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PAGC FOUR ' v 1 v The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Alonuxig, January 14, 1936 Founded "No Favor Sways UsfNo Fear Shalt Awen . From First Statesman. Marcb2S. lt 51 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Chasles A. . Snucuc ; Editor-Manager Sheldon K. Sackett - itankging'Editor " Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press to escnislvely ntltled te the use tor publics Woa of aU sews dUpatcb credited to U or km otherwise credited te , Buyifag'of Farm Lands . rriHE federal land bank in Spokane reports that three rec j. ords were broken in its land department in 1935. There were more individual sales of land; the dollar volume was the greatest; and the down payments were the greatest in history. Of course these statements? need to be supple-" . xnented with the further statement that the land bank had more land on its hands so with the beginning of economic revival it should seU more and receive more. Since its lands are offered at terms often much below those of private holders, the land bank does more business. ( r. There is one bit of information in the bulletin from the bank, which is interesting. The, vice president is quoted as saying: f and dollar Tolume is the fact that maay tenant farmers and - youia; fanners bars bea glren an opportunity to boy places of their own at a reasonable price and on tarorable terms of pay ment enabling them to share in the upturn movement in agricul ture which now seems steadily under way' . This is merely a repetition of the history of all former general panics v in this country. What, is the ruination of one property-holder becomes the glowing opportunity for his successor in interest. It used to be said that it was the second generation which profited from the pioneering of the first While the first generation put their best efforts and all their capital into developing land, later they might , lose it, or desert it and "move back to civilization"; but those who followed theirTwould begin where the pioneers left off and profit from their failure. So it is in seasons of panic One farmer may have bought land at peak prices and gone in debt for it. Others may not be in position to stand a few years of losses through crop failures or low prices. If they cannot hold the land it passes to creditors who usually get less out of it than before and so sell at considerable sacrifice to some real farmer, a tenant perhaps, or perhaps some farmer who has been dispossessed elsewhere. The buyer makes a deal on favorable terms: low first cost, 6asy annual payments, perhaps just a share of the crop. He gets the benefit of the upswing in prices of farm produce and soon may have his land all clear. The same pro cess of deflation of values goes on in city property and in other lines of business. The over-extended owner may be forced out and the way is open for the young farmer or the tenant or the new enterpriser to take over the place on a lower capitalization. This process is not the result of greed of hard-boiled creditors, because in the case of the land bank, it is a quasi- public agency, encouraged and supported by the government, which has sought to be very liberal with its borrowers to al low them to retain their lands. It will continue because poor management, extravagance, bound to continued While it is always distressing to see per sons lose their farms or their homes, even when it may be a result of their own thriftlessness, Jheir loss usually works to the gain of some one else. In the case of land, the buyer gets a bargain. So the law of erate. It Is a healthy condition when farms are owned by those who operate them or by retired farmers who will hand them down to their sons. So the news that foreclosed farms are passing again into possession Agriculture for the immediate considerable part of Jtoe debt m the years since the; war. i The Mahdney TF ever the state had a senator who was diligent in repre- senting the state's interest in ,. it had a senator who gained influence in public affairs; that senator is Charles H. Mc- Nary. It would seem that he is entitled to the well-nigk unan ; imous vote for his return to Washington. He has not been rabidly partisan. He cooperated ident Roosevelt on measures which seemed valuable for the national recovery. Yet Senator McNary is to be opposed for reelection by a political mountebank from Klamath Falls, Willis Mahoney, a typical demagogue and rabble-rouser. The issue which Mahoney has seized is the Townsend the Townsend plan as a springboard for landing in office. The sincere followers of that plan ought to be able to per ceive that Mahoney is one of the clever politicians stealing a ride on the bandwagon. If he should be elected he is not to be trusted with devotion in putting the plan into effect. Two years ago Mahoney was splitting the air on the ' Wall street issue, or was it public utilities? He was then pos- ing as the political messiah the state needed in the governor's chair. With that issue about worn out Mahoney now cleverly leaps to make new political -medicine out of the Townsend plan. If Sinclair's EPIC was on the upswing here he would be touting that. His only. purpose is to get into office by any means possible. The Statesman has no illusions as to the character of campaign which will be waged. It will be that of the agita tor against the faithful public servant of demonstrated ca pacity in off ice. Likewise we have no doubt, as to the final t outcome. The voters of Oregon recognize Senator McNary for his abilities and love him for his warm and generous per- snnalitr'- Thev nri not nine to rpnudintp him for a iwlitiral trapeze performer. Ickes and OECRETARY ICKES jumped off the deep end when he lJ, charged in a speech at Rochester, that a number of laws passed durinsr the Hoover clared unconstitutional. Robert Jackson, a favorite lawyer .of the new deal, made a similar eharsre at Buffalo. Now ex- President Hoover demands that Ickes make an "apology to tne public"; but Secretary Ickes from the remote Virgin is lands, cables back "there is no answer." Here is the score of laws passed in recent administra tions declared unconstitutional by the supreme court: Signed by Harding, 4 : by Coolidge, 4 : by Hoover. 0 : bv Franklin D. Roosevelt (to date) 9. Where Ickes probably made his mis take was that certain laws were found invalid by the court while Hoover was president, brat they were laws signed by former presidents. Before the court gets through Roosevelt's score will mount, with every probability that he will have the high record for signing bills later declared unconstitutional. If the legal advisers of the president would quit being "yes-men" and be would get out of his head the idea that w hatever he proposes is right, the president would not get into trouble with the court. j - Washington Is said to be fearful of inflation because pf lmpend . ing passage of the bonus bill and possible enactment of the Frazier ' ' Lemke farm mortgage refinancing bill. The alarms are belated. What we are having now is Inflation, preliminary to a grand bust in a few years; and this inflation' is government-sponsored. The first . "Righteous Government" convention has declared Father Divine to be God. But the ing alnv -considerable" competition.. ' 1 fc.XL. tISX and unforeseen changes are compensation continues to op of real farmers is good news future is going to be spared a load which proved its undoing Candidacy the national capital; if ever fame and distinction for his very generously with Pres Hoover administration had been de other .political messiahs are offer The Great Game t of Politics i By FRANK R. KENT : Cprritst 1935. y The BslUmere Sa A Hollow Budget Washington, Jan. 14 SO overwhelming was the AAA decision of the Supreme Court on Monday. that the annual budget message or. me President, to a const derable extent, was overshadow e d. Read . In Con gress the same hour the deci sion became public, it ran a bad second on the radio and in the press. : YET5 it is of the i first 1m- rrnkB.KBi portance, c o nomically and politically. The rea son for its political importance is that It is the last budget proposal Mr. RooseTelt will present before running op re-election on his rec ord. No, candidate -was eTer so completely pledged to reduction in expenditures, retrenchment and economyas he in 1932. No aspir ant f of the White House was si deeply committed to the principle of spending less than yon took in. No man ever more strongly de nounced extravagance or more ve hemently pointed out the danger of continuing deficits, promised more solemnly to end them. IN the light of these facts it can be understood that this final bud get message, revealing as it does an accumulated deficit four times as large as the one he inherited, the national debt at the highest peak in history and a government al structure expanded beyond all reason, both as to cost and per sonnel It can be understood that under such circumstances the for mation of a budget message, not politically devastating, required no little skill with figures. Con sidering the actual state of af fairs it must be conceded that Mr. RooBevelt did an extremely good job. IT Is true that he hastily glossed over the glaring facts as to debt and deficit, but no one can blame him for not dwelling upon them. And while he did not exactly adopt the "cheating at solitaire" system used by the ridiculous Mr. Farley in achieving his "surplus," his estimates of revenues for the ensuing fiscal year are as rosily optimistic as his estimates of ex penditures are far under what most posted people believe will be the mininfum. In brief, the Roose velt figures are hypothetical in the extreme, represent what Mr. Roosevelt, an exceedingly optimis tic man, happily hopes for rather than what anybody in the Trea sury with full knowledge of the facts and a fairly clear head, real ly expects. That the President's figures can and will be broken down when the experts get to work is sure. THE plain truth is that If there were any sense or any soundness at all in Mr. Roosevelt's own state ments (statements in which at the time practically everybody save the Progressive Republicans con curred) made in his first budget message to Congress in March, 1933, the Federal finances are in a dangerous and deplorable con dition. In the view of many they make a mockery of the Democra tic platform of 1932 and consti tute a repudiation of the Roose velt promises. Nevertheless, the budget message, on the surface at least, puts the President in a de fending position. He makes out a paper case of an approximately balanced budget for 1936 - 1937, with expenditures $5,649,000,000, revenues S5, 654,000, 000. this takes no account of the amount needed for relief. This he is to send in later. It may run one billion, or It may run three bil lions, but the theory la that the size of the deficit next year will be the size of the relief appropri ation. That will not be so, but the proof will not be available until after the election. So, for politi cal purposes, the claim can be made that, but for relief, the Su preme Court and the bonus, Mr. Roosevelt. has finally achieved a balanced budget, despite the enor mous expenditures of the emer gency. It is a hollow claim and a hollow budget, but the "talking point" essential to meet the charge of reckless extravagance and complete bad faith has been provided and that was the basic Idea. The fact seems to be that the budget message is as much a cam paign document as the message on the "State of the Union" was a campaign speech. Twenty Years Ago Janaary 14, 1018 General Victoriano Huerta, for mer provisional president of Mex ico, died in Texas yesterday. A large part of Austria-Hungary is suffering severely from a shortage of coal. George Carpentier, heavyweight champion of France and Europe, is winning distinction in the French aviation corps. Ten Years Ago January 14, 102 Permits to build 18 nw houses have been issued since the first of the year, predicting a build ing boom in Salem. , , Mae Murray and Rudolph Val entino are busy denying romantic rumors, i- - A new and larger dlrigibla to replace the wrecked Shenandoah la included in the navy program m .,, i .iiiii.ii .-3ft - .1 a . t Li V- J ., before con jrr ess. '. ... c ; Bits for Breakfast By R. J. HENDRICKS Salem SO years ago w and some of its history and this section's franchise crops and franchise advantages: S V (Continuing front Sunday:) Twentieth, potatoes. Better ones than can be grown here are not known. Bnt it takes a good Po tato jtuaa to persistently grow good potatoes, '' V' Twenty - first, bees. We have here the longest and the uniform ly richest bee pasture la the world, year in and year out. This to the land of milk and boner. The famed honey of Hymettus had nothing over ours. 22, Poultry and pet stock. We have: produced the world's great est egg layers in hens. Poultry breeding here, the year through. with constant green feed, is cheaper than elsewhere known, in eluding lnexpenslveness of both wintering and summering the fowls. 22. City beautiful. This is Sa lem. Come and see. Grows year by year more so. 24. Great cows. This means that the Willamette- valley Is a Mecca for men looking for the best in this line ever known. 25. Paved highways. This means that, up to lately, Marion county had more miles of county paved highways than all the rest of the counties in the state out side of Multnomah. S 26. Head lettuce. We lead the Pacific northwest in Quality. 27. Silos. This district has the largest per capita number in the northwest. 28, Legumes. We produce the best, embracing all the clovers. and ought to exploit them more. Including choicest canning peas. 29. Asparagus. We can beat the world. We should can it on a large scale, green and white, and go out after world markets. S 30. Grapes. We grow excellent ones, of the northern varieties. We should develop the Juice Industry on a major scale. 31. Drug garden. A great com mercial industry is in the making here. Needs a leader who can lead. 32. Sugar beets, sorghum. Ex periments show we could grow the beets for sugar for cannery and all other demands here, on a few acres. The sorghum industry is now growing here. -33. Water powers. They are enormous, running to waste. 34. Irrigation. It is coming. Will make of this valley the greatest garden on earth. 35. Mining. Untold wealth is at our back door, in the Cascades. r 36. Land, irrigation, etc. Po tentially cheapest land on earth is here, considering its possibili ties. 37. Floriculture. Our country is better for bulbs than Holland. Is a Garden of Eden for floral de velopment. H 38. Hops, cabbage, etc. We pro duce over half the hops in the United States. We should grow more cabbage for Bauer kraut put up on commercial scales. 39. Wholesaling and Jobbing. Opportunities here. . 48. Cucumbers. We should grow more for plcklefL and make more pickles. F 41. Hogs. This is the cheapest country on earth for swine breed ing. 42. This Is the natural home for the Angora goat, and milk goats do wonderfully welL Oppor tunities are offered here for goat cheese making. 43. We have In Salem and this valley fine school systems and in stitutions of higher education. 44. This is the best all around sheep country the world knows. s w s .45. National advertising. There is vast need for its great develop ment in this section. We do not sufficiently put our best food for ward. 46. Seeds, etc. This valley is a great source of supply for fine seeds of all kinds. Large now, this line Is capable of vast growth. Daily Health Talks By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M, D. United States senator from New York Former Comittioner of Eealth, Kew Tor City HERE IS a big word: "Emphy sema". It lq the medical name tor a peculiar affliction of the lungs. In this disorder the air cells or air sacs of the lungs become dilated. Once la a while it is confused with asth ma, and as a matter of fact there is m likeness In the effects of these two diseases. Like the asthma, patient, the suf ferer from emphysema has great dif ficulty in breathing. There Is a "wheezing sound" which comes from the chest. In a severe case this wheezing can be heard quite a dis tance. In emphysema a husky, whistling sound Is produced as the patient breathes out after an intake of air. . Cause of Disease As a rule, enlargement or dilation of the involved parts of the lungs la due to some chronic Irritation or in flammation. The tissues lose their normal elasticity and, because of this, are Incapable of expelling all ot the air from the lungs, This Is a symp tom frequently encountered in asth ma and In chronic bronchitis. At times the weakness continues and is readily traced to prolonged or repeated colds, bronchitis, influenza, broncho-pneumonia and lobar pneu monia. It Is sometimes a complica tion of some' constitutional disease. Elderly persons are more, likely to de velop this condition. Emphysema Is often found la per sons who are overweight, especially In those who have a protruding ab domen, or an extensive waistline. This , produces an Interference with the pressure upon the diaphragm, the wall between the abnomlnal cavity and the chest cavity. This Is not so common In women. .Perhaps this Is because most stoat women wear as abdominal girdle or corset. This sup port helps maintain the necessary 47. Livestock. We should pro- due more, import less. 48. Grain and grain product. We grow the best. Our milling oats are th finest known. 49. Manufacturing,: We need more, in various lines. Many op portunities await ingenious men. 60. Automotive industries. Well represent here. Always room at the top. SI. Woodworking, . etc. Open ings for a number of factories, large and small. . 62. Paper mills, etc. There is timber in the forest reserves back of Salem that, with harvesting, will supply and last three more paper mills as large as the one we have for all time. Properly harvested, it will never run out. It will grow better with the years. S Thus, briefly, we have here the greatest valley in the world; cap able of maintaining 10, 20, SO, 40 times its present population. (Concluded tomorrow.) Street Widening Task Under Way Widening of Trade street im mediately east of South Commer cial will be completed for a dis tance of 100 feet by a Southern Pacific construction crew this week if the necessary materials are received here, it was re ported yesterday. Workmen yes terday were clearing accumulated soil and gravel from the right-of way preparatory to laying new ties. The tracks, used for switching freight cars to and from the Ore gon Pulp & Paper company plant. probably will be paved all the way to Liberty street at least in the not distant future, it is under stood. The city water department is expected to surface the 20 feet of now unpaved street between the tracks and its office building. Celebrate Birthday Of Dallas Resident PIONEER, Jan. 13. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bird, Mr. and Mrs. Dar el Bird and son Leland, and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Robbins helped John R. Robbins of Dallas cele brate his 77th birthday, Friday, with a dinner. Mr. Robbins is a pioneer of this community. He lived here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Linza Robbins, on the large timber claim that is being cut off by the DeHartport Wood company. After he was married he raised his fam ily on the place now owned by John Kellar, sr. Mr. Robbins has five children, Reece H., Clyde W., and Mrs. Roy Bird, of here. Ies- ter of Spokane, Wash., and Ernest J. of Oakland. Calif. After leaving the Pioneer com munity Mr. Robbins moved to Dallas then to Independence where they lived till 7 years ago. He moved to Salem where they lived two years then moved to Dallas where they lived ever since. The following pupils were on the honor roll in school the. past month: Elizabeth Pahrman, Ruth Dornhecker, Gail Woods. Dorothy Keller, Jerry Wood, Edna Pahr man, Shirley Keller, Leo Wood and Jim Coy. Townsend Announcer Addresses Joint Clubs CLEAR LAKE, Jan. 13. The Joint Townsend club met at the Eldriedge schoolhouse Wednesday night. The speaker was Elbert Eastman, radio announcer for the state office. His address was en thusiastically received. Seventy new memberships were reported. The club is made up of members from Keizer, Clear Lake, Eld riedge, North Howell and Labish center. The next meeting will be held at the Labish Center school Wednesday night, January 22 Officers are to be elected at this meeting. way, avoids stagnation of air In the lungs. For this reason It Is not uncom mon for a doctor to advise a suf ferer from emphysema to wear a strong abdominal binder, belt or cor set This raises tbe diaphragm and Improves the abdominal and chest pressure. The value of this simple procedure Is bcrne out in some cases by the marked improvement and ease in breathing. It Is an Idea worth considering. . Emphysema should always . be riven medical attention. Neglect leads to other disturbances and low ers the body resistance. In addition, the stress and strain of breathing throw an additional burden upon the heart and blood vessels. One who has emphysema should avoid any sudden or severe strain. Over-exertion, over-work and exces sive fatigue or dangerous. I cannot too strongly urge tbe importance of adequate hours of rest and relaxa tion. Every effort should be made to keep the weight down. But. of course, this undertaking should only be done under the direction of a physician. Too radical measures may be dan gerous. Answers to Hoallh Queries ; Anonymous. Q. Could constipa tion be the cause of boils? S: Lately I have noticed broken capillaries on the thighs, and hips as well as other parts of the body. What Is the cause' of this? A. Tea, It would be an Important factor, 'For full particulars restate your question and send a stamped, self-addressed envelope, S: This con. ditton may be due to a strata. It Is not st all uncommon In middle life Dr. Copetani 1$ gtai to autccr InQuMct frost readers tcko send : addressed stamped envelopes with their questions, AU inquiries sXoH be addressed to Un t 1 cor of this newspaper. ,i" ''' ' . - - - 1 1 1 j , A a s .jmsbp- w m - "HIGH SCHOOL TRAGEDY" SYNOPSIS Tnlf Mmt .ka. t1 la j aw sMeuuts. Mie bu v a aa relating what happened after her rrcnen teacner, pretty Constance (Connie) Sinclair, was found shot dead at a desk in her (Miss Sin clair's) apartment. Julie has star- tied aer mother and Interests her and her boy friend, Dicky Ward, had visited the apartment the pre. nous afternoon, a few hours before the murder. She had returned a fountain pen which she had bor rowed from Hiss Sinclair. News paper reports make known that the teacher was slain about 10 o'clock that night, Tne police went to the apartment upon receipt of a mys terious telephone call Informing them that Miss Sinclair had been slain. Julie's young brother, Allen, also a high school pupil, leaves the breakfast table soon after the fam ily starts discussing the tragic news. At the school later. Police inspector O'Brien Questions Julie concerning the return of the pen, casing mi inquiry on notes made d urine- an earlier examination et Mrs. Sardoci who conducted the apartment house tenanted bv the slain teacher. Julie tells the In spector that she talked with Miss Sinclair about a book. Principal reruns remarks that he found the book on the teacher's school desk that morning .and gets permission to return it to the rental store. Mel- vin Wright, "the school's 'nroblem boy" and the last known caller oa Miss Sinclair, is frilled in secret . . . tne trsning oaners feature the victim's last letter, addressed to a "Dear George." who evidently was married . . . then come extras with the news that Hym, Filipino janitor of the apartment house, had vanished the night of the murder I That development was obscured tempdrarily-by news that tbe police had found on Melvin a gun of the same calibre of that of the murder weapon. The victim's father ar rived, inquiring for one Braes Lloyd, described as the late "Con ale's" fiance. Lloyd appeared for police examination, said the en gagement in question had been broken, refused to answer queries concerning the misalncr "Georrm." and declared he "could not say" where be was on October 20, the night of the murder. - Julie con unues ber story: CHAPTER V Things were certainly happening fast; it had reached the point where a new sensation a dav was ex pected. We would have felt cheated u we badnt bad it. The capers ran nothing new for the next few editions, hat when my father came home for dinner, our family, at least, cot Its daily thrilL Dad had been retained by Brace uoya as his lawyer I I guess I have forgotten up to now to sav much about say own fam ily as they weren't important. Bat how important we became later My father was an attorney, a prom inent one, X anppoae yon might say, and when the police started ques tioning Mr. Lloyd so closely, he de manded a lawyer. Dad was the on called, and he managed to get him released. "It was hard work, though, be said. "The officials are pressing the thing pretty close. But so many are involved, it is hard for them to hold individuals when they havent What about Melvin?" I asked, WelL they apparently can1 prove anything very definite on him. But they are holding him on carry ing a gun. ' He hasnt got a lawyer yet and they can keen aim lor "Do von think ha did it?" Julie, eat Tour supper," admon ished Mother. "I'd like to know. Curry. Be mfffht km. von know. He has nasty disposition evidently, his reo - ord is none too rood, and he had a motive in ber reporting him first and refusing to sign his parole later. Most important of all, bo bad the gun." "Circumstantial, all of it,' Allen's first eaameat ' "Tea, Bnt men bar been eon- - vlcted On leas." . ' !. - "Jritnes. I do wish it were not nrrniurr to aUaena these details! exclaimed Mother. Dad smiled at bar. - . v.--y -'n . . "What about Eymt Have they Giddy-apjNapoleon! ' .srvTsmS "None, as vet. It seems." an swered Dad with an apologetic look toward Mother, "that he and Miss Sinclair were not on very good terms. She bad once protested his familiarity in not only speaking to her on the street, but walking along aertlt, ftieaw Mtatt-v 1 tanAvaj titm -W fact told that?" "Mrs. Sardoai. Miss Sinclair re ported it to her; she gave Hym quite scolding. The Filipino then apolo gised, but heevidently resented the insult to his race and pride. He was very rude to the teacher again, and Mrs. Sardoni had given him no tice to leave at the end of the month. So you see. another motive is estab lished, and substantiated by his Mrs. Sardoni gave Hym a scolding; evioenuy rcscmcu it, sou strange disapp jr nee that night" "Did bespeak .e an American I" asked Allen. ' I "I dont know. You are probably thinking of the phone calL The po lice are puzzled by that An ordi nary murderer would not set them on his trail so soon in that fashion, at least he wouldn't take the chance of doing so. They feel, moreover, that Hym could not have been the who made it I dent know whether he speaks as an Oriental does or not but the voice was that of a young man, excited, but well modulated." "Mother," said Allen, "I bare work to do. nay 1 be ex cused?" After be bad cone. Mother scolded Dad again. "There, you seel The boy eouldn t finish his dinner. He la so nervous and all this talk of murder of a woman he was very fond of la too much lor aim." Dad shruzzed his shoulders and devoted bis attention to bin food. I knew be was not through, that be knew mora. Mother knew it too. and althourh she has ideas on brisev ing up children, ner curiosity is verv human. In a few minutes she said, Is this Mr. Lloyd as handsome as bis pktaresr" "Quite," said Dad. "Has he talked yet?" . Nov Be is a very una young man, yon would think to look at him. His reputation in the city is excellent His family live la tbe East and are people of soma means. He seems to -have been arenuinelv grieved by the girl's death. But he is very stubborn and very firm about reveal inr bis relatkmihio to ber or Ibis whereabouts that night He will not talk even to me. r It looks bad for bin from that angle. I bad a bard time getting him off, and IH have to produce him whenever he is IWffHv sL iff' U II f. I 5 W I v r l ill S f: 3, "Wont that be rather risky? Are you sure of bis innocence?" "Of course not. Mother. But I'm gambling on it" "Is there anything new on 'George'?" I asked. "Well, yea. At least, Mr. Sin clair, who is leaving with the body tonight and will return later, has told the police of a man named George Carrington to whom Miss Sinclair was one engaged. They are looking him up now." When we left the table, I had a : lot to think about. Moat of all I think I dwelt on Connie, trying to realise she was the "body" travel ling north tonight. All that youth and gaiety and prettiness shut up WW he apologized to Miss Sinclair but was iuui to uci aigaui in a coffin, gone forever. Who bad wiped them out like that? I matured to shake off those mor- bid thoughts by turning te the per : sons involved. Naturally Bruce Lloyd was the most fascinating. I would Eke to bare known about bis romance with Connie. What a won derful lover be would have madef rather wished Dicky were taller. that be didst wear giassea, and that his hair bad soma kind of color. In the back of my mind, however. were some practical problems. What puzzled me mora than the telephone call was the question of what bad become of the penv I remembered so well, .my banding K to uumt . and thanking ber. I could see the tableau perfectly. The lata after- noon sun came in through pale green curtains and brightened aer bead : . to a brilliant red. She leaned against a table with soma pale yel- low roses on it in a green vase. Sha bad a book la one hand and the : pen in the other. Vicky was standing by the door, , and X waa perched oa the arm of a : chair, when the other two teachers i knocked. They did not come in, but i they asked her to- the movie, and ; looked at Dicky and ma disapprov- : ingiy. as uonnie said no and talked about the letters, she replaced the book on the table and flourished the ; pen. - ' That picture and tbe image of Mrs. Sardonfs bandwritinr were the things I went to sleep thiMwg r about Where had I seen writing of that spider-web variety before? That aaasr pale green paper, the L same finely drawn lines tracing t "Anna" below four other words thai I blurred, composed a second pktura i in my memory. i I felt that In those two pictures -were important duet to the mys tery. If I could only find themt f " V (To Ba Continned) ;' "'H i M S, fOsm Tsamm tjatkrt. b. I -. - 'pressure mndi te put it In a simple (CepvTigt; I3U, K. r.-Lt lneJ , any trace s hlnw - ttrm-t