The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 17, 1931, Page 6

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He would leave Damon, whom he had wed after hastily con- cluding that Ncra had helped her father, Julian Lake, in his plot tc pese as the painter of the late Nicholas Thayer's pic- tures. When Frances, Nora’s coucin, returns frem a stay in a scanitorium, she tells Nora that her estranged husband, Da- vid Lindsay, is to return to her and their two children. Until that moment Nera had thought Fran and young Dr. Fergus More in love, although when Nora had told him so he had called her blind and Kkissed her, Then the rcunited Lind- says leave for Arizona. Nora wondering whether Fran had lacked the ccurage to go with Fergus. Chapter 34 JULIAN SEES HIMSELF After the train carrying Davic and Fran and their children had gone they all came back to a house that seemed empty and for- lorn. Petie Baker lay in the hall with his black nozzle between his brown paws. “Poor old Petie, you miss them, |don’t you?” Nora whispered. He thumped his tail once on the floor and was still. Fergus had to hurry off at once. Aunt Em said she would have time for three lessons; Hallie disap- peared into her tiny room. Life went on. The people that you loved dropped out of your life and you had to go on as though nothing had happened. Someone was playing a tattoo on the front door and Nora rushed out to find her father there. He looked very shabby, but there was still a rakish gayety about him. She had dreaded to see him. She expected a broken man, humiliated, pathetic; but he was unchanged. “Don’t lock atyme as though I'm an escaped convict. It was a bad break, but such things will hap- pen!” lor and closed the door. He asked her what had happened until she told him what Damon intended to do. “I'll go away again. find me!” “Julian, you can't! Damon and tell her you're willing to go through with it.” . “I can't do that.” He walked the room. Suddenly, he laid bare the dark secrets, the small things that had humiliated him and burned in his heart. The terrible struggle breaking down, to come at last to some kind of recognition. He had had no talent, and even earnest She won't . but jeers. But he had gone orni. hop- ing. Nora had only half guessed these things, but as he talked she remembered days when he ‘had painted when they had not had enough to eat, with Julian feyer- ishly hopeful over some poor daub. “Everyone laughing at me. And 1 thought some day I'd show them.” He was walking up and down the room talking feverishly as he laid before her the story of those years. Even these last weeks that he had spent at Cape Cod had been an un- bearable struggle to go on with the craft he loved. He had slept in the barn of an artist, eaten where and when he could, penniless, too proud to let her know. “T'd earn my dinner with a story, by making them laugh at me. God, 1 knew that too!” Nora sat still. For her father had JUNEAU CABINET and DETAIL MILL- WORK CO. Froni Street, next to Warner Machine Shop CABINET and MILLWORK GENERAL CARPENTER WORK GLASS REPLACED IN AUTOS Estimates Furnished Deliveries—10:30, 2:30, Upon Request U work had not brought him anything |jike a boy. AREaac o s s LDOUGLAS.FOX o) E3si stripped himself of all his glamour and showed her it was his hope that some day he would succeed. It was dreadful for her to see him | with the look in his eyes of a.dog who has been kicked. “I'm a failure and what's worse— a fool.” “Don’t, Julian. Don't,” pered. But now he could not stop. He cursed himself for having brought her nothing but misery. She saw clearly that in this last dreadful thing he had done, he had thought of her and Aunt Em and Hallie, of what money could do for them. “Money, it’s always money. The secret of happiness—if there is any such thing—is money.” He called himself a vagabond, a failure, a fcol. He did not listen to her as she told him that she still believed in him. For he had strip- oed away the last illusion. He had faced himself at last and hislong- ouried sense of frustration and fear jprang out at him in full force to shrottle him. “I'm only an old vagabond,” he said at last sinking down on -the couch. “Julian darling, we're both vaga- bonds,” she laughed with a dread- ful broken note in her voice. “No matter what Damon does we can| bear it.” The name of Damon roused him to fresh anger. He accused Damon now in his half-maddened state for his downfall, for the jeering laugh- ter that would always follow. the mention of his name. He turned on her all the force of his hatred of himeelf. He scarcely knew what she whis- ened. Then he ceased reviling Damon. He sat very still and Nora did not dare to go near him. He might break down and she could not bear that. Her father had thrown a bril- liant searchlight on his past and she saw now why she had loved him so deeply even when he was ’most rash and impractical; for he lhad struggled toward an ideal. And failing that, he seemed to care for nothing else. She did not know how long she ;sat there in that silence. She could She drew him into the back par- not find a word to say, and she did not dare to put her arm about his shoulders. If he should break down she felt as though it would be the end of everything. Then at last he looked up. The old Julian with his fire and charm Go out tofstood before her. “I must make her see; she can’t do what she means to do.” “What do you mean?” “I'm going.” “Where?” “It’s a place I have to find alone.” “I believe in you,” she lied to keep from/{staunchly. But he smiled at her, flung open the door, tramped down the hall She saw him run down the steps But when she went to the window to watch shim go past she saw he was a shabby old man who walked as though he had lost his purpose. She stood there until he. disappeared, tears blinding her. The day passed somehow. She spent part of it looking up and down the street to see if her father ‘were not coming back. She should have gone with him. But she knew rhe would not have allowed it. He was going to Damon. Perhaps [Damon would not go on with the suit. ' But if she did ... if Julian were sent to prison . How empty the house wul Without the children it seemed for- lorn, only the sound of Hallie’s typewriter tapping so steadily. Mr.| Dusenbury had only allowed her! to have the morning to see: Fran off. But ‘after seeing her father she could not go back to the office. She walked about, waiting for Fergus to come home. But when he returned he had his office hours to keep. At last the patients were gone. Nora went in to him. “Fergus, Julian’s been here. He | was going to see Damon. He hasn't come back. Fergus, I'm frightened.” “Steady now,” he said, “nothing’s happened, has it?”’ “No, but something may.” “Do you want me to drive you {out there?” “If you would, Fergus?” He wrapped her up in the rug when they got in his car, but she shivered as she turned to ask him, 1“You shouldn’t go away. like this, should you?” { “It’s all right, Nora.” { She clung to his strength now, but she bad never known the, drive .to be so long. She leaned & as though she could urge on he said now; and Nera was fright- | By CLIFF STERRE’I'I‘ e you OLIGHT TO BE APR’ESTED FOR I OWNING SLCH A DOG’ LOOK AT MY CHILD/ car that jolted and bumped over river with its floating cakes of ice. At last they were on the driveway. Deep violet shadows lay on the snow and the sun struck goid from the windows of the old house. “Go and ask, Fergus, if Damon is there. If she’s all right?” She sat huddled under the rug, her face so wild and white that Fergus could not bear to look at her. She watched him disappear. | Fergus found her sitting like a bird huddled in its feathers when he re- turned to her. “Damon isn't home. ' She and your father went for a walk along |the river.” “Oh, Pergus!” She sprang from the car. Noth- g could keep her now from going with him. They walked toward the river and found a trodden path that ran beside it, and skirted the without a word. As far as they could see this path was empty. She cultched his arm. Her father couldn’t have done anything. But | she remembered those wild threats he had made against Damon. “Oh, Fergus, I can't see them anywhere,” she cried. “I can't even see their footsteps. Do you sup- (Copyright 1930, Jesse Douglas Fox) Around a bend in the path tomerrew their frantic scarch ends. Then Nora comes near to death. RADIO AD WAR ANTICIPATED IN NEXT CONGRESS Measures to Prohibit or Restrict Advertising Sure to Result WASHINGTON, D. C, June 17.— A battle over radio regulation is expected to develop in the next congress. Decision of the American News- paper Publishers’ Association to wage a fight against alleged unfair competition by radio stations in news and advertising broadcasting 18 considered certain to result in the introduction of measures seek- ing to .prohibit or restrict direct | advertising over the air. Investigate Legality The publishers’ association has instructed its directors to investi- gate the legality of direct adver- tising broadcasts. The publishers contend that these stations re- ceive governmental aid by virtue of a franchise in a wavelength which they say is tantamount to a monopoly. This is held by them to be unfair competition with other advertising media not so favored. The association also has de- manded that the federal radio com- mission prohibit broadcasting lot- tery or gift enterprises as publica- tion of such matter in newspapers is forbidden by law. “Commercialism” While members of the commis- sion individually have expressed disapproval of direct advertising and have deplored “an over-empha- sis of commercialism” in programs, the commission itself has held it did not have the authority to re- strict advertising since th2 radio act forbids program censcrship . The commissioners, hcweer, have indicated they dre much con- cexned over recent develomments in the attitude of newspaper publish- s toward radio. At the offices of |the commission it was said recom- mendations prohably. wouvld he mad» to. congress .seeking amendment of the radio law to prohibit 1nMteries gnd curb direct advertising on the air., ————— Hnllnd Moves to' Halt THE HAGUE, June 17.—An anti- religion campaign in Holland has reached such proportions that the government is taking action. . A bill has been introduced in the second chamber of the states gen- eral providing punishment for any- one found guilty of uttering con- temptuous blasphemy in a public Iplace, or of exhibiting blasphem writings or emblems. - —————— Four steel columns weighing " 11,200 pounds to the foot, the largest ever fabricated in the South, re- cently were shipped from Birming- Anti-Religious c.mp..;n bmmmmm' the road. Far off she could see the | Track Marks of KANSAS CITY, Juae ~Two track coaches who attacted world wide attention when they com- peted for the University of Mis- souri a decade ago have proteges whose. performances are overshad- owing their mentors” best efforts. Brutus K. Hamilton, coaching at the University of Kansas, has de- veloped Clyde Coffman, Jayhawker sophomore, into an all-around ath- lete whom he rates as potentially better than himself at his best. In his unheralded debut at the |Tllinois relays septathlon, Coffman made the highest point total on| record except that made by Barney Berlinger of Pennsylvania in win- | woods. Nora hurried beside P‘ergus‘nmg the seven-event test this | spring. Hamilton, who won the Illinois septathlon in his college days, ex- pects Coffman to follow his foot- |steps, which led to the Olympic |games. A 152-pounder, Coffman is \speciallzing in the pole-vault, jave- ;nn and discus for present competi- tion, and training to perfect him- self in the other events. He holds the Kansas pole-vault record of 13 feet, 7 1-2 inches. The other Big Six athlete who knocked off one of his coach’s |long-standing records is Bob Hager of Iowa State College. Coach Boh Simpson witnessed the downfall of his Drake relays records when Hager skimmed the 120-yard high hurdles in 14.7 seconds, nosing out Lee Sentman of the University of Illinois. - ., PULLENS RETURN FROM SCHOOL FOR VACATION W. S. Pullen, Jr, and his sister, Miss Elizabeth, who have been at- tending school in Portland, Ore., during the past year, returned home yesterday on the steamer Princess Charlotte and will spend the summer visiting their parents here. e - Old papers 1or sale at the Em- pire office. M entors LISTENERS SHUN PROCRAMS TAGGED AS “EDUCATIONAL” NEW YOYRK, June 17.—Aversion of people to “any open proposal to educate them’ 'is cne of the prob—{ lems of the broadcasier in the cpinion of Sir John C. W. Reith. PRYSICIAN BIDS - Bested by Lads They Coach| pOYISH FIGURE GLADFAREWELL [Fashion Dictates that Old- fashioned Curves Now the Thing i ROCHESTER, Minn, June 17— “The attachment of the adjectiv: The physician is as happy as the ‘educational’ to any matter is aptWoman who pines for more food to to weigh heavily against its ac- hear that fashion is dictating the |ceptance,” says the director-gen- return of old-fashioned curves, bé- eral of the British Broadcasting licves Dr. E. S. Judd, president- corporation, who is visiting this elect of the American Medical As‘ country with Lady Reith to stydy |sociation. broadeasting here. | Word from Parls and New York Racio can make democracy saf2, that the boyish figure will be a for the world, he said in an ad-{thing of the style past is the most dress, but the “pontifical flttituflc}hearmning news of women’s fash- should be -avoided programs.” “A pontifical attitude,” ne said, “or still more, the suspicion in or- dinary, people’s minds that it ex-| ists, is perhaps the greatest dan- ger that radio education has o face. ‘ “It is not normal indifference that has to be overcome, but defi nite aversion in those very edu- cable elements that you wish to reach.” Sir John, head of a radio system which is based not on advertising, but on a licensing system and cer- tain publishing activities, has something to say about what he called “ballyhoo.” “I submit,” he said, “that Y.hera is a risk of educational ballyhofl as well as of commercial ballyhco.! “It is not so vulgar; it is less ag-| gressive; different in form, quite| different in rotive; but is it not| more or less the same fundamen- |tally—an assertion that this label- ed brand of culture is the only! culture, as this labeled brand of soal is the only soap. “It has been discovered that this, is not the way to sell goods to the radio audience, whether the goods l be material or spiritual.” in presentirg iions received for years, in his opin- |lon. Starvation Diets End “The end of starvation diets which have helped increase tuber- ,culosis, low blood pressure and ,anemia among the women of the United States has come with this news, I believe,” Dr. Judd said. “We now will enter an era in which a girl may hope to eat a square meal without a twinge of | conscience. “Eating now will be stylish. It will be a boon to the medical pro- fession, for we have tried to dis- courage the wholesale starvation diets.” “Common Sense” There is no royal road to sliri- ness, Dr. Judd believes. Avoiding the two extremes of exercise, too much or none at all, any woman who uses “common sense” in what and how much she eats will have the best chance to live long -amd healthily. Her mood should be one of con- tent whether she gains more weight than she would like or not, he says, for extra weight is much more healthy; than ap 18-day dist. .. g S8 G g 5 PHONE 218 5 Values formerly $7.50 to SPECIAL 126 Pairs Ladies Shoes To clear our stock of odds and ends we have reduced the- price to where you can buy three pair for the price of one. OPEN EVENINGS Old Papers at The Emplre. *