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THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1936 i The Bismarck Tribune mn tem be eer Re rAR Tt MAM Ahem fae ann Bre wo enn =a ae bY oF Cr us se 2 ©9a@ en “suvan. An independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ) (Established 1873) ie State, City and County Officiai Newspaper Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and enfed at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. Mrs. Stella 1. Mann President and Publisher Kenneth W Simons Secy-Treas. and Editor Archie O. Johnson Vice Pres. and Gen'l, Manager Subscription Rates Payable in Advance by carrier, per year .. mail per year (in . mail per year (in state outside of Bismarck) ail outside of North Dakota ‘Weekly by mail in Canada, per year ... Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Press is suey entitled to the use for Lepnalics. Making Real Progress From time to time during the last few years this news- paper has advanced the principle that only an ealightened capitalism could save America from the tinkering of crack- pot isms or other political adversities. It did so at the risk of offending both businessmen and politicians, the former because some of them thought they could do no wrong and the latter because they were sure they could not fail to do good. Advocacy of the idea that business learn to think in terms of the general social welfare was based upon two things. One was the tremendous power placed by our economic organiza- tion in the leaders of business. The other was the necessity for heading off experiments which, while well-intentioned and conceived by sincere and well-meaning persons, could not fail to harm both business and the people generally. In short, The Tribune’s story has been that business is better fitted than government to cure the national ills, but that it must change its manner of thinking and recognize the fact that those ills existed before it could be expected to devise a cure. It has contended that business could benefit itself most by looking to the general welfare, advocating such policies and changes as seem feasible in the light of all the facts; that fail- ure to do so would intensify the urge to cure economic ills by political action. This seemed the part of both sound economics and good AMERICANISM, and this newspaper held to that policy. It is pleasing to note that support for it now is being voiced in many important quarters. The cry of many Republicans throughout the nation is for a forward-looking program. The party apparently is in- clined to disavow many of its mistakes of the past and go for- ward with clean slate. It will serve both the nation and itself by so doing. But more significant than that is the speech made Mon- day in San Francisco by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president of General Motors. It is discussed elsewhere on this page by David Lawrence, but a thing Mr. Lawrence fails to empasize is that it showed definitely that industry, as represented by Mr. Sloan, is thinking in terms of social objectives. It has been foreed to do so by bitter experience—but it is doing a good job of it, for there is no questioning the fact that Mr. Sloan’s con- clusions are eminently sound. Who, that views the economic scene sanely, can refute Mr. Sloan’s statement that the best way to prosperity is by a “better production technique, making p ble today’s products at lower prices, thus broadening existing marke’ The hub of the new industrial attitude, however, is con- tained in Mr. Sloan’s statement that: “I am convinced that the most outstanding contribution that American leadership—AND IN THAT I INCLUDE INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC AS WELL AS GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP— can make toward securing the SOCIAL ADVANCEMENT AND SECURITY of our people is to determine how to effect a better balanced distribution of the various components involved in our national production of wealth—the wage scale, hours of employ- ment, prices, profits and the distribution of profits. This approach cannot be made intelligently by dealing with any single component, because each is an integral part of a very complex structure.” It is an advance for Mr. Sloan or anyone in his position to think in terms of “social advancement and security of our peo- ple” even though industry probably has all along realized that only by so doing could it protect its own interests. There are other indications to show that those who oppose all change are being succeeded by men who are willing to accept change provided they consider it sound and beneficial. One such is a joint statement issued recently by George M. Harri- son, chairman of the Railway Labor Executives association, ard H. A. Enochs, chief of personnel of the Pennsylvania rail- road and chairman of the committee representing railroad man- agements, with regard to allowance to railroad employes who would be deprived of jobs by reason of railroad consolidations. The matter of what to do has been before congress and imposition of the governmental will upon both parties seemed imminent. It was avoided by the simple process of getting management and labor together and working out a mutually acceptable agreement. That is the kind of the thing the PUBLIC HAS ALWAYS FAVORED in settling such disputes. It is sound and in accord with good AMERICAN principles. And to top it all off comes the announcement that the National Industrial Conference board, meeting May 28, will devote itself to a discussion of “THE ELEMENTS OF SOCIAL PROGRESS.” The program calls for “leaders in each of five primary fields which represent the major elements of such an American program, to discuss how his particular field can con- tribute most soundly to future social advancement in this country.” The field is one worthy of the best exploitation by business and industry. Properly cultivated it will head off crack-pot schemes, keep taxes at a reasonable figure and insure not only a steadily-improving America but. more stable and better founded business and industry. ‘The screen actor who has been cast as the dad of twins, triplets and es © rons. Apparently he fears a revival of “Birth of a os. © ‘Wrestler Ali Baba once acted in “Alice in Wonderland.” ould step through the Looking Glass, he probably looked at it. ze ane pear out Farley's of ® rough campaign. 4 -—* © é “Eight-foot-four Alton, Ill., youth has stopped growing.” boys who smoke cigarets. “A blimp was fired upon out west.” This shot at a windbag seems to prediction — Behind the Scenes Washington Anti-Chain Store Bill Is a Brain Pain in Congress, . . Only a Few Ex- perts Think They Understand It; Bars Quantity Sale Discounts, ° By RODNEY DUTCHER | (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, May 27.—The big headache of the 74th congress—to such few members as try ‘to under-| stand it—is the Patman-Robinson quantity discount bill. If this so-called “anti-chain store” measure is passed in any of its various Proposed forms, most government ex- perts hope President Roosevelt will veto it and give them a chance to study the probable effects of such legislation on the American people and the American business structure. Hardly anyone except the propon- ents and opponents pretend to have @ grasp of the bills, and their claims and counter-claims are as far apart as the ends of the Pacific ocean. Even sponsors in the senate, where the bill was passed, and sponsors in the House, where a version was re- ported out and has been awaiting ac- tion from the rules committee fail to agree. But the bill vitally affects produc- ers, distributors, and consumers, * * Would Curb Price Cuts Essentially, it is an amendment to the Clayton anti-trust act which would drastically curtail if not pro- hibit special terms granted by manu- facturers to mass purchasers who buy in huge quantities. Independent merchants—especially retail and wholesale grocers and druggists—have brought heavy pres- sure for the bill, hoping such a law would stop the expansion of chain stores, If the bill passes the house, a measure will have to be worked out in conference—as Senator Joe Robin- son said in explaining his acceptance of any and all amendments offered in the senate. Interpretation of complex language in the proposed legislation is what bothers those who approach it, unless they're spurred by the independent. wholesaler and retailer lobby on the one hand and the chain store-de- partment store-mail order house lobby on the other. (Not all independ- ent retailers are in favor, since many of them buy co-operatively to get dis- counts.) Although it is proposed to protect the small retailer from unfair com- petition such as “undue” quantity discounts and other allowances which mass purchasers sometimes can get from producers, an extreme interpre- tation would deprive consumers of all benefits of mass distribution. Sponsors of the bill are quoted as saying factory prices would be made the same to all wholesalers or re- tailers. One chain store representative tes- tified that the nation’s retail food bill would be increased $750,000,000 a year, which probably is an» absurd esti- mate. E ee & Ban Quantity Discounts Senate and House bills would bar quantity discounts, would confine; allowances for “advertising” to ser-| vices actually rendered by buyers, and provide against fake brokerage allow- ances, | The important exemption as toj quantity discounts would be for dis-| counts based on actual differences in cost resulting from quantity sales. But perhaps the biggest battle over interpretation comes right there. Burden of proof would be put on the seller and buyer and the prob- lem of showing costs is so complex that opponents and some neutral out- siders say the burden would be an | impossible one. One of the biggest differences be- |tween the senate and house measures is a provision written into the latter by Congressman Utterback of Iowa, anti-trust crusader, which outlaws basing points (as in the steel indus- try) and delivered prices which add any more than actual delivery cost to | factory price. Both sides have offered figures to show that chain stores have or have not expanded. The truth seems to be that the rate of growth by numbers of stores has recently been small, but that chain store volume of business expands rapidly. ek * Commission Given “Club” One of the worst features proposed, from the chain store point of view, is an authorization for the Federal Trade Commission to decree a top- quantity discount limit on any given article, meaning that the government could crack down by limiting the dis- count rate so that it wouldn't in- crease beyond certain maximum quantities, New Dealers have been perplexed. Those who abhor “bigness” want to protect the independent retailer and favor anything within reason which will prevent the big corporations from gobbling him up. On the other hand, there's the con- sumer, half of whose dollar spent for food goes to those who handle it be- fore it reaches him. Opponents of the Patman-Robinson bill say this spread between farmer and consumer would be increased tremendously if the measure were passed. Those who have hoped and worked for a gradual narrowing of the pro- ducer-to-consumer spread are espe- cially worried. That’s why. they would pefer temporary delay, pending study. (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) So They Say J I do not believe that any nimble television apparatus, any series of any ingenious | =] 3 2 B {Philosophy of President Roosevelt as Looking at Washington (Copyright, 1936, By David Lawrence) Washington, May 26—Two speeches made by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., on the west coast in the last few days con- stitute a contribution to the national debate on unemployment and recov- ery which, because they are not po- litical in character, will attract far less attention than the addresses of candidates in this campaign year. Yet what Mr. Sloan has said hap- pens to be the first carefully prepared answer from a spokesman of an im- portant industry to the economic outlined in his recent speeches at Baltimore and New York. Mr. Sloan's first speech at Los An- geles was entitled “Shall We Have More—or Less?” and his second, at San Francisco, was called “More and Better Jobs.” Taken together they form a symposium of ideas in answer to the oft-heard query “Well, what would you do to reemploy 10,000,000?” As head of the General Motors corporation, Mr. Sloan talks by ex- perience of what has actually been accomplished in the automotive in- dustry by actually putting into effect the philosophy of lower prices and lower costs through efficiency and a; consequent increase in sales and in| the number of employed. “" David Lawrence cause more can buy. Hence more jobs and more things for more people. That at least has been our past ex- perience and it is still the fact today.” Mr. Sloan takes issue, too, with those businessmen who have been arguing for “stabilization” of prices. He insists this means “an umbrella over the inefficient.” The labor leaders, like some industrialists, have swallowed this philosophy, he de- clares. And here is the kernel of the whole address: “America must decide between two opposing principles of industrial operation; competition, on the one hand, or regulation and ultimately regimentation by government, on the other. The latter, to my way of thinking, offers the only possible sub- stitute for the former; the issue is plainly before us. “However objectionable indusirial competition may be to some, or all of us, I am convinced that competition offers the only solution to the per- fectly natural desire and right of more people to have more things, and especially the opportunity to afford the full employment of our workers in 'the production of wealth. “It seems perfectly plain that, if The first comment was directed at President Roosevelt's remark in his| New York speech wherein he said: “Reduction of costs of manufactur does not mean more purchasing pow er and more goods consumed. means just the opposite.” The foregoing has been the subject | of much controversy, yet Mr. Sloan 1s | among the first of America’s business | leaders to speak out frankly about it. He says: “I sincerely hope that we may have a broad discussion of that rather as- tounding pronouncement before we | reverse our industrial technique. I} cannot believe that this means what | it really says. It must be based on the belief that a reduction in the cost of manufacture means a reduction in the wage scale. That is not neces- sarily so; in fact, it should not be so. “It can be demonstrated, beyond any reasonable doubt, that those in- dustries which have been most suc- cessful in reducing the costs of goods and services and expanding their markets have, at the same time, paid the highest wage and have contin- ually raised that wage through evo- lution. “It would naturally follow from what our president stated that, if the reduction of costs decreases consump- tion, then an increase of costs should increase consumption. It is impos- | sible to reconcile that philosophy with the past record and today’s ex- perience. “I believe that. if we reduce the) cost of goods and services by greater efficiency, by better technique and thus are able to make lower prices, we shall stimulate the market be- It| A BIT OF HUMOR 3, NOW AND THEN” }j IS RELISHED BY THE BUST OF MEN Teacher — If your | father could do a piece of work in six! days and your uncle} could do it in four, how long would it) take both of them to do it? | Johnny — They'd {| never get it done. They'd sit down: under a shade tree and tell fish storics. * When Sandy MacDougal's_ wife! asked her hubby if his secretary ever | made his heart beat faster, Sandy) said, “Sure; every time she tells me/ one of my creditors is coming.” i Margaret —Is it true that women | live longer than men? mat Bill—I believe so, especially widows. Flipp—What did you realize from your Sure-Fire Oil stock investment? | Flopp—Only what a fool I was to buy it in the first place. Sneed—Does your wife ever listen} to your advice? Gnaggs — Yes; and that’s all she does—just listen. Hardwicke — That certainly was a fine sermon on extravagance we heard this morning. Mrs. Hardwicke — Yes; and there the minister's wife sat wearing a new $10 hat. Hardwicke — That explains it. 1 knew he must have had some inspir- ation. Fred—Can you tell me how to go through life without meeting with disappointments? dJimmy—Yes, just go around looking for trouble all the time. A disorder which attacks only air- plane pilots is known as aeroneurosis and is caused chiefly by profound emotional stress. Eighteen cases have been reported in 163 pilots under ob- servation during the last three years. FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: 20. U. 8. PAT. OFF. i the exchange of labor for goods and services, or one form of goods or services for another, can only take lace on the basis of arbitrary terms t by the seller, irrespective of their value to the buyer, and if no one will work at less than a stated wage, ir- respective of the value of that wage in terms of goods and services, then we might just as well recognize and accept permanent depression, per- manent unemployment, a continuous dole, and make the best of it.” Certainly, the automobile industry, which is profitable these days, has followed the principle of greater dol- lar value and has by real efficiency made headway. It is in the San Francisco speech that Mr. Sloan accepts 100 per cent the philosophy of the Brookings In- stitute of Washington and contradicts President Roosevelt's contention at Baltimore that the answer to unem- ployment is “to have fewer workers working less.” The Brookings theory is that Amer- ica has not yet reached the stage of iridustrial development “in which we have the man power to produce more than our people, as a whole, have the desire to consume” and that “it is |impossible materially to shorten the working day and still produce the quantities of goods and services that the American people want to con- sume.” by where. everyone knowing exactly what he or she was gonig to do except Gail herself and a tattered old man leaning against the building, glacing {mutely from hungry, hopless eyes at the endless stream of traffic pas- sing by. Gail sauntered toward the curb, still glancing about uncertainly. Then Derek Hargreaves, his port- folio under his arm and his hat perched at its usual jaunty angle, stepped toward her. “Pardon me,” he said, removing his hat, “but didn’t I see you in John Larne's office a few minutes ago?” CHAPTER II A kits amber eyes as Larne’s office.” town.” Gail smiled. Larne?” she questioned fellows like I can do something. some portraits for him.” York. and tears!” eyes to Derek’s. have told you! I guess you can help me.” “That's the girl! fight for a table!” eee hopes to become a designer. ‘Well, here we are.” Mr. Sloan goes so far as to say that, it the problem is intelligently ana- lyzed, it is possible “to develop in this country & worker shortage instead of @ job shortage.” He thinks “better Jobs,” both socially and economically, are possible if industry will move to- ward “the maximum possible contin- uity of employment with an annual wage as great as possible in relation to the hourly wage.” Progress is being made toward this objective, the motor executive pointed out. But the important factor is this: “One way to provide ‘more and better Jobs’ is by increasing the hours of employment, permitting our workers to earn more, hence to.increase the spread between the cost of necessi- ties of life and the annual income of the worker. I am not advocating that solution. I recognize that we must have a proper balance between leisure and work. But where we set the balance importantly influences whether we are to have more or fewer jobs.” The principal point, in Mr. Sloan's opinion, comes in the handling of ob- solescence. He thinks America’s production plant is today obsolete. He believes it can be and should be re- built, that it would provide jobs and would result in lowering prices at the same time because costs would go down. “Everything is waiting,” he remarks. “There is a grand oppor- tunity to rebuild America on the basis of today’s technology.” The two fun- damental facts in conclusion are worth repeating: “The first, that there is no practical or economic justification for the na- tional relief of today that there is a limit to the number of man hours of constructive employment. That we must divide up, that we cannot ex- pand, is a defeatist attitude. It is the philosophy of scarcity. It is only for those who are not willing to see. The second, that today there exists a practical opportunity of great impor- tance—let use rebuild America.” Now the interesting thing is that President Roosevelt and Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., ought really to be looking at an economic problem the same way—for there is nothing political about economic facts and experience But the difference is that Mr. Roose- velt has never met a payroll in an industry or been responsible for in- dustrial operation and Mr. Sloan has not only had the responsibility but has made a success of it. Yet in the coming campaign the politicians will be talking economics and denouncing the business men—and the unemploy- ed will be the innocent bystanders. But that's campaigning as it always has been. LOOK of surprise widened she turned to the young man. “Why, yes,” she said, “I was in Mr. His blue eyes were twinkling. “You got the dope all right that time, though these lovely ladies make grand watchdogs for the guys higher up. Larne is out ‘of “You know Mr. “Oh, yes, he’s a grand chap, but his partner — well, you'd think Held’s purpose inAife was to nip genius in the bud. He hates Larne’s generosity and his inter-| handing Gail the menu, “what do| our fri est in artists. Thinks encouraging] you want?” me—and maybe you—” (he glanced toward the] 1. big brown envelope Gail was car- rying) “is a waste of money. Held will never help you, but, if you don’t think I’m butting in, maybe rr I guess if you wanted to see sonn er tas e it was about some art work. I’m £5 Derek Hargreaves. I’m painting| rder one for you. “That’s ever so kind of you to offer, but I don’t believe there’s| order,” said Derek, as the waitress anything you can do,” Gail an- swered. After all, this man was a stranger, and Miss Cranston had advised her to beware of stran- i gers, especially in a city like New| want. Of course later I'll have “Well, if that’s how you feel, Derek pulled his hat gle. His eyes twinkled. “I thought perhaps you were a stranger and a word from someone who knows the ropes might save you time For a moment Gail raised her| With Loeffler He was so tall. drawings! Six feet two in his sox i would | them! “Well, if you're sure it won't be too much bother. | (GAIL smiled. I know a lit- tle place just around the corner. Let’s go there and talk things over. It won't be busy yet. We're early. Later you almost have to WALKING along the short block, | Youngs aking names Gail told her companion about | for themselves, but ‘there’s al-| Can’ the prize she had won and her “Congratulations!” he cried. “Larne’s a mighty good judge.| waitress brought the check Gail Even though he generally has a| opened her handbag. jury of three or four fashion au- Rpuitleere pure Ot syanhs soaks sented Pelee azines—he always has the final , say-so, and he’s never picked a| paying for my first lunch in New| Zette. Will you never failure yet. So there, I guess I’m| York.” talking to a famous designer! de GiamMopous ADVENT Jean Seivwright the waitress who was dressed as a shepherdess Derek led the way to a corner table. “Now,” he said, “Oh, I'm really not hungry,” answered. “I haven’t eaten yet, so you might as well have something and keep me company. Besides, I think you're going to have a busy afternoon. They have delicious| Cornish pasties here. Let me “All right then,” Gail answered. “Now, while she’s getting our headed toward the kitchen, “let’s talk things over. I suppose the first thing you want is a job.” “Yes, I guess a job’s what I my own place—” Gail stopped. “Here I am, starting to tell you all my, dreams when I hardly know yu!” eemThat's O. K. We're both inter- ested in the same things. While I’m doing portraits now, I'll tell you a secret of my deep, dark past. I earned enough to study, by doing fashion Lord, how I hate ees “I'm not so keen either on regular fashion sketches—those black and whites for newspapers! It’s designing gorgeous clothes for young girls that I love.” : “Say, that’s good, for youth's the world these days. . I kpow two or three who are ways room at the top,’ and I guess that’s where you're going.” And so they talked. When the “Now, nothing like that,” pro- a stranger now?” Derek Walking down two steps they | steadfastly across at the girl. entered the basement of a brown- ‘can't have a stranger| signers, but not for zomething—what “Surely you don't consider me call it?—deestinctive?” She paced | busy?” looked Again the color rose in Gail’s| ‘Who's there?” cried Madame, stone house Witb a gay nod tolcheeks. “Yes. but @ very ‘nice! her beady, brown eyes eager. qoeccoce: Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. taining to HH tions per th ng a must Dr. Brady will answer dise: i‘ o1 H nosis, Write Bredy tn ft Trib stamped. YOUR TEETH ANY BETTER TODAY? Statistics ie anavaitans, ‘and opinions are just opinions. What do you think? Do people have better teeth now than people back in ty ir: teenth century had? I hesitate to give my own opinion, because A most impressive lesson in.the fallibflity of opinion when, after thirty Borde! absence, I visited again the swimming hole where 1 had learned to im dive. In my opinion that pool had always ranked with Hudson’s Bay and the Gulf of Mexico as a body of water, whereas I found the cows actually had to wait their turn for drink there. Now it seems to me that more people keep more teeth nowadays, and I attribute this preservation of one of the characteristics of vigor and youth to two factors, namely, better nutrition and better dentistry. I may be all wrong about this. It is merely my opinion. A corporation ticing medicine by mail (and getting away with it for years without the Hinting of an eyebrow by the American Medical associa- tion) kept the general profession quiet by passing out occasional impos- ing reports. For instance in one report the big time quacks assured the world that examination of nearly 17,000 customers had disclosed that only one in twenty had pyorrhea, so that the other nineteen need not worry much about that horror. Had a hundred physicians or dentists each examined. two hundred patients and reported his findings, little attention would have been given the observation. Big corporations doing insignificant things in ‘a large way command attention or else— A state health department distributed to school children and their par- ents a circular conveying a sinister inference. It seems that the dental director of a great life insurance company estimated that 85% of all molars have fissures. When a fissure (a minute scratch in the enamel) occurs, unless it is promptly smoothed out or filled by the dentist, it harbors food particles, etc., which condition favors bacterial growth or something—any- way, the fissure presently becomes a cavity. The teacher, dentor, research scientist, dentist, expert or authority whose name lends distinction to this teaching unequivocally asserted that “brushing cannot keep it clean. Food immediately gets in the crack and decay starts. To prevent this decay, fill these fissures.” That's precisely what I've been trying to teach for many years, but my severest critics are the old-fashioned dentists—who still seem to think that the way to save teeth is to brush them everlastingly. I have brushed mine only technically if at all these past twenty years, but I'll pit my teeth against those of any one of my age who has brushed his faithfully. Even the dentists will comprehend eventually, as the dentors generally recognize now, that the preservation of the teeth is a question of (1) better nutrition, and (2) better dentistry. Better nutrition is mainly a matter of keeping milk, eggs, and cheese in your daily ration, cultivating the fresh greens and salad vegetables and getting enough vitamins. ~ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Cheerful Gink Father, on advice of his physician, takes a 1/100th grain tablet of nitro- glycerin from time to time, when he has trouble from an enlarged heart. Would aromatic spirits of ammonia be better for him? Are these tablets harmful? I have heard that they are used only as a last resort... (W. E. A.) Answer—The tablets are quite harmless, and probably much better than anything else for the trouble. Certainly People Have Nerves The last time you talked about nerves I resolved to stop reading your column ... but curiosity got the best of me and I’m at it again. I am glad to observe that you have not made any sarcastic remarks about nerves lately. I hope you realize that you have done a great injustice. . . (Mrs. M. A. W.) Answer—Well, I must admit people do have nerves, lots of them. Sar- casm implies intent to wound the feelings To the first ten readers who can point out anything I have ever written about nerves that may be fairly called sarcastic I’ll send each an autographed copy of my booklet “Chronic Nervous Imposition.” Others may get a copy by sending me ten cents coin and a stamped addressed envelope and asking for it. (Copyright, 1936, John F, Dille Co.) © 1996 NEA Service, lnc. “Oh, but I can't have a stranger paying for my fst lunch in New York!" Gail told him, one. Maybe he'll be a friend some day.” “That's better. Now, a toast to iendship.” “Mrs. Travers wants to see you “Mrs, Travers!” Instantly Madame was all smiles. “Yes, yest I will be there at once.” Snatching a compact from her desk, she quickly rouged her cheeks, accentuat the high bones that told of her Slavic ane Gail raised her glass, and as her gaze met Derek’s above the rim of the glass she felt strangely thrilled. As they reached the door, Derek said, “I think you'll stand a chance with Madame Lizette. She’s always making but. remember, while she's got a won- derful reputation among her cus- tomers, I've no idea what she’s like to work for. Still, even it| fore her. f she is a temperamental old piece] “Prepare an ad. Maybe we find’ you'll get experience. It would] some one that way.” be better than a wholesale house!” “t’1) have to send it right away “Well, thanks for all your ad-|if you want it in tomorrow's vice. You've been wonderful, and} paper.’ Tl surely let you know how 1) “Tch! TI want make out.” “Fine, and here's luck to you,” called Derek, helping Gail on to a Fifth avenue bus. ee @ soyHAT next, Mees Carolie!” Madame Lizette wrung her plump white hands, he | The tall, slight woman who at-| in) details of Madame Lizette’s gown shop in the upper fifties, swung round on| jy her swivel chair in the tiny, in the trade She slipped a sheet of paper in- to the machine. After all, it would tor themselves on her painted lashes, “We can advertise. There always designers looking for ways yes—al plenty of de- “Yes, lways of Madame Li learn? We must have the floor like ena. “She isn’t a buyer," le a caged hy : yer, tt stepped into