Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1923, Page 4

g PREPARE REPORT ON SUGAR TARFF Harrison Assails Smoot as Statistics Are Gath- ered for President. Developments yesterday in the con- troversy over the recent rapid rise in the price of sugar were: The tariff commission began work on a preliminary report to, the Pres- ident, in reply to his request for in- formation on prices of the tariff on sugar to those in- creases. This report will deal par- ticularly with the request for infor-| mation as to whether the increase of S cents a pound for sugar in the last two monthg can be attributed to the sncrease 1n the 'tariff rate. or must be attributed to other causes. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. democrat, gave out a statement as- sailing the position taken by Senator Smoot on sugar duties, and declaring that the Utah senator was responsi- ble, “above all others for the impo- sitfon of the present inexcusable su- gar tax.” Week to Get Facts, It was indicated at the Tariff Com- mission that it would take a week to get together certain statistics which can be obtained from government sources. Members of the commission =ald, however, that the statement on which they are working would cover, in the main, patent facts taken from market records id other easily ac- cessible sources. It is not intended to take the place of the more compre- hensive report on which investigators are engaged, and which will include statistics of production costs and other items entering into the general Drice situation. That report probably will not be ready for several months. In his statement Senator Harrison referred to that given out by Senator Smoot_yesterday on the sugar situa- tlon. Senator Harrison said “It iIs perfectly n that Sen- ator Smoot should the position he does, but the public will not for- get that the future chai an of the Senate finance committee is respon- sible abov 1 others for the impo: tion of the present inexcusable sugar tarify. Puts Blame o) “While Gen. Crowder was the thorized representative of the present administration to Cuba, trying to help Cuba in travail, it will not be forgotten that it was Senator Smoot who wrote the letter to Crowder an agreement upon the the Cuban government to he sugar production to s for last understanding that the would in t event impose against Cuban sugars of cents pe d s ‘It was Senator Smoot in cha of the suzar schedule of the Cumber tariff bill who held it while the negotiations were pending. It was a dellberate scheme part of the authorized a administration and the controlled the legislation Smoot. au- suggesting part_of curtail 1 one with only, men in" the Senate to bring about a shortage of sugar so that the beet sugar ests would be able to gouge American people and extrort them higher prices for sugar. scheme led Dbecaiuse the Cuban government rejected the suggestion. Directed Tariff Fight. “It was under the l-adership Smoot that the highest tariff sugar carried in any ta last generation was impc proposal co ded that pound duty on Cuban sufficient as a permanent vided Cuba for one y tail her production “The proposal sought no restriction on the production of Cuban sugars after the first vear. It conceded fully that a permanent rate of L6 cents per pound on Cuban sugars was adequate protection in th ears that would follow. And yet, under the leader- ship of Smoot, without justification or excuse, the last Congress imposed & rate of 178 cents per pound on Cuban sugars. “If the large rate carried in the bill w not intended to increase the protection to the beet and cane sugar interests by increasing the price to the consumers, what was it for? The suggestion is so fallacious that it Is ludicrous. It is but a link in the ad- ministration’s chain and deceptions, BLOWS EXCHANGED AS LAWYERS CLASH W. Gwynn Gardiner, Former Com- missioner, and Jo. V. Morgan in Encounter. inter- ed 1.6 sug: duty, pro- would cur- sent” per Attorney W. Gwynn Gardiner, former District Commissioner. and Jo. V. Morgan, another member of the bar, were separated when they clashed in the corrldor of the courthouse yes- terday. A blow was struck by each of the contestants. The lawyers were on opposite sides of & matter under discussion befor Chiet Justice McCoy in Equity Divis- fon 2 and a statement was made by Mr. Gardiner reflecting on Mr. Mor- ®an, it is said. The dispute was renewed when the lawyers reached the corridor. According to witnesses Mr. Gardiner repeated his statement, declaring that some one had told him so and adding, “and 1 believe it Mr. Morgan then struck the former Commissioner a glancing blow near the shoulder. A hystander inter- posed, and Mr. Gardiner, reaching over the head of the peacemaker struck Mr. Morgan on the forehead. Friends prevented them from renewing the fight. and the relation | pposedly her economlic half the | ted States f rife upon the ent of this who the from The of on fr biil in the Smoot's was of false ciaims | ‘Johnny Chuck Proves He Is a * True Squirrel. This fact is true, ko mark it well: In time of danger blood will tell —0ld Mother Nature. Looking ~around isn't the safest business in the world, especially for those who have been in the habit of seldom going far from their own doorsteps. Johnny Chuck and Polly Chuck; as you know, are not fast run- ners. They are not built for running. That {s why usually they are not | found far from the safety of their home. But spring fever and a desire for change had set them to wandering about, looking for a place to build a new home. They felt as if every | WITH A YELP OF PLEASURE HE STARTED STRAIGHT FOR THEM. step they took was an adventure, and in a way it was. Many times they were so far from a place of safety that had they been surprised by Reddy Fox of Old Man Coyote or some other enemy there would have been mnothing for them to. do but fight. To have trusted to their rather short legs would have been useless. More than once they saw an enemy in the distance. Then they did the very wisest thing they could have done, which was to flatten them- selves out on the ground and keep Perfectly still. Always they were on THE WEATHER District of Columbia and Maryland “loudy and warmer tonight: tomor- row cloudy, with occasional shower: cooler western Maryland row afternoon; fresh southerly winds. Virginia tomorrow local | variable winds, West Virginia—Cloudy and warn tonight, followed by rain late tonig tomorrow; colder tomorrow ernoon. Records for Twenty-Four Hours. Thermometer—4 p.m., 605 8 pan, 12 midnight, 45; 4 a.m., 40; 8 2 noon, 66 Burometer——4 pom. 30.11; 12 midnight, 30.1 8 am., 30.21; noon, 30.15 Highest temperature, at_noon today Lowest temperature, at 5.40 a.m. tod Temperaturé same date last year— | Highest, 63; lowest, 43. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of the water at 8 am.: Great Falls—Tein- perature, 50; condition, very muddy. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States coast and geodetic survey.) —Low tide, 7:16 am. high tide, 12.42 am. in tomor- showers; moderate 16 g Dm, L 30:%: 66, occurred 57, occurred and and 1:08 3 igh tide, 1.45 am. and The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose 5:43 a.m. 6:36 p.m. Tomorrow—Sun rises 5.44 am.; sun sets 6:37 p.m Moon rises p.m. Automobile lamps to be lighted ona- half hour after sunset Weather in Various Cities. sun sets 12:20 a.m.; sets 10:46 Temperature. < 1 eeeqqu s ey Stations. oo amorng “evigupiasa. WAL Womo| “wwgo) g 7 Albany Clear Clear | Blrminges: 1 Boston Chicago Detroit Paso ... Helena Clear Cloudy Glear >+ elou Clenr 0¥ Pr.cloudy Clear Cloudy Snow Snow Clear Pt.cloudy Pt.cloudy 30,14 20,08 30.16 2958 3014 50.08 30.10 Tos Angeles Louisv Miami, Fla Qiia Omaha Philade ity Louis . Paul trle pokane a8 37 FOREIGN. (8 a.m,, Greenwich time, today.) Stations. Temperature. Weather. London, England 44 - Part cloudy is, France , Part cloudy Copenhagen, Denmark Clear Stockhoim, 'Sweden Clear Gibraitar, Spain_ ., Part cloudy Horia (Fayal). Azores Rain Hamilton, Bermuda. Part cloudy San Juan, Porto Rico..... Clear Havana, -Cuba = Clear Colon, Canal Zons Part cloudy ir and warmer tonight;| $718 wm. and | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, BEDTIME STORIES By Thornton ‘W. Burgess. | the watch.e Wnile really they were adventuring, they didn’t intend to take any foollsh chanci But even the most watchful are sometimes- surprised. It happened so with Johnny and Polly Chuck. They were over near an old stone wall making a breakfast of some young clover which they had found. It was the first clover they had found this spring, and it tasted so good that they forgot everything else. They | forgot to watch out. Yes, sir, they forgot to watch out. Now, it happened that Bowser the Hound had taken it into his head to go looking about that morning. Perhtips Bowser had a little of the spring fever in his blood, too. Any- way, he came trotting along on the other side of that stone wall. Just by chance he jumped up on that wall and looked over it just as he was | opposite where Johnny and Polly Chuck were enjoying thelr breakfast. He saw them right away. With a velp of pleasure he started straight for them. That yelp was the first warning that the two Chucks had that danger was anywhere near. Now, there was just one place of possible safety, and that was the old stone wall. At the sound of Bowser's volce Johnny started for that wall in one direction and Polly started for it in another. For just a second or two Bowser was uncertain which one to chase. Then he started after Johnny Chuck. Polly Chuck reached the old stone wall at a place where there was just room enough for her to squeze in between two stones and down under the wall. There she was safe. But Johnny Chuck was not so lucky. When he reached the stone wall he found no hole big enough for him to squeeze into. He ran along a short distance, but still there was no hole. By this time Bowser was almost at his heels. What could Johnny do? Tl tell vou what he did. Just in front of ]hhn. growing close beside that wall, was @ tree. Johnny headed straight i for that tree. When he reached it he scrambled up into it. Yes, sir, he did just that. He was rather clumsy about it but he got up there just the same. When he was well out of reach of Bowser he sat down in a crotch and glared down at Bowser. Johnny had never climbed a tree be- | fore, but then he had never had to. { It was the Squirrel blood in him that | had made it possible. You see, Johnny Chuck belongs to the Squirrel family, althvugh few people seem to know it (Copyright TALK ON HEREDITY BY NOTED SCIENTIST Dr. Kellogg Will Deliver Lecture at Museum Tomorrow Afternoon. 1023, by T. W. Burge An opportunity to hi scientist discuss heredity offered Washingtonians by the announce ment of the Woman's Welfare Asso- clation that Dr. Vernon Kellogg, sec- retary of the National Research Council, will deliver the seventh of its bi-weekly series of public health an eminent o'clock in the auditorium of the National Museum. His topic is “How Important Are Our Ancestors?” Dr. Kellogg's numerous contribu- tions to magazines during his long {career as a teacher and investigator have won him a wide reputation. His pecialty is zoology. He has served jon the faculties of the University of i Kansas and Leland Stanford Univer- isity and with the United States bu- reau of fisheries. are especially well known During 1914-1916 he was {of the American commission for re- ilief in Belgium, and in 1917-1918 was iwith the Food Administration. He |aiso served as head of the United States mission to Poland and per- formed notable service in Europe with the American Rellef Administration. Among Dr. Kellogg’'s best known contributions to scientific literature ar Inheritance.” “Artificial Par- | thenogenesis,” “Regeneration and 1General Biology of, Silkworms,” “Va- riation, Inheritance and Behavior of Insects.” Admission to this lectrre, as to all in the serles, is free to every one. The eighth and last is scheduled for Sun- day afternoon, April 22, when Dr. Harvey Wiley' will discuss “Health Conservation Through Diet.” Marriage Licenses. s fihrlnage licenses have been issued rollowing : Lewis M. Doening of Quantico, Va., Katherine D. Mauck of Baltimore, 'Md. French §.- Jones aud Irene Gillingham, both of Baltimore, Md. aith ‘and Grace M M. Brrth and Ano M. orfolk, Va. Valentine and Ruth Bassil Nicholson of Indian Head, and Elsle N. Smith of Woodbridge, Va. Arthur N. Rector and Beatrice V. Donahue. Arthur Avelino and Carrie Rose. Deaths Reported. The following deaths have been reported to the health department in the last twenty-four onrs Henry F. Rogers, 68, 4830 16th st. Clara_ Carroll, 1935 17th st. Mabel Boswell, 44, Garfield Hospital. James Phillips. 70. 119 Pennsyivania ‘ave. George A. Cohill, 54, Emergency Hopital. Mary Cull, 85. 230 1) st. s w. Willlam F. Regan. 55, Sibley Hosp! Alberta McK. Selby,’ 80, 1311 ave. ne. Helen W. 8. Pairo. 68, 1514 P st Charles W. Van Atkin, 82, St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Charles 0'Connor, John S. Sellers. 8 Charles’ A, Cole. Rebecca E. Hudson, 89, Ellen M. C. Jones, 60, Viola A. Healy, 8.'472% Maryland James 1. Clark, 1 month, $38 B st. a.w. Martha Emma Schultz, 13 dags, Waiter Keed ospital Grace Butler, 58, Home for the Aged and Infirm. Osceola Harris, 33, Sigismund_ Taylor, Arthur Davis. 40, Elizabeth Willinmis, 38, Tenry Moore, 41, Freedmen's Hospital. Johin Foster, 46.'64 Jackson alley n.e. Raymond Washington, 15, Gallinger Hos- pital. Wilile L. Crawford, 2, 1136 Sumner ri. s.e. to the and Ketchum. B watler, John W. Reraard L Md., ryland 60, Georgetown Hospital. 3009, Tiiinots. ave: " 1724 20th st. 1927 Park rd. 430" Fern st. People who look for trouble never look in vain. MUTT AND JEFF—If There’s Anything Jeff Hates, It’s Silly Questions. GOODNESS ONLY KNDWS WHEN T'LL STAND Here 0N THE BAAKS oF THe HISTORIC THAMES AGAIN. T'm SAD! I Uk& LONDON BUT T GoTTA 60 BAclk To THe UNTED STATES OR BUD LIABLE T® GIVE ‘Me SLIP ME onNe TickeT FoR THe BoAT THAT SAILS For N&w YoRlc TODAY, OLD ToP. lectures tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 His war activitles| director | | | | | HOWTORECOGNIZE ANDAVOID TORNADO Prof. Moore, Former Head of Weather Bureau, Gives Points to Remember. The cellar of a frame house is the safest place to be when a tornado strikes, according to Prof. Willls L. Moore, former chief of the United States weather bureau, who arrived in Washington yesterday trom Flor- ida. Prof. Moore spent this morning at the scene of the tornado at Silver Spring, Md. “The safest place Is the cellar of a frame house, with the exception of a cyclone cellar, not usually found in a city,” the former head of the weather bureau declared. “When a frame house collapses the wreckage is compara- tively light, and does not fall through on those in the cellar. On the other hand, those who seek refuge in the cellars of brick houses are likely to be killed by the falling of the heavy brick, or smothered to death by the debris. “There is no record of a single per- son ever beinz killed in the cellar of a frame house when it was struck by a tornado,” Prof. Moore continued. How to Recognize a Tornado. How to recognize a tornado when one comes your way and how to get away from It safely was explained for the benefit of Star readers by Prof. Moore, who was chief of the weather bureau here from 1895 to 1913 In the first place, Prof. Moore ex- plained, keep on the watch in the Spring or summer when the weather bureau announces that conditions are favorable for “severe local storms.” Then if a storm comes up in the late afternoon, from out of the south- west, with black edges, look out some more, and then If you hear a nolse like “100 railroad trains,” look sharp! While Prof. Moore believes there is little danger from tornadoes in the District. he feels that people might just us well know the Simple oarmarks of the creature. and know the best means of evading it Don't Try to Run Before Wind. “Whatever you do don't try to run away from a cyclone straightway warns Prof. Moore. “If you can get into a basement or cellar of a frame house, do so. That is th fest place. “If 'you hear the noise and see 4 funnel-shaped cloud. as you can, if you loof: sharply enough, It not able to get into a cellar, run’in a north- west or southea fon, to cut aw from the p the tornado It is better to run northwest than southeast. because there is a stronger Indraft from the southeast side of the tornado. Above all, never run to the northeast.” t in a Ditch. do none of Moore continuad a ditch A diteh toot D If lacking a ditch, fall fiat ground Above all things, no attempt to cling to a tr or to 2 post, beciuse when you the tree are uprooted it will make you all the heavier when land Trof. Moore weather bu 1e n Trot flat on the' make a Just you deciared that the eau's weather map for the District Thursday showed the District to be In the southeast quadrant of an extensive eyclone, with high temper- ature in the quadrant—in fact, with all conditions ripe for a tornado, which may be termed the offspring of a cyclone. A cyclone area is per- haps a thousand miles broad, while the tornado, which arises from the area, is but two or three hundred ards wide, as was the one that Struck Silvér Spring. or at least not more than 1600 feet wide. There was very likely a number of tornadic whirls ‘fn the vicinity of the District Thursday, the ker con- tinued, but none of them touched the earth ‘and left its visiting card ex- cept the one which hit Silver Spring Even this one only ‘““touched” the earth at a few points. A tornado is the result of the run- ning together of air masses of wide- ly varying temperature, Prof. Moore explained. They fnvarfably come from the southwest direction, he said He reiterated his belief that the Dis trict is not likely to be hit by one and if it did it would be “only a little twister.” he said “A real good western tornado could tear down the Capitol building easily Prof. Moore declared. “Stone. brick and steel will not Insure stability. 1 believe a real tornado would reduce the Capitol to a mass of ruins.” The weather bureau here. under Prof. Moore. forecast the destructive twister of May 27, 1896, which struck St. Louis, destroying a huge amount of property and killing many. Tor- nado forecasts were made from this city for all Missouri, and particularly for St. Louis, where the school chil- dren were dismissed at noon The precise foretelling of the locali- ties, however, Prof. Moore said, spread s0 much terror among nervous and 111 people that he felt constrained to issue an order stopping the precise forecast and limiting it to a forecast reading something like “Conditions tavorable for severe local storms.” FEBRUARY PRODUCTION LOW. Public utility power plants in the District of Columbia during February produced 23,863 thousands of kilowatt { hours of electricity by fuel, the geo- logical survey announced today. Pro- duction during February was lower than in any of the four preceding months. Births Reported. The following births have been reported to the health department in the last. twenty-four hours: Clifford C. and Eva A. Smith, boy. Albert V. and_Maud Victor, Hugh E. and Ethel Trowes Paul E. and Ruth Clement. giri. William F. and Georgla_Greene, boy. Ray R. and Ade M. Huffman. boy. Stacy J. and Aliee V. Middleton, girl. Leonard L. and Margaret P. Lotas, boy. Willilam A. and Ruth Sykes. boy. Morris and Gurty iller, girl. Ralph H. and Mary F. Sherwood, girl. lerce and Lucia Hitaffer, boy. Ernest and Viola Tayor, hoy. Maurice and Lilllan Dizon. boy. Thomas and Eilsabeth Nelson, girl. Lewls and Mary C. Hill, boy, James W. and Margle Graham, girl. I SAY,0LD DEAR, CAN'T T seLt You A RoUND TRIP TickeT’ D. T, SATURDAY. THE HOUSE APRIL 7, 1923. OF MOHUN BY GEORGE GIBBS Author of “Youth Triumphant™ and Other Successes. Oopyright, 1923, D. Appleten & Co. WHO0'S WHO IN THE STORY. CHERRY MOH up-to-date girl, rich and charming, at once irritated and aftracted by REE, young American ethnolo- it and war veteran, amazed bs changes fn manners and customs brought out by the war, but interested in Cherry. His modest funds are invested with her father, DI MOHUN, a self.made financial leader. Too busy to think of his children he leaves them to MRS. MOHUN, who has successfully cultivated the social side of life. BRUCE COWAN, a motorcar salesman of cave-man_type, of whom Cherry imagines she (& enamored. | BOB' MOMUN, won, is u typleally reckless | ter. LYCETT, elderly chorus, philoso- phizing as the sfory develops. JOHN CHICHESTER, whom Mrs. Mohun would | like to call son-in. Righteous Ire. CHAPTER XXIL HERRY watched her father| anxiously. As Chichester| spoke she saw him straight- | en with some of the old| squareness and bulk of shoulder and jaw. His brows were bent and his eyes shot a sudden fire. { It seemed to Cherry that in that ! glance was concentrated the right- eous ire of weeks of silent recrim- | inations—as though he had come to| sudgment upon this man and woman | and was ready to pronounce it be- fore them all. But he governed him-| solf with an effort—and when he| spoke it was with an icy civility. “Thanks,’ he said tersely. "L ap-| | preciate the meaning of vour offer. But I won't take advantage of it He glanced meaningly at his wife who had started in henm chair at the | deep note in his voice. | “And as this is entirely a family | matter,” he went on, “perhaps, Mr. Chichester, you won't mind He | paused with a commanding look to- ward the door. Chichester flushed uncomfortably. Er—of course, 1 understand.” Then he turned awkwardly. “Er—good | night, Mr. Mohun—-! “Good night,” s=ald Mohun dryly. He did not move, but to Cherry he @ gathere welght and He was the man as she TLL HAVE D'YE “YOU'RE NOT MY SON. HOUSE! remembered him in earlier days when they had first come to New ork-——a j:ersonality, a force to be reckoned | with b She heard the sound of the machine departing, then her mother's gasp sourteous—un- pardonably so! pecially as Mi Chichester has been so kind—" “Discourteous!” He smiled grimly he turned toward her. “This is| “Mr. Chi- | as no time for meddlers. “Meddlers!” she gasped. chester ia— think T know what Mr. Chiches- ter is he cut in harshly. “I'm quite | capable of settling the personal af- fairs of this family without his| help.” And then, sharply: “When did | you hear of this? | ““This—this morning. Mr. Chiches- | ter was Bob's bondsman. We've, spent most_of the day trying to find out where he is. Mr. Chichester was very kind: 4 | “And you failed to find him “He's gone, Jim." she wailed afraid—out of the city. I suppose he was afraid to face the firm—-"| “oh Mohun hobbled to the window and ! back, his face working with passion Cherry caught at his arm to try to make him sit down, but he did not| seem to be aware of her. He stop- ped at last before his wife, who was S8 Swelping gently Gone, Is he? Gone! T hope heaven he never comes back!" “Dad! Don't speak so,” Cherry taltered painfully. {e has been weak—foolish, crazy. if you like, but— He cut her short with a command- ing gesture. “A thief!™ “Dad!" im A thief. That's the name for him —T1l have none of your subterfuges. My son—a thief—a stupid one into the bargain. A thief and a fool.” Cherry. too, was sobbing now. “Dad—please!” she pleaded. He didn't seem to hear her voice| or to feel the gentle touch of her| hand upon his shoulder. He stood | leaning forward on his stick, con-| fronting his wife, who still bent her | Fead as though afraid to meet his| gaze. There was a heavy note in | his voice now. growing in depth and | volume as though from forces long | pent. Perhaps his wife recognized some forgotten ‘mote of authority or porhaps she was merely weary or| trightened, for she stirred and rose. “Jim, I—I can't stand It,” she mutter- | ed. “I—I think I'll go to my room.” | “No,” he growled harshly, “you'll listen!” He thrust out a hand, It| aid not touch her, but with one look into his eves she 'shrank back to her chair again in obedience. “However this has happened” he snapped at her, “it's your fault as well as mine— and you'll share the responsibility. It won't help either of us to go out of the room. That's the way you've always ended our discussions—you'd “r'm | to (Copyright, 1928, by H. C. Fischer, Trade Mark reg. U. 8. Pai. off.) | well as mine. more heavily never listen to me when I talked, but you've got to listen now- “You're brutal” she sald with an effort at self-command. “Because I tell you a few plain truths. It's time I did. Perhaps there's time yet to save you from being the kind of fool that I was— the kind of a fool who believes that wealth and social position are the only things to be got out of life. I wanted the one, you wanted the other, but you couldn't have what you wanted unless I zot what I want- ed. Well, I got it for you. You got everything you wanted—so did I— but in the getting we lost the only thing that matters in a family—the confidence of our children—their wel- fare, their love——"" Dad! That's not true.” He went on regardless, reverting, in his obsession, to the language—to the frankness of an earlier and healthier day. “Maybe it was my fauit more than yours.. I ought to have made you do what I wanted. I ought to have made you find out what our children were Qoing. I ought to have made you live within your means. I ought to have kept. the family together. But so OuEht you. That was your job as But we didn't—either of us. Wa were too busy—you mak- ing people think you were better than you were—I making people think 1 had more money than I had. “I will not listen to you " She rose, but he hobbled in front of her, barring her way. “Yes, you'll listen to me, tered. “IUs ten years since you did last. I've done a lot of thinking since I've been sick—about my fail- ure—about the family—about vou! I've been hoping that something might still be saved from the wreck, Fomething bigger and batter than mere money and social position. T hoped that Bob was learning what life meant—as Cherry has been learning. 1 hoped that you might get tired of chasing your will o the he mut- ! wisp and learn what your duty was to_us all.” i “Jim!" she cried hysterically. “T've only tried to get a fow moments of relaxation—of relief from my thoughts. I've done no harm—done nothing wrong." He laughed harshly. "It all depends on_the point of view. 1 don’t blame Mr. Chichester. Almost any man will make a fool of NONE OF YOU. GO! LEAVE THE HEAR? GO!™ himself when a pretty woman de- mands it of him."” ““')dl—whx.( do you asped. ®%e “shrugged and then, dryly, but with merciless precision, he told her. “One night three weeks ago you came home with Chichester from a drive into the country. Cherry was in bed and asleep. You thought I was, too. I wasn't. I heard your voices. You were saylng good-night—in Cki- chester’'s arms.” “Dad!” cried €herry, in horror, as she realized that he had known what shie knew Alicia’s face, already streaked with tears, went ghastly, She stared at him. “Jim:—you I would have shot him if I had had 2 gun. I'm glad 1 hadn’t. He isn't worth {t.” He laughed again. “I went to bed.” His wife tried to speak, fumbled for the arm of her chair and sank heavily into it. Cherry thought that she had fainted, but at her daughter’s touch she seemed to withdraw into herself, listening in terror to the deadly monotone of Jim Mohun's voice as he completed his indictment. “I'll do you the credit of saying that I don't belleve you've gone the mean?” she 1limit. You haven't got courage enough | for that, I hope he.wants to marry you. If he doesn't vou've just made a fool of yourself.” He laughed again. It wasn't pleasant laughter, but Alicia Mohun shuc-ored as though each harsh note of it ridicule had been a brutal blow. Then, suddenly, he stop- ped. “Oh, I'll give you your divorce,” he said. “Perhaps there's something about your grtificialities that appeals to what's left of the wreck of him— | perhaps—" Cherry closed her ears to the fur- ther brutality, between anguish and despair. Her mother did not move. The sound of her father's words grew slower, poised on the edge of a death- 1y silence. She saw him start and fall upon his cane as his gaze shot past her mother to a figure that had entered the hallway and stood outside the door in the shadow. It was Bob. He was gray—haggard and his hair and clothes were disor- dered. Cherry called his name and would have rushed to him, but her father caught her by the arm as Alicia, startled, rose and faced him. “Muzzy, I've got to go away sud- denly,” said the boy. “I came to get | some clothes—" “Bob!" “Silence!” The voice of the head of the House of Mohun dominated—mas- tered them. Bob Mohun, blinking foolishly, stepped back as his father stumbled a pace forward toward him, his eyes like hot coals, his face writh ing as though a hundred devils were working at it. He stretched out an accusing arm, which ended by groping aimlessly in space, a physical, a spir- itual groping upward as though for freedom. “You—you!" he thundered. “You dare! You think you can wheedle —By BUD FISHER. LISTEN: WHY SHould' I GGT A Round TRI® TiCkeT WHEN T'm ALRGADY HERE? ANSWER Mme THAT! money out of your mother or her friends to help you” He turned to his wife and daughter. “Well, I for- bid it! D'ye hear? Not a dollar— even if I had {t. You'll take your punishment like a man—like I took mine. I may have been a fool, but there's no man on earth who can say I was ever in a questionable transac- tion. “I played the game fair. You didn't get that streak of yellow from my blood—from my example.” He paused in a brief, terrible effort to regain his breath. “You! My son. Forger! Thief! You're not my son. Il have none of you. Go! Leave the house! D'ye hear? .Go!" He tried to go on, but no words came—only a strange distortion of his purpling face. And even as Cherry ran toward him he tottered— suspended in the air like a dynamited factory chimney. She caught at him, and as he fell he dragged her down with him. “Dad!” she whispered in horror, and then, “Dad! she screamed. For dimly, somewhere in the back of her mind,” came the remembrance of the doctor's phrase. No worry, mind! %;’:rvglhe second stroke you have to New . Life. For three weeks Cherry had been constantly in the thoughts of David Sangree. He had gone to the house as soon as he had heard of her fa- ther's death ‘Genie was with her, Quietly cheerful and sympathetic, and ready to help her in her few melan- choly preparations. There was noth- ing, it seems, that David could do; for the affairs of the household were in charge of John Barnett. It was! from ‘Genie that he learned briefly of the facts, as far as she knew them, which had led to_lMohun's death— from Barnett of Mrs. Mohun's de- pendence upon John Chichester, who had taken Bob's affair in hand at her request and kept the facts out of the newspapers. It was obvious that pow- erful influences had operated to spare the boy and reimburse the firm of Brown & Pritchard, which, as David later heard from Lycett, declined to prosecute. Bob Mohun, now con- science-stricken and terrified, had been sent out of town. It seerned to David that Cherry had agreed to all of these thingw because she possessed no longer any power of ! iniative She seemed stunned by the| repeated blows, and, when he €poke 0 her of other things, she listened to | him, but with a distant gaze, as| though ghe were trying to pierce some impenetrable veil, to find the answer to some question to which there was no answer. He did not learn until later of the alienation of mother and daughter, nor of its cause. But the continued cy of John Chich isits e celerity with whi un- fortunate affair had been arranged left no room for doubt as to the real nature of their relations. Chi hester's manner to Sangree when they met was now extremely cordial, an attitude which Sangree returned, | as he had always done, with a casual air of good breeding. But he had| never liked Chichester, and made no effort to conciliate him, reflecting per- haps even a slight air of resentment which he had absorbed from Cherry ‘Genfe came with an invitation from Mrs. Gartley to spend a few weeks at her country place, Walhalla, up the Hudson, and Cherry, glad of the op- portunity for a rest and change of thoughts, accepted. There was noth. ing to keep her in the house in 1524 street. 1t was no longer a home. It was just a house. Her plans were agreeable to her mother, who imme- diately accepted an invitation of Mrs Pennington to spend a month on Long slan Sangree went on with his work, still thinking of Cherry. The Gartlev's in- vited him to Walhalla for the week- ends and he saw that the change of 'wcene had benefited her. She w still rather quiet. but a color had ecome | |back into her cheeks and she gave | him a welcome which left no doubt as | to the warmth of her friendship. She | wanted to go to work at the univer- | v at once. but David agreed with enie that another week at Walhalla was what Cherry needed most David worked hard, but at odd mo- ments he found himself relaxing in his chair, hie papers before him, his gaze on vacancy, thinking of Cherry Should he tell Her how things were with him? He knew that she was greatly changed from the flamboyant creature of his first acquaintance; that Bruce Cowan Dicky Wilber- force had passed rather obtrusively from the field of her sentimental v jon (for she had laughingly described her disillusionments); that in the rig- ors of the game of life which they had frequently discussed, she had found herself at last, a woman grown, aware of the lesser hypocrisies, but still loyal to herself and full of faith in ideals which had persisted in spite of influences which might easily have destroyed them. The material rec i i i Open Toni Iam prebared to o'clock on Saturday n the people who are hours. Store hours other and close 8 p.m. Sunday Star. Between Star Bldg. and Raleigh Hotel ' ‘(Formerly Raleigh” Haberdasher) according to a report {in the | The court held (TRAVELERS' AID TOENLARGE STAFF Rush of Work at Union Sta- tion Looked for During Shrine Week. Influx of visitors in June during the convention of the Mystic Shrin i8 expected to swamp the Travelers’ Aid headquarters at Union Station to jsuch an extent that plans are un- der way to enlarge the staff. The headquarters has experienced trebling of its duties during the past six weeks, with the advent of the spring and summer touring seaso: by Mrs. Mary C. Hobday, station supervisor. This 15 indicative of what the Traveler: Aid workers may have to contend with when this normal increase is bolstered by the extraordinary con- dition presented with the staging of the Shriners’ meet. Maintained by Citizens. “The work of the Travelers' Aid Society is maintained by the volun- tary_contribution of the citizens of ‘Washington,” said C. Moses, chair- man of the executive board, today. “We realize the need of more work- ers, but these cannot be supplied until we have more money. Right now we are in need of funds for current expenses and for necessities that will soon be imperative. We should have at least $12,000 for the year. “The Shrine convention will bring thousands and thousands of visitors on this occasion who will appeal to the Traveler: Ald. We must meet the emergency in some way, but w will be more able to do so and better equipped if we have sufficient! unds. Plans are under way for the annual nvention tional Travelers’ Aid Society in Washington the latter part of May. DEMURRER IS SUSTAINED. 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