained that she had changed her mind about the purchases, - Miss Lacey's trim dark brows Ufted clightly.. If Cherry had not ITH the carboned receipt shew. ing that merchandise worth $93.70 had been returned and cred- {ted to her account Cherry Jeft the store. She discovered that the sun was shining and the faint breeze held the fragrance of spring. Surely the sky had never seemed bluer. A Group of girls passed her, laughing. Cherry paused before a florist’s window and gazed in admiration at huge baskets of blue and white hy- acinths. She could almost breathe their sweetness, Spring! Of course it was spring, the season when all the world took on freshness and new life, was @ sunny day in mid-April and Cherry was a bride with the finest,: dearest young husband in the world. She had just corrected a mistake that for a short time had threat- ened their happiness. Everything was all right now. She would not even have to tell Dan about the arge account since the bill had been removed, At a drug store counter she lunched on a sandwich and malted milk and then hurried back to the hotel. It had been agreed between them that Dan was not to telephone her at noon because Cherry expect ed to spend the day hunting for an apartment, She did not go out, however, be hand |cause she was anxious to be on hand when the trunk was delivered. Cherry would take no chance with that trunk, It came about ¢ o'clock. By the time Dan arrived she had ‘unpacked everything and was wait- ing, fresh and radiant in a deep green frock with touches of daffo- dil yellow that he said je her ex- actly like the flower. “Only lovelier,” he told her. “Lovelier because—well, you're you!” ‘They had dinner again at Schroe der’s, exchanging news of the day over the appetizing hot food, Their Dlates were taken away to be re placed by dessert. Abruptly Dan looked up. It was one of those moments that seem utterly casual when, looking backward, events reshaping entire lives may, be seem to have their be- been 80 preoccupied she would cer. |ginning, tainly have become uncomfortable under that gaze, “You mean they're unsatistac- tory?” t:= saleswoman asked. Dan sald, “Guess I forgot to tell jyou. Max Pearson's coming back | tomorrow.” (To Be Continued) ary rr Vet e 4 vy 4 ¥ Yr “q , ‘ae weet& &, . A