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4 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1935 ; The Bismarck Tribune | ih seatpuatenn Mevetiie ehind the Scenes || The Not-So-Jolly Millers | | THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER Established 1873) , State, City and County Official Newspaper —_—$—— 1 Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- %narck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck fas second class mail matter. George D. Mann President and Publisher Archie O, Johnson Kenneth W. 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Corinthians 10:33, | * The more a man denies himself, the more he shall obtain from God.—Horace, i i Only One Week Away Only a week from today North Dakota voters will go to the polls to express their views on an important matter of public policy—the sales tax. The campaign which has been made in sup- port of this measure has been a most credit- able one. It has recognized what politicians too often fail to appreciate, that the people have common sense and sound judgment in plenty and need no beating of the tom toms to make them think. The issue has been present- ed in a calm, logical and dignified manner, without efforts to stir up rancor or prejudice. To that extent it is a new and refreshing expe- rience for North Dakota. We need to get away from petty considerations and to think calmly. The manner in which this campaign has been conducted gives some assurance that this end is being achieved. On the other hand, there is always the dan- ger that lack of noise means a corresponding diminution of interest, that it contributes to public apathy. This should not be the case. The fact that the campaign is being conducted in an atmosphere conducive to clear and pa- triotic thinking makes it all the more neces- sary that good citizens give thought to the sub- ject in their own homes and express their sen- timents at the polls. If the arguments, both for and against the sales tax, are not readily available to them they should search them out, WEIGH THEM CAREFULLY. The matter is not one to be determined lightly or by a mere expression of sentiment. It should be considered in the light of all the available facts. Only when this is done can the people completely justify those provisions of government which place the final decision in their hands. For those who do not have the time nor the inclination to search out all of the implications and ramifactions of the sales tax issue, one fact may be controlling. This is the manner in which the legislature studied the state’s fiscal situation and the unanimity with which the sales tax was adopted, partisans of all political groups voting for it. Efforts to raise the political issue in this election have rather obviously failed. The vote by which the bill passed both house and senate and the unpartisan character of the support it received in the legislature, made certain that this would be the case. The issue involved is one of public policy without regard to politics or personalities. There has been no tremen- dous hurrying and scurrying about it. No bombast. No tub-thumping. This has been a good thing. It is the attitude in which North Dakota should approach the solution of all of its serious problems requiring public action. Looks Like a Blind Latest information trom Washington is that the “tax-the-wealth” program of President Roosevelt is little more than a sugar-coated pill. The public may think it is fine while getting it down. Later it will real- ize that the poor as well as the rich are affected. If that turns out to be the case, it will not be the first time the American people have thought they were getting one prescription when they actually were getting another. The fact of the matter seems to be that the business of paying for the various expenditures of the NEW DEAL is about to begin. If we were to avoid chaos the process had to start some time and the political chiefs evi- dently think it might as well be now. In short, the new tax bill is a revenue measure, noth- ing else. The cry of “soak the rich” seems to have been raised in an effort to blind the average citizen to the fact that, when the bill finally is passed, he will not be altogether forgotten. Some who do not pay taxes now will do so when this measure has become law. Others who now pay only a little will find themselves paying a lot. This talk about “taxing weulth” is only partially @ccurate. As soon as the public understands that, it will have @ Detter appreciation of what 1s going on—and what 4s about to happen. The man who re-married his former wife, so he'll have her as a partner at bridge, must have had an awful time digging up alibis while she was gone. eee Scientists have uncovered what is believed to be the oldest city in the world. Some of our own cities may not be as old, but they can appear just as dead. cee President Roosevelt is having so much trouble with his $4,880,000,000 relief program, probably because he hasn't yet taken in all the relatives and friends of all the congressmen. is exclusively entitled to tne 0 _ ine eoiaidee tinea | in Washington WITH RODNEY DUTCHER Washington, July 8—Democratic leaders in congress exert great power and are allowed to pick men for hun- dreds of federal jobs. If the voters boot them out of elective office, they can be sure of soft presidential ap- pointments. But what a dog’s life those old wheel-horses do lead! Cast your eyes on Majority Leaders Joe Robinson and Pat Harrison in the senate. then on Speaker Joe Byrns and Rules Chairman John J. O'Connor in the house. The two senators, their friends, and their beliefs are of the most conservative hue. Byrns is of the same stripe. O'Connor is @ son of Tammany Hall, whose game has always been to scatter crumbs to the poor while collecting from wealthy special interests. Times without number, these gents have writhed and held their noses as they helped push through New Deal measures so liberal as to be abhorrent to them all. What used to be principles with them succumbed to party regu- larity and the proceeds thereof. oe FAITHFUL THROUGH TORTURE Robinson and Harrison have been especially faithful. True, Harrison let out of his finance committee the bill which had virtually killed NRA before the U. 8. supreme court did the job—but only after Roosevelt himself had weakened on the issue. And Robinson could hardly stomach the holding com- pany bill, which was such anathema to his close friends and associates in the power business—but he left a pair for the bill when he left town. No two leaders ever took a harder blow on the chin than when Roosevelt, after being told at a press confer- ence that Harrison and Robinson had said he wanted immediate action on his new tax program in connéction THEY NEED REST-RELIEF | Many employes of the agencies in the work- relief program, waiting around for something to do, occupy themselves by making wisecracks. based on the theory that it will be mostly raking,” CWA program, is a conundrum: @.: “Why don’t they get started?” A.: “They're waiting for the leaves to fall!” leaf- with the nuisance tax extension which must pass in five days, declared the story was made up of “whole cloth.” But, aside from their private expression, they kept quiet. In defending the administration, the two southern leaders have incurred the hatred of Huey Long. Now, badly worried by Huey’s threats that he will go into Arkansas and Mississippi next yéar to defeat them for re-election, they are vitally dependent on ad- ministration support in their campaigns and could dis- Ss please the president only at their political peril. eee KICK OVER TRACES O'Connor and Byrns haven't been quite as co-opera- tive as Harrison and Robinson. Both laid down on Roosevelt when the holding company bill came up—but it took the all-powerful “power trust” to bring them an issue on which they'd do that. O'Connor, whose first allegiance is to Tammany— whose delegation was all but solid against elimination of holding companies—was asked twice by Roosevelt for a rule which would permit a record vote on the elimination provision. Twice O’Connor promised it. But, instead, he reported out rules which not only the opponents—including Republicans—of the senate bill backed by Roosevelt. All this probably couldn’t have happened had there Byrns. eee REVENGE FOR BYRNS istration had hoped could get the speakership. pet elimination section, but Rayburn was leading the fight for it on the floor. “They said they wanted Rayburn because he got more things done,” Byrns had been quoted as saying, off the floor, “But he won’t put over anything in this ses- sion.” So Byrns secretly encouraged O'Connor, made state- ments disparaging the elimination section—which he later said were misquoted—and let the word get around the cloakrooms that it wasn’t important for members to vote for that section. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) With Other DITORS Two Views of a Parole (Minneapolis Tribune) J. Edgar Hoover, director of the division of investi- gation of the department of justice, holds the parole system as it is now administered in very low esteem. AS @ matter of fact, he goes so far as to call it “one of the major menaces of America.” On the other hand, > ford Bates, federal prison director, is rather’ well satis! with the system. He thinks it remarkable that only seven per cent of all paroles are violated. The question he pro- pounds is this: “How good does a parole system have to be to succeed?” If Mr. Hoover were disposed to be unkind, he might turn this question inside out and ask: “How bad does a Parole system have to be to fail?” What prejudices him against that system, of course, is the fact that it is con- tinually making trouble for his men. He has good reason to suspect that a certain percentage of the prisoners whom Mr. Bates would magnanimously parole to society today would tomorrow be leading his department of in- vestigation agents a bloody chase across the country. To Mr. Hoover, this is highly nonsensical, if not utterly tragic. The imposing statistics of Mr. Bates to the contrary, he cannot bring himself to defend a system which sprinkles desperadoes of the Dillinger-Van Meter- Barrow-Floyd type promiscuously across the path of the law. The kidnaper of the Weyerhaeuser boy, Harmon Waley, was a paroled convict; sentenced to 45 years in prison for that crime, he will be eligible to parole in 15 years under the system which Mr. Bates portrays in such glowing colors. Mr. Hoover, no doubt, is pleased that 93 per cent of all paroled convicts make good; but in the seven per cent which continue to murder, kidnap, rob and plunder he can take no satisfaction whatsoever. To determine the merits of the unofficial debate on paroles which is raging between these two federal offi- cials is not an easy assignment. We only note that Mr. Bates, as director of federal does not have to catch criminals and that Mr. Hoover, as director of the department of investigation, does. Mr. Bates, quite na- turally, does not like overcrowded penttentiaries, 2nd the parole system is one way of keeping their population at @ convenient level. Mr. Hoover, on the other hand, aoes not relish having too many dangerous criminals at large, and the parole system, to him, is simply one way of in- creasing their number. ‘We suspect, therefore, that public sentiment will be disposed to string along with Mr. Hoover. The fact is worth considering, at any rate, that when Mr. Bates cites the 93 per cent of parolees who make good, he does not re- motely suggest the tremendous burden of enforcement which the remaining seven per cent place on society. His troubles, after all, leave oft where Mr. Hoover's begin, and it may not be entirely unfair to judge the parole system by the mischief which it makes for those who hold the front line in our war against the criminal. Don’t worry about the dollar, says Secretary Mor- genthau. Just worry how to keep on making it. oe Germans have been warned to stop slurring their “Heil Hitler,” or pretty soon they'd be slurring their remarks about him. Reprinted to show what they say. eee A University of California scientist has developed a vaccine for prevention and cure of the common cold, leaving us little with which to dread the winter. eee Chicago has been rated the noisiest city in the United States, with echoes of the World’s Fair still re- sounding in our ears. see According to latest reports, the government is en- couraging some railroads to go inte bankruptcy. That's strange. They needed no encouragement heretofore. | sailed on all sides. Politics By FRANK &. KENT prevented that, but gave nearly all the debate time to|Copyright, 1935, by The Rattimore Sun|Deal has to be abandoned. The ad- *** & dates, upon the smashing supreme court decision of two months ago by which the NRA experiment was sunk and the national planning phil hy upon which the New Deal fests, branded as illegal, but upon future decisions to be rendered between now and the election—still sixteen months away. As a result of these, it is held, nearly all of the adminis- tration’s major activities will have Scores of suits have been filed. There is hardly a scheme it launched in former ses- sions which is not now in the courts; hardly a measure it has passed this session which will not get there. One of its chief features has already been knocked out; others probably | wat be. At any rate, such is the pre- vailing legal belief. Under the cir- cumstances the issue of court and constitution does seem unavoidable. Either the one has to be nullified and the other changed or the New ministration, bound to make that appeal. on the defensive, is Already Regardless of dramatic efforts tojits journalistic office-holding inter- been pressure from the easy-going, easily influenced Iva ano ieee eaten pene preters are screeching about the cal- ly ‘convinced that the fundamental|amtous consequences ** the | court question of the next campaign will | Guffey bills and the AAA what it did ‘The speaker was working off an old grudge harbored |be between the supreme court and the!t the NRA. The more violent ones against an administration which never did want him to|constitutton on one side, the NeW/are openly threatening the court, in be speaker and against Chairman Sam Rayburn of the reas ey rr rire ear erred print, talking he interstate commercs mmittee, who the admin- WEED | tesa nie: ouse interstal e CO who an mwithin| the constitution ‘radical uprisings, ‘revolution. in Rayburn's committee had knocked out the president’s|or another system outside. dares to do to the Wagner and about “civil war,” brief, some of them appear to have completely lost their balance—to be in a veritable panic at the obvious It is inevitable, they assert, that this/ebbing of the public delight. in the issue should be basic and that the re-|giddy New Deal sult shall hinge far more upon it than} the growing distrust in the judgment upon the personality of the candi-|of Mr. Roosevelt and the soundness This view is based not only] of his ideas. performance and A 21 per cent improvement dh Arizona ranges over 1934 has been reported by the agricultural statis- tician stationed in Phoenix. Cassidy Wright, 16, Enid, Okla., high school student, hitch-hiked 3,000 miles through eight states on $5.50 capital. The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle claims the distinction of not missing an edi- 98 years ago. BEGIN HERE TODAY KATHARINE sTRYKHURST, Ween demonstrated as against the {letter as well as the spirit of the con- stitution. This is neither a partisan nor a wishful point of view. On the contrary, it is the way the facts ap- pear to some of the best lawyers within the administration itself. It is the way they appear to nearly for the New Deal bills. ee # Actually, the more acute of the ad- established. they were mistaken. periments have not become success- fully established—quite the contrary. the general good. * * * the whole scheme of delegating leg- islative power to the president is con- trary to our system and ‘impossible under our basic law. That creates a great issue, because, if the court fol- lows the logic of its opinion the AAA will be branded as equally unconst!- tutional and so will the TVA. This is not the silly attempt of a layman to forecast the action of the supreme court. It is the almost unanimous view of the better lawyers on both From his own words at that fi press conference when he tried to arouse hostility to the court, one would judge that it was Mr. Roose- velt’s own view so far as the AAA concerned. iF * ek The unanimity of legal thought to the unconstitutionality of admin- istration legislation passed at this session is even greater than of that put through before. For example, the weight of opinion that neither the Wagner labor board nor the Guffey coal bill will stand the test is overwhelming. That the great omnibus social security bill, the pub- Ue utility holding company bill, the new banking bill, will all be promptly taken to court is conceded. * *# # To sum up, the constitutionality’ of the Roosevelt administration is as- BY Very few men, I imagine, marry the women that chey first tell their love. —Clemence Dane, English author. x * * Our armed forces constitute the greatest stabilizing force in our coun- try today.—Assistant Secretary of War Harry Woodring. every good lawyer in the senate, most of whom have had to smother their own legal opinions in order to vote ministration legal minds at no time have had any doubt that the New|and contented, be nice to them—don’t Deal schemes were not in accord with|push them around. See Greta Garbo the constitution. They believed this|in their eyes—Dr. H. Preston Hoskins, could be got around in two ways—|American Veterinary association. first, by tricky language in the legis- eee lation itself, and, second, by post- poning @ decision until after the ex-| done té put millions at work on con- periments -had become successfully | structive enterprise at normal Amer- In both these guesses |ican wages and to keep this country The tricky |near the industrial peak for many language was of no avail and the ex- | years to come.—Ogden Mills. * It is only fair to say that the law- feriority of woman! yers responsible for this legislation | you base this? On your self-idolatry? felt entirely justified in their effort|On your accomplishments? On war? to circumvent the constitution, be-/Do9 men make world history? Very Meved they were acting in the gen-| well, look what they have made of it. eral interests and that the constitu-|—-Mrs. Marie Joachimi-Dege, German tion should not be permitted to stand | feminist. in the way of these grand plans for Undoubtedly their purposes were noble enough, but that isn’t the point. The point is that the supreme court aol has declared, in-the NRA case, that |Teconsttuction impossible. Dr. Robert NRA taught many men to get to- gether who wouldn’t even speak be- fore—Harper Sibley, president, U. 8. Chamber of Commerce. xe * If you want your cows to be happy ‘There is enough work waiting to be * * This superiority of man, this in- Upon what do * * * Local thinking was the basic cause of the Civil War and of most of the horrors of reconstruction, and local today is making world-wide McElroy, professor, Oxford university. FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: Water sports whet the appetite. 20 ané tions New Mexico with = friend, start- ing secret annulment proceedings meantime. Katharine, mi ol wedding. During a rehearsal of the ceremony Michael's memory ras. He tries to explain to her father what has ppened. Both are furious and threaten trouble. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXXIX T= headlights of Stanley Mer- ser’s car, cutting through the mist, picked out the figure of & man against the stone wall. Violet put her hand over her mouth to stifle an exclamation of terror, purely involuntary. This was a lonely place. They had been told so, early and often, by many of their friends, but they had never before seen loiterers about. Stanley pulled into the driveway and opened the door at his left. The man came toward them brisk- ly. Violet saw it was Michael. She introduced the two men briefly. “May I talk to you for a mo ment?” Michael asked. He added that he knew it was late, but the matter was urgent. “Of course.” Violet led the way into the chintz-hung sitting room, switching on lights as she went. Stanley, with a muttered excuse, left them together. “You know where Katharine is?” Michael made it more of a state ment than a question. Violet glanced at him uneasily. Really, she thought, this was a difficult spot to be in. She knew the girl had left Innicock to forget him. Only this afternoon she had heard that he was to be married to Sally Moon very shortly. What was she to do? “I called her house. Her step- mother hung up on me,” Michael explained gravely. Violet, as al- ways, felt a little thrill of anger toward Bertine. So much of this mischief could be laid at her door. That thoroughly smug, good woman... “Katharine asked me not to give out her address,” Violet said, fenc- tion since it became a daily newspaper | orig. ‘Your Personal Health| « By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Brady will answer questions pectetaing to health but not dis- ease or diagnosis. Write ters briefly and in ink. Address Dr. Brady in care of The Tribune. All queries must be accompanied by & stamped, self-addressed envelope. NUTRITION OF THE SKIN In medical literature vitamin G is commonly referred to as antidermati- tic, that is, it prevents skin troubles due to faulty nutrition. It has ac- quired this name mainly because it is essential to prevent pellagra, and in Pellagra (this term literally means rough skin) the skin assumes the ap- pearance and condition of an old sunburn or chronic “eczema.” But other vitamins, notably C and D, have been employed in the treat- ment of such common conditions as acne, and often with apparent benefit. One thing dumb or gullible folk should get out of mind at once is the notion that you can rub in or by any means administer vitamins directly through the skin. Yes, yes, I wasn’t born yesterday and I've heard about the quaint old custom of anointing the feeble baby with cod liver oil, but I’m telling you—let us not confuse ourselves about this. Dr. Helen Mackay said (Archives of Diseases of Childhood, 2,65, '34) that the first sign of A-deficiency in children is undue susceptibility to skin in- fections such as boils, impetigo, pimples, which are slow in healing. Later the skin becomes too dry and gives off a fine scurf. The hair loses its luster. In the British Medical Journal, 2,113, 34, G. P. Goodwin described the case of a boy 10 years old with A-deficiency. The skin of the legs and feet particularly was dry, and there was a popular eruption mainly over the legs. With six weeks of cod-liver oil treatment (internally) this cleared up. A similar skin condition, which proved to be due to vitamin A deficiency, was observed in @ number of prisoners by Lowenthal, in Africa. The main features Lowenthal noted were dryness, itching, papular eruption, and in some cases of inflammation of hair follicles or roots. The eruption resembled ordinary acne but the papules or pimples did not pustulate. By giving the prisoners one ounce of cod liver oil daily Lowenthal succeeded in clearing up the skin condition, as well as the xerophthalmia and night-blindness which many of ey prisoners had. Total deprivation of vitamins is rare in this country, and the more dramatic deficiency diseases are accordingly less likely sorbet But partial lack of one or more vitamins is far more frequent than we have suspected, and it begins to be apparent now that a great many mild disturbances of pti rpeisian for which some persons hardly think it worth while consult a pl at all, drift along unrecognized or wrongly diagn and hence improperly treated. xd a Unfortunately, we have no accurate or precise tests by which we can de- termine whether @ given person is suffering from deficiency of this or that vitamin, although we have rough tests for A-deficiency and for C-deficiency. Until such definite tests are available we must rely on the clinical test— that is, if there is reason to suspect a deficiency of one or more vitamins, give the patient an optimal ration of the vitamins in question and see whether that helps. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Rubbers and Eyes My teacher says if I wear my rubbers in school they will affect my eyes. Roa under 14 years of age drink cocoa without any injurious effect? (R. W.) Answer—Wearing rubbers indoors is not a healthful practice, but it does not affect the eyes particularly. I think children under sixteen should not drink tea, coffee or cocoa, but of the three beverages cocoa is the lest injur- ious. One a Minute Kindly advise if ......., used in baths for reducing is harmful, and if so, in what way. (F. E. .) Answer—it is harmless enough, but only a very gullible person would seriously hope to reduce that way. Send ten cents and stamped envelope bearing your addréss for booklet “design for Dwindling” which tells you how to reduce. Bad Teeth and Bad Breath Since I had some bad teeth extracted and artificial teeth put in their place a year ago my foul breath has cleared up. I had had a bad breath for many years. ... (H. L. K.) Answer—Good dentistry will clear up many a troublesome case of fetor (Copyright, 1935, John F. Dille Co.) Summer Sweethearts thought you had played a ghastly ;of hotel at Roanne, New Merico,” trick on her.” she blurted on an impulse. “That's why she left?” “Thank you.” He wrote it down. “Mainly,” Violet. said rather an-| after he had gone Stanley said grily. The man was either a con-| gravely to his wife, “I don’t think ing for time. If Stan would only come back into the room; she bad- ly needed his moral support at the moment! She had liked this boy at first. There was something ap pealing about his lean fineness, the way his eyes were set deeply in his sunbrowned face. And the hand that-held the cigaret was s good one, strong and well-muscled, the fingers slender and nervous. But you couldn’t tell much about a per- son by looking at his face and hands. It was nonsense to say you could. “Good Lord,” blurted Michael, in the silence. “She's my wife— didn’t you know that? 1 thought, perhaps she'd told you.” Violet stared, stung into speech summate actor or else he was sin- cere. But when she had told Stanley and Adrianson her theory of his possible loss of memory, a week or two before, they had laughed at her. Adrianson was pre- paring the annulment papers at the moment. “She must think me a thorough Totter,” Michael groaned. “I’m afraid she does.” Men, Vio- let reflected, ought to pay a little for their treatment of women. eee 'B looked at her. “I didn’t re- member a thing,” he told her simply. “You knew—and didn’t she hear it?—that I was hurt in a taxi accident?” “We did. But it didn’t sound serious. She called the hospital and was told you were getting on all right. Then you came home, and neither telephoned nor tried to see her. One day you passed her on the street without speaking—” jshe is. “I did?” “You did,” Violet said, steeling herself against the impulse to com- fort the boy. He put his head into his hands and groaned. Stanley came back into the room. “We were going through a re hearsal tonight,” Michael went on, glancing from one to the other. “I was to marry Sally Moon. Some one said the words of the ceremony —more Joke than anything. I felt as though I'd been struck by lightning. The whole thing came back to me.” Violet looked accusingly at her ‘husband. “I told you so!” “Lucky it happened in time,” Stanley drawled. “You’d have been in a pretty fix.” “Do -you think I don’t realize it?” Michael wanted to know. “I meant that night I went to New York to have the whole matter of the inheritance straightened out and to announce our marriage at once. My engagement to Sally had been a crazy affair; she didn't really want it. It was just an im- pulse on Sally’s part. But after ward—” “She liked the idea of the title, eh?” the older man grinned en- couragingly. “That was about it.” “Well, thank God, it’s no worse than it is,” murmured Violet philo- sophically. “Katharine has been hurt—but not permanently, I hope. Whether or not she'll want to let the marriage stand, of course, is another matter.” Stanley, halting over the words, told Michael that legal steps were already being taken to dissolve the bond. He paled. “Sorry she did it, eht” “You can’t blame her for having @ second thought on it,” Violet cried, coming to her friend’s de fense. “You scarcely made it @ success at the start—although I ad- mit now that it wasn’t your fault.” < He stared at them both. “Well, I'll be pushing along. Thanks for bothering with me.” Violet's ready pity went out to him. He looked eo young and troubled! Her woman’s percep tions told her what a wretched time he must have gone through at the Moon's. And she believed ‘his whole. preposterous story. It by the direct attack. “She did. But| was too fantastic not to be true. you didn’t e¢kpowledge it. She “Katharine’s at Silencia, 9 sort you should have told him where It may make trouble. Adrianson thinks she should carry the thing through. We don’t want to meddle.” Violet concealed her own grave misgivings at this breach of con- fidence. “T’ll take all the blame, if there is any,” she told her hus band. “I couldn’t see him go off like that. He looked so wild—so desperate. I wouldn't have slept tonight . . .” A YOUNG man in worn tweeds, carrying a shabby bag, boarded a weet-bound train at Pennsylvania station that night. He stayed up rather late in the writing room. Two of his notes were posted at Manhattan Transfer. One was to Mrs. Stanley Merser, the other to Miss Sally Moon of Innicock, New York. Then he went to bed and tossed uneasily in the narrow Pullman. In Chicago he decided to take a plane for the rest of the journey. No passenger ships had left New York the night before because of bad weather conditions. But the rain and blowing cold fogs had been left behind in Ohio. Michael had never been in a plane before. Below him the fa- miliar country spread out like a checkerboard. He drew a long breath, stretching his legs in the cramped seat. It was good to have this sense of spaciousness again... In Santa Fe he left the ship. There was a jerkwater train to Ro anne or there were cars to be had. It was a matter of 50 miles. Mi- chael burned with impatience. The train was not due to leave for an hour. He fingled the coins in his pock- ets as the driver of a rackety-look- ing sedan came around the corner. Yes, he would drive Michael to Roanne; no trouble at all. Silencia? Certainly, he was well acquainted with the place. A beautiful spot. The gentleman would enjoy it. eee T= roads left something to be desired. In places they were deeply rutted. It was a short route they were taking, the driver in- sratiatingly explained. Michael raged at the stops. The engine was an old one; more than once the radiator had to be rein- forced by water which Sebastian carried in a tin kerosene can on the front seat. The day grew very hot—unbearably hot. Michael knew the very words he would say to the fair-haired girl he was seeking. He could scarcely believe that she had been, for an instant one day, his wife in the eyes of God and the law. He had forgotten, if ever he had known it, that life could be so good. This fellow probably was riding him all over God-knew-where to col- léct a fare... . Michael fumed at the thousand and one delays. But at long last, the single nar- Tow street of Roanne loomed up out of the desert. And half a mile out of town they saw the creamy walls of a long, low adobe house. “Silencia, my gentleman,” said Sebastian with a flash of white teeth. Michael’s heart thudded imps " (fo Be Continued)