Evening star. [volume], June 30, 1940, Page 11, Image 87

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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LIP SERVICE
Women are wacky. Women are vain.
They’d rather he pretty than have a good hrain.
They’d rather be minus their shirts and their slips,
Than ever be caught without rouge on their lips.
The house might be burning right under their feet,
Hut still they’d not leave till their maps were complete.
Of wives, and career girls as well, this is true . . .
P. S. This admission applies to me too.
— Margaret Fishback
TOUCH AND GO
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car; threw him into the back seat with
Evelyn.
Larry said: “I didn’t know men
would act like that — I wanted them
to reason, not to — ”
“Stay in the car before you really
get hurt.” Spander snapped at him,
“and keep your eye on Evelyn so she
doesn't get out.”
The thing was becoming serious.
Any minute now, Spander knew, the
police, since they were badly beaten
and fighting against hopeless odds,
would draw their guns, if they had
them. Also, the men were in such an
insane state of mob-minded hysteria
there was no telling what they might
do. They might set the factory afire
with its large stock of dry wood which
Wilton had, through superhuman
efforts, managed to obtain despite his
weakened credit.
As Spander once more battled his
way through the crowd, he saw, to
his horror, that one of the officers had
now drawn his revolver. Spander
felled him with a straight right to the
jaw before he could use it. He hurried
to the packing box. Mounted it.
Yelled at Driscoll.
"Wait! Stop a minute!”
Driscoll, who was more than hold- •
ing his own, withdrew to the edge of
the crowd.
Spander yelled again: "Please, men,
just a minute! I’m not a cop; Pm with
you. Those cops have got guns; wait
— please!"
There was something about his bat
tered appearance, his torn clothes,
his magnificent physique, that caused
a momentary pause. Spander began
speaking rapidly. He had no rhetori
cal gifts, but he had some knowledge
of the workingman’s mind; he had
talked to them often in the savings
department. Calmly, and without any
effort at rhetorical effect, he began to
explain some of the credit facts inci
dent to the whole situation There was
a derisive murmur; but a large burly
worker yelled: “He’s O.K. I seen him
bust a cop who drew a gun on us.”
After that they all quieted. What
Spander said was so understandable
and clear and true that the whole mob
listened.
As he talked, merely sparring for
time now to give the men a chance to
cool off, he looked toward the car out
of the comer of his eye. He was talk
ing himself out of Evelyn forever, he
knew. Dutch-uncle talk to the hilt
was what issued from his mouth. He
had once again extricated her from a
mess; more, he had extricated Larry,
by the seat of the pants, as a father
might have done. Still more he had
out-fathered the police department.
All of a sudden, with his aching head,
eye, shoulder and leg, he did feel old,
discouraged and hopeless. Evelyn was
so youthful, so dainty, so full of the
unrestrained essence of life.
It was all no use; might as well give
up; be a stodgy banker all my life,
working hard for Heaven knew what,
I 'A#***
"You know, I really have the same
figure I always had — only bigger"
Hokinson
if Evelyn were not in the picture.
Finally he ended with: “Driscoll,
what do you say to calling it all off?
Will you refrain from arrests if these
men go quietly back to work now?
Will you take your men away and
call it a day?”
Driscoll looked up at the man who
had just performed a miracle. He
was as badly battered as anyone.
“O.K.; but one yap out of any of
these men and I’ll jail the entire
outfit.”
When it was all over and Spander
was making his way back toward the
car, Driscoll approached him. “You
should let me make an example of that
fellow for inciting riot.”
"Better not. Driscoll — only cause
more trouble. He’s cured; I’m sure.”
"No, he isn’t. He’ll be up to some
other crazy thing any day now.”
“No, I don’t think so. Besides, the
whole thing is pretty embarrassing
from all angles. Suppose that cop I
cracked down had killed one of these
men?”
IIT
1 told them not to draw, except to
save their lives. Yes, I guess you’re
right, Mr. Spander, better not aggra
vate a situation like this, now that
it's over, thanks to you.”
The police cars drove off.
Spander went to the car. Larry
looked at him with eyes from which
all crusading fever had vanished.
“You're hurt,” he said.
“You idiot!” Spander replied. No
use pretending any more; might as
well make a good job of his father role
and be done with it. “Do you realize
that several people might have been
killed? If you must be dramatic, go on
the stage!”
Larry made no reply. Evelyn,
too, was strangely silent. He drove
Larry to his house, then took Evelyn
home.
“Come in, John,” she said in a small
shaken voice. “I want to fix you
Your eye is black — your clothes are
torn — ”
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