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THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. President
Member of The Associated Press
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for
news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited
Farm Income
Thanks to diversification, enterprise result
ing in the development of new crops and mar
kets, and its good fortune in producing crops
of which, in general, there was no great sur
plus, Marion county agriculture fared, better
through the depression -than did Oregon agri
culture as a whole if the 1929 and 1939 figures
in the census bureau's most recent bulletin are
comprehensive enough to afford a fair com
parison. The 4666 Marion county farms reporting in
1939 had a combined income from products
sold, traded or used in the farm household,
of $8,209,520. There actually were 4785 farms
in the county but some were not included. The
criterion for inclusion was slightly different
in 1929; then 4617 out of 4821 farms reported
combined income of $9,220,240. The 1939 in
come amounted to about 88 per cent of the
1929 figure whereas for the state as a whole,
the 1939 income was only about 78 per cent
of that computed for 1929. The figures are
$107,550,772 and $137,009,086.
One reason for Marion county's better show
ing is the high percentage of dairy products,
which did not suffer so much in price. Total
income in the county from livestock and live
stock products dropped only from $2,897,996
to $2,788,291. As a matter of fact the value of
whole milk sold in the county, increased from
$604,778 to $695,990. Dairy products as a whole
however declined in value from $1,166,310 to
$1,128,315, largely due to a sharp falling off in
the value of cream sold and almost a 50 per
cent drop in the butter income. Wool income
decreased by more than 50 per cent and the
smaller comparative volume of mohair, almost
as much. Income from sale of livestock dropped
from $886,605 to $701,619. Unfortunately no
1929 figures on value of poultry and poultry
products sold are offered so no comparison can
be made through income from this source in
1939 was $856,481.
The major item in the shrinkage of total
farm income from the last "boom" year of
the '20s to the last depression year, was in the
value of crops sold or traded; a drop from
$5,192,913 to $4,595,699. Value of forest prod
ucts sold also shrank for obvious reasons and
value of products consumed on the farm also
was down, but these items are small.
Farm income in Marion county in 1939 was
divided broadly as follows: Livestock and live
stock products, 34 per cent; crops sold or traded,
. 56 per cent; forest products sold .7 per cent;
products used by farm household, 9.3 per cent.
The livestock and livestock products percent
age has increased since 1929, crops sold have
remained about the same and the other items
have decreased.
Breaking these items down into greater de
tail, the farmer gets 13.2 per cent of his income
from dairy products, 10.4 per cent from poul
try products, 1.8 per cent from other livestock
products, 8.5 per cent from sale of livestock,
34.6 per cent from sale of field crops, 7.8 per
cent from sale of vegetables, 11.9 per cent from
sale of fruits and nuts, 1.7 per cent from horti
cultural specialties.
The percentage of "farm products used by
farm household" dropped from 10.4 to 9.3 This
does not include the entire share of the farmer's
living which the farm provides; he also receives
shelter, water and in many cases fuel, .items
for which the city dweller pays in cash. Yet
the decrease in this item probably is an unfa
vorable sign, particularly when one tries to es
. timate the much higher percentage of farm
living self-produced in pioneer times. Inci
dentally, farmers in Columbia county con
sume 24.8 per cent of their own products, in
terms of value; while farmers in Sherman
I county, for obvious reasons, consume only 3.8
per cent.
And speaking of comparisons with other
counties; Deschutes, Hood River, Josephine,'
Malheur and Multnomah, perhaps each for a
different reason, had greater farm incomes in
1939 than in 1929. All the rest showed de
creases; Harney, Jackson, Jefferson, Morrow,
Union and Wheeler were down as much as 40
per cent. Polk county's farm income dropped
from $4,711,862 to $3,255,092, Linn's from $6,
158.296 to $5,640,464.
We think of Marion county as primarily agri
cultural, yet its farm income is less than half
the value of its manufactured products. The
answer to that is, largely, that its manufac
tured products include a considerable share of
its agricultural products, processed for con
sumption. However, "value added by manu
facture" is approximately equal to the farm in
come.' In that respect Marion county has a
"balanced economy."
Just as an example of how bureaucracy
works, it has been decided that the residents
of cities in this "war zone" which have more
than 10,000 population shall be supplied with
gas masks. It seems that Bend is in the defined
zone so Us people will be supplied; but such
' cities as Albany and Corvallis, much nearer the
coast and in greater peril if there is any peril
at all, will have to wait until there are enough
masks available for wider distribution. Bend
people see the illogic of the thing and are will
ing, the Bulletin, reports, to defer their claim
and let people nearer the coast have the masks.
A magnificent gesture, one might say; And per
haps it is unkind and unfair of us to suspect
that the first to say "After you, Gaston" were
our buddies f World War twho know how it
feels to war a gas mask.
Swastikas arc reported to have . been seen on
the planes Bombing Australian Islands, Wheth-
cr or not Germans are actually engaging in the
. fight, one may guess with some' confidence that
Hitler supplied the strategy for attacking5 Dar
win and vicinity, in the hope that Australia
would refrain from .aiding in the defense of
Java. .
"Jap troops bare down oh BEtaa says a
headline in the Oregon City Enterprise. Don't
know why the Nips have gone in ior nudism
" unless it's because our boys have made it so hot
for them.
Jptatesroan
'No Favor Sway Us; No Fear Shall Awt
From Flnt SUtesman, March IS, 1851
Paul McNutt has issued an annual report
on the CCC pointing out its benefits to the
young men enrolled and to the nation. Some
15,000 shifted directly from CCC to the armed
services and many others to defense jobs. Con
servation and reclamation work's values like
wise were cited. There is no argument about
all that but nevertheless the CCC as hereto
fore constituted, seems to be "out for the dura
tion." It has been suggested that some of its
functions be taken over by the conscientious
objectors, who doubtless would be glad of the
opportunity. -
News Behind
The News
By PAUL MALLON .
(Distribution by King features Syndicate. Inc. Repro
duction in whole or in part strictly prohibited.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 The mail of protest
keeps coming from supposed "apathetic" citizens
who resent the term and hold their accusers, the
government officials, .responsible for their condi
r
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rani Mallon
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The basic overall mistake of the government
has been in letting the people become confused
and uninformed. The public relations counselors
of the government are, by and large, those who
have gained experience in the previous new deal
political campaigns. They are still hewing too
closely to tactics that proved successful then.
For an over-simplified -instance, if graft was
charged against WPA, they might have started
a fight against "economic royalists" to remove the
pressure and -divert attention. Now that criticism
is being made of certain government actions, they
like to make-believe it is the work of some mys
terious "Cliveden set" or enemies of the people
in Washington who have misled the whole coun
try with rumors.
The trouble is that at the start of this war, the
official line was to suppress military information
0 iich ought to be suppressed) but at the same
time to lead the people to believe everything was
all right. The first MacLeish announcement for
instance, was a piece about how well our produc
tion was going. Navy Secretary Knox said some
thing about us being able to fight in two oceans
at once. The official tone was:
"We can lick the axis all right, just you don't
ask any questions."
This left the people in a pretty hjgh vacuum.
Then along comes MacArthur's entrapment, the
loss of Singapore, the absence of aggressive action
that the people could see and read about The
setbacks were really expected by those in authori
ty. Anyone who has read this column knows that.
But no official prepared the people for these shocks.
In fact, no one In authority said much of anything
about anything.
Naturally, people began asking questions and
they found answers in what they could see, what
they were permitted to see, such as the employ
ment of a dancer friend of Mrs. Roosevelt in
civilian defense.
Wars are always wasteful, inefficient and full of
mistakes. In general, you will find back through
history, that victory was decided, not so much by
aggressive action as by the making of fewer mis
takes than the enemy.
, But the government has been handling its public
relations as if this were a political campaign in
which It was afraid to confess a mistake as if
there were no mistakes.
In modern war, everyone is in the fighting rone,
everyone is in the army. The bomber has brought
the front to every" fireside. Naturally, citizens who
have become a part of war as never before, feel
a keener interest than ever before in what Is
going on.
But the citizen cares less about a few mistakes
than he does about winning the war. What he
wants is to feel that he is a part of it, that he has
been trusted to know the worst as well as the best
The old 1917 public relations ideas wonU'go.
Frankness Is not easily achieved. The president
cannot come right out and say he expects Singa
pore to go, for instance, although he can imply it,
as Churchill did to this American congress. Mr.
Roosevelt is a busy man, much too busy to make
speeches or issue statements every day. 1
But the whole tone of his government would
change, and the basis of its relationship with the
public would be adjusted, in my opinion, if only
his officials would stop trying to keep up public
morale and devote themselves to saying what they
really think, namely, that we can lose this war,
that we are in for a long hard struggle.
They must let the people know they are not
timid, not defensive-minded, but anxious to strike
aggressively, the moment they feel able. They must
let everyone know they are as energetic in ferret
ing out waste as in any other endeavor.
It is not a thing that can be done by a speech,
but it could be done by a speech, phis action.
But there Is something else. Those citizens who
are carrying their criticism of government mistakes
to the point of personal apathy (a "what's the use
kind of attitude) are only undermining their own
welfare. Criticism is the duty of every citizen of
democracy. , It puts the leaders back on the. track
if they get off. It forces corrections.
But these officials her are elected leaders. A
majority preferred them. The life of every Indi
vidual is in their hands The success that victory
.will bring or the fate of France in defeat, is theirs
to work. out
It does not matter if you like them or dislike
them. Your own self-interest demands that you
give . them your utmost support, ' even in your
criticism. -
Every American is an amateur strategist at heart
Many think they know how to win this war bet-
, ter than it Is bein won. They have the right-
and the duty, to contribute theic opinions, but in
the end, it will be the official strategists here who
mustmake the ' decisional .
CO.
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publication of all
in this newspaper.
tion. Many now ask what I
think of the justice of their
complaint, what is wrong and
what should be done.
for unsatisfactory public mo
rale can be traced back beyond
congressional pensions, fan
dancers, suspected waste, mis
takes or government, lack of
aggressiveness, etc., to one big
basic mistake. These valid mat
ters are Incidents seized upon
by the confused and uninform
ed public to express its dissatisfaction.
S Cr" .arKSS,ViWSrS-'-ies; ;-?WrcaR5-
A Lesson Learned From the Story of Little Miss
(gifts for ISireaMiasE
By R. J. HENDRICKS
Calling all our 2-22-42
congressmen for work
on a proper, fair flax
tariff to protect Oregon:
S
(Continuing from yesterday:)
Still quoting from the 1933 ser
ies: "With the industry thus or
ganized and conducted, and with
the natural and other advant
ages favoring it here, it could
stand the competition offered
In this country, and be in con
dition to compete in foreign
markets. The reader who has
followed this series must have
been convinced that the indus
try up to the fiber stage would
thus be on an even, keel with
cotton fiber in terms of ost
allowing reasonable profits " to
the growers and the concerns
performing the retting, scutch
ing and sorting.
"As to the processes above
that stage, beginning with the
spinning of the fibers into yarn,
there might be a shade in favor
of cotton goods as to the cost
of manufacturing, under natural
conditions on an equality with
those found here. This might
follow, from the fact that there
will always be less loss in hand-
Editorial
Comments
GOVERNOR'S RECORD
We think Governor Sprague,
in his formal announcement of .
his candidacy for reelection,
very properly and very truly
appraised his own administra
tive record when he character
ized it as "clean, vigorous and
constructive." It has been all of
that
It has been clean in that there
has been no scandal or hint of
scandal in It, no suspicion of
surreptitious operations, nothing
that would reflect upon the ut
ter integrity of the governor. It
has been an open and above
board administration.
It has been vigorous in that
Governor Sprague has been do
ing a full time job and has
tackled aggressively and per
sistently the toughest problems
of the state. And one only has
to review his own summariza
tion of what has been accom
plished in the past three years
to appreciate that he has been
engaged in a very constructive
program.
Not all of the credit belongs
to him and he is not claiming
all of the credit Nevertheless,
it cannot be gainsaid that he
has been the executive head of
the administration in fact as
well as In . name and must be
given full recognition as a lead
er who has worked tirelessly
and effectively. Astorian Budget
Your Federal Income Tax
ADDITION TO THE TAX FOR
DELAY IN FILING RETURNS
In the event of failure to
make and file an income tax
return as required by law with
in the prescribed time,, a cer
tain per cent of the amount of
the tax is required to be added
to the tax unless failure to file
the return within the prescribed
time is shown to the satisfac
tion of the commissioner to be
. due to reasonable cause and not
to willful neglect
The amount to be added to the
tax is 5 per cent if the failure
is for not more than 30 days,
with- an additional 5 per cent
for each additional 30 days or
fraction thereof during which
failure to Cle a return continues,
i
ling cotton fiber than In work
ing with flax fiber. The reason
is in the extreme fineness of
the fiber of flax, resulting in
the working out of a percentage
of the weight in preparing it
for spinning, and in the spin
ning process itself. This loss Is
partially made up in low grade
fiber worked out; this residue
having some value for other
uses, but not appreciably com
parable with the value of the
yarn.
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"Let the reader get the idea
of what is meant by yarn. The
result of spinning is yarn,
whether applied to flax, cotton,
wool, hemp, ramie, mohair,
rayon or other liber, vegetable
or animal. The yarn stage is
next above the fiber stage. There
must be yarn from which to
fashion thread and twine. Yarn
is the article that is woven into
cloth.
"The yarn "fashioned from
flax fiber may be infinitely
fine. A strand of this fiber may
be divided and divided again,
and a third and fourth time,
and on and on, until it is so
fine as to not be discernible to
the natural human eye.
S S
"It Is said that a girl working
In a Belfast mill took two
pounds of flax fiber and suc
ceeded in weaving it into a sin
gle yarn that would reach from
Belfast to Berlin some 1400
miles. One may get from this
an idea of what was meant by
the 'fine linen' of Bible days. ,
"When the time comes for
organizing cooperatively con
cerns in the Salem district to
take up the growing, retting and
scutching of flax, it is conceiv
able that some of them will in
due course of time take up spin
ning, and even carry on further
to weaving, or even still further'
to the manufacturing of special
ties. S
"Many spinning mills are
found in the Belfast district
and in the central European
countries, that do not attempt
to go further. In that part of
the world few concerns carry
on from the growing and. pro
cessing up to the yarn stage,
and through the weaving and
making, of specialties. Among
these few are one or two con
cerns that are several hundred
years old going back to St
Bartholomew's night (Aug. 24,
1572f, after' which French weav
ers fled to northern Ireland and
transferred their flax and linen
Industries to the Belfast district
thus bringing about the incep
tion of those gigantic and world
embracing industries there.
"The reason that paint to cov
er surfaces from water or air
must have linseed oil (linseed
meaning flax seed from lin
not to exceed 25 per cent in
the aggregate. ,
A taxpayer who files a tardy
return and 'wishes to a void, the
addition to the tax for, delin
quency must make an affirma
tive showing of all facts, alleged
as a reasonable cause for failure
to file the return on time,' in
the form of an affidavit which
should be attached to the re
turn. Alleged ignorance of the
law does not constitute reason
able cause for delinquency.
Taxpayers should make ev-
ery effort to file , their, returns
within the time prescribed by
law and thus avoid the possi
bility of the additions to the tax
for delinquency in filing returns.
"Muff It
which is French for flax) is that
no other known chemical sub
stance will perform this serv
ice. It would take a chapter by
a chemical scientist to explain.
But, in short, nothing else will
serve. No substitute, natural or
synthetic, h a s been found,
though the search for one has
been persistent and world wide.
"a
"The pursuit of the principle
of a flax pulling machine that
would replace the back break
ing task of hand labor in this
task went on for generations.
Many men in many countries
were engaged in it. The first
one to get it was a , Canadian
preacher. The device that he
discovered was in the first ma
chine that came to Salem in
1924. Soon we had here ' the
largest fleet of these machines
In the world have yet. But sev
eral improvements were made
In the state shops at the (Ore
gon) penitentiary.
"There Is said to be now an
English machine that is success
ful, and that can be made and
sold at a much lower price than
that of the Canadian machine.
But most of the flax of the
world is grown in small patches,
and pulled and scutched by
hand. The work is generally
done on the farm, the same as
it has been performed in all the
generations of the past There
are a few neighborhood retting
and scutching plants. But there
is perhaps no battery of hand
scutchers in the world now as
large as the one a few years ago
discarded (as outdated) In our
state plant It had 30 machines,
power driven from one motor.
(See later along.)
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8:30 Isl ei Paradise.
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9:0 Sunday Symphony.
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Diminutive daisies.
10:00 The World This Morninf.
10:15 Four Notes.
10:30 Plod Piper.
11 ."00 American Lutheran Church,
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IS 30 Jean SevtUiers Commentary.
1:00 Deaconess Hospital.
130 Preddy Naxle Orchestra.
1:00 Hillbillies,
tas Church of Christ
I JO Songs of the Week.
5 Lew White. Organist.
30 Salute to South America.
3:15 Novelettes.
J JO Boy's Town.
4:00They Too Like Music.
430 Hollywood Spotlight.
8:00 Old Fashioned Revival.
AO Tonight's Headlines.
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7 :00 Dinner Dance.
7:30 The Round Up.
8:00 Firwt Presbyterian Church.
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1:00 News.
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JO Back Home Hour.'
100 News.
10:13 Dream Time.
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8:30 Music and American Youth.
9:00 Sunday Down South.
930 Emma Otero. Singer.
10:00 'Upton Close, commentator.
10:15 Silver Strings.
10:30 World Is Yours.
10:45 Sammy Kar Orchestra. '
lias Concert Petite.
1130 Chicago Round Table.
12:00 Bob Becker's Dog Coats.
13:15 H V. Kaltenborn.
11 -.30 Radio Comments
13:45 Her Comes the Band. '
. 10 Garden Talk.
1:1S Tony Wons Scrapbook. .
130 Stars of Tomorrow.
SAO Opera Auditions.
330 The Nichols Family. :
3A0 Home Fires.
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SAO Charlie McCarthy.
530 One Man's Family.
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30 Beau Soir Musical. -ao-walter
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J14 The Parker Family. i-.,
MeGa' & A. 7.
By PETER MUIR
Chapter 11 Centhwe
"She's not a child anymore,
Henry."
"Poppycock! Of course she's a
child. Why, only the other, day
I gave her a spanking."
That was five years ago. Girls
grow up between the ages of 14
and 19, especially in time of war.
He thought for a moment
"Hum! I suppose they do. I say,
you are not going to tell me that
the girl is In love?"
"I'm going to tell you Just
that" -
He frowned , thinking deeply
before speaking. "In that case,
my dear I shall have to look into
the mater. Has Wendy told you
or are you guessing?"
"I am sure."
"Where is the young man?"
"In my hospital."
His lordship showed interest
"A wounded officer?"
"Yes, an aviator. One of the
aces. An American."
"A what?" Thies news flus
tered him and he lost the pom
pous mood as if by magic "An
American? But our daughter
must marry an Englishman of
title. We have decided that I
shall go and speak to this fellow"
"I wouldn't Harry let him
come and speak to you first
You know, dear, young people
are quite independept today, and
it is no longer the parents who
decide these matters."
"Young bounder! Whats his
name If he has got one?"
"David Hutchinson."
"Oh! the chap Philip wrote
about He did say e'd been
wounded. New squadron leader
of The Hornets. Is that the fel
low?" "Yes, dear."
"Well, I don't care a tinker's
damn! I'll not give my consent."
"But you will wait until you
are asked for it won't you,
dear?"
Lord Harrowsdale grumbling
ly said that he would.
Wendy had had a very hard
week, but now she was happy.
It had finally ended and she was
preparing her suitcase for the
four-day leave at home Miss
Gill had promised her. And she
had just received a letter from
her mother, reporting that Da
vid was practically well, and
would only have to stay on an
other week. The letter was three
days en route, so that meant he
would be there the same length
of time that she would . . . per
haps they could return to Lon
don together. . . Anyway, they
could be together for hours and
hours at a time. He had said that
he loved her, and she knew now
more surely than before that she
loved him. She would marry him
if he asked her, and if he didn't
she would probably ask him.
Father, with his funny old ideas
about Englishmen being good
enough for Englishwomen, et
cetera, might make some trou
ble, but that could be handled
easily.
She sang In her deep, rich
voice as she threw the clothes
into her bag and fastened it and
the song was a love song. She
was happy now, although she
had found the past seven days
the longest and most difficult of
her life. On her return from the
trip on which she had carried
David to the hospital, Miss Gill
had said she looked tired and
promised her a rest as soon as
another driver returned from
leave. That would be in a week.
have been made in short-cuts
for retting and drying flax
straw, one of them in the United
States.
"One of the major experi
ments was by Henry Ford, near
Detroit"
(Continued on Tuesday.)
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noted by listeners are Sae te
chang et made by the stations with
out notice te this newspaper.
All radio stations saay be cat fresa
the air at any time bs the Interests
ef national def ea
JO Carnival.
10 AO News Flashes.
10 as Bridge to Dreamland.
11:00 Song of the Strings.
1130 War News Roundup.
HX NBC SUNDAY UH K
AO News.
AS Graztella Parrega.
S:15 Al and Lee Reiser.
30 Kevue tn Miniature.
AO Quiet Hour.
30 Radio City Musle Balk
1030 Speaking of Glamour.
10 45 New Show a Day.
11 AO Great Plays.
IS AO Wake Up America.
I AO National Vespers.
130 Songs of Your Heart
145 Christian Science Program.
3 AO Hollywood Theatre.
S 30 Musie Steelmakers.
SAO Catholic Hoot.
1:30 Stars of Today.
4 AO European News.
430 Grow a Garden.
4. -45 Melodic Contrasts.
5. 00 Tommy Dorsey.
30 Floyd Wright
845 Pearson At Allen
8:00 Grand pappy and Rta Pals.
30 A Bookman's Notebook.
45 Songs by Dinah Score;
T AO-Good Will Hour.
745 News Headlines and HlUghtS.
AO Inner Sanctum Mysteries.
:3A-Jack Benny . '
AO Sunday at Nine.-
:15 Eleanor Roosevelt-
30 News Headline At Hllltea. :
:5S-News. "
10 AO Palace Hotel Orchestra.
1030 Quiet Hour. "
II AO This Moving World.
11:19 Organ.
1130-War News Round Up.
KOIN CBS SUNDAY t? Ka.
30 World Today.
as Organ.
: 45 Gypsy Caravan.
T AO Church of the Air.
t:30 Wings Over Jordan.
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: '.Service to God Ai Country.
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14:00 Church of the Air.
1030 News. .
103O-Whaf New t the Zoo.
11 AO News.
UOS Wilson Ames Orch. -
How those days and nights
dragged. Wendy marked them
off on her calendar and it
seemed like ages between the
time she crossed out one day
until she was abls-to eliminate
the next
On four different occasions
she had gone to London to fetch
wounded, and once she had re
turned to St Albans where she
inquired about the wounded she
had taken there. All of them had
survived, although the little boy
had lost his leg and was still
very weak. She had wandered
far and wide into the country,
transferring wounded from one
hospital to another, and she was
indeed very tired. It didn't mat
ter now, however; she was hap
py and was going to see David.
Chapter 14
The train trip down was un
eventful. There were several
other people in the compartment
with Wendy, but she paid little
attention to them. She was con
tented to look out the window,
to watch the soft autumn land
scape, the lovely thatched cot
tages, and flocks of sheep graz
ing on the lush pastures, slide
peacefully by. How far this ail
seemed from the horrors of war.
And yet it was so close. Was it
possible that such a charming,
bucolic country could be in a
life and death struggle for its
very existence? It was indeed,
and what a pity! Life could be
so beautiful if man were differ
ent or rather if there were no
Nazis.
Lady Harrowsdale was wait
ing at the station to meet Wendy,
and took her directly to The
Downs. It was mid - afternoon
and a golden haze hung over the
country. His Lordship had not
come in from a tour of inspec
tion of the new air raid shelters,
so the mother and daughter sat
down together for a cup of tea.
Wendy asked the usual polite
questions about her father, Phil,
the hospital, et al. The father
was well and very busy, Phil
had brought down his first
plane, the hospital was crowded.
"That young American you in
troduced me to," the mother
said, "is to and about He goes
around as he likes now. I have
never seen a wound heal so
quickly. Remarkable people,
those Americans, they even heal
faster than any one else!"
Wendy wasted no time before
she made an excuse and got
away. She hurried towards the
hospital, but before she arrived,
she saw a lone figure wandering
in the opposite direction across
the golf links. He was near the
spot where they had met and
she quickened her pace as much
as was possible, without break
ing into a run, to overtake him.
David was so deep in his own
thoughts that she was able to
slip her arm through his and fall
into step with him before he
realized who it was.
"Wendy!"
"Are you glad I'm here, Da
vid?" Was he glad? He thought he
had never been happier! He was
so happy that he could have
kissed her right then and there.
In point of fact that is just what
he did without further prelim
inaries. Nor was there a strug
gle. A mischievous caddie saw
them, standing there, locked In
each other's arms on the fair
way and yelled "Fore!"
(To be continued)
Copyright by Peter Muir; Dis
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