The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 17, 1935, Page 4

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Simons Editor 5.00 Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to tne ‘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. Inspiration for Today But God said unto me, thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed nat O snap the fife and still the drums and show the monster as she is—Richard Le Gallienne. ee El A Good Tradition, But— So much has been written about the “G men” since the capture of two of the Weyer- hhaeuser kidnapers and the escape of a third that it is only fair to note the facts in the case. It is fine to have the nation feel that there fs a certain inexorable quality about the gov- ernment’s pursuit of criminals. If they, like tthe Canadian mounted police, can establish the fidea in people’s minds that they always get their man crimes will be fewer and their work will be easier. Their record recently has been such as to §ustify, at least in part, the act of placing them bn a pedestal. Now the idea is being enhanced by the same sort of thing that made the Cana- dian mounties famous, through a pleasant bit of fiction. It will do no harm to have this idea prevail, yet the promiscuous heaping of praise on the “G men” takes the spotlight off a far more im- portant force in the establishment of respect for law. a The fact is that the “G men” HAD LITTLE OR NOTHING TO DO with the arrest of Har- mon Waley and his wife. « That came about largely through the action of an INTERESTED CITIZENRY. It wasn’t the government agents who dis- covered that notes paid in the ransom were be- ing circulated in Salt Lake City. An interested bank cashier did that. It was neither the police nor the federal agents who pointed the finger of suspicion at Mrs. Waley. That job was done by TWO WOMEN CLERKS IN A GROCERY STORE. They may have known the traffic cop at the corner but they probably knew little more about the federal secret service than they do about the national sport of Siam. Yet they led the police to Mrs. Waley because they were fnterested enough to cooperate in what had be- come a great public search for the malefactors. An efficient and active police force and gov- ernment secret service are fine but they aren’t §n it when it comes to making trouble for crim- fnals when compared with Mr. and Mrs. John Citizen IF THEY ARE INTERESTED. Two arrests have solved two kidnaping yysteries in the last year. How did they come about? Well, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was nabbed because a New York filling station attendant was interested enough to notice a gold note and to TAKE THE NUMBER of the car driver who gave it to him. The Waleys were arrested because two girl clerks took the trouble to compare the number pn a $5 bill, received in payment for groceries, swith the list of numbers on the ransom notes. When the police and secret service get on a frook’s trail he is in for trouble, but when the public gets after him he is due for a lot more. blood.—I Chronicles 28.3. * Those Funny Laws How funny laws get on the books is indicated by the ©. &. Municipal News, which reports that two western eities recently passed ordinances outlawing the chain letter racket. It doesn’t take much of a memory to remember what that was. Only a few weeks ago some misguided souls were putting dimes (or larger amounts) in letters and hoping that their own ship would come in. It was a nuisance and a hoax, but to anyone with a grain of sense it was rather obvious that the thing couldn't last. There just wasn't enough money in the country to give everyone $1,500, or whatever amount it was that appeared to be poised at the end of the chain letter rainbow. The thing started spontaneously, somewhat as an expression of American exuberance and willingness to take a chance. It was clear that it couldn't go very far and that a resurgence of common sense was the only law needed. Yet two cities set the ponderous machinery of the law in motion and now have ordinances on their books outlawing the practice. If they run true to form they will forget to take them off again. If, 100 years from now, someone happens to be run- ming through those ordinances he will wonder just what manner of folks we were that- such enactments were “ pecessary. The same thing holds true with many of our state laws. If all the silly laws on our statute books could be faid end to end they would make-a fine bonfire. $500,000 in back taxes, one-third of which will go to him 85 counsel fees. That's what you call a law practice made perfect. # 4 " .| the victims of a “smear Hoover” campaign in 1932, they i ehind the Scenes i in Washington BY BRUCE CATTON This article, analyzing the political signifi- cance of the G. O. P. grass roots convention, takes the place today of Rodney Dutcher's “Behind the Scenes in Washington” column.—Editor. Springfield, Tll., June 17—If the Republicans were seem to be getting ready to return the compliment, with interest added, in 1936. By putting your ear to the ground at the “grass roots” convention of Republicans here, you could get a fair idea of the general line of attack which the G. O. P. will follow in the next presidential campaign. It will be an aggressive campaign, and President Roosevelt will be the principal target. If speeches delivered at the convention are a good indication, Republican strategy is shaping itself for a grand assault on dictatorship and bureaucracy, with Mr. Roosevelt cast in the role of chief dictator and head bu- reaucrat. If there was a time when it was considered good Policy to attack members of the “brain trust” rather than Roosevelt himself, that time has gone forever. The speakers here outdid themselves in attacking him. LASHES AT ROOSEVELT Consider, for instance, the way in which Robert G. Simmons, former congressman from Nebraska, described to the delegates President Roosevelt's comments on the U. 8. supreme court’s overthrow of NRA. In these remarks, said Simmons, the president was attacking, not the court, but “the constitution that stands as the bulwark between the independence of a people and the collectivist state which the president now seeks to set up.” And he added: “Make the question of giving to the national gov- ernment the dictatorial powers over the state, local com- munities, and individuals that the president seeks the major issue of the 1936 campaign.” LINCOLN SPIRIT INVOKED Nor was Simmons alone in this kind of denunciation. John Hamilton, Republican national committeeman from Kansas, declared that Lincoln—Lincoln figured pretty largely in this convention, Springfield being his home town—“would stand shoulder to shoulder with us in this fight to preserve American democracy.” Hamilton, describing the present administration as “a bureaucratic despotism, set upon a fixed course to destroy this government of the people,” suggested that what really displeased President Roosevelt about the supreme court's decision was the fact that it denied “the ae congress to delegate to him the powers of dicta- HELD PERIL TO LIBERTY Then Harrison Spangler, national committeeman from | | Towa, gave the delegates this to think about: “For the first time in history, free institutions are in need of defense against the attacks of a national ad- ministration which has taken oath to uphold them. For the first time, American liberty and the hitherto inviol- able rjghts of citizens are under assault by our own gov- ernment.” That a large segment of Republican thought sees in | | vulnerable point became evident from conversations with | Game of ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1985 ‘What’s on Your Mind?’ tor Borah and ex-Governor Lowden ntirely unnecessary. + # & The idea is that they just did not have sense enough to know the presi- dent was joking. The truth, of course, is that the president was far from joking and it was as far as pos- sible removed from a “chance re- mark.” The further truth is that the only reason he isn’t following through race as well as from the speeches delivered on the oor. ‘There seemed to be evident a widespread feeling that the NRA case marked a turning point in the history of the present administration. BORROW ‘STATE RIGHTS’ merely climaxed a growing popular disillusionment with about the decision, laid himself open to the as to make the president himself more powerful than either the legislative or the judicial branch of the gov- ernment. Coupled with this, there was displayed in some quar- ters a disposition to believe that the Republican party next year might well appropriate an ancient battle cry of the Democrats and campaign for state rights. Mr. Spangler hinted at it when he told the delegates: “The rights of the states as independent units of self-government have been impaired. The jurisdiction of the states has been invaded. Government funds are held out as lures to induce the states to surrender rights which otherwise could not be coerced. “The governors of the sovereign states stand, hat in hand, fawningly before petty bureaucrats to beg that funds bludgeoned by taxation from their own people be spent in their states.” TWO OUTSTANDING ISSUES If the attitude evident at the grass roots convention wins the support of Republican leaders on a national scale, it is apparent that the Republican party in 1936 will campaign: 1—Against dictatorship and bureaucracy, and for the constitutional guarantees of freedom to states and indi- viduals, 2—Against Roosevelt personally as an autocrat who would transform our traditional form of government in his quest for power. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) With Other DITORS Reprinted to show what they say. We may or may not agree with them. this kind of campaign an attack on Roosevelt in his most | || o.¢ | Politics It was suggested repeatedly that the court decision start one of the troubles with the New the Blue Eagle, and that the president, in his remarks |Deal has been its lack of coordina- charge that |tion. Every effort to coordinate its he seeks to change our form of government in such Way |conflicting activities and harmonize its multitudinous agencies has failed. Neither Mr. Walker nor Mr. Rich- berg, separately named as coordina- tors-in-chief, made any progress at all. For this they are not to be blam- ed. The task was beyond human ca- pacity. preme court decision, props from under the national plan- ning philosophy, a similar lack of co- ordination is exhibited on the politi- cal side of the administration. One set of supporters frantically backs away from the constitutional issue deliberately raised by Mr. Roosevelt at that famous Friday press confer- ence, pushes toward it. Mr. Roosevelt’s statement, construed by every paper | the constitution to meet the New Deal The Forty-Hour Week (New York Times) By the narrow majority of 57 to 49, the int labor office conference in Geneva decided in favor of a blanket forty-hour week agreement applicable to five in- gustries. About a third of the delegates, largely repre- senting the employers, refrained from voting. vote was preceded by a debate extending over several days. Some delegates in favor of the forty-hour week argued for it on humanitarian grounds. Its original in the NRA codes here, however, was not made on the ground that forty-hour or forty-eight hours’ work a week was excessively fatguing, but partly on the theory that too many goods were being produced for profitable sale, and partly on the theory that a forty-hour week would force the employment of more men. The soundness of these theories was questionable at ie beginning. Certainly the two years’ experience we such as to support them. In the first three months of code operation, it is true, there was a sharp reduction in unemployment as men were taken on in certain indus- tries in order to produce in forty hours the same amount of goods tnat had previously been produced in longer hours. But the value of unemployment has remained virtually frozen ever since—in the neighborhood of 10,- 000,000. Employment in America, the country that has had the forty-hour week, compares unfavorably with that in countries which do not have it. The volume of employment in the United States last February was only 715 per cent of that in 1929; in Canada it was 80.9 per = in Sweden 95.2 per cent, in Great Britain 98.7 per cent. While it is impossible to attribute the course of the volume of employment to any single factor, many econ- omists hold that the forty+hour week has retarded recov- ery. This was the conclusion of the Brookings Institu- tion in its recent study of the NRA. The notion that the increasing mechanization of industry necessitates a Permanently shorter work week in order to maintain full employment it put down as a popular fallacy. have been enough workers displaced past hundred years to have put the entire now had with the forty-hour week has not been |ing The Great : on that line is because the reaction was not favorable. The further truth is that the constitution stands in the way of the New Deal and if there were a way to toss it aside the New Dealers would do so. In any event, the lack of coordination here is poli- tical as well as administrative, which materially adds to the confusion, rey Our day, with its preoccupation with intellectual searching, .stands ready to lose the living experience of God.—President K. I. Brown of Hiram college. se 8 A recognize the right of the law to condemn me, but I cannot recognize its rights to take possession of my conscience —Philippe Vernier, jailed in France for defying compulsory conscription law. * ee I see lots of overage middleclass persons going happily about their business, oblivious to the rumblings. In other countries, when the middle- class gets hit, they scream for a dic- tator—Dorothy Thompson, journal- ist. * * * I haven't noticed anybody return- ing those checks they got from the government across state lines.—Sen- plans, was really just a “chance|Stor Morris Sheppard, Texas. ” reed” whieh. Should not be faker’ Directors have turned against the seriously, One writer, in effect, as- serts ‘those wi “ar beautiful girl. In Hollywood, beauty ee oa, Who take “dream /1. worth about a dime a dozen, A Teasldential preci! hs critical of girl's personality and her ability to the court or the constitution, despite act mean more now than ever.—Syl- the fact that, as relayed by 200 news-|Vi® Sidney, Be eg business men are not a group of predatory pirates seeking to grind down their fellowmen. They American citizens with a high sense of responsibility and pa- triotism—Ogden Mills. * * # Opportunity for youth is restricted by the machine age, by the rise and it deplores the tendency of the un-|dominance of capital in the world— couth “Grass Roots” Republicans to|William Allen White, Kansas pub- pin those “chance words” upon the lisher. President for campaign purposes. * * * However, Ms. Roosevelt has other) Americans are not well schooled. Journalistic friends just as anxious to) There are 64,000,000 in the country play the issue up as the other group|who have not finished high school, is to play it down. So far from hav- | 32,000,000 have not finished the eighth made grade and only 1,200,000 have fin- ished college—J. W. Studebaker, U. 8. commissioner of education. + * # ‘There cannot be and there should By FRANK R. KENT Copyright, 1935, by The Baltimore Sun “A CHANCE REMARK?” Washington, June 17.—From the ee * It is interesting that since the su- knocking the Another set just as earnestly +s & Certain interpreters inform us that clearly calculated in the country as a presidential de- termination to make an issue of the court’s decision, and fight to change three days that elapsed before Mr. Roosevelt himself changed his tune. * # # Apparently, this element is con- cerned to save Mr. Roosevelt from the Political consequences of what it con- ceives to have been a mistake, and ‘mong men, save equality of oppor- tunity and equality in respect to pro- vision for social and ecomonic secur- The mistake, they think, will be if he fails to follow through. Recent speeches of Professor Tugwell, close friend and adviser of the president, and Mr. William Green, of the A. F. of L., strong adherent, seem to sup- port this view. So do expressions of Mr, Roosevelt's Progressive Republi- can friends and his radical support- ers, including Father Coughlin and General Johnson, Altogether, the side which thinks he meant it outweighs the side which thinks it was merely @ “chance remark” that should be for- gotten. Of particular significance was the Tugwell speech a few days FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: lation completely out of employment several times had not the machines made jobs as them.” A permanent reduction in Could be justified, it was Grounds: that the existing maximum output per worker, or that worker gener- ally would prefer to produce and consume less in ex- Greater leisure. It concluded that in general the forty-hour week involves a substantial lowering of accruing to the masses * * * it seems exceedingly doubt- ful if any large proportion of the workers would delib- costs of production, in certain instances they purchasing power. ‘ crately. choose so great an addition to their leisure at the |seem that the youn; expense ef rae consumption of goods and services.” In- Huey Long is prosecuting Louisiana lumber firms for | creases in hourly wage rates, in short, have commonly {this matter and reficts his desire jtaken place with weekly wages unchanged, but by raising |better than those whe think he did have raibed /not mean it and consiter the rush to Prices and to that extent left the worker worse off in ago at the University of New Mexico. ee # e “A crisis is at hand quite as "great as war,” declared the doctor. ‘The |’ fast for the accommodation of the judicial theory.” He continued, as Mr. ‘Ashman Brown says in the Providence | Journal, “building up an argument per capita output oelow that attainable with longer |that the paramount issue of the day hours; while “in view of the inadequate standard of living |is constitutional reccnstruction, chief- to curb the power of the supreme court.” To the average mind, it does professor has caught the spirit of ihe president in defend the constitution upon the part| ™ @ clit Of as widely separated souls as” Gen soe Te not be any such thing as equality: ] 2 4 Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, id of Columbia universit * *e ‘The frontiers of human betterment as yet are but barely penetrated by men.—Herbert Hoover. ee * In scientific learning and mass {production, this nation has led the world, but we have been most remiss in solving the problem of the distri- | bution of production for the benefit of mankind.—William E. Sweet, for- mer governor of Colorado. it nh BEGIN BERD TODAY 1 KATHARINE STRYKAURST, beautiful. 20, to tm love with Mi CHARL L HEATHEROE whe rans ON. leeal coquette, (mte am enga: he tries to er ) Ka hael is to marry \@ te broken-hearted. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXIl | Vetommnice brought her car to a stop before the drug store, the windows of which were emblazoned and placarded with picturesque endorsements. A life- sized cardboard figure of a blond. girl ornamented the left-hand cor- ner. Issuing from her mouth was a balloon explaining that daily use of some sort of patented product gave her that rose and gold complexion. Two or three shabbily-dressed men loafed in the shade of the bank building. A child on roller skates came coasting dizsily down condition induced and maintained through an extended portio1 life cycle by the more liberal use of “the protective foods” in the diet as “the preservation of the characteristics of youth.” purifier, sulphur and molesses. Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. ‘ int health bt dis- ease cr dingacsle, Write bietiy and in ink. Address, Dr, Brady in care All queries must be accompanied by @ stamped, lope. VITAMINS AND COMPLEXION When you sacrifice health, my dear Dumb Dora, you have lost your beauty. I repeat, health is the essence of beauty. One characteristic symptom of pellagra, ® nutritional disease due to insufficient vitamin G, is a roughening of the skin which resembles in. ap- pearance an old sunburn. Probably many cases of so-called “eczema” or “psoriasis” are really instances of this degenerative change from a partial deficiency in intake of vitamin G. McCollum and Simmonds described the better-than-average oa mn e ‘Langstroth noted that the skin of individuals whose diet has long been poor in vitamins became sallow, coarse, thick and harsh or dry, and that when the intake of vitamins was increased the skin and complexion improved steadily, and the eyes, which had been dull gray or congested, became brighter. It is well to remember that the skin and complexion is part of the body, just as are the eyes, the teeth, or the feet, and accordingly are subject to the laws of physiology. When there is complexion it is reasonable to infer that there is something wrong with your physiology, your nutrition, your hygiene, your way of living, and it is silly to hope that you can correct the trouble by the use of a thick cosmetic. wrong with the skin or Among the foods rich in vitamin G are liver, kidney, round steak, egg yolk, dried peas, beet greens, raw cabbage (cole slaw), malted milk, lettuce, carrots, watercress, fresh milk, and dried yeast—though yeast is hardly a natural food for man. An ounce of dried yeast contains from 250 to 500 units of vitamin G; an ounce of beef liver contains from 260 to 340 units of vitamin G. ounce of yeast a day is difficult to take. It is easy to eat six or eight ounces of liver a day, but an In any case where there is reason to believe the trouble is due to lack or | insufficient daily intake of a particular vitamin, it is generally better to in- crease the intake of all of the vitamins. Vitamins do not occur isolated, but always in combinations of two or more, in nature. It it in the refining, cook- ing, preserving of food that the natural vitamins are removed or destroyed. For instance, wheat contains vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin G and vitamin E. In the milling and refining to white flour most ofthe vitamins are removed and discarded. Fresh raw milk contains A, B, C and G, but most of the C is destroyed by par-boiling (pasteurizing). Sugar cane contains some vitamin B, which goes into the molasses, tRe refined sugar having no vitamins at all. Eggs, milk, cheese, wheat (the entire kernel or berry), liver, round steak, the greens or salad vegetables and fresh fruits in season, are the im- portant items to include in the diet to provide the vitamins to maintain health. . QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Todin Doesn't Grow Stale 1 have iodine which a doctor prescribed for me six years ago. Is it too stale to use as an iodin ration now? (Mrs. 8. J. D.) Answer—If it is tincture of iodin it is probably stronger now, by reason of evaporation of some of the alcohol. Iodin doesn’t grow stale, as do many |adults who fail to take their ration of it. Sulphur and Molasses Kindly print the formula for the old fashioned spring tonic and blood (Miss R. T.) Answer—Mix flowers of sulphur and old fashioned molasses in equal quantities. The dose is a teaspoonful or two twice a day. I don’t know what it is good for, except a mild laxative. I do NOT advise it for little nieces, nephews or grandchildren, Vitamin D Milk Please tell me what metabolized vitamin D milk is and where it can be purchased? (Mrs. C. B. C.) Answer—Ordinary milk from cows that receive a datly ration of irradiated infant or child. broken hearts about with them. Few—very few. A broken heart was hopelessly out of date. Like a hoop skirt. Only she wished she might not ever catch @ glimpse of either one of them—Michael or Sally— again. She hoped they might go out to California or Hawaii—any- where that was definitely far and removed from Innicock. Then she could take up her sketching, her delicate, definite water colors that Evelyn Vincent said were actually salable; she could make something of her life. Some day, perhaps years and years in the future, some shad- owy, dark, tall man would come along. She would tell him it wasn’t in her to care, really, any more; but he would persuade her. against her will and her better judgment, to marry him. . . . “Black ink, did you say, miss?” The gangling clerk was staring at her frankly. “Yes.” She came out of her day dream to look at him ab- stractedly. She had her purchases now, to a neat package wrapped in white paper and tied round with green the incline and took the corner on high, both arms spreadeagied for balance. Katharine, nodding to Mrs. Endance who the lending Mbrary, disap; inte the drug store. She had a great many small errands to do for Ber- tine; there was soap and witch- hazel and mending tape and black ink on the list. The cut-rate drug store represented one of Bertine’s pet economies. She could have telephoned to Cap- lan’s, just around the corner, and had all the purchases delivered. as most ofthe people down on the Point did. But, while she could be wildly extravagant in | larger matters, she drew the line here. Katharine gave her order ab stractedly to the clerk behind th counter. She was not thinking | of her errands. She was refiect- | ing, with some surprise, that it was really easier than she had | thought to forget the tall, slate- eyed young man who sat his horse so easily and who had rid- den quite suddenly and unexpect- edly into her life last year. Michael Heatheroe. She had learned to control leap- ing pulses when his name was spoken. She had learned to ac- cept, without a sick plunging of the heart, the incredible news that he was going to marry the coquettish Sally Moon. Well, and so what? she asked herself. He's nothing to you, never was—and never will be. You have a life to live—20, 30. perhaps 40 years more. After all, she was not 21 yet, and she was strong, vigorous, full of an ener gy not to be HB answer was this; you didn’t sit around signing ‘or a man who cared‘ nothing about you and never did. That was only done in the days of your Vic- torian great-grandmother. You found something to do, and you did it as best you could. Other girls did it. Every day in the week. The shops, the set- nt houses, the Junior League ses were full of them. Eager ces, curved, rosy lips, oright ; Not all of them carried cord. The library next, to retura the Angela Thirkell book, “Wild Strawberries.” What a delight- ful book it had been! So light and gay and easy, and with the love affair resolving itself so simply into happiness. [ft only life were a little more like that! She sighed, turning to go. Two rather bulky men, in stiff city clothes, stood aside to let her pass. They were frankly strangers in Innicock, where you knew ev- eryone, from the man who swept the streets and rejoiced in the simple name of “Christmas,” to the boys who sold the daily paper. Katharine was aware of them now only as figures blocking her path. But as one of them spoke to the boy behind the soda coun- ter, a name broke into her con- sciousness. Michael's name. eee DRAWN by a curiosity she could not explain or deny, Katharine loitered at the weigh- ing machine, apparently intent only on the black numerals which slid into sight as she stepped upon it and dropped a penny into the slot. But her eyes sought out the face of the elder man, a smooth- shaven, ruddy face under the stiff straw hat. “Feller who calls himself Mi- chael Heatheroe,” drawied this in- dividual. “Where's the postoffice, buddy? Maybe we can get the information there.” The soda boy was shaking his head in the Begative. No, he hadn’t heard of Michael Heatherce . . . Katharine, biting her lips, shift- ing her package from one hand to another, was conscious of 8 queer lightness in her head. The gray-haired man shoved bis de- tective's badge out of sight again. Detectives—atter Michael! - She was never certain after- ward how she got there—she did not remember pushing open the swinging door and emerging from the coolness of the drug store’s interior to the oven that was the pavement. But she was in hor car, her foot on the starter, be- fore the lantern-jawed man, the younger of the pair, ca! it into the street, staring up down, and finally gesturing te his eom- panion toward the postofice halt | the to & block away, yeast, which imparts vitamin D to the milk. Large dairies in many com- munities provide this milk, It is a good way to insure adequate vitamin D for (Copyright, 1935, John F. Dille Co.) ummer_\ weethea t4 (939, NEA Service, Inc. Then she was in traffic, her small brown shoe pressing dows hard, hard on the accelerator. Out the River Road, library end Englisb novel and rolls for lunch- eon completely forgotten. Ber- tine had said, rather querulously, to hurry back. But Katharine could not bother about Bertine now. If you hat a friend and ho was in trouble, you did some- thing about it, didn’t you? She did not argue it out; she was not aware of any problem needing to be decided. It was as simple as this. If Michael were in danger, and she knew of it, why then she must warn him. She had always known, in the back of her brain, that there was some mystery about Michael. But whatever he had been or done, he wasn’t to be caught like a rat in @ trap. Those hard-faced men with the badges should have noth- ing to do with him. She raced past the Merser house without turning her head. There were two white flashes on the lawn that she assumed to be Sybil and Diana, but Katharine dared not take her eyes off the Toad even to wave. Any moment the men would be turning out of Innicock’s main street to find the winding roads that ran back of the hills to the riding school. Any minute... . cee A LOW-SLUNG, black car passed like a streak and for a mo- ment Katharine’s heart plunged again in fear. But the driver was only a slip of a girl in checked red gingham, with her wild curls flying in the breeze. Katharine turned into the lane; there were already one or two cars parked there. Tips came out of the stable, with a look of sur- prise for her. “Mr. Heatheroe about?” “I think so. If you'll wait just @ minute, miss...” Her relief was so great that her knees began to tremble. If he had been out on the bridle path however would she have got the news to him? Tips disappeared. Katharine got out of the car, her ears strain- ing nervously for the sound of ¢ following motor on the lane. The postofice might be busy—oh, dea! God, make the clerks very busy. “Hello, there.” His gay voice, his easy voice. And the well remembered laugh- ter Iihes about his eyes. “Micheel, can we talk some place? Away from here, I mean.. Quickly.” “The house?” Hs cool eyes would have abashed her if she had Bot been so terribly intent. “No, not the house,” she al- most shrieked. “Clear away. Look, it’s frightfully important. You're in danger.” “I? What's wrong?” He did not have the air of a guilty man ——but then you never could tell. “Get into my car.” She threw & burried look over her shoulder. “I can tell you there. They'll be coming any minute.’ He opened the door for her and she flung herself in. She had the engine running, triumphantly. Hy “Come along,” she cried. “Hur- He was in the seat beside her. She was out of the lane and away, Hgae up the road away from To Be Contino,