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3 ; : PAGE SIX The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Friday, Morning, May 22, 1936 t ' s rounded tin , r - . "No Favor Sway Us; No Fear Shall Aice" :; From First Statesman, March 28. 1851 ! I THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. , Cbables A. Spkacuk Editot'llanagtr Sheldon FV Sackett - - Managing-Editor Member of the Associated Press ; . The Associated Press la eicluaively entitled to the use for publica tion of all atwt dispatcfacs credited to it or not otherwise creditetk IB thie paper. : Shifts in Urban Values . SHIFTS in urban values have been reviewed by Datid Ec cles, editor of the Business Survey in Portland, with spe cial reference to his own city.'Undue expansion hi boom times leaves about 40 per cent of the city in vacant lotsL Older portions of the city are paralyzed so far as growth Is con cerned and realty values there have depreciated save; in se lected areas where there have been .favorable -developments. The error has been in planning always for population in creases. Now, he says, the notion will have to be abandoned that city real estate needs only to be purchased and held until the day when it will inevitably be in demand at a muchj higher price merely because of population growth. j Important actors which have entered into the picture are the declining birthrate (Oregon's is the lowest in the na tion), and the falling off of immigration. Our national pop ulation is expected to reach its maximum by 1950 or 1960, so ; cities like Portland may expect to grow chiefly by virtue of shifts from other areas. , - ! New form of transportation encourage decentralizing tendencies. Motor-cars carry workers freely and quickly in lany direction. Trucks make industries less dependent on . choice, central locations. Uniform electric power rates in an - farea supply: power at any spot with no increase in cost. The growing love of the outdoors and of recreation lead people to prefer less congested quarters for living. j 'i Changes in types of population -will be observed! in the future also. The proportion of children is declining with : smaller families, and that of adults is increasing. p there will not be the need for expanding school facilities as in the ;past. The city must plan to care for more old people. In 1900 the percentage of people over 60 was 6.5 per cent; by 1930 it was 8.5 per cent Eccles believes that urban planning; should take account of this: greater demand for close-in apartments !and residential hotels; for parks and recreational facilities for adults and aged. i Here again the projection of the future may be iii -error. As the old American stock commits suicide the more prolific may dominate and the birth rate be increased, although it is observed that even the newer race stock tends to follow the pattern of the old. As economic conditions meliorate more children will be welcomed, and there is still room for reduc tion in the death rate for infants. Eccles is correct in this, that it is wrong to hope that future prosperity will revive all decadent values. Old districts in cities may get a fresh impetus through some new develop- ment, but the chances are that the growth will come in new quarters due to unforeseen causes. People make a mistake in trying to put the escaped genii of values back in the; bottle. They must study in terms of the future rather than the past. Pinching Shoe LOWER interest rates are acclaimed as a good thing by ev ery borrower. Corporations with good credit are busy now calling in old bonds and issuing new at much lower v rates of interest. Good for the borrower, hard on the lender; for the gain of one is the loss to the other. Since many bonds are held as the investments of insurance companies, savings banks, etc., the reduction of interest rates means lower in come for the benefit of policy holders and depositors. The lat . ter haye already seen interest rates on savings drojp from three to one and a half per cent, at which rate money is hard ly earning its salt. I - The head of one of the largest mutual insurance com panies, the Northwestern, in his report to policy holders re marks on the lowering of income from investments,! as fol .. lows: " '!'-! ' ' -j "Invested capital la entitled to a fair return for the serrice it gives the borrower. If tt does not receive it, thrift la discour . aged. Millions of men and women in the United States by a life of Industry, thrift and prudence, have accumulated a modest es tate In life insurance or otherwise, upon the earnings of which they depend for their support. Unless they receive a fair return from those to whom their funds are loaned they too become de pendent or are forced back Into competition for work." j ' . So there is this other side to the picture of lower inter est rates. A person has to accumulate twice as much savings to support him in old age if the interest rate is cut in' two. The probability is that this condition is but temporary. "With a return of confidence in the economic structure funds will be in demand for business expansion ; and that will bring - about higher rates The forces of compensation . wprk. As bond rates become low folk shift into preferred r Common stocks for their investments. The savings in interest there show up in gains to the stockholders. Rising interest rates will be one sign of renewed bor rowing .and restored confidence. , Budget T?NGLAND has been ha vine JQ own, with a sce'nt of scandal over the reputed leakage of information respecting: the budget recently announced. It seems that J. H. Thomas, colonial secretary, and his friend ' Alfred Bates, an owner and publisher of racing sheets, had , a round of golf one day before the text of the budget was ' made public. The next day Bates took out insurance with . Lloyds of 8000 pounds against an increase in the income tax. "The insurance was placed through Leslie Thomas, a son of the cabinet minister. The budget did prescribe an increase in the income tax, which means agents nave admitted there must have been a leak iii the in formation but the Thomases, father and son, and Bates, all : deny it came through J. H. Thomas. The inquiry is to find , the source of the leak. : . . . m. In this country 'the budget leakage is notorious, that is, the budget itself is a sieve the money runs through like water. :- - ' Provision for 1 Y the, fine process of negotiation the railroads and em- . Jj ployes have come to agreements for the protection of la borers who may be displaced in railroad consolidation - moves. Instead of being thrown out in middle or old age, rob-; .; bed of an occupation, workers who are displaced will receive -special compensation based on length of service. It Is a fair ; provision. When men give their lives- to an industry they ; should not be sunimarily displaced without compensation to : break the shock of transition - ... There is no doubt that railroads will have to reform --i their organizations. Coordinator Eastman has recommended I consolidation of terminals which will make for economy of L operation. Other combinations petitive mileage which is costly. With reasonable provision ; for displaced labor the way may be cleared for consolidations i in : the interest of economy which will make for financial ; health of the roads. . Interesting bits of new appear in the "flashbacks" of ten and 20 rears ago. Ten years ago yesterday for example The Statesman .reported that "rumors are riot about the disappearance of Aimee - Semple McPherson. They itill are. And 20 years ago it was reported the German mothers were' refusing to. bear children so long as war persisted. Twenty years after, Fuhrer to produce prolifically - German armies. Round and round body knows, and nobody knows. ' iTfthaoeT fnslsts 100.000 ballots will be for him In the fall. PifOt what Mahoney will get Leakage a crovernment inauirv of its a loss to Lloyds. Government, : Railway Labor to some other occupation. may be made to reduce com 1 , - ... J : f . : German women are adjured by Der to provide fresh cannon-fodder for the wneei of tuner goes, ana no- .1 f will be a shower d paper confetti. The Great Game 4 of Politics I By FRANK R. KENT Copyright Mas. fcy.Taa BUtaeTWtts A Republican Problem Washington, May 21 OJtfE of the Interesting questions of present-day politic Is. What, if any. alternative to "voting the H,e- : publican, uczct will there be in the' coming , campaign for the antl - New Deal j Demo crats, i not in political office, who fee 1, as Senator Glass not: I Iocs ago said,! that the New, ; Deal Is "not only a mistake! but a national d I s srace." j frank 8. Kent THAT these are to be found In ev ery section, including' the! South, no one disputes. They believe Mr. Roosevelt has betrayed the! Demo cratic party, broken the Democra tic promises, as well as his own, and is not himself a Democrat. They :f eel deeply about the! danger of his policies and under ino cir cumstances will vote for jhls re election. How many such; Demo crats there are there is no means of knowing, but that they iare nu merous enough to be j formidable and Include some of the outstand ing. Democrats of the: country is conceded. ; I vi IT IS agreed that they constitute the real threat to the! Roosevelt re election. They are the ! uncertain factor n the campaign. Whereas four years ago Mr. Roosevelt had behind him as united! a Democra tic party as any Democrat ever had, there exists today an un doubted split It can be! argued that this Is offset by ; Roosevelt gains In other directions; j but the fact remains. . The Breckinridge vote h in three or four : states at least has demonstrated that, : A year or so ago there were! various suggestions as to possible ways by which the anti-New Deal Demo crats could make themselves most effective. There was, ; first, the idea that they might Join jwith the Republicans, forming a new party to be Known as the Constitutional 1st Party. ! t ; i o i ' : THEN THERE was the suggestion that; an independent I Democratic ticket might be put In: thifield as was done in the Bryan campaign of 1896. There was also (the sug gestion of a protest to be (followed by a bolt in the Democratic con vention. More than one conference between leadine Democrats held at which ; these! stens were considered. One by one5 they have failed. ! The anti-Roosevelt ! Demo crats have seen with dismay anti ROosevelt Democratic! Senators, for reasons of party expediency and personal interest, jtall Into line with an Administration they despise. They realize that; the con vention will be completely domin ated by the Federal nachine, and the Roosevelt renominatlon will be unanimous. The Smith idea of "taking a walk' has been aban doned. The "livery lot ! hypocrisy" has been donned by a1 variety of anti-New Dealers in office, and the prospect of an organized Democra tic revolt has almost disappeared. HOWEVER, none of these things has diminished the: number of rank and file anti-New: Deal Dem ocrats, They are without leader ship and organization, 'bat they have not changed. Even! some of inoseiwno have "out on the liv. ery" haven't changed. Itils nbt an uncommon thine to heari a Demo cratic ; Senator, on the surface for air. Roosevelt, privately assail him with a bitterness that exceeds any xtepuDucan and express regret he is not in position to oppose him openly, it Is possible fori Mr. Par ley s press agents to belittle these tacts,! to contend they wUl be off set by farmer-workers gains but n is ; not nossible i to donv that there is an undetermined number of. Democrats who will do one of iwo mings next .November either vote for the Republican icandldate or Biay nome. ; THERE- still exists : some faint hope; araohg them that! after the convention an Independent Demo cratic candidate for President will somenow be put In the field, though there seems now slight possibility of this, unless Colonel Breckinridge follows this convic tions through to the limit Under the circumstances It would seem ordinary sense for the Republicans to make It as easy as possible for anti-New Deal Democrats to vote their ticket. The struggle over the Republican nomination j makes it unlikely much will be, done In this way at the convention, but a great deal can be done by .the! candidate after the convention It (will be np to him. There is ground for believ ing that the bulk of the 'people are anti-New Deal. It they ire separa ted by party fences, the New Deal ers will win. If they -can be gotten together, they won't. That's the problem of the Republican candi date Mrs. Peter Bilyea Is f Honored on 79tu Date 1 f Of Birth Anniversary I f -; ; .'JL I " SCIO, May 21. iMrs, Peter Bil yea observed her 79th hirth anni versary Sunday, gnest being her children and other relatives. Cov ers were placed for Mr. and Mrs. Fred Grimes and son iKeith, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Morris and son Kelt, Miss Ruth McColley, all of ft. : LML juu-uity; Mr: and , Mrs. Robert Sommers of Marshfield. Mr. and Mrs. Vardie Shelion. CUra Smith. Mrs. Drneilla Phillips j and John Cross of Scio. Other friends called to congratulate Mrs.: Bilyea daring the ;afternoon.L ; t; j , :Anne Doletel. of I Powers, will arrive at the home of her par ents. Mr. and Mrs. H. j A. Dolezel, Sunday to spend twoj weeks be fore enrolling - for summer course at Oregon Normal school an Monmouth.; Miss Dolezel has taught' commercial subiects in the high school at Powers; during the past year, and has been reelected. I: - .'I . J! .. Bits By R. J. HENDRICKS Letter written in 1851 5-22-5 : at Springfield. Illinois, r ! by Simeon Francis to Sanford Watson: historic people, events: : "W m S i (Continuing, from yesterday:) Quoting the concluding words of the i Simeon v Francis letter: "I wrote you some time ago that my brother Joseph Williams with his family were on the way to Ore gon.! They must be there before this time. We are anxious to hear from them; I have written to him at Oregon City. ; n v v "There Is a.new fever getting up here for Oregon. Biddle (the doctor) returned from California via Oregon a few days ago. He is going back to Oregon -in , the spring with his famUy. 'My brothers still think of go ing too. And what would I do there? Would a nurserypay? S "I saw Joseph Bennett a few days ago. He regrets that he had not gone last spring. He looks bad In health. He is still. talking of making the effort to reach your territory. "Now write to me. Tell me hon estly how you are all getting along. ; "Remember me to Mr. Elder and all our old countrymen. "I hear that Mr. Young is fall ing. This I expected. His health was too feeble for such a journey. S S V I have put in this letter some persimmon seed, and a few quince seed, and cantaloupes. Yours truly. - ; "Simeon Francis." U S The Judge Logan spoken of In the Simeon Francis letter was Stephen T. Logan. The David Lo gan was his son in Oregon, who was a prominent lawyer here, a candidate for congress, etc., and who married Mary, daughter of Daniel Waldo. One of the tallest monuments in 'the Salem Odd Fellows cem etery marks his grave. David Logan came west with Sanford Watson In the 1849 cov ered wagon immigration. S H V Joseph Bennett, spoken of by Mr.: Francis, vras a brother-in-law of Mrs. Sanford Watson. "Mr. Elder" was A. R. Elder, Mrs. Watson's brother. His daugh ter : Mary Elder was married to Ahio S. Watt, prominent Oregon pioneer, in the early days of set tlement in Yamhill county. He was the first sehool teacher in Yamhill county. He named the town of Amity, Yamhill county called it Amity because a dispute over the school district there was settled in a spirit of amity. . The father of Sanford Watson was Arthur Watson, a Virginian, and his mother before marriage was Temperance Robertson of Baltimore, of a pioneer Maryland family. She moved with her people to Twenty Years Ago May 22, 1916 The Oklahoma Is the new levia than of the U. S. navy. Louise Fazenda, Keystone com edian, gives some tips on cooking for; the Woman's page. A photograph from the front at Verdun Shows a shell bursting about 200 yards from the camera. j if Ten Years Aga May 22, 1028 - T. A. Livesley won a big ma jority over 'his opponents in the primary race for mayor. Corinne Griffith in "Mile. Mo diste" is at the Oregon. Norman Kerry Is the leading man. Mrs. W. F. Fargo will install the new Woman's club officers this afternoon. Daily Health Talks By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D. ; United States senator frn New York Former Commissioner of Health, i Veto Tork City IF TOU have ever visited a great bathing beach you wer perhaps amazed to observe the number of persons who assemble within a com. paratively small area. Many of the bathers walk around barefooted and often unknowingly tread on contami nated soil, pathways and boardwalks. This practice Is a frequent cause of ringworm, more commonly known as "athlete's foot". This disease Is given the Utter name because ath letes are: prone to develop the dis ease from contact with Infected floors in gymnasiums, locker rooms and sbowera . Within recent years pabUa health officials have taken every means of safeguarding the publlo from this disease. Antiseptics have been placed In publlo swimming pools. Every measure of cleanliness is taken to eradicate the germs of the disease from boardwalks, locker rooms, show era and the other familiar sources of contamination. Hard to Eradicate : But It can readily be seen how dit Ocult It Is completely to eradicate the agents of the disease. - So long as one walks about barefooted, or allows any portion of the akin to come In contact with the parastta responsible .for ringworm, Uus disabling ailment will exist. - ' Ths disease Is caused by a fungus known as the "tricophytonV Contact with H leads te a skin Irritation medically known as "dermatomyco sis trichophytinaV This Is a big name, but not too Impressive to de fine a really disagreeable and obsti nate disease. As I have Implied, this , Is the same as athlete's foot er ring' worm, The effects may be observed on any portion of the body, but Is more com' monly found on the face, hands and rnck. and MpedaRy the soles of the feet, and the skin ta between the toe ; The sufferer first notices that the Skht peels and become softened. Then it becomes Inflamed, As a rule, the Inflammation begins as a flat reddish spot which soon enlarges. As the trouble proceeds the akin be Breakfast -1 Lexington, Kentucky. ' e: When she! came to Oregon she brought linens woven in her old Kentucky home, and she used in her. Oregon home the canvas that was made : there, rand 'that . had been the cover of one of the Wat son covered: wagons crossing the plains. I ' - -;. 5-V f S . i'Who was Simeon Francis? He was a good! while in making np his mind that his letter indicated was inclined to come to Oregon, but he accomplished the journey in 1850. j .v. i He became ,editor of the Port land Oregonian, the second editor of that newspaper, the writer be lieves. . j . Bancroft's history says of him: "After Lincoln's campaign he took charge I of the Portland Ore gonian while Dryer carried the electoral rote to Washington." f, . S ' That meant the electoral vote for Abraham Lincoln for presi dent of the United States, In the election of 1860. ' Lincoln rewarded several of his Oregon friends. He made T. J. Dryer, first editor and one of the founders of the Oregonian, com the Hawaiian Islands. V s - missioner to He appointed Simeon Francis paymaster in the army with the rank of major, headquarters Fort Vancouver. The death of Francis occurred in Portland) in November, JL872, to which place military headquar ters had been removed. ' Francis had been editor of the niinols StaU Journal, Springfield, 111., and a staunch supporter of Lincoln there. That newspaper, es tablished in 1831, is still the prin cipal one there. ' The carrying of Oregon for Lincoln in was partly the election of 1861 due to the work of Francis in his editorial work on the Oregonian. (Concluded tomorrow) Brush College to Picnic on June 6 brush College, May2i,- The biggest! event of the year for Brush College folk will occur Sat urday, June 6, when old time resi dents, their children and grand children from far and near win gather at the beautiful picnic grove, donated by an old pioneer, Byron Hartitt, deceased, for the annual all-day homecoming picnic. . These committees will be In charge: Program, Miss Edith Ross, Miss! Margaret Blood and O. D. Adams; reception, Mrs. U. J. Lehman, Salem, Mrs. Cornelia Harritt, widow of Byron Harritt, Oliver Whitney and A. D. Olsen; publicity, fc. J. Lehman, Mrs. A. R. Ewing and Mrs. Corydon L Blodgett; Sports. S. E. WUson, Dr. Corydon L. Blodgett, Joe Singer and Mrs. Frank Rivett; re freshment stand, A. E. UUey, Clif ford Smith. Mike Foch and Victor Olsen; baby show, Mrs. Oliver Whitney and Mrs. Paul Wallace; parking,, Louie Singer, Fred Olsen and Frank i Rivett. The Brush College Helpers will be in charge of all arrangements for dinner. Rains Now Doing Damage . To Onion and Hop Crops AURORA, May 21. The pres ent rains sire doing considerable damage in; this section of the country. Hop raisers are com plaining of vines and to take a worms and mildew on the young onion growers expect big loss due to cut weeds. comes colored In the center, giving signet ring-like appearance. This ring is elevated, reddened and scaly. . Easily Spread The color of the center of the ring soon fades, becoming pinkish and more like the adjacent skin. The ring-like appearance may persist for several weekk .Then the first area of trouble disappears only to appear somewhere else on the body. The disease Is One of the most con tagious of all skin eruptions. It Is easily spread from one lndivdual to another. It by taking can only be prevented : certain precautionary I measures, it you are to visit a large bathing beach or pool, make sure that it to approved by the local health authorities. Guard against infection by wearing sandals or slippers. Bear In mind that ringworm la a mild and simple disease if proper at tention is given to it at its onset. But If neglecjted it often becomes one of the most stubborn of all. Inflam mations of the skin. Neglect of the disease means chronic Irritation with always the danger' of spreading the infection t others. Answers to Health Queries K, t D. at- What causes a starchy r something- in my mouth every morning X: My left leg and arm pains and feels "tight" what would cause thie discomfort? ; Av This may be doe te hyper acidity and Indigestion. Watch your diet and elimination. Regular habits ara important. For further particu lars send a j eeU-addresaed, stamped envelope and repeat your Question. 1: This la probably due to an under lying circulatory disturbance. See your doctor tor examination and ad vice. In the meantime make every effort te Improve your general health. For further particulars send a self -addressed, stamped envelope and re peat your Question. , ' Dr. Cepetead Is rfed te sawtr taoairles rem readers tcfte send : addressed ttampei. envelope iptf . their oHoa Address eft leU : ten to Dr. Copland In cere e Ms ueutpaper tt tt$ stoia effiet ' fstkUctttf. CopvrlihU 13SS, K. F. , faej -A "And Don't ;.v. . -11 j: w-ifw- ' 6 6 BLIND TO LOVE" SYNOPSIS Mary Shannon, young and pretty stenographer, is broken-hearted when she learns that James Todd. Jr., is engaged to Nesta Grainger. Mary bad known "Jamie for two years and, though he never com mitted himself, he inferred that some day they would marry. She tries to hide her hurt feelings from her parents and Aunt Willie. One night, Mary works overtime and her handsome employer, Stephen Bennet, takes her to dinner. He has just been appointed manager of the Seattle office of the A. A. Heeley Steamship Company and wants Mary to go as his secretary. She does not want to leave her family. At home, Mary writes "Jamie" asking him to meet her whea he comes to town so that she can congratulate him. Next day, at the office, Ethelyn Piper tells Mary that Stephen Bennet is "mad" about Mary. Therefore, when Mary bids Stephen farewell, she ia exceptionally cooL Aunt Willie, middle-aged and trying to be yonng, spends all her money in beauty shops and on diets. When Mary finds her cleaning a dress to wear to Schumann's Neapolitan dance hall with the "girls," because she cannot afford to hare ' it cleaned, Mary asks, "Is it doctors aiain?" CHAPTER VIII Aunt Willie poured the soiled gasoline back into the jug, spilling a little on the drainboard. "My health comes first I think a person owes that to themselves, I really do. Of course Dr. Waye was entirely wrong: about my arthritis. I wish I hadn't paid him. I had a . right not to. But I'm adopting only the very latest and best now, and it is really marvelous the results that- " "I know. Aunt Willie. Bat if yon spend all yon have now, what of the future!' . "The future? Why, what do yon mean ? I always think, do right and live right, and if you are a well per son with vitality and magnetism everything comes in time, and sci ence is discovering the most mar velous things every day about vi brations, and" "Listen! You've just squandered and squandered" "That's all 70a know about ft Whose money is it? I work for it, don't I? I got to think of myself, too, don't I? I never buy the ex pensive .things yon dol Lookit the stockings I've got on right this min ate! "When the girls all went to the new fortune teller last week I wouldn't go. I said I wouldn't pay two dollars. I think that two dol lars, even if it is a card reading, and a crystal gazing included, is too -much, although they do say that she's very fine. I may try her, bat I havent decided. I think a person has to be very careful before they invest in things like that, because a good many of them are simply fakes, and I think" Of course Aunt Willie's momen tary flash of temper was over be fore she'd finished telling about the crystal gazer, bat Mary's own re sentment lingered. She was still in a bad mood when Ma called her to dinner, and Aunt Willie,. wearing the still smudged tan crepe and too much rouge, was already finishing her dessert because she had to meet "the girls" early. - Mary managed to joke a little with Pa, she helped Ma to do the dishes. She listened, a little frown between her eyes, while Ma told her some of the financial worries.' . . Pa's commissions were so small she didn't know how they'd ever take care of the insurance, and there were the taxes, and the interest on the mortgage - m . - And aU the while she was really thinking of Jamie, counting the hoars an til she could see him again, until he'd come to her and explain, Children Stop School . ": As Parents BloYing tov r Work in Other Areas PIONEER, May 2 lw Elisabeth Take Any. Wooden and this nightmare of the Vesta Grainger interlude would be over. . Foot days slipped by. A week. Eight days. Mary Shannon got through them, like a girl walking in her sleep. It occurred to her that he might not have received her letter. Letters do go astray ... not often, of course, out sometimes .... Sometimes she was on the point of writing again. She did begin several letters, writing furtively, anaer cover oz ner notebook. Samson, the new manarer. had a cold fishy eye. He was pleasant enough, bat she had the feeling he was lookinsr for fault to find with her. Probably wanted to catch her in some mistake, then fire her and send for his own stenographer. Twice she caosrht herself insert. in? letters in the wrong envelopes. Cold sweat broke out on her fore head. One boner like that, and she'd lose her, job. She'd just have to stop thinking about Jamie in - office hoars . . The! envelope slipped from her fingers, tears stung her vacant eyes. . . . Oh, Jamie, Jamie come back to me. ... God, fix this for me, and IH never ask yon anything else again all my life. .. . There were times that she thought she couldn't bear it. When pride was nothing, and the gnawing ache of her love was everything. When she thought she could go to him and beg him to take her. in spite of everything in the world. When she understood all the foolish girls she'd scoffed at before, when she was ta- tient with Ethelyn Piper, whose eyes were so oiien rea oenind her shell rimmed glasses, when even Aunt Willie's cravings were akin to her own hunger. Once a young widow, wan and white under her black veil, sat be side her on the street car. Sha en vied her. It wouldn't be so hard to lose someone yon loved through death. To have the memories, the sweetness of what had been, even though it was gone forever. To be able to flaunt your grief in black crepe, to be the widow. . . . Not half so hard as knowing you're just the forgotten girl, and the one you love is engaged to someone else and you must hide your grief, your bitter, irreparable loss under a mask of "It's really nothing to ma" and all the while your heart breaking . . . Sometimes, at work iri th Affi busy decoding a cable, or transcrib ing notes, she'd stop, and it would seem that her heart had missed a beat or two . and she'd all bat see old Johnny Blunk, the postman, clumping np the front stairs, sliding a letter into the black mail box on the porch. . If there were just some way of making sure ... making sure that her letter was really home waiting for her, she coold get through the hoars. She'd toy with the Idea of calling Ma on the telephone knowing all the while that she wouldn't, for Ma would never get over it if she made a ten-cent telephone call from San Francisco, just to ask if there was any mail. . Her fingers typed, - "Pinkerton Lumber company making offer to charter S. S. Emma R " and "Hoping to hear from yon at your earliest convenience, believe me very truly touts," but in her heart she was reading the letter" Darling, it was all a mistake, and now that ifs over we can be married. . . . The folks are deter mined to have a big church wedding. . Yon must let me bring yon, this week-end, to meet them" - She'd answer the telephone ia her crisp "business" voice: - '."Heeley Steamshin eomnanr. No he isn't 111 have him call yon!" Ana au tne wnue she could see herself walking down the aisle of some dim, : flower-decked church, while the organ played softly, and Jamie waited by the altar... ,"1, Mary, take thee, James ,. 1 aad Edna Pahrman stopped school Friday so they, conld leave with their parents . for Banks where they plan to work In th.e straw berries tor the season, . They were unable to start as soon as expect ed because Edward, the 4-year- Nickels!" by HAZEL1 LITNGSTON The soft light from the candles (there'd be tall white candles and St. Joseph lilies, the way they had them in the Episcopal church where she went last Easter with the Har veys) would gleam on , the ivory satin of her gown. She'd look up through dark lashes (must remem ber to put on olive oil every night, to make them longer) and meet Jamie's look of pure adoration. Straight and slim and very young, she'd look in the hieh vaulted old church ... , S i "What a beautiful bride I" "Yes, bat she's more than; beautiful,! there's a glamour about her, a radiance" ; H 1 It was ail so reaL' More real than the office. More real than the com muters she passed on her wav ta the ferry at night. i ; ; - 1 inen she'd get home. "Any mail?" 'l ..'! And Ma would hardlv look ns from the stove to sari "No. I don't think so, Babe" if Or she'd say something- else, like Yeel Your Aunt Mamie sent a Postcard from Tia Joan. They drove 280 miles, just so Gus could get a Baeeardi cocktaiL i Imagine writing THAT on a postcard, where anyone could read k; And if that's the way money affects a man, why I'm just as .glad your father f -Nothing for ME?" ; : ! "For too? Oh. veal New vW did I pot that? It cam this morn ing, and as he brought it np, Mr. Blank said, Tor the little lady so I'm sure ... WelL Marvi Dont take my head off 1 It isn't lost I And anyway, it's only an ad from the Emporium I" - Iff Mo one could nndentand. Sh couldn't understand herself. But days were just to be endured until she could get home to see if the letter was there. Nirhta wera thm dark stretches of disappointment between the days. Life was noth-' ing but waiting for the, mail. Sometimes the tenseness would leave her. Hope would ccme back ' . . . The certainty that he was ' thinking of her, coming to her,: wouia do so strong, mat ptace, like a blessed reprieve, would steal over her, and for a little whUe the heart ache would be gone. j s ne'd go to her room, hvle at thm treasure she had put aside for the wedding day she had once been so ' sure ofThe ivory satin nightie, th two pairs of au per-sheer chiffon hose, the pale blue Japanese ki mona, embroidered . ia wistaria, lined in pomegranate. 1 1 , fcne'd look at herself. ions and searchinelv. in the ion mirror f ' her early-maple vanity, i .Her eyes were reauy loveiy. meat, gray-blue, and set wide apart Her features could be better She'd lik t h perfect, for his sake, uo that he'd took at her, and look at her, and never get osea to net beauty . . . Bat she wasn't bad. In fact, she was extremely pretty, thoora her nose was a little small,; and her mouth a little large for real beauty. om wnen yon nave good eyes, and hair and: skin, end a lovely slim figure . . . . M': ; ;. He MUST lava her ttflll TT.M kissed her eyes. ad her hair, and the hollow of her throat. He'd told her how beautiful she was he'd showed that he loved her,' time and ame again. He COULD24T have stopped. r i . she told herself that, over and over, even while she struggled to forget. Even t while ehe bought oacramenco papers, tortured her self looking for items about Miss Vesta Grainger, fiancee of James Todd Jr. - . t . But he didn't write and he didnt come, and in spite of the hope that never quite died, she began to know that he never would. - t-; t Nor could she nurse her sorrow in decent peace. Samson kept her 1 unouaiy ousy at the omce, and then Ma drove her nearhr frantla about Aunt Willie at home, T be continued) V " Carrie lilt KJa tmbam tTttttcst. ht old son. became in agaiai - Lily and Francis. i Mummert stopped school Friday to more from here with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Mummert. Mr. Mum mert has been catting! wood foi DeHartport all winter ;i