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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1929)
FA(E EIGHT The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, September 28, 1929 "All Quiet Western Front" CHAPTER XI When we break tip Kat says to me: "What do you say to some roast goose?" "Not bad," I agree. We climb up on a munition wagon. The ride costs us two cig arets. Kat has marked the spot exactly. The shed belongs to regi mental headquarters. I agree to get the goose and receive my i f etructlona. The outhouse is be hind the wall and the door shuts with just a peg. Kat hoists me sp. I rest . my foot In his hands and climb over the wall. Kat keeps watch below. I wait a few moments to ac custom my eyes to the darkness. Then I recognize the shed. Softly I. steal across and' lift the peg, pall It oat and open the door. I distinguish two white patch es. Two jeese; that's bad; If I grab one the other will cackle. Well, both of them if I'm quick, tt can be done. I make the jump. I catch hold of ne and the next instant the sec ond. Like a madman I bash their heads against the wall to stun them. But I haven't quite enough weight. The beasts cackle and strike ont with their feet and wings. I fight desperately, but Lord, what a kick a goose has! rhey struggle and I stagger about, tn the dark these white patches are terrifying. My arms have grown wings and I'm almost afraid of going up into the sky. as though I held a couple of cap tive balloons. Then the row begins; one of :l)tm gets his breath and goes off like an alarm clock. Before I can do an thing, something comes in from outside; I feel a blow, lie outstretched on the floor, and hear awful growls. A. dog. I steal t glance to the side, be makes a map at my throat. I lie still and luck mj chin Into my collar. It's a bull dog. After an eter nity he withdraws his head and lits down beside me. But It I liake the least movement he EMOTIONAL RA VINGS OFTEN EFFECT HEALTH Medical Authority Warns That Protracted Period of Violent Temper, Particularly in Middle Life, May Lead to Serious Trouble. By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D. Cnlted States Senator from New York. Termer ComnUsioner of Health, New York City. fflHIS is written on a railroad train between Newark and Washing torn. We made a late start from the farm and for the last ten minutes It was "nip and tuck" whether we could arrive in time to catch the train. OR OOPClAND ttraotion appears to have a more powerful effect upon the system than does rather violent exercise. What it does to us is not quite clear. Among other things it stimulates certain of the "ductless glands" to throw! into the blood stream substances which excite the beart to more rapid action. This may cause the muscles of the fteart vessels to contract. Rapid heart and constricted vessels result la Increased blood pressure. Tnia Is matter of no particular consequence, provided the blood vessel walls are firm and elastic. But) If ibeae walla are hardened or weak from dexsneratlve conditions, there may b a br- Then, certainly, there ts sure to tr more or less ituudis. Emotion, anger particularly. Is! credited with creating In the bony certain substances, sometimes called "toxins.' which are' poisonous tn their action. Evsb though this the rv may be somewhat visionary, anv one of us ran testify to the 1)! effects at anger. Have too not fait Sick for hours after an outburst of HELEN. Q. What will benefh anger? thigh blood pressure? J. Is the hear. It doas not pay to give way to beating too slow or too fast when a r.olent amotion. I wouldn't givel person faints? Are yeast cakes fat much for a man or woman who Is tenlng? unuHwij wimoiu eraouon. Bucn persons are too cold to suit me. But after middle life violent expression f any amotion ta physically dan gerous. Nature has provided that aa we strained. We at mors temperate to our esaotionsl axprssakma. That as a wfsa provision. Good Banners and good health 4a sMnd -that we tadulga is so MMntv Mrthnrstsu - thotUTh ww "When at last I have the re volver, my hand starts to tremble.w growls. I consider. The only thing to do is to get hold of my small revolver, and that too, before any one arrives. Inch by inch I move my hand toward it. I have the feeling that it lasts an hour. The slightest move ment and then an awful growl; I lie still, and try again. When at last I have my revolver my hand starts to tremble. I press my hand against the ground and then say over to myself: "Jerk the revolver up; fire before he has a chance to grab, and then Jump up." Slowly I take a deep breath and become calmer. Then I hold my breath, whip up the revolver, it cracks, the dog leaps howling to one side, I make for the door of the shed and fall head over heels over one of the damned geese. At full speed I seize it again, and with a swing toss It over the wall and clamber up. No sooner am I on top than the dog is up again as lively as ever and springs at me. Quickly I let myself drop. Ten paces away stands Kat with the goose under his arm. As soon as he sees me we run. At last we can take a breather. The goose is dead. Kat saw to that in a moment. We Intend to roast it, without telling anybody. I fetch a stove and wood from the hut and we crawl into a small deserted lean-to which we use for such purposes. The single window space Is heavily cur tained. There is a sort of hearth, an Iron plate set on some bricks. We kindle a fire. Kat plucks and cleans the goose. .We put the feathers care fully to one side. We intend to make two cushions out of them with the inscription: "Sleep soft under shell-fire." The sound of the gun-fire from the front pene trates into our refuge. The glow of the fire lights up our faees, It seemed very necessary to make this par ticular connection because of duties in Wash ington. I confess to having had a feeling of tenseness and undue anxiety over the matter. Usually a very calm person in the face of emer-. gency, 1 found my heart beats increased eight or ten above normal. Ia it a good thing to have periods of emo tional stress? While we cannot avoid many such experiences in life, most of them are not worth while. In fact they are unwise and, tinder certain condi tions, unsafe as well. On the way down this morning, I read of the death of a man I used to know. He was at a ball game Saturday, got excited, sat in the sun, and perhaps had indigestion. The combina tion was too much for a weak heart. He died the next day. say nothing, even though we do no swear at the chauffeur, tt does not pay to get mad. H Answers to Health Queried 8. R. Q. How can superfluous I hair be removed? is tbers an j chance of scarring? 1. How can I , . flat feet be overcome? A. When the electrical needle is properly used there is little scarring of the skin, but it must be employed by an expert. S. This condition can be remedied by wearing the correct kind of supports. A.. Proper diet and general care For farther information send a self addressed, stamped envelope and re peat your question. 1. The heart far sometimes slowed somewhat, hot there may be rapid and very faint action. I., Yeast cakes are mot la themselves fattening, hut the Im provement of the health la geaenl may lead to a proper Increase of weight. : shadows dance on the wall. Some times a heavy crash and the hut shivers. Airplane bombs. Once we hear a stifled cry. A hut must have been hit. Airplane drone; the tick-tack of machine-guns breaks out. But no light that could be ob served shows from us. We sit opposite one another, Kat and I, two soldiers in shabby coats, cooking a goose in the middle of the night. We don't talk much, but I believe we have a POLLY AND HER PALS 7 TILLIE, THE TOILER "THE I've OM fcURT OF 'SPEED ALL OP A sutjoeh "TILLIES LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY iRLV AJEXT MORAIIAJG, FEEBLE FHGBRS FELT AWQAJCST T&6 WEEDS OUTSIDE THE WIA1POV AMD AAJAJIE. FOUMD THE MCVUKEY.aJWFUfH, SOMC: SAAjrxU'CHES , A BOTTLE Gt MlLH AMD A AOTET TOOTS AND CASPER Q - . O (C: ASPER KHOCKEb OJT kid bykumvteAthe. YtORLI3 CHAMPION, KJ THE. F6UWTH ROUND AT THE. OPEPA HOUSE LAST HHT IFTER TAtflKr A TERRIFIC BEATtNZr THREE, ROUNDS CASPER. SUDDENLY CAME TO LIFE. Aft THE BELL ttAK& PO THE. FOUWTM ROUNDs FAIRLY LEAFING PROM Me CORNER HE HOT A TERRIFIC LEFT TO THE. CHAMPtOKt OAW THAT CMT THE LA-TTEO TO THBrUJOR.F0O.TMC- fatal count t more complete communion with one another than ever lovers have. We are two men, two minute sparks of life; outside is the night and the circle of death. We sit on the edge of it crouching in dan ger, the grease drips from our hands, in our hearts we are close to one another, and the hour Is like the room; flecked over with the lights and shadows of oar feelings cast by a quiet fire. What does be know of me or I of him? Formerly we should not have had a single thought In common now we sit with a goose between us and feel in unison, and are so intimate that-we do not even speak. It takes a long time to roast a goose even when it is young and fat. So we take turns. One bastes it while the other lies down and sleeps. A grand smell gradually fills the hut. The noises without increase in volume, pass into my dream and yet linger in my memory. In a half sleep I watch Kat dip and raise the ladle. I love him, his shoulders, his angular, stooping figure and at the same time I see behind him woods' and stars, and a clear voice utters words that bring me peace, to me, a soldier in big boots, belt, and knapsack, taking the road that lies before him under the high heaven, Quickly forgetting and seldom sorrowful, for ever press ing on under the wide night sky. A little soldier and a clear voice, and If anyone were to caress him he would hardly un derstand, this soldier with the big boots and shut heart, who marches because he is wearing big boots, and has forgotten all else but marching. Beyond the sky-line is a country with flowers, lying so still that he would like to weep. There are sights there that he has not forgotten, because he never possessed them per plexing, yet lost to him. Are not his twenty summers there? ' Is my face wet, and where am I? Kat stands before me, his gi gantic, stooping shadow falls upon me like home. He rpeaks gently, he smiles and goes back to the fire. Then he says: "It's done." "Tes, Kat." I stir myself. In the middle of the room shines the brown goose. We take out our collapsible forks cror a lot My mimo, SHE IDWT "TO TAICE OPF M1FTV- HR VUHtPPLE IN HEE HAT MAC v. T T A rCOD THIN i didn y Wmow You VJEQE 60IN6 TO FirHT the champion last NIcrWT, CASPER, OR I'D NEVER HAVE LET YOU Do rr: NOT FOR A MILLION DOLLARS'. FOR 9 Ut. ftatafw V and our pocket-knife and each cuts off a leg. With It we have army bread and eat with gusto. 'How does It taste, Kat?" "Good! And yours?" "Good, Kat." We are brothers and press on one another the choicest pieces. Afterwards, I smoke a cigarette and Kat a cigar. There ia still a lot left. "How would It be. Kat. If we took a bit to Kropp and Tjaden?" "Sure," eays he. -We carre off a potion anT wrap It up carefully in news paper. The rest we thought of taking over to the hut, Kat laughs and simply says: 'Tjaden." I agree, we will have to take It all. J So we go off to the foul-house o waae mem. nut iirsi we paca away the feathers. Kropp and Tjaden take us for magicians. Then they get busy with their teeth. Tjaden holds a wing in his mouth with both hands like a mouth-organ, and gnaws. He drinks the gravy from the pot and smacks his lips: "May I never forget you?" We go to our hut. Again there la the lofty shy with the stars and the oncoming dawn, and I pass on beneath It, a soldier with big boots and a full belly, a little soldier In the early morning but by my side, stooping and angular, goes Kat, my comrade. The outlines of the huts are upon us In the dawn like a dark, deep sleep. ess There are 'rumors of an offen sive. We go up to the front two days earlier than usual. On the way we pass a shelled school- house. Stacked up against its longer side Is a high double wall of yellow, unpolished brand-new coffins. They still smell of fir, and pine, and the forest. There (Continued on Page J.) GOOD-NIGHT STORIES By Mu .TreH a Knarf and His Master Get a Liesson In Good Manners Some children are born with good manners, some learn them. But others have them thrust upon "Fodder' Away "No So Stupid, After AIT n t must BE A OME THEM 'The Wheels "The New f DlbNT TELL a OSS J OH, CEE. COULD OJJLY GET QUE BAR I THESE TASTE OFF I COULD SQUEEZE 300D SUOE Vspnr OUT, BUT TWESE AJUTS 1 SBEAS T THJAJK r-E AJ?E St RUSTY I C4WT for I -V CP EVBRVTHUJ JTl-i EVEAJ DO THAT, 'CAUSE f , f5b' :-iX r-: WHEAiiTuPAjTHE ajut i yr ' EJUCNS. tr ov THAT I I ME TAWf You about rr BECAUSE I WHEW WE n WOULD WOROY Mt YOU,TOCTft HERE'S THE CHECK. FOR 25O0.S THEY CrAVE-ME, POO. 5TAYlN4r THE FOUR, .ROUNDS. BUT BY HE on RI6HTS .0U6HT TO CrtST A BONUS FOR .HIM out; Sjratoat. If - Crt mmm nkt them. Do you know by whom? You shall see In this story of MiJ Flor, Hanid, Yam and Knarf, the five little shadow-children with the turned about names. Of all the real children, the only one whose manners were bad was Frank, Knarf's master. This little boy never seemed to be able to do what he ought to do. The fact was, he never tried. He was content to let others be po lite and kind and considerate. As for himself, he liked being rude and selfish eter so much better. It came to pass one day tliat the real-children started out on a visit to their grandmother, who lived at the other end of their Yam Pulled The Man's Beard, town. As it was too far for them to walk, they boarded a trolley car. There was only one seat in the car. You would have thought that the boys would have allowed the two girls to squeeze into it. So they would, indeed, had not the rude Frank pushed them aside and sat himself down Instead. "It's my seat," he remarked, "I saw It first." The shadow-children, who were accompanying their masters and mistresses, although no one no ticed them, gazed at each other in distress all except Knarf, who grinned. "What a discourteous master you have," said Hanid to Knarf. "He's the most ungentlemanly boy I've ever Been," added Flor. "He has no manners at all," said Yam. From Gray stone" Caw have TVUS MCX2MlMfi 5 OFF. MR. WHIFFLE Of Progress' 'Champ' OWE IT TO TOOTS, NOM SHE MADE. TAKfc Bu'tTEPCuP vsn-m WHEN I TOLD HEQ I waa jfr-mfZ , GET OFF IpHpL THIS AfTI5- p NOON? bOM'T a E tOANj FOR A ViALW LAST taiArHT wwin iHt viCtMT BUTTERCUP OM kit UKE'MCq- ROOM; CRIED. AND IT ANNOVEDTME. CHAMPION! THE CHAMP HAD MB tub verge of a knock-out ' "two rlir CALL BABY nwilH Ul I kc. DKAl: I SAW RED I WAS SO I mad t Knocked .him cold ArrH knowing VJWTT ) WAS "He's Just Ill-bred," concluded MIJ. But Knarf merely Kept on grinning, for he thought his mas ter waa quite clever In getting the seat for himself. You see, he was as bad as his master. While they were talking, in walked an old man. He was a xery old man with long white whis kers. He came trudging In on a heavy cane, his back bent with age. He peered around for a seat. But as there were no seats, he took hold of a strap and held on as best he could right over the impolite Frank, who pretended not to notice him at all. Back and forth swayed the old man. Mean while Frank, who should have sprung to his feet instantly and offered the old man his seat, gax ed at the floor, and at the ceiling, and at tne motorman, and at the conductor and at the old man's beard, which also swayed from side to side. Finally he shut his eyes and pretended to be asleep. "Why doesn't your master get up?" cried Hanid indignantly. "Maybe he doesn't feel like it," Knarf retorted. "He ought to get up anyway," declared the others. WORD HUNT (Trademark Copyright. Alexander UcbtcBlat, Patent Pending In the English language there are EIGHT WORDS each having just Ova lctttrs) that begin with the letters A T One of them Is J ATl 1LIT 2!ATMJ 3jAT 1 1 JAIUJ 5!AT f 61MTI I 71AIT1 1 1 8lAjT 1 ) HOIE Proper nounr, ebsoltte and archaic worda, extremely unusual technical ae-1 cirnlifir words that would offend food taste, and those plurals of nouns, and siiifri?ar verb, that ara formed by tha addition of a or as art purposely excluded frcat Word Hunt. The solution for today's Word Hunt will be found on the Classified page VMHAT VEH feOT I'M UOOJCIM ATUfetrl AWb voo MEAN WHILE, THE FLAAJS OF OTHERS; LESS DESERVING OF , MOVE STkADiLY FORE UiARD UjrTHOUT A HITCH- $o 11 I rWJ V. HOOFED rrnr - IS I .e-TilO 3 - a I HII XXj 1 Ml I II I 1 - i - - II 111 -WNOWS UglB AM "Get lip! Get up:" tney cried, tugging at his legs, for they were quite small, you understand. t was useless to struggle. The bad boy didn't so much "as notice them. He never paid any partic ular attention to shadows, n even his own. Then Hanid said: "It's a wa; of time trying to make him t- up. I hare a much better scheim . Let's bat-i " And she whispers something that Knarf could n't catch. "Hm-m," he said. "You won't make Mm give up his seat no mat ter what you do." All of a sudden Yam, who a? no larger than- a clothes-pir, sprang upon the old man's bear-l and with a tug pulled it aero Frank's nose. "U-ugh!" exclaimed that bad boy, Jumping to his feet, for he couldn't imagine what had hap pened. The old man smiled grate fully. "Thank you, my lad," he mur mured. "You're very kind." And with a sigh of relief, he sat down, leaving the disconcerted Frank to wonder how he had come to give up bis seat. In the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust. (YOU supply the others.) A collection of maps in a book. An atom: a pygmy. To expiate. To make amends. 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