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PAGE FOUR OULGON STATESMAN, Salen, Oregon, Sunday, December 13, 1936 m . .r- T'. Founded HSlj: ':,'..' , - j A'o Favor Siray Us: So Fear Shall AwtT i Prom First Statesman. March 28. 1SS1 lit Charles A. Spracle , - Sheldon F. Sackxtt - - THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. 0 laur i Member of the Associated Press : i ' 1T . 1 Tfee , Associated Pre is exclusively entitled to. the use for pubt! tlon of" a":l nra dispatches credited . Pressure for Strike Settlements IT is easy for sideline spectators of the strike-deiidlock which grips Pacific coast ports to wring their Hands and j wail "ain t it awful! It is easy for outsiders to denounce tne strike arid say the principals ought to get together and drid it. And it is likewise easy when the strike is prolonged forthese folk to call for government intervention to settle not only this but f uturelndustrial disputes. If they were parties to the con- - troversy they would probably be as obstinate as the present participants. The strike is industrial warfare, a resort to force in which' the rujing element is time; it is a contest in ' staying qualities the employers relying on starving trje un ions into submission ; the employes relying on starving the shipowners into-ubmission. The strike was entered on (delib erately, with each side determined to crush the otheif into compliance with its demands. Each side regards concession on the major point of dispute, control of the hiring hall by 0 e un- lion, as defeat. So far as skilled a negotiator as Secretarjr Mc- - Grady has been unable to write a scheme which will provide peace either with or without victory. In view of his failure to date one cannot be optimistic about the success of new media- trtra nnlci tViPv ri vpstri with ' public sentiment, - : From several different .a. i- l a t rneiit wnica spring uui ixum uie piuu iKiuunf iiigiug f-i comfortable grandstand-sitters, but frxm the public whose i ox is very definitely being gored. The Hood River apple grow ers and eastern Oregon wheatgrowers, alarmed? at thef stop- J page of transport, arei threatening to force through legisla tion to prevent such strikes. At Coos Bay citizens, weartf over , the paralysis of industry there due to the strike stranglehold, have come forward with a new plan for strike settlement!. Ore- gon poultrymen threaten direct action if they cannot ge corn for their fowl unloaded from ships rocking in Portland harbor. Mayor Carson of Portland has commissioned former lfiayor George L. Baker to head a committee to get action for re$ump- ; tion of shipping. : ' 1 Perhaps none of these efforts will succeed of itself. But t from the several efforts and others will come the pressures I "which will forcea decision, either through agreement pf the principals or through the imposition of a settlement fror pub lic authority. If it is to be no more than a truce the settlement will have to be on a basis which will provide fair security for employes and discipline and efficiency for thf em ployers. We admit that is rather an unctuous phrasing, which both sides to the dispute would endorse, and thit the j dif f iculty is in putting the copybook motto into terms of fcgree- i i . i " . ?n , mpnr in riprTPPT TfirTTiiiisi ran work without the goodwill on both sides to give it real vitality. t ; ' Jury-Selection j ONE jury panel for Multnomah county! for 1937 has been thrown out and the new panel prepared. by the jury com missioner and a deputy county clerk is under attack by a j group of lawyers who claim it was not selected in the manner ordered by law. If the circuit court throws out this jury, de t lay of trial of cases for a month or. two is feared, on account i of the time required to prepare the list of jurors. The ground for complaint on the jury list is that the se lections were made from the list of taxpayers and not from ; the registration list. So some argue that this excludes per sons of the poorer classes who ought to have the privilege to T Bit on juries. r In, proof it is asserted that names were r chiefly of the white collar class or from the better sec . tions of the city. These may be the arguments used, but v there is reason to suspect that a real basis for the attempt to ? knock out the jury list is the desire of plaintiff lawyers in damage suits to get as incompetent a jury as possible. In ev- ery city of size law practice gets specialized, and in Portland there are lawyers who make a specialty of damage leases, I where they sue for large "sums and hope to wheedle part of It at least out of a soft-hearted and soft-headed jury. In recent months the jury schedule on sprained backs- hasn't been as , high as formerly, so the plaintiff lawyers want to change the ? draw .for jurors. " j . Oregon ought tp get back to fundamentals on it$ jury f selection. The state constitution says, "The legislative assem bly shall so provide that the most competent of the permanent xitizens of the county shall be chosen lor jurors.' The jlaw is ; ; quite inadequate now to carry out the high purpose set lout in the constitution. In fact the law by a process of exemptions -" has strained out members of many occupations who ought to .be exceptionally well qualified to serve as jurors. Then many Vf those who are called use what pult they (have to fet ex- cused. : ; . - !; . . There should be no discrimination among prospective Jurors on account of their wealth, because many in very hum- ble circumstances are well qualified by intelligence and hon esty to serve on juries. Farmers often make excellent jurors, . and are certainly among the permanent citizens of the; coun jty. The legislature should go farther than it fys to put into "effect the constitutional mandate ; exemptions should be great ly reduced; and citizens should, except in grave contingency, be willing to serve on juries. It Fair Trade. T AST week the U. S. supreme court rendered a decision of a I j great deal of importance in commerce. The court upheld r , by a unanimous decision the. constitutionality, of fair trade acts of Illinois and California. Oregon has an act al ;most identical to the California law. The terms of the law t .are simple. Producers and wholesalers are empowered to en ' ter into contracts with retailers for the resale price of mer chandise on which the first parties holdvthe trademark or brand name. Then if any merchant sells that branded Itrticle satja lower price any other merchant who holds such ajresale contract may sue the offending merchant and recover! dam ;agevThe Oregon jaw was promoted in particular by the re- Jril druggists' association as a protection against price-cutting. T::-.- - -.. y. .:'. I . . Oddly enough, while the decision validates such intrastate laws for price-fixing, the federal law which prevails injinter state commerce still defines such a practice as conspiracy in restraint of trade. At the present time the federal trade corn emission has initiated proceedings against a big distillery, for attempting to enforce a price maintenance policy. Legislation ,Jy congress will undoubtedly be sought to exempt suchprice--maintenance deals from operation of the anti-trust laws. - The opinion of the federal court, it should be remarked, ' was written by Mr. Justice Sutherland, who has beeh fre quently pilloried by papers like the Portland Journal las an obstructionist, a reactionary, an antagonist to progress. It is quite too early to say, ai a matter of policy, whether these price regulation laws are sound; but Justice Sutherland and his colleagues appear willing - to let the states i exercise their sovereign powers in legislation so the experiment may beitried out I SaIrator Dall. leader of a new aajra he hasopes of making life a At.o ul, panicHiany u ua xeai Tltlnl- k.m(at lifting IV piano;" and another, ?Soft construction with boiled beana"! vt. -1 m a. a w- , cuiuvtvui mil xvussim aaa In the newa that waUow-tail coats piajea la ae men s scores in Moscow, jsren a rerolatlon can't rtd me wona ox soup ana nsn" ana Editor-Manager Managing-Editor ca- to It or not otherwise credited In the o-enuine MWpr of massed j spots come demands for settle- iU. : ' i i : 1 iu cornrpn ' sarin nn TMT-rmi in win is a duty not to be shirked Act Decision cult In art. the "surrealist" tscbool. craiy dream. Life la already quite do Jjairs p let a res. one of which is . t . 1. ai.i. : . IT and aesenea communism mar im seen . . . ' for even ins wear are beta dto white dickeys. ; . , ;fi Bitsfdii .Dreakrds 1 "-r Gottlieb Frledrlch Mil2-18- Kurtz., pioneer, lired - & a Ions, honest, useful,.- and a progressive lite; il Conrludlnr from Weterdar: ) Thomas D. Kaiser h&tt deeded his part of the donation lapd claim to J. B. Hubbard. H? J. B. Hubbard hadSftisferred it to T. H. Hubbard. ij - Mrs. T. H. Hubbard U Fannie) was a Kaisers So that laLl did not set far out: of theljhmAo of 'the Kaisers from the timer Iweame to them by U. S. patent tia'ei it went to Mr. Kurta. And In hts hands It wi) to still be put to pioneering; Utffts Mr. Kurtx was one' CCthe pio neers of this; section ln-lh growing of Italian or Oregon tTt-ries, nd he was . a pioneer-also' ii drying and packing them u prr ways for consumption and jketlns. He put. 20 acres i tqT'tJ-unes In 1888, and 20 more thf Vrxt year, and the following year -creased the acreage to 50. ftA The January, 1890;ift!od cor- ered nearly all the Kurtz acres, ex cepting the part at and iiear the t j i V' The backwater from thetWillam ette river carried awy iome of tne young prune trees. -J -The river was nereriiojblgh be fore, unless it was In' th'ej flood of 1 OP1 a A I J A J l xoaA.-. auu x ubs creTi ucu mo high since. ! JftiS And what looked like al tragedy for a few days turned .out a bless ing, bringing rich soil toinake al ready rich land still richer. Clinton J. Kurtz , fib w) of San Diego, Cal., was with hjs father then, and he patented tbre differ ent prune dryers an;d;; improve- The principles mosjtii&use now over a wide field savlieir first trials, their pioneering.! on the Kurtz acres. I : ! a Clinton has several j Mew pat ents, one a sprlnklet-..that may make him a very rlchxmln. The orphan boy in farCermany became a pioneering-?, ijgan. not afraid .to venture; rfcadf to try new things for the goe of him self and his neighbor every- wnere. - tffjS He was true to hisMflif t name, Gottlieb. He loved bfsHJod and obeyed His commandmeiTis all the days of his life. r ik"? He was a member pi 'the First Methodist church of ; Salem, the pastor of which. Dr lames Milli- gan. in his: funeral sermon was able to give persona testimony to the facts Just stated. Mr. Kurtz had been iu'widower for some years, his faithful wife having passed away at-, the home Just out of Salem's i subdrbs. and their bodies rest side by-sfde in the Odd Fellows" cemetery.'- J August Huckestein of alem, an old and trusted friend, paid appro priate words of tribute rf the pa triarchal man whose !pjrit had fled, as a part of the tttneral ser vices, i r-a v Besides Clinton J. : Knts, men tioned above, there survive E. A. Kurtz, Salem, his hom jsjat north of his naternal oner Hesrv A. of Sacramento, CaL, and.:J.ohn F. of sprague, Nebraska, iwhof has vis ited, here but remained jirMlHn near the old home injtne.' state of snaiiow water. :. Deceased c h i 1 d r ji li,! JF'red A., George,- and two daughters, Ag nes, unmarried, and JdhaSna, gen erally caUed Hannah; 4 who Mrs. Godfrey. . f t w was Hannah before her1 marriage was for a long time eibptoyed on the office force of Thef 15ttesman, a trustea assistant. : m Fred Godfrey, son I bf Hannah, Salem, and Mrs. Dorothy ;Phayton. seasiae, aaugnter, ;survrco. ana there are two Phaytelif Children, boy and girl. Hnfi i There are two aonsdf K. A.. Chester G.. ; Portland. ' and Alvin A., attorney: Salem, j aitd girl 8 months old In the latter family. son or red. a., deceased, is Dr. Howard Kurtx. Salenrifjuid tire re are Barbara and Wlll(IcfcUdren. So there are five great grandchildren. Clinton had a girl, wh .dled In ln ancy, and a promising', son who passed awayt 10. yjH'i' How time flies! seems but yesterday when H aj n;ikJsih Kurtz worked or Tho Statesman. Now she is long gone,-: and :j there are grandchildren. - i Their former neigh bora remem ber ' with kindly : .thonghu the Kurtz family: as it Iras t a the old home on thejann. ; ':!til-1jl ' ; " They were ever, neighborly and always sociable, wlthuhappy par ties where tables wer; set with good things to eat, tn Jlbeiold Ger man style known to WtH to peo ple who have been acquainted with ute lamiues. r Thomas H. Hnbbnrffi 4rho sold the Kaiser donation! fat to Gott lieb T. Kurti back in 1.8 1?. was a well . known,; character f here . In those days. l:.:j:i if, t- He owned the lot wiiere.the Ore gon building stands howi soutth- west corner SUtaid High streets. " : ; -.. 'j: t l t fMi-i. . After bis death, his wldViw erect ed the Oregon building It has been rebuilt and rearranged;: two or three times since. Theiwlle of Dr. W. D. McNary, superl$ttident of the Oregon state hospiil Pendle ton. Is a daughter of thef ubbards. Mr. Kurts : erected: owned several buildings lit i&alem. i : j.1 ..in..i., . 4 ' h V . , i Humphreys Plan ? love LYONS, Bc 12K nd Mrs. Clair Humphreys j and. children went to Rose Lodge IThuisday for a few days. ;Th Humphreys ex pect to leave for Ashland , soon and went homo UMIjit their household effects inspiratory to moving. They expect it return hero Saturday or Sunday, j ; ' s age of -Salem Specislaies By D. 11. A general expression of regretful disappointment resulted in ; and about these diggin'a . when" the news cape from, London Thursday morning; that Edward VIII had voluntarily abdicated the British throne and , that his brother, the Duke of York, had become king, thus adding-a George v VI to the line of British sovereigns, t ; Our regretful 'disappointment was in no wise occasioned -by the elevation of George to the throne. Probably George will be a better king. Judged by modern English standards, than his brother would have been, for, he "will mind his mother, and his teachers kind and true. thereby holding at. ease his own mind and the minds of a cer tain element of the British people In the matter of "goblins," which Jim Riley of Indiana long ago con vincingly declared would "get" us If we misbehaved ourselves, at any ratef to the point of j sticking out one's tongue at the teacher. ! But we had hoped well, to put it bluntly, we had hoped for a fight. And we had hoped to see an American woman seated on the throne of the British empire. And it- did not ' work ont so, I and we have agreed for once with George Bernard jShaw, which is a humil iation of the spirit. And all to no purpose, i - i : r T ' " A 'i 1 ' ' : I presume It Is better so. There was every indication for a time, when Mrs. Simpson was protrud ing her chin and telling the Brit ish cabinet in a softly Baltimorean tone of voice, albeit, I j suspect, with a steely Baltimorean gleam In her eyes, that she would, if the necessity were vitally imperative, step aside and give the British em pire the right of -way, which, it seems, the British empire was not getting so much of at the moment as it desired to have, and they really could not call out the army against ai lady, don't y' know, and when the king was saying this and that here and there in high cir cles and! In no uncertain tones there waa a time, I say, when it looked a If Christmas would be completely ruined by the affair. ; The public, like an individual, is Incapable of concentrating suc cessfully and simultaneously upon more than one subject. However. I am willing to concede, one excep tion twins. i Personally, having always been a free spirit, within certain limits tions, of course, my heart goes out to Dave Windsor, who has. In ef fect told an empire to go Jump in the lake); or do anything It Jolly wen pleases, so long as It does not presume to order what he is pleased to consider the sacred affairs of his private life, which, despite the 'accident of his birth. are strictly his own business, So there is human nature at it again. One man-turns a world up side down to become a king and another turns a world upside down to avoid being a king. Dave Wind sor decided in a quaint and demo cratic way that he would rather be a man, his own man. and It may be the husband of a woman of his own choice rather than that of a woman chosen for him for reasons deemed by a cold-blooded council of politicians with a vision single to expediency as favorable to the welfare of the empire. Dave Windsor might have been a great ting, one of the greatest kings on earth, had he put up a light for the throne and the worn an and won. And it seems reas onable to believe he might have won In such a fight. And that was the fight we hoped to see. It would have been a grand fight. But It has not turned out so. However, Dave Windsor will probably get more out of life from this time on than would have Ed ward VIII with his dislike of knockling down to a cabinet and a bouse of lords, j. : So perhaps It Is Just as Well as it is. although there may still be troubled waters ahead. We shall wait and: see. And In the mean time i Let us get on with this Christ- mas business.' !v i, Peace on. earth, good will to wards men is still a live Issue, de spite the regretable fact that the news columns are not in the most perfect of accord with the columns from the.religlous syndicates. i ;. ii i " " 1 ' j . I have heard it said many times that this is a small world. It is sometimes said when two people who have known each other and have lost knowledge of each other for years suddenly and without warning meet acain. . One . well, welt it's a small world, ain't it? and the other says, it sure is. ain't It? And so they know Just why the reunion came about, and of course they 'are quite well sat isfied with themselves. It is as good a war as any to accqunt for sucn inings. i Such things don't need any ac counting If or, anyway. AU they need is the right thing to Say when they happen. ; i i : f .! I .,,.. j ; kj Clem Cutler.' who need to raft the general store at Crane Creek, was a great man to think things out. Clem's been: dead these many years, but some of the ideas - he had are still floating around In dusty old heads with his name at tached to 'em. - - Clem said he'd read a hean of world history, and he'd acquired a sort of acquaintance with great people ; and events, and he said there wa'a't none of 'em ho could- Jn't duplicate within a radius of ten uiiiee pi jbjs siore. ;.'-.-:.;(; ; i rw He was talking one day about women in history. There's a worn an In every historcial ; high-spot ino woria nas ever knew, lie said. Women have : mad kings and women have destroyed kings. It's like the case of Jim Robley and Sadie Williams, he said. ; ( ; ..f Jim was a no-account, good-na tured feller. good looking as all get out, who'd never had a regular jod -cause ne aiant want one, and sadio feu la lore with him and TALMADGB -'wmf they went around everywhere to-J gether and a mighty line looking couple they was. It started a heap of . trouble right smart. HI Wil liams. Sadie s pa.- who was the most Important and - richest man IdJCentertowpriwas madder about it than anything you , can think of that gets good and mad. lie threat ened and forbade and delivered lectures - on the wisdom of a girl marrying a boy with a job and as- Dirations and ail that, but he couldn't head' off 'the calamity Jim and Sadie run off to a town up the river and got married. Well, said Clem, that: was 30 years - ago- and more, and Jim is jrovernor of the state' now and Hi Williams is trying to make folks believe he was ' in favor of the match all the time. He's meek as a lamb. Hi is. You see, Sadie didn't want a young man who was tied to a Job, nor she ; didn't want; one who was ; suffering t from aspira tions; All she .wanted - was some good raw material, and Jim was it. I dunno what particular histor ical high spot Clem, had in mind wheh! he told the story about Jim and Sadie. I reckon it doesn't mat ter.1 Notes: ; "That which .we have will be that which we had pretty soon." One of the astonishing statements occasionally appearing under a "Bits of Wisdom" head ing; J . The Christmas number of the Kingwood Review is to hand in a red and green cover and con taining somewhat more than 20 pages of entertainment and In struction. Creditable . . . Nell Con ner has resigned her place as head usherette at the Grand theatre and will go to Eugene to live with her mother . . . Arthur Robb has tak en over tne "snop Talk at so" feature of Editor & Publisher (New; York) conducted until his death by Marlen Pew. A suitable succession ... A 24-page edition of Miller's store news, devoted to Christmas, is out. An excellent piece of work by Stanley' Keith, advertising manager. Statesman press. . . . Mary of Scotland (dis cussion aroused by the film shown at. the State theatre during the week) was not the "Bloody Mary" of history. Wrong number! . . . The English language contains ap proximately 700,000 words, half of which are not essential to or dinary communication. This ex plains why it is when you cannot remember a word you do not get much help from the dictionary. The needle and the haystack Salt water fish have greater food value than fresh, water fish. State ment in an advertisement. Mebby. Sounds a bit fishy to me . . Fox news during the week has shown a speaking portrait of John Ring- ling, the showman ... Congratula tions to Gideon Stolz. . . last living charter member of the Salem G. A. R. post, who celebrated his 9 2d birthday December 9 .... A sketch by David Freed man,, who died recently in New York and who a short time prior to his death had filed salt against Eddie Can tor to collect 250,000 allegedly due and unpaid tor gags furnished the comedian, was shown on the program at a local picture theatre during the week . . . , Among the other Christmas numbers to which I have given somewhat more than passing attention Is Shadows, the monthly magazine edltedi and printed by inmates of the Oregon state penitentiary. Any doubt that may exist as to the presence, In the ranks of the prisoners in the, big house at the east end of State street of at least a few who are above the average in qualities which are usually accepted as in dicating high ideals is dissipated by reading Shadows lmost. The typographical quality of the mag azine Is, all things considered, be yond criticism ... Helen Twelve trees has been missed by some of the local movie fans. Been laid up In a Hollywood hospital. Getting better. . . Now comes the astonish ing statement from scientific cir cles that more than 1000-new spe cies of insect is discovered every year. Including the one that strad dles the yellow line, or Ignores It entirely? Yellow Strip Plan For Coast Roads CORVALLIS, Dec.; 1 2 Answer ing a question submitted by tho local chamber of commerce, the state highway commission has ad vised " that a yel low line will be painted on paved portions of the Corvall is-Newport and " the Cor- vallls-Waldport .highways, soon.! Already on the road 10 miles west of Philomath and from Newpoit to Toledo, this yellow strip is. a great; aid during fog "Work has been started on the Waldport road from both I ends, working west from the Philomath junction and east from Waldport, t J t j A sign depicting Corvallis as the heart of the valley, was denied its sponsors,' the i local chamber of commerce, hy the highway com mission yesterday. The matter Is expected to come before the state erlfllainr fir it nert ,m(nn ' T4- i; More Equipment Needed, liberty First Aid Room LIBERTY. Dec- 1 1-i-The com mittee, headed by J Mrs. Albert Brbwnlee. In charge of the school first-aid , room, j announces i the need Of additional equipment. At present the articles on hand are a first-aid kit and a eot.yi'-'Mr!;: A mattress and; - couple of quilts, a-small table and pictures suitable for the' room re needed. Anyone having any of these jar tides to contribute ! aro asked to notify the teachers or Mrs. Brown ie and they; will be called for If necessary mmmm ; f' ' u , i l ii i -ii- ! - .. ! -A-' j'-r.;; -v ii. -r f ;- t ""i-'-i ;--- -. - , - -Jrii '' C011!:i.!'ir' ' -':: v: . hy oweepgtaijees on Lpve M,y cLu.i, CHAPTER XXIII One of the worst floods In Cal ifornia's history took t place over the New Tear week-end. The rain started In Hollywood on Saturday afternoon, but by that time Jerry and his large taarty were half way to the Mexican bor der, whirling, along; the Pacific coastline. ..'M; ! !-. i : i To the right, the ocean was .. " i' . ' .1':: 'I I ' sparkling blue, and saffron hills rose sharply to the left Farther along, the winding, highway, ex quisite Spanish villas were perch ed in their green gardens that ran to the very edge of the high' red cU" 1 Ji;, , ' ,; : ; L' "It's like the Blarriti coastline It sure Is pretty," remarked; Mrs Nolan to Genevieve 4s the! pair leaned back in the limousine the devoted Jerry had delegated to them. i, : : ; r; i .. i ; Perhaps, tn the whole party, these two mothers were thd! only happy people. i! i .;! ::' ! r. 1 For there had been a mix-tap In the Important question of: should go with whom? I Diana had hoped to ride who j 1th Roger who, for professional; rea sons, wanted to travel With Fal coner, the director. Falconer; how ever, wished to be tete-a-tete; with Dolores D'Arcourt. if t l; I;!; i: j ! 1 Dolores bad her own i caij and chauffeur with her'! (supplied by Falconer) .but Dolores was ! tired of the homely-looking, too-devoted Falconer, and wished to ride f long with Roger Dexter. By a Tuse, at the last moment she succeeded.) Jerry Nolan particularly wished to be with Diana, but had held back because of the girl's aVowted affection for; Roger. Jerry was al truistic. ; 'if'. I -i :. ; i - When Dolores rode" off alone with Roger, Falconer turned' pur ple with indignation, and Regis tered a vow that because of this "kidnaping. the Jackanapes. 'play boy would be "out' forever f rom the studio! ,j il': j;:lMi fi1-;i-!:y 'a-I ; His rage was lessened a little, however, when h found hmir alone In one of Jerry 'a hired cars .Ilk Ttt Yk ,1 1 : ',1 ! He had admired the sweet-facSd gentle-mannered child from' New Yorkw "upper-crust." He himself had come from nothing, but cher ished a snobbish social ambition. ! The Dexter Jackanapes was pally with her.; To play up to the girl might even the score! I u i( i , It would teachspolled Dblores a lesson. She wasn't serious. In any permanent sense, oyer a 75 week scene painter, who had j been fired from the studio for drinking and Inattention to the Job I when she had a boy-friend earning S75,- ooo ' per picture, as Falconer did but it would be good to turn the tables on her and make her Jeal ous, i ; ;i ..':.,.. '::: j ,-1 , . ! ' i Before, they reached San -Diego. and Ignoring the chauffeur tell tale mirror Falconer had, tried to kiss Diana,' and been firmly Vat gently put In his pUce.1 P f I ; Extraordinary i for a ! $l00a- week novice to dare snub her di rector t . thought Falconer, but i it only whetted, his appetite, for fur ther conquest; i 'kj$wVMb-. ' In default of being with the all- important Falconer ; who could re instate him ; at the studio. Roger decided It would be expedient ; to play up to Falconer's sweetheart. Dolores D'Arcourt He had UeTer liked Dolores, hut !needs. must," when one was broke.'; ! f A -tlit tU ; ? " During the brief stos at the Im migration and custom station at the border. Falconer, out Of the tall of his eyea, beheld Roger Open ly flirting with his sweetheart At they whirled past the tower ing campanile in the gorgeous grounds of Agua Callente, aad 4o the various bungalows of the ho tel that Jerry had engaged for the week-end. Falconer became: more and more determined to pay the pair out--through .Diaiiaiti.n! 1 ;i ?. 1 j The ! semi-tropical 1 twilicht! was rapidly descending. After a bath, and changing into .evening clothes, raiconer repaired to the long bar Ourl Grown Up Boy Has Left Home takes on taiit he casino, to find it already packed with people, ' Itoger and Dolores were at a lit tle itable in a corner, laughing Into each other's eyes over tall glasses of blanters' punch. The Darlington child was with heii mother in her bungalow. The little iceberg had been tantalizing in the car in her outfit of bright red. Red was a grand color for gambling. , ' Roulette was his game. He went down the steps from the bar to the roulette table, and flung a hundred-dollar bill on the red point. He lost! , He tried again again again and yet again, only to lose five hundred dollars. It was a bad omen. ' ': Presently, Jerry arrived, and after farther libations, marshaled hisj party Into the big Spanish res taurant for dinner. Not even the champagne or the splendid floor - show throughout the! excellent meal could restore Falconer's good humor. Roger sat next to Dolores and played up to her. The planters' punches had been potent and the pair were now oblivious to every body elseT , While the others lingered at the table when the meal was over, sip ping llquerrwith their demi-tasses and dancing between floor-shows, Falconer started back to the gam bling rooms and through an open archway in the garden sighted Di ana1. . Here was his chance! She was goihg to the bungalow on an .er rand fbr her mother. Falconer hastened after her in the darkness under the palms. . He had drunk considerably by now, and he was amorous. He put an arm about her and drew her to him. . kissing hotly. She wrenched back from him and slapped him In the face. A half-hour later in the' hotel- bungalow, Diana repaired her make-up and dried her eyes. VI suppose this ends my movie career." she said to herself, her Hps; still trembling from the mis chances of the afternoon and eve ning. "Well, anyway, I'm nothing but a mighty poor actress!" She went back to the lively table In the dining-room, thankful that Falconer was gone. Roger asked, her to dance with hire. Mechanically ahe consented. Dolores green eyes followed them, full ow annoyance. Can things ever be the' same again?' thought Diana. There was a sort of tarnish now on her love fori Roger. . ! He stumbled a little as he dan ced; His eyes looked shifty. Suddeny. from directly behind them,' came a high-pitched male volo ahe recognised. Why. of all the: Jolly old meetings! Just fawn cy running into you two deah old niignters in Jolly old Mexico!" Diana turned. It vu nrMM Yhyne. .;. ". V -;..-.' . -. -And not alone. Came a cool, provocative feminine laugh. Hello. Roger darling! Hello, them, Diana!- - She was looking Into the eve nf Reglna Hyde?; Reglaa had flown la her four passenger Curtis to Anna Callente. all j the way from New York, to onng in the New Year. She had Maude, her stoore. with her, and the Impecunious Irish nobleman who had sat at her left at her debut at the Monarch, and the; ebullient Englishman, -, Clar ence .Thyne, who was . convinced ho would be a great gift to motion pictures. , - v .r ; Regina looked radiant : - -She was the best-rowned worn. an In the room. Not even the most famous movie stars could approach ner. saratoricauy speaking., . ''Diana, d a r 1 1 n r." ehirmn Clarence. "I'll Jolly well bag you wane wm nagging's good! 7trobably under Reclna'a In. structlons! thought Diana bitter- y as Clarence whirled .her awar.Livesay and Miss Mabel Jackson. She could see Dolores' face dark en as ahe sat partnerless at the dinner table. Dolores was studying Regina's exquisite Paris gown. Do lores missed nothing of Regina's smiles for Roger. "He's fated" to be a storm-center for the women!" Diana thought. Suddenly with all her heart, she wished that she were out of the running, that fate would decide the Issue quickly, and the uncer tainty nay, the f sure misery would be at an end. Love Wasn't meant to be contin ually palnfuL It should be proud and joyous and open. Clarence was thirsty. He loved champagne. He had spotted free champagne on their table 'and soon suggested that they drop over there for "a snifter . t He greeted Genevieve, was pre sented to the other guests, and soon had his long nose deep in li bations. , Dolores D'Arcourt moved over to Diana. Her veneer had fallen from her, as it usually falls from the plebian in moments of anger. "Say, your boy-friend sure is one grand double-crosser!" "Whom do you mean?' asked Diana haughtily. "Oh, don't put on dog with me I'm on to you. I mean Roger Dexter, who's ditched you. Just as now he's ditched me for this new dame on the floor. Who is she? Who's paying for her clothes? Not Roger, I'll be bound! She laugh ed shrilly. , "Bo quiet!" Diana ordered sharply. "Dont let the whole room hear you. That's Miss Hyde from New York." "I'll tan her hide plenty if she crosses me! I've stood enough to night! Didn't I see Falconer sneak out after you, and you were both shut up in your bungalow a good half-hour!" "That's absolutely untrue. I wis In the bungalow alone. Mr. Fal coner is nothing to me but my di rector." , "And he won't be that for long. If I've my way! He told me only this morning that yon were a bum actress!" "Granted," said Diana quietly. Dolores was Intoxicated. Better placate her and avert a scandal. But Dolores was beside herself with jealousy and humiliation. To lose two beaux on arrival here was much too much. Someone had' to be punished, and Diana was near est. "Dont high-hat me! We all know who gave you that Vrlst watch! It wasn't your precious hard-up Roger, either; It was Jerry Nolan. Would It surprise you to know that was HE who for weeks footed the bills for your Jaunts with Roger, eh? Answer me that?" Here were tho very words of the anonymous - scrawl that had been dropped In Diana's car! It had been written by Dolores. The woman waa quite capable of It "Don't cape like that! I tell you I know! I was waiting for Roger one night to drive him home in my car when his own was In the re- pair shop, and I followed him Into Jerry'a office at tho studio," and saw Jerry slip him a hundred bucks and tell him to take you to dinner."' .; . (To Be Concluded) ' Q. T.TvV dub Members Enjoy All Day Session WOODBURN. Dee. lY Several members of the Q. T. W. club rao- , tored to the home of Mrs. Eugene Wholhuter, northwest of Wood burn, Thursday for an all-day meeting. A cevered dish lunch was served at noon'and the. after noon spent In quilting for the hos tess. Those attending were Mi. R. C Faulconer. Mrs. Frsrf: Wright, Mrs W. C. Miller, Mr-. Nora Broyles, Mrs. Theron Fin :. Mrs. Arista Neadel. Mrs. J. II. -A- Ink . :t 4M- ( i :!i j 1 A ir i j!,.' 'I! ! i 1:1 V, ; "i '1 ill
