The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 8, 1936, Page 4

| that is to be treated.” , of the tormented and twisted complex of emotions and ideas 4 The Bismarck Tribune THE erat BS OLDEST NEWSPAPER Published daily except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail j matter. Mrs. Stella 1, Mann | President and Publishes Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W Simons Vice Pres. and Gen'l. Manager Sec'y-Treas and Editor | Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year Hess Daily by mail per year (in Bismarck) ... Daily by mail per year (in state outside of Bis: Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ...... 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The idea behind the 1930 treaty fixing the limits was to trim the three major naval powers involved, Great Britain, the United States and Japan, down to a fixed tonnage of ships in each category by the end of 1936. But as the hour of reckoning approached, Great Britain found it had 208,000 tons of destroyers where the treaty allowed it only 150,000 tons. True, the bulk of it was old stuff but that country announced it wanted to keep 40,000 tons above quota. In addition, it is already building, or has money on hand to build, 55,000 tons more. The United States, with the same destroyer tonnage lim- itation has 220,000 tons, or 70,000 tons excess. It followed the British lead by proposing to keep 40,000 tons above quota. The United States, in turn, is building or financing 98,000 tons more. Japan, with a 105,000-ton destroyer limitation, has 123,000 tons and is building or has money for 28,000 tons more. She/ merely proposed to keep 15,000 tons of excess submarine ton- nage and some destroyer tonnage in lieu of the destroyer tonnage her treaty associates were keeping. It is true that in all three nations the destroyer tonnage - “under age” is well below the limit. “Under age” ships are those which have not passed the point where theoretically they are ineffective against an enemy. Some of the ships are so old that no self-respecting fighting man would go to sea in them. Great Britain had an excess cruiser tonnage at one time but claimed to have come since within the limitation. All agreed in 1930 to build no more battleships until after 1936. Great Britain and the United States have 15 each, Japan 9. But months before the treaty expired England announced two huge battleships would go on the ways as soon as the year ended, and the United States is expected to follow. What will be the effect of the Japanese submarine power? Naval experts said it would put her ahead of the other two nations—until they had time to catch up, which was expected not to be long. Submarines are most effective on defense since they have no great cruising range, but England learned during the World war they had plenty of force in attack, particularly against shipping. Privately many naval men say none of the three powers could whip another on the other’s home grounds, and at the same time protect its home shores. But then when, or if, the next war comes, nobody expects just one nation to fight just one other nation. From the Inside Out It isn’t likely that very many judges will follow the advice of Judge Michael Angelo Musmanno of Pittsburgh and do a brief stretch in prison to learn what it is like to be on the receiv- ing end of a sentence. Judge Musmanno got the quaint notion that a man whose job it is to send other men to prison ought to know a little something about prison life. So he had himself put through the hopper recently at Pennsylvania’s western penitentiary. He came out, after three days as a convict, announcing that the prison had taught him more than Harvard had, and urging all judges to go and do likewise. | “It is extraordinary,” he says, “that this has not been done before. It is like talking about combatting an epidemic without seeing some of the victims to determine the type of epidemic A judge’s part in the “war against crime” is a rather peculiar one, when you stop to think about it. He comes into each case cold, so to speak; himself the very incarnation of respectability and uprightness. He is forever being confronted with people who have very little of either quality, and is com- pelled to say what should be done with them. On the surface, his job may be simple enough—to put these people where they won’t do any more harm. A safe-cracker behind the bars is not going to do any more safe-cracking until his sentence expires; for the time being, at least, society is pro- tected and the problem is solved. But it isn’t quite so simple as that. The safe-cracker will come out again, some day—and then what? Will prison have persuaded him to give up his chosen calling, or will it have made him a more confirmed and talented safe-cracker than he was before? Will the net result of his sentence be a decline or an in- crease in society’s danger from the safe-cracker as a class? Judge Musmanno seems to think that the man on the bench ought to have some of the answers to those questions before he pronounces sentence. If he could only get into the other man’s skin briefly; if he could gain some sort of understanding | Guthrie, one of the several Bismarck j; Putnam of Bismarck, head of the | for questioning. KIWANIS MEETING Compliments District Governor James Morris for Conven- tion Conduct. A comprehensive and interpretive review of the recent district Kiwanis | convention at Rochester, Minn., was given before the Bismarck Kiwanis club Tuesday noon by James W. men who attended the session. Guthrie reviewed. the entire pro- gram starting with spiritual musical program the Sun- day evening preceding the opening business session and relayed to mem- bers of the Capital City club the highlights of entertainment and the main thoughts brought out by an im- Posing array of speakers. Guthrie particularly complimented Supreme Court Justice James Morris of Bismarck, district governor, for the capable manner in which he conduct- ed the convention and gave his an- nual report and also lauded H. O. district Kiwanis committee on agri- culture, for his report at the session. One of the finest impressions left with him after the convention was the memory of the appearance of Dr. Will Mayo of the famed clinic at Rochester, Guthrie said. One really must see him in a public appearance in his home city to appreciate fully the tremendous popularity Dr. Mayo enjoys, the speaker said, Other Bismarck men at the con- vention included J. L. Barth, presi- dent of the unit here, and A. C. Van Wyk. | Perry Kellogg of Texas was the only guest at Tuesday’s luncheon meeting. Group singing was led by J. P. ‘Wagner, with Clarion E. Larson play- ing piano accompaniments. C ONTINUE from page ene: 3 Meet Violent Death on North Dakota Highways Minn., met death at the hands of a hit-and-run driver in front of the Great Northern depot in Minneapolis Monday night. Three men were held Miss Bristol had taught school at Lisbon, N. D., and once lived at Hun- ter, N. D. Her mother lives at Lu- verne. Over the nation the double holiday claimed at least 304 lives, of which nearly 260 were attributed to highway accidents, Twenty persons were drowned, 12 died in airplanes, four were killed by trains, four by falls, and seven by other accidental causes. Michigan led the nation in acci- dental deaths with 24 killed on high- ways, one by a fall and one drowned. From coast to coast there were re- Ports of greater travel than in any year since 1929, and one eastern rail- road announced its business “35 per cent greater than in any other year.” Other northwest victims: Mrs. D. B. Compton, 70, Webster, S. D., died from injuries suffered Sunday when automobile in which She rode rolled down a hill four miles north of Henry. James Berger, 16, Racine, Wis., killed in a triple head-on collision 20 miles north bf Detroit Lakes, Minn. Five others were hurt, John Olson, 28, Ogema, Minn., fatally injured in Berger accident. Rev. Harry L. Westberg, 43, pastor of First Baptist church, Blue Earth, Minn., killed when auto rolled down 12 foot embankment near Jordan. Five others hurt. Mrs, Otilla Johnson, 72, Gaylord, Minn., died in Swedish hospital, Minneapolis, from injuries suffered when she. was thrown through the door of a car as it rounded a curve near Gaylord. The 14-months old daughter of F. D. Levine, killed when run over by her father's car as he backed out of @ garage at Hutchinson, Minn. Margaret Bistol, 32, Luverne, Minn., school teacher, killed by hit-run mo- torist in Minneapolis. Mrs. Belle Satterfield, about 65, of Libertyville, Ill, killed in head-on collision of truck and automobile on highway 12, three miles from Menom- onie, Wis. Clifton, son of Mrs. killed in same accident. Miss Millie Smrtnik, about 25, of Libertyville, fatally injured in same accident. Mrs. J. H. Wilson, 50, Keokuk, Iowa, died in Duluth hospital from injuries received in automobile accident near Brookston, Charles O. Downs, 19, of Hastings, killed 15 miles north of Milaca, when his motorcycle crashed into an auto- mobile on a curve in the highway. Miss Helen Westerlund, 19, Minne- apolis, injured fatally when the car Satterfield, ova (3 CONCERTS GIVEN Death Carl Lacher, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Lacher, 401 Tenth Bt., So. at 4:30 p. m., Saturday at home. George M. Register, 1017 Fifth 8t., jis home after extensive traveling in the east during. which he visited at his old home, Lewes, Dela. He was the guest there of his sisters, Mmes. Ella Ross and Cornelia Hurdle, and cf nephews and nieces and attended the homecoming celebration staged Aug. 13-16 by the city, which now is in its 305th year. Mr. Register also visited his alma mater, St. John’s col- lege at Annapolis, Md., and in com- pany with relatives visited Rehoboth the opening "Beach, summer resort near Lewes, the University of Virginia at Charlottes- ville, other Virginia cities, Baltimore, Washington, D. C., and in Maryland: At Preston, Md., he visited a college friend, Charles B. Harrison, and at Cambridge in the same state he cross- ed a new bridge two miles long which recently was opened to traffic. Stricter Qualifications Asked by N. D. Barbers Minot, N. D., Sept. 8.—(4#)—Mem- bers of the State Barber Association of North Dakota, at their annual con- vention here Labor Day, adopted res- olutions urging that state barber laws should be amended to cause more stringent qualifications for registered apprentices; that minimum standards of barber schools should be raised, and that a journeyman barber should be placed on the state examining board. Ray C. Richmond, Minot, was re- elected state president. Other state officers elected were: Otto Neubauer, Minot, secretary-treasurer; C. F. Pat- zer, Dickinson, first vice president, and D. Swoskie, Williston, second vice president. The state convention on Labor Day week-end, 1937, will be held at New Rockford. With one person to be appointed by Gov. Walter Welford to fill the vacancy on the state examining board, caused by the death of Charles Mit- chell of Jamestown, the barbers rec- ommended that the appointment be made from the following group: Gust Berg of Wahpeton, D. Hughes of Dickinson, Jack Burgess of Fargo, Al- bert Brughjell of Bismarck and Rich- mond of Minot. C ONTINUE D from page em: Solution to Lovers’ Problem Is Found seat of Robert Bent’s car, Steve had talked with her in a low, bantering tone. “Do you remember the October of 19292” he had asked, Judith laughed. elders talk about it. market crash?” She remembered his luguburious answer. “Crash? Say, airplanes crash sometimes, and automobiles crash frequently. But a market does something worse than that. I don't think there's a word for it!” Judith smiled when she thought of that. Everyone had still been talking about “the crash” then. Nobody— yet—was willing to believe in @ de- pression. “But the reason I brought it up,” Steve had said, “was because I...” “Well?” He looked down at her, and she had been unable to tell whether or not he was serious. “If I'd met you before that fatal October, I think we'd be Mr. and Mrs, Steve Fowler by this time Judith remembered that, standing there in front of the big office build- ing where she worked. In front of the big office building where, because of the depression, she had dropped from a position as secretary down to a job as typist—and an overworked “I've heard my Wasn't there & BY WINNIPEG B | Salvation Army Musicians Make Bismarck Main Stop on Holi- - day Week-end Tour The Winnipeg, Man., Salvation Army Citadel band playing three con- certs here Sunday gave the new mu- sical season in the Capital City an ; It was eed since this band had performed re. Playing under the capable direc- nea ignk Merritt, the bandsmen offeres Programs composed mostly of religious compositions from the pens of their own members in the McCabe Methodist church, where they held the morning devotions, and in the city auditorium. The band, composed entirely of brass instruments, plays with unity and finesse and particularly when given standard compositions to per- form achieved some memorably fine music. Marimbaphone duets and solos, vocal solos, cornet and trom- bone offerings and varied vocal and instrumental groups gave variety and color to the bill offered. Added to the already heavy set schedule were concerts at the local hospitals. Four of the members had given a concert at Washburn the night before and besides several per- formances played on the way by the whole band, four more were sched- uled before the men were to return to Winnipeg Tuesday morning. The cheerfulness and alertness to direc- tion which they showed under these circumstances was nothing short of remarkable. Several men who have left the Win- nipeg band and are now directing or playing with bands in other pro- vinces had rejoined the group for the week-end tour and many of these were introduced either as soloists or composers, The size of the audience in the afternoon was fair but in the evening’ there was a regrettably small group out to hear a program of outstand- ing musical merit. Frazier’s Attorneys Waive Trial by Jury Williston, N. D., Sept. 8. — (#) — Waiving jury trial in a surprise move, defense attorneys for Roy W. Frasier, highway engineer charged with unlawful discharge of firearms, began presentation of their case Tuesday afternoon. William Langer, independent gub- ernatorial candidate, and William G. gains! Walter O. Burk, William county state's attorney. ‘The state's testimony was com- pleted at the forenoon session and a motion for dismissal of the case by defense attorneys was denied by Dis- trict Judge G. Grimson, Rugby, who is hearing the case at request of Judge John C, Lowe, Minot, regular presiding judge of the Williams coun- ty district court. Immediately following Judge Grim- son’s denial, the defense began intro- ducing witnesses. Frasier was called first. m= BISMARCK GETTING Will Speak Tonight Col. Frank E. Eppert, national coun- selor for the Methodist Board of Tem- Derance, will speak at the Methodist church at 7:45 tonight on “How the Drys Stage a Comeback.” Colonel Eppert, who has one of the greatest degislative minds among the drys to- day, phrased both the Eighteenth amendment and the Volstead Act. He believes that the American public is “faced with a nation-wide conspiracy to make drunkards of all our people, = it’s time we did something about SECOND DOWNPOUR A gentle rain which began falling in Bismarck shortly after noon had totaled .07 inch at 2:30 p. m., and showed no signs of letting up then. Weather observers at the federal sta- tion in Bismarck said the rain might continue all afternoon, . Over the Labor Day week-end, the Capital City had been soaked by a 92 inch downpour. Four North Dakota points reported over an inch of rain during the 72-hour period. Hankinson led the list with 2.30 inches; Minot got 1.38 inches; Lisbon, 1.37, and Gar- vison, 1.17. As temperatures dropped in Bis- marck and over thé state, Weather Observer O. W. Roberts predicted cooler weather Tuesday night, with fair and warmer for Wednesday. Second LaCrosse Man Shot, Beaten Monday La Crosse, Wis. Sept. 8.—(?)— Authorities of three states hunted Tuesday for a man, believed to be an escaped convict, who shot and beat a Frominent La Crosse businessman in almost the same manner as a Detroit poo mactoe was shot near that city last weel furniture company partner, was in| serious condition Tuesday. He suf- fered a lacerated and broken jaw and @ pierced arm and chest. Sheriff O. T. Woll, who asked help of Iowa and Minnesota officials, said he was working dn a theory that the assailant was George Hall, who had escaped from Joliet, Ill, and Jackson, Mich., prisons and was wanted in De- troit for questioning in connection with the shooting there of Ernest C. circumstances, animal, the endurance of the untrained savage, average nutritional condition as manifested by higher le’ sound, practical suggestions for mainta! suitable word to convey the idea of that super! and elsewhere, I declared, the word woul total of twelve hundred twenty-one and thre woman said she was not a geek, didn’t know what a geel enjoys what she takes it I want a word for—and then presente “Active Health.” six and eight pages long—to find diversion, however. listen to their interpretations of holy wr: ology and endeavored to convince me thi by taking up this or that cult or fad. : suggested words or terms without imposing upon me their v cause and prevention ke claimed the 17 electoral votes of The victim, James H. Furber, 51, a | Massachusetts. had greater strength than he would like to believe. He said “in its more amiable aspect the Union party plat- form presents congress in the role of Santa Claus; aspects it too closely resembles Nazi theories basically in its appeal to middle-class discontent.” a Union party central somaliize of been forme: a Galagher contactor, uncer simiar 22 mamma nag ben formed ecccccccccccoccocooccocorscrcorse Geoceccoocccocces: Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Ith but set tt uns fia't ne Aderese Dr. ‘All queries must be accompanied by © ee) A WORD FOR HEALTH VOLUMES FOR AILMENTS BUT NOT Certain individuals seem to be endowed with & superior state of eg It is not merely the luck to escape illnesses which overtake most people a lity. The resiliency of the untamed one time or another, but inherent vitality. Ta of youth, “SMaEY this superior state of health in various authors have attempted to define ipe! Rae ie phrases, such as preservation of the characteris| vel of positive health the throughout the life cycle, better growth and development, extension of ope of life in both directions, improvement of the life exrpetaripa (et adults, lower death rates, the highest coarse peacetime iy, al ‘ve power to tide over strains an z _ Set ore eaat ulin Adelle Davis, entitled an ey pete ae Z im Health” and in See aye faenedtions 191 ining what we are talking about, all based on scientific knowledge. In this column May 25, 1936, I invited readers who might suggest @ ‘ior state of neal sunt for it, a word I can use in this column De ctareracuted) doomed 4 d be worth twenty-five dollars to me. one woman submitted a grand e fourths words. The one k is, but at 72 she Two hundred and forty-one geeks and wo hundred and forty-two letters—some of them Fe ENE sepa GEG the magic word I want has not been all took me back to Scripture and made me it. Others submitted essays on path- at I can acquire buoyant health only I feel grateful to the majority who jews of the Some geeks of human ailments. , So far I have not learned to like any of the words submitted, but I have set aside three or four and I am trying to learn to like one of them enough to accept it, use it, and pay for it. Here it may be well to mention that the contest is closed now. If any more words come in I shall go mad. Really it is trying the way people presume any such invitation or privilege goes on and on regardless, once it has been offered. In spite of anything, I expect words will come trick- ling in from time to time for a year or more. That's the way it always works, Once I asked for a lot of human guinea pigs to volunteer for an experiment. That was a long while ago, guinea pig letter—when I have forgotten just what it was all about. guinea pigs when no experiment under way. but to this day I get an occasional I want I want ‘em, Can't be bothered with ‘em when there is died of a kidney ailment at a Minot hospital Sunday. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at the For- tuna Lutheran church. Survivors are CONTINUE Batteries Put End Mrs. Hagen and eight children, all of from page one To Naval Uprising Thomas said the Lemke movement the Fortuna community. in its less amiable D Quick-Acting Land From Minneapolis came word that militia were organized hurriedly by Lemke Challenve ed'to 4 Local Delegates to the fhresraay 28 Largo Caballero Debate by Socialist) Attend 4-H Meeting) "iin nomi rm (By the Associated Press) ~~ Norman Thomas, Socialist candi- date for president, Tuesday had chal- lenged William Lemke, Union candi- rt date, to a public debate and had re- celved “no” for an answer. John Nystul, Lemke’s campaign manager, said the latter would “re- arrange’ his schedule to debate with Roosevelt or Landon but not with E. Coughlin, Lemke sponsor, as an acceptable second choice in the pro- posed debate. Speaking at Chicago Monday, Lem-| val O. Hagen, 60, resident of Fortuna, members will leave Bismarck about Sept. 15 for Park River, where they will be delegates to the state 4-H that city Sept. 16-20. The delega- tion will consist of Katherine Hughes, McKenzie; Dorothy Mork, McKenzie; Eva Trygg, Garross, Menoken. R. G. Heine, assist- ant county agent, will accompany Thomas. Thomas named Rev. Charles | thei to Park River. Four Burleigh county 4-H club| clamoring for an end to the neutral- ity policy which has kept Socialistie Paris from sending arms to Socialtst Madrid, the tense situation eased somewhat after a one-hour strike of Paris metal workers failed to move Premier Leon Blum from his non- intervention stand. Communist sources said they did not seek to force the government's hand or to withdraw their support from the government People’s Front coalition, There were, however, scattered other strikes in France, not directly related to the Spanish situation. game conservation camp to be held in McKenzie, and James FORTUNA MAN DIES Minot, N. D., Sept. 8—(#)—Rong- TODAY I§ OURS CHAPTER 1-A vuat conversation had been typical of dozens they had gone through the past year or s0. seemed to Judith that all their re- cent meetings degenerated into bickerings that got nowhere. And the frightening thing was that Steve was changing. He was no typist at that. He had taken her skates with him on that first night because, he said, he knew of the “only place in town” where they could be properly sharpen- ed. And of course, once they were sharpened, he had to return them to her. That was the beginning. She did not remember so clearly all that had happened between then and now. There had been happy moments; but there had been tearful ones, too, be- cause they were in love. She wouldn't have traced any of them. She wouldn't have wanted to go back to that first day, and relive these last four years without Steve Fowler. And yet ... yet she knew. that they couldn’t go on forever, be- ing engaged and in love. Steve knew it, too. But he always wanted to wait a little while longer. It had been a blow to him when he had stopped being @ sales manager and became only a salesman with a quota to meet instead of a quote to set. But grad- ually he had forgotten that, and had started to work with a will. Grad- ually he was climbin; fast enough to suit him. in which she was riding was struck by another. Mrs. Amy Cook, 59, of Minneapolis, injured fatally in the collision of two automobiles near Fort Snelling Sun- day night. Axel Peterson, 51, of Duluth, killed when an automobile collided with a truck on State Highway No. 53, three miles north of Cusson. S, D. WOMAN DEAD Minot, N. D., Sept. 8.—(#)—Mrs. William Puder, 66, of Firesteel, 8. D., died Saturday afternoon at the home of a son, Emil Gruneberg, farmer near Minot, with whom she was visit- ing. Death was caused by a heart ailment and high blood pressure. Funeral services will be held here Wednesday, cemetery, with burial in a local Narrow Width that go to make up the criminal—wouldn’t he, then, be able to serve society better as a judge? Bi of justice isn’t the simple, open-and-shut thing we like to Fey ekeee aie: pasceninent 05 tae Selene 18 88080 ahd very CHILDREN’S point where he felt he should marry. ee % From the very first, Judith had fav- ored a marriage wherein she retained her job and helped out with the ex- penses. But Steve could never quite see it. Steve had always had the idea that a husband should support his wife wholly, and support her well. Because he couldn’t do it he had be- come increasingly bitter and difficult. “I'm tired of hearing these kids out of school wailing because they can't get a job,” he told Judith one day. “And I'm just as tired of hear- ing these old boys in their white- lined waistcoats yelling that things aren't what they used to be. At least the kids have everything before them, and the old boys have something to remember. But the fellows around my age are stuck right. A little too old to learn, and a little too young to have piled up any advantage be- fore the crash came.” “You mustn't get bitter,” Judith had warned sensibly. “You have to remember that few men held on to the they'd managed to pile up. Right now, Steve, you' better off than the man I work for. You don’t owe any money, and you haven't any obligations to keep peo- ae Peace You haven't taxes “Just the same, sometimes I wonder if I don’t belong to the fabled lost generation. “It's not like you, Steve, to indulge in self-pity,” Judith told him. (Continued Next Column) longer the old, considerate Steve. It was as if his impotence against economic conditions had turned . him inward toward himself in- stead of outward toward the girl he loved. Judith was afraid—and because she was afraid she had resolved to make one final effort to con- Protectively, It by NARD JONES © 1920 EA Service, tne with it. You know me well enough to know that I can come. to a decision on my own, Steve.” “But that’s what Virginia thinks, and I know it. She never misses a chance to tell you how delightfully happy she and Bob ‘ape “And they are happy.” “No doubt,” said Steve shortly. “But I’m not Bob Bent.” eee UNCERTAINLY Judith got to her feet. “I’m afraid I don’t feel like eating. I'll. . . just go back to the office.” “Judith! Judy, darling.” Steve was instantly contrite. Hastily he grabbed his hat and walked out of the cafe close to her side, “I didn’t mean to get so completely sore. We can’t discuss this thing jsensibly on the street, Judith. Let me come to your apartment to- night.” She shook her head. no good, Steve. It—” Heedless of passersby he took her by the shoulders and turned her to face him. “That's four years. We're in love right her mind as to her course if he still’ refused to be sensible. But now. It can’t be cut off in a min- she did not want to think about ute like this. I won't let it be.” it now. She did not want to he- “But it’s got to be,” Judith told lieve that he'd fail to choose him, trying to keep back the tears Judith Howard if he had to and not succeeding very well. between her and his fool- “I've thought it all out, Steve. It ish pride. isn't just a spur of the moment “Hello, Judith. . . . Darned 1 thing. I’ve—I've seen it coming sorry I'm late: Fellow dropped her by the shoulders and turned her to face him. |for a long time. Now please let in just as I was leaving, and I) “Look here, Judith,” he said. “We've been in love for four |™mes0.,, Please . . . people are couldn't get away.’ years.’ It can't be cut off in a minute like this.” aarree Startled by Steve's voice at hér : \ ‘All right, then.” His hands shoulder, she turned swiftly, and| He regarded her a moment., He reached for her hand across|dropped to his sides. “But I'm Feed pce BO cod og Pores) de lca td MeN ca eal cl La Vp Seger eyes, know sped for he added: “What's up, Judith: |got me in a corner just to bring| Words, Judith. | You what toward the building, scurried into ‘You look as if you had something |up the old question.’ : : one of the “up” cars. She rea on your mind.” 4 “That’s just what I’ve done,” ‘Bob and Virginia Bent made |the office dressing room none too “f have, Steve. Can we go/she told him evenly. “I'm doing|a go of it. I don’t see why we|soon, for hardly was she inside somewhere for lunch where we|it here where you can't put your | shouldn't.” the door before the tears welled can talk?” , arms around me and argue me out/ “Bob Bent!’ snorted Steve.|UP In her eyes. Unmindful that “Sure thing,” said Steve, trou-|Of it, Sieve. There's going to be/wwnat's it done for him? It's de-| returning tren hence eee bled. “We can get a booth at this/no kitees and no tears this time.| 1064 him into a weakling|her head against the wall eoes place around the corner.” Weve ‘waited foe years," Wrut|who'd be scared to death if his| sobbed. geegeke ee if we waited four more?” wife lost her job! No, Judith—| The door opened and HE did not speak again until “But that's absurd!” he ex- that’s out.” Virginia Bent entered. Quickly they were settled in the little] i ineq. “Things are picking She looked at him a long mo-|her arms went around Judith and cafe. When they had ordered, he|io" Ane “shane, “Why, only today |ment. She drew in her breath,|she led her to a chair. “I saw leaned toward her and said, | the boss was t ‘that—” exhaled it sharply. “Then . . .|you and Steve outside, and I gath- “Shoot, darling. I hope nothing saying I'm out, too.” ered something was up. What serious has happened.” “Then we might as well marry,| “You don't mean that, Judith?” | happened, Judith?” “T hope it isn't serious, either.” |Steve. I promise you I'll quit my |But already he could see in her] “11 told him I was through.” She smiled weakly. “This is leap|Job the moment you're getting | eyes that she did mean it, every Virginia nodded sagely. “You'll year, Steve. I'm going to pro-|What you consider an adequate | word of it. live to thank yourself for it. He's pose to you.’ salary. “I know,” he said suddenly, bit-|a 1. A girl can’t grow sat back, relief written! Steve's eyes narrowed. “You!terly, “Virginia Bent has been|old waiting for a man to become on his face. “Gosh . . ,|know how I feel about that. 1 to you! I can hear her/a millionaire, Judith. Let me tell I saw you there in front of won't have-my wife It] saying it—'You've fooled around|you something. Any man who building I thought you’d had|/# man can’t support a girl, he) with Steve's pride for three orjcan't understand that & girl might home or some-|hasn't a right to ask her to marry |four years now, and you're get- love in a kitchenet apartment just a leap year ting no fast’ That's | today, rather than an ermine coat why—I can take it!” “It appears that I'm asking you, | probably what she’s been feeding | tomorrow maybe, is too dumb to you, Steve? ‘That's what|Steve. Would that make any dif- we @ good husband!” ference?” “Virginia had nothing to do (Te Be Continued) 1d the word: