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Sample of Society in A. D. 1933
Consider the situation for a moment. To begin with,
we have a vicious attempt to extort a large sum of mon
ey from a wealthy man—a crime whose mere occurrence
indicates a crack in the fabric of society.
Then the man suspected of having cooked up this
crime is caught. He forces his way out of one of the
strongest jails in the land, is caught again and finally
comes to trial.
At his trial the authorities feel it necessary to turn
the court into a veritable armed camp. The room is
guarded by machine guns, riflemen patrol the corridors
officers in court are ordered to open fire on the chief
defendant if anything suspicious happens.
Meanwhile the underworld puts pressure on the
state’s witnesses. Written threats of death are received.
One witness is bluntly asked, “Are you fool enough to
think the government can protect you forever?” The
chief defendant makes “sinister asides” whenever the
chief prosecutor rises to speak.
Now all this simply means that there are despera
does in this land whose power is almost as great as that
of organized society itself. The mere task of bringing
them to trial taxes society’s resources to the utmost. The
whole story of the trial will tell future students volumes
about American life in the year 1933.
Sensible Relief
President Roosevelt’s action in ordering the prompt
expenditure of $75,000,000 to buy surplus farm products
for the use of the needy seems to be one of the most sen
sible things he has done since he entered the White
House.
It provides a way out of an exceedingly contradict
ory situation—a situation in which vast quantities of the
raw materials for food and clothing were in the process
of .destruction at a time when millions of people had
neither enough to eat nor enough to w*ear.
It is an expensive action; but in the long run the
money should prove money well spent. So long as people
are hungry and cold, the greatest conceivable waste is
to throw away the materials that might feed and warm
them. Even if it costs a good deal more than the an
nounced $75,000,000 this step is very much worth taking.
Other* May Follow
One way of getting a line on the things our govern
ment is doing these days is to find out how they look
to people in other lands. It is rather instructive to note
that the Trades and Labor congress of Canada, for in
stance, has unanimously indorsed the NRA program in
the United States and has urged the adoption of a sim
ilar plan for Canada.
A few days before this happened, the Trades Union
Congress of England passed a resolution calling upon the
British government to adopt similar measures. The South
African Parliament is considering its own NRA plan.
The NRA, of course is not a cure-all, and it has hand
ed us some problems which will probably keep us busy
for a long time. But foreigners find that it is a program
of vast promise, and they would like to copy it them
selves. The fact speaks volumes for the impression which
the campaign is making on disinterested observers.
I The World At
a Glance
By LESLIE EICHEL
The greatest barter ln history
is being negotiated. Canada would
exchange 100,000 beef carcases with
Russia for refined petroleum. Eco
nomists say that the whole work!
may have to resort to the primitive
means of barter, begin at the bot
tom of the scale once more, to
restore trade, Jobe—and sanity. Not
only has trading become too com
plicated, but nations have become
too bitter and too resentful.
• • •
HOWE'S STAND
There have been rumors of per
fervid atmosphere in the White
House. It seems that Colonel Louis
McHenry Howe was on a vacation
when Postmaster General James
Farley tried to put Joseph V. Mc
Kee into the New York mayoralty
race as an independent Democrat,
thus knifing Piorello La Guardi*,
lusionist-independent-liberaL
Colonel Howe, who may be term
ed President Roosevelt's political
secretary, is said, on his return, to
have denounced Parley’s action.
In the meantime, New York
liberals began to demand that
President Roosevelt demonstrate
his neutrality by oailing Parley off.
It seems, too, that when two
close friends of the president, Fred
eric Kernochan, chief justice of the
New York court of appeals, and
Langdon Po6t. Fusionist candidate
for president of the board of aider
men, went to Washington to urge
the president not to support Mc
Kee, the president was too busy to
see them.
Matters, therefore, were at fever
heat when the president stopped off
in New York over night en route
to Hyde Park.
Efforts of White House attaches
to have Washington correspondents
accompanying the president not to
stay at a hotel a block away from
his New York residence were futile.
Attaches urged a hotel 20 blocks
away, as more in the center of
things.
• • ■
SMILE
New York banks are addressing
depositors with balances of $25,000
or more asking whether they need
credit—on good collateral. Federal
authorities trying to extend credit
facilities can only groan.
• • •
IN CLI'B CAR #
One hears all sorts of prophecies
in club cars (or lounge cars, as they
now are called). The other night
a man with a fairly comfortable
income bet me that within a year
or two the federal government
would be operating not only rail
roads, but banks.
• • •
INFLATING
New York financial houses, in a
desperate battle against inflation,
say that federal credit expansion
already has reached enormous pro
portions.
One house points out that from
June 30. 1930. to March 3, 1933, the
national debt rose $4,750,000,000. and
Federal Reserve notes out rose $2,
156.000. 000
Since then, the present national
administration has appropriated
$7,300,000,000 in public funds—$3.
300.000. 000 for public works, (in
cluding naval construction >, $2.
000.000,000 for the purchase of
farm mortgages, and $2,000,000,000
for the purchase of home mortgages.
• • t
LA GUARDIA'g TROUBLE
Fiorello La Guardia. Fusionist
candidates for mayor of New York,
needs money for his campaign.
Financial interest* are making it
difficult for him to raise money.
La Guardia is rated as a "radical.”
Wall Street also hates John P. O’
Brien. Tammany candidate. It
would like to be able to contribute
toward Joseph V. McKee.
Russian balloonist rose only JO
feet on attempted flight to strato
sphere. Another case where Infla
tion failed?
• • •
Maybe there’s something in &
name after all. That Michigan po
liceman who testified agamst those
nudists was named Peek.
• • •
So Uncle Sam offers loans to cot
ion growers, eh? "Oh. I wish I was
in the land of cotton.”
• • •
It isn’t right for Uncle Sam to
I furnish food, coal and clothing to
j the poor. He’s crabbing the polti
i cians’ best vote-getting act.
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Daily Health
Talk
It has been fairly well establish
ed by a considerable amount of re
search that cancer tends to be in
herited. It also tends to breed out
of the race, and in human beings,
the question of heredity is not one
that can be very well controlled
by ordinary human marriages.
There are two ways in which the
question of the inheritance of can
cer can be studied by scientific in
vestigators. One is to obtain the
records of all family trees of per
sons dying from cancer. The other
is to experiment with mice which
breed rapidly and have a short
life span.
For the purpose of comparison,
the life of the mouse in days is
slightly beyond the life cycle o.
the human being in years.
• • •
The most widely-known experi
ments on mice that have cancer
are those by Dr. Maud Slye. Word
ing on many thousands of mice,
Dr. Slye concluded that the suscep
tibility to cancer is hereditary and i
that it behaves as a simple “Men
delian recessive”—that is to say,
that it breeds out of the race
rather than in.
Other investigators insist that It I
is a dominant characteristic, ac- i
cording to the Mendelian law. A j
recent investigator on the subject
in the Radium Institute in Paris,
working also with many hundreds
of mice, supports the conclusions
of Dr. Slye to the effect that there
is a constitutional and probably
hereditary factor in the cause of
cancer.
These investigators cannot be
certain however, whether or not |
cancer is hereditary as a dominant
or a recessive trait. In fact, there
is even some question as to
whether various types of cancer
do not differ in the tendency to be
hereditary as dominant or reces
sive.
• • •
When the statistics of all of the
people having cancer are studied,
the conclusion rrems to be that an
average of 14 per cent of patients
with cancer have had cancer re
corded in their families. This fact
is not. however, exceedingly im
portant in determining the ques
tion of heredity, since the death
rates in general show that cancer
accounts for about one-seventh of
the deaths of people who died after
40 years of age.
In England it was shown that!
one death in six between the ages
of 40 to 50, and one death in fotir
between the ages of 50 to 70, was
due to cancer. Thus there is a 14
per cent or greater probability that
at least one parent of any patient j
may have had cancer.
• • •
Furthermore, the mere fact that
the majority of cancer patients are
not able to remember cancer as
occurring In their families does
not prove that cancer is not her
editary. If cancer is a recessive
trait, it may pass over a consider
able number of generations with
out manifesting itself.
There are some families in
which cancer is practically un
known and others in which cancer
is exceedingly common. Even here,
however, it is not possible to jump
at conclusions for the simple reas
on that there may be other factors
besides the family constitution as
sociated with the development of
cancer in these families.
Such factors may be the place In
which they live, the habits of diet,
the possibilities of irritation from
smoking or chemicals, or some
other aspects of the family life.
The most effective prohibition of
all is the prohibition that is fos
tered by education, enlightment
and self-control.
—Chairman Edward P. Mulrooney,
New York State Liquor Board.
• • •
I have always felt that religion
was something to be lived, not
discussed.
# —Mary Pickford, Actress.
There is no choice to American
business between Intelligently plan
ned and controlled industrial op
erations and a return to the gold
plated anarchy that masqueraded
as “nigged individualism ”
—Donaid Richbcrg, general coun
sel of NRA
■— —
New York
_Letter
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEW YORK.—The politely mod
ulated cry of “Author—author!” ii
sounding through the rail to these
evenings, and theater curtains are
fairly bouncing up and down to the
plaudits of first-night audiences ...
It’s open season on celebrities, and
every pram;ere has its crowd of
curious milling about the entrance
to glimpse, and often mis-identify,
the prominent folk of affairs, soc
iety and letters,..
"Look—there in the red velvet—
they say that’s Dorothy Parker! My
dear, wouldn’t you just know, any
way. that that would be Dorothy
Parker" ... “Oh. and Conrad Na
gel—and Janet Gay nor—and Sidney
Fox—and that man's Harry War
ner. Did you ever see so many movie
people? ... And Governor Lehman
—you'd know him by his pictures."
Police whistles. Shiny cars. White
shirt bosoms; a sea of them. Side
long. critical glances at the grown
o# each feminine arrival. Photo
graphers using flashlamps. Through
the jam, old women with baskets
pick their way. “Candy, sir?—
mints, matches?*' Urchins with
newspapers boldly tugging at broad
cloth sleeves. "Buy one, mister. My
last paper. Aw, mister!’*
A field day for thi* a ut graph
hounds ... "Oh. Mister Woollcott—
you are Mister Wtoolloott, aren't
you—won’t you just write your name
here too?" ... “And you. Mister
Jolson?.’ ... “There's Al Smith,
and isn't he getting fat? Yes, I’ve
already got his autograph" ...
"Helen Hayes! Isn’t she lovely!" ...
“O-o-o-oh— Maurice Chevalier! And
how tanned he looks! And the girl
with him? Who—Whitney Bourne,
the sewing machine heiress? Mi
gawd, would you look at the ermine!”
Seen in the Lobby
The lobbies become almost Im
penetrably barricaded with sticks
and swishy gowns, white shirt fronts
and white, bare backs, gesticulating
elbows, people pushing rudely un
til they’re transfixed with a glare
... "I beg your pardon” ... ’T beg
your pardon!” ... Tobacco smoke—
a fog of it that almost makes you
gasp. Everybody’s smoking, mostly
in self-defense ... There are some
critics. Here are two producers, come
to see a rival's show. The little fel
low—he’s only the author ...
• • •
Greetings and Salutations!
Talk. talk, talk ... “ ... an’ I
said. ’Jake, if you’ll hire this little
girl, the show'll go over”* ... “My
dear, how perfectly stunning you
look” ... “Why. I taught that guy
everything he knows! But now he's
a star I realize I musta forgot to
tell him about the first principles of
gratitude* ... “Henry’ and I haven’t
missed a first night in nine years,
and wouldn’t ha\’e then but—**
"Good evening. Mrs. Dali’* ... "How
d’you do. Mr. Chrysler” ...
“Curtain going up!” ... But the
customers don't hurry. They remem
ber that before the actors make
their entrances at a premiere the
critics, politicians, dowaeers and
debs, playwrights and pugilists hare
to make theirs. The perfect entrance,
of course, is being last down the
aide before the lights are dimmed;
then one is seen by everybody in
the theater—everybody, that is, ex
cept the ones who seem to make a
point of stumbling to their seats
after the play has started.
• •
Comes the Curtain
Of course, too. there are always
those last-minute conversations ...
“Yoohoo. Mrs. Whipplesnitz! You
should come sometime to see us.
dolling” ... “Such wretched seats!
We must be in the 15th row” ...
"And after the houseparty. we’re
going out on their yacht for a fort
night. Florida and all that” ...
“Oh. don’t let’s quarrel. Let's just
enjoy the nice play and—” ...
“Such wretched seats! Why, we're
almost in the front row. that they
sell to deaf people. We can’t see
anybody!”
“Sh-sh-sh-h-h-h.” Some of the
patrons apparently realize that each
sibilant whisper is being flung
across the footlights as from an ap
pllfier. The actors patiently carry
on. They’re not of the temperamen
tal stuff of Mrs Fiske. who used to
have the curtain lowered in the
middle of a scene if her audience
became too chatty.
Last year, 57.5*4 signatures, rep
resenting 70 different nationalities,
were entered on the register for
visitors kept at Shakespeare's
birthplace at Stratford-on-Avon.
Today’s Radio Features
■ THURSDAY, OCTOBER ft (Central and Eastern Standard Tima)
Note—All programs to key and basic chains or groups thereof unless specs*
it'd: coast to coast (c to c) designation includes alt available stations.
Programs subject to change. P. M.
NBC WEAF NETWORK
SASIC — East: weaf wlw weel wtlc
.vjar wtag wcsh wfi wilt wfhr wrc wgy
when wear ntam wwj wsal; Mid: iml
win an wefl woe-who wow wdaf wkbf
NORTHWEST A CANADIAN — wtmj
wiba kstp webc wday kfvr crct cfcf
SOUTH — wrva wptf wwnc wls wjax
v.f!a*wsun wiod went wme wsb wapi
wjdx wamb kvoo wky wfaa wbap kpre
wont ktbs kths
MOUNTAIN—koa kdyl kgir kghl
PACIFIC COAST — kgo left kgw korao
khq kfad ktar kgu
Cent. East.
4:00— 5:0C—Green Bros A Edw. Nell
4:30— 5:30—Trio Romentique—also e
4:45— 5:45—Ray Heatherton—also rst
5:00— 0:00—Dinner Concert—also eat
5:30— 5.30—John B. Kennedy— ?o cst
5:35— 6:36—Roger Gereton Orchestra
6:00— 7:00—Mountaineers—weaf only
6:15— 7:15—Billy Batchelor, Skit
6:30— 7:30—Lum A Abner—east only
6:45— 7:45—The Goldbergs. Serial Act
7:00— 8:00—Rudy Vaileers Hr.-c to c
8:00— 9:00—The Showboat Hr.—also c
9:00—10:00—Whiteman's Show—c to c
10:00-11:00—Wm. Scotti A Orchestra
10:15—11:15—Benny Meroff Orchestra
—eaat: Lum A Abner—midw repeat
10:30—11:30—Jack Denny A Orchestra
11:00—1*:0C— Ralph Klrbery, Baritone
11:05—12:05—Cab Calloway’e Oreheetra
11:30—12:30—Dance Oreheetra Prog.
CBS-WABC NETWORK
BASIC—Eaat: wabc wade woko wcao
waal* wnac wer wkbw wkrc whk cklw
wdre wcau wip wjaa wean wfbl w.«pd
wjsv: Midwest: wbbm wgn wfbm kmbe
kmox wowo whas
EAST A CANADA — wpg whp wlbw
whec wlbs wfea wore wicc efrb ckac
DIXIE — wgst wsfa wbre wqam wdod
klra wree wlac wdeu wtoc krld wrr
ktrh ktsa waco koma wdbo wodx wbt
Sdae wbigwtar wdbj wwva wmog wejs
IDWEST — wcah wxl went wmbd
wtaq wisn wlbw kfh kfab wkbn wcco
wabt
MOUNTAIN—kvor klx koh kal
COAST—khj koin kgb kfre kol kfpy
kvl kfbk kmj kw-g kern kdb kgmb
Cent. East.
4:00— 5:00—Skippy. Sketch—cast only
4:15— 5:15—Geo. Hall Orch.—also cat
4:30— 5:30—Jack Armstrong—e*. only
4:45— 5:45—Stamp Adventures—east
5:00— 6:00— Buck Rogers, Skit—east:
Skippy—repea* to midwest
5:15— 6:15—'The Rangers—cast onlv
5:SO— 6:30— Eddie Dooley — basic;
J*«k Armstrong—midwest repeal
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Cent. East.
6:49— 6:49—Chac. Carlile. Tenor -
east; Stamp Adventures—midw r|
6:00— 7:00— Myrt A Marge—east onlj
6:15— 7:15—Just Plain Bill—east; Car
lile A London—Dixie; Rangers—w
6:30— 7:30—The Mills Bros. — east;
Buck Rogers—midwest repeat
6:45— 7:45—Boake Carter. Talk — ba
sic; Between the Bookends— west
| 7:00— 8:00—Boswell Sisters—also cst
7:16— 8D5—Singin’ Sam—basic; Four
Showmen—Dixie; Organ—west
7:30— 8:30—Harlem Serenade—also e
j 8:00— 9:00—Mark Warnow—also cat
8:15— 9:15—Radio Star Revue—also c
l 8:15—10:15— Willard Robison Or.—lo c
9:30—10:30—Ted Husing A Orch.—to c
j 8:45—10:45—Gladys Rice, Songs — ba
sic: Myrt and Marge—west repeat
10:15—11:15—Little Jack Little—to cst
10:30—11:30—Charlie Davie Or.—basic
11:00—12:00— Glen Cray Orchee.—c to c
11:30—12:30—J. Hamp Orches —c to c
12:0(b— 1:00—Dance Hour—ivabe only
NBC-WJZ NETWORK
BASIC — East: wj* wbz-wbjta wba!
wham ktlka vgar wjr wlw wsyr wmal;
Midwest: wcky kyw wenr «Is kwk
kwcr koil wren wmaq kso wkbf
NORTHWEST A CANADIAN — wtmj
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SOUTH — wrva wptf wwnc wis wjax
wfta-wsun wind wsm wmc wsb wept
wjdx wsmb kvoo wky wfaa wbap kprc
woai ktba ktha
MOUNTAIN—koa kdyl kgir k*hl
PACIFIC COAST — kgo kfi k*w komo
khq kfed ktar
Cent. East.
4:00— 5:0C—Women’s Clubs—also cst
4:15— 5:15—P. Ash Orchestra—to cst
4:30— 5:30—The Singing Lady—east
4:46— 5:45—Orphan Annie—east only
5:00— 6:00—Reggie Child’s Orchestra
6:30— 6:30—Old Songs of Church
east; Singing Lady—wgn repeat
6:45— 6:45—Lowell Thornes — east;
Orphan Annie—midwest repeat
8:00— 7:00—Amos *n* Andy—east only
6:15— 7:15—On Treasure Island—east
6:30— 7:30—Concert Footlights, Orch.
7:00— fl :0O—Storisaj>f the tea—east
7:30— 8:30—Adventures In Health
7:45— 8:45—John L. Fogarty, Tenor
8:00— 9:00—Death Valley Days, Play
6:30— 9:30—Wayne King's Orchestra
9:00—10:00—Hande Across the Border
9:30—10:30—Concert Organ Recital
10:00—11:00—The Three Jesters—east;
Amos ’n' Andy—repeat for west
10:15—11:16—-The Poet Prince—also c
10:30—11:30—U. S. Army Band—e to c
11:0(^—12:00— Ernie Holst A Orchestra
11:30—12:30—Dancing in Twin Cities (
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Movie Sidelights
Ql'EEN
Whcn Kathleen Norris wrote
•’Second Hand Wife” she avoided
the customary viewpoint of having
the divorced wife represented as a
long-suffering martyr and the “otn
er girl” as a gold-digger—a view
point that is prevalent in much uf
today s fiction but which is seldom
truthful. Instead, she wrote a mov
ing and brilliantly true-to-life
story about the triangle of a wealthy
young banker, his selfish and
avaricious wife and his pn*ty
stenographer.
In making the screen version of
the story, which shows Thursday
and Friday at the Queen Theatre.
Director Hamilton MacFadden ad
hered to Mrs. Norris’ tale with e*
_
ceptional fidelity and u a con
sequence has turned out a picture
that deftly combines entertainment
with realism.
With Sally Ellers and Ralph Bel
lamy In the romantic roles ir»o
Helen Vinson as the scheming
wife, this Pox Films offering is
finely cast.
CAPITOL
An Intriguing love story which
blends with actionful thrills of
Midshipman Jack" is presented in
this RKO-Radio Picture of life at
Annapolis coming to the Capitol
Theatre Friday and Saturday with
Bruce Cabot, Betty Furness. John
Darrow and Frank Albertson.
The film concerns the adventures
o? a young and virile cadet who
dares to brave Academy regulations
to woo his commandant's daugh
ter. He wins her hand but falls
BEGIN HERE TODAY
EVE BAYLESS, pretty as
sistant ta EARLE BARNES, ad
vertising manager at Illvhy’s de
partment stare, marries DICK
RADER, a eons tract Ion snpertn
teadent. Dick Is seat to take
charge at a construction Job la
the Adirondacks. It will require
at least a year to complete bat
Eve refuses to give up her wot h
and go with him.
MONA ALLEN, ropy writer,
dislikes Eve and Is constantly
cfuslng trouble at the oflirc. She
Is responsible for several mis
takes for which Eve is blamed.
Mona Is friendly with THERON
REECE who continues to foree
■aweleome attentions on Eve.
Unknown to IMek. Eve has been
playing the stork market, bor
row lax money from her mother
and stater. She loses this, ns
well as her awn savings and MMI
Dick left la the hank.
Mona invites Eve to dinner and
then contrives to take her to a
roadhouse where Therou Recce
appears. Eve dislikes Reece. She
leaven the others, becomes last
and spends the night at a farm
house. Nevt day Reece telephones
and frightens Eve by declaring be
Is in love with her and Insinuat
ing that Dick has been currying
an flirtations.
Eve is lonely and misses Dick.
She begins to wonder It she
should not give up her work and
go to him.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XL
TPHE night before Thanksgiving
day Eve ate dinner in a down
town restaurant and then went to
the library where she selected two
of the newest books to read ever
the holiday. It was one of the eve
nings when she missed Dick
dreadfully and wanted to put off
going home. But when she finally
arrived at the apartment she
found a letter from Dick waiting
for her on the hall table.
He wrote that he and some of
the others had driven to Old Forge
for the Thanksgiving turkeys for
Mrs. Williams who kept the board
ing house. They had attended a
movie, the first Dick had seen since
he left Lake City. He added that
there would be 20 at the boarding
house for Thar' ^giving dinner— j
the men fronr the construction,
camp and a number of school '
teachers who took their meals
there.
Was It Jealousy that Eve felt
when she read that sentence? She
had pictured Dick as living in a
man’s world entirely. This was
his first reference to the school
teachers Eve hoped fervently that
all of them were middle-aged and^
unattractive, and not In any way
like Dorothy McElhinney.
Eve spent Thanksgiving day
with Mrs. Penney. They attended
services at the Little Stone church
together and then boarded a trol
ley which took them to the art*
tst’a home. Mrs. Penney had
rented the sacond floor of a two
family house near the college her
daughter attended. Eve could not
refrain from complimenting her on
the attractiveness of the rooma.
"Jean made those hooked ruga,"
Mrs. Penney said proudly. “And
she made the draperies for the
windows, too. Those pictures are
some of my work, done before my
marriage."
“Jean has a great deal of artis
tic talent," Eve commented.
"Yes." answered Mrs. Penney.
‘Her father was an artist, too, j
but he died when Jean was a
baby.”
• • e
U*VE refrained from asking ques*
■*'i tions and busied herself pre
paring salad for the dinner. Jean
and a young man who was a class
mate Joined them after the football
game and Mrs. Penney set the boy
to work mashing the potatoes. An
other girl and boy soon arrived
and Mrs. Penney assigned them
tasks. It was a merry dinner and
the young people were so amusing
that not once did Eve feel a pang
of homesickness.
The boys washed the dishes.
Apparently they were quite at
home in Mrs. Penney's flat
“They are all from out of town,”
she explained to Eve. “And I
mother them a bit But they un
derstand I must give most of my
energy to my Job and If they want
to play here they must help with
the work.”
Jean and her friends left late in
the afternoon to attend a tea dance.
Mr*. Penney invited Eve to curl
up on the davenport while she
pulled a small Windsor rocker
closer to the fireplace.
"It must be a great satisfaction
for you to fcave Jean!” began Eve.
"I don’t know what I would have
done without her!" nodded Mrs.
Penney. "She Is all I have lived
for these last 17 years. And ahe
looks so much like her father.
That Is my greatest Joy. I believe
she has inherited his ability too.
If he had lived I am sure he would
have became one of our finest art
ists. His work at the time of bis
death was beginning to attract
wld, attention.”
Eve was interested. She had
wondered about the little woman
with the brave, smiling face and
gentle manners. Eve bad always
thought there must be an interest
ing story concerning Mrs. Penney.
She encouraged her to go on.
"Jean’a father studied In Paris
and when he returned to this coun
try he taught art classes In Chi
cago. I had gone there to study,
and was one of his pupils. Per
haps we would never have been
more than acquaintances if we had
not attended an artiste* ball where
fate or chance sent us together In
an old-time circle two-step. We
danced In perfect harmony and my
heart as well as my soul took
wings. Jean comes naturally by
her love for dancing.
“After o r marriage I continued
to study art, but In private We
were extremely happy and when
little Jean war born It seemed life
could hold no greater happiness.
Jean was Just learning to eay
Daddy* and watch for him In the
window at the close of day when
he became 111. It was pneumonia
and he was gone within the week."
Mrs. Penney's voice hr ok a Then
she raised her chin in the manner
Eve had noticed was characteristic
of her and said ealmly, "This la
no subject for a holiday, Mrs. Ra
der. Shall I turn on the radio?"
• • •
IT WAS twilight and the room
1 was lighted only by the flicker
.. 1 1 1 I"111——a »
ing glow from the tireplaca. Eva,
neetling among the pillows on the
comfortable davenport, begged her
to go on with her story.
Mra Penney continued. “That la
life, Mra. Rader. Sometimes we
get our greatest jolts when the
skies seem brightest. But some
times, too, when it seems we can
not go on, things suddenly make s
right-about turn and ths path la
cleared ahead. Always ther# Is
something left to make ft worth
while for us to go on. Usually It
Is some other person.
"Little Jean and I have known
some hard times. For more than
eight years I met defeat at every
turn. It was not so had while I
had my health. But when my
health broke it was extremely bard
to earn enough for us to live on.
I let myself believe only the en
couraging reports of those who had
suffered similarly and determined
I had not yet reached bottom. Bach
night I prayed that I would be
able to get up next morning and
to do the housework and take care
of Jean. It seems a small boon to
ask but It was a very Important
one. My recovery was complete
and I shall try never to complain
about anything again so long as I
hare health and the opportunity
to earn a living."
0 • •
WHAT was it the minister had
w «ald that morning in church?
“Yon ask for some living manifes
tation of God in onr midst Can
yon not see for yourself the
rificlng mother who forgets s«iM|:
the Interest of her childr
There had been more, of eoana,
but that one sentence of the
Thanksgiving sermon stood out in
Eve's memories, coupled with Mrs.
Penney's story. What an Infin
itesimal thing the lose of dollars
aad cents seemed compared to the
obstacles this little woman had had
to battle alone! What a triumph
over adversity was hers. Eve fep
her own aims trivial after tin.
Penney had finished her story.
When Eve reached home tft**
night she wrote a long letter to her
husband.
"And so." she wrote In conclu
sion, "after my talk with Mrs.
Penney I've decided to give up
work her# and come to Pine Por
est if you want me to and if there
is a house available. 1 don't sup
pose there is such a thing as an
apartment to be had there."
Slowly, with unsteady fingers,
she folded the pages and placed
them in an envelope. Tomorrow
she would tell Earle Barnes that
she was through at Bixby*a. She
would sacrifice the dream that had
been hers so long—the dream of
seeing her name on the door of n
private office above the words,
“Advertising Manager.* She would
sacrifice all that for Dick.
Yes, Ere told herself, she was
willing to forget her ambitions if
Dick wanted her. “If he wanted
her!" The words seemed to form
themselves into a litany which
sang istelf over and over la
her mind.
(To Be Continued}