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CHAPTER 51
A WEEK LATER Rickey opened
hi , eyes and looked up at the crim
ed canopy. "Where am I?” he
cslced.
The nurse said gently, “Your sister
brought >ou here. It is much better
than the hospital. She thought you
would like it.'
••1 do like it." Rickey said, and
went ro sleep.
When he wakened he said. "This
is a wonderful icfom.” The lamps
were lighted and his eyes roamed
about, seeing the dull gold of a
screen, the black wood of a Jacobean
chest; and when his sister came to
sit beside him. he asked. “Whose bed
am 1 in?"
Her heart almost stopped beating,
but she smiled at him. “We found—
a furnished apartment."
'•But who —who is paying for it?”
She had an answer. "Rickey, we’ve
g,ild the house at Annapolis.”
Mary Lee came now every day to
K-e Rickey. She sat by his bed and
talked to him. He seemed glad to
have her. She was the only oite to
whom he spoke of Marty. Mary Lee
seemed to understand better than
anj of the others. "She loved me,'’
lie would say. **"l know that. She
would have nu. /ied me if l had had
Anthony Bleecker’s money.”
‘if i were a man 1 wouldn’t want
a woman who thought about money."
• All of them think of it."
"1 don’t, if the man 1 love, loved
me, I'd follow him in rags to the end
of the earth."
Rickey turned on his elbow and
looked at her. “The man you love?
Are you In love, too. Mary Lee?”
“Yes. But he doesn't care—"
“Why doesn’t lie care?"
"Because lie’s a fool," Mary Lee
blazed. "Oh, I’m not going to talk
about him. Rickey. I can’t. Only
you might as well know you’re not
the only one who suffers.”
Rickey lay back on his pillows and
considered Mar> Lee's charms. “I
don't see why *»«■. shouldn’t care.
You’re pretty enough when It comes
to that."
“Oh, am I?" cried Mary Lee, her
cheeks still flaming. “Did you ever
stop to think that I’m something
more than pretty, Rickey?”
"You are a lot of things that are
attractive,” Rickey rmiled at her.
Mary Lee leaned forward a little.
"I'm intelligent enough to know what
I can do, and that's what I want to
talk about. 01 want you to write a
play for me, Rickey."
He sat up. "A play?”
"Yes. Rickey, do you remember
my little song about the Chinese girl
find the temple bells? Well. I’ve been
(rovernment Control For
All Business Is Nearing
Babson Discusses National Recovery Act and Calls Pro.
cess Now Under Way an Economic Revolution;
Great Social Reforms Involved in Changes
BY KOGER W. BABSON,
Copyright 1933, Publishers Finan
cial Bureau.
Bobson Park, Mass., July 14. The
liaiional recovery act ashers in the
greatest economic and social change
*“ the history of the United States.
F(-w people realize the far-reaching
importance of present day events. To
a certain degree, business in the Unit
t'i States is today experiencing a re
volution comparable with the Russian
economic revolution of 1920-21 and the
Italian economic revolution under
Mussolini, if the recovery program is
successful and is continued after two
years, this county will have embark
ed upon an experiment of regulated
or controlled capitalism which no
other country in the world has at
tempted. If it is not continued, then
we will either give “rugged indvi
dualhm”, another trial, or we will turn
directly to Fascism in the footsteps of
Italy (Germany.
Higher /Wage* and Tlighter Prices.
The powers granted under the
are far-reaching. Not only «an
government dictate the amqunt of
goods which each manufacturer* ,may
produce and what price he may change
hut it also a 1 0ag step toward
T h control, of labor poifcles. This is
'he first time in our history that the
Federal government has placed its of
ficial tseal on collective bargaining,
minimum wages and elimination of
child labor. Many manufacturers fear
that this complete change of policy
wiil allow labor to get the upper hand
Fersorfhaly, I do not have these fears,
for three reasons. First, organized
labor is so bureaucratic that it will be
two yaets before it can wake up and
organize to take advantage of the N.
F A. Second, I believe that in the
long rpn labor must prosper if busi
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thinking of this— it
pnaod into a queer, o “ml
a i»t of color. You,! sce what I
mean in a minute." 1
Bhe caught up his dressing "-own
wdnch lay at the foot of the bed-the
black „„„ with , he
drew t around her. Then, with his
medicine glass and the medicine hot
ties tinkling an occasional accom-"
Poem me ßi'it S H '* aV * * of the
poem. But it was more than a read,
mg, it was a reincarnation. She saw
«he had his attention. Her voice kept
to its insistent, tragic note; she used
as a background the gold screen, and
*}'.? h £ d l f d U P her head in a black
silk handkerchief. Her face was
powdered to a ghastly paleness. As
she took one pose after another she
was no longer Occidental but ’ori
ental.
When at last she finished on a
minor note and lay crumpled up on
the rug, Rickey cried, "it’s marvel
ous. Where did you get the idea
Mary Lee?”
"Out of my own head. But you
must write it. People want novelty,
and you and I must give it to them
together. I've the money to get it
started.”
"Why should I use your money?’ 1
And then Mary Lee said a startling
tiling. J want you to use my money
so that you can get even with Marty
Van Duyne."
"Get even?"
“Yes; 1 hate her."
He stared. "You hate her? Why?"
"Because she hurt you, Rickey."
She was not looking at him now.
She stood very still beside the bed
Suddenly Rickey laid his hand oven
hers. His heart was sore. The
doration in Mary Leo’s eyes soothed
and comforted him.
Rickey’s convalescence was slow,
but his illness had done this for him:
it hud dulled, as it were, the edge
of the agony of his parting from
Marty. There were days when ho
was still swept by the thought of it
and lay beaten and bruised in his
bed, days when it was difficult to
rouse him, days when even the doc
tor was discouraged.
But gradually thiugs grew bettor,
and at last he sat up in a big chair
in his room, and Mary Lee, coming
in, found him with a pencil in his
hand and a pad of paper on his in
valid’s table. "I’m writing the play,
Mary Lee,” he said. “Listen."
He read to her what he had writ
ten and made her go over it with him.
She learned the lines quickly, and
they rehearsed the scene, with Mary
Lee again in the butterfly dressing
gown and the black handkerchief.
When at last thev had the thing
ness is to prosper. Third, social laws
justify giving wage-workers a larger
percentage of the nation’s production
an dincome. Accordingly, I am glad
that, labor will get some direct bene
fits from the N. R. A. In the end,
anything that is done toward equal
izing opportunities and helping the
under-dog is better for all of us.
The question of higher wages
brings up the question of higher re
tail prices. Higher wages inevitably
mean higher retail and wholesale
prices. General Johnson, administra
tor of the act, has appealed to manu
facturers to raise wages without rais
ing prices until purchasing power is
sufficient to absorb higher retail
prices. This mean sthe manufacturer
would have to absorb the wage in
crease. Economic history, however,
teaches us clearly that this has never
taken place and that increased prices
always precede increased wage rates.
I do not think this is bearish since
no one has felt particularly bullish
the record low prices which
we have seen during the last two
years. Higher .pricfes stimulate buying
and prime the whole business ma
chine. Os course, if retail prices ad
vance too fast the business highway
may become rather bumpy, but. the
'huge public works program should
help smooth out the road by increas
ing purchasing power through more
employment and stimulating consum
ption of goods. Higher wages, shorter
working hours, and the resulting in
crease in demand for goods mean a
higher standard of living. But don’t
forget they also mean a higher cost
of living.
Business Faces Revolution.
Aactually, the major industries of
the country are about to be placed un
der the same type of government su
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as they wanted it, they called In
Sima. She sat thrilled and breath
less with delight. "You two wonder
tiff people," she said, out of the hush
which followed the finale. “How did
you ever do it?"
Mary Lee laid her hand over
Rickey’s. “We did it together—” she
said softly, and Rickey turned hia
fingers up to meet hers.
Mary Lee did not always meet such
responses. A leopard does not quick-
I.' change his spots. Rickey was
harsh with her at times, and irritable.
Now and then lie sent her away in
the midst ot a scene: "I’m tired,”
he would tell her, white-faced, and
she would know he was thinking of
Marty.
He was thinking of Marty cue day
Wheu he sat in Michael’s library. It
was the first time he had left his
bedroom and he was glad of the
change. He was alone for the mo
ment, for Virginia, seeing him safely
settled, had gone off on one of the
mysterious pilgrimages which had to
do vvitli her meetings with Michael,
and of which Rickev must know
nothing. The nurse was in the
kitchen looking after the invalid’s
tray. Nogi, the Japanese man serv
ant, w as in the butler’s pantry clean
ing the silver. He brought now to
the library the malachite bowl with
its silver perching Pan, shining with
its recent polishing and glinting
among the reed-like plants.
Iliekey surveyed the piping figure
with Interest. It was a charming
thing . . . everything about this room
was charming—its tine old books, its
Spanish leather—its cabinet of
ivories, the Sorollu painting above the
mantel. Whoever had furnished it,
! had known a tiling or two.
i This was the kind of room he
• would have had if he had married
| Marty. They hud often taiked of it.
| "You should, live in the midst of
j beauty,” Marty had said, and Rickey
j had thought of a place like this, rich
i and glowing. . . .
Nogi brought in now a pair of
candlesticks, set them above the fire
place, and w ent out again. Nogi had
had a busy morning. The cook wa#
sick, and Nogi was doing the work
of two. Hence liis moment of forget.
* fulness.
| Rickey, thinking .if Marty, lay
, back in his big chair, his eyes closed.
| The soft May breeze came in through
\ the open window and blew cool on
[ his forehead. A sunbeam came in,
| 'oo, through the open window, and
: jlione straight on one of the candle
sticks which Nogi had brought.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
pervision as the railroads have been
for many years. This is bearish news
to these officials who believe all rail
read troubles can. be laid on the la£
of the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion. Many intelligent men, not con
nected with the railroads, however,
insist that the ills of the railroads are
due to the stupidity, selfishness, and
inefficiency of bankers, lawyers, and
others who are so influential in rail
road management. This group feels
that government regulation has been
the salvation of the railroads rather
than the cause of their grief. As to
which opinion is correct, only the
future can decide. The point I want
to make is that all industry is on the
verge of the same tremendous change
which the railroads faced twenty
years ago.
Prominent Democrats, such as Al
fred E. Smith and Owen D. Young,
as well as a score of leading Repub
licans, feel that the, recovery act is in
the interests of manufacturers already
in business. This group insist that
the N. R. A. will limit opportunity
and especially handicap young men
smarting new business. I can answer
this criticism by pointing out there is
nothing in the act which refers to
the discovery, manufacture, or sale of
new products. Inventors, business
men, or promoters are still able to in
vent, manufacture, and sell any new
product they can devise, without in
terference under the recovery act.
Patent laws are not changed in any
way, an din some ways new inven
tions are encouraged. The N. R, A.,
however, does provide that engineers,
chemists, an dinventors shall direct
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their energies toward developing new
products rather than toward invent
ing new processes of manufacturing
goods already on the market . In other
words, the purpose of the recovery
act is to use present capacity and
present unemployed labor before new
machinery and new processes to re
duce technological employment are
stalled.
Ethics, Not Inventions, To the Fore.
In my last interview with Thomas
A. Edison, I asked him what he felt
would be the next great invention.
He replied: “Babson, I haven’t a re
putation for being a religious man,
but if there is an Almighty Spirit rul
ing this universe, I believe He will
wish that we get caught up spiritual
ly and socially before we are allowed
to enjoy further technological inven
tions. Yes, Babson, I believe the next
great inventions w.ll be along social
and ethical lines rather than along
mechanical or electrical lines." I am
inclined to feel as Mr. Edison did.
From this point of view, I am very
glad to see controlled capitalism tried
in the United States. Os course, we
all dislike control when we have been
accustomed to absolute freedom. I
remember how irntated I was by the
first traffic lights on the highways
between Babson Park and Boston.
Today it would not be possible to en
joy the trip without them. It is not
just as reasonable to believe the traf
fic lights which the “New Deal” is in
stalling along the business highway
may be considered equally essential a
few years hence?
This is truly a wonderful age in
which to live. I envy the young peo
ple of today. They are destined to see
social and ethical changes as great
as the material changes which their
grandparents witnessed. It was a
hundred years ago that the steam lo
comotive was first used, followed by
the wireless, the electric light, the tele
phone the automobile, and finally the
airplane. Each of these steps in the
experimental period was fraught with
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danger and confusion before ultimate
success was attained. Are not those
who today scoff at the new social
changes just as foolish and short
sighted as those who laughed at
"Fulton’s Folly" ag she steamed up
the Hudson in 1807? But there is
another reason why I envy the young
people of today. Different and even
wilder experiments are being tried
in other parts of the world. What
a lucky generation it is that can
watch at one time the working out
of Fascism in Italy, communism in
Russia, socialism in A Spain, and con
•'i-O'l Ipd oapjiltaiifem -dn United
States. The working out of these
programs necessarily means confus
ion and distress. Reforms are going
on simultaneously all over the world
This means but one period of world
readjustment. Already order is em
erging from chaos. We should be
i hankful that ithese various programs
are going on at once instead of hav
ing the whole world taking up the
same experiment at the same time,
thus prolonging the agony.
Business, as registered by the Bab
sonchart, no wstands at 25 per cent
above a year ago.
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to put a string in the paraffin be
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makes ft easier to get the paraffin
off.
Bo w Disease Is Eliminated
By Modern Handling of Food
By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D.
THE AVERAGE stature of worn
en has increased three inches since
the last Chicago world’s fair. This
startling announcement is author-
by the
American Med
of Pro f ress ex *
ex b lanat ion. ac
cording to the
Dr. Clendenkic more strongly
empha sized in
the chart show
ing the Increased span of life since
the last Chicago world’s fair.
The explanation is all around you
In the Hall of Science. “Diet and
Health", for instance-, is emphasized
on all sides. Food models showing
a normal diet, the proper proportions
of protein, fat and carbohydrate, the
foods containing the vitamins and
the- necessary minerals, are in sev
eral exhibits.
The University of Illinois shows |
some of the activities of the Illinois.
state department of health. In 1880
there were over 12,000 deaths in the!
state from typhoid-fever, diphtheria, j
malaria - and scarlet fever. In 1932|
(I am quoting from memory) therei
were about 1,400 deaths from thef
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same diseases. All of them, then,
are preventable.
The commonest cause of disease is
bad milk. A wax model show-s the
dairy of a hundred years ago and
its method of preparing milk for
market. The dairy was dirty and
the cows uncared for. No inspection
was made either of the animals or
the milk. The milk was poured
from one dirty pail to another, in a
dirty outhouse by a dirty farm
hand. No wonder infants who drank
it perished by the thousands. An
other set of models shows the stand
ard of cleanliness demanded by the
department of health today—sleek,
healthy cows, and a barn almost as
clean as a modern operating room,
the cows milked by machinery so
that there is no contamination from
human hands, the milk pasteurized
or drawn into sterile vessels and
bottled in sterile bottles, and refrig
erated until brought to the custo
mer’s door.
: Similar models show the improve
ment in the handling of meat, dis
posal of sewage, protection of food
from flies and other forms of con
tamination.
EDITOR’S NOTE; Six pamphlets
by Dr. Clendening can now be ob
tained by sending 10 cents in coin, for
each, and a self-addressed envelope
stamped with a three-cent stamp,
to Dr. Logan Clendening, in care of
this paper. The pamphlets are;
I "Indigestion and Constipation," “Re
j ducing and Gaining," “Infant Feed
ing,” "Instructions for the Treatment
of Diabetes," “Feminine Hygiene”
and "The Care of the Hair and Skin.