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Fifteen Months In Jail
Mrs. Rosa Way bourn hopes today to win her re
lease from jail at Georgetown pending her trail on
a charge of complicity in the murder of her husband.
For 15 months she has been held in jail at Bas
trop and Georgetown. She has been held in two of
the Texas counties best known for their expeditious
ness in acting upon crime charges.
IruEngland it is rare that over three weeks elapse
before a person arrested on such a charge has been
cither convicted or acquitted.
Mrs. Rosa Waybourn will plead that it is “cruel
and inhumane” to hold her in jail 15 months before
her case is disposed of by the courts, and Texas peo
ple generally will agree with her. The long delay is
not the fault of Bastrop county officers. It Is not the
fault of the Georgetown court who assumed the case
on a change ol venue. It is not the fault of the ap
pellate courts which sent her case back after revers- ,
ing a 45-year sentence imposed upon the woman, for
insufficiency of evidence.
The fault is in the complicated system of judicial
procedure. The state spends about $1,500,000 a year
for operation of its courts. Some sort of simplifica
tion of procedure ought to be possible and ought to
be brought about that would not put such a penalty
as this upon an untried person accused of crime.
The course, in case of capital or major charges,
should be able to present its case promptly. If it
finds the accused guilty, the penalty is pre
scribed. If it fails to convict, the accused is entitled
to the vindication and to liberty at once—not 15
months or two years after arrest and incarceration.
When Autos Hit Trains
It is a revealing side-light on the nature of the
l Average motorist to learn that a huge percentage of
L all grade-crossing traffic accidents are caused, not byf
|f the train, striking the auto, but by the auto striking
1 the train.
* This, of course, moans that the motorist was either
t (extremely careless or extremely foolhardy. If he
Were trying to beat the train to the crossing, his
judgment was simply atrocious—the train got there
first with yards to spare. And if he simply failed to
see it. he was guilty of an inattention that seems al
most unbelievable.
What we started to say was that figures show that
there were more of that kind of crossing accidents
last year than ever before. And Just what is to be
done about It we don’t know. You would think that
any driver could keep from running onto a crossing
that was already occupied by a moving train. But,
apparently, an increasing number can not.
Incredible as it may seem, there are farmers right
here in our own state of Arizona so hidebound and
skeptical that they haven't eased up one bit on hard (
work since the farm relief bill was passed.—Arizona
Producer.
In some form or other the family is bound to sur
Tive. There will always be need of a compact social
group in which the younger members can have free j
access to the neckties and silk stockings belonging to
the older members.—New York Times. i
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By E 1 PHILLIPS [
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THE RADIO AND THE TAXICAB
(Radio-equipped taxicab* have been put on the
market.—News item.)
• • • •
Customer (after hailing cab): I wanna go to the
station.
Driver: With or without music?
Customer: I don’t care as long as I get there
quickly. How long will It take you to make It?
Driver: I can get you there In a coupla soprano
solos and a Goldman band number if I get the
breaks.
Customer: Well make it snappy. The last time I
made the trip by taxicab it took me an entire Gen
eral Electric hour and a Soconyland playlet. I
thought I’d never get there.
Driver: He must've got stuck in traffic.
Customer: No, I think he had trouble with his
B batteries or something.
Driver: Well, here we go!
• • • •
(The cab starts off with the radio tuned in
on one of these after dinner speeches of the “And
during the last fiscal year we exported to Tas
mania forty thousand two hundred and thirty-six
barrels of tenpenny nails at a net profit of twen
ty-three cents a barrel” variety.)
Customer (to himself): I didn’t like the looks of
this cab in the first place. I should have taken a
Yellow. They have better programs.
Driver: There ain’t nuthln’ good on the air Just
now. If I had picked you up ten minutes sooner I
coulda given you the Happiness Boys.
• • • •
(The cab misses the green light and is held
up at an intersection. The delay seems needless
ly long and the passenger is extremely impatient).
Radio Speaker: The point I wish to make, gen
tlemen. Is that we Americans live too swiftly. We
demand motion. We want everything done at high
speed. We spend our lives leaping at a stupendous
pace from place to place . ..
Customer (fiercely): Speed! Motion! Where
does he get that stuff.
Radio Speaker: In Europe the people are not
geared to such speed. They are not everlastingly in
motion. They are not forever trying to break rec
ords. to do everything in a moment They travel
leisurely, they . . .
Customer: Everlastingly in motion? Say, have
I gotta lissen to that stuff?
Drvier: How would you like to hear the Seven
Syracuse Snycopators?
Customer: No. I wanna move, that’s all.
Driver: Would a quartet Interest you?
Customer: Not in the least.
Driver: Maybe I could Interest you In sumpln
classy like ‘ Parsifal.*’
Customer: There! The green light! Oo ahead!
• • • •
(The driver starts, but there are several truck*
ahead of him and before he can make the cross
ing the light shifts to red again 1
Customer (in a temper): What's the idea? Why
didn’t ya get across?
Driver: Them trucks ahead of me blocked me.
Don’t get sore at me. Be a good feller and I'll get
you the General Motors hour.
Customer (furiously): Snap out of It! You’re the
worst taxicab driver I ever saw.
Driver: I may be a bum taxicab driver, mister,
but I'm one swell radio operator!
, ALWAYS BELITTLIN’
“Miss Jane Brooks of Rockland county and Mrs.
Ruth Raymond of Baton Rouge were the other two
to gain the semi-final round. Miss Brooks did so
in rather suspicious style, for she had a 78 on the
south course.’’—The N Y. American.
Now Is that a gentlemanly way to put it?
• • • •
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Wonder what the skipper of the Re de France
thinks about when his ship is passed by the Bremen?
• • • *
OR A RESTFll, SUNDAY MOTOR TRIP
W. O. Saunders, a North Carolina man. paraded
about New York the other day in * pajama suit and
attracted little attention. Probably most people
thought It was Just one of those Palm Beach suits
after a ride In the subway.
The pioneer who crossed the country by might and
main has a grandson who goes by plane and train.—
Indianapolis News.
The airplane honeymoon is becoming popular, es
pecially among couples who are determined from the
start not to have a falling out.—Chicago Daily News.
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READ THIS FIRST:
Charlotte Chatt rton. nicknamed
Chatty, is a bom gossip and busy
body. She loses her Job in Mrs.
Mayberry’s hat store because 6he
talks too much.
Her widowed mother, a dress
maker, has one wealthy customer,
Mrs. Van Nuys. an old friend.
Through her Chatty gets a position
in the filing department of Mr. Van
Nuy's bond house down town. There
she meets and falls in love with
David Jordan, a young bond sales
man. whom she once saw buying
an Easier corsage bouquet for a
pretty girl in a shop near Mrs.
Mayberry’s millinery.
Billie Langenau, head of the
files department, says that some
times Jordan lunches with Mr. Van
Nuy's secretary, Agnes Herford, and
Chatty becomes jealous of her us
well as the unknown girl for whom
Jordan bought the flowers. How
ever, Agnes sometimes has lunch
with Mr. “Van." too. Chatty decides
to tell Mrs. “Van" about it. but her
mother forbids her to.
Billie Langenau and her sister.
Sara, come to live across the hall
from the Chattertons, and Chatty
learns that Billie has been married
before but that no one, including
George Mayhcw, a bond salesman,
who's in love with Billie, knows a
thing aGsut it.
Billie is kind and sweet to Chatty,
lends her little trinkets to make
herself more attractive, shows her
how to wear her hair becomingly,
etc. One night she gives a supper
party to the office force in order
to help Chatty along In her effort
to become friends with Jordan.
That night Winnie Talcott, Mr.
“Van's” stenographer, sends out to
a drug store for some alcohol for
the punch Billie makes, and Chatty
learns that her own young brother
Pat. Is selling it in Ben Tomlin
son's store. She keeps the fact
that he is her brother hidden from
everyone.
Jordan begins to pay Chatty
much attention, and on a picnic
with Billie and George Mayhew he
makes love to her. The next day
Chatty goes out to lunch with Agnr;
who tells her she had a date with a
man for lunch, but that he broke
it. Chatty, sure that the man was
Jordan, tells Agnes that Billie has
told her that she and Jordan often
go to lunch together, and she teases
Agnes about being in love with Jor
dan, and further tells her that Jor
dan is in love with some girl out
side the office—the girl he bought
the flower? for.
(NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY)
• • •
CHAPTER XII
Chatty could not eat her lunch
chat noon.
8he knew that she had told a
downright lie about Billie Langenau.
And she was sick in soill and mind
as she sat with Agnes at their little
table in the Rose Tree restaurant
on Thirteenth street.
“Well, what do you think of Billie
saying a thing like that about me
and Dave Jordan!" Agnes exclaimed
suddenly, when the dreary meal was
half over. She had been very quiet
and thoughful ever since they had
sat down together. “Think of her
daring to say that he and I are
crazy about each other. Just be
cause we eat lunch together once a
month or so. Why, I wouldn't have
believed it of Billie Langenau!"
“And don't believe it of her now!”
Chatty wanted to say to her. “All
she said was that you and he some
times lunched together. I made up
all the rest of it because I’m Jealous
of you, and I wanted to find out If
you and he are crazy about each
other ... I told you a lie about
Billie!"
She knew that she ought to say it,
too. She tried to screw up her cour
age to say it.
But she wasn’t brave enough. She
wasn’t brave enough to take back
the lie she had told . . . And so she
just sat there, trying to eat the
combination sandwich that she had
ordered, trying to swallow the hot
It turned in the lock and the drawer flew open.
weak tea in the rose-colored cup on
the table before her.
“What made me say that?” she
asked herself. “It just slipped out,
I didn’t mean it to say it!"
That was always her excuse to
herself, when she talked too much.
There was a mirror on the wall
beside the table. Her own reflec
tion in it seemed to mock and re
proach her for what she hat! said
about Billie ... For on her neck lay
the string of pearls that Billie had
given her to wear the day before.
Her hair was still “slicked' back in
the stunning fashion that Billie had
first shown her. And on her face
was a little of the smooth, cream
colored powder that Billie had
taught her to use instead of the
pink stuff that showed so plainly
on her white skin.
“And Billie gave that party last
Sunday night just so I could meet
Dave Jordan outside the office and
become friends with him!” she went
on thinking, miserably unhappy.
Billie had been all kindness and
sweetness and goodness to her ever
since she had known her. She had
gone out of her way to be nice to
her . . . and this was how she had
repaid her^ By telling a lie about
her to Agnes Herford. A lie that
might get her into trouble—that
might even lose her job! Fcr Agnes
was with Mr. Van Nuys all day
long, and if she went to him with
the story that Billie had been gos
siping about her and Dave Jordan-’
“I think I'll have this out with
Billie Langenau when I get back to
the office!" Agnes’ voice broke In
upon her gloomy thoughts. “I just
think I'll find out why she said a
thing like that—”
“Oh. please don’t!” Chatty clasp
ed her hands, and. her big grav
green eyes were fufl of anxiety i*s
she leaned across the table with Its
rose-shaded lamp and its plates of
lood that had scarcely been touch
ed. “Please don't, Agnes! She
probably didn’t mean anything by
it—and I’d hate her to know I'd
told a thing like that after shed
cold it to me. Please don't say a
I word abot it! PLEASE promise me
you won't 1”
But Agnes wouldn’t promise.
“I’ll have to think about it,” she
said, and that was all that she
would say about the whole affair.
All afternoon Chatty worked in
tear that suddenly the door would
be flung open, and in she wold
come, to find out from Billie, her
self, why she had said a thing like
that about herself and David Jor
; dan.
Every’ time the door squeaked
Chatty broke into a cold sweat.
One or twice she was on the
verge of telling Billie the whole
story from beginning to end—but
i she had no more courage to do that
! than she had had to tell Agnes that
she had lied, in the first place.
* * •
In the lull to every office Just be
fore closing time, she got up and
went Into the outer office for a
drink of water from the cooler.
To get to it she had to pass the
door of the room where Agnes and
Winnie Talcott were at work at
their desks—the room that led to
that holy of holies, Mr. “Van's”
The door of the room stood wide
open.
As Chatty passed it she saw that
Dave Jordan was standing beside
Agnes’ typewriter stand. She was
looking up at him. and suddenly
Chatty saw her take a small folded
piece of paper from him.
She watched while Agnes opened
it and read what was written ou it.
She saw Agnes smile, look up at
Health and Right Living
BY ROYAL & COPELAND, M. O.
Former Commissioner ol Health
Habit, custom and tradition havei
fixed in our minds all sorts of con
victions about things. A notable ex
ample is the popular idea that
rheumatism is the result of expos
ure to weather. Cold and moisture
are supposed to produce the symp
toms usually called “rheumatic.*’
Of course, scientific physicians no■
longer hold to this belief. They,
recognize rheumatism as merely tlie
evidence of some sort of Infec
tion. They do not dispute that cold
and damp weather may increase
the pain, but the disease itself they
regard as being due to an infec
tion.
It isn't easy to get away from
Ideas we have held all our lives. We
hate to be convinced that scarlet
fever and smallpox are not trans
mitted through the air, but are con
tracted only by direct physical con
tact with the afflicted one.
Where is there a man or woman
past fifty who cannot recall running
past a neighbor's house and on the
other side of the street at that, a
house where there was a sign.
‘ measles” or “diphtheria ”? You even
held your breath and perhaps
pinched jour nose tightly so not to
breathe in the “miasm."
But we are forced to accept these
"new fangled" ideas about the “con
tagious" diseases. So we must revise
| our thought about rheumatism. We
must seek some local disease, in ton
sils, teeth, or elsevdhere. to find
the real cause of this ailment.
There are various types of rheu
matism. It may be active or
chronic; it may be muscular or in
the joints. It may be called "lum
bago" or “stiff neck." It has va
rious names, out no matter where
it is or what form it takes the
causes are the same.
Many young children have ade
noids and diseased tonsils. *ney
may be harboring dangerous germs
Not only rheumatism, but also heart
disease may be traced to adenoids
and tonsils.
You should talk with your doc
tor if you suspect trouble of this
sort. Early attention may spare
your child all sort of pain and in
convenience. Rheumatism may be
headed off and a lifetime of com
fort provided by your foresight.
A mouthful of bad teeth, with
pussy gums and abscesses, will lay
the foundation for much distress.
If the Joints or muscles are sore ■
to the touch, or painful, take pains,
to find out what is wrong. Some
remote disturbance, easily correct
ed by proper treatment, may be re
sponsible for unnecessary disease.
• • •
ANSWERS TO HEALTH QUERIES
M. O. Q.—Can constipation be J
corrected?
A.—You should correct your diet |
by eating simple, well-cooked food
Avoid foods unduly rich in fats and
starches. For other information
send a self-addressed, stamped en
velope and repeat your question.
« • •
W. B. Q —What should a wom
an weigh who is fifty-eight years
him one more, and give a quick nod
of her smooth, brown head.
•They're making a date for to
night—that's what they're doing!”
she said, bitterly, to herself. “And
after her telling me this noon that
there was nothing between her and
Dave! She must think I was born
yesterday!"
Burning with Jealousy, she went
back to the filing room and sat at
her desk, motionless as a Tanagra
statuette, for a full ten minutes, too
angry and miserable to think clear
ly.
Then all at once she knew what
she was going to do . . . She was
going to get hold of that note by |
some hook or crook, and find out |
what was in it . . . She'd see Just
how things were between Dave and
Agnes Hcrford. she would! He
wasn't going to make a fool of her
outside the office, and then pay
every kind of attention to Agnes
in the office—writing her notes in
the middle of the afternoon, and
taking her out to lunch!
She went out into the big office
once more and looked into Agnes'
room . .. There on her glass-topped
desk lay the little note!
• • •
At half-past five it was still lying
there, and Agnes was getting ready
to go home.
From the doorway of the filing
room Chatty watched her open her
top drawer and drop it inside. She
watched her lock the desk, put her
keys into her brown leather hand
bag. and go across the main office
to the girls' cloak room.
She stood where she was a mo
ment longer. Then she followed
Agnes into the cloak room. There
was no one in it but the two of
them.
“Agnes, the ’phone in Mr. Van’s
private office is ringing. Shall I
answer it?” she asked. She knew
perfectly well that Agnes never
would let anyone do anything for
Mr. “Van” that she could do her
self.
The instant the door closed after
Agnes, Chatty had picked up the
brown leather hand bag from the
window sill where it was lying.
With her quick little pointed fin
gers she had Agnes' key ring out oi
it and into the pocket of her blouse.
When Agnes came back she was
washing her hands at one of the
while bowls under the mirror, and
she was whistling Back in Your
Ow n Back Yard ’ with all her cheer
ful might and main.
“I’m a thief!” she thought. But
she did not care!
• * #
Chatty knew that two cleaning
women always arrived at the Van
(Continued on Page Seven*
old and five feet three inches tall? \
A.—She should weigh about 140
pounds.
C. B. Q.—I am very subject to
colds. What tonic should I take to
build up my system and prevent
them.
2.—Is there any danger of getting
germs from a person who has can
cer?
A —Take cod liver oil as a general
tonic. This will build up the gen
eral health and make you less sus
ceptible to colds.
2.—No.
• • •
M. E. Q.—What causes my hair
to come out in spots?
A.—Baldness in spots is usually
due to alopecia areata. For further
pariiculars send self-addressed,
stamped envelope und repeat your
question.
• • *
X. M. Q—Is it harmful to eat
raw corn meal?
A.—This is merely a habit and
should be overcome.
| Gralb Bag
Who am I? Wliat strikers am I
defending? In what famous trial
was I associated with Clarence Dar
row?
What Is a Spanish princess called?
What ruler of the old Russia was
called “The Terrible” and believed
mad?
"When goods increase, they are in
creased that eat them: and what
good Is there to the owners thereof,
saving the beholding of them with
their eyes.” Where is this passage
found in the Bible?
Today’s Horoscope
Persons born on this day are de
termined tp have their own way and
are not always sincere. They like to
influence others although the influ
ence does not alwars last.
STAR LORE
Andromeda in the Eastern Sky
By Arthur DeV. Carpenter
Adjoining Pegasus—described yes
terday—extending In a northwest
erly direction, is the constellation
Andromeda that commemorates the
daughter of Cassiopeia and Cepheus
of Greek mythology. Alpheratz. In
tht* left corner of Pegasus, is In the
head of Andromeda. Count three . ^
stars to the left from and incldlng ^
Alpheratz. and then three stars to "
the northwest. Just above the third
star and to the right, is the Andro
meda Nebula, visible to the unaided
eye as a fourth magnitude star. It
Is an island universe nearly a mil
lion light years distant. It will re
main above the evening horizon for
the next six months.
(More Tomorrow)
Answers to Foregoing Questions
1. Df. John Raldolph Neal; Gas
tonia textile strikers: Scopes evolu
tion trial at Dayton. Tenn
2. Infanta.
3. Ivan IV.
4. Ecclesiastes, v. 11.
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MORTLARY
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1911 1929
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