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PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning August 2U 1935 Founded Ut . - "No Favor Sways Us: No Fear Shall A tee From First Statesman, March 28. 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Spsacuk - Editor-Manager SHELDON . Sackjett -! - Managing-Editor Member of the-Associated Press ;. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the dm tor publics- tloa of ail oewa dispatrhes ereitd to U or oot other-is credited la . this paper. ':m 1 ' 1 '' ' 1 11 "' , i ',,.,." i . Political Corruption in Iowa THE good old sUt vi aova is oc-ed witn internal explo sions deeply affecting the political life of the state. The man who lit the fuse to the dynamite is Verne Marshall, publisher of the Cedar Rapids Gazette. He observed some phoney bnsiness in the state liquor administration, following arrest of a man for illegal possession of liquor. It was found . be had certain state labels. Marshall launched an independ ent investigation, and found the trail led far from Cedar Rapids to Sioux City in Woodbury county, in northwestern Iowa. With investigators he bored into the conditions there, found a maze of tie-ups between operators of illicit resorts, gambling, drinking places, and public officials. It was big city stuff brought into a smaller locality. The amazing thing was the connection between the local corruption and the state administration. It is this last feature which has shocked Iowa. The attorney general has been indicted, and many other state officers. The district attorney of Woodbury county has resigned, and other local officers are under fire. Governor Clyde L. Herring was served with a subpoena to appear before the Sioux City grand jury but has refused to comply, standing on his alleged constitutional right as gov ernor to claim immunity. Marshall, who is no reformer, but a plain-thinking American citizen with simple standards of honesty in office, keeps forcing the issue with the revelations he and his inves tigators have dug up at heavy cost to himself. Regardless of how many are finally caught in the net and forced to pay the penalty for violation of law, his effort will result in purifying the conditions in Iowa. Since the state is normally heavily republican and the present administration is democratic, the republicans are gleefully taking advantage of the situa tion ; and expect a victory for their ticket next year. Ethiopian Defense WIDELY known in circles of the United Pit., .a-ian church is Dr. T. A. Lambie, who has been in mission ary service in Ethiopia for 28 years. He has as intimate an acquaintance with the country," probably, as any white man, is in the personal favor of the emperor, and was one of the guests at his wedding or on some special state occa sion. Consequently his statement concerning the land which Italy seeks to conquer may be regarded as accurate. He predicts, as reported in a dispatch from New York, that-disease and the hardships of nature may prove more terrifying than the Ethiopian army to the invaders. Having served for years as director of hospitals in the country he can speak with authority about diseases to be encountered. There is typhus, dread of the tropics, carried by lice and fleas. Malaria is frequent in the marsh country which must be crossed before the plateau is reached. The black soil turns to sticky gumbo after a rain. In the mountains there are deep canj-ons, easily defended; and heights difficult to scale owing to lack of roads. While nature may provide a great citadel in the climate and the terrain and the diseases which flourish there, it must be realized that a modern army moves with equipment to erase many of these obstacles. Road-building machinery may eradicate germ-carriers in the territory traversed. Air planes easily soar over the mountain crest, dropping b'ombs or small landing parties. The chief defense perhaps for Ethiopia is the chance of a breakdown of the morale of the invading army before the conquest can. be accomplished. Will soldiers, after awaking from the delusion of the world war, suffer torments in a fresh war to serve the ambition of a reborn Caesar? Excess Building Costs THE state university had $365,OoO to spend for a new li brary, with funds derived from a PWA grant and loan and some alumni pledges. When the bids came in the low est was $423,659.37. The state board was forced to cut and pare to accept a tender and proceed with work; and F. E. Callister is quoted as saying "it will be like living in an un furnished house". The pyramiding of cost under the PWA arrangements results in getting considerably less for the money than is anticipated. Corvallis had a similar experience with a high school. It received a 30 per cent grant and thought it was lucky. But when bids came in and contracts were let the excess of costs wiped out the government grant, so the district is getting just about what it paid for, the rest going to waste, save as it did provide relief to some needy workers. These experiences should give the Salem school dis trict concern before it launches the district on a million dollar building program which involves abandonment of two grade schools and the large senior high school. READ OLD MINUTES AT DISTRICTS MEET CLOVERDALE, Aug. 20 Sum mit Hill, Pleasant View and Clo rerdale held Its second annual picnic at the tabernacle grounds in Turner Sunday. After dinner which was served at long tables, Frank Booth, president, called on the secretary, Mrs. T. Whitehead, to read the minutes of the first meeting in 1934. Mrs. Alice Wipper read the mlnates of a meeting held May 19, 1877, which was held tor the purpose of . establishing Summit Hill district No. 87. That part of the country had formerly been set-red by district No. 68. Pleasant View. At this time both districts have consolidated with Clover- dale and are known by that name. Those present at Sunday's gathering were Mrs. Ida Lyle and daughters. Jean and Elaine, Se attle, Wash.. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hann, Woodburn: B. Eyes bone, Gresham; Mrs. Irene Kaxalnskl and B. Kamlnski, Prattnn; Mr. and Mrs. T. Neer and family." Cor Tallis: Betty Hay, Portland; Mr. and Mrs. L. Hammack, Mr. and Mrs. D. Meggers, Mr. and Mrs, E. Fellers and family. Morris Hunsaker and Mrs. A. Hunsaker, Salem; Mr. and Mrs. T. White head, Layer ne Whitehead, Mrs. H. Peeti, Helen Peetxy W. HalCMr. and Mrs. G. Ferris. W. Ferris and Mr. and Mrs. C. Stanley and fam ily. Turner: Miss Fanny Wipper, Portland; Mr. and Mrs. F. Booth. Mr. and Mrs. CT Booth. Mr. "and Mrs. K. Wipper. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Schlfferer and family, Mr. and Mrs. S. Norris, Mr. and Mrs. J. Morris. Mr. and Mrs. U E. Hen nies, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Dumbeck, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schilferer, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Cook, Mr. and Mrs. C. Roseaau, Mrs. Alice Wipper, Mrs. F. Feller. Ida and Lily Fel ler, Freda Schlfferer. John Schif ferer, William Schifferer, Ben Wipper, William Butzke, Aaron Dumbeck, Herbert Booth, Jerry Wippesw Joan Norris, Gertrude Cook and Edith Schifferer. HELEN WEST DOES Hi in con INDEPENDENCE, Aug. 20 Helen West. Salem candidate for queen of the Independence Hop Fiesta to be held August 29 to 31, is proving to be a strong contend er for the throne of the big val ley festival. She was third in the field of 17 candidates on Monday, haring jumped from fourteenth place over the weekend. The local queen aspirant is 20 years of age. 5 feet 5 inches tall, has light brown hair, and blue eyes, is fond of all outdoor sports, and admits a fondness for travel. The Jatter fact was one of the in ducements that caused Miss West to eater the campaign, as the fi esta queen will receive an expense-free trip to the San Diego Exposition following her reign. Miss West is a former student of the Salem high school, and is well known among the younger get of the city. The fiesta queen contest closes on Tuesday, August 27, at 11 p. m. Kay Stockholder Meeting Delayed ' The meeting of the ThomarKay Woolen Mills stockholders yester day was adjourned until 10 a. m. Thursday for further considera tion of the question as to wheth er or not the mill shall continue operations. Several of the stockholders-desired further time in which to study the problem. The Safety Valve Letters from Statesman Readers OLD TESTAMENT ECONOMICS To tho Editor: Not haying heard the address of R. R. Hewitt before the Salem Lira's club Thursday noon, I can not Judge It fully, bat the pub lished report shows some misun derstanding of the Hebrew system. The object of the system as giren in the Bible was "that there may be no poor among us." Now all the works of the Almighty whether we examine the unirerse itself or the plant and animal life on the earth aU function won derfully. That gives us adequate reason for beliering that the eco nomic system of the Old Testa ment worked out by the Almighty and giren to Moses would also function wonderfully. Ia fact, it would bring about a state of un exampled prosperity. The Mosaic system did not pro vide for repudiation as indicated by the story in The Statesman. It did provide for forgiveness of debts. All ordinary debts were for given at the beginning of the sev enth year. Land, the use of which was sold to another, reverted back at the fiftieth year. This release of debts cannot properly be called repudiation be cause the Lord takes the place of the debtor and provides in Deut eronomy 15 that "the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou put- test thy hand unto." Neither is the release of land in the fiftieth year a repudiation for the Lord expressly required that the payment should be large it the transaction were for many years, but small if for few years. Ia other words only a leasehold was sold and the price was to be in proportion to the profits the buyer expected to get from the deal and the succeeding operat ions. This release in the seventh year and in tho fiftieth year was an acknowledgment of the economic cycle though there Is no attempt to explain that cycle. We have had fourteen depressions in th last one hundred years, it is said, or one each seven years. We have taken every one of them Just like a man who stands and lets a thrown or batted baseball hit him. Like him too we have always got hurt. Had the man in the supposed case used his hands for a shock absorber and had caught and dropped the ball, he would not have been hurt. Now the Bible does not explain the cycle, but it does explain how to meet the cycles without getting hurt. Israel was promised that it they would keep the sabbatic years and the other laws that they would be greatly blessed. As one example of that blessing the land was to yield double in the sixth year and it was to rest in the seventh, only the- volunteer crops being gathered; Another ex ample of that blessing is found in the promise that the Lord would "rebuke the devourer (insect pests) for your sakes." It is thus seen that If we would obey God's lawg that millions Quid be saved annually to the farme alone. But we have set up our puny judgments against that of the Supreme being so we pay the price and will continue to do so until we accept the Israel law. Such things as the present de pression are not necessary to keep the race from passing out if it will once get around to the point where it will obey. Unexampled prosperity was promised Israel if they would obey God's laws which include those on economics. As a student of prophecy and of the symbolism of the Great Pyramid, I can say confidently that we are witnessing the death of a system; that we are not go ing to return to the bad old days, but that we are definitely on our way back to the economic system of the Bible. The next war, now in the offing, with its succeeding economic and financial crashes will hasten the day. Of the return to the Mosaic laws no less an authority that Jesus said that "not one jot or tittle (of the law and the pro phets) shall fail till all be fulfill ed," so we will surely go back to those laws. But the way through the eco nomic wilderness to the new sys tem is not by the way of repud iation. That way lies dishonor. Re lease from the burden of debt must come through the orderly adoption of God's laws by the ac tion of debtors and creditors thus through obedience rather than the evils arising from wilful, selfish repudiation by the methods known to our man made economic system. O. H. CARSON 679 N. Cottage St., Salem Taxes Coming in Rapidly, Report A marked improvement in tax payment in Marion county in re cent days has been observed at the sheriff's office, L. E. Neet, deputy in charge of collections, re ported yesterday. While the third quarter's payments are not due until September 15, Neet said his staff was very busy handling in coming payments. County court action to foreclose long past due liens are thought to have affected payments favorably along with the harvesting of this year's crops, which has put money into the hands of farmers. Adam Hewitt Farm is Sold to Marley DAYTON, Aug. 20. A deal was made Saturday whereby W. J. Marley of the Webfoot neighbor hood became the owner of the 30 acre farm of the late Adam Hew itt in the Unionvale vicinity. For several years it has been the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Dixon and family. George Christenson, retired farmer, is confined to his bed with a heart attack. George Foster, who has recovered from his recent injury sufficiently to be up and around. Is gaining slowly. Bits for Breakfast V By R. J. HENDRICKS Revised history of the court houses of Marlon county Is told: S e ' (Continuing from yesterday:) For the January, 1872, term of the Marion county court, a record reads: ' "It is hereby ordered by the court that sealed proposals be re ceived np to the 7th day of Feb ruary. 1871, at S: 00 o'clock a. m., for building a court house, and that the county reserves the Tight to reject all bids, and that the clerk give notice by publication In the Oregon Statesman and the Oregonian for the same." It appears later that a warrant for 85 was drawn In favor of Henry L. Pittock for the adver tisement in the Oregonian. In the case of The Statesman, S. A. Clarke got the pay. in a warrant that also covered other services of a like nature. - The record shows that in the February, 1872, term the contract was let. It reads in part: "In the matter of the erection of a court house: This day come Messrs. Booth by & Stapleton, D. A. Miller and R. H. Myers, and propose to the court to erect a court house according to the plans and specifi cations on file as -prepared by Messrs. Piper & Burton of Port land, with certain modifications, for the sum of 889,650 gold coin, which, upon consideration of the court, it is ordered that a con tract be entered into between said Boothby & Stapleton and D. A. Miller and H. R. Myers." It was specified that the con tractors give bond "with good and sufficient sureties," all of which was done on February 9th. 1872. "W "m It was provided that the speci fications be altered by the use of inch and a quarter instead of inch flooring throughout: also, instead of dressed stone steps, cast iron ones be put in, and that locks of the value of not less than $5 be used. The structure was con tracted to be completed by the first of November, 1873. s s The payments: 812,000 on exe cution of contract; 816,000 from the taxes of 1871 or so much thereof as might be collected; $10,000 September 15, 1872; $10,000 Oct 20 of that year, $10, 000 November 15; $10,000 De cember 15, and $10,000 in May, 1873; $5000 in August of that year, and a like amount Novem ber 7, 1873, or when the build ing was completed, and the bal ance April 1, 1874. The contract was signed by C N. Terry, judge, and John Giesy Health Hv liny a I S. Copeland. M.D. AT A RECENT meeting of the New York Neurological society an interesting paper was- read on the subject of stuttering. It Included a review of seven- teen years' work in in the handling of thousands ofj young men and women with stuttering and other speech de fects. In New York City alone there were found ap proximately 20,- 000 a t u 1 1 e rers out of a popula tion of six mil lions. In the re port of the Dr. Copeland Whits House conference on child health and pro tection, it was shown that 200.000 children stuttered and that only one out of ten recovered from this af fliction during- the elementary school period. Many So Afflicted It is amazing to learn of the num ber of persons afflicted with this form of speech defect. As a rule the adult stutterer can trace the affliction back to early childhood. Early attention to stuttering often results in com plete cure, so it is too bad that many adults suffer with It I cannot overstate the importance of correcting every form of speech defect. To this end it is essential that a complete physical examination be made. This will determine whether there la any constitutional disturb ance. In many instances stammer ing can be attributed ta some form of nervousness, a "neurosis", as the doctors call it. When this is over come and the central health Im proved, the speech defect quickly dis appears. Children who stammer are usually of the nervous type. When no at tempt is made to deal with the defect they are likely to grow up with a feeling of inferiority. This has a detrimental effect on personality and U indeed a great handicap. Learn Its Cause There is no use in attempting to overcome a speech defect without knowing its cause. Many a stutterer has been made worse by useless ef forts to Improve the speech. For ex ample, a child who has a defective palate cannot speak words clearly until the defect has been remedied. Often the young child will imitate someone who stutters or has some other form of Imperfect speech. If permitted to continue with this mim icry the habit of stuttering will soon be formed -and this may prove diffi cult to overcome. Many children stutter only when they become excited or tired. Dally rest periods as well as supervised play and restrained activity, are often sufficient to bring about com plete cure. In order to overcome stuttering the sufferer must be taught to relax and to maintain poise, self -composure and confidence. Of course, instruction along these lines is of little value if such underlying defects as enlarged and diseased tonsils. Improper dental work and nasal infections and de formities are not corrected. Aaswera to Health Queries 7 Q. What can I do to clear op matter in the eyes? A. This ia often due to a mild ca tarrh. TJatblng the eyes twice a daj and overcoming any catarrhal con dition should help. - (Copyright. 1335, X. F. M.. cj If IS and Ai Coolidge, commissioners, on- the part of the county, and by the contractors as above named, and by their bondsmen, the fol lowing: D. MeCully, J. H. Moores, R. M. Wade, A. A. MeCully, T. McF. Patton, E. N. Cooke, and Rer. A. F. Waller. It was a good bond nearly ev ery member good for the full amount The witnesses were Ru- fus Mallory and John J. Shaw, then leading Salem attorneys. Mallory had represented Oregon in congress, 1867-9. The federal stamp was 26c m W. W. Piper, architect, was giv en a warrant for $800 by the county court at Jts March, 1872, session. Boothby t Stapleton, principal contractors who were they? W. F. Boothby was prominent in con tracting and building. He built the First Methodist church, pres ent one; directed work on the state capitol the one that re cently burned and the state hos pital. Also on various buildings erected by and under the direct financing of the Ladd & Bush bank. Mr. Boothby became a consider able property holder. The States man for years rented its quarters from him, at 162 North Commer cial street, prior to moving to its own building. That property is yet owned by a daughter of Mr. Boothby, or was, up to a recent date. . S S H. (Harry) Stapleton carried on In his sash and door factory on Front street long after Mr. Booth by retired from that concern to follow contracting and construc tion work. S D. A. Miller was a lumberman. He and J. H. Moores owned and operated the "South Salem Steam Flour and Lumber Mills," on the slough, in that section, and were largely responsible for the busi ness and residential district that early developed there. V R. H. Meyers was a leading plasterer. That part of the work performed in the construction of the court house was under his di rection. : New commissioners came into office after the June election of 1872; Wm. Porter of the Aums ville section and.Wm. M. Case of the Champoeg district, both prom inent pioneers. But this did not hamper the work on the new court house though they receiv ed some votes with the idea that they might economize on it, . Finding what they did, they only aided Judge Terry in com pleting the work so well begun and so faithfully carried forward. At the July term, their first, the court ordered a $10,000 warrant drawn on the new court house contract actually anticipating a not yet due payment, under strict construction of the contract. The court's order read, "for the pay ment due Sept. 15." V At the June term a warrant had been ordered drawn for $421.13, and at the August term the new court authorized one drawn for $153, to Boothby & Co., evidently for extras or changes added or made under orders of the archi tect. (Concluded tomorrow.) Ten Years A30 August SO, 1025 Attempt to reach pole by plane is abandoned. MacMillian party victim of inclement weather. $20,000 alloted Willamette river ebove Portland and district engineer authorized to proceed with work recommended. i Portland police continue to comb city for Tom Murry, James Willos and Ellsworth Kelley, con victs who escaped from the peni tentiary. Reports vary. Twenty Years Ago August 20, 1015 "Riding in an automobile equipped with electric lights in side and out, with fitted unique conveniences for sleeping, and carrying ingenious Outfit for get ting meals, Mr. and Mrs. Tripp and children of Brownsville pass ed through Salem on a trip to Iowa and Yellowstone park. They expect to coyer the distance to Denver in 30 days. Construction for the stalls for use as a public market on Ferry street east of Liberty will prob ably be commenced today. The last band concert of the season, which was a veritable rag-time revel met with a variety of comments. Some dared him (Henry stoudenmeyer) to do it again and others said it was the best yet. Directors May' Meet Today to Plan for Vote The Salem school board, which hag been awaiting legal opinions as to how the call for a special building bond election must be worded, may meet in open or exec utive session some time today to consider the proposed reconstruc tion program farther, it was indi cated last night. A question facing the board is whether to ask the voters to pass on a $600,000 lump sum bond is sue or to break this amount down into specified appropriations for various buildings. . It now appears the election may not be held un til October. The board's building grounds committee, aided by Director PeT cy A. Cupper, is now studying pos sible sites for the new senior high school it is proposed to erect north of dinger field and for the com- bined Lincoln-Park grade school. "li a good boy you "THE SNOW LEOPARD" CHAPTER XXXVI "One-Armed" Toole's surmise -egarding the fleet of airplanes was correct in a vague way, although it .'ailed to comprehend the whole magnificent truth. The air fleet, in deed, was the property of Maurice Sire and it did, in fact, bear a large party interested in the develop ment But the detective had caught only the naked structural lines in his conjecture. He and Bannister, "laying important parts in the vast drama themselves, did not know that it was approaching a climax which had been foreshad owed in the newspapers ol the world for more than a week. Toole had visualized the scheme in its material aspects alone, while Bannister, recognizing it as a splendid pioneer movement, was primarily interested in its tic and adventurous sides. Neither dreamed of it as a ratt and digni fied economic experiment, embrac ing nothing short of an internation al social and political laboratory, a melting' pot of Oriental races, a furnace alembic into which creed and political boundaries with aU their misunderstandings and hat redswere to be cast, thence to emerge as a model for an ideal civ ilized state. Secretly as the scheme had been working out for months, its real meaning finally had become known through the departure of an extra official commission from Geneva, bound for the Sire Depression. This august body made up the passenger list of the air fleet that harl nMl over the heads of Toole and Bannis terpassed over their heads in more than the obvious sense. Mau rice Sire himself was a member of that commission, but it would be a mistake to cay that he was at its head. All were equal. At the rery moment that Toole and Bannister gained the top of the gorge the air fleet was circling over a landing place in the desert one hundred miles to the east. It was only by luck or accident that Man rice Sire was first to aten from hi plane. Like a fleck of doves the otaers settled down near a great white cross of cotton doth that had been spread out for their ruidance. Yea, Maurice Sire had taken the nia, not wjw ue maiieo nst, as Tool a and Rinniit.r mia4it h pected, hut bent upon a peaceful mission. He was not in quest of spoils. It was not gold and silver and nlaHnnm 4afo m-nA .Mr.nTff. that he sought. He had come to grve. L A. a. - 1 a a ' not io isse. Ana nis eonireres were animated by the same sumose. At a little distance from the White cross stood a circle of tall poles. Presently, from a huge pyramid of faggots that stood in the center of 4.1 r 1 a . . uie arete, a wnue rooea figure a Deared a man hent with x walked slowly around the pile, com pleting the circle, only to resume again ia a wider arc The commis sioners stood waiting. 'Round and round the whit nhnl in f a. tery continued until his circumam- a s 1 1 a . .... Duiauon Drought him within a few feet of the motionless figures. Sud denly he-spoke: " 'AmJ thr o came rem t&e ease mnd the eaeef, mnd from th north oni frm tfceeewth, eauf e&aff "it Wn itt tbm kuxfdom mi Cod." This he repeated three times. The men at down upon the sand. "'Ami bhU, there are lost mhth afteiZ fear, J (Aere are The oracle turned and waTlraul the pile f faggots into which ha caex- a naming orana. a puiar ex fire arose. Calmly each f the men divested himself of some enter gar ment which distinguished lis na tionality and east it into the flames. 'Bwt fte Aaff reeei thts time, Aexwe mnd brethren, mrnd sitters emi smmthara, smd ehSJren emd lamdt. with -wKm; mnJ in the mnseUf m eternal lit a.' " - The ceremony, agreed trpon be fore the ecmxBuskm left Genera, was completed. Almost magically hundreds of men and women ap peared from hiding places on mil sides, making their way toward the eireie f poles. Thye here U ratify the treaty," Sire wofunteered, turning to his txunpanions. "This ceremony -may seeei like felderoi te some af may be president, be you, but it. is important to them. They and their forebears have lived in these hills for five hundred years, scratching a bare living out of the soil and getting nowhere. My friend, Abbe Bergere, devised the ritual under which we were made wel come. I think he borrowed most of it from Matthew, Mark and Luke. The whole design was to enable us jointly to occupy the valley, irrigate it and otherwise make it habitable for a large population. In the larger scheme, of course, it contemplates more than that the idea of an ex perimental state in which all the Oriental nations will have a part." Perhaps, token the turmoil now pervading the better known parti of the world tubtidra, mors will be heard of the Sire Depression and its developments. At present the rata plan of rock drills and the roar of itean tkovels tn action are echoed only against the desert kills. True, titers has been some talk of a "lost river" in the territory, and a rreot deal of sanguine comment upon efforts to divert it to the parched vauey. "There's one thing I'm rather du bious about, Karen," said Maurice Sire, after the party had finished an air tour of the vallev. "It was splendid of you to permit the sacri fice of all those old documents in the international fire but I think we cheated a little in the matter of the royal robe and the clasp and girdle." Abbe Bergere was instantly alert. "Cheated I" he echoed, before Karen could answer. "Didn't I explain the whole situation to the patriarch of the hfll people? Didn't he put it to a rote? Didn't they all agree that t was unnecessary to sacrifice the robe and girdle?" "True." admitted Sire. "Our young friend Bannister didn't seem to care what happened to those ri diculous old scrolls, more than half of which were fiction and forgeries. But I do think has outcry against the destruction of the robe and girdle stimulated your eloquent ap peal for their preservation. Any way. Karen has them, but if she wants to keep them, I'd prefer that she'd do it in a house of her own." Maurice Sire smiled. After all, he was merely banterine. A man who is suddenly dispossessed of first place in his daughter's affections has some remaining privileges and he was simply exereisinr them. "We both made the sacrifice the hill people demanded," Karen re minded her father. "Didn't I abdi cate all rights to the throne after you went through the same cere mony?" "There's one disturbing thing about the business," Bannister re marked. "Here, Karen has a dyed in-the-wooL blown-in-the-bottle ge healogy, tracing a white ancestry back nearly five hundred years, while I've got to admit that the blood of Pocahontas is running in my veins. I am practically a buck Indian. And she was afraid that I'd call her 'a little Chink!' " Maurice Sire returned to the at tack. "How do you expect to get that leopard pelt into the United States?" he asked. "What about the customs department?" "Oh, well declare it as a trophy!" Bannister answered carelessly. "Anyway, it's Karen's now and we're not married yet. If you care to pay the duty en my appraisal of the robe and girdle $200,000 that s your own affair. Sire chuckled silently. "Where is the final ceremony to take place?" he asked, glancing at the Abbe. "Bight here, in this little chapeL' Karen thrust in, "and the robe and girdle will be part of my wedding outfit You know I never liked Dick much ia formal dress, either. I re member his dinner coat it didst seem to set just right." "It was Hod's." Dick admitted. "He has a fine, manly chest but if a at his waistline now. Then there's another little matter we couldnt try well have Bully and Napoleon as witnesses to a wedding fa the jmtn Avenue cnurcn. could wr "Even Mr. Toole wouldn't feel very comfortable as a best man in such a place," Karen supplied. 'And. thank goodness, he's here now. That man has mt distracted ever ainea he laid hands on Mr. Whipple and the valet. Why should whispered about" By Chris Hawthorne he hare insisted upon flying back to Maura alone with the prisoners? Oh, they were snuelr trussed up and crated," Dick assured her. "I helped with that myself. It was the only service he would permit He's Two-Armed' Toole again." The detective had entered the hut as Bannister spoke. "These Brit ishers are great people," he said. I hey had a warrant for Jeff and the valet on an old jewel robbery, so they took charge of them and guaranteed to deliver them in Lon don. Since a murder charge takes precedence over robbery, we won't have any trouble in extraditing the bunch. Besides, Jeff was born in the United States. That bluff he made about being an Englishman was all hooey." Born in the United States!" queried Bannister. -xes, near New Orleans. So was Brenda." Tools leaned over and whispered something in Bannister's ear. "No!" Bannister was incred ulous. "Yep." Toole insisted. "Jeff ad mitted it himself." "What's all this?" Maurice Sire demanded. Bannister strolled over and seated himself at his side. A few low spoken words brought a look of amazement to Sire's face. "No wonder the Whipples knew the potency of the bar sinister," he said. "Even the whisper chilled me when they tried to use it against Karen and me. For a time it tied my hands paralysed me." "I'm glad you held out against blackmail," said Bannister, "but it must have cost you a lot of money to put over this big project in the Depression money that will never come back." Sire's eyes glowed. "Ten mil lions," he said laconically, adding : "I do cot want it back. The.e is a better spirit abroad in the world these days. Thirty years ago men of wealth subscribed to the jocular wheeze that since posterity never tuu snyuung xor xnem, uiey were under no obligations to posterity. Now the reverse is accepted. Big money is being made more and more by corporations and less and less by individual effort The kick of purely personal achievement is lacking. The thrill come new. not from tha making and piling up of money, but in getting nd of it intelligently and morally. Foundations of all kinds are acorns from which the great oaks of the future may grow." The Abbe had joined them on the bench. "A new prophet has come to the mountain. he interiected. What I have dreamed he has made a reality." Where's Brenda?" Tools asked. peering about The window was open and Karen pointed out toward the distant hills to the east "Oh, she decided to star among the hill people, did she? I gave her the choice Of doing that or going oaca to new York wita Jeff as a prisoner. Not such a bad dame at that Crazy about her own smart ness, though. The first quarrel she had with Jeff was over the letter she wrote to Karen, pulling that stuff about the Sires being yellow. I think Brenda was throwing a vamp eye toward Bannister." "Yet aha called Dick a yokel Karen said. "Of course!" Toole admitted sagely. "That's the way with these wild women. They stir up a man's interest by actin. scornful at first Ft makes the poor dub " "Oh, shot apt" Bannister growkd. "At any rate," Sire Interposed, "Brenda denied that she had any idea that murder was to be done in connection with the Whipple Syndi cate enterprise, and I believe her." Toole had put on his derby and was walkinz out of the hut. but paused when Bannister called, "Hey, Inspector 1" "Show him the message that the plane relayed to you, daddy," Karen pleaded. "Why wait?" Toole read the sheaf of slips that Sire handed to him. His . eyes dimmed a little as he finished the last one. "Matt Boyle is a pretty good scout at that," he said. THJ KTD 1HI.I