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; . lit , 4 ulii4 . ...... .!, urr. rjr a1 X..,.. tTV 7q chovz prcnz!zo but you novcr ccn tclF f " Ui- 'In S Dits fcr i . Drcc!:fcst f . uNo Favor Sicavs V; No Fear Shall AxctT From First Statesman, March 2S, 1831 CHAELE3 A. Spsagub - Editor and Publisher ;.. THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. . . Charles A. Sprague, Pres. - .-;,' - Sheldon J". Sackett, Secy. Member of the Associated Press ; The JLaaoclated PrM la exclusively entitled te the ut far publics ' tloa ot ail mwi diapatehaa cradUad tm tt sr. not otMrwIae ereolUd la thta papvt. . . : w - ; ,. ). -. ... .. - ..... , ,. - ..- . rJ tV; Fighting for Vtai&'l,:jl jOREAT Britain &nd France y general European war. They will go to any length to stop - it, even to fighting Germany, tltaly and Bussia. This enAmlMii eif-rtof iti i a whot lvTn r. thA hnnrnn TPitn tnA word that Britain, with France's IMlVtUaMVUd W aa f I aaWV Spanish coast to keep aid from belligerents in the Spanish civil tend to search and seizure. If Hitler and Mussolini will submit to this, then they are just bluffers. Germany is much more aggressive than Italy. Mussolini lately initialed a memorandum Britain on Mediterranean Questions; and a week ago advised Hitler to withdraw from Spain. Hitler however will not leave Franco's army to its fate. His ambition goes beyond helping a brother fascist. He wants a foothold in Morocco to threaten France and humble Britain at like the minerals which Spain The policy of France and sulate Spain's civil war to prevent its touching off general war. Other powers have sent is now the seat of a "little world eauiDment and even many of foreigners The degree of participation shades off from al most direct intervention as by Germany and Italy to supply ing of material by Russia and then to appearance of individ uals from foreign lands, either service as have been many American aviators for the loyal-i ist siae. now iar snau neutrality do emorceai uermany ana l Italy in their rejoinders to notes irom France and England insist on stopping of volunteers, foreign legionnaires to the support of the socialist govern merit In Xnam. " t u ' " Should the matter come A. T" rx T i T7 ? Great Britain and France against Germany and Italy. Bussia would speedily come to the side of France and Great Britain; so we would have the world war all over again save for the shift of Italy. In such a contest appear inevitable. Already food supplies are short in Ger many ; and how could the population stand the strain of war for longl Italy's economic position is not strong, and the grain shortage there is a cause - It is yet too early to predict the outbreak of a war with certainty. The powers have come close to it on many occasions in the past, without crossing if Hitler will challenge western is already divided because of the not be able to engage Russia in dom because of the new menacing attitude of China which needs only promise of success Japan out of northern China and Manchuria. The situation is serious however ; ami the day-to-day developments will be followed .with close interest, seem far removed from the prospect of embroilment. : The Governor Speaks E i jTiOVERNOIl Martin's message to the Oregon legislature ft was brief, but it was full of good news: Bonded debt of the state is the lowest in 15 years ; for the first time since 1925 the state deficit has been ior suue purposes is reauirea outside the six per cent limitation. As the governor says : ' ''Oregon has weathered the most favored position in the Pacific coast area. Unlike neigh boring states Oregon has no deficit and no warrant indebted- " A.e. ' - . . . ; ... TT. - ffMfi'.fA icies: . u--. MIt would be the part of wisdom not to rock the boat . now and thereby risk losing the preferential and favored position we bold and can enjoy. To impair Oregon's financial stanaing is unimnKSDie; zo impose xurtner Duraens upon oar already overloaded taxpayers Thi ervT"nrM irifprnrpfji the last election as a mandate of a classless nation "except as to individual ability to serve th community and our fellow men." And he decries attempts i - - The message is a very simple statement of the Martin policy: conservative finance, no ing of the track for state development which Bonneville and nthr niT1Vta wTIl t-iaViol" In Thf ! nraffv mnuli 4 Via fYratrrvn mood at the present time. . - ' " Three Strikes, Not Out 1 LUMBER production in the Douglas fir belt amounted in 1936 to 6,340,000,000 board feet, an increase of 34 per cent over 1935. In 1929 the cut was 10,400,000,000, so the industry has a long way to go to pass previous production totals. The cut this year would have been much larger had it not been for the maritime strike the last two months of the year. ' The outlook for lumber consumption in 1937 is excellent. unless strikes interfere too much. The settlement of the ship-1 ping s truce win turn loose millions of feet of lumber by cargo mills. Total production this year is expected to reach two- thirds of the totals of 1928 and I Lumber in the northwest for three years, losing 83 days in 1934 from the longshore strike 40 days in 1935 from the lumber workers' strike; and two months in 1235 from the maritime strike. Three strikes, out the industry is not out. - f ' Two years sgo a hard flgkt was made against the county unit plan for school administration, and the bill was defeated. Three counties, at least, in Oregon, continue under the county unit: Lincoln, KUmath and Hood Hirer. Lincoln county's school unit is now entirely out ot debt, hating paid off its last f 880 in bonds last week, iris the only county in the state with no school debt. That Is a real achiere ment. for the depression hit the coast country hard, and the county has had to do considerable, building on account -ot. new settlement arang ute nigaway. rrom a imanciai standpoint mere is much to be said for the county unit plan. . One ot the finest instUutoins pital for children In Portland, it rerslty medical school, which is supported out of the rerenuee for higher education. Due to slashes in income for. higher education by Btopping of special appropriations and loss In revenue because ot the decline in assessed valuation curtailment reparations at Doernbecher is threatened. This stats cannot perral, AMa to happen. To close the doors in the face ot crippled ckildntt. 1 unthinkable. If no other means can be provided then a spofal legislative appropriation ought to be made to Keep it tpen. - Death came for twa distinguished citlxens of Oregon last week: Prof. Frederick Dunn 'of the University of Oregon, one of the eldest members of the faculty and intimately : acquainted ' with its early LLstory;- and YVB. Dennis ot Carlton, member of the republican state committee trtua Yamhill county, la tae esTy days of the good roads dsve.p5.ng the state's mining industry. - . - - v The shocking accident of last Saturday which claimed for its to!l the Uvea of a tplenild youns coaple cf Salem shows how narrow. t"9 rnarela cf Hie u ia these cays i.Uon of the pavicg made futile --'Eel-lora has an accident caused a conanity, and sympathies go oat larel ca?s wtcsa lives were fs-loi are determined to avert a Wlla W -w Va W approval, will blockade the these nations reaching tfce war. This blockade will ex of agreement with-Great mighty Gibraltar. He would has locked in its hills. Great Britain has been to in aid to the fighters, until Spain war" in which much of the the furhters are surmlied bv as volunteers or hired for many of whom have gone as - i . - i i 'III' to issue the lineup would t( J. r . Tj . t I the collapse of Germany would ox worry. ? any borders. It -is still doubtful Europe. Japan where opinion Japan-German treaty, would the far east with entire free to start the effort to push even by Americans who now eliminated; no property tax save zor mat ooruon ox me levy depression and now is in the Mn.ar.'-'-M rt.n.t 1 m wvno, lauio uihiium yv-1 would be deplorable." - ' 4V "nft" vnta rm mpxnraa et against unnecessary tegisht- freak legislation, and a clear . ' . t - - i . .. - 1929. has been plagued with strikes In Oregon is the Doernbecher hos is maintained as a unit of the uni- ( 1 . . r-v' ardent advocate ofhlghway building movement, and later interested in or xapia transport. The icy con- the ordinary efforts at precaution. greater, feeling of gloom in the to the families suddenly bereft of promise. . " The golden weddinr , 1-11-37 of the Frank W. Dnrbina recalls . pioneer incidents sad bllaaful days together: ... 1i k On the local news pace of The Statesman ot January IS, ; 18S7, appeared these brief words: ''Mar ried. Frank W". Durbln, of; 01 ex. GUllam courfty, formerly of . Sa lem, vas married to Clemma JI. Shellady. at that place, recently. The printed wedding lnritatlon. cardjread this way: '2Ir. and lira. Chaa. Schnlts respectfally requeat your preaeneo -at the marrlAge ot their daughter Clemma M. Shel lady to Frank W. Durbln, Thurs day erenlng January C. 1887, at home.. - - K -J That meant the homoot the bride, at the ranch house on Rock creek, a pioneer settlement of stockmen sooth of Tho Dalles. ; The I Oth annirerwiry of that wedding came on last Wednesday, January Cth. and for, their golden wedding the r couple held open house at their beautiful home. 1721 Falrmonnt arenue. !8alem. Bnt the -place was far too small for tho 'great crowd that came And the flowers : that were sent.; and they needed - a secretary to open the letters and telegrams, some ot which are only now being read. How did a Durbln. scion ot an early Marlon county pioneer fam ily in fact, three or mora stick families happen to stray oft into the wide open spaces of the sage brash, hunch grass, rim iroek tV tTfind a MdethVest era Ore son. according to Joaquin Miller, baring on Che arerage the fairest daughters ot Ere under the misting skies ot any land bor dering the seren seas? i Wen, If Joaquin, famous Judge t7 MIUU VL9 JHIti, of "beauty though ha was, had seen flmma 61a11ifv tVm miiM eren see Clemma Durbln now. he would hare Justified or would now w i w ..... m m j wa.. w. Justify the choice, erf n though the Journey were 2(1 times as Umi. It all came about in something like this way: ' Norember 28 . 1861. Frank W. Durbln was born to Daniel; Durbln and wife on his father's donation land claim. : in the old house stiU standing on the Meadowlawn dairy farm, just south or the i famous "penitentiary four corners, on the highway running to the San tlam country And the Waldo Hills. Ererybody knows where that Is. Frank grew up there,: attended school, went to Portland business college. Then he was 18, and ready for life. He told his father he wanted elbow room; did not want to be a bookkeeper. Would his fa ther stake hint to a start in a stock ranch La eastern Oregon? Tea, he would, i. " y- m V "e Frank was warned, by an aunt. She told hint that, next Rock creek ranch his father bought for him, lired on the neigh boring ranch' the finest 1 looking girl on, all -the ranges there, and he would better watch his step. inac was viemma eneuaay, is. Her stepfather was Charles Schults, as indicated abote. , S Frank's people kept house for him the first year, the second he Btc?ie- B? wben he was 20, the tniru year, be got Ured of his own cooking, and ho fell for the "charms of the girl his sophisticated aunt warned him against And .Frank has nerer had reason to regret it- Some golden wedding letters In dicate that the hearts of ether swains were broken. : : 1 Utss Shellady . was born In the ?TdsjS C-11" "e W Charles Schults, her stepfather. was in partnership on their Rock creek stock ranch with John Shel lady, Conrad Schott and Joseph If artin. well known men ! In their line In that section when It first settled by white men after the Indian wars of 18SS-S. inu w. inroin waaT oixerea a position in the shoe store ot Wnu Brown, Salem, the! leading one here then, after he had grad uated from business college, but. before said, he wanted wider opportunities., J; The F. W. Durblns sold their stock ranch a year, after their marriage, that is, in 1888. and came U the Willamette raUey, and farmed on what is now known as the Meadowlawn dairy farm and The Maples farm near the Central HoweU school and station, their house -a half mile from! the Sa lem-surerton road. In 1818. Frank W. Durbln was elected sheriff of Marion county. and reelected two years later. He served four years. Butj even in . V. KB ; . . muw ;m, mr. uvLroin. aia not cease to be a farmer. ;i t This writer remembera welLthe campaign ot 1898, for! he was chairman "of Hhe republican cen tral committee, and tried to beat Frank Durbln. Lou Wain was the oppoelmg candidate. Durbln was the only democrat elected, and it was by a slight mar gin. But, however strenuous the campaign, everything was done in good mature and in a sportsman use manner, ana there was no hangover of hatred or misgiving. Frank Derby, Ben Colbath and John Cstes were the deputies of Sheriff Durbln. j As Mr. Derby graduated Into inorougnorea and hard boiled re publican, the Influences bf the of fice must have been salutary. ' (Concluded tomorrow,) CecU Dailie Takes Bride; 7ill Reside at Sah Dierro - SILVERTON, Jan. 1 1 Cecil Bailie, son ot Mr. and Mrs. Will Bailie ot this community, and Miss Gladys Shepherd of San Diego, were married December 25 at the First Christian church at San Die go, according to - word; reaching Silverton. Bailie 'has been in the navy for the past three1 years.. lie has been stationed at- San Diego, where the young couple will make their-home. He Is studying motion I picture production and radio work Ey 11AZZL WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 From the flood of bills in congress pro posing amendment. to the consti tution or curtail ment of the pow ers of the courts. It might be infer r e d that much commotion is get ting 'up steam commotion about the constitution, about the au preme court, and about t President Roosevelt's a Ul nars santvm : tude- toward ' the court. It might: be Imagined that historic controversy is generat ing. We might suppose there is go ing to be storm over the constitu tion, -thunder ' over the supreme court lightning: over the- White House, and a big wind everywhere. That may-turn out to be so. But there are grounds - -for '- thinking there may be no crisis, that, this situation may work out as similar situations have often worked out before. - ' v - i. . -. True, President Roosevelt in his message to -congress, tossed some complaining words in the direc tion of ' the supreme court. But they were the mildest of the sever al complaints he has made about the -court, since t unanimously tnrned down his N.R.A.. and Mr. Roosevelt's complaint this week was put more into the sound of his voice for radio listeners than his words as read in cold print Mr. : Roosevelt's ; dissatisfaction with the court is In what music calls "diminuendo. It Is becom ing less loud; ... ' ' The fact is Mr. Roosevelt and tha supreme court are Quietly con verging toward the same point. I say this is aaet but ot course it Ms only a Judgment. Anyhow, whether fact or Judgment it Is, if true,' an extremely, important .de velopment and a wholesome one. ::: Retreats Slightly -IH :. Consider first, the direction Mr. Roosevelt Is moving In, and the point ho has now reached. Mr. Roosevelt says he must have reg ulation ot Industry, so as to end child labor, starvation wages and long hours. Ho says he must have this: And. up to the present, he has. seemed to say wo can have It only through action by the federal government action by the state governments wouldn't do. r But in this week's address to congress' Mr Roosevelt moved a little backward' from that position. His going backward was rather veiled by his manner. So to speak. ho Is moving backward while keep ing his race turned la the old di- rectionr Consider Mr. Roosevelt's words last Wednesday: !rrhat (regula tion) can be secured through par allel and simultaneous 'setion by 4i states is a proven tmposslbu- Ity. - v'-- ;'"- -. ..; Thatvwas Mr. Roosevelt stand ins; firmly on his old position. But In the next paragraph ho begins to edge backward. He says: "Exper ience with actualities makes It clear , that federal laws supple menting state taws are needed;- So. in Mr. Roosevelt's present position, what la needed is -fed era! laws supplementing state laws. "-v-- Yvj-vrwr--'- u Court Also Movia . Now this present position of Mr. Roosevelt is the same position to ward which the supreme court Is moving. Last Monday the court handed down a decision which points straight toward this same formula, "Federal laws supple menting state laws. if Mr. Roose velt is moving slightly backward. tho court Is movlnr sBgntlr for ward. The two may arrive at the same point a middle ground be tween Mr. Roosevelt's jstreamllne and the court's horse-and-bucrr. xne case decided by the court last Monday had to do with goods made by convict labor. Some states forbid the sale of such goods. To enable such states to enforce their baa congress passed federal : law forbidding the shipment of con vict-made articles into the states that dont want them. This law the supreme - court, unanimously. True, the court, said the law is rand only when the articles ban ned are. so to speak, deleterious articles, harmful la them selves or court is willing to enlarge the def inition of "deleterious in this connection. The court has been en ornu us aeiimuon ror mora wan a century, if a state sars an article is deleterious, annarentiv the court will be disposed t ac cept that description. Mr. Chief Justice Hughes read V list of ar ticles as to which congress has ml ready! forbidden Interstate trans portation. They Include;, Diseased livestock:. lottery tickets, adulter ated and misbranded articles, kid ? Ten Yeers Ago Janaarr 12. 102T eecona day of legislature in house of represenutives - called to order by Speaker Car kin and Kev.- Acheson of Jason Lee cnurcn opened with prayer. roar farm , organisations to night laid before the house agri culture committee an endorse ment of new McNary-Haugen MIL Major W P. Simpson of World war veterans state aid commis sion was relieved of his duties today at first meeting of organ isation under Patterson adminis tration. ; Twenty Years Ago . Janaarr 12. 1917 Prayer limit in senate has been set for minutes; Rev. H. J, Talmon of Kimball Theology school was reminded by sergeant- at-arma yesterday to quit -after he had gone C minutes. H.- B. Rupert, Salem poultry- man received silver cup offered by Salem Bank ot Commerce at exhibit of Maron county poultry assocauon. . . Ilarry IfcCala, former Wfl lamette student who has won dis tinction as a national prohibition worker, addressed students ' at chapel yesterday. " ' SULLIVAN -' napped persons, women transport ed for immoral purposes, intoxi cating llauors. diseased plants, stolen automobiles and now con-vlct-made'gooda. a . -. - . child Xauior Kext "' Now it seems as : if the only thing necessary Is to add to this category articles made by child labor, or with wages below a cer tain standard, or with hours lon ger than a certain standard. And it seems as If this decision of the supreme court opens the way tor what Mr. Roosevelt wants. Let a state pass reasonable and carefully drawn laws forbidding the sale of articles mad n the conditions mentioned. Then let eongresa -r. a federal law tor od ing transpor tation of such articles into states that don't want them.; With that combination Mr. Roosevelt's new formula is satisfied federal laws supplementing state laws. .!'.' ' True, there is still an apparent obstacle In the way.' The supreme court last spring declared - uncon stitutional a law ot New York state fixing a minimum wage. But there a-w several things to say' about that decision. First, it was a ft to decision very slight change of mind by one Justice would reverse it. Second, some lawyers i think that if the New York law had been differently 'phrased, the j- court might have upheld It. Other min imum wage ' laws, differently phrased, from other " states, are about to come before the court. It would take no serious stretch of judicial . interpretation for the eourt to hold such laws valid. To do so would be a natural evolu tion of the sort through which the court's lines of decision have often passed.: ;f--tr-: v p-i-'l'.'- To the lay reader, what is told here may seem technical and legal. And to the lawyer reader it may seem Incomplete, even inexact bo eausethere is not. space to include qualifications. Bnt V;th tendency here- described were! jrot Into a few simple ; sentences, the state ment might run something like this::' v-s;;4..- Apparently Mr. Roosevelt's -ob jective would be satisfied by two things by state laws forbidding sale of goods made under disap proved conditions - supplemented by federal laws forbidding Inter state transportation of such ar ticles into states .that dont want them. And apparently the supreme court is moving in the general di rection ot approving - these I ' two types ot laws. ;-';",; .if- Tendency Is Flaia i ... . In short. ; the broad tendency t ward regulating industry to pre vent undesirable practices is still under 'way that objective ot Mr. Roosevelt seems likely to bo won. But within this, broad tendency, the movement seems . toward reg ulation by state laws supplemented by federal ones. The tendency is not toward regulation by a single federal law covering the r whole nation uniformly, . and. . enforced from Washington. ..--m. The . surmise here made ; may turn out to be wrong. But there are arguments supporting it addi tional to the --evidence f here mem Uoned. Congress is made up over whelmingly ' of , democrats, and about half by' southern democrats, with southern democrats. In maay places of power. And these demo crats would much prefer to have regulation : by the states ! rather government. Indeed. It Is almost life and death, politically" and eco nomically, for the South to pre serve states rights. Hardly any thing, would make these demo crats so happy as - the outcome here suggested. " v - I v-v-j . Vaw.Tack BataU-Trihma Sradirsts farcers Expect To Replant Grain LYONS. Jan. 11 Farmers who owed fall grain are expecting to nave to replant on account of the heavy freese with no snow on the ground to protect the grain which was lata la coming up. Lack of the usual fall rains la September was of material loss to many, some of whom will have, to hay grain to seed in the 'sprinr. j . , . The lowest temperature: record hero the past week was 1 degrees below sere Thursday at Tin. - Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Forrest and family, who have occupied the Mc Ghee residence for ! the past 1 1 8 months, have moved to their place near the Fox Valley school. Mr Wise has leased the McGhee place and will take Immediate : posses sion. ; i ' - - ' . ", : Lon Titus, of Condon. who vis ited hero the past two week, left for . Ashland to visit his sister. Mrs. Neuie Thomas. I : r Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Vaughn and daughter Evelyn - spent : two weeks recently on st trip to Cali fornia. They spent j most ot the time with Mrs. i Vaughn's mother, Mrs. Pruner, who has bees suffer ing with a broken leg caused by a tall at her home in October, or early November. She Is able to be about with the aid ot crutches. 7oodburn Postoffice ! lias J.Iarked Increase In Bnsineaa For 1936 WOODBURN, Jan. 11 H. F. Butterfleld, postmaster, has an nounced that the Wood burn post- office showed marked increase in business during it 3 8. An Increase bf 415.f t over the previous year is shown in the sale of ; stamps alone. The other departments In cluding the money order and sav ings departments also ahow a large increase over previous years. ; f The largest increases was re ported In the ' - aalei of revenut stamps, more of these having been sold during 193C then in the three former years combined. Christmas mall was also heavier than former era! years' in the past. . lrr Move to 'Vancouver SILVERTON. Jan. 11 Mr. and lira. George Jenkins have moved to Vancouver, .Wash., from Leba feon. where Mr. Jenkins was' em ployed until recently. Mr. Jenkins is a son ef Mr." and Mrs. Ross Jenkins of SilveTton. and Mrs. Jenkins is the former Esther Lar son. daughter of Louis Larson also ot EUrerton. ; j j . .. i . 'f ff -li.:".-: A'V ' -I f s B' '' ' -. . . n .- . : '---HB .:tv.ft-:fi-'alie' i. i CHAPA.TER ZX1V The dinner was almost gay. Eve was laughing, e h a r m 1 ng. She praised i everything. I let Donald tease her : about her new' found appetite; -A v--;,-.. "..J,'; .:'- V ..-''. But Christie couldn'txelax, and laugh with him. She kept think ing about what Eve had said, and of her' j own . thoughts her . dis loyal thoughts. v -r.f. Throughout theiidlnner that Success, and ! the evening that was spent with Donald and his mother chatting companion- ably before the fireplace, she sat quiet and- dumb;-weighted down with sense of her own unworthi- Tactf uly Eve Latham sought to draw her Into the conversation. . . "Of course; yon don't know any ot these- people -we're talking about! TI Just had to tell Donny the gossip. But u the while xvo been talking I've bean looking at the curtains. 8ueh lovely - soft staff, where did yon; find it?" - "Oh. it's just cotton sheeting- dyed -rust-"color.'.j''-;.-l -c-i "TeU Eve how you lid it, hon- y.w i ' h! There's nothing to tell. I just mixed so: to dye, and put It In a wash boll You did it yourself 1 m say she did! TeU about the. braided rugs, too. Go est. Christie! It's a grand story. . She cut up everything. In the house but the clothes I had on my back, to make th dam things. I lust saved my ; bice ' flannel bath robe ?r r : t--v' ."1 . just needed . a little more blue; and tt was really a very old bathrobe," -. she . explained, - smil ing s, little, hut she couldn't-go on with it. and make a story ot It. She hadn't the heart: So they gave up trying to draw her Into it. and talked happily. and she turned the same thoughts over and over in her mind. ' - Just before they were to go tc bed she was alone for a moment with Eve. .- K-'f.'-:' She blurted It out, her cheek J flushed darkly..-. " .....-- If yon meant that yon-wanted me to help Donald : get hack the fashionable practice, and. give up the research work . Eve's quiet; delicately modu lated Tblce cut In. i "Yea. I thought we understood each other, Christine.! ' That's It. Wo did. in a way. But I've just got to tell you that I can't take sides wth you. Mrs. Latham. I ' "Tou cant take aides with ME! My poor child, did I ask you to? It's merely that alt who love Don ald.' and want him to go on with the future that was begun so bril liantly, must he agreed. Chrlste. dear, I know that ; yon ; love my boy; as I do. Surely we can work together ' to - show him that he mustn't give' up all that he work ed so hard tor. Well leave- out my sacrifices, but ' - . ' "Oh I know all you did. Don ald has told me, and he does ap preciate It truly ho does. Bat he believes that the important thing is science.' and If he wants to de vote hi life to It, why then I think? i : : - i---- ?'V: t "Nonsense! Yours a child, you don't know anything about it You don't even know what he's trying- to do, do you? Answer tae!" "No. I don't. But he does!" , "He thinks he does he's just carried away with some- silly no tion. He'll laugh at it himself. In a year or two!" : , ? '-.. ; W ell mayb e!' Christie agreed, doubtfully. In ker heart ot hearts-ahe was afraid -that he wouldn't, but she couldn't help hoping that he would : "Dut. darling, that's where you ome. in! Ti'here any cod wife ''oea. To save him from his own -"oily. Oh. It Is folly, dear. JJe had such a wonderful start. Such mar velous1 opportunities. It's such a j cruel shame for ; him tat throw them away. You must help him. "Christie, my dear . little girl. yon aren't helpinr him by living in this funny little house wttn nun and doing your own work! I know yon think you are, but you aren c A. physician has a certain position to maintain In a community. When people: see his wife doing her own work,; and living la a little shack practically ia the woods, what will they think? ,. "I on't know, and I don't care -and neither does Donald! We LOVB our home, and we " . : , . - "Christie, please- lstma speak. I realise lyour youth and inexper ience. You must believe .that I am older rand wiser. I am going to speak to you very frankly, and you must realise that what I am say ing bi said tor your own good, and Donald's. When Donald told mo that he broke with your cou sin and. Was going, to marry you I did hot approve. Adele would have made the perfect' wife tor Donald. iSho would hav helped him. Instead, with the best inten tions "In the world, you've made him ridiculous. I'm his mother I love; him. and every leer, every unkind word, every bit of sneer ing laughter at my boy la a knife turned la my heart. I must save him aod lyou must help me. It you love hint,, you must!. - Their (voices had grown higher. Donald heard. How much ho heard; neither of them ever knew. But Its came back into the Toom, his eyes s biasing, his unusually ruddy face blanched with! anger. tThat's about enugh Eve! " . 'Donny!.Ifs because what I'm sayinf is true that it hurts! .You know it's true. And I blame you more -than Christie. According to her lights 8HES done very well ior nerseii. urn yout xour anew betted yon know hotter now. You know! that every word I'm saying to true. you know you've failed mi Failed you. Then It's yourself I you're worrying about?' "No! Thank heaven. I don't have f.to! depend on you for my bread and butter. I have one child who had- sense - enough to . marry in her own class!" "Ere, you're forgetting your self !$ -i. v,v-;.:;r.. Christie held to Donald a arm with her tense, helpless, hands. Tho flames leapt In the fireplace, and the: whole -room seemed hot and red as the flame of their burning tanger. V '- ."'i '-' i; '-': "It's von and I together now.1 Donald said when Eve was gone. "The iast Unk's broken" i - She- held her arms tighter about him. She thought he looked a lit tle frightened. -And -so she made herself seem bravo and i gay be cause she felt frightened; too. Evft Latham had frightened her. If it was true that she had spoiled all Donald's chances for success as a physician and surgeon:. because she was a nobody and didn't be long to clubs and get her name In the ioeiety columns, then she'd just hare to he a success as a sci entist's wife. .. -;-;i v. She'd have to take more -lnter-eat in the things he tried to ex plain, to her, hare to stop wishing they had a little more money and, above all,' she mustn't show that she, d, .was worried. ; , or sne anew inai ne was wor ried about the break with his mo ther. 'The visit that began so well and ended so miserably. Eve putting on her hat and coat with hands that shook. Saying to Donald in theTvolco one uses to a stranger: - v.-'.Y- "If: you will is good enough to drive me to the station I hate to ask you.' at this hour, but It Is really Impossible for me to re milnland I'm afraid it is too far fqf trie to 'walk.' ''-.-. -;: Y-..- Tt'alklng out of the door, a slim, youngish woman, in fashionable black, "Goodbye, Christine, m y dear.? I'm sorry you couldn't co Hazel Livingston, operate. Things might hare ended differently. Things might , have ended dif ferently. When : Christie thought of all that she felt lonely and afraid. In spite ot all her endeavor to bo bravo and gay. -.; For ' It was true that Donald never saw any of his -old friends any - .more, ; and what . ho called "the fashionable practice" was al most gone. But tho worst of It was losing his mother. She couldn't help wor rying about It, ;-':- --. Donald said that she was ner vous and hlue because sho was go ins to have a baby. Maybe It made some girls nervous . and blue to , know that they were going to be mothers, but It didn't make Chris tie feel that way. It just made her happy! She tried to explain, but it- was Just one of those things that they never could get quite clear between them. Because he worried about her neaim ana maae ner : mace fre quent visit to see some friend of his who; was a specialist, she said less and less about it as time went on..-..- r v There ' was really' no one that she could talk to. r - Aunt Nettie . . . Even Aunt Net tle would have been helpful. Aunt Nettle had ; had two babies and certainly hadn't been sorry. But Because Aunt Nettle wasn't home. or aald she wasnt home, the one time Christie went to calL-right after her marriage. . Donald -ruled against going again. . She knows where we are. She can visit you if she chooses!" he had said angrily, and Christine -had agreed relnctantlv that ner- naps she had better not go back. if only ; dad had lived and Miml! Tears stood In her eyes as sne got out the old pictures, look ed at tho pretty, laughing face of the woman they told her wasn't really her mother. Well, she just hoped that she'd be able to be as good a mother to : her baby as Miml was to her. J ; She knew that she was strong and healthy, and nothing would happen to her. but people do die! Miml had died. Suppose she, too, were to die, what would be come of HER baby, with no one even interested In It, and Donald always working on his experi ments and not seeming ' to care very much- whether he over be came a father or net? -i At times like that" she never could quite hold back the tears, and it was always her luck to have Donald come home early on that particular day and find her, red eyed and bedraggled, with the lit tle dresses and I nighties she had collected lying in their box bn the bed beside her and nothing in the house for dinner. - - He was so tender and solicitous she wanted to scream. "Why make so much FUSS about UT" she'd demand Irritably, only to have him answer In the patient tone he probably used for "Darling, am I the one who's making the fuss?" ns Just couldn't understand. Nobody understood. For a while it seemed that Mrs. Mitchell, the big rosy- woman . ; who came In twice a week to help with the work now was one who might un derstand, lira, tlltchell was very Interested and would lean on her broom for a half hour at a time, listening, while Christie told her how well she really war and how glad she'd be when June and the baby finally arrived and people would stop sympathizing with her anrl iV1nv V tmw e V a folt Tn frtmA ta Tifr f!t- vu.ucu vu. ch ell's talents as a listener were limited and she'd much rather talk about the trouble she'd had having her four than the ease with which Christie planned to have her one.. If folks would only stop bothering her. "StllL Urs. Mltchjell was better (Continued ca Page )