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"No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Atce"
, From First Statesman. March 2S. 1851
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
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Shrinking Valuations
THE sagging of assessed valuations of property in the state
"continues. The total lor the state for 1935 is reported by
the state tax commission at $924,071,620.84.- The high
point of valuations was 1931 when the total was'$l,125,000,
000. The decline in the last year was about $20,000,000. Foj
Marion county the 1935 valuation is $42,606,953.04 while
last year's valuation was $43,873,519.67. It is. reported that
officials think the bottom has been reached and that from
now on the trend will be upward.
Such a change is certainly to be desired; because the
effect of shrinking valuations is to pile up heavier tax bur
dens on faithful acres. For these valuations are not just
percentage scale downs, but readjustments in which certain
classes of property receive far heavier reductions than other
classes. Shifts of values account for this, plus aging of properties-
But with some property paying a much lower tax
than before the remaining property must pay not only its
former share, but take up a portion from the devalued prop
erty. The expenses of government are not declining but in
creasing. A factor which is not taken account of is the steady
wasting away of land in private ownership due to the expan
sion of government. Property foreclosed in tax sales takes
off the tax rolls considerable areas. But various branches of
government are rapidly expanding ownership of lands. In
Salem the privately owned water company is now- publicly
owned, and tax-exempt. The federal government has an am
bitious program of land recovery. Already it has bought the
big P ranch in Harney county for a game refuge, and taken
it off the tax rolls. It is buying up large tracts in Jefferson
county and in other counties of submarginal lands. When
these! farmers are relocated on government lands their new
homes may be tax-free if sold on long-term contracts.
The federal government already owns over half the land
of Oregon. If now it takes in more acreage either in forest or
farm land, the tax burden is increased on the remaining pri
vately owned lands. To offset this, if the federal development
at Bonneville attracts new industries valuations may be in
creased enough to take up the deficiency caused elsewhere.
Real property now is carrying too large a share of the
tax load. The burden should be reduced and not increased.
The shrinking of valuations either through reduction in true
values or in the transfer of title to government units cre
f ates a problem which needs to be very closely watched. If the
trend continues it may be accelerated through inability of
remaining property-to bear the load, which will force a dras
tic change in our taxing system.
Football and the South
A week ago' Alan Gould, sports writer for the Associated
Press, listed the ten leading college football teams. Here
was his list: Southern Methodist, Minnesota, Texas
Christian, Princeton, California, Rice, Louisiana State, Al
abama, Dartmouth, Pittsburgh. Saturday's events may make
a revision necessary. Stanford for example defeated Califor
nia decisively, while Notre Dame's victory over U. S. C, and
Dartmouth's defeat by Princeton suggest including No--tre
Dame and dropping Dartmoutn.
i Regardless of alterations in the list the fact sticks out
that five, of the teams are of southern schools: Southern
Methodist, which heads the list, Texas Christian, third. Rice,
Louisiana State and Alabama. In recent years the southern
schools have been coming forward tochallenge the suprem
acy long held by the east, later by the midwest and then by
the Pacific coast. Georgia Tech and Alabama have been most
famous, the latter winning last year's Rose Bowl game.
This column is not encroaching on the sports writers'
dominion, but we raise the question as to what this signifies.
Southern schools have long been regarded, educationally, as
the most backward in the nation. Is this athletic stimulation
an indication of similar advancement in the classroom and
laboratory? Or have the southern schools awakened late and
come to realize the advertising value of winning teams, and
so like Huey Long with Louisiana State, adopted promotion
methods for athletic victories? Finally what about the effect
of climate on physical achievement? Football was always re
garded as a cold weather game, in which southerners could
not excel because their climate was too hot. Is the new open
football better adapted to their climate, or was the concep
tion of football as a cold climate game just a false concep
tion? J We have no disposition to start a new "war between the
states", but is it just accidental that half the leading football
teams this year are southern?
Forced Patriotism
COMPULSION in patriotism seems sure to defeat its own
ends. Massachusetts has been having spasms oyer a new
law requiring teachers in all schools, private as well as
public to take an oath to support the constitution of the
United States. Having in mind the example of the most dis
tinguished Harvard alumnus in his fidelity to the oath it is
plain to see that such mass swearings will have scant effi
cacy. In fact they are apt to bring the whole program of pa
triotism into contempt.
In Washington, D. C, teachers have to sign a statement
that they have not taught communism before they can get a
monthly paycheck. This again is a crude way of forcing sup
port for the existing institutions.
. In Massachusetts children of a religious sect were bar
red from school because they had conscientious scruples
against saluting the flag.- The same thing threatens in Sno
xhomish county, Washington where three girls may be ex
pelled from school for the same cause. They are aged eight,
nine and ten ; at years so tender that they can hardly know
what things mean. Would it not be much wiser to humor the
religious cruple of the children or their parents, than to
end them to a reformatory, as is proposed?
The perpetuity of this country and of its institutions does
hot dtVl en the forced salute of the flag or signing an oath
of loyalty to the constitution. It depends on making those in
stitution function successfully to provide economic oppor
tunity and civil and religious liberty.
Borah is announced as starting a drive for a liberal Re
publican party; The Statesman is liberal, except with pub
lic money; so undoubtedly it can't get into Borah's new
set-up. j .
:, On a road near Fort Dodge. Iowa. Just after the pheasant hunt
ins season opened a patrolman stopped a car because it had only one
headlamp burning. Eight ear stopped behind the first, driven by
hunters who thought they were being checked by game wardens. The
patrolman soon, signalled them -to proceed. Afterwards he found 3 0
pheasants In the ditch beside the-road. No wonder wild life disappears.
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The Great Game
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of Politics ;
By FRANK R. KENT
Copyright 1933. by The Baltimore Saa
Credit for Mr. Roosevelt
It Washington, Not. 25
WHATEVER else may be said of
the Canadian reciprocity treaty
it clearly; redounds to Mr. Roose-
relt's credit In
one direction.
To some de
gree, anyhow,
it diminis hes
the charge that
he has repudi
ated completely
his platform
and campaign
promises.
IT is true there
are a lot of
other pretty
solemn promis
es which he has
which cannot
Frank K, Kent
disregarded ' and
now be fulfilled. It Is true, too,
it has taken nearly three years
to secure even the partial redemp
tion of this one. And it Is also
true thai this would not have
been achieved but for the day in
and day out persistence of the
Hon. Cordell Hull, who takes his
party promises seriously and holds
on to his political principles like
a puppy to a root. Nevertheless
the fact remains that Mr. Hull is
the Roosevelt secretary of state,
that Mr Roosevelt signed the
treaty, that the . responsibffity
rests upon him. Whether they
think It economically round or
not, no i! fair-minded person will
dispute that It was a step in
which was involved the good faith
of both the party and the presi
dent. BECAUSE of all the democratic
obligations, that to revise down
ward the Hawley-Smoot tariff was
the deepest and most unequivocal.
The promise to do this went back
of the 1932 campaign Into the
early Hoover days. The iniquity
of the new tariff law passed in
the special session called by Mr.
Hoover in 1929 was the issue up
on w h i c h the democrats made
their 1930 campaign and the one
upon which they secured control
of the house of representatives.
THE signing of that bill was one
of the Hoover mistakes for which
he was damned and denounced by
every democratic spokesman and
organ in the country. Mr. Roose-.
velt, to make the law seem more
obnoxious, habitually referred to
it in his 1932 speeches as the
"Grundy Tariff bill." The demo
cratic party and its candidates
were pledged UP to their eyeballs
to lower the nnprecedentedly high
wall'it bad erected. To democrats
of the old-fashioned type it has
been a mortifying thing that after
such a fight and such a pledge,
three years should elapse without
a move being made: To them the
treaty seems an unescapable ful
fillment: of a party obli g a 1 1 o n,
without which self - respecting
democrats could not hold up their
heads. I
AT least, the Hull type of demo
crat feels that way. A good many
others believe the treaty economi
cally unwise and that it will cost
Mr. Roosevelt votes. The protests
from the special interests, includ
ing thejtarmers, are beginning to
flow in. However, it is some
what significant that, except for
Mr. Hoover, who it must be ad
m i 1 1 e d now has an outspoken
boldness on issues not usually as
sociated with seekers after office,
the republican spokesmen have so
far refrained from violent attack,
are cannily "awaiting develop
ments. " Wholly aside from its
economic and political aspects,
there are several interesting
points about this business. One is
that it is the first example of the
exercise by the president of the
legislative power delegated to him
by congress. In effect, he has writ
ten a new tariff law with our
largest u customer, and in its
treaty form it does not have to be
even submitted to the senate for
ratification.
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ANOTHER is the complete state
of isolation in which the treaty
leaves the unfortunate Mr. George
Peek, supposed to be special ad
viser on foreign economics and
tariffs to the president, and who
has consistently opposed the Hull
efforts for separate treaties. Still
another interesting thing is point
ed out by the astute Mr. Raymond
Clapper, In the Washington Post,
who asserts that Mr. Roosevelt
has minimized hostile newspaper
criticism by guaranteeing a duty
free supply of Canadian print pa
per. He also has induced Canada
to let American magazines in free.
It 13, of course, a horrid thought
that publishers could be influ
enced by such things, but the fact
is they 1 are human, too some of
them, very often, too human.
Twenty Years Ago
is
November 26, J 915
Joseph Hillstrom, I. W. W.
member; executed in Utah, was
given a "red" funeral in Chicago
today, jt I
On the front page! Is a letter
from the inmates ofi the county
jail thanking the sheriff for the
Thanksgiving dinner served yes
terday, i j
Marie Bolinger and; Gordon Me
Gilchrlst were married last night
at the First Christian church.
Ten Years
Azo
November 20,
O. I. Mclntyre, superintendent
of the state school for the deaf,
will leave today for Council
Bluffs jf to take ovef the Iowa
schools A successor has not been
namedl i
Today Is Thanksgiving.
Norn:
na Talmadge
in "Grau-
stark'
is playing at
tne Oregon.
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Bits for Breakfast
. By R. J. HENDRICKS ; .
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More facta about Y """
Mrs. Wright, pioneer
boarding house keeper,
and our pioneer doctors:
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i (Concluding from Sunday:)
Continuing the the speech of Dr.
W. H. Byrd: "They (Rafe Bonham
and his sister) managed tc sur
vive it.! (Meaning the diphtheria.)
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' "Those conditions have been
eliminated, changed, about which
these teen who were practicing
medicine. at that time knew noth
ing and I think it is well for us
in reminiscing, in taking a retro
spect of life, that we do not know
what kind of an end awaits us.
1 "Two of these earnest, energetic
practitioners died in the insane
asylum. Two of them died from
that terrible .disease, cancer, and
only three of them, that I recall,
lived to a good, round old age and
died from natural causes.
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"There is nothing, my friends,
that l can say more or that I
would care to say more. I am the
dean cjf the profession from the
point bf age and time at the
head of the list, and, in the nat
ural course of events, the first to
go; and I hope that any man who
speaks' of us hereafter (those of
ns nowj engaged in the active prac
tice of; medicine), will say as well
of us as we did by them that we
did the best we could. I could
wish for no higher compliment. I
thank iyou. (Applause.)
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Toast master: "Dr. Byrd speak
ing of! Rafe Bonham reminds me
that it years ago I went to school
in North Salem with two of his
brothers wh died during that ep
idemic. We arenot going to call
on Rafe to speak tonight, but I
think jyoa old pioneers will Join
me in saying that there never was
a man in this community who
stood higher than did B. F. Bon
ham, his father. (Rate Bonham Is
in charge with the immigration
department of the U. S. govern
ment, headquarters Seattle, for
merly j Portland. His father was
Salem! postmaster, circuit . Judge,
U. S. Consul, etc.)
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"In; those days here, and these
youngi fellows don't know it, the
great social and political feature
in the- town was the old volunteer
Salem: fire department. . . . . In
li'08e j volunteer fire department
days, jl will say, for you younger
fellows, the fox tail was the thing
v e wanted, and the nozzle that
got first water onto a fire captur
ed the fox tail.
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"Gen. Byars, editor of The
Statesman, called us Threes
( n embers of No. 3 fire company)
the buck brush boys, and among
the minor things they said about
us boys was that we were a. lot
of roughnecks, and we retailiated
by saying that the Capitols were
a lot of dudes. I have but to re
cite that! Charley Riely and Billy
l'Arcy belonged to the Capitols.
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"I jreniember that when Mer
cer's jbarn burned, we boys came
t'p from North Salem and found
the Tigers had attached to the hy
drant' by Jones' residence and
found that their hose wouldn't
reach quite to Dearborn's corner
"Capitols' hose team was there,
tut Tigers wouldn't let them cou
ple on, because if they did the
water would get through their
lsozzl and Tigers wouldn't win
Or fox tail.
"There was no fight, because
the Capitols knew they did nirS
have a show.
"When we Threes got up there
we attached our line onto Tigers'
hose, land ran out and got first
water and the fox tail.
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"I want to tell you, however,
that seven head of horses and
the barn burned while Tigers
By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D
United States senator from New York
Former Comissioner of Health,
Keto York City
A NEW way of treating hernia Is
being successfully used. This Is the
so-called 'Injection method", which
baa tho approval of many reputable
physicians.
But before speaking about that, let
ma tell you a little bit about rupture,
or hernia, aa the doctors call it. This
condition Is caused by the weakness
of a; muscle or several muscles. As
a rule the defect is found in the ab
dominal wall, but may be in the
groin.
The weakness Is in reality a me
chanical defect, which may be pres
ent at birth, or it may result from a
severe blow, fall or over-exertion In
lifting:. When there Is a tendency
to hernia, a run-down condition from
III health may be the last straw to
break the muscular resistance.
: Shuts Off Blood
Pain ts present only when the sac.
or hernia, becomes "strangulated".
That is. the part of the Intestine pro
truding through the ruptured tissues
may become so. squeezed as to shut
off the blood circulation la the wall
of the gut Then there Is severe
pain;
Sometimes the victim ot hernia Is
hot aware of his condition until there
appears a swelling or bulgier ot that
region of the body. At first this
swelling can be reduced, meaning
that the knuckle of the Intestine can
be pushed back into proper place,
with the swelling disappearing under
pressure. Sometimes It disappears
when the sufferer Hes on his back.
Unfortunately, the tumor reappears
as soon as the upright position is as
sumed, or upon further exertion. This
distinguishes the swell! nr from that
caused by a cyst which persists rt-STu-dlesai
of position.
I j Deal Neglect It
It; Is Unwise to neglect a rupture.
Like a 'diseased appendix, one can
never tell when danger win care op
and ! aa Immediate o Deration I- da.
r maaded. Emergency eneratloo are
not desirable, but. of course, they are
necessary to save Hfe. Unfartunat.
I ly, they do not always accomplish
Daily Health Talks
waited for us to come up; but
that was a "small price to pay to
keep the Capitols from getting
the fox tall! (Laughter.)
"I remember, also, one glori
ous occasion when the Capitols
had the fox tail and there had
been no fire for a long time, and
our boys slipped , down and set
fire to the Capitols engine house,
which stood where the Bank of
Commerce now Is (southeast cor
ner State and Liberty), and we
pulled their hose out, put the fire
out, and took the fox tail.
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"I see sitting over here to the
left a big, blackheaded stiff who
was foreman of Capitol engine
company. That fellow Is George
Burnett. We will hear from him."
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The man called upon, Geo. H.
Burnett, was at the time chief
justice of the Oregon supreme
court. In the days of the volunteer
fire department, he was one of
the ablest and most faithful mem
bers. He never missed a fire un
less one started when he was out
of town.
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He was one of the most dig
nified of judges or justices on
the bench. No lawyer ever at
tempted to be familiar with him
there. But, as a fireman, he was
one of the boys.
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This series has run a day long
er than expected, and mutt be
brought to an end. Bat, under an
other heading, something more
will appear on Hal Patton's birth
day party probably commencing
tomorrow. A great deal of inter
est to Salem old timers was said
and done at that party.
Robber Relieves
Church Chest of
Sunday Offering
SIIAERTON. Nov. 25 A
thief or thieves entered the Chris
tian church and removed all cash
from the 4gjp3sure chest in the
vestibule Sunday during the noon
basket dinner held in the base
ment of the church in conjunc
tion with the homecoming observ
ed. -
The church has been following
the custom of making Its offering;
each Sunday in the chest. Offer
ings on nsual Sundays often
amounts to $2S or better. Several
hundred people were in atten
dance at the homecoming festival
during the forenoon and it was
believed that the offering was
much larger than usual although
the money had not been counted
prior to its removal.
Along with the church funds
went $2 taken from the purse of
Mrs. Mary Andrews, church treas
urer. Mrs. Andrews had placed
her handbag in the chest when
she went down to the basement
to eat her dinner. Twenty-five
cents in the bag was overlooked.
No clue to the thief was had
Sunday night.
Mrs. Seifert Hostess
Detroit Sewing Club
DETROIT, Ore., Nov. 25. The
Ladies' Sewing club met at the
home of Mrs. William Seifert.
There were 16 members present.
Mrs. Earl Parker, president of the
club, was absent on account of ill
ness. Mr. and Mrs. George P. Mc
Clanahan and son. Homer, wer
Salem visitors Saturday. Mr. Mc
Clanahan is chief forest ranger of
this district.
what the carefully-planned operation
wllL
A strangulated hernia calls for in
stant attention. With neglect there
U always the danger of intestinal :
obstruction or peritonitis. These are
serious complications.
My advice fcp everyone having a
rupture is to consult the family phy
sician. Do not be misled Into the
belief that a hernia can be cured by
a truss or other mechanical appli
ance. It the Injection method la used,
a solution Is Injected Into the tissues
about the hernia. This procedure ts
similar to the method used tor the
obliteration of varicose veins. The
injected substance produces fibre sis,
a hardening of the tissues In the re
gion ot the weakened muscle and sac.
Answers -to Health Queries
A DaHy Reader. Q. What are the
symptoms of the different stages of
tuberculosis T 1: What would hemor
rhages of the lungs Indicate?
A. Such symptoms are naturally
varied. Talk with your doctor. He
will be glad to advise yon along these
lines. 2: An x-ray will determine
just what condition exists and the
patient can be treated accordingly. .
H. W. L. Q. What do yon advise
for the "fidgets"? The patient ts as
elderly lady who Is taking care ot a
sister who la an invalid. The at
tacks come mostly at night, center
ing In the nerves between the knees
and ankles and Interfering with the
patient's sleep and rest.
A. Try to overcome the nervous
ness first of all. Every effort should
be made to . keep up the general,
healtfi and resistance. For full par
ticulars send a self-addressed,
stamped envelope and repeat youi
question.
A. Try to find the underlying
cause of the trouble first of all. Itch
ing such aa you describe may be due
to a number of sources. For further
particulars send a selfddressed.
stamped envelope and repeat your
question.
C 8. C Q. What would cause an
Intense Itching of the leg., between
knee and ankle. The condition eem
worse at night and In cold weather
Is this prurltla and how should It be
treated?
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WIFE IN
I SYNOPSIS
Helen Schiller, pretty manicurist
la the Forty-fourth Street branch
ot the swanky Anastasia Beauty
Salons, so far forgot discipline' one
morning as to dance a few steps
before the work-day htpn and
was seen try Walter Riley, owner
of the salons. He did not sneak
then about this, bat returning, that
evening to the shop, went to her-
and found himself disarmed by her
smile, and attracted to her. He
asked If be might take her to dance,
and;: she assented. That led to
other evenings together evening
spent with him ever afraid that his
sisters wno managed the Anastasia
Salons for ham. nurht see him.
After one evening at the theatre.
neiea leu asleep as ns arove ber
to net Home in Bay Ridge and he
awakened ber with a light kiss. She
poshed him a war. bat he would not
be denied, and he kissed her again.
"Yon are the first girl I hare ever
kissed,' he told her soberly, realiz
ing that he loved her. Events in
the Riley family followed fast, with
Irene, who managed the swanky
Fltty-seventh Street Salon, marry,
ins I the socially-elect Dirk Ter
hone. After the ceremony. Walter
took Stella to the Forty-fourth
Street branch. He was to meet
Helen that evening.
CHAPTER XI
"Walter, you're not prejudiced
against Jerry like the others 1"
Stella's . voice rose hysterically.
"They're all against him because
they're jealous. He is working hard.
He i has a devil of a job there in
Brooklyn. Mama ran that place
down so that it will take months for
Jerry to build it op. It Isn't fair."
She was crying now. "We can't
maintain our apartment unless yon
give him more money. I could con
tribute more myself bat I don't want
it to come from me. X want Jerry
to feel he's earned it so that hell
have his self-respect and not feel
I'm supporting him. Look at our
expenses and look at Agnes'. She's
living with mama and it doesn't cost
her half as much to live on Park
Avenue as it does us on 12th
Street." She sobbed pathetically,
Out of the corner of her eye she
watched the effect. She knew Wal
ter was bo match for tears.
"Stop sniveling," he commanded
roughly. "Cant you talk without
waterworks? All right III civs him
a hundred and seventy-five and not
a cent more and you can tell him
for me that unless he jocks op he's
Sing to be fired. I came in yester
y and found him with his feet os
his! desk smoking and reading a
magazine. I'm not going to support
him while be neglects my business."
"You're supporting Eddie," she
area.
3m not. Ethel is and she can
do what she likes with her money,
Ethel's shop is as efficiently run as
the: best. Bat I pat Jerry in charge
of : one of my shops, at your de
mand, and I'm telling yon unless he
makes good, I'm going to chock him
oat"
1 i Stella repaired her make-op. She
knew perfectly well Walter would
do-nothing of the kind so long as
she could weep and Walter was
Walter.
i "All right Walter dear. Let me
talk to Jerry. He's so sensitive.
Maybe he has seemed to be laying
down on the job out it's only De
cease it's all so new to him. He's
terribly clever, dear. Really, he's
nearly as clever as yoa. Youll see
one- of these days he'll do something
big for you."
Walter snorted as he parked the
eat bat said nothing. Together they
came into the salon. Here was the
usual mid-Winter afternoon bustle,
i f What did you leave here, Waltt"
I "Oh, IU find it I left it in Miss
Germuth's office.".
Stella disappeared into her office.
Walter looked into the salon through
the glass partition. There she was
intent on her j work. If only she
would look up he would signal her
to step out a moment But Helen
didn't look up. -
I Walter went into the vault and
scribbled a note on a slip of paper.
Bat how could he get it to her? He
gnawed his mustache with exas
peration, She was so near to him
and yet she might have been in
Alaska for all, the good her prox
imity did him. j They had to eat in
mall obscure restaurants, meet in
out-of-the-way jplaees, and they rode
for miles looking for small movie
houses where they would not be in
Jitter Island
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CUSTODY"
danger of I being recognized. In a
way, of coarse, it was fun. At least
Helen made aa exciting sport of It,
but Walter was proud and he hated
this sub-rasa courtship. Or was it
courtship?: Walter didn't dare to
think further: He knew he loved
her: he desired her. But to marry
her I His mother's rage; his sisters'
ambitions, i j
He thought angrily: "IU marry
whom I please . . ." And yet he
was afraid of being seen with her.
He ground bis teeth in rage at
his cowardice,1 He was a coward.
Hie women had made a coward of
him. It sickened hint to think of it
And now Helen, He loved her. Her
innocence was sweet as a flower:
I feel less like a cad If I tell you
her startled fear at his lovemaking
and ret her iearer resnona. Rut
what a storm of rage there'd be if
he married ber. iie'd elope and
bring her home as his wife I There'd
be hell to nav ... Damn if if
oniv sne'acome out I
But she didn't come out and Wal
ter VU flnallv fnnwl tn lava wtk
ont aeeinaf her. OntaiAa ha tii-1
telegraph; ; messenger to deliver the
It was so easy to talk to Helen.
That nhrht over thaip riinn in a
restaurant in the downtown busi
ness outran, j patronized at night
uuut dt men ana women hn
chose it for the nam a rimn th
Walt did.' ha told her franklv Mm
posiuon. 1! '!
"1 feel Iaa like a cad If t fell m
jwiwijj, auo. I lova you. I
really do. j But my family would ob
ject vo oar marriage."
"Ill tell Tan what RtM
wait m plant the idea ef mj mar-
rying- yon ana siowiy ueyu nave
to accept it In the meantime, well
Just bo emraflred. After alt. T nuJ
them. I need them as much as they
oo me. irai see l owe tnem so
much," he explained wearily. "Ev
erything have I owe to them." ,
vaer, wny are you so . , ,
. . f Afraid" eraa nn
Una. Instead1 aha aakad "Wk, aM
you so worried about your sisters?"
"I dont know," he confessed.
"After alt it ju my business. I own
every penny's worth of it You see
my sister Irene was the first one in
the beauty parlor business. Mother
made htr a manicurist when she
graduated from publie school. We
were all kids and terribly poor. My
father ran away from my mother.
Irene started to arorV ahm ah. ...
thirteen,"!
"Poor Irene," Helen Interpolated
compassionately. "
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1 " iai
Beatrice lubitz
"She got a ! marvelous break
though. The woman for whom she
worked on Ninth Street. Brooklyn,
died and left no heirs. Irene simply
inherited the business. She made
good money for those times and the
rest of ns were able to stay in
school. One by one the others be
came manicarists and got jobs.
Mother saved every penny the girls
gave her outside ox baying them
clothes. By the time I got to high
school mother had quite a bit We
lived terribly. I can't tell you how
terribly. In the worst hole be
hind the hardware store. The girls
were always fighting. They wanted
mother to move but she sat tight
Well, to make a long? story short
everything; Helen; I love you."
the honse In which Irene's shop was
swavevi vaujf op 4r saie xor ncs
payment of taxes. X don't know
what prompted me, but I actually
forced mama te buy it and to close
op oar dirty little hardware store.
There was a nice flat over the shop
in which we could live.
"Mama wouldn't listen te the
others, bat she always listened to
me. But it was like spilling blood
for her to hand over her money.
I had to make her a proposition thst
she cad me the money and I'd buy
the building and I'd pay her back
the money with interest She agreed
to that but only after I practically
igned my life away t
"So I left high school and Irene
got me a job for a beauty supply
? txntbt the property and
rted in at once payins back my
debt, to mama. I suppose I'd still
luck. SeJlfair beauty products took
tt?tllr o.T greater New York
Q?Ja,?,n4 V,D,me on Fulton
f?1. wher Jry U now. I per
uaded Agnes to open Op a shop
there and to build Sp . Trnda. ffi
wiiV loction. i got
?"U oppfies free I'm afraid
I JI"Slqu1 etWel 1 might
have beenbut anyway I guaran-
fjhA5nMl,2,Ury and 1 borrowed
"d financed the venture.
- - manas to
wfrkl.f i lnnn dynamo for
. hi asea to DC.
"The ! k 1. 1 ... .....
of i . .wu" wie xxintn
!t&2 hiWJH Pie
lar T v J1" mousand dol
naM th3 f1 Pid off mama,
hYL i?1? started the
Thirty-fourth Street shop."
(To Be Continued) - - .
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