The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 4, 1935, Page 4

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Daily by mail outside of Weekly by mail in state, per year Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein, All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. gee Inspiration for Today Jesus said unto him, if thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come agd | follow me.—St. Matthew 20:21. ere Prayer carries us half-way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and almsgiving procures us admission.—Koran, hind the Svenes in Washington WITH RODNEY DUTCHER @ Washington, Sept, 4.—Listen, my children, and you shall hear the rather exciting tale of how the adminis- tration Zinally whammed the socks off the “power trust” ii battle over the public utilities holding company You could hardly ask for a more dramatic grudge fight than one pitting the White House with all its re- sources against the $12,000,000,000 utility industry, the House of Morgan, and other powerful banking connec- tions and the largest, most expensive lobby ever seen in Washington. It had all the elements of a death duel, a slugging match, and a poker game in which no one knew who held the most. wild cards until the very end. Roosevelt stuck his chin out in this contest—and kept it there. His insistence that he would take the issue right into the campaign finally caused the rebels in his own party to crumble and concede him a triumph in the major congressional test of administration strength since March 4, 1933, BACK TO THE WALL Twice the administration had gone to defeat in the house on the senate-endorsed “death sentence.” Every- one knew the house leaders weren't backing up the president, Democratic Congressman George Huddleston of Ala- bama and Republicans Cooper of Ohio and Holmes of Massachusetts, dominating the house conferees, showed every sign of an intention to block any legislation what- ever. Senator Burt Wheeler of Montana, sponsor of the bill and head of the senate conferees, stood firm. Then those celebrated administration brain trusters, Ben Cohen and Tom Corcoran (who averaged about six RECHECK DISCLOSE NEW SPEED RECORD MADE BY CAMPBELL ‘Silly Mistake’ in Computation Shown When Timers Ex- amine Figures Salt Lake City, Sept. 4—(#)—Sir Malcolm Campbell and his Blue Bird Tacer were poised Wednesday for a triumphant return to England with & record—finally computed correctly —of 301.1282 miles an hour on land. A “silly mistake”—the words were Sir Malcolm’s—kept the “human bul- let” for hours in the belief he had failed on the Bonneville salt flats to achieve his dream of a mile in 12 seconds. The fact that he had bettered his previous record of 276.816 miles an hour by more than 23 imiles, as orig- inally figured by the timers, brought only a wry face and a declaration he would have to “go through it all again” Thursday. Tt was far into the night before the officials of the American Auto- mobile association sent word hur- tiedly to the intrepid driver, with many apologies, that they had made a mistake. He altered previous plans to try hours’ sleep a night after they started work on this bill 10 months ago), drew up a “substitute” for the “death sentence” clause (which both sides now admit was vir- tually the same thing) and the “substitute” was secretly approved by Roosevelt. see GARNER TURNS TIDE The scene now shifts to the private office of Vice President Jack Garner, big behind-the-scenes liaison man s for Roosevelt, No Time to Lose | ‘Present; Garner) speaker’ Joe) Byrna; Hous: Rusa Announcement by WPA Administrator Thomas H. Moodie that he expects to receive $13,000,000 worth of applications for public improvements in this state before the week is out should encourage all those who look to the government for help this winter. It is indica- tion that in most districts there will be plenty | to do at a “security wage,” small though the! latter may be. Action by the state federation of labor in criticizing the size of the stipend offered will not change the situation, as Mr. Moodie pointed out in an address to that body. He realizes that it makes no provision for caviar or fine raiment, but there is nothing he can do about it. The announcement also emphasizes the necessity for immediate action in those dis- tricts where relatively few projects are being| proposed—and among these is Burleigh county. | The need for definite thought on the subject is manifest. | We have our full share of persons who are| going to need help. For a variety of reasons they have come here from all parts of the state| and, unless we get them on the WPA payroll, a certain percentage of them will become public charges who must be supported from the county treasury. That our officials find themselves on the horns of a financial dilemma does not change the facts in the case. It is going to be difficult for Burleigh county to raise money with which to provide machines and materials with which WPA labor can work, but it will be more diffi- cult still to raise the money to keep them in idleness during the winter. As long as a choice must be made it seems logical to give the WPA! system the preference, As to the permanent value which will be} derived from such work, there is no telling un- til projects have been approved and completed. | Administrator Moodie is making desperate efforts to see that only worthwhile and con- structive enterprises are approved. More than anything else, he would like to leave behind him a record of accomplishment which will be of permanent good to the state. But the first object still is to put men on the payroll. The system of allocating 90 per cent of the WPA funds to labor makes that paramount. Struggle as he may to avoid it, there is going to be con- siderable “leaf-raking” under the WPA system. For this, however, Administrator Moodie can disclaim responsibility. The WPA initiates no projects of its own. It merely passes on those which are presented to it by public boards in various parts of the state. If there is no opportunity to work in any district, or the pub- lie officials of that district lack the vision to see where constructive work can be done, that certainly is the fault of no one but themselves. In this, as in so many things, each district will get out of it just about what it gives in the way of imagination, thought and money. In a Hard Spot Nothing illustrates more clearly the plight in which our railroads find themselves than two cases recently filed by them with the state railroad board. In one they sought to force back to their lines traffic which is being handled by wholesale distributors in their own trucks. In the other they ask permission to make competitive rates in an effort to prevent the trucking of lignite coal mines to certain points of consumption. The obvious thing, whether or not one agrees with the methods adopted to change it, is that the railroads are losing much of their short-haul business. In addi- tion, giant trucks are cutting into their long-haul freight volume. They are caught between the devil of federal regulation and the deep sea of red-hot competition. In this extremity it would seem that action to put the railroads on a competitive basis with trucks is in or- Ger, but how to go about it is a question. It can hardly the ultimate advantage of the public. About the best that could be done would be to put taxes of motor carriers on the same basis, ton for ton, as the railroads pay, enforce upon them the same rates, rules and regulations with regard to employment that the railroads must observe, Australian convict escapes prison in an airplane. bad substitute for the wings of an angel. been written by paid “power trust” propagandists, votes Chairman John J. O'Connor (whose brother Basil re- ceived $25,000 from Associated Gas & Electric and who had been sabotaging the administration on the measure), Assistant Floor Leader Ed Taylor of Colorado, Whip Paddy Boland of Pennsylvania—and a bottle. “Do you realize what you're doing?” demands Gar- ner. “This is going to split the party wide apart and probably will hang you all. That feller in the White House has made it perfectly clear he'll go to the country with this thing next year if you don’t go through with it now. “Joe Byrns, do you dare go back to Tennessee and face the people after what you've done here? “John O'Connor, after what's been said about your brother Basil and what's been said about you, do you dare—.” The quotations aren’t quite verbatim, as no votes were taken. But the boys got the point. They realized many house Democrats were desperately anxious to vote for a face-saving substitute. O'Connor, worried by heavy newspaper criticism and unpopularity at the White House, agreed to make a speech for the substitute. Byrns said he might. eee REBELS FALL IN LINE Back to the house floor: Sam Rayburn introduces the substitute as a “compromise.” Byrns and O’Connor back him up against Huddleston on a point of order. Rayburn speaks and you can sense that many previously recalcitrant Democrats have had enough of the fight. O'Connor then rises to urge passage and as he does so, @ note comes from Byrns to Rayburn, who controls the time:’ “Recognize me for three minutes and I'll speak for it.” Byrns speaks: “We can’t go back to our constituents and admit our inability to pass legislation.” And over she goes, as all but 59 Democrats scramble back under the administration tent. Even Jennings Randolph of West Virginia, whose radio speech against the senate bill was found to have for it. eee VICTORY AT LAST : The last scene is in the conference room. Though instructed by the House to take the substitute, Hud- dleston is still grimly obstructing on the eve of adjourn- ment, fighting on this point and that. But suddenly it developed that his Republican friends have had enough. Holmes and Cooper say in effect: “We're licked. Why go on?” And the conference report is whipped into shape for final action while administrationists prepare to celebrate, and mimeographs of the holding company executives are oiled to scream out their last cry of rage. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) With Other DITORS The Treasury’s Bad Guess (Minneapolis Tribune) For the first time on record a federal bond issue fully guaranteed has failed to be completely taken up. Last, week the treasury department offered $100,000,000 in 1% per cent four-year bonds and, unlike previous issues, it failed to find a sufficient number of subscribers. After months of borrowing at will this sudden reversal has called forth some hasty explanations from the treas- ury department. On the face of it, the layman would probably jump to the conclusion that this bond failure indicated a sig- nificant change in sentiment on the part of the market toward government securities. That this is the case is hardly to be imagined. The federal government is still without any serious competitors for money-seeking in- vestment. As long as excess reserves held by the banks j exceed $2,700,000,000, there is little question about lack of funds and the government is able to view its reversal of last week with almost complete equanimity. Explanation for this so-called bond failure must be sought in technical conditions which affected the market and in the resistance that is developing among dealers against the treasury’s recently inaugurated auction bid- ding system. Regardless of the failure of this particular issue to attract the required number of takers, the treas- ury still dominates the money market. Nor was there anything in this occurrence which could be said to reflect any particular lack of confidence in the credit of the government. With the banks now so heavily interested in federal securities, they have much the same interest which the treasury has in seeing the market for federal bonds main- tained. It is hardly likely that they would do anything that would depress prices permanently. What it all sim- mers down to is this, that, while the treasury department probably made a poor guess with regard to immediate market gonditions, it has merely been furnished with a warning as to what the future may hold. Borrowing can- not go on indefinitely in the face of an unbalanced budget, and the hdldings of government securities by banks cannot continue to pile up, without affecting the market for federal paper adversely sooner or later. The first reversal, no matter how well it can be explained, is of greater significance as a warning than it is as an indi- cation of immediate trends in the money market. Police catch women betting on horses in Philadel- phia beauty parlor. What's the use of having your face lifted and then hearing that your horse lost? Reprinted to show what they say. We inay or -mMay not agree with | them, | for Less Noise movement is the fact that one of its lead- ers is named Shirley Wynne. . General Cummings has sailed for Europe see if they have anything we ought to have.” Well, for one thing, there's » matter of a few billions, oe again Thursday and ordered the six- ton, 2,500-horsepower Bluebird pre- pared for shipment . He will embark at New York September 12, with “the old lady,” as he calls his racer. The error came on the return run, after Campbell had flashed north- ward ‘across the gleaming salt plain at 304.311 miles an hour and brought his huge racer to a safe stop despite a blown front tire. ‘The timers first computed his south- bound mile at 295.566 miles an hour, for an average of 299.875 miles. A later check of the electrically marked tape showed the return mile was run in 12.08 seconds, instead of the 12.18 seconds—or 298.013 which accounted for the increased average finally cred- ited. County Planners to Consider WPA Jobs Burleigh county's planning board meets Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. in the commissioners room of the courthouse | to consider recommendations for WPA projec’: and to-elect officers. Members of the board are George F. Will, H. F. Tiedman, Paul Wachter, T. R. Atkinson, G, R. Register and Lester Larsen, all off Bismarck; J. Devils Lake Board Inspects New School The Devils Lake school board, which Tuesday night submitted an appli- cation to the PWA for funds to build & $300,000 school building, visited Bis- marck’s new high school Wednesday and was escorted through the build- ing by Supt. H. O.“Saxvik. Ground for the new building will be broken in the spring. Personnel of the board includes Noel H. ‘Tharalson, secre- tary, and Ray M. Young, Mrs, H. A. Lieberg, Fred Traynor and Supt. F. H, Gilliland. FIRST: CHARACTERS CHOSEN FOR PLAY Cast Members Already Signed Up and Choir Will Begin Rehearsals Tonight First assignments of characters for “The First Commandment,” which will be staged here Sept. 17-16 as a benefit for the First Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid society, were announced ‘Wednesday by Mary Lee Tower, di- rector. Enacting the scenes in the court of Pharoah, among the most beauti- ful and spectacular in the pageant, will be Lorenzo H, Belk as the Phar- oah of Joseph’s time, Herman Peters as the Pharoah of Moses’ timé, Charles Liessman as the chief coun- selor, Richard Tiedman as the chief butler and William Carr as captain of the guards. Others who have been contacted and who will be assigned parts at the first rehearsal at the church at 7:30 o'clock Wednesday night include E. M. Hendricks, Milton K. Higgins, Burkett Huey, Emery T. Putnam, Ernest H. Elness, Frederick Monley, I, C. Davies, John Moses, Chester Perry, Nelson Sauvain, Price Owens, 2nd Lt. Richard R. Saul, 1st Lt. Will A. Sessions, Jr., Alice Jensen, Evalyn Grace Hermann, Louise Sween, Au- vurne Olson and George T. Hum- phreys. A special choir will be organized for the production by Clarion E. Larson. The singers also will meet for the first time Wednesday night, being called for 7:45 o'clock at the church. Former Local Printer Succumbs at St. Paul Mrs. C. G. Derby, 622 Second 8t., wife of the county auditor, has re- ceived word that her brother-in-law, Leonard Anderson, 59, former em- ployee of the Bismarck Tribune, died strued to sign the affidavit. Hoover, Moffit; Willis Gill, George Anderson, Wing. Auguring well for the success of New York’s League |" Regan; |tt at. Paull Monday after a 10-year illness, due to diabetes. Anderson leaves his widow, the former Miss Ada Bentley to whom he was married here 28 years ago Sep- tember 1, and eight children. Funer- al services will be held at 2 o'clock ‘Ihursday afternoon and burial will Four Lehr Farmers Injured in Mishap Aberdeen, 8. D., Sept. 4.—(®)— Physicians Wednesday treated four 'be made at St. Paul. Lehr, N. D,, farmers for injuries suf- ° fered when they were hurled through! ,.“™Pioyed by the Tribune for about 115 years, Anderson left for St, Paul ee rere anal crash into !18 years ago and there established his In the hospital with possible serious peste SG ee injuries were Ed Ketterling, John Fy Reich, Jacob Heilne and En Bower. Mandan Is Seeking Their sedan overturned when it hit Muni cipal Utility the obstruction on Highway 12 two The Mandan city commission Wed- miles west of here. Both signal and sedan were de- molished. nesday filed an application with the ieielihditaswadeae i te: public works administration for a Mother of ‘Doorstep __| Forse #596000 municipal light Babe’ Wants It Back) ‘The spplication was speeded to Washington for federal approval, after which a special election would be called for a vote on a bond issue Sisseton, S. D., Sept. 4.—()—Puz- zled police Wednesday investigated a Proposal. Under the PWA regulations the city would receive an outright grant of $151,200 and a loan of $184,800. story that the mother of the “door- step baby,” reputedly from Minot, N. D., wants her child back. Meanwhile the “adopted” mother, Mrs, Wallace Jastrom of Rosholt, at whose home the child. was left two weeks ago, asked permission to adopt the baby girl, about three weeks old. A note, which failed to disclose the identity of the mother, said the child was from Minot. From Washington Wednesday came word that a grant of $334,636 and a loan of $409,000 for the construction of a municipal electric plant at James- town had been approved by the pres- ident. | God of Old . HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Puzsle _ 16He was ——___ .The twin of [WETLIEIN[WIILICISIMololD|y] of Orpheus the goddess BONG HOG Bore (pl). Artemis. 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[E[H[ATM/P]s JOINT [JTAIE[O[B/S} 32 Gibbon. 17 Jockey. 39 Bill of fare, 18 Slovak. 38 X. and music. 40To kill. , 20 Bound. 39 Lace. 41 Pig. %2To make a 42Existence. - VERTICAL (oO sweater. 45 Spouse. 2 By. hearing. 24 Label. 48 Pertaining to 3To be in debt. 43 To strike. 27 Flying the lore. 4 List. 44 Otherwise. mammal. 50 Race track 5 Monster. 45 Crowd. 29 Bgret. circuits. 6 Ancient. 46 Hail! 31 Oleoresin. 54 Kiln. 7 Onion-like 47 Afternoon 33 To corrode. 55 Assembly. plant. meal. 34 Fundamental. 56 Fastener. 8 Sea tale. 49 Wand. 35 Stream. 67 He was god 9 Nuisance. 51 Social insect. 36 Amphitheater of manly ——. 10 Sick. 52 Nominal center. 68 He was also 11 Wing. value. 37 To observe. god of —— _14To assist. 53 Emissary. Cee oot eee ede ea FL NE @ rT TT NT TTT SSE T NSS" FT OS NSS CN A Se WW? ESS? LP SS THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1935 MRS. C. M. OUIVER DIES IN BISMARCK Wife of Piggly Wiggly Manager Was Active in Scout Work; Funeral Is Thursday ety z 5 rf aefee Funeral services will be held in the Webb chapel Thursday at 10 a. m., Bt eorger " pplscopal wuleh otfie a 's church, i ciating. e body will be taken to Minnea} Thursday noon for cre- mation. Mrs, Oliver was born in Ottumwa, Towa, March 3, 1606, the daughter of | °"- Mr. and Mrs. I. W. . Her ‘mother preceded her in death and her father is now a resident of Twin Falls, Ida. Besides her husband and father, she leaves two brothers, Em- met of Oklahoma City, Okla., and W. W., of Minneapolis; two sisters, Mrs. * Ida., and Mrs. Helen Péterson, Ruppert, Ida. Mrs. J. W. Hays of Idaho Falls, Tda., and . O. R. Bauin of Poca- tello, eisters of Mr. Oliver, have been here since Monday and will remain until after the funeral service. The Olivers were married Dec. 1, 1916 and for many years were Wyom- ing residents. Before coming to Bis- marck, Aug. 10, 1932, they had resid- ed in Valley City. Soon after her arrival in Bismarck, Mrs. Oliver took up her Girl Scout activities. Until taking sick last Christmas, she was the leader of the ‘Wachter school troop and also as- sisted in city-wide work through her “emepabateed on the Girl Scouts eoun- oll, TOO MANY LARSONS A statement in the Bismarck Trib- une Tuesday that H. A. Larsen, 400 Ninth 8t., had been involved in an au- tomobile accident Saturday was in- correct. The Tribune was mis-in- formed. MAY SIGN CERTIFICATES The attorney general's office has tuled chiropractors and osteopaths may sign health certificates accom- panying marriage licenses, it was an- nounced Wednesday. Previously. the law had been con- permit only physicians to Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. estions pertaining to healt! Dut not dis- amped, self-at ressed envelope. METHODS MEDICAL ETHICS AND MODERN In the course of a letter wishing me many years of happiny peaaieal Girection of the thought of the public on. health questions, friend says: “The physi hteous tl called Ethics. Because iant pentcrny in most rectal diseases compelled to resign from the county I don’t believe it. \ have been too thin of skin and too sensitive to the sneers seit aa ot the ol fossils who, in Hint Reger’ person dh oad Aapintd ready criticise new urage bvgy adopt new methods. But if a doctor is on the square, and Pad to any quackery or crooked stuff, his membership in the medical society oe his stahding in the profession geen Ber or Ge fig he baited do is just plug away at his work, tal hs Moarginis venture to speak out of turn, and bide his time. If he is MS es haic method or practice, he will have the satisfac oeacne the aa fogiee eat their words and crawl back-into their holes, later 5 ' , t ually medical ethics has nothing to do with a physician’s employment of ro methods. If a doctor has a fair training and a fair amount of ex- perience in practice he is surely capable of deciding whether or not a ig method or remedy is worthy of his acceptance and desirable for his hang No doubt there are a good many smug physicians in the country WI American Medical d the Erie County Lrseigt 4 ec hilete they don’t like it when their patients com¢ them with AA pa be: ‘Brady SAYB......0.,” and I wouldn’t like it either, but there is really no sound reason for the resentment of the old timers. You see, I have nothing much to do except prowl around on the look-out for new ideas and so I happen to get onto some good things a year or two before the rank and file of plodding practitioners find out about them. Why shoul the old guard or their spokesmen get het up about it? ‘They'll learn all about the new idea, through the regular medical journals and the medical societies, as soon as the omniscient arbiters of these media are convinced it is estab- lished in practice. Meanwhile the more progressive doctors will have beaten them to it, of course, but that’s only a fair reward for those who do their own thinking. The iaty and the dumb leave it to the Pooh-bahs to do their thinking for them; the Pooh-bahs get salaries and kudos for doing it, s0 everybody is satisfied except the patient. The patient has a distracting way of trying out the newfangled treatment while the doctors quarrel about it. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Frozen Canned Food Please tell me whether canned goods which have been frozen would be jurious to health. (M. A.) a Answer—Such food is as wholesome as it was before freezing. Iron in Cherries Have just learned that cherries contain iron. If you would broadcast this neg it might help cherry growers to dispose of their crops.... (Mrs. AT. RP) Answer—So many fruits and vegetables contain more iron than cher- ries, that the fact is not significant. But cherries compare favorably with other sources of vitamins A, B and C. became the victim of this smug lan who saved my gsc he elected to employ embl- (except malignancy) he was Casein We bought some wall paper from mail order house. Noticed an odor while the paper was being put on. The odor did not wear away. We wrote the firm, and they replied that the odor is from casein used in the paper to set the color. They said it would wear away in time. Is it harmful? What is casein? (Miss C. E. T.) ‘ Answer—It is harmless, Casein is the curd of milk. The curd of sour milk is called acid casein and is used in coating paper and in printing wall- paper and various fabrics. Jo « Bret arrives eccentric jes to Jo that al Pragoact’s Great wife. NOW GO ON WITH THE stoRY CHAPTER XXXVIII L#4NING back against the tuz: urious cushions of Lolita Mca: tez’s town car. Jo had plenty to think about. Lolita’s revelasion that she had been Fragonet's first wife. that ber child was his had affected Jo with all the force of a nervous shock. Even now, after an hour with Lolita, walking in her garden and talking of pleasant: er things, Jo was weak and be wildered. She had admired the little ao tress at Crest Lake, but that ad- miration -was as nothing compared with Jow feelings for her now. At Crest Lake she had believed Lo lita Montes was overly bitter about Fragonet. had half-coneluded that this dislike grew trom professional Jealousy. But now she knew that Lolita was not half so bitter as she might have been. Jo had left Lolita with the ac tress’s promise that she would find something for Jo to do in Holly- wood. “You might as well have something at the studio,” Lolita had said. “I've more influence there than anywhere, and it would probably pay more than you'd get elsewhere.” (Lela) wae eo 8 eo B°T Lolita had been emphatic in her advice that Jo should forget Fragonmet and avoid him utterly, Now, after this latest glimpse into his stormy story, Jo could well agree. Looking back om the whole thing, Jo realized how reckless and foolish she had been. She could only hope that che hadn't already gone too far —or that Fragonet hada't—for she still feared the threat of trou- ble from. Edna Fragonet. As Peter had hinted, Edna might well let loose her.wrath, once his pictere was released and she stood a better chance of payments from him. Lost in her troubled thoughts, Jo did not notice the sleek blue roadster which drew alongside the car as Lolita’s driver waited for one of the boulevard lights to change from red to green. Then through the open window she beard @ familiar voice from the soadster. She leaned forward end saw Silas Drann at the wheel of the other car. At sight of Jo his found eyes grew rounder still. “Miss Darien! I thought this was Lolita’s car and—" “It is,” Jo smiled. “Weil.” laughed Drann, “you cap tell in Hollywood. What are you doing—?” The traffic bell sounded, and * hurriedly question. <Dranp formed s new|!B ISUN- TAN Without thinking, Jo repeated her address. “Fine,” said the director, shoving bis car into gear. “You'll hear from me soon.” As Lolita’s car moved on with traffic Jo leaned back against the cushions and smiled at Drann’s apparent friendliness. She hadn't the stightest notion that he’d get in touch with her at all. “ seed mext day she stayed close to her room, following the ad- vice of Lolita who had sata she'd telephone. But as the hours wore 0D and she dia not near trom the actress, Jo decided that something must nave oappened to delay Lo- Uta’s plane She had just decidea to get a breath of outside air when her landlady called up the stairway: “U'm sending up a Mr. Drann,” she shouted, as though Jo Darien Were somewhat deaf. Jo hurried to the door, wishing that the bungalow owner wouldn't be quite so libera!-minded in her bandling of mate callers. But tt was too late—the bulky form of Silas Drann was already on the stair, “Good evening, Miss Darien,” he puffed. “I was afraid 1 might not find you in—but { took a chance and stopped by on the way to the studio.” y: Embarrassed, Jo invited him to sit down. “I—1! suppose Miss Morftez sent you?” She was puz- zled, for Lolita hadn't mentioned what work she bad ip mind for Jo at the studio, and Jo hadn't for the moment imagined it would be anything in Drann’s depart- ment. At the question, Drann raised his eyebrows. “Montez? Oh—yes, Yes, she did.” Jo dropped into a chair, re- feved. “She’s wonderful, [ think.” “Yes, we all think so.” The director cleared his throat. “Now ++ » Miss Darien, had you ever hp ight of going into pictures at al a goodby, the director was gone. Jo stood watching him from the window, saw bim pusb hie neavy frame behing the whee! of ais roadster Somehow she wished Lolita Montez hadn't drawn Silas Drann tnto her affairs. tnstinc- tively Jo mistrusted him. He seemed more like a heartless ma- chine than a man. At 10 tomorrow, Drann had said, at the Atlas lot... . erie) e, Let man at the big wide gate which guarded Atlas from the rest of Hollywood was instantly suspicious. But when Jo gave him the name of Silas Drann of his suspicion meltea—but not sufficiently to allow nim to tet her enter before he had called Drano’s office and verified her ap- Pointment. Once he nad deter- mined this, he was courtesy itself. “Just go right on in, Miss Darien,” he said. “It's that big white building to the left there. They'll tell you where Drann's office ts.” As Jo made ner way to the administration pbuilding of the Atlas organization she saw none of the ceaseless activity she had expected. All about her were high enclosing walls and behind them, she supposed, the reat picture- making went on. Some of them were dotted with 8 warning, “SILENCE,” or Xo “ADMIT: TANCE,” or “DO NOT ENTER WHILE RED LIGHT IS ON.” Even the grass in front of the administration building was not to be disturbed, although the sign was @ gentle one, pleading sim- ply, “PLEASE!” Jo obeyed, di- recting her steps to the narrow concrete walk. She did not have to inquire for Drann. She encountered’ him ab most in the entrance way. “Ah!” he burst out, smiling. “Right om time! And punctuality is a first Tequisite in this business. Come on, I want to rehearse you a Httle.” Taking her by the arm he led the bewildered Jo across the pave- ment and into a small building “That's just what 1 do mean,” spapped Drann. “Miss Darien, { want you to take a screen test.” Jo could hardly find her voice. “But I—it's so absurd, Mr. Drann, I've never had any experience. Not even in amateur theatricais, and—" “So much the better! ff you get through @ good screen test— if your beauty registers at all and your voice is passable—1 will make an actress of you. | have done that before, many times. [ did it with Montez.” “But, l—* Jo broke off, laugh- ing. “I’m sure it would be all for nothing, and even if I could be an actress I’m ... not sure [I'd want to be.” which was empty save for a can- vas chair, a table, and a maze of lights and wires overhead. Drann Plopped immediately into the chai r ‘@ won't do much,” he said. ‘Let’s see you walk.” Jo looked at him, startled. “Walk, walk! You know how to walk, don’t you? ... That's good. Can you smile on order?” Jo tound that she could, but her smile was really genuine tor she was amused at Dra “aan absurdity. ie led her a sheet of paper from phis pocket. “Read that. Pend it just as if it were a letter you were reading to someone—just make it cl able \° “leaf and understand- “Nonsense!” Drann. aimost yelled inside the little room. “I watched you at Crest Lake. You are beautiful. You ere natural. You are young. | want you to be at the studio tomorrow at 10, Ask for me.” He got up abruptiy, hat tp band. “You'll promise to be there?” “Why... if Miss Montes wants it, yes, But 1 thought she neq something in mind for me in the office somewhere,” “In the office!” Drann repeated in disgust. “You can get nowhere the office. I'll see you tomor- row et 10!”" : Then, without the formality of Her voice trembling a tittle, Jo fend the typewritten page, she found 1 Sette a sbetaat rae ford cult to make ow: “Tl never do at all,” she told him, Feturning the sheet of paper. aan hyn’ be such @ child!” Drans meted, There’ be only myself, raman and there. We've al} py pyre eee Worse than you, eeD remembering that you might tu wond ann, tee m3 lerfully well wasn’t, Jo told hi fully, 9 flattering thought, gh (To Be Continned) Uttle . |