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MEDFORD MATT, TRTBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON. SUNDAY. JULY 7, 1940.
Gasual Slaughters
By VIRGINIA HANSON CT
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a end regimental imiffma- Later.
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" 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
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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,
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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
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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 -
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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
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