PAGE SIX
The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, February 14, 1936
Founded ISSI
"No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe"
From First Statesman, March 28. 1851
v THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
Chaklls A. Spsacuk i Editor-Manager
SHFXiiON K SmkilTT . - ;'. Managing-Editor
1 HfpibtT nf the AawoHntrtl Press
.Tb Aoilat-d Pi la ekitunlveiy entitled to th um (or public
lion tr all nrwi dipatii- credited to tt or not otberwisa credited 10
Hoover at Portland
THE address of former President Hoover in Portland Wed
nesday night was another effective thrust at the new
deal, treating -this time more particularly of its practices
than of its underlying philosophy. He accepted the objective
defined by President Roosevelt as the supplying of "the ave
rage man and woman to lead a fker, better, and happier life."
His controversy was not with this objective, which he said
had been the ideaj, of America ever since the writing of the
Declaration of Independence, but with the methods of the
new deal, which he declared are thwarting the attainment of
he objective. r
In forcing inflation, in increasing the cost of living, in
effecting a reduction in real wages tirough devaluation of
the dollar, in tolerating monopolistic practices through NRA,
in promoting planned scarcity, and in threatening the sys
tem of orderly liberty thrnmrh
the new deal, Hoover challenges, does not in the ultimate pro
vide the average man or woman with the finer, better and
happier life.
The former president was in fighting trim ; he empha
sized the points he drove home with thumping the table before
him. At times his face lighted up as some bit of humor flash
ed. Hooker's speeches are his own. Ben Allen, who accom
panied him as associate, says that the president digs out his
speeches himself. He has persons who do research for him to
verify every fact and figure which he uses ; but the composi
tion is Hoover's own. He has shortened his sentences in order
to bring his ideas better "into focus". The ovation which he
received at the beginning of his address and the hearty ap
plause which interrupted him in its delivery bespoke the loy
al esteem in which this ex-Oregonian is still held by residents
of this state.
A point which Hoover drove
his division of greed into greed for money and greed for
power:
'The lust for power is infinitely the worse. The greed for
money can be curbed by law; but the greed for power seizes the
law itself for its ends."
He quoted from Roosevelt's message to congress a pas
sage which reveals the greatest danger which any centralized
government creates, the building up of "new instruments
of public power". Roosevelt himself admitted that "in other
hands" these instruments "would provide shackles for the
liberties of the people". That is precisely the point which Mr.
Hoover has harped on in his book "The Challenge to Liberty"
and in his addresses. He said Wednesday night : "That is con
fusion of dictatorship with democracy. The very origin of
this republic was iu order that nobody should possess such
power over the people."
Another idea which deserves the thoughtful
tion of the American people is that much of the so-called re
covery is enjoyed by the speculative classes. The Statesman
has previously developed the same point, that is a period
oi insiaDiiiry, or monetary changes, etc., the ones who thrive
the most are the speculators. They leap cleverly from crest
to crest, while the masses are caught in ebb tides and troughs.
As Hoover says: "These currency and credit policies have
driven men all over the nation into a scramble of buying
equities to protect themselves. These policies have made a
paradise for the speculator. . . Having opened the channels of
greed, rightly the president may be worried over the greedy."
While the former president did not hesitate to use his
spurs he held his address to the "mold of courtesy, good hu
mor, hard hitting, and above all to the intellectual honesty
which Lincoln kept in all his fateful years" which he defined
as the standard which ought to prevail in the debate over the
great issues.of the day. He indulged in no "personalities and
mud-slinging". He laid but the issues; and it is no answer to
say as Ickes did yesterday that Hoover made a "boggle-de-botch"
of his own administration. It is neither truthful nor
responsive to assert, as does the Capital Journal that Hoover
is "haunted by phantoms of fear over the passing of the old
oligarchy of entrenched greed and privilege". The issue is not
HoOVer. It i Tint HnOVPr's administration Tt ia Ttrvnca-traW a
w . w w wuuw. 4 AVAA V AWUUV W X V U
administration. The issue is the new deal. As Hoover says :
"The issue is the attempt to fasten upon the American peo
ple some sort of a system of personal government for a govern
: ment of laws; a system of centralization under a political bu
reaucracy; a system of debt; a system of inflation; a system
which would stifle the freedom and liberty of men."
Hoover is keeping the debate to those issues. The spokes
men; f,or the new deal are trying to divert public thinking by
condemning Al Smith or Hoover, which is not the question
before the country today.
Townsend Inquiry
rjlHE house of representatives is assuming the aggressive
J. on the Townsenders. It
the money side of the business. This is considerable. At
the Townsend convention last summer the organization ad
mitted having received over $600,000 from the grandpas and
grandmas who made that investment in bringing to pass the
$200 a month apiece for all over 60. With money coming in
at that rate the promoters, some Of them ex-California real
estate promoters, should not
scheme enacted into law.
Regardless of the sincerity of many of the humble fol
lowers OLDoctor Townsend, there are men in the upper levels
who keep their eye on the Main
with the privilege to own and
may be the chance of being swept into a lucrative public of
fice. Or it may be just a small
ganizer or lecturer. Where the
sure to be gathered together.
,. It is probable that for a
be busy preparing their expense accounts and reports for the
scrutiny of the inquisitors. They will then have less time for
putting congressional candidates on the spot. We doubt if
they uncover any big time graft. But when a mushroomed
organization can spend a half
of a comparatively few months
the we-get-ours type to share
Warning
rriHE federal reserve advisory board repeated its warning
- I tV fA fcAo-n,! reiHTva fvuirr! that tho matoriftla xn at
1 J Li. 3? J. 1 .
, ; nana lor vast crtxut uuwiuoa. we ore using pruning
presses to create credit through printing government bonds
which immediately are lodged in the banks, private invest
ors being unwilling to buy them in the blocks in which they
are emitted. The excess bank reserves are over three billion
dollars which is much more than afforded the basis for the
speculative frenzy of 1928-9. ;
- One trouble now is the government must keep interest
rates down in order to float vast bond issues at low rates. The
accepted way to put brakes on credit expansion is by rais-
I. . .- , fftl A. I 1 11 - 1 1 I
mg interest rates, inat is wnere roe leaerai reserve ooara
is handicapped because sow it ia the tool of the treasury.
- - v v Inflation has already started. There still is time enough
for application of controls. History shows however that po
Jitical bodies are generally too timid to put on clamps to har
dness Inflation, until the bubble bursts of its own over-expan
sion. .
home with tellfnc fnrrp was
lias ordered an investigation of
be in any great rush to get the
Chance. It may be a fat job
drive Pierce Arrow cars. It
bore job of being district or
money is, there the greedy are
time the Townsend leaders -win
a million dollars in the space
there is bound to be many of
the distribution.
Repeated
A? TT t A'
The Great Game
of Politics
By FRANK R. KENT
roprrifbt 1933. by The Baltimore Ssa
Mixed With Politic
Washington, Feb. 13.
THE mess in congress oyer find-
in substitute for the late AAA,
recently killed by the court, is
sufficients
depress any obi
server of the
national pic
ture. That out
of it will emerge-
a sound
measure of a
permanent na
ture none gave
the most fatu
ous pretend to
believe. In
their candid
moments even
the leaders
among the new
Frank B. Kent
deal agricultural salvatl o n 1 s t s
cherish no such notion.
THE original AAA was jammed
through to meet a crisis. In face
of warnings that it was unsound,
legally and economically. No great
bill was ever enacted with less
real consideration. Its popularity
with the farmers was largely due
to the steady flow of federal
checks which followed agreements
to cut down production. The dis
tribution of a billion dollars to
millions of individuals could hard
ly fail to create a favorable senti
ment. Yet it undoubtedly was a
fact that many thoughtfnl farm
ers, even while taking the money,
deeply distrusted the philosophy
of scarcity around which the AAA
was wrapped, and disliked the di
rection of compulsory reduction
and complete crop control which
it Inevitably took.
MR. HENRY WALLACE, the honest-minded
secretary of agricul
ture, himself expressed not only
distrust but detestation of the di
rection. It is, however, easy to
understand that with the stream
of checks ever flowing, the farm
ers should have warmed toward
Mr. Roosevelt and their support
of him become his chief political
asset. When the supreme court
knocked the AAA out, the admin
istration was confronted with the
necessity of finding a substitute
which, whatever Its fate in the
future, will at least enable the
new deal to keep the stream of
checks flowing this fall, and not
allow the farmers to feel that the
administration, after leading them
up a blind alley, knew no way to
turn.
FRIENDLINESS, in that case,
might easily turn into resentment.
Therefore, following the court's
decision, the job was first to pro
vide for an appropriation large
enough to send out the fall
checks, which the president had
promised, and, second, to find an
acceptable legislative proposal to
carry on." The first is to be ob
tained by additional taxes, which,
Mr. Roosevelt will urge; the sec
ond, by a bill which, under the
guise of "soil conservation," will
enable the government to con
tinue its crop-reduction schemes
and pay its bonuses.
o
THERE seems slight doubt that
the taxes to raise $500,000,000
will be passed under the adminis
tration whip, but no one can pos
sibly tell what sort of bill will
emerge. Doubts of both the prac
ticality and the constitutionality
of the administration plan have
arisen. Many new ideas are sug
gested. One that has been receiv
ed with considerable favor comes
from Mr. Harold Oldham, of Des
Moines, and has been introduced
by Senator Norbeck, of North Da
kota. It provides , for a much
more direct attack upon the prob
lem, advocates direct purchase of
some 40,000,000 surplus acres by
the government at an annual cost
of $125,000,000. Administration
officials have considered the Old
ham plan, but one objection is
that under it the fall checks could
not go out and that, the franker
among them admit, is essential.
VARIOUS republican pians will be
proposed as amendments, some
based on the Hoover suggestion.
some on those of Governor Lan-
don. A disposition Is being shown
in both the house and senate com
mittees to write bills of their own
The approach of the presidential
election makes it certain that the
republicans will oncose the nnrelv
administration n r o r a m. It
makes it certain that the new bill
will go through in no such wild
haste as the original one, but it
also makes It certain that politics
will play a far more potest part in
its manufacture. The unfortunate
truth it that the arrimltBral
problem was dealt with last time
in tne emotional beat of an emer
gency. This time it Is being dealt
with in the sickenlnc atnoinhAr
of presidential politics. In such
circumstances a sound or even a
coherent proposition is possible
only Dy accident.
Twenty Years Ago J
February 14, t91S
Eight persons died in New York
today from cold which registered
two degrees above xero.
Secretary Houston of the de
partment of agriculture may suc
ceed Garrison as secretary of war
in Wilson's cabinet.
The Salem school board is try
ing to decide it the Julius Caesar
club is a fraternity or secret soci
ety. J Ten Years Ago . I
February 14, 1028
General contractors of Eugene
declared "open shop last night,
the first organised move of its
kind in the city.
Better than a home a day has
been averaged by Salem builder
in February, building permits reveal.
ML
Bits for Breakfast
By R. J. HENDRICKS
The city of Stayton 2-14-36
and its trade district
have Interesting history:
m S
(Continuing from yesterday:)
Resuming the text of the letter
of Mrs. G. P. Korinek: "While
the family were crossing the
plains Rev. Jeter married flT
couples and also preached a fun
eral sermon.
.
"Rev. Jeter organized lha Bap
tist church here (the land lor the
church having been donated by
W. H. Hobson and Uriah Whitney,
with the proviso that the building
was to be used as a meeting place
for the Masonic lodge, until such
time as a lodge hall was built.)
Mrs. Anna Stayton, James B. Je
ter and Joseph R. Miller, all of
this place, are charter members
of this church. Rev. Jeter preach
ed here for 18 years and also
preached at Turner and Scio. He
graduated and was ordained as a
Baptist minister in 1840.
S
"The Jeterg are well known
throughout church circles in Vir
ginia. A cousin of Mrs. Stayton.
J. B. Jeter, in collaboration with
Richard Fuller, prepared a Baptist
song book which was printed in
Boston in 1843. Another cousin,
Rev. Jeremiah Bell Jeter, was well
known as an early day author of
religious books.
S
"When Mrs. Stayton was a lit
tle girl back in Missouri some
Union soldiers came past her
father's farm and stole a riding
mare and saddle, a rifle and fowl
ing piece. Her grandfather, liv
ing with them at the time, remon
strated and oneof the soldiers
spoke to him insultingly. The
mother told the soldier he should
be ashamed for speaking so, to an
old man. About six weeks later
tbey got the mare back, but noth
ing was ever seen of the saddle
or guns.
S S
"Mrs. Anna Stayton and her
brothers and sisters went to
school in a small school house on
the 'Uncle Perry Darby place west
of Stayton and not far from their
home. Sarah, the oldest of the
children, married Thomas Darby;
Anna, the next, married Drury E
Stayton; Matilda married Joseph
L. Brown of Dallas, and Blanche
married Alfred Goin of Jefferson.
Elias, who lives in Portland, mar
ried Martha Williams of Linn
county, and James B., who also
lives here, married Lilly Bates, al
so of Linn county.
"For many years Ellas Jeter
operated the Buena Vista ferry.
starting around 1899. Later he
worked as a contractor and build-
Health
By Royal S. Copeland, M.D.
WHOOPING) COUGH U one of the
most widely prevalent ef all the con
tagious diseases. It U especially
common ia children. Usually tb
child contracts the disease before the
tenth year.
No doubt you will be astonished to
learn that in 1934 this disease caused
more deaths among children than
diphtheria and scarlet fever com'
blned. It must not be regarded aa a
mild and unimportant Infection. It
la dangerous in early childhood and
especially so In Infancy.
Over six thousand deaths are re
ported every year In the United
States as due to whooping cough and
It complications. Of these. (7 per
cent are of Infants under one year
of age, 9S per cent are children under
five years, and 99 per cent are under
ten years of age.
Whooping cough la a dangerous
disease because of tts complications.
More than three thousand Infants
and children die each year from
broncho-pneumonia which has fol
lowed whooping cough.
Whooping coi)gn is an Infection of
the upper air passages caused by
a germ called the "bacillus pertussis".
It ia sometimes referred to as the
"Bordet-Gengou" bacillus; because it
waa first described by Doctors Bordet
and Gengon in 1906.
The disease Is spread by coughing
and sneezing. Have you aver seen
a child with whooping cough during
one of his severe paroxyms of cough,
lag? If so, you wlQ understand how
tt Is possible for the young patient
literally to ATI the air with germs,
spraying them a distance of six or
eight feet
' Vaccine Available
Unlike ether Infectious diseases,
whooping couch cannot be spread In
directly. By this Is meant that the
disease can only be passed oa to
others by contact with the one who
act sally has the disease.
I am glad to say that reports are
Increasingly encouraging as regards
the value of "Sauer'a vaccine", used
as a means of protecting against the
olsease. This vaccine may be given
Infants In the second half ef the first
year ef Bfe. Children who have not
been Inoculated with the vaccine are
advised te have It done.
The Injections are painless and
safe. They are given In. each arm
at weekly Intervals. The amount of
the vaccine Is Increased each time
until a total of t e. e. has bee given.
Answer te Health- Qaeriee
M. O. Q. I am a girl 18 years ef
age and have been etutterteg ever
stace X was a little girl. I doat de
tt an the time. Hew can X overcome
this?
A. Stuttering is usually doe te
nervousness. For full particulars re
state year oestk and send a self
addressed, stamped envelope.
Constant Reader. Q. What Is the
cause of nasal catarrh T Is there any
remedy for It?
A. This may be due te continued
Inflammatkm ef the mucous mem
branec, vaualty as a result ef repeat
ed colds. For full particulars restate
year Question and send a stamped,
sea-add reesM entelepe.
Or. Copeland U glad to eeetcer
fRQViriet from readers xcho tend
eddresaed stamped envelope
(aefr oserttoira AVI tuactrtes
saeald be odret$e4 te Mm tm
core of thl newspaper.
(CowriaM, mt. K. W. 8.. IneJ
er in Portland. He often visits
his sister here.
The Staytons had boon hers
for several years- before the Ja
ters came, Drury Smith Stayton
coming from Missouri with an im
migrant train in 1382. His do
nation land claim-comprised the
present O. V. Meyers farm and the
Theo. Mlnden farm, between Stay
ton and Sublimity.
"He built his first home near
where the O. V. Meyers house bow
stands, later building a fine large
house on the Stayton - Sublimity
road. This house was torn down
about ten years ago, -when Mr.
Mlnden purchased the property
and erected a modern home on its
site.
"a - -
"He built the first saw mill
here in 1866, on the site where
the Leo Brown it Sons mill stood
until 1927. when it was destroyed
by fir. Prior to 1867 he built
on adjoining property the first
carding mill. Parts of this old
mill are still to be found near the
present Western Batt & Bedding
company building. He and his
sons were engaged in deepening
the ditch so as to provide more
water power to operate the saw
mill when the Jeters arrived here,
"nrurv Stavton at one time
owned the whole block where the
Women s club house now stands
on Second street on the west and
where Stay ton's business section
in now located on the east. This
block was in his townsito of six
blocks, laid out in 1878. (The plat
filed Sept. 27, 1872.) Later this
block was sold to Dr. Mcuauiey,
early day physician In this sec
tion. The house was destroyed by
fire several years ago.
S
"The Drury S. Staytons had
nine children: Gabriel, who mar
ried Selecta Gardner, sister of A.
D. Gardner, sr.; Moses, who mar
ried Sarah E. Thomas, better
known to local people as Betty
and who died last year; Tommy,
who married a Bilyeu girl from
the Scio country; Drury E., who
married Anna Jeter; Govie, who
remained unmarried; Lafle, who
was killed in a train wreck in
Eastern Oregon. The young man,
who was an engineer, was making
his last run, as be was about to
be married and had decided to en
nrn in farmine: Sarah, who mar
ried Thomas Darby; Frankie, who
married Jim Queener. and Flor
ence, who married Alonzo Toung.
All have passed away wltn tne
exception of Mrs. Young, whose
hom la at Morrow. Oreeon and
who visited Mrs. Anna Stayton the
past summer.
S
"When Drnrv Stavton laid out
his townsite he wanted to name
it Florence in honor of his young
est daughter. Other long time res
idents have told me mat wnen ne
asked that the postofflce here be
palloil Tlnrenc word came from
Washington that since there waa
already a Florence, Oregon, tne
postofflce would be named Stay
ton Mrs Anna Stavton savs this
is not correct, that Florence did
not want any town or postonice
named after her and persuaded
her father to apply ior tne name
Stayton.
"rPerhana von con Id get in
tonrh wit.h Mrs. Young and clear
this matter up for all time.) (The
Bits man wrote to Mrs. young,
sending stamp for reply.)
Drury E. Stayton and Anna Je
tt were married in 1870. Fire
children were bora to them Im
ilda, who married John Robert
son and now lives In eastern Ore
gon; Wyland, who died In his ear
ly twenties; Lilly Dell, who mar
ried Wm. Wlmer and later Otto
Schellberg and who now resides
in Salem; Obesia, who married O.
Schellberg and who passed away
several years ago. and Gilbert,
who married Ray Wing and now
resides at Washougal, Wash.
"While the children were quite
small Drury E. Stayton naa a se
vere illness and doctors said he
would not recover.
"Mrs Stavton realized it was
no to her to provide the living
for the family. As a little girl
she was interested in millinery.
designing bats irora leaves ana
flowers. She had for some time
made her own hats and those of
her daughters.
"What wa morA natural than
that she should open up a millin
ery store? So. with her sister Ma
tilda as a partner, they established
Ihelr millinerv store. She ran
this store for 25 years. During
that time she and her sister sold
out and she 'trimmed two years
fnr tha raw owner. Later she and
her daughter Imilda bought the
store back ana operated tt unui
about 1917.
Drury Stayton did not regain
his health and lived for twelve
years, a victim of lingering con
sumption, as it was called in those
days."
(Continued tomorrow.)
The Safety
Valve
Letters from
Statesman Readers
PROPOSES ROAD FUND
CHANGES
To the Editor:
In regard to the millions of
dollars collected by the state for
automobile licenses and gasoline
tax. It woald seem in fairness to
everyone that this money might
be usefully employed and no long
er be a burden to the state.
There are two ways to accom
plish this that would be reason
able and fair. First let the state
highway department take over all
county roads for Improvement.
Second, allocate to 'each county
from the highway fund a percent
age of money, based on the unim
proved road mileage in each coun
ty exclusive of roads now improv
ed. Either plan would put many
men to work. Improve many
roads that hare to be kept ap
at heavy expense by the counties,
such as school bus routes, mail
Ain't it Grand to Have a Steady Feller!
I 1
I I i. ,
KiTKfefiS ,JWUM JIM lL.fi
twin n ftUft Kferx' At- J f ttZrtr?H!V&&hu
m t4 oll
1 "HIGH SCHOOL TRAGEDY"
CHAPTER XXXII
Naturally, my father's attitude
was important to me. He consid
ered the possibility that Bruce was
the murderer very seriously, I
could see, and the possibility that he
would come to trial as assured. It
did seem as if the police would have
to go no further to press a com
plete ease against him. By his own
words, he had established a motive,
fear and anger and infatuation. He
had given ths immediate cause in
Connie's pitiful little note. He ad
mitted that he had no alibi.
The time element had been Im
portant from the first. Bruce's on
accounted time that night coincided
perfectly with the time of the mur
der. He was in San Francisco at
eight o'ceock. Had he taken his car.
he could have made the auto ferry
for this side of the Bay, then driven
to St. Joseph. The trip itself
would have taken around fifty min
utes. Allowing him time to con
ceive the idea of murder, to secure
his car and a gun, and to drive to
the ferry wharf, he would have ar
rived at Connie's apartment at just
about nine-fifteen.
We know the murderer must have
left by nine-thirty. Making dose
connection! with the return boats,
he would hare got back to his hotel
between 10:15 and 10:30. All that
remained was to check with his
Erage about the car and with the
tel as to the time ef his return.
I concluded that Inspector
O'Brien would call tt fool-proof. I
didnt care much; I felt as Dad did,
that Bruce had given Connie a rot
ten deaL I had Bad too many blows
to take this disillusion very hard.
I recalled the Inspector's telling me
that all that was physically fine was
not perfect.
Love was a strange thing. I won
dered if I ever wanted to get mixed
op in It after all? It was nice hav
ing Dicky to take me around to par
ties and to dam bakes. Good old
unromantic Dick I But falling In
love or, getting married seemed to
lead people. Innocent people, into
such messes. Take Bruce and Con
nie and Bern ice, for instance.
Three unusually attractive people,
intelligent and educated, surely one
might expect them to know how to
find sane happiness I Yet one was
dead, one was spending a solitary
honeymoon in Hawaii, while the
third, suspected of killing Connie to
marry Bernice, reclined behind IaS
bars.
Take Mr. and Mrs. Canington,
wealthy, intelligent, too. socially ex
perienced what was dignified or
permanent abottt their marriage i
Broken no for a revived high school
romance, for a few high words be
tween two temperamentally con
trasted women. The wife stood sus
pected of muTderfcg the other wom
an; whatever the outcome divorce
for them was settled upon.
By the second day of this type
of thinking. I was well en the way
to being a cynic I lust about eon
eluded that if one did not take the
veil, one sboold be safer Is this
world to choose a career and stick
te it. I considered the law, follow
ing fa my father! footstep, hot
that seemed profession in waicn
women were stul handicapped.
thought of nursing, and that an
nealed to me most. One could help
poor struggling humanity there.
could retain some of one's Ideals
and still not get mixed up la this
thing called loVe
Was that Mr. IVridne trouble.
toe? Could that cold, gray fish of
man have. loved Connie Sinclair T
And how well did he and Mrs. Sar-
donJ know each other that she
signed herself "Anna when she
wrote to him? Why ths secrecy
.about their acquaintance 7
Although the answers to the first
questions were beyond me. I could
fmgrf" the answer to the last Mr.
routes, cream trucks. Some roads
are in use by all this traffic. We
are all proud of our paved high
ways, bat unforunately some of us
have to travel many rocgh, muddy
or dusty miles to get to them. We
all pay the ammo license toe and
gasoline tax.
Yours for better roads,
H. G. SEELEY.
Perkins was politically ambitious,
and his position as high school prin
cipal was a good foundation from
which to make various attempts on
other political Jobs. I havs often
heard Dad ssy that politicians and
educators are closely related at
times.
Anyway, it was clear enough that
any man who wanted to get ahead
by the people's vote and confidence
could not afford to be too close a
friend of a woman like Mrs. Ssr
doni, the ex-wife of a notorious boot
legger and racketeer. More than
that, she was divorced woman, a
back-slider from her church, and
this happens to be strong Catholic
community. Although they might
accept the Protestant Mr. Perkins,
they would not accept his mends hip
witn och a woman.
I had watched the papers closely
for any break about Bruce. Noth
ing happened. Dad said that
O'Brien was questioning him. He
was surprised himself that no
charge had been lodged against
him. On Friday, O'Brien asked me
to stop at the office after school,
and I learned part of the reason for
the delay. He had waited to in
vestigate another angle.
When you and I visited Mrs.
Sardoni, Miss Julie, your bright
eyes saw a thin spot in the ceiling.
Atwater went an there and found
out that it covered an unused reg
ister in Miss Sinclair's living room.
The register is open from the upper
apartment, out covered with the
ceiling paper from the lower, a relic
of the days before steam heat was
installed."
"Does that mean anything. In
spector T-
He shook his head. "Probably
not But I decided before proceed
ing against anyone else to inquire
a little more closely about Perkins.
We've had him here on the grill all
day. AH we've got out of him is
that he was in love with Miss Sin
clair., He was!"
"He went to see her often, but
was always discreet, be says, about
leaving early and about keeping
their relationship casual and friend
ly, nothing more.
Do you believe thatT"
"Well yea. But what we are try
ing to find out now is what objec
tion there was to their friendshin
progressing into a normal love af
fair, into marriage.'
"Oh. Inspector. Connie eould
never have loved Mr. Perkins I Be
sides she waa engaged to Bruce
Lloyd."
"That Is true. But I should say
a man or Perkins" type would be
somewhat insistent on his own
worth and importance. I don't
think he would withdraw from the
picture so gracefully.
"What does he say about It 7"
Nothing. But I believe bell
Weak tonight."
Looking at the Inspector's firm
Jaw and hard, set face, I didnt
doubt ft.
"Ob, Inspector, If he does, wont
Ton
a let me be In on ttr
He smiled, "I guess you have that
coming te yeui
4 sue."
By reason ef Inspector O'Brien's
indulgence and fondness for me. I
was installed In my little closet the
next morning when Mr. Perkins
made his statement te the police.
He was a different man from the
bus school Drtnanal - I a
known. The hardness and coldness
were gone, replaced by fatigue and
agony. Be was not In nhnfcal
pain, but each of the Inspector's
questions was a weapon that made
aim writhe. His hair was cut In
pathways clawed by his fingers,
Being ef that pale brown stiff va
riety, it stood in little spikes all ever
his head. His white face was
marked by sleeplessness and his
Missionary Is Heard
At Songfest Staged at
Domaschofskya' Home
PIONEER, re. IS. Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Domaschofsky enter
tained the "stag" at their home
Sunday. After the bountiful din
ner Mrs. David Barylee, a mis
sionary on furlough from Bolenge,
mouth twitched. His hands
kept
clenching and unclenching,
must have gone through a
Ha
bad
Ight.
"I understand that you are ready
to talk," began O'Brien.
Perkins nodded.
"Do it your own way. Yon
called on Miss Constance Sinclair
on the night of October 20th at nine
o'clock to return a book. Tell us
what happened.
She met me at her door, bhs
was not expecting me, but aha in
vited me to come in. I did, closing
the door behind me."
"What had she been doing?"
"She had been writing a letter.
The unfinished pages were still on
her desk."
"Did she tell you to whom the let
ter was addressed?"
"No."
"Did you have any idea?"
"I imagined It might be te her
fiance when I thought about it after
ward." "Oh, you knew that she was en
gaged?"
"Yes."
"How did she happen to tell you
that?"
"She told me that night."
"Oh. Suppose you recount the
conversation.
"She apologized for her Informal
appearance. she was wearing
green &3k lounging pajamas under
a gold-embroidered Mandarin coat.
I understand women wear such
things to teas in their own homes
in the city, but in St. Joseph she
feared, no doubt, that they were un
conventional garb in which to en
tertain me.
And did yon think so? r
I thought she was extraordi
narily beautiful; the jade green was
the shade of her eyes, and her skin
was of transparent whiteness; the
gold coat waa like the light el her
hair
And did yon make these poetie
statements to her?"
He twisted In his chair. "I did."
"And Just how did she take
them?"
She was surprised. I had alwaya
been most formal in our previous
conversations."
"And how did you happen to
change?"
"I don't know. I I guess I lost
my head a little, she was so beau
tiful. I've told you I loved her!"
"Go on."
W.ll V U. M T .
raved about her and bow much I
eared for her."
What sort of response did she
make?"
She said that she had a fiance,
that all was not going well with
them, however; but that she hoped
they would work out their trob
iems "How did yon take that?
He was silent.
Perkins l":
"I I guess X was jealous.'
"You know yon were. You flew
into a rage, didnt yon??
i said scene wild things."
"Then she asked yon to leaver
Yea."
"And yon, out of Jealousy and
frustration, shot her?"
"I didn't! X swear te God I
dJdVtr
His terror and his weak, shrill
cry were terrible. I still hear them
in my sleep sometimes.
"Then what did yon do?"
"I left, as she asked me to" do. I
went down the stairs."
"And no one saw you go?"
"No yes I don't know."
"The whole story, Perkins I"
"I met Mrs. Sardoni at the foot
of the stairs. She had been listen
ing, I suppose, had heard the quar
rel. She tried to stop me; I cried,
Get out of my way,' then I went
eat the door."
(To Be Continued)
ins. vm i
Africa, told of her Work in the
Jangle. Fred Cartlss favored with
a guitar solo. The next "sing" will
bo held the second Sunday la
March at the Carl McBee homo
Blue Birds Arrive
DAYTON, Feb. 1 J. Many blue
birds were seen flitting about la
the sunshine here earlier this
week.