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Newspaper Page TextPAGE ETGHT MEDFORD MATT, TRTBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON. SUNDAY. JULY 7, 1940. Gasual Slaughters By VIRGINIA HANSON CT riSTlEUAI. Jfte Ofuy dux lh burns ear era txxr of paper currency reduced 10 uhN a end regimental imiffma- Later. ' t bridge party. Sandra mm. " Hons knowing in m chaplain. Chapter tl The Movie I COULDN'T help noticing that a Miml was lonely, with the lonelineu ot one who it ngntinf a losing battle alone. I didn t know what the battle waa about. 1 thought it concerned Julia: and in a way I was right. And I did not consciously re-fuse her offer of ' .iendship Kather I did not rec ognize it (or more than a hospita ble gesture. I wish now that I had gone to see her as she asked I wonder if it would have made try difference. - Chairs at the next Uble scraped back and two women came to ward us. Felicia's racy chatter preceded her. I don't remember what she was talking about I was looking at Mimi. whose bk was . turned to them, and 1 saw her stiffen. Only for an instant. As they took their seat she was again her normal friendly self. - I went to bed early that night to make up lost sleep, and the next morning we rode again. Adam had not yielded to my weak plea that It really wasn't safe He again wore his service automatic in it holster, and of course noth ing hsppened. Nothing except that my muscles, grateful for a day's rest, cooperated a little and I began to sense dimly why peo ple who ought to know better climb on horses and go lumbering bout the countryside. There' no hop tonight." Adam observed as we walked the horse back toward the post. "It's the odd Friday night What would you like to do?'' "But you're going to that party the Dumbguards are giving for Sandra." "Oh no I'm not Not without Sou to brighten things up. I've een to their parties." I looked at him in dismay. ; "But Adam. I don't want you refusing invitations because I'm not included. I'm not your guest well, in a sense I am, I wouldn't . have the privilege of staying at the club if you hadn't secured it for me. But if we were staying at the same resort you wouldn't feel called upon to drag m every where " "How do you know I wouldn't! I'm a simple, direct man. I do what I like to do. as far as pos sible. And in this case it is pos sible. I don't have to accept that old hatchet's invitations for the entirely delightful reason that I rank her husband a few files." "What doe that mean?" "It means that, barring some very Improbable break for him, when he might but won't be ap- rointed a brigadier general while languish in the ranks of the mere colonels i say, earring mat almost Impossible future event he will never have an opportunity to write an unfavorable opinion of m on my annual efficiency re port an opinion that I am a fel low lacking the social graces. If you must know, she's got an old maid sister living with her, and it would be so nice to keep her right In the regiment I'm a man of mature years, you understand, eld enough to evaluate at their true worth the froth and frivolity of mere youth " Our laughter soared off across the flat landscape. The horses tossed their hesds and looked back at us, eyes rolling. We went to the movies that night I liked the little post theater. It was new and clean and uncrowd ed, with the friendly informality of a email club where all the membera know one another. To night the block of seats reserved for officers was nearly empty, probably because of the party for Sandra. Felicia was there with a woman Adam told me was an army nurse. There were a few other officers and their wives with whom I had a bowing ac quaintance. Cray And Tired t EXPECT Gerald Beaufort would have been glad to come with us, 1 said v hile we waited for the lights to go down. "Wonder how he spends his eve nings?" "Curling his eyelashes," Adam growled. Oh! So that's why you wsnted me to go to the partyl "Having no secrets from vou makes life a lit'le dull," I com- nlaineH Tlrtn'l vnn think vnli might learn to dissemble? How would you like mo to X-ray your mental processes; To mv surprise he looked sud denly grsy and tired. And then I decided it waa only a trick of the fading light The theater was growing dusky. The newsreel had already begun. Shortly after the feature Die tur started someone came in and i sat down near us. I was not tuf-1 ficiently curious to spare a glance from the screen, and it was not I until the picture was over and the lights went on that I saw it waa the chaplain. He looked a if ha had sat next to a snake when he recognized us. He ducked toward the side en trance, but waa halted there by the congestion of leisurely depar tures and had to let us overtake him. I doubt if I would have known him by his face alone which, as Miml had implied, looked as If it bad been the target of profes sional fists. His eyes were swollen pearly shut hi hp were pally U. S. Gold Store JVer U Million Washington, July .. (.p, Gold in vault of the United i State treaaurv amounted to! (,. ton nnn nnn nnn .,. j . , ... ' ' . ... v. J iuuui ou yw: l v T" 1 1 1 ui an inc. monetary gold In the world. and his cheek mottled and dis colored. Bandage swathed his hands, and he bore himself aa if other part of his anatomy still suffered. But he waa in uniform, not too well fitting, and the silver crosses he wort left no doubt ol his identity. Adam said, "Good evening. Chaplain. It is Chaplain Henry, isn't it? You'll forgive m for not being sure, but your appearance is considerably altered.' The chaplain darted him a sus picious glance, but Adam seemed only gently concerned. "Ah yes. Yes indeed. Quite so. I'm afraid I did not see you at first Major Drew, I believe. And er the young lady." Adam formally introduced us and the little man to far regained hia composure as to bob his hesd at me. But he did not meet my eyes, and I knew that he was re membering the extreme infor mality of our last encounter. As we emerged into the hot darkness of the summer evening he would have escaped us. but Adam held him in conversation, drew from him the admission thst he had been released from the hospital thst afternoon and that he was going back now to bachelor quarters. So, as we were going there too. there was noth ing for it but to fall into step with us. Inside the theater I had been amused by the sound of pedantic syllables falling from the swollen lips of that ruffian countenance. But as we strolled along in the friendly darkness I began to real ize what it would mean to such a painfully serious man to be the subject of a whole garrison's mirth. The added fact that he was a chaplain made it something of a tragedy. A cnapiam amies sre broader in scon thsn those of most men of trie cloth. He con ducts a weekly nonsectarisn ser vice for such of the garrison as care to attend, but his chief work is among the men. He 1 rather like a social director, a Rotary Club and a Y M C A. all in one, and Adam had told me that a good chaplain la the enlisted man a guide, counselor and friend. It would be too bad if this were to impair his usefulness by mak ing nun only a nxure oi luo. 'A Ruined Man' HE WAS thawing a little under Adam's sympathetic atten tion. I kept out of the conversa tion because I thought he would prefer not, to be reminded of my existence, and presently he was doing all the talking, recapitulat ing, in a ratner plaintive way, tne circumstances of his arrival on the post Adam put in a quiet question now and then, but the chaplain seemed unable to add anything to what he had already told. "They've given me back my car," he said in conclusion. "Nat urally I have been unable to drive It as yet my hands but I expect to find It has been abused. I think one need hardly doubt that a ruffian of that type would have no compunction at driving a net car at a high rate of speed." "Probably not. Adam agreed cheerfully. "And if. as seems like ly, the same man stole Mrs. Bride well's ear he sped himsjlf to hi own punishment A punishment considerably more drastic than the law would Impose. That is so. agreed the chap lain. "The way of providence are strange. id I Imagine it or was he little impressed that providence had taken a hand in his revenge? We entered the club by the door of the guest wing. My rooms were the nrst on the right. I asked them both in, but the illumina tion of the corridor must have re minded the chaplain of his em barrassing plight, for he declined and pattered stiffly toward the rear ot the building, we watched him until he reached a door near the end of the corridor the quiet rooms he had requested then preceded Adam into my aitting room. That s a ruined man." he said somewhat compassionately. "What do you mean? 1 asked although I thought I knew. And I was right Adam'a thoughts had been paralleling mine. "I mean that soldiers are like children in one respect at least Once let them get the idea that a thing, or in this case a person, is funny, and they will never take it seriously again." Julia had taken me at my word and put in an appearance shortly after breakfast that morning. I had stopped work long enough to enake her welcome, then turned back to my typewriter. She spent the morning prowl ing back and forth in my two rooms, as noiseless and as pas sionately restrained as a raged cat. Or she would lie stiff and silent on the studio couch, smok ing cigarettes, lighting one from another with quiet ferocity. Suddenly she muttered a hur rirrl goodhy, snatched her hat and let'. I called after her to a.k her to stay to lunch but she did not seem to hear me. "Hello. Jeff," she was ssying breathlessly, out in the corridor. "Hello.'' His voice, lik himself, expres sionless. Faltering footsteps, an instant of charged silence. Then "Be seeing you." in Julia's sud denly too-jaunty voice. "Yeah." Footsteps again, diminishing rapidly within the building And from my window I had seen Julia's departing bark, too straight in compensation for the weight of her defeat T a eanUnut I by warship and tramp steamer. 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PARK'S if 'AFEFilliV, 1HEK MflUlrfe If A6PIH lb RIPE 1b BACK DOOR MO ASX MftV HE S1W OUT Jl)S FtfE MiNWi UricER 6EfS 0T AND THEM IMrlEPtATtlY on asaln anp rpe5 0 back Poor 6 ask woOiunt itbe safet? IF H KEPT if M fROST" HAU. f Wlid by Th Hull rflclVit. tne.T Cluel It IP 111 10 URGED AS PART OF U. S. Nashville. Tenn. fU.PJ Con servative, sensible use of the natural resources of- the United States should be included as a major item in the country's na tional defense program, believes J. Charles Poe, Tennessee con servative commissioner. "No citizen would argue against the use of every nat ural means at our disposal in the national defense effort," Poe said. "But we should not neg lect any opportunity to care for and preserve our nation's re sources while we are at the same time arming ourselves for any emergency." Poe cited the devastating dust storms of the middle west as "a result of earless, thought less depletion of the greatest natural resource, the soil, when wheat prices were high and every acre was drained to pro duce every possible bushel." He said soil conservation was for- By CLUYAS WILLIAMS SierlS AMD HEADS FOR , DECID)N6 IT'S SIMPIER T0 60 BV WAV OF PRWEWW flttf TO ifTRHf, POUND THE BLOCK AriP 50 BACtf A6AIN receives ultimatum, puts Bicrh.- AWAV AND 60ES In,WALKIN3 BACKWARDS SOttfoCAST'fbHD 6LANCES At HIS TREASURE 7-8 gotten, and added, "quite natur ally, disaster followed." "Stream pollution caused by manufacturing plant engaged in war industries already is be coming an issue in Tennessee," Poe said. "We've had a com plaint about a manganese plant which admit it pollute a river, and says nothing can be done about it "It certainly wouldn't be in line with our national defense policy to force that factory turning out a war product to shut down because it can t stop the stream pollution," Poe said. "And yet, that river Is ruined STRANGE AS IT SEEMS J r ' I ft' l&mr !i wnn Bli --.M. K.i ?'! 1 fl V JW., a "SJ 1 laa- IP-"- NX BENJML FRANKLIN- 0 vv m mu played cfftflNwasiy On U.e.Pi5Irx5E STftMFS 7NC1rVe FIRST ft?P5N&9 IN 1847 l aft IB Answer AIR'S CONDUCTIVITY The blanket of atmosphere surrounding the earth Is positively charged electrically, but la such a poor conductor that a column of air on inch long offers as much resistance to the flow of electric current as would a copper cable of th same cross-section extending 20 time from th earth to Arcturus and backl Small as it is, this conductivity would still b sufficient to carry away 90 per cent of the earth's charges in only 10 minutes wera there no means o.' replenishing lha loss. Th source of this replenishment remains th greatest mystery of atmospheric electricity. MONDAY: Eaton's March. ! for fishing, swimming, and wa tering stock." I Most of the nation' progress I in conservation fields ha been I made in thel ast 10 years, Poe said, and to sweep aside the progress in "a moment of panic" would be a serious blunder. "Our streams, our forest and our minerals are actually the greatest wealth of the United States," he said. "They make thi country the greatest 'have' nation of the world. "Some of these resources are replaceable the forests, for ex ample and we should never neglect to restore them." Poe THt NEPiRKT 'plrSR, AND BACK aa - V" JUletvS t??URIeAV, eccentric itinera rft yru.vi.t' in w-nin4 rie WALKED A YEAR fOR 31 VtARS H-iarH "Rut others, once ex hausted, can never be recovered. It is these we must guard, wnne at the same time we guard our freedom." Calapooia Bridge Burns Roseburg, Ore., July 8. (Pi The Stephen bridge, across the Calapooia river about lx miles west of Sutherlin. wa de stroyed by fire Wednesday night, the county court wa in formed today. Replacement will cost the county about $12,000, it ia estimated. The fire is be lieved to have been caused by sparks from a picnic campfira. byJOMHIX 10 tVEClRlCM A COPPER 'CASH aft? 7A7 By HAL FORREST mm Be EDWtN A.LGER Cold ha been coming bereimj sua is jo p. so.