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Founded Ao Faror Stcay Us i No Fear Shall AtceT i v ! From First Statesman, March 2$. IS 51 Cairocs A. Spsacub . Sheldon F. Sackxtt - . THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING: CO.. j - ; j Member of the Associated, Press f - i ' The Associated Press U exclusively entitled to the as for "puhlK-Si- " ; tion of i.l Dtwi dispatches credited to U or sot otherwise creriitett lo thU paper.; ,. V.- . . ' J--,, , --: ; . . ';Vi TOOK the first time since the po3t-war army organization Ji; was made the army is revising its units to meet the modern demand for increased mobility. Details have not been announced yet, hut the report is that the size of the div4 ision, now. 22,070 men (during the world war the size was 27,000) will be reduced to 17,000. The internal make-up of the division may be changed too. The present pattern is call ed the "four-square" type, with two infantry brigades to a division and two regiments to a brigade. Some European countries have developed a three-unit organization, or "tri angular" type, which they regard as more flexible. Under the reorganization contemplated the non-combat units; would be detached! from the infantry and put directly under div ision headquarters or attached to the quartermaster. j ; 1 . Great progress has been made in putting the army on wheels. Trucks replace the army mule and wagon. Tanks and motorized units for machine guns and fast-moving" artillery have been introduced. The cavalry is being converted from horse units to motorized units. Then the aircraft arm is being rapidly expanded., - r:--;,l i; ' i !.',"- Mechanics is revolutionizing; warfare. Spain is proving an experimental laboratory for i mechanized equipment. Mil r ltary authorities recently have predicted that a war might begin and end in a few hours ; the nation that got the jump, by use of great fleets of bombing planes, to demoralize the defense activities of the enemy might gain a victory in a short space; of time. This may be much too optimistic, but the truth is clear that waging war is -becoming more and more a matter of operating machinery. i I ; h v Power lequipment will increase the speed of slaughter.. But what becomes of the personal glory, long the attraction of warfare? No charge of horsemen, little hand-to-hand fight ing of footmen, merely the dumping of high explosives on a peaceful city, the advance of small armored fortresses catting enemy mechanically in windrows, and the pulverizing of the terrain by high artillary-that is the prospect of modern warfare. And its driving force is not so much ambition and glowing patriotism as bitter hatred, inspired by propaganda. The only place where personalized combat seems to remain is in the sky battle between airplanes. - : 1 j Nations are keeping pace with the latest in scientific knowledge in preparation for war. Are they developing any "brains at all for keeping out of war? : j ! Wase Formulas I IT S. STEEL made no friends when it-attempted to tie wage1 changes to' the cost of living index. That is one ! factor, but not the sole factor. The state of a comp any's prosperity is another factor. Sometimes .'particular in dustries are depressed even in times of general prosperity; for example, the textile industry was in bad shape even during the prosperous years of the 1920V . j ; j ' If wages are to move solely on the basis of the cost of living-henl the , workers standard of living would remain fixed. The history of American industry Is one of a rising standard of living for workingmen. There are setbacks in times of depression, but rapid gains in times of prosperity. Decade by j decade there has been improvement. Bathtubs, motor cars, radios, mechanical refrigerators are no longer the exclusive possession of the better-to-do ' classes. Now they are owned, or some of them are at least, by folk with modest incomes. In fact, sometimes the workingman 'gets a new gadget before his boss does. - . . j . . , ! Ernest! T. Weir, as tough an industrialist as the country has, refuses' to subscribe to the U. S. Steel wage formula. His company, National Steel, advanced wages with no conditions. His statement on the question was as follows: I'.- j . . "There are always factors to be considered In changing wages ' other than the cost of living. I cannot subscribe to the theory of ' chaining wages to liring cost because if carried to its natural conclusion this arrangement would halt future adrances in stand ard of living. In the last forty years, we hare witnessed a; great and general improvement In liring standards. Many things hare contributed to this, but fundamentally the Improvement has been due to a steady and farorable 'spread between wages and living . cost. ' J . ,: -' ' " "As I see It, any attempt to permanently establish the living cost Index i as the sole barometer for wage adjustments would ' tend to retard the continued increase in real buying cover which has been and should be the goal of all Industry." j ' j Weir comes closer tohe correct" answer to the wage question, than did the executives of U. S. Steel. The copper companies have a better formula than cost of living; they tie wage changes to fluctuation: in price of coppery which gives the employe .his stake in the fortunes of the industry. .Fixing wages cannot be done by automatic formulas, but the attempt to j devise some slide-rule system does indicate a change fromthe former rule which governed all! business relations: "Let him get who has the power, and let him keep who can. j .-- - - : Conservative Students Organize 1 IN the days before the election a group of students at the University of Oregon not in sympathy with the radicalism fomented by a small number of campus militants, met and formed what they call the Oregon Liberty association to pre sent the viewpoint of more conservative students. They got tired of having the university branded as "red" because of the agitation of few students with a bad bellyache and a mission ary complex. Clinton Vincent, graduate of Salem high; is one of the leaders of the Liberty association, along with Bob Presr cott of Eugene. 7 . , - i -. ' :i i There is a field for such an organization The trouble with the conservatives is that they have been too silent in ex pressing their views. Of course there are many students in a university whose major concern is with frat social life, ath letics, or even with their studies. But there is a very large group with a keen interest in public affairs who are by no mean&xonvinced that the boys with gas on their stomachs have the right answers. This group proposes to help mold cam pus opinion Itself, and to reflect to the people of the state their views on campus questions in particular and on other, ques tions which'youth is now concerned over, - - j '!' Academic freedom should extend to both groups, the con servatives and the radicals. The latter are necessary to prod lethargic people into activity. The former are needed to put brakes on revolution. The prime need for the conservative faction is to be intelligent and not just worshippers of the sta tus quo; and to be honest in the material they gather and the use they make of it. Above all they should preserve their own independence and not become a stalking horse for off-campus pressure groups, patrioteers, or politicians. '. r . j' " - Eugene Is 'going to move its present postoffice to a lot adjoining its present location, and use it tor a pioneer museum. A new post ttftice will be erected on the present site. Salem has a good building which we suppose will be available on the same terms 1.0; plus removing It from the ground. Any bidders? , ,' ' - ' j- .-A, : ':;..'-- '-l::.l rr !' r r The democrats, are going to hare a victory banquet. That's ap propriate for Thanksgiving week. Still there will doubtless be much controversy when it comes to serving the pie. ,; : j , There Is one comfort when the university and. state college have their ball game. An Oregon team will win. : -t ; i The weather bureau makes a guess that this win be an ear-muff ' winter. More of a far coat winter, even in sunny Arizona. . ItSf :? 1 '; Editor-H anagrr I ; Managing-Editor Army1 Reorganization "Y ?;f j ' ? : "- - - - '."-', ; j Bits for-, Breakfast t: By B. J. HENDRICKS Adams family in, . ' 11-2 4-3 S pioneer Oregon Uke Massachusetts 'Adamses -in pioneer American life: . - " X Concluding from Sunday:) Still quoting trom the book: "Mr. Adams (Sebastian C), our sub-'! Ject. the youngest son, moved to Galesburg. Ills., In -1837 and re eelved his education in Knox col lege." .' . ., "He began teaching:. . . . In 1850 he came overland to California, losing everything he had on the journey and suffering with, star vation, so that on reaching his destination he was reduced to a skeleton and actually lost con sciousness; he- could - have suf fered no . more, consciously, had he actually died. - :r s : .. ..r ; :-, "He remained 40 days In Cal ifornia. to recuperate, then sailed on the bark Ann Smith for Port land, arriving Sept. 30, 1850." ; !He went to his .brother, w; L. Adams, .In Tamhill county,' : and took a section of land under the donation law. , . t Mr. .Adams lived tour years on his land and taught school In - a, small, rash shanty. - V s V j:;3 1 "Later ;he removed to McMinn ville, and became the founder of the town and the ; college, build ing the first house In the place. "He obtained the land for the college and erected .the building, and In 185 took; charge of the school,', teaching two years.; . "Among his pupils were a number of yenng men who" have since become eminent in the state and county, as chief Justices, gov ernors of states and member of congress. ' The sketch goes on to say that Adams was In IS 12 elected clerk of Yamhill county, and thrice re elected. Then elected to the state senate. At the close of his four year term, for health and rest, he spent the winter in San Jose. Cal4 and In 1800 settled in Salem and erected a residence here. . The sketch says: : v sr; v "For 25 years he was an effic ient and highly acceptable Chris tian minister, connected with the Christian church of Salem, largely built up by his preaching and ministrations. ... In later years his liberal spirit has led him oa into nationalism and entirely out of the Christian theological traces, but of course sot away from Its morals and refinement. ) '.V VJ: t -'j! "During his-, teaching experi ence he became Impressed with the need of an improvement in the method of teaching history; which led to his becoming . the author of a valuable work known as 'Adams' Illustrated Map of History.' j "He went to Cincinnati in 1871. and, after the publication of the map, spent six years traveling and selling it; . . . it proved a great success; was exhibited at the Cen tennial (Philadelphia), and while there Mr. Adams met prominent people from all parts of the world. ... He has now retired from ac tive business . , . and resides in a beautiful home . . . Just built, fronting the courthouse grounds in Salem. (Some Salem old timers remember the Adams map-history.) v u r. - "Feb. 5 1851, is the date of Mr. Adams marriage to Miss Martha E. McBride, daghter of Dr. James McBride. ... There were four chUdren of whom two are Uvlng. - ' "The daughter Emma Is now the wife of Major Williams or Sa lem, and the son Loring K. Is a practicing lawyer at Hillsboj-o. f.;--, s , . . i Major Williams was George Williams, who lost a leg in the Civil war. and was a Salem cap italist and? banker. : Loring K. Adams 'is now prac ticing law In Portland, long a leader In that profession. - - S. C. Adams' first wife died In 1882. He married again, in 1884. and his second wife died in 1888. and he married a third time, in 18J0. -v. :i .,; i i "He died -In Salem on January S, 1818. leaving his property by will to his third wife. whose maid en name had been Sarah A. Baker, and to his son Loring and his daughter Mrs. Williams. ? f 1 His property - Included a half Interest with David McCully inr the store building occupied by Gilbert Patterson, next" north of the corner building northwest Court and Commercial streets r Patterson was ; afterward ' gov ernor of Oregon and Gilbert post master and superintendent of the penitentiary. The residence in Salem' that SL C. Adams erected when he first came was at the northeast corher of Liberty and Chemeketa streets where the Christian ; Science church stands now., :f -V;-y -;v- i The home-"fronting the court house grounds la Salem" where S. C. Adams lived last and died Is the Joe A. Baker house, 645 Court -the Baker apartments. ,Jv- b-. j The reader has gathered enough from" the foregoing to show that the part of tha Adams clan In early Oregon was ; connected w 1 1 h a large number of the prominent families -in this state; by; mar riage and birth. ' 4 ; . There Is another branch in Ore-' gon of the same great and numer ous clan. All the men and women that are blood, relatives of Clark Rogers, Oregon and Marion county pioneer, . are members, like the children of D. W." Eyre of Salem add many others; like Bert Macy. Salem. attorney, and aU his blood relatives. "!' : j -.-'.- - n The. members of the Clark Rog ers clan are also '.related to the family of General -George Rogers Clark, and of General William Clark of . the Lewis and Clark exploring party. ' 4 fhferp By MARK .Washington; n o t. . ! President Roosevelt, just before ! he left for South America, appoint-; ed a commission, headed by Secre tary of Agficul- ture v Henrr Wallace, to study squired -to plant the crops the gov f arm tenancy- - ernraent tells him to plant, and witha view tore- as much acreage of eaeh as the dueingj jl .The? government prescribes. Presnm main purpose, as ably he would be required to mar- i - outlined in " t h e president's ' letter to Mr. Wallace. Is ito facilitate - Mark snui , ownershipof farms by persons who : are n6w tenants. At ; the ; same time the president seemed to contemplate something about tenants who remain- tenants.' He spoke of "de veloping a land ! tenure system which w 1 1 1 bring an Increased measure of security and well-being to the great group of present and prospective farm tenants. What this means has not been explained.' Whether anything win be done about this point -cannot be known. It is quite certain; .however, that something is going to be done about the main, point,' enabling persons now' tenants to become owners of faxme.j. - vv-; : I : President ' Roosevelt's commis sion Is directed to report not later than February 1st. This suggests an intention to get legislation in the coming session of congress. It is certain something will be done. Speaker Baakhead says the leg islation la "imperative.' . ,-- i The recent history of the move ment toward reducing farm ten ancy began during -the campaign. Both presidential candidates, is sued statements- calling for- re duction of farm j tenancy, for-increase of farm ownership. T h e statements of the two candidates came so close'together In time as to make the impression of a hurry- tag competition between them, each eager to beat - the,- other to this issue. Since Mr. Roosevelt was elected, he got the opportunity for action. , i . 1 About the desirability of action, assuming the action - Is soundly planned, there can be no doubt. The amount of farm tenancy, the number of farmers who do not own the land they plow, la greater than Is realised except by the few hav ing special familiarity with the subject. The average man tninxs it IS only an occasional farm here and there that la operated on the landlord-end-tenant basis. The fact Is, a close to half the farms in the country are operated by tear ants. The prportlon, according to the 1930 census, was 42.4 per cent. Experts think it Is now mat erially more. There 1 were many mortgage- foreclosures during the depression, former, owners becom ing tenants. In s o m e southern states the percentage Is over CO. Ini Mississippi it is 72.2 per cent: in Georgia 68.2 per cent. Even in the richest and most progressive farm states, tenaey Is close to SO per cent. In. Iowa, it Is 47.3 per cent; In Nebraska, 47.1; In Illinois 43.1. All these figures are as of 1930; the figures are higher now.) ; That there should be fewer ten ants, more farm-owners Is a prac tically universal ' conviction. ' To few proposed reforms will there be so little opposition. Certainly conservatives should I give whole hearted support j to this Tefonn. Few truisms of social organisation are- so widely accepted as that which says that the j farmer who owns his land especially the one who has no mortgage Is a found ation stone of capitalist society. The application-of this truth to present conditions was put - in words last July by the 'exception ally enlightened Des Moines. Iowa, Register, which 1 printed an Im pressive series of editorials about the desirability of reducing farm tenancy. "A better brake on too Impetuous'actlon than the supreme court ... Is the preservation of a relatively Individualist farm-owning population of actual farmers. ; Something Is going to be 4one. Butj there- will . bo debate about methods. Fundamental In any plan will be purchase by the govern ment of large tracts from present owners and Tesale to persons now tenants, or to others wishing to become farm-owners. But at some point these who conduct the op eration will encounter a difficulty. It ia that ancient confounder of altruists in every field, eld human nature. We can say it is desirable to turn a tenant Into a farm-owner but nature may not have dlslgn ed him to be a. farm-owner. Many a landlord wno would be giad to sell his farm, sell it at a reason able price and on easy payments. finds It difficult tor h' buyers who h a v e the : Qualities which would enable them to manage the farm successfully enough to .pay the cost of it. . ' ar . i: The existence for this impedi ment seems to have dawned on ProfessorCTugwelL He, while stUI under-eecretary iof 1 agriculture. gave out about two weeks ago ! a concrete plan for promoting farm ownership. His plan began with the feature easential in . any plan, an appropriation by the govern ment. (An. appropriation by tne government seems the first step ia eery; altruism. ) 4 Dr. TugweH'a plan vag. for: 60 taillion dollars a year for ten years, the money, to be devoted to purchase of land In large quantities ' from existing owners and sale ' ef this land In small farms to persons now ten ants. ; K: t- ': f it.'-7.";-:3'"',:i From this .point on Professor Tn swell's plan had some remark able provisions. The farms would first be leased, not fold, for 1 trial period of five years. Dur ing t h a t time the government agency In charge of the operation would decide whether the partic ular tenant was "able and willing to undertake purchase of the farm, and to conduct the farm after he purchases - it. For five years the purchaser would be, so to speak, s "trial farmer. , '... Then Professor Tngwelra plan had a - feature designed to 'keep the Xarmer on the land, once it got him : there. Purchasers would be given forty years to make their payments to the government. The government, however, would . de cline. to receive the last payment until after the completion of the forty yearst The purpose of this, apparently, la to prevent the pur chaser from yielding to any temp tation to sell his equity. He wonld News SULLIVAN also be forbidden to mortgage the farm.-.' ., ; -"--i-- Finally, the" purchaser daring the forty years would be required to operate the farm In accord with plana . prescribed by the govern- A-iment. Presumably be would be re- tket his crops In accord with rules laid down, by tne government. Ta looks Uke making the government a, large farmer, or at least a large jlandlord, ia competition with pri vate f armers. 1 v;": " 7 J- ; - 1 tr Since . Professor Tugwell is no longer under-secretary of agricul ture, his plan or his has now no official standing.! Whatever is to the now - government plan $ will Come out of the ; deliberations of president Roosevelt's recently ap-f pointed commission. Thereafter, Whatever ' the plan, it will . be de bated in congress. If the plan of the new - commission Is anything like Professor Tugwell, we shall hear from congress remarks about making prospective farm-purchast era into tenanis 01 ine government rigidly supervised and regimented as no tenant of a private landlord ts. Probably some excitable con gressman will nse phrasees buch as Tserfs'. of the government. Yet the difficulties which Professor Tugwell, tried , to , anticipate are real ones. Difficulties Inherent in human nature are always real. : Editorial From Other Papers Geology FoUows the Election ' i ' Retwnis - Though . the : celebrated' - Mr. Dooley once remarked. In one of his more jaundiced momenta, that tha "Supreme Court f oUows th! lllectlon returns," .it never occur red even to that aage that the processes of geologic time might de likewise. Yet that, or something very like that, 'appears to be the ease. When our commentators have talked lightly about political "earthquakes" and "landslides? they have always aupporsed them selves to be speaking in pure met aphor. It seems , that they were mistaken; . they did not realise themselves the miracles wherewith they were dealing. For, Mr. Roose velt's 26.000.000 rotes not only swept the Electoral CoUege and buried Congress under an eruption of; Democrats. They have actually raised the Florida water table (or lowered it. or whatever- the pro cess may.be), plugged the pores In; the Ocala limestone, stayed the tides in -the Gulf of Mexico and made the famous Florida ship canal- a project which threatened but a month ago to reduce that fair state to a desert into not only an economic bat an engineer ing practicability.: ; 4 i Prior to November I ' the Geo logic Survey had looked askance upon the ahlp canal, foreseeing salt water seeping through its banks to flood the orange groves and parch the trailer camps, of all southern Florida. Special, boards of ; Army engineers had expressed their fears for Florida's subsoil, and experts of the PWA had esti mated the brtne would rise in the farmers' wells as fast as the de ficits would go up on the project's books. But now the Geologic Sur vey Is said to have looked again, and still another board of Army engineers has resurveyed the prob lem. And behold, they have dis covered that geology- itself (to say nothing -of economics) haa been transformed. " The canal Is feasible; .the sub soil win not be endangered; the tourists camps will not wither and the wells will continue to run sweet. What has : happened? Ob viously there haa been some great seismic disturbance within the vitals of the Florida Peninsula, ap parently occurring on or about the 3d: of November an earthquake, la short, a. landslide. Evidently we shaU haver to be careful how we use these terms la the future. We shall find ourselves voting the Rocky Mountains out of existence next, or even raising solid-rock foundations through the oose un derlying the dam sites at 'Quoddy. New York Herald Tribune. j Highway Timber Saved t At last a plan haa been devised that has worked tor the salvation of! a. strip of . beautiful Oregon roadside 'timber. This.- indeed, is encouragement to .those people who have sought In vain to save such . high war timber in the past. only to see it faU victim to the woodsman's' ax because no agree ment could he negotiated that was satisfactory to all concerned. - The .latest plan - was put.' into effect to save a strip of timber along the Crater lake highway, be tween Prospect and Union creek, which has belonged to the Rogue fftlyer Timber company. The Rogue Rive national forest service takes over the timber, and to pay for it will grant -cutting rights on var ious units of federauy-owned tim ber within Its confines. : What ia significant about this from the standpoint of future pol icy! is that it indicates a more lib eral attitude on the part of the forest service. One reason previous schemes hare bogged down -was that the forest service would not retreat from certain policies which were not acceptable to the private Umber owners. It is hoped that a mare liberal attitude will work to the advantage of other timber-sav ing projects. ...'"' Certainly, Oregon most have its remaining highway timber. Any fair and Just plan - that will ac complish that purpose will be a creat contribution to the preserva tion of the state's natural beauty. Klamath Falls Herald. . , . :r f::Al Clerks' Confab. : j DALLAS. Nov. , 23-C o a n 1 7 Clerk Carl Graves and Mrs. Graves left yesterday afternoon for Port land where 'Mr. Graves plana, to attend the meetings of county clerks- - of Oregon Monday and Tuesday. 3 - - Com a:v-UiJ', v- - s : .mi XVy yc :: i": (&: 'l4TW & . :Sr " 1 8TNOPSIS o .Diana Darlington, of a socially prom inent, thouan impovsrisnea, family. loves the eligible young bachelor, Ra cer Dexter, but what chance bad ene when the fabulously wealthy Regina Hrde bad set her can tor nlraT Reaina always sot everything she wanted. Al though Roger family enjoyed a social Drettlae far above Resina's, she made up for it by the lavtshness of her par ties and her debut was to be the last word la extravagance. Dtana goes to Regina s week-end party just because Roger win be there. At the United Hunts races. Diana la thrilled when Ro ger whispers she must save him fire dances that evening if their horse wins but their choice loses. That night at Reglna's dinner-dance, Roger appar ently has eyes for no one but his host sa. later, however, he slips away with Diana into the garden. In the seclusion of the summer bouse, Roger kisses. Di ana and starts to say "you re the only when tipsy Clarence Thyne. a guest. Interrupts and tells Roger that Regina wants him. The following Monday morning, Genevieve, Diana's mother, is worried over finance. Her one hope Is Diana. She must make a quick and suitable marriage. So Diana's debut is set. Genevieve arranges things so. It wUl cost very Utile. The manager of the Parkview hotel is willing to allow them the free use or a suit because of the Darlington "prestige' on the assurance that th "best people" would be present at the party. - ). CHAPTER VI Bella and Genevieve had been up betimes that fateful day, cut ting innumerable sandwiches. ' Bella's pastry melted in one's mouth, She had concocted char lotte russe,,and apple cake, and petite j fours," and an . enormous trifle, j r .'.Forjan hour before the "tea, the jFlegenschults champalgne had been on Ice. There was gin, too, behind the bar. Flowers had been ' donated by Diana's friends, and the florist on the corner had sent an enormous gilt basket of delphiniums - and- gladioli and white jlilacs. - . -' .; Oh! j they need not be ashamed. Diana land her mother would be standing in a bower of flowers that had added nothing to the cost of the party. " Roger bad sent white rosea, three dozen long-stemmed beau ties. '-,;,. ' ": Diafta had bnrled her small face In them and kissed them and In haled Itheir perfume. : White roses meant love? Had he thought of that? r . At a quarter of five, she was in the rooms on the thirtieth floor. A small Hawaiian orchestra was at the .far. end. In the main room, where j the bower of flowers had been arranged;' and where there would be dancing. " 5 ;- "Don't look so worried, darling! Smile!' - Genevieve - admonished her. . j :v -, Genevieve - looked lovely and quite girlish la a simple black velvet gown that had not been paid- for.'; " " iy;. ; -' - '--i - r-C Diana smiled, but . felt i tense. Because of the small ness of the rooms,) she had to omit so many ot her acquaintances. One hundred and thirty guests had been bidden to theitea. and one hundred and fifteen! had accepted. - It would be a aqueeze. but that was faahionable, ot course. . She hoped that the gate-crashers would stay out, and the drinks hold out, and the sandwiches. : "Gorgeous, darling! "murmur ed Regina as she kissed Diana on her entry, with Roger directly be hind her, looking extraordinarily handsome. - -: " . . ' .."v-: - 1. In.no time at all, the bar "was doing roaring business, and j the party becoming lively. - - Diana had her first dance with Roger, after a good half-hour of perpetual hand- baking and con gratulations. A- lovely color, had crept into her cheeks lief brown eyes glowed. Everything was going along splendidly. Her fears had been groundless. : ; ; Her first dance was a waits. They moved perfectly together. "I thought you were a little moonflower when X came in, but now you look like a small blush rose. Roger whispered " to . her poetically. . V' - ' ' - '' She gar a' musical laugh that was pure Joy.. "Flatterer!". - -- 7 i 'Hay I congratulate you on your premature? But ven in the midst of her happiness, j a perverse 1 demon in side he murmured: "Does he say those things to Regina T" Almost directly- after that, they were cut In upon. " : At her debut, a girl Is not es teemed ja success If she makea half the rouad of the dance-floor with out being j seised npon-r-end - the ottener fthe better." jj. Rogef cut in again, however, and again iand again. . "Diana's heart rose. Such persist ence had its meaning. : As the Waltz died on a throbbing note, he led her out to the bar.". And the first person they en countered was the comic figure of Alfred Flegenscbults -who greeted Diana as If he had known her all her Hfe-".-i-...;v - Vr ' . " ': "Hero ! cornea : the blushing bride! And -the young chap who was the) first to eUim herf . His small,, shrewd eyes set in his fat red face popped with the pleasing prospect of "Joshing' them. As he was fwoht to say of himself, he was a jborn kldder. "and never missed an ' opportunity. "Mayf li congratulate y o u on your great good fortune,, sir? Or am I prmjrtlle!'. r v Dianl i blushed furiously, the more ' especially aa Phyllis .and Maade fand "Clarence Were right beside them..?':'..' .'' S "j -., ; . "Give-1 the girl a, chance, Mr. FlegensChulti! I've only had time for one. dance! Let me at least have a season!- "Oh, I you'll be snapped - up In no time; at all," winked Mr. Fleg enschultx knowingly. He Went up to the I bar. and bellowed: Hl, waiter, open up a fresh bottle ot champaign for the day-boo-tant-ee!--f-1; f-1 - -Who'a the Jolly old leapard In the spotted tie and brindled wes klt? piped up Clarence. "Teui mean the human char lotte russe In the striped panU and go files?" Phyllis Hggled. Good -God! wherever did you collect the old bird. Diana?" Thus Regina,! who bad followed them. "Mother knows him. I don't. Maybe he crashed in on his own," Diana fibbed desperately. For px9 erstwhile bootleggef now turned' respectable liquor merchaat was indeed an incon grueus inote. He waa short, ro tund, common-looking and assert ive. I ... ; great good fortune, sir? Or am X A Jamboree of red corpuscles! Extraordinary pushing blighter! murmured Clarence as Alfred F. returned. , .-;( "Drink thls. -Miss , Diana, and then tell m I'm an A-l Judge ot good champagne!" She thought:; "This Is terrible! In a minute everyone will know It's. his stuff!". - - !. She got out of the bar with Ro- ecr a vuicaiy aa possible. " But Alfred Fs wife waajn the Passage, accompanied by her hefty daughter, Brunhilde. They must get .their money's' wdrth out" of this party of the "elite." She was annoyed that Mrs. Darlington had not introduced them -sufficiently, and that h e r daughter had no dance-parnter. - Diana presented Roger to them, and Mrs. Flegenschalts said quick ly: "Go, dance. Brhhhllde! She's a swell dancer. Mr. Dexter!" She had read all about Roger in the social columna. .- :'t'.: Roger was stock with Brunhilde for the next dance and-its encore. greatly to the amusement of his friends, all except Diana. I " When :the music ended, Brun hilde hung on; to him Just Uke a .rr,wanl w h n th orchestra struck up again, she coyly beg ged: "Do - rive me this dance, please. Mr. Dexter." ' s . .. v It was overheard. What could he do but dance with her? He had a bright Idea. , j As Clarence : Thyne stood In a corner, his eye roaming for the cnoicest morsel to cut In on. Roger wiggled ten-dollar bill behind his back, directly In front of Clar ence Clarence seised it smartly, pock- lt:J.nd rbbd Brunhilde Quid pro quo and noblesse w""' wu cuappie; - n echortled as he swung her off. - ' r It was a good story, but em barrassing for a hostess. Diana heard It a half hour later ia the bar. Clarence had told it to a pal. who had passed It on to Phyllis, who had retailed It to Regina. Th latter waa pM,ht on Diana who was looking quite mn auernoon, and must be taken down a peg or two. Said Regina: "I don't blame Roger. Poor.boy, to be stuck with that lump!" . - Sooner or later, thought Diana, the tale would reach the ears ot . (Continued on "page 9) -