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'PAGHTOUH The CnZGON STATESilAlJ, Salea, Oreca, TisrsJay Ildixlss, July 23, ItZS Founded itss "ATo Faror Sways Us; No Fear ShaU Atc" ft From lint Statesmss, Marc 2t. 1SS1 ;THE SfATESMAN PUBLESHING Ca Charles A. Snuc - - Kd&mrSiaumsar Sheldon V. Sacuett. - UvtagwgJSii&r V Member of the Tho Associated Press Is exclusively ntlUcd to Dm vam for pubRea tion of all news Clspetrhss credited to It or not stborwiao endued to Uiia paper. - - Secretary Wallace Visits the Northwest j THE northwest has been honored with a visit from the sec retary of agriculture, Henry A. Wallace, who gave an ad-1 dress Saturday night in Seattle before the Business and Fro- ' fessional Women's convention; and Monday in WaHa Walla before an audience of fanners, merchants and professional men and women. In Seattle Mr. Wallace read a prepared ad-1 dress in which he outlined his political T&ilosophy while in' Walla Walla he spoke more directly to farmers in defense of the agricultural adjustment program in a tariff -ridden so briety. Wallace is the most philosophical member of the cab- 'inefc. His previous speeches and writings 'revealed a frank- ness, a spirit of intelligent inquiry rather than a dogmatic formula for problem-solving. In his V America Must Choose" he pointed out forcefully and lucidly the difficulty of main taining farm exports when the nation became a creditor na tion and refused to adjust its tariff to permit compensatory imports. In the Seattle address and in ihe WaHaHTalla ad dress one sees that Wallace's defense of the AAA is chiefly as counterpoise to a protective tariff for industry, and an in timation agriculture would surrender its special benefits if industry would yield its tariff subsidies. The Seattle address was an elaboration of other doc trines which Secretary Wallace has previously proclaimed, together with a very pointed application of his philosophy to - the present political stalemate over the constitutional bar riers to centralized control. The titlcwas "In Search of New Frontiers". It deserves careful reading, because it is -earnest, carefully thought out, and is as clear a statement of the new deal position as has been made by anyone in nigh authority. Developing the idea that our western frontier was long the "social safety valve" for the American people, Wallace goes on to say: "But omi a continent U conquered, once tbe frontier la fM ud the country begins to fill up, trouble begins. The prime requisite for a suc cessfully operating, competitive capitalism abundant resources and rel atively few people to use them has disappeared. Other forces which seen laherent la capitalism begin to operate. Competition for natural resources becomes dangerous to national welfare. Capitalistic survival of tbe fittest may come to mean merely survival of the shrewdest or tbe luckiest. Ec onomic freedom, if it means freedom to amass millions upon millions of dUara, freedom for a few to control tbe economic destinies of millions of their feUow-citizes!, must end in a species of despotism which no society can tolerate. When tbe frontier is gone, capitalism's traditional emphasis en the Individual as an unrestricted money-making saachine collides with new realities, the chief of which is that in a modern, settled land, with Us delicate economic machinery and its obligations of interdependence, every 'man cannot do wholly as-he pleases." We have lost too, he says, a "unifying force" in the pass ing of the frontiers Possible substitutes for national unifica tion of spirit are outside conquest, war, monetary inflation, communism, fascism, all of which he dismisses as socially undesirable; and then he raises the question; which he pro ceeds to answer : "Is there somewhere a new frontier which can provide the necessary national unity?" "1 am convinced that there is. and I believe It win be found In the long struggle to achieve an economy of abundaace. The physical base is obvious. We know that technology has made abundance possible, and that Increasing numbers of people are aware that tads is so. The real struggle will be in the domain of tbe mind and spirit. The test will come when tbe mea are asked to obey the implications of economic interdependence, and to substitute cooperation for conflict as the basic rule of their economic life. "No one has the blueprints for this frontier. No one can say how long it WIS take us to conquer it, or whether. In truth, we can conquer it. But t top short i f an attempt, to ait supinely by. paralysed by the cruel raox of want in the midst of plenty, would be to stamp us as a nation mentally defeated and spiritually impoverished "In the path of any substantial program to improve our economic situation s.nd devf'.op a national unity of purpose, we shall find soch ob stacles as these: the fact of ECONOMIC OLIGARCHY In a POLITICAL IjKHOCHACY ; the fact of continual warfare among Individuals and groups far larger slices of the national income, and for bigger helpings of gov. ersnaental power : the fact of economic imbalance between major produc ts .groups ; and, finally, the possibility that the federal government May toe powerless, under prevailing interpretations of the Constitution, to ' 1 deal with economic oligarchy, with conflicts between groups, or with ec onomic unbalance. "When one economic group profits from the use of governmental pow ers, the remaining groups may have to fight for comparable powers In self-defense. Until 133 neither labor nor agriculture, however, was very successful in gaining the ear of government Wiiat they were unable to ob tain by governmental aid, tbey tried to obtain by tbe advantages of vol untary organization. Even in this field tbey were tampered fey tbe gov ernmental powers already possessed by basiness, and by the dominance . of business influence m government. -The legislation of 1931 attempted to equalise the arovernmental pow ers possessed by ea-ti group. Many of us believed ttuu it would be pos- siWe for all these groups to so use their governmental powers that profit . would be the reward for abundant balanced production, rather than the reward for clever bargaining and the economics of scarcity. Our hopes hwe been fulfilled only in part, and for reasons with which you are fasailiar." Turning directly to the application of the idea of re storing a balance between agriculture and industry, Wallace characterized the processing tax as the farmers' tariff "but a tariff to be used only within the limitations of justice to the consumer." He expressed the belief that agriculture "will enthusiastically get out of it (the tariff game) the moment industry and labor give some indication that they are ready to reduce tariffs 'on industrial products when the prices of those products are maintained by tariffs above the pre-war relationship." He also defended crop curtailment on the ground that it had not deprived American consumers of any food, but had withdrawn production of crops for which the foreign market had fallen off. Facing the grave question of whether the AAA will meet ,. the tests of constitutionality Mr. Wallace spoke dispassion ately, without definite commitment but nonetheless with a fifnjness cf conviction: J" "At this pobit a question arises: Can any great group, such as ag riculture or labor, legally use governmental powers to correct economic unbalance, or can the whole people, through government, legally defend - themselves against either economic oligarchy or tbe chaos that results tnm the continual battling of conflicting groups? In other words, is c n Hemic self -government in these United States coiMtit nttooal ! Is it gate to be possible for the great key economic decisions to be made by all who ' will be affected by such decisions, or must those decisions be left in the hands of the few at the top? Soch ojuestions must oe raised today feecaas when farmers and la boring mea ask for a delegation of federal power eprivaijt to tbe tariff - er the corporate form of organization, tbey are in danger of being met by soma such statement as this: 'It is sot the province of the court to consider economic advantages or disadvantages of onch a centralised sys - tern. It ts sufficient that the federal constitution does net provide for it.' -There will be many to disagree with that xiew. There wlB be even . 'more who will agree tbat snaay of ear economic problems today are na tional, mad that national problems can only tie attacked and solved na tteoally. The depression did not afflict only Seattle, Chicago, and- New It It did not descend upon Iowa and leave -Pennsylvania -untouched. . . .Why pretend that it did? "Now that the nation is approaching- maturity, we face the necessity of discovering that principle of unity which provides most fairy and justly the basis for an enduring relationship of the several regions and groups . to the federal wnkm. It mast be a wnity which will allow abradant room tor diversity within it. and which will permit simultaneous centralisation sbhI decentralization. centralization of certain powers to permit a na tional approach to national problems, decentraHzattoa of certain admin istrative functions to permit a rebirth of democracy ta every township la the lawL "No one knows today with any certainty Just which. If anv, amend ments to the constitution may be necessary in order to pot such a principle of proper union into action. We da not know tbat k has not been pod it -i tally feasible to nee tbe federal unity of the United States since the World . war in any tnaaner tbat would persnit a fundamentally sound approach to ow long-run economic and political problems. Gradually the issue is being drawn. I hope it will be debated at length la .every convention, in every ' scUoolhovse, ef the Had." t It seems to us that Secretary Wallace builds. too much on his formula of the vanishing: frontier. The country had fully as acute periods of distress in the years when settle merit reached only to the Missouri river. The low density of population in this country as compared with many f orefgrn countries disproves the implication of loss of opportunity with the passing of the frontier. This paper has previously pointed out "new frontiers in industry which open op means of support for hundreds of thousands of people. Take the atf tomotive industry, beauty parlors, and radio for example. In ventive genius opened up these new frontiers which absorb in profitable employment far more people than a simple new agricultural area. : r ' y The challenge to "economic self-government' is Well put ; but the proposals of the new deal have been for the most part ill-conceived no matter how well intentioned they were. It. is by no means clear that because these new deal instrumental ities have been found unconstitutional that the federal gov ernment is devoid of essential powers to the degree that a drastic alteration of the. federal theory is necessary. , ' i The Statesman's challenge to Mr. Wallace and to Pres - ident Boosevelt Is to revert to traditional democratic theory and to reduce the tariff in ''"I&Zt Associated the direct effort to equalize the The Great Gcme of Politics By FRANK E. KENT- Caeyrick tSJS. y Te i No End To It - Washington. July St DESPITE -disbelief la tha sossd sVMa ot its policie! and : doubt about u via flora of tts lead er. It vosld be pleasant to Cud a o r te om mead ia UK Ho sertslt Ad xataixt ration thair tfca con duct of the So tuxitiea and Ex-ckangeCom-tniaxloa made? Ike capable Mr. Kennedy, and the Inflexible srlaeblni i tbe Baostentatioox Mr. Han. NEITHER ef these men cam fairly e described as a coartaced New Dealer. Except tbat tbey aUae be long to the human race, certainly tbey abaxe aetata vb&terer vita ronnx Dr. RexTord Turwell. vfce. dose to tbe President, naa been given U0 ., of the tax payers' znoaey with wblca to re alize his beautiful dream of sbllt ing oar population and changing the rand "until, as In an ecstatic moment, he once said, "erery kill -will be green and all tbe rivers bine." Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Hall have no more in com mon with Dr. Tugwell than they have with the goose-necked bat graceful fillle loo bird, famous for kit inability to alight. HOWEVER, this does not affect the desirability of finding more to commend, or the various rea sons this would be good. One Is that ft would soothe the souls ef many sensitive people who early pat Mr. Roosevelt on a pedestal and deeply resent failure to praise him. As bis prestige dim inishes and bis .policies become more confased, this resentment not unnaturally deepens because of the subconscious conviction that a mistake was made, and the apprehensions thus aroused. An other reason Is that it would be more agreeable to commend than to criticize and a relief particu larly in hot weather. Stm anoth er reason for trying to balance blame with praise is that it helps build a reputation fo. judicial lm partiality ana fairness, which is a very .good thing for a writer to have and vaccinates against the venomous attacks of those who construe everything to terms of personalities and believe that all criticism is dee either to personal hate, congenital malice or the corrupting influence of "Great Wealth." BUT, conceding the soundness of these reasons, bow is one to move in tbat direction without doing violence to convictions, intelli gence and self-respect? For ex ample, how is it possible to com mend, to follow or even under stand Mr. Harry Hopkins, head of the Works-Progress plan. Mr. Hopkins, it win be admitted, is the most important man in the whole Roosevelt regime import ant because, more than anyone else, he controls and directs tbe expenditure, in a single year, of $4,880.000.0e aa Incredible amount cf money, Impossible to couni, corral, visualize or eveni conceive. THE JOB of spending this sum has become tbe major Roosevelt program. Tbe-balance ef bis poli cies have either been knocked oat by the Supreme Court, or are like ly to be. The purpose of tbe four billions la to end tbe gigantic basiness of the dole npon which the Administration embarked two years ago. Mr. Hopkins bas now given notice that all this Is to end on November 1. The Government, by that time, win have, -he says, employment for eighty per cent of those now oa relief. The twenty per cent unemployables wUl be turned back to the States, every one of which, Mr. Hopkins as serts, is capable of taking care of its nnemployables. By Novem ber, headlines based on Mr. Hop kins' word proclaim again that the Government is to be out of the relief basiness. THE impression which this is designed to create is so foreign to the facts that it is bard to be patient - abent it. Mr. Hep kiss knows better. Mr. Hopkins knows that, in effect, all that this means Is a return on a gigantic and terrifically costly scale to the CWA project, which be himself indicted as satarated with waste, graft and inefficiency. It does not mean that the Gorernment will have ceased to support 20,ft",- 000 people on relief. It merely ateans that it has embarked npon a vastly more expensive way ef supporting ! eighty , per cent of them and will try to shift the balance over to the States an at tempt which Mr. Hopkins knew aa well as anyone la not going to be successful. THE terrible fact is that In the matter of confusion, lack of co ordination and lack of coherent thought, this so-called Works-Progress Administration outdistances an the others. Mr. Hopkins most conspicuous Works-Progress di rector in :The country's largest city, says of these plana, of which he is tally aware, that "when the money runs oat, the Jobs disap-4 pear and we win be Tight where we started with one-sixth of the tuUoa oa the dole." Pleasant as it would be to eommead. it Is im possible to do so ia nca t alia- ation and look one's self la the race." ! mTTTjiiUifciaiiiwww. I II I ill Frank X. Xoas balance between industry and -agriculture. We have con tended all along that when Pres. Roosevelt scuttled the ec onomic conference ia London in 1923 and adopted a policy of economic insularity he was making the wrong choice and the whole i, outline of Wallace's philosophy attests that he agrees with ns. Conditions have changed materially; but the administration should abandon its attempt at- alphabetically gyroscoping the internal economy by, undertaking a more reaiixUc procedure, which will require no strain, on the con stitntion, ae slurs on the court; and no experimentation in unsound economics, . Bits for Breakfast . . Dy C J. HENDRICKS Free mMaltrot" : J'X-' down Portland war mow - elate aoaoo locatJoaf. o . Frank Wlllmaa, long time Sa lem resident, high clsss decorator and painter, sow liriag Jit Is to be hoped only temporarily) in Portland, at TS N.E. Stanton street, seads to the 'desk of the Bits man what follows: IZ yoa please: I can wait no longer. So far ae one has asked aa opinion Xrdha sae, excepting the . intelligentsia and the cog noscenti that gather apoa the benches ia shady Dawson park, way np bore in Portland. , v v- V . "Not a line, post card, long dis tance phone call from the powers that be the governor, the plan- aing commission, chamber of commerce, Townsend dab or prominent cttisen Interested in the final location of a sew capi tol, yclept state house. "Hare riven ap hope tbat my mail each day would bo other than advice to ase only Johnson's wax, or phone, gas or lighting bill. So here goes for nay solution; to xne as ctaapU aad easy as grabbing the baby's candy: "Build It oa the plat of the one destroyed. "Ia ao ease go into Willson park. Keep that intact. S b 'Secure the two blocks. Spald-ing-MDes and the one next east, gas station corner. "Get them soon and held tor eventualities. "Keep Court and State streets always opea. -Now we have tbe opera hoase, eoart house, federal postcrfflce building, state house, law library, prison and state hospital on a right line east and west each one within walking distance r quick drlTe. "Railroad travel can get a fair rlew of the state hoase; auto tourists with little time to spare going through will not need to bant over the Bush pasture for a state house, nor ride ia circles to find It elsewhere than where It should be, for the farther reason of service. S Help keep the historic Willam ette university where ft is; and avoid chiseling in real estate on any property wheresoever, a V "Heretofore the so spat Oder so frah anf conM find his way home by knowing just where the state house was. "Bat aow, since we nave no saloons, how coald the 2 Alders find the way home with the state house in a wrong place? I ask you. s . 'fit at least the Spalding- Miioa hlock. and soon, then I will come up and build modern tennis courts as I did those for Frederick Lamport and Cartis Cross. "Here the employes single can play singles till they elect to play double, may be. "Older officials will get better exercise than nedalina aa accel erator, old man Angina Pectoris will stay in his hole, aad two lines of typewritten matter will rrnw where only one grew be fore. "Me for old friends, tennis courts and home made advice that I wiU give freely apoa call, as I am yet an amateur; but when I turn professional I shall, as the contingent fee lawyers do, charge 30 per cent, Q. E. D." s So ends the Willman letter. The writer takes it that, by "so spat Oder so fruh auf," with a dot over the u, he meaas, "so late or so early out" too stewed to make his way about, ia high or low German. The Bits man thinks Mr. Will man, however, is a little mixed on his straight Latin, or bog Lat in, and likely means P. D. Q., instead of Q. E. D. Quod erat d esMoaotrfcsvd an, as they sjsoke it la Rome, meant "which was to be proved." Every American knows what P. D. Q. means. J Twenty Ycarj A30 . Jaly 23. 19 IS The Arto-rrisco club girls of the Salem Artisan drill team re turn today with first honors from Oakland, Calif. - Editorial note: A good, clear sprace log is considered a mint ia Gray's Harbor country. The clear spruce is" needed in build lag airships. All the leaders at the Interna tional C. K. convention in Chicago declared tbat 2t years will bring national prohibition, and one went so far as to declare that In 1935 there will not be a single saloon oa the continent aorta ef the Mexican border. Ten Years Ago , Jnlv 23. 1923 Jack Detnpsey said ho was through with pic tares aad would devote himself to the fight game ia an Interview yesterday. One hand red Lions aad guests atteaded the annaal picnic at Lloyd Reynold's place north of Salem last aigfci. The Bo-etocklnc fad amoer to. men has kit Salem." .- Bat. erioakly. the . Bits man thinks the new capltol should be planned tor the future, when Ore gon will hare tea, twenty, thirty millions rbf people. Instead cf a scant or round xaimoa as aow. : V Also, the Bits man believes the state should own an office build ing in Portland and, eventually, one or more In eastern Oregon, and in southern and southeastern Oregon. , Just as California has a splen did office building in San Fran cisco, and a whole group of them ia Los Angeles, without anyone ia that state having the least sus picion that 8. T. or L. A. wants to steal the capital away from Sacramento. The Safety Valve Letters from Statesman Readers Opposes pardon To the Editor: Press dispatches announce that Governor Martin has set Aag- ust 2 as theidate upon which he will listen to argumeats of a delegation ot LeweUya A. Banks sympathizers, who are demand ing executive clemency for the man. now serving a' life term ia the ite penitentiary for second degree murder. Presumably, the governor wishes to display magnanimity and a spirit of fair play ia per mitting the petitioners to present their aide ot the story. It looks to me. however, that if the gov ernor does this, he win be using valuable time that might well be occupied to better advantage. Certainly the governor of this great stats can entertain so seri ous intention ot issuing a par don to Mr. Banks at this peculiar time, and when It comes to in vestigating the crime of the for mer Jackson county editor, to de termine "his eligibility for par don, there is absolutely nothing to investigate. The facts in the Banks murder case- are as patent to the gov ernor and to every citizen of the state, as the tawdry spots on a fall grown leopard every essen tial and minor detail of the crime having come under scrutiny in the Lane county trial of 1932, lasting almost a month. In the trial of Mr. Banks, the defendant was accorded every possible courtesy ot advantage, by those who had the prosecu tion in charge. He was granted a change of renee apoa request of his attorneys from Jackson to Lane county, to obviate every tea able group for prejudice; while the state voluntarily bore the ad ditional expense of transporting witnesses to Lane county, which was miles away from the seat of defendant's regmlar jurisdiction. If ever a trial was conducted in fairness, and a verdict of guilty arrived at ia justice, it was in the trial of LeweUya A. Banks. Yet. the governor is being asked to conduct as "investigation" of tbo ease, and bas given his eon seat to do so. Though Governor Martin shoold be in possession of all the information, it may not be amiss to again call his attention to the fact that, Lewellyn A. Banks was sentenced to a life term in the state penitentiary for mur der. Banks killed Constable George Prescott, not in self-de-tense, or in the heat of passion during a controversy; he killed Prescott in cold blood, as the of ficer was performing the plain duty of an officer of the law; and I submit, there is not a sin gle extenuating circumstance to be produced in his favor why he shoold be pardoned. For one, I am not In sym pathy with the sentiment mak ing the rounds hereabouts, that Lewellyn A. Banks is subject to attacks of Illusionary Judgment. His. affliction is more akin to moral hydrophobia, and the Med ford Daily News of which he was editor, dripped profusely with the sUmy froth of a police dog gone mad. It is only known to a few persoms that L. A. Banks is ia ersfeatry religious. He is auth ority for the statement,- that he eace received a call from God to preach the gospel of Christ. During his hel&aislng debut in Jackson county he read the bi ble dally,' always kaeellag in prayer with his left band -raised to heavea, while his right band gripped tightly the! ivory handles of an automatic pistol. The pis tol, we suppose, was a threat to Srorideace, that Baaks mast ' be given his own sweet way. Banks is now confirmed to the Institution 'where he rightfully belongs, aad Governor Martin should see to it that the state keeps him there. His report of an attempt to poison him at the prison Is only a clever ruse to stimulate the lapressloa that he Is mentally unbalanced, and should be given his freedom. Allen O. Hess. Teachers are Due Home Prom School Studies in South SILVEBTON, July 14. Miss Masy Townly is expecting her son. Gay DeLay, home from Pas adena where he went early ia Jane to attend tao Commaalty ptaty . boaso coarse for the sum mer.' Mr. DeLay has writ ten that he enjoyed Tils work la dramatic classes very much. Ho and ata sister-who lives at Los Angeles, plan to attend the San Diego fair before Mr. DeLay Teiaras to Sll verton ' where he is drama tie coach at the . high school. - Miss Muriel Bentson, SThrertoo teacher, who attended simmer- Bcheol la Los Angelas, plana to remain In the south until school opens kerf. - . 3 'THE SNOW LEOPARD" CHAPTER Zm jMuuuscer's on easiness grew wnea aaren : remarked that tbe stiletto had disappeared from the aquarium and asked if Detective Toole had taken It it "TubIk haxnt touched it," h rep&sd, draw-J xnr oer away a nttls further from her fatner and Hod. "If ems of to oerraats bad found it, Meyers would bars known. Has Contain Va I -s . m oojie Been np uters since this artor- noonT" "No. But be seemed U be terribiy angry with air. Toole aboot some thing srhea ho called tarn evening. He ridiculed th whole idea of the Pfhipple Syndicate hsrvins; anything to do " She paused apon hearing the but ler's voice at the door. A house servant with a verbal message for Mr, Sire," he awoaaced. "I in structed him to remain in the corri dor Captain Boyle has ordered the policemen to scrutinise every per sou who enters the apartment.' Dick left Karen's side instantly. "Let me go," he said. Bat Sire already bad started for the door. His eyes flashed apprecia tion to Bannister, bat be seemed in ' different to the danger implied ia the offer. A portentous silence fell npoa the others when Sire left the room. Some 1 impalpablo mmacs baner tipoa tao air. A light speech that Karen had started fluttered like a struck bird and fell, it seemed, to the carpet. A strange, frightened little cry es caped her lips. Dick started for the door, but paused almost at the threshold and began to back slowly into the room. An instant later Maurice Sirs re entered, erect, stiffly precise ia his gait, but with a face preternaturally pale. "Gentlemen," he said ruietly, "I am going to ask yea to loawo ns im mediately. I have something impor tant to say to my daughter." His bow was unmistakable it meant instant dismissal. Meyers was immobile as usual when he opened the foyer door far the Bannisters, although bo threw a weary glance towand the police man, now flagrantly ansoesaas; in an armchair, his pistol bolster swing ing like m black pcadnbxm with the measured sBorsnvenis of his midriff. Mam ieo Sirs hod not fella wed them to the door. When Karen re turned to him a moment later, he said: "little girl, dont be alarmed. Ten Meyers we are not to bo dis turbed, then close tbe door." Karen, whitowita some nameless droad, obeyed. "Now" he continued, "please call Dr. Laaghlan, whose of&cs is on the first floor." She picked wp the telephone. "Hit wassnshowasbletoask. "Not exactly that," he replied coolly. "I've been not on the spot, as the phraae goes these days. Sons susou threw dagger at mo the moment I stepped into the eorrider and toned my hack. It was armed at the left clavicle nearest ap proach to the heart, yoa know. Bat it stock ia my shoulder blade it's there now." Hod Bannister took the abrupt 1 from Manrice Sire's apartment as aa old friend should take it without question and with out resentment. With Dick it i different, He saw finality ia it all the caul finger oz banishment point ing to a Meek aad empty world a world without Karen's presence, her smue, ner voice. - "Sire doesnt want our nelp," he said gloomily. "X could see Oat ia his eyes; ha doezat want as to share ia his secret. He intends so protect Karen by shutting ner off from all human contact." - . -very maiy,- nod agreed son chalanuy. "Ton dent qnestiea his right to follsw tao pcomptiags of a father's heart, X hope. Anyway, yoa hay no standing wila him except through the accident of being my brotber. Too aad that infernal meataoaad. Bully, caatribntod noth ing bat aa added irritatioa te his troubles." ' . . v "ChoerfaV aren't you?" retorted Uic savagely. - TNow leek here. Hod. Tra twenty-eigtit yean eld; for the last three pears I'm been cetainarJettexs from too. aboet act. tiinr -dowa. Tanr brotherly inter- sat has fsSewed go arsvad th Face to Face. world. WeB. 1 came to New York on your invitation, looked it over and made up my mind tbat the wild erness was the place for me." "Quite so," Hod admitted. "T Was B-ntnB tji fm-nmAm .t. somethinr hiBaMHui Tka twn intelligent animals in the world my sarertsio ana Xaren Sere's chow oawn -way to bring as together." "Intelligent animals," Hod re peated. "Godlike animals, I should say!" "Bightl" Dkk responded prompt ly. "Put all the sarcasm yoa like on the heJL Noosn UwJ ! . odltko srt. r.mll it a-.. .v . Hod. I'm telling yoa that I lore Karen Sire. Anything prcsump tooas aboot that? We're Tnginiana. 4 ts v m ars -aoMilii sv mi mJ j-E. .W person threw a dagger at ma the moment I stepped late the cor ridor aad turned my hack." e we not? I notice that Sire has a portrait of Aaron Burr in his li brary wasn't it one of oar ances tors who presided at Burr's trial when he was tried for treason?" 1 "Yours a poor reminder of those glories," Hod replied brutally, "liv ing like a saracn. Huh I A srvnsv of modern industry I" "Do you measure a man's culture by the crease in his pants?" Dick growled. "What about nrr demes my medals? It wouldn't take long io anocK xnis roogn cross off ma." Hod had takes an the air of a ra- tient alienist, examining a harmless lunatic "Why did you continually ignore Meyers tonight?" he asked. "What was the idea behind the no tion of scratching matches on the sole of your shoe? I think I saw Karen smile when yoa tried to take a half-hitch in your belt forget you had on suspenders, -didn't you?" AH this banter was flowing In Hod's apartment, whither the two had returned after Maurice Sire's suddenly expressed wish to be alone with his daughter. The ntaa's stoi cism in concealing the fact that a dirk was sticking bt bis back had left them entirely without suspicion that another nrordrr had been attempted.- -''' "Sire b suite a fellow." said Dick, after treating his brother to an in terval of scornful silence. "There's something stately and impressive about him. When be came back from the naUway he walked like General Pershing on parade." : - "I thought ho looked somewhat stiff," Hod answered, obviously with the tmrpcsw of rubbing the paint off Dick's candy simile. "But I wasn't unsung ox his personal graces at the time; it-mas the look oa his lines. xteueed n, nWt yen,:: i, . By Chris Hawthorne Dick fought with the impulse to tell Hod of his crazy compact with One-Armed'' Toole and Karen Sire. He felt that the whole episode of the stiletto, if recounted to his brother. vaolS praitinr, -tViaf V4 headed perron of the immediate need for a full confession to Maurice Sire. Recoilinsr from tbe thought as treason to bis aTlu rut iwv1 mA "Sire looked hard hit, sore enough." MA ft . - . ... aon war arjtmrva at ata hn mmmm wrong," Hod continaed. "Wo were Bsrrr HvJ wan mm K. most picturesaue of all American st venturers, jie nao a daughter aamed Theodosia and it was his dream to make her the oueen of a new country, taking ia all of Mex- ico ana par ex ui unxtea states. Montesuma, he was to call k. It eras that mtrarir rliuli tirnavlif your diatinguished ancestor into the foreground when Burr was tried for treason.' "Well, what of itr "Only this. Burr is Maurice Sn-Ba lino Tr an.Maf n(.. if bo had in tita hark tvf him VMi1 the notion of building up an empire such as Barr contempflateo with Karen as queen." Dick stared at bis brother in com ical auaaaemeat. "Who's looney aow?" he lsas-hed. "WW iW ing governments are so Jealous of s a a. m aaxreasMMt taax soey eren scrap ever possession of such God -for- V 0 aO..o . saaen uiue jetties of Ice and rock as Wrangel Island up in the Arctic" "Yet," Hod went on, "maps of the world hecanta nhanlot mf. t. war. New frontiers are hsiao ere- S. S - m an a ve xiktii now ra sonxa America and in china. WlmM Inn forty years ago that the United C.L. a ova.- snan wvetvc wima 9wT UM Z gtliip pinesT Bat we beaght 'em after lick- ins Knstn rinnrrit' 'ant 4Vb. mSlion dollars." "Thirty nullioas that's aboot Sire's individual pile." "About. There are plenty of dere lict governments right now waiting for a strong hand to take the hebaw Look at Albania Mussolini has swallowed It like a cherry. Now he's getting ready to take a slice out of that blackberry pieAbyssinia." "What are yo driving- aV any way?" Dick demaaded with sadden interest. (To Bo Centhraed) Cwrrtsst. ISM. OA BsMkMI talking aboot Aaron urr a while ago Sire is his ntodern prototype." "I 3mt drait t Tin THoIr U V.r . jpuusmus w mass