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S o u th ern O regon News Review. T hursday, N ovem ber 27. 1947 FICTION CORNER MASQUERADE By ESTHER AND WARREN HAI L lips opened in a sound less exclamation. Dred! Swiftly, J in ANET'S one breath-taking instant, all her ment. "You're a handsome little fel low, at that," he admitted grudging ly. “ How old are you?" " I ’ ll be live tomorrow.“ Geoff boasted. "T hat’s why Daddy's going to meet us here. He's going to buy me a fire engine, the biggest one in the biggest store in New York.” "F iv e ," Cummings r e f l e c t e d aloud. " I must say. Jan, that isn't very flattering. You waited just about long enough for the ink to dry on the decree. What's your name, son?” “ I ’m Geoffrey G. Huxley J r.," Geoff said. I where she belonged with Geoff and the man she knew now she loved. "You've taken aw fully good care of Jan.” she heard Cummings say. "She never looked better, not even when she was Mrs. Cummings." "W ell, we try to keep her happy," Huxley responded, smiling wurmly at Janet. "D on't we. Geoff?" "They are good to me.” Janet said, and her voice was suddenly husky. Geoff slipped his hand into hers. "How about my present?" he wanted to know. "True enough,” Cummiggs put in. " I mustn't get in the way of a Are engine. And I 'l l leave you. sir, to guard an old flame. Goodbv, Janet." He pressed her hand a moment and was gone. Janet turned to Huxley. " I'm sorry," she said wearily. " I didn't intend to . . . to . . ." "To pretend you were Geoffrey's mother instead of his governess," he finished for her. " I realize that. Janet. But if you only knew how mingled memories of Dred Cum mings merged and rushed to meet him as he came across the Waldorf lobby. He was older — six years older, Janet reckoned quickly—and his face was burgeoning slightly with the subtle promise of another chin. But he still wore his custom- made charm as debonarily as his well-tailored clothes. Janet flicked down her glove and looked at her watch. Three twenty- five. This certainly was no time to be renewing the past. She leaned back in her chair and turned as though to speak to the small boy standing at her elbow. Perhaps Dred wouldn't recognize her. Per haps he wouldn’t even see her and Geoff. “ Janet, light of my life !” Somehow she managed a casual smile. "Gracious," she said lightly, " it must be old-home week. How are you. Dred?" He grasped her outstretched hand and held it, for a moment, between both of his. The Cummings' tech nique. She could remember how that ardent pressure had thrilled her the first time they met, and how hollow it had seemed the day they parted, the day she was leaving for Reno. “ I swear." he said, "you’ re pret tier than ever — if that’s possible. But of course, dolls never age, do they — particularly Dresden dolls Somehow she managed a casual sm ile. "G racious,” she said lightly, “ it must be old-home week.” with spun-gold hair and the bluest china eyes in the world. And that's Cummings whistled softly. "TH E long I ’ve been pretending exactly what you were, you know. The little Geoffrey G. Huxley? Standard Oil that. Besides, if I were a little boy Dresden doll I brought to life.” Huxley? You did pretty well, Jan,” who had been motherless since the " I t was kind of you,” Janet told Janet nodded. Yes, she'd done day he was born. I'm sure I'd like a him. "L e t there be life and there was life. I should be eternally grate pretty well, up to now. But any m in mother for a birthday present al most as well as a fire engine. Per ute. . . . She rose quickly. fu l." “ I mustn’ t keep you Dred. It's haps. If you approve, we can give She wasn't bitter about it now. Not very bitter, anyhow. But he been nice seeing you again, almost Geoff both.” must never guess her desolation like having a lock of your hair. when she first realized that other I . . ." Her voice trailed off. She Stassen at B est women were as indispensable to m ight have known. Geoffrey G. Dred Cummings as his brushes and Huxley Sr., big, hearty and peren O n L abor Issues palette. He must never know his nially rumpled, was striding toward memory had left a pall that not even them, an eager grin on his tanned W HERE I STAND little Geoff’ s sunny affection nor his face. By Harold E. Stassen father’ s kindness could dispel. "Hello, son.” He stooped and (D oubleday— 205 p. p.— $2) “ Come, come, my dear,” he was tousled the boy’s hair affectionately. By Bill Schoentgen saying. "T hat’s hardly fair. I wish “ Hope I haven’t kept you waiting In an age of quasi-literate po liti you'd pose for me again. Just once. long,” he said to Janet. She shook Do you know, since our divorce I ’ve her head and raised her hands in a cians, Mr. Stassen, the determined hardly been able to touch a brush to slight, helpless gesture. “ Mr. Cum candidate for Republican presiden tia l nomination, has tugged at the mings—Mr. Huxley.” canvas.” "Except for that one-man exhibi “ Dred Cummings?” Huxley asked bootstraps of his social conscious ness and raised him self above the tion at the Anderson Galleries,” with obvious interest. hurly-burly of the vote-getting mob Janet said wryly, "and those mu The other man nodded. "T hat’ s to the rare level of a forthright po rals at the fa ir and . . right. Your wife has told you about litic a l thinker who takes as his ken "Oh, I suppose I've managed to me, I suppose.” his own national society. struggle along." he agreed. “ But Huxley glanced at Janet's strained The former governor of Minne how about you?” For the first time face. “ The papers have been fu ll of sota attempts no probing into the he noticed Geoff. "Why, Jan! You those murals of yours,” he said intricacies of foreign policy and h a v e n 't. . . this isn't . . .” easily. makes no benes about adm itting it. Janet hesitated. The flush on her Janet stood very still, listening to His thesis is that once a sound, for cheeks deepened. “ This is my job,” their conversation, watching their ward-looking domestic organization she said, reaching out and hugging faces. Dispassionately she noted has been achieved, an equally con Geoff close to her side. "D id you Dred's conceit, his pomposity He structive foreign policy may be . expect me to go into a convent?” was, suddenly, a stranger who worked out from that basis. This is Cummings studied the boy a mo- should be on bis way. leaving her not to say that the lack of an ex pression on foreign policy is not felt in Mr. Stassen's book. It is one of the shortcomings. More important. Stassen’s lethar gic estimate of foreign policy, his relegation of it to a secondary posi tion, his failure even to touch upon the voluminous subject of foreign aid, all would seem to indicate a preference for a kind of tolerant, S o lu tio n in N e x t Is s u e Horizonal elastic nationalism. Whether or not this is the right tim e for the emer 1 High 2 3 ‘ 1 gence of a strong nationalistic phi 5 6 4 7 8 9 10 11 mountain losophy in the United States is a 4 Band of topic which is being subjected to 12 13 14 leather universal debate. The man from 9 Female swine Minnesota consistently refrains, in 15 12 Through 16 17 his book, from entering the discus 13 Goddess sion. It is an omission which un of peace 18 19 20 doubtedly w ill be brought piercingly 21 14 Pastry to his attention by his more antag w 15 Likewise 22 23 i 1 24 25 26 27 1 onistic colleagues. 16 Tower on a But it is in the area of labor prob flying field lems and labor legislation that the 1 to indicate 28 29 30 w rite r is most confident of his the course ground. In a single monolithic chap 17 Music: high Ü 33 31 32 ter he dissects and analyzes the 18 Kind of lettuce varying status of the United States i w 36 34 ” 1 35 20 Scandinavian labor movement from 1920 to 1947, literary works and nails down with a hammer of 38 1 22 Sod 39 undeceptive realism its inevitable 40 24 Unit relation to the prosperity and sound 25 To discharge ness of the entire economy. 41 42 43 28 Tierra del Stassen offers his theories on la- Fuego Indian b,or in the form of the testimony 46 45 47 44 *8 49 50 29 Shack which he presented before the sen 30 Face ate labor committee in February of 51 52 downward 53 this year, during the period when 31 A it congress was preparing the legisla 54 S3 River in 55 56 tion which ultim atly resulted in the Scotland Taft-Hartley act. 34 Perfume That law, he believes, "w ill be the obtained from No. 42 foundation for a fair, just and well- flowers balanced labor policy in America.” 35 Demure Vertical In total, Stassen approves of the 33 Sm all, plump 42 Means of 36 Samoan horse act. Specifically, he is opposed to ingress mudworm 1 Likely 34 Land measure 43 Zone three portions of the law as it 38 To check 2 Constellation 35 Trigonometri 44 To droop stands: (1) The provision making it 39 Short watch 3 To postpone cal function 45 Before unlawful for a labor organization to chain 4 Tastes 37 Bone 47 Pouch contribute to election funds; (2) the 40 Plays a part 5 Attempt 39 Rage 49 Head organ non-Communist affidavit rule; (3) 6 To yield 41 Haile 40 Molten lava 50 To acquire the "ultim atum ” stipulating that ex 7 Positive pole Selassie’s A n s w e r to P u i t l e N a m b e ! I I 8 To hang isting union shop contracts cannot title 9 By fits and be renewed unless and u n til an elec 43 Sheep’s cry starts tion is held and a m ajority of all 44 Ocean 10 To lubricate employees votes in the affirmative. 46 To ascend 11 Moist For the rest of his platform. Stas 48 Lim b 19 Belonging to sen turns to the issues of taxation 51 Skill 21 Unsubstantial (with which he deals from the stand 52 Relating 22 Toward point of "dynam ic capital"), hous to sound 23 To coalesce 53 S trin g ing, survival of small business and 24 Not at home the paucity of medical care and hos akaline 26 Unskilled solution 27 Symbol (or pital facilities. To each of these he tellurium 54 Teamster’s brings an application of the classic cry 29 Pronoun Republican theory of laissez faire 55 To set 30 To work at and damns heartily all efforts to upright steadily give the federal government greater 5« Still 32 N arrow way control in those fields. 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