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r FRIDAY, JANUARY <5. IMS The Beaverton Review The Beaverton Review BELOW ZERO with sleeves rolled up, flml out Just what and how much la wrong, and I'll Issue«! «w ry Friday at Beaver set it for John aa we'd planned ton, Oregon. It'd l>e!" •'But don't you see that while you're Entered aa second-class mail m at away the office could—" ter Dec. 9, 1922 at the Postoffice "I wash my own dirty linen t" a t Beaverton, Orejron. under the "But suppose, Tom, something should act of March 3, 1879. happen?” Th# old tnun shook his head, half J. H. Hulett, Editor A Publisher In negation, half In agreement. THE LITERARY MOUNTAINS "I'd hare to come clean, then, I guess I've prepared for that.” He It was not so Ions ago that opened a drawer and took out a sealed London was the literary center of envelope. "I wrote this last night. the universe. The great publishing It's for John tf . . . If some curin', H arold houses were there; the greatest dral should fall on me. If I come colade an American w riter could hark, I want It hark from you. . , , receive was acclaim from the Eng And If I don't come hack, you might lish critics. As a result. American W H U Just say, Harrington . , , say to the literature took to aping it's foreign sc a v ic i boy that . . . that he was a hum couain, and for a while the fash dinger . . . will you?" ionable American authors were more The strong voice shook a trifle ns CHAPTER I te all of you yelp and predict trouble, English than the English. Harrington eyed the firm pen strokes. and made up my mind that the Belk All that has changed. England In his young days Tom Belknap may nap Lumber company offices never Inscribing the name of John Steele still has her great literature—but hare squirmed now and then; moat would have to bother with a line of Belknap on that envelope. the highest literary mountains are “Sure. Tom.” the secretary said Just men who have undergone the vlclssl- Belknap A Gorbel business. I put It to be found in this coountry. The a bit huskily. "Sure thing. And I American book publisher leaife the tudes of fortune-building In the lum* under my hat and It's been there hope he'll go to Belknap Seven. But world—not merely in the promotion her Industry have. But this much Is since. That's where It's goln' to stay, rrmember he's got his father's pride, of sales, but in bringing before an certain; for a brace of decades. If he Harrington, and you ran stuff that In he's high-strung. You can't give a colt pipe!” audience new talents, new ideas, had occasionally felt discomfiture, he your too much bit even to save him a full!” His fees was flushed now. • « • • • • « new and vital experiments. Muon kept It well to himself, concealed be The other shrugged. "That ought hind that brusk, gruff front of this he does without hope of And a half-hour later In that cham to be final." he said glumly. "But what Now, however, he put on a first-rate gain knowing from exverience that exhibition of a man In an uncomfort freta me. Tom, Is where John comes ber, the brain housing of vast Indus deficits are almost inevitably the able corner as Harrington, small and In . . . or Isn't let In." try, a young man was about to result of adventuring of this kind. gray and amnxed. stood In thst spa Old Tom sank hack In hit chair and burn up. A big young man. this John Steele We need not, however, feel sor cious chamber and stared at him. stared bleakly through one of the Belknap, tall and broad and thick of ry for the American publisher be The old fellow had made his asser great windows against which a savage chest Out of place, lie looked. In this cause of that. He has earned a tion with a growl, as he always did December gale hurled ttaelf In across room, with Its deep napped ruga and very definite reward. It is to the when at variance with his aids, and sullen I-ake Michigan. presses of Americs thst much of ordinarily thst tone ended argument "That's somethin' else." he growled. heavy hangings. He wore a maroon the world now looks for pungent abruptly. N'ot today. Harrington perslatently eyed him, checkered Mackinaw and slagged pants clung to stalwart calves; feet In the volumes of criticism and political "But.** said Harrington, after that and the old man squirmed again. philosophy; for the greatest bio long pause occasioned by Incredulity, "There's only one thing that really greased pacs were spread a bit aa a graphies; for the moit import:«!.! “what's the boy going to say to that?" matters, when all's said and done.” he man will when he meats an assault. fare waa weather beaten but a fiction. America has produced a na Mid finally. ‘T hat's a mao's reputa hit Ilia pale “He'll do as he's told!" now, his nostrils dilated tive literature and in it are names “Twice? You'll disappoint him tion. And a man's reputation narrows though he fought to keep at least a which are almost as familiar |in twice, Tom? A boy with , . . with down to his reputation with certain Paris and Vienna and Leningrad as much spirit as you hare yourself?" folks I've got a rating as sn honest vestige of good humor In the deep and Cracow as in Ssn Francisco He scratched his thin hair absently man, which Is something everybody blue eyes, and the semblance of a grin and New Orleans and Sauk Center. and frowned, and old Tom, slunk In with self-respect's got to have; and on the wide mouth by telling himself I t is a literature which, because it the depths of that great chair, rolled I'm rated as rich, but I don’t give a to stay by It another minute, to hold is fundamentally native to a land, an nneasy eye at him, an eye which hoot about how much money the Belk the old dander down just another it really international in spirit. had In It defiance and determination nap Lumber company's worth, or the second I "But don't you see. Tom." he begun, And the American publishers who and, perhapa. a hint of appeal “Why, value of any of the outfits It controls have given so much of time, effort he took It standing a year ago In under other names. I'm glad I've got "that It'a what I've worked and waited and hard-earned money to aiding June when you sent him from college a name for bein’ a hard fighter; glad for all these years? It wusn't any that development, when more profit to Witch Hill Instead of to KampfeaL der that men muat concede I'm a fair plan of mine In the first plana I'd made for myself. able. if less commendable, enter That was a body-blow, after all the fighter. But there's only one thing "I didn't want any help from yon, prises beckoned, deserve more of talk and planning, but you told him to that matters much, that gets In close Td always figured on hitting It off for the credit than they generally .«• go and «how what he could do and he to a man's heart” He paused. “That's myself to see how good 1 am, Juat aa did. . . . Now, he's coming here In what John thinks of me.” ceive. a few minutes to claim the reward you Silence for a moment, except for you did. and grandfather did. I want ed forestry school and got It. and held out to him, and Instead of send the bufferings of the gale about that thought when I'd finished that I'd hook ing him to Kampfest, you're shunting Chicago skyscraper. np with some other organization and him off on Belknap Seven! It beats "You've got three kids, Harrington. m e!" I had only one . . . and a humding aee what I could do and. If I checked The other fidgeted with his watch er! That cub , . , H—l's belli, a out, would then get In here with yoa chain and cleared his throat Irritably. man can't say what he feels on and help pull the load. “Well,” he said, “John ain't going to some things! Nobody’ll ever know (Con’t Next Week) Kampfest yet . . . Not yet 1“ Ha how hard I tried to play up to ■hook his head. “No, sir! Not to what he's thought of me ever sites Kampfest!" he was so high; nobody ever ran know Harrington's gray eyes were prying what a burden It'a been to be the Red Cross Spends $2,760,000 now, suspicion rife In them as he kind of a party he thought I was." i To Help Victims of studied the averted face of the man The rough voice had become a mono he knew so well. tone now, as though be fought for Home Interiors become extraordi Catastrophes. narily dirty during winter, because the "Are you In trouble at Kampfest?" self-control. “He opposed me just once; he atmosphere Is continually laden with In a year of great misfortune ctuted he asked quietly, and the old face warned me Just once. Him, a kid. the smokes, fumes and dusts from by economic depression. In which the flashed up at him. "If I am. It’s my own trouble!" warnin' me about my judgment of a thousands of home fires and the In American Red Cross assumed heavy A watcher might not have noticed man! I laughed at him and , , , creased firing necessary In Industrial burdens of relief for the unemployed, activity during winter. Testa have the organisation also responded to that Harrington had tenaed on hit Well, I laughed at him and—” shown that In some Industrial centers Harrington added; emergency needs in 80 disasters In the ' I “" * ' but th* ’,udden relaxing of his deposits of dust from the sir approxi “And he was right" United States and Its Insular posses body was obvious. "Another guess"—In another surly mate 3(10 tons or more per square mile “I thought ss much,” he said grimly, sions. During the twelve months ending meeting the challenge In those eyes. growl "But”—looking op again, face per year. Home Interiors become June 30, 1932. the Red Cross gave aid “I was afraid trouble might follow furrowed with Intense earnestness— grimy, largely becauae this dust laden to 75.000 families totalling 338,000 Indi when you took Gorbel In on this thing. "If that was so—I'm not admlttln' It, air filters Into the house through the viduals, with expenditures of $3,760,- I’ ts suspected matters weren't right but !f It was so—would you let him cracks around doors and windows, ac 716. These people were In distress be there for two years now; last month, find It out first? Would you let him cording to Holland Institute of Ther- cause of drought, flood, forest fire, tor when you came back from Kampfest. come to you and aay I told-you-so?" mnlngy, of Holland, Michigan. During nado, snowstorm, mine explosion, or yon bad the look of a beaten man, and Pause. "Not on your life, you winter alr-boroe dust Is especially ob jectionable, because of the tar and wouldn't! I was pretty sure. Now, I know." «ther similar great disaster. "You wouldn't let him even suspect arlda that quickly sully and damage “You know a lot!"—grumpily as be Prolonged drought caused the Red hitched closer to the massive desk. that the thing he'd worked for and fine household furnishings. Home nlr- Cross to go with help to 58,000 families The other did not respond. With waited for wasn't what he'd expected! washing machines are now available, In the northwest. Here In 144 counties pursed lips he pondered a moment and You wouldn't let him think that the the Institute points oat, that effectual In North and South Dakota, Montana, i then burst out one present he'd wanted was marred ly remove 98% or more of the dust Nebraska, Washington and Iowa the "Look here, Tom I Why don't you before It got Into his hands Not from the home nlr. Red Croaa spent $1,980.000 from Us ! let us help you up there? Why don't uuch. you wouldn't) You’d fix It up, own treasury to feed and protect peo 1 you come down off your high horse somehow, even If the trouble was so R oom s E venly H e a t e d ple through the winter and spring. 1 and let the office straighten things mysterious you couldn't locate It, be Uniformity of Indoor temperature fore you handed It over so . . . so during the heating season at d o o r, Other grave dlsaaters .were floods In out while you’re sway? the estimate he'd had of you wouldn't bead and ceiling level*, Is one of the aoutheaatern states, where the organ Belknap gave a mirthless langh. isation spent $192,000 from Its treasury "You're doin' a lot of guessing!” be lose anything of . . . of what It had! Important benefits derived from re and $66,000 local contributions to help snorted. "You're guessing at things, Then you’d tell him he’d been right, cently perfected home air conditioning 13,000 persons. Harrington!" He swung In his chair but not before!" systems, points out the Holland Insti He waited a long moment “Wouldn't tute of Thermology, of Holland, Mich. More than 50,000 people were home to confront his Inqnlsltor and slapped less from floods In tributaries of the the mahogany with his palm. "Guess you?" he Insisted. That this Is a big step forward to "If I had your devotion and the complete home comfort Is patent, Mississippi river and » -nn the Red work! I'll admit nothing; I'll deny Crosa faced a long relief task, aiding most. But I'll go this far: If I'm In Belknap pride, Tom, I expect I would," states the Institute, when one consid tbeie people. The national organisation bad. whose business Is It? If I guessed Harrington answered gravely. "But ers that In the typlcnl home warmed gave $108.000 and local contributions wrong on a man, whose fnneral Is It? the devil of It Is that you're leaving by old style hearing systems, room If I've got dirty clothes to wash, whoss today for Europe, and won’t be—" were $10,000. temperatures at floor and celling may "Yea! The devil of ltl And the vary as much as 2lJ degreea Air-dr- The Red Cross always maintains a job Is It? Eh? "From the beginning yoo've ill been devil of It is, the d—n doctors are culntors, an Integral part of these state of readiness to meet these sud right! I’m no fool, Harrington; I den emergencies, and funds and othar against me on my opinion of Gorbel, know that they know. I know when home nlf-conditioning systems, keep the Indoor air In constant yet draftlesa from you on down through this or essentials to this work are supplied. they say I need three months In a morion and thoroughly diffused, thus In part, by the annual roll call, held ganization to . . . to John himself. place where business can't reach me each year from Armistice Day to You didn't like him; you didn't like that I'd better bit the grade for that obviating the common condition of Thanksgiving Day. Every dtlsen can the Idea of a partnership. John, my place. Well, nobody but the doctors cold doors and over heated bead room support this worthy activity through boy, warned me after he'd talked to and you know this trip's forced. I The Coos Bay Soufihern Railway jotnlag as a member la the local Red the man twenty minutes. Warned me! ain't going to worry anybody. A big A cub! Cross chapter. Co. has applied for a permit to "But I bet on Gorbel. He had the timber operation can’t go to h—1 In a construct a road from Empire to heap In ninety days I'll be back; I'll Work on the Tillamook County lay-out I've wanted all my life, had It be fit to go Into the Kampfest thing North Bend, a distance of fi.5 miles. Courthouse is nrMipHilni* —niSI« tied up. 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