The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 16, 1933, Page 6

\ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1983 The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) if Published by The Bismarck Trib- ‘une Company, Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck @s second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN i President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year ..... + $7.20 Daily by mail per year (in Bis- marck. 7.20 per y ‘Weekly by mail in state, three years .....+ oe ‘Weekly by mail Dakota, per year ............ 150 ‘Weekly by mail in Canada, per year 3.00 Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Fair Deal for Sportsmen If some of the talk now heard in sportsmen’s circles comes to fruition at the Izaak Walton convention in Devils Lake, we shall see another ef- fort to revise the law governing the operation of the state game and fish department. If it comes, it will be no reflection on the present personnel but an at- tack on a system which some sports- men believe is inimical to their in- terests. ‘The average man who hunts and fishes would like to see politics en- tirely eliminated from the operation of this important state function. He knows, however, that this is a prac- tical impossibility and so the aim is to reduce the political factor as much as possible, thereby making it cost him much less than he believes to be the case at present. The basis for this is clear enough. It is the sportsman who foots the bill for this department. It is supported by license fees paid by men who hunt and fish and it is unfair to these citi- zens if anything less than the most. for their money is obtained. Aside from whatever accusations ™may result from the appointment of inexperienced men to deal with sub- jects which in some respects are highly technical, there seems no dis- Position to criticize the individuals now in charge of the game and fish department. The thing which does appear objectionable is the system which places on unskilled shoulders the burden of making and carrying ‘ut game and fish policies. The claim 4s made that when any new man comes. in it takes him some time to learn the ropes. When any man is going out, by reason of a political turnover, he is unwilling to Jaun¢th any projects which will continue beyond his term in office. The result, say the sports- men, is inevitably to promote inef- ficiency even if the men in office are generally competent. If any plan is suggested to take this department out of politics it will be the second in recent years. In 1928 the old game and fish commis- sion idea was abandoned for so-called one-man control, the argument being that the former system resulted in too much overhead expense and in- Yolved too many salaries, ‘The one-man commission idea was designed to end that complaint. Now, with the one-man system functioning, the new objection is raised. If careful analysis of the facts show it to be justified there should be no hesitancy in making a new revision. Regardless of politics or who Is in office, the sportsmen who Pay the freight are entitled to a fair deal. Crusaders Open Racket War Not least significant of recent de- ‘velopments is the fact that the Cru- saders, originally organized to fight Prohibition, have now converted themselves into+an organization to Make war on racketeers. Because of the intimate hook-up between the prohibition law and the| racketeer, any group which works for the repeal of prohibition has got to give some attention to the racketeer problem. ‘There is no question but that the facketeer has done a great deal to swing public sentiment against pro- hibition. Justly or otherwise, the 18th ‘smendment has been blamed for his existence. Byt we should be making @ tremendous mistake if we took it tor granted that all we need to do to e@bolish him is to abolish the 18th amendment. That would help, of course. The bootleg liquor racket was first of the _large-scale rackets, and from the very start it was the most lucrative. But ho one who reads the daily news- Papers and sees ever-recurring head- lines about the “milk racketeers,” the “dry cleaning racketeers,” the “labor wacketeers,” the “gambling syn- icates,” and so on, can be so naive @s to suppose that the booze racket stands alone. During the decade that began in 9920 the words “organized crime” took on a very real and definite Meaning. Before that, big cities had hhad scattered groups of criminals “pyerating independently, and they ‘had had more or less loose groups of 0! tion will only be a first step in the hoodlums who worked in gangs; but there never had been any genuine centralization of any carefully-plan- ned organization. The powerful and {cohesive underworld gangs that curse | our cities today are creations of the| !last dozen years. | In part these groups owed their| birth to prohibition—but only in part. | ‘They are even more indebted to the! {fact that through many years we had Jet venality, favoritism and self-inter- est rule our city politics. The ward lleader, the corrupt alderman, the crooked political boss—these men presided at the racketeer’s birth, and they continue to shelter the racketeer today. That is why the Crusaders’ action is so encouraging. Repealing prohibi- war on rackets. To pretend that it will do the whole job would be to delude ourselves in a tragic and ex- pensive manner, Remedy for Evil Speaking at Minneapolis Wednes- day, J. F. T. O'Connor, comptroller of the currency, predicted that we are on the way to a new and better financial set-up as a result of the Glass banking bill than was possible under the present arrangement. His view is that the existence of state and national banking systems Side by side has been archaic because of duplication of effort and diversity in the laws governing them. One control and one examining system are in view as a result of those provisions in the new law which are intended to force state banks into the national system. In some respects this unquestion- ably is true. Perhaps we have out- grown the state bank and that new times call for new arrangements. Few are disposed to defend the system we have had in the past. But it is not to be overlooked that there are dangers in all of these plans to centralize power and authority, In good hands they may be an improve- ment. In evil hands they may prove @ Scourge to the nation. More and more, apparently, we are having to put our trust in public ser- vants. Under the new set-up they AMERICA’S MISSIONARIES If We Can't Convert Them This Trip, Let’s Give ‘Em Up as a Bad Job be Soro ONT 0 cate Test” 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, self-addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters 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. can exert terrific pressure upon the lives of every individual, affect every business. Maybe it is the only way out. If it is, the duty of every citizen is plain. He must give more attention to the selection of these servants than he ever has before. He must discard pre- Judice and exercise the same common Sense that he uses in determining his own affairs. He must learn to dis- tinguish between the false and the true, the fakir and the honest man, in public life as he does in his social contacts. the duties of every citizen under our system of Democracy. But in the past it hasn't made so much difference as it will in the future. If it had we might not still be a Democracy. Self-Defeating Selfishness One of the numerous pertinent re- marks made by Secretary Hull in his speech at London Wednesday was. that the world must banish “self- defeating selfishness” if progress is to be made. The phrase is a happy one for it Pictures clearly one of the handicaps under which the world labors. Self- ishness, almost invariably defeats its own ends, Many a man has pursued success, indulged every selfish whim, ignored his finer instincts, only to find that he had lost all touch with happiness. Many have found wealth and power, attained through strict adherence to Selfishness, ashes in their mouths, It is so with nations. By exercising selfish instincts to the utmost they have damaged themselves as well as others. If the nations only had the nerve to adopt and follow the golden rule laid down for us 1,900 years ago the conference at London would be a suc- cessful and not very difficult affair. Editorial Comment Editorlals printed below show the trend of thought by other editors, They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with Thy Tribune's policies. ‘Wilt Thou Be Gone? (New York Times) By the president and by the entire country the senate had distinctly been handed its hat. But that furnished only a new opportunity to talk through it. Senators found parting such “sweet sorrow” that they would fain keep on making speeches till it be morrow. They seem to have a clear case of Narcissus complex. It was impossible for them to believe that others did not admire them as much as they admired themselves, The Particular occasion of their refusal to adjourn and go home only illustrated the persistence of senatorial vanity. President Roosevelt had ventured to send in several executive orders, con- Solidating governmental bureaus and abolishing various commissions for the purpose of saving about $25,000,- 000 a year. Two red rags thrust at once in the face of the senate! It had not been consulted by the presi- dent. Then how could senators tell that some of their own pets and Proteges were not to be eliminated from jobs and salaries? Parlous mat- ter enough! A flood of filibustering senatorial speeches was the inevitable Tesult, Probably the outraged dignity of congress in session much longer. The President has the whip hand. His executive orders will, under the law, go into effect even if the senate with- holds its approval. As for public sen- timent, it has made clear that it would fairly dote upon the absence of the senate. The wedding ring originated in [PePe DECRICKING A CRICK IN THE |tims of crick in the back to deter- BACK mine for themselves. ‘These, of course, always have been |* the senate will not suffice to keep! An automobile dealer says he has | found out how to decrick a crick in| the back. Naturally he was particu- larly interested in what we said about it here recently. He craves to tell the world that: “T have suffered from this and eventually landed with an osteo- path who treated me for it and told me the cause. He also told me how to treat myself or rather to have some one treat me if I felt it coming on. When this occurs if one lies flat on his back and another ' person raises the legs and lowers them straight down again in a straight line with the body, one leg will be found somewhat longer than the other. . .” Which reminds us that careful measurements of the length of the legs will generally show one is longer than the other, or the other is shorter than ’t’other as you pre- fer, in normal persons. However, let the brother Kiwarian have his head for a bit longer: “. , . one leg somewhat longer than the other due to the in- nominate having slipped some- what.” (This Latin our osteo- pathic colleague’s good friend is pulling on us refers to the wing of the hip bone at its juncture with the sacrum or base of the spine—I say junction, not joint. The amount of slipping or dis- location of the bones, in cases of sacro-iliac strain or sprain or crick in the back, is a question which has caused much contro- versy. But the controversy may be left to the physicians, for I» don’t believe it makes any prac- tical difference so far as diagno- sis and treatment og sacro-iliac sprains or crick in the back may be concerned). “Then if the sec- ond person will grasp the shorter leg and flex both hip and knee several times, straightening it out again each time, until it be- comes relaxed, and then give it a sudden yank ... if the first yank does not equalize the length of the two legs, repeat it until the legs are even. “My brother could not get out of bed one morning. One yank cured him. I slipped en the ten- nis court an dsuffered extremely until I got yanked. Another time I jumped down from a steplad- der, landing heavily on my heel and suffered a severe crick in the back and down the back of the hip, but a yank or two cured it. It seems dumb of the physi- cians that so many of them have never learned about this. I fixed up our head mechanic once by yanking him out of a sacro-ilias sprain, “In giving the yank the leg is snapped out straight from the fully flexed position, as the in- ertia or relaxation with the bending of thigh on hip and leg on knee helps to draw the dis- placed bone into place.” How much truth and how much poetry there may be in our friend’s clinical contribution I leave for vic- CAN YOU NAME THIS NOTED COMEDIENNE ? | Frankly the osteopaths, darn them, taught us regular physicians a good deal about sacro-iliac strain or sprain, or “slipped innominate” as they call it. So if the automobile dealer has correctly interpreted the instructions given by his osteopath, T’ll say it sounds plausible enough. But He’d Know His Ham and Eggs The recipe you gave for anemia is rather confusing. My pharmacist couldn’t figure out whether you mean an ounce of iron and an ounce of ammonium citrate or half an ounce of each. . . So he used tincture of iron chloride... (Mrs. C. E. D.) Answer—Fortunate he didn’t use moth balls or something. He must be singularly dumb. Iron and ammon- ium citrate is an old, old, standard remedy, official in the Pharmaco- poeia for many years. The Pharma- copoeia is the legal standard formu- lary for pharmacists. Probably yours wouldn’t know it from the street directory, but I’ll bet he can turn out excellent cheese sandwiches. Mr. President, we are back of you 96.8%—but we can’t go the other 3.2%.—Rev. Charles Oscar Johnson of Northern Baptist Church and Dr. Monroe Elmon Dodd of Southern Baptist Church on visit to White House. ee % ‘There is no such thing as the pres- ent; all is either past or future.—Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University. ee % Vibrations of fine music put mys- terious initiative, resolution and cour- age into the normal individual.— Treasury Secretary Woodin, who is also a composer. * 8 ‘The man who keeps everything not worth remembering often attains the university degree—George Bernard Shaw. * % *® ‘The inertia of the intelligent is a more immediate and serious menace than the violence of the mob.—Rev. Ralph W. Sockman, New York. * 8 % I venture the statement that the lamentable things happening in Ger- many today have their seeds in un- fortunate clauses in the Treaty of Ver- sailles—Owen D. Young, author of the reparations payment plan. IN NEW | YORK New York, June 16.—Meanderings: Peggy Hopkins Joyce is just a novice matrimonialist, after all. Lieut. Wil- Mam T. Comerford, naval reserve of- ficer and one-time appointee to the U. 8. Shipping Board, is hunting a pub- lisher for his book called “My First Fourteen Wives.” He has had that many too. ...The June wedding news includes notices of some Communist. nuptials in the Bronx charging 15 cents public admission, and plans for ® Highland, N. Y., nudist camp mar- riage ceremony as soon as a nudist pastor can be found. Meanwhile a Coney Island resort is seeking a couple to wed in @ roller coaster. Rice is al- ready sprouting in the Jersey mead- ows from the grains dropped there by celebrants of aerial weddings. And it's even rumored that one old-fash- ' SHE’S A QUEEN | HORIZONTAL 1 Who In the Indy in the picturet ~ 18 Gibbon, 44An Australian flying pha- Janger, 15 Striped camel's hair fabric. ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE. foot. D Otherwine, 10 Prefix denoting 16 Looplike structure on handle, 37 Rends asunder. 18 To portray, 20 Artifieind channel, 21 Protuberance 22 To observe. 24 Rallrond writing fluid. 30 Republican acnator from ho Peak. 42 Combing form ag Meaning skin. ako. 5 5 Willlam 5. haere pay, ‘3 Reawon. a4 Winged. te 4.Wh lower. 36'To provide food. 37 You je 58 The heir Indy in the LN’ | of the pleture. 59 Donkey-like beast. VERTICAL 2 Bone of the forearm. AT Threefold. 3 Orient, 45 Pretense or 4 Age. argument, 5 Strifen. 49 Organs of Colored por- it tien of the eye, 51 7'To dwell, SBack of the SR eT | N* i) unba) and could hot seem to shake off the de-| th | tonea pair plans to get married in a church. . . = see COWARD PACKS ’EM IN Card from Sophie Tucker, night- clubbing on Chicago's Gold Coast, says “Big doing here. Better come on out” ... And most of Broadway seems to be planning to go... The farewell party for Noel Coward brought out Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Tall- ulah Bankhead, Clifton Webb, Fred Astaire, Adolpe Menjou, Conway Tearle, Peggy Wood, Richard Barth- elmess, Gloria Swanson, Hope Wil- lams, Lee Tracy, Doug Fairbanks, Jr., and just about everybody who's any- body. . . Frederick Hollander, the composer just arrived from Germany, received newspapermen at his hotel suite and asked them to join him in @ smack of cognac. They assented readily enough, were amazed to hear him call room-service and calmly order two bottles of brandy. Holland- er hung up the phone after a minute of argument, turned, crestfallen, to his guests. “So sorry,” he said. “I thought you people had repealed your prohibition last Abril. Now I am told it was beer only”... **e * THAT GUY DEMPSEY Nocturnal notes: Roller skating at the Village Nut Club. . . Colored gal boxers at the Mayfair. .. Yo-yo tops at the Village Barn... Frank and Milt Britton smashing violins . . Lindy Hop contests here and there... Jimmy Durante smashing pianos everywhere he goes ... All of which make for strenuous evenings. . . The town’s taixing about Mickey Alpert’s singing at the new Vanity Fair... And so help us, there’s now a Mickey Mouse Club, with @ floor show led by Thelma White and an orchestra of Mickey Mouse Trappers, and a dance floor built like a huge mouse trap. ‘The world isn’t exactly beating a path to the door. In spite of the press of his promo- tional duties, and sometimes in con- nection with them, Jack Dempsey’s per clubs regularly. Always gets a spotlight and a hand, always acknow- ledges them with that half-shy little gesture so familiar to fight fans for years ... When the Manassa Maestro dances he leads with his left (foot) fighter-fashion . . . Also, relic of his training days, he still loves practical Jokes. Other night he shampooed the: pate of his dozing publicity man, Sam Taub, with peroxide, and was grati- fied to see Taub’s hair turn straw- colored... . Leaving an unbrella in his Broadway office, Jack put a tag on it reading: “Hands off. Property of an ex-champion heavyweight boxer.” Next day it was gone, with a sassy [note in its place: “Umbrella borrow- ed by an ex-champion long-distance runner.” finding time to get around fo the sup-/ B; Menoken By MRS, JENNIE DANCE The 4-H Poultry club met at the A. C. Dance home Friday with seven members present. The 4-H Sewing club met-with Roberta Craven Sat- urday with seven members and one visitor present. The Corn club met at the Fred Roberson home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Ayers motored to Anamoose to attend the mail- men’s convention. They were accom- panied by Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Abelein who visited Mr. Abelein’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Abelein. fi John and Harry Walgren of Chi- cago are now visiting their mother, Mrs. Carl Bjorstrom 7 Mrs. Homer Craven entertained the Menoken Homemakers Thursday afternoon with seven members and two visitors present. The project leaders, Mrs. V. M. Craven apd Mrs. A. C. Dance, gave the last project lesson. served. Elmer Klipstein left Thursday for Devils Lake where he will attend the national guard encampment. Bud Bates and Albert Dralle left Satur- day to attend. Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Bourne of Mc- Kenzie were guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Graves Sunday. School election was held Tuesday with Thomas Moffit being elected director. Misses Emma and Althea King are now home from Jamestown college to spend the summer vacation. fe Scene | Ecklund \ sr By MISS PAULINE SPITZER A delicious luncheon was Shoppers in the Capital City Sat- urday were Mr. and Mrs. Joe Warm- ka, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Schuler and daughter Dorothy, Martha Matz- Cet and Mrs, C. Spitzer and son job, C. Spitzer accompanied Bill Gerke of Baldwin to the Fred Brokup and William Wagner homes, near Mercer, Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Deide, son Leonard and daughter Annie, shopped in Wilton Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fox and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Ollenberger picnicked at the lake Sunday. ton Thursday. Those who gathered at the Henry Fox home Wednesday evening to help Mrs. Fox celebrate her birth- day were Mr. and Mrs. Matt Ben- field and family, Mr. and Mrs. 0. Kilian, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Warmka, 7" Mary Lou Thurston, beautiful orphan, seeks a position in tl home of wealthy Mrs. Lorrimer, when the latter's son, Travers, 2 shell-shocked war veteran, enters. At sight of Mary Lou he becomes wildly excited, takes her in his arms and calls her “Delight” and .” Later, Mrs. perimey ex- lains that Travers has mi Stary Lou for Delight Harford, whom he claims he married in England, but of whom no record can be found. Mrs. Lorrimer per- suades Mary Lou to assume the role of Delight to help Travers regain his health. Travers is told that, as Delight was so young at the time of her marriage and had since thought him dead, they must start all over again. In her first encounter with Travers, Mary Low plays her part perfectly. Travers takes new interest in life. Mrs. Lorrimer hopes he will fall in love with Mary Lou. Travers, believing Larry Mitchell, Mary Lou's friend, is in love with her, reminds Mary Lou that she is still his wife. CHAPTER XXII. er at Westwood Copyright, 1930, House that year was to be a great event. It was the first Christmas, since Travers Lor- er’s return from nce, his mother felt she could throw her- self wholeheartedly into the festive preparations. She very much to Ss thankful for. In the first place, Lorrimer was decidedly bet- ter; he had not had one of his nervous seizures since that of the day of Mary Lou’s arrival. He continued to eat and to sleep better and was much in the open air. He was beginning to laugh again, to put on weight and to tol- erate the presence of other people outside of those of his household. Tolerate is the exact, most de- scriptive word, as he did not, as yet, genuinely welcome them. But, as his mother had told him it was not fair to “Delight” to keep her a virtual recluse from her kind, he accepted the occasional visits from outsiders, notably those of Jenn: Wynne and her frivolous crowd, and contented himself in thinking that it was for Delight’s sake. The mere fact that he had begun to think of the happiness and com- fort, the pleasure and welfare of another person besides himself was a very excellent sign that he was becoming more normal, more “hu- man,” as.Mary Lou expressed it to Dr. Mathews. | Miss Diplomacy [ Then, too, Margaret Lorrimer was able to go about more, to see her old friends, to have them, now and then, in her house. And she herself was happy in Mary Lou’s/thrill companionship, which she found unfailingly friendly, sunny, affec- tionate and understanding. Shortly before Christmas Mrs. Lorrimer and Mary Lou permitted themselves several mysterious trips to New York. Lorrimer grumbled, but only half-h ly. A few months earlier and he would have been overtaken with such a panic of nerves on being left alone that his mother, whatever had been her plans, would have cancelled them, rather distress him, As it was, the first time they left him for the entire day they found hi return, wandering restlessly about, lever ridden. He pression which had seized him the instant: of their departure, and it teok all Mary Lou’s diplomatic chatser to win him back at dinner “time to something more EARS ing his recent self. Later Mrs. Lor- rimer commented doubtfully upon this reaction and wondered if they AKE-BELIEV Detiibuted by King Features Syndtate, Inc. Marcella Klein, Mr. and Mrs, Ben |¢—________——_+ Ludwig Siminski shopped in BE Ollenberger and son Allan, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Car! Spitzer, sons Robert, Leonard, Fred- erick and Herbert and daughters Pauline and Aileen, Mr. and Mrs, Lawrence Stocks and daughter Bev- erly and Pete Mitchell. The evening was spent playing whist. FLAPPER. FANNY SAYS: REG. U. 5. PAT. A girl can always put the skids | under a poor skate by taking a good pair along. i ! | | i i | by Faith Baldwin should go on with their Christmas the | plans, Shich included other trips to town. But Mary Lou suggested that it was wise for him to accus- tom himself to these perfectly natural absences on their part. So, more or less ignoring his un- easiness, they went again...and yet again, On one occasion they saw a popular matinee after their shopping, and upon another Mary Lou mad flying trip to Oak- dale, armed with many bundles marked, “Do Not Open Until Christmas!” [Invalid by Choice | Billy greeted her with pleasure but some, abstraction. He had ac- quired a passion for his teacher in school and had made a number of intimate friends among his school fellows, including one little girl with curly hair and a way with er. So that Mary Lou was re- lieved to find that, after all, he did not miss her especially, al- though he was mad to see her; re- lieved, and a little hurt, Being human. She found Adelaide wit six interesting new symptoms and as many new pounds. And Gram as active and bustling and devoted to her entrancingly invalid daugh- ter and lively, healthy grandson as well. Adelaide demanded chapter and verse of Mary Lou’s companions and was terribly disappointed when Mary Lou was unable to report any malignant disease or mania. However, Adelaide insisted that, 1 by FAITH BALDWIN as you suggested . . . slipped back to second childhood, perhaps. I’m having a perfectly elegant time! And you’ have to get over your cynicism, too, for your mother and I will need you to help trim the tree. And you just can’t back out of it; you’re exactly the right height!” she added, dosking up at him with an impersonal an measuring gaze, “and what's more, you’re going to come with me this afternoon and pick out the tree! I suggested we cut it from West- wood, and your mother has con- sented. Over in the north grove the trees are very thick. I spoke to Henderson about it and he said a little thinning out wouldn’t hurt.” Henderson was the head garden- er. Lorrimer shrugged his should- ers. “Just as you say—but it is a lot of nonsense.:, commercialized as the devil.” Mary Lou sat back on her heels and surveyed him. “Gosh!” she said, “I’m certainly sorry for you, Travers Lorrimer!” He flushed, shrinking in his oversensitiveness from the least hint of criticism. “Now why, exactly?” he man- d to ask. “If you don’t know,” she replied cryptically, “I’m sorrier for you than ever. Your mother has a list of poor families she always gives to every Christmas. Lots of things go in the baskets;” she in- dicated near-by dolls, drums, on her arrival, Mary Lou wash her| echa: if hands vigorously Some. DEM: finds” “There'll be fosd ae on fangled disinfectant which was the invalid’s latest adoration, “for,” said Adelaide, gloomily, “you can’t be sure you haven’t brought some infection with you!” On still another trip to town joined Mary Lou for lunch as Mrs. Lorrimer had a call to pay and a luncheon engagement to keep. And he promised her, over the table at one of their old-time favorite ‘“Wopperies,” that he ‘would come out for Christmas Day. Upon each occasion, if they sep- arated during the day, Mrs. Lor- rimer and Mary Lou met at some appointed place and motored back to Westwood together. Shortly before Christmas Lorri- mer wandered into the morning room where Mary Lou was busy with packages, sitting on the floor in a muddle of twine, gilt cord, red ribbon and colorful papers starred with gold and silver. Tags and labels lay strewn all about her and she was having a perfectly lorious time. Mrs. Lorrimer had nm watching and helping her, for, like all very nice women, she had never outgrown her childhood at the giving seagon and had just left the room. ry Lou looked up from her gay welter and litter and laughed at Lorrimer’s| tated SEWell” ssid Lo “yo ell,” sais rrimer, “you have changed, haven't you’? “Why?” me Based him, experi- encing, as always, st constriction of the heart whieh came to her each time he referred to the real Delight and his intimate knowledge of her. “Why, one of the first thin, Ma ever said to me—we were talk- ight it-waa fa lob of eyewash? was ‘a lot of eye-w: except iF aicren ." 1 " a ly unpleasant girl ie genuine Delight must ee been, thought Mary Lou, and felt suddenly horrified that Lorrimer could confuse the two of them. It hurt her pride. “Did 1?_ Well,” she answered, smiling, “I suppose at that age it must have been the fashion to he cynical and all that; I’vg fruit and all. This year she is ing to take things to town herself Purvested Mary Loc, mailing Sorat suggest lary Lou, ing at him, “that you couldn’t ae mee a ovelier gift than to go with her.” “I hate crowds,” he muttered, “and misery—” Mary Lou rose suddenly to hi feet, scattering the per and ribe bons like a gay wild rain of over- sized confetti. | Think of Others 1 Her temper was always hot and quick, although as a rule she had fe meer ee But today sne lost it... .or mislaid it tem ily. If she hadn’t liked hife See she wouldn’t have eared to such a Bertess ie ane did care. The ark blue of her eyes was b! ae disappointment. nae . I’m ashamed of you,” she told him, unsteadily but clearh “Why your mother and her life with all these years. Think of the men who came home from the war, as broken as you and a great deal worse—legless, eyeless, with shattered nerves and devac- bodies... men whe didn't have a mother like yours to come bone to, who sida come home to an eaut com- fort, who gan any lidn’t have anyone or Men out j The real 5 ate Men in hospi of ie war, . thik eat you. ve bl em. o1 miserable ) tig, you were woe were de] .. But you haven't even a limp to show for it ali, tor ascar. You've « perfectly sound constitution, your th is, and has been, entirely up to you. You have to admit how much better you are since you started living like a normal person. You haven’t much excuse any more,” cried Mary Dau 4 aoe trouble with you is that you have become ii ish ig that's aii AEETD oud welt: le winces Kk i pe ai ick as if she had = Ale Be Continued