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There Is Yet Much to Be Thankful For
The eve of winter in a land which has something like
10,000,000 wage earners who have been separated from
wages and jobs may seem a queer time and place tor a,
day of Thanksgiving. But we have been indulging, as a1
nation, in a dour kind of pessimism for a long time, now,
and there is little danger that we shall under-estimate the
real seriousness of our plight; our chief danger, indeed, is
that we may fail to realize what very good reasons we j
still have for continuing to celebrate this holiday which
the Pilgrim fathers established for us.
Indeed, when you stop to think about it, they didn t
teem to have much to be thankful for, either.
A tiny handful of people had won a foothold on the
edge of a wild and savage continent. Behind them was ,
the sea. about them were many graves and a few’ rocky
farms, and before them were three thousand miles of
menacing forest and untracked w’ilderness. An unbiased
observer, surely, would have forgiven those people tor
despair; for he could not have failed to see that the odds
were overwhelmingly against tjiem.
But they met together, had a little feast, and thanked
their God for his mercies; and they never, in their most
uplifted moments, got even a glimmering of all the great
good fortune that was to come to their descendants in the
generations to come.
We stand today in a position not entirely dissimilar.
We have come through some very hard years, just as
they had. and those years have taken their toll of us. But
the world, somehow, has managed not to come to an end.
In some way we have kept our neighbors from starving.
We have had no social or economic overturns as a result
of our troubles, no violence, no class hatred, no threat of
revolution. We have, in fact, proved that we can tighten
our belts and stand a thin time just as these folk on the
shores of Plymouth Bay proved it long ago; and we are
entitled to rejoice a bit over it, just as they did.
For, after all—who doubts that there are great,
golden years ahead of us? Our situation today could be
infinitely worse; but by this time we are able to say con
fidently that it w’ill not he. On the contrary, we have
every’ reason to expect that it will, eventually, he almost
infinitely better.
So today we have our day of Thanksgiving.
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Fascism’s Strength
Mussolini's action in releasing thousands of prisoners;
who had got in the bad graces of Fascism seems to be a
pretty clear indication that the Fascist regime in Italy
feels itself more firmly established today than ever before.j
Strict repressive measures are invariably the mark oF
a government that isn't quite sure of itself. When these
thousands of political prisoners were thrown in jail the
outside world concluded at once that Mussolini and his
henchmen had occasional nightmares about a popular up
rising that would abolish Fascism and all of its works.
Now- comes liberality; and it is impossible not to read
In It a clear sign that Fascism feels more sure of itself.
Generously in an affair of this kind betokens a supremely
confident government.
New York
_Letter_
NEW YORK—The rule of “here
today and gone tomorrow" finds its
most elaborate illustration in the
catacombs of Madison Square
Square. Here a clown hurrying to
catch a train meets a queen of
wealth hurrying to register a prize
dog or horse.
Here, too. on one night a United
States President is smuggled
through a disorderly sea of crowd
ing humans, and before dawn a
broken down palooka of the prize
ring is haunting the scene of one
victory.
On one night a horse show
brings the gay and colorful cos
tumes of the Long Island riding
set into the half gloom of smelly
cement and packed earth; on the
next, the rubbers and trainers of
a six-day bike race set up shop.
The circus menager.e and the
freaks of the greatest show on
earth are fast followed by crated
cats arriving for a show of the
feline aristocracy. The cats. in
turn, have scarcely had time to
preen themselves when the corrals
of the rodeo are under way and
the catacombs echo with cowboy
oat lis and the stomping of mus
tang feet.
Beneath It All
Here. too. one gets that back
stage reality which change;, to
glamorous showoff once the nether
sections are left and the upper
arena is reached—with its blaring
band, its harsh lights and shouting
throngs.
Down :n the damp undercrust,
young women of the blue blood
crld may be found trembling as
nervously as any tyro perform- I
ers; a livened stable flunky may i
^tand bemoaning the last decision
or tiie horse show judges and a
515 ooo piece of horseflesh may
learn the sad news that there arc
better horses in the world.
• • •
Going. Going—Gone!
In the midst of such side-lights,
the program routine runs througn
with a mechanical snap and dash.
None is too great to deny the voice
of the docker and many a grand
dame has "moved' 'to the brusque
shout of "two more teams in th.s
event—come along there!.. Hurry!”
Yes, this is the land of "here
today and gone tomorrow”— the
very symbol of transition and un
cert a u /
• • •
What's in a Name?
There was a play in Broadway
recently titled "Keeping Down Ex
penses.” Two days before it closed,
only $25 had been taken m. They
had to keep expenses down. But
the odd part of this happens to
be that the two leading characters
were our old friends. "Potash and
Ferlmutter.” bearing new names.
Just a few season* ago the Potash
Perlnvjtter combination could pack
the theaters. But the names were
sold to a movie concern by the
creator who now has learned thae;
when the same fellows come back
under new names, the public
doesn't know them.
• • •
lloosier Homesickness
Tin Pan Alley researchers have;
never been able to figure out why
so many popular ballads have been
written about Indiana, it would
seem that the moon beams only
on the Wabash and that every'
third songwriter intends to go
back to Indiana some day.
This would be all very well if!
the writers were Hoosiers. but few
of them are. Paul Dresser, who
started it with 'The Banks of the i
Wabash ' was one of the few. Ten-1
nessee Virginia and Geor\a have
had their share of lads threaten
ing to come home. Similar threats
have been made to California. But
why. asks the music lane, does the
moon r«e so seldom in song over
Pittsburgh, Dubuque and wav
points?
m m _
Tie This!
Broadways street urchin crowd
has been joined withm a week by
a wistful faced lad who stands in
the Times Square area selling ties
a' 15 cents each from a box-cover.
Because he is such a little fellow
and looks so pathetic, his wares
are soon gone. But he's back again
in no rime with more, and If vou
were to follow' him, you'd learn
tha* the lads father has quite a
sizeable place nearby and that
.he urch.n is one of his best sales
men.
Out Our Way . . . . . . . By Williams
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Once Over
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The Headline Writer* Wife Tries
to Get a Line on the Football
Results
“How did the games come out
today, dear?"
“Well, the Bears won again."
"The bears. What bears?"
“Brown University. I mean. They
deleated the Lions."
“Who are the lions?"
"Columbia."
"Oh!"
• • •
• The Rams trimmed the Violet.”
“How did Fordham make out?”
“That's what I’m telling you. The
Rams are Fordham.”
•Who are the Violets? Annap
olis?”
"The Violets are N.Y.U."
"It's intricate, isn't it. dear?"
"Out in Indiana ihe Nomads
hung up a victory over the Wild
cats and...”
"The whomads?"
“Nomads, not Whomads That *
Notre Dame. They beat North
western. And the Comhuskers held
the Panthers to a draw at Lincoln."
“How did Nebraska make out m
the game with Pittsburgh?”
• Didn't I just tell you? Nebraska
is the Comhuskers and Pittsburgh
.s always the Panthers."
“Why?"
“It's just a custom. Want any
more results?"
“I might stand a lew."
' Well, the Big Red Wave engulf
ed the Indians up at Ithaca ’
“I knew Harvard would win.”
"Lissen. honey, the Big Red Wave
is Cornell. Dartmouth is the Ind
ians. The ! ountameers beat the
Generals down in West Virginia.
The Buckeyes trimmed the Quakers
in Ohio stadium and the W’olver
ines beat the Maroons ..."
“The Wolveroies are Princeton,
aren't they?”
“Naw. Princeton is the Tigers.
The Wolverines are Michigan
Don't you know anything about
college football at all?”
“I'm afraid not."
“The Bulldog put up a stubborn
tie battle in New Jersey and the
Crimson won over the Crusaders
by a narrow margin. Anything else
you'd like to know?'*
"Yes. dear How did Hanard and
Yale make out and don t tell me
they lost to the Alligators. Bisons,
Mallard Ducks. Leopards. Plumbers
Helpers or Prairie Dogs!"
"I Just th.s minute told you
about Harvard and Yale."
• Did you? Don't you ever call a
college football team by the name
of the college?
“What? After all my yeais of
newspaper training! Want ar.y
other scores?”
* Yes. I want to know how w.l
liams came out against Amherst
and. lissen—if you call them any
thing but Williams and Amherst
I'll scream!”
Looks That Way
European moratorium song: “Wo
Ain't Gonna Pay No More.”
Warner Brothers lost $11,000,000
in Year ’’—News Item. Anything
can be accomplished by big mov e
magnates if they go at it h-rd
enough.
' lasses 1 ou Never see at a
Horse Show
2.56.—Class for Exasperated and
Thoroughly Depressed Park Saddle
Horses; to be ridden tor nearly sot
by persons who need exercise anu
wish it were simpler.
257.—For Riding Academy Hacks,
Very Apprenensive and a Little
Suspicious of Everybody: to be
shown trying to fathom what the
rider has in mind.
258 —For Indoor Joggers earn
ing Heads to One Side as if Look
ing for Help: to be ridden by wo
men up to 200 pounds, occasionally
landing m the saddle.
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Daily Health
-
Tune and again those who are
careless with their statistics shout
that cancer is increasing, that it
is becoming a greater and greater
menace and that something ought
to be done about it.
It has been argued repeatedly '
in this column that there has been
no actual increase in cancer and
that the so-called increase js an
apparent rather than a real one.
The figures brought forward to
support the statement that cancer
is increasing are the death rates
from disease per 100.000 of popu
I lation.
Dr. Madge T. Macklin has care
I fully analyzed the causes of death
m Canada since 1900. She points
out that more people now live to
the cancer age than did formerly,
the diagnosis is much better to
day than it was 20 years ago. that
the mortality records are better
kept now than they were before
and that many more people get
early and good medical treatment
now than used to.
• •
One of the problems which arises
#i -his connect.on is the question
as to whether or not cancer is
j tending to occur at progressively
\ounger ages. She made a very
carelul analysis on this point and
* finds that there is no apparent
I :endencv for the age of death from
cancer to be lower in 1921 than it
! w as in 1901.
In fact, tlic average age at death
rrom cancer in 1901 was 59 and
the average age at death from
cancer m 1*21 was 61.7. Thus
the average age at which cancer
claims its victim is not decreas
ing.
, Moreover. Dr. Macklin shows by
t her figures that the real increase i
ln percentage of deaths from can
cer is in people over 60 years of
age. The real reason why there are
more deaths from cancer, both ac
<*nd relatively, is obvious
from a study oi what, medicine has
i done to Improve the health of
mankind generally.
• • •
In 1901 the causes of death were
such cond.tions as .nfectious dis
eases. appendicitis, childbirth and
i similar causes. In 1921, due to
l improved aan nation. typhoid bat
THANKSGIVING
practically disappeared; the in- ’
aease m our knowledge ot in
fectious diseases controls diph
theria and other infectious dis
eases.
Surgical skill h*£ so greatly im
proved that appendicitis la diag
nosed early in more case's and
operated on satisfactorily in more j
cases. Nevertheless, thrre has
been working against what medi
cine can do the complexity of
modern civilization and the in
crease in the number of deaths
irom diabetes and from heart dis
ease.
In 1901 the average age of death
in Canada was 31; in 1921 It was
38 5. In 1901 the death rate per
1000 was 15; in 1921 It was 106. Dr.
Macklin concludes.
Cancer is increasing because
by preventive methods, there ha*
been created a large population to
grow old and. having grown old. 1
they are kept from dving of those
ills from which they formerly sul- i
fered.' I
Quotations
i\Ur •<-' some limes ask if I na ve
a press agent.. I tell them my press
agem is the postage stamp. I send
my letters to the newspapers and
they can print them or not They
usually print them, because my
letters come from the heart You
can tell when a man is writing
from the heart
—A. B See president of the A. B
See Elevator Company.
• • •
Our object at Geneva will not be
to take a dramatic step which
would ftx-us attention on our
initiative or leadership. Our a.m
will be not to have a separate pol
icy of our own. but to unite wun
the other powers in finding a
single policy which might fairly be
described as the policy C. the
League as a whole.
—V scount Hailsham, Britain s Sec
retary of State for War.
_Barbs _
_ ->..1.-11 gunl.iillfl V —1
cently able to raise a 300,000,000
liound loan at less than three and
a quarter per cent interest. In three
hours. Who in the world had that
much tnonej!
• t •
Producer Daniel Frohman urges
that everybody write a play. But it
seems that lately everybody has
been writing a play, and the same
one at that—about gangsters.
With the -Not Welcome'' nu«
spread at its door for the Prince
of Wales and a riot when Gas
grave attempted to make a speech,
Ireland seems to be coming back
to normal quite rapidly.
• • •
Germany's high court decided
that Pies, von Hindenburg had the
right to appoint Chancellor von
Paiien to the dictatorship of Prus
sia. Nothing like making sure.
HOOVERS GET
FIVE TURKEYS
WASHINGTON, Nov. X —Oft—
Five fat turkey*, the gift* of well
wishers. have come to the Whit*
uniiep to form tht ctntfr ptoc®
«7he simple Th.aks.Mn, mans,
the president and hi* wife will
eat tomorrow. , A .
The choicest will be selected by
chefs. White House aide* or chanty
wU! get the other four.
To Mr and Mr*. Hoover Thanks
giving will be a day for offeru*#
thanks am* resting—"with plenty \
to eat," a presidential lecretary
said.
For them It will be their last
Thanksgiving day in the executive
mans on before President-Elect and
Mrs. Roosevelt amve next March
4 Vice President Curti*. spend me
his last Thanksgiving as second
head of the nation, plans to have
his daughter. Mrs C. P. George,
and her husband, at hi* hotel here
for dinner
Speaker Garner, vice president -
definitely made their plans, but
office attaches said they were ex
pected to have a quiet family din
ner at their hotel here.
WATCH THE DOGS!
SALT LAKE CITY. Utah— If
vou see a dog on your golf coursA
keep your eye on your golf balls.
Players at Nibley Park course
found a new racket involving a
boy and a dog recently. The boy
had trained the dog to run after
balls that had been hit out of
sight by players. The dog would
br ng the balls back to the boy ana
hed pocket them. When a four
some caught the pair in the trick,
both disappeared and haven’t been
seen since.
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BEGIN HERE TODAY
AMO* PE AHODY. elderly cousin
•f LINDA AAEKII.L. tolls to kla
death from the second-floor bal
cony of the Aterllla' Long Inland
home. Linda reaches him last be
fore he diet. In time to hear him
gasp. “He pushed me—!**
'there are four guests In the
bouse and all become suspects of
the murder All are strong phyal
eally, base violent tempers and all
have uuarreled with Cousin (mm
1 he four are MR. ST ATI. AN UKR.
mlildlesscslern manager of the
firm TOM AYF.RILL works tori
M %R\IN PR VTT. former suitor of
Linda s: CAPTAIN DF. VOS. hand
some llelalnn representing a Euro
pean perfume manufacturert and
LI AN Ml A EG IIN ESSE Y. Irish
writer and lecturer.
Linda, reallslag her cousin had
tried to tell her he was murdered,
rushes np the stairs to tke bal
cony. Someone steps behind her,
tries to strangle her and she falls
la a faint.
She regains consciousness aer
eral hoars later. It has been as
sumed Cousin Am»s’ death was
accidental and Linda has no op
portunity in tell Tom what really
happened.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STOBY
CHAPTER XIV
IT was almost half-past 10 by her
* little clock when Linda’s listen
ing ears heard the welcome spin of
gravel under the wheels of a return
ing car and she opened her eyes to
see her mother-in-law tiptoeing out
of the room.
'That’s Tom!" they both ex-’
claimed, and the older woman
laughed a little.
"You needn’t worry, Lindy!" she
said. “He’ll be up here as soon as
he can fly, and I’ll go downstairs to
sc 4 if your guests need any help
in their final preparations.*'
When Tom appeared, as promptly
as his mother foretold, his wife was
sitting up, bright-eyed aDd looking
astonishingly untouched by the re
cent disaster.
"Now, Linda—what's on your
mind?"
Her eager desire for speech did
not prevent a flash ot gratitude for
his direct approach to the subject.
No pretense that he'd forgotten it. I
no argument as to whether she
were able to talk.
"Sit down. Tom.’* she said, and
knew as he heard her own voice
that the interval, frantically as she
had resented it. had strengthened i
and steadied her. Yet Tom. as be
obeyed with more worried perplex
ity than he permitted himself to
show, thought he had never seen
Linda look so serious, and as he ,
took the hand she extended he ex- 1
perienced a quick inward shock.
It was icy cold and. for all her out
ward control, decidedly tremulous.
Then she began to talk, quietly,
without any sign of weakness or
hysteria, and he listened, incredu
lous but believing. Such things
couldn't happen but, if Binks said
so, they had! She told of the door
•hat was ajar: of the voices, so in
distinct the? she had thought one
of ib . f h;r quiet approach
and withdrawal, unheard; of Her'
surprise when, downstairs, she saw
hir in the water; of her pause on
the terrace: the scuffle overhead;
the sudden hurtling down of Cousin
Amos' body and the scant five words
which he bad strength to gasp.
Words which bad sent her flying
up the steps to identify bis assail
ant—
Averill broke in with an exclama
tion of horror.
“Linda—alone! Why you might
—you might have been killed—!”
“1 nearly was."
“Whafs that?"
"I nearly was killed. You—you
didn't know it. Tom. but when you
thought I waved—well, your being
on the raft there, facing the bouse,
saved my life. I guess.”
• • •
FIE heard her out grimly. Heard
of the silent approach of the
man behind her-the man whom
she had trapped there and who.
fearing detection, tried to silence
her forever. Heard why she had in
voluntarily clutched at the air—a
gesture so easily translated into a
light-hearted wave! And as she fin
ished with her vague memory that
the choking pressure gave, just as
she toppled into unconsciousness,
he swore briefly, shortly, with the
concentrated anguish of futile rage
“So—what do you think of that?*
she concluded, trying to relieve his
evident tension by speaking lightly
Face set grimly, eyes burning into
hers, he sat there a moment immo
bile. His look made her realize
suddenly, as an outsider would
realize, wbat she had been through,
what she bad so narrowly missed
“I think it’s murder and at
tempted murder!” he answered
slowly. "Good God—what might
have happened—and I wasn’t
there!" Suddenly he engulfed her
with tense, protective, angry tender
ness.
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vsuuu—UJJ un it. sue tAUdlUit'U
She wriggled tentatively, then more
violently. “But It’s only a little
stiff now. Let me get my breath
There! Why—where are you go
ing?”
“To call the police."
“Oh Tom—wait! That's exactly
what I thought you’d say and ex
actly what you mustn t do. Just
now, anyhow. You don't know any
thing—whom would you accuse.”
His eyes rested on her specula
tively.
“So anxious to save him?"
“Tom—what do you mean?"
“You don't sound as though you
wanted to catch your cousin's mur
derer as much now as you did when
jor ran upstairs.” His voice was
distant, cold.
“I want to catch him more than
ever," she said vehemently. "But I
know that we must decide together,
first, what to say."
"That is simple enough. We can
say I found Mr. Pratt bending over
you."
• • •
<^HE caught her breath at the sug
gestion.
"Tom—Tom—how can you—*
"How can I what?"
"Think Marvin—r
"How can I help it?" His hands
clenched. "Linda—do you want to
drive me crazy? I’m trying to—
hold myself in. It’s for your sake
I'm going to report it that way in
stead of—throttling him—choking
the life out of him—"
“Tom!" She was beside him
with one quick movement “Tom.
dear—I forgot that Of course you
think—but wait a minute, honey!
Sit down here—" He allowed her
to draw him down on the side of
the chaise longue but his face was
tense and his eyes brooded darkly,
not meeting hers. She plunged
quickly ahead.
"Dear—there are four men in
this house—and four men who may
have done it. In fact, you said you
saw Mr. Shaughnessey Just about
the same time and the other two
were up. weren't they, by the time
you got to the room? How can you
be sure which one it was? They'd
all had trouble with Cousin Amos.
You remember we Joked about the
‘potential murderers.* Marvin is
one of them He may be the one.
that's true—but—"
Her words reached him but they
started another train of thought.
“Four of them—and any one of
them might—Linda, those men
don’t wait for the noon train.
They get out of here as quickly as
they can pack. I’ll stand over every
i last one—I'll tell them it's that or
i —arrest.”
' But, Tom. you were convinced
it was an accident. Wasn’t every
body?”
“Yes. of course, Blnks. How coaid
it seem anything else?”
"That a it exactly. Murder—mur
der simply doesn’t occur to anyone
in—well, In our type of home. And
anyhow It had every appearance of
i an accident. You went all over the
; ground, didn't you?”
"Sure—with Parsons. Into the
bedroom, out on the balcony."
“And neither of you saw any
thing?”
"What was there to see? An
empty bed—an open door—a torn
railing—"
“And the body of an old man
who fell over, headfirst, hit the
Hones below and was killed. Was
the doctor even surprised that the
fall killed him?"
“X-no. Of course it was only oae
story but the old-fashioned balcony
Is quite high and he did go bead
first His head was—well, badly
crushed."
•There! He didn't suspect!*
"No—no. he didn’t."
"Did you see—any clue?"
"What do you mean? Oh, traces
of the man! No, nothing."
• • •
44 ^ND what would there be to
see? It’s only in books that a
murderer leaves a cigaret case or
a long blond hair, or something of
the sort If a man walks Into a
room at 6 a. m. or thereabouts
when everyone in the house ts sleep
ing. throws an old man over ths
rail and goes back to his room what
earthly trace couM anyone ever
find—unless—?*•
"Unless what Blnks? The police
can at least question them—"
"Tbs police! The police of this
village!" She paused to give his
own Imagination time to work. "In
the first place could we even con
vince the police? What possible ,
proof could we give? It happened A
so early—there were no witnesses S
All the men were in their rooms—
or could say they were, i thought
I was choked—but I fell uncon
scious and might simply have
fainted. You were swimming in.
with your eyes full of water, and
you thought you saw a man. And
think of those particular four men
—can you Imagine one of them
bearing the idem of being accused
of murder patiently? Nobody—no
body from outside—could possibly
find out a thing from them."
“In fact." agreed Tom slowly
"they—the police—would Just laugh
at the suggestion of murder and if
they did investigate in their usual
dumb way they d be licked before
they started."
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ended! The men would all go as
quickly aa they could and we
would never know."
He smiled a little wrHy and
patted her hand.
“Well, Blnks, whats up your
sleeve?”
“A plan that I know will work
Remember they have no Idea—tht
murderer has no idea—that I know
It was murder. That's our great
advantage. 1 came hurrying into
the room and caught him there. I
! hid and choked me. but you’vo i
taken for granted that 1 fainted
Isn’t It natural that I think the
fame thing? So. aa it stands now
there’s been an accident. i’Te come
to after a prolonged fainting spell
brought on by shock. 1 don't re
member anything but a choking
sensation before ’everything went
black.* Isn’t that the proper exprea
slon?
"So you and I are free to act and
the first thing we must do Is to
make those men stay here. They
must finish out the week-end lust
as we planned It. or aa nearly so
as possible.”
(To Be Continued)
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