Dayton tribune., June 01, 1923, Image 4

Miss Lulu Bett
New Highway Bridge for the Hudson River
By ZONA GALE
Copyright by D. Appleton A Company
nice to them," she thought now, sit-
"Me?" said Lulu. “Oh, no."
ting by the kitchen window, adult yet
“Why not?"
Cinderella.
“Oh, I haven't fam to a picnic sine«
®TNOPSI^.—General factotum in
She thought that some one would I
the > cure of her sister In*, wife of
can
remember."
come
for her—her mother or even
Herbert Deacon, in the «mall town
“Rut why not?"
Ina. Perhaps they
M W arbleton. Lulu Bett leads a
_ would send M<»-
“<)h I never think of such a thing.
dull, cramped existence, with whi h
nona, She waited at first hopefully,
Mnlun vaited for the family t
•he Is constantly at enmity, though
then
resentfully. The gray ruin
apparently satisfied with her lot
8l*ak They did speak. Dwight said
wrapped
the
air.
10 Mr. Deacon comes Bobby Lar­
Lulu s a regular home body."
“Nobody cares what becomes of me
kin. recently graduated high-school
_ advanced
-------- kindly i with
youth, secretly enamored of Dea­
after they're fed." she thought, and _ And Ina
<
*
“
h us» Lulu, if you like.
con's elder daughter, Diana, an ap­
derived
nn
obscure
satisfaction
from
plicant for a ’•job" around the
said -------
Lulu. a,,
d
nd
flushed
flushed.
g"
| her phrasing, and thought It again.
Deacon house.
He is engaged
'Thank
you."
she
added, formally.
t
W
Ninian
Deacon
came
into
tht
Tne family is excited over the news
UÑbfRWQOO
Mrs Bett's voice shrilled I from with-
fe UNO8RWOOO
of an approaching visit from Dea­
kitchen.
X
n
the
house,
startlingly
close-just
con ■ brother Ninian, whom he had
Her first Impression was that hb
not seen for many years. Deacon
had come to see whether the dog had beyond the window blind, in fact:
jokes with Lulu, with subtle mean-
“Go on, Lulie. it'll do you good.
been fed.
>ng. concerning the coming meet­
-
ÜVÜXlïï» be7e” An,,,on* a Noa« “d Fort Clinton, connecting !>n tlm
•°U‘h °! Alh""z' wl" .....
"‘wn
lou mind me and go on.”
ing Lulu Is Interested and specu­
1
him," she said, and wished
lative. meanwhile watching with
?
V
‘
v'
Mld
Klnlan,
“
that's
what
I
of
I
eekaklli,
and
on
the
»Ht
with
the
state
highway
near
Bear
Mountain
inn
p
‘
”
1
r,,
"
d
*
n,,
rlh
that she had been busy when Ninian I
something like envy the boy-and-
say. lou hustle for your hut and you
entered.
kiri love-making of Bobby and Di­
come along."
ana. Unexpectedly. Ninian arrives.
“Mho, me?” he asked. “You did
hor the first time this course pre­
Ihus he becomes acquainted with
that all right. Say. why In time don't
IsUlu first and in a measure under-
sented
itself to Lulu as a possibility,
you come In the other room?"
stands her position in the house
bhe stared up at Ninian.
“Oh, I don’t know."
I" not dependent at nil upon the finding
To Lulu. Ninian la a much-traveled
"You can slip tm my linen duster,
' " ^l.*’ nel,her do L I’ve kept think­
n>an of the world, and even the
«11. He usually holds aome leases
•light Interest which he takes in
ing. w hy don't she come along.' Then over," Ina said graciously.
her Is appreciated, because it is
,h*’n high and
"Your
new
one?"
Dwight
incredu-
1
«">"e
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urns them Into the company for stock
•omething new In her life. And
about. “I come to help wipe dish^'
Ninian appears to like Lulu.
je aella the stock nnd get* the money.
...... "M. no"‘ lna
at the Idea.
Oh. she laughed so delicately 9
He may donate a little to the company
The
old
one."
delightfully, one wondered where she
for the sake of appearances as long as
They were having to watt for Di In
got It. “They're washed—" she caught
the suckers' are at the nibbling stage
any case—they always had to wait for
herself at “long ago."
W hen they swallow the h.mk, the com­
Di
—
and
at
last,
hardly
believing
in
“Well then, what are you doing
The words give no conception/of
pany for which he la trustee la taken
their effect, spoken thus. For there In here ?”
off his list of charities
“Resting."
Federal Trade Commission Is to the Circuit Court of Appeals of the About the first thing that a fraud fo^
Marbleton these words are not com­
“Rest In there. He bowed, crooked
monplace. In Warbleton. Europe Is
I nlted States. If (hat court confirms terlng trustee seeks to acquire Is a list
Trying to Guard Nation's Sav« the
he snfd—his Span­
never so casually sjioken of. “Take a . his
decision it becomes final. Most of of prospects. Practically every man
. arm. “Señora.
---- ” —
trip abroad” is the phrase, or “Go to ish matched his other assimilations of
them never appeal.
ings From Sharpers.
and every woman In the United States
Europe" at the very least, and both travel—“Señora, allow me."
Try Numerous Scheme*.
who has shown a dls|»osltlon to follow
Lulu rose. On his arm she entered
with empressement. Dwight had some­
The kinds of fraud practiced are as the lure of seductive advertisements Is
|
Have you ever been nicked by ' numerous as the Individuals engaged
where noted and deliberately picked the Parlor. Dwight was narrating nnd
on one or more “sucker lints." A par­
up that “other side" effect, and his did not observe that entrance. To the
• soma oil faker? What do you
and these are scattered from the new- ticular cotnpnny or n particular pro-
Ina knew this, and was proud. Her I lows it was sufficiently normal. But
think of the government's of-
«*t oil field at Smackover, Ark., back moter frequently buys names from
; fort« to protect the Mvinga of
through all the fields of Diulslana. other companies and other promoters.
covert glance about pensively covered lna looked up and said:
" ell!" ¡n two notes, descending
her soft triumph.
I yourself and your neighbor?
lexas, Oklahoma and wherever else It also happens, when a company goes
“•
the oil crnze hna gone. Most of them out of business, that Its only soluble
Mm. Bett, her arm still circling the curving.
Lulu did not look at her. Lulu sat
child Monona, now made her first ob­
«re promoters from New York. Chica­ asset Is thia list.
rocker. Her starched white
Washington.—The federal trade com­ go and other large cities. They have
servation.
In ths oil fields there are a number
mission is engaged In a war upon
“Pity not tn have went while the skirt, throwing her chaily In ugly
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— «>“• competition from the natives of of newspapers devoted to the oil ln-
Wallingfords of tho - world.
going was good,” she said, and said lines, revealed a peeping rim of white
-------- ] More than
"mnll towns In which they operate, tereatB. A lot of honest oil men ad-
thbr°
Her lace front wrinkled
no more.
j..i"*J Investigations of oil schemes have Now and then one of these novices de- vertlae In them, but bo do n lot of the
been made and each day adds its quota. ve'°I’a a «»ore alluring line thnn the other kind. They
Nobody knew quite what she meant, when she sat. and perpetually she ad­
tilled
justed ft. She curled her feet side-
The
schemers comprise ull types and 'e,‘‘r"n fnkers. Then there Is war. A streamers such ns these, only with
and everybody hoped for the best. But
the
wise beneath her chair, her long
the
victims
are
found
all
over
the
"
‘
««■
‘
holders'
protective
league
or
some-
Ina frowned. Mamma did these things
names are different :
wrists and veined hands lay along her
co“,dry-, u
‘J»1»« of «»• kind I. organized, not for
occasionally when there was company.
April 12th Dividend Day—Lucky
en.
reIati°n to her' She was
let, although publicity Is the only ,ho protection of the stockholders at Lankford 1'uys Off Again.”
and she dared.
She never sauced tense.
She rocked.
weapon at the command of the commie- an’ bu‘ ,o rut the throat of the rival
Uwtght In private. And it wasn’t fair
Iwo More Shark Gushers Crash_
When Dwight had finished his nar-
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sion. the
campaign . has . been successful promoter.
It wasn't fair—
Four Giant Wells In Ten Days.”
rat
o^
there
was
a
pause,
broken
at
in large measure. The commission can-
Every human emotion Is played upon
Abruptly Ninian rose and left the last by Mrs. Bett:
“The Viking Flood of Gusher Gold
room.
not send any man to Jail. It cannot by the promoters, all the way from su- Has Turned to a Tidal Wave and
“You tell that better than vou used
even assess a One. Its --------------
, rests I»er»*Itlon to reverence. One of the Those Who Hhnre It Must Act Now."
authority
to when you started In tellfn¿ it." she
<m
the construction of a slender clause I r®c«'t>y Investigated concerns was nut-
"Again I Pay—My Next Pay Off
The dishes were washed. Lulu had observed. “You got in some things I
in the
the i.„
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‘
in
law giving it ..
the
nominal ._______
power I , ' tiBg out ltB advertl|(lng OTW. the
May Be 1,000 Per Cent."
washed them at breakneck speed—she KJiefis you used to clean forget about
Iura xv F — __ ___ ___ .
to prevent unfair competition. It pro- ,ure nt a m°n who bears one of the
“Midway Between the Two Mightiest
could not, or would not, have told why. Monona, get off my rocker.”
ceeds on the theory that the man sell- n,o"‘ honored names In America. He Gushers on Earth." (But It does not
But no sooner were they finished and
Monona made a little whimpering
mg fraudulent stock Is competing un- I
represented ns being in complete say how far "between.")
set away than Lulu had been attacked sound, in pretense to tears. Ina said
fairly, and when It finds that an oil c,18rKe of Us affairs. When the In spec-
"Another Screaming. Howling, Roar-
by an unconquerable Inhibition. And
Darling—quiet ."’-chin a little Ufted'
stock promoter Is making fraudulent tor ot ,he commission Interviewed him Ing. Liquid Mass of Golden Fortunes
Instead of going to the parlor, she sat lower lip revealing lower teeth for
representations it issues an order he iound an ol<> m«n. far gone In for All Who Join Now.”
down by the kitchen window. She was the words completion; and she held
against him to "ceuse and desist" from
«nd poverty. “These are mighty
in her chaily gown, with her cameo
"Walker Won t Walt—Fvs Set a
the practice.
good men.” he told the Inspector Time Limit for Gushers."
pin and her string of coral.
The Hows were asking something “Look
Said Ninian, “Aren't
The promoter does not have to obey
kn,,w tha’ an old man's mlsfor- , “One Hundred Per Cent Cash Is My
Laughter from the parlor mingled about Mexico. Dwight was wondering
You Going?’’
“Me?" Said Lulu. the order. No penalty attaches If he ,une" “re not always of hla own mak-
First Dividend Announcement and You
“Oh, No."
with the laughter of Dl and Jenny up­ f it would let up raining at all. Di
violates It. But In about ninety-nine *n*‘ nnd ao “,ey P«y me $30 n month Can Get It If You Act nt once.”
stairs. Lulu was now rather shy of and Jenny came whispering into the
How the Plan Works.
DL A night or two before, coming roorm But all these distractions Nin­ her own motions. Lnln was running to cases of every hundred he stops his I J“"* ior coming down every day and
-X In n majority of cases the j ^^nlng my name to a few papers.”
There, In that last line. |A (he key­
make ready. Mrs. Betts hurried to operations.
home with “extra” cream, she had ian Deacon swept aside.
Numerous as the fraudulent schemes note. Most oil men. even the honest
help her. but she took down the wrong proceeding never gets to the stage of
gone round to the side door and had
“Miss Lulu.” he said, "I wanted vou
Mere publication
of nre> the commission believes that most ones, act on n hurry-up schedule. The
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come full upon Di and Bobby, seated to hear about my trip up the Amazon, things and they were both Irritated. Issuing an order. _____
notice that an Investigation will be of
depend for titelr success on the honest ones, however, usually are In no
on the steps. And Di was saying:
because I knew how inter ested you Lulu reappeared in the linen duster
to drive a operation of the Texas common law great hurry
and a wide hat. There had Been no mnde usually Is
’ sufficient
*
“Well, If I marry you, you've simply are In travels.”
_ about dividends and the
fraudulent operator out of baMaess. He . trust. In many
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advertisements ...
the of- fraudulent ones are. The schemes for
got to be a great man. I could never
He talked, according to his lights, time to “tighten up" her hair; she
niay get In again later under another flcer aPDear” “« "John Smith, Trustee," snaking an appearance of paying divi­
marry Just anybody. I'd smother."
about the Amazon. But the persod was flushed at the adventure; she had
name or move to greater fields, but rnre,y “William Brown, President." Un- dends are as numerous as those* for
Lulu had heard, stricken
She who most enjoyed the recital could never looked so well.
They started. Lulu, falling In with the particular fraud that he has been | der this system the trustee Is monarch getting names o0 the list. Frequently
passed them by, responding only faint­ not afterward have told two word]
Monona,
heard for the first time In (perpetrating comes to an end. The final I of his
h company. He makes the by laws. dividends are paid to a few stockhold-
ly to their greeting. DI was far less lh>a.
Lu,u kept the
denouncing
individual or
or And stockholders do not vote.
taken aback than Lulu.
ers only, those who live In the neigh­
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which she had taken at first, and she her life, the step of the pursuing male, order,
Three persons—In the case of the borhood where a stock salesman Is op.
Later Di had said to Lulu: “I s'pose dare not change. She saw the blooif choosing to walk beside her and the company as a fraud, disposes of a class
Inclined to resist, with the exception of fraudulent concerns, usually a man and crating. Sometimes, when a dividend
you heard what we were saying.”
n the veins of her hands and wanted little girl. Oh, would Ina like that?
a few old and hardened offenders.
his wife and one other person—go to appears absolutely necessary, part of
Lulu, much shaken, had withdrawn to hide them. She wondered if she And what did Lulu care what Ina
the office of the county clerk and file the money received from stock sales
Is Fragile Sword.
from the whole matter by a flat “no.” might fold her arms, or have one hand liked? Monona, making a silly, send-
It is a fragile sword with which the a "declaration of trust." That constl- is diverted to the dividend fund nnd
to support her chin, gave it all up and articulate observation, was enchanted
federal government has gone Into bat­ tutes the "underlying document’’ for paid out where It will do the most
to
have
Lulu
burst
into
laughter
and
sat motionless, save for the rocking
tle. Nobody knows better than the nil subsequent transactions. The share­ good.
Then she forgot everything. For squeeze her hand.
Di
contributed
her
bflght
presence
commission
that It ought to have a holder may think he has all the stlpula-
The man who sees the Jubilant ad­
the first time In years some one was
talking and looking not only at Ina and Bobby Larkin appeared from no- stronger weapon, but It uses what It tlons printed on his certificate, but vertisements nnd hears that hfs neigh­
and Dwight and their guests, but at where, running, with a gigantic bag has. “And," said one of the members, when the test comes he finds that he bor has received a fat dividend also Is
of fruit.
“It Is an Illustration of the queer fact must go to “the underlying document,” helped In various other ways to make
her.
"Builylujah I” he shouted, and Lulu that the weakest things In the world and this probably la in Corsicana up his mind. Probably he receives a
could have shouted with him.
are sometimes the strongest.
Who county, Texas, while the shareholder Is letter from some apparently disinter­
III.
She sought for some utterance. She knows that we cpuld do better, or even In Maine or Oregon.
ested person—who, however, has been
wanted to talk with Ninian.
as well, with a more rigid law?"
Trustee Is Whole Works.
seen by the promoter—advising him to
June.
Of the 2,000 Investigations those
‘ I do hope we’ve brought sand-
On a June morning Dwight Herbert
After the declaration of trust Is filed buy stock. He even may be led to be­
Deacon looked at the sky, and said l wlc^es enough,” was all that she could which went to the final stage of orders nbnoet anything appears to be possible. lieve that the government has under­
get to say.
to "cease and desist” make only a com­
Die trustee," said a member of the written the stock.
with his manner of originating It-
They chose n spot, that 1s to say, fortable handful of manuscript Every commission, "may issue $1,000.000 of
“How about a picnic this after­
Probably he receives the report of
Dwight Herbert chose a spot, across proceeding begins with a complaint stock, put $1 in the treasury and the n “famous geologist,” containing as­
noon?”
Ina. with her blank, upward look the river and up the shore where from some one who thinks he has been rest in hfs pocket. He may sell to his surance that oil will be s’ruck In great
there was at that season a strip of defrauded. The commission makes an new company the assets, Including the quantities. One of these geologists
exclaimed: "Today?"
"First class day, It looks like to warm beach. Dwight Herbert declared Investigation. An Inspector may be sent sucker list,’ of any defunct company the commission found, has spent all of
me.”
himself the builder of Incomparable to the scene of operations. Four of ne may have been connected with. He his active life behind a barber’s chair
Come to think of It, Ina didn't know fires, and made a bad smudge. Nin­ them give full time to this work, and may transfer funds from one company
On the other hand, everything that Is
that there was anything to prevent, ian, who was a camper neither by birth others are switched to it upon occasion. to another. He may pay for practically said for a property may be absolutely
If
the
commission
has
reason
to
believe
nd of the stock with nn acre of land true, and yet the company represent­
but mercy, Herbert was so sudden nor by adoption, kept offering bright­
Lulu began to recite the resources of ly to help, could think of nothing to that nn unfair method of competition 100 miles from an oil field. It Is his ing Itself as the owner may own no
the house for a lunch. Meanwhile, do, and presently, bethinking himself has been used, it Issues a complaint stock and when he sells It, the money more than a 1 per cent Interest If
since the first mention of picnic, the of skipping stones, went nnd tried to which Is Immediately made public.
is his He never expects to strike oU oil Is struck In paying quantities some-
Most of the proceedings end there. It ♦ L
child Monona had been dancing stiffly skip them on the flowing river. Ina
by ’Ome luck rhanc«. he does body else gets 99 per cent of the pro-
about the room, knees stiff, elbows cut her hand opening the condensed 1s not always possible, however, to con­ strike it, he usually can keep the oil.
ceeds and the numerous stockholders
stiff, shoulder^ Immovable, her straight milk and was obliged to sit under a front the evildoer with even the suspi­
"In this fraudulent kind of company have a l per cent dividend among
cion
of
his
guilt.
The
deal
has
been
hair flapping about her face. The sad tree nnd nurse the wound. Monona
the trustee makes sure that he Is taken them. Usually It is not worth divid­
dance of the child who cannot dance spilled all the salt nnd sought diligent­ done and the doer very likely has care of out of the sale of the stock, and ing.—New York Times.
because she never has danced. Dl ly to recover It. So Lulu did nil the passed on to fresher pastures. He usu­
gave a conservative assent—she was work. As for Dl and Bobby, they had ally is the sort of man who can change
Earth’s Magnetism Is
at that age—and then took advantage taken the pall and gone for water, dis­ his name upon occasion without doing '
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of the family softness Incident to a couraging her to the point of tears violence to his conscience. He may bob
Dwindling, Say. Savant
Killed While Eating
guest and demanded that Bobby go Rut the two were gone for so long np again in a distant field, to be routed
too. Ina hesitated, partly because she that, on their return, Dwight was hun­ once more by another complaint.
Philadelphia.
—The earth's magnet­
Apple to Beat Doctor
And Instead of Going to the Parlor always hesitated, partly because she gry and cross and majestic.
For those who have the courage to
ism Is diminishing each year by one-
She Sat Down by the Kitchen Win- was tribal in the extreme. "Just our
face the matter out, there Is a public
thousandth part of Itself, Dr Louis A
Cincinnati.—A small piece of
dow.
hearing. The man cited has 40 days
lltt.e family and Uncle Ninian would
Bauer, a director of Carnegie fnstl*
an apple skin lodged in the
In which to answer the complaint. If
“While I’m here, I’m going to
have been so nice," she sighed, with
throat of William Koehler, fifty
Pbn' W“b'^'"’ “»'< ‘he American
liecause," she said to herself, "I
he does answer, the case goes to trial
her consent.
take you and Ina and Dwight
Philosophical society here. Dr Bauer
seven
years
old,
and
caused
hie
couldn't have heard right."
Witnesses are examined under oath
up to the city.”
death.
When, at six o’clock, Ina and Dwight
said
he was satisfied with the accuracy
But since then she had looked at Di
and the proceeding generally resembles
and Ninian assembled on the porch
of this conclusion which he had
Koehler
believed
In
the
adage
’
as if Dl were some one else. Had not
a trial In court. If, at the end of It
and Lulu came out with the basket, It
that an apple a day keeps the
ren«’hed after several months’ analysis
Lulu taught her to make buttonholes
(TO BE CONTINUED.»
the commission Is still of Its original
was seen that site was in a blue cot­
of the earth's magnetic field
doctor away,” and was eating hla
and to hem—oh, no! Lulu could not ton house gown.
Dr Bauer said his Went analysis
dally apple when he choked to
i ifty thousand tons of soap are used belief, the order to "cease and desist”
have heard properly.
death.
“Look here,” said Ninian, "aren't < every year by the power laundries In Is Issued.
tended to confirm the theory that the
"Everybody's got somebody to be you going?”
The defendant may take an appeal
। the United States.
matnetle «1, „
Mrth
swinging west and toward the equator.
"SEÑORA, ALLOW ME!"
1M rtM abut>
n-n