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The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Friday Morning, September Z7, 1929 "All Quiet Western Front" liP !) fl Muller hasn't ficlsbed yet. He tackles Kropp again. "Albert It you were really at home now, what would yon do?" Kropp is contented now and more accommodating: "How many of us were there in the class exactly ? We count up: out of 20. seven are dead, lour wounded, one in a mad-house. That makes 12 pri vates. '"Three of them are lieuten ants," says Muller. "Do you think they, would let Kantorek sit on them?"' We guess not; we wouldn't let ourselrts be sat on for that mat ter. "What do you mean by the three-fold theme in "William Tell?" says Kropp. reminiscently, and roars with laughter. "What was the purpose of the Poetic League of Gottingen?" asks Muller, suddenly and earn estly. "How many children had Charles the Bald?- I interrupted gently. "You'll never make anything of your life, Caumer," croaks Muller. "When was the battle of ZaP.i?" Kropp wants to know. "You lack the studious mind, Kropp, sit down, three minus " 1 vm.K. "What offices did Lycurgus consider the most important for the state?" asks Muller, pretend lnp to take off his pince-nez. ' Does it go: 'We Germans fear God and none else in the whole world,' or 'We. the Germans, fear Cod and ' " I submit. "How many inhabitants has Melbourne?" asks Muller. "How do you expect to succeed In life if you don't know that?" I a.sk Albert, hotly. Which be caps-with: "What is tueo,it by cohesion?' We remember mighty little of all that rubbish. Anyway, it has never been the slightest use to as. At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigaret in a torm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood nor that It is best to stick a bay onet in the belly because there it doesn't get Jammed, as it does in the ribs. Muller says thoughtfully: I have to appear as a witness and explain the reason of Tja- dens insubordination. "What's the use. "We'll haTe to go back and sit on the forms again." I consider that out of the ques tion. "We might take a special exam." "That needs preparation. If you do get through, what then? A stu dent's life isn't any better. If you have no money, you have to work like the devil." "It's a bit better. But it'a rot all the same, everything they teach you." Kropp supports me: "How can a man take all that stuff serious ly when he's once been out here?" "Still yon must have an occu pation of some sort," insists Mull er, a8 though he were Kantorek himself. Albert cleans his nails with a knife. We are surprised at this delicacy. But It Is merely penslve ness. He puts the knife away and continues: "That Just it. Kat and Deltering and Hale will go back to their Jobs because they had them already. Himmelstoss too. But we never had any. How will we ever get used to one after this here?" he makes a gesture toward the front. "We'll want a private income, and then we'll be able to live by ourselves in a wood.." I say, but at once feel ashamed of this ab surd idea. "But what will really happen when we go back?" wonders Mull er, and even he is troubled. Kropp gtve3 a shrug. "I don't j know. Let's get back first, then we'll find out." We are utterly at a loss. "What could we do?" I ask. 'I don't want to do. anything." Kropp replies wearily." "You'll be dead on" day, so what does it matter? I don't think we'll ever go back." When I think about it. Al bert," I say after a while, rolling over on my back, "when I hear the word 'peace time,' it goes to my head; and if it really came. I think I would do some unimagin able thing something, you know, that it'a worth having lain here In the muck for. But I can't even imagine anything. All I do know is that this business about pro fessions and studies and salaries and so on it makes me sick. It ia and always was disgusting. I don't Bee anything 1 don't see anything at all, Albert." All at once everything seems to me confused and hopeless. Kropp feels It too. "It will go pretty hard with us all. But no body at home seems to worry much about it. Two years of shells and bombs a man won't peel that off as easy as a sock." We agree that it's the same' tor everyone; not only for ns here. but everywhere for everyone who is of our age; to some more, and to others less. It Is the common fate of our generation. Albert expresses if: "The war has ruined us for everything." He is right. We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were 18 and had begun to love life, and the world; and we had to shoot It to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We be lieve in such things no longer, we believe in the war. The orderly room shows signs of life. Himmelstoss seems to have stirred them up. At the head of the column trots the fat sar-geant-major. It is queer that al most all pay sergeant-majors are fat. Himmelstoss follows him, thirst ing for vengeance. His boots gleam in the ban. We get up. "Where's Tjaden?" the ser geant puffs. No one -knows, of course. Him melstoss glowers at us wrath fully. "You know very well. You won't say, that's the fact of the matter. Out with It." Patty looks round enquiringly, but Tjaden is not to be seen. He tries another way. 'Tjaden will report at the or derly room in 10 minutes." Then he steams off with Him melstoss in his wake. "I have a feeling that next time we go up wiring I'll be let ting a bundle of wire fall on Him melstoss' leg." says Kropp. "We'll have quite a lot of Jokes with him." laughs Muller. That is our sole ambition: To knock the conceit out of a post man. I go into the hut and put Tjaden wise. He disappears. Then we change our possy and He down again to play cards, fite know how to do that; to play cards, to swear and to fight. Not much for twenty years; and yet too much for twenty years. Half an hour later Himmelstoss Is back again. Nobody pays any attention to him. He asks for Tjaden. We shrug our shoulders. "Then you'd better find him," he persists. "Haven't you been to look for him?" Kropp lies back In the grass and says: "Have you ever been out here before?" "That's none of your business," retorts Himmelstoss. "I expect an answer." "Very good, says Kropp, get ting up. "See up there where those little white clouds are. Those are anti-aircraft. We were over there yesterday. Five dead and eight wounded. It was a lot of fun. Next time, when you go up with us. before they die the fellows will come up to yoa, click their heels, and ask stiffly: "Please may I go? Please may I hop It? We've been waiting here a long time for someone like you'." He sits down again and Him melstoss disappears like a comet. "Three days C. B.," Kat con jectures. "Next time I'll let flv," I say to Albert. But that is the end. The case comes up for trial in the evening. In the orderly room sits our Continued on Pajce 11.) ren peered as closely at the pic ture as they could, they could find neither a Chamel nor a lizard. Thereupon they did something that only shadows can do. They sprang right inside the picture and instantly found themselves in the garden, among trees and bushes and bright fragrant flow ers. "I don't think there is any chameleon here!" fij started to say, when ali at once a sharp voice exclaimed: "Oh, there isn't, isn't there!" It was so close to them that they started. Little Yam almost fell out of the picture. "If you'd only use your eyes," the same voice continued, "you micht find me." GOODNIGHT STORIES 67 Max Trell a The Chanielon Changes Color for . the Shadow-Children "I can't seem to find anything," Knarf said. "Nor can we." said MiJ, Flor, Hanid and Yam, the other little shadow-children with the turned about names. Do you know where they were? They, were Inside one of the pictures in the Natural His tory book. This is what happened. They found the Natural History book lying open on the library table. In It was a picture of a tropical garden and under it was the cur ious word Chameleon. Knarf was sure that a chameleon was the same as a Chamel which in turn was the same as a camel, except that it was spelled differ ently. He was sure also that the Chamel's first name was Leon. Hanid, on the other hand, was certain that a Chameleon was a kind of lizard. However, though Knarf and Hanid and the other shadow-child- III" stone! Before they could say a word It clipped off the stone and stood In the dark shadow of a ledge. And then they saw its color change to black. "Why," exclaimed Flor, "you can change to any color you please ! " "I'm very clever." the chamel eon admitted. It stepped out In to the light again. Now its color was a sort of greenish grayish brown. "How is it you're able to change about like that?" Yam wanted to know. "No one ever told me," it said, "but as I'm very clever I figured it out all by myself. When I was young I must have eaten a rain bow. And that's why I am able to change color. It's very con venient. Whenever I want r0 make myself, invisible, I ji;,t change into the color of the thii -I'm on "I wish I could change color.' Knarf sighed. "Why?" the others ask. ; quickly. "Then I could play hide-aud-K' -seek and no one would be able -,; find me!" "Pooh," the chameleon said, quite disgusted. "What a notion! To change color to be able to catch Tiles that's sensible.' But to go to all that trouble just to be able to play a silly game why, it enough to turn a body pink!" And strange to relate, that's precisely what It turned. WORD HUNT (Trademark) Copyright. Alexander Llchtenlaf. Patcnt Pending "We Can't See "Where are you?" Knarf said. "Right in front of your nose!" So Knarf stared in front of his nose, which, as it turned out, wasn't very far from the errd of a little green stem. And all at once he saw the owner of the voice. It was a lizard, with pointed head and long tapering tail and four legs. He understood immediately why he hadn't noticed it before. It was colored exactly the same green as the stem. "What an odd color!" the shadows cried. "Hm-m," it said, crawling down off the stem and. .stopping on a grayish stone. "Green Is an odd color for a chameleon to be, but I'm not green, you see!" They rubbed their eyes In as tonishment. It was no longer green but grayish, exactly like the m the English language there are FIFTEEN WORDS (each havlnj jusi fottr letters) that begin with the letters W O One of them is A blue dyestufT or coloring matter, resembling Indigo (YOU supply the others.) - liWjO!AD 2W1Q 1 3jWQ 41W1QI 5iWjO 1 61W1OI 1 7jWiQl I 6jWOI j 91W1Q1 1 101W1O1 1 lliWiOl 1 12jWjO 1 13fWiQl 1 4jWQ 15lWjQl I Waked. lain, or low hill: a region without woods. A - ' and savage dog-like animal. Habit; accustomed: use; usage. A dens; growth of trees; forest; grove. Also, the chief rubstanceof which a tree Is composed. Timber; lumber.. The threads that cross the warp In a fabric. Also, tex ture: cloth. The curly hair from sheep and torn other tnlma't. A vocal sound or combination of sounds, used as am- fcol to signify a thought. Also, a brief remark: talk. Impaired by use: effaced: rubbed off. Also, carried on the person. Manual labor: occupation; an undertaking: task. That which Is produced by labor. To investigate, or solve. A small, legless, crawling animal. Also, a despicable per ton. Also, a spiral or wormllke thing. Carried on s person. Also, made useless, or impaired, by use. TJnfcrmented Infusion of mH. Also, a cabbage-Uke plant. Entwined; Interlaced. Made Into cloth. OTH Proper nonnr, atiFo'ete and arehaie words, extremely nnumil teelin'ral and dcientific words that would offend good taste, and those plural of noun, and ningiiiar erb, that ars formed by tha addition of a or as sre purjosly excluded from Word Hunt. The solution for today's Word Runt will be found on the Classified page POLLY AND HER PALS To Fare Well Is To Say Buy Buy By CLIFF STERRETH BRAIN IS THE RULER OF THE HUMAN BODY Nervous System Determines How the Organs Will Function, But Care of the Body Is Essential to An Active Brain, Says Authority. By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D. United States Senator from New York. Former Commissioner of Health, Tfetc York City. THERE are problems relating to breathing, to the circulation oJ the blood, and many other functions of the human body. We speak of each function as if it were something; separate and apart from aU the rest. Of course it is, in a sense, bot there could be no function of any sort without the nervous system. if yob drive an automobile, you know how lelpless you are if there is no "spark." If the lattery fails or the electric wires get crossed, (he machine stops. It can't be coaxed to run. Did you ever stand in the wheelhouse of a' Eeat steamship? If you did, you noticed that e captain pulled this lever or that, he touched this button or that, and in response to his signals, the giant ship slowed down, reversed and per Baps turned round on her course. Every de partment and activity of the vessel is under the control of the captain. He is the supervising fenius. All these examples of central control, are reminders of the control the brain has over the body and its functions. The wires that connect die wheel house with the engine room and other sarts of the shin, srp lilc tho nerve that ran trorn the brain and spinal cord to every part and every organ of the ody. The brain, spinal cord and many nerves make up the "nervous Orstem." The operation of this system determines what shall be done y muscies. Dories, digestion, heart, 1 .J11 DR COPUArO . gErj WAL, Boys. HfcR&s PfcRKlKS WFr'R& I I4R& fcU AW, FfcR GOSH 54K&5.' 6iJLl fA&EvJ&XX iTHArJKS PER THE f THE KEY TO 6RAST0rJE L&AlrJ' OURSELVES, SOOkI'S) SURE VOM ) NEVER FER6U THEM r- HOJN TEkJ ORAY y ME A'mV IS r THE 60VERWMEMT WAS07 J STOPPED 160 BOTTLES WE FO0hXD GRAYSTflME- J- y " V BEATikJ' IT BACK TO THE CALLS FER Tr-UrSE Two THE MILK rJ OUR STOF LAST y J TILLIE, THE TOILER 'Mac, The Enigma" By RUSS WESTOVER V TOOK VER, BOT I I AAE1L-, IVIET UiEFT THIS UMCH THH AFTEI2. J MAC -SAD TVWT OP WILD AMMALSC NOOM OFF I you CAME IM PRrTTYy DoaLfTfe Vf?.TErY (T AFTER. 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It deter nines the speed of very function. It presides over the gestiniea of the Individual. . There la an old saying that "action la equal to reaction." Every act we perform reacts In some way. There Is a mutual dependency of our vari ous parts. Every part Is concerned with and affected by aU the other parts." Etsb though the brain pre sides over aO the rest of the or gans. It, too. I dependent on their successful operation. Unless the food Is properly digested and assim ilated, unless the blood, carries away ths poisons and takes on the esysea. the bralsj Is not nourished sad stfcav to ds tt kwglv part. The best brain food is the food that best nourishes the body. When the body is weU kept the brain will be cared for properly. Sleep, exercise, good air, sunlight, rest, recreation and aU the things that make for physical health, make also for a well nourished brain and alertness of mind. Answers to Health Queries j Q. C. G. Q. 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