The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 21, 1932, Page 4

Political observers point, however, to} certain weaknesses in the McAdoo and Tubbs organizations which may re-_ ,dound to the benefit of Fighting “Bob” | Shuler. The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) a, 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. a, Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year........$7.20 Daily by mail per year (in Bis- *% pause for sober thought. NGMIOR) iis. ss0s0cos0000 : ar Daily by mail per year (in state | This situation seems the more ap-' outside Bismarck) ............ 5.00|Palling because of the gratifying, Daily by mail outside of North | progress made against blindness re- Dakota .. sess jsulting from infant diseases. In 20/ Weekly by mail Per Bae Weekly by mail in state, POR i ieenlaciissceussesses Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year ..........00+ 1.5¢ Weekly by mail in Canada, per year ... High Toll Experience proves that most indus- | | trial eye accidents are preventable, | ‘statistics prove that industrial acci-' ‘dents are the cause of 15 per cent ot | all blindness in the United States.¢ This frightful toll of blindness gives! year $1.00 vears blindness from this source has | been reduced by one-half. It is man- | ifest that this important work has just begun. | 2.00} When one reflects upon the enor- — jmous number of babies who are eiths* | Member of Audit Bureau of — | porn blind or become so shortly after | —— | birth, and upon the high rate of in- ee ot rie Assciatea ia dustrial blindness, a realization of the | eittaed ABP tBS ike coe FepuliSaeGn jimportance of the preventive work/ of all news dispatches credited to it ;|4a¥ns on the mind. | or not otherwise credited in this} That this work should be offset and! newspaper and also the local news of |rendered in a large degree negatory by carelessness in handling industrial spontaneous origin published herein. | All rights of republication of all other machinery seems tragic indeed; that it should be spoiled by improper or matter herein are also reserved. eee ae State and County | detective machinery seems too horri-| ; kit ci ble to think about. oreign Represcntatives Much depends on this generation SORBED aad | whether the next must carry the tre- NEW YORK BOSTON Mendous burden of a large blind pop- julation due to carelessness of workers | Never Any Doubt or the criminal negligence of em- | Gov Franklin D. Roosevelt has | ployers. i cleared the political atmosphere by —— j his Pittsburgh speech and definitely | Runs Like One, Anyway | placed in the record his attitude on} Whether one always agrees with | CHICAGO | | Fete GREAT WALL OF CHINA WAS BUILT | ‘TO KEEP QUT THE MANCHUS OF THE NORTH --- Chinese Walls—Old and New! | NOW, THE JAPANESE -CREATED STATE OF MANCHUKUO HAS ERECTED A FAR, GREATER WALL TO KEEP OUT CHINESE “TRADE FROM THE SOUTH / some issues Which may not have been | Senator Gerald P. Nye in his views q j | (than Tubbs. Now the issue is where as clearly defined as seemed neces- sary. After s of the fed ching the fiscal picture treasury, he came to the very al and inevitable con-| clusion that, despite the merits or de- | merits of the bonus payment demands, | they could not be met and that he would resist such demands. Of course to those who have fol-} lowed Roosevelt's career closely, it was well known that as early as last April, weeks before the Chicago convention, in a newspaper interview of wide dis- tribution, he declared that the gov- ernment was in no financial position to make immediate payment of its! bonus obligations, Roosevelt discounted the Coolidge | New York speech and the plaintive utterances of President Hoover at Cleveland. As a result of the Pitts- burgh speech, it will be necessary for the Republican strategists to dig a} new line of defensive trenches. The New York governor was on sound ground when he discussed the | high cost of government at Washing- ton. His fac S reference to the Commerce building as the “marble palace of fact finding,” visualizes a} condition under which the taxpayers | of the nation smart. Mr. Hoover's appearance in the Harding cabinet was responsible for an orgy of spend- | ing and a multiplication of bureaus and experiments, noble and otherwis In less than four years the Hoover | administration, with depression in the | picture, increased federal government costs a billion dollars. Already the | national budget is nearly $500,000 short of balancing. These are very vital issues for the American voter to ponder. To date, the Hoover back- ers have dealt largely in a campaign to scare the workers, to spread vitu-| lo | jackasses, [jackass can run like ‘peration and to paint in glowing terms their own infallibility, Mr. Roosevelt indicated a very ready source of federal income in driving the liquor business out into | the open under federal cor Pres- | ident Hoover has been silent on that! important issue. Mr. Roosevelt fear- | lessly stands upon the Democratic | commitments at Chicago which are| short, terse and beyond equivocation. | His Pittsburgh speech was a great] call to progressives of all parties to back him in an earnest attempt to stem the rising costs of government and prevent the continuance of speak- | easies and racketeers. He has shown | himself to be a fearless leader, strik- | ing from the shoulder and anxious to play the game with all the cards on | the table. | This address is the high note of | Mr. Roosevelt's campaign. / Fighting ‘Bob’ Shuler Los Angeles has its Aimee McPhe son and its no less renowned “Bob” | Shuler, militant southern Methodist | Minister nominated for the United | States senate on the Prohibition ticket | to oppose the wet Tallant Tubbs and | the moist Williams Gibbs McAdoo. Rev. Shuler reecived more votes than ! either Tubbs or McAdoo. He is hos- | tile to the Hoover regime because the | Republican radio commission kicked him off the air. He owned a power- ful station in connection with his church, “The Trinity Methodist,” and when he toox to abusing Republicans and bankers the federal government solemnly informed him that he was not operating in the interests of pub- Ue service. . Shuler’s total vote in the major party primaries was 296,000, or 34,000 more than McAdoo's and 82,000" more will the Wardell, Shortridge and other 3 y contenders’ vote go? Some the drift will be against rather for Shuler, while Shuler fol-. gwers declare the militant minister bibs as much chance to pick up sup- Igaet from this bloc of voters as any sgibthe other two candidates. sa »* * | spirit of democracy and its cruel ruth- enator Hiram Johnson is backing’ s and the Democratic pechine | 7 well united behind McAdoo, or not, it must be admitted that he| is an effective campaigner. Election | statistics reveal few if any more im-} pressive endorsements than the onc| he received in the June primaries. When the meticulous Senator Moses of New Hampshire referred to Nyc! among other solons as sons of wild he probably forgot how} By William addressed envelope is enclose ink. No reply can be made PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygienc, not to disease diagnosis, or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, self- Letters should be brief and written in to queries not conforming to instructions, Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this nowspaper. fleet of foot these animals are. The} THE POISONING IS MENTAL speed of Mr. Nye's primary gait shows; Webster tells us a quack is an ig- th h iti ‘ a | Norant practitioner: sete bores Hei of the wild) sil or knowledge in any matter of those of the|/which he knows little or nothing. desert who “go forth to their worl | Two things are essential for suc- rising betimes for prey; the wilde cess in quacking it. First, the pr ness yieldeth food for them and their} tender or faker must employ means children.” 1 North Dakota prairies have cer- tainly yielded votes for Senator Nyc jC@2 and does depend on the good will and interest now centers in whether |°f his satisfied patrons to keep him . : |busy. That's how practice is built. he can duplicate his record of June. |1f he is not so good he must resort Mr. Nye did not hedge on issues in | to other means of attracting patrons; his Bismarck address. He struck out |e must either boldly blow his own ma horn up and down the by-ways or at what he calls entrenched wealth secretly employ some one else to do and vested interests in true La Fol-| for him what the satisfied patients of lette style. Senator Norris could have | @ real physician voluntarily do for the done no better. In fact, some of the | 10¢tor who has earned their good will. speakers at the Bismarck rally ex-|, There is a queer quirk in human that prompts the trimmed tolled Norris, who is now openly for sucker to keep silent about his ex- Roosevelt. e while he gets a certain mean for r excor: anv ion out of watching other ue suniee eutias prorat TBNY | akere-bithccd the ae mn nEaTE aia of the Hoover policies but mentioned |jyred him. People play this role even in this address no presidential candi-| when their good friends are in danger dates. Few national campaigns have | 0f be ne wictined by the same Eiree . pocus. Sometimes it is not entirely been 80. confused, or 80 complicated | jeanness that prompts such silence as the present one. where a fair warning should be given, but in part shame at having been so Now that the Ladies Home Journal gullible, It is such shame felt by has settled that momentous’ issue of | Victims of atrocious quack awindling . i " “ | that makes the prosecution of ese Whom Mrs. Alice Longworth is going phous so difficult. ‘Their victims are to support for the presidency, the|too ashamed to go to court and tell campaign can proceed in the even | the truth, tenor of its way. One of the most successful quacks ‘sensitizes his prospects by explaining ie ; ‘ ‘to them that whatever complaints Hoover radio speakers have &s- | they happen to have originate in some sumed, for the purposes of this cam-| vague poisoning of the system from paign at least, a most astounding su- | failure to eliminate, or Reread like y 4 oy that. This charlatan has been ex- Periority complex and one is reminded | oioiting the ignorance and credulity of the admonition ot Job: “No doubt of the public along this line for years. ye are the people, and wisdom shall|One would imagine even the dumbest die with you.” ! man would begin to feel a bit bored the same old song, but it seems -—~|not, for the suave quack is still nage . ae ling it with all the gusto of a radio Editorial Comment | taritone rendering On the Road to Béltoria | Mandalay, by request and with atmos- Trend of thought: borather cartcte || pherie preparation by the announcer. vith The 3 ‘| ° || peal is always the same, but the wor With The Tribune's policies. | “sometimes he mixes’ the words up _ ~| as though he were actualy poking fun jat the dumb eggs who will Depeebyy ( “y 2 ai ) | become his customers. Here is a re- N.Y, World Deleeram cent instance, from an explanation Certain Republican spokesmen and tne quack gave his prospects for “all orators are resorting to the Marx symptoms of all ailments”: Hanna method in their efforts to| “The mucus is formed from a deep- serve their cause. The Mark Hanna ed catarrhal inflammation which, method is to campaign with fear. | in its turn comes from wrong foods In 1896 it went to the extreme of | and excessive quantities of foods— employers’ actually notifying employes | from the congestion, autointoxication that the factories would not open the ; and absorption of poisons from the day after election in event of a Bryan | blood stream.” victory. | All this, the charlatan explains, Because McKinley won, that strat- | with tongue in cheek, means that the egy, despite its utter defiance of the | body is “attempting some form of | toxic poison elimination.” Toxic poi- lessness, has been accepted as tradi- | Son, you idiot, meaning a poison that tionally effective and has reappeared | is poisonous. As a rule the quack has in various guises. So today it is being ; the “toxic poison” absorbed from the employed. jcolon into the blood stream. This If times were not so critical—if they | time he has it absorbed from the blood Were even no more critical than in | into, goodness knows where. But 1896—if such confidence as does exist | What's the odds. The wiseacres and today were not so vital, this might the morons from whose ranks such be passed off as “politics.” But as | humbugs draw their cash customers things now stand it is about the most | are so flattered by the deference paid dangerous weapon that could be em- | their intelligence that they'll never ployed. It boils down to a proposition | notice any little discrepancies in the of “If we can't run the ship we'll sink | charlatan’s approach. it.” | Autointoxication is mental—and the The idea, of course, when thought- | shrewd charlatan knows how to inocu- fully analyzed, is ridiculous. For any; late his prospective customers’ minds Political party to arrogate to itself the ; with it. assumption that it possesses the only | brains and the only equipment by | which the country can be saved should | be laughable, particularly when the { Party happens to be one which, having | claimed perfection, has given a four-! year demonstration of imperfection. But the fact of the matter is that with the times so out of joint, with! Answer—Thank you for your report. hardships so widespread, any threat | Most correspondents forget to tell me of further disaster fits the psychology | their experience. This ambulant treat- of the moment, adds to the general; ment of hernia is making slow but gloom and thereby is a blow to such | steady progress. The regular profes- courage and such confidence as still | sion is 50 per cent cautious and 50 remain. Per cent dumb about modern develop- Therefore we say that this revival! ments in therapeutic technic. of the Mark Hanna method is dan- | Good *Lasses ° gerous business, Quite a while ago I entered a com- It should be repudiated by every Re- | plaint about the molasses you recom- puklican campaign manager, by every | mended, but since then, all of that prominent Republican leader, by Pres- | brand I have been able to procure has ident Hoover himself, by all who put | been of excellent quality, and I now patriotism above politics. apologize. I believe the dealer substi- ‘We do not believe that America has| tuted some inferior molasses when I yet come to the pass where good Re- | first asked for the kind you recom- publicans will approve of burning the; mend. (A. O. C.) e house to warm the party's baby. have an imposing personality. A physician or healer who is good Dangerous Business QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Cured Without Operation I wish to thank you for recommend- ing me to Dr.......... I went to him and had the hernia treatment, and I (W. F. 0.) é one who professes | of attracting victims. Second, he must | j am happy to say that I am now cured. | Answer—There are several ec brands of molasses now on the mar- ket, all free of sulphur dioxide. This} real old-fashioned molasses is not only delicious for cooking, but makes a table syrup which, in my opinion, has no superior, and I am rendering a health service when I advise that such | molasses be freely given the children. | Hemorrhoids | On reading one of syour articles} about hemorrhoids and the mistaking of cancer for “piles” I went to |Dr......... for examination. He as-| | sured me the trouble was only hem-| orrhoids. He gave the injection treat- ment. After four sessions of this the trouble disappeared. But there is one external hemorrhoid which he says will have to be surgically removed. Would he “kid” me about this and|{ keep it from me if it were cancer? (J. G.) Answer would not withhold his opinion if he believed you had cancer. It is true, the injection treatment is for INTER- NAL piles only, and the external kind must be removed surgically. (Copyright, John F, Dille Co.) with Gilbert: Swan GETTING A GOOD NAME New York, Oct. 21—I never could remember names. But even if I had a better memory for monikers, it would be difficult to recognize scores of famous stage and screen folk by their real names. Just to give you an idea—Chotsey Noonan is Sally O'Neill, Myrna Wil- F ‘No, the doctor you men-| tion is a reputable physician and he| liams became Myrna Loy; Joe Stern added a Von and a Berg and became Joseph Von Sternberg, the director; Nancy Le Hiff thought Nancy Carroll | would sound better and, when it comes to long distance records, get this one: Lolita Delores Asunsolo De Martinez. That. fellow fans, is Dolores Del Rio. moso, who is Gilbert Roland. se * Well, if you like the game, we'll give you a few more: Fannie Brice started as Fannie Boroch; June Collyer was Dorothy Heer- mance. Gilda Gray was once known as Marianna Micholska. Paula Osterman doesn’t sound half so Spanish as Raquel Torres, does it? Jack Gilbert was John Pringle. Ina Claire was born with the good Irish name of Ina Fagan. Richard Dix came out of the mid- dle west as Ernest Brimmer. Ra- Novarro changed from Ra- mon Samaniego. * *e COHAN VS. HOLLYWOOD The reverberations of George M. Co- han’s attack on Hollywood are still to be heard out in the film capital. Cohan, you may recall, hurried back after his one picture, yawning and an- He said he didn’t mind half af, but full time loafing wasn’t up ley. He had been paid a fabu- | lous price and had little, or nothing, to do for weeks on end. He declared | that none of the studio officials knew what it was all about and that every- one got in the way of everyone else. So he raved on— ij Broadway immediately began to | “play him down” as a film feature. | it so happens that one of Cohan’s best friends happens to be John Hertz, | Chicago taxi magnate, who is one of | the financial domos of the film com- | pany concerned. | * Oe OK PIPE THIS! Pipe smoking among smart women | is increasing in New York, I have | this from no less an authority than | Alice Hughes, who writes about the | Manhattan shops and the transient vogues. For some time rumors have spread | that women were shopping for pipes as never before—but one assumed they were buying for the boy friend or the | husband. 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S Apparition, 46 Dined. 9Perforates the 47 To peruse. skull. 49 Fish. 10 Loose. 51 Upper human 11 Pal limb. 12 Farewell! 52 To bring legal 13 Taxaceous proceedings, tree. 53 Fowl. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1982 — that the pipes involved were not he- male pipes, but ladylike affairs and that open purchase, along with mild tobacco buying, is almost common- Place. A spy from one of the big de- partment stores, checking the British fads, found women pipe smokers on the up in London. And the store fm- mediately laid in a supply of small and dainty pipe-sets. But the day I ketch my frau at my favorite calabash or meerschaum— haere! * ok * THE PLAY’S THE THING Actors are a loyal lot—and always have been! For weeks scores of Ne- groes in the all-colored casts of “Old Man Satan” have been walking from 125th Street and thereabouts to re- hearsal because the producers were putting on the show with little cash The show opened and showed little sign of being a hit. The actors merely shrugged their shoulders and went home. TODAY . CFs | 1S THE m= on hand. Or so went the legends.! gate, tion ih fact.— Alice’ Roosevelt Long- | worth, | FANNY SAYS U.S. PAT. OFF. FLAPPER, x * * I expect to be good for 15 or 20 years more of active service—Alonzo Stagg, retired: as head football conc | at University of Chicago. xe I am the last man to plead for Ger- many, because she brought the terri- | ble disaster upon herself . . . but hon- | or demands that other nations fulfill ‘their pledge to disarm.—David Lloyd George, wartime Prime Minister of Great Britain, | | | | x * * Mrs. Boole (Ella A. Boole, president. W. C. T. U.) is a stalwart bourbon Republican. I’m afraid it is going to be mighty hard for her to give up Herbert Hoover—William D. Upshaw, Prohibition party’s presidential candi- # * * f Kind words will not put men back | into jobs or money into their pockets. | —Walter C. Teagle, chairman, nation- | al share-the-work committee. i | Barbs || i The Democrats have sicked Gene —? ° The only women who have their ; Yo | GERMANS ASK TRUCE On Oct. 21, 1918, Germany suggest- | ed to President Wilson arrangements | for an armistice, announced that her submarines would be restricted and| told of government reforms. | The allies advanced on a 90-mile | front from the Dutch border to the Oise, east of St. Quentin. Germans in| northern Belgium were forced back upon Ghent and the Scheldt. In the Balkans, French troops reached the Danube near Vidin, shell- ed an enemy monitor and drove it ashore. power in politics, Tunney on Albie Booth, former Yale grid star who is barnstorming for Hoo- ver. Now we can expect to hear any | moment that Jim Londos and Babe} Didrikson have taken to the stump. THREE GUESSES ee International tangles haven’t a Ar wwar APPROXIMATE 4 thing on the sleeve lining of last DATE WAS winter's overcoat. x Oe O* THE COLOSSAL STATUE OF own way are those who don’t have to make it. If you think that the old grad who | goes back for the big game lacks the fire of his college days, just try the stuff in his hij ket. THE SPHINX Aare But ? Alas and alack. If the “straight ticket” were only a guarantee! - 29 & Experience teaches that when diplomats say a situation is “hopeful” they mean the dickering so far has been a flop. ee # Whar is THe NAME GIVEN Maybe its because the dollar goes rther now that it’s so much harder find. +) ALY | far 4 to ad | (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, “Inc.) | & i stig If all the rain that fell on the earth There is an old legend that I am a|during the course of a year could be that I influence gathered This world championship is almost {votes on legislation —a curious and|would cover the entire globe to an tied by DeAlonzo Louis Antonio De-| absurd legend totally without founda-/ average depth of 29.13 inches. together at one time, it TO A PLANE OF THIS SHAPES THESE BIRDS ARE NUMEROUS IN_ ANTARCTIC REGIONS- WHAT ARE THEY 2 COPYRIGHT 1931,'BY PF, CHAPTER 1 She stood at the dressing table in the small hotel room and counted the money Tony had thrust upon her, with hands that shook. She did not glance into the mirror as many women would have done, yet her young face, although blind wth fear, deserved the tribute of a personal appraisal, it was very early in the morning. She had come, alone, to the hotel in Oakland the night before. Tony had told her to go there. “It’s quiet, see?” he'd said, “they'll be watching the hotels in San Francisco, Regis- ter as—as—Miss Smith.” He'd smiled, she remembered incredul- ously, white tecth flashing in the dark, intent face. “I’ve made your plane reservations,” he went on, | “Miss Smith. They'll be watching the big commercial airports, too. ‘This is safer.” He had given her a few. tense, terse directions, risen from his chair at the plain deal table, bent over her a moment, kissed her stunned, cold lips into something resembling life and then, “Good-bye, kid,” he'd said easily, “happy landings! Watch the Eastern papers for a personal. When I get out of this mess I'll find you again, Don’t worry!” From the doorway of that little backroom in the speakeasy he'd waved to her, still sitting there. There was no one else in the room. Tony had seen to that, There, in the doorway, his lips had moved once more making no sound. But she'd thought they had formed the words—“forgive me.” She couldn’t forgive him. She couldn’t forgive herself. She counted the money again. Four thousand dollars. Some day she would pay it back. How? When? To whom? She put the bills in her handbag. Looked, once, briefly, into the mir- ror, a mechanical gesture. Pulled her small felt hat closer over the broad forehead. Her skin was satin in texture. It was, amazingly, golden; partly a gift of nature in a benevolent mood, partly a bestowal of the years lived under the hot Hawaiian sun. Against such skin her eyes were as blue as turquoises, her hair heavy, blue black, and her mouth a wound of crimson, She was a girl at whom the pass- erby would look twice ... this “Miss Smith,” She turned from the dresser; walked across the room to the bed and snapped her overnight case shut, picked up a tweed top coat and put it over her arm, She was very plainly, very correctly dressed. Her suit, matching the top coat, was of dark bliic, cher fine lisle stockings, small Oxfords, her gloves, smart and serviceable. She was ready to check out. She went downstairs and asked for her bill, The clerk gave it to her incuri- ousiy, accepted the money she hand- ed him and said something conven- tional and pleasant in farewell. The one uniformed factotum of the hotel took her bag out and called a taxi for her. 4 »On the way to the private flying field she sat well back in the cab, her hat pulled low, her hands twisted together in her lap. Panic rode her like a nightmare; panic greyed the golden skin, whitened the curved red mouth, clouded the eyes of tur- quoise. Panic was her familiar, her traveling companion, panic ate and walked and slept with her and had done so for these last few hideous days. A newsboy jumped on the run- ning board as they slowed up in traffic with early editions. “All About the Mystery Woman,” he howled, “get your paper—all about the big gang killing... .” z The cab went onward with a jerk. The newsboy dropped off. Now {iss Smith” was perfectly white, hite to the lips. If someone should see her .. .? recognize her . . .? as “Tony’s girl”? w WASOU FRADE y FAITH BALDWIN +] VV 5 “~ DISTRIBUTED BY KING FEATURES SYNDICATE’, INC. \A “Goodbye, kid,” he'd said She mustn't think of herself. She must think of Tony. Must pray that he get off... safe... scot-free. No matter what he had done, no matter how mistaken she had been in him —she laughed aloud, thinking of the gullible girl who had come to San Francisco from Hawaii eight short months ago—no matter how things had turned out, he had been good to her after his fashion; had even loved her—after his fashion. And she had loved him, in a thoughtless, thrilled, unthinking sort of way... in the way of first love, careless and sweet, That was all over now. She sat quite still trying to think of all his last directions. She was to go to this flying field. It was one owned by a small commercial com- pany. They operated planes for pri- vate charter, One had been char- tered by a rich man and his family, to make a two-stop flight to New York. At the last minute two of the rassengers had been unable to come; one place had quickly been filled; Tony had heard of the final vacancy, in his underground fashion. How Tony heard things, she never knew, never had known. So he had re- served the place, in the name of . Miss Smith. They were at the field now. She got out of the cab and paid her driver. She walked over to the lit- tle office. A plane was just landing. Another was tuning up. She looked at it, dully. It was, she thought, the one which would take her. Once— oh, a hundred years ago, the pros- pect of the long flight would have filled her with adventurous rapture. Not now. Just a means to an end. Just an escape. An escape... from peering faces, from newspaper head- lines, from some stolid faced man, a stranger, handing her a subpoena «+ from men who would try to win from her all her knowledge of Tony, his means of living, his method of business, his whereabouts, ... An escape. At the office the formalities were completed, the money paid. Miss NAVAL NS NEARER It BOI easily, “Happy landings.” Smish's name was crossed off the list. The overnight stops explained to her; the route which would be taken, ‘There was a refreshment stand nearby, a mushroom -like growth, She could have coffee there the man in the office told her, She refused, forcing a smile, She had had early breakfast at her hotel. Mr. Eames and his party lad arrived, she was told, They were waiting for one more passenger “we expect her at any montent now,” said the office manager, The girl left office, sto a moment at the barriers to the Ren, An elderly man, a fat, comfortable woman and a young man stood toe gether, their luggage about them, talking excitedly, It was a very windless, warm day in summer, The sky was without a cloud, The sun shone brilliantly. How could it? thought the girl, standing there alone, The field was vocal with activity. The plane, in readiness, was of a twin-motored cabin type, carrying eight passengers including pilot mes .chanic and steward, The girl walked toward it just as the office manager turned from his desk to greet the last arrival who came up in a pant- ing taxi. Presently... The passengers climbed in sete tling themselves. Mr. Eames are ranged his party fussily, The office manager standing on the field made the introductions, Mr, Eames, his wife and son acknowledged’ the presence of “Miss Smith.” They looked conscious that she had only joined the party by a fluke, the failure of their own friends to make the trip. The last passenger was also a woman; a young woman. She climbed in, taking‘her place beside the solitary girl, She casually looked at her and then smiled suddenly, with obvious delight: “Why, Fanchon Meredith!” she exclaimed, “who in the world would have thought of seeing you here!” Copyright 1931 By Faith Baldwin ates King Features Syndicate, Inc, f Ww