The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 1, 1932, Page 6

institutions have placed upon the} farmers of the state who, after all, pay an imposing amount of the taxes. This is a pill which cannot be} sugar-coated. | "The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST ; NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by The Bismarck Tribune | Company, Bismarck, N. D., and en How Business Grows | ‘ered at the postoffice at Bismarck as! Uncle Sam's mail carriers may not | second class mail matter. | GEORGE D. MANN believe it, but the fact is that the| President and Publisher. {practice of sending Christmas ,cards ——— - }4s comparatively a modern one. Subscription Rates Payable in Each yuletide, millions of these Advance Dally by carrier, per year........$7.20 | Bfeetings are popped into the mail to| {tell friends and relatives that, at| Daily by mail per year (in Bis- %5 H marck) .. +++ 7.20/Christime if at no other during the Dally by mail pe |year, thoughts of them fill our hearts | outside Bismarck SUR Grueeee eT | Daily by mail outside of North | With pleasure. i Dakota ......... veeee 600} The first Christm d is generally | Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 | attributed to Sir Henry Cole, an Eng-| os, |iishman and is said to have been de-| i | x ) Weekly by mail in state, three years THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1932 __ mility.” Some of our own statesmen would be in the same boat if they had the humility. * * * not news. him after a defeat. with Gilbert Swan MR. JOHN IS OUT New York, Dec. 1—They say that when the circus wagons move across When a school fires a coach, that’s But it is when it keeps (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) TWO KINDS OF DUCK Toledo, O.—County Prosecutor Carl ‘Christensen didn’t figure on any more than one kind of a duck when he went hunting recently. His huat- ing luck was good because he brought down two mallards, But when he tried to fish them out of the water he received a duck that was not so good. While wading out to the ducks he stepped in a deep hole and received a thorough ducking. A PLAYFUL TRIO Knoxvile, Tenn.—If the three Ne- groes in City Court recently were playing, we'd hate to see them in a fight. They told the judge that they were only playing, but he didn’t be- lieve them even when John Williams admitted striking his wife over the head with a pick handle. operated the old Dreamland at the time when it burned down. As a child, his scene shifted from San Francisco to Rochester, N. ¥., where his brother, an interlor decora- |tor and stage craftsman, was inter- jested in a theater. Sam joined him. St. Louis attracted him next. From the theater business, Gumpertz took charge of the affairs of “the Great Lafayette,” master illusionist and magician. “Lafayette” became a world figure and lost his life in Glas- gow while trying to save a pet aug from a theater fire. | ed LONG-TIME FRIENDS Beaches, resorts, parks, carnivals and the rest came under Gumpertz's control. He came to have an inter- est in half a dozen of the big and jsmall traveling tent shows. When | John Ringling took over such con- cerns as Hagenbeck, Sells-Floto, Al |G. Barnes and others, Gumpertz TRACTOR CRANKS PLANE Chicago.—Ralph Caffarello doesn’t Weekly Dakota, per year . Weekly by mail in Canad: Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press ——-——| timent ins |signed by John C. Horsley, an artist . 1.50|and a member of the Royal Academy jin 1846, Within the last year, how jev another card has come to lig? | which dates back to 1829, It evidently | was produced in America but the ed on it is in the Ger: the land in the spring, the pictures-! maintained an interest a His |, ue personality of “Mister John” will holding expanded. _He took a con- be missing from ‘the greatest show] siderable interest in the Barnum-| rigged up a tractor to do the crank- ing for him. The power takeoff of the tractor is hooked up to the start- on ei Th cigar, arth.” | ey say that the familiar high! ; the direct voice, trained to! place | Ringling aggregation. All the time he remained kta of y 5 inevitable black] Mr. John’s good friends, He built a and shiny hat; the inevitable aS inline tbe | at Sarasota, ing mechanism of the plane. achieve depths by years of announc-! fabulous Ringling estate with its art the {believe ‘in starting airplanes by hand, |At the Municipal Airport here he has The Associated Press is exclusively ;™40 language and says: “Accept this | entitled to the use for republication , little leaflet as a symbol of respect of all news dispatches credited to it and cordiality; many happy returns or not otherwise credited in this|o¢ the day which so gladdens | newspaper and also the local news of | eee pe tue \ spontaneous origin published herein. | Oneal ge All rights of republication of all other | Whatever delights your heart and may | matter herein are also re: ed. satisfaction and comfort always shine {out of your countenance. The expression is hardly : ern trend but it which some of 4 now you; (Official City, State and County Newspaper) in line with has merits Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER followers do not incorporated) ain with respect to grace and dig- CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTO! Y of expression, | = -| In 1874.2 man named Louis Prang, Cannot Delay Much Longer | produced the fir Few legislatures have faced a more sale, difficult task than the one which) tay. confronts North Dakota's law-mak- ing body next month. Most states are in the same boat. Public treas- urles are low. Balances haye gone Best Dairy Herd and deficits remain. | Records of North Dakota Dairy No good can be served by holding | per Association members show that) | up this state as a horrible example. It is no worse off than South Da- Christmas card tor Since that time the custom has en hold so generally that the pro-| a rather important indu: | | the 54 pure bred Ho state in cows at the || peniter averaged 41.4) ary kota. I is vastly better off than) pounds of milk each during October || many other states that can be) to jead all other herds in the state/ named. | | The lesson has been learned gen-/ erally that prosperity cannot be leg-| islated. No fiat of law will keep the cupboard full, fill the land with} Plenty or distribute it perfectly ac-| favorable for dairying and that the cording to altruistic theories. |feeds raised in this section are as North Dakota has passed the stage| succulent as those produced of experimentation in state-owned! where. industries, It is hard to believe there} Unquestionably the will be any demand for extension! the state's instituti from a legislature under strict man-| tiary pr date of the people to cut and trim! budgets. There is no money in the farmers jeans for the politicians to go radical on. Politiclans may talk | that way on the hustings to get votes! There have been a lot of foolish|t and into soft jobs during these hard] rabble-rousing utterances about em- times, but the radicalism doubtless| pargoes on farm products to force will stop when the elected official) prices to higher levels, Many farm- gets his commission as he is now] ers are realizing to their sorrow that| faced with the problem of making an) the economic forces at work now are | official dollar go twice as far as it} more powerful than embargoes or did two or three years ago. When/ theories advanced by blatant dema-/ tax money rolls in freely the ten-|gogues. Constructive steps must be| dency to indulge in this and that) taken, it is true. Those who have! economic vagary is most tempting.|the farmers, cause at heart don't en-| ‘The temptation may be here in North| gage in sky writing or futile theories. Dakota but there are no funds to in- | dulge in more costly theories. ‘The piper is standing in the offing waiting to be paid off. His bill is Jong overdue. It ds felt that the legislature which |) convenes here next month realizes| the situation perfectly. Initiated | measures will force an economy of} $2,500,000. Effect of the salary cut voted in November cannot be determined un-| til the courts decide what the new laws provide, but whatever reductions are made will go toward balancing sociation members. This is a distinction which means} much to western North Dakota. It! shows that this climate is especially | any- grimmest of} Ss, the peniten-} ‘ings new glory to Bismarck | ti and western North Dakota by this} distinction of having one of the} tl Ex-Mayor James Walker has taken to chasing photographers. Good sign that recovery is at hand. t Editorial Comment — i The Moral of the Declining Pound (Chicago Tribune) duction of these missives has become ; ——-—-— |and more than double the average of || world coming to? at the outset she is 44 ye ;she has always wo! shop t |running her home on the side or by | way of recreation or diversion. Then a few yt let her tell about that at all. body is going to tell about his opera- conductor himself. my op: finest dairy herds in the- Northwest.! went she had what her doctor good na-| about that! alibi and so effectively disposes of the curiosity of make-believe friends. | wasn't so kind. | didn’t fool anybody, for the corre- |spondent remarks that she has not had my a wonderful doctor or health exr but just that there is no suh thing; in other words that explanation for | any ill health or what have you is) pure hokum. Some one came along at thi: __| would quiet \ {commenced smoking surreptitiously, A +) | and now she is an abject slave to the} +3) diem she does not s: jruining her morale, for every time | the craving for a smoke comes on she! | I has to run over to her home and hide| puffs at her fag. friends notice the odo ing; the boots, the long coat, alert, shifting eyes—all will be gone from the sidelines, that tented isthmus which connects the big tops and performers’ entrance w: You may have heard, or read, that John Ringling, last of the five Rin: ling brothers, who made circus his- tory, has turned active control of the “biggest show” over to one Sam Gumpertz, one of the kings of the outdoor show world. “Mister John,” it is said, is prepared to sit back and play the role of “master mind”—or something like that. Around the Broadway tent show folk you'll hear tales of a family squabble involving the two widows of dead Ringlings; Robert, sole male survivor, and Mis- ter John; you'll hear of Mister John’s ill health; you'll hear that the greatest show fortune ever piled up— some $60,000,000—has shrunk in these PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. | Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease | diagnosis, or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, | sel: dressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instruc- | tions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. A BAD CASE OF DUPLICITY This is just terrible. What is the ‘The lady confesses old, that | d hard in her business, als do him any harm later in life? J.C) Answer—I fancy the boy’s palate is still there, but his uvula is missing. The uvula is the tongue-like projec- tion at the tip of the soft palate. Its absence will never harm the boy. We often snip the uvula off when it seems in the way. Juvenile Languor I am 15 years old and do not feel} well at all. I am so drowsy all the; time and low-minded without rea- son, I feel cold even when it is yarm| | enough for everybody else. And I am getting too fat. I am five feet three inches high and I weigh 127 pounds... (L. S) Answer—Are you getting your iodin? Most boys and girls in your part of the country should have a regular iodin ration, to prevent gol- ter and inertia. Send a stamped en- velope bearing your address and ask | for instructions for taking the iodin | ration. (R. ing care of h ago she had her— But we're not going to If any- Operation. ion in this column it must be the Now when I had ion (excuse it, please) — y afterward the poor girl k to the shop, and by and by tS) uredly termed a nervous breakdown— How kind most good doctors are It is such a satisfactory And change of life. Oh-oh, But never mind. that It Personal Health Service i I should like to distribute to my/ classes copies of your monograph on! the protective diet ... (Supervisor).! Answer—I am glad to mail to any} member of your class who asks fon it, a copy of the monograph, provid- ed he or she incloses a stamped en- velope bearing the address. (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) y change of life. If she takes} ice she'll never have any such I don’t mean that I am such hing. Now comes the dreadful confession. junc- garettes so § ure and told the poor girl her “n { H | | | | habit. How many she burns per} but it is just) Imagine a man being known as in a closet or somewhere while she | “Mr. Garbo’—just that and nothing more! Only a fool or a hero could She is con: tly anxious lest her depression times; that “Mister John's” two privately owned railroads abide such an anomalous position— Greta Garbo, film actress. in the southwest have not done so ** * | well and that a vast investment in The most degrading punishment| Sarasota, Fla., has felt the alum of that can be meted out to any crim-| shrinking values. inal is to deprive him of the fran- * Ok OK chise—Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid, vice} GUMPERTZ IS IN president, New York Herald Tribune.| But you'll have to go to Coney 7 = Island to meet the new active A good old whipping post in Cityjof the “biggest show.’ There yo il Hall courtyard with 10 days of 100} find Sam Gumpertz busily engaged lashes each would soon rid the city of} in the affairs of the Coney Board of its criminals—Judge Harry S. Mc- Devitt, Philadelphia. Gumpertz hobby and yen is Coney *# * He worries about its building pro- Two things that must be achieved] gram and its civic advancement; its in European diplomacy are the/|side shows and its play-life. Although Trade. The great and particular security of France and the equality] his name has become no stich house-| of Germany. The only way to do|hold word as Barnum or Ringling that is through recognition by all| still he has been one of the most | states that war anywhere concerns] powerful off-stage figures in the out- anybody.—Lord Lytton, chairman,| door show game. | League of Nations Manchurian com- Coney is his pet because Coney) mission. played a great part in his youthful! Struggle. The “biggest show” is, of 6 museum, zoo and extravagant land-| a Hl | | re) | AFRICA DEVELOPS i Cape Town.—The Beit Trust has sett; —_—— ed aside some $200,000 for development | on ¥ of aviation in Africa. About $50,000 | Can You Make This of this amount is earmarked for work | |in Rhodesia along the Cairo-Cape | Town section of the Imperial Air-/ |ways. Four new emergency landing | | fields are to be erected along the more ; | Temote sections of the route. i FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: Sun Fish With These Pieces? | | Trade Mark Reg. U. S Pat. Off. (C) W. & M. HI-HO Puzzle No. 4—Cut out the seven pieces and fit them together in @ manner that will form the sil- houetted figure shown above. Blacken the backs of the seven pieces with ink or crayon, since solution of some of the puzzles requires that certain Pieces be turned over. All seven Some people have a perfectly Lack of understanding between the] course, his main interest. Soviet Union and the United States is the greatest plague in the world today.—-Colonel Hugh L. Cooper, builder of Russia's huge hydroelec- tric plant at Dnieprostroy. eo ——— | Barbs \ °° ——s They say beer is coming back, but we haven't seen any signs yet on the drug store windows. x eH Among other items that seem to be missing in the newspapers is one about ex-Candidate Fos- ter receiving a telegram from ex-Candidate Upshaw. x x ¥ Senator Borah still refuses to tell how he voted. Anyway, it doesn't seem to have made much difference. | ee Three men were sentenced in Chi- cago for carrying weapons in their automobiles. They should have un- derstood that in Chicago that’s what violin cases are for. ese * The head of the Bank of Eng- land says he approaches the problems of the depression “not. only in ignorance, but in hu- — out her, or,| et, lest her sons discover oi SI Bia budget. ‘ ‘ | The continuing decline of stenting | Now it seems the neighbors and} 66 ” No clearer mandate to 4 North Da-| provides the American people with a| the girls she comes in contact with | Central ( ross kota legislature has ever been as em-} oioap warning of what lies ahead of | 12 the course of business, have the . phatically laid down by an aroused vee most outspoken convictions about| © o a nation which heedlessly piles taxX/ females who smoke, and altogether it 5 electorate than is reflected in the} upon tax, The political advantages! [emcee key andl altogeth Tit] HORIZONTAL — Answer to Previous Puzzle 15 Obese. November protest. This should fore-| or this policy may seem to justify it| of duplicity and all that sort of thing.| 1 PUNDAIGE: Fenere toe ener close any tendency to run wild With} for a time, but the day of national) My advice to her is to explain to an ee / Le ‘4 ee saan public funds. humiliation cannot be postponed in-| her friends that her doctor advised Pau eein i a eee A most perplexing situation pre-| definitely. Taxes in Britain have ab-; her to indulge in smoking as a 1 Poh . eile eee z sorbed a larg of the British] harmful thing than resorting to m: 4 Narcotic. epolgieys: 2 its itself to the legislature. Prom- i z atta sti ; 16 Ornamenta- 23 Type of iron. sent reserve of capital and have severely; dicinal sedatives or stimulants. This! ou ao pe.0! ises have been made by some state handicapped British industry, The} will be no lie, for I'm her doctor, for tion. 24 Witticism, Officials that taxes will be eased as far as the farm is concerned and | shifted to other channels. How that is to be done has not been definitely outlined. Even though income tax rates are upped, it is doubtful wheth- er the revenue would be forthcom- English people have been eating their | savings and the fact is reflected in| the decline of their in the} terms of sounder currencies. The British made the ruinous imis- take of bleeding white their go industries and their solvent indiv duals. This was done in the belief the moment. sons are queer ones altogether, I'm willing to bet they'll think none the|’ 20 Issue under less of little ole ma if she enjoys an | in. occasional gasper right in her own! 21 Monke living room. There is really no good! 2 reason why an adult female should not smoke as freely as an adult male | 17 Tin lam 18 Any flattish, Unless the poor girl's nop: 25 Conclusion. 26 Right (abbr.). ing. North Dakota city incomes have gone down with farm incomes. One class cannot prosper in this state that the money so acquired could be used to better advantage if redis- ; tributed to those in moribund indus- | tries like coal mining. The result has been that the coal mining indus- try is still moribund, while men who call themselves miners, though they may not have dug a pound of coal in five years, have come to regard | idleness as a virtue and a living at the expense of others as a right. The dole provided a bare subs tence for a time, but now. with a de- cline of the pound to two-thirds of| its former value, even that miserable ! minimum will haye to be lowered. Aj )Jarge part of what the British popu- | ; lation eats and wears must be bought | abroad with gold. As the value of while the other suffers. There is some mention of a sales tax along the lines laid down by the state of Mississippi. This law, it is reported, is in favor with the rural population there. Some officials are urging such a law as a replacement tax only. Unless state budgets are to be slashed heavily and curtailments ef- fected in the state’s educational pro- gram, more revenue must be raised to meet demands. North Dakota's bond issues must be financed and placed on a better basis. This calls for more sacrifices on the part of the taxpayers. When the follies for which farmer and business men must now pay are finally liquidated, there should be few people in the state unconvinced of the error of their way. As the years roll on, the people of the state must pay more and more to sustain these so-called state indus- tries without any hope that the so- | Power of the dole must also decline. | Of course, it is not only these on| the dole who suffer. Fvery English- man will find his income will huy less and less as time goes on. Thus far the cost of living in Great Britain has not risen in step with the decline in the value of British money, but the rise in living costs cannot be permanently avoided. Certainly the scheme of the government to stabil- ize the pound through the agency of a huge government fund for speculation in foreign exchanges will fail of its purpose, just as the farm board’s half billion dollars failed to stabilize the prices of wheat and} cotton, The example of Britain is there for the enlightenment of American oftice holders who may be tempted to increase the tax extortions in this; country as a humanitarian meas- ure. If we in this country employ the taxing power to destroy the solvent in the vain attempt to rescue the insolvent we shall reap the same harvest of disaster which the British are now garnering. the pound declines the purchasing| Palate completely gone. does. A gentleman who wishes to 27 Wide smile. smoke smokes temperately and never| 28 Bows. 55 Mug. inflicts annoyance on others who, 30 Therefore. 56 Presses. may not like it. A lady may enjoy; 31Fourth note. 58 To bark, the same privilege. | 32 Major scale. 59 Demise. However, I sent this poor girl the 61 Basis of bony best instructions I can give to help tissue. victims of the tobacco habit break 36 Balsam, 63 Mount Whit- the grip of the habit, and I'm glad! 3s point, ney is in the to send such advice to anybody who! 49The shank. — Nevada tells me he or she is addicted to this! 41 wagers. Mountains? habit. 43 To stream. 64 Irritated. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SS Reclamation: 65 Undaunted. page: A Bore Urals 49 Buzzes. VERTICAL Son's tonsils removed two months ago. Comparing his throat with the throats of other children who have had their tonsils removed I find his Would this | i 1 Public officer 51 Male cat. who attests 33Jn a condition , deeds, (el at ted lh | tts i | | 50 Senior. | | eee AHO INVENTED THE WnFIG THIS CALLED IN , SUBMARINE’? THE STEEL INDUSTOY? aie CNP PI ial iad ind i dU tT NI | TUN id FCCP REP FCCP ROC aiwv, <08e8 27 Stiff breezes, 29 Fruit dots. 31 Watch pocket, 33 Males, 35 Your and my. 37 Implement. 39 Verse drama, 40 People united politically, 42 Ocean. 43 Matter, 44To deprive of 2One instructed in a secret system. 3Steel string. Gumpertz} ripping time at terror movies, pieces must be used in each puzzle. Sy ANTHONY A Copyrionr py covict, FRIEDE, INC, — Dt Geraldine Foster, 2 very at- tractive young reception clerk in the Washington Square office of Dr. Humphrey Maskell, vanished | from her Morningside Heights! apartment on the night before Christmas. Her room mate, Betty | ta} Canfield, reported her disappear- ance to the police three days after Christmas and appealed directly » Hole pO: Thatcher | ‘olt for aid. Betty held | conversation with’ Geraldine voa| around ten gfclock tonight? Mind? Saturday, Christmas Eve, during Thank you. which the latter said she wished i ii she was dead. Betty telephoned||—-nformation Withheld. | Geraldine’s mother and learned she| Turning _ from the telephone, had not arrived for, the holiday.| Thatcher Colt said to me: @ missing girl's fiance, Harry| «p, ; i Armstrong, had not seen her since Canfield eh ae nine ieee Friday. Dr. Maskell says he re--| “Looks like a little beaver with turned to his office Saturday after-| those bright eyes.” noon to find Geraldine gone. It is a habit of Thatcher Colt CHAPTER III. to gommare Rumsa beings to ant ee ike Ger-| mals, birds or fishes—every face 6 HY didn’t you like Ger-| i sees suggests to him @ parallel aldine’s employer?” | from natural history. asked Thatcher Colt,| | “But she didn’t tell us all she knows, Tony,” added the Commis- sioner with a sigh. “Nice, sweet girl, from a good family, but she comes down here and tells me lies. That's too bad.” “But, chief, how did she—” _ Thatcher Colt waved my ques- tion aside. Bending again over his traffic blue-prints, he added: “Get your dinner, Tony, and meet me at the garage in an hour. I noticed how you admired my friend’s niece, so I am taking you up there with me tonight,” What had made Thatcher Colt believe that Betty Canfi nediotinits Ge, one oan _ The inspector is a model of dis- |cipline for the whole Department. Showing no surprise whatever, he quietly acquiesced and departed without another word. The Commissioner was again Iking on the telephone. Humphrey Maskell? This is the Police Commissioner speaking. Could you arrange to be “in your office if I dropped in suddenly. Betty’s dark eyes flashed. “The reason why 1 cannot tell,” she quoted from the old rune about Doctor Fell. “I mean I dislike him instinctively—without any real rea- son whatever. But there must be something wrong with a man whose own father and brother won’t have anything to do with him.” “Thanks, Miss Canfield. Stop worrying and we'll try to find your friend. Give my best to your uncle—and expect us about eight tonight. The address?” She gave the number of the Esplanade, an apartment house on Morningside Drive, and had reached the door when Thatcher solitary dinner in a ‘STRIBUTED BY KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC Colt called out: telling me what you and Geraldine had_ foi that ““Miss Canfield, would you mind r lunch on Christmas Eve | tried but came no nea: ques t lunchroom I puzzled vith knitted brows, rer to the answer. |It was generally that way when I 4 Moccasin: parents, at the Brevoort?” eee SEE Eee tee noustts 5 Additional. 46 Mare. The girl’s eyes held a startled | In all the that T had known 6Second note, 48 Arid. gleam as she considered for a/him he had inv riably baffled nr $ Either. 49 To skip. moment. Had she possibly divined and yet I was closer to him than 9 Apportioned _ 50 Precept. the gruesome import of the Com-|any ‘other person. During those medicine. 52Greatest in missioner's question? Then she |days at headquarters, and expecial- 10 Frozen water. degree. rere: ‘d snails, Mr. Colt, Why|2,4uting the Geraldine Foster ex- 11Dove’s home, 54Cry of a ae cae at FREE Aire eOles y his political enemies all 2 Portrait : ophanl Sig personal activities in th i Stee Mean Thanks, and au revoir,” and mostly interference for 13 Where did the 57 Mesh of lace. English unem- 60 Ever. ployed riot re- 62 Northeast. cently? 63-Spain (abbr.). i ok 2 mae Nei Thatcher Colt picked up his desk telephone. ire to be on the front page j Deep in Thought. [|exery morning, and that his secret —-|ambition was : | “Betty Ganfield gave me an in-|York °” “#® t© be Mayor of New uiring glance, for which I was!” Nothing could be leeply grateful; it was the first} the san What Trae font ime she had looked in my dirce- | really wanted was to be @ musician tion. Then she turned and the door | and poet (in deadly privacy he ap- of Thatcher Colt’s office closed be-| Pied himself to the tones of the hind her. ~The Commissioner was sonnet and the villanelle and prac. talking into the inter-oftice tele-|tised cadenzas one flute) but phone. unfortunately natu! “Have Inspector Ruggles come|him a detective and, ante pa in, told me, with that quirkish smile of his, “Not even my duties as Police Commisioner shall keep me from the business of 0) ving crimes,” More than anything else in the world, Thatcher Colt was afraid of being exposed in his true personal- ity as a sentimentalist. He de- spised all emotion as a weakness, and he got quite angry when I as- sured him that the cold reason he brought to bear upon his daily work was also an emotion of an- e of orgiastic ke of publicity, that he had While he was waiting, Thatcher Colt, reread the note that Betty Canfield had brought him. His sombre brown eyes were exceed- ingly thoughtful, as if he were turning in his mind some indeter- minate project. When Ruggles entered the Commissioner gave him erisp orders: “Send a detective over to the office of Doctor Humphrey Mas- kell at 186 Washington Square, North. Find out what he knows about the disappearance of a girl) other kind, a t: who worked in his office, Her} mental frenzy. rd new him better name was Geraldine Foster.” | than he eared to know hinae . He “Okay,” replied Ruggles heavily. | could sit at his desk and deride all He turned and strode toward the| human feelings as glandular and door when the Commissioner un-| depraved, and at that very moment expectedly barked at him: have in his pocket a just-composed ‘Never mind, Ruggles. Forget | sonnet to the red-headed rt who iu’ had ditched him for a duke while Dik BBOT he was fighting in France. I had known him some years before that disastrous romance, having met him first when I was a reporter on the staff of the old Sun. Later, I served under him in the Argonne. But for many years after the de- mobilization we did not sce each other. I had returned to news- paper work and Thatcher Colt was traveling in the Orient. As soon as he came back to New York, he was appointed Police Commis- sioner and promptly made me his secretary, All this I recalled at dinner, b as later I hurried through a’ part ticularly dank and unpleasant night back to Headquarters, I con- fess that I was also beguiled with musings about the pretty girl who a few hours before had come to the office with her strange story. Would Thatcher Colt be able to solve the mystery she had laid be. fore him? In the garage, I found Neil Mc- Mahon, the Commissioner’s chaut. feur, seated at the wheel of that Powerful motor car which a great manufacturer recently presented to the department in gratitude for one of the unpublished exploits of Thatcher Colt. It is an extraor- dinary machine, equipped with many secret devices from the trip- lex ‘non-shatterable glass of its windows and windshields to the two concealed sub-calibre Thomp- son machine guns. Soon’ we were joined by the Commissioner, and “Neil drove us out into Broome Strect. All this part of New York now seemed de- iserted, and yet within a few minutes’ walk of us were half of the city’s millions, compressed into a few huddled and jagged tene- ment strects—the Italian section around Mulberry Park, and China- town, the Bowery and all the crowded Lower East Side, in- habited chiefly by Jewish im- migrants, made famous in the novels of Fannie Hurst and Nat. Ferber. a a eS ee | The Search Begins. | "His eyes closed, the Commis. sioner brooded in silence all through the journey uptown—an exciting journey always with Neil McMahon at the wheel—Neil, who had four bullet scars from his ser- vice in plain clothes, whose pale, moon face and faint blue eyes are so inexpressive, but who blows his stren, goes under the red lights, makes left-hand passes around street cars, cuts through any maze of traffic like @ knife, and exposes himself and you to death a dozen times in a simple ride across the ht o'clock town. Exactly at ei Thatcher Colt and i reached the Esplanade Apartments. The build- ing was one of those architectural monstrosities which command the high ground in the region of Cov lumbia University. In the day» light from its ornate entfunce one can look eastward across the park- ed vailey at miles of tenements and elevated car tracks, and be- ey these to the river and the long grey ghost of Hell Gate Bridge. The apartment we sought was in the rear of the fourth floor, and Betty Canfield opened the bat heard lave you heard anything?” was her first question. re Told that it was too early to bore for any results from the Ro lice inquiries, she at once led us wn the tiny entrance corridor. (Te Be Continued Tomorrow.) + re a { ® a