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
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losophy in the United States is a
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topic which is being subjected to
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leather
universal debate. The man from
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Minnesota consistently refrains, in
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his book, from entering the discus­
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sion. It is an omission which un­
of peace
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doubtedly
w ill be brought piercingly
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to his attention by his more antag­
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But it is in the area of labor prob­
flying field
lems
and labor legislation that the
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w rite r is most confident of his
the course
ground. In a single monolithic chap­
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ter he dissects and analyzes the
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varying status of the United States
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labor movement from 1920 to 1947,
literary works
and nails down with a hammer of
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undeceptive realism its inevitable
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relation to the prosperity and sound­
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ness of the entire economy.
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Stassen offers his theories on la-
Fuego Indian
b,or in the form of the testimony
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which he presented before the sen­
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ate labor committee in February of
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downward
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this year, during the period when
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congress was preparing the legisla­
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tion which ultim atly resulted in the
Scotland
Taft-Hartley act.
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That law, he believes, "w ill be the
obtained from
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foundation
for a fair, just and well-
flowers
balanced labor policy in America.”
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Vertical
In total, Stassen approves of the
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horse
act. Specifically, he is opposed to
ingress
mudworm
1 Likely
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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
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contribute to election funds; (2) the
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5 Attempt
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49 Head organ
non-Communist affidavit rule; (3)
6 To yield
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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
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be renewed unless and u n til an elec­
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starts
tion is held and a m ajority of all
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employees votes in the affirmative.
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For the rest of his platform. Stas­
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sen turns to the issues of taxation
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(with which he deals from the stand­
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point of "dynam ic capital"), hous­
to sound
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ing, survival of small business and
24 Not at home
the paucity of medical care and hos­
akaline
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solution
27 Symbol (or
pital facilities. To each of these he
tellurium
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brings an application of the classic
cry
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Republican theory of laissez faire
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and damns heartily all efforts to
upright
steadily
give the federal government greater
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control in those fields.
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