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Thm OZZGOII STATESMAIL Ccdem Oracon. Tuesday Meaning, December 22, 1313
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"No Favor Sways Us; No rear Shall A tee"
... From first Statesman. March 28, 1851 -
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, President
Member of The Associated Press . v - - ; ;
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all
' news' despatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.
State Budget
Since it is of record that Oregon legislators,
and even some members of the legislative ways
and means committee, have occasionally been
confused on this point, not to mention mere
1 laymen, it may. be well to explain that the
"state budget" for the 1943-45 biennium dis
cussed in Sunday pews stories is the general
fund budget-which : means that revenue to
balance its expenditures is subject to the 6
per cent limitation. , :
Therefore when it is announced that the
budget is balanced with surplus left over, that
represents a genuine achievement unrelated to
the fact that state income tax Teceipts have been
exceptionally high and that a surplus exists.
That surplus is, under the terms of the income
tax law which tie it to the 6 per-cent portions
of the surplus have offset alL property taxes
for state purposes including special millages;
and though the initiated law allocating a sur
jJus income tax funds to school districts is
' ambiguous on this .point, certainly next year
funds from that source will offset some : sub
stantial fraction of . school district property
taxes. , :
But the point if we" have Hot yet - made it
portant to keep the gracing industry" going!
Did you read Eddie Rickenbacker's story? Espe
cially this part: ' ,
If only the people back home could know
what those boys (on Guadalcanal) are doing
, for us what they are putting up with I think
they would take this war more seriously. If it
wasn't for their tremendous successes in com
bat they couldn't possible last, physically or
mentally, very long. -Yes,
it's about time we took the war serious-
ly and shelved a few of these things that are
100 per cent non-essential. '
Ultimate in Bungling
TTesj it's true that there is an unprecedented
surplus of wheat in the United States. It's true
that the department of agriculture has been
-urging housewives to "buy twice as much flour
as usual relieve the strain on the grain eleva
tors by storing wheat in American homes in '
the form of flour.'
ITet even .here in the west where a major
share of that wheat is produced, there is in
some cities a shortage of flour; some grocers
have none anliand and can get. none from job
bers. How come?
Why, there is a ceiling: on the price of flour,1
clear is that the state budget division had but no effective ceiling tm the price of wheat.
available for allocation in the budget, no more
money than it -would have had If the income
tax had produced only a small fraction, of the
amount it did produce.
That a balanced budget with a surplus of
$688,819 has been prepared for presentation to
the legislature, is all the more remarkable for
the reason that the 1941 legislature appropriat
ed from the general fund such amounts ; as to
create a "book" Jef icit. Economies plus receipts
greater than anticipated from miscellaneous
sources, will have made it possible to over
come that deficit and end the 1941-43 with a
balance to apply toward the new biennium's
expenses.
The detailed budget is not yet available for
study but it has been made known that it in
cludes provision for the salary increases already
granted to state employes and some additional
increases, appropriate in view of the rise in
living costs and wages in other employVnent.
It also takes into account a 35 per cent increase
in the costs of commodities to be purchased by
the state; arid there is provision for the bien
nium's share of the six-year building program,
these funds now constituting virtually a sinking
fund since little actual building can be done
in wartime. - . '
That the state thanks to good management
in the recent past is not going to be pinched
for funds in the corning biennium - simplifies.
C rC I I iv Crunch puppet, that nazi help, in the south must
. f ,7 ; I , ; - WV; be limited by conditions on the Russian front
The temporary flour ceiling was scheduled to
expire December 3 but was continued until
GEA might get around to fixing a permanent
ceiling: Meanwhile with wheat prices rising,
if millers operate at all it is at a loss and while
they may be patriotic, so are the shipyard work
ers yet no one is asking them to work without
pay. . "
So the millers, when they run out of wheat
purchased at prices permitting a minimum
profit, are shutting down. Presumably the OPA
will shortly get around to correcting the" situa
tion. But meanwhile, it stands as just about the
ultimate in price control bungling. On some
other items under OP A's control the difficulty
is an actual shortage, but here is deprivation in
the midst of plenty.
Interpreting the
tVxir News
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
- WWe World War Analyst for Ths Statesman
Whatever new strategic pattern Hitler laid be
fore 'his Italian and Vichay French satellites at
their weekend conference, the essential element
in the situation is the steadily increased allied
pressure in North Africa.
There are -various views as to what, took place at
the conference. Observers at Bern think Hitler told
Counf :Ciano, TL Duce's mouthpiece, and Laval,
I vv -r- fv . '
By CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND -
AdoU Can't Right Now AdolTs Busy!
lacflflo Programs
have to scratch its collective head as strenuous
ly as have some of its predecessors. At the same
time it will because of this generally satisfac
tory condition, doubtless be confronted with
additional requests, some of them worthy in a
sense and yet not absolutely necessary. It is to
be hoped the legislators will bear in mind that
' the great majority of them pledged "economy
; . arid efficiency" when, seeking election and act
accordingly. ,
Whatever the condition of state finances, this
is no time for profligacy. Whatever economies
are possible will, be reflected, somewhere down
the line, in relief for taxpayers who, in view of
( the federal tax load, are urgently in need of tax
relief on the state and local fronts. This relief
will come either in the form of reduced state
facome tax rates or in offset property taxes.
Race Fans Happy'
That was the headline, or rather half of it;
the other half "gas ban rescinded. Ration
books were to become usable again on Mon
day, so Tropical Park management prepared
to open Florida's winter - racing season on
schedule. Hialeah track is due to open in mid
January. Both racetracks are several miles but
of Miami and it was "feared' - they couldn't
operate if the gasoline "freeze" continued. "
"We don't want to do anything that is! un
patriotic, commented President Henry L.
Strauss of Tropical Park. "We simply feel that
we $we a duty to the large - and widespread
racing industry and to the state of Florida,
which depends on racing for old-age pension
revenue. It's not just a question of profit and
loss to us. ' ",:v.-";';'i--;.i: .-... .,'.- . ,; t;
So that's it. The race moguls owe a debt to
the old folk and, they have the honesty to
admit, to the "racing industry. So the turn
stiles wfll click and long queues will line up
at the pari-mutuel windows as usual and all
. will be" merry.;:' - ?-,r , " - ' z ' h f ; - n ' J
This column believes in sports-athletic sports
in their proper place. The armed forces are
fortunate in that - so many young Americans
have had athletic training. Horse racing is not
an athletic sport. Almost though not quite to
the same extent as dog racing, it is a gambling
sport. We haven't time just now to start a
uj.vr au7u:7ut " -" Before the order was made, according to FWA,
case for the operation of, gambhng, centers . Oregon can were going at an average of 48.8 miles
wmcn attract "race ians ny tne tnousanos, m hour These speeds have been cut to 38 hours
Other reports indicate that he ordered an all-out.
effort to hold the Tunisian bridgehead at all costs.
There is no question, however, that the allied
flank attack in Africa is calling the axis and its
master to some -desperate action, and this his
Russian foes are making the ; most of their op
portunity. The Russian surge across the "middle Don" is
the third or possibly the fourth major winter at
tack by red armies in quick succession on a front
that extends from Lake I linen in the north to
southwest of Stalingrad on the lower Don. Moscow
claims it has been rolling westward at a rate of
close to 20 miles a day.
A nazi broadcast hinted at a possible explanation
of the initial Russian successes. It said a move
ment to "shorten the lines" in the sector from
Voronezh southward along the Don was in prog
ress. If that means surrender of a wide stretch
of the Don front that Hitler poured out German
blood to reach, it marks a grave deterioration in
his eastern winter front positions. Only an urgent
necessity of transferring heavy forces from Rus
sia to the Mediterranean theatre could account
for it.
The middle and upper Don and the Voronezh
bulge are critically important to the whole south
ern flank of the nazi invasion of Russia. Some
250 miles or so westward of the indicated scene of
this new Russian attack lies Kharkov and beyond
that to the southwest, the great southern bend of
the Dneiper river and its vital crossings. Had the
Russians been able to reach the Dneiper in the
Kharkov offensive months ago, before .the axis
drive for the Don-Volga line got - rolling, the
story of the war on that front would have been
different.
It may be fantastic as yet to vision the Don
.offensive as actually aimed to ; reach Kharkov
or the Dneiper bend below and behind it There is
no doubt, however, that .Russian threats to those
prime bulwarks of the whole nazi occupation of
the Donetz basin and its mineral and other .vast
resources must be of grave concern to Hitler and
his generals. -J- '. ' s '.. .
Editorial Comment
From Other Papers i I t 1 ;
SPEEDS IN THE WEST :
The federal works agency (heard of -that one?) :
has been making a study' of highway speeds and :
reports that Oregon and Washington motorists are ;
cooperating fvery well" with President Roosevelt's :
request for a 35-mOes-an-hour speed limit
KSLM TUESDAY 13M Ee.
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7:05 Ris n Shin.
7 :05 Ri 'N Shine.
7:15 On thm farm Front.
7.30 News
7:45 Your Qoapel Program.
1:00 Bert Hirsch Novelty Band.
8:30 News Brevities
8:35 Singing String.
80 Pastor1 Call.
9:15 Music a La Carter.
9:30 Popular Music
8:45 Henry King's Orchestra.
10 AO World In Review.
10:05 Jimmy Cash, Tenor.
10:30 Women in the News.
10:33 Anita Boyer and Tomboyers.
11 AO Music to Remember.
1135 Willamette U. Chapel.
12 AO Organs liUes.
12:15 News.
12 JO Hillbilly Serenade.
1235 Willamette Valley Opinions.
1 .-00 Lum 'n Abner.
1 -15 Johnny Long Orchestra.
130 Milady's Melodies
SAO Isle of Paradise.
SU5 Salem Art Rscreation
Center.
230 Langworth Hillbillies.
SAO Old Opera House,
4 AO Harry Owens Orchestra.
4:15 News.
430 Langworth Concert Orch. , . -v
SAO American Folk Singers." ' f
5:15 Let's Reminisce.
830 Golden Melodies.
6A0 Tonight's Headlines.
6:15 War Commentary.
20 Vocal Varieties.
45 Popular Music
7 AO News in Brief.
7 AS Shep Fields Orchestra.
730 Willamette Valley Opinions.
730 Deep River Boys.
SAO War Fronts In Review.
8:10 Sincerely Your.
130 You Cant Do Business With
Hitler.
8:45 Neil Bondshu's Orchestra.
AO News
9:15 Man Your Battle Stations.
930 Langworth Gauchos
10 AO Let's Dane.
1030 News.
10:45 Claude ThornhiH Orchestra.
11 AO Symphonic Swing.
1130 Last Minute News.
KOLN CBS TTJESDAT 7t Ke.
SAO Northwest Farm Reporter,
as Breakfast Bulletin
locations which require a heavy expenditure of
gasoline and tires. " j
Well, Miami is thousands of miles away and
what we say will have no effect.. Getting nearer
home, it is our impression : that the time has
come' for curtailment of all sports "spectacles"
which require any substantial amount of rub-,
ber-burning. Our gasoline - rations have been
fixed and they determine the mileage we may
drive. But even if-we can squeeze those xtra
miles out of our ration books, it's unpatriotic to
do it. ' ' :'t '
i Hereabouts it's basketball season. Basket
ball doesn't as a rule burn up inu-ih rubber. If
games of only local interest are" played, basket
ball may continue to provide wholesale recrea
tion. But long trips, even for the tearns should
"out" and from now on until the -rubber
thcrtage is licked, athletic programVhich tempt
the public to do a lot of driving should be dis-
cours-rrd.
Around Oregon
By The Associated Press
The Silverton flax plant, re
cently damaged by fire, will be
rebuilt as soon as priorities for
lumber-can be cleared, said Man
ager R. J. Black. -... A work
program has been drawn up for
consci en tiows objectors who will
arrive soon at the Keating CCC
camp, Harry Fuller of the Burns
regional grazing office announced
at Baker. . . . The state game
commission set January 9 as the
date for a public hearing in Port
land . to consider 1943 seasons,
bag limits and other regulations.
The Calapooia Roundup asso
ciation announced at Philomath
mat -. next year's event will be
held in July at Crawfordsville.
. . . Emil Parker, 13, died in a
hospital at North Bend! of in
juries suffered in an automobile
collision . . . An armed man
held up two girl grocery store
employes at Portland and es
. caped with - two days' receipts,
estimated at $1500. . . . Umatilla
county War Bond Chairman Guy
Johnson reported at Pendleton
that sales for November totaled
$319,672 an all-time high. . . .
Some 3000 youngsters were ex
pected at the annual Grants Pass
Elks Christmas party but only4
about 1500 attended,? much to
surprise of officials who passed
it off to gasoline rationing and
other war causes.
- Discovery of a skeleton on top
of a pistol in the woods west of
the Portland city limits started
the Multnomah county coroner
an hour,, and possibly there, has been further re
duction since the study was made. ; . m
. Washington motorists cut their speeds from a '
normal 4&S miles to 39.8 miles.
It is noted that the new averages established by i
the study are still more than 35 miles' an hour, but f on an investigation to determine
the federal agency expressed satisfaction with the f the identity of the victim, ap-results.;-f,-'
'Iri'-- ; ; parently a suicide, v. .'Friends
Perhaps that is because the agency realizes that of Halg M. Dinihanlan, an army
in the west, distances are much greater than in the j corporal from Portland, learned
: east, and slower speeds are more difficult to achieve that he won a blue ribbon award
out here. ' J at a New York .hobby show for
Whether or not that is recognized by the federal ii a hand-woven Oriental rug.
officials, it is a fact. The motorist driving from V, Marvin . C. Riley, - 28, Oloha,
Bly, Sprague River, or Gilchrist to JClamath Falls, died in Portland of injuries re
fer instance, must spend a great deal of valuable : ceived in an automobile accident
time on the road while he holds to 35 miles an hour, j December 12. .. Camp White
The temptation - and- the tendency is to go faster : officers and men contributed $200
than In the thickly settled east and midwest " . ; to the Josephine county war
The slower speeds are necessary to save rubber
and we, do not . suggest deviation from the estab
lished policy. But the conditions that affect speed.
like those' affecting gas rationing, are different in
These scbeSalss , art aappUetf by
Ui respecave staUeas. Aay v&rta
tions noted by usteaer are das te
ehaatces osade fey tke stattoas wttfcv
at sociee te this aewspaper.
All radie staOoaa asay fee cat (reaa
the air at aay time ta the taseresta
t aatlonal defease
JO Texas Rangers.
6:45 Victory Front.
7 AO Koin Klock.
T:15 News.
730 News. Dick Joy.
7:45 Nelson Pringie News.
SAO Consumer News.
8:15 Valiant Lady.
830 Stories America Loves.
8:45 Aunt Jenny.
SAO Kate Smith Speaks.
9:15 Big Sister.
9:30 Romance ot tteien Trent.
9:45 Our Gal Sunday.
10 AO Life Can Be Beautiful
10:15 Ma Perkins.
1030 Vic Sade.
10:45 The Goldbergs.
11 AO Young Dr. Malona.
11:15 Joyce Jordan.
1130 We Love S Lecrn.
11:45 News.
11 AO CarnaUon Bouquet.
13:15 News.
IS 30 William Winter.
12 S Bachelor's Children.
1 AO Galen Drake.
1:15 Old Chisholm Trail.
130 School of the Air.
SAO News
S 30 Studio.
1:45 Ben Bernle.
1 AO Troubadours.
1:15 News
130 Mary Small. Songs.
1:45 News
4 AO Second Mrs. Burton.
4:15 Sam Hayes.
430 American Melody Hour.
5 AO Organist.
8:15 Gaslight Harmonies.
630 Harry r tannery.
9:45 News
5:53 Cecil Brown.
AO Burns and Allen.
30 Suspense.
7 AO An American In England.
730 Talks.
7:43 Frarier Hunt.
8 AO Amos n Andy.
:1 Harry James.
1:45 Lights Out.
9 AO Al Jolson.
925 News
930 Heath man Melodies.
9:45 Treasury Parade.
10 AO Five Star Final
10:15 Wartime Women.
10 .-20 Air-Flo. .
1030 World Today.
10:45 Deeds Without Words.
11 AO Less Hite Orchestra.
1130 Manny Strand Orchestra.
1135 News.
12A0-4A0 s m- Music Sc News.
KEX NBC TUESDAY 1199 Ke,
AO Momenta ot Melody'.
4:15 National Farm and Home.
4:45 Western Agriculture,
7 AO Market Reports.
7:15 Freedom on Land.
730 Hank Lawson's Knights i
7:45 Curley Bradley, Singer.
A0 Breakfast Club
8-45 Keep Fit Club.
9 AO Roy Porter, News.
9:15 Clark Dennis.
30 Breakfast at Sardrs,
10 AO-Baukhage Talking
10 US Andy and Virginia.
1030 Tha Great- Melody. '
1100 Wartime Periscope.
11 JS Geographical Travelogue,
1130 Golden Gate Quartet.
HAS Keep Fit Club.
11 AO News.
13:15 Livestock Renorter.
1320 Tha 1 R's.
1330 Between the Bookenda.
Ui Newt
1A0 The Victory Hour. "
130 Club MaUnee.-
S AO Tha Quiet flour.
130 Singing Strings.
1:45 LitUaJack Little.
135 Labor News.
SAO Music of Lou Brinff.
3.-15 Kneass With tha Mews. -
130 Gospel Singer.
3:45 Pages in Melody
4 AO The Green Hornet
430 Texas Jim. Robertson. .
45 News. -
5 AO Don Winslow.
8:15 Sea Hound. '
. 930 Jack Armstrong. .
- 8:45 Captain Midnight.
'- AO Hop Harrigan.
:lS-'ews.
30 Spotlight Bands.
:55 Grade Fields.
7 AO Raymond Gram Swing.
7:15 Melody Makers
730 Red Ryder. - -
SAO Earl Godwin. News.
8:15 Lum and Abner.
30 Information Pleas.
AO Duffy's Tavern. ' "
930 News Headlines and Highlights
9:45 Down Memory Lane.
10:15 Mary Bullock. Pianist.
1030 This Nation at War
11 AO This Moving World.
11:15 Organ Concert
U30 War News Roundup.
chest in recognition, said a letter ,
from Maj. Gen. C IL Gerhardt,
commanding, officer, of the close
ties between the men at the army
'Zczre people have -queer ideas as.to what Is the west, and 'that fact deserves recosnition--. : camp near Medford and the city
'cssV3tiiLH Iniasine anycae insisting it is im- Klamath Herald and News- . ' ;' of Grants Pass. .-..:. v'V-o,;,-.
KOW TTJESDAT 439 Ke.
4A0 Dawn Patrol -
AO Everything Goes.
. :30 Sheppard'a Sereaade.
"." 7 AO News r ,
, 7 J5 Music at Vienna.
- 7:45 Sam Hayes.
SAO Melody Tim.
8 J James Abbe. News.
8:30 Symphonic Swtng.
-i 115 David Harum.-
- SAO The CTNiells.
9:15 Everything Goes.
93o Mary Lea Taylor.
" 9:45 News.
10 AO Air Breaks.
10:15 Tapestry Musicals.
1030 Home keeper Calendar.
105 Dr Kat
11 AO Light of the World. -lias
Lonely-Women. .
1130 Gaiduia lAgp
11 -fc--Hymns of ail Charchs.
13 AO Storr Mary Marten.
13:15Ma Per tins
U30 Pepper Younga ramQy.
13:45 Right to Happiness.
1 AO Backstage Wife.
1:15 Stella DaUas
1 30 Lorenzo Jones..
1 .-45 Young Wtdder Brown.
3 AO When a Girl Marries.
3:15 Portia Faces t-if.
330 Just Plain BUL
2:45 Front Page FaxreH.
1A0 Road of Ufa.
3:15 Vic & Sade.
330 Against the Storm.
3:45 Judy and Jane. '
4 AO News
4:15 The Personality Hour.
8:15 H. V. Kaltenborn.
95 Navy Chat
830 Horace Heidt Treasure Chest
SAO Battle ot the Sexea
930 Fibber McGea and Molly.
7 AO Bob Hope.
730 Red Skelton.
AO Fred Waring tn Pleasure Time.
:15 Moylan Sisters.
30 Johnny Presents.
9 AO Adventures of Thin Man.
930 Ouix of Two Cities
t 19 AO News Flashes .
10:13 Labor News. -1030
MoonUght SonaU. -10:45
St. Francis Hotel Orchestra.
105 News. s
11 AO Home Town News.
11:15 BUtmore Hotel Orchestra.
1130-4.Newe. t-.s,i. . f- t v.. ,
UA0-SA0 a m Swing Shift
K ALB MBS TVkfeDAT 1339 Ke.
6:45 Good Morning Club.
7 AO News.
7 US Memory Ttmeaeeper.
e AO Haven of Rest
830 News.
:45 Old Songs.
AO Boake Carter.
9:15 Woman's Sid of the News.
930 This and That -
10 AO News.
10:15 Navy School ot Music.
14-30 News.
10-35 Strictly Personal.
10:45 Buyers Parade.
11 AO Cedrx Foster. News,
lias Baron Elliot Orchestra.
1130 Concert Gems.
11 :45 Luncheon Concert
1330 News,
13:45 Shady Valley Folks '
1 AO Walter Compton.
1:15 Sweet and Sentimental.
1 30 Bridgeport Ensemble.
3 AO Sheila Carter.
3as Don Lee Newsreel Theatre.
1:45 News.
SAO Phillip Keyne-Gordon.
3:15 HeUo Again.
15 Bill Hay Reads the Bible.
4 AO Fulton Lewis. Jr.
4:15 Johnson Family
430 News.
4:45 Paul Decker Orchestra,
8 AO All Star Parade.
830 The Federal Ace
AO Treasury Ur Parade.
:19 Matinee Varieties.
, 30 Jamboree.
7 AO John - B. Hughes, r
7:15 Salute to the Allies.
. 730 Art Kasael. Orchestra.
7:45 Dick Kuhn Orchestra. .
AO Chicago Theatre ot the Air.
AO News
- 9:15 Tom Thumb Theatre.
9 30 Manhattera.
HS Fultusi Lewis. It. ' -
10 AO Herbi Holmes Orchestra.
10:15 Wilson Ames.
1030 News
10:45 Milt Herth Orchestra
11 AO Harlan . Leonard Orchestra.
11:19 Jan Garber Orchestra
1130 Freddie Stack Orchestra .
KOAC TUKSDAT SSS Ke.
AO Music.
10 AO News
10:15 The Homemaker1 Hour.
11 AO School of tha Air.
11 3 Music of the Masters.
13 AO News
11:15 Farm Hour. '
13:45 Neighborhood Lander Question
- Box. . i
l:lS-Vartety Time.
1 545 Pan American Melody. '
SAO AATJW Half Hour.- --
130 Memory Book- of Muste.
: 15 US Navy. a-. ,
:, 1 AO Drum Parade.'."
130 Great Songs
3:45 News
4 AO Meet the American Composer
430 Stories tor Boys ana) Quia.
SAO Private Pete Presents.
9:15 On the Campuses.
30 Evening Vesper Service. - x
5 "It's Oregon's War." ,
:15-News
30 Farm Boor.
730 Learn Spanish. .
73 News
730 Pre-Season Baskatban.
AO Music of Czechoslovakia. .
39 OSC Cadet Band.
:45 News.
Tho .
Safety Volvo
Letters from Statesman
Readers ; -: -
C3XKIST2IA3 ... 1943 -Human
aspirations . . .the ever
lasting win, --.
: ,To be better men, forever
Our candle on the sal:
To be better men, forever,
Because our eyes can see
The Christ, on His day, cru
cified. And hanging on Hi treel
O God when Angels sing It . i .
When Star shines out, tonight,
Accept our humble worship; -
O, see our candle-Ushtl '
: Ruth W. Laws,'
, 'WAV.
Chapter tt Contianed '
.His voice was rising as if with
excitement , A note of triumph
-crept into it; "Now the Number
- Six green smoothly, smoothly.
The -Number Four yellow! ...
'And then my state,'" his voice
rang out dramatically, victorious-
ly. The red, the Number Twelve
red, as If it were glancing over
the wavelets of silk. There!
There! 'Like to the lark . at.
break of day arising from sul-
lea earth'" ,. . -.- .
- He was standing now, in a
very paroxysm of emotion. His
voice was happyr thrilled, a very
song of triumph: ""Sings songs
- at heaven's gate. For thy sweet
love remembered 1 such ' wealth
brings' Blue waisthigh. Green
spot--there! Above the crimson.
That when I scorn to change my
state with kings. " His voice
reached a climax.
He stood for an instant, and
then sank into his chair. There,"
he said wearily. There it is.
There It is. IVe done my best."
"Gentlemen," intoned Doctor"
Random solemnly, "there's your
.masterpiece!" .
"Can you reproduce that In a
v. color photograph?" asked Jenks.
"What you see," declared Ran
dom, "is what you get."
"Ahem!" It must have been
President Jameson speaking.
"Remarkable! Er remarkable.!
"What do you mean remark
able?" snapped Farrish savagely.
Four o'clock arrived and half
past four; then. Just before the
clock announced five, Clyde ar
rived and with him a ', crated '
camera. 1 -
"You did it!" Darnley cried to
elation. "How?"
"Simple," answered - Farrish.'
T just got the money and
bought it"-
,But where did you get the
money?"
"I found it," Farrish, "under
a cabbage leal" He paused, and
bis brows lifted as he made a
grimace signifying distasts. "But
don't ask me to do it again."
That was all she could get out
of him.
Clyde urged her into the stu
dio, made her reassume the pose,
and went about the intricate
business of taking the picture. It
was nearly seven when he fin
ished. .
"Get into your dress," he said,
"and well celebrate. Fve enough
left to buy "two dinners."
"Cant," 1 she said, "All en
gaged for the evening. Do I get
to know where you got the
money?"
1 "No," he said decisevely,
turned abruptly, and walked
away. .
Darnley was apprehensive."
And she was hurt. She felt she
should have been taken into
Clyde's confidence. Why should
he not ten her where they money
came from? Unless it had been
acquired in some . manner not
creditable which he dared not
disclose. . A -
So it was in no pleasant frame
of mind that she went to her
apartment, dressed, and waited
for Chico Sanson to call for her.
In the halfhour before he rang
the bell she sat and took stock
of herself. . . i
Yes, she wanted to be pre-eminent
in some field. Modeling
was only a stepping stone.
Therefore, the thing to do was 1
to become first in this business.
She must become the Golden
Blend Girl. That would be the
first .great advance.
She had arrived at this point
in her reflections when Chico ar
rived. They went to a quiet
place where he had ordered in
advance. Flowers dressed . the
table. It was evident to Darn
ley that elaborate pains had
been taken to make this a very
special dinner.
"Your eyes are tired," Darnley
said. . . .
"It has been a hard, rather
quarrelsome day. We're making
an important change, and the
news has leaked out. The ad
vertising of Golden Blend."
He veered quickly away from
- that subject which he-believed
to be of no interest to Darnley.
"I've told you something
about my wife," he said sudden
ly. ,
;.. "A little"
"It .doesn't seem fair," he said,
"that a woman should vindic
tively shut happiness out of a
man's life." .
"Is there no way out?" she
. anlrnf. 1 ' ' v
"I see none. She will not give
me a divorce. And I? WelL I
suppose I am too fastidious to
apply for one and have my name
--.dragged .through courts and
newspapers. He paused and
stared into, his glass. There
fore," he said presently, "I seem
to be sentenced to loneliness." .
He did not refer to Mrs. bam
; son again during the dinner.
, After coffee and . liquors, . be
smiled across at Darnley rather
embarrassedly. "I half prom
ised," he said, "to drop in with
;uvi fc m Nut. - a uc imla.uu.
Would you mind awfully? We
don't have to stay." , ' i
"Of course," she assented. . It
was on the tip of her tongue to
4al1 hhn nf 'hop affrMirifnt with
. Corse; to tell him she. had ac
cepted pay for being his compan
ion. But she did not speak be
cause she did not want to hurt
. him. It would wound his van
ity deeply.
His car hurried them to Park
. Avenue and stopped before a
towering apartment house. They
ascended in the luxurious ele
vator..: I'i-j !.: , ''-'- '
-Your mencuc- remar:ea
Darnley, J0ike altitude."
They ; have the penthouse,?
said Chico, "one of the loveliest
views of New York. Nice young
people. They are going to .Eur
ope next .week." , ,.: ' . . ?-t- .
They were shown into a spa
cious living room; where a doz
en people stoodor sat about
Darnley was presented to her
. host and hostess. :
. "If you want to look around,
f Chico, help yourself," said Mr.
Saxon. ''
; For half an hour they chatted
with mi nnmnn and . another:
then Chico adroitly separated
. Darnley from the party. "Darn
ly," he said diffidently, "I had
rather a special reason for ask
ing you to come here."
"A special reason?"
"Yes. I wanted to talk with
- you seriously and here."
1. "But why here, Chico?"
: "Do you like the apartment?"
"It is veryj attractive." "
The furnishings seem to be
m A m as a
comioriaDie ana in exceuent ,
taste" 3
"It is lovely."
; y To be continued)
Today's Garden
By LILUE L. MADSEN
G. F. asks when to prune laur-
estinus. r
Answer: The best time to
prune the laurestinus is in the
blooming season. These lovely
soon be in bloom now. Cut plen
ty of the flowers for indoor use.
Cutting the blooms will give the
; bush the necessary pruning un
less it is all out of bounds.
O. R. asks, if there is any spe
' eial attention that should be giv
en the "lovely yellow flowering
shrub of early spring, what its
name Is' and when it should be
planted." 1
Answer: The information for
-" identification Is rather , meager,
but I would mess that the In-
: qulrer means the forsythia. This
may be planted now and will
bloom net spring. Forsythia
form one of our nicest groups.
v They give color and plenty of
bloom.-They bloom almost at
once, and they are not unattrac-
tive when not in bloom. Also
ti' niu mciIv and n Avl nn
. special care. However, if given
some water durina the drier sea
son, particularly late In summer
and early fall, the blooms will be
. much larger and more plentiful.
. I have also found that by prun-
'- in IT nthr awtrM-W lTnmHintpTv
the shrub a feeding of a well
balanced fertilizer, you get bet
ter results. But no matter what
its treatment; it is a good shruV
to have.'
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