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Hatsred at the Postotflce In Salem,
APPRECIATES OUR PEOPLE'S CONFIDENCE
A few days ago there was handed tp The Statesman by
the agent of the Southern Pacific at Salem -a dispatch from
John M.' Scott, manager Of the Oregon lines'- asking that the
Salem representative of the company give to the press and
to the citizens of Salem generally the following message
received Vrom President Sproule, dated at " San Francisco,
August 14: y -: j 5 ;"' -' T, .' '-1 -
"It is, proper you should know that we expect ;
- the Interstate Commerce Commission will ; now
. grant for the Natron cut-off a certificate of public
. convenience and necessity, for which we made ap
plication .in anticipation of this favorable; decision, 1 .
- - and we are also taking steps to get the necessary
authority to go through the Indian lands. Chief
, ' Engineer Boschke has at once gone to work pre- '..
paring papers for bids to submit to contractors, so
that the, actual physical work" may begin; survey Sj
' parties having been in the field for several weeks
? past, as has been told you. All of this means that j
y there will be no delay in . proceeding with the work',
; j and after winter weather shall force us to stop, the
: , shut down - at such time will be only until ' next
spring weather permits us to resume it. J We wish . ..
the people of Oregon ;to know that the ; compahy ;
appreciates their confidence and we desire to con
tinue to prove worthy of it. ; f ; ' :
This expression -of appreciation, "arid these' assurances,
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will be received with grateful feelings by the people of the
JSalara district, arid of all of western Oregon south of Salem --
For our people Jiave j been with the' Southern Pacific
nana ?ers, almost "unanimously,- in their fight to 'retain con
trol of : the Oregon lines' and to prevent the uxucramblixigj-of
ths Southern Pacific properties in such a way as would have
rendered them powerless to be of great assistance in help
in f to develop the business of this part of Oregon, and - of
theTbig country in Jhe southeastern part of the stofetnafis
f:r trade purposes ribr&ri psrt of Californiilthan of Oregon.
I !c "hbers from that part of Oregon have often Temarked
thdt they never had much to do
they were sent to the Legislature, or to the penitentiary or
r lum for the insane, or the institution for the feeble
raided. : r- t , - i, -j-,, , .Ui i
i Itwmbefardifferchtsoon. : '
' i The Southern Pacific people have and will have a great
property in Oregon which they will be obliged to develop in
cr J" zr to get good returns from it I
i And in developing their great property they Will aid in
building up the country along their lines; , . . ; ; 1 , ; .,
" v The Southern' Pacific people,: through their, subsidiary
ccripanies, have had great plans for making Salem a ItenYral
chipping point. They own the Salem street railway lines,
cr.J they have maintained them well., They! have built the
Gc ;r line ; ' bought the Falls City line ; acquired the old
Oregon Pacific line. They, have an expensive right ofway
f rem Salem o 'Portland, purchased for an electric line, for
ths red carst' They have valuable terminal properties
m JSalem . : i-1.- - -- - i ,
i And. In' the "desire of the managers of the great Southern
Pc:ific properties to "continue to prove worthy" of the cp
f idarice of our people, ; it is more than likely that, in due
course, they will again turn their attention to Salem as a
point at which it will be worth while to center the future
vast freight and passenger business of the central Willamette
valley. This would be a powerful help in building here a big
Ccr and better city ; and it would result in giving a vast local
business to the Southern Pacific lines besides making more
certain an immense volume, of tonnage taking long hauls.
' No doubt the Southern Pacific people are keeping; watch
cf the solid growth of Salem and its surrounding territory,
end are aware of the possibilities of enormous growth. in a
hundred, yes in a thousand different ways. ; .
r J And they know of many ways in which they can be of
assistance in speeding up this growth, to the mutual advant-e-3
of the properties over which they exercise a trusteeship,
zr.Vol the people living here now and who: may ccpe here
to live and work in the future. j i; S -
. r.ixixa sAraM to tourists
The
Oregon Statesman haa
ttirted a very, profitable discus
sion, one that delighU our hearts.
It : U. 'IIow to Sell Salem" to the
Tourfota." It has not been an
easy job always to sell Salem to
its own ; people? but the Oregon
Ct -teaman Vhaa; heea- pounding
away at this for many years, with
3t!afactory results.. , However,:the
Hue haa come when all of us Jn
"turn must sell this city and this
vley to thi tourlsta.' V ?i ;
In the last dosen years tourist
travel has been revolutionized. In
tl i next dozen years the railways
wi;i handle mighty little tourist
tr vel. The automobile Is a aight
: Sag car.- It enables the tourist
' d where he pleases; when he
isea, and stay as Ions as' he
'res. - Favorable apota can be
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Oregon, as second class matter.
with Oregon excepting when I
but' an ugly spot is left with
hardly a thought. J ;
The secretary of state has called
attention to .the fact t'haC Salem
doea not have proper literature.
The' writer of this was in Eugene
a couple of weeks ago and was
loaded down with, most excellent
literature : from , that city. . Upon
returning to ; Salem, 'when we
asked the efficient secretary of
the Chamber bt Commerce. ! Mr.
Wilson, why Eugene put forth a
much better foot ' than 'Salem,
while there are not nearly so
many actual attractions, Mr. Wil
son said it was .because- Salem
did not have the money to put
out proper Iltera'ture; . but then,
he gave the encouraging Informa
tion that - in September : the last
300 ,of the old debt would be
paid. After that time Salem will
be placed before the tourists In
a comprehensive and enlightening
However, the literature is only
one phase of it. For Instance, In
the people's forum column' recent
ly, the Oregon , Statesman con
tained I a communication stating
that while the park was not . Just
what it ought to be. the drinking
water was much worse, That Is
cur idea of how not to build a
city. Attention has been called to
the park and it will be fixed up
at once. The water question is
an entirely different question and
it will be handled in Its own way
by our own people. ; j ? ;
The city administration is work
ing progressively, for the advance
ment of Salem and fn dua tfmo It
will show results all along, the
line. .j
Salem has a good many people
who are for the city always, but
then follows deprecating ad
jectives 'that throw cold , water
upon the enthusiasm of the man
who has Just seen our wonderful
scenery and more 'wonderful pro
duction. We f must sell , to ; the
tourists, but first we must sell to
ourselves. .
THE PRICE OP OIL
The Oregon Statesman has re
frained from . editorial comment
upon the very extraordinary agi
tation over the price of oil for the
reason that big as it looks, we
regard It as another flash In the
pan. It was on a par with. Judge
Lrftndis' grandiloquent fine : of
129,000,000 slaaped on. the. stan
dard Oil compaJ LWjm&i
nitnde of both, TMelefjMfcH btMfrJ
ated against Jthem. t The governor
in SntbalTpta vm- hjad the
goodni try toyojw he
had done. t ;
- The trouble was-not; in the at
tempt, but. In, taking it tofo' far.
Such a cut, in sit months, , would
leave only one oil company In the
United States' and that is not to
be desired. ,
The price of oil is too high and
It onght to be cut. But In mak
ing a cut, we must be Just as fair
to the producing companies as we
are to the consuming public. ' Just
because the ultimate consumers
have usually been victims la no
reason why we should break the
backs of the oil companies on the
wheel of public indignation.. We
should study the question thor
oughly and make such reduction
as the best business of live and
let live will ' permit Governor
Pierce was not taken off his feet
bythi whirlwind. He; baa set
about - anv Investigation to ; estab
ah what Ia! fair. The results of
that investigation will show what
the price of oil ought to be. .
A 5IARKET FOR FRUIT
The Oregon Statesman has con
tended for a long, time that the
biggest question In Oregon was
distribution. The Willamette val
ley can feed the world, provided
we can deliver the goods to the
homes of the people all over the
world. Up to this time it is im
possible to find a market for all
our products and 7et there la a
shortage. People are clamoring
for the very things we raise, and
are willing to pay -fair price
for them. We must find some
way to have a fair distribution
so that no market will be glutted
while another market Is . starving.'
Refrigerator cars have solved the
problem of shinning, but It will
take the best -thought off the beetl
minds (n, the' country to -devlie
a plan of distribution that will en
abli tJ? people of Georgia and
the people of Maine to eat the
Willamette valley fruit and at the
same time to sell at a fair priced
THE SHORTER DAY
A savant has figured out that In
1 00 years " the working day will
be: our, hours.: There Is no use
taking all this time In using the
gray matter for figuring. Henry
Ford has already announced that
the working! day will be 4 5 min
utes, and : Henry's 45 minutes
against the idea of four hours will
cause the latter to melt away like
an iceberg fn a tropical clime.
: Why work at all? Why not
shorten the day to nothing? We
have always admired the English
statesman who had the finest oc
cupation of any man in the world.
He Introduced in parliament f a
bill to give every man everything.
We are for such a lawto di
away with the necessity of work,
and In spite of aU that we say
about the curse of Adam' being
the blessing of the world In these
hot days, we are very apt to wish
that the curse bad been a little
less rigidly applied. j ? i f
WHAT ' AMERICA NEEDS
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A letter by Mr. Coolidge wrltfen
in 1921 was read' last week at a
celebration' at Longview,' Wash.,
and It throws- such an "informa
tive side light on ? the? character
of the man who Is' now' our pres
ident that. we pass It onto our
readers. ' . . .
"What Americans need Is. a
continuing sense of obligation; a
realization 1 that a thing will not
be right simply . because it pays,
.-tw-thit.-a- tlis'WllrTpxy iEp:y4
SCENES!
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(: Upper Under the watchful
to French consumption, j Lower
because it is right. Justice will
not be mocked. Contracts must
be met when it costs something
to obey them. . The supreme choice
of the nation must not be the
material forces . which, are tem
poral, but' moral forces which
are eternal." ! r
SCRAPPING SHIPS
The putting into effect of Pres
ident Harding's wonderful i peace
efforts will -save the world a lot
of money and it will gaye .11 at
a time when the people are sorely
oppressed by taxation. . We need
a: navy. . We must have ja navy,
but we need a navy only large
enough for police patrol) of the
seas. If there is another war it
will he fought in the --air with
explosives so deadly that we dread
to think of it..
An eastern city . was presented
with a nude statue;!; to-which peo
ple . promptly ? made objection.
They are right. It has always
been a mystery to'us why so many
artists mistake vulgarity for "art.
It is operating; against art being
recognized as one of the divine
grace's which-it really it.
A .resume of the industrial con
ditions of the northwest show that
July was healthier and - a more
optimistic tone prevailed than in
1 any other mtnth of the year.
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Adele Garrison's New Phase of
reveCations of a wife
The Verdict Dr. Pettlt Gave,
"How long does It take; that pill
pusher - to get from Sag Harbor
to Southampton?"
Dicky looked at his watch as
he asked the question, and aban
doned the drapery he had been
considering for his studio. With
a hasty glance at my own watch
I dropped. the sheer white, ruffled
dimity I was fingering, as if It
had been something, burning hot.
I "He's probably there by this
time," I said. "We must fly!" '..
I I turned to the waiting dark;
t '"Will you V please lay aside
seventy yards of this? Here is
a deposit, and I will return short
ly, for the bundle." : j
I "Oh, yes,; .Miss! Thank
1
you,
Miss."
.The very
English ; fare
well of the clerk -followed ' me
from the shop, one of the ultra
smart ones. In which the fashion
able summer resort abounds, and
1 saw Dicky grinning at It as we
hhrried toward the car. V.
?l "Yes, your ladyship. No. your
ladyship. Isn't there something
more we can offer yourj lady
ship?" he mocked when we were
once more headed for th&liospi-
taL "They certainly do the sub -
servient courtesy act np brown
here. - How much per cent; do
you suppose, they tack on to the
you. Miss stuff?" roH - f
Epough; I fancy," I returned,!
"although that white ruffled cur
tain material was not exorbitant
In price, but quite reasonabla ia-4.
dee3. It-r3'aee,-flve.rBw2artoi
'ill ' ' " ' 4 wm t ' l
!l ' ' - ' ' I ' - f
I . - , if ' . . - - i
I ' f $ -N' ' - Is
I : . 4 i 'S x . r a. 1
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IN
THE ;' RUHR DISTRICT.
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an
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eyes of a French p oilu, German workers ' loading coal destined
Ammunition wa gon being brought up to gun section.' f
each window, rand in the front
bedroom there are three, two
each in those" . - - j r
or the. love, of Mike, also
Pete!" Dtekyj exploded. "Can the
mental , arithmetic when I'm
around You "ordered seventy
yards, you 'must have had some
idea of bow much you wanted."
j"I have," I returned wltb dtg
nwy. "I was simply checking up
nry estimate."; .
fi"Well, you I must be doing it
fr the fun of the thing!" he re
trted. 'For il never knew you
Ci nrtLke' a mistake in your aVith-
aistic oerore ;so cut it out. uo
ypu suppose! that sawbones has
rially ' arrived? 1 hope I didn't
hLrt that child!"
You 3Iay;Come In Now'.
The exclamation came explo-
yely from: his lips, and I
glimpsed the: very real terror that
hje had been (masking beneath his
careless exterior, wun tne mem
0V7 of Dr. Pettifs chilling decla
retionj that he could not tell the
detent. of the injury until he bad
reached the hospital, I did not
dare give any assurance to Dicky,
knowing that he would in all pro
bability resent" my ; attempting to
jive him any. Yet he would be
equally resentful of silence, 'so I
answered noncommittally: ' .
. "I can't believe that you hur
kei. Dicky, 'i You raised her yery
tenderly."' . r -I
"It makes a lot of difference
hat you believe:" ne enariea.
t was exactly tne answer i-ex-
ecfed, for I knew that his nerves
ere tensed J and, in a way, I was
glad- of lt,? for it gave me an ex-
tuse, lor not speaking again until
e reached the hospital.- -
Outside Marion's door we came
pon Robert Sayarin pacing up
and", down,; his hands, 'gripped
lghtly together behind him.' But
ks soon as he aiw Dicky's face lie
came forward and put his hand
on the younger man s snouiaer.
"Don't distress yourself so, old
chap," he said kindly. "I do not
think your . action made the
slightest difference with Marion's
Injuries. She was quite herself
again-after you left. The physi
cian Is with her now, making a
Chorough ' examination of her
back, so we may know the truth
at any minute now." : v
"Thank you, Savarin.' Dicky's
hand went iout gratefully to that
of the elder : man, and . then the
door opened and Miss Jones
Lstepped Into' the hall.' : 5
"You- may -come in .410 w." she
said briskly, and we all filed into
the room where Dr. Pettlt was
standing by Marion's bed with his
stiffest professional manner upon
him.'"- i , . . .':.'. ''
; I What Dicky Asked
The child had; tiny drops: of
perspiration upon her forehead,
and her face -was pallid, proofs of
the pain she. had suffered. My
eyes: went swiftly to Lillian's
face, for I knew I should find the
trofh there. She - wa again
kneeling by , Marion's side, with
the child's hands in her's, but her
eyes, wniie iuii or sympamyjior
ner child's ! pain, had lost
their
'
look of terror. y : ; ' " .
; "It's all right," i she; said,
quickly, quietly, and I knew that
she could -not bear to let' us wait
Dr. Pettit's slower assurance.
"Please tell them, doctor, what
you have told me." I
i-"There is no permanent injury,1
1 am sure." Dr. Pettlt said
'There several. bad; bruises
-v.'
upon the muscles of her back,' one
especially ' painfui, - which f will
keep her quiet 1 for a few days,
possibly longer. She cold be
moved to the place, where you are
boarding, it her mother - insists
upon It, but I think It better for
her to Btay here for a week."
This wae evidently news to
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A. PICTURE MAP f
' AFRICA
CUPPS, AftMMMS
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; The great continent of Africa, of which you see the picture
product map, is in reality only an enormous peninsula con
nected to Asia by the Suez mainland. "';-Its products are varied
and fascinating ones, spices, cocoanuts, gold, coral, grain
and pearls. - .';';.,' ,,, ..:;..;,.;,:... ....., .......:..-.. r . ... .....
1 THE SHORT STORY, JR. j
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. KKXXETjrS DAWN
Kenneth b,ore hla affliction with
firace, . , .
And never let grief cloud his face;
He had cause to rejoice
For his beautiful voice ,
In radio v be found his place.
Kenneth reached out with his
thin, white hand' for the' window
sill, pulling his wheel chair into
the, sun. - "Well, they say It's al
ways darkest just before the
dawn,! he sighed. "But there's
never any dawn for me." ; .
: He sat listlessly watching' the
people on the street , below.
Strong, : husky, boys, ! and men:
rosy, healthy girls end women
hurried past -everyone going to
some interesting work. Every
body could prk but .Kenneth.
It seemed to him lhat he wa the
only one In the whole-word who
had to sit In -a wheel chair all day
long with nothing to do but think.
Angrily - the Z boy shoved his
chair away from the window and
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Lillian, for she lifted her head
quickly and looked af the physi
cian fixedly; - " e
""May I stay with her?" she
asked. , --
"I expect yon to," he answered.
"She needs no professional care,
except when she has to be moved,
and then a nurse will be always
within call. But you will 1 not
need a special nurse,- and I am
sure you will be yery comfortable
together." - '''-
"Dr. Pettlt!" Dicky struck in
abruptly. : "Did I increase her In
Jury when I Inadvertently raised
her this morning?" .
"It didn't do her any good,"
he retorted",' and I saw that his
dislike ' for Dicky had triumphed
for the instant over his profes-
N sional instincts. The next mom
ent, however, he was the digni
fied physician again. : ;
"However, I cannot ay con
scientiously, that you did her any
harm, either," he finished. Then
with a stiff bow which Included
us all he bade ua farewell and
left the room. - '
BITS FOR BREAKFAST
Flax meeting Friday. : ; :
V -It
will-be In the evening at the
Salem Chamber of Commerce aud
itorium. if --?f
There will be a full attendance,
because the matter.of next year's
acreage and contracts will be tak
en up. : u
" -,;i S
If the iboll , weevil' ravages in
the cotton fields of the south are
hot checked and the negro exo
dus is not headed off, the tonnage
of flax produced in the" Salem dis
trict this year, perhaps more than
twice as large as ever before, will
in a few years seem like only a
very small start. The Willamette
valley can produce enough flax to
supply, the United States with its
seed and twine and linen manufac
tures, and then have enough avail
able land left suitable for growing
flax to take up all the slack caus
ed by the -boll weevil- ravages in
the south. ' t - '
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Thousands of harvest hands are
coming from England to Canada
just now. Most of them will re
main. Up to the first of August
the new arrivals In Canada were
53,571. :
Biggest little Paper in the World;
the Gold Coast and the Ivory
sat staring at the bare wall.' Some
times it was almost more ; than
he could bear. ; He was glad his
mother was not home. Hard as
it was for him, he always man
aged -to keep cheerful before her)
"Poor mother," he thought, "she
has enough to worry her without
my adding to her load. I just
can't stand to see her working so
bard.; If-there was only some
thing I could do!"
He glanced at the clock. "Why,
It's almost time for her now!"
pushing himself back to the open
window he started watching for
her as he did every night. Ken
neth had a wonderful, stronr. rich
rvoice, much stronger than he was.
And he always kept it cheery for
his mother. She loved to hear
it ring out above the busy noice of
the street. She had often told
him that at the sound of his
cheery voice floating down from
their fourth floor room all the
weariness of the day rolled off
her shoulders.: s
There she was now! How tired
nd bent she looked as she
turned the corner hia poor little
mother. Oh. If he could only do
something more for her than Just
to cheer her with Is voice. If his'
miserable legs were only as strong
as his voice! He leaned forward
putting all that he had. Into bis
oicel "Welcome home, mother
mine," he called, scarcely raising
till vaIkb Kr. .1 A ' ....
- wu. vicar u coma DO ms
tobther . heard varvBLoj .t-
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The airplanes' of the Canad:..
air board re this year transport
Ing supplies to the geological sur
veying .parties In the . northern
part of (that country. It is cheap,
er, quicker and more reliable than
heretofore, in boats with many
portages. ': -
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I Some one suggests that every
body has had a crack at evolution
except the monkey.
V "W . . .. " v
"Be noble, and the noblenees
that lies in other men, sleeping
but never dead, will -rise in its
majesty to meet thine own."
Lowe!).
TALK ABOUT COAL
WASHINGTON. Aug. 20.
"Eventualities" in the anthracite
situation r were . discussed with
President Coolidge today by
Chairman Hammond of . the coal
commission. "
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(ill!
Use Grandma's Sage Tea and
.' Snlphur Recipe and Nobody
i Will Know
The use of Sage and ; Sulphur
for restoring faded, gray hair to
its natural ' color dates back to
grandmother's time. She used it
to keep her hair beautifully dark,
glossy and attractive. Whenever
her. hair took on that dull, fade!
or streaked appearance,-this sin
pie mixture was applied with won--
derful effect. "
But brewing at home Is musry'
and. out-of-date. Nowadays, t j
asking at any drug Btore for a
bottle of "Wyeth's Sage and Zi
phur Compound,"-you. will get thl
famous old preparation, improve.!
by ' the addition of other; inrre
dientff. which' can ' be .depended
upon to restore natural color and
beauty to the hair.
A well-known downtown drug
gist says It ' darkens the hair so
naturally and evenly that nobodv
can tell it has been applied. You
simply dampen a sponge or soft
brush j with : It and draw this"'
through - your hair," taking tne
strand at a time. By morning tie
gray hair ' disappears, and after
another application or two,1 It In
comes beautifully ' dark and
glossy. Adv.
1 mm mm m j
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Edited by Jobn M. MilW
Coast -
Though civilization .in Africa
has existed for thousands of yean
up in the valley of the Nile river, ,
where King Tut reigned and othet
Egyptian kings built the famous
-pyramids, the great .tropical
depths of ths country, were not ,
penetrated until recent, years.
The central plains of Africa are
. desert : lands, extending hundreds
of miles. Every attempt to pass
them was forbidden until the use
fulness of the camel was learned.
Now caravans loaded with prod
ucts that reveal the wealth of the
country may be seen making their
way across the hot plains. . , j : .
In the dense jungles, vegeta
tion grows xlot.. Monkeys frisk
and; play among the foliage, lions ,
and other ferocious beasts roam
at will, birds remarkable for the
brilliant gaudiness of their plum-
. mage fly among the branches. . .
The different localities of the
land lying north of the gulf t of
Guinea' are given the names of.
products for which the country is
famous in tradlngthe Gold Coast,
the Ivory Coast and the Slave
Coast. ':,:;'
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. Sad Fate
, The gas went. out to meter.
The egg was out to beater;
The .nutmeg, wept out to grater,
V But. alas, the radiator; , T
been ages since yon left this mor
ning. Hurry, hurry, I can hardly
wait to see you." .
Butr for once Kenneth's motb
er was a long, long time gettlns
up the three flights of atalra. He
began to be worried before she
finally, came In. A gentleman
was with her.
"Kenneth." she said, "this la
Mr.Fox. He wants to give yo;i a
"A Job!" f Kenneth's 'face fell.
"But he won't when he sees I'm
a cripple. I've tried everything.
There Isn't a thing I can do."
"On the contrary." Mr. Fox
smiled at Kenneth, "you can -do
this soecial job better than any
one else. For some time I have
been listening to your voice. I
haye never heard one with better
carrying power; It's a real radio
voice. We! want you for our
broadcasting station." He placed
a contract before Kenneth, but
Kenneth did not read it. He sat
blinking before ; the figures i that
were to be his salary. It was the
brightest dawn: "he had ever
dreamed of.' '
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