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PAGE EIGHT GREHT RICHES STSOPS13: The Great War hat at least one oood deed to it credit. It ended an impossible situation be tween James and Jane Btimson. vho slowly vers erowino to hate each other, and it took James out at Xeu Concord. Kae.. lust trhen he wae beginning to doubt hi ca pacity to succeed. Note hs ha re turned a motor, vtth a limp of which he is nroud. and has marched with his men in a treat forade at St. Louis. Chapter 41 HOME TO JANE fpWO weoki later Jami was . mustered out anil came home In earnest. It waa probably the proudest hour of his life, "hen he limped up Commercial Street at the head of the men of hla county and New Concord cheered itself hoarse. New Concord was hla own beloved town once more. He had not failed her when bis moment called. When "the General" returned home Nappy was so Immensely relieved and bo blissfully happy that he waa for once almost speechless. All be could eay waa "Dawg gonel Dawg gone!" over and over while tears ran shamelessly down his face. It waa noticed In New Concord that Nappy thereafter limped a little wben he walked. He waa never able to walk quite straight again any more than was James. Jane had not been idle during James' absence. With a husband at the front Jane's sharp speecbea of the past were tolerated and for given. Jane helped organize and run the New Concord chapter of the Red Cross, helped sell Liberty Bonds. helped raise money for home relief, for the Y.M.CX She proved so efficient both as a speaker and as an organizer that her fame spread. She waa asked to go to Saint Joseph and make peecbea there. She went und re mained to help with the Y.M.C.A. hut and canteen at the railway sta tion. Fully occupied at last, her nat ural energies and undoubted or ganizing abilities finding for once an outlet, Jane forgot to be sar castic, forgot all about her health, became what she waa meant to be, a happy and efficient youngish woman, even a charming youngish woman. She seldom had time to think of James, but when she did she thought of him kindly, even proudly; that Is until she met Mrs. Benson. TV jRS. BENSON was ona of the J1 wymans of Saint Joseph, so was not only born with a golden spoon In hor mouth, but acquired a full golden service on her mar riage. Lett a widow In 1017 Mrs. Benson decided to forget her grief in "service." A couBln In New York suggested that she "man" a fully equipped amnuianre with women nurses. women doctors, women drivers and place It at the disposal of the French government The suggestion waa acted on, the French government accepted. Mrs. Benson, meeting Jane and taking a great fancy to her, asked her to go with the am bulance as alternate driver to her self. Never In her whole lite did Jane ao passionately want to do anything as much as she wanted to go to France. And she could not. She waa not allowed to go because she had a husband there. Nina Butterfleld went In her place. Jane, who seldom cried, cried herself eick. Jane had been glad enough to have James enlist. Now ahe accused him bitterly of hideous and unforgivable selfishness. He was a married man. Married men had no right to volunteer until all the unmarried men had been enrolled or conscripted. The way he fnlrly ran from her to throw him self Into the army waa a slap at her. He had no right, he had no right . . . Jane tore the gold atar flag she kept In her bedroom to shreds and stamped on It For once she admit ted to herself, openly and un ashamed, that she hated James. In a dny or two Jane got hold of herself. A second and larger flag with a gold star stlli hung over the front steps of the house on Fifth and Oak Streets. When the flag grew itnlncd and the star tarnlnhed. Jane boucht a niw one and nailed It Into place herself. She did not criticize James out wardly, not even to her mother. She dared not, for fear ot the tidi ness that might escape and betray her. After a little she grew almost ashamed, almost contrite, for that moment of self.frankness when she had admitted she hated her hus band. Of course she did not hate Juntos. She despised his weakness, his In capacity. But even though ahe did not love him she did not hate him, IMPROVEMENT VET WASHINGTON. May 3. (API -The veterans' administration ha an nounced aiproval of construction and Improvement projects In Its hospitals throughout the country. Projects ap proved Included: nosrburg. Ore. H6S.O00. Including 127.O00 tor recreation building. Portland. Ore. $53,000, Including 20.0D0 to convert the neuro-psy-rHntrir building for general and ir--leal cr.j.p. T:ie lv.v.6 will be obtained. In torr.e Ins'.tinces. the veterans' ad ministration aald. from the regular ve:cran' administration appropria tion. In other (hsp,. the a.:m:nl5tra ttrn licppd to c'.'.t.u t' - nrrcsary fundi, In-m u.t new relief fund. wonld not allow herself to flats him. A smaller woman, a woman less fine might easily ... but ot course she did not and would not Because It waa expected ot her, because other women from New Concord were going, Jane went to Saint Louis for the big parade and to welcome James fittingly. They met after the parade waa over In a small wired enclosure around the Saint Louis city hall, with an admir ing multitude pressing against the wire and making audible comments concerning the fervor of each hero's embarrassed embrace of bis near est and dearest Jane was beautifully, even ex quisitely, dressed In a new dark blue ault and toque of velvet violets. James kissed her awkwardly, told her she looked like a bride, asked her a few questions, and found ha had nothing whatever to say to her. The hour they bad together befors he left for camp James spent Is Introducing hla wife to hla com rades. Their evident admiration ol Jane was a pleasant fillip to James1 pride. "rOUXL soon be home," Jam I said at partlhg. "I'll soon be home," James an ewered and tried to amile. He knew, and Jane feared that he knew, thai she did not want him back. Two weeka later James cams home to stay. After the second wel come the aecond parade In New Concord, which took place fairly early In the morning, Aunt Sarah had a family luncheon at the Man sion. There had been during James1 rhsence a seml-reconclllation be tween Sarah Stlmson and th North rups. Mr. and Mrs. Northrup went with Jane to the luncheon. Mr. Northrup did most of the talking. The North rup twins had both enlisted In the aviation corps, and though they did not get to France Mr. Northrup made it plain that In hla opinion the flyers had taken all the risks that were worth anybody's men tioning. A flyer faced death dally, took hie life in hla handa every time he went aloft While a mere Infantryman. . . The luncheon could hardly be called a howling success. After It wss over and the Northrupa were Impa tient to depart, James said brusque ly that he meant to stay awhile with his aunt He had to see to a lot ot thlnga about the place. "I'll take Mother and Father home and come back tor you In an hour or two," Jane suggested brightly. It was evident to her husband that Jane waa achoollng herself to en dure patiently and with wifely sweetness the atlngs and exaspera tlona of their renewed relationship. With a sudden swift Intuition James realized that Jane waa one of those women (and there are more than anyone gueBses) to whom mar riage becomes inevitably a galling bond. She was not sexless, but under-sexed. Sooner or later any husband, James particularly, but any husband, would have annoyed and exasperated her. "Jane just naturally doesn't like men much," waa the way James put it to himself. To be sure she was fond of her father; but he waa an old woman If there ever waa one. She had never cared for her broth ers, never liked the Judge, had never been Interested In what James called "man talk." James refused decisively to allow Jane to come back for him. He need ed exercise, waa spoiling for exer cise. He'd follow her after a while. The Northrups drove off In a hull In (he shiny brand new car which was Mr. Northrup's gift to Jane a a thank offering (or consolation) for Jamea' safe return. James spent the afternoon lolling about the Man sion or the yard, banking In the ad miration of Aunt Sarah and Aunt Lou and the adoring Nappy or In awapping yarna with the latter. It waa late in the afternoon when he left. Jane telephoned at six o'clock with a second offer to come after James. She waa Informed that he had Just gone. She telephoned at seven to say that her carefully prepared dinner was spoiling In the oven. She telephoned at eight to say haughtily that she was at her moth er'a and that her husband would find her there. Nappy answered the final call and told Jane that the last he had seen ot the General he was streaking It down the River Road toward Leav enworth. Looked to hlra like the General was good for a good ten or tllfteen miles. tCap)rBht. 1.1.15. ilaleel IT. farnhaml Jamci meets an narrow. W. W., to. 1ES LOST IN FIRE VANCOUVER. Wash. Mar 3 ,AP Powt ervlce employes Mid toda? that more than 3,000 acre of roiin timber m devastated hv fire which burned laat week in widely acattered neotlona of Clark county. Although weather condition hv been favorable a! nee the heavy show er Monday ntfiht. the fire menace atill remains, awordlnft to Oeorv Herper. district state fire warden. Should wind a uplift to the ewt and warm weather Bf?a:n prevail, the situ. at:on would be almost a bad as It waa Sunday when fifty flrea broke out, he said. Pea araliopa, herettifre belleveO rare In North Carolina wtri, re cently were found In great numbers 30 miles oIX fthore. MEDFORD MAIL OF BLISS TO T OF LOS ANGELES, May 3.(TJP) Jacqueline, a lady parrot who used to be "Jack" until she laid an egg was mother tonight, but her off spring will never talk. That's because "Chlckle," the child, Is not & parrot at all, but a b&ntara rooster. ' This strange confusion In the Jaoquellne family limb came about through a series of unintentional misunderstandings, certain delin quencies of nature, and the kindly tendencies of Mrs. Ida Marsh, Jac queline's owner. For 12 years Jacqueline was oalled "Jack" and she responded to the name with very dirty looks. Nobody was able to figure out what was wrong, since "Jack" was a perfectly good parrot name. Then "Jack" laid an egg. "Ooodneas gracious I" Jacqueline exclaimed something she never sold as "Jack." Bo she promptly a&t on the egg. For days she sat, her eyes aglow with the beautiful bliss of mother hood. But nothing hup pen ed to the egg. Jacqueline became querulous, and finally openly suspicious. Mrs. Marsh, to allay Jacqueline's motherly doubts, decided to supple ment the ways of nature. She sub stituted another egg. The result wsa a surprise, both to Jacqueline and Mrs. Marsh. The egg, I S-MATTER POP- THE NFBBS Tliafs Telling itoD WOO MERE COMELS. LARS RAMLOSE, FAOTHER OP THE VOUNOG, WAJHIM& MACWiUEi SM.ES.MAKi LOOK CUT FOG. TWE STORM I ! EVERY &ODV, &ACK OP THE ROPES .' 5-2 BRINGING UP FATHER I'M CITTIN 9CK AN' TIRED OF TE VJAY I'M TREATED AROUND HER&.TM7.RLS MV TRUNK FlUEO "WITH MAGGIES CLOTHES. "A V -7 I 6 J V -7 J Tie. t A LL0 WET) 1 ir' V ' jS 7 -To e u ) y gyCopyright, 1935, by The BH1 Syndicate, Inc.) I'AILBPIN TOMMY ckeets Kcc3i,:3 Lc...ira.::'.t:on u t,SLl?'STtR SWAMP FOX?iWAT NO' RAY EES fat NOR, 'ERE ARE THREES? I-I--&RACIAS! XjTeet VO' uJHO'AVeI fAlO, SHUCKS i I A'N'Olf LET US 8E OFF, ALL MY LIFE SisiJ f'V?A.C?.2J:5 SNNA $g OEPRESSIN', 'ONDREE.D PAZOKAS- 9 80T--1 AM POOR ARRANS& THEES-YO' OOU6 NOTHIN-MV SK6E-TAIRE , I SKAL' LOF Jlfefllfek HEAVE TUES 6000 CITIZENS &KEE-TAIRE SEEV EET TD THOSE MAN, StRoR-l- ) 6AVE OUR HOME-YO' FL,M13TER EJ. TORRO,4 BEFORE THAT Yo' FOR OUTTA TH OL HOMESTEAD yxe-etr -sir' SCOUNDREL.PERRANDO -J CANrJOT ReFWY ( ACS CA8ALLEBO WEETH IS YH' GUY YOU A PRETTY C0NCHITA TWEES S " SMtteT 'V K rfsSQ'WF yV-5hJ'L k2hH'-LM X tOAK BEES 'EART-- WANNA THANK- $( STEAL THOSE WZm HEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Cattle a Comin ! . .-, . a'-.-i 'Wl rLll IWrf' VEP ' HEAB0 W 8EU-ER1N 1 T ALL R'QWT. LUKE -VOO Jf OKAY, BEN, ;fflilil- ILL KEEP OUT O 5I6HT AS LOHfll f 0tiM! '-t m THE DOWN THE CANVOrJ AUO GET IN THE. HOUSE AMD YOU RE THE Ml I IL A"S YOU SAY SO BEW BUT IP Mlii iili r r 7 iar-',i h ' tuA ib. j i , l 11 1 ' --i-T T-vI C. ,B aT I TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, Bleeds To Death After Falling On Open Knife Blade BAKER. May SWAP) Kermlt Knuteen, 10, was fatally Injured this morning when he fell on an open knife he was carrying as hs ran along the green chains at the Stoddard Lumber company plant In South Baker. The knife severed an artery in the cheat and the boy apparently bled Internally. Kermlt, who was born In Begins, Canada March 12. 1910, is survived by his parents Mr. and Mrs. Carl Knutsen, two slater and a brother. which she thought waa a parrot egg, turned out to have been pilfered from a hen's nest. Chlckle, the ban tam, wss the Issue.' But Jacqueline, who Is no stickler for biological distinctions, apparently figured that eggs Is eggs, and im mediately began to lavish on her microscopic- offspring all the affec tion of long -repressed motherhood. "Sometimes when she pecks, I have to grab Chlckle away," Mrs. Marsh explained. "Jacqueline means well, but a macaw's bill Isn't exactly the thing with which to caress a little chick. "But Jacqueline gets so mournful when I take Chlckle away I always have to put her right back. She al ways welcomes It back, and mothers It as If It were a real parrot. "I really don't know how It Is all going to turn out." More than 27.000 Kentucky school children have been given freeluncheB dally since last fall by the Ken tucky emergency relief administra tion. 'Em, Kid J I 1 9 mfvou imgcate! mere i cL 23511 f-L suppose: yql KT,uorA?lf toy ir. riDPSS voi i ip tr 1 I TWiMK W5 smart: LLtnK,? H Y)r i , , , rIw miluosjs of people. TZZr, M ki7' Vr"" n' f ll HAVE DOME THAT AMD b weTljra--'' M -T..i.92-.r.JJ some HtWM V 'KT ' .i-O PT-vou've 0UST PULLED a vcoopcoct OREGON. THURSDAY, ARMS TRADE BAR T( LONDON, May a-(AP) Viscount Cecil of Chelwocd today denounced the armaments trade &b a bar to peace. He declared It waa wrong In prin ciple that In any country there should exist great Interests which must depend for their prosperity on war preparations, saying they were almost bound to be In opposition to me general peace poucy or me country. "Whenever you get a state of ten sion In Intern a tlona-1 affairs," he asserted st the first sitting of the royal commission Investigating pri vate manufacture and trade In arms, "the values of shares of armament firms go up. "There have been eases to which active steps have been taken by armament Interest to prevent the conclusion of disarmament negotla- xions. ne most striKing of these were the efforts of Mr. William B Shearer for certain firms In America to prevent the conclusion of the dis armament conference at Geneva. PORTLAND COPS WATCH FOR BEER WAR FLAREUP PORTLAND. May 3. (AP) Police were on the alert here today to pre vent further outbreaks of difficulties between two unton organizations. members of which clashed here last night in a flareup or the prolonged "Beer war." The groups are the Brewery Workers' union and the Teamsters' union, which for months have quarreled about Jurisdiction over certain brewery employes. I'M JU)T COIN TO TELL HER SHE'S GOT TO TAKE THEM OUT OF IT. 9- T 3o t :JJ.7 HAY 2, 1935. THE FAMILY ALBUM i j IS PIRCIOW READING 1HE EVENIW6 PAPER. j COvtRS A ftvJ MORE STAIRS BEFORE SHE CftLlS A6AW N0, SHE'S SURE lib IN ONE OF HER. BUREAU DRAWERS, UN DER SOMEfrtW ; ; UiUJfto PARDON, MAO AM , IN WHICH GRIP OO YOU VlSH TO PACK : --V'taOfM 1 ...Ir-.J Kl X & III i j ! k EXPLICIT DIRECTIONS wife asks would he MIND 6EfflN6 HER IrfHE BLWK BA6 FOR HER -IPS ON HER. BUREAU REACHES LAHDW6, WIFE CALLIK6 If MAS' BE OM -THE IrfTLE TABLE IN friE HALL OR ON "THE SEWING MftCHisIF A DOOR OF ROOM IS STOPPED BVSHOUf OF NEMER MIND, if WAS DOWNSTAIRS ON HER. DESK (Copyright, 1936, by The Bell SyttUeais. Inc.) YOU DiDMT COtOSULT Me OUMEM VOO MAfRGLtEXi LOMlt-E. SH LIVED YOU WAD A HAPPY UFE-AKJD FOR. 1 HAVE AM OFFER FROM TWEE CLEAKJSO UJtASWIM3 WACHIWE COMPAMV ORTUJlce LEAVE IT Out for a VHILE. I MAY WANT TO USE TUlt, pin IT. r By GLUYAS WILLIAMS PEACHES S1AI&WAV. 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