The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 19, 1932, Page 4

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(Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER (incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Don’t Count Your Chickens ‘The St. Lawrence waterway treaty was concluded Monday, thereby bringing joy to the land-locked states to which it will prove a boon. Duluth, enjoying visions of becom- ing a real metropolis when the pro- ject is finished, plans a civic cele- bration. The note is one of hope and optimism which is especially welcome now. After all, the world does move and there still is such a thing as progress. It is just as well, however, not to count our chickens too soon. ‘The waterway treaty must pass the senate of the United States, as all pacts relating to foreign affairs must. It also must be ratified by the Canadian parliament. Of the two hurdles the latter ap- pears more formidable. New York City has been opposed to the St. Lawrence project because it would take an immense amount of traffic away from the port of New York. But Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Toledo, Duluth and scores of other cities, all large and all important, want it. Add them to the great farming area whose citizens want the seaway and it is difficult to see how the obstructionists can control the senate. A senator from anywhere west of Ohio and North of Arkansas who voted against the treaty would, in effect, be signing his own politi- cal death warrant. But in Canada the margin is not quite so large. Quebec, oldest and most populous of the provinces, is bitterly opposed to the seaway. It would seriously diminish the com- mercial importance of Montreal, its biggest city. At present, ocean ship- ments go through the smaller canals already in existence and are trans- ferred to ocean-going ships at Mon- treal. With the seaway in existence they would sail by without stopping. And so Quebec will strive desperately to defeat ratification by the parlia- ment at Ottawa. Its chances of suc- cess are bolstered by the compara- tive lack of population in the prairie provinces. There is every sign of success and every cause for hope but it may be that a celebration now is a trifle pre- mature. Much as we might prefer to ignore it, we must continue to keep the opposition to this project in mind. We must not relax our vig- ilance or diminish our efforts to ob- tain early action on this side of the border. It is to be hoped that our Canadian brothers living outside of Quebec will take a similar attitude. They Know Not Joseph One of the significant things about the present political situation which seems to have been pretty generally overlooked, is the large number of voters who are comparatively young and who are investigating political matters for the first time this year. This applies not only to those who will cast a vote for president for the first time but to a great many others who have taken politics in their stride in the past. To put it baldly, and regardless of Political affiliation, the American public didn’t take its politics very seriously in the halcyon days when everything was looking up. What thought, if any, was behind the overwhelming election of Coolidge in 1924 despite the expose of graft just beside him in the Harding tration? What, if you can recall, was the issue in the campaign of 1928 when Hoover was elected by such a handsome majority? ‘What does the average young voter know about such things as the tar- iff, the money standard, trusts, the high cost of living and similar things in their political aspects? THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1932 FOLLOWING CONGRESS (An Editorial) Information compiled by The Tribune indicates that the Bis- marck city commission, in balancing its budget for the coming year, has patterned after congress. That body, it will be recalled, added a mountain to the tax burden and subtracted a mole from the expenditures, The comparison is engendered by an investigation into the per- sonal property valuations of many Bismarck business enterprises as certified by the city commission, sitting as a board of tax equal- ization, to the county commissioners. Forty eight Bismarck firms this year will pay additional taxes on $68,167 in increased personal Property valuation as a result of the commission's action. The average is roughly $1,045 each and in some individual cases the increase was $15,000. Either the average Bismarck business is increasing its invest- ment in merchandise, equipment, machinery, etc., or the increase represents an arbitrary tax-uppin; ig by the commissioners in order to meet the expenses of carrying on the city government. The information came to light erty valuations assessed against it in analysis of the personal prop- 52 representative Bismarck firms, including most of the big ones. Four of those, for some reason con- nected with their businesses or some other reason not explained, were left where they were in 1931. The other 48 were raised. Whether this tendency extended to the personal property valua- tions of private citizens would be shown by a more extended in- quiry. Everyone could tell if he were included in the list, how- ever, by examining his own valuation and comparing it with that of a year ago. So far as can be determined, the increases were made without notification to any of the taxpayers who thereby are required to assume an increased share of Under the law, boosts in real esta! the cost of the city’s operation. te valuations must be accompanied by notice of the fact to the taxpayer, who has a right to protest. It may be that this safeguard turned the city commissioners, in their quest for revenue, to the personal property tax list. The Tribune prints these facts regarding increases in the per- sonal property valuations in order that it may fulfill its function as @ newspaper, which is to inform the people regarding matters affect- ing their interests. It expresses no opinion as to whether these in- creases were legitimate and proper or an effort to increase the revenue in order to maintain the city government on substantially the same scale as in the past. It is only fair to say that the city commissioners have not been asked for comment or explanation of this situation, but the facts presented here are declared substantially unassailable. We do assert that an explanation is due to the taxpayers as to the reason for this tendency, just as we assert that the city budget, offered in The Tribune's be enlarged upon and explained. for this purpose. news columns last Friday, should The Tribune's columns are open ‘We also say again, as we already have said many times, that the People are entitled to full knowledge of their own affairs and that Public business is the people's business, its full share in giving complete lies one of the obvious roads to prog- ress. The fact that a man uses pleasant words in making a speech, that he is a good story teller and smites the enemy strongly may prove less valu- able this year than it has in the {past. The people will want to know what the issues are and what the candidate proposes to do about them. The feeling of indifference which has mazced the electorate during the last two presidential campaigns has vanished. In its place is an active interest, a compelling demand for constructive action. The younger generation of voters may be in similar position to those Egyptians who wondered why their ifathers dealt so kindly with the Israelites and who came to the point where “they knew not Joseph.” Old Political gods have fallen or are tot- tering. They need new explanation and new coats of gilt if they are to command the idolatry which they knew in the recent past. 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. Plenty of Flour, But No Bread (Minneapolis Tribune) Much has been written about the painful paradox of want amid plenty which this country exhibits. That there has been ample justification for |this comment, no one will deny, but what is perhaps one of the most {striking examples of maldistribution jhas been reserved for Minneapolis. With some 30,000 sacks of flour on its hands, the public relief department. of the city is wondering what can be done with it, since it finds little call for the flour. It is not because there are no families in Minneapolis who could not find use for a few loaves of bread, nor because there are none which are not receiving money from relief agencies with which to buy bread, that this flour, donated by the government and dis- tributed by the Red Cross, goes beg- ging. It is because the people who need the bread, a good many of them at least, are said by the relief agencies not to be able to convert the flour into bread, as they do not know how to bake. That seems hard to believe, yet it is the only explana- tion being offered. The reason for its disuse is not as important as the fact that no par- ticular effort has so far been made to utilize so large a portion of the flour. The problem of distributing the flour to the people who need and would use it is undeniably made more difficult because it is only a sup- plemental aid, but that it should not be possible to find homes in Min- neapolis that could make good use of it is difficult to imagine. That an effort is now to be made to reach the needy with the flour is indeed com- mendable, for certainly it should not be hard to exchange the flour for bread and enable the city to dis- tribute bread as it was needed. More valuable, perhaps, would be the may- Or’s suggestion to make it easier for the families to use the flour by dis- tributing simple recipes and provid- ing homes that lack them with the needed facilities for baking. The difficulty which Minneapolis has encountered in handling this government-provided flour is prob- ably not peculiar to this city alone. The situation as it is exhibited here indicates more clearly than anything They were discussed occasionally! else how much our whole program of to be sure, just as the farm problem relief is in need of greater co-ordina- ‘was discussed, but there has been ———__. MAY CHECK CANCER New York—A possible check for cancerous growths has been discov- —- The Tribune is willing to do information to the public. New York, July 19.—The tired busi- ness man goes to the seashore this summer, There, for considerably less than the $6.60 per seat he once paid for “one on the aisle,” he may ob- Serve innumerable sirens who need no Ziegfeld to glorify them. Na- ture beat Flo to it by many years. * 4% % Broadway has abandoned its most |mentioned customer at a time when he is caught between the depression and the deep blue sea. There are no undraped chorines, save those known to the burleycue world as “strippers.” Nor can the big street remember when some White, some Carroll, some Ziggy, some anony- mous fellow had no summer revue to offer. _The four music show hits to sur- vive the market and the humidity are as polite as a wooer on his first visit. “The Cat and the Fiddle,” oldest of the season's crop, offers music, song and pleasantly light love. “Show Boat” offers costumes of Civil War vintage plus super-class; “Of Thee I Sing” offers national travesty with love elevated to a campaign is- sue; “Face the Music” jests at the political intriguery in New York and the economic conditions, xe % Meanwhile Carroll is rumored wandering about frequently in the company of a widow who may turn out to be an “angel”; Ziegfeld has been seriously ill and White has been trying to make up his mind what to do next. xe % MOANIN’ LOW Somehow the strains of “Moanin’ Low” keep echoing through the news {of Smith Reynolds’ tragic death. Libby Holman, who rose to star- dom with her “moanin’” number, finds herself in a scene where no curtain can be drawn to separate an audience from a disturbing stage un- reality. Her boyish, millionaire hus- band lies dead on the balcony of his Carolina estate. She is prostrate on the floor, Thus she was in the world of make-believe when Clifton Webb, with whom she was acting, walked from the dim lit stage. To be sure, the theater Setting was an Apache sort of den. Webb was her “man” and hers was the role of a desper- ately devoted wanton. In the “end” the man has robbed her of her night's earnings and gone upon his way. The curtain descends with the mocking rhyme: “Moaning low, my sweet man I love you so—” She is prostrate. Quite different that other scene. Yet, early in the morning the bal- cony death place was half-illumi- nated. And there she was found, Protrate besides the husband of a few brief months— Somehow, as one who goes about in the make-believe world of the theaters, one expects an orchestra to crash into the final strains of a blues tune and the curtain to descend. But, of course, it doesn’t! * & & “PROPS” FOR CHOPS Taking a hint from the hungry Village artists who sold their painted wares in Washington Square, Broad- way now peddles the stage props used by eminent actors. The money thus received goes to the Actors’ Din- ner Club, which seeks to feed the jobless performer. _ The other day, ‘at such a sale, I noted the red-stained handkerchief used by Walter Hampden in the last act of “Cyrano.” It was, I learned, Joaned by Katherine Warren, who, if I recall, played Roxanne. There was the cigar case that Dan Frohman used in many @ scene. They key to @ room in “Grand Hotel” had been sent in by Sam Jaffe, the original Kringelein. Or, to continue; a belt worn by Paul Whiteman in the days before ‘he became an almost perfect 48; a make-up mirror used by Dorothy Stickney in her first hit; a sketch of a stage scene from the pen of [Alfred Johnson; the dressing Far From the M adding Crowd! Katy, .) y gs By William PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to discase diagnosis, or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, self- addressed envelope is enclosed. ink. THE CHILDREN LIKE IT Today came a letter that tells the whole story about the diathermy method of extirpating tonsils. I hope medical readers who are still advising or using the old Spanish method ex- clusively will sce this letter and per- haps the light. Dear Dr. Brady: I want to thank you for telling my mother about Dr. and diathermy. I am seven years old and it is just three years ago to- day I had my tonsils cut out. Just a few weeks ago Dr. finish- ed my tonsils. But I like to have it done by diathermy much better than surgically. Sincerely yours, Roderick Along with Roderick’s letter came one from his mother who says Roderick wrote me without prompting or sug: gestion from her, as a genuine pression of his appreciation of dia- thermy. She explains that the same doctor has removed her tonsils by diathermy as well as fragments of tonsil from the throats of her two sons, who had undergone the radical operation three years ago. The diathermy method is becoming increasingly popular for the clearing up of tags and fragments of tonsil left in the throat after the standard ton- sillectomy. Pretty tough to break the news to such patients that they must have another operation to clean up odds and ends left by the first opera- tion. Even the brass throat specialists haven't the nerve to maintain that bloody surgery is the only satisfactory method in such circumstances. Roderick shows his good sense in preferring the diathermy method to the old Spanish custom. Who wouldn't? Only the goof who doesn’t know about modern developments in} surgery. Diathermy extirpation of the tonsils is surgery, of course. Beware of any shyster who pretends it isn’t. And be- ware of the medical and non-medical quacks who canvass the public for business on the plea that they use sothe method I happen to have rec- ommended in this column. No one can claim to have my endorsement for himself or his method, not with my knowledge or consent. I have been compelled to take action to stop cer- tain disreputable persons from such illegal use of my name. In this tonsil treatment or any other treatment I suggest, it is of first importance to be sure the physician is one of good standing. do with one whose professional stand- ing is obscure or bad, you do so at your own peril. In no case do I ever mame a physician or specialist for anybody, unless I know or have good reason to believe the doctor's profes- sional reputation is good. The doctor I recommended to Rod. ericks mother is an ideal physician, even if he is a... oh, well, some of our dumb readers can’t take a joke. gown | were It just happened that he is near Rod- erick’s home. I have seen him at work with diathermy on rich and poor, mostly poor, and I believe that even if he used the old Spanish method on Roderick the patient would still feel as he does toward his doctor. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Peroxide. ‘Will peroxide harm the scalp when used in bleaching the hair? (Miss W.) Answer—No. Cross Eye. Son aged 6 months seems a little cross-eyed when he looks straight ahead. Can cross eyes be straight- ened? If so, by operation or by wear- ing glasses? (Mrs. W. B.) Answer—Usually by suitable glasses. Cod Liver Oil. A says it is fattening. B says it is not fattening. (W. F. F.) Answer—It has the same food value as butter. Morphin by Hypo 1. Do you know anything about Twilight Sleep used in maternity cases in hospital? 2. Give the ex- planation of it. (Mrs. G. W. S.) Answer—So-called “twilight sleep” is amnesia produced by hypodermic in- Jections of morphin and scopolamin worn by Alfred Lunt when he played in “Caprice”; a cape once worn by E. Many of the actors for whom the sale was held had, ironically enough, appeared in plays where the props If you have anything to! Letters should be brief and written in No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. (the same drugs used to benumb the senses of persons about to be operated on or executed, and the same drugs jused in so-called “truth serum” to pro- cure evidence where a suspected per- son is concealing guilty knowledge). On general principles I'd give an in- stitution a wide berth if it bids for patronage with such bait. Mustard on Chest. Is a mustard plaster on the chest beneficial in cases of bronchitis with wheeziness? How does it act? (L. C.) Answer—Yes, a well made paste of, say, one part mustard flour and three or four parts white flour mixed with tepid water, spreading on muslin, and applied to the chest, is beneficial where there is acute inflammation. It acts as a counter-irritant. It should be removed as soon as the skin under it reddens up, perhaps in 15 to 30 minutes. TODAY HT 1S THE Wi ANNIVERSARY | a) 11,000 PRISONERS TAKEN On July 19, 1918, American and French forces continued their drive between the Aisne and Marne rivers with great success. They announced that more than 17,000 German pris- oners had been taken and that 360 heavy guns had been captured. German newspapers admitted the seriousness of the defeat suffered only three days after the beginning {of what began as a major German |offensive effort. | French troops also made important {offering shelter for 528,000 families. | gains near Rheims and British forces 2 stormed Meteran after a day of hard Barbs | fee | ee fost significant factor in the & The most week’s fighting was that the Ger-| A scientist observes that a but- mans were everywhere on the defens-|terfly eats almost nothing. That ive, for the first time since the be-| 41 depends on what kind of a but- ginning of the year. terfly he means, * *k * 3 > Automobile manufacturers say they never know how a new car hea will strike the man in the street. c Plenty hard, we would say. 5 * * & ied iN ee A Chicago musician observes th=% | e nothing pleases a girl so much as a big brass band. Unless it’s a platin- In war days the value of the human | um-inset-with-diamonds one, of body was estimated at corey 98 ee course. Pie te but I suppose, at present low ices, " we are worth about 67 cents—Dr. Many of our movie stars were C. H. Mayo of Rochester, Minn. so worried over prospective sal- * % ary cuts that their hafr turn % - This is a time for bold proposals.] platinum over night. e : ‘The United States has encouraged us * oe ¢ to believe it will co-operate in some| Another good old American custom of the wider problems and join us in| has gone by the boards. With several devising a policy for the encourage- | colleges announcing that they will not ment of trade and the enrichment of eta = atin Lees wo ao Be —Ram: Mac! ld, British | W' come ‘Sit al bet orem ad pss the radio on Saturday afternoons and 3 eee wonder what is actually happening on ‘The Lindbergh case brought out all/the gridiron. gave the opportunity to some to dis- STI Cc K - Pp KY CDLGBFHSO° play the weakness and wickedness of human nature —Judge James M. Por- ter, in sentencing Gaston B. Means in the McClean-Lindbergh fraud case. * * A price system and scientific pro- duction cannot exist side by side. The social system of the future must be ~ If you combine three of the above let- adjusted to energy-producing values. soe ts die order, they will be the —Howard Scott, technologist. Liat nee Arsiretate has ean te eel: 1 | formed by putung, one at a time, the The political picture is still in the ‘ctor Setters tn frees of then, making. After it is completed, I may comment on it—Alfred E, Smith, Democratic nominee for the presi- dency in 1928. 4 * e & FLAPPER. FANNY; SAYS: Under municipal government we REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. have a political despotism, controlled by political organizations whose fixed purpose is to commercialize the pro- cesses Of government.—Samuel Sea- bury, counsel for Hofstadter inves- tigating committee, New York. * # *& Congress might as well quit and go} home. It is fiddling away while our people face hunger.—Mayor Anton J.) Cermak of Chicago. i * ee Party planks are like the steps of a railroad coach, They are used to get in by, but not to stand on—F. Scott McBride, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League. e4¢ @ We have (in New York) a heritage of over 67,000 old-law buildings; These buildings have outlived eco- nomic justification and offer a chal- lenge to the social conscience of the community that sustains them.—An- nual report of the State Board of Housing, New York. * * * There are many honest brokers, but they are helpless against other brokers and bankers and men of great wealth—Miss Grace Van A defeated candidate feels like Bramm Roberts, shorn Wall Street| a turtle in a seafood restaurant— “lamb.” * only a shell of his former self. BEGIN HERE TODAY OHERRY DIXON, pretty 19. yenr-old daughter of wealthy par. LIPS, newspaper reporter. quarrels with her father abou Dan and_ then, her. for the first time finds what means to lack money. a cheap apartment and her strug. Gles with housework are discour. aging. DIXIE SHANNON, with Cherry. MAX PEARSON, also on the New: After several weeks Cher: girl ts called home and there fi Feconcilintion with her parent but pride will not allow her to ae. cept financial nid from When MRS. DIXON is stronge! “UTENSIL POE she and her husband leave for sev. eral months at the seashore. a swimming party at a nearby re- sort. Dan is delayed atarts with Pearson, A are waiting for It to pass he tell her he loves her, avoids Pearson, BRENDA VAIL, magazine writ. to Wellington, meets her and she aski collaborate with her o because he can supply tion she does not have. Dan ti delighted but when Cherry meet Miss Vail she does not like her, CHAPTER XXXVI the typewriter. even written half a page!” ment, A lamp made of a Chine: nated the young man’s face. Brenda Vail turned. against the casement. It was Vail very well knew. Her figui pajamas. of gold brocade, “What is the use?” she said. have told you that when I am o1 I am tired. My head aches. weren't feeling well, away long ago.” He arose but the woman put o: 8 hand to stop him. “No,” she said. “Don’t go. head will feel better. ious to have the work finished you are. A little rest and perbi rT ble to get at it again.” She sank to the : ents, falls in love with DAN PHIL- She | ing advantage of Leap Year, asks Dan to marry ‘They are married and Cherry ‘They take movie critic of the News, ts friendly She meets handsome mother becomes acriously ill. The a them. Cherry and Dan are Invited to and Cherry storm overtakes them and while they They finally reach home but after that Cherry NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY DD‘ PHILLIPS looked up from “We've been at this thing for two hours, Bren- da,” he complained, “and I haven't The typewriter table stood a few feet from the davenport in the liv- ing room of Brenda Vail’s apart- vase with a taffeta shade illumi- She had been standing before the open win- dow and now she rested one hand pose that was becoming as Brenda was silhouetted against the black sky. She wore her favorite costume They were made with trousers of black velvet and a tunic Miss Vail shrugged impatiently. of the mood I simply can not work. This trying to build up action, to plan entrances and exits—oh, it is mad- dening!” “I’m sorry!” Phillips’ tone was apologetic, “I didn’t know you It’s only that you know we promised ourselves we'd have the first act done this week. You should have sent me Stay here and talk to me and maybe the I am as anx- enport. Her i A TNT Tr Mr ORR LEAP YEAR BRID titian head was pillowed against a - |cushion of jade satin. 4 “Sit here beside me,” she went on. “You're comforting, Dan. I * |feel as though I'd known you a long while, yet what is it? Only about two weeks. Most of that time} wo've been talking about gunmen - jand gangsters and other terrible ‘= |creatures. Talk to me about some- thing else, won’t you?” He dropped to the seat beside her. “Wouldn't you rather I'd go?” he said uneasily. “If you're tired rest * |13 what you need.” = For an instant the gray-green eyes met Dan's. “If you go I'll be lonely,” Brenda Vail said softly, “And I am lonely so much of thej time!” Phillips smiled. “That's an odd thing for you to say. You have so js | many friends, Brenda. Why, you're the last person in the world I'd ex- ect to be lonely.” “You think so? Ah, then you are not as clever as I thought. Lonell- ness comes from the heart. What do you know of a woman’s heart?” “Why—why I don’t know. I don’t spend much time reading those love- lorn columns if that’s what you mean. I've always had the tdea men and women are really pretty much alike.” Miss Vail leaned her head back. “Cigaret?” she said idly. Phillips held the box for her and flicked the automatic lighter into flame. “Men and women are alike,” Brenda Vail said slowly. “And yet they are different. Each of us, I suppose, is doomed to much loneli- ness, It is only when a man or woman meets another who really understands that the loneliness is lifted. But there—I have myself for company all day. I want you to talk now.” . it se ee pears smiled. Ho looked very boyish and very attractive when he smiled. “I’m sorry, but honestly the only thing I've been thinking of for a week is this play. Do you really understand what this means for me, Brenda? Do you? Why, I'd begun to think I was sunk fm this place forever! I thought I was never to have a chance. It was the greatest piece of luck in the world for me when you came here!” She was pleased. “And I think it was luck for me, too,” she said. “Tell me—what are you planning to do if our play is a great success?” “Oh, I hadn’t thought that far ahead yet. Remember, the first act isn't finished! But I'd like to go to New York and know some of the People you've talked about. I'd like to go to the places you've told me about. That must be the life—New York with the theaters and the peo- ple who write and act and paint!” Brenda Vail put a hand on the young man’s arm. The faint odor of mimosa, heady and pungent, came to his nostrils as she moved, Te “I ut jut “You must let nothing stand in the way of your work,” she told him. “Nothing—do you under- stand? You must go to New York. You must travel. You must have (©1092 Or ia sence we. freedom and you must be with those who understand.” “I'll do anything you say,” he as- sured her eagerly. “Ah—you are a dear boy!” From a radio in a nearby apart- ment came the strains of a waltz.| “Do you think you can make a It was softly played, melodious. As| dress out of that?” the song reached the chorus the vio- eee Unist took the melody, sent it forth HE girl nodded. “Mrs. Moreau throbbing as a lover’s plea. The oi rhythm of the music caught at the Promised to help me,” she told him. “Of course 1 don’t expect it senses. The song reached its cli- max, ended on a high note, to be very beautiful but the color’s pretty. Don’t you think so? It'll do Dan looked at his watch. “Why, it’ ” it’s almost midnight!” he exclaimed. to wear around the house. Besides, I wanted to see if I could really do “I had no idea it was so late. Cherry will be sure I've been mur- it. The pattern and cloth together only cost $1.75.” dered.” “But this isn’t late!” “You're getting to be a miser,” Dan told her grinning. “Pretty “It 1s for Wellington,” Dan told her with a grin, “Anyhow, I'll have soon you'll be wanting me to wear homemade shirts and crocheted to dash along. Are we going to be neckties.” able to work tomorrow?” “I'm not sure,” Miss Vail told him. “You can telephone me at “T’'ll have to learn to crochet first, Are you hungry? Dinner’s almost ready. I can have it on the table noon.” She always spoke as though any- in 10 minutes.” “No hurry,” Dan said. “What do thing another person did for her was a favor to themselves. Some- you say We go over and pay a call on the Caseys tonight? He was how Dan admired her for it. It made her seem very sophisticated, asking last week when we could come over.” very much a part of that outer “Oh, I'd like that!” the girl said world. “T'll call you about 1 o'clock,” he eagerly. “But aren’t you going to work on the play?” promised. “And I hope you'll feel Dan shook his head. He came better in the morning.” The door closed after him. Bren- over to where Cherry stood and took her chin in his hand. “I de da Vail crossed the room with a de- termined stride, She took another cigaret from the box, lighted it and dropped comfortably to the daven-| cided to knock off for a while,” he said. “It's been a long time since we've had an evening to ourselves, You don't mind having me around, port. “He's a fool,” she said to herself, “but useful—and amusing!” do you?” “There's nothing I'd like better! It has been lonely here this last eee Cot sat on her knees sur- week but of course I know what it “ means to you to finish the play. , Veying the stretch of yellow cot- ton cloth, It was spread on the floor before her and laid on in curious | How's it going, Dan.” fashion were oddly shaped pleces| He frowned. “Not coming as fast as I hoped it would,” he said, “but of course I don’t know much about of yellow tissue paper. ff ’ There were flnes.tn. Chersys tere:| so things’ Vkuses if fou didnt have anything else to do but sit head. “Now I wonder,” she said aloud, “it that can be right?” down and write you could turn out Since there was no one to answer | plays and short stories in no time.” the question went without reply.| “Some day you'll be able to do Cherry took up the scissors and be-| that.” “Well—I hope so! This working gan to cut around the paper pat- all day on a news beat and then tern. Slowly and laboriously she cut/| trying to keep up with Brenda Vail nights isn’t so easy. Anyhow, let’s around the last bit of paper. The sections of cloth did not seem to|forget about the play tonight, I look like much but when Cherry | don't want to even think about it.” held them up she thought she be-| “Then we'll forget it!” gan to understand how they fitted| They sat down to dinner. Dan talked about a medical discovery together, She was gathering up the last of| reported in the day’s news, He mentioned the fact that Max Pear- the strips of yellow cloth when a son had been offered a new job and key sounded in the lock. Cherry scrambled to her feet, was undecided about taking it, Dan had discouraged him, “Goodness, Dan, I didn’t know it was so late!” “Maybe it’s selfish,” he explained, “but I hate to think of old Max “It doesn’t look like much to me, either,” Cherry admitted. “But wait until I’m through with it! It’s going to be a dress, Dan. You didn’t know I was a modiste, did you?” ae The young man looked down at the floor, “Say, what's going on/| going away.” bear » demanded. “What inthe] It was later while! Cherry was world—?” Putting up the last of the dishes that tho telephone rang. “I'll an- swer,” she told Dan and a moment later added, “It's for you!” Cherry had recognized’ Brenda Vail's voice, (To Be Continued) Cherry laughed. She held up a long piece of cloth. “My new fall outfit!” she said. “How do you like it? “Well, it doesn’t look lke much to me, What's the idea?”