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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
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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.
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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
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