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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON " FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 6, 1923 IucikmI nil RicDt Monday bf ! THE STATESMAN 1'CBLISHINO COMPANY ." 2 15 S. Commercial St., Salem. Oregon (Portland Of fife. 723 l;uad or Trade Building. Phone Beacon 1193) " MKi lJKp"irTIIK ASSOCIATKI PRESS - , . 1 The Asaoc-iaUd t'reaa la exclusively entitled to the use for publi cation of all ncs diaatches credited to It or not otherwise credited ta this paper and also the local news published herein. ' It. J. Hendricks - - - ! - -Stephen A. Stone - - - j i- - Frank Jaskoski j - - - - - - i TELEPHONES: Business Office - -I " - - Circulation Office - - ' -. Society Editor - - - -.Job Department - : - - Entered at the Poatoffice In Salem, SALEM PEOPLE ' - The recent newspaper, attacks on the Salem Deaconess hospital have caused, deep concern among the people of the Mennonite faith in the Salem , district ; and now they are beginning to feel the effects of it from adjoining states, whither the report of the attacks has gone, and the concern is spreading to the entire membership throughout the United States. - .. ; ;"-'; :')' Many letters of inquiry are being received, and men of the Mennonite faith have traveled to Salem to make inquiry from away up in the state of Washington, i !A prominent member was here July 4th, brought by the newspaper scare , heads, from above Seattle. I V . , ; I ; The people of the Mennonite faith have been coming to j the Salem district in numbers for several years, and the Deaconess hospital has been the rallying point for them, j . Now these local Mennonites fear that these newspaper attacks may turn their people away f 5 That they will be led to believe that the people of Salem are unfriendly to them; that they are not wanted here and j, they will not come to a country where they are' not' wanted, f" The Mennonites are good citizens-- . " j ; i They are law abiding I ' j ' They are honest and hard working; mostly working on i the land and owning it. ' 1 . ' ' . j j " They hold some religious beliefs peculiar to themselves ; believe in non resistance of violence; they "swear not at all;" t;Jthey accept -no public office except in the management of schools; they believe in the ceremonial washing of feefc! Bat they believe in paying their debts and in doing good ' to even their enemies . n ! They turn the other cheek ; i , . And they speak no ill even of those who revile them and despitef ully use them. - . rl ; ? , f We cah scarcely get too many of these people here in the Salem district. They are the hewers of wood and the drawers of water and the pickers of fruit and the growers of crops. 1 ; ? . r : J H -t ;v l i ; : : ? j ; " ; ; -: ;v - ' Something ought to be done to show these Mennonites who live here and who, are thinking of coming to live here that the people of Salem are not against them; that they have ' nd sympathy for reckless 'newspaper attacks j upon them ; that they have f eelings of disgust for such reckless attacks ' "-And that Mennonites are welcome here- r Welcome to stay among us, and welcome to come in . larger numbers and make their: homes and build up their fortunes among us, . with every assurance that they may . reside here in peace and security. v ' -,s- j A less sensitive people would need no such assurance. People accustomed to the antics of yellow newspapers would not think of being frightened by "such frothings, any more than they would mind the passing of a light summer cloud, or the scent from a polecat's nest. ,1 -. . . But the Mennonites are a different people. They; are sensitive. They crave peace. They want quiet: They ayoid quarrels. They shun trouble. ? ; I . , . Now, the above is the situation f 'A j : i - And the writer commends the matter to the good people of Salem, with. a craving for some suggestion or some action that will reassure these good people. The danger of losing a large' number of desirable settlers is not imaginary. It is real. And the Salem district cannot afford to lose them. A SCURVY Execrable sportsmanship on the part ! of Dempsey and his Shylock-Berkshire manager Kearns caused the manage ment of the Shelby fight to Ipse half a million dollars; and left a taste in the mouths of decent sportsmen that soap won't wash out. They sat : back and yelled like a fool that' sits outside a bank and screams "This bank is rotten! It's going busted!" - No bank in the world could stand such a strain, and still be investing its money; for even the sober depositor can't help being influenced by such a poisonous tale, and he will stop his new deposits, if indeed he doesn't withdraw his -old. The Kearns-Dempsey combination broke the game sports who "were trying to finance the fight; it would have gone over big, if they'd only shut their raucous mouths, and let the promoters. carry on the business. ! ( ' : Prize fighting isn't a high class game at the best, though there are gentlemen and sportsmen in it. But the sooner the world drops the Kearns-Dempsey, brand of greedy grabbers and draft operators, and devotes its yearnings to pugs it can really enjoy, the better. , . ! '. There is one more big fight coming i along next week, between Jess Willard and the Argentine Louis Angel Firpo. Firpo, is still. green, but a giant in massive strength; and Willard.f the nan mountain, from whom Dempsey took the championship four years ago, is today believed by many good judges to be superior to Dempsey. The American pub lic should either spew the whole Kearns-Dempsey mess out of its agonized stomach, or else demand that he fight the win ner of this match for" a respectable purse it is a crime to pay one-half the Shelby fight purse to any such outfit. If he fights, it is a common belief that he will lose; if he doesn't, the New York law, ol deposing the champ because of his running out of the game, is' a Solomonic provision for slack ing warriors. . r v- 'irl- y :r After which dissertation on prize fights. The Statesman is ready to talk loganberries and plain Poland China hogs and other more agreeable subjects, f II" President Harding 'and party will soon be "mushing if In Al aska; ";:-v.'i : . t ' HenrJ Ford says he does not want to be president. "Well, let Henry haTe his way. Exchange. The loganberry industry is. not going to die. It is going to be 1 FUTURE DATES Jun SO ta Jnlr 9 Aaonsl eoaTcntino l ; ChrUti.ii hrea at Tnrter. T l iuly 14, Saturday Spnih t American war Veteran eoaveatioa at Albany. Antrtst lrt 19 Annual enctmpmact ( . -r P'-onta' at 'Caeadiav . I,;. -- f HiJii , r ataUT fair. - - : - Manager jj Managing Editor Manager Job Dept. 23 683 108 583 Oregon, as second class matter. NOT TO BLAME CROWD stabilized, and then it will keep going and growing. There will then be an end to Che crisis per iods In the! Industry. . The Statesman of Thursday next. will prove that the Salem district Is the best : swine country on earth. Helpful suggestions along this line are invited. , It you have a suggestion, it may do worm a great deal to this section. It is your patriotic duty to give publicity.;. :- c l'A't " It Soma ofitliA hr htialneaa mon'helones to the eovernment and of Portland are beginning to real-j ize that this Is the Hme to.com- mence- the full "development, of the linen Industry In Oregon. If they will act on this idea, it will take only a short time to. get to going; at full speed. , Then there will be more linen millionaires In Oregon than any other kind. The industry is capable of turning $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 ! a year , annually to the pockets of the people of this state, and do ing it from the products of a com paratively small acreage of Wil lamette valley land.;. It can be done with the products of land now i Idle or fallow. 1 1 What has become of the old fashioned "floating Island" pud ding and the old-fashioned wom an .who used Jo make It? Los Angeles Times. Don't know how It Is: down at Los Angeles, but up here; in Salem all the young worn en know how to make that kind of pudding, and many other kinds as good or better according ,; t'o your taste. - Our grandmothers were good cooks; so were our mothers. But 1 our wives - and daughters are still better cooks. At least, that is the way it is In this' part of Oregon.' And likely the same thing holds true in most other .parts of the United States, if not in southern California. , ; AN AMAZING SUCCESS What President Harding has done In the way of reducing the cost of government has something of the spell of the miraculous about it. It is like a day dream come trae, the unbelievable sud denly become credible. ? ' Facts do not astonish us when we gradually become , used : to them. But let us go back to the thick gloom of Secretary Hous ton's prognastications In the last year of the Wilson administra tion. The secretary almose de spaired of the government's sol vency when he thought of the huge refundings looming ahead in 1922 and 1923 and saw himself obliged to transmit to congress es timates of government expendi tures running up toward $6,000,- 00,000 annually. The treasury has redeemed and refunded its floating and matur ing debt without inconvenience. The federal scale of expenditures has been cut from $6,000,000,000 to $3,000,000,000. Taxation has been reduced. A . budget system has been applied Which not only holds estimates and appropria tions to a rational level, but puts it In the power. of the administra tion to make retrenchments even after appropriations have been granted. s fiscally speaking, the govern ment has ceased to blunder along at sixes and sevens. It has be come a taut business machine, run on business " principles, eacer to give a maximum of service for each dollar which It costs the tax payer. The marvel accomplished here Is not a mechanical one only. It embraces a changed mental point of view. The will to save and. the delight in saving have, for the first time In the memory of most, of us, been militantly and triumphantly manifest at Wash ington.;'"' increased receipts have helped to bring about this extraordinary reversal. But, In addition, there has been an actual reduction of expenditures of government of $256,000,000. Next year the same process win continue. : , People are supposed not to be greatly moved by the prosaic ac hievements of government fin ance. -Yet these achievements af fect everybody. Their benefit is diffused to every nook and corner of the country. They constitute a wholly constructive and benevo lent statesmanship. And no pres ident has shown more seal or done more in this field than Mr. Harding, whose success as a bud get maker, an economist and a trustee of our national resources must fill a'ny open-minded obser ver with, admiration. QUEEN OP THE AIR If England insists upon re maining mistress of the seas France will be queen of the air. The French republic Is making greater progress in aviation than any other country and the use of planes in military service is be ing widely .extended. The gov ernment has voted" something like $50,000,000 as an-aerial budget. Great Britain is expending $55, 000,000. The United States has appropriated $30,000,000, but the money in France will go many times as far as the expenditures in other lands. France now has many more planes In commercial use than may be found in; Amer ica and there is a national de termination ; on the part of the people there to assume command of the heavens. They are going to keep ahead of the Germans in that respect as a measure of safe ty. The next hostile Zeppelin that invades the French air will last about ten seconds. FINDING MINERVA They are always digging. up something out of the past. Some excavators at work near the mouth of the Tiber brought to light a huge statue of Minerva, carved in some unusual and beau tiful alabaster. The goddess stands some ten feet high and is j de cidedly Impressive..' Under the Roman law governing, discoveries of this kind . half of the treasure the. other half to the owner of the Jind"VorijhIcnt It; Is found, The Question .now Ii to. make a NOW SHOWING 2 uf.-' LEATR1CE JOT JND IZWIS STONE YOU CJtnf POOL YOlft WIFE A proper division of Minerva. The Romans want the head, but the discoverer is not to be satisfied with the legs. The owner is said to have offered to split the god dess, but it is thought that an arrangement will be made where by a cash equivalent will be de termined ; for half the lady and the government will be able to keep her Intact. . . WALTER W. HEAD, V. P. AM ? ERICAX BANKERS' ASSN. I "There are some who favor government ownership not be cause they seek to. solve the rail' road problem, but because they think it will be a first step to ward "government . ownership of all industry, toward socialism, communism, or bolshevism. With these there is little room for rea soned argument. Their funda mental ideals are entirely differ ent from those upon which our whole structure of industry and government Is based. Those who prefer steady progress toward f goal attainable in more or less certain degree, in proportion' to what one contributes to the ad vancement of society, will not fa vor such a program ; those who prefer a rough and tumble ''fight, without rules, with might de throning right, with chaos tho goal, will not accept reason In any case." NO CHANCE FOR WAR t If, there must ever be another war President Harding has ' in mind that everybody will be draft ed. Capital will be drawn to the last dollar and labor will be re quired to give its last ounce of muscle. ; Men and women alike will be compelled to give the best service of which they are capable in whatever field they 'may be assigned. There will be no pro fitering because there will be but one treasury and that will be the strong box of the nation. -If the president - keeps on talking like that one can se that there' will be no war. Declarations like that will knock all the war hints out of the human mind. - THE WORLD COURT There seems to be a question as to the manner in which the World Court would perpetuate , Itself Jf It was freed of all connection with the League of Nations. Some one suggests this: "How! would It do to have the Democratic and Republican national committees split the appointments' between them fifty-fifty? That; is about the way the politicians settle these matters." I MILEAGE OP FEDERAL AID ROADS' COMPLETED Up to July 1, 1923, there were 539 : miles of federal aid post roads completed in the . State of Oregon, according to the local off ice of the bureau of public roads. United States department of ag riculture. The total final cost of these projects amounted to $10, 387,532.84, which Includes $4, 819,105.70 of federal aid. The state of Oregon supplied the bal ance of the funds. The following types of roads are . Included in these figures: .Crushed rock or gravel surfacing, 326 miles; pav ing. 109 miles; and grading only 104 miles. This .539 miles repre sents the completed portion of the proposed federal aid highway system pf the state of Oregon, re cently approved by the secretary of agriculture. The. total length of this proposed system Is 2.814 miles. I STATE STANDARDIZATION . .. . . : : - . The purchasing agents of '26 States are considering a sugges tion from Secretary of Commerce Hoover that specifications ; be standardized for all purchases by federal and local governments. It Is declared' that such standardiza tion would eliminate waste, re duce prices, and expediate manu facture. Heretofore Mr. Hoover has applied the same' idea to spe cific industries, notably the lum- , ber business in. which there was a great diversity of shapes ' and sizes. The adoption of standards I is the secret of success of many : private enterprises, and ought to i bring many, economies if applied i to government operation. ; ' j;'; ' M TtfE PARAMOUNT PICTURE) CEOflCE M ELFOR.D PRODUetlQtf' GOLD STOCKS We heaf a great deal of the im mense stock of gold in the United States and its menace to our trade relations with the rest of the world. Last reports put the to tal at about $4,000,000,000. But the stock lot gold in India alone amounts to more than $2,500, 000,000, and the flow of gold to that country is causing more con cern among many people than the abundance of United States. the metal in . the r Adele Garrison's New .Phase of BEVELATIONS OF A WIFE CHAPTER NO. 346' WHAT MISS FOSTER SU GGEST- ED TO DICKY I never have made an airplane ascent, but I am sure I experien ced all the mental sensations of a fall from one when I heard the voice of Miss Foster I recognized it i Instantly calling my name : to Dr. Pettit, and realized that the two- were the occupants of the motor car which had swung Jin behind us at the moonlit beach. Enthralled by the beauty of the ocean gleaming In the light of the full moon, thrilled by the prospect of la ' romantic stroll with Dicky down the sands, I could have shrieked in j hysterical dismay at this interruption, of all 6ther3. "For I do not think, there any man of his acquaintance j whom Dicky detests -more thoroughly that- he "does the young physician who has. so often and so strangely entered into our lives. With less reason for his jealous dislike than he has for' a similar feeling directed against either Maj. Grant land or Allen Drake, he neverthe less is" so vicious in his feeling toward the physician that he finds it hard to ,be barely civil with him while I know that he oftn forgets his j ridiculous jealously of the other two men in genuine admir ation and liking for the charm and virility of their personalities. My golden moment was Gpolled Irretrievably. This j was the thought uppermost in my mind as I saw pr. Pettit assist Miss Foster from his car, and knew that in another second 'I must wreath! my lips in - a hyprocritlcal smile of welcome. An Audacious Speech. 'WhaU the devil," Dicky grow led under bis breath, and I real ized that: for him also jtbe magic of the evening had, slipped away, vanished with this unwelcome in trusion .f- 'j" There was no room in Miss Fos ter's mind, evidently, fqr any sus picion Hhat she was not aa wel come as the flowers in May. The lilt of the old refrain actually hummed itself in my ears as she rushed' across to me. . 1 "Oh; Mrs. Graham, I am eo de lighted!" she carolled. "I. was wondering when I'd meet you again. ? I positively fell in love L Broken Out Skin and Itching j Eczema Helped Over Night v For; unsightly skin eruptions, rash or blotches on face, neck, arms or body, you do not have to wilt for relief from torture or embarrassment, declares a noted rkln specialist. Apply a little Mentho-Sulphitr and improvement f.hows next day. i I Because of its germ destroying nropei-tles. nothing has eer, been found to .take the place of thl3 sulrhnr preparation, j The mo ment Jyou apply tt,' healing begins. Only those who have had un is'ghtry skin troubles can know the delight this Mentho-Sulphur brings.' Even fiery, itching ec zema Is dried right up Get : a small .Jar of Rowles Mentho-ulphu,r from any good tike cold druggist and nse It cream. -Adr. HOLDING A HUSBAND ES TO HEAL YOUR SKI with' you the other day, and I've been dinging Dr. Pettit to bring me over to see you. , But I think he must be in love with you him self,' and resents any one else but ting In, ! for he's been positively grouchy at the proposition." v...!: .v- , i ' - -: .... "One Never Can Tell" I gasped at the audacity of this speech knowing that both Dicky and Dr. Pettit for widely cifferent reasons were Inwardly raglng--and wondering wildly how I should answer It. But I had for gotten Miss Foster's: infinite, ca pacity for speech." There was .no need for any one else to say any thing when she was within talk ing distance. ."Isn't' this a perfectly heavenly night?" She cast a speculative glance at Dicky as she spoke. I promptly took the ,cue and murmured the conventional in troduction. Dicky bowed with the grace which is always his, and be gave her the smile which any; pretty woman, receives from hinr; I saw her look at him more ifH tently, and knew that with the unconscious predatory instinct of her type she was mentally label ling him as distinctly desirable. : i"I supposed, of course, you were Mr. Graham," she said, ad dressing Dicky directly. I guess ed that this was one of her little ways, forgetting all feminine spec tators when any fascinating man wag in sight. "But one never can tell, can one?" She gave him a provocative little upward glance, and I real ized anew that she was the type of girl who must try her skill of fascination upon every desirable man, whether he be benedict or bachelor. "No," Dicky responded, r but one can guess." He smiled back at her, and I saw that he was dis tinctly interested in her type. "Be sure you guess right about me," she retorted, then added swiftly, naively: "But I've been wondering a lot about you. I felt you ought to be terribly stun ning to match Mrs. Graham she's a raving beauty if anybody should happen, to ask you but some times, you know, the prettiest women do marry the ugliest men, and when I asked Dr. Pettit he turned sulky and wouldn't tell me anything about you, except that THINGS I TO DO J The Copyright, 1023, Associated Editors. OfllX oBNO IHUSIC Answers to To-day's Puzztes 1. The word-square Is: "Grab, race, ache, beet." 2. Behead "eeat" and you have "eat." 3. The Canadian city Is Quebec. 4. The movie, actress Is Bebe Daniels.- ? IT'S DONE EVERY DAY Big Boy: "Do yon see this mus cle? I can stop a train with that right arm." Admirer: "Gee, some athlete." Big Boy "No, I'm an engineer." Answer to today's riddle: Be cause its hours are numbered. SEEMS REASONABLE "I see they called: the .baseball game yesterday on account ot wet grounds." "Perhaps that . was the pnly grounds they could call It on," AND HE DID ."I think I'll etick around a whiW said the fly as he strolled over the flypaper." , THE SHORT STORY, JR. I ; BEFORE AND AFTER Helen so longed to bo fat "Chnbby," and "plump.'V and all tliat While Gladys would, wall, .4 . ."To bo thin as a rail Vi glve iy best dress and my ' liat!" Helen and Gladys were chums. You never saw one without the other. They were' so different that they were good friends. The other girls called them "before and after." They, called them that when they were not around.. They had soon 'learned that both Helen and Gladys were very sensitive to teasing on that subject. - Their younger brothers were the only persona that had no regard for their feelings. ' yon were 'good looking enough!' " She mimicked ' the physician's grave manner of speech 'perfectly, throwing him a tantalizing look over her shpulder as she did so. If she had expected him to smile she must have been disappoint ed, for be was standing silent, stern, his eyes resting upon no one in particular. ; "Upon behalf ol . my wife I thank you," Dicky replied with a grandiose bow. "But I am con Guaranteed to End . , . - . Falling Hair and Baldness 'or vour money refunded l , '.,TlimS' m - m Science dlacovara moat baU dni da to SimpI Infection (Sebum). Now quickly over comes h. Hair actually grow on SI Beads m 100. by tost! Written Guarantee td Gixw Hair! Under Our 3-Bottle Treatment Plan Thl la direct offer t grow hair on roar baad. Am ofTar backed by-written ffvarantae, lenad br your own drurslat. It wi (all. It eoata you nothlna. Scicnca haa racantly mad amaxlor dlacov ertea. It haa learned that hair root aeldom die. They can bo revived. Wo hare proved thia by growing new hair on tl heada In In moat caaea highest authorltlea approve thla new way. ... Baldneaa la not a dlaeaee. 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Oo today, ask him for Van Emm Scaip Mseeage on our J-boitie treatment plan. The guarantee will accompany It. If the treatment faiia your money hack. ; . VAN ESS LABORATORIES 5007 Lake Park Avenue, CUehgo, QL Riget Little Paper in tbe World i Peter Puzzle Says t I ' You can form a word-square by rearranging the following groups of letters to form words and plac ing them In the right order: Garb, hace, acre, btee. ' If you behead the name of a place to rest you will have some thing you do three times a day. - If you take one-half of each of the following , words you can ar range the letters to form the name of a Canadian city: bear, cent, quit. :. ; You can rearrange the letters In, the following words to form the name of a popular movie actress: bees, bean, lid. . ' . ; (The answers will be found else where on , this page.) ' WEIGHTY SIATTER "What's that awful noise up stairs?": '-, . .. . : -'. "Just Pa , dragging his heavy underwear across the floor." '. Piffles Says "Most boys think it's all right to have just one vacation lasting from January 1 to December 1," ; More than . anything else in the world, Helen wanted to get fat. Gladys wanted, just as eagerly, to get. thin. : They had stopped in at Helen's on their way home from school one day and - were looking at a . magazine. "Oh, look," Gladys cried, "it tells how you can lose 20 pounds In a month!" - I "Well, you don't think I'm in terested in that, do you?" Helen sniffed. - 'Id be more interested In knowing how to gain 20 pounds a month." Gladys was not listen ing. She was reading on In the advertisement'. "Is; says It makes you weigh just what you should. Maybe you can gain by the same method. Yes, here it tells of a woman who. gained -10. pounds In 20. days' V'-'Vr f - ' ; v Helen . prickeVl up her fars. Where?" she cried.- "Let me see It." The girls .pored over the ad vertisement. Alter they had both read every word on the page they looked at each other with shin ing eyes. .. "Let's do it!" they cried. "We can go together and buy the course." "It will take air the money I have,! Gladys sighed, "but If I lose a pound lte.wlU.be worth It, The lessons came and . Helen aad . Gladys set to. work evefr sumed with curiosity. . May I not know i what your verdict Is about me? Do I match?" . she looked at him critically. "I really" can't tell without care ful consideration," she said. "Sup pose we all stroll down the beach in the moonlight, then I can "study the lighting effects properly. And I know Dr. Pettit must be dying to talk-to Mrs.' Graham, they're such old and dear friends." " (To .be continued.) , Costs Nothing ; TJaleee we .crew hair. The Van Eaa l-bottle treatment I abeolutely guar anteed.Ton are the sole Judf e. The warrtit Is signed by year own drngglet. All we require la bla sig nature ahowlagyou have purchnsed . a ninety-day treat ment. It It falla, -we refund your .money. Hence, you assume no risk making thla teat. DAXIEI, J. FRY j DruKKlat J. C. PERRY - Drujc Btore and othr leading Ding Stores LOADS S OF, FUN I Edited by John M. Miller. Bob, a London Fire Hound Leaping flames, smoke-filled rooms and falling, walls hold no terrors for. Bob, the famous Lon don fire dog. When the fire calls come in af the station, Bob is the first to leap to his place on the ladder truck. He can hardly wait to get to the fire and as he watch es the firemen put up the ladders at the burning building he barks impatiently and seems, to say: "Hurry up, there's no telling how many people I'll have to save." When the ladder Is adjusted, Bob climbs np and plunges into the imoke, searching for any trapped victims. Into all the rooms he goes(, nose close to the floor. Sometimes sparks fall on him and burn him, but he does not st'op. When Bob finds any one trapped or . overcome, he makes his way back to the street and with a few sharp barks tells the firemen that he will Jead them to the rescue. The firemen follow him and Bob superintends the affair. lie Is re sponsible for 12 rescues. Sometimes Bob gets trapped In a burning building, and when this happens he makes his way to a window and barks until the fire men, hold the life net for him to jump into. Bob will jump from a fourth story window Into the net without any fear. ; Randy Riddle Says : . r ujr is Kiut& Ulnars 1U great danger?" morning to gain and reduce. Their younger brothers seemed to take a lot of interest. In the pro cess, , "Why don't you get weigh ed and see what effect It's hav ing?" they asked every day. But the girls had made up-their minds that they would wait week before getting weighed. Finally, when, the week .was cup, the .- boys Insisted upon : tagging along to the grocery scales, to see for themselves. The girls were heart-broken. Gladys, who already- weighed .130, had gained five pounds, and Helen,- who wanted to gain, had lost four! "How did you work it?" gig gled Gladys little brother, after the girls had gone off home. "I just stuck my toe on .the scales when Gladys wasn't looking." "Oh, I .set the scales to weigh light' in the first place. I knaw you'd put on enough to make up for it." - , i km I i