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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBTTN'E, MEDFORD, OREGON, TTTESDAT. MARCH 26. 1935. THE WORLD AT ITS WORST By CLUYAS WILLIAMS $230,000 IN SERA U li II T RICHES T SYKOPSlBi Since the death of his jiaren's and grandparent!, James Htimson. Ill, hat been head of the htimson family in Sew Con cord, Kas., and hat received tht attention such a position justified in Sew Concord. But now he it at echool in the East, and heina a Sew Concord Htimson amounts to vothlnq at all. Sor can James find those "tr mutations" aaatnst which his Aunt harah has uarned htm. Chapter Nina THE SPEECH THERE were In a place called the "Fern Sem" a few carefully chaperoned feminine young things who occasionally made surreptl tloua eyes at the young gentlemen of the Academy when they passed on the street, but It was considered be neath the dignity of these latter to notice the Fern Sems. i Now and then a few servant girls, arm In arm, tearfully self-conscious and rather aghast at their daring. I strolled about the campus In the twilight and might possibly have been tamed to. James scarcely noticed them be fore they were shooed away by watchful guardians, the boys being most carefully looked after by the higher powers. James was much used to the so ciety of his elders and he would have gladly made friends with bis teachers. However, the latter were busy hard-driven men and were either Indifferent or never noticed bis shy advances. One of his masters Indeed, the physics prof, proved actively Inimi cal. This gentleman finding It pain fully easy to render James inarticu late with embarrassment, varied the monotony of his classroom by mak ing game of this tongue-tied young bean pole of a Westerner. "Well, Mr. Stlmson," he would say suavely, "you seem to be fairly burst ing to express your valuable ideas. Suppose you give us the benefits of your opinion on this subject' Mr. Stlmson would thereupon Un fold himself and rise blushlngly to his feet and stammer a disjointed reply while the class tittered and the master goaded him Into further Incoherence. At the end of the term James turned In so good an examination paper in physics that his professor practically accused the boy of cheat ling and thereby all but broke his iheart James could scarcely reply to this monstrosity so near was he to blubbering, but he stammered some- 'how an offer to take an oral exami nation and after a few questions was given a grudging half apology. James left school at the end of bis first term with his self-confidence and solt-esteem crushed and shat tered almost beyond mending. Back in Now Concord they began to re vive somewhat, but he never after believed quite so firmly In himself as he had and was for years vague ly tnougn unconsciously expectant ox rebuffs from strangers. His summer was hsppy enough after a fashion though he missed his grandmother constantly and his grandfather acutely at Intervals, Perhaps It was bis pride that kept him from confiding to the Judge or Aunt Sarah how unhappy he had been at school or how be dreaded to CO back. However, before James left home that autumn be enlisted the aid of Judge Holcomb and got the promise or a regular and mora adequate al lowance as well as two suits of ex tremely smart tailor-made clothes made In Kansas City. (This lattor concession caused Miss Sarah many qualms of con science and quite ruined her peace ful communion with her Maker for many, many Sundays as Mr. Davis, the New Concord tailor, passed her the plate In church and never failed to look reproachfully at her.) TAMES, however, as one of his classmates assured him, ap peared almost human that term. Perhaps this fulsome praise went to James' head for the first thing he did afterwards was to buy the paper on the wall from a departing upper classman whose room he was taking over. Ills predecessor explained that he had been put to great expense In re paperlng and painting the room the previous term and It seemed reason able to James that, since he blmself was to enjoy the results, he should recompense the other In part James was truly no wizard in finance but how anyone with a New England ancestry could lack so ut terly a bargaining sense It seems bard tn comprehend but then James was only half a New England er. And, of course, as his Aunt Sarah often pointed out, James did not come from a line of shopkeepers. His ancestors were college profes sors, clergymen, Judges snd the like. E TAX RETURNS UP SALEM, Mar. 2fl. (AP Collec tions of 1Q33 personal Income, In tangibles and corporate excise taxes up to Saturday night haj shown 34 per cent Increase over the corres ponding period In 1034, the state tax commission reported today. A total of ft8Dft7 has been collected this year compared to M37.04631 over the same period lust year, Tnx returns must be filed with the commission by April 1, or penalties and Interest will be Imposed. Tsx commissioners estimated that 1,050,000 would be collected In 1833 U tgaluat tlQ0.0UQ Ust yew. James' last year at school actively unhappy. Ha was In a d,. mltory now and had a roommate ami was besides a senior with all the privileges and prestige that implies, but he would have left school with out making more than the most shadowy of impressions It it had not been for his graduating essay. He chose Kansas then for bis theme, his beloved, misunderstood, sneered at, jeered at Kansas and worked for weeks collecting pages and pages of the most beautifully deadly statistics destined solely to annihilate any and all who doubted for a moment that that particular bit of Eden was not only the richest, the most favored, and God-endowed, as well as the most cultured state In the Union. Then he wrote them all down In order firstly, secondly, thirdly, etc., major premise, minor premise, ar gument and conclusion until he had before him a very masterpiece of unanswerable facts, and burned to make use of 1L But when the moment came for James to read bis essay and he rose to face the hundreds of indifferent, slightly bored faces that were gath ered there from every state in the Union a certain sixth sense sudden ly whispered to him that his statis tics would be only so many num bers In their disinterested minds and forgotten before they were compre hended. '"pHED same sixth sense made him ! realize that to reach that vast crowd he must first stir their Imagi nations and touch their hearts. If It were only possible to paint for them the glory of his state, Us splendid independence, the very essence of Americanism; Its originality. Its steadfastness, the romance of Its be ginning, the love it inspired In Its children . . . and all at once James felt that be could do all this. It was altogether a new sensation this consciousness of power and It frightened him a little even while It thrilled him. His voice trembled and broke and his knees threatened to betray him. But this sudden fine ardor, this something that came to him from somewhere, after the first sentence or two, made him quite forget him self and swept aside all self-consciousness. His voice ceased trembling and gathered richness and volume. He could be heard to the very ends of the hall and the hundreds of mothers, fathers, sisters, and aunts who had come to hear one boy's great effort and no other's ceased fanning or whispering or fidgeting on their seats and James knew that they were listening to him and waiting to hear what he had to tell them. James had other great moments afterwards in bis life but probably none quite reached that moment when he first knew that he held his audience In the hollow of bis hand and could do with it as he pleased. Fortunately he pleased to be brief. His written speech which he still held he never once glanced at, though he quoted from It occasion ally from memory, and ie delivered so stirring, so moving an address that when he sat down there was a dead silence before the rafters rang with enthusiastic cheers. Miss Sarah, who had come East to witness James' graduation was so moved she broke down and cried and Judge Holcomb, who had come for the same purpose (but not by the same train, for that would not have been proper) all but did. Even the head of the Academy and the professors. Including the hated physics prof, wero greatly Im pressed at James' sudden display of oratorical powers and made much of him, while strangers crowded about him and said kind words of praise. Miss Sarah cried partly from pride but more because James' grandmother and grandfather were not there to share in his triumph. Judge Holcomb. however, was proud enough to eorve for half a dozen sets of parents and grand parents. The first Friday after James' triumphant return from school the walls of the Stlmson Mansion showed the stuff they were made of by standing up stoutly under the roars the Judge catapulted at them In his argument with Miss Sarnh and James over the latter's choice of a future career. The argument had been brought about by a casual remark by Miss Sarah at the dinner table that her nephew planned to study medicine. Put he's got a Heaven sent gift of oratory," thundered the Judge. "It's rarer than horns on a rooster." (Copyright, lit.is Stateel H. Famhamt Tomorrow, dlntter strikes MlM Sirih. PORTLAND C. OF C. TO 1 PORTLAND. Murrti 30 (API mimrrtlsto sutrivute activity to ssvr the aas.ooo.ooo Columbia rlv.r sal mon Industry (rum . xtrrmlnatlnn by provtclliiK ailcqnati. Ilnhwnve at Bonneville dam iu Inaugurated by the chamber of commerce today. Ar guments have been made thnl pres ent building BOccmcntlona for tlsh ways do not provide sninelent lad ders for fish migration. Coii(ire.v. will be menvorlallred for an addi tional si.ooo.ooo for the fiMiwms. "Factory slyly workmanship m watch and jewelry repairing at the lowest possible prices. Johnson the Jeweler. L PORTLAND, March 36. (AP In program covering an expendi ture of t230.0OO of SERA money, the Oregon emergency relief administra tion today approved ' several large work relief projects, some of which will run over a- period of weeks and into months. One of the larger Jobs calls for flood control work In Salem, In widening, deepening and correcting alignment of Shelton ditch from 12th street to the Willamette river. Other work approved today Includ ed: continuing project for making comforters for relief families at Klamath Palls; veil drilling In Har ney county; grading streets of Dal las; razing old school building and salvaging materials In Klamath county; Improving school grounds at Merrill, Bonanza, dairy. Fort Klam-' ath. Falrhaven, Poe Valley, Summers. Henley, Chlloquln, Algoma, Alta mont, Shasta and Crescent, all In Klamath county; providing work for Lane county relief families by clean ing up or eradicating abandoned or neglected fruit or nut orchards where they menace agricultural In dustries; and special survey on fruit trees and berry census In Douglas county. 4 Bring In your old gold I pay the top cash prioa. Government Li cense. Johnson the jeweler. S-MATTER POP A A f IWSTAWCB., ) loUSPoT. - AfX ( TSiKWb V rh "7 V VAT To MV&ELF- J fS "X V. Y$ lL'f "s1 jfr j r5 SsJ fPtrwrigtl; I9S8, oyTteBdl ByadTeate. he.) J TAILSPIN TOMMY Suspicious ! By Hal Forrest r,10JXu2,2 m&WOMrS INSTRUCTED-TO YANKEES,:.-HOU) OO I BEN WEBSTER'S OAKHBB Sad Farewells! ' '" 1 f ' .Bv Ftwin Al-er i BEN, IT BREAKS W Aw. BEK1. 00 You WfflffifflMffi'S I PERHAPS IF T NOW, 1 1 ( lit NEVER FORGET WHAT YOO I ( INDEED I WILL, ARCHIE i5 r$- MY HEART TO HAVE M HONEST HAVE TO COULD TALK. 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V , ,- '( :V V? J? $ C ENGINE- )A BAD?--, S N - VMYOIDYOU VJ I V n FsJU It II 1 iVfe! ttSh vfeg Q$LJ "Wfi7 Wl v m 1: I l''i7' 1 . ', iimifiji fcttlS I -"f lV fttnttn Sf4us. ire. Gnu St.mn ngSa rwtmd 111' The Medford board of education today received a flattering communi cation from Oscar F. Phillips of Needles, California, asking that the school records be checked to show that Mr. Phillips was a student In the Jacksonville school In 1872. "73 and '74. Medford was started when the railroad first went through this district, and was Incorporated as a town tn 1885. The thought that the office would have records of school attendance In another city before this city was discovered la flattering enough, but Mr. Phillips Is going to be disappointed when he finds that the Medford records run back only 20 years, according to City School Superintendent E. H. Hedrlck. Mr. Phillips says that he was born In 1857, and will be 78 in April. He Is submitting an application to the railroad retirement board, and must submit along with It, a verification of his age. A check of the records Is being made. ROYAL ARCH MASONS WILL CONFER DEGREE Crater Lake Chapter, No. 32, Royal Arch Masons, will confer the Royal Arch degree on a class of three can didates at the Masonic temple to night. All Royal Arch Masons are urged to attend. Refreshments will be served after the lodge. Otto Hor ner Is In charge of the committee. . When It comes to radios, remember -Prultt'a can do It." Phone 22. PORTLAND, Ore., Mareh M. (AP) Unknown to the crowd that pack ed the courtroom, Sheila MacDonald, youngest daughter of Ramsay Mac Donald, prime minister of England, attended a murder trial here today. She Is a law student In England. The case was the trial of Joseph J. Os bourne, former special police man, accused of having beaten to death an elderly retired merchant, Simon Mlsh. Miss MacDonald said she had never before witnessed an American court proceedings, and found the trial "most Interesting." She was to leave tonight for San Francisco. She reached Portland yesterday from Vancouver. B. C, on a world tour and Is traveling alone. From the courtroom she went to the Portland Museum of Art. 1 PROFITS AID SCOUTS Proceeds of the dance In Jackson ville Saturday night, March 30, will be applied to the boy scout fund to send a member of that troop to the Jamboree In Washington. D. C, ac cording to announcement. As & special feature of the dance, mothers of Jacksonville boy scouts are planning to serve refreshments at no charge In addition to admission price. IN ABSfRACflKe, ONE RAlSlW YOU . UWDZRMIKE -THE FRUtf CEHfREPlECE JU5Y (b -THE DOORBELL ANNOUNCES THE ARRIVAL OF DINNER 6UESf5 :Copyright. 1936, hy Th B.I1 SiSest. tie J WlUIMfS Bv C. M. Payne
