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EAGi: FOUR. - jw .; ? Th$,,OftEGQa,J3XAT Morrilngr;' Jahoary 9, 193Sr iiijfiif . f .fiurnuiuu Founded "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe" From Pint Statesman, March 28. 18S1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A- Spragui -i - EditorManager " Sheldon Y. Sackett U Managing-Editor . Mcmtxr of the Associated Press Tbe A.woeiated Press u exclusively entitled to th as tor publica tion of ll mwi! dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited la this paper, i' . v Oregon Editors and the AAA Decision OREGON newspapers have been ready with comment on the invalidation of AAA by the supreme court While comment varies from warm approval to regret there is a Universal respect for the decision of the court. The Baker Democrat-Herald says "there will be no revolution and prob ably noihought of increasing the size of the court to change its attitude." Some forecast alterations in the constitution, as does the La Grande Observer, which predicts some of the amendments 44will be directly traceable to experiments of the new dealers". In general however the gist of editorial opinion in Oregon is to accept the court's verdict, try to meet the ob ligations to farmers under existing contracts, and then to study agricultural needs further to see what help can and should be given. The democratic Pendleton East Oregonian, staunch sup porter of the AAA which distributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to Umatilla county wheatgrowers, objects to a le galized tariff and an illegal AAA, and says of the decision, "That sort of reasoning does not make sense and is not right. American agriculture has cause to feel indignant and so have those who depend upon agriculture. . . Improvement is so pro nounced and so widespread that it will be difficult to stop but the court has annulled the most workable and the most direct plan of adjusting a balance between farming and industry, therefore the action is unwelcome and harmful." The conser vative Corvallis Gazette-Times on the contrary acclaims the court as sustaining that paper's opinion two years ago and further condemns the theory of AAA : "The absurdity of tak ing money from one class of people and giving it to another class was so palpable that anyone but a blind partisan could see that if it was not constitutional, it ought to be." Both the Eugene News and the Astorian-Budget say the adverse opinion was "expected." The News classed AAA as "socially unsound, filled with inequalities", but credits it with accomplishing its purpose better than the farm board and inclines to believe the idea behind AAA is just as reasonable as that behind the protective tariff. The Budget admits the decision is "a stunning blow", and that Roosevelt and his advisers "will be hard put to figure out" how to aid agricul ture now. The Klamath Falls Herald observes that the AAA "came down with a crash" and says that "what has happened has proved, repeatedly, that what was said about the new deal s disregard for the constitution was not poppycoclc, but sound,, informed criticism." The LaGrande Observer regards the decision "as one more spike in the coffin of the new deal ; and sa3's frankly the new deal has bogged down, adding, "But as some of its planks break we should not forget to give them credit for accomplishing much; for helping us find a foot hold and emerge from the worst part of our worst depres sion." The Dalles Chronicle has been well infected with new dealitis, and so mourns the fate of AAA : "Thus end3 the only farm relief program that ever proved beneficial to American agriculture." But while it thinks the court may have "stretch ed a point", it admits, bravely : that "the domestic allotment program, insofar as payments for compliance are concerned, is definitely at an end." Speaking very temperately the Albany Democrat-Herald thinks that the worst days for farming may be over, and of fers the general comment that "the country will be better off when all industry is able to function without governmental intervention." The Baker Democrat-Herald editor guessed wrong, for he says he "rather expected to see AAA escape the judicial axe", thinking "by a reasonably broad interpre tation it was within the constitutional fence." But the Rose burg Times jumps up and down on the AAA as a "spurious program" and declaring that it "has stood squarely for abol ition of all the codes and every phase of sumptuary legisla tion during the period of the depression, and believes the court did a good job in killing this AAA octopus." Strangely enough, the Times endorses the Townsend plan, the principle of which is identical with AAA, that of taxing many for the aid of alimited group ; and the Roberts opinion clearly says that is not within the scope of the. taxing power. If the opinions expressed by Oregon editors are an in dex of thought for the country as a whole, the decision of the court will be accepted ; and any new effort to aid agriculture be required to be valid within the language of the constitu tion as now written. Promotion rpHE Willamette valley is a J. with remarkable unity of distinct variations of soil, and changes in altitude affect plant growth. But the unity geographical and racial and ag ricultural makes it very practical for unified effort in pro motion of valley development. There is a tendency to self-satisfaction because living conditions here are equable, a ly of those who live in other regions, which seem to us much less favored. We cannot understand why folk endure bliz zards and cyclones and torrid suns when the more moderate weather is enjoyed here in all seasons. Tastes differ; and there are other factors than climate which determine dwell ing place. We would have quite a satisfactory growth if we would do as John Thornburgh of! Forest Grove suggests, develop our resources ourselves. Then ulation, increase, and would hold many who come, here look ing for a home, but finding no employment or business open ingy drift on. The period of mass migration to, the west is over for awhile: but there will be a steady infiltration of peoplejf the fame of the valley zealous in making progress ourselves so we can accommodate the newcomers who would like to reside here if they can make a living. Having tailed in many attempts to get the salary of members fixed at a higher amount than $3 per day the legislature now pro poses an amendment which fixes no for legislators will hesitate before be the guide. The pay Is inadequate, without employment to wives; but sets do top will doubtless go the - A friend has furnished us with a good old patent medicine al manac with the signs of tbe xodiac and the man with his interior plumbing exposed. Taurus, Pisces and the advtce for Scorpio is: "This is a fruitful sign and produces watery effects. A good sign to plant corn in." The medicine is prob ably as good as the xodiacal advice. Newport is to have a band again and it has engaged the services of Erwln Kleffman of Corvallis to conduct it. If any - body can make a band of it, it is Mr. Kleffman. Corvallis Ga-sette-Times. What is he, a treble kief threat? The Mcdford Mail-Tribune or cut bait" on the old age pension. either provide means to pay ,lt of give up the idea entirely. pass along the word that Oregon When the railroad underpass what motorist will be first to see aide wall to the other? - ' " After-Christmas business has dating tha exchanges for the unusually large pre-Christmas trade. ISSt Practical compact geographical area, climatic conditions. There are tendency to speak patronizing we would retain our own pop is advertised, and if we are limit. Even friends of higher pay letting the legislators' conscience and should be about J10 a day. the proposed amendment which way of the sales tax. and the Crab are still on duty; says It's time for Oregon to "fish II the M-T doesn't know it, we'll plans to cut bait, but not to fish is built at the north city limits if he can carrom his car from one -; been unusually large, accommo TheGreatQame o Politics By FRANK R. KENT Copyright 1935. by Tat Baltimore 8aa The Tide Unchanged Washington, Jan. 8. ONE of the established facts about politics is that campaign speeches do not change votes. Tney are essen tial to , stimu late the ardor of a d h e rents and accelerate Interest and en thusiasm in the following. But i a candidatorial speech which makes converts U rare Indeed. S O METIMES votes are lost in that war. Frank B. B.eot but the occas ions upon which they are gained are so few as to be almost, non existent. This is true even of those speeches in which tbe logic is without flaw and the facts pre sented almost unanswerable. The Roosevelt message was distinctly not of that type. And while from the New Deal side vociferous cheers followed their champion's utterances, the practical political situation has changed not one iota. To the President's friends the speech seemed a magnificent effort and he a gallant knight with flashing sword, whose no ble purposes and splendid pol icies are bound to be vindicated by a grateful people. o TO those on the other side, his dramatic performance will seem a verbal fan dance, calculatingly staged to attract the boobs and offensive to right-thinking people. In brief, things are as they were before the speech. People in this country vote through prejudice and emotion, and, despite the high drama of the Roosevelt message, the music was not new. The words were somewhat different, but the tune was the same. It is interest ing that simultaneously with the delivery of the most publicized peace-time Presidential message, in history, the total for seven weeks of the Literary Digest poll asking some millions of voters whether they now approve or dis approve the acts and policies of the R o o s e v elt Administration were printed. BACK of the Presidential confi dence, back of the boisterous Par ley claims that 1936 is "in the bag,'' and back of the whirl of the propaganda machinery, the steady regularity with which each week these figures have shown an increase in sentiment adverse to. the New Deal has a disturbing ef fect upon the more thoughtful of the New Deal politicians. It is easy to understand. Publicly they pooh pooh the poll; privately the franker among them confess to a certain amount of dismay. They concede that, after making deduc tions and allowances on all grounds by which it is sought to minimize the result, still the poll is perturbing. An indication of this was given last week when a Western New Deal Congressman burst forth in a violent denuncia tion of "Straw Ballots," declared he was going to see if Mr. Farley could not bar them from the mails. AS IT stands today, in a total of 1,370,774 ballots. 60.47 per cent. are anti-New Deal, 39.53 pro. The New Dealers make several points about the poll. One is that the question is not fair, that there are many people who will vote for Mr. Roosevelt and yet are unable to approve all his acts and pol icies; another, that the Digest list is from -the telephone directories and does not cover the masses; a third is, that the Republican al ternative to Mr. Roosevelt may compel those who now oppose him to vote for him in the election. There is, of course, some force in these. If there were not, the poll would indicate an anti-New Deal vote of landslide proportion. To appreciate what the percent ages mean it must be realized that in 1932, though Mr. Roose velt defeated Mr. Hoover by 7, 000,000 votes, he polled a little less than GO per cent of the to tal, Mr. Hoover a little more than 40. The points made by the Di gest in reply are: First That the question is essentially the same asked in the poll taken in 1934. Second That the question has been asked of the same people then polled. AT THAT time the results showed more than 60 per cent, favoring the Roosevelt policies and that percentage was born out by the overwhelming indorsement of the New Deal policies in the 1934 Congressional elections which followed. As to that poll, there was heard no protest from the New Deal side, either as to the fairness of the question or the type of those questioned. On the contrary, it was from the Republi cans, both in 1932 and in 1934, that the alibis came they who attack the figures and the meth od. Conceding the force of the de fensive arguments, it is still un mistakably clear that a great shift in sentiment has taken place; that the popular tide which ran so strongly in the New Deal direc tion last year is running in the other direction now. IT is this that worries the admin istration politicians. They know that national elections are decided by tides. They know, too, that for eight years these Digest polls have been almost uncannily accurate. missing complete accuracy by less than one per cent. It will need realization of the full Potential itles in all the points now made against the poll to offset its pres ent percentage. It will need all of that and some lack: to torn the tide. At any rate, it will need more than the Roosevelt speech, "superbly delivered" and bril liantly ataged as It was.' J Bits for Breakfast By R. J. HENDRICKS r Salem 50 years ago and some of its history and this section's franchise crops and franchises advantages: (Continuing from yesterday:) Salem had been incorporated by the legislature of 1860. Luclen Heath was chosen its first mayor, at the election of the first Mon day in December. He was Oregon's first secretary of state first sec retary of the state government. . S V There was no wagon bridge across the Willamette river any where, 50 years ago. A busy fer ry connected the capital city with the west side. The building of the first wagon bridge across that stream at Sa lem in 1886 was one of the first movements that livened up things after the burning of the old wool en mill. s s s The present bridge is the third there; the first oiewent down with the flood of 1890, and the second one was worn out and be came dangerous with the ushering in of the automobile age. S The next move that set Salem definitely forward was the con struction of the first cannery, which came soon after the first bridge. One of the most active of the bridge proponents was R. S. Wal lace, father of our present Paul Wallace, and that was true also of the cannery. Mr. Wallace had come from Chicago and bought and revamped the Salem water system. That pioneer cannery, with many enlargements and Improve ments, is now the one of the Cali fornia Packing company, on 12th street: that concern also owning the 13th Btreet cannery. They are members of the great Del Monte chain belting the world. Then came, in 1888, the first street railway line; originally op erated with horses and mules. Some of the men who attended to and drove those then up to date Instruments of traction became prominent among them Herbert Hoover, the world's greatest al moner, president of the United States, etc. S S The electric strett railway get ting power with a loose arm from a wire was not yet invented. With the president of the street railway company, who was the writer, presiding, the first spike was driven January 1, 1888, by Rev. J. L. Parrish, with the first American ax brought to the Ore- Health By Royal S. Copeland, M.D. FEVER IS not a disease. But It la an important symptom Indicating some disturbance within tbe body. The average, or "normal, tempera ture of the human body Is 98.6 de grees Fahrenheit. It varies with the time of the day and is not quite tbe same In all parts of tbe body. There may be as much as a degree's dif ference between the mouth and tbe rectal readings of the thermometer. Tbe temperature Is lowest In the morning and highest at the end of the day, or in the late afternoon. There are various causes for fever. Elevation of temperature is frequent ly the result of some disturbance pro duced by germs. Sometimes It is brought about by a gastro-intestlnaJ upset; this Is particularly true of In fants and young children. The degree of fever varies with the type of germ. In pneumonia, for ex ample. It remains high and stays ele vated until recovery begins. In tu berculosis the temperature may be below normal In the morning and high in the afternoon. A study of the fever record la of great assistance In recognizing cer tain disorders. In addition, the prog Fess of the patient can be determined by the degree of fever. In a hos pital the patient's fever Is periodical ly recorded on what Is known as a "temperature chart". May Not Be Sign Tbe presence of fever Is not al ways a danger sign. Recently it bas been shown that the. existence of fever in certain Infectious diseases is really a blessing. It helps to bring about recovery. But, of course. It Is a symptom that should never be ig nored. Some bacteria require a certain temperature in order to exist If the temperature Is elevated they may be destroyed. In addition to this useful effect of fever, certain protective ele ments are formed In the body by the action of high fever. It ts well to be ramlllar with the symptoms of fever. Of course. Its presence can always be determined by the use of a thermometer, a clini cal thermometer, as It Is called. But a thermometer is not always avail able and even If it la. It Is of little value unless one Is acquainted with Its use. It Is advisable for every mother to know how to read a ther mometer. Usually the feverish child la list less. Irritable and without appetite. Aa a rule, the skin Is dry and hot. and the face flushed. Often very high fever la accompanied by delirium. Whenever fever Is present It ts best to go to bed. A doctor should be consulted. He will prescribe such treatment as be thinks best to bring tbe fever down to normal. If tbe un derlying condition is corrected the fever disappears of Its own accord. Answer to Health Queries 3. P. Q. Are milk and cream fat tenlng? A. Yes, both milk and cream are moat nutritious and wholesome. Mis A. A. D. Q 1 have bad a few operations and row have adhe sions. What art adhesions? A. For full particulars restate your question and send a stamped self-addressed envelope. Dr. Copetand (j glad to mnncer In qvirirt from renders fJlo send addrciMrd ttirmprtl entvlope ttith their qursttoua. All iaqutrle$ Mhould be adrirrnt f Mm in core ol tku newspaper. (CowrtrM. ms, K. Jr. imej gon country brought on the Lausanne, 1840. la The spike was driven at State and Commercial streets, west side, and the line first extended up State to 12th, then to the South ern'Paciflc depot. Soon an electric line was built, the two companies consolidated, and all lines electri fied. A complete record of that era would take up a lot of space. . Pioneer Salemites had felt the loss of the first woolen mill and looked forward to another. This came the next year, in 1889. On February 2 of that year a contract was signed by a committee with the original Thomas Kay, one of the earliest, men in that line on this coast. S The contract called for the erection of a woolen mill here, on the present site, which had been that of the Pioneer linseed oil mill. It was provided that Mr. Kay should have a' 120,000 subsidy. The canvass for the money pled ges went forward. There was a time, after 1 13,000 had been pledged, when all but two of the solicitors gave up the task declared it could not be fin ished. S S With 352 separate subscribers, 41 of whom gave additional pled ges after their first ones, the sum was declared raised on March 2, as recorded in the newspapers of the next morning,. Sunday, March 3, 1899. V s Raised with $400 to the good, for shrinkage. As the writer re Calls, there was only S200 shrink age. That accomplishment sent Sa lem forward fast. s s Came many new people; much building in all directions. The writer has seen perhaps - more than three-fourths of the build ings In palem's metropolitan dis trict ennstructed. No public school houses that stood 50 years ago in Salem now stand except one, in South Sa lem, now used for a feed mill. S S More canneries and packing J nouses came, xsow saiem puts into cans and barrels, etc., something like a third of all the fruits pack ed in the three states of the Pa ctfic northwest,' and a large part of the vegetables. S Saying nothing for barrels, crates, etc., Salem's canneries have the capacity to put up in one day three or four times the vol ume of fruits that the first can nery here packed in a year. (Continued tomorrow.) The Safety Valve Letters from Statesman Readers POOH GROUND DOWN I To the Editor: What's all the noise about ar resting Oregon citizens and hal ing them into court because they are too poor to buy a car license,? Are the poor to be ground down altogether in good old Oregon? One of our country sisters was heard to tell another lady that she could not buy the license yet but that she and her family must needs come to Salem to get sup plies. Cannot the powers that be in this state grant a little grace and mercy on those unable as yet to pay? I read in the bible that "Whoso etoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself and shall not be heard," Proverbs 21:13. But they may say, "Everybody could buy if he would." Not so. I doubt whether there is a suf ficient amount of money in cir culation among the masses of the state to cash in on 11,500,000 worth of licenses. That is what it figures, five times 300,000. To use a common expression among gamblers, "It is not in the cards." We Oregonians have a way of getting off up here in the woods and thinking that we know it all. However, we might learn to our profit by looking around to other states a bit. Take Califor nia for instance. The state au thorities grant until February 1 to purchase car licenses. What was the result? Nothing bad. All the while, the people were using their cars, which kept a steady stream of revenue from gas tax going toward the state treasury. Tires and other accessories had to be used also during that time, which of course helped business. How does that carry on with the statement made by Judge Quigley of Portland on January 4, "Too much leniency has been extended motorists." I wonder if when Gabriel blows his horn whether some of these fellows who are making it hard on the financially unfortunate, will feel the need of grace and mercy. We sincerely hope not. FRANK CHEDESTER. J Twenty Years Ago January 9, 1016 Salem high defeated Lincoln high of Portland 28 to 22 last night here. , Five weeks after its departure from New Tork, the Ford peace expedition reached The Hague yesterday. Ten Years Ago JannarrT A. 1D2AV Decentralization of the federal Tovernment and restitution to the 'ates of inherent rlehta wen the ! theme of Governor A. C. Ritchie's address at a Jackson Day demo cratic banquet last night. Cdacb "Andy" Smith of the University of California died In Philadelphia yesterday. "HIGH SCHOOL TRAGEDY" CHAPTER I ABOUT the only thing Mother was ever really stuffy about was my reading mystery stories. She said they were not for girls seventeen years old, that they gave them er -exotic ideas and ex cited the nerves, whatever she meant by that. So while the other girls read "The Door" and "The Thin Man," I had to be satisfied with occasional peeks at their copies and with tame love stories. But when my very own French teacher was murdered last year, and I was right in the midst of it, and the whole family practically so involved in it, and the papers pub lishing nothing else for weeks, there wasn't much she could do about it, was there? I know she was awfully worried about it, about my being right in it, and she was afraid I might develop like Allen. Allen is my older brother. He is only a year ahead of me at school because he had to stay oat a year on account of his health. He is awfully nervous and sort of moody. I heard Dad call him "neurotic" ence, but I haven't found out yet Just what he meant by that. "Peculiar'' is what the kids call him; perhaps Dad wanted to say the same thing. I am awfully fond of Allen in spite of his being neurotic or peculiar, and that is why I felt so upset when I found out about him. But that comes later. Dad had lots more sympathy about things one wants to do when one is young. He is always telling Mother not to fuss, especially ever me. He said once, "Frederics, dost worry over Julie, She is about as healthy aa animal aa I know, from the tip of her enrly black head to the toes on her little feet." That was when I was so worried over the evidence I was concealing?. and Mother thought I was brooding on Miss Sinclair's death Had she only known! It all happened last falL Our town Is a small one across the bay from San Francisco, and even though it is so near a big city, it is pretty much like all small towns. So when a murder happened' there, not down over the railroad tracks where the foreign workmen live, but riarht in a good apartment house, and when the victim was a teacher from the town's only high school, business was d ractically paralyzed. No one talked about anything else and the papers did not publish anything else, at least not oa the front page. I will never get over the shock of tnost first headlines. HIGH SC HOOT TEACHER MUR DERED, they shrieked, and under neath, "Miss Constance Sinclair Shot to Death." I almost fainted at 'he breakfast Uble "Now, Julie," cautioned Mother, you must not get excited. We know how fond you were of Miss Sinclair and it la a terrible thing, bat art must take it sensibly." Allen got up and left the room. "Oh, dear," worried Mother some more, "Allen is so sensitive. I do hope " f broke to to Dad, "Will there be any school today?" 4I think so, Julie " then ho tamed to Mother. "I should not worry over Julie's nerves. Mother." I didn't get what h meant then, but I saw afterward that he was teasing rea at that moment. He thought I was concerned about a vacation. I was really afraid we would have one. We all read parte of the story and told each other the details, even Mother Joining the ex citement It seemed that she was shot to death while she sat at her desk writ - inr a letter to someone whoso name the police had not disclosed. If they knew it fas full The police them selves had discovered r after a mysterious telephone call from San Francisco had Informed them aha had been killed. The eall had been traced to the Ferry Building public booths, but as neither the bootblack nnr Dm eheckin clerk who had stands Bear them could remember the aaaotr persons who Brad sopped at tte toot that nignt, um srau seemed to end there. The hour of bar death had been fixed as around ton o'clock from this aJL Mra-Sardoni who managed tha apartment house had given the po lk a Bat of people who had called Sharp Teeth But Can He Digest It? ---- U "! fisps y.yt s5t there that day, the paper said. The last visitor had been there until 8 :30, she said. The call had come to the police at 10:45. If the person who made the call had just arrived on the 10 :43 boat, and if this person were the murderer, then Miss Sin clair must have been killed not later than 9:40 p. m. And to think." I afmost moaned out loud, "that I was there yester day afternoon and she was alive and happy I" "Yoa were there r exclaimed Mother. "Yes. I was working after school in the office," (I took a course in typewriting, and our principal made me an assistant in the office for an The police discovered the body after them that she had hour after school.) "Mr. Perkins wanted some reports ready in time for his superintendent's meeting at 4 :0O o'clock. I only had a half hour to finish them. I had done the typ ing but I had to fill in each copy with soma figures. -Just as I was hurrying the most, my pen broke can t have another. Dad!" Dad just nodded and I hurried en. "I tried to use a regular pen. but the darn the mean thing wouldn't work. I only had ten min utes and I was almost ready to ear. Just then Miss Sinclair came in to leave her absence report and she asked mo what the trouble was. I told her. She laughed and said, 'Here, youngster, take my pen. Bring Mm. O a . 1 4.1 K oacK to me wnen you are vnrougn with it, and bo sure yon take good care of it, because I never use any other pen. It'a sort of a pet of mine" "So you used her pen?" asked Dad. "Tea. I was a little late after aH. By the time I was ready to go. she had left the building. So Dicky he la my boy friend took me out 1 to her apartment and I returned the pen to her.' As I told the story to my parents, it seemed to mo that I could see her aa sho waa the afternoon before, small and lively and gay. The kids were all pretty fond of her, mora fond of her than the other teachers were. Sho waa about 25, 1 imagine. almost as short as I am, with red dish hair and brilliant green eyes, aad aba had marvelous clothes. 1 think myself tbe other teachers were Jealous of her. Her family bad evi dently been wealthy once; aha had a different background from tha rest of them, 8he had oven studied French ia a convent fa Switzerland. Sho waa friendly with Urn students, too, a Uttta too friendly, soma of oa E . thought at heart A young teacher bts to be careful about that; I know some of the boys had crushes on her. She lived alone in a four-room apartment, another thing which most of the teachers thought funny, for if they didn't live with their families, they lived with one or two other teachers. A couple of them lived across the hall from Miss Sin clair. I had seen them the day be fore. I was almost erring by the time Dicky honked his horn as I told my folk about the last time I had seen her. He was all agog about it of course, and he wondered if we would be questioned about our visit a mysterious 'phone call informed been killed . . . there. That hadnt ocerrrred to me, but it seemed quite probable, and I wished I had worn the green knit suit that is so much more becoming mn ue uarx Dine one i nad on. Classes did BOt amount tn mnh that day. I dost know who were more onset, tha pupils or the teach era. Aa for me, I just eat waiting to be called to confer with the police. But when 8:30 came and sone had phoned for me. I relaxed. IH admit I was a bit disappointed. I went down to the office to work, hoping something might happen there. I was surely glad that I had taken that typewriting prize which had got me this Job after schooL I never dreamed of ever using it for what yoa might call commercial purposes wnen ji enrolled tor tha course. I merely thought I should ba abl f typo my own atoriea if I waa going w write alter x grew a nttJe older. i realized mat one had to know somethinr about Ufa before bee-in ning. But believe me, I've learned a lot about Ufa since those days I That afternoon, however, did not seem to be very exciting. The regu lar stenographers whispered that Mr. Perkins had been upset all day, of course, and there had been lota oz telephone calls. But they really did not know any more than I did. j At 4:00 o'clock a big man with gray hair and a red face came in and asked for Mr. Perkins. ... (Ho is tha principal, in ease I did not tell yon.) ... Be went Into his office and waa rone some time. Then suddenly tha door opened. Mr. Perkins stood there, looking very white and se rious. "Julie,"h sald,"Inrpector O'Brien wants to speak to yoa." (To Be Continued) ISM. Ei