rK PAG2 FOUR Th OHIGON STATES2JA1L Sedan. Oregon. Tutdaj Morning. February 25. ISlI . . 'MMMM 1641 - tateaman "Wo Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 f- THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, President Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled' to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. Acquaintance Relative to the state CIO council's repudia tion of the Labor Newdealer which is edited by Lee Coe, formerly of Salem, no opinion was expressed by n The Statesman, which" merely made note of the occurrence and quoted, in part, the comment of the Woodburn Independ ent. Subsequently this newspaper received from Coe a Safety Valve letter, which was published, and accompanying it a personal letter and clip- pings from the Labor Newdealer and other CIO publications which shed considerable light on the situation. It should be understood that the Newdealer remains tho nffirial mihlif atinn of the Portland CIO council. The clippings disclose that the state council's action has some relation to the schism within the CIO in Oregon and indicates the present ascendancy of the comparatively conservative Hartung-Helmick faction in the timber workers' union. That group being in nntrn1 rpmiHiation of the Newdealer was vir tually a foregone conclusion, for the paper has pulled no punches in opposing it and denounc ing it as "disloyal" to the CIO movement. On this issue aS between CIO factions, again The Statesman does not care to offer opinion " beyond observing that no matter who is right or who is wrong, the violent disagreement and especially the charges of bad faith are unfor- tunate for the CIO and for labor in general. Organized labor is already split into the CiO.and AFL and whatever else may be said, ' there is a lot of sincerity on both sides. Now is appears that there is discord within the young- . er of these elements discord which cannot fail to detract from its effectiveness. " Interest in the Labor Newdealer incident, in Salem and in Woodburn, has chiefly to do with Lee Coe's role rather than with the do mestic difficulties of the CIO. The evidence hat action taken by the state CIO council had ts basis in these difficulties puts a different light upon the episode even though it does not indicate who is right and who is wrong It remains to be noted that in his vigorous support of one faction in the controversy, Coe made frequent -and disparaging mention "of the "capitalist press." Yet he wrote a friendly and frank letter to the editor of The Statesman, stating his case and outlining his personal reac tion to publicity the incident had received in his "old home town" of. Salem. Somehow, you see, he failed to identify the fellow in whose company he had some months ago sipped a - "coke" and discussed the imperfections of hu man nature, with the wicked "capitalist press. f And of course throughout the entire episode, the editor was, unable to identify Lee Coe, the. well-intentioned and personable young fellow who; grew up in Salem, with "that trouble making radical" denounced in some other quar ters, Jt just goes to illustrate what personal acquaintance does to such issues. Furthermore it explains why class war and violent disagree ment on a class basis can flourish only in big cities. In the smaller communities prejudice and bitterness are always modified by personal acquaintance. ' ' this district is divided as has been proposed, the law will affect this county. There has been , rather widespread sentiment here in favor of transferring particularly the probate duties to the circuit court because coun ty judges usually are not lawyers; though by the same token, county judges usually are not chosen for their ability to guide, or to admin ister a program of guidance for, wayward children. It is to be hoped that either through the proposed judicial district change or through a legislative enactment at a session not too far in the future, the transfer of duties may be come effective here. A young woman from Salem, Elizabeth Steed, succeeds a young woman from Salem, Betty Buchanan, as president of the Associated Wo men Students at the University of Oregon. We presume it does not detract from the individual credit due each of them, to suggest that here is evidence that the Salem environment for youth, including its school system, is favorable to the development of constructive leadership. A diet expert says there are 45,000,000 Americans "below the safety line in diet." There are probably as many above the safety line, and so the problem is to feed 'em in the middle area. La Grande Observer. The Astorian-Budget thinks Gen. Hugh Johnson's nose "sharply resembles that of W. C. Fields." It is our impression that those two prominent noses resemble each other, not sharply but bluntly. News Behind The News By PAUL MALLON (Distributed by King Features Snydicate. Inc.. re production in whole or in part strictly prohibited.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 At last it may be dis closed to a panting world exactly what Mr. Roose velt meant when he said the industrial Mr. Knud sen and the laboring Mr. Hillman were two hearts that would beat as one. He meant they would do li even 11 tney had to skip a couple of beats, or even four, five or fifty or else, regardless. Let me tell it: The office of production management asked Henry Ford, to build a new plant for production of four-engine-bomber parts. The question arose where the new plant was to be located. Mr. Knudsen personally picked out a site at Ypsilanti, Mich., near Detroit. He knows that area welL Dissent came first from Ches ter Davis, the farm leader now raoj Maiioa a member of the federal reserve board, who believes new plants should be put into rural areas certainly away from industrial areas where labor shortages in certain lines already are evident. But Mr. Davis is only an adviser in the dwindling defense commission. He was not even transferred to OPM. Someone who was, took up his argument, Mr. Sidney Hillman, whose cardiac sympathies were irretrievably aligned to Mr. Knud sen in the romantic conception of the new set-up, offered by the president. This was apparently to be their first skip. :' ; Editorial .CoiraiirBientcs From Other. Papers ' i " 1 FOR STATE AUDITING j. be .one of nationwide impor- Readers of this column have tance. It should be given every observed (with., we trust, not toof form pf ' publicity f possible. It much dissatisfaction;, that ' fa-! should attract students. of history vorite subject of discussion has r; from all parts of the country to 1 been municipal book keeping in- this famous spot. Thus Newberg eluding proper budget ma King, ; snouia come in xor some reaFna- adequate record keeping andi competent auditing. As a result j of our study, we think it fair, to j say, material improvement into! 11 1 1 V. kmillStt cax meiaouj u tMWLfcu., tional nublicltr. J ; It is not too early for New berg people to begin giving care ful consideration to the coming ceieoraupn ox wiampoegs cen- about and considerable, sum;- tenniaL J rTwo years may seem saved for the taxpayers. On ac count of that interest" arid the ( possibility of still further savings we are glad to note that the as sociation of county judges and commissioners will sponsor a bill making the employment of the state division of audits manda- - tory on the counties. We get the news from a recent editorial in the Salem Statesman reprinted on this page today. So far as present practice in Deschutes county is , concerned like a long time in which to pre pare for. an event; but if that event is 'to be of any real signif icance and to get the recognition which is due it, then we shall have .to begin now to lay plans and start . publicity) to tie New berg in .with the celebration. This celebration Is not some thing which Newberg will dic tate, but unless Newberg gives their fullest cooperation to it, this city will fail tin its oppor tunity and will receive little or the measure, if enacted, will I no recognition when the celebra make no change. The division of f "on " hld. By all means lets audits Is now employed for the! gin now to see that we are in- county work as it-has been fori J In the event; and that it is the past few years. It was not so j sufficiently well developed to long ago, however, that private j Properly represent ! the event of auditors were employed nor sot Y33 . Newberg Gra- long before that the lowest bid-f Jmc-' If , . , '-' der for the job got it. The work was poorly done and in one year, at least, we were able to point to j glaring errors. The day may! come when a court will think it! will save money by returning to j that type of work. The enact-! ment of the proposed measure The ieappointment',of Henry Cabell as a member of the state highway commission is good news for Oregon. R- Means that the i largest "department :- of the state will be serveb? by1 d'ehkir man who deals couVtebusly with will prevent the makine of that I ?.v? n carries on his du- mistake. - " 1 ""eiugence ana firm- Asiatic "Pandora's Box" Made in Germany ness, when firmness is necessary xuje pudiic interest. The high way commissioners receive--no pay whatsoever anxi.lt is espe- cjauy important that the Mult- Bibs tfoir Brealfasii By R. J. HENDRICKS We cannot go all the way with The Statesman in its implication that had it not been private aud- j itors who were doing the Wasco f YMinfv nrrrr rVt the Duvall irreg-lariUes wod-f,011 "ember who is have been discovered sooner. Smild lrman. State auditors faUed to discover JaT llk "U"11 ' the irregularities in the accounts S PendIe rlltf fenice of the city of Bend and state ! n -qnian, .. preparation here. We are for Explanation TWe- Duce made more of a spectacle of him self ihan a very, heroic figure when he recount ed the failures lost chances and mistaken hopes nf Vii! arrriicij: in Tjhva anH Alhsnia laet SunHav .-morning.. His aDolocv was at best weak it was j fine sumniary of most of the ineptness which he has so often denounced in other statesmen and as for the:tjming, .the Duce properly proved that his troops had not been the only Italians who had been forced to move long before they were ready. In general the Duce openly admitted that Italy has done -exactly what he has always said it would never do: he admitted, that it was forced to go.' to war unprepared,.' that it attacked Greece , when it was unready and be-, pursued young lady who responded in the nega- After much discussion, Mr. Knudsen finally con cluded by saying the factory would go to Ypsilanti anyway. The adverse beat, which was Mr, Hill man's, serving also for Mr. Davis, fell in tune at first, but then bounced back with the .suggestion that instead the factory beTmilt at Toledo. Hill man's contention was that the entire population of Ypsilanti would not be sufficient to man the Ford factory. Mr. Knudsen pondered, said no again. Mr. Hill man thought it over, finally cpined a new and perhaps historic response. He "gave his consent without his approval." Consent without approval may be likened to the solution devised by the cause it was "forced" to do so, that j,he Libyan campaign went sour because Graziani needed "five or ten" more days to perfect his own onslaught against the British army of the Nile. The Duce himself, usually the most positive man who ever faced a microphone, was vacil lating and inconclusive compared to his usual performances! cornpared to Churchill's masterly address three weeks ago, he was almost ridicu lous.' He dabbled in the usual axis humor with respect to. America "it is more likely that the; United! States .will be invaded from Mars than from the axis and although history will re cord that his audience "roared with laughter," it will not thereby increase respect either for the audience or the humor. It was a ham per formancey; - The words of the Duce were without sig nificance; but the fact that he uttered them was important. The fact that he was forced to gather the , faithful into the Adriano theater on a few hours notice, harrangue them on the subject which must be uppermost in every Ital ian mind, feed them thin excuses to explain a catalogue of blunders, and promise them only a victory won by airmen-and tank drivers of another -nation is quite a lot to take, even for a docile fascist. And the Italians, whatever their other shortcomings, are not by nature a par ticularly docile, people. j. A solo cussing match 2-25-41 that will interest some members of present Oregon legislature; high to low estate: Passing by the northwest cor ner of SOuth Commercial and Ferry streets, Salem, one day last week, the ears of this col umnist were greeted . with a string of cusswords more varie gated and embellished than he has heard since he and his pinto dog herded hogs on Pine Creek above Weston, in the heart of the sagebrush empire, or worked with the first threshing machine gang in the lovely Shoestring valley, Douglas county. These cusswords bore the stamp of justifiable, circum stance; as though they were the only expletives that would fit the occasion. They were delivered by a man working for one of the sanitary companies of the capital city; meaning a concern that in the old days we would have called one collecting garbage; ' or scav engers. Getting the gist of the burden of complaint that called forth the occasion for the. man "swearing a blue streak," because he had spilled a great boxfull of what he had collected in the building on -that corner, and was engaged, in a heavy shower, in gathering the spilled mescellany from the muck and mire, this writer tried to console him with the state ment that the building j from which he had collected the mat ter is a highly historic structure. . But this only added tone and temper to the tempest of cussing. "The idea that a' white 'man should get so low as. to be ' obliged to handle such a mess!" he exploded, with a new line of profanity more profane than what had served as tall cussing before. that the Oregon legislature met there, the house in the third and the senate in the second story (territorial and state) for about 20 years, beginning with the 1857 session and lasting till 1876, when enough of the capitol that was burned the night of April 25, 1935, the second capitol to burn on the same spot, was fin ished so that room was afforded therein for the session of that year, though the hall of the house was not ready for a long time thereafter. The cusser was told that in that historic building, in the same period, were the offices of the territorial and state treas urers, secretaries of state, etc., and the U. S. government office for federal road builders, in cluding Fighting Joe Hooker, etc., and that the election in that I uilding of United States Sena tors E. D. Baker (the world's greatest orator) and J. W. Nes mith probably saved the Union; aided vastly in the prosecution victoriously of the Union armies; as Baker and other friends in Oregon, such as Jesse Applegate, had made the nomination and . election of Abraham Lincoln for President possible. But all that story only height ened the flow of profanity by the laborer gathering the muck from the rain-drenched ruck of the street. ' W V SPECIAL, TO LEGISLATORS This writer would like to say that house bill 82 of the present session of the Oregon Legisla ture deserves attention. It was introduced by Representatives Wells, Chindgren, Erwin, Dun can, Boivin, Brady, Perry Hed lund, Hockett, Neuberger, Hill, Thomas, Jenkins, Hosch and Senators Lee and Kaufmann. It proposes to provide financial help from the state to school districts giving especial training to physically handicapped child ren with normal or superior mentality. Ca an the reader think of any cause more deserving, in the cases where, without that special aid,, such children may be utterly denied the advantages they soicompellingly need? What would you, were you the not financially well to do father or mother of such a child? them, nevertheless, and we know that as their body of experience grows so will the quality of their, work. - We trust that the proposed measure is pressed to passage. Bend Bulletin. The Safety Valve Letters from Statesman Readers tive but acted in the affirmative. The two hearts are beating okey again. The whole defense regime here bent back a couple of notches upon receiving the advice from another government department advice not yet officially confirmed that the British would pro duce commercial airplanes for Brazil, with our money. It sounds fantastic, and convincing con firmation is lacking,' but it was good enough to oe aiscussed as true, m a defense council of cov- eminent officials, so it is good enough to. pass TOu3V S Gatflfn 1778 To the Editor: People of the west. Bill 1776 is now in the sen ate, will be possibly a week or so longer. There is no other way to save America, to keep us out' .war, than, to defeat this vicious' bill 1776. This bill gives one: man, much more power than is needed to aid Britain. It gives, him power to lead us into war,, and to ruin our country. I think the granting of such power would "cry to heaven, for ven geance." Don't let our congress man do it. . ' Bolt that bill 1776, kill that DEPRECI- TYa woe rAA tliol 4V U.. n .3 : frorr : which he hid Uken tnt-er, bm " JU. ... : ' way bf living, everything that ., ooiiimu ouyuao. w me ruo- bish, the garbage, was among the way bf living, everything democracy stands for We celebrate the birthday of fircf if not 1K hHVir "L.n--"ZT1. TJ:. own glorious George Wash along to you. The US loaned $100,000,000 to Brazil for the overall purpose of promoting American business. The Brazilians, however, want to buy" some things we cannot spare. They came to officials of the defense commission with a request to be allowed to purchase 21 planes, commercial ships, not fight ers. Defense . officials did not spend much time figuring that one. Their major purpose is to build planes for Britain to save democracy. They ruled the order could not be filled. That sounded fair enough until they recently By LIT .LIE L. MADSEN TJt. Asks when to fertilize his lawn and with what. : It is well to start at once. Use a balanced commercial fertilizer, S to 4 pounds per 100 square feet It is now being advised in the Willamette valley to con tinue lawn fertilization each six weeks until mid October. A good thick stand of ami win vr. received information from the other government the weeds out. department, as I have said, claiming that Brazil W N Aeir )n 1 , A. - it . . - - " ' nau gone u uie untisn uiereaxter and had suc ceeded in placing the same order. The planes are to be. produced by the British at " Coventry in England," according to this information. t Probate This would mean that Brazil is using our money to buy planes from Britain, and at a time when we are breaking our necks producing planes for Britain to save the world, at our expense. - r " It makes more sense than you might think. If you - consider that Britain must sell something to the trees. 1 ' This should be done in the spring from the middle of March . until about June 10. Allow one pound of balanced commercial fertilizer for each inch of cir- ' . cumference of tree trunk mea-, sured at a height of, four ; feet. Remember, in fertilizing any thing, follow the directions that - come .with the material just as ington, the first president of the USA. What would he say if he ' could speak to the people of his country? The country he fought l to free from British tyranny, the yoke of John Bull. I'm positive he would say, De feat that bill! We'd all do his -- bidding, wouldn't we? So let us do it now. George Washington "trusted . in God." He was a God-fearing man. We "trust In God" and likewise, want to be God-fearing people. Let us depend on God, by His decision let us rabide. Let us ask Him to lead our senators right, give them the: light to see the way that is best for Uncle Sam. The Lord of Hosts has said "You cannot serve two masters." No indeed, none of us can. We cannot serve Uncle' Sam and serve' another nation besides Un cle Sam. It is impossible, peo ple. r Wire; phone or write to our Senators; Senate Office Bldg. DEDUCTION FOR " ATION The' Internal ' Revenue Code provides for "a reasonable al- the town passed lowance for the exhaustion, wear j to get even with former enemies s of. a company tear of property used in the: now that he was; to; position uuq ur outness, mciuaing a t o maxe them grovel. He did. He reasonable allowance for obso- 4dso made money on the side, lescence." For convenience, such "breaking the Nazi currency laws allowance, usually is. referred to . ancf ; taking fifty ?per cent - of as depreptatTscH j money smuggled f across'- into In rlaiming a deduction for de- Austria from Germany. precisftieA several fundamental j Kloffer rose to his feet, with principles must be observed. The, the question: "What would you aeaucuan musi De confined to say. KaDhael. was this man - n;uiw: : re . vwumy ; ueiegauon.-oouui America m payment lor the ZOOd she is uwlwr -Washington. DC Do it before it ulon. sane in the legislature participated in the sponsoring buying.. Every plane maybe vital to her success. I vnscnpuotu . . . . . that number today. Mill City of HB 27. which, has been aDDroved bv both but; so is canned meat and coffee. A few dImm : Also rememoer xnai conuner-. . :11 -n ""st class grade -and houses, transferring probate and juvenile court duties from the county judge to the circuit judge in 'certain, counties. Unfortunately 'because of opposition which developed in some sections of the state, the number of certain counties affected was dras tically reduced- As finally; approved 2 the bill applies only to-Ciackamas and Klamath coun-; would 'be worth a lot of coffee, even with our money.... . . . ' ; pdd, and probably true,' even though very loud and. outraged denials may have to be made. The bill making it '"legal for any government department to tap your telenhooe on ausDiHon justified or not, is being widely ignored even by cial , fertilizer, unless ycai are working It into 'a, bed, should not be put on dry ground. Water the -soil, first -" . B.C. Soiltex is a tester avail able at most garden stores and , will tell you what to do with the wrong kind of soiL speed you Remember, fta sincere,' Tin for Uncle Sam alone. ; ; M. B. DABNEY, Mt. Angel, Oregon. MILL CTTx ' - : - To the Editor: Mill City, Ore gon, the town that was . depicted years. The town-, and community today present an obvious sur prising picture, the work and in telligence of its citizens that did not choose to lay down to defeat ' Mill City of today is not a town of old shacks usually seen In interior sawmill towns, in stead it has many beautiful mod ern houses small and large, with beautiful lawns, shade trees and flower gardens well groomed and cared for, and . an enterprising nost of. cooperating, determined citizens, since M as m uuni me nanas or .a company : rule into the hands of private in dividual cooperative procedure in 1935. Mill City today has a saw mill plant that sprung upin 1936 from the cooperative efforts of its determined citizens. It rose from seemingly nothing until to day It has a daily "capacity of 100.000 feet lumber turn out and it Is constantly, improving and increasing. Its lumber when loaded on the cars is second to none; has the reputation bf be ing very beautiful lumber: Also Mill City has a lumber planing and processing plant that buys and finishes rough lumber from all the small sawmills in the North Santiam canyon adja cent to MiU City. This enter prise sprung up in 1938 from the cooperate efforts of the town's citizens. Mill City is the junction and shipping center of the North Santiam- valley, all lumber and logs of this section are loaded on the trains at Mill City and shipped to their destin ation via the SP railroad. From six to ten long train loads of lumber and logs roll out of Mill City every day. Mill City in its Hammond - Lumber . c o m n a n heyday never could claim more claims has hih scnooi witn stall of 15 teachers, and V an enrollment of 350 stu dents. She has three churches, and three pastors, eight stores, : one of which is Illuminated with the modern" fluorescent lighting system, three restaurants two' taverns, two barber shops, two beauty parlors, 'three garages;- CHAMPOEG CENTENNIAL In 1943 Oregon will celebrate the centennial of the Champoeg vote which is of such great im portance in the early history of our northwest country Contro versy rages over just what oc curred at Champoeg on May 2, 1843 and we find students of the early history divided on that event's importance. However, re gardless of whether we hold that then and there the northwest country became definitely ter ritory of the . United States , or that the occasion settled the mat ter, of forming some, local gov ernment or not we still must recognize that those early set tlers considered it a most impor tant occasion. Newberg is really the gateway to Champoeg for this is the nearest city of any size to the fa mous spot of northwest history. Furthermore, it is quite' general ly conceded that the death of Ewing Young, whose farm home was located west of Newberg and whose estate needed governmen tal supervision, was the cause of the meeting and this makes an other link of Newberg with the Champoeg event In 1943 the celebration should Your Federal Income Tax The difference between the appeasers and the isolationists is easy to define. The aDDeaser the fellow .who goes to a picnic ana, to avoid having the ants crawl all over himj, gives them the cake. The isolationist simply stays away from the nicni- j Corvallis Gazette-Times. " ! Wotanfs h Wedge j By FRANCIS GERARD Chapter 23. Cantlnaed "Adelheid von Remholdl" ex-' claimed Kloffer. J f The other looked iat him curi Jously. "Do you know her?" he asked. f "Yes. She is General von Wal lenfel's niece and is fstaying with jhim. I saw her the other day." "The devil yoii I did!" - com j mented the other. f'Well, she has good reason to remember Eric J Stutz," and his fipger pointed to a section further down the ! typed record. j Kloffer read it It seemed that I Stutz had not longj remained In domestic service; he left his em j ployment with three ribs broken i and half dead after a severe thrashing from which - he re j covered to find hiihself in prisi j on. The record stated baldly, ffor insulting the young Baron !ess Adelheid." . "The animal!" snarled Kloffer. I - "She must be very charming, j this Adelheid,' as. Gleiners j schrewd, if smiling observation, i' Secret Agent jKloffer said l nothing as he continued to study IStutz's record. Erich evidently ; was one of the j early Storm Troopers and when the Nazis ; came to power rose with them, j He became a Section Leader in j his native village; bn the AusT jtrian frontier; there! he was able property actually used In a trade, business, or profession, and to , improvements on real- property, other than, property used by the taxpayer his personal resi dence. In general, it applies to the taxpayer's capital assets buildings, machinery, etc the cost of which cannot be deducted as a business expense. A lawyer, doctor, or other pro fessional rnan . may not charge off as a current expense the cost of a library used wholly in his profession, this being a capital expenditure and the library a capital asset; but he may deduct an allowance for depreciation based upon the useful life of the library. If part of a professional man's residence is used by him for office purposes, a proportion ate amount of the depreciation sustained may be deducted, bas ed generally on the ratio of the number of rooms used for such purposes to the total number of rooms in the building. The same principle ' applies If a taxpayer rents to others a portion of his residence. Under such condi tions, however, the taxpayer must include in his gross income' the rentals received. B.O- Certalnlv von nn mmrm lies, ims cnange was eitectea Dy providing . ,r uuicry ywux primroses now. in raci ; ny many io oecome a gnosi iown two apartment houses, 'one ho that the transfer of duties might occur only in snarpiy oecause only prunroser can be moved: at al- when the great Hammond Lum- tel. one meat market, one bank, counties between 35,000 and 100,000 popula-' St bTdd Stli - ? most anyUme of the year. There ber company pulled the pin and one modern equipped auto court! tiort which wmpris a suigle judicial no8piuI rt, t j. Tfai.5 ' f t w OI A14tI; f 0118 could afford to use 1 ; closely in growing primroses: . here in the spring of 1935, after good doctor. All of which ar I i ? a- f l- lU tfi!pne,excpt for 7 order " were! strawberry worms and draught it had been the life blood of the boosters for utownSdom! which shares a judicial district with Linn. Ifi adopted. Short sellers would dean up . la summer. . . ; . townand.KnmunUy 1 o r 49 mmdt luOhas imoten fire house and department that has the reputation of being death on fires. And not an emp ty residence house in town.' This Is the picture of Mill-City of to day, the progress of a purely co operative spirit of a good neigh bor citizenry. V , R. D, TURFTN. i vital weakness?' "Women! ObViously.' Hermann Rothstein, alias j Siegfried Kloffer, nodded stern ;ly in grim agreement He would not try to avoid Stutz in . Lon don now. He had another score jto settle with him LI. i j Chapter 21 j f During the course of his long land successful police career. Sit John Meredith had had more than his share of i glowing pu blicity but he qtiite honestly loathed ballyhoo. He was hum anly pleased indeed-when somei jbody,' whose opinion he valued, patted, him on the back of course. Moreover, j f he . did ' not suffer from false modesty. He jnras an individuallit essentially. 1 But now, as Sir! John sat in the morning room lof his home bne gloomy winter's day after breakfast he decided that this new case which he had stumbled tpon was too big, too Important, to be kept to himself. One of tthe-secrets of MerWith's extra lOrdinary success was his ability fo".j?ick the right ''man and to use him -In the right way. . . . I So Meredith telephoned Scot . land Yard and asked for In 'spector Bradford. : f "Bradford speak&ig, came a voice. r-: . ' . . : "Look, Bradder, said ' John Without thinking. "I . want to see you. Very important matter, When can X call? ! 1 if I "Eleven-thirty at the office IhenT , ;j ' J fTo Be GontinuedV ' i;