The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 2, 1935, Page 6

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Inspiration for Today Arise, O Lord, in thine anger lift up thyself tbecause of the rage of mine enemies.—Psalms 7:6, one Beware of the fury of a patient man—Dryden. 8 The Critical Stage It is perfectly natural that everyone in this part of the country should be a bit “jittery” these days. With one of the greatest wheat crops in history apparently on the way and in excellent condition, the question is whether it can pull through and the extent of any damage which may come to it. There can be no change for the better be- cause the crop was well nigh perfect to begin with. Thus reports of black rust, scalding by hot winds and grasshoppers are bound to cause a sinking feeling in the heart of the average North Dakotan. They portend nothing but ill. Nevertheless, there still is small reason to be alarmed. The crop still is in good shape and, according to some experts, can go for another two weeks without rain. Early planted fields already are headed out with long, heavy heads and as many as seven of them to the plant. Many farmers now esti- mate their crop will go 30 bushels to the acre— “Tf nothing happens.” That of course, is the perennial “if.” It is not to be expected that we will wholly escape it. Rust, hail, insects and hot winds always are a menace. We have grown used to them. It would be a miracle if we did not get a touch of one or the other. But that is no cause for loss of hope or con- fidence. Our crop already is well along and is making gigantic strides forward. The yield may not be as high as we had dreamed of but it will require real disaster to keep it from being a near record-breaker. There is solid comfort in that. Enemy in the Open When the grain, meat and cotton processors filed those injunction suits against the AAA the other day they took off the false whiskers which had disguised them for the last year or more and came out into the open, thereby rendering the farming community a service. For more than a year now, propaganda experts for these interests have sought to convince farmers that most agriculturalists were against the AAA program. They have talked “regimentation” and indulged in dire fore- bodings about the future of the American farmer. Here and there in the farm country small news- papers, for reasons which had best be left to the imag- ination, have cut loose with strong blasts against the AAA. These, for some strange reason, have immediately been circularized to all other farm-country newspapers, usually by agencies which did not take the trouble to make themselves known. ‘Whenever the “Whoozis Journal” printed a blurb on the question—and some of them occupied a full newspaper page—some kindly soul immediately saw to it that other Tural newspapers were informed. Meanwhile, many newspapers and so-called “leading influences” in the great trading and processing centers lined up with the anti-AAA forces. In such centers as the ‘Twin Cities, Chicago and Kansas City the criticism has ‘been intense and prolonged. It may be unkind to suggest that brokerage prosperity takes precedence over farm Prosperity in such places—it should not—but the cynical may be excused for thinking so. . But the country newspapers, like the country dwell- ers, failed to see the light. The referendum votes showed farmers believe the AAA to be a good thing. Small- town businessmen, depending on the farmer for trade, thought so too. The effort to break the farmers’ al- Jegiance through subversive propaganda failed. Now the enemies of the farm program have come into the open. There was nothing else for them to do. ‘They have stripped the silk gloves from iron hands and dropped the false whiskers. The fight is out in the open. It is the farmers against the processors of grain and meat and textiles. To the extent that they clarify mat- ters these suits are s good thing. Let us all hope that the farmers win. Good Work Lives On “The evil men do lives after them but the geod is oft interred with their bones.”—Shake- i the immorts] Bard of Avon wrote those lines have had s lot of things in mind, but he cer- not thinking of constructive community serv- FEE i Proof let everyone who cares—and who likes @ little fun—visit Bismarck’s municipal swim- any afternoon or evening. he will not only find respite from the heat opportunity for healthful exercise and relaxa- arte dren have learned to swim in the pool and the number of aquatic accidents in this area has been markedly re- duced as a result. . ‘The sacrifices which Bismarck made to acquire a swimming pool-are long since forgotten but the benefits continue to grow and multiply as it is used by more and more » That is one of the fine things about con- Brain Trusters Try Pumping New Life Into Prostrate Housing Pian ... Sad Story of Flop Related ... Even if Pulse Is Weak, There’s Still Hope. Washington, July 2.—Brain trusters, under cover of night, have galloped to the rescue of their long-lost child—the Federal Housing Administration. Ballyhooed a year ago as a recovery measure which would re-employ 5,000,000 men, the FHA program be- came @ town joke soon after the business men took it over from the brain trusters who conceived it. Everyone now concedes that the brain trusters, who were recently given charge of the wreckage and have been reorganizing FHA without publicity, can do no worse than the business men. Winfield 8. Riefler, once designated by Roosevelt as his “interpreting economist’—which meant that he interpreted thousands of other economists to the presi- dent and sat in on all high New Deal councils—originally worked out the plan with Frank Walker of NEC, Harry Hopkins, Matt Daiger of federal reserve, Frank Watson of RFC (Frankfurter product), Corrington Gill of FERA, and other members of a committee. Riefler and the committee were shunted aside after Roosevelt appointed James A. Moffett, his oil man friend, to be administrator. Riefler, unhappy and un- appreciated by the rising Donald Richberg, resigned from the New Deal to take a professorial job. But after Moffett had been persuaded to quit FHA and take a nice long trip to the Orient, Riefler was per- suaded to slip quietly back into town and proceed with Daiger, Gill, Watson, and others to effect a drastic re- organization. “Deadwood” at FHA is being separated from the payroll. Drastic changes are being made in rules and regulations, The idea is to make FHA the agency for a big na- tional housing development instead of a promotional agency for building and home equipment agencies. ee HOW IT ALL FLOPPED Perhaps it will be instructive to tell briefly how a touted New Deal scheme could become such a flop as FHA became. The idea was to reopen a frozen national mortgage market involving billions, and by scaling down home fi- nancing costs and prolonging amortization, to stimulate @ wave of home building which would give heavy in- dustries a big boost. Housing shortage was estimated—and still is—as at least 800,000 dwellings. Government-insured mortgage loans at 5 or 6 per cent for 20-year amortization per- iods, eliminating many old-fashioned gyppings imposed on home builders, were expected to prove attractive. One of the committee’s big ideas was to bring down the high cost of building materials. A home moderniza- ion program was included as a stop-gap for immediate effect while the mortgage insurance plan was being put in operation. sk * IT’S WELL MUDDLED Moffett, little versed in housing and the construc- tion industry and apparently unable ever to get the mortgage plan started, entirely disregarded committee resignations and proceeded to make renovation the whole show. He promptly called in the home appliance and building materials industries, assured them their price levels were satisfactory, and promised in effect that FHA’s main idea would be to develop a sales promotion organization for them. Their friends, Moffett’s friends, and political hang- ag) were recruited in large numbers for FHA person- nel, Modernization went footling along in a small way and mortgage insurance was allowed to slide for eight months. The set-up—especially as to personnel and red tape—for the latter was finally so bad that no one had any confidence in it. (FHA has had six personnel ad- ministrations in 12 months.) sk ® SIFT OUT WRECKAGE The “brain trust” committee had hung together in- formally in the belief that something could yet be done, and was ready to jump in when Moffett went away. Its members have gone over the books and personnel with Acting Administrator Stewart MacDonald and are turn- ing things upside down. One year later, original objectives have been re- stored. The maximum interest rate permitted on insured mortgage loans has been cut to five per cent. Insurance Premiums on loans have been cut from one to % of one Per cent and new rules provide for continuous payment of interest to lenders when mortgages go in default. ° Collapse of NRA codes may bring down the cost of some building materials. And now, if hostile private mortgage interests don’t get in the way, we may find out whether the big housing Program was any good in the first place. one ONE MORE BLANK SEC investigators have been quietly assigned to trace what is commonly supposed to have been an advance leak on. Roosevelt's tax message which enabled indivi- duals in Washington and New York to make a stock market clean-up. Net result so far: A sensational rumor. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) a | With Other | "sit We may or DITORS | 23.58 a ‘s A Big Assignment (Minneapolis Tribune) The directors of the rural settlement program have been handed $100,000,000 by President Roosevelt with the admonition that they are to “see to it” that the future inhabitants of the country regions grow up “according to adequate American standards.” With that objective no one will choose to quibble, but there are some sub- stantial doubts as to just how it is to be realized. After several false starts with resettlement and re- habilitation programs, the federal government is start- ing now on a more ambitious scheme that is backed by ‘ larger sum of money than has been allotted to previous Plans of a similar nature. The directors of this reset- tlement program are expected to take as many people off relief as they possibly can and, at the same time, make the best use of the land that is possible. The resettlement division will be concerned particu- larly with the rural population, although it is also sup- | Posed to do what it can for those people now on city relief yolls who want to return to the land. As the presi- dent sees the program, the rural problems with which the resettlement division will have to deal fall into two broad classes. In the first instance they will seek to help people who are trying to make a living on land that Was unsuited to that purpose from the beginning. The second group is made up of those who are now working Jand that is so reduced in fertility that it is no longer Possible to make a living on it. In most instances the answer of the federal agency to the situation which confronts these people will un- doubtedly be to find them other lands that are better situated and are better suited to produce a living. The ideal which is being sought is to put‘ our land resources to their highest and best uses. It is a laudable ideal, but one which is not going to be accomplished in a short time or through the action of thé federal government alone. In the first instance the cooperation of the People to be benefited will have to be obtained and this will not always be easy. In cases where the people are on relief they may not have much choice, but the people in this country have not yet become accustomed to being told where they can live by their government, Never- theless, with efficient administration and the coopera- tion of the people and the states, this program should be able to do something to relieve serious cases of malad- Justment, During Cleveland's bakery strike, the question arose: How would the people get bread? Marie Antoinette aptly handled a simila: some suggestion ope ane ir problem with iggest Research reveals meal of the ancient Romans lasted from three to five hours. Wish we could acquaint mod- ern waiters with the fact that times have changed. Joe Louis won't shave until he becomes champ. Since THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1935 Politics - Copyright, 1935, by The Baltimore sun AN UNPLEASANT INCIDENT Washington, July 2—One of the least-endearing traits in a public man is the custom, fortunately rare, of crawling out of a tight place with the claim that he has been misrep- resented or misquoted by the news- papers. Normally and naturally, re- porters do not hold such men in high esteem—quite the reverse, *,* ® When one considers the. high de- gree of favor which Mr. Roosevelt has enjoyed with the press, it is in- teresting and significant that last week a number of the more import- ant and responsible Washington cor- respondents practically accused him of doing exactly that thing in the matter of the plan to drive through at high speed his new “soak the rich” tax program by attaching it as a rider in the senate to the nuisance tax resolution, thus ignoring the house, where, under the constitution, all revenue measures : * % * They did not in so many words say that the president spoke without ac- curacy or candor when he denied he had any such idea. One does not flatly say that sort of thing about a president, but such was certainly the clear intent of their articles, and such undoubtedly their belief. No other deduction, for example, is possible from this statement of Mr. Krock in the New York Times—“Authentic in- formation that the course was dis- cussed at length in Monday's White House conference without discoura- agement from the president and that Mr. Harrison told his committee col- leagues the president wanted the rid- er, leaves Mr. Roosevelt with only a blank on the public record to sup- port his complaint that he was mis- represented.” x * * Or this from Mr. Wallen, of the New York Herald-Tribune—‘In the ensuing back biting and buck passing between senate, house, press and president, Senator Harrison took re- sponsibility for the misunderstanding that led him to announce on the floor that the president “is very anx- fous to have them (the new taxes) Placed on the joint (nuisance tax) resolution as amendments.” Or this from the especially friendly Mr. Clapper in the Washington Post —“Harrison doesn’t admit it, but he probably recalls what former Senator Watson once said of a Republican president. “I want to stand behind the president,” he said, “but he moves around so much that a man would have to have St. Vitus’ dance to do it.” eee “took the rap”; “loyal soldier”; another the generally regarded Mr. idea of driving the bill the extraordinary storm of plan was denounced as and outrageous”; the coming from friendly sources, time it needed. eee fidant and leader, to believe it. title-holders nowadays | '@ Set used to tripping on his beard. * | saecpasstomior nese ee are notoriously wary, Joe’ll have be lmited to those members of the that came from all quarters. The “indecent jure con- demned as dictatorial and unconsti- tutional. After two days of this, some of the most indignant outcries Mr. Roosevelt announced that he had been “misrepresented,” wanted the house to hold hearings, take all the When Senator Harrison, acting in this business as the president’s con- was told Mr. Roosevelt had said this, he refused It was only after the stenographic notes were read to him that he became convinced. Looking very sick, he at once reversed his position and has taken good natured- ly the jibes and jeers of his colleagues at the fix in which he was put, say- ing to them, “Don’t blame the presi- dent, ] take the responsibility on my. a: — = 2|s———— \ ‘ | ® | ehind the Scenes ||! The Kindred Feeling in Washington | WITH RODNEY DUTCHER | e I'M JUST A: YOUNG FELLA, TRYING TO GET ALONG, TOO shoulders.” Some call this loyalty and good sportsmanship; others re- gard it as servility and lack of self- respect. It is a matter of opinion, eee The established and essential fact is that on Monday, June 24, after a three-hour White House conference, Senator Robinson and Harrison emerged from the presidential pres- ‘ence and, on the portico of the White House, Senator Robinson announced to sixty newspaper men that Senator Harrison would ask his fthance com- mittee to attach the new schedule to the nuisance resolution, marked for passage Saturday night. Senator Harrison first told members ef the committee that was what the presi- dent wanted, then announced it to the senate. Now the public is ex- pected to believe that Senators Rob- inson and Harrison, without author- lity or encouragement from the pres- ident, themselves evolved and ~at- tempted this revolutionary plan of jamming through a tax bill in which}, neither really believes. ** * The thing is literally incredible. The facts all contradict the notion. Both their senatorial colleagues and newspaper men just laugh at the idea. Some feel sorry for them; oth- ers say it serves them right. At any rate, many more happenings of this sort and those splendid relations of Mr. Roosevelt with the press, about which so much has been written, will press with whom it makes no differ- must orginate.|ence whether relations are good, bad or indifferent. As Mr. Krock says, the whole incident is unpleasant. It is high time that every human being should inquire where the world is going.—Secretary of State Cordell Hull. * * * Americans by the millions are en- rolling in movements which, if suc-|° cessful, would just about destroy our business system—Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant. see ‘We have not come to give a guest performance in German politics. We have come to stay, because we alone possesss intelligence, strength, cot age, and determination to solve great problems of the time.—Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of propaganda. * * From the point of view of those who believe that heaven is one big country club, universities are danger-. ous things. — Robert M. Hutchins, president, Chinese Univaraity: * The American people are acutely food conscious and will eat anything they are told is healthful—Dr. James 8. MclLester of Birmingham, presi- dent, American Medical Association. * # The art of the motion picture is the only art peculiar to the twentieth Other articles were in similar vein. re an art, it is practical One writer says Senator Harrison my Me Mis ny another calls him a “fal guy.” In fact, the volume and unan- imity of the press comment was such as to make clear that newspaper men Roosevelt's claim that he had been misrepre- sented and never had the remotest through without hearings as entirely due to FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: ‘Tend to your ‘unknown and unstudied.—A. C. Good- ‘year, New York art museum head. * * # from. the beginning, thought very well of himself. — Dr. William A. White, Washington hos- pital superintendent. xe It has become the joke of Europe that it is the easiest thing in the world for a spurious member of Euro- pean aristocracy to grab off a gigantic fortune by imposing upon a mentally weak heir of an: American industriat baron.—Representative R. J. Cannon, Wisconsin. | Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. ill answer ened to health but not dis- is, Write letters bi iy and in ink, Address Dr. ‘The Tribyne. All queries must be accompanied by It-addressed énvelope. ‘THE LADY SWALLOWED AN EGG Reader sends a clipping from a amall town and asks for comment on the familiar old legend which runs always about as it is retold in this clip- “The whole town of.......... is gabbing about the woman in the clinic who has a seven-inch rattle snake in her stomach. A while back she swallowed a snake egg or whatever it is they come from when she drank from an Arizona brook.” Right away the yarn becomes humorous. Might as well have included some aijusion to throwing snowballs in Panama as refer to a brook in Ari- zona. There hasn’t been a brook in Arizona since about 1100 B. C. “The medicos are stumped in getting rid of it,” the champion lar goes on, “for fear it will snap and cause instant death. The last ruse was to stick a mirror down her throat, hoping to attract the repitle out peacefully...” «The reader who sends in the clipping says the thing might well be ig- nored, considering the source, but he suggests that this same story crops up every little while and probably causes considerable anxiety and worry to credulous folk. Invariably it is a woman who unconsciously swallows the snake egg while taking a drink. The egg, like a good egg, hatches, and the little snake grows and grows, and the poor woman imagines things or rather the fishwives gleefully contribute suggestions. Always the yarn winds up with a more or less vague indication of the fantastic way in which the reptile is coaxed from its unwonted lair. Snakes are ovoviviparous, not oviparous, that is, they do not lay eggs as turtles or crocodiles do, but produce only eggs which hatch within the rep- tile’s body. The eggs of a snake are not microscopic but quite sizeable. If such an egg were by some odd chance swallowed in water or in food its fate would be certain death by digestion. Every last one of these morbid yarns is an invention of a defectice mind and the story is circulated by morons and moronic publications, of which there are plenty. As the tale is bandied from one halfwit to another it ac- cumulates salacious additions which lewd tale bearers love. A sequel to the appearance of the yarn in the country weekly was pub- lished a week later. This time Ananias really cut loose: “... item concerning the woman in... with a rattlesnake in her tummy caused quite a commotion in this office. People have phoned and flocked in’ with cures the most amazing of which was this: ‘Tell the lady to return to the spot where she drank the water that contained the snake egg. Suggest that there she lie flat on her stomach and breath deeply of the earth’s fragrance. The rattler will en sniff of its original habitat and pop out without even any All this lacks is the customary assurance that grandfather got it from an oldeIndian chief. Except the microscopic eggs of natural parasites of man and animals, the history of any egg swallowed by a human being comes to an end with- in two hours thereafter, and from that point onward the story becomes pure fiction, pure, that is, until Mr. Told and Mrs. Sumsey touch it up. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Excessive Sweating Kindly print your formula for checking excessive perspiration of the armpits. (D. T. M.) Answer—After washing and drying, apply with sponge or wad of cotton @ solution of one-half ounce of aluminum chloride in three ounces of water. Let it dry on the skin. Then another application, and let that dry before dressing. Repeat this once or twice a week. If it causes itching or irritation, follow it with some fresh cold cream. A Dirty Dig I am told you make the statement that bathing is the cause of more deaths than anything else in the world. I had always been taught that cleaniness is next to godliness. Did you or did you not make this state- ment? (D. W.) Answer—Not while I was sober, anyway. What I do say is that bathing hhas little to do with cleanliness and less with health. (Copyright, 1935, John F. Dille Co.) Summer Sweethearts his hand over his eyes and, with another stiff little bow, went into the house. hold the whip hand over Sally as well. He chuckled at the thought. “What are you chortling consciousness bis mem: aed He forgets the ma: atharine, anaware of Mein tee, Meves he has deserted her. She lanes te leave fer New Mexico and er friend, VIOLET MERSER, mgage « lawyer in her sees Katharine of on her tri tells her he has always I NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXXV Vlcnrr MERSER was weeding her rosebed when she saw Michael ride by. It was the first time she had caught a glimpse of him since his accident and since Katharine’s amasing disclosure. Katharine had been gone.two days now. Stanley Merser was taking steps toward the end the girl was now so anzious to attain—the an- nulment of that astonishing mar- Tiage ceremony a few weeks be- fore. “The man must be a most hor- rible villain,” Violet said to her- self, prodding at the earth about the roots of a Dorothy Perkins. “and yet—he doesn’t look like one in the least.” She was rather ashamed of her earlier enthusiasm for Michael. The whole thing was definitely queer. First.the boy had engaged himeelf to Sally Moon. That made him appear a fortune hunter. Then he had run off with Katha- rine on what seemed now @ most cruel impulse, only to behave as though the whole thing had never - happened at all. Violet stood. up, brushing her earth-stained hands impatiently together. She ought to go to see him, ought to find out how he stood in the matter before Stan turned the affair over to Adrian son, their discreet lawyer friend. She washed her hands at the sink in the gleaming amall kitch- en and called to Lavinia who was ‘on the porch, shelling peas for the children’s lunch, that she was go- ing to walk up the. road a bit. Michael’s horse had been headed in the direction of the riding club. ‘And he hed been alone. It would be.a good time to talk to him. ee A§® Violet Merser turned into the lane that. ran beside the old shingled house she could see the tall figure of the man she sought, standing in the doorway of the stable. ' “Gooa morning!" ichgel whirled, his eyes cloud- ed, his muscles taut. i" “Good morning,” he said with- out’ smiling. These days were dimMcult ones to be got through. Strange people were always com- ing up to him and ‘being brisk and hearty. He had to-fend them off as best he could. Something in the wariness of bis attitude put Violet off, All at once she was conscious that her errand lacked dignity. {[t was not for her to meddle in Katharine’s affairs, She said rather lamely, “About the borses—for the little girl. She hasn’t been riding late- ly." “Michael bowed. His tone was “Do you mind seeing Jerry, distant. about that? 1 bavel well lately. Bes Jetry was at her elbow. Some- how Violet managed to say some- thing coherent to him, to walk away. But her brain was whirl- ing. “Good heavens!” she cried to herself. “What if that should be the explanation of it all?) What if he doesn’t really know what happened?” You heard of such things. To the healthy person such a possi- bility seemed extremely far- fetched. But Violet knew it was not out of the bounds of reason. He had been struck on the head. perhaps. The newspaper account had said “multiple bpuises.” - Who could tell what damage had been done? She walked swiftly toward her own house, eager to put through @ telephone call to her husband..| “Stan, have .you got in touch with Adrianson yet?” His slow, reassuring voice an- swered her. “Have an appoint- ment with him at two. Why? Anything happen?” She ‘dared not talk over the telephone. Everyone said the ex- change operators listened. “Can you postpone it?” she ced. “I think I’ve hit on something. It may be a hunch. I don't know.” eee “y DON’T understand why you pouted Sally Moon. want me to do it so quietly,” “Old Ruthie down at the Innicock News has been calling up every day to see if I’ve any date to give her. She’s anxious to run the story of the wedding, but she doesn’t dare say a word about it as long as | tell her to hold off. And probably everyone's talking about me. Probably they say the thing's off.” “I have my reasons,” Mr. Moon said solemnly. If Sally weren't so wrapped up in her own affairs, he thought, she would be able to figure out the problem for her- self, He wanted all the votes he could get for village trustee and the election was next week. With a big wedding going on and Sally insisting on getting all her flow- ers and catering things from the city instead of patronizing the local tradesmen (who ure to be antagonized), the election would be certain to go against him. He knew Innicock. He hadn't been president of the bank for 20 without learning a deel’ about the way the minds of the villagers worked. He had several reasons for not telling Sally this. The first was that she would not consider the argument weighty enough. She bad her own way of over-riding all bis objections. The second was that an air of mystery im- her more than straight- forwardness. She was inclined to be s bit mysterious herself. “Sneaky,” Mr. Moon called it. Like her mother’s people, None of the Moons had been sneaky— all.open and abovepoard hice nim- self. Still, a man bad to protect bis interests against the depreda- tions of bis womenfolk. Women bad no consciences whatever when they wanted their own way. He wouldn’t be sorry to see Sally married. She'd been a bit of @ problem since ber mother died. Cocktails, fiirtations, all kinds of craziness, ber father told himeelf. This young fellow was good with horses, Maybe he'd about?” Sally wanted to know rather angrily. Really her father was being too stuffy about this. It made her tired. But since he held the purse strings there was no fighting him. And she wanted @ troussean that would put ev- eryone’s eye out. “Nothing.” He changed the subject hastily. “You going into town today to shop?” That was always a good way to divert her. Her black eyes spar- kled at the thought of trying on clothes, of watching mannequins parade (because this time she was going to the really expensive places and have the very best), and of choosing hats and shoes and cobwebby stockings to supple- ment those already piled in boxes and bags in her room. Whatever you might say about Daddy Moon, Sally reflected, you couldn’t ac cuse him of being stingy. eee HE had read in last night’s newspaper of Katharine Stryk- hurst’s departure for the west. And she had felt a tiny prick of relief. While Katharine had been around Sally hadn’t felt entirely easy about Michael. He had been restive at times. Sally had sus- pected in the beginning that he was attracted to Katharine, al- though why anyone would prefer that cool young woman to her own rather buxom self, Sally could not imagine. Well, Michael was more tract- able since he'd been ill. He really seemed to depend on her these days. She bossed him around as she hadn’t dared to do before. Her cousin, Annabel, was com- ing on from Syracuse for the wedding. And Michael had been so vague about providing a best man that Sally had wired Anna- bel to bring her fiance (expenses paid) to serve. Annabel’s young man was a fledgling mining engi- neer with a brand new diploma. Sally, marrying a title, felt very superior. Well, Annabel and Joseph would arrive on Tuesday, and they would have a rehearsal Tuesday night. Daddy Moon had agreed to that. The wedding would be on Wednesday, and in- vitations would go out by hand the day before. It was, Sally told herself, a pretty queer way to do things, but her father had some crazy notion in his mind. It didn’t do to argue with him when he was like this. She longed to shout the news from the housetops. But she didn’t dare. Well, all the old cats who had been so nasty to her would know soon enough. Let them gnash their teeth then. See how they liked it She'd snub them if she ever met them on the street. Another thing she had te do today. She had to stop at Tif. fany’s and choose a platinum bara, that Michael could pay for later. He didn’t want to go into the city, he said. She was having to ar- Tange everything. She had evep sent out a tailor who was to measure him for correct morning clothes. She'd thought of everything. There couldn’t possibly be a hitch in the proceedings now. A week from Wednesday she would be Lady Carden. ‘To Be Continued)