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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1942 iMjlfiV Pft by WATKNS t. WRIGHT Lorts Rarmond ha mom ta New York with dram of mas leal career but. after several month, ah baa failed t (et a lob and Is In desperate financial straits. Carey Canon, a ronni would-be architect la ala bad If In need of a Job. Thel meet often at an employment Meney and become food friend. Then, the manacer of the aceney. Sam ' Murphy, telb them of a wealthy old bachelor. Roland Potter, who wants ta help aom truxillnf young married couple by paying them to lira on his Long Island estate and act aa glorified eara taker during his absence on yacht cruise. Murphy aufgeeta that Carey and Lorts marry tem porarily In order to get the Job, They agree to the plan on strictly buslnea bails. After a baity wedding, they art Intro duced to Mr. Potter, who, of course, la onaware that their marriage has been arranged. Ho likes them and hire them. Th next day. he drleea them out ta hi Place and leaves them there. CHAPTER IX TIE following Saturday morning. Mr. Potter tele phoned from Port Washington to say that he was leaving that afternoon on his cruise. Tre got a list of some things there at Potteraplace that I'd like you folks to bring over to me." ha told Carey, who had answered th call. He read over the personal be longings he wanted. "Oct here around one o'clock. If you can. and lunch with me at the yacht club." When Carey had hung up. ha went to tell Lorls about the call. "Well, the old boy's no snob." he remarked "Inviting his caretaker and wife to lunch with him at a wank club I" "Why should he be snobbish with us?" said Lorl. "After all. we've got family trees that would make his look like a scrub oak." "Listen, angel face, dont yoa tart playing the snob I" Carey gave Lorls a little shove. "Oo get Into that poru frock you bought at the Llndenbrook Emporium. It's lust the thing for yacht-club lunch eons. We're stepping out Into Long Island society, Mrs. Carson I" "And I dont like It," said Lorls, "Mot one little bit." . Why not?" "The less people we know around here, the better," Lorls replied. "We're In no position to answer questions." "But we're got nothing to hide." "Oh. haven't we?" Lorls ex claimed. "Only the fact that our marriage Is a fake I It's purely tem- forary. and the fewer people who now about It, the easier It'll be for us In the end." " 'In the end'," Carey repeated. "I dont like the sound of those three words. They sound so definite eo hard and cold." Lorls glanced over at the clock. "If we're to meet Mr. Potter at one, you'd better hurry and get hi things together." "Right I" said Carey. - HE RAN up to Mr. Potter's suite, and was soon packing the things Mr. Potter wanted. While he did so. Lorls dressed. She had never been to a yacht club, and she felt a certain excitement at the prospect. Yet she kept wish ing that she was to have her first yacht-club visit under different circumstances. Playing up to Carey, acting like a wife, wasnt easy. She wasn't actress enough to get a kick out of It When she rejoined Carey, he had changed Into sports attire. Perhaps his clothes were old. but he wore them with an air. "Will I pass?" he aiked. "With a mark of 100." said Lorls. How do I look?" "Wonderfull" A short time later, they were headed for Port Washington. Carry tried to keep up a conversation, but Lorts was apparently not In a talk ative mood STATES DISPUTE REPORT Washington, Dec. 14 U.R President Roosevelt today sent to the governors of Texas and New Mexico an exhaustive report by a 1. .? JeW'if WTO tt-5SP i) 'I I. I """aw I a as fTRONGBOX WAS RIGHT Built as a strongbox room for a bank t Wsu. New Guinea, this concrete and steel structure withstood (lap bombing stuck which demolished rest of building. Australia soldiers recover silver-bar contents ot vsulL "Why so silent?" be asked her. "Just thinking." "What about?" "Wondering If we've started get ting ourselves into that tangled web. 8uppose Mr Potter introduces us to some of his friends, and they start Inviting us places! It would be awful. Carey! We didn't come to Llndenbrook to be social lights and besides, we can't afford to re turn the hospitality of Mr. Potter's friends." "Gosh. Lorls. you ore crossing bridsrs!" "Maybe I am. But dont forget Carey. I want to do a lot of prac ticing on that beautiful piano, and you've got a lot of drawing and de signing to do." "Sure, but we can manage time for a Uttle fun." "Of course. But only to a very qulee way. I mean, swimming, rid ing, things like that by ourselves." "Yes'm." said Carey, sounding a bit crestfallen. "Does the thought of spending all your time with me make you feel as badly as thatf "As what?" "As that 'Yes'm' you Just said followed by a sigh." "Sorry" said Carey. "I think It will be fun doing things with you Lorls. I've thought so all along. It's Just that I dont Uke to feel I'm hiding something or that I've got to stay In hiding myself." "I understand." Lorls reached over and patted Carey's hand. "Forgive me for crossing so many bridges. I'll try to get over that awful habit." x A FEW minutes before one o'clock, they drove up before the Port Washington yacht club. Mr. Potter, who apparently had been watching for them, came hur rylng out to the car. "Right on time!" he said. "Well go straight tn to lunch." Carey lifted from the car th gultrase containing the belongings Mr. Potter had wanted. "What -hall I do with this?" be asked. "I'll hare one of the club men take It down to the yacht." Mr. Potter took Lorls' arm. "Corns along, my dear. I hope you Uke sea food." "I do." she told him. In the club dining room, the head waiter led them to a table overlooking the Sound. Lorls looked about at the other lunchers. wondering how many of them she had seen In the rotogravure sec tions of the New York papers. Then, she saw a young woman approaching. And what a beautiful creature she was! Park Avenue and Hollywood combined tall, slender, dark. "Roland Potterl" the girl ex claimed, as she reached the table Mr Potter Jumped up. "Iris! How nice to see you I Wont you Join us?" "I'd love to." "Miss Wrenshaw Mr. and Mr. Carson." Mr. Potter Introduced. When the Introduction had been acknowledged. Iris sst down, looked at Carey and smiled. And Lorls was quick to see that Carey was all ad miration. In fact, he looked as though he were seeing a vision. "Do you two live around here?" Iris wanted to know. Mr. Potter answered. Trs turned my place over to the Car sons for the summer while rm away on my cruise. You must look In on them. Iris." Iris" eyes were still on Carey. TD do that!" she said. Lorls' heart sank. She glanced at Carey, plainly saw that he was de lighted with the Idea that he would love having this beautiful creature drop In to see them. She turned her attention to the menu card, but she suddenly had no appetite. Just around the cor ner, a flock of complication were waiting. She was sure of It. . . . (To be continued) (Tnt eharactm in thit ferial art fictitious) OopmiM, UU at Arcttla Sew in, the National Resources Planning Board designed to aid the two states in settling a dispute over the allocaion of the water ot he Pecos river. ro u , . .v. rV. I I'-Vf V On the Radio Chains STSTIONSl Chain an . 1st lea aad where they are on the dial: a ALE (MH8) ISM. jortlan: KKX NPS Blast use. Portia od: HO A MIC-Bla a MBS) ISIS. Spokane! BOO (NBC-Bloa) SIS. aa rrandseo: BOW (NBC-Bed) St. Portland! BJB (NBC-Bine) 1000. Braille: KNX CBH 107a Los Angeles: KOA O BC-Hed) S90. neater: KOIN CB ;, Port land; KOMO (NBC-Bed) S0 (tattle; BPO (NBC-Bee) UO Saa rranrlara: BSL (CBS) tlSO. Salt Uke City. 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Closing time for Cmsained ads 9 m To late to Classify 1140 TO ruetZLi g-OTJt Off 1 Rellf loua o Nifht betor t Attendant 10 Lout memory ft 11 Plifhtleae bird 13 -Dome at lea ted 13 Ooddew ot DlMorg 11-RlppctJ 1 -Smelt 9-Two-)tgid atug . at-PrtghMB . 31Skld It-Bear-Ilki tnlmmi ot China It Lowest porn txReiioust tmgsW II -Loop ft Concluded M Native of Central Europe II- One of Rome aeeen htlia It- -Complete fallvng 40 "Ye" 01jbS 41 - Network 43- 0 ratify 44 Pondle 49 Kind of tlottl 4T World War alrptaoe 44 Ml it ur 40 Radical talant) BO Certain day tl L-arte plant t3 Rlf htj a tt Peae llMltuK, MM. Wf GLUT A3 WIUJAM3 Protection For Bsbson Urges Mora New York City It certainly gets my goat to have letters from small Investors complaining that everyone is against them and that they are being robbed and persecuted. No group of people have better protection than have the small investors. In addition to the Securities and Exchange Commission, there are Blue-Sky Laws for nearly every state and a host of other laws thrown In for good measure. Today I especially want to write of the Importance of the proxy and the power which small Investors have in connection therewith. Laws Not Answer To Dividend Lack Most of the attempts to help small Investors have been by legislation. One of the crying appeals is to have salaries of corporation officials reduced. To satisfy public clamour, this now being done so that the pres idents of the largest corporations will receive no more than the heads of certain labor unions! Yet, out ot 130,000,000 people in the United States, only 3,000 are affected by such legislation and their total salaries amount to less than 1000 of 154 of the total dividends. Most of the other legislation for vhich small investors are asking can have a very little affect upon divl dents. More legislation is not ih anawar to the problems of the small Investor. While investors are complain ing, they, themselves, hold the cure for their troubles. I refer to the proxies which are sent out once'a year and which 05 of investors sign like blind mon keys. Hence, the question: Should a small investor ever sign a proxy unless the divi dends received and the com pany's general policy are satis factory to him? Certainly, in vestors who blindly sign and re turn proxies have no standing in court. Refusal of Proxies Would Ct Results I know of no company whose stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange where the di rectors and their friends own a majority of the stock. In most cases all the directors com bined own only about S of the stock. The balance of the stock is usually distributed through thousands or perhaps a 100,000 small stockholders. 1 am not advising It, but 1 do say that If you and other small stock holders would only go on a "sit- down" strike and sign no proxies for awhile It would be Impossi ble to hold the next annual meeting. Then the management would frantically write and ask you what is the reason for your not sending in to them your proxy. You would then have a chance to tell them. I promise you the result would be better dividends on your stock. In other words, small invest ors. In order to get results, do not need to Jo to Washington or hire a lawyer, or do anything else but refuse to vote. Of course, if the president of the corporation writes and asks you what the trouble is and you are too lazy to answer the letter, then the fault will be squarely up to you. Unfortunately, I fear too many small investors are too lazy to write corporation of ficials and tell them what they want. Family Companies In Need of Shaking Too much stock of most cor porations is held by children, grandchildren and trustees who have no knowledge of the busi ness. The stock has descended to tt.ese people who did nothing HAP HOPPER, Washington Correspondent Fast Sorvic r wi or r.i an rvM' YUAT C. W u AT 1 W UUUU TTi tww . -,uw uw I we KB to-o 'O I rHT j FO-Tue TO DISCOVER I Oh, HE'LL TALH ME 1 T T,e Ai- I MUCM IT iNO OL.T WEM I THEM f I A.SB OEVELCP A NEW JuST SAf HOIWt IS TV afW. POST y 9 MEANS 16 Jyou TELL US k S I IIGHTWESMT METAL I L WITH UTTLLUMN .' ft WL 1 LI'L ABNER A Puppet of Passion 1 f By Al Capp SO YO rj WILLI AM TO r5 TH' WORLDS 1 V THANK 'VrTlo'TlITT TTT TTTT" "P-1 WAKESrTARt.'.'-lufWflANr Pis' GRCATPST CXPfRT I RECCXIZE. COOBTE-AH talHVjTiiTrm J? 1 .ST W "VlCE. IS TO FOLKS WOULDN'T OF IT ON UOVE. AH VtM HERMt4 .50FF1 TMEET firS BV WWlTJNO HA .'.'-AM SHORE fi WHO H DO NX.T Hl5 i, oSoN WWa !-1 Ml V ' 1 VOUR lOUL.- HArrYT MtE.rvO-.':'' rTvOULDNT faAL. PITCHED AH IS Y OF t , rfT Xl fl W W AtOMC W SX APLIN01 UOVt A' - rr-m B? IN LOVE O. AN DONT ) HOLLY- 7 ,ffWr fA. HOSCH J ' iK t or Sihiul wEWooDfr a irtus' THE NEBBS On Th Marrt T Br Heu f C SINOaV 7 1 M 1 V PLaA560 TO VwwAT Y rvAMT TO see I r 1 WUXTAK; V I HOPS. "mmSi l am 1 am raaNANOO JLy mcet so manv),, sot, Voua paba.oo oli to Ooa. V amakZows T i smk tH v60n!O eixio yV-yrr ff 5V P' WTH V is r s will 103 X oes ANONDeri vvwanm 1 Small Investors Intelligent Use of Proxies to deserve It. It almost seems as If too many companies are being operated from cemeteries rather than from efficient of fices. Yet, on the votes of these old friends too many man agements depend. These dry bones need to be shaken and this can best be done by the small stockholders. If investors would only appreciate the pow er of the proxy, their dividends received would go up. This espe cially is true in the case of cer tain utility and insurance com panies operated under manage ment contracts. All of this means that if you are satisfied that the companies in which you have your money STRANGE AS IT SEEMS IaWEST C0VPtBT6 BAfcfcrtY. iHOP IN THE COUNTRV AT TUB. U.. NAVAL TRAINING STATION 6AN SiO, PRODUCED 800O COOKIES. 90O0 DOUGHNUT'S 15,000 ROLLS ANP qOO PE.S PER HOUR. Eight aea0lv LINES OF A MaE OveN bah& 54,000 LBS. Oi BREfvD DAILV f piAvec, iuyreA.o or -me u-sual . &sa.- I 9 A CHANGE WAS MAPS IN THE , I I RULES WHICH LASTED 30 VEARS '""jJ BV R.rlTrl, WHO tcew UP THE" " Holrflk'lfti?5 ' MonTreal. -a. - - aaale eels never a A - BIO BREAD LINE Working on a twenty-four-hour, srn-day wk schedule, th big shop' requirement for a typical day' bread and pastry output Is 3,000 pounds of sugar, 13,000 ggs, 3,500 pound of flour. 180 pound of salt. 1,000 pounds of jelly. 1.000 pounds of cornm.al and 3.700 pound of pumpkin. Ingenious conferences in th hug kitchen include a cooki cutter which supplies th correct amount of dough for each cooki and places It properly In th pan, an automatic pan-grasing machine and a flour sifter on an overhead assembly lin which gauges th cor rect amount of flour to be put Into th dough-mixing machine. invested are being honestly and efficiently operated and are pay- . ing a fair rata of dividend, then sign and return the proxies j v.-hich are mailed to you. On the i other hand, if you are dissatis tied, do not depend upon the government or anyone alse to help you out Refuse to sign any proxy but instead write the com pany that you want the direc tors to give yoj better results before you will permit them to be re-elected. Two-Parry System Hop of Country One difficulty with Germany, Italy, and Japan Is that they have only one political party. The hope of the United States and the other democracies lies with the two-party system. The German, if he goes to the polls, must vote for Hitler. There is no opposition party for whom he can vote. Those of us who are citizens of the United States can go to the polls and vote for the party in power or we can vote for the opposition. This means that a nation is much safer and certainly the citizens are better off, when there is a strong opposition party. The same principle applies to corporations. Most corporations are today operated on the Nazi Edited br y IT HS BEEN MV 6000 P7 system with one party and on ballot the ballot being printed so as to keep tha present man agement. The future hope of tha American investor Is to develop the two-party system with two ballots offered for each annual meeting one endorsing tha present management and tha other appealing for a change in management When such a vot ing system exists, you will sea better earnings, larger dividenda and higher stock prices. Moribund Managements May Be Displeased Of course, I'll be severely crit icized by many corporation offi cials for taking investors into my confidence this way. These managements are dependent on v their salaries; many of them are V getting so old that they cannot get a job elsewhere. Hence, they resent any interference, by a "poor country boy" like me. Furthermore, I have hesitated a long time before speaking out in meeting in this way. At last, however, I am deter mined to do so. Moreover, I am going to keep some extra copies of this column on my desk to send to Investors who writs ma long tales of wo. Da UaU Trllune Want ads. by JOHN MX Draw Pearson and Bob AUa c