PAGE EIGHT
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOUL), OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 5; 1934
SHU MMIMM1E
SYNOPBlBl Bob and Uarshu
Powers are on the vera of divorce,
hecause of Bob's stubborn misun
derstondtno of Marsha' former
friendship for Geoffrey Tarlelon.
But Bob's mother is ill of an incur.
able disease and he decides that
until her death Marsha and he must
pretend happiness. Bob is leavina
December it to close out his work
in Mexico.
Chapter 28
DEPARTURE
-"HRISTMAS wa over. The small
tre which Bob had put up and
Marsha bad helped blm trim, "as a
surprise," waa a little worn. And,
Marsha realized waking, that It waa
morning of the twenty-eighth of
December, That Bob was going,
that day.
Weill She sat up In her bed. She
had overslept she saw; she had
been restless during the nlgbt, wak
ening constantly to lie wakeful for
long.
Bob going at noon on a train that
would carry him south to the border
and across It. People were kid
napped In Meilco; even people as
big and aa strong as Bob, she sup
posed. He must be careful. Bbe must ask
blm to be very careful. And to tell
ber where she could find a map of
Mexico In the library. Perhaps be'd
have time to mark It. He had prom-
Ing to be right where you left ui
when you come back!" she said
brightly, "and perhaps on extra
happy, dividend days, we'll tele
phone you to say, 'Hello, are you
there? (This line Is busy, please
get off!) Bob, I can't hear. A little
louder, please. Bob, are you there?'
and repeat for about ten minutes,
you know?"
He smiled; took her Into his
arms. For a moment, he held her
close, hla cheek pressed to hers.
Whatever she waa not, she was a
sport. And selfless, as bis motber
said.
He had come upon her with
Bartholomew, planning a luncheon
that would tempt bis mother to eat.
He knew she bad asked old friends
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
By O. O. Mclntyre
hopeless. More than most callings,
writing demands stngleneaa of pur
pose. The late Joyce Kilmer wrote
vicariously and feverishly until he
went to war. Over there be did much
thinking and alow writing and those
tedious efforts are the only trUngs of
his remembered. The most filously
paced writer of modern times, Edgar
NEW YORK. Aug. 4. Riffling Wallace, turned out a dozen mystery
through the pat In settled years pro- shockers annually over a period of
vldfs many Ion? ago tweaks. Last J years. But the one volume to occupy
evening a yellow- a permanency waa hla autoblograpny.
that afternoon. The leave-taking
with ber waa not all a masquerade
for him . . . but Marsha need not
know that.
He kissed ber once; again; hit
arms tightened. He htd forgotten
hla mother; tben remembering ber,
and that the "display" had been
enough, be let Marsha go.
SHE atood at the door with Mrs.
Powers as he stepped Into the
motor. He saw Marsha's arm around
bis mother; Marsha waved at him,
a Jaunty little figure with chin high;
but Just before tbe motor door was
ic: i
; B f
Inn wratch - pad
revealed sundry j
activities of 20
years ago. I took
every sort of Job
that came along
and that I kept
so many balls In
the air at the
same time seem-
f -i ed incredible,
i Aside from the
desperat effort
to make this col
umn walk alone,
done with care.
of his mother' to come In to tea i wa8 & theatrical, hotel and music
have popped the question strolling a
moonl it st rip of Ne wport 'a BaJley
Beach.
Now and then I hear from the
rapidly dwindling commercial tra-vel-ers,
the types who sported a blue and
white enameled U. C. T. lapel button
and stopped at my Dad's hotel In a
Missouri town. They were "knights
of the grip'" off every Monday on the
din lev locals, visiting the same towns,
same merchants, week after week,
year after year, returning to families
every Saturday. Aa a clsaa they were
conscientiously loyal, sober and home
loving. Yet the comic paper and
vaudeville joke made them - appear
life's supremest philanderers, always
on tne make. There are one thousand
and one variants of the traveling man
A legend of the news-rooms is that
panegyric to doom, "The City That
Was," by the most excellent reporter,
Will Irwin, snatched a few lines at a
time from the typewriter while San
Francisco vneled in flume aaint
historic hills. I read It recently. The arwl tne 'ri"ers daughter gag
title was magnificent Inspiration, but
the essay no better than Martin
Green or a dozen re-write men dash
off every day before lighting pipes
and dropping around to Joe's. Little
of writing that lasts Is not painstaking.
1HE FAMILY ALBUM-PACKING
house press agent Sandwiched In
were random verse, short stories, ar
ticles and a somewhat lazy try at
! The Great American Novel. A hap
I hazard career of broken bits,
j During one auspicious week, a
i week 1 did not step out of my hotel
i room for fear the keyhole would be
j plugged, I supplied the entire con
cents oi a ao-page nouae organ aiong
with other chores. Among the pseu
donyms I used and which suffers a
faint blush was Donald MacGregor
uuprez. I No place In cliffed-in Manhattan
All of this tiddledy was naturally , w 8pacloujli s(cyey and Irieny
liliro. fate, ajiejjctoiuts vimnvj tuai
meant nothing. But because life was!
young it seemed pathetically lmpor-
Another specloua romsnza of the
editorial shop concern William Al
len Whites "What's the Matter With
Kansas?", reputedly flotsam filler a
foreman plunked Into the forma on
a dull day. The myth persists It sky
rocketed White Into Journalistic im
mortality over night. It waa not a
remarkable editorial, then or now.
White's lasting fame la grounded In
years of superb editorializing.
A drama of the 14th street subway
steps and Its forlorn beggar. For
I many yeara he held forth pencils and
mumbled to paaaeraby.. One day a
gentleman dropped a quarter and
hurried on. Then minutes afterward
he returned. "I want to apologize
for Insulting you," he said. "You are
a merchant with penctla to sell. I
treated you aa a beggar. Please give
me my pencils." A few years later
the same gentleman appeared at a
spruce news-stand blocks away. The
owner In handing out a paper and
accepting the change remarked: "You
don't remember me but I owe you a
lot. You made a beggar turn respect
table." The beggar of the subway
steps!
as Battery Park on a moonlit evening.
The vast quiet, relieved only by the
tant. Once the slim pickings of f ree ' ; ... lLa., ,
t.Mr.. h.imrf .-.I i t..r-l : Inspires confidences. O.Henry
to a regular job but there was none.i"n, curl1 w' ' Ph"?:
There were depressions In those days, I P"? ,rom mm who suddenly revealed
jOQ j thoughts on Battery Park benches.
Vincent Astor, like many awains
ever 1 tongue-tied over proposal, la said to
Warrant Call.
School District No. 6.
Notice la hereby given that there
are funds on hand for the redemption
of all warrants up to and Including
No. 701. Interest will cease on the
2nd day of August, 1934. Warrants
are payable at The First National
Bank, Medford, Oregon.
GUY TEX, Clerk.
School Dlsini:'. ti.
Central, Point. Oregon.
By CLUYAS WILLIAMS
CAllS 10 HUSBAND DOR
HE WANT HER To PACK
HIS OLD 6RAV jWrATfR?
GEYS NO REPlV. REMEM
BERS H SAID SOMEf&Hte
ABDltf 60IK6 OUTfo rue
mttbZ lb WORK OlsT CAR
us Over BAKlis-Tefts suriev's uwnrfisHED .
15 WILFRED 15 RUN Ouf PACKIM6 ArJD WISHES
16 6ARA6E AND ASK PAD WlLfREP WOULD HIPRY
DOES HE WANT 1&
HIS OLD vSRAV SWEATER?
WILFRED EVENfUAUY
re-Turn's With the ks
PLY 0 WHKT 6PfcY
SWt-AfER?"
sends back a derailed
description, Wilfred
rel6vin6 8rck the mew's
THAT PAD DENIES OWNlffe
WN SUCH SWEATER
HOLDS rf UP AT WINDOW" DECIDES IN FUTURE
FOR HUSBAND TO VlElA WR To PACK WiTHOUT
HIMSELF. AFTER SCRUTINIZING CONSULTING FAMILyI
fT, HE CAL25 UNIN1EU.I6IBLE ABOUT AtWHirte
REPLV AND DISAPPEARS
INTO 6RRft6
(Copyright, 193j by The Bn Syndicate, Inc.)
"I'm sorry I overslept.'
bed to wire them regularly. Bob
going at noon.
He tapped on her door; "Come
In," she called. He entered, crossed
the room and with a "May If
settled on the edge of the bed.
"If anything changes here, you'll
wire, won t you?" he asked.
"Immediately."
1 "I'll come running."
"I know." s
"I'll be back, anyway, lu March
at the latest I think I can hurry my
part of It through before then.
Lord, I hate going! But can't let
them down."
"I know; I'll do everything I can,
and exactly as I think you'd want
It done."
"I'm comfortable enough about
that," be said slowly. "You're gen
tler and more understanding than I
can be with all my trying."
""H, not I'm sorry I over-slept."
"I'm glad you did. I saw your
light beneath the door. I knew you'd
bad a bad night."
"And you did too?"
"Well, more or leas, I suppose. It
doesn't matter. You'll write me
about things?"
"Regularly, and as often aa you
like," she promised.
"Twice a week, if that 'a not too
much ?"
"Oh, no. I'd do that anyway."
He rose. "You must not let your
aelf be worn out!" he warned anx
iously. "Promise me you won't! Get
any help you need, Marsha. Will
you promise me you will get all the
help you need?"
"Yes, I do promise you anything
you want me to promise, Bob!"
"Very well, and 1 thank you I" he
aald as he hurried toward the door.
Mis mother smiled bravely aa she
said goodbye; he looked on ber.
yea tragic. Llewellyn had said
"A year at most " Perhaps before
he could get back even, she would
be gone. Perhaps be might lose bis
last days with ber through bis obli
gation to finish a Job that no other
man could swing. ,
He turned to Marsha. "We're go-
closed, she ran down the steps and
after he had put his hand Into hers
which she'd stretched to him he felt
ner kiss on It.
"I'll do everything everything
for her and for you!" ha beard.
He had not even thanked ber, be
realised, riding away. He looked
down at his big, browned hand that
she had kissed, and suddenly he
held It to his lips.
She mattered terribly and deeply
to blm and she always would, she
who had married him to show an
othe&an that he had not hurt her
. . . wuo admitted this . . . who bad
kissed this other man . . . who lied
who
He had grown tense; he sank
back, spent. He must not let him
self brood about It. No doubt she
had been wltb Tarleton that day
when ahe lied about being at her
dentist's. Lord, how he had trusted
her!
On certain days she was good;
better than the best of women he had
evu known. His varying regard of
her, the changing emotions that
this made, had helped to wear him
out. It he could only get away from
thought of her.
He must write ber, of course . . .
the sort of letters from which she
could read bits to his mother. Suf
ficiently sentimental to satisfy his
mother, but not the letters he would
write to Marsha If she were all hi
had once dreamed her to he.
He had not spoken to ber of the
letters; their necessary tenderness,
but she would understand. She un
derstood a great deal without
words. Heavens, the traffic!
She had clung to him, while say
ing goodbye to him, In a curious
way. For a shsken second he felt
her agiln in his arms; his cheek
against hers. "And that way. mad
ness!" he reminded himself.
He tried to think of the ravin-
across which bla bridge would
creep, but It waa useless; sod only
a tew months before, his keen mind
always obeyed his wish.
fCWti4. till, t, K. Kstilsmd-Teyler)
Tomorrow, Marsha enters upon
hsr routine of msrey.
EUROPEAN BUYING
CHICAdO. Aug. 4. (AP) Active
European buying of wheat futures
at ChlfftfiO caused broad speculative
demand for all grain today.
ChU-ago wheat oared 3'i centa a
bunhe and corn 2 centa. with til
dellverlea of corn and ry hre
well aa all wheat future In Liver
pool. Winnipeg and Buenoa Aires
overtopping the seasons top prlc
record. An outstanding immediate In
centive (or purchaae orders came
from report of abnormal dearth of
niointure curtailing the estimated
yield of corn In the United States
and of wheat In Canada.
Leading authorities said the world
grain trade appeared to have sud
denly commenced to take notice of
drastic changes In the supply and
dfaw4 UUiU04 (Mating itjpitt
perylstent drought and heat through,
out vast areas.
Despite, profit-taking on a large
acale, wheat closed buovant at but
little be?ow the day's peak, 1', to 'J'i
above yvaterday'a finish; corn 1' i
to 1H P' oat s to S advanced,
and provisions unchanged to a rise
of 30 ceiiU.
COPS EllflCK
CHICAOO, Aug. 4 (AP. Cattle and
h fy a we re d r l ve n In to t lie Chic v '
stockyards todav under police- escort
aa oommlsAlon men eoucht to resum
trading, stopped for nine d.wa by a
strike of hand'ers
Pour hundred more sto-.kysr1 e.rt
ployes. the oommUs4on men's h-in-tflers.
Joined the strike this mornm:
The commission men thmele han
dled the first shipments to arrlw
forking hay to tlie cattle and fi:i:i,t ,
the water trough. The strlk; i
vinceni, Aior, ukq many awains .School Diaira:'. ti. I JS-f
MATTER POP : By 0. M. Payn
r"ft V J s-" Y ( 2lZiiX ) ; Movie. CA12&e.Ti "
TAILSPIN TOMMY It's Up to Tommy I . By Hal Forrert
f IF THE THREE-POINT THiRTY-iEVEtKT T'ri I'tHAtIs U3BV I gTHANXS FOR THE COMPUl fF COUReTljljAW.CHie.F, I DON'T 7 ValL SeT, "S
MEETS WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE ) CjOLLY 5 lOAUT A SOOD JiC MGMT, CHIEF. AFTE.R 1 SON! I HOPE W WANT ANY PAV FOR . TOMMY! VOQft 5
AMERICA SKYtOAYJ, COMPANY S ( THAT'S E PILOT TO FLV yS7JSeT THROUGH PUTT1NS YOU'RE HALF FLYING THE. OCB- IT ' 5LOGCT CHARIOT
IT MAY RESULT IN OUR GREAT E IT IN TO jjgjig g-,THE SHIP INTO WAY RISHT UDILL BE. A PLEASURE, ON ,TH' 'BLOCKS.
LANDING A LARGE ORDER J S PHOENIX sf i 7'"TS PACES BEFORE AND IF VOL! Sy rr 'jtv (.RARIN TO SO! .
FOR HOR.C PLANES OF LT SO ITS. UP J pllN' i1 .f THE AMERICA ARE THERE LL fc Jfl'H v snT
H
! W NOW THo IS THE LIFE WELL, BRIAR ijM IJ AH SHO' FEELS A RETURN T TELL SOU WHATSTAAE.TOO-rVWBE I MEANTIME., A FRESHENING BBEEZE
9 WE'RE MEN AGIN, NOT Mj'J AGREES WITH QpfrJ O" NAAH CUL'NARV ?WLL NE'LL DO WHILE I'M WE'a FIND CARRIED THE "MAGGIE" BEYOND THE '
I POUYWOGS THE LANDS VOO, LUKE- ' WHEN AH HAS OE GROUN" CAP'N IKE'S ( CAME-1 THE BlGD WHO CUINED FISHTOWN-UNNOTICED BY ANYONE
OUR ELEMlNt, I'M TEUJN'I.-!a.(lW 1 HOLCHN' UP MAH FEET AWAV- LETS . J CARRIES A A SOLITARY FIGURE CREPT ON DECK POISED
my00' -erffy- '''i ffliW jtnmnrmilllimil explore this Jhwr umtern.ano for a moment on the bail, then cove
THE NEBBS It Was Ever Thus Bv Sol Hcm
I nES. AMD DOESKJ T SwE LOOK AxAJCOL? ll (.,7r?rlo0-i?i, TS" rtutJrrrtMMi II fOOSr SOPPOSE SOMEBODY
nes.amd he Miawr have kmom ,ck?l awa com veMfewc 1 wamteo to set iki hesewithN
SOMETMW& WAS WROWS WHEW SHE AUO HERej A WMAW UWO USESV (Aw MPOSTAMT MESSASE AMD
I came bac ..ow,vs. hescdoled rr to vi&t ' if 1 cau. up thTs V vo,J aos&iua up toe wires j
OFF -YES, HE'S PAVIIO, H Ed BILLS' I WUMBER AKJD J. MWT SET QO UJ1TM CONWERSATIOM THAT'S AS
X. BUT EVERV TIME WE WRITES AJT- BUSV SISWAL L KMOW jsrf" , WECESSARV AS AM ALARM 7
k 7 CHECK VOU'D TMIWK 50ME-y-, SWE S STILL INJ &ED r- SCLOCK TO A DEAF
VYK esoo WAS POLLIMS A I ftW X. R. OUT.'. vri'V III I SSUY ' rn
LJ )yOOUFgTH "
I 1 ' 1 I r"VlrHl if ' - . ., , , hlfr , 1 ,
jBRlNUlNO UP FATHER By George McManm
I RtAtLV-PAODT' OUOOnIT j f DAUCHTER'i RIGHT. I i 1 OH MAGGIE'. I'll i DON'T EEVUI r,io. I
I 5EEM TO UNDWCTANO MOTHER- I VuONOK? AFTES ALL- THAT fo 1 WILL VOU SEW -f ,Vs ANB R?mc" H
SwE REAULT DOE.'brvj'T THINK Of V I HEMIMOS ME- I CM SOME BUTTONS -rCi CAsl'T -'Y&.?tr .'
AtSVTH.NjC BUT TOUS I -Vj 15 N4E.EO SOME PJ ' I OM ME SHIRT? ON MV WAV 'PO A
rWELf-ANE. 1 - BOTTOMS OM ME . I V, CS" SOCIAL? A
y