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

eases 2 —— THE BISMAKUK TRIBUNE. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1932 en ford to maintain her huge armie: The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER the hearts of the people. (Established 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. duction fell on polite but deaf ears, But now the situation has changed. Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year... Daily by marck) mail per year (in Bis- 7 | financial shoe has begun to pinch. Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ....sssecessesseeseeeee 6) Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 | Weekly by mail in state, three military supremacy. years . ssse.. 2,50} willing to consider the pleas which! Weekly by North — j have run through the world for sev-| Dakota, per year ...........++ 1.5 {eral years. Internal 2.00 | made action necessary. Weekly by mail in Canada, per - Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation lor bad but that is not the point. “As ;@ man thinketh in his heart, so is he” and the French mental attitude Member of The Associated Press | a ynears to have changed. The Associated Press is exclusively | entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it | or not otherwise credited in this} Cae ares erie, published ‘herein | Work in the expectation of reward, All rights of republication of all other | @nd it is a law of nature that every matter herein are also reserved. | deed brings some reward in its train. Rewards It is the habit of our nature to (Official City, State and County Ways the one we seek; but since no Newspaper) i |thought or act can be wholly iso- ; lated, it brings consequences that re- pay it for good or ill. The final reward sought by all men is happiness. “This aim is ob- Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER (Incorporated) | CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Germany Votes First jeause men set up a lesser object | America is so engrossed in its own} Which they believe to be the last| coming election that it has given lit-; Key to the happiness they seek. This/ tle attention to the vote which will|™may be the reward of financial suc- the world’s greatest air force and a . formidable navy, it brought joy to For more than a year after the first rumblings were heard in this| and other countries, France did not} feel the full effects of the cataclysm| | which had befallen the world. She |was very self-satisfied and even a {little arrogant. Pleas for arms re-| France has been spending more than any other nation on national defense jand during the last two years the! | She no longer feels able to feed the | national vanity as represented by her At last she is pressure has The French proposal may be good; | This reward, to be sure, is not al-| | scured and confused too often be-! DONE POLITICIANS a LESSON THEY'LL REMEMBER! i { YES SiR/ SOMETHING OUGHTA BE FORGOTTEN MAN! ; Ce be cast in Germany tomorrow, two days before America’s own citizens go to the polls. The result of our own election will} be important both to the people of} this country and to the world, but| historians may record that in Ger-| many as being the more important. German politics today are in such} precarious position that the election! may presage a basic change in the structure of one of the world’s lead-| ing nations. { Hitler's Nazis are battling for con- trol and indications are that they will retain the largest bloc of votes| in the Reichstag. The Communists are expected to gain as a result of| the stresses and strains to which the} Fatherland has been subjected in re-| cent years. Many times Germans have gone to the voting booths in hopes of bringing about 2 change for | the bette, appreciable results. Instead the pic- ture has grown from dark to black| and Communism is nurtured more despair than by any other The present Von Papen govern- meni rules by decree and the Reichs- tag has been unable to act, having been dissolved before it could im-| peach the government. Competent} observers, and these include persons | not given to rearing straw men or| Patches which pictured it as one of child’ knees, as he would rather err seeing ghosts, fear that anything may | happen in Germany. As America prepares to go to the|ductions in local taxes while other! draft reach the child, and he would Polls on Monday it will read with in terest what the people of German: did the preceding day. Wets in the West Six states will vote on proposals to} repeal the prohibition clauses i their state constitutions at the elec tion next Tuesday and, strangely | snough, all but one of them lies west {City administration. of the Mississippi river. That single exception is Michigan | in which the prohibition ssue has | provided a bitter battleground for the | last few years. j A seventh state, Louisiana, will Vote on a proposal to repeal the state prohibition enforcement law, which | makes the same definition of in-| toxicating liquor as the Volstead act and is designed to follow the leader- ship of the federal government on this question. In addition to Michigan and North! Dakota, states where voters are be-| ing asked to ballot on the constitu- | tional issue are Washington, Oregon, | California and Colorado. A few years ago the wet campaigns | were centered largely in the east. | This election year they have aban- doned the east and have turned their attention to the west. The entire Pacific coast region finds in it a Problem for local decision. Returns from these states will be watched with interest by wets and drys alike, The returns will give a pretty broad hint as to whether pro- hibition is passing out of the picture, as the wets claim, or is definitely here to stay, as the drys assert. France Begins to Weaken News dispatches indicate that one of the benefits of the present com- mercial and industrial difficulties faced by the world may be the reduc- tion of armaments under which the leading nations are staggering. The break in the dam of prejudice, ill-will a:d distrust which followed the war may be the action of France in proposing an arms reduction plan. And credit for that fact must go to the troubles which have enveloped France as well as the rest of the world. ‘ ‘The Gauls are @ peculiarly thrifty and self-contained people and, be- cause of that fact and the acumen of their national leaders France is in a Jeading position today. She holds much of the’world’s gold and is re- garded as the first military power of Europe. . Patriotism burns brightly in France ‘nd’as long as the nation could af- but there have been noj ~ | through sound local government had sn | ferendum choice regarding | Sessment. “485,700; realty assessment, $1,182,463,- | them. ces of fame, or freedom from re- sponsibility or obligation, but these are no more than formulas out of| which they hope to derive happiness. He who has the wit to place hap- piness somewhere within his reach is most likely to attain it. Fortu- nately, it is never far away from any human life, unless a man him- self chooses a long and devious path to it. It is the universal reward of- fered to mankind and given accord- ing to comprehensible laws. The wise man will first see it clearly as his object and then, from| The clipping purports to be the views human wisdom and experience, learn the laws of achieving it. | One of the oldest pheuomena in| natural science is the right-angled! draft that can come in through a| pantry window and slap you across| the neck in the living room. | Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of tho’ t by other editors, They are published hout regard |j{ to whethe agree or disagree || with The Tribune's policies. Milwaukee's Tax Revolt = | (Washington Star) | tified authority, divulges the sex The Forgotten Man, Himself ABOUT THE | PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis, or treatment, wiil be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, self- addressed envelope is enclosed. ‘tters should be brief and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. BARE KNEES AND GOOD HEALTH Correspondent sends in a clipping | and asks for my view of the subject. ; comfortable, why, put something on and be comfortable, you ninny. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Baby's Head Is Bent | Son 4 1-2 months old was pre- mature and remained in hospital |three months. In hospital they al- ways kept him on his right side and I have thought that was correct, but a week or two ago I noticed that his of several world famous authorities, | whose names are not divulged. One of the coy authorities is quoted as follows: “Bare knees in damp weather presuppose to arthritis. People ji 2aq is rather one-sided. Will this have enough trouble in their {right itself in time?—(Mrs, R. D. knees without exposing them to any more.” McC.) Answer—So far as the symmetry of head is concerned it doesn’t mat- Have” you ever “nnbited / HAL We tar whieh beigababyeaiespelon: ak eminent medical authorities do NOT) train your baby to sleep on either qualify our arbitrary assertions by} side or rather don’t cultivate- neurotic the clause “in my opinion?” We go! adherence to any particular position for rest. Such lopsidedness is quite on the good old plan of Pronouncing| oommon dn cintabny ahd y ecntne: it so, That was enough to make it so in the haleyon days. | ously corrects itself, if the baby gets | his open air and sunlight, sound Another well known but uniden- fe 4 et | nutrition, and especially his vitamin of his success in practice. He say Last year Milwaukee received con- siderable publicity through news dis-| the nation’ municipalities that} eved a balanced budget and re- ities were groaning under a tax| burden threatening municipal bank- ‘uptey. For this reason, if for no other, the news story in today’s Star reporting that everything is not a8 | bright as pictured in Milwaukee is; interesting. Part of the discontent! by taxpayers in Milwaukee may be; ttributed to politics and efforts to! capitalize the local tax burden for} purposes of defeating the Socialist But without re- gard to the political complications, it is interesting enough to note the methods taken by taxpayers in this} admittedly well-governed municipal- ity to decrease their tax burden. Taxpayers have formed organiza- ions to bring about a $5,000,000 re-| duction in the city budget by charter ordinance, The fate of the ordinance! will depend upon the result of a re-{ vote in November, by which the voters will express their initiation of the tax-reducing legislation. Shoul@ ‘the! vote favor reduction, the tax rate would be cut by about $3 a thousand | of assessed valuation. This effort of | the taxpayers to take budget-making | into their own hands is in addition to law suits contesting assessments, the result of which might be to hold up collection of taxes, as in some sec- tions of Cook county, Ill, and by Petitions to the state tax commission | to reassess real estate, the petitions alleging unequal and exorbitant as- The 1930 census figures give Mil- | Waukee a population of 580,400; a Tealty assessment of $883,874,190 and a total property assessment of $1,- 121,988,246. The figures for the same year for Washington are: population, | 345, and total property assessment, $1,834,858,008. Milwaukee's total tax levy, less interest on bonded indebt- edness, is $32,577,031 (for 1930), as compared with Washington's $26,- 878,730. From these comparisons it is seen that Washington, with prac- tically one hundred thousand less Population than Milwaukee, pays tax- es on an assessed valuation that ex- ceeds Milwaukee's by something more than $700,000,000. If the relation be- tween Milwaukee's and Washington’s total tax levy (less interest) is the same now as in the fiscal year 1930, Milwaukee would reduce its tax levy to a figure approximately that of Washington. Because of the differ- ence in population the per capita tax burden of Milwaukee would, of course, be less. An arbitrary declaration by tax- Payers that their budget must be re- duced by as much as $5,000,000 is a hazardous method of effecting eco- nomies. It is apt to destroy essen- tial activities and result in no real savings. The interesting thing about the, taxpayers’ revolt in Milwaukee, however, is the illustration of how the taxpayers themselves feel toward their tax burden. interesting to Ws not only have no power to express rations, Bruise Marks that when parents bring a child to him he always advises covering the) marks from slight touches or pressure? on the side of safety. By the same logic this gentleman would probably advise against all ventilation, lest a sightly mark like that after a slfght bump? (Mrs. 8. A. L.) Answer—Purpura, scurvy or a sim- ilar condition that is hereditary m: account for it. I know of no remedy, Popcorn Approximate number of calories in a 10 cent sack of popcorn. Shredded wheat with milk, with and without sugar. (T. Y.) Answer—Popcorn has approximate- ly the same food or nutritive value, of the bladder among those who | calories per ounce or pound, as has dress scantily. This is thought | oatmeal, 1,850 calories to the pound. to be due to chilling of the low- | One shredded wheat biscuit yields er parts of the body.” prohibit all rough play in order to protect the little darling against stone bruises. skinned shins and punches in the nose. | The prize “authority” of the lot) divests himself of this one: { “Doctors have noted an in- | crease in cases of inflammation 0 Fs -.y»{ 110 calories. Tezspoonful of sugar This hypothetical | “authority”| 30 calories. Milk, 20 calories in the makes use of the old device—he re- eu G ounce. ounce. (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) Cream, 120 calories in the AGAIN THEY COME New York, Nov. 5.—From the high- ways and byways of America the young hopefuls of music, with a bit of star dust in their hair, now come thronging to the big town. The dream of debuts in New York clings to each; the fever of hearing and seeing everything runs high. In Town Hall and the smaller con- cert places of Carnegie Hall; in Mecta Temple and elsewhere are presented the efforts of these young folks who have been groping toward New York for years. In the upper Sixties and early Seventies, where studio apartments allow the tuning of fiddles and the running of scales and the do-re-mis of the contraltos. sopranos and tenors, there is much rehearsing. * eK Oe DEBITS AND DEBUTS Not so many years ago, there was more of a racket in the “‘musical Why does a person show bruise| debut” than exists tody. Few now | have the coin to stage the somewhat Is there any way to prevent an un-/ wistful premieres of yesteryear. Whatever the depression prices may be, it used to cost $1,250 to put on an act in Carnegie Hall. And some $600 to $750 was the price of doing a Chopin program in Town Hall. In Carnegie, with a sell-out at ordinary prices, one might expect a $5,500ereturn. But those agents who preyed upon the young and somewhat affluent youngsters would also get service fees, advertising fees, publicity fees and all the rest. Then a certain number of tickets would be sent around. The concerts would sometimes be attended by friends, fourth-string critics and a lapses into the passive or furtive mode. He doesn’t say “I think” or even “we doctors think,” but “it is thought.” For all you know all the inking may be done by the office boy or the janitor. You're just a dumb customer and if it ever does occur to you to wonder who does the HORIZONTAL 1 How did the thinking you are too timid to call the Gandhi “death [2 fy = bluff. | st” end? There is no scientific evidence that| 4 (ast ond RIE (PIL | EIS! bare knees in damp weather predis- | Soy Ae pose to any disease or in any way| 13 True olive, h imperil health. | 14 Nuisance. FLIvisi The clinical, actual or everyday ob-| 15 To what genus [O/AlTiE servation is that baring the knees is | does the oat CE AMEPTT a healthful practice whenever the grass belong? | FP} child (or adult) finds it comfertable.| 16 Fish, , : Years ago, when women began to| 17 Stalk. fj _ rs follow the fashion of scanty attire,| 18 Network of AMR some of our best medical authorities! blood vessels, EIAISIE (I have named one of them here in! 19 Right. LIAIS this connection) deplored the fash- 21 Drop of eye f ion on the ground that it would sub- fluid. 50 Right, ject young women to greater danger! 99 To exist, 51 Exists, of bronchitis, pneumonia and tuber-! culosis. They subsided at length when unanswerable statistics proved that these affecti are less preva- 83 AV 23 Exclamation, 5% Average. 26 Part of circle. 54 Type of lizard. 56 Not fickle, 26 Bore made of 58 Axillary. lent among young Women today than! y, 59 Chum. ever before; even tuberculosis is not, 3670 SUR. Gar ainatic, more prevalent among young women| 32 To Alacer; 62 Kiln, than it is among young men, Whatever our medical theories of the past may have been—and these old theories are the popular beliefs! of today—fair consideration of the facts leads to the inexorable conclu- ion that nudity, nakedness, expos- 63 Festival. 3 ct. Se Bleeat:, 64 Unconstrained. 38 Chinese money ® Tho members of account. who resigned dence from the Eng- 42 To inhume. lish cabinet 5 “4 ure of the skin to sunshine and the| “4 Japanese fish. © Were : air is always healthful if it is com-| 46To become VERTICAL fortable. If any such exposure is un- manifest. 1 Minting 48 Eggs of fishes. money. themselves on how much or why they ert hg sd are age ora Wilege knowing size ¢ budget now being prepared for Mahatma, Gandhi Answer to Previous Puzzle tT dlsladialt ct tct-cLaleacdal ted Pt AT EN TT we “si 21 Appointment, 24 From what 1 {0} E. plant is the DIE IL IUVIGIE} —nareotie hi LIBI INIOIS} =~ ish secured? EA 26 Hoisting ma- chine. [3 27 Gaiter, SiL 29 Glazed clay RI block. 31 To rule. IE 33 Fifty-two Dp weeks, 35 Political fac- nia tion in New York composed of Democrats. 2 Auclent. 37 Showing the 3 Reward, back. 4 Father. 39 Smaller. , 5 Relating to 41 Indigent. vision, 43 To bellow. 6To encounter. 45 Path between 7 Theory. tiers of seats, 8 Street. 47 Beam. 9 Which is the 49 Type measure. world’s tallest 52 Portico, mountain? 54 Opposite of 10 King. aweather, 11To slight de- 55 Imitated. signedly. 57 Goddess of 12 Artist's frame. dawn. 15 Winged. 58 Farewell! 17 To classify. 60 Devoured. 18 Tiny vegetable, 62 Either. 20 Sun god. 3 Fourth note,’ few lines would appear in the Musical Courier or the Sunday music sections of the New York papers. Now and then, by some accident, a sensation would arrive and wake everyone up. Such instances have been rare. The game is not so simple this year, they will tell you. Excepting the famous artists, few expect to make any money out of New York appearances. Most of them use the big town as a display win- dow and depend upon a Manhattan appearance for future advertising. Returning home, they cash in on the mention of an appearance at Car- negie or Town Hall. ss & EAVESDROPPING ON FRITZ And speaking of musicians, a secret agent of this department happened to be seated just behind Fritz Kreis- ler at a recent presentation of “Bally- hoo.” To the amazement of the visit- ing fireman, who expected Kreisler to get esthetic pangs over the very earthy comedy of this piece, the great fiddler seemed to be having the time of his life. It so happened, however, that the conductor stood in the way of the Kreisler eye-range. When Kreisler’s presence, apparently as a guest of Georgia Jessel, was discov- ered, the orchestra fiddlers and the conductors went into their best be- havior. At which, Kreisler merely gave = sly wink, ee # CANES TO EVERY TASTE Most of the better canes now to be seen in New York—ami they're not to be seen so often as two years ago— come from “Uncle Sam's This gent’s name is really Sam Simon, and he also turns out umbrellas, sword canes and such like. Eddie Cantor carries one of Sam's Scotch canes; Joe Cook owns a very tricky um- brella, which looks like a cane un- til you open it; and he has another, specially made with a hollow stem, which, when concealed with a little water tank concealed beneath the Vest, supplies its own rain for all concerned. For some reason, perhaps the de- pression, canes are seen less fre- quently. On the other hand, a play- wright with a success on his hands Presented the entire male cast with sticks. Sam also has jazz canes for the Harlem sports, and most of the 125th Street-north spenders come there for their props. The swellest cane to date was made of rhinocer- ous hide and brought $300. ———_—_—______» f Barbs | We are anxiously awaiting what the presidential candidates will have to say about lion hunting. * * discovered. He is that Nereeskan who set himself up in business recently with a minia- ture golf ak % tor advises that cod liver oil, aulte roe medical values, will bring contentment. After taking cod liver oil, probably the patient is satisfied with . xe * an heiress married a cor- feet, oe. marines, Even to the wealthy, a steady job’s not to be sneezed at. * * * They're changing the rules of bial again—apparently in hopes of competing with the great game of ory I, ** Teachers in Wildwood, N. J., have joined the ranks of those being patd| in scrip—just a lot of paper-work. ry I don’t want anything in the world but a bath—Mrs. Kenneth Pawley after her rescue from Chinese ban- dits. fi tie juivocal posi. I find myself in equiv gi- tion of ei many other police chiefs in the United States, namely, holding @ position of great responsibility but deprived of the essential authority to discharge it without fear and without favor.—General Pelham D. Glassford, resigning as police chief of Washing- ton, D. C. ene It takes 20 years before a large | section of the public comes to tha, ‘east * * # | Tevel of my plays—George Bernard ‘That “mystery ship” which has| Shaw. : * # Home work for young students is» legalized criminality—Dr. Jay B. Nash, professor of physical culture at, New York ee ee Most people leave home voluntar- ily; very few vanish through Suicidal intent or the act of another, It is most often business difficulties, the “sale marriage.”"—Captain John H. Ayers, in charge of N. Y. Missing Persons Bureau. FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: U. 8, PAT. OFF. following the U. 8. fleet during tte battle Taneuvers off the Califor- nia coast probably belongs to some taxpayer who's curious to find out how the navy spends its $40,000,000 ear. | TCopyrisht, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.)| TODAY A 2 1S THE ~~ WAR ‘fi ARMISTICE LOOMS On Nov. 5, 1918, Secretary of State | Lansing notified the German gov-| ernment that the Allies were willing to arrange an armistice based upon; President Wilson's principles, and) that the terms could be obtained) from Marshal Foch. { The German army started a re-j treat along the 75-mile front be-/ | | | | American troops crossed the Meuse/ Winnie 1 Church Notices | Avenue D and 7th Street 9:30—Sunday school; C. C. Larsen, Services at 7:30 p. m. son and Mrs. Fred Swenson will en- * The world’s greatest optimist SYNOPSIS Meredith leaves San Francisco airplane to escape arrest in connec- tion with a murder in which her sweetheart, Tony, is implicated. She had not known that he was man. Evelyn Howard, whom Fanchon had met on a res from Hawaii, is aboard. She is enroute to New York to live with her wealthy aunt, Mrs. Allison Carstairs, whom she has never seen. The plane crashes and all but Fanchon are killed. Grasping the opportun- ity to start life anew, Fanchon goes to the Carstairs home as Evelyn. Mrs. Carstairs’ affection wins her heart. At Southampton, awaiting the rival of her son, Collin, Mrs. Car- stairs warns Fanchon not to take him seriously. He arrives and ac- uses Fanchon of ig there under false pretenses. Collin objects to “Evelyn.” He alludes to Evelyn's Hawaiian escapades. CHAPTER XIV “It was clear'to me why you gave my mother’s name as reference to the San Franciscan school and why your professional references did not date from the Hawaiian period. Naturally, a school which had dis- pensed with your services because of your conduct was not going to sup- ply you with references! I suppose you told the’ people in San Fran- cisco that your sfay in the Islands had been in the nature of a visit. If you told them anything.” Fanchon’s mind was working furi- ously. Evidently Evelyn had left Hawaii under some sort of cloud. Evidently this Collin Carstairs had had her looked up and had found out all about it. And, very evidently, she had given Jennie’s name as her nearest relative and had refrained from telling the people in her last position anything of her Island ex. riences. Now that Fanchon looked ack, she recalled that on the boat during their mutual journey, Evelyn had questioned her closely concern- ing her knowledge of the school in which Evelyn ad taught in Ha- waii, ant, posing aoe ae knew nothing, ha the subject. | melt dislike,” sald Fanchons cold!; “all this hinting and Please endeavor to make yourself a trifle clearer, Mr. Carstairs.” He lifted an eyebrow. { “Must I, dear cousin?” “I am afraid so. For,” she went on, “you labor, very evidently, under a false apprehension.” “I think not,” he said smoothly. “In the first place, shortly after your arrival in Hawaii, compromised yourself rather severely with a naval officer. A matried man. “When the story broke and you were questioned, you swore in tears that you had not known mander Gaines was married, although his story did not agree with yours. He said he had told you... and that very distinctly. Your employers, how- ever, gave you the benefit of the doubt, Fp eoe you fistinguished qurse! & very indiscreet, very Zentimental—Airtation, let us call it, with a native who was employed i a minor capacity about the school. “You interested yourself in his welfare, you gave him lessons in Lat Ee entertained yourself with... shall we call it getting back fo nature—with Hawaiian nature? The man was young, handsome, and gifted. He was also a rather simple soul. He understood that you were willing to marry him. ... When ou refused, in righteous abeet and jorror, he made a scene, cene which nearly gost you your life, When it came to the ears and eyes f the school directors, you were immediately persuaded to sail for San Francisco.” Fanchon was scarlet, Evelyn! Evelyn! ‘She felt a pang of pity for the silly, weak, selfish and insincere by CoprrieHT ll Young and beautiful Fanchon implying. | hi at three points below Stenay. ‘@ RanRE eae E, Benzon, Pastor superintendent. Services at Braddock at 3:00 p, tertain the Ladies Aid in the church More often than not a2 phoney tween the Aisne and the Scheldt.) Police troops seized Cracow. FIRST LUTHERAN All Saints day. 10:45—Services. The choir will sing. Thursday afternoon Mrs. John O} parlors, excuse is just a basy signal. FAITH BALDWIN BALDWIN * DISTRIBUTED BY KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC.. I know you well enough, even in this brief time, to realize that you would not have accepted mere heare say. I am right, am I not, in con cluding that you ‘have been in com- munication with—” she hesitated, realizing that she did not know the name of the school or the people who ran it—“with those quite con- versant with the situation,” she went irl who played with fire and lied fer way out of it. No use to protest. ‘This man knew what he was talking about. Was, she wondered, was everybody escaping from some- thing? She had thought herself the end desperate person aboard that ill-fated plane. Bue Evelyn, in her way, had been as desperate. “Have you,” she asked steadily, ree “adequate proofs of all you say?” |on, after a brief pause. He looked at her with somethin, He nodded. His eyes were intent approaching admiration. She had|upon her own. Hers did not falter not, he told himself, turned a hair. And her eyes, very calmly on his own, very beautiful, were not the eyes of guilt or shame. “Yes,” he answered shortly, “otherwise I would not have made my accusations.” “Your mother—knows?” asked Fanchon and leaned forward, curi- in their brilliant blue gaze, very di- rect, very lovely. “I have nothing to say in my de- fense,” Fanchon went on, “ that it is possible that app were against me. Possible that I did not really know of Commander—” she hesitated again, remembered and went on, “Commander Gaines’ mar- a pe ously intent upon his answer. riage, after all; possible that my ine aa “Well, naturally,” he answered in| terest in the native you speak of was some astonishment. “People... ac-| what I said it to be.” quaintances of hers, who knew your! She was silent a moment, remem- relationship to us, and who hap-|bering all she knew of native life > pened to be in Hawaii, and to have heard the general scandal, wrote her. It was that which determined her to write you and ask you to make your home with us. She did so, there- fore, after you had been in San Fran- cisco a time. It took her a little while to arrange matters, to find out your address after you had left the school. Naturally, you left no for- warding address! She said... that you should be given your chance, I agreed. She, therefore, wrote you and asked you to come. But in your acceptance and in your subsequent letters you told her nothing, made ho mention of the circumstances un- der which you had left Hawaii. That, I confess, is what antagonized me. I was willing,” said Collin, “to overlook all that had gone before, your parents’ attitude toward my mother, and what was at the time, obviously, your own. Loyal tothem,| “You have me the: i were, I could understand that,| you have convinced me. Let it 5 lor I was loyal to my mother. But! then, as folly. I understand folly, this silence, this naive acceptance of What man d to everything my mother offered in, I] man’s estate? must say, having read PE, letters, | me was your attitude—" &@ most righteous and I-deserve-it-| She said, swiftly: spirit—was not calculated to make] “you know nothing of my atti. me wish to receive you with friend-| tude. Only from my letters. Letters ship.’ © . Jare dangerous, they mislead, I have Fanchon said, slowly, not heeding | never been,” she laughed & little, “a ready letter writer. t am sorry. I would like you to know that I’ care for your mother... very much. I never knew mine,” she added, un- conscious of where her words were leading her, “What!” asked Collin in blank amazement. ‘ Fanchon flushed scarlet. She said, &@ hurriedly: “I mean... it has been some years since she died. Before that I was a child, busy with the adju: ments of childhood, of growing uw I never came close to her, Only since her death, and that of my father, have I felt the need of her. f someone to whom I belonged. T am putting this very badly,” she said, hopelessly. He was suddenly gentle with her, “No, I think T understand” Fanchon rose to her feet, , “I must,” she said, “get back to the house and dress for dinner, Mr. Carstairs— Collin, please. We may be ene- mics, but we are cousins,” he said, ig. “I'am not your enemy,” she said i" $0 sweetly, so simply that his heareX ih misgave him and he took a step to. ward her, “even if you are mine. Collin, if you like, I will talk to you & it-—what has happened.” she has not spoken ot yess nes i ol re! perhaps she would rather not. Pe: ps she wants you to begin all ove: again,” Collin said, a little awk- wardly, and character and of the misunder- } standings which had before this i arisen between the children of the Island sons and alien occupiers of the Islands. “I am not pleading for niyself,” she continued, “only for, as you put it, the benefit of the doubt.” “You. mentioned,” she said, smil- ing, suddenly, Hawaiian moons and auscgntinls youth. You forgot to mention loneliness. A girl, alone. Is it likely that when offer of haven and harbor and affection were held out to that girl that she should re- fuse... ? Or that she should, as she would think, seek to jeopardize her- self by a confession of what, at its worst, was only folly?” After a moment, fascinated against his will by her smile, by the warmth im her eyes and her voice, Collin nodded: Almost— ‘So she knew—all the time!” “Yes, of course,” Collin answered, impatiently. le was astonished to see the girl’s mouth quiver, her eyes mist over. He could not know that her heart was going out to Jennie Carstairs in a rush of warm, if vicarious, grati- tude. She was rrmecabering, the way in which Jennie had taken her to her heart; she was remembering the utter lack of reproach, of mention of ao of this story to her. She was re- calling Jennie’s embarrassed little apology for what she knew Collin’s| attitude would be... “loyal,” she had said of him. But she had not mien- tioned by word, look or gesture the things she knew about Evelyn How- ard. She had merely waited for the gi 1 herself to confess. The con- fession had not come, yet Jennie had not changed one iota toward her in her attitude of affection and con- sideration. “Well,” asked Collin, “have you anything to say—for yourself? Have anything—to tell my mother— your own defense?” “Just a moment,” said Fanchon, suddenly. “Please tell me by what she set yourself up as a judge of me? Is your own life so—perfect —that you can afford to judge and condemn me, Mr, Carstairs?” He had the grace to flush. T don’t condemn you, , , Fanchon said: “T see. There is no-use in my try. , Copyright 1981 By Faith Baldwin ing to deny your accusations, I think sttibuted