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This Man, ■ WIL^M Joe Murray corcoran Copyright, 1938, by William Corcoran; NEA S«rvic«,fnc. CAST OF CHARACTERS TERRY MALLOW~-f o u » d love—and kept it! JOE MURRAY—liked new places, new jobs, new girls. HELEN—fell in Io»e—hard —once. • • • ^ I » Yesterday: Downhearted. .Jot moves on, seeking work .and eventually he begs at a lunch stand for food and is given it. He goes on, aimlessly, alone. CHAPTER XVIII If was bitter, but it was better. to He traveling alone. . . . Now there was the way of the country, Joe found, the first way: and the way of the cities, the sec ond way; and there was in addi tion still a third way, a dire and desperate way that you wen loath to come to only because the iron was out of you any more, the primordial way of all life: violence and individual exprupria tion. Theiv rantf a time, in a small ami better nameles stown in a western state, when J«m» Murray fell in with three who had blown into town in a wreck of an obi rar which had no virtue left but mobility. Kven so, there isa self sufficiency about a car, for a car implies casolinc ai,d °''» H,,t' they betoken funds. Where would a man get funds? They gave him some idea, sizing him up for a touch one ff so minded to he, while the four of them rustled the mulligan in a jungle on the edge of the town. They were all young. younger than Joe even, but hard, with the adamantine polish that comes only from the burnishing of adversity on vici ousncss inborn. "We're on the country," said :the redhead, who seemed to be ,the leader of the trio. "Only a ,sap goes broke. They're staking the charities, ain't they? Staking' th«* government, staking the1 'churches, staking everything to | what it takes, and plenty of that, i Well. 1 need what it takes, and | they're staking me. Only I don't wafl for them to bring it; I go out and get it, and if I deprive thern'of the rosy feeling of giving something to the poor, that's their tough luck. If they didn't have it. I'd leave them alone. They got it, I want it. and that's their hard luck." "Well." said Joe. "how about some poor sucker needing what it i takes himself—and you take it1 away.frem him?" They all laughed. "Don't be a j dofe.1" Listen mug. you think pep-; pto <work for. things and earn them and then own them, don't you?- Well, how about all the saps that thought they owned all this country, and nobody but them could say a work about what they owned? Who owns most of it now? Not the saps; they've lost it! How? Read the papers. Who owns it? Ranks, other saps, money owns it. It's a System. If you take a guy, you don't rob a guy—you tap a system." Joe frowned, studying the the ory. "Look here, boy," said the red head, who was enjoying a philo sophic excursion which, however valid, was in no way necessary to his own self-justification. "How many tills liable to be tapped, how many cribs liable to be crack ed in this country fail to carry insuranceT When you come up against a sap and take his money, who loses? Not the sap. The system! The system declares a thousand times a day that it wants to take care of the poor and the needy, and I'm all for helping it along." Joe said4 "H'm!" and looked significantly at the battered car. at their dusty clothes, none too new, at the pot simmering thinly on the fire. The redhead laughed. "That was another system, buddy. We're all saps in our way. We were saps lor the ge»*s till the bookies cleaner! us. So we're on the coun ter "making another stake." « He was curious as to their methods of making a stake. They smiled at his curiosity. No. they touched no hanks or postoffices; they had no racket; they raided no stores or wareho*es; they broke into no homes. Thcv pur sued no ambitions too big for their size. Thov fritted from town to ♦own, lighting like a mosquito, and flying as far afterward. They played safe and easy and com fortable. "Tell you," said Red, speaking out of quick collection and deci sion. "Yon throw in. We can stand the company. We'll set you on your feet." " Y\ hat do. I do?" asked Joe. "Coiyc along ami wc'il show you. We'vf «;ot a cinch cased for tonight. Stkk along and youl'l see. Joe shrugged. They would tell him no more, grinning. He was indifferent. Rut he went along to see. * * * They went at midnight. They drifted through the town. They were furtive, on edge, but sure of themselves. Joe followed. He had one injunction to follow: stick with them, no matter what! He eould do that, he had nothing bet ter to sick o . . .•'and* perhaps grimly relish he enedunter with *• . \ < anything disputing the point. They drifted eventually up to i K»*olin« 'station^hich was the me point alight asd yw ake in that part of town. Joe looked at the -i^n; it was one of a chain in the • own. There were two cars halt ■d in the space; there were three nen inside the office of the sta ri<>n. The day was ended; they Acre absorbed together. "Kiirht!" said Ked softly. "Stiff around, you ku.\s. I'll take the front." Joe trailed one of the pair cir cling. convrcging on the station. Jr. was p.etty clear now. There were four of them. Only three inside. The streets were empty. I'he owner was making: up his ac count, his day's take. Joe had a Hear pictoie: lunch wagons, all night restaurants, gas stations, drug stoics, they're all peculiarly helpless while the towns sleep. Hut on the gravel of the sta tion. closing in, Joe stiffened. Rod was walking boldly up to the of fice door an dthcrc was a gun in Rod's hrtnd! Red opened the floor, leveled the gun, ami barked an order. Joe watched, cold. The three men inside turned quickly, astounded; then panic sprang into their eyes at sight of the gun bearing on them. All three sent their hands high. Joe could see through the glass a can vas bag on the desk and smafl piles of cash. Red snapped to one of his part ners, "Come and gCt it! And look for a gun." The fellow darted inside, keep ing out of line with the gun. edg ing to the desk and grabbing the money and stuffing it into his pockets. ' Joe waited, tense. The third partner stood across the space, watchful as a cat. Joe waited, his heart pounded, his mind raced, kaleidoscopic, resolving nothing. The night was very still. Some where a stout twig snapped. . . . A long instant, and the fellow | across the space yelled, "Lam,1 you guys! The bulls!" Through a thick dark hedge ad-' joining the gas station a power ful figure came crashing. « <1 * None of them, drifting stealth-| ily through the town, had seen ai yet stealthier shadow following. I None had an inkling that a uni formed patrolman watched them encircle the gas station, a police man who had left his beat in the grim certainty of what was com ing. The hedge aforded the one quick means of approach, and he was upon them a tone bound, shouting, gun drawn. Red spun on one heel, fired in stantly, and raun. The cop came on. The fellow snatching the money inside the station made in continently for the door. A hand grabbed him desperately and broke his stride; he shook it off and ran outside. The policeman fired point-blank and the younger recoiled and then wilted and dropped to the gravel outsidp the door. Joe, off to the side, stood frozen. Red yellow to him from the shadows. The fourth member of the band had already van ished. Joe turned and ran toward Red, who was waiting. Red was wait ing with an ugly ferocity in his eyes as he watched, over Joe's I shoulder, the youngster dead on the gravel and the cod aiming his pistol at Joe. Red raised his own gun and fired. Joe stopped and looked back. The cop was falling, shot, I striking the gravel heavily a dozen feet from the other body; and then there were two bodies motionless on the dark gravel. "(''nion!" snapped Red. "Out of here!" Joe got out of there with him, fleeing, racing in the night. And there was a fear now, a retching terrible fear that was worst of all after the danger was well behind them. "Let's scatter,** he easped to Red. "We better not stick to gether.** "Meet us at the camp," Red agreed. "We'l hit for Royersville and ditch the car. Ten minutes!" Joe stepped int oa pitch dark alley and was sick . . . sick. The ni^ht was very still. After a time : he went on through the alley. Joe rode a blind out of. town that night, speeding westward . . . alone. (To be continued) * China is roughly divided into a wheat-eating population, north 6f the Yangtze river, and a rice eating population south of the great waterway. STEPP & WALKER (INC.) JSO. A'. SINCLAIR, Manager FRF5H MFATS HARDWARE FERTI1.I/.ER GROCF.RIF.S DRY GOODS SEEDS "Everything for Everybody"—Plenty Parking Space East Flat Rock. 1 Phono 130-W. ALWAYS SERVICE ALWAYS WILLING call ■ JACKSON TAXI - \ PHONE 54 COUNTY'S RED CROSS NURSE MAKES REPORT Chairman Coston Hopes for Continuance, Exten sion of Health Work Mrs. Dorothy McCoy, county Red Cross nurse, in a report sub mitted to the executive commit tee covering the period of Janu ary 17 through May 17, reported examination of the eyes of 13(>1 school students, of which number 11>7 were In need of attention. Every school in the county was visited, in most cases every other week, and besides eye tests, throat inspections were also made. J. C. Coston, chairman of the local Red Cross, praised Airs. Mc Coy highly for the work she has done and stated that the work i would be continued and increased as soon as possible, j In connection with this he ask I od the support <>f the people of j the county in backing the Red i Cross special picture which will | be shown at the Carolina theatre °n Thursday and Friday of this week. Tickets arc now on sale by the Girl Scouts and at druc stores in the city. Mr. Coston called attention to the fact that only the special tickets which are sold by the Red Cross will be credite dto them, funds from this benefit will be used entirely locally. A resume of Mrs. McCoy's work is riven here: At Valley Hill school the eyes of 20 children were tested and the eyes of 15 needed attention. At Tuxedo 29 of 4 I children ex amined were in need of attention, j At Tuxedo also, talks on per sonal hygiene, emergencies and symptoms were made to the upper | grades. At East Flat Rock the eyes of eight children were examined and j all needed attention. The girls from the sixth and seventh grades, were also shown how to make an unoccupied bed. an occupied bed and to turn a mattress with a patient on the bed and other points of home nursing. • The home economics class at Ktowah was given the same i course and also one on recogniz ing symptoms. Flat Rock hitrh school students were taught personal hygiene and emergencies, equipment of a sick room and other lessons in home care and hygiene. A complete course in home hygiene and care of the sick was taujrht at ftendersonville. high school and 12 certificates were awarded by the National Red Cross to those in this course. At Dana school, of 30 children whose eyes Were examined 23 were in need of attention. Classes in home hygiene and care of the sick were -taujrht at Mills River and 25 of 42 children whose eyes were tested needed attention. The same procedure was fol lowed at Edneyville and Fletcher schools with special instruction as to care of the sick and better hygiene in the home. At Balfour a health program was started and 1!) children had their eyes examined, 10 needing attention. N At Bat Cave 32 children had their eyes examined and 25 an in spection of the throat. At the Rosa l'Jdwards school on Fourth avenue 50 of 77 children needed attention to their eyes and at the hijrh school 23 out of 77 examined were faulty. At the colored school talks were given on personal hygiene and charts of children receiving soup from the soup kitchen were made to record the improvements in their condition. A course in home hygiene and rare of (he sick has been started for the P.T.A. and fhe N.Y.A. These courses are being given at the Hendcrsonvillc high school building. Tep pair of glasses were ob tained'Tor needy children whose j families could not afford to pro , vide them. I Talks were made before the I Rotary club, the American l egion I auxiliary and the Baptist Mission ary society. [ At the city high school 201 chil dren were examined for the con ; dition of their eyes, teeth, throat | an dtonsils, their posture, nutri tion, ski nand scalp as well as weight and height, oral hygiene and history of past diseases. Two hundred seventy-seven children received this examination at the Rosa Edwards school. Adult classes were held every two weeks and talks were given I on common emergencies, symp toms, equipment for the sick I room, earn of the sick room and I medicine and other remedies. North Blue Ridge NORTH BLUE KIlHifc, June 20.—Mrs. King McCall and son, Fritz, visited Mr. and Mrs. Ernest King Tuesday. Mrs. J. M. Jackson visited her mother, Mrs. Lewis Jackson, of Columbus, on a recent Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Allen and children, Jimmie and Dixie, visit ed Mr. and Mrs. Frank Young Sunday afternoon. A number of people of this community are attending the tent meeting, which is being conducted by J. Harold Smith of Greenville, S. C. A wedding which camp as a surprise to a large number of friends and relatives was that of Miss Symrona Hyder to Andrew Hvd<jr. Mrs. Hyder is the attrac tive (laughter -of Mr. and Mrs, Knox Hyder. The wedding was solemnized at Greenville, S. C.| June 1. Both the bride and bride irroom. are graduates of Dana higii school. They are' milking their home at present with • the bride's mother, Mrs. Hyder. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Pace had as their dinner guests Tues day. Mr.- and Mrs. A.' E. Edney and mother, also Mrs. J.- T. Pace. OTTERS MULTIPLY . SAN FRANCISCO. (UP).-| Since'the. recent return of sea ot ters to the Pacific coast, Dr. Kd mund Heller, director of the Fleischharker Zoo, estimates that there are now probably 300 of them swimming in, the ocean be tween Carmel and San Luis Obis-1 po, -cach one with a skin worth $1000. , Japanese automotive engineers have perfected a charcoal-burning automobile. | God As Creator ! i Scientist Topic j "Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?" was the subject of the lesson-ser mon in sill Christian Science churches and societies Sunday. The golden text was from Ps. 121:8: "Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth." Among the citations which com prised the lesson-sermon was the following from the Bible: "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do not appear."— Ileb. 11:3. ' The lesson-sermon also includ ed the following passage from the Christian Science textbook, "Sci ence and Health with Key to the , Scriptures", by Mary Baker Ed dy. "The true theory of the uni verse, including man, is not in material history but in spiritual development. Inspired thought re linquishes a material, sensual, and mortal theory of the universe, and adopts the spiritual and immor tal." (page 547) BARKER HEIGHTS 1 BARKER HEIGHTS, Juno 20.; Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Coates i j spent last Sunday with Mr. and' Mrs. Mack Coates of Innian, S. C. | j Mr. and Mrs. Bill Embler of I Candler were guests Sunday, June 12, of Mrs. Lottie Surrette and family. I Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Porter had as their guests the past week the 1 former's sister, Mrs. Brown, of Charlotte. .. I Mrs. Nannie Mitchell c;illed Wednesday on Mrs. Jane Ward of Dana, who is ill. Miss Christine Coates is spend ing this week with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bentley. Mrs. M. R. Jackson visited Sun-1 day, June 12. with her parents at j North Blue Rid-;;c. I Mr. and Mrs. James Furgerson I are spending some time in John |son City, Tenn., where Mr. Fur gerson is a patient at a sanator I mm. Mrs. Smith and little ; son ' of 'Charlotte spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs: John McQuinn. . This community, was saddened by the recent sudden-death of Mr. Albert , J. Henderson in an auto mobile wreck. • Mr. and Mrs. Henderson were among the first settlers of {Jaricer Heights section,, and were model, progressive citizens. . It was in their . Christian home that a large and interesting Spn day school was organized for the benefit of those unable to attend the city churches. A few years later, a union church was built, having the hearty support and cooperation* of this family, who were • faithful members of the Methodist chul-eh in Hcndersonville. To the bereaved family the people here extend deepest sym pathy. Japan's present fiscal year saw nearly 10,000 now employes -go on government payrolls. Letters To The Editor (Continued from nnge ?wol the great outstanding soul win ners of the age. I heard one person sny that 25 years ago there was a big revival in Hendersonville, but that the evangelist was found to he a big liquor drinker. Another person said to me, "No, I haven't been to a meeting at all, after my dis appointment at the McBirnie meetings last summer." It is amazing what fine memories some folks have along this line, and how the devil can keen peo ple away from services of this kind where there are poor, hun gry, sad hearts that might be satisfied and blessed. At every service at. I he tent there have been precious souls saved and hundreds and hundreds of believers have been wonderful ly blesed and God is at. this time visiting our community in an un usual way. And while thousands are coming to the services and getting something for their tired, sick hearts, groat numbers of our Christian friends, members of our churches, arc conspicious by their a nsrnce. The people that are coming- are coming because they are getting something that blesses their hearts. and I am writing this let ter principally to let our Chris tian people of this town who ought to be co-operating in thV great campaign for lost souls know that they are missing a great opportunity of service for others, as well as missing great blessing for themselves. We may have had deceivers come to our town in the past. We may have had folks preaching one thing and living another, but be loved, the Lord is blessing our community through the efforts of this young man of God in a won derful way in saving the lost. And what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul, or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? I hope, my dear friend, that you will print this letter, not for my take, not for the sake of the hun dreds of people who have already been saved and for the many hun dreds whose hearts have been blesed, but for the sake of the hungry, discouraged, down-heart ed, defeated Christians and sin ners who live in our midst who are not taking advantage of this wonderful opportunity of receiv ing the blessing they need. We need tourists of the right kind (and the wrong kind we need to get rid of), we need industries to employ our people, we need prosperity, we need many things which we do not have, but more than all of these things nut to gether a million times, this town needs God. He is the only One that can solve our problems, and Mis blessed Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, is the only One that car save and satisfy, and that's what He is doing now for many, and our heart's desire is that all of our people might give tip to God, whom to know aricrht is life eternal. # Sincerely, and with best wishes, I ben to remain, Your Friend, J. S. SARGENT. James [ of England, was fond of writing1 and his hooks includr "Counterblaste to Tobacco" and "Daemonolosry," a treatise on witchcraft. HA* "FIREBUIU? ^ "°STOX. (l.p, ^ aajustnicm i, th< r Se*,Jal nj "WW majorjtv f""'" Mii? 5?1 iu' buiuiin? ,N*< i (j001>^ M;tiisf;(>i i"N ,acf°riir? veslijrato, of ^ ^ fi « department <,f .,..1, >sachuJ f'».k v,' "S* *0 luoloff'sis In ,.' 'most J ijj FaTHEH w Anil IT Time-i Pace's Market High Grade Meats very Complete Stock Staple and Fancy (jrocerie* Pnoncs 206-7 620 N. M,J or you may not save at all! • Some refrigerators may save peo nies one way, only to waste dollars another! 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