The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 10, 1936, Page 6

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1936 The Bismarck Tribune Blt JEWELRY LOOT An Ingependent Newspaper ‘ THK STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER dl (Established 1873) i eee | Between $50,000-$75,000 Tak- en in Minneapolis Raid, One Man Arrested State, City and County Official 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 matter. j Mrs. Stella I. Mann | rresiqent and Publisher | Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W Simons Vice Pres and Gen'l Manager Secy-Treas and Editor Minneapolis, Sept. 10.—(4)—Break- | ing into a tenth floor room of a loop | hotel early Thursday, federal agents and police seized jewelry valued at between $50,000 and $75,000 and ar- 20 | |rested Russell Houston, known as | “the flea.” as a suspect in a $100,000 | daylight jewelry robbery in Chicago Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail pe: year (in Bismarck) ........ Daily by mail per year (in state outside of Bismarck). Week!y by mail tn Canada, per year ..... 5 | June 26, last. Daily by mai! outside of North Dakota : 6.00 , . ‘ Weekly by mail in state, per year . 100 | | As three federal agents and two Weekly by mail outside of North Dal 1.50 | | policemen entered, said Clinton W. 2.00 | | Stein, federal bureau of investigation J chief here, Houston tossed three small | packages into the alley below. In the | packages were 483 diamond rings. The federal operatives entered the case under the national stolen prop- lerty act passed in 1934 which permits ” Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Vress is exclusively entitled to the use for republi {government intervention in a theft Js dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited tn this | 8 e Ld A the inva pews of spontaneous origin published herein | involving more than $5,000 worth of All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. stolen goods if transported across ja state line. Houston, 28, is held incommunicado rage from the 200 present. | Denies Statement At the relief office, however, Mrs. Wilma E. Wenzel said she had talked te no strikers or their wives and that no such statement had been author- ized by her. On the corftrary, she said, orders for surplus commodities had been issued for some of the strikers’ families. The meeting voted to demand Mrs. | | been rejected. | Another resolution called upon the leditor of The Tribune to publicly | apologize for an editorial published in Wednesday's issue entitled “Those WPA Strik One speaker asserted Is There a Drouth? : Jin the Minneapolis city jail, Mean- One suspects that North Dakota has been visited by a/ while, federal officers said search is eae ateee! f the state’s newspa: ers | being made for “between six and drouth this year but perusal of some of the state's newspapers | eight others” believed to have par. kes one wonder. ticipated in the holdup of Jacol zener on 3 ; : animal | Baumgold and Gilbert Laken, New Are these brown prail with their human and anima York jewelry salesmen, in Chicago. suffering real or are they just figments of the imagination, — products of the evil and distorted minds of newspapermen from C ONTINUE D other states who have come out here to see for themselves and} * from page one tell the world of an imagined calamity ? Approximately 250 The burden of the protests is that North Dakota is being Workers Off Jobs maligned by such stories, that they are vastly overdrawn, if not Th day Mornin actually untrue. The clear inference of these stories is that ursday iy “North Dakota is OK” as voiced by the 1936 slogan of the|ty welfare board finds the money to, Greater North Dakota association; that we need no help from ee an sane anyone; that our people are prosperous and happy. | WPA, said: “We will make no attempt But, somehow, the farmers living in western North Dakota | to operate projects in Burleigh coun- . 51 3 ty if the men do not want to work. will feel that there actually is and has been a drouth. A glance| We cannot meet their demands with- into empty barns and barren fields will be more convincing than out ifierent orders: aroun! Sapo: ee i on, e will wai je strike out. the well-meant mental ministrations of the boosters. Thus, even if the state WPA officials To be sure, the special writers from the east have indulged |and the county Wale aaa ae in some picturesque language in telling their readers of our wanted Loy ona Bee plight. They have not spared the exercise of their descriptive tw do so. aie Thy -? They hav aatity theie existe Glaser Presides powers. Why should they ee They have to justify their exist: lUewumerouscinen ‘enokerce ane meets ence and the acumen of their bosses in sending them out herejing. The Tribune did not learn the fi * é x f the man who presided at its to write about us, don’t they ? [ame se: Biases ‘ ; ‘ ._ /opening but Joe Glaser, secretary of Meanwhile, one wonders what is to be gained by protesting! the Bismarck Trades and Labor as: “ i a ‘2 i yr|sembly and head of the common la- against calumny on one hand and holding out our hands fo: Tete nied srresiied at ihe'cleee: help on the other. The two things just do not jibes If we are| Prominent among the speakers were prosperous, as the boosters assert, we do not need help. If we eames caidas need help for a large part of our population we are not prosper-| Communist, and J. H. Miller, Bismarck Bi r i i r the other. naturopath. Neither of these men are ous. Either one “phy 13M @ / Bae es .| WPA workers and neither has been on Is it best to blind ourselves to the condition we face—or'| ;ne relief rolls. even to blind others? What can be gained by either policy? One is said 2 had a fan 3, . . on the hway improvement job east Is it the idea to induce persons from other states to come| cr Biwiarek -whishels bslbe Aperated here and share our prosperity, perhaps buy land to insure their} by Milton Rue, local contractor. and stiai 4 in it? O1 rondi that his wife had gone to the relief participation in it? One wonders. - |cffice to ask for help. She was re- For its part, The Tribune believes there is and has been fused, he said, with the explanation a drouth. It believes that the best policy and the one best eral Senne relief. Your hus- calculated to build up the state is to recognize the fact and move to meet it. This newspaper has been in business in North Dakota| longer than any other institution in the state. It expects to continue in business at the same old stand indefinitely. It hopes to see the population of western North Dakota prosper- ous and happy, for upon the prosperity of this section depends not only the welfare of The Tribune but of every other business in the area. Wenzel's removal as welfare board ribun s that this area can not achieve prosperity | executive. . Bae a eae goele Ge ue ay a se p aa : They also voted to demand from by mere words or by shutting its eyes to the facts. It fgels|pue a public retraction of his state- that such a happy result can come only as the result of recog-| ment, printed in The Tribune Wed- eat ry ; th sils which beset us. nesday, that the strikers had not re- nizing the truth and curing the evils which beset us. | plied to his offer of a three-cent-an- It fecls that such a position is not traitorous to the best| hour ware boost oh poe eb eect at the interests of North Dakota but is designed to advance the best | ¢j\¥- They contended they had foim= interests of North Dakota. The fact is that some of our people have tried, unsuccess- fully, to leave this country. Some of them have gone west, penniless, and have been sent back here. This is not malicious 1 { Experienced Agents Swarm Enemy Cities; Others Em- ployed on Battlefront By DEWITT MACKENZIE (Copyright, 1936, the Associated Press) New York, Sept. 10.—Spies natura! ly come in their greatest prominence in time of war or when a conflict ap- pears to be impending. Wartime spies fall mainly into two classes: Experienced agents who swarm enemy cities, and military spies employed in the actual fighting areas. Violent death takes a heavy toll of spies in war. flict scores of agents were executed in the various capitals. On the bat- tlefields the list ran to thousands, When the never - to - be - forgotten German push was at its height on the Somme in 1918, and the British army was being forced back in the utmost confusion, enemy spies in English uniforms fairly among the Britons. I was on that front with the British when they issued an order that any soldier who could not immediately be identified should be shot forthwith. Spies, Others Shot by Dozens Spies, and those suspected of being spies, were shot by the dozen. More than one Tommy Atkins, who had got separated from his own unit, un- his life. But war is that way, and the Brit- that Commander-in-Chief Haig is- sued his famous order of the day con- taining the historic phrase “With Our Back to the Wall.” In the various capitals and other cities the police were constantly on the search for enemy agents who were everywhere, in every sort of guise. I was told, for example, that the Brit- ish actually had men employed in the German admiralty and war offices in Berlin. One cannot pass on without men- tioning an execution against which the whole world protested in horror— that of Nurse Edith Cavell, the Eng- lish Red Cross worker shot by the Germans in 1915, Espionage did not enter into it. Miss Cavell was charged by the Germans with assisting British, French and Belgian soldiers to escape from occupied Belgium. She ad- mitted the accusation and faced a firing squad with the words: “I am glad to die for my country.” Two Recalled From U. S. Another famous international case broke in the United States before America entered the war. Captain Karl Boy-ed, German na- val attache at Washington, and his colleague, Captain von Papen, mili- tary attache, were recalled at the re- quest of the United States govern- ment after sensational accusations of subversive activities were made This statement brought a how! of | against them. | The ancient Tower of London could tell a grim story of executions within its gray-walled courtyard during the World War. The first spy to go to his death in the Tower had posed as an American while he carried out espionage for Germany, and his case was made public. He was Carl Hans Lody, a brilliant and much traveled young man of attractive personality, who had been a senior lieutenant in the German navy. Mi We who were on the battle front used to marvel at the courage and self-sacrifice of the host of military spies who nightly under cloak of darkness crawled on their bellies through the clutching barbed wire entanglements, across no-man’s land, ally notified him that his offer had|past the hostile lines and on into | German occupied territory. Death at End of Trail Many of them never came back; some of them made the round trip, with death riding on their shoulders, numerous times. But whatever their : fiction but hard fact. that it was a “dirty slur on Bismarck | temporary success they generally f i i F | labor.” came to the same end—they lie be i We want no exchange of farming population with other! Counters Wilke Blais Boar | Feath the ccrimeon poppies (oF Place i sections. What we do want is prosperity for those who already q are here. After a conference with state wel- fare board authorities, Mrs. Wenzel reiterated the fact that the board has lo money to care for the families of strikers and would be unable to do so. under way there were about 200 on If and when we achieve it, this newspaper will be the first i to blazon the joyous facts forth to the world. Until then there i 4 i < A x if ‘es There are some surplus commodities j 1s no profit for anyone in protesting against the “bad adver-| available and these will be distributed | tising” we have received. to the strikers as well as to the un- | It is not bad advertising at all. If it results in awakening | charges of the board, The commmodl- the rest of the nation to the plight of mid-continental America, ues pends sour inane rom salt at in setting in motion forces which will aid us to improve condi- piven tied price Apa penanes ena tions here, it will have been the best possible advertising. | cry navy beans. 3 | he Mee A The Real War Cost | c° eR ED If you would like to get a notion of the cost of the civil war, Here Is How Relief now raging in Spain, you might cast your eye over this one Syst Is O ted sentence from a recent press dispatch from the scene of action: ys em 1s perate: “It is estimated that there are now 38,000 widows and| consists of those who have been more 77,000 orphans as a result of the war.” oe a permenenuy on elles ane ete : It is hard to make those figures mean what they should merce: see 2, | mean unless you do just a little meditating. Picture, first, the| The second class consists of crow despair, the loneliness, the sense of personal loss, and the haunt- Lea pote, ioe bee Fbete ee ing fear of the future which come to a woman when her hus-|and their families but who have been band is taken away—and then multiply by 38,000. Ne ee fr OF production: into Next, imagine the tragic bewilderment, the incomprehend- ir ing misery, the cruel desolation of a child which has lost its father—and, if you are able, picture 77,000 such children. them had been there a . In that way you may be able to get a glimmering of the true cost of a war. long time. ticipating in the strike. Keep Accurate Records | When apnlication is made for relief ithe applicant gives his name and ad- dress. If he has been on relief be- jfore that fact shows in a statistical system worked out to keep track of such things. The relief office can tell what every person on relief has re- ceived, both in cash and other assist- ance. ‘The number of children is noted to- gether with any special circumstances such as children needing special care, the health of the mother or any physical handicaps suffered by the father. Coals to Newcastle One of the best current examples of carrying coals to New- castie is tie present ‘movement of the Chinese government to institute a thrift campaign to pull that backward nation out of the economic doldrums. The Chinese are being urged by their government to save every penny, to cut expenses to the bone and turn the money thus obtained into the purchase of labor-saving machinery. There doubtless is some point to the program, else the ee arciitn eee government would not expect it to be popular, but in view of beavis gel : the fact that the vast majority of Chinese already are living | om invesisntion, tut, the ordinar “on the minimum scale necessary for human existence it does EE sts leat cBoamoeor Before the drouth-relief work got; the WPA rolls in Bismarck. Most of | These are the men who now are par- | ders or in unmarked graves in other sectors. While women spies have been few in number as compared with men, more glamour seems to attach to the operations of the fair sex. America cherishes the names of several heroic girls. get by on their own but who regard the relief money as free. “And why | shouldn't they get their share?” A number of these have been de- ' tected and in some cases persons have | | | | i { been forced to give back money ob- tained as relief or stand trial for per- jury in making their application. Here's What They Get From the data given by the appli- cant and the report of the worker, the man is classed either as employ- able or unemployable. If the former, he is assigned to WPA and the gov- jernment puts him to work. If it is the latter a budget is worked out to care for his physical needs. If medical care is needed, it is provided. In effect he becomes a ward of the welfare board and it looks after his affairs. When a man is assigned to WPA the board could, if it wished, wash its hands of him. But it doesn’t. The reason it doesn’t is that the condition of all men is not the same. Some have such large families that the prevailing wage of $48 a month is obviously insufficient to supply the needs of his family. In such cases the board steps back into the picture and supplements the money he received from the govern- ment. It makes no grants of cash but it does give flour, other food and clothing made or renovated in the WPA sewing rooms. No Actual Suffering It is this system, worked out as the result of painful experience, which enables public officials to say, truth- fully, that no one is starving or is suffering serious hardship. In addition to these material bene- fits, many relief workers are receiving free medical care. In the judgment of relief offifials no one on WPA is paying his own doctor bills. Those are paid by the county for both WPA and unemployables, the bill running ‘between $3,000 and $4,000 a month. | Two Classes of Spies SEIZED BY (-MEN) ~Operate During Wars During the world con- | many of whom were shot out of court {and without court martial. | swarmed j indicated production at 632,745.000 doubtedly paid for his bad luck with | 15,890,000; South Dakota 13 and 2,- ish were in such desperate straits; North Dakota 13 and 5,380,000; South | CROP PRODUCTION | ESTIMATES PARED Washington, Sept. 10.—(#)—The ag- riculture department Thursday esti- | mated this year's corn crop at 1,458,- ; 295,000 bushels, an increase of 3 per cent over the August estimate. Nev- | ertheless, it will be the smallest crop |in 55 years. | The department said continuation jof the drouth and hot weather | through most of August in the central | states and the increased severity of | the drouth conditions in the south- | west caused a decline of nearly 2 per | cent in crop prospects as a whole, It added, however, that recent rains “appear to have been sufficiently | widespread to prevent further deteri- oration of crops from drouth this sea-| | son.” A month ago corn production was! | forecast at 1,439,135,000 bushels. | The department estimated that this year’s cutturn of all wheat. winter and spring, would be 630,241,000 bushels. A month ago it placed the bushels. Last year’s production was 623,444,000. The condition on Sept. 1, and indi- cated production, by principal pro- ducing states, of important crops are: Corn: Condition 38 per cent of normal and indicated production 82,- 950,000 bushels; South Dakota 12 and 11,935,000. “Other spring wheat: Minnesota 47 and 13,736,000; North Dakota 13 and 344.000; Montana 18 and 10,630,000. | |. Oats: Minnesota 51 and 90,489,000; | Dakota 24 and 12,188,000. Potatocs: Minnesota 32 and 12.150.- 00; North Dakota 26 and 4,260,000; | Radio License Exams Being Given Thursday; Applicants for all types of radio) operators’ licenses were in Bismarck | Thursday taking the examination given semi-annually by the federal communications commission. John} M. Sherman, inspector from St. Paul, | is in charge of the examination, which {is being held in the Burleigh county courtroom. Bismarck is the only North Dakota city where appli-| cants may be examined for the li-/ cense. Late News Bulletins (By the Associated Press) DENIES MURDER CHARGE St. Paul—Albion Rowe, St. Paul, 53, widower, pleaded not guilty Thursday in municipal court to a first degree murder charge grow- ing cut of the death of Elsie Lange, 33, St. Paul. Rowe was arrested at the state fair grounds. SENTENCED TO HANG Los Angeles—Robert 8. James Thursday was sentenced to die on the gallows for the torture murder of his wife, Mary. The death sentence was made mandatory by the jury that convicted James of killing his wife by subjecting her to the bite of a rattlesnake and then drowning her in a bathtub, KILLS HUSBAND WITH KNIFE Chicago—After stabbing her husband with a Boy Scout knife won by: her sons, Mrs. Edna Smith, 38-year-old mother, called a state highway peliceman to view the body and then signed a statement confessing the slaying. She said the stabbing climaxed more than five years of sadistic humiliation and cruelty inflicted upon her. FILES $30,000,000 SUIT Detroit—Reuben J. Ravelle of To- wocccoroccooococe | peer ccoeeococe |Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. H ir. Brady will stions pertaining to health but not Jotters Drietly and im ink. Adérese Dr. All quertes must be accompanied by © i i i { | ' ! ! | | | oo NO WONDER THEY WAIT TOO LONG T. W. Skinflint (’'m not sure about the initials, but let us call him that) says a friend of his recently had an operation for prostatic obstruction. The operation required about an hour. After the operation the patient was confined to hospital for two wecks, with, a drainage tube inserted in the | bladder and a special attendant to take care of him, There was nothing gentle in the expenses, says Tight Wad. The patient paid the surgeon 350 simoleons, and that wasn’t all. The hospital demanded an additional $150. It must have been just terrible. Think of it—a man paying out $500 in hard cash just to gain ten or twenty more years of comfort and perhaps ten more years of life. x Mr. T. W. Skinflint declares that it is no wonder some men wait too long before having an operation when fees are so high. Why, some men are unable to pay such exorbitant bills. Well, Skinflint, wherever you are and whatever your real surname is, be of good cheer. This is a free country, and fiobody compels you to have any truck with surgeons or physicians if you fecl they are robbers. No wonder some men wait too long and become nuisances to themselves and to their families, when they cherish such childish, peevish notions of the value of comfort and life and self-respect. Few men under sixty really need removal of any part of the prostate gland. One urologist, reporting his experience in 600 prostatectomics by the older method (perineal or suprapublic operation) and in 600 transure- thral prostatic resections, all of the latter being cases in which formerly he would have done the perineal or suprapublic operation, says he believes the transurethral resection is possible in any case in which the instrument (called resectoscope) can be introduced into the bladder. Of course, the patient is under anesthesia. While I have no patienee with such cantankcrous complaints as this of T. W. Skinflint's, I heve seen enough of the wretched results of prostatic { obstruction in men past sixty to sympathize with any victim of this trouble. { And I have seen enough of the misery that comes to men who procrastinate {too long, to exhaust my patience. Most men at sixty or clder are rather poor surgical risks anyway; they become steadily poorer risks if they suffer {prostatic obstruction and put off the only effective treatment for many | months, X-ray treatment has been used to a considerable extent for enlarged ronto, Ont., asked $30,000,000 dam- | Prostate and with considerable success. ages Thursday in a suit filed in fed-| eral district court against the Gyro Process company, the Chemical Re: search corporation and several i companies which he said use the Gyro process of oil refining. ‘HOT TIP’ COLLAPSES ‘ Detroit—A “hot tip” in the search for the missing Harry Browe, 20-month-old baby who apparently was kidnaped here last Saturday, collapsed abruptly ! mal, but restless, over-active, inattentive... . Thursday when a man arrested | A competent proctologist makes this observation: “Every once in @ i while some patient past middle age, under treatment for some rectal trouble, remarked how much betier his prostatic trouble was—in fact, where he used to get up many times at night. now he slept the night through.” This | prompted him to try out diathermy to the prostate through the rectal specu- lum, and such treatment brought prolonged relief to many sufferers from prostatic obstruction, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Calcium A recent test showed my 14-year-old son deficient in calcium, Physician | prescribed calcium gluconate. Friends say this is dangerous. Boy is nor- (Mrs, B, G, W.) Answer—Your physician is your best friend. Your friends are not phy- was fcund to be in possession of | sicians. Real friends do not intrude with their half baked notions. Certain- his own two-year old child. HEADLESS BODY FOUND Cleveland—The sixth headless body to be found in Cleveland during the) last year was discovered Thursday in Kirfgsbury run en Cleveland's east side. The torso of the body had been ly the administration of calcium in any form is harmlcss in any case. AN adequate intake of vitamin D is essential to insure good calcium metabolism. -Polishing Glass My work ids cleaning glass for mirrors, I use red rouge powder mixed with water and ammonia, and polish the gjéss after this dries. I breathe more or less of the dust all day.... (W. R. H.) Answer—Red rouge is iron oxide, Harmloss, If you have no bronchial, lung or throat trouble to begin with, such work is not harmful to health. cut in two pieces. BEGIN HERE TODAY engaged to STEPH! for four years. Sh rl married and keep busineas office but and they go arguments, Jud her friends, BE confides tn first, affectionat Fd to keep t CHAPTER III apart. voice. Pl skip along, Judith. you tomorrow.” away, Steve, while.” Toby?” as possible, tall sessed a continuous thought in his life. riously and unaccountably, quite as well as Steve. Virginia shot a glance toward “You and Steve didn't plan on going out, did you?’ We Judith. thought we'd just drop in for five-cornered chat. his hat. tails.” “And what cocktails,” With an effort Judith tried container of cocktails, little table there.” Steve followed her pered. “You know I wanted talk to you.” pipes. she said. quietly. everything was clear, wasn’t even before they came?” “You mean we're finished?” that’s all.” the kitchenet. those cocktails will chance at all to chill!” eee REsiGNebty, Steve ed with He had never cared much JUDITH HOWARD has been FOWLER iF to this, Judith meets Steve for lunch Virginin and Bob promise jo ace Judith that eve- Hix mood’ NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY T the sound of Virginia's voice, Judith and Steve sprang “Damn!” said Steve in a low “She'd naturally choose this time to come popping in here. I can see Judith turned in the hallway. “There’s no need for your running Please stay a little | Stephen stayed, finding it im- possible to do anything else. Into the little apartment, as if on thé crest of a typhoon, came Bob and Virginia Bent—with Tony Lynch. “Hel-lo, Steve!” exclaimed Toby, extending his hand. Without en- thusiasm Steve shook hands with him, returning his greeting with an unenthusiastic, “How are you, The two were az unlike Steve Fowler was and solid and thoughtful. Toby was small, almost rotund, and apparently had never pos- train of Yet, myste- he} « he’s perfectly harmless,” managed to get along in the world Bu P y That thing Bob is holding behind him isn't It's a bottle of cock- y men- tioned Toby. “The Bent Special!” project herself into a lighter mood. She held out her hand for Bob's “TN chill them in the refrigerator a while. - . There are cigarets on the into the kitchenet. “What's the idea of en- couraging them to stay?” he whis- Not looking at him, she opened the refrigerator door and set the bottle of cocktails against the icy “I-can't send them away,” “And I think “I mean we're friends. And Steve was about to speak when Toby's raucous voice carried into “If you two don’t get away from that refrigerator have no returned with Judith to the other room. He looked at Toby, his eyes cloud- ‘Lynch, and he liked hin even less TODAY IS OURS now. More-than once he had sug- gested to Judith that she should have nothing to do with him. Judith always defended. “And he’s a good friend of Virginia’s and Bob’s—so what can we do?” Steve had said nothing to Judith about the story that was drifting 8! around. It was one of those sto- ries which a man will hide from the women of his acquaintance, no matter what he thinks of the protagonist of the story. Toby Lynch was supposed to have per- suaded a girl to share his apart- to! ment with him in lieu of marriage. Part of the story was that they were very much in love, and un- able to marry—but this failed to condone the matter in Steve Fowler’s mind. He had never seen Toby Lynch in the company of a young woman, and tis lent credence to the story rather than not. The conversation, chilled a lit- tle by Steve's silence and Judith’s obvious preoccupation, went rath- er badly. Bob went to the kitchenet and brought out his cocktails. They it warmed the loquacious Toby into *J)a running fire of comment, and succeeded in mellowing the Bents. But Steve drank little, and Judith always limited herself to one cock- tail. to leave, and Judith realized that she intended to keep herself and Toby had departed. Plainly Virginia with him again. glass and got up. appointment. Judith: turned. ‘There's no need of your running away, Steve, she said. ‘ Finally, in desperation, |. man Yet Virginia made no move to| solution to modern conditions. Or and Bob there until Steve Fowler} guy Dan Cupid never heard of a wasn't going to leave Judith alone | raising the devil as if there were |Judith—” At length she set down her|think Bob's Steve looked|He paused and looked at Fowler. relieved—but he was to suffer dis- | “You can carry pride too far, you “Judith,” she said, | know.” “let's you and I go over to my| “It’s not entirely a matter of (Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) by NARD JONES © 1930 NEA Service, pride,” Steve told him. “I’ve never believed a married woman should work—not when there are thousands of single girls looking for jobs and not finding them.” “That's a specious argument,” Bob put in. “Oh, I’! grant that there are some married women working in offices—married wom- en who could get along on their husband’s salary. But mostly they're women whg are so well trained that their job couldn’t really be filled by the average single girl looking for a job. Let’s take Virginia and myself as an example. Suppose I hadn’t mar- ried her? She’d be working at her job, just as she is now. So what difference does it make to the unemployment situation whether we're married or unmar- ried? No, Steve. . . . I think you're trying to work up a logi- cal, economic argument to justi- fy your pride.” Steve smiled slowly. “Maybe so.” * ee SOWELL,” put in Toby, twisting impatiently in his chair, “I'd even go one step further than “What do you mean?” asked Steve, raising his head. “Bob and Virginia took a big chance when they married.” “With due respect to Bob, I can’t see that they did,” Steve argued. “Both have jobs. Either job would probably support the two of them, if they were careful and willing to make sacrifices. 1 can't see that they took any chance at all.” . “You're wrong Steve,” said Toby, rising and walking toward the box of cigarets on the little table. Carefully he took one up, * lighted it. “Look here. It’s well known fact about human na- ture that people want what they can’t have. Suppose Bob and Virginia had wanted to marry only because it looked as if they couldn't? Then discovered after- ward they’d made the wrong move. That would have been bad, wouldn't it?” “I'm afraid I’m not following you very well,” Steve said. “There’s only one sensible solu- tion to the problem of two people in love who can’t marry for eco- nomic reasons,” Toby Lynch went on. “They should simply share apartment and scare up some sandwiches. These males look hungry,.and I can tell they’re dy- ing to discuss the baseball scores.” Toby grinned at Bob. “The perfect wife,” he complimented. “How does a mug like you man- age to keep her?” eee VIRGINIA met this with a pleas- ant laugh, and steered Judith out the door. When they had gone, Bob said, “I don’t keep her, Toby. She keeps herself. That’s one of the advantages of having a wife who's self-supporting. She | knows she can leave any time she wants to. So she doesn’t leave, and she’s perfectly happy.” Toby laughed. He turned to Steve speculatively. “I’ve been ; an apartment together, split all expecting you and Judith to take|the expenses. Then when busi- the leap any day now, Steve.” ness rns to normal, when all the ry cuts are restored and the birds start singing in the trees, these two can look at each other and decide whether they should really marry.” “It’s a nice idea for the man,” Steve said quietly. “But/what happens to the girl? I know it's @ very modern world—but mest Thoughtfully Steve twisted his pipe in fingers. “Well. . . you see, I don’t agree With Bob ex- actly. I suppose Judith and 1 could marry if I were willing to have her keep her job. But I’m not. I’ve always had an idea that should support his wife.” “T had that idea, too,” Bob said, grinning. “But Virginia convinced sre that I was wrong. I’ve al- ite. ways been a weak-willed per- Toby snorted. “You'd be sux- son!” “There's nothing wrong with both the wife and the husband working,” Toby insisted. “It’s the at least, it’s been the solution for the past five or six years. This depression. He just goes around no such thing as a salary cut. 1 dead right, Steve.”