The OKEGON STATESMAN,- Salary Qa, Thcrsday llornig? Jia IS, 1923
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From First Statesman. March IS. 185X
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P. E. O. Convention
THE standard inquiry about the P. E. O.'s is : What do the
initials stand for? The answer is full proof that 65,000
women can keep a secret. Not even the husbands of members
have ever been able to find out whether P. E. O. means Peach
es Every One or Princesses Eat Olives.
But if what the letters ojf the name stand for remains
a deep secret, there is no mystery about what the organiza
tion stands for. The P. E. O.'s are an organization of women
united in a common sisterhood, with very definite ideals and
standards of individual and of social life. The organization
was founded at Iowa Wesleyan college, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa,
back in 1869 when seven female students grouped themselves
together. Instead of remaining a campus organization, as
most college groups do, this one went afield; and is perhaps
best described as an off-campus sisterhood or sorority.
Born in a college atmosphere the P. E. O.'s have been
staunch friends of education and have accumulated a student
loan fund of nearly three-quarters of a million dollars which
is used to enable worthy and needy young women to complete
their college education. The national organization also spon
sors a junior, college which is located in the state of Missouri.
While this educational fund is the major activity of the or
ganization;, its chief value to members lies in cultivating a
cultural tone among its members, promoting good fellowship,
and in sustaining high ideals among women.
The rational organization numbers now about 65,000
members. The seat of the order remains at Mt. Pleasant and
its principal membership is in the middle states: Iowa, Ne
braska, Missouri, Illinois; but chapters have spread both
east and west and Oregon has now 50 chapters. These are
meeting in state convention in Salem this week, with Salem
Chapter AB, one of the two groups here, as hostess chapter.
Sessions are held in Waller hall and the delegates are being
entertained at the Marion.
v. A body of cultured, intelligent and purposeful women,
the P. E. 0. will be warmly welcomed in the capital city ; and
the husbands of members (branded B. I. L.'s by their wives)
will exert themselves to help entertain the guests.
An Oregon Grass Roots Meeting
OREGON has its own grass-roots convention this week at
McMinnville ; a meeting, not of republican devotees such
as gathered at Springfield, but of the Oregon grange. No
political conclave will deal more seriously, sincerely or exten
sively with state problems than the grange group.
Despite the repeated refutations of its leaders, the Pa
trons of Husbandry have a flare for politics. The organiza
tion maintains a strong legislative lobby. It initiates and at
tacks ballot measures, priding itself on defeating the sales
tax and putting through the hydroelectric amendments to
the state constitution. If the grange does not openly endorse
political candidates, it lets its
on office seekers.
In all this activity, The
much good. The right of 20,000 organized farmers to take
stands on public questions is unquestioned. While there are
i policies espoused by the grange with which we cannot see eye-
to-eye, we have full admiration for the serious-minded man
ner in wliich the grange goes into public questions.
Because of the political importance of the grange, the
annual address, its master and leading spirit, has the aspects
of a party platform. Filling 21 loosely printed pages, the
statement ranees from booze
tions. We herewith summarize Mr. Gill's speech since it mir
rors the stand of an organization continuously active and im
portant in the state's political life:
Continuation of AAA as a temporary program; the entire
idea of regimentation is repugnant to the farmer and the prog
ress of agriculture depends upon increased domestic consump
tion of farm products and increased exports.
Shorter hours for labor are, approved but higher prices for
farm products are necessary if the farmer is to work less,
r t Taxes on farmers should be lessened by greater economy in
government, by higher income and inheritance taxes by removal
of personal property tax offsets from the state income tax. Farm
era should -be allowed to work out delinquent taxes on the roads.
Sub-marginal lands should be retired but counties must be
protected leet sale of such properties and timber holdings to
federal government too greatly reduce assessed valuations.
Regulation of interstate bus. truck and water transportation
threatens to raise transportation rates and thus is opposed by
the grange. Public ownership of some railroads as yardsticks is
needed to determine equitable rates.
Development of monopolies is adding to the cost ot all goods
the farmer purchases. Monopoly of all kinds should be opposed
as monopolies lead to the concentration of wealth.
The revolving pension plan has accomplished at least one
good ; it has focused pnblic attention on the need for old-age
pensions. A national old-age pension act providing some retire
ment allowance to all persons over 60 without an annual income
of $2400 should be passed.
American grown farm products should be protected by tariff
against foreign-grown food importations.
Control of all money and credit should lodge with the state
and federal governments.
The veterans' bonus should be paid in full in greenbacks;
munitions budgets should be curtailed and the entire manufac
ture of navy and army equipment should be a government mon
opoly. The grange heartily endorses the continuation of the county
agent system of the home demonstration agent, of the state de
partment of agriculture.
An urgent need in the state is the organization in each
county of rural power districts and their connection with a state
owned distribution system. Oregon's entire dependence on the
.-, federal government for power lines from Bonneville is hazard
ous. Oregon faces an era of development: it must replace some
of its crops with, more profitable plantings; it must cater to and
provide for tourist trade.
The liquor business is an economic waste: the use of al
cohol strikes at the foundation of American life the home. It
was never Intended that state stores should be used as sales
forces to push, the sales of hard liquor.
Gambling; and betting In all forms are companions of the
lienor traffic. The grange seeks legislation to weed out these
' CTil.
Xower interest rates for farm borrowings are ardently en
dorsed along with legislations to star off debt foreclosures.
; Cooperative associations, both for the manufacture of farm
products, and for sale of retail goods, are strongly endorsed.
The grange supports federal aid for schools from income
r taxes. It endorses aU worthy movements. It objects to a com-
puisory vote on me county nan pian.
While offering no support to organizations seeking polit-
leal changes by violence, the grange opposes all legislative re-
- straining the rights of free citizens to free speech.
. .- . A one-house legislature composed ot not less than 40 mem
TrTrbertr Is 'endorsed." "-rr-,v ---vr--!r "- - t
nmi
members know its preferences
Statesman sees no harm and
to banking to the bonus ques
The Great
Game of
Politics
By FRANK R. KENT
Copyright 1935. by The Baltimore 8ns
The Dauntless Tugwell
Washington, June It.
ONE significant result ot the
more or less momentous develop
ments of the last two weeks is the
clarity with which it was shown
that as between Mr. Roosevelt and
the New Deal on one side and the
Supreme Court with the Constitu
tion on the other, the country as
a whole was strongly with the lat
ter. RECOGNITION of this came
swiftly to Mr. Roosevelt and the
White House strategists. It took
an exceedingly quick retreat, ac
companied by some more than us
ually saccharine journalistic ex
plaining to swing the President
away from the danger of that po
sition and avoided an issue the
hot end of which he had too im
pulsively clutched. Not more than
two days' reaction was needed to
make it plain that the NRA de
cision was a popular decision.
Neither the bellicose bellowing of
self-seeking labor leaders about
wages and hours, ner the plaint
ive bleating of bewildered politi
cians and publicity directors
about the effect on recovery was
sufficient to conceal that relief
rather than resentment was the
dominant public emotion.
o
DISCOVERY of these facts was a
considerable 6hock to the more
sparkling members of the Brain
Trustt Including many of the
young, bumble puppy New Deal
lawyers, who had such a merry
time drawing the New Deal bills,
and to whom the idea that they
were all wrong from the start
never occurred. Had not Dr.
Frankfurter himself advised that
there was no danger of any up
set if the court decisions could
be held off for two years? Had
not Hugh S. Johnson, in person,
frequently consulted with Justice
Braudels about the NRA? Was
not Mr. Roosevelt the cleverest
politician and most charming man
who ever sat In the White House?
Firmly convinced of all these
things, -when the blow came, it
Jarred them badly. It seemed
they could not "take it." De
spondency prevails now where
once confidence bubbled. Faced
with the unshakable reality that
national planning as conceived
and undertaken by the New Deal
ers cannot be carried oat under
our Constitution, whole shoals of
these Intellectual academic ama
teurs, who for two years hav been
running this country, have lost
heart. They are, at the moment,
a groggy lot.
HOWEVER, it is pleasant to re
cord that, with his government!
soulmates whimpering in corners
and gulping political aspirin.
there is one of this noble band
of brothers perhaps the most
scintillating of them all, author
of that mouth-filling but moth-
eaten phrase, "the More Abund
ant Life," Invenior of "he Third
Economy" there is one of them
not only undismayed but out on
the track, all ready to start run
ning in a new direction. This, of
course, Is none other than Dr.
Rexford Guy Tugwell, the speedy
young under secretary of agri
culture, who has now been in
trusted by the President with
Borne $600,000,000 or it may be
$900,000.000 with which he is
to embark upon a great new ex
periment to wipe out poverty and
overcome depression.
SO FAR from being downhearted,
the professor is reported by vera
cious chroniclers as at the very
top of his form, ready for the
race of his life. The friendly Mr
Ray Slapper announces in the
Washington Post that Mr. Tug
well has taken on a press agent
Up to now the doctor has been
his own press agent and, It one
counts up the number of magazine
articles he has landed and the
publicity he has achieved for his
books, quite an effective one. That
he feels unable to adequately
handle the publicity for this new
scheme is an indication of its
scope.
SOME idea of its vast extent is
conveyed by the certainly not un
friendly Mr. Paul Mallon, who
writes that: "Unnoticed, Dr. Tug
well Is organizing a headquarters
here which will employ ZOoO of
fice workers in a year. He ex
pects to have 4000 more employes
in the field by then."
This, it will be conceded. la
quite a tidy number for one man
to put on the pay roll in 12
months particularly In an ad
ministration pledged to cut down
the cost of government. Continu
ing. Mr. Mallon writes that the
doctor "will purchase between
50.000,000 and 100.000.000 acres
of land. This area,, if consoli
dated, would equal half the state
of Texas, and, within a few
months he expects to begin put
ting unestimated thousands to
work on the land, planting grass
and trees, terracing, ditching.
Poor persons in the area will be
resettled'."
THERE you f re. Nothing can stop
the nroressor. Undanntel h the
Supreme Court, untroubled by
doubts fthont himself, unmlndfnl
of the ditch into which )the New
Deal has been driven, -with the
full confidence of the President
and more of the taxnavers' tnonev
than anybody ran count, he la go
ing to "mage ns over" or die try
Jng.
GUARDSMEN LEAVE
RICKREALL, June 12. Law
rence Dew, Milton Frink, Grant
and Leland Adams, aU members
of Company L, Oregon National
Guard left Dallas Tuesday tor
Camp Murray, where they will be
for two weeks.
FICKIXG EARLY PEAS
GRAND ISLAND, June 12.-
I Twelve men. women and children
are employed picking three acres
of early peas grown at the Harold
Tompkins farm. They are being
f marketed for three cents a pound.
Bits for B
Bj R. J. HENDRICKS
View from window of
Bunker Hill monument
by a Salem man in 1879:
V Is
If any reader ot The States
man recalls an article of Dr. L.
L. Rowland In The Statesman of
April 4. 1879, he (or she) will
no doubt bo glad to reread It
1.
Dr. Rowland had. Sept. 9 of
the year before, completed his
four year -term as the first elect
ed state superintendnt ot public
instruction for Orgon, and he
was, on bis long contemplated
Journey to the east and to old
world points on a study tour last
ing two years.
What he wrote began:
"This sacred pUe of massive
granite, within whose dome I
stand, was here erected to empha
size and perpetuate an import
ant chapter in American history;
but it shall answer for me just
now another pleasing purpose.
S
"Here from this- lofty cham
ber so peculiarly quiet, all above
the din of noisy streets and clat
tering cars, I enjoy a bird's eye
view of all these points and plac
es previously visited.
'In elaborate detail has been
examined, studied and enjoyed
much of what now in aggregate
lies spread out before me.
"It is a real feast of soul to
look abroad through these quaint
observatory windows and rest and
reflect. I shall not, however, at
present, labor especially to give
reflections.
'Instead of this, I shall endeav
or to jot down a hasty description,
however rough-hewn, of what of
interest falls within my view.
S S
'From this north window (be
ginning as I did of yore in the
study of geography) I see spread
before and beneath me much of
Charlestown, one of the oldest and
most interesting little cities in the
country. Yonder on the left is
Maiden and near it are Rerere
and Everett.
"At the right Is Chelsea, con
nected" with Charlestown by the
long Chelsea bridge. How admir
ably this great city, or rather this
great aggregation of cities, has
all its parts and dependencies en
chained together by these splen
did highways.
S
"Boston loses nothing by this
outlay. She grows rich on such
extravagance. Such prodigal liber
ality toward her humbler neigh
bors has made her the great em
porium of all New England. Such
giving can never impoverish. I see
The Safety
Valve
Letters from
Statesman Readers
To the Editor:
The author of this article is
a ' nard sneir republican, in
every political campaign, from
William McKJnley to Herbert
Hoover, I havo consistently vot
ed, worked and contributed money
for the success of the republican
ticket. A single exception, how
ever, should be noted here. In the
November elections of 1934, I
vaulted the political fences for
the first time in my life, and
cast my ballot for General Charles
H. Martin, democrat, for governor
of this state.
Approximately 115,000 others
of the electorate viewed the situ
ation as I did, and uniting our
political strength at tje ballot
box, boosted General Martin into
the governor's chair, by the plur
ality of 25,000 votes. At the ex
piration of five months in office,
who is there among this vast ma
jority of Oregon citizens who re
pents of what he did? What, If
anything, may I ask In fairness,
is the matter with the Martin
administration to date?
How many heads of the vari
ous state departments have been
dismissed from office, and their
subordinates turned out on bunch
grass under the Martin regime,
to make room' for patronizing
democrats and build up a politi
cal machine? Doubtless there are
scores ot persons In the various
departmental offices who neither
worked nor voted for Governor
Martin in the last election; but
have kept their jobs because they
are efficient, and because habitu
al changes in the working per
sonnel is vastly expensive to the
taxpayers.
What about Governor Martin s
firm stand in handling the strike
of lumber workers within the last
(0 days? Did not the governor
make good his campaign pledge
to maintain law and order? I haz
ard the suggestion here, that if
Governor. Martin had not clamped
down on the striking mill men,
nipping their plans in the bud by
serving notice he would call out
the militia, Oregon would right
now be passing through the same
demonstration of hell it passed
through a year ago, when a hand
ful of communists intimidated
every law enforcement agency of
the state, and trampled on the
general public with hob nails In
their boots.
Now a gentleman comes along
by the name of Boyer and in
forms the general public there is
a move on to recall Governor Mar
tin. It's the. second time we've
heard this hoknm within the
space of 90 days. It was first
sprung at a Townsend rally at
Silverton, but the threat has col
lapsed like a deflated blimp; and
the recall that's In the offing now
will likewise collapse. The san
est elements of citizenship . we
have in Oregon know that Gov
ernor Martin Is one of the finest
executives this state over had,
and they have all got sense
enough to let well euough alone.
ALLEN O. HESS,
Balem.
Mast
tea
now more forcibly why so man?
of our business men in Salem are
pleading for brldgo and railway
connection with their surround
ings. "a
"Nearly over and some of the
distance beyond Chelsea I see
Lynn, especially celebrated for lti
extensive manufacture of shoes.
"Near Chelsea bridge stands
the TJ. S. marine hospital, with lti
varied and extensive appertain
ing. "The terminal end of the low
point of land extending away to
the right is Nahant, an important
point in the boundary of Boston
harbor.
W
"How charmingly beautiful ap
pear all these little cities, bask
ing today in a warm sun from a
clear, bright sky. I am glad that
today 'everything is blithe, Jo
cund and jovial,' with not 'a speck
to stain the azure heaven.' I can't
forget this picture.
S
"The east window reveals the
navy yard on the left, readily dis
tinguished by the -large machine
shops, ship houses, etc., the chim
ney on the foundry rising, as I
am told, 239 feet.
"The dry dock, constructed en
tirely of hewn granite, is so ca
pacious as to afford room for
the largest ships, measuring 385
feet In length, 100 feet in width
and 33 feet in depth.
"W S
"Turning my eye to the right,
there passes under review the
point where the British troops
were landed for the conflict on
Bunker hill. Mystic river, ot leg
endary fame; East Boston, whose
site was formerly called Noddle's
island but latterly Wilnam's; the
Atlantic iron works, with their
enormous ships; the Curand
steamers, on one of which I sail
soon for Glasgow; and George's
island, on which is the strong
fortress, Fort Warren, named for
the renowned hero of this battle
field. "
. "Beyond George's island, in the
dim distance, I see the Long is
land lighthouse, and Btill farther
beyond and in the yet dimmer
distance is seen the Boston light
house. Extending further to the
right, my vision rests on Castle
island, on which stands Fort In
dependence, and on which, in a
dungeon still remainlg, was in
carcerated the celebrated Stephen
Burroughs.
"To the right of this is seen
Thompson's island, whereon Is
located the well known Farm
school. They here use gentle
words and gentle names as well,
b S S
"Besides all these, here, there,
and elsewhere, all throughout this
vast 'watery plain,' are scattered
beautiful little gems of island's.
"Magnificent harbor! I wonder
not that the Bostonians claim it
to be 'one of the best, most com
modious and beautiful in the
world.'
"But I was about to omit men
tioning the celebrated ropewalk.
the longest and most perfect In
the world, measuring 1750 feet in
length. Here is manufactured all
the rope, or every size, sort and
style, used in the U. S. navy.
"While my eye rests upon this
immense factory and Its neighbor
ing establishments, I remember
being told of the thousands who
toil on here from day to day with
out the slightest ray of hope of
either future rest or competence
for age.
"Then when I think of the many
thousands of homes in Oregon,
little fortunes in themselves, that
may be had for the taking. I feel
like turning missionary and en
deavoring to persuade these stur
dy sons of toil to go west, where
the poor are not
" 'Forced to grind the bones
out of their arms
For bread, but have some space
to think and feel
Like moral and immortal crea
tures.' "
(Continued tomorrow.)
AT GRAND LODGE
DAYTON, June 12. Roas Cru-
iksbank, Leonard Goodrich and
Fred Matches are the delegates
for Jacob Mayer lodge No. 108
A. F. and A. M. of Dayton to the
grand lodge in session in Port
land. Mrs. Herman Louis. Harry
Sherman, Mrs. W. S. U'Ren and
Herman Louis are the delegates ot
Electa Chapter No. 29 Eastern
Star.
SMART AT SCHOOL
KINGWOOD, Jane 12. James
Smart, jr., is the only 4-H club
member from this Immediate lo
cality attending the annual club
school at Oregon State college.
Young Smart won the scholarship
from the Valley Packing company.
Twenty Years A90
Jane IS, 1013
Tickets are now on sale for Sa
lem's Chautauqua to be held July
5-11.
Archie Holt is home after vis
iting relatives In Portland.
The aviators of two enemy air
planes dropped bombs on three
Roman cities yesterday killing
one woman.
Ten Years A30
Jane 13, 1025
Yesterday a terrific storm swept
through St. Paul, Minnesota, tak
ing one life, injuring- 20, and
damaging property estimated at
$500,000.
Dr. B. H. White has returned
from Longvlew, Washington,
where he attended the joint con
vention of the Oregon and Wash
ington Osteopathic association.
L A rock hurled through the win
dow of a south bound Oregon elec
trie train last night' caused Mrs
W. H. South ot Orville to be taken
to the New Salem hotel suffering
from injuries to her head and
eyesy-ctrtuedr by- flying glass.-. -
"ThatPanzmaW
00' WB, STRAWS
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IHl few fmtvrxfjviMf, T; Cm
"WHOSE WIFE?"
CHAPTER XIX
Betty shook the spell of the
crooning voice off with an effort
"Snap out of it. Saky." she said.
Let'a get back to everyday things.
Come on now, forget aU that voodoo
of your."
"I caint forget voodoo. Miss
Betty, "cans voodoo caint forget
me," said the old Negress with a
dignity and a queer fatalism.
"Well, anyway," Betty was nerv
ous. "You can't get out of answer
ing my questions that way. Come
on, now. Yon have been calling op
someone on the phone, haven t
rou?"
"No, Miss Betty, I haven't Some
one called mo heah."
"What do yon mean, someone
eailed you here? Who could have
done that? You've got no friends
here."
lt were your ancle Mr. Cyras
that called me, Miss Betty."
"What?" Betty almost shrieked
the word.
"Yes, Hiss Bettyand what's
more, he come up heah to see old
Suky."
"Wen, for heaven's sake," Betty
at down on the edge of the bed.
"That's a great note eo Uncle Cy
rus came Bp here to see yon. I sup
pose he wanted to pump yon as to
my friends, and my comings and go
ings, did he?"
"No. Miss Betty," Suky was mild.
'He never asked me a thing about
vou at all."
"Well then, for goodness sake
what did be come for?"
"Ht wanted to know something
about Mr. Wilbur Renton," said
Suky quietly.
Betty stared at her old black
maid as though she bad never seen
her before. She could scarcely
credit ber own ears with the news
which they had just heard, and
were asked to believe.
"What en earth could yon ten him
about Mr. Renton, Suky?" she!
asked simply. "What do yon know
about biro anyway ?"
"I knows plenty. Miss Betty."
And Suky sicked up frock that
was) to be- pressed, and quietly
walked from the room.
The rest jot that morning bad
:sjone 'badly for TJetty She bad
puzzled ever tl strange attitude
of Suky and the- startling- news that
he issd wsdpBd. Jtl the news
rpaparefSee, Cke-city ad!tar bad beam
like a. bear with a son bead, and
bad -become sarcastic in -asking bar
whether she tfeeaghttbafapex "was
sa vine iter rast far Iter 'looks- fine
tad tamed rt ssfc-atasy on a lost
Child, whkh Tckad nmsriliB te ber
an print, and bad resamped a tragic
tale of a tire and the homeless fan
Biea. "Then she had put on her
close-fitting little turban, and bad
gona out to lunch, refosirtg the
usual eoupls of invitations shouted
at her across the room from be
neath rreea eye-shades set at an
angle. She felt that she couldn't
eat a thing if she bad to sit across
the table trom anyone who gam
ered news as a business is of a
hex idea of a perfect escort, at the
moment, weald havt been a deaf
mute -
She walked to a favorite tittle
hide-away restaurant, and forced a
smile for the bowing headwaiter.
At hex request be placed her at a
small table for two, in sa inconspic
uous spot Site ordered, and sat
tbinkmsr and starnur Into space.
A fat jolly voice brought her back
to herself.
"Hello, hello, hello." it chortled.
If it isnt Betty Oh Bee-utiful
Newspaper Gal in pussonl"
Without looktmr no -whs knew
whs belonged to that voice, and
wearilv she answered it
"Hullo, Bobbie." she said. "Bow
are voaT -
"WeU. well, wen," he said; and
appropriated the extra chair at her
table, "iiow-ve yoaDeenr
-Betty mind worked otricklv. She
knew perfectly well that Bobbie
Nichols, tfat rossip gatherer, the
talker par excellence did not like
tirr and with reason I She knew
that ever since she bad slapped his
face for aa uncalled tor rudeness
os his part,' Nichols had bated
her, had called her that red-headed
vixen.' and had bees act to get ber
into trouble in any way he could.
Her mick hsaia said her thai this
seeming friendliness ahjs - part
must be assumed, that he had some
thing he wanted te tell, and that it
would probably be something that
she would rather not hear hence
his eagerness to tell it.
"Hello. Bobbie.' she repeated.
and smiled at him her most bewitch
ing smile. "What do yon know?"
"Oh I This and that he laughed.
"1 hear you're on the Vane murder
case kind of a boost and a lack for
you, ehT"
"What do you mean?" Bettv
managed to keep ber smile.
"WelL a boost from the naner
angle, and a kick from the social 1"
Bobby was pleased with MmmW,
Oh . . . I don't know." She tried
to sound casual. whOe her hand
"The aaaioteai old bird aaU ha had
itched to repeat the slap aha had
gtven him ones before.
"I heard a mat one last jilhi.
Bobby leaned forward in the favo
rite attitude of the scaadal-nonger.:
Welt go on. Tefl it, kind sir,
tea it" Betty hated herself as she
catered to his self love, but she felt
that she most do It under these
Strang circumstances. For she was
s newa-hotmd oaths scan.
WhstH you give to know?"
Bobbie leered at ber across the little
table.
"IH stake yon to a beef-steak
dinner," she laughed at Mwn, in ap
parent camaraderie.
"Done!" he cried. "For a beef
steak Bobbie will tell alll"
As the waiter left after the new
order had been placed. Betty could
not resist leaning forward with ill-
concealed eagerness.
"Come on, Bobbie," she begged.
"Come across. What do you know ?"
"Interest of the Newspaper Gal
or of Betty the Daring Debu
tante?" Bobbie's sneer was not
well hidden.
Betty flushed, dear op to her red
hair. Then cos trolled her- temper.
and managed to say: '
"Newspaper Gal, darling-. I'm
"Okay, Kid! Bobbie's the man to
give it to yoti and howl" Bis in
tention was plain, and Betty winced
aa aba waited far the news this
slimy seeker after hidden things
would giaaiy give ber.
"Go ahead," she said bravery.
Tm dying to hear. Bobbie." -"Welt'
ha mouthed the words
with relish. "I was down ia the Vil
lage the ether night at a wow of a
party, and the good old host ran out
of what it takes, so he and I went
over to a little drug store to get the
wherewithal. And--" ho looked at
her wide-eyed, and paused dramati
cally
"Go on," she begred. Tm breath-
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Goofy"
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He paused to receive the steak,
to look it over with meticulous care,
to serve himself, to take a bite and
relish it and then, but not till then.
Leon tinned deliberately:
ff MTTT . . . . - , ' . . . . .
ncu. ai mis ucvie ota arog
store I got to talking to the quaint
est old bird the chemist he said
he was, near-cighted aa an owl ia
the san and he begins on the Vane
ease."
"No!" she gasped. "What did he
say?"
seems that he bad sold a bottle of
veronal to Vane a few nights before
the murder told me all about it he
did awf ally pleased that the great
artist had stopped to talk to him
sold a battle el sleep snedtciae to
Uld had told him hi mma fw.
rnc Van. Arf km'i fhm
The old gay avas worried as to
wnauar aa oagnt to x to the po
aee with what ha knew."
"What Aid vtm tell Ua RthHL
uercy was
I told him 1a bm Via nvm liulm.
meat" Babbie laurhed. Thrt.
safe enough I don't think the old
"Bobbie. .m an attrmAA h
he was sure it was Lawrence Vane
that bought Itr
Betty rose hurriedly.
"I must ffO." she said. Thanlra
for telling me I'll settle for yours
irm wv j w y wmv saaeaaasa a c vs aa
smile. "You know I'm a newspaper
woman," she told him. "and news
comes first"
Conflict started In the mind of
Betty such sa never before hid been
experienced by her. What to do?
Newananer woman ar tnt
woman f What to dot
She walked rapidly, anseeingly
down the Avenue, fighting it out
within herself. At last she turned
into a shop, and went directly to the
pnouo telephone. Alter all. news
was her business in life.
Her face -was set aa ah nnt In hr
nickel and gave the number of her
omc to report so the city desk.
Aa she waited, she realized to the
full just what this would mean, not
only to her paper, bat to the man
sne iovea. to The paper it would
mean money; to him it would mean
further trei-r and inmia Dnttr
on tho one side, love on the other.
Her path lay clear. The voice of
her city editor answered her.
2 "Hello I" she said. -This Is Betty
Potter on the Vane case. I've
been out all the mnrninw ... and
k I haven't heard a thing."
(To Be Continued)
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