The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 5, 1932, Page 4

_THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, JULY *5, 1932 See eee ON SESE RENE TE ‘ Whe Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper \; THE STATE'S OLDEST H NEWSPAPER : @stablished 1873) Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and en- tered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN | President and Publisher. fs Subscription Rates Payable in | Advance \Daily by currier, per year .. 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(Official City, State and County Newspaper) | Foreign Representatives | SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER | (Incorporated) \CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Roosevelt Nominated | Tammany boos from the galleries at the Democratic national conven- ‘tion failed to turn a vote against | Franklin D. Roosevelt, governor of ‘New York, for the presidential nom- ination. The Smith die-hards sat | sullenly in their seats and voted for their leader of 1928. Once the rumble of the bandwagon, started on its way by William Gibbs McAdoo, was heard in the stadium, there was a stampede in its direction and that was the climax of the convention. What hap- pens now is merely by way of con- firmation. The stop-Roosevelt movement never had a chance, When Raskob} and Shouse lost control of the con- vention machinery, with it went their} influence to control the situation. Political exigency and expediency ' sped on in their relentless way to the inevitable nomination of Gov- ernor Roosevelt who came in person to view his triumph and receive the} plaudits of the faithful. It has always been hard for Man- hattan to control national politics. ‘Tammany has hard sledding when it} seeks to run the political drama on) the national stage. It sought to de-| feat the nomination of Governor Til-| cen, There Manhattan failed as it did at Chicago in 1932, Tammany! turned its batteries of ridicule and} venom on Grover Cleveland. Thousands trekked from the wig- wams of Tammany to the two Demo-! s | cratic conventions which nominated} Cleveland in efforts to defeat him,! but the delegates stood behind their} choice, a New York governor, too, as} they have behind Roosevelt. The present generation has forgot- ten those struggles, but there are many living and active in Politics | today who witnessed the defeat of| ‘Tammany at Baltimore in 1912. That was a dramatic moment when wil-| liam Jennings Bryan, delegate from. Nebraska calmly rose in his seat and denounced Charles Murphy and} (Thomas Fortune Ryan, Tammany | jrepresentatives in the great struggle | }to beat Woodrow Wilson, It was a sizaling hot day. Bryan, palm leaf| ‘fan in one hand the tails of his al-| paca coat flying and one clenched fist extended toward the speaker's stand, defied Tammany and brought | about the nomination of Woodrow] ‘Wilson. The son-in-law of President | Wilson, in a no less dramatic setting, | turned the tables on Tammany at} Chicago and got a sweet political | revenge for what Tammany did to} [him at New York, when the dead- |Jocked 1924 convention defeated Mc- | Adoo for the presidential nomination in a struggle with Alfred E, Smith. There are other minor instances |where Tammany has failed to con- | trol whenever party leaders sought to \fight its bosses. Political history re- \ peated itself at Chicago last week jand Roosevelt emerges victorious |from the convention as did Tilden, )Cleveland and Wilson. | Will the victory seriously split the | party? ' That remains to be seen, but po- litical wounds usually heal quickly and victory in prospect for Demo- cracy will doubtless place a united party behind the candidacy of Roose- velt. It is not hard to predict what the agricultural states will do. Un- Jess there is a complete change in economic conditions, Roosevelt should sweep the west and the south. Roosevelt’s unpopularity in certain financial circles of the east and with the leaders who donate the war chests, may slow up his progress in that sector. It is known that the banking and power interests were ac- tive in seeking to stop Roosevelt's | If the March presidential primar- fies are indicative, North Dakota will fe found in‘ the Roosevelt column in ‘November. It was registered for (Woodrow Wilson on two occasions. ‘This state 1s not party hide-bound | President Hoover, it takes very little | Political sagacity to guess the results. Progressive Democrats will be more |ruly Demoerats in line in the lower] pleased with Roosevelt's nomination than with any other mentioned at Chicago. His personality appeals to the agrarian west and south. He may be feared in the conservative centers of the east because of his pronouncements relative to the “for- gotten man.” Conservatives charged him with making demagogic appeals for political support. This jand Tammany’s opposition, however, should help him win votes in the west and the south. John N. Garner After William G. McAdoo tossed 90 | Garner votes into the Roosevelt camp with them went the vice presidency for the favorite son of Texas. That was an irresistible resultant of the Political trading and bickering—a most usual and natural political cause and effect. John N. Garner is a colorful fig- ure. Serving in Washington for 30 years or more, he has built up a wide circle of friends and should be well grounded in Democratic politics and policies. He got off on the wrong foot with some of his associates on the sales tax and his ideas on bud- get balancing did not meet with the heartiest approval of his friends. But, like a true Democrat, he revised his position somewhat in the inter- ests of party solidarity and came out of the fracas none the worse for the experience. McAdoo has always been more or less a political soldier of fortune. Under the Wilson regime he rose from political inconspicuousness to the seats of the mighty. As Wilson's son-in-law, he became the crown prince of the Wilsonian regime. Then, after the battle in 1924 with Al Smith, McAdoo changed his resi- dence to California and practically retired from politics, appearing in} party councils infrequently. But Mc- Adoo has a good nose for opportun- ity. He combined forces with the Hearst alliances and backed Garner, doubtless figuring that here was a trading card of more than ordinary potency. McAdoo guessed right. He used this trump card effectively. Garner, as a result, is the vice presi- dential candidate and McAdoo gets a place at the Rooseveltian table quite a long ways above the salt. If he is beaten in California, where he will seek a seat in the U. S. senate, a nition to McAdoo. In fact the man- agers at Chicago were for the most} part men closely associated with Wil-| son's political machine. Speaker Garner probably is tiring| of the strenuous job of holding un- house and would rather move to the! quieter precincts of the U. S. senate. | Compared to being speaker in power | and interest, the vice presidency is| rather an anemic affair. Editorial Comment | Sditorials printed below show the trend of thought by other edito: They are published without r to Whether they agree or d with The Tribune’s policies, Chicago’s Racketeers (Washington Star) A law enforcement official in Chi-} | cago advances the theory that “the next rattle of gangland’s machine guns may also be the death rattle of the gigantic crime syndicate built by/| Al Capone.” As he spoke he had| before him a diagram of the branch- es of this vast empire of crime from which the jailed gangster derived his | princely income, that income on}! which he failed to pay federal taxes, a lapse that landed him in the peni- tentiary Here is an illustration of the im-| potency of the law against organized | tion in this country. The men who are engaged in these illegal enter- | prises, ranging through minor forms to the most serious, are known per- sonally, their affiliations are known, their enmities are known. Yet they cannot be caught by the law and punished as they deserve. Their} eradication must be left to their own murderous jealousies and repris In this present situation in Chi it is expected that Capone's mortal! enemy, George Moran, whose follow- ers Capone's men were instrumental | in “removing” in the St. Valentine's | day massacre of 1928, will be the one| to set the spark that will cause the | explosion to rid the city finally of | the gangsters. A thug named Bar- (ker was slain last week and was} jburied in splendor. Capone's licut- enants bore his casket to the grave. Seventeen auto loads of flowers fol- lowed him to his last resting place. This man’s ambition was to control everything in Chicago that moved on| wheels. He was credited with being the author of 28 separate rackets. Everybody seems to have known of his enterprises, but the hand of the \law did not reach him. It remained |for a rival gangster to put him on the spot, to hire a squad of assassins to remove him a few days after one) of his lieutenants had been peppered | with 18 bullets. What a situation! What a travesty upon American law! If gangland could be relied upon to exterminate itself, there might be some cheer he | the law-abiding citizens. But the very feuds, however decimating they may be, breed new organizations to teplace those that have been mowed down in the war of rivalry. Mean- while the victims of the rackets, mer- chants of every grade and their pa- trons and customers, who must pay the cost through higher prices, are the real sufferers from this break- down of law. No one cares how many gangsters are murdered, but it is a matter of deep public concern that the vicious system of unchecked racketeering continue: STILL A JOHNSON Denver, Col.—Her grandmother married a Johnson; her mother mar- tied a Johnson, and now Fern John- son is married to a Johnson. For have} crime in certain centers of popula- |———————_——. and an active kidney stimulant. | Young children. (Copyright John F. Dille Co.) Monkey Business! New York, July 5.—Those bizarre 'vogues which drift to America from the Riviera and Paris are no longer foreign. New York boasts a collec- tion of worthy innovators. And it’s the Countess de Beau- mont, of the very, very Social Reg- ister, who takes a pet marmoset to the pent house parties. The mar- moset is carried under the right arm, carefuliy wrapped in a silk handkerchief. * oe OK Meeting both the Countess and the marmoset for the first time at Fay Marbe’s roof-top tea the other after- noon, your correspondent comment- ed: “Oh, look what the depression has done to Tarzan!” Whereupon, being provided with a parachute on the 28th floor of the St. Moritz,.he was asked whether he j Preferred to jump off or be pushed. xe OK Baum, of “Grand Hotel” fame, who happened to be nearby, i suggested a compromise. Mme. Baum thought an easier death might re- sult from setting up a soap box in mid-Broadway to harangue against Greta Garbo. eee | Meet Mr. Halliburton Richard Halliburton who has {merely to swim across Mt. Everest a jcouple of times before running out Vicki By William diagnos: No reply can be made to qui THE EARMARKS OF A GOOD DOCTOR : On general ethical principals it is clearly the duty of the medical pro- fession everywhere to make it easy for a str er to find a reputabie physician when there is need of one. Roosevelt victory should bring recog-| But owing to poor organization and} the lack of leadership the medical profession fails in this duty to the public in most large communities. Here and there the local medical society maintains a central office or information bureau, where anybody may call or telephone to ask for the name and office address of a reliable physician or even for a_ specialist. This plan prov atisfactory in the smaller towns. the larger cities it is not so satisfactory, for various Teasons—too man; sicians, too wide an area. Howev in some large cities several such bureaus are main- tained in different sections of the no service at all. In the largest cities it is coming to be the custom of the profession to publish in the local newspapers from time to time a complete list of members of the local medical society. Of course it does not follow that a doctor is a good doctor or even reli- able just because he happens to hold membership in a medical society, but still if a stranger chooses a doctor who is vouched for, as to his pro- fessional standing, by the local aca- demy of medicine or county medical society the chances are that the doc- tor is okeh. Suppose a stranger in town sudden- ly requires medical aid. A casual ac- quaintance suggests Dr. John Doe. Doe may be all right or he may be all wrong. The only way to check on Doe is to look in the telephone direc- tory for the office of the county me- dical society of the academy of medi- cine, and ask whether Dr. John Doe, of such and such address, is a mem- went off the gold standard last year? 10 To accomplish. 11 Carpet. 12 Inlet. 13 Plural ter- mination. 15 To soak flax 16 Giant king of YI IGE JEISIE] IN} city, and this is at least better than | ry rf] P li . ° | ; olitical Question . a HORIZONTAL __ Answer to Previous Puzzle is taken. | 1 Percolates 10 Who are in i slowly. control of the j e A U S. House of 7 What impor. Representa- tant country tives? tion law? 18 Postecribt, SL Before Ohriee BLE as. 22To dwarf. 19 Old ship's 32 To undervalue. 52 Within. 23 Those that sue, clock. 33 Dye. 53 Strong current. 24 writer's mark 21To accumulate. 34 Metal. BS Paclls. 26 Manifest. 23Membranous 36 Desiccated. VERTICAL 28 To total. bag. 87Lyrelike ine 1 Cozy. 29 Boy. 25 Nymph of strument. 2Embryo bird. 35 Genus of Mohammedan 39To partake of. 3 Deity. shrubs. . Paradise. 41 Drunkard. 4 Nominal 38 Rowing. 27To swallow 42 Spot. value. 40To eject. without chew. 43 Eye tumor. 5 To clip. 42 Delivered. ing. 44 Mother, 6 Sum. 45 Acidity 28 Pertaining to 46 Myself. 7God of love. 46 Divers. the ear. 47 Stick. 8 Crash. 50 Before. 80 Vessel carry- 48 Senior. 9Place from 51 To marry, ing blood. 49 Frozen water. which the jury 54 Sun god. vt | | | i TN a PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease . or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, self- ed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in ‘ies not conforming to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. signal standing. This may seem ex- cess of precaution, but in some cities yuackery and crookery run rampant and little reliance can be placed on the significance of the title of “Doc- tor.” Legislatures have perpetrated so many trick laws about the piratical use of this title that it doesn't mean anything now. The laity at present is in the same position as was the | lady who hailed the piano tuner as he passed on his way to pay a call 'next door, and had him examine her | knee and give his opinion of it. The little long black bag is as insignifi- cant as the title “Doctor.” H issues a bulletin advising people to! BEWARE OF | The doctor who advertises his methods or “cures.” The doctor who puts big sign- boards outside his office. The doctor who claims that he can cure serious diseases easily and quickly. | The traveling doctor who moves from town to town. The doctor or group of doc- tors who have discovered some new “cure” that other physicians do not know about. No great discovery of science is kept secret. The alleged health center where a “barker” is kept on the block, | giving free lectures on health. When in doubt consult your city! health department. That last recom- | mendation may apply in Los Angeles but the city health department in! most towns is not equipped to give; such service. | | | | i QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A Little Lesson in Ways of Health | Want to tell you what a boon your Little Lesson No. 25 has proved .. .; I have had more relief from the old! lenemy than I had believed possible. 14 Arrangement in an orderly sequence. 15 Hares. 17 Putrefying corpse. 20 What country recently modi- fied its prohibi- ALTE] ABAISHT PI GIAITITIY] I am most grateful to you ... (J. G. K. Answer—The booklet, “The Con- stipation Habit” is available to any reader who (1) says he has the habit, (2) encloses a dime and (3) a 3-cent stamped envelope bearing his ad-| dress. Do you believe helpful in the treatment of . . . About| how long does it take to overcome the trouble with this yeast? 'ber or a physician of good profes-| any possibility of harmful effects... Hypothetical Question W@W. R.) Answer—I__ cannot r questions. This is a personal health | burton occupies a suite near the roof- ce. ser Is it true that cocoa and chocolate | poisonous | With his latest airplane exploits in drug practically identical with caf- feine, which causes nervous irritabil-; ity, sleeplessness, etc? contain answer si your company secks yeast is Is_ there of brave deeds, originated many of ithe stunts about which he has since | written and lectured while he was a lad in Memphis, Tenn. There the elder Halliburtons still j live, a quiet old counle who have done most of their traveling on tea-table maps. Once Halliburton, Sr., accom- panied his adventure-seeking son on a trip over the old Cortez trail. Dick jSays that both parents were ardent geography students and long before |he had seen the city limits of Mem- |phis, he had made optical tours into the Persian desert. Returned a few days ago from his uch | latest magic carpet renovation, Halli- my|top of a Lexington Avenue hotel. He ion of its preparation, it will cost|does most of his writing on Long you something. Cocoa and Chocolate theobromine, a (L. FP.) {Island, at the summer residences of { friends. Of the many incidents connected | Africa and an unsuccessful effort to fly over Everest, Halliburton consid- ers the most amusing an effort to Answer—It is true that chocolate | introduce flying to Persian royalty. and cocoa contain theobromin, but Dick received a request to take two all the rest of it is absurdly exa: gerated.* Theobromin has virtually | agreed. But when they arr: Persian princesses on a flight. He ‘d, their It]ground. He had i is partly on account of its stimula-| taking them up one a time. tion of the kidneys that I deem cocoa * * or chocolate unsuitable beverages for to compromise by another occasion, Halliburton artea the experience of taking a Dyak headhunter on his first flight. ‘The aboriginal chieftain was fright- ened into prayer by the very sight of the plane. However, a phonograph was produced and its magic possibil- ities established. Then some rice wine appeared and the Dyak was plied with it until he felt careless. Away they flew! ‘ * Which reminds me that in the Fifties there is a taxi-driver who is official Jehu to a certain speakeasy frequented largely by writers and artists. While waiting for fares, the driver is asked to read the most recent manuscripts of a number of authors. | On several occasions, his judgment has been just short of perfect. “Reg- ulars” who run out of money borrow from him and “cuff” their transport- ation. They invariably repay him. For more than a year this driver has had no other port of call and notables who have been imbibing wait for him, knowing they will be seen safely home. pt TODAY 4 NAWERSARY Seine’ of eke BOLSHEVIKS ROUTED On July 5, 1918, Czecho-Slovakian | forces encountered the Bolshevist army in the region of Irkutsk and; the Russians went down to defeat.| On the same day a mixed force of Bolsheviki and Austro-German pri-| soners was put to route and the! Czechs marched on to occupy Niko- | layevsk, a naval station on the Amur} river. British air forces attacked Co- blenz and Saarbrucken on this day and scored a complete victory over Germans, causing much damage in both cities. On the Western front Germans staged counter-attacks at Hamel, but were repulsed. Allied activity in- creased along the entire front, spur- red on by the success of the past few days. we i) The Rumanian senate ratified the treaty of peace with the central pow- ers that had been ratified by the German reichstag on July 3. i would their incomes .. . It is up to cotigrest to do something.—Wil- liam Geen, president, American Federation of ‘Labor. * * * It is not the state tax that means so much. It is the county and dis- trict and municipal taxes that are loading the people down beyond en- durance.—Senator Huey Long of Louisiana, ee # No other nation on earth but our- selves would allow so important a possession to be completely dominat- ed by a native population, when it is realized that the very life of our nation might some day depend upon a military campaign around those islands. (The Hawatian.)—Congress- man Fred A. Britten of Illinois. x # % Washington didn’t get into a row with his Congress except on rare oc- casions, but when he did, Congress knew it—Governor Franklin D. presidential nomination. * * * There are three roads before you. The center one is straight ahead, following out American principles. On the right is that of military despot- ism, ruled by capitalism and wealth. To the left is a dictatorship of the proletariat—Governor Wm. H. “Alf- alfa Bill’ Murray of Oklahoma. STICKERS AFINOPPRRTV Hidden m the above letters are the ab- breviations for a state, a month, a title and a measure. See how quickly you can pick them out. j FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: 1. 5, PAT. OFF. oN It is time for the New York legis- | lative committee and their counsel} (Seabury) to stop talking and do something.—Gov. Franklin D, Roose- | velt of New York. ' ee * | One-fifth of those normally earn-j no effect on the cerebrum, or on the}combined weight was sufficient to|ing incomes by work are prevented i The health officer of Los Angeles! nerves, but is a mild heart stimulant | keep his craft from safely leaving the from producing the wealth that’ The well-trained hotel clerk registers his guests in the book and nothing on his face. newspaper rep, vantage of Leap Year, asks to marry her. ‘They are marricd and for the first «i ft means to Ia at y. Her s &les with housework are discours f movie critic of the News, ix friendly with D aging. SHANNON, Cherry. She meets handsome PE News. Is with her father about eaves home and, taking ad- RSON, who also works on the I mean do you think he might be able to write short stories or a novel? Dan says there isn’t any future for him in reporting. He wants to write for magazines— maybe books. Do you think he can do it? I don't mean right away but some time. Do you think he can do it if he works hard?” o2e HE cigaret was glowing now. Pearson exhaled a cloud of smoke before he answered. Dan what truge MAX Cherry receives a letter from $500. "She returns the cheek, hee | “That's a diflcult question,” he cause pride will not let her it. suicide and is taken to nh tal, Cherry sends the girl flowers and while down A young woman living in the aame apartment building attempts keep | told her. “Hard to say. Practically joxpl- nome town try—woman too—is sure that he or every newspaper man in the coun-| } “There's something I'd I!ke to ask meets Pearson who Invites her to luncheon, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXIV M** PEARSON | studied the} menu. “Like scallops?” he | asked. “All the sea food is very! good here.” How handsome he looked today. Cherry, meeting Pearson's eyes, glanced down again quickly at the card before her. “T’ll have the shrimp patty,” she said, “and watercress salad. Coffee later.” They were in a restaurant new to Cherry. It was an aitractive place, obviously more expensive than the establishments she and Dan had “patronized. Pearson seemed thoroughly at home there. The waiter who took the order greeted him as an ac- quaintance of long standing. “Now then,” Max said when the question of food had been settled, “tell me what you've been doing?” “Just the usual things. Trying to remember to salt the potatoes and how to open a can without cut- ting myself. I’m still one of the world's worst cooks!” “You are—" Pearson began and then checked himself. He did not finish the sentence but said, “Where's that waiter? 1 want him to bring some matches.” He began talking of the office and Cherry was interested. The sense of wariness—the feeling that she must be on her guard with Pearson—teft her. She told Max about the kitten and he seemed amused at her de- ac-iption, Somehow Dan’s name entered the conversation. Cherry had a sudden inspiration. She leaned forward, you,” she said, “I've wanted to talk I believe you're the person.” “Fire away!” match to the tip of his cigaret, His eyes, intent om the flame, did not |can novel, All they need is a little | to someone about ft for a long time. | Pearson was holding a lighted) she can turn out the great Ameri-| time. A chance to get away from | the grind and write. They keep talking about it for years but some- | how few of them ever get anything done. Oh, I'm not saying all this about Dan, understand! I'm talking about the great majority. You see, writing is hard work. I know be- ‘cause I’ve sold a few things my- self.” | He mentioned a couple of essays | that had appeared in a magazine | of high literary standing. “They’d take more too,” he went on, “but I just can’t seem to get to work. Lazy, I guess.” “But about Dan—” Cherry per- sisted. “He's clever,” Pearson went on, “Dan’s written some swell news stories, Has an original way of putting things. I don’t honestly know if he’d be any good at fiction, though. I didn't know ‘he'd ever tried it. The only way to find out it he can make the grade fs to try. He'll have to be willing to work!” “Then,” said Cherry slowly, “that will have to be my part. To help him work.” “It’s discouraging business,” Pear: warned, “Even the most successful authors get lots of their manuscripts back. When you're be- ginning you have to expect rejec- tions.” . The girl nodded. “I suppose 80,” she agreed. “I suppose so.” There was quiet between them interrupted by the appearance of the waiter. He placed ices before them and poured the coffee. “Look here,” sald Pearson brisk- ly when they were alone again, “I’ve just had an idea. Didn’t Dan say the other evening that you like to drive a car?” Cherry smiled. “I love it!” “Then here's my {dea, That bus of mine stands in the garage more than half the time. I never use ft | during the day except on Wednes- days. That's my day off from the office. I'll tell them at the garage they’re to let you have it whenever you want it,” “Oh, but I couldn’t—!” “It's about Dan,” the girl went on earnestly. “I want to know it you, think he can jwrite. I don’t mean just things for newspapers. “Couldn't what? You could cer- tainly drive it, and there isn’t a Teason in the world why you | LEAP YEAR BRIDE sizes | friends, as you know. I'm sure he'd like to have you get out more.” “It's awfully kind of you,” Cherry “It isn’t that. I mean—well, I) don’t think I should.” I | “Oh, so you're the sort of girl | who thinks appearances are more| important than anything else? Well, what's wrong about you driving my car?” | What indeed? Somehow Cherry |a couldn't answer the argument. Pearson had just given her a de- licious lunch. She could not offend him. “I'll do. it," she agreed. | certainly very kind of you.” | eee | E told her the name of tho ga-| rage and where it was located. “One of the boys will drive the car out for yow” he assured her, “They're darned obliging. That's the reason I keep it there. How} about using it this afternoon?” She told him she could not. She had left the apartment in a hurry and there were a dozen things to be done. Suddenly she thought of the kitten. “Poor little Pinky,” she ex- claimed. “He'll be starved. Oh, I'll have to go right away!” Pearson looked at his watch. “Time for me to be getting back, too,” he agreed, They walked down the street a block together. Cherry thanked him for the luncheon and said good- by. She was amiling as she boarded the street car, “I was wrong about Max Pear. son,” she told herself. “He only wants to be friendly and helpful. Oh, it’s going to be wonderful to have a car to drive again!” True to prediction, Pinky was feeling neglected when Cherry ar- rived home. He came running to- ward her on his slightly unstable legs, meowing as loudly as his little lungs would allow. Cherry picked him up, filled a saucer with milk and watched the kitten’s clumsy efforts to drink the milk and at the same time wade in it, She told Dan that evening about lunching with Pearson and about his offer to loan her the roadster. “Darned nice of him!” Dan told her, “Didn’t I say Max fs a prince?” “But do you really think I should, Dan?” “Why not? Max would be hurt if you refused. Of course it's all right.” Cherry was silent for a minute. Then she said, “He told me some- thing else today. Max thinks you can write. I mean short stories— or a novel maybe.” “Did Max say that?” Cherry nodded eagerly. “It's— “I've been thinking about it all afternoon and I'm going to help by having everything out of the way 80 you can get to work as soon as dinner is finished. I won't let anyone in- shouldn't. Dan's one of my best ©1p32 by Mea somes me. “Hey, wait a minute—wait a min- ute! said, “but I really can't.” fore a typewriter tonight. I'm “You mean you don’t want to?”| tired! Even if I did I couldn't | Obviously he was hurt. write anything worth while. Hon- estly, Cherry, I can’t do it tonight! to write there has to be a begin. ning.” such a slave driver! only that I wanted to help,” she told him, helping some other time!” Phillips protested with a groan, I don’t want to sit down be- tell you I’m all in.” “But, Dan, if you're ever going “Say—I didn’t kpow you were What kind of frameup is this, anyhow?” Cherry was disappointed. “It’s “Then you'll have to do your cee HE Went out a little later saying he had “promised to call one of the boys.” It was 10 o'clock before he returned. The next evening Dixie dropped in and they played three-handed bridge. The night fol- lowing Dan had an evening assign- ment. It began to look to Cherry as though her husband's literary ca- reer was a long way distant. Then there came a Sunday—the second in June—when the drizzling rain that had begun in the morning set- tled to a continuous downpour, Dan was home for the day. He had changed his working hours and now spent Sundays with Cherry, Clad in an old bathrobe he sat at the typewriter and began to bang the keys. For almost three hours he worked steadily. Then, with a loud ex- clamation, he slumped back in his chair, “What's the use?” Dan demanded, “I can’t write anything. This stuff is terrible! It's—oh, it's a mess!” Cherry crossed the room. “Can T read it?” she asked. “If you want to. I don’t care what you do with it so long as I don’t have to see it again!” Cherry read the manuscript. It was little more than a character sketch, a conversation between a taxidriver and a lunch counter at- tendant in @ cheap, open-all-night place. Gus, the driver, had opinions | on many subjects and seemed to be something of a hero to his friend, Their conversation was terse, col- loguial, and much of it Cherry could not understand. There were vague allusions to underworld ac- tivities, “But, Dan!” Cherry exclaimed, “this. is interesting! Why didn't you finish it? I want to know the rest!” Phillips appeared tn the doorway, made a gesture of disdain. “Oh, T'm sick of the thing. Tear it up!” Cherry folded the sheets hurried- \ly and put them away, There was no more writing that day or the next, Late Wednesday afternoon Cherry ;¥as summoned downstairs, She jeried out at sight of the man who | Was waiting in the hallway. terrupt. You can begin tonight—” (To Be Continocd) Roosevelt, candidate for Democratic prs 4 mo he w « er : ¢ t + on |