The Saturday Evening Post 1926-08-07: Vol 199 Iss 6

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She Grasped One of His Hands in Both of Hers, Heid it Tightly for an Instant, and Then, Disappearing, Catled Back, ‘Waitt’ fo) meme than threes . hen they ha N ANY other circumstance, Willie Gerald told himself, he would have been By Josepln Jel ergesh Cilm er b it lly a epted, and id for, whatever hs R

annoyed at the room to which, with igh m, had fac tovet with th his bag, the servant had conveyed him. FLEvsTasw f & oO er Pr. GRUGER other golden ages. Now they argued with It was obviously one of the least important him about the dat ] flas possible rooms in the house, overlooking an inclosure of grass where clothes were hanging they waved aside his comments on transit il chair cks; and they had even made up to dry. There was no visible evidence, except for the matchless scarlet of some purchases independent of his presence or ad distant maple trees, that he was at Bar Harbor. It might as well have been a suburb Fortunately his affairs were such that he could afford to smile at all this. Fortunatel of Philadelphia. But nothing now could spoil his high good humor; and tipping the And during the course of his connection with the Carlins, in addition to everything else man in keeping with the limitations of the room assigned him, he cheerfully asked if : I f mself a very high reputation as an expert in early Americana some chairs had lately come by express frorn Virginia. They had, he was briefly informed; to be one of the three NI i la d ide they were uncrated and in the storage room above the garage. No, neither Mr. nor Mrs. from a present flood of imitations; | lis ered az Carlin had seen them yet—and Mr. Carlin had been heard to say that he didn’t know candle stand; and his ] I of America where they could put eight more dining-room chairs. silversmiths was the last reference on that ingratiating trad I f things | This additional information was distinctly out of place, and Gerald dismissed the man turned out differently, less miraculously, he 1 still have bee ndidly situated with a hard stare. However, lighting a cigarette, his entire sense of peace and well-being and there his wisdom showed itself. Instead of selecting a mere millionaire for the returned. Still he was glad that this—his gaze comprehensively included the undesirable patronage of antiques, he had chosen the Carlins Jasper Carlin not only had room—was at an end. It was time he was bringing his connection with Jasper and inguessable amount of money, he had married Ann Mitchell; and together they ver Ann Carlin to an end—for the fundamental reason that they were clearly losing their much moved and had their being within the sacred walls of societ Society in tl interest in early American antiques. Their interest, while it had lasted, had been sense And—a result of this—if the Carlins had become difficult, there wa enormously profitable, vastly comfortable, for Willie Gerald; it had, the truth was, h a score of the mere millionaires who would attach Willie Gerald to thems¢ provided his living. But for more than a month now it had been growing precarious; at the first opportunity. Yes, and pay him more t J the Carlins were increasingly critical. The happy period—it had lasted, he discovered, for of his taste and knowledge and coll

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1 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST They could, however, all of them, go to hell! Gerald left such considerations for the absorbing thought of Rose. , Waiting for him, here in Bar Harbor. Tomor- 1e would be with her, and then he need never leave her God, he was glad that Fourteen years. Rose alone again. For the rest of their lives! he had waited. now October, and October fourteen years ago she How long had it been? It was had turned away from him and married Jim Brinel:cr. \nd he—as a consequence, he had told her—never married. en years back they had had that talk, and Rose had ried and kissed him. Put she wouldn’t admit she had made a mistake and she wouidn’t see him again, not that ; He could hear her voice; it rang clear and undimin- hed in his memory: ‘‘We won't have an affair, Willie. I don’t know why, but I have a feeling we must he patient.” if he kissed her again, she had Four- That much and no more; would be the end. And And Her mes: 1, it so he had waited now Brinecker was dead and Rose had een years re had reached him in Virginia, age for him. was buving eighteenth This ventual and incredible joy, must have No one, it at the secret thoughts of a woman, in one of Carlin’s ears, he ‘ ture for one of Carlin’s houses walnut furni nsummation, this ¢ ! hidden all the wl le in Rose ‘s mind } } eemed, ¢ nd even guess Gerald moved about the room, running a bath and lay r out his clothes for the evening. The servant he had had ually to dismiss for impertinence should have done all it. However! He began, in view of what was before m, to go over his material resources and discover how much--if Rose had had nothing at all—they would have to e on. In 1925, he found, he had made better than thirty thousand dollars; the year before not quite so ' h; and the first year with the Carlins had brought him t least eighteen thousand dollars. Not at all bad when e reflected that most of it was safely and beautifully in- vested. He doubted if, in those three years, he had spent thousand dollars; a sum in itself more than sup- His reoms in New York, in spite of their polite location east of Fifth Avenue, cost him very little; he was continually out to dinner, living with the Carlins and their friends. twelve ed by his bridge. He had, for example, been three weeks south at Jasper’s expense; the week before, he had stayed at Darkharbor with Al Simonds; he’d come to Darkharbor from a month at Islesboro. Before that a trip to England for Liverpool punch bowls and Chinese armorial porcelain had consumed amonth. He hadn't spent a week through July at his own expense and June had seen him supposedly tarpon fishing in Charlotte Harbor on the Watrous house boat. Palm Beach, Aixen and White Sulphur Springs had taken care of the late winter and early spring. Except for his clothes, and railroad fares, he had spent practically noth- ing. And now, at necessity, he could attach himself to any one of twenty sources of income. But it wouldn’t be necessary. He was fastening the single black pearl Ann Carlin had given him last Christmas in the single buttonhole of his shirt when his fingers stopped performing that office, Not understood, dress and he sat lost in the realization that Rose was rich like Jasper, or the Crenshaws, who were, he then staying with the Carlins, but very solidly situated. He knew Brincker’s position very nearly and realized that Rose less than two million dollars. but Yet, in command of her resources, he would very soon increase Rose’s small fortune: Willie Gerald had, and knew that he had, an ability with money. The reverse of extravagant, he had been more than once directly characterized as mean. But that wasn’t a charge, a fault, that he resented. He had calmly replied that with him such meanness was a necessity. he could not have left With that they’d be more than comfortable, almost not quite— luxurious. Besides the Crenshaws and himself, Gerald found that airman Lane was staying with the Carlins. He first saw Lane in the act of declining both the hors d’ceuvres and a cocktail, a very characteristic act; and he wondered how Lane, who was notably disagreeable, got around so much. He made no attempt at the ordinary pleasantries of exist- ence; he spoke, even answered direct questions, mostly when he felt inclined; and generally, Willie Gerald thought, he was a nuisance. He had, however, one posi- tive quality that Gerald would have been the very last to August 7,1926 ble about he knew everything that was discoveral For example, a deny the furniture of Thomas Chippendale. hundred times more than he, Gerald, was aware of However, Fairman Lane, as an authority on Chippe dale, a London cabinetmaker, had little or no interes the American counterparts, early or late, of English orig inals. He found American furniture crude, and said so; had no place, he asserted further, in the elaborate of the present; Windsor chairs, he declared, the kitchen; and the furthest he would depart from Waterford glass was Cork. Gerald had had more than ons argument with him; and it pleased him to re houses belonged +} ++ sympathy of any chance hearers of those discussions ha been with him and with early America. He was seated now, at the dinner table, on Mr shaw’s left, Lane was at her right, and she was squarely toward Gerald. “‘T have just been looking at the walnut hunting board you found for Jasper in South Carolina,’’ she proceeded. ‘I’ Now, Mr e it, we give anything to have it for my breakfast room Gerald, if you do see another even remotely | you give me a chance? I'll buy just anything that ha your stamp of approval. You really furniture you like, ‘Genuine, William Gerald.’ too bad Jasper and Ann have the opportunity to keep : ougnt to mar the I think it you discover.” *T’ll tell you, Olive,” Jasper Carlin called from the end of the table; “I'll lend Willie to you for three mont} You may make what terms with him you like and ha what he finds down to the last millefiori paper weight.”’ Ann Carlin objected tothat. ‘‘ My dear Jasper, wouldr it be better if she asked Willie first? Aren't you rath taking a lot for granted, disposing of him that es Her husband replied that he had been intent on doing Willie Gerald a service. “I'll admit I can’t keep t} him, and it’ll need all Sam Crenshaw’s money. He's just sent me up eight more Chippendale dining-room chairs from Virginia. And that, if I bought them, would mear six sets. All important, as Willie says.” “English?’’ Fairman Lane demanded. Continued on Page 84 ? ny L ma enemas eS “Really, Willie, You Sound Like a Successful Criminat I Can Imagine One Would Tatk Just Like That. If He Was Well Enough Bred"

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 5 1D ae ial WIUN PROP IRS ee ILLUSTRATED BY ANTON OoTToa FISCHER ACIFICA s+ ——- Nothing HULL fin oii ished her

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the yacht ensign she had washed out the night be- fore. A martinet might have criti cized first scrub bing the national emblem with a nail brush, then short ening its long di mension by a cou- ple of inches. But the girl’s intention was patriotically ound. Pacifica adored her country’s flag, though she had not lived under it for many of her twenty-three years. She now held it at arm’s length for a crit- ical inspection The white stars

signia, stripes were again immaculate. Several times

while voyaging down the coast in side, Pacifica had Pax gave him a of exaspera on. “Well. of all per-rivete resented the un- cempt condition f some flags she had seen, espe-

ially when flown hos Don’t tr hy yachts that to t me yu were not slovenly edanunknowr as to hull and top- en e, who's niages. “They é i up, to ought to burn | ie down with us them, with all due mere] on her respect, and buy | ! new ones,’ ‘Why should | Pacifica had said. ave asked hero Tattered, grimy her locks? battle fla all I know you right, but in peace- el! enough to get times it won’t do.” u— — —— $$ that part of it

She now re- Lanty Looked Straight Up Some Distance to See an Alluring Face Stamped Against the Azure Sky Like a Medallion ‘Don't gé flected that the shirty, Pax. W<«

flag of her country, more than that of any other great ‘Like your honor,”’ Pax agreed were formally presented to ea ther the courtly post power, required to be kept fresh and spotless. Patriotism “That’s what they stand for.’’ Lanty’s voice maste ¢ é the he table rit of the old aside, its beauty of color and design demanded that there muffled. Sout I'd showr m my passport and the letter of intro be no dimming of its brightness. Signs of neglect are more Glancing into the cabin then, Pax discovered with sur- duction to Mr. Dade in Jacksonville when he gave me the perceptible in the Stars and Stripes than in, for instance, prise that her twin was taking out time for a quick shave, registeré ette e knows all about us and that my the British Union Jack with its field of i red, or the and this without bothering to slip off his silk shirt. Lant; te French Tricolor, of which the outer end i in fact, had merely dabbed on a little shaving cream and ‘What e know it her in blood. was making a very sketchy job of it “Everything. A) 1 far frier Dandled her on his Pacifica was catching the last stitch when her brother Pax’s smooth br furrowed in thought “Wy the e¢ Just t appeared, hurrying down the fish wharf. He came to the sudden need of dolling up? Those cat swipes at your figger- ‘I see where e got to pilot tl packet the next rickety ladder, slipped down it and into the small squat head this time of the morning?”’ For it was ten o'clock tch,”’ Pax said bitte dinghy with what looked to Pa like reckless haste. Lanty did not answer. He swabbed his face with a damp N That's to é ». She grew up on these water Watching him more closely as he rowed off totheir cruiser, towel, blotted a nick or two, then, st iffing the towel into vays, ida k. K vs every bar al unken log by she saw that the same hectic hurry was manifested the laundry bag, began hurriedly to tidy up the I I f t t her to t me thro life “Any mail, Lanty?”’ Pacifica asked as he c: aboard Pax hoisted the flag, neglecting to observe in her pre- Ther yu’d soon be hard aground, I'l! say. If we've and caught a turn with the painter, then hurried below. occupation that she had tugged on the wrong halyard managed to come all the way from New York without “Nothing but money. A registered letter. I say, Pax, first, thus making belated colors with the ensign capsized pilot we cam manage the rest of it.” have you got the grime washed out of that ensign?” Lanty, glancing out, discovered this portentous error wit ““Wait,”’ Lanty sa She knows everybody in Florida “It’s spotless.” a gasp of disgust Native and invader ‘Hope the colors didn’t run.” “Sacred blue! Why the signal of distress?”’ “*Then her acquaintanceship is mixed ‘Those colors don’t know how to run,” Pax said proudly. “Gosh,” Pax cried, hurriedly taking the halyards off ‘““No. Evervbody does not know her. But s got the “Well, h’ist ’em up again. This crate looks like a bum- _ the little cleat. ‘‘Let’s hope it’s not a sign.”” She corrected numbers of most of the big tin horns cd boat.’ Pax held up the flag for his inspection. ‘‘That’s the mistake, still wondering at what had happened to ‘‘Are you trying to intimate that in the irse of het fine,” Lanty said. ‘Some of these darned yachtsmen seem __Lanty, who was not at most times so zealous in the poll ram Ip ar own these ditches ar I iH to think a badly worn ensign looks sporty. Asif it had been ing of the cabin and of himself. “Why the frantic redding w e’s ever f f our dear t through a lot. That's the wrong idea. Let anything else up? Why don’t we go? We're all filled up with ice ar “Didn't have t t her, but Give ” oat iam 99 me ' ' get weathered, but keep your colors bright. gas and wate

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6G THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “Well,” said Pax, “‘let’s hope that soon we twain shall meet. How do you know this girl is to be trusted as a pilot?” “Our mutual friend, the postmaster, told me that she often ran back and farth in her own launch, or at least her uncle's.” ““What's he?” ““Owner of the Jax Comet. She runs the local society page.”’ He looked shoreward. “I think she’s coming That looks like the postmaster.” “Well, go get her. She may be able to give us a line on Twining. He’s been down here every winter for years.”’ Lanty rowed over to a dilapidated wharf. The courtly postmaster, having escorted the girl down to the front, bowed and returned to his official duties. Lanty looked straight up .some distance to see an illuring face tamped = against theazure sky likea medallion. The rest of his new friend was eclipsed by the girder of the whari. “My sister Pax is impatient for you to come aboard, Miss Jekyll. One min- ute please. [ can help you from above better than from this melon pip. But first I’ve got to get some shrimps.” ‘I brought some, Mr. Hull. They are the local boast in food, like prite de foie gras in Angouléme.” Lanty was sur- prised at this trav- eled simile. He swarmed up the rickety ladder and eased the girl over the edge, then dropped down into the boat and picked up his oars. His guest watched him with curiosity as he pulled off to Pax offered a firm little hand in greeting and in assist- ance. ‘‘ Miss Jekyll —kin to the doctor, or to the fashion- able island we passed back there?” “The latter directly. The former when I want to hide. Aren't you two English?” “Not by three hundred years and three thousand miles.” “Boston, then.” “That’s warmer.” “T know. Portland, Maine. It’s got to be one of the three.” “Our ancestors on both sides hail from Portland, and we were born in Boston, and we've gone to school in England.” “‘But you can’t be pure Floridian,’’ Lanty said. ‘*What about me strikes you as impure She looked at Pax. ‘‘ Your brother told me you could do with a pilot. I August 7,192¢ “That's what we want to find out. He’s our trustee.”’ Lanty interrupted to say, ‘‘ He was mother’s trustee ur til she died suddenly about a year ago.” “Oh, I'm sorry.” “‘So are we,” Lanty said grimly. ‘He's in arrears wit! his accounting. We're wondering why the statement ha been delayed.” “Perhaps he has invested it down here and needs a little time to liquidate,” J. J. suggested. “‘Liquidate may be right,’’ Lanty said, “‘with a foot or two of water over it.” J.J. looked grave. ‘‘I'’m a traitor to my state in saying so, but it does look like a washout al] down the line.” omy That’s what worries us,’’ Lanty said. ‘‘This bird is known for a plunger, a hell-diver. As I see it, the only difference between the wise invest y ment of trust func and the abuse of you put it across or get stung.” Twining party the other | them is whether | | | night didn't loo } like poverty “Why hou it?’’ Lantv asked “And I can’t help wondering who ipaq heen paying for that party you mention an others like it.”’ Go Low, Baenty,” Pax warned ‘Well, he’ brought it on him- self, and J.J knows him and sne ’s our guest, so of course all thi stops hereaboard.” “Of course,” J. J repeated. ‘If we reporters printed everything we were told we'd be treated as the whale treated Jonah, and prop- erly. Strikes m that you two are Babes in the Florida Wood —e — : - Fancy trying to the boat “T suppose you look just like your sister,’’ she said. ‘‘ Twins are apt to be that way.” “*Not in our case. Pax looks like me.” “IT stand corrected. Of course it would scarcely do for you to look like a girl, while at your age it’s all right for the girl to look like the boy. Most girls do nowadays.” “Fortunately,” said Lanty,‘‘ you are an exception.” ““My nearest relative, an uncle, threatened to beat me if I got a beauty chop. We compromised with this non- deseript dock.” “That's all right when it curls,” Lanty approved. “Why are twins invariably good-looking?’’ Miss Jekyll asked. “Are they?” ““All I’ve known. I suppose when there are two they average up irregularities. What might make a funny face in one is piquant when shared by two. Also they’re apt to rub down the rough temperamental salients.”’ Lanty nodded. ‘“*Wear them smooth by friction, so to speak.” “That's it. Selfishness when there are two would be a paradox, or if shared, less noticeable.”’ She glanced toward the thirty-five-foot cruiser. “If I hadn’t been warned I'd think i was seeing double.” She could scarcely have been blamed for this. Pax, standing by to welcome their guest, was in face and form and even costume a perfect replica of Lanty. They had the same trim well-set athletic figures, ruddy chestnut hair with its natural wave—Lanty’s a little straighter—the same squarely oval faces, light gray eyes that were black lashed, and the same straight well-bridged noses. Butina year or two her brother s clothes could not possibly have disguised Pax as a boy. ‘My sister Pacifica, Lanty made a brief presentation Miss J sy}} 9 JOKYVII ‘Those Colors Don't Know How to Run," Pax Said Proudly go back and forth all the time. My beat is Savannah to Miami. Hope you don’t think me a cheeky pest. But so- ciety reporters all come from the Buttinsky tribe. Only way to get the tosh we print.” “You've lived in England, too,’’ Pax said. “Guilty. Went to school in Malvern. It’s a tradition in my family for the youngsters to finish their educations abroad.” Lanty started the motor, then came up to get the anchor aboard. Miss Jekyll’s violet eyes followed him with in- terest. ““What’s his real name?”’ she asked. **Atlanticus.” **And you're Pacifica. Jolly. So your boat’s A and P.” “*Men call me Pax. The whole of it is more than I can bear.” *“Who gave you such big names when you were so little?” “A seafaring ancestor with a seagoing sense of humor. He built up the family fortunes in ships and felt he owed something to the two oceans that let him put it over. Mother couldn't balk, as we were due to inherit.” “‘And did you?” “We hope so, but just now it’s somewhere in Florida. That’s the fountain of youth we’ve come down here to hunt for.”’ “What fun! Perhaps I can put you on the scent. I know all the dirt trails. And men call me J. J.—when let.” “‘Have your close contacts ever fetched you foul of a man named Roseberry Twining?’ Pax asked. ““Not so close as to read the secrets of his heart, but I’ve bumped against that bird quite often. A big pouter pigeon strutting up and down the roof, bubbling. Only the other night I assisted at a party he threw until it ran wild. Is he a friend of yours?” find out what Rosey’s up to None of his playmates have ever been abletodothat. Are you acting under legal advice?”’ ““We have a letter to a Jacksonvill partner of an old family friend. Name of Horace Dade.” “What?” “‘T see you know this jurist.”’ **Not so well as I did some years ago, when I was sixteen. At that remote epoch I was engaged to him.” “I’m glad you’re not still,’’ Lanty said. “Of course not. How could I be, since I’m now twenty two? Some of our old Southern customs still prevail.” ““What’s the matter with him?” Pax asked. “Oh, nothing. We just outgrew each other.” “‘Which is to say,” said Pax with sophistication, “that one of you outgrew the other. Which was it and who’ e lawyer who is junior leading now?” “J. J., of course,”” Lanty said. “I can see the working of it. This Dade blight is a lop-eared law student wher J.J. is a leggy schoolgirl. They run neck and neck until he forges ahead as a full-blown lawyer. Then J. J. goes to Malvern and comes back with English luggage and ar English accent to take the lead over Dade, who has lost a bit of his new glitter as a struggling young barrister. But Dade hits up the pace for another two lengths’ lead by in corporating a few realty companies around himself. Then J.J. gets in the running again as a brilliant journalist whom everybody loves.” J. J.’s eyes sparkled. “Just like petits chevaux, isn't Each pony giving the other a punch ahead as it spins round past. But you’ve stopped too soon. Dade’s ahead right now. He’s got ghastly rich.” “On paper,’ Lanty amended. ‘He probably thin that he’s amassed a fortune and will presently look round to find he’s got everything he wants but love. By that ———

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nn THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ~J time you'll be running the whole paper and too busy to “Grew up on them. N et me get the | ea sie med past, to re t line bother with him. Then his boom will blow up and every- Without waiting for permission J vent be nty Ca\ é i ighed. | thing go blooey ie came aft F : ce “Stop! Are you trying to make me scream?” “Just when a feller needs a friend we've uv ‘ I , s “The worst is yet to come,”’ Lanty said gl vomily. “Dade “Looks like it But I don’t think we'll use ] etter ' will be a broken vessel, a punier percé, flat in the Florida to Horace Dade, Esq.” 4 mud, a retaining wall that’s burst to let out the ooze of a “‘No. I seem to feel my horns locking with that yg ; subdivision. By that time you'll be sick of fame and see young legal luminary, and it looks e we were right a 1 uM the hollowness of a loveless life 5 - Rosebe rry J. J.’s got } number What that ming i» {Is | J i ne le i a lat pi } “Stop talking rot,’’ Pax said. ‘‘The chances are this up astern?” hrin the makings of Dade guy is taking entirely too much for granted. He ““One of those pestiferous sea sleds.” A roasted la that rd et , thinks fatuously, J.’s always there, and when I get good A gleaming scow-sh: i mahogany boat S Lant i and ready I'll grab her off But somebody’s apt to beat ing rapidly, a welter of pale amber foam under a sh« g “Well, he $s like a mud lark to mé mé I ‘ him to getting ready.” bow, while a sort of snowy geyser was thrown high in a the other night were fa tu i the same, he’s g “Bless you, twinny—I bless you,”’ Lanty said fervently. astern from the thresh of its shoal twin screws. The deep- some “My vision is dimmed with thoughts of self.” toned thrumming of the speed boat’s powerful engines No question of that. H 4 ‘ th the J. J. laughed. ‘“‘Then you'd better get your vision in reached J. J. below best and never seemed to lack for g money focus, because just now Horry is pretty thick with that She thrust her sleek black head up through the hatch, “Other people's maybe. It’s not i th a power gorgeous trustee of yours. Their ideas of getting rich pleas- then reached for the binoculars in the rack beside the of attorne: And I’d say that he i en enough a antly have much in common—speed—but Dade is up cabin door. bird against the old conservative crowd and that is gaining “Speaking of gliders, here come those two new chur It ing tot f me mf t on force and volume. It’s drying up the state and trying to Dade and your dear truste y was in Sava Pax ¢ ed Perhaps the t to st ou spin cocoons around the bath ng belles and generally short- na! That's Rosé y with ! i want to i t tne nt ening sail for the squall that’s not SO very lar awa! W here him?” llow are ou off did vou learn to run a boat?” “Anything but—now that we've got you,” | t\ I've got a rag ortwo. W Nowhere. At least I haven't,” Pax said. “I can't ever said. Because you're apt to find you I ged it mad hold fast to all my good shrimps when we're out in the great “Then we must act qui The channe arrow giddy whi \s Lanty says, Rosey trave th the he open places. We've done some boating in England, Nor- thev’ve got to skim us close They're sure to fete iy H demand with the hig ousé olk Broad You ean d op the whole of them in one of they recognize ar of us.” and house-boat and casino partie ind tt ‘ he i these big Marshes. Mother lugged us to France w hg n we lve got to steer the boat Pax said t irag mu round t i ‘ r ¢ vere little. Twining was mostly standing by. When the “Let Lanty do it.” hanks, What's the fir \ roke, Lanty tried to enlist: lied like a little man, but But he saw Lanty in London only a year ago. He “Jasmine, > name, but a fan on they told him to go back to the nursery. Then we were can't help but spot him.” *T tind it apt,” Lanty said i. ed and sweet.”” ent over nere a ] ] proved he r swift resource She pened her Vanity I f thing erent ow, ! ( ni t ‘We never saw much of mother,” Lanty said. “Shewas box and took out her eyebrow pen: orld ove No more localisn kveryt g standardized aiwavs too bus st with society and then hospitals and **Shove your face in here, Lant) Ne more of the Uaint manne ms ¢ re or figure things.” Hedidso. J.J. seized him by one ear, smeared the pe of speech or accent « istoms Imes OF Ways i see. That accounts for your being so well fledged. cil across his upper lip with swift deft strok« Served | thought ‘The old orde hanget} ing place But this place is full of buzzards, so I think I'll have to eyebrows likewise and the prolongation of his hair on eithe new She spoke a littl stfully rhat’s why you ) brood you a little. We'd better make a start to catch the side in front of his ears are so relreshing tide up the St. John’s River. Yank up the hook.’ “There. Now you'll pass in a pinch for a South Ame You think we're quaint?”’ Pa A ve-aye, sir.” Lant) went forward and got the anchor. ican fox. Take the whee Du down here, Pax.” Yes, in the sense of being we re i é Pax took the wheel, working the controls with practiced The twins obeyed these masterful orders. The speed you mix the modernisms of two hemisp} s. Especia hands. boat foamed alongside at a distance of thirty yards Lant Eton one second, and Yale the next ‘It’s easy going until we get down about six miles to Lanty saluted gracefully in a fashion of fellow yachtsmer We you're a bit that way yourself Lanty sa the ruins of an old Oglethorpe fort,” J. J. said. “‘Then Pax, looking through the cabin porthole, saw a trim hand Tosh’ and ‘fro as applied to ir s ty columr the channel narrows up with some quick turns. Follow the some young man with a clear olive skin and small blac Yes, we're all getting mongrel mouthed. Influence « ebb-tide bends.”’ mustache, and beside him a man of heavier frame , very ] tis! ters in the An in mag They’ yg “You take her, J. J.,"" Pax said. “I'll get some lunch. much dressed in yachting costume of blue serge coat, white us ‘washout’ and ‘old egg’ and ‘nat ind ool and a Do you really e shrimps hose were beauties in flannel trousers and white yachting cap with its insignia. lot of othe Oh, raw-ther! Fernandina.” She recognized her distrusted truste¢ Continued on Page 104 OO “‘A Boat Like That Needs a Tender. Be Lenient With the Poor Little Rich Boys"’ |

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8 THE IR fil ID I © N A STEAMING day in the summer of 1906, a chubby, excited boy sleuthed down lower Broadway in New York City behind a slim young man, who darted amid the traffic at real peril to life and limb. Although the young man was obviously too absorbed in his own thoughts to notice any- body, the boy took care to hide himself well in the crowd. Being a romantic youth, he be- lieved that the man wished to keep his destina- tion a deep, dark secret. “He's got a den somewhere and he makes lightnin’ out of nothin’ at all,” a fellow office boy had volunteered zestfully that very morn- ing. ‘“Prob’ly he’s figgerin’ how he’ll make thunder next.” This hint of mystery was all I needed—for it was I —-to be straightway turned into a detective. I had more than my share of ¢curiosity—and I simply had to see that den Call it fate, or what you like, that very afternoon I was let off just as the reputed manufacturer of lightning, who was none other than Guglielmo Marconi, went out the office door. Red and perspiring after sundry escapes from being run over by dray horses, I finally tracked the inventor to a little place on Front Street where there was no forge of Vulcan at all, but only a‘small, not very well equipped laboratory, where he spent most of his time in New York. That day’s adventure was the dawn of radio for me. It was little past the real dawn of radio, for that matter, since it was only six years after Marconi had thrilled the world with his announcement that, by means of a wireless appa- ratus, he had received signals on two successive days over a distance of 1800 miles, and had begun to make history that hasn't stopped growing yet. The signals consisted of three dots—the famous Morse letter S—repeated twenty times and were sent on Decem- ber 13 and 14, 1901, from Poldhu, Great Britain, to St. John’s, Newfoundland. I say the world was thrilled by this announcement. I doubt if this was precisely true. The innovation probably sounded too outlandish and unreasonable to be believed by most folks. The newspapers featured it for one day on the front page, and scientists were interested. J imagine that was about all, for who could suppose that in less than twenty years people would be getting pictures and voices out of the air and regard it all as commonplace? Dave, the Telegrapher ty RTAINLY no precocious premonition that I was close / to history in the making entered my head as I tracked Marconi to his little laboratory. All I felt was a boy’s curiosity about a man who could work miracles wit machines. I might never have seen Marconi if I had not early in life decided to be a newspaper man. This ambition is as com- mon to boys as the stage fever is to girls. My connection with wireless and radio, which has now lasted for twenty years, grew out of it. 1 matter of fact, I went into the newspaper business in life. That is, I had a paper route and later a news stand on the West Side, so I thought I knew a thing or two about journalism. Then ambition stirred and I abandoned the news stand to search for a real newspaper job. I went down to James Gordon Bennett’s old Herald office at Broadway and Thirty-fifth Street and walked into the first door I saw. It happened to be the entrance to the Commercial Cable Company. A red-haired man was there. ‘I'd like a job on the Herald,” I announced with a good deal more boldness than I felt. We need a messenger here at five dollars a week, ten cents an hour for overtime,” the man answered doubtfully. They had been advertising that very day for a boy. My heart was going like a pile driver, but I managed to “All right, am I hired?” He said yes stammer Of course it wasn’t really a newspaper job, arry messages to the Herald office and was duly thrilled by my s contribution to the printed page. I ition then—to become one of Mr. had only on Bennett’s bright young men. Pretty soon, though, I got interested in the telegraph. I saved up two dollars and bought an instrument, which I learned to work by watching the operators. Then I took my new toy home. The thing increased my standing on the block tremen.ious!y. Everybody wanted to see the queer contraption, and for several days, whenever I was oF ILLUSTRATED BY WYNCIE KING there, our flat was filled with an awe-struck group of neighbors ‘watching / Dave telegraph.” Seeing that I didn’t get on very fast with such an audience, my mother locked the other children away for a certain period each day while I prac- ticed my Morse code. I worked eight months with the cable company, and then, because I was genuinely interested in wireless and in Mar- coni, | got a job with the Marconi Company of America. It still wasn’t exactly what I wanted. I aspired to be an operator and was only an office boy, but at least my wages were increased fifty cents a week. Furthermore, I now felt privileged to hang around the laboratory on Front Street whenever I had a spare moment. James Round, known to me as Jimmy when I got over my first bashfulness, was boss there; and since there was a good deal of dirty work a boy could do to help about the place, he let me mess to my heart’s content. I blew out hundreds of fuses and have calluses on my fingers to this day where I burned them. Sundays and evenings, it was natural that I should read about Samuel Morse and his feat on May 24, 1844, of trans- mitting the famous message, ‘* What God hath wrought,” SATURDAY EVENING POST By DAVID SARNOFF=-AS TO MARY MARGARET McBRIDE August 7,1926 TOLD over an experimental telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore and of his early attempts to send wireless mes- sages across a canal at Washington, using the slight con ducting power of the water to carry the electric-telegraph current from one side to the other. The history of the decade which followed, when others tried the same plan, some succeeding but none getting beyond the experimental stage, interested me, too, as did the story of Alexander Bell, who, in 1882,used his telephone receiver connected to plugs below the water’s surface to send messages from the land about a mile and a half to a boat on the Potomac River. My reading skipped as agilely from one country to another as did the progress of inven- tion itself. A Swivel-Chair Sea Captain READ that Thomas Edison and his associates, in 1885, were proposing to support, high above the earth’s surface and at some distance from each other, two metallic plates, which should be a sending and a receiving machine betweer which electric rays were supposed to extend, and that Heinrich Hertz, working at Karlsruhe, Germany, was at the same time creating and detecting electromagnetic waves, confirming the theory of Professor James Clerk Maxwell, of Edinburgh, and laying the foundation for radio as it is today. As I read, my head was filled with dreams of high accom- plishment. I watched Jimmy Round working what seemed to me wonders in his laboratory, and saw the operators coming into the Marconi office from their ships, browned by exposure and so full of tales of adven ture that you had only to tap them craftily with appropriate questions to enjoy an Arabian Nights feast. I resolved then and there that I would never be an official—a dullard in a swivel chair, ders to better men. Alas for boyish dreams! To day I am an official, tilted back in a swivel chair, giving orders to men who go down to the sea in ships. Yet I had my little adventurous fling first, as you shall see. One day I heard that we were to send two opera- tors to an electrical show in Louisville, Kentucky issuing or- I happened to know that the company was short of operators, so I begged to be taken as assistant to an experienced man For the first time in my life I rode in a Pull- man and slept and ate in a hotel. The man whom I assisted must have spoken a good word for me, for when we came back I was made operator of a telegraph line connecting the main office with our Sea Gate station. It wasn't a very important post, and I was only sixteen, but I felt that the whole company would go to pieces on the hypothetical day that I should fail to report for duty. As I look back now, I realize that it wouldn’t have taken a great deal to blow up that company. The wireless busi- ness was not making money in those days. Sometimes, indeed, when Saturday pay day came around, I, as head office boy, would be sent out to friends of John Bottomley, our general manager, to borrow funds to pay off. Bottom- ley, poor fellow, did the best he could; but it was hard going, for there were only four ships—the New York, the St. Louis, the Philadelphia and the St. Paul—equipped with Marconi wireless, and only four land stations—-Sea Gate at Coney Island; Sagaponack, Long Island; Siasconset, Nantucket, Massachusetts, and South Wellfleet, on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. There were, too, all sorts of patent tangles, and the courts were never free of wireless litigation that dragged on and on, eating up profits. The public had at that time no particular stake, and therefore no great interest, in wireless. It is difficult to say just how far away present-day broadcasting was from the average mind then. True, there were a few amateur wireless-telegraph sets in existence, and some embryonic attempts fad been made with experimental wireless telephony. Of ‘this, however, the public knew little. We heard a good deal of it at the Marconi Company’s, because wireless was naturally shop talk with us I heard enough, at least, to make the routine round of a city office irksome, and in 1908, when I found they needed an assistant wireless operator for the coastal] station at Siasconset on Nantucket Island, I applied for the place Not only that, I pleaded for it. I didn’t have a great deal of opposition, for it was a dreary station, except for a few rs AS OT > RU tte

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~ weeks in sum mer, and men hated to stay That did not discourage me, nor did the fact that I had never been away from home before

I got the job ly because enie it was only for a month, to relieve Jack Irwin, later to be- come famous in the history of wireless when he went up in 191] 0 as an operator in Wellman’s airship. That party con- sisted of six men who tried to cross the ocean in a ship equipped with an equilibrator. They fell into difficulties off the Bermudas and Jack had to sound the CQD signal They were all picked up by the steamship Trent Jacl ’s rovl spirit, or perhaps the prospect of some

lar enterprise, had caused him to apply for a month's leave of absence, and so I got my chance. My reception at that station was something to remember greeted me with exaggerated politeness, pretending to defer

The other men to my opinion about this and that. They were all twice as old as I was, and our most experienced operators. was accredited by the main office, the manager finally decided that I might be allowed to stand the regular

r trick. He was not convinced about my ability, however, and stood at my elbow most of the time. When the month was up I went back to New York, and Irwin being still away, was promptly ordered to Siasconset again; this time for eighteen months. It was winter then and not a bit of fun. We had to generate our electricity and look after our own equipment. There was no steam } , electric lights or running water. I ke two-story house and ate at a near-by farm. My lived alone in a

al life came from romps with Alma, four-year-old daughter of the station’s manager, A. H. Ginman. She ray, pretty little thing whose frolicsome ways made only ec life half bearable. There was one other compensation—I had plenty of time to read. It is astonishing how much a boy can learn about things he is interested in, and conversely, of course, how little about things that bore him. By that time I had forgotten my itch for newspaper work and was resolved to I read with eager absorp- tion such meager accounts as I could get of experimental follow wireless as a profession. demonstrations of the wireless telephone made here and there. Tt wireless station could be broadcast on the wings of the ese tests showed that speech carried through a ele tromagnetic wave, to be rece vedw ith ordinary wireless receivers and heard through head sets A Big Day in Wireless History LEARNED a lot about practical engineering in the Siasconset period, too, for when the dynamos and motors s allowed to fix them up. At this time, I met Abra- reading and took him for my model went wrong I wa also, although it may be an irrelevant detail, ham Lincoln in my of the ideal American After a while, been transferred to Sea Gate, which offered less sa more ad I grew restless again and had just though,

venture, when on January 22, 1909, came an event that stirred and thrilled every man in wireless worl Just before dawn of that cold, foggy morning of the White Star Line, York to the Mediterranean, Italy, crashed the Steamship Republic, bound from New and the steamship Florida, of nto each other twenty-five south ol miles

vantucket Light The ster , I like yap ind wate re in to t? ) y ‘ it i ’ Par en passeng of the ve ( ina ishe I The Re A and are prave Me ) cursing t} ess ina ton lic to the wirele nha ‘ R ] remen that the vesse ment and an operat There was the ‘ t Yet the enge took to the f s tne rr t t + =, m4. , ‘ , ‘ er Ar ‘ the ean we ‘ 1 for eve ry } A Call on the Ship’s Doctor Continued on Page !14! \ / an ve a es, f ff

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10 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST STATION SI YX f f } : oraiew aetalis have always pi He has a very scientific nd quite clear explanation. You can take it or leave it. But you cannot explain why all this should happen to Heminway Hleminway was a New Yorker, a bachelor, a Rotarian and the captain of his soul. He was a competent captair Nothing that he did not himself select, invite and control had ever happened to his soul or to him. He had always uired by his own well-regulated, personal efforts every thing that he wanted. As he had wanted few things, the list of them is not long, though Heminway was forty. \ good job—efficiency expert—with a select clientele. ood apartment, not too far from his favorite club and his favorite park, or too near them—the top floor of an old brownstone house, where the rent was low, as he had paid for all the improvements himself — knocking out partitions, putting in elaborate systems of plumbing and wiring and heating. Below him in a rabbit warren of unimproved cubby-holes clerks, stenographers and lesser creatures , but he did not smell or feel their presence. and only slightly underpaid houseman, Ming Friends enough, not too many, not too vate. Girls enough to take out. They were never the ame girls for long, but there were always three. One to flapper from the outer fringe of the smart et, or a show girl perhaps. One to talk to-——-one with a studio in Greenwich Village preferred, if the studio was not too ratty And one really nice girl—th® kind of girl you could marry. Though until his annuity was paid for, ileminway did not intend to marry. Heminway had once been engaged to be married — very much, too much engaged. To a girl in that fresh-water college through which he had worked his way, back near his old home town. He was young and the girl was vounger, and they were both quite absurdly, quite painfully in love That was a mistake, an indiscretion; but even that had not been a setback to Heminway, but a safeguard, a help in ; career. For through his first years in New York he had written her perfunctory letters, fewer and farther between, ar een true to her and pt out of messes for her sake until he learned his way around And then the girl had lied suddenly, making no fuss about it, and very far aay He kept her letters and eve ometimes looked at them, and a tress of hair too. Girls had hair in her time. Hers vas long and soft and straight and of a pale, silver-gold He 1 called her | vy. wi h was short for L Maid f Astolat ne id called him Jacl He was J. Burgess Heminway now; one of those big blond men with good shoulders and better tailors, and pink, unlined, ingenuous faces and tired eyes. Hem- inway’s were green, with little amber lights in them some- times which did not seem to belong there. This is really all you can say about Heminway, or for Heminway. WI! brings us the more quickly to an evening in May. Heminway had an engagement later that evening with the girl he danced with. Rather a special engagement— to play at Shandy’s. It was not a very safe place to visit or at all a safe place to play at, and he always lost at roulette. But he had figured that he could afford to play once more at Shandy’s; also that for one month more he could afford this girl. A lovely, quite mad and rather cruel thing wit black, wild hair, blacker and wilder eyes, an uncharted past and no future, and no heart. He had met her at a shady but amusing dance place. A young Greek, Helena Patakopolus— Patsy. Heminway was preparing for his engagement, as he did for all his engagements with Patsy, much as a fighter trains for a fight, with temperance, abstinence and calm. He had dined at his club on an English mutton chop, de- } ly twice round the park, clined a good cocktail, walked brisk had a tepid bath and cold shower, laid out his dinner coat with the synthetic pearl set-—he did not wear his real pearls at night clubs—and now, in his new Chinese loung- | ay on his Louis Quinze day bed with his head ing suit, he fle not asleep, but in four minutes he would be; for his method t and a pneumatic pillow under his knees. He was of relaxing the nerves for sleep required just four minutes. It was a simple method. You first counted one hundred out loud, timing the count with your breathing “One, two, three,”” counted Heminway. He stopped counting and frowned. His frown changed to a smile, his smile to a self-conscious smirk. It vanished. He rose and began to walk fast up and down the room, kicking various objects out of his way without observing them closely, though all deserved his attention. By LOUISE DUTTON ILLUSTRATED Br BARTOW V. Vv. MATTESON A Lovely Face. White asa Wasted Flower, Tired as a Forwandered Child's, But Beautiful; for it Was Very Young Nineteen, Perhaps “Devil! Little devil!’ said Heminway; and then Zoe Mou—my soul’’—and then, ‘Mrs. Heminway Helena Heminway— Patsy.” Even a captain of his soul has battles to fight, and he wa fighting one. They came on suddenly, just like this, all of not them, and of late they had come very often. He ha fallen for Patsy. He was not going to. Not a chance, for he had her number and his own; he was strong, hard boiled. It was only that sometimes it was a little hard not to fall for her, and this was one of the time A vase crashed to the floor and his foot crushed flower He picked them up. They were cool and his | hot: Perfume came from them, but with it, drowning it, he smelled another perfume, warm on a white throat, stale in the heat of a close-curtained room. Ora taxi a pirate taxi driven crazily late at night, tumbling almost — almost into your arms; with a light, challenging laugh in your ears; with rouged lips that you had not kissed, that you must not kiss *‘No,”’ said Heminway very firmly; and then, “Sup pose sig Suppose he let himself fall for Patsy; gave up his w ning fight, stopped fighting. It occurred to him sometime that it would be a colossal joke to do this. The j« vou be all on him, J. Burgess Heminway, but he could take He would walk straight to whatever hell fate and Pat had prepared for him, with his head up and laughing “It is after all my own affair,”’ said Heminway He stood still before the last object he had kicked, and stared at it defiantly. It was his radio. Between two casement windows open to the May wind, it stood on a low red-lac que red stool, with a tall twist stemmed floor lamp above it, shaded in purple—all t from mauve to the black purple of Parma violets. It did not deserve this setting; for it was only an old portabl 1 make. Only Ming Toy ever touched set of a discontinue: it. He loved it and had few loves, so it remained thers Tonight he had left the power on. Heminway put out a hand to switcl off, touched the dials instead. Sitting August 7,1926 - ————— ———.

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— is omen en ne ———————————— ————— cross-legged on his Kurdistan rug he began ily, to shift and*turn them ‘ Ix absently, Heminway stopped abruptly. Rather a queer thing had happened. The knobs, moving so smoot} ily, so easily, had sud- der ceased to turn. They would not move at all. He pushed and tugged at them They were as still as if other hands, holding his own, controlled and checked them. Power gone, batteries dead,” said Heminway. But he knew that this was not true: for the knobs felt warm, vibrant, alive, seemed to cl] ng to his hands And from his hands, up his arms, all over him, shot a queer little pulsing thrill Drawing his hands away he still felt it. All at once, qui te surely, he understood tting a new station, one and that this was ite far oing to he good. Hleminway bent close and noted the ion of the dials carefully. The and volume control were both w. The hands of the finders pointed, oddly enough, one to sixty and one That is important,” Heminway iid gravely. ‘“‘ Very important.”’ Then he sat still on the Kurdistan rug and waited. The first sounds that Heminway heard were discordant, loud, menacing. There were mut- terings, whines, little groans, sudden laughs, hrieks like stormwind in a gale, and the sullen murmur of rushing water, very cold, very deep. All this stopped abruptly with one great cre- endo of chaos, and silence followed. Heminway nod- Nl nies ll pleased, 1, WE ‘Interference. There would be. There always has been. But I’ve got it! I’ve got it!”’ The silence somehow grew deeper. It was so heavy, so t, that it hurt like a pain. Then into it, healing it, filling t, flowing quietly, gently, all through it, like water brim- ming into an empty cup, came a voice. The announcer,’’ Heminway whispered. That was ob- ous; for this voice had the curious, impersonal bleakness and strangeness that they always have. It had also a big- ness and richness that they do not have. Yet it was very low, and the words flowed into each other so moothly that it was an effort to separate them, to listen. ‘Station broadcasting J program of music . . . by special re- uest of - Heminway had not caught the name of the station and he liked to be accurate. But already the great voice was THE SATURDAY EVENING POST For the golden voi se » lower registers, whi Lady Say You Save Her Last Night, But She Never or years, yet that silver tinkle and patter were not hear her voice, an quite unmistakable—an old-fashioned, square pi: Heminway was not quite sure w all at once, and with a lovel clearness that | Funiculi Funicula? He was not sure, but he knew it. ceuse from Joce] Continued on Page ad known them once and forgot- Heminway heard it al

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THE SATURDAY Lille I’ QUINIDILIIN “\N THE twelfth of May James Emerson Bankes was no more an Jimmy the clocker, turf (pert,ex-jockey; onthethir as proprietor ¢ a racing stable, his strin consisting of Nellie Bly, years old. Sam Cusick had un loaded Nellie Bly on Jimmy Bankes Sam conside red tine ndred dol lars Jimmy paid for the mare as found money. Nellie Bl had wonderful speed until, as a three year old, she hecame wind- hroken This vVasn t due to rac ing: It was a taint n the blood, ior Ormonde was her grandsire; and Or- monde, though called the horse of the century in Eng land, had been sold to America because he had a weak throat, and some of his get were show- ing the same inher itance. Cusick had an imported horse, Mugger, and he would have bred Nellie Bly to this re if he hadn't been afraid of in- juring Mugger’s reputation by pro- ducing youngsters that would develop this weakness “rll Get Even With You! Jimmy Bankes didn’t know these things; and having won a few hundred over a race, he listened to Cusick’s advice that he buy Nellie Bly and make a kifling with her in a cheap selling race. When he went to take the mare away he was accosted by Slim Neely, who acted as a jackal to Cusick, putting the latter’s bets down at times, spying out the secrets of other stables, and the like. Neely was a bad actor, known to be crooked; even Cusick knew he was crooked; but for some of his transactions Sam needed a lieutenant whowas unprincipled. \s Bankes stood beside Cusick, holding the shank of the ilter attached to Nellie Bly, Neely, rounding the stable isked, ‘What's up, Sam? Where's Jimmy takin’ the And Cusick winked at Neely. you sold her, Sam~— sold my mare?” ‘Your mare how d'you get that way?” You promised her to me the time I --I Cusick took a threatening step toward Neely. ‘‘ You'd better button your lip or I'll rivet it down to your teeth, slim.”’ He pushed aggressively against Neely, carrying him ard spered, ‘Keep still! I'll square you.” But Neely circled around Cusick and, closing his fist, iid to Bankes, ‘You blasted shrimp! I'll get even with s you: Youre nothin’ but a dishcloth tout! You've looted better, strung him with a tip, got a few dollars and sneaked in here to get a mare that belongs to me. I'll get u the gate for t Bankes laughed. ‘‘You've been ruled off once, Slim; ere isn’t a racin’ al would believe you on oath. You terfere with me an’ I ind you the best lacin’ you ever ad.”’ Then he led Nellie Bly away “Look here, Slim,’ Cusick said, ‘I wouldn't give you at mare because #s no good; she’d only break you he can't go over a half mile, an’ she can’t be cured. I had Doc Raymond pipe her put a tube in her throat, but it i tdoat of goo l was ge to bree in You're Nothin’ But a Dishcloth Tout! I'ii Get You the Gate for This!’’ “An’ get a wind-broken colt. It’s a taint. That's why I wouldn’t breed her to Mugger. It costs real money to keep a youngster till he’s ready to race as a two-year-old; an’ then p’raps find he’s no good.”’ Cusick drew a roll of bills from his pocket. ‘‘I sold her to that boob Jimmy for two hundred bones; here’s a hundred fer you— we'll split found money. An’ if you want Nellie Bly bad ’nough to burn up the mazuma, you'll be able to buy her back for twenty-five from Bankes the first time he runs her.” Jimmy Bankes led Nellie Bly over to his friend Dicky Sproat’s barn, asking Sproat to train the mare for him Dicky laughed. ‘‘So Cusick planted that broken-winded skate on you, eh?” “I took his word for the mare. He said s a half better than forty-nine, and hadn't a pimple on her legs.” “That's true enough, Jimmy for the half; but she couldn’t get three-quarters in an hour, because she’s thick in the throatlatch, gone in the wind. Sprintin’ is no good. There ain’t no half-mile purses, only for juveniles.”’ ‘*Then Sam’s stuck me for a dead un, has he?” “Sure thing, Jimmy. He'd sell his mother a ghost an’ promise to deliver the goods. Have you paid for the mare? ... Youhave,eh? Well, you ain't got no chance in the world in gettin’ off this deal. Sam's graftin’ for the ready these days. He's clearin’ out his old dub horses to get the long green to pay for that imported sire Mugger. How much did you contribute —what did you give for the asthmatic little mare?”’ “Two hundred.” “Well, you've just got to stand for it, that’s all. You } e could run can send her to my stable till you find a chance to give her away. Cusick waited a year for a sucker; it would take you longer to catch a buyer; Sam’s a better liar than you, Jimmy.’ ‘**Ain’t she worth trainin’, Dicky? Cusick gave me word that she'd be a pipe in sellin’ race EVENING POST August 7,1926 By W. A. FRASER ILLUSTRATED BY GRATTAN CONDON sne was a good norse once, put ! A rank bad 1 vening Sproat and Bankes sat rned buckets in front of the stalls Jimmy exclaimed Here comes tha slimy cuss Slin Neely If he’ lookin’ for trouble, I’m goin’ to paste nim, Dick don’t interfere.’ “T won't; an) body can paste that crook for all I care. What's the trouble Bankes related what had occurres at Cusicl barr Neely’d know. the mare was no good, Sproat said medi tatively "“*“GQ@Guess he wanted the two hundred thought he could sell her to ome sucké fo that money _ Neely had turne [here was no trace of warfare in } face he wore rather, a n **(jood evenin’ Mr. Sproat — hello, Jimmy!’’ he greeted “I got kinder sorry over gettin’ fresh wit} you up at the bar: but, Cusick pron fair and square. | was goin’ to use her gettin’ about ride her. I guess Sam didn’t tell you that she wasn’t worth a hoot in Hades for racin’ ’cause she’s broken-winded. Sam’d te I] put his own brother away for a dime. Mr. Sproat’ll you, it’s the trut’ about the mare; he knows her.” **Dick’s told me,’”’ Bankes answered curtly “If you’d asked Mr. Sproat first, you wouldn’t ‘ve beer stung for two hundred. I'll tell you what I’ I'll give you fifty dollars for the mare. She'll only run you into a feed bill an’ nothin’ doin’.”’ **She ain’t for sale,’’ Bankes declared “The feedin’ won't cost Jimmy nothin’,”’ Sproat adde “Cusick split that two hundred with me, ‘cause the mare was as good as mine,”” Neely continued; ‘“‘it was a steal to take her away from me. I'll give you the hundred Jimmy; throw in the halter an’ I'll lead the old mare away.” “She ain't for sale. An’ if you mean, Slim, that it was a steal on my part, I'll kick you out of the yard,” Jimm; said angrily. “You'd better go anyway, Slim,”’ Sproat suggested. ‘I don’t want any of the racin’ men to see you round n barn; they might think I was gettin’ you to dope one o my horses.”’ Neely’s face went white with passion; his thin lips drew back from the hyenalike teeth, and he cursed ‘You don’t need nobody else to dope your horses, D Sproat! An’ as for you, tout Jimmy, I'll get even with you if it takes a leg! I'll make you curse the day you sneaked into Cusick’s barn and led away my mare.”’ Jimmy sprang to his feet and his little slim | on Neely’s jaw, sending the latter sprawling Sproat seized Jimmy by the collar and said, **} t out of here, Slim an’ stay out! Get now!” > went, a string of oaths, like a kite’s tail, fl d 1é in limn that 00 ‘ Ne ‘ tno Te s On iid al A

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——— _ — THE SATURDAY EVENING POST le her about; he’d rather sit in a street car an’ p body’s pocket. Dang funny! I've got to think it out Sproat pondered for a couple of days over the mystery the fictitious value of the useless mare in Neely’s eyes When Bankes asked him what they would do with Nellie Bly perhaps give her away tosave feed bills—-Sproat said, ‘Leave her here. There’s no hurry. It costs dang little to to train her, for she ain't worth it.” Ne llie the paddock was also Sproat’s feed her, an’ nothin’ One day Jimmy saw Bly wandering around Sproat’s paddoc k, and in horse Dander, a well-bred but unsuccessful race horse a heap selling plater, with no hope for the future, because he was ten years old Sproat explained this shift: “I think I can win a cheap Dander; Half the fellers think I’ve doped him when He's a crazy-headed brute. I thought er steady him, keep him race witl he’s got his speed still, but he’s an ex- citable devil. he goes to the post. old mare would ki him down; she’s as quiet as a mess of I got me a goat as a playmate for Dander but he killed the goat.” p'raps the ompany, quiet boiled cabbage once, ‘I’ve got to get rid of her,’’ Bankes declared despond- ently. ‘I hate to give her away -two hundred bucks gone hlooey !”’ “Only a hundred, Jimmy. I'll give you a hundred for a half interest in the mare, just as a lead pony for Dander; they’re great chums now, an’ the keep won’t cost you nything ’ “You can have the whole interest for a hundred, Dick.” the feed bill’ll offset that. Later on I'll turn her out on my little farm an’ let her run round the aystack all winter. Can't tell that might cure her of her can't tell. I’ve known that treatment to bring a It was settled that way. One day Sproat said to Bankes, ‘‘Hop into my lizzie, jimmy. I'm goin’ up to ask Cusick to breed Nellie Bly to Mugger.”’ ‘*Sam said he wouldn’t do that. ‘| want to hear him say it, Jimmy, an’ I want you along to hear him say it, too,’’ Sproat answered enigmatically. When Cusick was approached on this matter he cursed. ‘D’you think I want to take a chance on ruinin’ the repu- tation of a horse that’s worth ten thousand a year to me as he snarled; adding, ‘‘D’you think I'd 've sold a well-bred mare like Nellie Bly for two hundred if it wasn’t for that?” Months later, the following March, Sproat astounded Bankes by the announcement that Nellie Bly had foaled a hestnut colt. ‘Don't want it; throat trouble; horse back.” 9+ a sire. **But who's the sire Jimmy gasped ‘It isn’t Mugger, Cusick’s horse t, Jimn ‘No, or he wéuldn’t ’ve sold he “*Dander is the sire, an’ he was bred in the purple. If Nellie Bly’s foal turns out a good one, Dander be w twenty thousand dollars as a sire rh f that “Holy smoke! P’raps I lr ye r ifte Dick” and Jimmy held out } hand y Ire a friend, I'll tell the world' ‘You see, Jimmy, there ain’t ho foundlings in the Book They've got to have arents to registe f colt isn’t by Mugger which he ain't é D You tell Cusick casual that Nellie Bly’s got a colt et an’ if Sam asks who’s the colt by, tell him by Dander. | Sam don’t make a kick, you'll know we're in right — se« When Jimmy told Cusick of the Sproat had forecast, ‘Dander!”” he exclaimed derisively. “‘ Dicky Sproat’s old plater? You've got a Futurity winner, Jimmy, sure.’’ Then he laughed and coit, the iatter, a asked for the sire walked away Then the chestnut babe was registered in the r, out of Nel equine peerage as Passion, by Dande Ormonvale Passion was a chestnut, as was his but the sire, too, the adam; Dander, was a blood-bay. In all other respects, weanling favored his mother. Babe horses are apt to look like young moose, all legs and ears, but the experienced eye of Sproat could see that the colt had the conformation of that is, would have it when he filled out. A long all the topsy- his dam barrel, strong bone and grand quarters; turvyism of breeding, for the Ormondes were generally high-up horses, and bays. Jimmy and Sproat sat many an evening in the latter’s cottage, discussing the possibilities that were ahead of the colt. Sproat declared that if Passion did not inherit the throat taint he would be a wonder, for his dam would have been had she kept right. And the sire had been a wonder, all right. ‘“*A wonder!” Jimmy When was that, Dicky?” Sproat coughed, knocked the smoked-out tobacco from his pipe on the hearth, refilled it deliberately, and off to a puffing start, said: ‘‘Dander was a wonder of speed as a two-year-old. A jock broke his heart with a whip in his first race. He was a 'prentice boy I had and he lost his head tryin’ to make his first win.” Jimmy pondered over this; it was a rare thing to get a stake animal sired by a selling plater. Sproat, through the smoke curling up from his pipe, furtively eyed Jimmy’s face. stared ‘‘Dander a wonder! A dang g ] i1d prese y SUT N ee A ‘ Id if ar at 4 4 I dor ell the w j leg r er b 4 i ‘ "4 me ear i ‘ ‘ When | m the be } mn’ me ‘ ‘ ff the har ) ~ pre how the 1 igrea ¢ breedin’ wind Yo r when I ge i e gate, ge twa eve ‘ ' Slim’ ‘ broker 4 wind blow 8) t | nm ‘ I shouldn't, D I it hu } tha he y ye the mare He a t got Jimy omac } yet The r r in’ she’s our ane egistered a ] as ours —forget The boy sat for a time mo on his face. Sproat put a hand or “Jimmy, even if you're right, even th springs it. Slim When Passior put in apprenti was bitted and wonderfully. The week bef« been workin’ tl got speed to burn The bov mornin’--he wa “The hell he rather've taken spoil a willin’ y« “Don't crack up for a b KNOW the real thing your funeral money down vival of the fitt stay *“* All the same any more I'll breaking off. hin’ the matter with him, I think ] talks too much — s« was eignteen mont! ‘eship to his future lunged and line-drive yre (nristmas, Sproat e youngster with a s goin’ sluggis! did!”’ Jimmy interr it myself. Tha yungster.’ *bout that,” D it of the bud in their the race when you \ est; let the quitters », if that pinheac W hat did the colt Continued on Page Best to fir 1 Le af 1o y 25 12 \ | ‘ ‘ YY y (ry 1) r y ; . Y ‘ ‘ “wre ‘ 1 himuyyr es r J Vine yr i’ a ts registere w ried io nee and s | is got ry him when he was broken n, racing: he i 4 j , id Bankes | ar he ne wi t nor 1 4 * . sure i ‘ ‘If they he do it ir e asn pan ar I thir sur the at er him anpout limn 1dded When the Barrier Shot Skyward the Chestnut Colt Was in the Van

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14 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST August 7,1926 THE GIIRIL FROM RIECTOR’S HE first man actua mous revolving door who had advised us had left Chicago kn the man who had yster stew into a mill But right at this moment id ran looked as if we would the n ion back In t tev Kessler was astounde t e beau f the pla There were 100 tables downstairs ana 75 tabies on the second floor, exclu S ve of the four pri ate din leter ng rooms which were la to be the scene of many famous dinners given by Reginald Vanderbilt, Al fred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Freddy Gebhard, John lacob Astor, Jesse Lew sohn, Sarah Bernhardt, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Harry Lehr, Lillian Russell, David Belasco, Charles Frohman, Larry Waterbury, Joseph Jefferson and Sir Henry walls of the main | dining room were lined with mirrors reaching tothe ceil ng. The decorations, in green and gold, were of the period of Louis X1V, whose main idea in life must have been to overshadow the glories of the other Louis’ The table linen was im- ported from Belfast, with the famous Rector griffin interwoven in the fabrie The silverware was made o order by the most fa mous of American silver smiths. In spite of the fact that it was stenciled with the Rector griffin, De- came very popular among our patrons. Our loss among souvenir fiunters was about 2000 pieces of lverware a year, includ- ng demi-tasse spoons, suillon spoons, sugar gs, graduating in size up to a cotiee pe reolator In guring wear and tear by e year, we always allowed $20,000 for evaporation in erware inis 1s a con- ning, we glad to come on from (¢ lly to come through our was Ge orge Kessler, the man Chicago. We + were glad to see him. We By George Rector ILLUSTRATED BY HARLEY ENNIS STIVERS old hansom cab possesse ia romance not associated « the modern taxicab. In the first place, the driver of th hansom was on top the cab and his horse wore blinker Two sweethearts could spoon in the cab even thoug! their chaperon was follo ing them on a bicycle The modern taxi is diffé ent, and a kiss in one somewhat similar to an er brace in a show windo Good soldiers never lo back. Neither do go chauffeurs you could put blinkers on the horse, you can Still, thor them on a driver. I st chuckle over Nat W story of be ng driven wit! his girl over to Brooklyr The chauffeur stopped his car in the middle of the bridge. Nat ordered the drive to continue, but re torted, ee gir! ne read ‘Stop!’” The gir! said, talking to you.” Ali Rabit’s Luxury ( UTSIDE ofthe hansor ba that was elin nated in the tournament with the blazing percolato the cab which suffered the most was the one that tried to wrestle with Ham F Ham, whose full name was Hamilton Fish, was cred ited with hz a complete hansom cab, equipped with one horse ing picked uy pedigree unknown, one d¢ ing driver and a broker gthewhotk whip, and turnin outfit completely over wit! its sunny side up like egg on a skillet. He was very powerful 1 did not see this feat of strength, as the name of Ham Fish is emblazone forever on the golden scro of those who died at Guar tanamo in ’98 Everybody traveled in hansom cabs in those days John Kendrick Bangs was the hero of probably the ied ee only parade of these pecul iar vehicles ever held. He left Rector’s one morning, when this twentieth cen- Broadway Was Amazed That Evening by Seeing a Lady and Gentleman Leap Out of a Blazing ked for a spoon or a knife as a memento of ly gave it to him, and also made m a present of an imported ash tray bearing a picture ry the exterior of o1 But if we detected a m A Hot Time f pee highest figure we « violation of theet! rf } traveling man packing a trunk- ir place istomer stuffing tableware into ¢ ‘ost of the articles to the in the Old Town er assessed any dinner party for spitality was exactly seventy- + r T + : + } } ght doliars. The ch vas not disputed. Even though re tem with the additional seventy- y villing though the entire er one dollars At that. I ‘ Ss pa when walking s Kr eindeer ir jingle or nt | ‘ yher he n oO ny ‘ . ‘ A | t Two-Wheeler Hansom Cab proved that evening that the greatest after-dinner speech ever made was “Bring me the check.” I think the climax in souvenir collecting was reached one pleasant evening in winter when a lady carried out an eight-pound coffee percolator under her ermine evening wrap. The wrap was worth about $8000. The percolator cost about $75. Broadway was amazed that evening by seeing a lady and gentleman leap out of a blazing two- wheeler hansom cab. The lady had forgotten to extinguish the motive power of the percolator, which was alcohol. I think the lady was using the same motive power. The cabman sued her for a blistered hansom cab and a scorched horse. We got the percolator back, but it was melted down toathimble. The lady lost $7025 by the transaction. She was half cooked when she took the percolator, but was fortunate that she didn’t finish well broiled. Her ermine oat was done to a crisp Hansom cabs were very popular in those days as a means of locomotion. You could hire them around three dollars or strike a Dargain by haggling with the cabby 7 e rate per trip. It was cheaper by the hour. The tury was still new, in a cab and was jaunting along merrily when he spied an ordinary cat belonging to the genus known as alley rabbit. John was possessed of a very warm heart and he ordered his cabby to stop while he petted the hungry and gaunt junior feline. It was as scrawny and as mangy as its more famous brother which Brian G. Hughes was to enter in an aristocratic show of Maltese and Persian mousers. It failed to win first prize only because it meowed an octave too low. This was a mild prank by Hughes, who was the greatest practical joker in history. He won a blue ribbon ina Madison Square Garden Show with a noble horse whose name was Puldeka Orphan. Puldekar Orphan was easily the finest stepper in the show, but Brian had his blue ribbon well exhibited town before the judges deciphered Puldekar Orphan and discovered that it meant “pulled a car often.” Hug es had picked the cat and the horse up at the sam¢ auction. The horse, true to his name, had often pulled crosstown car, and not always willingly Hughes to¢ both the horse and the cat, fattened them up and n blue ribbons the laughingstoc} Hen % gee ee Oe gg a ——

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Bangs’ cat was not destined for a show, but it did figure in the parade. A salty tear dribbled down Bangs’ cheek as he stroked the rough fur of the ill-fed fence wolf. He de- cided to adopt it and give it a good home. But the cabby objected to the presence of such a creature in his freshly upholstered hansom. An argument which followed, and in which the cat took no part, was stopped by the fortunate appearance of a second hansom, whose driver was about to with his brother ch: irned that Bangs was anxious to hire his vehicle for the aecommoda- tion of a distinguished foreigner, said foreigner being the cat rioteer until ne kare per mile was fixed without the aid of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and the cat became the sole occu- pant of the second hansom. The journey was resumed with Bangs in the lead, and the cat, stroking his whiskers, in second place. They proceeded merrily past monuments, parks and important buildings. The betting at this stage was Bangs to win and the cat for the runner-up. My, ’'Twas a Hansom Parade! JANGS was rolling along easily, musing on man’s in- ) gratitude to man, and especially to cats, when he sud- lenly thought that his new friend might be hungry. So he wrdered a stop at an all-night delicatessen store, and going nside, purchased one adult herring. His first step outside the store was greeted by a royal salute of twenty-one meows by the cat, which was hungry enough to have smelled a rdine in the Seven Seas, and furthermore to have named the sea. In fact, its intense eagerness to get at the herring caused Bangs to think that overeating was even more of a breach of cab etiquette than overstarving. He decided to feed the kitty when he got home and started to climb into his cab. He was stopped by his jehu, who objected to the presence of a herring in his tumbril, owing to its effect on future patronage. THE SATURDAY EVENING POSi7 his was a stumper, ' herring in the second cab w the t hr g ‘ tself throug! ts natural anxiet 4 r r layed meals for its nine th , Oy rt n¢ wrtune ame t ¢ } of a third ha IT A n é forlorn Bang t ned Ca v gaining for the accommo nown. The enger t ? tft y . Ke r vith Bangs the ‘ ( of march, with the cat a g ‘ i r ; g of poor th rd t That’s the way the B and the herring just no n 4 later, I think the cat was entitle ! The Divine Sarah in an Earthiy Role places, as he was purring r Bang the added starter repo rY VA? rY ‘ ! dt i three nansom cabs to y 4 i ry ( ’ r gne t w ’ dew roundabout way never found « " ‘ ' 1 lima , rT" ; 9 preciated its foster guardian’ est ir we I irinke wa timulate mp among t Bangs had the consolation « wing t : ners. Ar vine d ng 8 G.0, golf ar herring well spent gy. the Simon-pu mateu t earned t Like all philosophers, Bar hate » see dun anin rt but often defeated the pro ) n fair ar suffer. He was a natural humorist and was probal the lare competitior only man who ever rode under an arch of triun Che first or ight or r r nost overwhelms escort consist ng of a cat ar ia ner y | 4 ‘ but the harce ir chefs bre } e® easler which gets funnier with each repetitior I de nvn Rectors exhaled and inhaled. We soon ran out think up a more la ignabie equence f charitable for 37 and crab meat Particu arly the itter caus ness than the one | have ist related, wt positively neavy demand for canapé of crab meat Re true—at least, Bangs said it was tr It is statement This became a favorite dish of Sarah Bernhardt wher and I stick to it that illustrious star toured this countr But I started to tell you about the interior furnishings of arah would order one canapé after another, and Rector’s and find myself drifting from the subject. Still, 1 eat so much crab meat that we half expe would rather speak of the people who patronized us than of scuttle sideways into the nearest pond. It mig the place itself. They were real, they were human andthey some readers to learn the recipe for were lovable The edifice itself mear nothing withou Continued on Page 60 There Was No Gradual Budding of Our Establishment. er ee a _ Once We Actually Got Started, We Burst Into Full Bloom

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16 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Lidig ThiRewe SAL “If Yeu'll Wait a Second Uatill Get a Hat, I'tlGo Gut With You,’ Said Miss Brown. “Maybe, if I Went Around and Shook a Few Hands and Spoke toe the Men, it Might Eacourage Them By Leonard Li. ILLUSTRATED BY ALBIN HAT does it say?” “Well, sir, | can’t quite make out. It looks like it begins with a B and then again it might bea D. Ain't there anyone got a flashlight that’ll give a little light There was a deep, hoarse groan. ‘Snap out uv it!” pleaded a muffled voice. “I can’t hold yuh up here all night! My back’s near broke now!” “‘Whatta yuh got in your hip pocket?” grunted a sim- ilar voice. ‘“‘Uh-h! You're cuttin’ the arm off me. C’mon, read it or git down! I’m movin’ out from under!” “Here!’’ cried a voice. “‘Here’s a light! Quick!” \ tongue of flame from a twisted piece of paper sud- denly flickered, then it flared widely, lighting up a circle of several feet. It showed a man clothed as a warrior, in teel helmet, trench coat, gas mask, map case and pistol. Another one, similarly clothed, held aloft the improvised torch, shielding it from the streaming rain with his helmet. (his man moved a few feet and extended the light as far i could into the air, reaching it toward another man there, some distance above the ground—-a man who emed to be sitting in a curious form of armchair with mous knobs, on one of which he rested his hands ‘ut your helmet over it!” cried the man with the light. Quick! If you let it go out, I'll polish your nose!” Um-m-m!”’ said the man in the armchair, taking the light. “It might be a B an’ then it might be a D—or iybe a R.” He leaned forward and the light showed the rusty cross ms of an iron guidepost. The guidepost had not been 1inted for feur years, for this was in the zone of the irmies in Northern France, and the names on the post were well-nigh illegible. Then it was black night, rain fell yrrents, and he who read was no French scholar. The man in the armchair craned his neck and moved the light from side to side.. There was another groan, a cry from the man with the light, and ! iddenly descended. The hight > Nason HENNING ‘‘What’s the matter with you?” asked someone plain- tively. It was probably the man who had descended, and from the sound he had landed with considerable force. “We ain’t no derrick nor no morris chair neither!” replied someone angrily. “‘ Maybe it’s a D or maybe it’s a R,’ saysyou. D’yuh have to read letter by letter like a kid? An’ you sittin’ on our shoulders so comfortable!”’ “A good crack in the nose would do you a lotta good!” said another angry voice. “Enough of that, men! Who let him fall? What’s your name, you two? Ah, Duff and Barker—I might know. Sergeant, take their names. See that any unpleasant duty that comes along is assigned to them. Have you any idea at all of what was on that sign, Kelly?” “*Yes-sir, it was somethin’ about ‘ Villers,’ but I couldn’t just make out the first part of it. There was an O there, an’ aN.” “Good! Ansauvillers! That’s our town. This must be the Chepoix crossroads. We aren’t a kilometer from billets. Get up, men. Forwa-a-ard!” From the darkness came a very feeble stir. **C’mon, git up!”’ said a few faint voices. *Forwa-a-ard!”’ This time the voice was stern and ringing. ‘“‘Get those men up and start them walking! Corporals! Sergeants! Mr. Blake, go down there and help start those men!”’ Another stir; the sound of kicks and blows. “Git up! Come on, guys, on your feet. We only got a little farther to go! Git up, now! Gwan, git up or I'll kick your backbone out through your skull!” Protests and rage and threats and recriminations, but the company was finally hoisted and kicked to its feet and the march was resumed. “This is the last,’’ muttered the captain. “If they once get down again it’ll be the end!” A regiment of American infantry had been relieved from the front lines at dawn the day before. They had been a part of a brigade serving with the British, and their period August 7,1926 Ile S of front-line duty over, they were being marched ba: 0 rest billets. The command had passed at daybreak — that is to say, the relief had been completed— but afternoon of t same day found the regiment still on the march. It sepa rated after a while into battalions and then into compar as the final destination drew nearer. Night fell and stil] the march continued. It was difficult enough in daytime for an officer to guide his men, what with signs being damaged by shellfire, road suddenly closed because of bombardment or traffic conges tion, and all in a sector where every landmark had beer destroyed by years of battle. But once night fell the task became extremely difficult. Men and officers both were weary with weeks of fighting, their food had been exhausted even before the relief, and as it was the custom for the American infantryman in battle to throw away everything he could detach from his person, most of the marchers were without slickers or overcoats, and the rain soaked them to the bone. One of the companies was directed to march to a town called Ansauvillers, where the town major would be expecting them and provide them with quarters. The captain had received directions to turn to the left at the first road after Chepoix. First find Chepoix. For an ho or so this captain had turned his flashlight on sign afte sign, inspected kilometer post after kilometer post, and no word of Chepoix. What juice was left in his fl battery had been expended; his briquel, or ciga lighter, had burned out all its alcohol; and the cold horri ble thought began to creep upon the captain that he wa lost. Then he had run headlong into something with con siderable force, and as he swore and blindly tried to se« whether he had run into a tree or a truck, he discovers that it was a signpost that he had struck. The company was at once halted and the men flung themselves down, just as they were, in the center of t} road, while two privates hoisted a third on their shoulder that he might read the names of the towns on the signpo ashlight ete

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Tt was these two men that had groaned under the weight of _ felt paving ler s feet and he that inot i ’ y their comrade and it was their helmets on either side that minute he ild see ruins o , 4) had made him look as if he were sitting in an armchair the dar It is so. The tr ( ur ‘ t ‘ i } Finally their patience had given out and they had let him became 1 the shuffling « et ar rr . Rlake, if we Nalt again be fore we get to town it will be The captair rou ng lid see the the end of us,’’ remarked the captain to the only other tumbled roofs and en bean acker thar ; ng officer—a second lieutenant I'd never get ’em behind ther tarted again.” Ha-a t! rr l to the % cael \ They ‘ve been marchir g light too,”’ remarked the li j a me mar tenant. ‘*There isn't a pack in the outfit: their ammur “Hear that?” asked the tain, turning t i tion was shot off long ago and they’ve got no emergency he thought the lieutenant wa We he this town Ar , itions, either, to load ’em dowr ‘ or Bador ‘ GC ers. or Ville ‘ t ‘heir stomachs haven't packed anything for a day or Jers¢ le, this out ‘ the 7 t in it. Come . th \ 0 either. That’s where the rub com: Well, I was told Blake. let nd someone ir it} ' Sergeant TI _ , " that within twenty minutes to half an hour after I turned Oh, sergeant! or ter things for a minute. v j ‘ ’ W entific t off the main road I'd be in the town. If we don’t hit the Watch out for trucks coming t F hers The me ind . r town within that time there’s nothing to do but spend the all over the road and I don't want any of them ironed out er nt ‘ min. night in the ditch. I hope we're out of range here.”’ The two « ers four i} e by the simple expedi« 4 nina rhe company staggered along the muddy road \ of walking at right angles to the line of march until the f eeing that } march at night always seems muc longer than one ir felt a wall The capta felt along this wall to the doo alle ere ‘ e lights ‘ np tha the daytime, ause by day the changing landscape upon which he hammered with his fist nse minated the room vs é , shortens the distance, but by night a man simply moves } Hello, in there! elied the captain. Silence. Som« “Name’s Cunningham! it t pant | egs up and down without being able to notice any progress where they could hear ter running and the rapid patte ha W hat’s the matt ( the « h? iy here always a thick blac wall before him, against ng of rair t and the turndo . e showed t | vhich collision seems imminent at every step. The men ‘“*Here’s a window!” called Lieutenant Bla ] } had long since passed the limit of their strength, but a cer The captain hurried to } i I'm Captain M ey Ame r t} / tain blind ser of obedience, added to the determinatior The window's open,” said the lieutenant, “‘but I th it Lieutenant ] e. We ‘ of the captain and the vigor of the sergeants, kept them the house is a sh t | going. Also they had a vague hope in their minds that for Again a twisted piece of paper wa ghted and thrust got hers } the first time in weeks they might have a dry bed through the window. It burned long enough to show a} Billets here \ have ( , ' The captain’s feet suddenly stopped the sucking, squdg of rubbish, the remnant of a rear wa and stones ha I have rid th ipt r ‘ ‘ m ¢ { ng noise they were making and he felt his hobnails grind hidden by weeds. A gust of wind blew rain from the terior of his tre one. He pounded them for a few steps. At last! HH: terior of the house into the officers’ fa J ; — 7 | } j | | | "4 | | t | | i | + | | | i | | | | | | ' | J | | h | | | | ' | | ; ’ ‘‘What Bothers Me,"' Observed Duff Suddenty, “is How We're Gonna Square Ourselves With the Old Man

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18 THE SATURDAY “I'm Afraid,’ Says He, ‘That I Got Some Bad News for You" HY is it that a conservative Seth with one-way pockets, who’s used to counting the change for a dime two or three times, will let himself be glibbed into pulling the hand-sweated simoleons out of the family sock and slapping them on the nose of a stock that he's never heard of? Of course the yen for parking a dollar sign and a one in front of a row of zeros without working for ‘em has a lot to do with it, but it doesn’t explain every- thing. The woods are full of crap games, tips from the horse himself, and other business opportunities for staging a farewell scene with your dough; but Wall Street gets the big play, though its slogan is the same: Never Give a Sucker an Even Break. ! suppose it’s the inside-info itch that starts the come- ons to scratching. At any rate, that’s what got us. If it hadn't been for Paul Parmerlee and the habit J. P. Morgan had of talking in his sleep when he was around, the chances are I'd have gone through life without knowing what a world of weeps lies between Abitibi P and P and Youngs- town S and T. Parmerlee’s a cousin of Lizzie Magruder, and it’s at her house that the Ritters and I meet the toast of Trinity churchyard. He's a lad in the closing-hour twenties with a way they have at old Harvard and a line of sauce that makes every platter of words he deals off the tongue sound tasty. The boy knows his apples, take it from him. ‘Apropos the market,’”’ says he in connection with a remark I’d made about a scheme for cheating at solitaire without catching yourself at it, ‘‘we’re all set for a big bull market in the industrials.” ‘‘Who makes you think so?” asks Hank Ritter. ‘The technical position of eight selected specialties,” comes back Paul. “‘Take Eczema Products, for example. The common’s selling at 50 with a dividend rate of five dollars. That’s 10 per cent on your money.” ‘‘Not on my money,” I assures him hastily. ‘This gentleman prefers bonds when it comes to trading in iron men for paper promises.” Bonds!” sneers Parmerlee. ‘What are you or an orphan? What bonds have you?” ‘None at present but those of holy matrimony,” says 1; “but just as soon as I give the air to a couple of mort- gages and catch up with the butcher, the baker and the lip-stick maker I’m going in with a syndicate that’s plan- ning to buy an option on a Liberty Bond.” It's none of my business,” picks up Hank, “and I wouldn't for worlds pry into the home life of Eezema Products, but why is its 10 per cent stock selling at 50?” , i a widow t was just an innocent bystander in a bear raid,”’ ex- plains Paul. “‘You know how it is—when people start throwing things out of the window during a fire they don’t stop to figure what'll burn and what won't. Everything goes, and Eezema P went with the rest of the list.” ‘Nobody threw any first mortgages out of the window,” shrugs Ritter, “‘and they weren't even singed. You sure the fire’s out?”’ “The ashes have even been hauled away,” returns the young margineer. ‘‘Within thirty days Eczema will be tickling the tape around 85. But | can let you in on a th better one than that if you're interested.” “Thanks for the buggy ride,” says I, grateful, ‘‘but I’m much more interested in last week’s weather forecast.” “You would be! flares the frau. ‘‘It seems that every- body can make money in the market but you. Even that lummox Joe Flint made a young for- tunelast month. You should see the car he bought his wife.”’ “*T saw it yester- day,” I returns, “‘and loaned Joe enough - gas to drive it to the secondhand dealer. Hle’s so broke now a pickpocket could go through him and get nothing but ” practice.” “*That so?’’ remarks Jim Magruder. “I heard he'd hit the street for ten thousand berries.” “He did,” says I, ‘but he never got a chance to pick ‘em. When he went down to cash his paper profits he found himself being paged for more margins.” “What are margins?” inquires Lizzie, who wears her brains bobbed. ‘It’s just an expression,”’ explains Hank, “that brokers use every time they call you up.” “You mean,” asks the Magruder moron, “like the Eng- lishmen say—are you there?”’ “Yes,” answers Ritter, ‘‘only the brokers mean are you still there?”’ “Your friend Flint,’’ suggests Parmerlee, ‘“‘must have overstayed the market.” “‘He did,’”’ I agrees. ‘‘He came for the afternoon and remained for a week- end. The engines were already on the way to that fire you were talking about when Joe went to collect. Overnight the stuff of his dropped twenty points. The day after they sold him out it ballooned back four- teen points, but by that time Flint was studying road maps to the poor farm.” “If he’d had proper advice,’’ says Paul, “he would have re ““T suppose,” I cuts in, sarcastic, ‘‘you know just when to get in and out of the market.” ‘“‘He certainly does,”” snaps Lizzie. “Everything he’s ever said about stocks and bonds has come out just so. I remember when I bought my Liberty Bond he told me I would get interest every six months sure, and haven't I?” ‘So far you have,” I admits, “but there is some talk of the Government keeping the money and paying off the mortgage on the White House.” “When that happens Paul will know it in advance.” “What is this hot tip you were speaking of?” cuts in her husband, impatient with the kidding. “*Federal Padlock,”’ answers Parmerlee. “‘What price Padlock?” I inquires. “It closed today at 173,,” replies the sweet William of Wall Street. ‘I look for it to be at 50 within three or four weeks.” “They can’t put you in jail for looking,” says I. ‘Can j i they, Lizzie?” ‘You make your own jokes,’ comes back the Magruder mess coldly, ‘“‘and I'll make mine.” EVENING POST ILLUSTRATED BY “Isn't it August 7,1926 By SAM HELLMAN TONY SARG “Federal Padlock,” goes on Paul, ‘“hasn’t been paying any dividends, but I have it straight that it’s going on a 6 per cent basis. When the news comes out “‘How do you mean you have it straight?”’ Ritter. ‘‘Who told you—the bus boy in the restaurant across the street from where Morgan eats?”’ “No,” says I. “It comes from a girl who went to different schools together with the bus boy’s sister.” “‘When I say straight,” growls Parmerlee gently, ‘‘! mean straight. This is in confidence. I have a friend a fraternity brother--who’s an assistant teller over at th Hide and Tallow Trust Company. Everybody knows they're in deep in Federal Padlock. Wouldn’t they have a pretty good idea if a dividend was going to be declared?”’ says Hank; “but they don’t tell all they interrupts ** Perhaps,” know to tellers. Assuming that the tip’s O. K., it get you if everybody has it?” *“But everybody hasn't it,” what doe protests Paul. “Onl; bank folks and - “By the time it got to that teller pal of yours it wa already stale gossip in Whistling Station, Arkansas,” | cuts in. ‘A tip’s like a spoonful of bran. Once in your mouth and it spreads and spreads. Anyway, now that Lizzie knows that Federal Tallow is going to take over the Padlock Trust Company and issue bonds carrying assess ment coupons, the news’ll be halfway to South Africa yesterday morning.” “Is this preferred or common stock you're talking about?” asks Magruder. “Common,” returns Paul. “‘And how!” mutters Ritter. “What do you mean by preferred?” inquires Lizzie. “You know what a preferred creditor is, don’t you?” I comes back. ““Why should I?”’ says Mrs. Magruder proudly. ‘I al- ways pay cash.”’ re + Wonderful ?’’ They Gush Jointly “A preferred creditor,” I wheezes, “is a guy that knows he isn’t going to get anything, while it takes a regular cred- itor several months to find that out.” “Joking aside,” says. Parmerlee, ‘‘and forgetting a about the dividend tip, don’t you know from your own knowledge that there has been a big boom in padlox sales—-that the Government has become a large buyer?” “That’s right,”” | admits. ‘Il know of a gal running a night club in New York who’s had so many of ’em slapped on her door she’s thinking of stringing em into a necklace.”’ ‘Aren't there other concerns selling locks besides Fed eral Padlock?” asks Hank. “Oh, yes,” answers Paul; “but they're not in the sams | class.”” “T got a thousand dollars,’”’ announces the wife sud denly. ‘“ Will you buy me some of that Padlock stock ’ “Forget it!” Lyelps. “If you want to gamble, I've got a tip on a nag in the fifth race at Belmont tomorrow that already in and being blanketed.” ) )

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; | you get that tip?” grins Parmerlee ‘Where'd “From the bus boy across the street from where the horse eats?” No,” plays Hank. ‘“‘He got it from the feller ld the oats to a couple of other horses.” aiong It’s my money,” flashes Kate, ‘‘and I'll do what | ease with it. How many shares can | get for my thou- ind About fifty-tive,”” Paul tells her, “‘but I can carry you on a five-point margin That'd be two hundred shares - How much will I make,” asks the missus, ‘“‘when the tock goes to 50 like you say it will?” Broad Street houley ardier, We gs returns the make two hundred dollars every time Federal Padlock goes ‘you say we get it at 18. That'd give you a rty-two points, or sixty-four hundred dollars, point Let’ upa ess commission and carrying charges.” J ‘show her the o chromo.” Other side?’’ mumbles Parmerlec ‘T’ll tell her,” b goes down a point you’re out two hundred fish, and that isn’t all. With out here will be yell the stoct arks Hank. ‘Every time a short margin like that, our young friend’s lay- more dough every r for + gy ic f ime Padlock drops a fraction of a fraction.” t : ,”’ offers Lizzie, ** Paul guarantees that it isn’t going to drop ad ‘Not exactly guarantee,’’ coughs Parmerlee, uneasy, but I’m quite sure it won't.” Bales of bunk!” scoffs Ritter. “‘There isn’t anybody 3 sure about anything in the stock market, and living that’ ] anvbody who says he 1s S ¢ ry x. If there 1 P t JUTE was one man who was sure, there wouldn't market. Who'd buy what he wanted t be any stor 19? sel] ‘**Don’t you think,”’ asks Paul, ‘“‘that increased earnings would certainly put a stock up?” ‘Left alone, they might,’’ comes back Hank; “but the way they do things between Trinity Church and the river, earnings have about as much to do with the price of a sto« as | guay. lave with the Para- Wall Street who can make a tramp out of the best-looking weight of dog blankets in There are at least slickers in a dozen security on the board by spreading rumors, tightening j up money and the so ons, and they do it reg- whenever the suckers are up to their tnat ularly necks in Leaving all pape r aside, how can you be sure of an issue when pronts in Siam or a riot in Japan can knock strike ten points off the stock of a buttonhole fac n Peru, Indiana?” ory argues Parmerle¢ come up f ten or twelve times in succession on a roulette That’s unusual,” black to It’s unusual for the wheel,’ returns Ritter; ‘“‘but just the same, rybody who's tried to make a cleaning by doubling up on the red has gone broke. When you play with the market you’re gambling, ndit’sall right if you know you're gambling ‘Well,’ says Lizzie, “‘ I’m willing to gamble on Paul’s say-so He’s always right f for him yet,’ sneers P. Morgan working lict Hank, ‘‘or is he still on the waiting list?” ks, casual, ‘“*that your shoes are ‘em half soled, Par- rt Better have As He has about as m ! the women as a light dew \ His wife, Tillie, for a hundred on a duck’s back ana | ne go in shares each then Jim Magruder flops for a couple of and hundred. “‘Suppose,” suggests Paul, “‘that you and Ritter go in ‘ for the same amount and you'll have a pool of a thousand shares. Call it a gamble if you want, but my tip’s straight I’m not in the habit of gypping my relatives and friends says Hank, dragging me off to a } ‘Just a minute,” , and I'll talk it ‘You thinking of taking a flyer in padlocks?” I grow Ts ‘Here's the dea: We each take two hundred shares. With our fraus have that will make a total of seven hundred ven hundred over private with Dink grins Ritter bright what Tomorrow we ge Whatever hap to a broker I KNOW and s¢ Se pens, the families come out even. See ‘I get you; but what’s the use of going through all t} to get a commission for that young accent ‘The says Hank, ‘‘are that the girls w bye taken to wi ire them of the marke and Parmerlee, ng a ( n I e’s nose We'll give em back their dough so the missus won't be out anything.” ‘“*Suppose they win,” I suggest “Stocks have beer known to go up in spite of bull tips Not often,”’ returns Ritter; ‘“‘but we got to take that risk. Whatever happens, none of us will be out any jac} “No? I’m out of Parme ‘T’ll make *says I. “‘Any mazuma Kate gets her hands or I'll play, vi smiles thoug! tells him our ade S1or when we irty thousand dollars for this po he promises ‘Sure,” “I feel like a goldfish already Paul spends the rest of the evening explaining the doings of the stock market to the women and answering queries zie that would have had a seven-year-old 1 own out of a school for backward childrer “I Got to Have More THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ets Closer I Can See I DON'T gq buying w when the m going short et us In cus Margi al He That He's Pale lite ge he point of t t me bank r ain thing we're after nree nunared share hv at home to pla i 1 si me. ts in Ritter We an take ft ’ gathers r ' i “hut he doesn’t s 1y at lunchtime Har ‘ 4 id name H me course Ritter « eve hundre Federa | 4 t a i i juoted at . i we é } tin feant of nee yesterda Se this morning. I hear s ad ler +? \ ne finishes l u it nfiidence sa ta ind Continued on Pag Shouts te t think tha WE get out of the deal wu T 4 ? ’ y y ive to pay ou mr i ] gioon urse é up with a bu € and E xe Ile ite

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST EUROPIE’S M&UNDATTE ISUIRIDIEIN - By ISAAC F. MARCOSSON August 7,1926 I er and treasure ex i read ir pended by Britair e newspapers : and France on the Fran $s pu adventures in g down a fresh Syria, Irak an seeking to com- se a new row be yveen the Jews and \rabs in Pales- ne; and that the ntinuing the te wardship over Ira It means at today, as yes- te rday, wherever the white man has taken up the bur- den— and it does not belie its name—he has found his old re- ward, which, as Kipling put itin his famous poem, Is: The hlame of those | ye better, The hate of those ved iard. The significance to us of the British and French diffi- | culties in the Near * git Fe, ee Fast is that we have escaped such complications. When Uncle Sam was offered the mandates for Armenia and Constantinople he politely but firmly declined, much to the dismay of many uplifters who saw a fine chance for emotional frenzy once we were committed to the jobs. Emotion, whether nationalistic or otherwise, is one of the heapest and most dangerous of commodities. As the man- datories have discovered, it frequently takes force to back it up, and here is where the overhead, both in money and loss of prestige, comes in. Time has vindicated the wisdom of our aloofness. Minding Other People’s Business i ke {Ff moment you mention our escape from the mandate mess to a certain body of people in this country, you are met with the rebuke that we have not fulfilled our interna- tional obligations, or some such line of talk. It is a gesture akin to the state of mind of the American who gets a great ck out of deprecating his own country abroad. The pro- fessional exile from home is, of course, the worst offender. As a matter of fact, the United ll] these sentimentalists to ontrary notwithstanding, has written into the story of the human e the record of a benevolent and unselfish intervention not equaled inv other power. Whether it as toemancipate Cuba from Span oppression, bring order out of haos in Haiti, or dig a canal that onvert the Panama pest- radise of health and utility, we have gone our way with- it the aid or consent of organized stic agency. We have done n thorough American fash- wn good time and with f¢ nomic aggrandize- \ i about the “failure to play ’ } Europe.”’ We went in , A ‘ yur the World War | ived the sit n for the More ( we finance 1 COr ‘ I t of the t oO Hadar Hakarmet, the New Jewish Suburb of Haifa the tune of some $10,000,000,000. With peace, we spent more than $100,000,000 feeding the starving hordes of the central countries, thereby staving off anarchy. With the Dawes Plan we stabilized the reparations confusion and put Germany on her feet. Our private loans to a dozen countries were part of a larger scheme of rehabilitation along sound and definite business lines. The plain truth is that our alleged isolation is merely a sane if tardy recognition of European inability to assist herself. The rising tide of anti-Americanism in Europe today is convincing proof of what I say. It is born of two things. One grows out of our refusal to be a continuous cash reg- ister, the other is frank resentment of our prosperity. Yet this ‘‘aggressive opulence,’ as many Britishers term it, is the product of hard work, which is almost a lost art in Europe. The outstanding exception is Italy. These observations are naturally inspired by any at- tempt to examine the mandate problem. Employed at Tel Aviv, Near Jaffa, a New Jewish Town in Palestine } elsewhere would have mitigated the postwar burder a considerable gree This is one reason why} sritish sen | “to clear ¢ and baggage,’ as prelude to a secru tiny of what ha happened with th major mandates Although we are not involved polit M4 1] ically we did for mally approve of the various ac tions—there is a definite American interest and also a considerable eco nomic stake. The largest grows out ¢ of the association of an Americar ; group of oil con panies with the British, Fren and Dutch in the Turkish Petroleum Company for the development of the much-discussed Mosul field This participation is more than a business alliance. The American companies, led by the State Department, have brought about an open-door policy in what may become one of the great petroleum-producing domains of the world. When the period of exploitation by the Turkis} Petroleum Company has expired, the nationals of any country can go into Mosul, buy land and bore for oil. But for Yankee insistence, Mosul would have been a closed corporation for the British, French and Dutch. When Italy Got No Pie Ww" ALSO have a deep and sentimental attachment for theimportant mandated areas, especially Syria and Pal! estine. They link Jew and Gentile in common spiritual con- cern. In Palestine are the holy places and the fountain of our civilized faith. Here the Hebrew has set up his national home and for the first time In many centuries unfurled the flag of his nationalism. At Beirut, in Syria, is the nonsectarian Amer- ican university, which is accom- plishing a vast good. Thus we are not altogether mere onlookers There is still another reason why the mandates, or rather the ter? tories some of them cover, are a timely topic. At the moment I write they focus acute internationa attention, with Mussolini holding the center of the stage All the former German colonies in Africa have gone to Britain, Fr: Belgium. Italy did not get alook-in when the pie was cut. Thi slumbered until the duce g job at Rome. He has lately made the omission a vital issue. Wher he gets into the issue business presages action, and more often trouble for somebody. Italy must have some outlet for her population, which increases at the rate of nearly 500,000 a year. Mussolini does no the slogan of the anti-Irak group goes, has growr ) wo ——-— ee En a i ~ ae 2

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immigrants to go so far aw ay as Soutl America, because T} { ; ( his eye is always on the possibility of swift mobilization for : is a4 m1 . . ne ifé i ; military purposes. The net result is that Mussolini looks (Conference ( vane y longingly at those one-time German colonies now under Nations, a : | mandate to rival powers His attack of impe rialitis is ry a a8 Al 22 W largely due to the vision of a greater Italy that must of the Versailles and ot} 4 , nclude some of the lost Teutonic possessions. If he does The mandate not get them, it will not be because he fails to try ee a 2 re Bs " Sa \ | r » gut these African colonies are not the only sore spot ng that ¢t governme & After long and acrimonious discussion, the Mosul area, peoples ed sha f ; Tose! ore ‘ “ h have re ‘ | y which was claimed by Turkey, was given to Irak he 3 t i f t} Turks have practically refused to accept the award, and hat the well-being may back up their protest with arms. The problem of peop! fo 4 Sacre f iT Kurdish nationalism also is involved in the controversy on ’ ior f Kemal Pasha is of the Mussolini type in that he is ruthless — intrusted to advanced r ' and constitutionally defiant. Between these two postwar eir resource ‘ é i , * i I a } dictators, the mandated regions are likely to get back on . ‘ the first page again rhe tutelage is exercise , _ at af t F< the League of Nations a t A third contingency is that after repeated rebuffs from i Britain, culminating in the loss of Mosul, Kemal may turn Because of the varying development « | to Russia for aid and comfort, which bodes no peace fora the peoples involved, three tegories o onsiderable part of the Near-Eastern world. The Turkish control were devised for the territories dictator used the Bolsheviks to drive the Greeks out of They are the so-called A, B and C mar y | Anatolia and the Reds have been coquetting with him ever dates j since. An alliance between Turkey and Russia might The Class A mandates apply to the seriously impair such reconstruction as has developed in more advanced regions where the exist 2, rak since the British sponsored the Arab kingdom there. ence of independent nations was recog a] Mandates and mess seem to have become closely associated nized and where they could become i subject to administrative advice and as- | Mandatories Under League Supervision stance by the ma! datory until they UF were able to stand on their own feet The Ww! ATEVER the consequences in blood, treasure and idea was to permit self-government even general complications, the mandate system is thor- tually. Under Class oughly organized. One phase grew out of adivision ofthe A came con

} 4 . 1 spoils of war. We now know that the peace that followed munities \ the greatest of all struggles has been a sort of gigantic Pan- dora’s box, the opening of which released conflicts that

vied with the enmities and dislocations engendered through I actual combat. Racial antipathies that had smoldered A Street in Mosul through the ages flamed into life. Nowhere was this ‘ more pronounced than in the areas that Britain and lorme nging to tl 7 / lurr } mir T« France have sought to harmonize and tie up with VA lu I e, suchas M their own economic and political aspirations opotamia, ni alled

Perhaps the best way to state what might be 1 Palestine 4 called the mandate motive is to reproduce the Cla B mandat ; explanation made in the pamphlet entitled The n ed on territ ) League of Nations and Mandates issued re self gove the League Secretariat at Geneva. Here it t be ir At the end of the war, the Allied and As nd where i) Powers were confronted with the problem of the i } { posal of the former German colonies in Africa ar oe ' the Pacific, and of the non-Turkish province trat Th the Ottoman Empire. These territories were, at ' shoes 2 me, under military occupation and administrati i the Kamerur } by the Allied troops. It became the nd the rime Conference to provide for their futu ert ind the plan ultimately adopted embodied the . } f that nese t ritories s uld be in M4 f I ne governme nts on behalf of the i HOS eT of | ‘ |

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22 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Wiig NATURAL SELECTION Ol August 7,1926 MUL, JP EH. Tet if C ik By Thomas McMorrow WAS passing the graveyard beside St Paul’s Chapel, across Vesey Street from the real-estate auction rooms, and | looked through the fence and read a few names and dates with that comfortable feeling you get, and I saw Horace Telfair Pethic The gentleman himself in per- a} son — Pethick isn’t dead yet, though I have _— heard people claim that is an oversight on ; XN their part and they will kil! him without failwhen they meet him. I went in to swap t the time of day with him, after glancing up at the clock. It showed 11:30, and we had still half an hour to go before the fate- ful stroke of twelve, when all the office doors would fiy open, and the stenographers would issue forth and sit on the monuments and spread orange peels and pork rinds, and when the auctioneers across the way vould get up and proclaim the terms of udgment Pethick gave me a large and silky hand to shake, while his straight eye studied me to see if | had any ulterior motive in say- ng hello. Oh, no, he wasn’t dead, nor even 1elf-worn: his smile was full of sound buck teeth, his gray-blond chin whisker was neat und gaudy, and his white waistcoat was newly starched over a stomach that could sink a banquet without trace. ‘Sit down, Conway, and rest your weary brains,”’ he said, in the round and musical oice of a man shoving bum stock by tele- phone. ‘‘Interesting old place this, eh? Yes, it makes a man think.” He pulled his chin whisker, and looked it two big office buildings at once. ‘That’s what it does,”’ I agreed. “‘‘ Fach or laid,’ hey, Peth- in his narrow cell forev ick? Ah, yes.”’ “That thought be blessed, Conway,”’ he aid. “I was thinking rather of the possi- bilities. Even if the trustees did not care to improve the site, they could at least make the owners of these buildings all about come across handsomely for the easement of light and air. There’s a good thing wasted here, Conway.” ‘Pethick,” I said, ‘‘can’t you even rest in a graveyard without wanting to be paid for your time? What’s that you're writing out—a list of prospects?”’ He had a notebook on his knee, and he had copied names into it; he was taking down a name from a worn stone even then He wrote the address Vesey Street. ‘Might be, Conway I’ve done business with such people before, and they don’t kick on the goods or claim tages. Did you hear of the Styx Trading Company He looked up at the clock. “‘I’m down here to watch a foreclosure sale at twelve o'clock noon at the auction rooms over there,” he said. ‘“‘*The Heyduke Court apart- ments are going to be sold, and I’ve got a substantial in rest in the house. You should have taken hold of that I'm in the building business. Pethick had brought me n a wildcat proposition some months before, and | had down. He had got hold of a plot on Amsterdam 1e in the seventies, and wanted a fifteen-story apart ment house built on it. He had a good building loan ar } nillion dollars from Zibeon Cloker, dad, too, : the loan man. | couldn't have been hurt, and might even have made a few doliars: the house figured to cost seven hundred thousand. That left a three-hundred-thousand lollar margin, but | wasn’t to get that, or only a little of t. It was to be split up among the insiders —Cloker and Pethick and Priestle he architect, principally. Yes, | turned it down. I saw that it was a job and wa gged for a successful failure, and | don’t care for that nd of business. It hurts, in the long run. If 1 can’t see g to come out on a deal I don't ant any part of it. The building game in New York where everybody is goir ose propositior These sharpshooters run acro thing, and they plan to get hold of it; they divide ILLUSTRATED “af I Was Asked,’' Said Pethick, Splitting a Candid Look Between Me and the Sharp: shooters, “‘There’s a Lot of Unnecessary Science About Selt:- ing in This Country”’ he ke tS " we : ‘| ' ' . a) all the profits among themselves first, and then they look around for some dumb builder to put up the house on a skin-tight percentage and make all their dreams come true. Not for mine. Life is too short to spend working for hangers-on. “So Zib Cloker is foreclosing,” | said. ‘‘Well, that’s where I thought the deal was heading. Who's bit the con tractors? Pethick, for a man with a substantial interest in the house, you're not snatching your hair any. You have probably a lot of your own cash in the house, too, haven’t you?” “*T have fifteen thousand dollars of my own in it, Con- way.” ‘Get out,” I said. “‘I was only kidding you, Pethick. You haven't a real dollar in the house. In the first place, you never had fifteen thousand dollars, even for bail not while I knew you.” “| picked that fifteen net up in four months with the Styx Trading Company,” he said calmly You can't insult Pethick not really; he knows worse about himself no matter what than vou do, and he has the laugh on you BY ROBERT w. STEWART you say. But don’t get him wrong, now: he wouldn't lift your watch if you were sleeping like a child, and I don't think he’d sign your name to a note—that’s as far as I'd care to plot him for you. So if you run into him, and he takes you, why, you weren’t steered by me. I admit hav- ing a sneaking fancy for him, the big fraud “IT don’t mind telling you about that Styx thing, Con way,” he said, ‘“‘because I have got out of the business by request. Oh, the district attorney wasn’t rude about it; he simply intimated in a gentlemanly way that there were many other rackets “The office of the Styx Trading Company was on Thirty- Street near Sixth Avenue. I had two young ladies copying addresses at sixteen a week; a crackajack littl secretary, taking twenty-four; and two young men with ‘trong backs and weak minds doing the boxing and shipping from the warehouse on West Fifty-first Street \n attractive feature was that none of my force under stood what the business was all about you'llappreciate the advantage of that, Conway. ‘l provided my lady copyists wit! the daily newspapers, and they listed the names and former addresses of the lately departed They probably thought But no; it is not at all probable that they thought. I sent the names to my able-bodied shippers, and 1 { ey boxed and forwarded to each pro ect so listed a specimen from whatever job lot of merchandise we had on hand In a day or two | billed the consignee and back came the executors’ che« in due course This was a new one to me, but it had the marks of Pethick’s peculiar geniu all over it your suckers’ list from the agony co umn and Well, I bet it worked! What did you sell them?” ‘‘Anything that could be said to be custom-made, Conway. Thoug} i very well with two hundred Englis! **You mean that you got tea services for campers and trippers, complete in a leather case, and the very thing for punters on the Thames, I dare say. I paid a hundred and fifty dollars for the lot. Mah-jongg sets went well after nobody wanted them. And I sold’ Confederate money in sets, giving them, for twelve dollars U.S. mone Vy, Confed- erate paper that they could swap for six hundred dollars only six months after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Con federate States and the United States, with interest from June 18, 1862. But my leader was a fine photograph of the outing of the Frank X. Pinto Association at Long Branch in the summer of 1912; I sold several hundred of those for ten dollars apiece, and they were worth the money to anybody who could find himself in the picture 1 sold e “I get it, Pethick,”’ I said. “‘What put the rollers under you?” “Selling caviar, Conway. I bought a lot of it at an auction sale at the customhouse and I thought it was all right, but it made people sick when it came to their houses; I don't eat caviar myself. They called to see m¢ with my bills in their hands and then the district attorne wanted to know how So-and-So had ordered the good from me when he was dead before the customs sold the stuff. He had nothing on me, Conway; the game is bomb proof, and I could have continued in it, but I had made a stake. But it’s a good racket to stock, until some silly fellow lets it into the newspapers. To be quite candid, Conway, I sold the goodwill to a young fellow who wanted to get a start, so the Styx Trading Company is still oper ating. File that under your hat, Conway, and remember it if you're ever an executor or administrator.” Pethick cut himself a good cigar and balanced its mate in his hand with a look of thought. I knew he was calculating whether there was any percentage in giving that cigar t me, and there wasn’t, but he finall; ot

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~ Ss apec We lit up and watched the regulars gathering on the Some of them looked like old thes men, but I wouldn’t put it past any of them to be ps of the auction rooms ile to plank down twenty-five or thirty thousand dollars a good thing. They’re a nervous group, though; they’ off a property that’s going for forty cents on the dollar f they suspect they’re being fished for. That place is ful of whispers “If I was asked,” said Pethick, splitting a candid lo between me and the sharpshooters, “‘there’s a lot of ur necessary science about selling in this count Peopk get up selling campaigns with enough generalship and coordinated attacks to sell a gold dollar for eighteen cen to a Frenchman: and they think they have to overcome great sales resistance, when the fact is that the average \mericar ed before the hattle tarts and all he hopes to do to make term He will 1 esterda newspaper for an antique that will enhance with the year the salesman will remember not to laugt He expects te he stuck when he buys and he so far gone he doesn’t care ‘It used to be th a business man tried to find out what the customer wanted and tried to get sales appeal into } ne we hear nowadays about smashing sales resistan and these high-pressure fellows don't care what the cus tomer wants Look at all these bandits who have sprung ip. The V are gradu ite salesmen who nh ed ered that the customer is helpless and that they are foo h wasting time trying to inveigle him, so the just take } mone off him and puncn him in the nose Thev should stop the andits from shooting the prospects, though: that ast ng our grand natural resources ‘These bandits are just applying the good old law of natural selection, C give ul his money than be have any money; he doe ‘t deserve to have any i W Duy wnat ever a salesman chooses to shove on him. A man like that would do a lot of harm with his money e was let to keep t the country is getting full of graiters on account of so much money being in the hands of sapheads. When all the money is taken off the saps and collected in the hands of men of horse sense, this will be a h ner country men- 4 tally, morally and pt . ieally Aysically. Say, Renee, Where's He Been Parked All These Years?’ THE SATURDAY Dake r ‘ u i ft own t ty} + he ¢ en Af l de ( ) T ] té ece t Pear , ) ip onaitiote wo i send me that ongrat atior gratula hte« YY ty ment n terdar Ave t he ed in ¢ o e in the sever , ‘ ( 1 t T r ’ that the hoicht ‘ ¢ of proper wit 1 terdam Ave i we ! nd a yea i nree two tnou nd gross rer ed to the Heyduke i ed it netted them a clea iv. thirtv-eight or tl tor nT , ») reasc oO} ipa ‘ ats then selves. on t i declared myseil to t 1irs, he being busy t yne at the swit bo das yet who! yas rroup sitting in the Heydu ringly I entered and t he list to interview M A lady and two gentlemer eving for position at the W her sat down afar off A ANP en a ARR OS EVENING POST ‘Among Other Places,’ She Said Frostity | ’ ‘ 5 " iki ar x r “y ‘ ens TY ‘ t 1 ¢ j ‘ i ’ A t i Y t ‘ era ar nr y il TY t ' t 4 Continued on Page 75 Been Incarcerated out for a Cause

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24 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST BONDING JUMAUN NSM UIRIE LTHOUGH statistics show that only one person in a hundred ever really goes wrong, we never feel sure that any c@e29 irticular man or woman in the hundred will not turn out to be the one criminal. It is that fear, that uncertainty, that has created a demand for the surety business. the business that guarantees us against the flaws in human nature. Oddly enough, the same fear—distrust of human nature in the surety companies themselves—has made it so hard for the business to estab- lish itself that it has taken 200 years. At the Devil Tavern, in London, in 1720, there appears to have been the first recorded venture at insuring the trustworthiness of employes. “This society,’ the announcement ran, “will insure to ali masters and mistresses whatever loss they shall sustain by theft from any servant that is ticketed and registered in this society.”’ The business died. Nobody trusted it. More than a century later, in 1840, the Guaranty So- ciety of London was organized, and ran into the same prejudice. They found that a personal bond was much preferred to that of a corporation. With a personal bond given by some man of established standing there was a certain moral security. With a soulless corporation en- yaged in the questionable game of guaranteeing the hon- esty of doubtful employes this moral security, it was felt, was lacking. In 1853, perhaps foreseeing a bit of what surety compa- nies might later grow to be, the New York State Legis- lature passed laws to encourage their formation. But it was more than twenty years after that, in 1875, that the first fidelity-insurance company was actually formed in this country. And it was still another thirty years before the really big expansion began. Three-quarters of all the companies formed during the 80's and 90's went into the hands of receivers. Many of the companies wrote —as they still do bail bonds for thieves and petty embezzlers; this gave them the taint of bad associations. The Surety Business on Sure Footing TMHEN in 1908 the Surety Association of America was formed, and the great rise to the present status, where urety companies play their part in the financing of apart- ment houses, bridges, subways and all the rest, was fore- America jumped into the lead in a brand-new industry. Today there are more than thirty companies doing business in the United States—-more than twice as many as in all the other countries of the world put to- gether—writing policies on which the premiums alone amount to more than $50,000,000 a year. During the past ten years the combined business done by the United States companies has totaled more than $350,000,000. The past year a combined total of more than $20,000,000 was paid on burglary and fidelity losses alone. My own contact with the surety business began when I was eighteen years old. I was working for a mercantile agency — one of the concerns that look up credit ratings of men and corporations. I was get- ting fifty month, and studying law at night. shadowed. dollars a Aliso, Look Out for Temptation! Human Nature is Frail 5 TRATE DO Als Told to Myrom M. Stearns Ss Le BL Among our clients were several surety companies. Their requests for information seemed endless—clerks, bookkeep- ers, cashiers, lawyers, public officials, contractors, banks. I had little idea what a surety company was. I had heard of surety bonds, but I didn’t know what such a bond really was. I had no idea what the difference between surety and insurance might be. When I tried to learn more I found it wasn’t easy. The people I asked knew no more about the business than I did. Two things about the surety-company inquiries im- pressed me. The first was the frequency of the requests. The second was the importance of the people and the con- cerns investigated. I have always been fascinated by big figures. The surety-company inquiries frequently con- cerned men with larger credit ratings than any of our other customers. It seemed to me that any business so active as to make literally hundreds and hundreds of inquiries about wealthy men must be pretty important. And the fact that so few people knew much about it led me to believe it must be new and still growing, and full of opportunities. Getting a Line on the Applicants HE investigating | was doing was very similar to one branch of surety work. It was interesting. It taught me more than night school about men and business meth ods. A merchant would take me to the bank with him and let me see for myself what his balance was say, nearly $11,000. A day or two afterward I'd slip around again, without letting him know, and tind it only $700. Ten thousand dollars had been placed on his account just for a day or two as an accommodation to impress the credit man. I asked my mercantile-agency employers for a raise. When it was refused I threw up my job and looked up the address of one of the biggest surety companies. The offices took up two entire floors of one of the big buildings of downtown New York. I found myselfin a veritable maze of glass-partitioned rooms. In these offices there were nearly 1000 employes, more than 600 men, and nearly 400 women—stenographers, filing clerks, accountants, secretaries, and so on. My first work was inconsequential enough, and not particularly different from what I had already been doing. It was hard. The company had lost one of its local agents who had been successful in writing many small bonds for labor unions and fraternal U M CE orders, guaranteeing perfor on the part of members or officers He was an affable, middle-aged mar of the world, a good mixer, persua He was an expe wrT@at sive and popular. rienced agent 1 ag August 7,1926 A green hand, I was sent out with othe: mance new men to look up the policies he had secured, and find out whether the holders intended to keep on with our company or follow the likable agent to his new affiliation Then, if I could persuade them to remain with us, I had to get information about the men to be bonded. In the morning I would be given a set of addresses uptown New York, Jersey City or the Bronx start out. After an hour’s time, perhaps, I would locate the secretary of the local lodge or chapter of the fraterna order I was after and, if I waslucky, persuade him to renew and woul his business with us. in and get together information concerning the bookkeepe or treasurer to be bonded. This man, the principal of fidelity bond, of course furnishes the great element of risk. [would go to , the neighbors. The grocer or the janitor might give me a line on my man. If he was a bad risk it was up ¢ J to me to find it out and pass the in s formation along, so ; = that my underwriters Af i would refuse to issue f the bond unless I could \ oy Dan Lely Brooklyn, ] | Then, perhaps, I would have to turn a

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i | collateral, to protect the company from loss aM) This work taught me the difference between urety and nsurance. An insurance company merely underwrites a y) risk, and if a loss is incurred pays it. Consequently, with Insurance there are only two parties to the contract the insurer and the insured and it is all a matter of arith- metic. 1e probability of loss determines the size of the premium i. . But in the surety business there are three parties: The ay) employer, the contractor or employe whose performance Hl s guaranteed, and the surety company. Between the surety company and loss there is always the employe sf tne no is calied upon to make good Theo ret company incurs no risk at all; it me " guarantees that the employe is trustworthy, that the cor

t, that the bank where publi ' tractor will fulfill his contre

; funds are 1 will not fail, that the trustee of ar ; estate will » it properly. It investigates these things N | before underwriting the bond. And if in any of these in- { stances there appears to be an undue element of risk the surety company, be fore underwriting it, makes the prin- { cipal put up sufficient collateral to cover the possible loss. ig That makes surety rates low compared to insurance { premiums. In substance they are really service charges fo1 \ ( " I Working as I did, surety-company agents have gradu- | amassed a surprising amount of information for their 1} statisticlans concernil

} ) of human nature. examples: {i \ savings account is almost like a 1 Ss x guaranty that a man wili ! wrong. If you learn that a man is putting aside a definite portion o

4 I earnings in a ba you can be ‘ almost ertain that he is a good i risk; for a man who saves 4 rarely steals Apparently the instinct to save and dishonesty are almost dia

‘2 metrically opposed i) ee ra > 3 { n\ Why Men Go Wrong Yi YOOD intentions cannot JI be taken as a guide to t honesty. The circum hatin stances of aman’s life givea ‘ = ’ far better indication of his = probable course. Sixty-nine e defaulters out of seventy , have, at least at first, no | intention of stealing. They 4 mean merely to borrow and z later replace. Through tens \ of thousands of defalcea F tions this propor . tion of deliberate oe intention in only : one case out of f : ; seventy prevails. As a corollary we have the fol lowing rule: Liv- ing beyond one’s oe means Is one of y the commonest P causes of tempta tion and dishon- / esty Or, going a or adequate security, In the shay { wndorsements or THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

sten farthe till. we fir that an ex r makes a man a bad hat leads us to a grave ! ( ti t nine embe ement Ase out f te the ; ilative It isua ‘ ima t tinue tealing ite ne i mee ‘ Look out for speculators! Speculation and ¢ bling are among the greatest cause of embe ment. Also,look out fortemptation! Humar s fra If stealing ! le @: the average n is altogether toc ™ a eal nee. ( ently ariver ol ade ‘ yayor ire int poor risks because they are subject t ! amount of temptatior rheatrical we he ‘ proportion of bad ris \ box-« ‘ tneater is under greater te t ¢ cause of the combination of atmosphere and opportunity. The cashier of motion-picture house has les il to get off the track, since there are few advance sales or other opportur ties to steal without detectior Bad morals are contagiou 1) expect to find an honest man a ating with thieve \ boom countr alway a region of! bad ris} It attracts the adventurer type A queer quirk in men’s mir is that public-service compante ire wide regarded as f game. Theiremployes are more apt to be bad risks than t} in other lines of business And here’s a place where lot ol people makea mistake: T} e% think that because a man o cupies a confidential positior he must betrustworthy. That ) not so at al! ‘ The fact tl in employe iA t t prove that he f the thousand , S of defaulters that crop up annu AA ally practically all are trusted employes In the main, only trusted employes get the chance to default; the others aren't trusted with anything they car make off with Let those who have accepted family responsibilities perk up at this: Married men are a hetter risk than bachelors— six to one. But when married mer do go wrong they usually do it or ‘ berate, carefully calculated scale that runs to larger amounts. Racial Reliability NIMILAR to that is another su ety S her J maxim: Age is more

youth. By the time they have reached middle age most men have already had their chances to go wrong. If they have not become obviously untrustworthy they will probably remain honest Different nationalities

rnish interesting contrast#. Here we have just cause for pride. f because Americans outrank nearly all foreigner in honesty. They are better risks than almost any other people. But the Chinese are better still. They rank highest of all Of Europeans, the Dutch are most honest and the Latin races are least reliable Latin thefts or embezzle ments are more apt to be petty thar those of the Northern | uropean race But wher tne northerners do ro wrong, like married men, they do berately, playing for big stakes And nere, finally, are three rule that vou car

or its hard to give an} adequate reasor Men who swear a great deal rarely steal. Fat mer are usually good risks Cranks are nearly always

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26 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A‘D! 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY INDEPENDENCE SQUARE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, U.S.A. GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR Five Cents the Copy From All Newsdealers, By Subscription: To the United States and Possessions. Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Isle of Pines, Labrador, Mexico, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Republic of Honduras, Salvador, Spain and Uruguay, $2.00 the Year Remit by U. S. Money Order, Express Money Order, Check or by Draft, payable in U. S. Funds To Canada—By Subscription, $2.06 the Year. Single Copies, Five Cents— Canadian or U. S. Funds To Foreign Countries, exclusive of those mentioned above, by subscrip- tion, post paid, $6.00 the Year. Remittances to be by Postal or Express Money Order or by Draft on a bank in the’U. S., payable in U. S. Funds. PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST 7, 1926 The Valorization of Cotton pe Haugen and McNary Bills, that have been before the House and Senate respectively, contained provisions for appropriations to serve as a loan to a farm board to enable it to control the marketing, primarily the export marketing, of cotton. This was not to be a subsidy, but a oan, returnable with inerest. At some later date an equalization fee would be levied on cotton growers to raise a fund to pay back the governmental loan and make the cotton board financially independent. It is contended be incurred, and it has furthermore that losses would not been suggested that the use of government money would be temporary, pending organization of a national cotton growers’ coéperative association. The purpose is to create an organization through which cotton growers could domi- nate and control the world market. There are several ways of looking at the proposed otton-marketing fund. One is to regard it as a fund to stabilize and regularize the market at its presumably high- est natural level, eliminating selling competition between growers. Another view is to valorize the price at a set gher level than would be expected with continuation of the present type of marketing. Both points of view were in evidence in the Congress, but with the growth of the idea the purpose expanded to lodge the international marketing f cotton in the hands of a grower-controlled organization, yperating temporarily with government money, for the purpose of so regulating the flow of cotton as to secure the maximum price economically possible. The following ex- erpts from the records make this clear: “If you could control the American supply of cotton, ou would control the world market.” ‘It is a simple matter on cotton, if you can do it; as mple as it is on rubber and coffee.” pie as ‘As I understand it, as far as cotton is concerned, the position involved in this bill is that the board would be ible to control the world price of cotton. = ‘Is there any reason why we should not apply to our \merican products, at least to some extent, the same prin- ples which have enabled the British to control the rubber 9" tuatior “Tt should be clearly recognized that in the case of cot- n the objective is to secure for this great American crop the highest price obtainable and economically practicable in the markets of the world.” “The cotton producers have practically a monopoly, and wherever you have a monopoly you can control the pet price. “Yes, they can control the price if they can unite and pool the whole production.”’ On behalf of cotton growers, it is contended that produc- tion costs are high and the purchasing power of cotton low in units of goods desired in the Southern standard of livin. It is further urged that acreage is uncontrollable and fluctu- ations in yield so extreme as frequently to result in glut or scarcity. What is sought is a cost-plus price for cotton that shall make cotton growing satisfactorily and regularly remunerative to growers and factors. As result of the sixteen-million-bale crop, the price of cotton has fallen from twenty-two to seventeen cents, and it is urged that under the proposed action it could be raised to, or above, twenty-two cents. We are the largest exporters of cotton; but cotton grows in many parts of the world, and much more can be grown, at a price. A valorized high price would stimulate cotton raising in foreign countries. Our surplus of cotton is largely in short staple, mostly in lower-than-prime grades. Our crop of really long-staple cotton is not more than a mil- lion bales, and of such cotton we export little; against this, we import longer-fiber cotton to the equivalent of three or four hundred thousand bales; we are a net-importing country in long-staple cotton and a net-exporting country in short-staple cotton. If through legislation we announce to the world the policy of raising the world price of cotton, this will stimulate in foreign lands the growing of both long and short staple cotton and the new fields will probably be planted to pure-bred high-grade strains. Cotton does not hold the unique position that rubber oc- cupies; and the valorization of coffee is successful only on account of the high standard of living in the United States. Cotton has several sets of uses that naturally overlap. First, daily consumption, such as the use of bandages and thread; secondly, seasonal and annual upkeep, the main- tenance of the customary family stocks of sheets, shirts, automobile tires, and so on; thirdly, new uses of the fiber and new equipment, such as are represented in house furnishings, railway cars, automobiles and factory equip- ment. There is little retrenchment in the first group, but considerable retrenchment is possible in the second and third groups. The various cotton-importing countries stand on separate levels of consumption and react differ- ently to changes in price of cotton. If the price were to be held at a high level some of the countries in what might be termed the outlying districts of cotton consumption would yield their demand, so to speak, to other countries. A sub- stantial elevation of cotton price throughout the world might have the result of enforcing a realignment of textile industries. The devices of substitution would be particu- larly stimulated if formal notice were extended to the world that the United States intended continuously to keep the price of cotton as high as practicable. The experiences of the past decade have afforded illustra- tions of untoward developments that must be faced by countries engaged in the attempt to monopolize interna- tional trade in raw materials. A new type of speculation enters, particularly if the commodity concerned is dealt in on exchanges by way of future contracts, as in the case of cotton. To a considerable extent, speculation was re- sponsible for the fluctuations in the price of rubber that followed the application of the Stevenson Plan, and it is cer- tain that to a large extent the profits of these rubber prices went to speculators rather than to producers. A national undertaking to maintain the price of cotton and regulate distribution would have to contend with speculative forces the world over. Consumer countries often find themselves in position to play producer countries against one another. In the case of cotton they would find it possible, in some seasons certainly, to play against the United States the other countries sending cotton into international trade. That such an international device is feasible the wool grow- ers learned to their sorrow since the war. Leaving aside technical considerations and questions of the effect of such legislation on acreage, of the possibility August 7,1926 of losses to the national treasury, of the feasibility of an in clusive cotton-growers’ coéperative association, and of the later application of an equalization fee, a broad question of national policy remains. So far as we recall, this cotton marketing proposal represents the first proposition for world-price valorization of an American product. The resources of the United States are diversified and extensive, but they contain few materials of which we control the largest fraction of the known world supply. Cotton is per haps the only important material for which the world is at present dependent on the United States. Various countries throughout the world possess more or less effective naturai monopolies of highly important com- modities. In numerous and diverse ways, furtively or openly, the countries in control of these natural monopo lies have latterly undertaken to exploit the consuming countries. It is a reversion to the practices of the seven- teenth and eighteenth centuries. It seems certain that the valorization of cotton by the United States would have a world-wide effect in strengthening monopolistic devices of this kind. Up tothe present these devices have been usually } defended as a choice of evils rather than a choice of equities Just as the German Chancellor remarked in 1914 that mil tary necessity knew no law, so countries controlling natural monopolies urge that business emergency knows no law One gets the feeling, in reading British comment, that the Stevenson Plan is regarded as not quite respectable, but was evolved in an emergency to block widespread ir solvency. Valorization of cotton by the United States might come to be accepted as world-wide precedent, and would thus have the effect of making such price control internationally respectable in a sense that does not hold at present. Proponents of the proposal disclaim any intentior of driving the price of cotton beyond the point of a fair re turn to producers; but that is exactly what is said in every country endeavoring to control an export price. Surely we cannot expect the other countries of the world to agree that we are likely to be fair and they are likely to be unfair in the execution of valorization. Do we wish, pro forma, t adopt such tactics in international trade? Are we to in dorse the view that this is the way the game of international! trade is to be played? We may be sure that this proposi ion will be brought up again in the next Congress. In the interval, cotton growers should give their serious attention to three questions 1. Will the scheme of valorization work, except under subsidy? 2. Do such grounds of urgent emergency exist as would justify the Congress, on short notice, in reversing the trade policy of the country? 3. As a commercial proposition, does the United States stand to win or to lose if price control of necessaries be comes universal? It seems to be generally understood, or taken for granted, in Washington that the proposition for valorization of cot ton did not originate in the Cotton Belt; it was introduced to the Cotton Belt by the Corn Belt. In the light of the debates, it does not seem that the proposal has been thought through, even from the standpoint of the proponents. It may reasonably be urged that the fall in the price of cotton from twenty-two to seventeen cents does not in itself con stitute such an urgent emergency as to justify sudden legislation of a far-reaching character. Cotton growers, and cotton industries as well, ought to think this over It is only a step from valorization of raw cotton to valoriza tion of fabricated cotton. The experiences of the past decades suggest that to enter on this course, a country ought to be positive in its desire to adopt the policy and be strongly convinced that the out come would be successful, because the policy is one that is likely to be disastrous if it fails. Governmental price cor trol is not a piece of machinery of which it may be said that “if it does not do any good it will at least do no harm.”’ There are national policies that can be easily reversed the outcome is unsuccessful. But there are policies that represent burning the bridge behind us, and this is one of them. If we adopt valorization of exports, this might tend to make the practice universal. Upon us, therefore, rests international as well as national responsibility — —— —_ — 4

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST August 7,1926 SHORT TURNS AINID BENCORES A Real Record “ think your folks mighty pat otic?”’ ‘Sure. My paw buys all his clothes Thirteen Years Ago Today HREE ministers in our town de- th nounced the brazen members of the Bloomer Girls’ Semi- at an army store “Huh! Why, my grandpaw wore professional Independent Base- ball Team and urged members ions not a union suit all through the Extra! Extra! The Telegraph Edi: tor, Left in Charge The social hour of the M nd Self- ner inerva of the Home fora Few Days, Reports to His Wife improvement So- ‘ } clety was devoted WILLOW GROVE, Aug. 15th—-Spe to criticism of Miss Minnie Whiffletree, who cial had confided to Dt 1R MARG one ef her friends _ at 3:39 o' clo« this alter noon Rose Mary MeSwinney, age es about thirty-five, our COOK an unexpectedly by the leged illness of her fz made that Charlie Lake was going to the dogs, because he leaving me with the respon ' sibility of providing meals for went up to the city and bought him- self a set of those newfangled golf sticks. our growing family. It is now 8:30 and I am glad to report tha a Dame Rumor hath it that Miss Josie Springlake did not get in from a buggy ride the situation well in hand, and Pritts until ten minutes after eleven o'clock last night. The Doreas Sewing Circle appointed a committee of LITT HEI three to suggest in some tactful way to Miss Monta Blue- If They Had Attempted to Wear Summer Furs NAI MI comb that in the interest of morality and the general in the Old Days! FUTED. 8:4 4 spiritual welfare she should not appear again in a peekaboo In the matter of meals, I started to explain, we had the } 4 fire so ff mY Mee in: . . The first arose to give his credo; choice of eating my own cooking or of goi: Wal aT Abner Sprutt was seen going behind the prescription The language that he used was Ido, cided to go out and have been case at the Red Front drug store. The second then essayed to speak ; ; . . ; we f , ]- BULI IN Mrs. Newton Prunk advised Miss Nettie Mae Dossert to His medium was Volapuk. i ill —aidl aa Se e ; me be more careful about the arrangement of her skirt when MANN ND H { she climbed into a buggy The third prose ssor read a canto VIVOR HA | , 11 : ee , : ,: "90 of » Mamas f I HILD PIO. Mrs. Mollie Whortle, who did the washing and ironing In resonating Esperanto. LIGHT ON TI , for the Purtle family, told Mrs. Riley Achenbaugh that lhe last declaimed an hour or so, ; Delivering his views in Ro. We have been eating at Willi: Ellie Loretta Purtle wore silk stockings every day. " +3 ° . he fo eaticfar rv. t io} f cours + ¢ - t here was a gocd deal of talk about how high the Widow the food satisfactory, though of course it is not equal to . 1 . ' } en a > eooki P wisastiiaas Springle rocked when she was sitting on her front porch. ind speech was no more universa home cooking. I am considering Tom S. Elrod Than at the Babelish di persal; ww Wh ich? The fruit of all linguistic lore HAS JUST DI wT KSN { (cn Instead of being One, was Four! rH N IMPORTAN EW AND DE\ M : ’ PECTED ANY MOMEN i DIFF ERE NT realm Jour diffe rent sages, Convinced that differing tongues for ages 4/1 men should be of one assortment, I may hire another cook or ask grandma to come over ] Had sundered men, to heal the breach One race, one faith and one de portment ; and sort of look after house during your absence, but t Evolved the Universal Speech. And so they will without a hitch, ought not to be necessary. If a father can’t take care of 4 As soon as all agree on Whicel his home and family while the mother is away for a few \ \nd after iong v tior Arthur Guiterman. days , , { ) GOLDFISH The sage ‘ ” ation SODFREY J IN MYSTIFY] ‘ ’ In that on ONG Ke every land MAT I } M Y MADE AN EXAMINA a] D =x fo) D471 TH Mr. and Mrs. Beans "Yes, Violet, Poor Old Scrappy is in a Bad “I Must Hurry Home and Let Beans “‘vi, Now Let's Get This Straight. You “Say! I’ve Been Waiting a Long Time Way « «+ « Teeth . . .«. Can't Chew Know How Poor Old Scrappy is Sufs Say Scrappy'’s Suffering With His for Just This Chance. I Can't Get Ainything. Have to Feed Him Gruet and fering. He'll be So Sympathetic" Teeth? Can't Bite or Chew on Anys Over There Quick Enough to Teli That : Soft Stuff" thing? Rough Bird What I Think of Him"?

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— ee ee ee er ee a - You enjoy every bean THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 29 y.! Th al Waly nl nar apert ’ ' ‘ ‘ a) Vo Va) ole alr ale er a a oY | = | WITH TOMATO spuck - Sze CAMPBELL Soup COMPAN flavor! Cooked so slowly and thoroughly that every bean is tender and yielding, with that full, mellow bean richness so delightful to the taste and so satisfying to the hunger! | Savory, appetizing, tempting beans! So ON YOU d e e delicious that you simply cannot resist their Always think of Campbell’s as the slow-cooked beans. It will help you to obtain the finest quality and the utmost enjoyment. Beans cooked this way are so digestible, too. In fact, Campbell's Beans are considered so 12 cents a can especially wholesome that thousands of mothers Except in Rocky Mountain States and in Canada select them regularly for their children. The slow-cooked digestible beans

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I plea. “June, June, I want you to marry me,’ he said stammeringly; and it was as mitted. He was, it seemed » him, a lost man; and to s thoughts flashed in absurd picture of him- elf, in the ut 3S garb his Jay new how to set wn dining room; MI MI O XIV his was no predetermined the words were drawn from him, from THE SATURDAY EVENING POST IRT Al lL By Ben Ames Williams ILLUSTRATED Br WILLIAM LONGINGS LIEPSE August 7,1926 stood in silence. There was a rail along the bridge; a rail of rough poles supported on | of iron, arching up toward the center as thoug] to form a truss to support the timber t bridge. Where she st entering a lighted ballroom approving, by. He would lose ess, WU er 90k the man could , lu h proceed- there thought himself forgotter and he moved nei felt curiously ea cr inal waiting f nt RE ee eee eee Se replied. Hert e Wa ) and gravely kind ‘“‘T heard w US Walter,” she told hin He teadied | “We I meant it, Jur he declared stout I wish uU OUulLG ‘Pot wants the n thins she murmured to hers —" ; ¢ him He Va i f — fe Nn a =~. ern style eemed to hear 1 ma Mrs. Cash explain, in her you. The " tu said mooth and cultivated one day. } ¢ thir tones, the symbolism, the much of Pot, I gus beauty, the soul of the He | ested in depre painting betore them; cation W! Pot’s med-—hehadsometimes right. He’s a good mar shed ask the same sure ind a g on his own ac- ier, for this town. | ( hape and gets ilong But that he is. June ist a sma farmer, walking along wit! ! his head bent and ey ; l it of dismay at on the ground f vn predicament. And He wo t rround : Afterward, When They Were Come Home Again, He Discovered Her Afresh; He Had Been So Used to Seeing i ‘ : tu xi ned all Her in Scrubbed and Faded Biue That the Metamorphosis Amused Them Both iggest 1 qule { them ft June was “That’s | sine t more than a motionless shadow by his side; and be- About June, emanating from her, a little warm cloud idy it and h it and find out wl » Amar | m the brook flowed, rippling with little laughing hung; he was within its skirts, and his senses swam. It ts tow ng that way.”” She added met} j e shallows above the bridge, still and calm may have been along time after his word was spoken before e a smile in her voice, “And wat 4 vund that 101 below, then chuckling again as it danced _ either of them found further word; it may have beenlongor way, you don’t stumble much or get off t vad ( igh the rips below the pool and lost itself in the short. But it seemed to him interminable, and her silence He laughed confidently. ‘“*But you don't see much « xl below. The old gray birch bowed above their drove him into speech at last. He said softly, “June.” the world,” he reminded her. t nd the last thrush was still. The owl hooted some- She had, when he first spoke to her, turned aside from ““Nobody can see only about so much, if they want t | : "far away; and something splashed lightly him, her eyes leaving his to look down to the pit between ’’ she countered \ t tl ater’s edge below them, and a dog barked on the the alders where the brook lay, as though the stream, a “Oh, June,” he said appealingly, u'll never marr 7 lj a imbled over the bridge two or three orfour living and immortal thing, might have counsel for her in it. He’s too ngs t es downstrean nd in the meadow tothe west of them this hour. But when now he spoke again she turned to ‘May marr 1 May w ! ‘ g silence full of movement imperceptible, him once more. Their eyes encountered; and even in thi But s nd led : there were populated by attentive darkness, after a time, his turned aside. Off toward the ‘‘Oh, I do Bu He remen ed—old fragments of his youth were house, Pot’s house, he could see the yellow glow of a lamp- id you" 1 e é ming | to nim—he remembered one day his lit window, and he said in a tone that strove to be casual, Married to him, struggling for a living he vO 4 | e to hit t Haradeen girl, of June. Could ‘I didn’t expect to see you tonight; I was going to the day long ; the words, but knew some comment passed, and Corner.’’ She did not speak. ‘‘Is Pot at home She did not immediately reply: and he said at last f t | mself had been pleasantly embarrassed “‘He was in early,”’ she explained, ‘“‘and the children Are you unhappy? Thinking of May? ’ I d old Jim were friendly,” he thought now. abed. I like to come out at night.” ‘I was thinking about you,” she explained t have planned ‘ “You like to come down to the brook, don’t you?”’ he He smiled. ‘‘What were you thinking, June?” | to imag that his father, grubbing tl commented, and he saw her nod. After a moment’s hesitation she shifted her posture, i 3 the n in of the meadow in the darknes ‘It keeps going on, all the time,”’ she agreed, as though _erectly facing him there in the darkness. Her face paused to watch what went forward on the _ this were sufficient explanation. He had foundin her again pale shadow in which dwelt the deeper shadows of her ey L vas a t when s things are possible and again this still appreciation of whatever was eternal “Walter,” she asked, ‘‘go on and tell m t make t the wind speaks in whispers and the dar this clinging to the immortal and undying things te- you want me to marry you.” | y membrance hushed him now, and for a longer while they Continued on Page 33

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a ‘ lis he had been led by her word of Pot to plunge deeper iemma, and t! e was no ¢ ipe lor him now in do so much for you, June,”’ he urged. “ You see, ratner a wealtny mar | nough, at least tnat we ive just about any sort of home you want. An apart for a while, with the sort of thing ou’ve never I And I t to see you not have to wo so hard, you pretty dresses, read good books with you and see ctures and hear beautiful music. I car ty happy, June.’ He was still a moment, : 1 passionate heat: “‘And I can’t bear to think of you ng nere, tne ame, day alter day, growing old and You dor t need to be sorry for me,” she tol inim; and

ed a taint warning in her tone.

nttnha hea ired her ‘I know you re not sorr\ yurst June. But I can give you so many things you eve now | f you'll let »it for you r posture the awa And ] ‘ qieé t ‘ ‘ TY you've rememb« n wavs be ’ v4 n He che ed himse hling ting r he ng, wa r denia ‘ ected é But she said g membered you.” The night - ehu ng. and she YY } rms_ not roug} ‘ irm If protest seek to dra 1 his But he found in } no just acceptance; and he are arms, watching her, till some o that he said sorrowf 1 ‘I’ve always remembered again. ‘“But—you've change He laughed at her t} \

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R e way Pot has changed he chal- en I worked — hard,”’ she suggested. ‘So have | e cried bitterly. ‘* I’ve done well, June. ept the farm working for him,”’ she said ve ‘You've made money and got it in the bank omew here But it ome out of you, Walter; and what Pot’s done has gone into him.” Bent | Dac and bowed his head,” he told her Yes,” she reed “yes, f ye 1 go to look at things that rhe were ent for a while then she had, it seemed, no further word to say; and he sought to escape from the net ! he was enmeshed. He had always that capacity or it himself with a dispassionate eye, for smiling at his own absurdities. So now he was amused that he hould seek to justify himself to her; amused that he hould refuse to accept the escape she offered him. Yet at the same his thoughts were swift, seeking any opening He tried ng the case again: et June; see if you’re not a little unreasonable. | want you to marry me and come away; I want toshow you fine things, show you fine tasks to do. If you marry Pot ;" Ss here and work for the children.’” His heart 1ught at this thought. “‘’They’ll grow up on the farm, and tle Junie ma . farmer and work hard her life; y will work for Pot around the place and own the farm some day—if he doesn’t leave home the way n take them and send them to college and give them a start, give them a chance at life He was pleased picture, thought it must move her, elaborated its detail But when he was done she said simply, ‘‘ They’re Pot’s.’ He had forgotten this, and for a moment it silenced him But he said then, * You'll have children of your own, June M“hat’s bound to he.” Yes,’ she agreed; and the low word seemed to ring And after a moment she spoke to him again gently. “I’m ght sorry, Walter,” she said. ‘‘Sorry about you. I ex- ect you're a kind of lonely man. I don’t expect you’ ve got any friends."’ He laughed protestingly; but there was con- sion i sid his laughter too. ‘Oh, you know a pile of folks, she conceded, ‘But you're lonely just the same, with four men to wait on you because you pay them to. I’m sorry ibout you, but that can’t be helped. And I’d rather stay here, Waiter [ like here.” He was unable to find words; and after a moment, witha orn cry, he swept her into his arms, seeking to move her by the old appeal; but when his cheek touched hers he felt it wet and she had been crying while she spoke to him, and he was abashed by this. he cried, ‘you love me!” “June, June,’ ‘Tl always did, Walter,’”’ she confessed. “You've got to marry me,” he pleaded; and she was trembling pitifully. ‘June, you've got to. You can’t argue igainst the way you feel, June. Things will work out so you'll be glad. We’ll work them out together, the way you want them to be. We can doit, June. I am lonely; I’ve always been lonely, without knowing. I need you to be with me. I think I’ve always needed you, June, always been lonely for you.” “I've wanted you,” she whispered. And she whispered on: “] used to go and redd up your house and think of you being there, and build a fire in the stove and cook things, ind wash up and talk to you. I was lonesome too.’ ‘You see?’’ he cried, in laughing triumph. ‘ You see? It’s bound to be so, June. You’ve got to come away th me.” She was so still, he thought for a moment he had won; sught with his lips for hers. But he found only her wet heek instead ‘You've changed, Walter,” she told him again. *‘ Maybe uu belong there; but I belong here. I’d ruther be here. | like here. You'll have to go along.’ ‘And leave you to marry Pot?” She pushed at his breast and he relaxed his hold so that he drew away and freed herself. ‘1 guess so,’’ she said a And when he would have caught her close ay, and when he spoke her name she is gone, running away from him. But he nee ea choking sob. rom her li eard a sound f Then the night her to comfort her, and the m wind iched as her warm breath had But the broo hu ed softly there beneath the bridge. I {* SAW he »more for days; an 1 he moved thought self-searching, self-communion, un ertain what todo. And he debated taking his departure. W hene he wer » the barn he saw the great car there, ( y i ith f ling tools; and he ured it t rut and cleaned it, and once or twice THE SATURDAY EVENING POST he tried the engine and found it always ready to serve And one day he went to the attic to get his bags and bring them down and pack them; but a glint of light between the shingles revealed to him a leak in the roof which he had overlooked, and he left the bags where they were and went to get his ladder and replace the rotted shingle there. He thought much of going; would not permit himself to think of the possibility of staying. But day by day he stayed. Once or twice frost stole by night into the valley, touching the wooded flank of the ridge with a crisp stroke that transformed the birches into yellow plumes, the oaks into a red flame and the beeches into embers dying there Only the black growth, hemlock and spruce and cedar and some pine, kept its stalwart green. The hillside became a fine mosaic, an ancient tapestry woven with party-colored strands. It would be an early fall, he guessed; the winter would be long. Joel May, passing on his way from the Corner, stopped one day and Overlook went into the farmyard to talk with him. The man was curious, and frankly so. ‘You've been here quite a spell,’”’ he suggested ‘*Near six weeks now,”’ Overlook agreed. ‘Be leaving pretty soon, I figure,”” May commented. ‘Getting back to the city pretty soon.” Overlook smiled; it amused him to evade the other’s veiled inquiries. “‘I haven’t fixed a day,” he replied. “‘A good many things to do around here still.”’ ‘*Anybody’d think you was figuring to hire out the farm,’’ May commented, “‘the work you’ve done around Only, there ain’t anyone like to rent or buy.” “No,” Overlook agreed. “‘No; I’m just keeping things up, that’s all.” “Go to pieces again soon as you git back to the city,” May reminded him. ‘It takes a man all his time. Can't keep up a farm and stay in the city too.” When by and by Joel drove away, his curiosity still un- satisfied, Overlook turned back to the house with gloomy eyes. He felt absurdly sorry for himself because they were all expecting him to go. Because no one-—-save perhaps June—seemed to want him here or urged that he should stay. And not even June had urged his staying; she had merely refused to go away with him, to leave the valley here. She, too, he decided, expected his departure; she did not cross his path, did not come to the farm as she had sometimes used to do. But Pot came now and then, al- ways with some word of indirect inquiry. “Like a buzzard watching for a thing to die,’’ Overlook thought bitterly, and pitied himself most profoundly. One day a letter came from Rand, his office manager. He got it when he went to the Corner for supplies; but he did not open it till he was at home, in the dining room, sit- ting at the table there; studied it then with a slow and in- attentive eye. It was typed upon his office stationery, his own name in block letters across the page, and the address below, and the date, and the formal salutation. Yet each one of these familiar details had about it unfamiliarity; came to him like moments from the past, strange and nearly incredible. The very phrases of the letter were the curious and meaningless phrases of a dream. ‘“‘ Mr. Cash and Mr. Sigbert ‘sg my duty to have your move- ments traced.” ‘‘Confidential.”” “‘Intercity Traction.”’ “In your hands.” Cash. Sigbert. agency had searched him out; they would not let a man alone, let him escape from them. Intercity Traction. His thoughts diverged, considered the rocky and rutted road from his farm to the Corner. That ought to be repaired. Two or three thousand dollars would put it in fair condi- tion, make passage to and fro less difficult. The roads here- about were almost all bad; if they were improved, a truck “Flotation.”’ ‘‘ Promoter’s stock.” lalf-forgotten names. The McGuire could carry produce to market in Augusta. . . . He wrenched his attention back to the letter in his hands. “Pool.’’ The word caught his eye, and he thought that the farmers hereabouts could all combine, work together, market their stuff together, if they had someone to or- ganize them, someone who understood such things, some good man. Such possibilities appealed to him; his fancy leaped ahead, pursuing many plans; he had to twist his eyes back to the letter again. He perceived that there was nowhere in it any touch of human anxiety or solicitude; nowhere an appeal for his re- turn on any personal ground. Only a certain awe, a certain timorousness, and an anxiety for profits vanishing. “The man’s afraid of me,” he thought; “just plain afraid of me.” His eyes lifted from the letter and rested thoughtfully upon a painting on the dining-room wall. It represented a lake set among the mountains; on the bosom of the lake, against the flank of the farther hills, there were a dozen white-sailed craft. In the foreground lay a cove with a sandy beach where—-the painter had lacked skill in his handli the water seemed to run uphill At the nearer end of the cove there were gnarled and rugged 4 of perspective August 7,1926 oak trees, two inches high; at its farther end a palm half as tall as the canvas. As a boy he used to go sometimes to the Corner to fetch home the mail and his father’s paper and while his father read the paper by the lamp upon the table, he would lie upon the couch, lool} ing up at this paint ing on the wall, waiting his turn at the news. His grand father had bought the painting, he remembered; bought from a man in East Harbor because he liked the carved and gilded frame. Here it had hung thereafter, to awake old memories now. The house was, Overlook thought, full such memories; he would never be lonely e, where forbears kept sober company, where June might sometime come——-might some day dwell. And he thought again, hopelessly, ‘But on or late I’ve got to go back, just the same It had been late afternoon when he came home from the Corner with Rand’s letter; he sat there by the table t dusk began to fall and the room grew dark about him, t letter in his hands. When he saw that the time had come to light the lamps, ne rose and went into the kitchen and set match to wick; and he found that he wa iriously tired and at the same time nervously alert, his movement more swift than their later habit had beer The fam tasks, lighting a fire in the stove, cooking his supper, set ting the victuals on the table, faintly irked him; he went about them in impatient wise, and when a cake burned t« the frying pan he scraped out the charred fragment angrily. There was something familiar about this feeling this resentful haste; and he stopped at la r f to discover what it was ‘The way | used to feel, right along,” he thought grimly ‘I'd forgotten the sensation, loafing here Yet he had not he perceived, been idle here at the farn ad not beer loafing; had in fact worked from dawn till dark day alter day. ‘‘ But it’s rested me,” he discovered. “I’ve slept and I've eaten, and I’ve lost some of my fat It’s done me good.” All to be undone, in a little while, when he u bacCK again If he could take June back with him, it seemed to hin things might be otherwise; he might better s ipport the routine of the days. He wished it might be a nervous resentment at these ir tangible tuggings whi sought to draw him from the farm. On a sudden impulss he got Rand’s letter and dropped it in the stove, and fe a quick relief and smiled. **Let him wait,’ he told himself aloud. ‘‘ Let him w for a while.”’” He felt guiltily that the letter needed reply, but —“I’ll; promising. ‘There isn’t any hurry now iswer it tomorrow,’’ he promised, com When his tasks in the kitchen were done he went into the dining room again and set the lamp beside his should there; and for a while he lost himself in contemplation. As always at such times, June came to him, came before |} inward eye; and there seemed to be comfort in her comir now. The little house was very still. The night was coole and there would be, he thought, a frost before the dawn but the fire in the kitchen stove diffused sufficient heat that he was warmed even here, warmed, too, by the g] lamp beside him. The doors and windows were all so that from the night outside no sound came in to him at all; he was cloistered here, secure from all the world. “‘T’ll have to drain the radiator of the car,’”’ he thought, r get out of here. “if the nights get any colder—or Wherever his thoughts turned, he encountered tl dilemma, faced the necessity of determining his plan. If he were to go he might as well go quickly; the season grew day by day more stern. But if he were to stay, then there were many things to do that must be done. If he were Stay He laughed at himself at the thought; it was an absurd ity even to think of staying. But if he stayed, June wou come to him; if he bound himself tostay. Not fora mont nor even for a winter, but for always; then she would come, to go forward by his side. And he found himself for the first time considering, straightforwardly, this possibilit, considering what he might do if he stayed He had before this had casual thought that there wer tasks to be done across the country might do. Now they were more personal. This farm of |} to be brought to bear again; to bloom with garden stuf and roots for the cattle, and meadows stout with hay That southward-facing slope across the road where the orchard was, toward Joel May’s; that to be bought ar apple trees there planted, and tended till they bore. The forest growth to be disciplined; waste trees removed ar seedlings set; the ax where it was needed; and the tematic harvest by and by. The roads to mend, and fleet of trucks that should collect produce hereabouts and bear it marketward. ‘“‘Intertown Traction,” he thought and chuckled at the thought. The farmers to be inspired Continued on Page 52 { t

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST August 7,1926 British Selling at Home and Allo road —By Jesse Rainsford Sprague OR generations there has been throughout the world a fiction that the English are not much in the line of: salesmanship. ‘‘Oh, yes, they're great manufacturers,”’ has been the general ver- dict, “*but they don’t now how to sell their merchandise after made it.” Those who hold this belief have never they hay studied the English trader in his owr itat. In a recent ad- dress before the mer- chants’ association of one of the larger pro- vincial cities, a Lon- don business expert alluded admiringly to the proprietor of a leading metropolitan department store as i genius of salesman- ship and painted the following word pic- ture: **Mr. Blank sits on the roof of his great London building and studies the crowds be- low. ‘One person,’ he says to himself, ‘has sixpence in his pocket; Saran aMay CIO, ROMON another a pound; an- other ten guineas. How shall I set to work to get the sixpence, the pound, the ten guineas, from those pockets into mine?’”’ It is not necessary here to dwell on the somewhat self- centered attitude of the gentleman who sits on his roof The point is that Mr. Blank and ten thousand of his brothers in domestic com- merce are living confufation of the fiction that the English no genius for salesmanship. The English and studies the crowds below. people have domestic commercant has been hardened into efficiency by centuries of competition such as we can scarcely imagine. English salesmanship may not be entirely like ours, but in its home field it is none the less efficient, whether its aim , the pounds or the ten guineas England, as is well knowi, is a man’s country; and it is rlish salesmanship should be at its best and deadliest in those lines catering to men’s requirements. ackville Street in London, from one end to the other, is r to men’s tailoring establishments; any person } who has ever patronized one of these establishments has n sales efficiency. A Session With the Fitters ( _ hy mbs a flight of stone steps and enters the sales- Ff room. One met by an alert young man who inquires 9 one wisnes I t to be a suit for winter One is con- ted to the room where only winter samples are on dis- play Or a spring suit, or a summer suit? There is no f e that the é makes a mistake, for the three weights are ipule separated. One selects the pat- t The fitt pears to perform his ctions. If one nance © an Ame an, there is inq\ as to whether one wishes the trousers arranged for a belt, although the uir mat i slightly incredulous manner and only a vague conce 1 to an incomprehensible foreign taste. \ hip pocket in the trousers too? Yes, one may have hip pockets if one wishes; but, without precisely saying so, th mpression is conveyed that the quite correct thing is te irry one’s handkerchief in one's sleeve Alb uncon- ne acquires the feeling that here is the seat of world of fashion Seneuedeaetaen ae eueneaneaeaep A Glove Shop in Oxford Street, London At the subsequent trying-on of the suit this feeling is intensified. One is taken in hand, not by one fitter, but two. In the fitting room is a wooden horse surmounted by a saddle such as one sees on the mounts of the gentlemen in Rotten Row. too? If so, one may sit astride this saddle to make sure the trousers will set properly when one is on horseback. Also, in the dressing room Perhaps one would have a riding suit All gentlemen ride, of course. is an orderly array of shoes and boots of various styles. Does one wish to put on some of these shoes and boots to see whether the trousers of the business suit will droop gracefully over the feet while sitting negligently at the while standing before At the last the master of the establishment himself appears for expert There is a club, while strolling in Piccadilly, the open fireplace in one’s private chambers? comment on the work of his subordinates. slight touch of the lapels of the coat, a suggestion as to the length of the vest, and the ensemble is pronounced perfect. The most pleasing surprise is reserved for the last. The gentleman clients of the house ordinarily have their pur- chases charged, but perhaps one wishes to pay cash. In such a case there is a discount of 10 per cent. transportation companies likewise set a swift al salesmanship, entering into a competition pace in practi with the private trader for the sixpences, pounds and ten guineas in the pockets of the purchasing public. At Christmastime the London Midland & Scottish Railway ‘Buy madam a season ticket to town for a Christmas present,”’ is the urges gifts of season tickets over its lines. burban residents widespread publicity placed before the s its territory; 1e month, by the year. **season tickets are And so of all the larger cities on 1y the week, by tl issued reasonable in price! Among those suburbanites who have failed to make f Christmas gifts of season tickets, travel is stimulated by reduced fares during the hours that would ordinarily be ‘‘Have you told your marked by sparsely filled coaches wife,”’ is the question prominently posted in all suburban tations, ‘‘that the hours of 10 A.M and 4 P.M he may go to town at half price between > manship is over] Even the pedes- rian instinct 1s capi- talized through the issuance of walking tickets that give the city dweller opportu- nity to travel to any desired station, allow him to walk to an otherstation and then to return by rail to the starting point, all on one pasteboard. With the British fishing is a national port; transportatior lines do their bit to encourage the tend ency, for the fisher man must travel Booklets may be had at all stations of line that penetrate fishing sectior On the pages of these booklets one may learn the loca tions of desirable their dis tance from. railway thespecies of fish therein found and the best seasons for trying one’s luck Hotels and boarding houses are mentioned with their prices, and the names and ad fficials who dresses of o issue permits, if same necessary No he pful detail of sales the London Midland & Scottish Railway in naming one desirable spot; “several caught Keeping the Pennies at Home {ew strictly ur hind the st their individual sales pennies. Is there The management of t} the public of the fact carriages, with a pnotogray ing exhibit and detailec may be reached by tube time the public is rem visited easily and econom other times the companie for Chestnut Sunday, f for Blackbe rry Week So great is the salesmar transportation lines international travel ishers like to go to the ness acumen is required to gra who spends the don, and his pennies and sixpene the London tubes, busses panies st urdily com} routes leading to Channel ports have set up great boards that give an indir capital in the following words Come to London, the gay The thought occurs tha were as resourcelu there might be less unemployment Nearly always when one to another Britisher the the emotions alike, for the ntens on ve limited At d that Kew Gardens may be Ally I aqdy he n Cont season in Paris alt appeal Ar companies are not be salesmanship, althoug! to the sixpences and new piece in the British Museum? as to how the museum rt is tempora trams. The time or rhododendron lube, bus or tram. At se rides to the suburbs 1 } piooming olf the Diuebdells enterprise of the Londot made even to urtall Know! moneyed Brit n winte Little bus sp the fact that the Britisher lost to Lon s cannot be spent wit! London com at this Continental exodus, and on the } vicious dig at the Frenct ld 1a. WOrl port salesmans st salesmans! j n the kingdom today. made to the eye and o-Saxor emotional. The Continued on Page 38 i —

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(Continued from Page 36 hundreds of sidewalk artists on London streets draw pic- tures of dogs, of horses, of children, knowing well that such subjects best draw the coins from passers-by. But in the little curved street called Aldwych, just off the Strand, one of these artists departs from custom and day after day chalks down re presentations of ostriches, of kangaroos, of vast plains of growing grain and pasture land. One wonders why this man should so go against tradition, until one glances about and sees just at the end of the street the huge marble building of the Australian Com- monwealth, the rendezvous of well-to-do men from Brit- ain’s greatest colony. This particular artist’s work is rewarded by no miserable pennies, but by shillings and half crowns The vyovernment it elf is not behindhand in salesman- ship. In the thousands of little branch postal stations through the kingdom the girl attendants are trained to act as though the purchase of a postage stamp were a per- sonal favor; no stamp or postal card or money order is passed through the wicket without a Thank You. London claims to be the only great city in the world where one may post a letter in the morning and receive a reply the same Recently this has been surpassed, and now it is evening. possible for the London business man to mail an order at nine A.M. to a manufacturer in Birmingham, one hundred miles away, and receive his goods by parcel post by six o'clock P.M. An American engaged in business in London told me that last summer he was obliged to make a visit to the United States, expecting to be gone three months. In September an installment on his income tax would fall due, and he was not sure that the receipts of his business would take care ef the item on the due date. Accordingly, he wrote a letter of explanation to the proper government office, inclosing a check dated November first, and asked if such settlement would be acceptable. In due time came »vernment reply: [his office has looked up the records,” the letter read, and finds that your tax payments have heretofore been made promptly. In view of this, it is decided that your check, payable November first, will be acceptable at this The recent governmental agitation in regard to placing a tax on betting is in line with the thought of Mr. Blank, who sits on top of his building and studies the crowd below. It is legal to bet with cash money at the race tracks. It is legal for the private individual to bet at his home or his club, but not with cash; he must have a charge account with a recognized and licensed bookmaker. Not all in- lividuals, however, are solid enough financially to be able to do their betting on credit, and this situation has given se to a class of bookmakers who carry on clandestine operations among the poorer classes—men who are, in t l effect, bootleggers of betting. Hounding Out Donations iy [ieSE things were solemnly thrashed out in Parliament ind reported in the daily press. Nothing could better ove the innate salesmanship of the British character argument of those statesmen who favored the ‘The government needs revenue,’ it was reasoned. one knows this illegal betting is carried on, and everyone knows how it is done. The bookmaker rents a oom in some secluded place and advertises to people of hood that they may place their shillings and neighbor rowns on all current sporting events. In order to umvent the pol ce, the bookmaker must employ a wkout to warn of impending danger. It is practically ) put a stop to such an operation, so why not mething out of it? The bookmaker has to pay wages he man who acts as lookout. Let us say he pays forty Is a year--two hundred dollars. Very well then; the bookmaker a government " ppose we offer to sell for twenty pounds, half the price he pays his look- it. It stands to reason the bookmaker will jump at the Things ‘will be no worse than they were before vernment will get the money!” I’nglish salesmanship is largely of the visual variety, and In the city of ere is need for re pairs on the wooden portions of ere a drive for funds in the ordinary rkings in a thousand cases \merican mant with earnest committees going about res and oftices with subscription blanks in hand, or mass meetings of citizens to hear speec hes on the necessity maintaining so historic an edifice? There are none of these activities stead, in the public square of Bath ert on dis} a huge wooden beam taken from the athedral tower, to which is attached a printed statement rs are made necessary because of the inroads of ertain insects that have bored their way into the age old THE SATURDAY EVENING POST timbers. The wooden beam punctured by a myriad of little worm holes is visible proof of this statement. The public is requested to send check or money order to assist in the worthy cause. It may take time, but the Bath Cathedral will eventually have the money for its necessi- ties. The English love dogs. The English are a practical peo- ple. The English capitalize this love for dogs in raising money for their charities. In each of the most important railway stations there is a dog, chosen more for his kindly disposition than for pedigree or sheer beauty, who walks about collecting money for various benevolent associations of railway workers. Each dog is a railway employe, pure and simple. He eats at the railway restaurant and sleeps in the station. During business hours he wears a little saddle on which is attached a brass collection box labeled with the name of his charitable organization and with a slot at the top suitable for the reception of a five-pound note or a cop- per halfpenny. So highly are these dogs regarded that at Paddington Station in London one may see a former vet- eran, one who appears to have been something in pedigree between a fox terrier and a pointer, stuffed and in a glass case, still wearing his old collection box and with a printed placard giving the number of pounds that he collected dur- ing his busy and useful life, and with the added informa- tion that King Edward VII and other royal personages had on occasions dropped donations into his brass collection box. A Permanent Window Display NE of the London hospitals employs a rather unusual scheme of salesmanship, through which it draws a con- siderable portion of its revenue. On the hospital’s staff of employes is a corps of girl entertainers, principally young ladies from good families, who have some dramatic talent and who have need of earning an income for themselves. These girls work in pairs, an executive of the hospital ar- ranging their routes. Their entertainments are put on in the drawing-rooms of hotels, mainly at seashore resorts during the summer, and in London and provincial cities during the winter. The affairs are quite informal, a notice being posted in the hotel office a few days in advance stat- ing that the entertainment will be free to whosoever wishes to come. One girl plays the piano and the other sings. One tells something of the work of the hospital. There are more songs, a violin solo and humorous stories. Then a straight appeal for donations. The results average very satisfactorily. At one session that I chanced to attend, in a small residential hotel with perhaps fifty guests, the collection amounted to something over twelve pounds; and that, the hospital authorities told me, was about the average sum a performance. Each girl receives a salary the equivalent of fifteen dollars a week and expenses. The hotels visited are usually glad to furnish lodging and meals, so the incidental expenses are limited to railway and interurban fares. With receipts of twelve pounds, the net profits of an entertainment are in the neighborhood of fifty dollars in terms of American money. Everything connected with the entertainment is done in a manner to insure each guest that his contribution will go to the cause for which it is intended. After the collection a committee selected from the audience counts the money and turns it over to the manager of the hotel. The girls get a statement of the receipts that they send to the hospital, and the hotel manager mails a check. The hospital author- ities reply in a letter of polite thanks that is later posted in the hotel office. Being a downright and unimaginative people, the Eng- lish bring a like orderliness to all their charitable efforts. There is a national organization for the verification of all charitable drives and another national organization for prevention of overlapping activities. The person whe tries to make private profit out of public philanthropy must possess talents of a high degree in order to avoid trouble, as exemplified during the current year in the case of a young lady of the metropolis who enlisted as a worker in one of the London drives and who appropriated a por- tion of the sum in her collection box to her own uses. The young lady’s excuse was that her private income was in- sufficient to purchase certain luxuries that she keenly de- sired. This excuse, however, was not deemed adequate by the unimaginative judge, who imposed a sentence of thirty days in the workhouse. One charity that particularly appeals to the British public is that of the Royal National Life-Boat Institu- tion, and here the visual salesmanship is at its best. A rugged, seafaring background is needed to supply the proper atmosphere, and during the money-raising cam- paign this is supplied by members of the life-saving force itself, dressed in the paraphernalia of their profession. Few citizens of a maritime and island people have the heart to ignore the appeal when presented by a husky, good-natured individual in oilskins and life preserver and August 7,1926 when the last artistic touch is added by the collection box itself—a miniature coast-guard lifeboat. When Mr. Blank, of London, stands on the roof of his store and looks covetously at the people who have money in their pockets, he does so with the full realization that he is contending in the most competitive market in the world. His salesmanship is as direct and visual as that of the sidewalk artist. He crowds his show windows with merchandise and plainly labels each article with the price There is, in Oxford Street, London, a shop that has been selling gloves for upward of a century, and the character of the window display, it is said, has not been altered in fifty years. Row upon row of gloves is plastered flat against the plate glass from top to bottom, some of the samples showing the effects of time, but the attached price tags are always fresh and new. In spite of the monotony of the exhibit, there is always a crowd in front of the place. On one occasion I sought a business man who is closely in touch with the firm, to get, if possible, an analysis of the sales idea lurking behind so peculiar a window display. His comment was substantially as follows: “Tt is nothing less than a trade-mark,” he said. ‘‘The firm is one of the oldest in the kingdom, and naturally it wants to emphasize the fact. What could be more indica tive of age and respectability than to keep the same kind of display in the show windows for an entire generation? But you notice the price tags are never allowed to become shabby; they are, in fact, renewed once a week. This is to show the public that while the firm may be old, yet it is up to date on the question of values. Moreover, there is dis- tinct economy in having samples of all the firm’s products in the show windows, each labeled with its price. More than half of the selling is done before the customer comes into the place. The firm does a tremendous volume of business with a surprisingly small number of sales people.” Whatever peculiarity the stranger may notice in Britis} domestic commerce, he may be sure there is practical thought behind it. Not far from the glove emporium in London there is an establishment selling men’s ready-made clothing. Like other similar establishments, there are al ways in the windows lay figures dressed in the clothing that the firm purveys. Just an ordinary clothing-store display, one thinks. Still, there is something different about it, and the difference comes out when one examines the lay figures. Those that wear the ten-guinea suits are fine, upstanding figures with curiy hair and manicured finger nails. Those that wear the three and four guinea confections are a little stooped, there is a suggestion of beard on the faces, the finger nails show unmistakable traces of grime There is the London restaurant keeper who has made a large fortune by the use of visual salesmanship combined with an appeal to the universal sporting spirit inherent in human nature. His is a little upstairs restaurant, seating but forty-odd people, and a midday lunch is his only meal The restauranter’s long white whiskers constitute an im portant factor in his salesmanship. When the guests are seated at the single long table he rises from his chair at the end and asks a blessing. Two attendants then bring in a huge fish on a large silver platter. Seizing a knife and fork, the restauranter carves this fish with incredible rapidity, and half a dozen waiters no less quickly carry the portions to the guests. A Novelty in Restaurants 1 NX THE finish of this course the restauranter rises an asks his guests todo the same. He proposes the healt! of the king. ‘“‘You may now smoke!”’ he then announces While the guests prepare to smoke, an enormous cheese is brought and placed upon a dais at the head of the table Slips of paper are distributed among the guests, and the announcement is made that the cheese will be awarded to the person who sets down correctly its height, its girth and its weight. As a guaranty of its quality the restauranter slices off generous slabs that the waiters carry to the diners After the slips of paper are collected, a committee of three is selected from among the guests, and these committee men carefully measure and weigh the cheese. Once in six months, perhaps, a client chances to win the prize. At the finish of the day’s function the guests are informed that no bills are rendered for the meal or for the extra they may have consumed. Each is requested to figure his own amount and to hand the sum to an attendant, also a gentle man with white whiskers, upon leaving the dining room Good salesmanship? Who shall say it is not good sales manship when subtle appeal is made to the strongest instincts of human nature? There isthe appeal of exclusive- ness; of stately and patriarchal ceremony; the appeal of a game of chance; the appeal of being classed as a person of undoubted integrity (Continued on Page 66 > ee ee =

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' 5 PI ( I t} | i KAW ir rac hy ry f t} fe’ nesles hotel, 34: e had taken He adjusted his THE SATURDAY EVENING POST By Carl Clausen ILLUSTRATED BY DUDLEY GLOYNE SUMMERS behind the room clerk’s desk and telephoned the lowing advertisement to the Daily Mirror: Wanted at once, teller for new bank in a near-by « Middle-aged man with Eastern experience bet preferred Ca veen one al P.M. in persor and bringrefe rence Mr. Blass, Hote Alvarez, City. “One girl who took the advertisement “Send the bill t the name and ad ad.” ‘Yes, Mr sir. That went to dinner ir which he had dis covered during his perambulation about the city, and where the cui- sine was above reproach. He scanned the bill of fare critically and ordered himself a that have found favor with the most ex meal would acting Asalways, wher embarking upon a new venture, excel lent spirits. The apathy of his er forced he was in inactior had dropped from him. He glanced about the filled provingly, | well room ap pink, smooth face aglow with beney olence and good fellowship. The soft lights and tl gay music fitted On Sundays He Went About the Community Making Friends With the Mountaineers, Calling at Their ita deposits in the a sort of contem- lowed between the nd trembled almost f there inte and fishe t door eld ma Indeed. his fe The element we “d le. | and attention to Napoleon, once his ind swiftly, folded t + sone t unthi wsided + ry) 1 ert piea | | yme ence the pn + , e |} ¢ u | } ne i ind iving € ement th ’ ( , r id. wit} m t x ed t Homes, Discussing Crops, Market Prices and Blooded Stock people’s—had made it necessary for him to abandon his profession somewhat hurriedly. banks since then had been in a usually thirty or sixty day His business with strictly intermediary capacity notes signed by unsuspecting bucolics on various naive pretexts and discounted at once by Mr. Blass at the vic- tim’s bank Such methods of doing business made a frequent change of residence imperative, and it was Mr. Blass’ secret boast that for ten years he had never stayed in one place more than three months. He two now and the atmosphere of the quiet li had been in Los Angeles nearly ttle hotel irked him He wanted to be up and away. For days he had been scanning the advertising columns of the daily papers as- siduous More than once an innocent advertisement had pointed the way to a cir- cumstance fitting his peculiar gifts. The four-line advertisement of the National Bank of Calkinsville seemed to point such a way, and the isolation of Rocky C the probable surplus of the bank intrigued him the most. Clos- ly. This was a religion with him. junty was particularly desirable at present, but Mr. Blass leaned back in his chair and considered ing his eyes and oblivious of the other people lounging like himself about the cool, tiled lobby, in the ceiling of which a large electric fan buzzed softly, he went into ex- himself, from which he emerged half ungainly turtle awakened from ecutive session with an hour later like a huge, its siesta on the bosom of a placid pool He decided to do a little judicious advertising himself ‘To entered the telephone booth ng the tiled floor he his mood to a nicety. As was his habit, he tipped the waiter half a dollar in advance with the 1] dollar if the steak was done to the promise of another exact letter of his specifications As it exceeded even his expectations, the second coir came forth and with it an order for a cigar to the same value. This having been lit in the deferential manner wit! which only a well-tipped waiter can apply a lucifer to the Blass leaned back in his seat and gave himself over to the contemplation of his ir end of an imported cigar, Mr tended raid upon the surplus and undivided profits of the National Bank of Calkinsville It was near midnight when he id the waiter handed him his cane and hat and escorted him to the door The evening, Mr no moon arose a Blass discovered, was fine. There was The balmy Pacifie breeze fanned his smoot! shaven cheek. He walked homeward leisurely, and as leisurely undressed and got into his peach-colored sil pajama suit. He read for half an hour to make hims¢ sleepy, then turned out the light, closed his eyes and, wit} luxuriou yie Iding depths of the special box bedsprings with wi the Hotel Alvarez pr ‘rnous yawn, slid his well-fed body into the vided its guests u IS advertisement brought the desired result It doubtful if any city in the Union holds as mar middle-aged and elderly bank clerks with Eastern exper They seem of employment as does Los Angeles caravans like the Mohammedans t: ence out to journey there in f Southerr their Mecca. The climate and living conditions o Continued on Page 42 August 7,1926 OOD MEN AND TRUE insertion only,” he told the dress given in the Blass; thank you, done, he a quiet little place eS FS x.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Continued from Page 40 to order for the man who is financially live there minus an overcoat and ‘omfort than in any other city on into the Hotel Alvarez at »«d lobby looked like a conven- sizes and states of insolvency, out of work to ¢ of nine months arrival who still wore gloves iis blister-pearl] stick pin for a caused them to be led to ! in state and received the grave and slightly condescending man- ' finance about to embark upon a vast nterprise. By 2:30 he had ewed twenty-six applicants and had subjected their vift but comprehensive scrutiny, and had after taking their addresses, with the tement that he would call them if he needed » worked with ‘unerring precision. 1en Number Twenty-seven was shown in, Mr. Blass that this was his man. Twenty-seven \ilt individual with a horselike profile, rown eyes and the funereal expression that some deep-rooted organic ailment and hopes deferred. When he sat down he had the appearance of a ackknife closed halfway and he hoisted up his trouser legs “arefully with the tips of his long bony fingers, as if fearful hat the strain of sitting down would cause his He answered to sudden sharp, pointed knees to pierce the cloth. the name of Wendell Craig, and his dark melancholy eyes wandered hungrily about the luxuriously appointed apart- ment while Mr. Blass, cigar in mouth, perused his references. When Blass laid them down and asked him a few search- ng questions, the weary dark eyes lit up with a sudden gleam of hope, and when his questioner said “I think you'll do, Mr. Craig,’”’ a shock seemed to pass through the appli- cant’s cadaverous frame. It was quite evident that he had answered the advertisement merely as a matter of routine, with no hope of it leading to anything. The shock of hav- ing been selected seemed almost too much for his fragile frame He le ined ‘*When do you wish me to and aske assume my duties, Mr forward in his chair huskily, Blass?’”’ Mr. Blass cleared his throat. “Well your ahem, it will of course be necessary to investi- gate replied. ‘‘As a matter of fact I’m just organizing the bank and the dea not yet com- references,”’ he ‘ l pleted.” The applicant’s long face grew perceptibly longer. “T see,” he said hollowly. “But I’m very sure that I shall be able Blass hastened to assure him. roferences with me for a period of two weeks so that I may to use you,”’ Mr. ““Suppose you leave the investigate them thoroughly.” “Two weeks!’’ the man repeated listlessly, as if the other had said two centuries. Mr. Blass’ small gimlet eyes observed the applicant’s condition in detail. He noted the patched shoes, the care- fully mended shirt, the cracked collar and the trouser knees worn thin by daily sponging and pressing. “‘In an enterprise of the magnitude of which I am about to float,” he said—Mr. Blass liked nautical terms; they gave an air of solidity to the proceedings ‘‘one must be careful in selecting the men who are to be at the helm. I will, of course, give you a receipt for the references.” The man seemed to hesitate. “Then, I can consider myself hired?”’ he asked. Mr. Blass smiled indulgently. “There is nothing sure except death and taxes,”’ he re- plied, vith oracular jocularity. The applicant nodded. He seemed to have heard this before. He regarded the patch on his bravely polished right shoe in silence. Mr. Blass thought quickly. He needed Craig’s references for two weeks and he was willing August 7,1926 to pay for the use of them. They were just what he was looking for, and his possession of them would prevent Craig from answering the advertisement of the Calkinsville Bank if he happened to see it. “Tell you what I'll do,’”’ he said magnanimously. ‘‘! realize that during the two weeks of my possession of them you'll be unable to look for another position. Now my) motto is, if a thing’s worth having it’s worth paying for and you seem to be the sort of man we need. Suppose you give me a two weeks’ option on your ser\ nominal sum, say fifty dollars. If at the end of that time I decide to use you, the fifty dollars will be held out of your first and second month’s salary. If I decide not to hire you, the references will be returned to you and I loss my fifty dollars. Is that fair?” Craig drew a deep breath. “Tt is more than fair, sir,’’ he replied gratefully. “Very well,’’ said Mr. Blass. screwed his fountain pen and wrote out a simple agreement to that effect in duplicate, signing one of them and handing the other to Craig for him to sign. Ther bills from his pocket, laid two twenty-dollar ten in the applicant’s trembling bony hand, put ces for some Smiling inwardly, he ur he pulled a roll o and a the ref ences in the drawer of the table and signified that the inter view was at an end. ‘You'll hear from me long before the tw I think, Mr. Craig,’’ he said as he jotted down the address the applicant gave him. *‘ Would you mind tell when you go down that the position is filled and to send the rest of the applicants away?”’ weeks are up, ing the clerk “T will tell him, sir, ever. When the drawer and settled comfortably at his leisure. Craig replied, more gratefully than he man was gone Blass took the references from down to read them They were excellent. They showed that Mr. Wende Craig had had twenty-five years of banking experience medium-sized city in the Middle West, having risen to th: Continued on Page 44 | | | As They ¢ RincteueRahaiessinncsa cane Blass Looked Up Inquiringly, Then Shrank Back With a Yelp of Terror

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Continued from Page 42 Mr Che references were just tive to asmall- je record of a sober and Blass tant casnier vould be attrac that he ne in putting his scheme Seated at the table he ng letter in his conserva- ic of Blass » position as rtisement in your atten about middle age, of ts and with many ithe Middle West, will show. I have ivailable which I securities of the glad to eall in trom you lifornia, After he had finished the letter, he read it over carefully twice, then folded it up, had struck a note that would elicit a prompt answer. Mr. Blass was a student of human nature and he knew that few middle-aged bank clerks looking for a position were solvent to the extent of ve thousand dollars He registered the letter at the main post then walked downtown to the Alex- andra Hotel, where he engaged a room under the name of Wendell Craig. ‘I am going out of town for the told the clerk. “‘My baggage is till at the Santa Fe Station. I will have it I'm expecting an mportant the north. ee that nothing happens to it.” The clerk promised to do so. Because.of the isolated position of Cal- kinsville, Blass that he could not expect an answer to his letter for several days. He spent this period covering up his trail with his usual care and attention to detail. The following morning he checked out of the Alvarez Hotel and moved his simple luggage to the Alexandra’ and that same afternoon he went to a near-by bank and bought himself a cashier’s check for ive thousand dollars, payable to Wendell ig. Then he settled down to wait. On the fourth day the answer came. As he slipped his fat index finger under the flap of the businesslike-looking envelope, which the satisfied that he office, to be day,”’ he brought up tomorrow. letter from Please knew bore the National the left-hand corner of rinted return address of Bank of Calkinsville, his heart played a f. against his well- padded ribs, and when he ran his small por- typewritten sheet, a read over his heavy jowl to the last ' chin. He read: int staccato tattoo ve town ft ne eyes down the » triple WENDELL CRAIG, ; We shall glad to have you call \ , and have taken the ir references at once by r, the answer to which y the time you can get here. state that your communica- lif we can come to terms we yme you as a stockholder as of our bank. may add that our rest per annum and is l estate and building its own landlord. stock OF CALKINSVILLE, California KEY! President. A man have e letter. astute ha mself would varded the for Calkinsville. He waited Mr. Keyes a to hear from t spec ial-delivery to Craig slass did noth sort. days, rst vive sent former employers in tigating th nvestiga t e& relerences, sec rder not to show undue haste or Mr. might expect we r, wire THE SATURDAY him, and he improved upon the interval by calling on a certain lawyer who had been re- commended to him by one Frisbie, an old friend and former business associate. Fris- bie had been Mr. Blass’ partner years ago in some of those little, mildly illegal ventures upon which both men had cut their youth- ful teeth. This was in the days before Mr. Blass had begun to put on weight and be- fore Frisbie had thought of raising a goatee. The two men had drifted apart and Fris- bie, it seemed, had become involved in a stock deal that had terminated disas- trously for Mr. Frisbie’s clients—and only the perspicacity of this legal person had kept Frisbie from going up the river in- stead of down the flume where the savings of his clients went. To this man, the frosted pane of whose office door bore the simple legend: ‘ How- ard Reach, Attorney,’’ Mr. Blass stated his wants. Mr. Reach acknowledged the absent Frisbie’s references with a wolfish grimace that was intended as a smile. He was a short thickset man with negroid lips, upon which rode a mustache of black, straggling bristles. His eyes were darkly opaque and expressionless as those of a fish. His first question was brief but to the point. “How much is your bail?” he asked. Mr. Reach always gauged his fees by the size of a client’s bail. Mr. Blass smiled. He informed Mr. Reach that he was not under arrest and that thus far indeed his record was unsul- lied by the contaminating hand of the law, but that being a careful man, as Mr. Reach undoubtedly understood, he had always made it a rule to get in touch with a good lawyer when embarking upon a new ven- ture. That he had, in fact, come to engage Mr. Reach as his very personal attorney and upon a generous retainer. Mr. Reach understood. He signified his perfect comprehension by pulling a square bottle and two glasses from the bottom drawer of his desk, and the two men retired to his inner office for an hour’s earnest con- sultation, from which Mr. Blass emerged with an almost seraphic glow upon his pink, smooth face. They parted with mutual protestations of good fellowship and perfect understand- ing. Mr. Reach was to hold himself in readiness for an emergency. ir ATURE has dealt charms to Rocky County with a lavish hand. The low- est point, a narrow valley two miles below Calkinsville, is well over four thousand feet above the sea and the highest point, Mount McGregor, is a fraction less than thirteen thousand. Nevertheless there is plenty and to spare of meadow lands to support the small population. These mountain mea- dows are the ancient terminal moraines of prehistoric glaciers. They were formed by the silt milled from the granite ledges by the glacial ice moving seaward every spring through countless geological ages. When the glacial period came to an end, floral life began to appear on the meadows. Flowers and grasses were born and died, and in dying added their life impulse to the already quickening glacial silt. A million years had passed since the first grain of silt was laid upon the polished bed- rock by the first spring glacier, to the day when nature intrusted to the meadows the support of her latest and highest form of life-- man. How well the meadows discharged their stewardship is shown in the faces and in the forms of the people who live there. Sturdy folk, mountaineers, long-waisted, rosy-cheeked women and broad-shouldered, deep-chested men. Women who love sim- ply and deeply, and men who labor lustily and live with zest. Into this community Mr. Blass projected himself via stage coach one fine spring morning the meadows stood knee- deep in golden daisies and lupines. His small bright eyes missed no detail of the prosperity of the country which he was passing. He noted these when very eV ident through EVENING POST the well-kept farmsteads, the flowering or- chards that promised bumper crops, and the sleek, fat kine that, shoulder deep in the lush meadow grasses, gazed with a sort of fraternal contemplation at this well-fed form reclining against the somewhat flea- bitten upholstery of the lumbering coach. The beauty of the land, the towering, snow-capped peaks, and the white, fleecy clouds that rode them, the dark green of tamarack and cedar that clothed their sweeping slopes —upon all this Mr. Blass gazed stonily, and the soft purling of un- seen brooks awoke no response in him other than a brief shiver of thankfulness that he had brought his rubbers along. He found Mr. Asa Keyes a_ large comfortable-looking man who greeted him with a deep Southern accent and led him into his private office, where he pulled out a box of cigars with Western hospitality. “The answer to my letter about your references came this morning, Mr. Craig,” he said; “‘you’re to be congratulated, suh, on the esteem in which you're held by your ‘former employers.” Mr. Blass contrived to look modest and esteemed in the same breath. He waved a pudgy deprecating hand. ““They’re fine people,”’ he said largely. Mr. Keyes smiled. “T note that you have quite recovered from your illness,”’ he said. ‘‘The letter stated that your ill health was the only rea- son for them dispensing with your serv- ices,”’ he explained. “T never felt better in my life,” Mr. Blass replied, with more than a grain of truth. Mr. Keyes slapped him on the back in his hearty Western fashion. “California climate, suh, the most won- derful tonic in the world. They'd be sur- prised if they could see you now.” Mr. Blass winced slightly under the hearty slap. He agreed that “they” would be very much surprised indeed. Mr. Keyes bit the end off a perfecto and held a lighted match to Mr. Blass’ cigar. “Suppose we talk turkey,”’ he said, sit- ting back in his chair and crossing his long legs. Mr. Blass indicated with a nod his entire willingness to talk turkey. That was what he was there for. “T suppose you've noted that this bank is more or less of a one-man concern?” Keyes said. ‘Of course we're incorporated as a national bank, with the regulation board of directors, and so on, but in the main Asa Keyes is the National Bank of Calkins- ville,”’ this latter without a trace of egotism, but with a certain amount of pardonable pride. ‘‘We employ just one teller and a woman assistant to take care of the cor- respondence and help with the books. Dur- ing rush hours I take off my coat and lend a hand. We're a small concern as banks go, Mr. Craig, but we're sound to the core, and we have a surplus that would knock a city banker cold.” Mr. Blass settled back in his chair with a sigh of content. He glanced about the small well-appointed private office with un- disguised approval. “You certainly have a nice little outfit,” he agreed. ‘All your own way and no com- petition.” Mr. Keyes reached out one large efficient hand and ran it lovingly up and down the oak panels of the wainscoting. “Nice grain, eh, Craig? I picked out the wood myself in Los Angeles. Quarter- sawed oak rubbed down with pumice and six coats of shellac over the stain.” Mr. Blass’ knowledge of wood was con- fined to sawing minus a saw, but he touched the panel with a deferential digit and agreed with the proper amount of awe that never had it been his good fortune to see a finer finish Mr. Keyes’ finish he meant — but he kept the latter observation to himself. His eyes missed no detail of his surroundings. He noted the small steel-lined filing cabinet that against the wall, the glass- topped desk and the chairs upholstered in fine-grained Spanish leather. He also noted the half-inch-thick cork linoleum which stood August 7,1926 the rubber into ua covered the floor and into whict heels of his button-top shoes sank as deep rug. His imagination was stirred by this cork linoleum. He brought himself up with a start. Keyes was speaking ‘**Now as to salary,”’ the banker was say ing. assistant amount we've been paying, but your duties will be light, except on Saturdays, and when Sup ‘I’m almost ashamed to state to an big city Dank the cashier of a you get swamped my coat comes off pose we start you in at two hundred fifty dollars a month, with the end of the first six months.’ eT Mr He re gistered the prope and an increase al A shadow seemed to pass OV salmon-pink face shade of reluctance, then said as \ all mercenary considerations aside for the nobler ones of guiding the fortunes of the National Bank of Calkinsville to supremacy ‘I don't that I’m intrigued by this part of the country, my physician has ordered me altitudes — well, in short, that ir the very low remuneration, I accept your offer.”’ He hesitated. ‘‘One condition only do I make, and that to buy the five thousand worth of bank stock I spoke of in my I shall want to share in the fortunes of the bank that employs me.” Mr. Keyes expressed | these noble sentiments. “T think that can be arranged, suh,”’ he said. He was in fact at that moment per sonally a little short of ready cash, having hinan i Mr intrigued mind telling you, Keyes positively and being that to the hig! ¢ spite of is that I am permitted dollars’ letter S approbation ol overbought on meadow land. The possible disposal of a smal! block of stock had been in a great measure responsible for his in tial interest in the applicant’s letter, as Mr. Blass had so cannily foreseen They talked of this and that, the future of Rocky County asa health re sort, and Mr. Keyes gave his listener a long monologue on its historic and glorious past. He referred modestly to his own share in the development of Rocky County by or ganized financial support, and spoke in true pioneer fashion of the breaking of the mea- dow soil by a former generation; of their hardships in crossing the sterile Nevada up lands and of the epic struggle that had made this mountain richest farming community in the California. To all this Mr. there was nothing else to do. He discusse isolated region the state ol 3lass listened because was not The eloquen t interested in epics and flights of fancy only bird that him to was distinctly stationary and anchored se American So, to stop the flow of eulogy that aroused curely to the reverse side of the dollar. } poured from Mr. Keyes’ honest Western lips, Blass drew out his wallet and from it the certified check for five thousand dollars and laid it on the table With his own hands Mr. Keyes made out the pass book, showing that Mr. Wendell Craig had that day deposited with the Na- tional Bank of Calkinsville five dollars. After this had been attended to with the proper amount of ceremony, Mr Keyes took his new employe around and in troduced him to the outgoing incumbent, a dreamy-eyed youth with ambi tions, who looked Mr. Blass over in a man ner at once absent-minded and clair\ thousand big-city voyant Then back to the rear office where a tall serious-looking youngish woman, answer ing to the name of Miss Tinker, abandoned her work long enough to flush painfully ur der Mr. Keyes’ breezy introduction Blass held out his moist right hand it the young woman laid her own coo! limply, as if doubting the propriety intimacy with a stranger. Mr leased it hurriedly. He had th feeling of having had a large oyster dropped into his palm. Iv & MR. KEYES had told Blass, ties were light. The daily cas actions in deposits and wit not large. The ranchers pa Continued on Page 49

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST August 7,1926 ot how long the Oil lasts but how long the Flapdoodle or commonsense 7 Don’t be misled by flapdoodle about motor-oils. [t is mot an oil’s job to run your motor. You buy gasoline to do that. It is not wise to follow the miscel- laneous advice you hear, or read, about oil changing. Change oil at the inter- vals specified in the instruction book that comes with your car. [t is wot important what an oil looks like. The best motor-oil and the worst motor-oil often look the same. But it 7s important, vitally impor- tant, how thoroughly a motor-oil safeguards your motor from deadly heat and friction, the twin enemies responsible for 75% of all engine re- pairs. That’s commonsense, the kind of commonsense that is daily winning new advocates for this oil that gives the “film of protection”. 'ODAY, engineers will tell you that there are no poor motors among the standard makes of cars. A poor motor, in 1926, is simply a good motor that has received poor care. And the responsibility for the condition of your motor is largely up to the motor-oil you use. Your choice of a motor-oil should be gov- erned by the answer to one simple question, “How thoroughly does the oil safeguard your motor from deadly heat and friction?” No other consideration is of equal importance. No other factor should influence your choice. A motor-oil’s responsibility iv is a motor-oil’s job to form a thin film over all the vital parts of your motor and safeguard them from deadly heat and friction. As long as that film remains unbroken, your motor is protected. gut far too often under the punishing lash of blinding heat and under the ceaseless grind of friction, the film of ordinary oil breaks. Then through the broken, shattered film, scorching heat attacks directly the vital motor parts. Hot metal chafes against hot metal. Unleashed fric- tion begins its insidious work of destruction. All too soon you have a badly damaged motor and repair bills that can ruin your vaca- tion fund. bi as sa g oe ee | # 2 > FW \. > oe a) -* A “film of protection” that does not fail ECAUSE the whole problem of correct lubri- cation lies in correct oil films, Tide Water technologists spent years in studying not oils alone but oil f/ms. They made hundreds and hundreds of laboratory experiments and road tests. Finally, they perfected, in Veedol, an oil that offers the utmost resistance to deadly heat and friction. An oil which gives the “film of pro- ; aa ae or 4 tection”, thin as tissue, smooth as silk, tough as steel. The difference in the cost of the best oil and the cheapest oil amounts to but little in the course of a year. But the difference in dollars between a car on the road and a car in the re- pair shop is something worth worrying about. Put the Veedol “film of protection” on the job. Stop, today, at the orange and black Veedol sign. Have your crankcase drained and refilled with the correct Veedol oil for your car. Tide Water Oil Sales Corporation, Eleven Broadway, New York. Branches or warehouses in all principal cities. ‘The FL LM of PROTECTION

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Continued from Page 44 the iocal tradesmen by check, and they themselves were paid by the grain and cat tie buyers in drafts on out-of-town banks These were deposited with the Los Angeles correspondent, the great Oil and Grain Commercial Bank, and drawn upon by ex press when cash was needed That the Cz even more of a one-man affair than the ad lkinsville National Bank was

mission of Keyes had accorded it was soon evident to Blass, and he entered upon hi new duties with a quiet and watchful at tention to detail. It took but a short time 0 familiarize himself with these details He found out that the bank carried habitu ally some forty thousand dollars in cash in the vault. This was a good deal more thar was necessary for an institution of its size but Keyes belonged to the old school of West respondents and Federal Reserve Bank

ern bankers, to the era when city cor were unknown, and when a bank’s strength was measured by the thickness of its steel vault plates He believed in carrying plenty of cash on hand to meet any sudden lemand of his depositors. The institution If upon this which he represented prided itse In the panic of 1907, when banks went } down like wheat under a hailstorm, and scrip was the only known currency for months, this cash reserve enabled Keyes to pay every demand in gold coin, as his im in the panic of the 80’s when Asa was a twenty-year-old

father had done before | stripling Once Blass had ascertained this state of ff he proceeded to ingratiate himself with the de positors This was not difficult for a man of his histrionic abilities. The position he held in the bank gave him the restige necessary for the basis of assuming the role when putting over a deal of this ort. He lost no time in making himself solid with the people, whose pride in their small mountain ass window and telling him that hed

back bv one o'clock to Blass walked into the vault The time was ripe. Opening the safe he abstracted from it the sixty-odd thousar dollars in currency and securities. The cur rency was mostly in large bills of fifty ar one hundred dollar denominations. Ther: were a few bundles of fives, tens and twer ties. These he passed up as too bull Thirty thousand dollars of the forty thou- sand, all in one-hundred-dollar notes, he wrapped up in a piece of t tied it with string. This small package he took out into the yard at the rear of the bank and hid under a pile of old boards that had been torn out when the pane ling of the

office was done, a year or so earlier, and had

not been disturbed r ince, When he returned to his teller’s cage he found Hawkins, the butcher, waiting at the window for some change. He exchange pleasant remark or two with the man as he pushed the rolls of silver under the wicket to him. After the butcher was gone, Blass carrie¢ the remaining ten thousand in currency and

the twenty-odd thousand in securities int Keyes’ private office. Here he moved the filing cabinet, lifted up the corner of the heavy cork linoleum, tore the gummed paper bands off the bundles of currency and laid the bank notes side by side, five deep under the linoleum, arranging the secur ] ties neatly in a row beside them. Then he } turned the linoleum back again, moved the filing cabinet into place once more and re turned to his teller’s cage, where he found two men, Shelton, a rancher from the upper meadows, and Sanger, the real-estate broker, waiting to be served. He cashed a small check for Shelton, ir quired about his wife’s health, wt had been poor for several months, and wher Shelton left he waited on the real-estate broker. He was still chatting pleasar with Sanger when Miss Tinker returned rom lunch. Leaving her in charge he tool is hat from its peg behind Miss Tinker desk and left the bank in comp: } Sanger. The two men ate lunch t

the hotel dining room, lingering cigars, discussing the future of Ri County, and Blass walked leisurely back t the bank, where he found Keyes waiting a long line of afternoon depositors

Blass hung his hat on the peg beside Miss Tinker’s coat. As he passed her desk the girl looked up at him, then dropped her eyes hurriedly. In that brief look B saw a flash that might have been distr might have been just diffidence He slacked up his pace almost instinctive then passed into the teller’s cage and re lieved Keyes. When he happened to glance over | shoulder a little while later, after the wait ing line had been disposed of, he noted that his hat did not hang on the peg beside Miss inker’s coat, but on one three pegs re- moved from it. He frowned. He could have sworn that he had hung the hat on the peg next to the coat At 4:30 that evening, when he had put and Keyes had sed the

his cash away t and had gone

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He also turned back the lapel of his coat beneath which the bright nickel sheriff’s badge gleamed. ** Allshipshape and regular,’’ heremarked pleasantly. “Very well,’’ Blass replied with a show of extreme reluctance, ‘‘but you'll be sorry for this.” “That’s what they all say,” the sheriff replied grimly. He glanced at the rack above Mr. Blass’ head. ‘ Traveling light I So much the better. Let’s ramble. The next train North is due in twenty minutes.”’ Blass was arraigned the following morn- ing. He pleaded not guilty in a clear steady voice, was remanded for trial under heavy bail and led back to his cell. Wednesday at noon, Howard Reach ar- rived. The two men held ashort conference in the cell, and Reach departed to attend to certain little matters at the courthouse. So far Keyes had not been to see the prisoner. Blass knew why. The banker was busy in- vestigating by wire the suicide of Wendell Craig. Later in the afternoon, Reach came to the jail for another conference with the prisoner. The lawyer patted his breast pocket. “T got the list from the register at the courthouse,” he told Blass. ‘* We'll demand a trial at once.” Blass rubbed his hands. “It can’t come too soon to suit me,”” he said. see. Vv “MNHE People against Wendell Craig,” the clerk of the court announced one morning a week or so later. The judge, a small heavy-set man with a bristling pompadour of coarse iron-gray hair, glanced about the crowded room. Itseemed as if every man and woman of voting age in Rocky County was present The judge’s eyes came to rest upon Ben- jamin Lampert, the district attorney, who signified his readiness with a brief nod, and then swept the room hurriedly as if startled by the unusual attendance. Lampert was an able and fearless man, but as his eyes moved to the faces of the prisoner and his counsel he had the momentary feeling that he was walking into a trap. He ran his hand over his face as if to brush away the notion, while the clerk of the court read the charge in a steady monotone. When the clerk had finished, the prisoner's attor- ney arose. “The defense pleads not guilty,’ Reach said briefly, then sat down again. A murmur went through the room. The judge nodded to Pepperdine, the bailiff, to begin the work of impaneling the jury. Pepperdine, an old man, who had been standing with his back against the door as if to guard it against intrusion, walked down the aisle and took his stand beside the clerk of the court. He drew from his inside pocket a typewritten sheet. When he un- folded it his hand trembled visibly, and when he called out ‘Charles Buchanan,” his thin quavering fell upon the hushed room like a bleat of fear. Charles Buchanan stepped forward. Howard Reach, the prisoner’s attorney, was on his feet in a moment. court voice EVENING POST “The defense challenges the juror on the ground that we have already subpoenaed him as our character witness,” he said. The bailiff drew out the next number. Again the calling out of the name brought forth the same objection from the attorney for the defense. The judge adjusted his glasses and looked across at Lampert. The district attorney rustled a sheet of paper nervously in his hand. He frowned at Pepperdine to go on with the work. The aged bailiff drew a third, a fourth, a fifth, with the same result. Then Lampert leaped to his feet. knew that he was being tricked. “TI demand that a jury be selected at random from the public,’”’ he stormed, glaring belligerently at the prisoner and his attorney. Reach said nothing. He merely shrugged his shoulders and twirled his straggly, bristling riustache. The judge put his hands on the arms of his chair and shifted his weight uneasily. He seemed at a loss for the moment, then directed Pepperdine to follow the district attorney’s suggestion. The result was no different. Each person called was found to have been subpoenaed by the defense as a character witness for the prisoner. Lampert was beside himself with justifi- able rage. He controlled himself with diffi- culty and said in a cold, low tone, “I charge conspiracy to defeat justice. The prisoner has subpoenaed as his witnesses every man and woman eligible for jury service in the county.” Reach arose. “Not all of them,” he said calmly. ‘“ Mrs. Shelton was too sick to attend and Old Man McCraw was so poorly with rheumatism that he couldn’t be moved.”’ He turned to the judge. “‘Your Honor, I ask that the case against my client be dismissed, for lack of er—facilities.”’ Then he sat down. Silence fell upon the crowded court room, broken only by the rustling of the sheet of paper in the bailiff’s hand as he folded it up and returned it to his pocket, for want of something better to do. The district at- torney sat hunched forward in his chair staring at the bland, moonlike face of the prisoner. The judge wiped his perspiring forehead. He glanced helplessly about the court room. The people milling in their seats brought him back to a sense of au- thority. “The court is adjourned—for the pres- ent,” he announced. “Bailiff, clear the room.” Blass was taken back to his cell and Keyes came there to see him on the sugges- tion from Attorney Reach. Blass had ex- pected to find the banker in a refractory mood, so he was not a little surprised and secretly relieved when Keyes came into the cell with a smile on his lips. Keyes draped his long frame on the one and only chair of the cell and said cheer- fully, ‘I know when I'm licked. down to brass tacks.” Blass drew his breath in sharply. It was going to be even easier than he had hoped. “My proposition is,” he said with the calm assurance of the victor, “that you withdraw your charges, in return for which I turn back to you the twenty-odd thou- sand in securities and ten thousand in cash. In other words, we split about fifty-fifty. I keep thirty thousand in cash.” Keyes’ lips pursed themselves in a whistle. “You're no piker,”” he remarked, with a note of admiration in his voice. Blass admitted modestly that he had never in his life been accused of piking. * And if I don’t agree, you keep the whole works, I assume?’’ Keyes asked. “Exactly,” said Blass. “‘ You'll never be able to impanel a jury to try me in this county and’’—here he winked solemnly at Keyes—‘‘my attorney, I think, will refuse a change of venue,” ‘*Without a doubt,”” Keyes agreed dryly. “Of course,’’ Blass went on, ‘you can keep me in jail for sixty days. The law per- mits you to do that. But if you do not bring me to trial at the end of that time I'm automatically released.’’ He glanced He Let's get August 7,1926 about the small bare cell. “‘ I’ve no desire to spend sixty days here. I like my com forts and I’m willing to pay for them.” He grinned. “ As you said, I’m no piker. With draw the charges, and the thirty-odd thou sand are yours.” Keyes arose in his most Western manner “T’ll talk it over with Judge Merriam,” he said laconically. He was back in less than half an hour and with him came Shelton, the rancher, from the upper meadows. Shelton footer with a pair of massive shoulders that seemed to fill the small cell to bursting, and he carried a six-shooter of Brobdingnagian proportions strapped about his waist Blass drew a deep breath. He did not re- member ever having seen Shelton armed Was a SIX before. “The judge wants to have a talk with you,” said Keyes. Blass nodded. He knew they were going to try to bluff him. He smiled a crooked smile. Bluff was his middle name. As he followed the two men down the short corri- dor he noted that the jailer was nowhere in sight, and as the three of them started to cross the square to the courthouse, he saw a group of men gathered in the shade of the oak that grew beside the courthouse steps They eyed him in ominous silence as he came up, between Keyes and Shelton. He glanced sidewise at his two companions, who were walking along with their eyes on the ground. As they came abreast of the group, the men fell aside and a lane opened in their ranks. Blass looked up inquiringly, then shrank back with a yelp of terror. At the end of the lane he saw giant live oak, and under this limb stood Howard Reach, his attorney, on a dry- goods box. Reach’s arms were tied behind his back and his neck was encircled by the noose of a rope which was flung across the limb. Beside this rope hung another, its loop dangling, and beneath this loop stood a second dry-goods box. Blass squealed with fright. The next moment his arms were pinioned behind his back and the hard manila rope dug into the fatty folds of hisneck and throat. His knees sagged. He straightened them with a su- preme effort. Their sagging increased the choking strain about his neck. He im- plored, cursed, begged and screamed, voic- ing his maudlin terrov in a dozen shrill keys, great racking sobs shaking his heavy frame The law which had served him so well in years past was of no avail now. For the first time in his life he had met justice face to face. Keyes was speaking. Blass’ brain para- lyzed by terror barely gleaned from the words that if he gave up the money ~—all of the money -he had stolen, he and Reach might go free. The next moment the still noon air was rent with his frantic sobbed- out directions where Keyes might find it. The two men were released and led to where the auto stage for Daws was waiting with their packed suitcases. As the stage moved off the noonday quiet of the court- house square of Calkinsville was shattered by a fusillade from half a hundred guns. 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1 helped and led. His thoughts saw, somewhere in the future, the and rejuvenation of a town, of a whole countryside ‘A job worth a man’s doing,” he told himself; and was for a moment humble. And then laughed unhappily and shook his head. ‘“‘Absurd!”’ he said aloud. ‘‘Ab- surd!”’ He went at last to bed, these matters in his mind; and when he slept they came to move among his dreams, in bright shapes and pleasant, beckoning forms—curiously like the form of June ran on; rebirth Pot came next morning, on some casual purpose; but he stayed to talk a while, to speak of the frost which had fallen the night before, of the approaching colder weather, of this and that and other things, lingering Overlook watched him, listened imself said little. But at length a space other was still, to sit long shavings from the sliver in Overlook moved and lifted his volubly to him, h wher whittling his hand, head. “Pot,” he said, “I’m surprised you and June haven’t married— before now.” Pot looked up at him and nodded, and dropped his eyes to the sliver again. “I been telling her we might as well,” he agreed. ‘‘She thinks a heap of the children Andaman needs a woman in the house. the ior too. I been telling her so. ‘“What does she say?’’ Overlook asked, curious and unashamed. ‘ How long is it since May died?” “Tl reckon she'll come to it by ’n’ by,” Pot replied indirectly. ‘‘She don’t say she will nor she won’t. Kind of wait a spell, I guess, is the way of it.” Overlook nodded without comment; and after a time Pot added soberly: ‘I did think, one time, I’d marry Joel May’s girl. That was before I married May. Joel’s girl ain’t married yet either. She’s as good around the house as June.’’ He spoke ju- ‘She ain't the figure of a woman June is, but she’s got more to say.”” Shook his head then, thinking aloud. ‘‘But the children take to June,”’ he concluded. The silence became awkward; and Over- look said in a tone carefully casual, “I haven’t seen June for a day or two.” Pot leoked at him gravely. ‘‘She used to taik about you, before you come, some- times,” he commented. ‘‘Don’t have so much to say about you now.”” He added inquiringly, “I guess you'll be going back pretty soon = Overlook hesitated, and then spoke on sudden impulse. ‘‘ Yes,’’ he said; “yes, I’m leaving, pulling out. I’m starting tomor- row morning, Pot, right after breakfast. Drive through Pot received this information soberly. ‘“‘June was asking if you’d gone,” he ex- plained. “I come over this morning to see.” ‘Tell her good-by for me,’’ Overlook instructed I've a lot to do, getting ready won’t get over there to- dicially to go; probably day.”’ When + with h was gone he waited, pleased with the expedient to force the waiting issue. June now must come to him, he thought; she loved him, she would Is de ce, not let him go. ~ sSne ll give in,” he assured himself. ‘She'll go with me. Or she'll come to beg me to And he watched for her all that day, his eyes along the road across the y. But he was not so confident that would come as he pretended then to be; e himself with these pre- Stay sough de Ce ly before lunch,”’ he thought. come this afternoon.” come after supper.”’ And ; late her to y, he went out into the night, haps to discover her lurking And he the bridge, watching ome as too for there darkness s, expecting to see her THE SATURDAY EVENING POST IMMORTAL LONGINGS Continued from Page 34) coming toward him along the sandy road. And then he thought she would be on the bridge; but when he came to the stream she was not there, and Pot’s house on the knoll across the valley was all dark and still. So he knew she would not come that night at all. “But she’ll come in the morning,” he persuaded himself, ‘‘before I’ve gone, to clean up the breakfast dishes and lock the house behind me. That’s what she'll do.” And—‘‘At least she’ll come to say good-by!”’ he cried forlornly in the night, trudging back through the deep sand to- ward the light in his window there. But he did not even pack his bags to go; thought of it once, and decided that the morning would be ample time. But in the morning when he woke—and he had slept only fitfully—he went about his breakfast preparations as though this was but a day like every other day. At nine o’clock she had not come; and suddenly he smiled, then laughed aloud. “She knows I won't go without seeing her,” he cried. ‘‘She’s playing a game with me.” And abruptly, as though upon inspira- tion, it occurred to him to play a game with her. He would pretend to stay, pretend to settle down for the winter here; then soon or late she must surrender, must suppose that she had won him over to her mind. “‘And when we're safely married,” he thought, ‘‘then I can take her away; I can persuade her away.” He was immensely pleased with this ex- pedient; when a qualm distressed him, he put the thought aside. “If I do deceive her,”’ he told himself, ‘‘it’s for her good in the end. She’ll forgive me by and by.” So he persuaded himself, and he wrote to Rand that for the present he would stay where he was. Instructed Rand to make some rearrangement of his interests so that they need not require his eye. And he took the letter to the Corner, walking so swiftly it was as though he bounded on the way; and when he came back down the ridge, the valley seemed to him to beckon and to smile. xVI E HAD been, these six weeks past, like a man in a dream; it now as though he began to waken to reality again. Fach way he turned, it was to discover some new attribute of the farm or of the old house which he had long forgotten; the past, the long past of his youth, which was by some strange mystery the future, too, came flooding back to him. He remem- bered old tasks; and when they were done, further tasks awaited doing. The business of making one of these small and isolated farms ready for the long rigor and ordeal of winter is not unlike the preparation of a vessel for an extended cruise. The place must be put all in order, within and without; must be strengthened to oppose the elements and provisioned to withstand the siege of snow. Overlook, chuckling to himself, attacked this busi- ness; and he went about it with an eager joy that was at once reminiscent and an- ticipatory. But he did not—this was his whim, for her bewilderment—he did not seek out June. Instead, he kept on his own side of the Sheepscot and he worked the short days through with industry and zeal. In the manner of an emissary, Pot came to him upon that day when he was to have gone; came after him when Overlook re- turned from taking to the Corner his letter for Rand. When Overlook reached his own place and looked back Pot was just cross- ing the bridge; and a moment later, after Overlook had gone into the house, Pot came to the kitchen door and knocked, and at Overlook’s hospitable call, came in. Overlook greeted him cheerfully; there was a high good humor in the man today. ‘Hello there, Pot,’’ he said. Pot scratched his head. ‘“‘] you to be gone by now,” he said ““No,”” Overlook told him was for } looked quizzically, “Late starting, ain’t ye?” “Oh, it isn’t so late yet,’’ Overlook re- joined. “Something wrong with the car?” “Don’t know it, if there is.” “Nigh onto noon,” Pot insisted; Overlook laughed again. “Guess I won't get away today,” he con- fessed. ‘‘ Not today.” Pot nodded; but there was in his eyes a vague bewilderment; and he scratched his head again, running his fingers under his cap. “Funny,” he confessed. "lowed you wouldn't go.” Overlook’s quick interest was caught; he had a faint misgiving. ‘‘She did?” “Yup,” said Pot. ‘“‘When I told her, she thought it over for a spell, and then she kind of laughed. I says to her, ‘What you laughing about?’ I says. And she laughed some more, right out. And she says, ‘I don’t ’low he'll go.’”’ Overlook’s ears burned; and then he chuckled in his turn, and at the same time he had a warm pleasure because he was so transparent in her eyes. It was, mysteri- ously, flattering that she should read him thus; that she should be so sure what he would do or what he would not do. It was as though between them a bond existed; as though across the valley they communed; as though her spirit walked with his. He had, during the succeeding fortnight, more than once this thought again; had more than once this feeling that she was watching what he did and waiting the ap- pointed time. He saw her, save for passing glimpses, only once during these days; she came to the house on a warm afternoon, with little June beside her; and she had a basket hanging on her arm, and set jars and glasses out upon his kitchen table, without looking at him, with little explana- tory phrases. “‘T thought you'd be wanting some pre- serves,’ she explained, “if you're staying on. And I thought I'd bring ‘em over, be- cause after the snow comes it won’t be easy to get over any more, all this ways.” She seemed, within herself, to smile. He spoke his gratitude. ‘‘ This jelly’s made out of Gravensteins,”’ she told him, ranging the glasses side by side. ‘‘Pot’s got two good trees of °em. And these blueberries I picked over in Palermo, on that hill this side of Joel May’s, and put ’em up. And the mincemeat— Pot shot us a deer last winter, and we made mincemeat out of it, what we didn’t eat.” “‘Venison?’’ he commented politely, a twinkle in his eye. ‘‘I don’t believe I ever tasted mincemeat made of venison.” “Likely your ma used to make it, only you wouldn’t remember,” she told him. ‘And if you decide to go along back, one of these days, you can take the things with you well as not, in that big automobile of yours.” He saw faint laughter in her sidelong eyes; but he responded gravely: ‘I’m likely to do that. I'd enjoy introducing venison mincemeat to my chef.” She said gravely, her eyes toward his, ‘**T wouldn't want you to go just a-purpose.”’ And he found words difficult, could only answer, “No.” and “June, she But he added then, ‘I won't go without sending word to you.” “You figured to bother Pot,’’ she ac- cused him, laughing again. ‘“‘I could see what you was aiming at.” “If I do decide to go,”’ he promised, ‘I'll come and tell you, word of mouth, June.” She bowed her head. “I never looked for you to stay so long,” she confessed; and then as though her own words had con- fused her, she took up little June and went away from him, and he was left to go about his tasks again. There were a thousand things to do. He had to solve the dual problems of fuel and of food, and each demanded sure solution There was down timber in the hardwood growth below the orchard, wind-stricken August 7,1926 beech and lightning-shattered oak. The birch he had cut during the last month or so was not yet fit for burning. tacked these old windfalls, from which the sap had long since drained; and he brought from the store at the Corner a one-man crosscut saw, and ground his ax, and worked the stuff into lengths fit for hauling. It could be fitted for its uses at his leisure, in the shed. He thought of hiring Pot to do the haul! ing for him; but Pot was often on his own account engaged, and this arrangement was so unsatisfactory that after three or four days Overlook took the car and drove to Augusta and bought a horse and cart thers He left the car, stored it in a garage against his later coming to reclaim it; and when he drove back, the long miles seemed end- less, and his later life seemed by the same token to fall infinitely far behind. He came late at night to his own barn, and stalled the horse there and fed the creature wit! grain he had brought in the cart; and next day he was at his hauling, so that he had presently sufficient store of wood to last him for a certain time. The air-tight stove in the dining room was all in order; but the section of pipe which had connected it with the chimney flue was gone, somewhere put away. He had some search to find it, wrapped in paper in the attic and well greased against the dampness and the rust. When it was in its proper place he lighted a fire in the stove and the grease fried in blue smoke and burned away. He was beginning by this time to re- member in more detail how, when he was a boy, they had been used to prepare the house for winter’s harassing; and he re- called that they used to bank about the sills with leaves held down by boards and bits of plank. But this could wait; it not yet sufficiently cold to make such meas- ures necessary; and also the leaves were not yet fallen. Later, when the ground beneath the hardwoods should be car- peted, it would be an easier matter to rake and load them in the cart and haul them for their purpose here. So, when he had wood and when the stove was ready, he attacked the problem of provisioning. The would be needed for storage; and when he invest gated there he found it in some disorder full of moldered barrels fallen into shooks of staves, and dusty jars and rusty cans and shattered bits of board; and thers were rat holes in the walls, and spider webs, and all the ancient rubbish of the years The cellar, he decided, had gone untouched, had felt no hand since his father’s and his own; and he attacked with a robust vigor this Augean task. The were nailed; he pried them open, flung them wide. The windows were nailed shut, and in one of them broken. He replaced that pane, manipu lating the putty and smoothing it place with a sensuous enjoyment. All old rubbish that was combustible he ried into the yard and burned; and when the cellar was bare he scrubbed and brushed and dusted it, and sprinkled it wit}! lime; and he left the bulkhead and the windows open so that currents of air blew through. He worked with a furious industry, scar- ring his hands and wearying his muscles, so that he came to the end of each day tired and full of sleep. Yet he did not go early to bed. This business of preparing for th: winter woke in him so many memories that he sought to expand and to confirm them studying night by night his father’s old book of accounts and all the records of th« farm. And there were other nights when h« opened the thick Bible and bent above it on the dining-room table beside the glowing lamp. He read one night: ‘Now King David was old and stricker and they covered him with clothes So he at was 1] cellar bulkhead doors a pane of glass was in years Continued on Page 57

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——— { { } Continued from Page 52 And he thought of |} grandfather, huddled in the sun, shrouded n his shawl And he read hit sut he gat no heat.” **See, the smell of my son 1s as the smell of a field which the Lord hath And he chuckled, “Isaac must have been chopping wood that blessed.”’ thinking, day.” And then sat more soberly again, thinking how June had seemed to him at times like a fallow field that lies smoking in e sun And he read how erve thee seven years for Rachel - And he thought, ‘‘ Then I certainly can stick th jut six months or so for June.”’ persuaded himself that he tayed here only as a subterfuge to win her Jacob said: “I will o his side And on another night he turned to thos« recording pages in the midst of the great olume and searched them through, con ‘ aa dering the dates, bringing to life before s eyes the persons whose passing was r¢ ‘***Minnie Overlool corded there. Read July 8, 1864. She had blue eys.’”” And read, a line or two below: ‘‘‘ Chester Over ook, July 3, 1876. Of stomacl And a moment later, with a faint start of recognition, saw three or four lines in his the record there set down of | father’s birth and death, and then be “*This entry made by Walter Overlook, he fourth, born August 2, 1891. I know no other descendant of the original Walter ] Overlook who is still alive lil ¢ own hand W I am the last of tne ne - And he remembered with what decisior he had written the words, feeling as he did o a dramatic value in the act; and he re membered, too, how a moment afterward he had seemed to feel about him in the old room ancient presences, who looked on him with disapproving eyes. He touched the nes with his finger tip, stroking them, feeling the faint roughnesses where his per had scratched the glaze upon the paper and he sat a long while, looking at that which he had written, considering it wit! Till by and by he smiled a little sober eyes He bought supplies at the store, them in the cart down the rocky barrel of potatoes and a barrel of f ol If al barrel of apples; two or three bushels of turnips and carrots and beets roots”’ ir term. He bought squashes yellowed by the frosty sun; and ] | the local half a dozer he bought a bushel bag of beans, and smiled as he ordered a barrel of sugar and a ten gallon cask of vinegar too. He bought offee and baking powder and salt and tea abandoned himself to an orgy of purchases, yet held at the same time to a certain aus terity, limiting his prospective fare, willing by the manner of his life this winter to lir himself more closely to the To do this meant, he remembered, that salt pork must be his staple victual; made some nquiries at the store and of Will Hepper ana he ton; and he learned that Joel May of cus tom raised a considerable number of pigs Accordingly one afternoon he to Joel's farm to dicker with the man made his to be slaughtered, the hams and bacon cured, the went afoot lhere trade; the pig rk salted and the sausage ground ‘But wait,” he directed, “till the veather’s colder, till it will keep in my t ar Joel was complacently pleased. ‘‘ You'll e my Poll’s sausage,” he promised She makes as good as anybody I ever Overlool asked, and Joe ‘Mrs. May shook his head ‘My daughter,” he remembered suddenly that Pot corrected And (verlooK had confessed an ancient impulse to wed with this young woman ess I’ve never met her, have I?”’ he ain’t to home “Pot Riddle come and took her off to the fair over at the Joel shook his head. ‘‘Sh today,”’ he confessed [rotting Park in Liberty.” He added ir ised to be around here a pile fore he marri« M Hara guess June figured she n hir when May died; butr I mi g wher he nN tir was marrying Overlook fe f ‘ ment too: felt a } this word that Pot on I ) the homeward wa ne nae ng the matter vonadere ne might mean that Pot had had r ative; that June had bade hin a wife abroad —clung to t} } ‘I’ve won that much at himself. ‘“‘She’s see ‘ ‘ ern him.” september passed and n Octobe n and the |} des which had ized t olor were assuming now a dt hue t right leaves fell and the gray lin a branches of the tree r ired tar ele tor And or nignt ere was af now that vhite agi the growth and ith the ha ooads t ss the meadow it meltec s the mbed the sky nd the dun x S t ugh, assuming ter I t with the whitene of the snow. A toward sunset, the now that n t He made no haste t« 1 é ‘ he now and ther t nance or DY de vr But there was in the wo t t passed he tween them now a hte tons thers . more often a smile he eves r r7 t they wore ea ert i t though all sober things between them | heen said and or hapy 1ughter waite now. He made no ha towar tent with the passing of the days onter with the slow crowtl f+ mé g . is as it was and life as it was to be And | thoughts went yearningly down the yr stas of the year And he fe nto June's fashion of going some mes to tI « le to h the ter wing thers flowing as it had yesterday, and t ind woul w. Discovered for hin elf, by slow and easant wa t tint allev where the present ¢ i iSO all eternit One dav inn October he saw ot the bridge, and went to hir eo lying a cow rw t he explained hat |} n et ne n the big barn there nd f ( igh to winter them. And I remembe you sometimes have y tO He dickered with the man, chaffering miably, relishing this encounter; he went to Pot’s tie-up to see the beasts Pot recon mended; he ay ed then t hat he hoped was wise and idicious ‘ ‘Father always d the mul gr ne confessed But I gue I car t onto it ir 1 little while Pot nodded ar t “a n't ‘ any trouble he n hem t the give down @a to me r anvone The trade v t me te summated. The te n Ove ! needed some sma ‘ $ I et it ready for them in a d t he ex ined, ‘‘and fix up the fence along the ne. Get some re from the store. Won't try to pasture them till s ¢ They don’t need a fence,” Pot declared 1 ne e cleve I tney » st they ist yme a ng « er here Overlook chuckle D tw t keep having to drive them hon he re marked But I’ e re for then tomor! night.’ ‘T’ll drive ‘em ove Pot agree time you say.” Overlook next gaged himse r preparations for the g. He replace broken boards tne e-u re " the bs. There was much t t f him all the morni al t f t n the afternoon ere wt ¢ me staves, to set upright ockets there ded, pinning the ne S the beast f tween anda ne emem pe - wt oak trees on a KI hind e or rd where for this purpose plir mig} ‘ ound So. ear fte n hand, he went th 1 ‘ i lee é e rose ‘ ‘ ee ed + j na } l ‘ trar \ i th} } y ar l ere ( ‘ + with me iW: igalr th towar 4 \ het y +} ( tt +t ire and ist her ed at r un + imu ht and a Was near stood st tr a THE SATURDAY EVENING POST me ft ‘ yn elt ] er € t r k é Aj ‘ é aw r ‘ e } y } " Nard ‘ é roact et ind miort t j } x lofite} r e ¢ vanted ¢ + + r te if ea ne « ) ne agree al ight she remarke ; ‘ e-uD NOW tor OF ) é iid ¢ 11d gra 1 yu r nee With ft Cont

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 4 Continued from Page 57 She said, with a smile be nd ner eye ()? | ry t rt } rained, with wet snow falling in the chill of There must have been something, or you ‘ assured hir t 1iternoon and melting as it fe But by never would have come lone ifter I] get t ‘ { t ay C that time his thoughts were all confused “I'm beginni to thir I got the irr thing turted ‘ he neither desired to stay ar 1 wed nor to n my blood when I i i DO re yn- { as? nu U I yr flee and be free. And in this mood of har fessed gravely. I e it more and more. cra he d J nes i ‘ ( ried hesitation he still waited, still sat thus It’s where I do belong and othe " t ' t upine, till it was too late to remove himself ‘‘It was in your blood befor 1 were me up here 1 se nd talk 1 from t which so inexora mpended ever born,”’ she reminded him, and smiled She ne n't igre Yet, though it was too late, he might at again. ‘And likely always \v he he other man did 1 ' the last moment still have fled but for one predicted. June had alwa tl f it the rar entat a circumstance. They were to be married i: asting back, and casting into t i ‘ ging ir eye he if his house; and in the morning of the day, future too. air i in hour or tw » Delore, while he was still Y ] , f t k aione, Overlook went » far as to see it (ash came to make a last apr he | ir t j j fore he could begin this business Pot came roze and the roads were | t I to t t t to him to make sure that he was read early in December, Cash came 1 ou ‘ came thus as emissal And Pot had ne When Overlo had the an: ement \ that itle ol ft own to te of } coming he felt some ibt é t ' r He was right e confessed, that fe shrank from a_ possible He laughed ag matters had chanced thus. “I’ve always dreaded that he might see June throug! episod and he re ‘ been a mind that I'd like to n arry Polly the eve of the other mar mustered to another and another May,” he explained, “But June, she too meet the ordeal a certain bold bravado. And Overlo } t to the children so, and them to her, that it And because he needed her strength, he himself as at ig! t ed! looked to me I'd ought to n irry her. She confessed this to June t i he metning began t et therwise } ‘ \ till nd, fittoscarear lime ne it the other mar lé ribed Mr ( rY rn é j l h But I'd done it if she’d ’a’ had me. She _ to her irrent ting ge nadn t an place else to go But now t his is the sort of fe he r " he va for } y i ippe red, he felt that June’s future s 1, and ex ned tnat f est he i ea creature iu t ‘ t pre led for, and he and Po ere of a ould to get ba — ‘ P { mind ‘T’n ht pleased it come t And she tened, wit ive atter strean he t if i ( way, he said again. tive eve ind when he w aone, rf 1eqa Vnat ¢ is t t \ So Overlook saw June in it t who ly ar get into the irrent ar y ne an id laid the world aside for hir had hir vondering t be different Instead tanding Instead of { or had nothing vith him here ne mmentead ningina e,togoa € ; j He had no high resolve vent, rather I am, June ‘ fessed; a he And he had a moment mpse t esentfu to his wedd nou ve f smiled at him in a fashion full of wisdon future asacha } it I q truant child dragged to it nishment You can tell me when he’s gone he ward! e a batt ' r dragged to the gid cipline of a hatef ua When Ca ‘ . t g hoc Fretted inwar ind fumed Cash came in the te fternoor 1 another cigarette, Overlo it £ igainst the net of « imstance, and had smooth little man, with a p mustache I see. Of t erent no peaceful mind t n the tmo- and white piping on his waistcoat and spats 1 and M ( You're t ments before the w s were to be spoken, out his ankles to ward av tne d that's whe 1 he vy June a n, and ind | mfort le would, they had decided, stay the night Cash hesitate r ( t Pe | } { and assurance in her sure and steady eyes. Overlook, in khaki, met him at the Corner he laughed, and Overlo rry f CA | and brought him home, down the steep road _ hin For ‘I wa I l i said } he knew alw ww t ymiort and to. where the deep and frozen ruts made pas Cash. ‘‘And so was ff reassure him, and to delight him and sur- sage perilous, and the car Cash had hired When in the morning he took himse EY prise him too. In such a small matter, for in East Harbor bounded dangerously and away, Overlook watched his car trundl Aq example, as her clothing. He had hoped, lurched drunkenwis« out of sight toward the bridges ind ther Lu ) vhen the vere married, she would know ‘Iam pla ng to fix this road in the he turned back to June iting in the ; ; how to use ly the resources at his com-_ spring.”’ said Overk - and Cash sur kitchen door and he ame t ard her HEN you are tired, mand; yet he half feared, half expected to veyed him with a sidelong eye. Otherwise slowly, savoring his delight oe find in her something of the narrow and they had few word and those they had “Was I a ght isked appea W hen the iast 2 holes blind frugal t of these rigid hills, to f nd were only of the country if ng] when she was t arn Did ] . 7 a dak ta weal idl Goats diemeaeiilin ia caliente Unidas dha antl int me different?” And found her com- haven’t been all they should But when, after they were married they turned in from the road. She wore a blue fort in the word he said : :; :, vent to Augusta to et h ba¢ the car, she dress, for she was always thus inclined; be, cry the ire sh stimulus of vas ready enough to buy the things she and it was crisp and fresh, and it fitted her Spring came eage e the 7 | . : arn ’ dh ah Ud tie bedie Shhh Ms bis eee ta eee Se amis alee eae t | abrand new Silver King. It’s anities, some of then and other gar- ifter seemed to Overlook that | vas pulses nd the sr © thinne wonderful W hat Psy chology ment that so long as sne t ed on the thrust aside that », tne wore tnreadhbare na the I . 5. m she was never likely to require lapper little the sway, and the Six can do for a sick golf game! But I can get the use and feel of wear- farm, an int ur from _the short nights when the rs we . . ng them,’ sheexplained sensil There which he was 1 meat still and warn here was throug it the = ' be times we'll be away from the farm. and out the wv lamp; and afterward valley the song of n e, springing inthe Most golters find that they you'll want me to know.” Overlook and Cash were left in the dir ng sun = yc 2 He was amused also to find that she had room together while June was nus} n the Overlook’s day were Tu tne nurr i get 15 CO =) yards farther her own ideas as to what he should buy. kitchen. But she was constantly passing past him, tumbling one upon the oth , ; When he first plunged into the small tasks through the dining room to the buttery at heels; and he made what haste 1 when they play this best of about the farm he had acquired overa one side so their talh was not of the \ sitors fill each wit! nee nh of life as the spa all °eood volt balls! ind stout shoes and a blue shirt of which he — errand, but of all the plans for the farm and t would 1. He was gripped by a furiou 5 5 had become inordinately fond But she for the valley and for the town which Over- and bounding energy, his thoughts as mu hanged these matters look was beginning more and more defi- engaged as were his hands. Yet had STILL A DOLLAR ““A man needs work clothes,’ she agreed. nitely to form. And Overlook, who had hours for meditation too X ‘But he can have the right kind, and feared that he might see June through the He had no sense of finality in this thing ‘a sc 7 tl , I >C enc ugh of them, and change when he’s a other mar *s eves, bevar n facttodoso to wi h he had dons had ne ‘ +} fog ny no I alsc In ie ITIC Cc mind.’’ He found himself acquiring khaki see her—and his heart leaped at the dis- that anything was fir ed mplet , 4 a, nickerbockers and hea shoes and kha very to see her as strong and se and Saw, toc ( he | r : | ( fine ried June he ‘ ent ng e a gentle- When her tas vere lone he mé ocable ea irtalr | m protested laugh- to the dining room a1 Ey ae Te seosiil catiiieiceit tite , j ! comment, save her I thought I’d go over to Pot’s he ex t t, to put er 1” t plained, ‘‘to see how the children do h It wore in his« } SILVER BRINE vere come home Polly Ma t But alrea he pe Pe r afrest he had He understood that she wished to leave _ of erstandir 4 heer Oo used to seeing ne rupbed and him and ( ash toget ne »yne went with her nto t! i 1 ided blue that the metan hosis amused _ to the tche loor, and felt he s 3 \ D ) f I I nhir nd amused ther tr rEven w é i ind her hand gr Ss hand And ther er ta beg £ e laughed, tears came in her eyes; it he came back to where Cas} rited in the but an unde r t t ! juestion sne VOUIG if It’s lining roon i I enge I He |} A y tr it I've thought i t a ( it H ame a ttle fe 4 hut « ne i st nave I r t Walter, and wondered if you'd be not have been afraid. For Cash, in his first couragement and t oming back again, the way you hav word, reassured him. ‘I did come to tall earned already that tl ion And he said honestly, ‘‘I didn’t know it you into coming ba old man,” he said hours might be endured at the time, June; but —maybe I’vealways frankly. ‘‘But I’m not even going to give And he began to see in t been remembering you.” ta try.” the obstacles that ma Ise OF ) Wholesale Golf Distributors

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST August 7,1926 blindly to stumble, but can never halt a he discovered this Book where his father for his pocketknife and tested its smaller strong and vigorous stride. had put it last away; and he remembered blade. It was keen and clean, ready fo There were so many things to do; such how he read the scroll of old names, andthe such an enterprise as scratching out and a flood tide of life to be maintained at full ever-recurring name which he now bore. forever obliterating an injudiciously writ flow, and in all its richness passed along. And remembered how he had written, ten word. And he turned the pages till he It happened that one evening, while with a sense of dramatic finality, that he came to that one which he sought. June was in the kitchen at her business was the last of his line. Then smiled again at what he saw—for there, he opened the old Bible and wan- He sat a moment, smiling, as he thought June had been before him there. dered in it, to and fro. And while he read, of this; and he looked toward the kitchen casually, he remembered that evening when and toward June. Then the man reached (THE END) Tle GIRL FROM RECTOR’S (Continued from Page 15) such a famous delineator of character roles. His faithful bodyguard stood at his el- exclaimed, “In the name of the sacred Here it is, exactly as served: bow, as always. He wasahusky individual perfume! The curses of the Seven Orphans To half a pound of crab meat add a few with an eternally tanned face—doubtless upon you! This is impossible!" cooked fresh mushrooms cut in slices, three sunburned from continual exposure to Dia- His taste was so fine that he had detected tablespoonfuls of thick cream sauce, and season mond Jim’s jewels. We consulted all eve- the fact that I had added the sweet oi well, Place ona toasted hot muffin, spread with - : 1 . anchovy butter, and place over the top grated Ning and I was appointed ambassador to before I had dropped in the fresh butter. 1 Parmesan cheese and bread crumbs. Bakeand the kitchens of Paris in order that Mr. knew that he was right, but I had beer brown ina quick oven, Serve ona napkin and Brady should again sop up the sauce Mar- careless and knew better than to argue wit! garnish with parsley, guery. This is accomplished by holding a a patron. We were not so painstaking later It was really not quite so formidable as morsel of bread between the thumb andthe on in America, where even the best. of it sounds. The canapé citation meant any- index finger and sopping up the gravy. I waiters might have lost patience and added thing that was served on toast or a muffin. _ think it is now called dunkingin Greenwich — the fresh butter to the baron’s v It only had the wheel base of a sandwich. Village, but there were no dunkers in our distributed the sweet oil in And that is what it was—an open-faced time. We lived in the sopping age. shower bath. After this I sandwich. The canapé was simply tacked Before going to Cornell, I had servedtwo for another thirty days. onto the menu as the elephant was put in years in our own kitchens and was a quali- It was as a bus boy that I think the riddle—just to make it more difficult. fied chef. I was in Parisin less than three finest discrimination ever disp I learned the recipe in Paris, where | had weeks after Diamond Jim had evinced a diner. This gentleman was very finicky gone to observe the secret culinary rituals desire for fillet of sole Marguery. It was about his food and seemed to order for the and savory machinations of the French with some trepidation that I presented my pleasure of complaining. No one wa chefs. I was detailed to this gastronomic credentials at the Café de Paris, because I sure at what special moment this conr espionage in much the same way that mili- was to serve a belated apprenticeship in seur of mistakes would break out in a tirad tary men of a neutral nation are assigned this restaurant. For, though the A. E. F. of shrill denunciation directed at the f as observers with the entangled armies of could say “‘ Lafayette, we are here,’ I was the service or just general topics of the day te | warring countries. Except that, in this forced to prove my ability before I could Everything had proceeded ni Ositive | case, I was an active participant in all the say I had arrived. instance and we were all hoy clashes of the pots and pans. I worked for eight months as an ap- would break his own strict rul It came about in this manner: There prentice cook in the kitchens of the Café de in a good humor. Power | was intense rivalry between ourselves, Del- Paris. I learned the proper temperature of monico’s and Sherry’s. Mr. Louis Sherry croutons, the correct humidity of con- Prunes Wrong End To went to his reward but recently. Although sommé in an establishment where even P >» many of his patrons thought he was French, _ knives and forks are laid out in true relation Suddenly a plate crashed within an incl rotector he was, like ourselves, intensely American, to the magnetic north and toothpicks have of my head and shattered to bits on the having been born in Vermont. With the their latitude and longitude. Everything wall. A fleeing waiter dashed by me in a wine, the music and service being about was figured out just so. The slightest magnificent sprint which just enabled hin equal in the three establishments, the ri- swerve from ancestral routine was punished to keep a pace ahead of a flying carafe. The valry naturally centered on the food. It with reduction to the ranks. gentle patron had sudder k ; was the ambition of each host to outdo his But I was still far from sauce Marguery. and was engaged in wrecking the place, into every YALE Mono-Cell rivals in rare and toothsome viands. The There was another two months’ aaieaeas to while at the same time he was collin aa r is guarded against escape by tides of favor and patronage would fluctu- serve as a bus boy to a venerable waiter the wrath of all the carved images of the the Safety Seal. This feature | ate between the big three as each establish- who smoothed out a tablecloth as lovingly South Seas on the waiter, the proprietor —exclusively YALE— grips ment flung a new and tantalizing aromato as an operating surgeon pats his apron. I and all his friends, even unto the third the cardboard jacket per- the breezes, and noses would crinkle dain- learned to move silently and swiftly. Then generation. manently to the cell; it tily in anticipation. Diamond Jim Brady came my promotion to a journeyman It was with great difficulty that a dozen a had been to Paris and brought home with waitership with ceremonies befitting a coro- of us managed to subdue him without and cause power-wasting him glad tidings of a famous dish fillet of nation. But I had a good deal still to learn retaliatory violence. A patron is always ee ae Mog sole Marguery, prepared only in the Café about a nation that has the culinary art your guest—until he has paid his check. short circuits ! Marguery. drawn so fine it can detect the difference The head waiter sought to find out the YALE Mono-Cells deliver between the juice of the clam during times trouble, but temporary rigor mortis had set brighter, whiter light; fit a// On the Trail of Sauce Marguery of political unrest and the same juice ex- in on the diner and his spec h issued in the tubular cases, make any tracted from the clam at a period when the form of soap bubbles. W e finally managed flashlight better—and YALE At that time we were getting along fa- francis at par. I had just served aregular to get him seated in a chair, but he would : : mously, and J] was studying law at Cornell patronsauce Bordelaise with cépes,adainty not be satisfied until we sent f Flashlights best! Insist on HE tremendous amount of energy that is packed cannot slip, expose metal for a gen- A University. Nevertheless, my father sent dish which this particular patron indulged darme. Meanwhile the offending waiter YALE. me to Paris in spite of the fact that I was__in once every year, making an overlandtrip was in hiding in the linen closet. Whatever in my third year at college and was pre- from Petrograd through a territory which, his crime, the patron was assured that YALE ELECTRIC CORP. paring to graduate. even then, was seething with dissension. He justice would be meted out. He was abl Chicago BROOKLYN San Francisco I never did get that diploma, but little was a baron of old Russia with the finest ninutes. a eng ae dreamed of the honors which awaited me beard I haveeverseen hangingfromasingle During that time the gendarme stood with ey py a rags org vn hl pl in Paris. I came to New York, consulted chin. He was an epicure, but everything pencil poised ready to take down notes or “~~ “and DRY BATTERIES with Diamond Jim and my father, and had gone along fine until this dish, which call for more gendarmes in case the situa- received instructions, like the Spartan I was to bring over later and introduce to tion grew worse. youth, to return either with the sauce Rector’s. As all the ingredients can be Seeing that he had calmed down s1 Marguery or in it. procured but one, I will tell you the secrets ciently to converse, the head waiter asked, I still remember the jewels Diamond Jim of sauce Bordelaise with cépes Rector. We ‘Your pardon, sir, but were you visite was wearing that afternoon. He had been always added the word “Rector” to an with bodily harm by that atrocious waiter? down to the track, and he wore the famous imported dish: I assure you that we stand ready to meet vest with diamond buttons, each button Chop fine two ounces of eschalots and place 22Y reasonable financial settle ment, pro- glittering like a harvest moon. Hisscarfpin them ina saucepan with a lump of fresh butter Vided that we can keep it out of the daily When ‘ was a horseshoe set with diamonds. and a little sweet oil. Allow to simmer for a journals.’ I say a horseshoe, I mean one for a race fe minutes. Add chopped cépes and a glass “Name of a cabbage!” the diner an a Leone ond ant for o Sheth 1 . Tin of good claret. Allow it to reduce and adda | | wy camat attedked T oan tal norse anc not for a one U and pony. 4lK€ pint of brown sauce. swered. was not attac Ked. can ti a farmer weighing hay, Jim did things on a care of myself. I was a soldier in the ‘a big seale. His fingers were literally hand- All the necessary components of this de- Empire. What is bodily harm to a man or our Flashh At cuffed with precious stones. When he __lightfuldishcanbereadily procured,except, who fought the Prussian Guard in ’71?” pulled out his lead pencil I noted it par- of course, the glass of good claret. I know With that he became more violent and ticularly, for where ordinary pencils usually of no capable substitute. There was a_ was led out by a new convoy of gendarmes, carried a rubber to erase mistakes, this benevolent look on my client’s face as I who escorted him, with some concerted prince of pencils carried a diamond the size served the dish, which was absolutely per- effort, toa hospital. Going out the door, h« “ . ; : : oye A YALE Battery for of a nickel, but worth much more. The fect and could only have been improved by _ shrieked, ‘‘ He brought the prunes in back- Every Battery Need” possessor of that diamond required.no the addition of a rainbow over the sauce. ward! He brought the prunes in back- eraser for his mistakes. But one spoonful of the concoction and he ward!" (Continued on Page 62

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It showed fine discrimination on the part of the patron that he had been possessed of the keen eyesight necessary to detect this colossal blunder. As for myself, since that time I have examined many prunes, both en masse and singly, but I have never been able to tell when one was backward or forward. I have merely cited this incident to indi- cate the fine point to which dining in the old country has been drawn. The slightest error is detected by an epicure, and resented. My time being over, I was then sent to the Café de Marguery to get the hang of the famous sauce. It required two months of close application in the kitchens before I felt qualified to say that I had absorbed the technical details of fillet of sole with sauce Marguery. During those entire sixty days, for fifteen hours a day I experimented with sole and sauce, until I managed at last to produce a combination which was voted perfect by a jury of seven master chefs. It was a dish that even a Brady might sop or a dunker dunk. Cooking in a Foreign Language Rewards followed swiftly. I was loaned by the Café de Marguery to the Palais de Champs-Elysées as a visiting cook, the oc- casion being a dinner in honor of King Oscar of Sweden. I was there to prepare the sauce Marguery for the King. It was the proudest moment of my life. It seems strange that I could absolutely forget three years of intensive training in a law school, and a good law school, too, and become a heart-and-soul chef. That was what I had finally evolved into. My entire life was bound up and centered in preparing the sauce Marguery for King Oscar. I felt that I was treading on air. The air itself would have been a stable foundation when word was sent back that the King’s favorite dish was filet mignon Hederer. But I knew how to prepare filet mi- gnon Hederer and was permitted to assist another chef inthe cooking. Hereisthe rec- ipe exactly as we wrote it down that day: Carefully trim a tenderloin of beef. Cut in small steaks and fry in butter. Lay on each the soft part of stewed oysters. Garnish with blanched marrow. Serve with sauce Bordelaise and cépes, adding a pinch of finely chopped parsley. It is a dish worthy of a king. For this I was personally decorated by the French Government with the Cordon Bleu and made an honorary member of the Société des Cuisiniers de Paris. I was the only American to be thus honored at that time, and, for all I know, may still be the only one. This was the fine courtesy extended by a grateful government to a guest chef in Paris in recognition of my efforts to learn the secrets of French cooking. I cabled my good fortune to my father, who answered with congratulations and instructions to proceed with thesecond stage of my journey. There may be some people who do not understand the meaning of the word “cépes”’ used in the recipes I have given. Cépes are of the family of mushrooms. They area delicacy in France and they grow as wild in that country as whiskers do in Russia. They are more easily distinguished from the toadstool than is our own mushroom because they are of a darker color and have a flatter top. They say that the way to tell a mushroom from a toadstool is to eat it. If you live, it’s a mushroom. It may surprise folks to know that cépes grow in the woods. Since earliest boyhood we have warned that a mushroom found in our woods is a tuadstool. A cépes farmer must depend on his eyesight and been EVENING POST luck, as they grow at random in the forests of France and there is no set rule for dis- covering them. But a cépes collector is well off when compared with the truffle agriculturist. For the truffle is the queerest animal in the vegetable kingdom. It is of the genus Tuber. The mushroom belongs to the same family, although the truffle, like a famous American jewelry firm, has absolutely no connection with any other firm of the same name. This subterranean flower is a fleshy, fungus structure and prized as a garniture for highly seasoned dishes. When you chop up the truffle and throw it in goose liver that has been well mashed, and then stir the dish up, you have paté de foie gras, a name which has probably puzzled many diners. It was the custom of Rector’s to import paté de foie gras directly from Strasburg, in Alsace-Lorraine. The truffle is found in the southern section of France around An- gouléme, not far from Bordeaux. It grows in clayey, sandy soil and gives absolutely no indication of its presence. It has no stem, no buds, no leaves and noroots. Itis just a gob in the ground, a few inches below the surface. There is no man on earth who can detect the presence of a truffle. Directions for un- earthing them are as vague as discovering gold, which is where you find it. But there is a friend of man who has a keen nose for the elusive truffle, and that friend is the hog. The hog is passionately fond of the truffles and never fails to root them up. The farmer allows the pig to run at large, and when the pig starts to root he un- leashes a trained pack of truffle hounds, who proceed to drive the faithful porker away from the buried treasure. Thereupon a fierce battle follows, with the hog deter- mined to stick to his truffle by premier rights of discovery and conquest. How- ever, the dogs always win, and having no flair of their own for truffles, the queer- looking plant is added to the farmer's crop. You may think that the expression “ truf- fle hound”’ is merely a pleasantry, but such animals actually exist in France and are highly prized by the peasants. A truffle about the size of an orange is worth about ten dollars on the hoof. They are prepared for the American market by being packed in brandy, or at least they were formerly prepared this way. As a good sauce is always nine-tenths of the dish, you can well imagine that truffle in brandy was not without its steadfast adherents. As I have been retired now for the past eight years, I do not know whether any trutiles have been arrested for having brandy in their I never cared much for them myself, as they tasted something like a well-worn rubber heel. Trutiles, terrapin, lobster, canvasback, imported and other fancy dishes gradual the Rectors’ nerves that it was nothing un- usual for us to sneak out the back way dis- guised as tourists and plunge into a white- tile restaurant for good old flapjacks anda thousand on a dish possession. fillet of sole ly got so on Jumping on the Grapes I had learned all that was possible of Parisian cuisine. I now packed my and took a train for the southern part of France, my destination being the Bordeaux district, where the finest of vintage grapes are raised. The vineyard for the world’s best wines. I wa to spend six months here, studying the making of champagnes and other wines. It was very interesting, as my duties called for tasting practically every famous wine on the list. As I consider this too late a day for anybedy to take offense, I can tell you that the Bordeaux grape is not squeezed in a press. The juice is forced out by the bare feet of the French peasants, man, womar and child, who jump up and down on the grapes. The jumping effect of the grape seems to be transmitted along with the wine itself, because I have often seen men under its influence busily engaged in jump- bags Jordeaux sector is the ing on one another August 7,1926 The reason for the pressing by bare feet is that machinery would not only crush the grapes but also crush the seeds, and one seed in a vat of wine would spoil the entire vat. The seed is bitter and a wine buyer could detect the presence of one-hundredth of aseed in a hogshead of wine. This is why the peasants jump on the grapes in their bare feet. They work in a big trough and I can still see the juice bubbling up between their toes. The squeezed juice is drawn off into a lower trough and then pumped up by hand into a tremendous vat. Then all the refuse, the grape skins, leaves, vine and dregs, ars shoveled on top the wine in the vat, where the masssinks tothe bottom. Then throug! the slow process of fermentation the entire matted bulk is forced to the top of the vat It forms a crust over the top. This crust becomes as hard and as solid as a parquet I have seen men walking on it. The wine cools off under its odd lid for a month. Samples are then drawn off and sipped by the wine merchants of Bordeaux and England for appraisal. At one time the wine merchants of America also too} part in this ceremony. Bids are offered and refused or granted. The highest bidder often buys in the contents of five or floor. large vats and barrels it for shipment to Bordeaux. There it is sold again, or bottled, and the output of that season is known by the name of the district and also recognized by the imprint of the year it was made. The price of the wine also is fixed at the although, of course, the price would increase as the wine grev first testing at the vat, older year by year in the storehouse. I car give you an idea of the size of the vat wher I inform you that the contents of four or five might amount to something just below 2000 barrels. Chef and Guest of Honor I bought no wine, as the American trad¢ was monopolized by three or four big interests. I thought that I had learned all I could the industry and cabled my for leave to come home. I had been ng that I spoke the language which accomplishment was to be a big help to me in separating the dolla: from its American owner foreign accent with his food. about father . } in France so | wine who likes a I was glad to Lest you think that my six months in the Bordeaux district was an on wine, I will that though I was cited by the French Govern- ment for my cooking in Paris, I won ne Sordeaux. Al claim that a small boy in be headed for home again. state rey orgy medals for my drinking in though you might an apple tree was not up there to study botany, yet all the wine I tasted was merely for science and research. I suspect that I sampled many hundreds vintages in Southern France. I was glad I took the boat for America and bade farewell to France, having been the happy recipient of all the honors ever bestowed on an American chef In order that my dexterity in making sauce Marguery should not languish through lack of practice, I received permission from the boat steward to use his ovens on the trip The dish was much relished by the passen gers, although there was an unusual amount of that the ordeal was over. of seasickness for a smooth, pleasant voy age. However, I had ample confidence in my mastery over the and forward to new laurels and glory in my sauce looked native land. I landed in America in triumph, having honors single-handed thar General Pershing did with two million sol I was the sole American carrying the secrets of centuries of European civiliza gree ted on the wharf by Lex Russian father and Diamond first were, “‘Have you got the sauce?” An elaborate dinner was tendered to m« that father. I was the guest of honor and also the cook. First, | gained more diers tion I was tor’s Orchestra, my Jim Brady, whose words evening by my prepared the dinner and then sat down wi Continued on Page 64

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Dan Reed, the tin-plate king, Alfred Henry Lewis, of Wolfville fame, Marshall Field, Adolphus Busch, Victor Herbert, John Philip Sousa were present, and, of course, our old friend Jim Brady. I prepared fillet of sole with sauce Mar- guery. Diamond Jim dipped a spoon into combine of it, sipped it, smacked his lips and said, “It’s so good I could eat it on a Turkish towel. Here is the recipe for the sauce Mar- guery—given entirely from memory: 7) ewn le mass is red ht to twelve hours. Th quantity of a jellylike su is the essence of th . a t 1s 1 two hundred f ng every ten white ne of go¢ from ti > to time fish. This is stirred in and cooked essence of i a double boiler in the same way as you wo lai ough a very yenne and sal » Sauce The Cafe de Paris Crown Jewel This completes the famous dish, known throughout the world, which Marguery only created but served to patrons for fifty years. It created a sensa- tion in New York, although I never guar- anteed that you could follow Diamond Jim’s advice and eat it on a Turkish towel That’s rather a large assignment, and | linen and dry goods to start in by first trying to eat the sauce on an ordinary doil f successful in that they can himself not advise ambitious eaters of table tag ag napkin and work up by easy s Turkish towel I followed up the sauce Margus r) crab meat Mornay, which I learned pare in the ens of the C Paris. If Marguery could be digested on a Turkish towel, Mornay would have been palatable between a sandwich consist- ing of a doormat and a horse blan Ket The recipe very simple: oven and ali get so hot that brown or Imn EVENING POST bei added alternately. When the cream sauce, the cheese and the butter have become well blended, which should take a good fifteen minutes of steady whip- a fine sieve and season with ping, strain thro > and salt our over large individual flakes of crab meat id allow it to brown under the grill. Serve silver platter without garnishing. good Americans may go to Paris to die, but not one of them goes there to diet. Crab meat Mornay was the crown jewel of the Café de Paris and no tourist had seen Paris until he had tasted this dish. I have given you recipes for two dishes, which are also recipes for success, because they added over a million dollars to the Rector fortune. A big wager was laid out in Chicago that a man couldn’t eat a quail every day for a month. The betters were James Gore, Chapin and Gore, and Freddy 1 who was Nat Goodwin's closest friend. Chapin and Gore were the big wine mer- chants of Chicago. eat one quail a day for a month and gave up after the twenty-third day. Yet I have seen Charles Frohman and Charles Dilling- t crab meat Mornay every night ham eat months and years. Stanley Stanley essayed to for weeks A Cure for an Epicure This may have been due to the superior- ity of the French cuisine and the marvel- ous ability of the French to disguise dishes In fact, they carried out their ingenuity tosuch an extreme as to befuddle many anepicurean. Thereisa time in every peak hour in the restaurant business which resembles that minute in a family dinner with sauces when unexpected visitors had arrived and the cry, “F..H. B.” “t. o o was a secret code which meant that some went up. particular dish was running low, and, out of consideration for the visitors’ appetites, it could be deciphered to mean r hold back.” . When that moment arrived in some restaurants, and a patron ordered a dish which was on the menu card but not in the kitchen, it was often the proprietor's habit to employ a substitute disguised in sauces. Rector’s practiced this deception only once, and then because of a wager. The victim was Dave Montgomery of the of Montgome success, famous team then in ry and Stone, The Ree was a very plain eater while Mont- Fred grew tired about the many ’ was an epicurean. Dave boast enjoyed in ctor’s nig ly V1SI after the show, and ‘cially of his love for the diamond-back r i 7 Ife determined-to teach the epicurean a lesson. He conferred with me, and, much to urprise, agr to accompany Skye Mountain, Nova Scotia August 7,1926 him to Rector’s to share a d After the meal, Dave said, diamond-back terrapin is the finest I ha ever tasted.” A roar of laughter from Stone was with the la diamond-back terrapin was nothing small sau Maryland. The meat of the rabbit hidd« in the sauce is similar to terrapin and lowed explanz pieces of stewed rabbi in deception is completed by the very bones which are found both in rabbit in terrapin. I do not doubt that confiding patron has paid for a terr which is still swimming in Chesapeake Bay while a mournful rabbit waits in vain f its mate. Another easy counterf substituting milk veal for King. The veal is chopped chunks and mixed in with an ty of chicken in very mucl as the famous butcher prepared his half sausage w f a mule, There are more than there der sauce vas of a circus. Another trick emp! restaurateurs Is flaking crab meat Once agalr camouflage I forgot these Sauces are lac t d wil deira, which compiete ly dominates diner’s palate. Aprime fillet of lamb, marina could fool anybody who ordering venison stew ou the lamb has the advar i The next venison ask the waiter t ing in season. ] ro rs. Ever ing of water fowl, think then, de votees of | n fying their choice when D rought in with a rea! the platter. However, in ten the head is canvasbac} is mallard. One often act as honor gastronomic rites of The difference in price : dollars for the mallard, ane for the canvasback, wl 1 } } fish but lives on wild ri 61 again, a sauce Ol diner Sauce for the Geese reputation of Re high standard to attempt these numerous of Oost

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The British domestic trader goes after business and gets it. The results are reflected in government statistics that re- veal, even in these slack times through which the kingdom is passing, an actual in- crease of volume in many retail trades. But in export trade there has been no such hardening competition. A hundred years ago England embarked on the system of what in those days stood for mass pro- duction—substituted machinery for hand labor—and in this the English were many years ahead of any competing nation. It | was not until approximately thirty years ago that American and German manufac- turers began to branch out for world trade, and by more modern methods of mass production and more active salesmanship began to cut into business that for three- fourths of a century had been considered practically a British monopoly. The British are slow to change. It wasin the spring of the present year that I met, in Southern Spain, an illustration of what may easily happen when the idea prevails that business will come without effort. Framed on the wall of a Spanish mining company there is a curious exhibit, comprising copies of six letters written and received by the concern during the summer of 1912. In that year, it appears, the Spanish company desired to purchase certain machinery of a heavy type for use in its mining operations. The letter marked Number One is written in Spanish and addressed to an engineering firm in Birmingham, England. In this is described the exact nature of the machinery desired and a request that the English firm name a price on same. Letter Number Two is the reply from Birmingham. This was written in English. “We have received your communica- tion,”’ it states, ‘and infer that you wish to purchase certain machinery that we manu- facture. There is, however, no one in our employ who understands the Spanish lan- guage, and we are therefore returning your letter with the request that you rewrite same in English. Upon its receipt we shall be glad to quote prices and terms.” Tripping Through Spain The Spanish firm did not accede to this request. Instead a letter, also in Spanish, was written to a manufacturer of mining machinery in Germany, and the German’s letter is displayed on the wall alongside the one from Birmingham. The German left no doubt as to his eagerness to please. He wrote in Spanish of faultless construction. He gave exact information as to the time required to fabricate the desired machinery, the route by which it might be most eco- nomically shipped, and named his price in terms of Spanish money. He appreciated the inquiry and hoped he would be favored with the order. Next to the German’s letter on the wall is a second communication from Birming- ham. Having received no reply to its former missive, the English firm asked to know the reason why. The Spaniards re- sponded in a brief note: “We beg to inform that we have placed our order for the machinery with a German firm.” The moral of all this, if any, is not that the British are poor sales people, but rather that for too many years they had things rather too much their own way in export trade. There is no getting around a certain basic quality in human nature; namely, that people will work no harder than they have to; that they increase their efforts only as they are forced to by competition. It was also in Spain during this spring that I chanced to occupy the same com- partment on the twelve-hour ride from (Continued from Page 38 Cordova to Madrid with a young Britisher from Sheffield, who was making a tour of the larger Spanish cities in the interest of a manufacturing firm in his home town. His father, it appeared, was managing director of the firm, which perhaps accounts for the young man’s somewhat sketchy sales meth- ods. Personally he was charming, with all the social graces of the fortunately placed young Englishman. He had sold in Cor- dova, he said, six guineas’ worth of his cutlery; and he laughed merrily as he ad- mitted that this was more than he had done in most of the other places he had visited Of course he was a little handicapped by his limited knowledge of the Spanish language; when interviewing a client, hestated that he could catch about every fourth word, and filled in the balance by mental deduction. Usually he took along an interpreter from his hotel, but this was not always possible. Anyhow, he always left his price list and asked the client to write to Sheffield for any- thing needed. Turning Down a Nice Order Business with his father’s factory, the young representative said, was _ pretty rotten. Working on short time, and all that sort of thing. He intended giving Madrid a rather cursory visit, a single day, in fact. Things were so quiet he was convinced there would be little or no business in his line and, besides, he was anxious to get home. There was something doing in a social way the following Monday. He could leave Madrid on the fast train Friday morning, be in Paris Saturday morning, and, if connections worked out all right, would be at home the same night. Manifestly it would be misleading to judge the business methods of an entire industry by the activities of a single repre- sentative, no matter how agreeable person- ally; but the thought occurs that if the young Britisher’s father had been in retail trade and doing business locally, there would have been more pointed attention in his work. The British textile industry, centering in Manchester, probably approaches in ex- port operations nearest to the standards of sales efficiency set by British domestic traders. Manchester manufacturers sup- port regular classes in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and a dozen other Oriental lan- guages. The young man who expects to be- come a foreign salesman goes into a mill after his graduation from high school and learns manufacturing methods by actual work at the machines. Then he serves a year in his firm’s office to learn the shipping side. During his whole period of appren- ticeship he studies the language of the country where his work is to be. After this preparation he is sent out to his post for three or four years, then has a year at home to keep in touch with new methods of manufacture. There is no denying that the British are thorough. Yet thorough as is the Man- chester export manufacturer, there is not quite the resourcefulness, the get-the- business quality that obtains in domestic selling. It was only during the present year that the president of an American manu- facturing firm was in England on a visit to his London branch, and while there August 7,1926 conceived the idea of purchasing certain ma terials for use in the American factory. A¢ companied by his London manager, an Englishman, he went to Manchester for this purpose. Entering the office of a prominent export concern in the textile trade, the two asked to Le shown samples of broadcloth, intimating that, if suited, an initial order might be placed for ten thou- sand yards of the fabric. The sales person in charge was polite, but distant. He showed his samples of broad cloth liberally, but when the American sug- gested that slightly different colors and widths were required, he replied positivels that his firm’s products were standardized as to colors and widths and that no devia- tions could be made. The American, anx- ious to buy and believing an order for ten thousand yards of expensive fabric might receive special consideration, insisted that the salesman should consult his superiors before turning down the proffered business. The salesman retired to an inner office for a brief consultation and presently emerged with the message that the firm had been in export trade many years, had never been required by foreign buyers to alter its es tablished standards in any way, and would 10t consider doing so in the present in stance, Thus rebuffed, the American and hi English subordinate went out into the street, the former a little shocked by his contact with British export tradition. The Englishman understood the situation bet- ter. “T think we’ve been in the wrong sort of place,” he said to his chief. ‘‘If you don't mind, I'll take you to a firm in the domestic trade. We'll get what we want there, never fear.” Just around the corner was a concern catering only to British buyers, and to that the two men made their way. Ther were found approximately the same goods as in the export house, but in everything else conditions were decidedly different When the sales person learned the Amer + ican’s needs, he went without suggestion the private office to ask if alterations might be made. The head of the firm came out to interview the visitors, and, when he lear the exact requirements, stated he wou once telephone for the factory foreman The foreman came; and, when the situa 1 ¢} tion was explained, volunteere: formation that the required change r colors and widths could readily be mad Within the space of an hour the American order was booked for a purchase running close to the twenty-thousand-dollar n The Goad of Competition It was the young Englishman hims« the London manager for the Americar firm-—who told me the story How 1 asked him, did he know his superior cou get service with the concern in the dome tic trade, when it had been impossible to do business with the export concert Why should two houses, both British and within fifty yards of each other, displa such difference in business methods? ‘I knew by the way they acted at the export place,” he answered, ‘‘that they still labored under the delusion that land has no competition in world tra that customers have to do business thx way or not at all. It is a heritage of th years when British exporters really had no serious competitors. “How did I know we would get servic at the other place? Because I knew ar firm whose business is domestic has to give service or go bankrupt. Competition ir England itself has for three hundred year been keener than in any country on eart There have been times when the exporter could prosper on a take-it-or-leave-it pol icy; but the home trader has always fight for business. He has to be a rea Ssaiesmal —

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August 7,1926 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST BONDING HUMAN NATURE Continued from Page 25 Later, naturally. [ didn’t take things quite so hard, but I had to hustle will require a surety bond guaranteeing satisfactory performance. The premiums on road bonds alone will total nearly $15,- anywhere near that mark I established in 000,000. So you can see that, with the my first month. business still feeling its way out into new Each time I sold a bond fields, still only partially known and under- passed on by the company’s stood, it was not hard for me to find cus- before the deal finally went through. As I tomers. bonds, But my experience with the small fra- ternal bonds in different parts of the city had shown me I would have to go after big business if I wanted to get big returns. My talk with the president indicated I would off all over the city on little one-horse in- be judged on gross results. Petty investi- contract bond that beggared vestigations, to be told that I wasn’t get- gations, I decided, could be left to chaps had yet thought of was under ¢ ting results! After all my pride in my $500 who weren’t so much interested in big It ran far into the millio and $1000 bonds! I forgot all about being figures as I was. SoI got lists of prospects guarantee successfu in the office of the president. I forgot all fromthe Stock Exchange. I gotsuggestions subway extension. about my embarrassment. All I saw was from men whom I’d met in my mercantile- experienced in subway red! agency investigating. Best of all, I got lists and finar “That’s not fair!’”” I almost shouted at from my former mercantile-agency friends. him. ‘‘I’ve had my addresses given tome. Before I got through I had what seemed I haven't had a chance to get anything ex- like half the important concerns in New cept small premiums. I’ve ”"AndIwent York on my list. Then, to save time, I _ risk, on and gave him the whole story. It must grouped them by localities, by streets or by looked into minute have been quite a tirade. At first he only _ single big office buildings. I’d beginon one decided that the raised his eyebrows. Then he stood up. I | side of astreet and work straight downthat Then one of the vi , kept right on. Nothing in the world seemed _ side, then come back aleng the other side, something else. portant iuncheon engage- so important as to make him see that Iwas I'd begin at the top of the Woolworth ‘“*Look here,” lent—vyou want to look your right; that to judge me on thetotalamount Building, or the Equitable, or whatever it of the premiums I'd brought in was utterly might be, and work down from floor to unfair. floor, taking in every firm I had checked on “T ought to be getting your support,” my list, and often a lot more as well. They looked at the pl I ended, “instead of criticism. I’ve been sure, comparing them given little piffling odds and ends to look maps. Certainly thi up all over the city, and I’ve done a good under the high job with ’em. Now I want something more point. But 1 important.” “It’s the first Perhaps it was my dead earnestness that man, ‘‘that a subway impressed him; it may have been the en- an elevated structure as |} ergy, the confidence, the conceit, if you uu know your will. I always talk best when I’m mad. ata} ill day long. “Tf you can talk to other men the way Stacomb gives your hair a healthy you've just talked to me,” he told me, —brings out all its nat- *‘you've got the making of a real salesman in you. We'll give you your chance.” I walked out of the office on air! look a lot better to me than it had before I came into that room. I was finding out that, after all, surety companies themselves are also human, from the youngest employe to the highest. “Yes?” asked the president. “Mr. Smith told me I could speak to you about getting a raise.” “You've not been bringing in much money in premiums,” said the president briefly. ‘‘Sorry, but we have to judge a man by the results he gets.”’ That started me! After running my feet to keep underwriters began to bring in important often to go personally into tl writers’ room and explain why the business under discussion On one of those occasions [| a conversation that opened my } questioned integri with along recor ievemen to his credit. T 1 p seemed safe. Y« rforman: You know your hair is right } every poss! way tunnel going ne must have complete self- tracks where they’r Yet— “ae , : street level?” lence, perfect case. Your hair! For years men have worried over My First Big Sale nspicuous part of One of my first prospects was the head of a concern employing nearly 1200 men. I tried to get him to take what is called a “schedule bond”; a form of fidelity bond that protects against dishonesty on the part of employes occupying any of the positions enumerated in the schedule. The ro: total premium ran into the thousands. [I that some new explained the advantage of doing business that haven't been with the company that I represented. He countered there, if listened, noncommittal. He was a typical affected by the I American business man—glasses, iron-gray years? Isn’t there ; hair and close-cropped mustache. cave-ins that will “You're carrying hundreds of unbonded big loss in employes,” I told him. “Any one of them, right while we’re sitting here talking, may have gone wrong and made away with, say, $12,000 or $14,000 of the company’s money. “T've never realized before,” a little later, when my owr heen approved, embarrassing prob- r every man. W hic h trains have been What I KS helow time. smoothnes ural sheen. most rebellious hair quickly sponge when Stacomb m. Forget those mis- when every morning yxrushed your hair— get out of place again —twe. hours later. all those moss-grown you once tried in a vain at- ike your stubborn hair Wetting with water for W - nly dried Bonds That Bind and mean a Because of that cided to split the ris} divided among eight different The outside agent of a surety company has plenty of places to look for business. Every store has its employes, its bookkeep- ers or clerks, who may need to be bonded. Every club has its steward or manager. By watching the daily papers an agent can get innumerable leads; every formation of a partnership, every notice of incorpora- Yet you've taken no measures to protect yourself against such a possibility.” “T’ll think it over,” he said. I got up to go. “There's a chance you'll] do it? You're “how many underwriters have to take ‘Successful e president ans\ ition of e) tion means a new business. Every munici- or against +7? Cl not definitely de« : o matter how improbabl He smiled. ‘No, I’m not deciding y one way or the other.” know that } pal project —a new town hall, a new school, the Chikbn be naib a new bridge across the rive means bid oils your hair needs and eventually the awarding of a contract. iff. Yet never leaves Those bidding will have to put up bid I called on him again, and again r-look bonds to guarantee performance if their Each time I ended up wit}! yest rd Ly and assed judgment on more again. that worth of risks? And lad morning and then { Whenever your ippearance coun you will know hair looks right. omes in jars, tubes and Any drug store. In ess Standard P — 27 King BL bid is accepted. The surety company writ- ing the bid bond almost inevitably gets the chance to write, later, the contract bond guaranteeing successful completion of the very news item concerning ar- rests or litigation offers its possibilities of project. writing bail bonds, appeal bonds, or what not; even the obituary column indicates where executors may be bonded, or trust estates, also requiring bond, created. When business is dull the full gamut is completed; final question: “‘There’s a chance you'll « it?” I didn’t want to waste time if he was merely kidding me along until I got tired. Then I made the question more emphatic. “Ts there a good chance you'll do it?” Finally it got to where he really had to decide one way or the other. “‘T’ll let you know tomorrow,” he said. “*Look here, Mr. Brown,” I told him. “If you're ready to decide tomorrow, can’t you just as well do it now? Then I'll get a good Bonds and Blondes strongest surety ' Where in life insurar rested on definite figures and percentage in the surety business, whi for even each notice of bankruptcy means _ night’s sleep, instead of lying awake think- ! the the appointment of a receiver who will have to furnish his surety bond. During the past twenty years the surety business has developed along many differ- ent lines. Beginning with guaranteeing the fidelity of servants, it spread first to cashiers, sheriffs, and all manner of employes, down to the watchmen and doorkeepers of banks. Then a vast new field opened up, in guar- anteeing the performance of contracts. For example, you cannot supply the United States Government with anything—coal, machinery, army supplies—without a bond. The same is true of state governments, and PS THEHAIRINPLACE 1ess of ing about it.” “Oh, you'll sleep all right,’”’ he answered, ‘either way.” in the very “T didn’t last night He looked at me again, as though he had = appli not realized how young I was, or how green. honesty; Then he smiled, and I knew I had won. teeing performance; a fiduciary ‘All right,” he said. “‘We'll fix it up guaranteeing fulfillment of trust; and e: today.” of the rest has to be passed upon and :¢ That was my nission amounted to nearly brought home to me afresh the newness of the surety business and its abundant op-_ nearly $50,000,000 in portunities. yet lost money? All together, that very first month on Wherever the risk of a bond my own as an outside free agent, my earr was great I learned to as judgment, each sey nature of tl 1] It was the truth, from all the r cation bid, or contract } “it My com- It wonder that dur ce pted or rejected on its mer ig the past twe irst big sale. $1500. of the big surety companies most municipal governments as well. In 1926 something like $1,000,000,000 worth 1] a tal ings amounted to nearly $2500. It still definitely as a bank would ask f of roads will be constructed in the United one of the projects stands, I think, as a record. States, and every Continued on Page 70

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Continued from Page 68) galoan. You can see how essential lake court bonds, for instance, of there are some twenty-six different arieties. An appeal bond, guaranteeing “ f the de- er court is sustained by the ve, means that in something like ases out of four the payment must | met. Naturally is going to 1 yment of the award and costs, no surety which is the equivalent of a r ss adequate collateral to underwrite, a bond they'd probably have to make good on themselves, less adequately protected. Moreover, see that the collateral is vy note, unle put up. They’d be cr premium, for a nominal ld Would accept, readily ne- j oid expense, risk, and un- In these cases where I secured collateral I came to realize that any surety company has to exerci i guarding it, ji as a bank s to pro- tect the property of a trust » assigned arpest jesson } to it. My litigant for whom I had ase under appeal deposited with came when a secured a $40,000 bond ona us $40,000 worth of Liberty Bonds. That right so far. Then one day | around and wanted.to take the bonds out to register them. It seemed to be a reason- able juest and they were turned over to him. But when a couple of hours I hadn't returned them feel uneasy, and an It appeared is lawyers that his appeal would unquestionably be decided adversely. He had much property as he could into cash, dropped around to pick up the bonds, and dis- appeared. It developed later that he'd left for Mexico, accompanied by a very beauti- was a 1e Came enough re had passed and he somebody began to effort was made to locate him. word from h ned got converted as ful blonde. Pity the Poor Defaulter in touch more and ‘ations of the business 1d that a big modern surety company 1 four directions the trust- hiness of a bookkeeper or trustee; the integrity and financial standing of a ‘o get this information it ap- plies to a mercantile agency for the credit rating ol gation. of janitors, gas companies, butchers, watch- it investigates risks ontractor. the man or concern under investi- it sends out men to ask questions ;, business houses. ond, having « omple ted the investiga- o its satisfaction, it underwrites the guaranteeing performance. rd, in case of loss it pays the deficit amount of the bond, like any in- r of value | Ss, following cashier and compelling restitution, or pos- and completing an un- surety-company irtment that at- s by recovering ide away with lramatic phases of astonishing kinks » not long ago »}a small-town bank ized to get away with eculation and high breast of the was gone. ets at all,” our it you could turn titution ear vered chee rfully. . ” uure ariving, about that? Known ive car, right,”” he you can’t hy, I have to THE SATURDAY He had stolen close to $50,000 of the de- positors’ money, and felt unjustly treated when asked to give up a $5000 automobile he had purchased with part of it! Oceasionally the salvage-department de- tectives are able to pick up a hot trail, with surprising results. One day recently a big automobile drove up to the curb in front of a New York candy store located on Seventh Avenue. A neat, businesslike man stepped out, leaving an attractive woman in the car, and bought a pound box of candy. He was rather fussy in his selection, finally choosing an expensive variety. He gave a twenty- dollar bill in payment, receiving in ex- I re a ten-dollar bill, a five, and some ones. When he got back to the auto, he returned and reéntered the store, apparently having just examined the money. “This five-dollar bill you just gave me,” he challenged, holding out a bill, ‘“‘is counterfeit.” A Profit From a Loss The proprietor of the store was called, looked the bill admitted it was a counterfeit, and gave the man another five in place of it. The customer thanked him, went back to his machine and drove off. The proprietor, going over the transaction, looked at the twenty-dollar bill and dis- covered it, too, was counterfeit. He hap- pened to be the holder of one of the small fraud bonds that our company issues, pro- tecting hotels, stores, and other business concerns to the sum of, say, $500 against forged checks or other losses that result from human crookedness. He took up his telephone immediately and called our home office. Two detectives were put on the case at once. They were at the store in less than twenty minutes. The inability of the counterfeit passer to resist the temptation to add another five dollars to the twenty he had already received had resulted in their striking a hot trail. Within three-quarters of an hour they had located the big machine and arrested the man and woman, still working on Seventh Avenue less than a mile from the store that had turned in the alarm. Under the rear seat of the car they found fourteen boxes of candy! Recoveries on all claims—theft, em- bezzlement, defalcations of all kinds—run between a third and a half of the ammount originally taken. But when the expenses of making the recovery are taken into ac- count it is a good salvage department in- deed that can get back a net 30 per cent of the original losses over any extended period. I learned of another important phase of salvage work that comes when a company takes over the completion of a contract or business project on which the bonded con- tractor has been unable to make good. One of the most striking examples of this was furnished a few years ago when one surety wrote a contract bond for the that was to put a tunnel, rease the New York water the Catskill Mountains. The tunnel was to be horseshoe shaped, eleven feet high, eighteen and two-tenths long. Merely planting the job getting the men on the ground, housing them, preparing all the necessary arrange- for holding them, down to movies for their entertainment —cost $1,- over, company corporation planned to in supply, through miles ments even Then, because of the war con- ditions that the the price of labor went skyrocketing and the contractor went broke. He couldn’t com- ple te the job. Three courses were open to the surety company: They could pay the bond and take their loss, which would run to several i They could back the con- r, and make him finish the 000,000, prevailed at time, illion dollars. tractor furthe job, standing for whatever loss there might be above contract price. Or they could take over the work and finish the job them- They sent out engineers to make ys and advise them as to the best to do. On their company was formed to take New York City granted an tion of recommendation a subsidiary over the work. additional year’s time for the comple EVENING POST the contract. The new tunnel company worked effectively. It had greater re- sources, both in money and materials, at its command than the original contractor. It was able to comb the country for the best engineers. It developed new methods of drilling that went 50 per cent farther on a single blast than did the old method. The job was finished eight months ahead of the time set in the original contract, and the surety company cleared more than $1,000,- 000 on it! Little by little, during the past ten years, selling a bond of one sort here and a still bigger one of an entirely different type the next week, I have learned almost all there is to know about surety. Yet the business has grown so fast, and is so diversified, that I am kept jumping by the new details that crop up with each new risk. For example, one of the contract bonds I was working on a while ago—which failed to go through when, after long negotiations, the principal was finally unable to get together the se- curity we demanded—concerned a $1,000,- 000 deal in reindeer. It seems that nations with possessions in the Arctic and Antarctic develop the reindeer industry in order to foster the animal life that is necessary to support human life in those cold latitudes. Some years ago the United States Govern- ment went into reindeer breeding in Alaska, and imported a herd from Norway. The animals died. The Alaskan climate wasn’t right. Siberian reindeer, sold to us by the Russian Government, did better, and are now being bred successfully in Alaska. Recently, when the British Government wanted 4000 reindeer, it went to one of the biggest reindeer dealers in the world, who lives in San Francisco. He was to drive the reindeer 1000 miles, from Alaska to British Columbia. The herd, it would increase by 1000 in the two years necessary for the trip. The British Government demanded a surety bond that the reindeer would be de- livered. Even though the deal fell through, the project gives an idea of how large transactions in little-known businesses may be. An amazing variety of bonding is neces- sary where, in businesses for which Federal, was estimated, state, or municipal governments require permits or licenses, surety companies have to guarantee that the licensees will not over- step their permits. The list includes dealers in hog-cholera serum, fortune tellers, em- balmers, collectors of birds’ eggs, clam dredgers, manufacturers of lightning rods, and enough more to make you dizzy. Three surety companies now own half the entire supply of pure prewar gin officially acknowl- edged to be in this There 105,000 gallons, made in Peoria, Illinois. It was taken as part of the collateral when a steamship corporation failed for a big loss under a $1,000,000 bond which the three companies had underwritten together. Storage charges alone, on that gin, run to $10,000 a year. country. are We Buy Some Jewelry In fiduciary bonds it has been found that the trusts that should be the most sacred are, as a matter of fact, the most abused. The trustee of the estate of an incompetent, perhaps of a child, is most apt to abuse the confidence reposed in him, probably because the opportunities afforded make the temptation so much harder to resist. At the same time it is true that care- lessness and the gradual dissipation of funds over a term of years more often result in loss than any deliberate intention to take advantage of the helpless beneficiary of the trust. Bail bonds, which in the early days made up an important part of the surety business, gave the companies a bad name, and have proved, in the long run, less and less satis- factory. They were underwritten originally on the legal supposition that every man is innocent until proved guilty. During the war this assumption began to be beaten down when the companies refused to write bonds for men accused of treason or other often August 7,1926 crimes against the Government. This atti- tude has spread, until now the best panies ask ‘“‘Is the man really innocent?” and have begun to ref ases where the evidence is all against the defendant. An illustration of how bail bonds may interfere } with larger and more legitimate com use ¢ lines of when a ry insurance business was furnished recently jewelry store, covered by burgl: through one of our subsidiaries, announced the theft of $300,000 worth of jewe Is. We paid the loss. the police had already succeeded in arrest- ing the thieves, who had furnished high bail and had been turned loose. Our department had written the bail bond that had set them free, accepting as security the same jewels that we were paying the jewelry company for! Investigation showed that own court Bonding Finance Companies taken me into a artment of the has been becoming in- My own interest has comparatively new dep surety business that creasingly important during the last few , This is the field of finance bonds Each more and more business done on the installment plan. Each year sees a further extension of credit, by mean of finance companies, from dealer to cus years year sees tomer. More than automobiles three-quarters of all the the United today are sold on installment. Even in the sold in States secondhand market, chang hands now to a very great extent on time payments. With nearly 20,000,000 trucks and automobiles now in use | automobiles in this coun try, with an estimated value of something like $12,000,000,000, it is probably not too much to say that $5,000,000,000 worth of deferred payments are due today in the automobile business alone. When add to furniture, books, electric equi nographs, pianos, radio sets, automo! houss you thousand and one other things that go t make up the living equipment of the present- zation, you get a staggering total the surety companies are reaching nore widely. Onetrucking concern now Th surety bond guaranteeing those payments makes it possible for the company to financ« | SCale s $7,000,000 in payments due. its huge projects and go ahead on a that would be credit were available. Yet instances, the sure impossible if only its own , 248 In SO man) other y company take a surprisingly small advance credit the risk, and the banks that surety-company bonds take almost none at all. The security s the purchaser’s note, giver of his financial standing, ment to pay according to the is the indorse- truck, sponsible with whatever business assets he may iird, there is the al that repossessed in case of nonpayment. Fourth, there is the indorsement of the finance com pany that advances the money agent. And fifth, there is the surety bond, guaranteeing that the will meet its obligation to the bank. Installment field dealers d alers don't often go wrong for petty amounts. They don’t ofter Second, thers I } local agent s¢ lling the making him also re truck itself, as collater can be to the loca finance | ‘h go wrong at all, for that matter, but wher they do it’s as well pla le] as the defalcations of marr usually runs to big figur I’ve never regretted surety business for a progress, ste} fields. turn ea money. an - drudging at sixty dol Today I zed as a se} and I am looked made good. staff, organ to follow up I bring in. go-getters of the entire comp indust a personal income from my that usually runs above $20(

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THE NATURAL SELECTION OF “*The youngest is seventy-four, sir “*What —and he’s an orphan?’ “*Do you doubt it?’ he said. And I didn’t, come to think of it. I was about to upologize to him for seeming to impugn the good faith of his enterprise, when the lady horned in. “*Bosh,’ she said, leading me astray. ‘Let me ask you just one question, sir. What is our national bird?’ “*The eagle, madam,’ I said. “*The bald-headed eagle, sir,’ she said, narrowing her eyes at me. ‘Why did you gag on that damning word, sir? I'll tell it was because you were ashamed. You are an American, sir, and proud of your country in most respects, and you blushed to say that your national emblem und mascot was bald-headed. Does such a stain rest on the escutcheon of any other nation? No, sir. France has the Gallic cock, with tall crest erect; England has the lion of plentiful mane; even Russia has the hairy bear-—but the American eagle is bald- headed. As director of public relations for the United Coiffeurs of America, I am fos- tering a patriotic movement for scientific experiment to grow hair on the American eagle, or in the alternative, to provide him and each and every one of him with a de- cent and seemly toupee.’ “*Come in, Mr. Pethick,’ Heyduke, opening the parlor door. said to the others, blocking them off, ‘ You'll excuse us, won't you? Mr. Pethick is here on business, so we shan’t detain you long. Do wait, please.’ “*She was a woman of about thirty-eight, rawboned and homely, with brilliant and uneasy blue eyes. She had much manner, and I wondered what she had to hide—she smiled so energetically, widening her eyes and showing twelve teeth of her uppers, and tilting her bobbed head. She shouldn't have bobbed her hair, poor woman; it gave her nothing with which to hold back her ears. An imported suggestion of the masculine is fetching in a pretty woman, there’s no denying. “*T have received a letter addressed to father,’ she said cordially. ‘But, Mr. Pethick, father is dead.’ “*What!’ I exclaimed, visibly taken ‘My old friend Pearson J. Heyduke is dead? You don’t tell me. Why, this is au great shock. It seems only yesterday that he was in the office making a payment on that lot and telling me that he had received an offer of eight hundred dollars for it as soon as he had the deed. Why, he was one of my first customers. He came in the ottice, it seems to me, about six months ago, on the very day that I bought the prop- erty x ““*Oh, no, Mr. Pethick,’ she said, laugh- ing politely. ‘Father is dead just fourteen years last Wednesday. Yes, we put the annual reminder in the newspaper that day for the eyes of his sorrowing friends. He had many dear friends, Mr. Pethick. You yourself must have been very fond of him to have kept his memory so green. Is it possible that you didn’t know of hisaleath?’ **It escaped me somehow,’ I said, get- ting up to go. I would need time to mull things over if I was to collect that last pay- ment on the lot; the account was suspi- ciously old. ‘Good day, Miss Heyduke I’m a bit shaken by this news of my old comrade, but I want you to feel that I am your friend as I was your father’s, and if you want any real-estate advice i ***Oh, but I do, indeed, Mr. Pethick,’ she said, detaining me. ‘I asked you to call on the chance that you might be a former friend of father and able to advise me in a real- estate matter. And now I’m so glad. ““TIt is about this house, Mr. Pethick. My father advised us—my brother and me, the only children—never to sell it, and I am sure we did well not to sell it hitherto. The rents have increased so greatly of late years. ut now I am urged by various brokers to eize a chance to sell; they tell me that the you Miss She said uback. THE SATURDAY Continued from Page 23 rents are about to fall substantially. Do you think I should sell it? They tell me that they can secure for me a price of three hundred and ten thousand dollars ‘Absurd, Heyduke. The men who so advised you are “* For this house?’ I said an unprincipled crew of bandits. Yes, cer- tainly the rents will fall; but that does not say you need get panicky. Let me have the particulars, and I'l] study it over and suggest something tempting.’ ‘You are good,’ she said, gi'

set of figures from an escritoire compiled this for me to show the brokers. These business matters are foreign to me. I have been active in worthwhile causes ar movements, but “*Pardon me,’ I ‘Weren't you identified wit Are you perhaps the prom- said, recollecti

name. wom- an’s suffrage? inent leader Colonel Heyduke? By K that you should be the daughter 1 friend! And since the Nineteenth Amend- ment put the quencher on that racket, way of speaking, haven't you been a bit of a I do think I saw your with that known to the newspapers as George, to think of my olc ina socialist ? name in connection River.’ “*T went to jail her chin proudly. “*You have my complete understanding, Miss Heyduke,’ I said. myself, several times.’ ***Oh, how fine of you!’ she cried with en- husiasm. ‘Your ened by suffering and made sweet. Tell me, did you make a book of it?’ “*That was the glaring injustice, Heyduke,’ I said. writer, and the fellow who made the book mill strike at Fall there,’ she said, lifting ‘I have been in jai been nature has deep- Miss ‘I was only the sheet bought out. But don’t let’s talk about those days, please “The door opened and her brother with his hands in his pockets a slow lounged in, and his hat on the side of his head and heavy youth of thirty or thirty-two with a spoiled sense of humor, a complete loafer who had never done a tap in his life. He gave me a harsh look and said to his sis- ter, ‘Who's the gentleman in the white What bunk is he He spoke Ina heavy nasal chest protector, Renée? steering for?’ drawl. ** Mr. Pethick is an old friend of father’s,’ said Miss Heyduke sharply. ‘My brother, Norval, Mr. Pethick. Mr. Pethick has just heard of father’s death.’ ““*Go away, said Norval, giving me a limp hand. ‘Heard that, has he? Give him time; give him time, and he'll be as wise as any of them yet. Here’s one for you, M: Pethick—-do you know that a big steam- ship has been sunk and thousands of people drow ned?’ ie W hy, no,’ this happen? What ship was it, duke? By George!’ “*Tt was called the Lusitania,’ he drawled, ‘and it happened only about ten years ago. I thought you'd be surprised. Say, Renée, this old fellow is fun. Where's he parked all these years?’ **Among other places,’ she said frostily; I said, startled. ‘When did Mr. Hey- been ‘he’s been incarcerated for a cause ***And they gave him back the same old vest,’ said the young rowdy. ‘Were you just going out, pop? I'll go with you and explain things or you'll get a stroke. Let me have ten dollars, Renée, will you?’ “*Not another cent,’ she snapped, ‘and I’m sorry I have to give you any money at all.’ “*But any money at all is what I’m ask- ing you for, Renée. Can you tie her for a hard heart, pop? So you were a friend of dad's. Come on out with me. I know a place.’ ‘“** Be back here at seven for dinner, Nor- val,’ she called after him, as I left the room with a promise to call shortly “The lady friend of bald eagles bolted through the parlor door and shut it firmly after her

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‘ 4 4 r | Orr t t ij inte ar | ng inde s arn I'll just f this with me and se Cup ina CK-SI VA 10OW across t © Way fr I the | act i can watcl ir not keep dinne " rt Step in here, pop, and I'll show iwt sled an elevat« Don't ve " ] drop the v l’r mt He spoke r and hed t stagyge Ss i bu © Was cert ni} nae ‘ ence i! ama is a thoroug! eN penienced drinker when alcohol does ( rae nin ihnose heavy SOUS@eS seen ( the | ( Ke Came He was mourntul example of the result of giving ar Inambitious ung Man an ample mit eleasing him from healthful work ‘I went with him. We talked over the amily affairs for several hours Miss Heyduke land | had another talk wit} the next day I offered to lease her from her for the purpose of building a new fifteen-story apartment hotel on it, and pay year. That show her a much bigger income than she her fifty thousand a would had from the flat, and no trouble of management or worry about fall- old seven-story ng rents, and she could devote her carefree time to causes and other rackets ‘All I asked her to do was to let me mort- gage the fee for building money; that is to say, her lease was to be subordinated to a first mortgage only. I told her, what any- body would tell her that knew financing, that savings banks and trust companies would not lend if the new house was to be built on leased ground, and they would have to have a first lien **But, Miss Heyduke,’ I said, ‘such in- stitutions cannot lend over sixty per cent of the value of land and improvements, so you will really be much safer than you are at I will get you appraisals from real- estate experts up to any sum you care to present name. Let me, for instance, appraisal showing that the completed oper- get you an ation will be worth eight hundred thousand dollars over the first mortgage How is that?’ “**But if they don’t pay me the rent any time sne sald “*Then you take over the house and win their eight hundred thousand dollars,’ I Said “* And we would own the property at all You know, Mr. Pethick, father told us not to sell it.’ ‘And very I said. ‘Yes, own the property at all times ? times. wise of him,’ you would You are only going to lease it, understand? That is what you are doing now, except I

am advising you to lease the whole thing at once and let a big improvement be made Such a new house will rent for two hundred thousa year, and you can see that I can your rent of fifty thousand a something handsome left fo

1 be candid with you, am into this to make » fat in this for me I would I pu t on the fire.’ Mr. Pethick,’ sh oloring wit! pleasure t is a relief t u Say that I know it is mea | €| so, but so many people t¢ me are OT ly out 0d nd sa fice the healt! ind I W pe muct ntereste I ) on Conway, you know how that asing game is worked, as there has been quite a lot of it in New York the last few vears; and so long as we can stick the whole thing on ent bills of the tenants everythir iky-dory. An owner is en- cent on a

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THE SATURDAY Happy Faces Please accept a full Men tell us this makes shaving a morning joy 10-day tube of this olive-oil-containing shaving cream that corrects 5 mistakes of old-type shaving soaps (GENTLEMEN by experts I beard Here’ in skin ca YY one I is « th » cream made t softens the minute, that leaves be \ makes a | beard wax-lil 3. Dries on face. The lather of Pal EVENING POST their property. Well, there is nothing the matter with that, if they do not kid them- selves as to where the increase is coming from, and if they understand they are giv- ing up the ownership of their land for what amounts to a second mortgage, and they stand a daisy chance of getting wiped out if rents soften too much. “They could sell their land for cash and buy a second mortgage that would show them twelve or more per cent, and it would not run for twenty-one years and renewals either. Well, people like to kid themselves, and it is like a party refusing tosell his coun- try estate for fifty thousand, and swapping it for city income at a pumped-up exchange price, and the operator turns around and shoots the country stuff for thirty-five. Right? “*T went down to see Zibeon Cloker, the loan man, on lower Park Avenue—you know old Zib Cloker. I dare say that old buzzard has finger-printed about three million dollars in the last ten years, and he has nothing of it left now but about two million nine hundred and ninety-five thou- sand. The rest of it—outside of his living expenses for ten years—went for wine, women and song. Easy come, easy go, that’s Zib. Marked money is the only kind he has, and anybody that borrows it is in for a trip through Zib’s wringer. Zib and I have dealt before, and I think he likes me; he lent me three dollars once for old times’ sake and he’s still wearing my light spring coat. ' *“*A man who won’t pay a bonus don’t need the money, Pethick,’ he said once, in that high-and-tight voice. ‘Lending him is only encouraging sinful waste.’ ““You know he swings big loans; he’s in cahoots with a group of merchants whose cash piles up faster than they care to feed it back into their own rackets. “IT gave him the guts of the proposition, and he had a look at the atlas and said he’d do six hundred and fifty thousand. ‘Six per cent on the whole loan from the date of acceptance, Pethick, and twelve per cent to cover.’ “*That’s about twenty per cent for the first year, Mr. Cloker,’ I protested. “*Better,’ hesaid. ‘Better, my boy. The bulk of the money wouldn’t be advanced until the house was completed, but you'd be paying interest on the whole sum right through. Do you want my advice? Don’t take the loan.’ ***T’ll take it,’ I said, ‘if you'll write ina participation.’ “*For how much, Pethick?’ “*Uptoa million. You advance six hun- August 7,1926 whose money the six-fifty will be, but we want you personally in this with us and be- hind us. So that’s how we will cut it-—six- fifty less your squeeze to be the building loan, the next three hundred to be left with me, and the last fifty to be yours.’ “*You spend like government funds, Pethick,’ he said. ‘And who is to be the guest of honor?’ “*The Heyduke family,’ I He knew that from the size of the loan; if the Heydukes went back of a million-dollar mortgage, they were cooked. Well, the house might float for a year or so if it struck the popular fancy and rented up big; but it wouldn’t be really worth more than a million dollars. I had picked on that as a figure that would just eat it all up nicely, land and building. “I got a couple of real-estate experts to appraise the completed job, and as luck would have it—if that is what it was-—they hit on the very figure I had in mind; namely, one million eight hundred thousand dollars. Well, I probably mentioned the figure to them in the course of conversation, saying that if I was going to pay any thousand dollars per for appraisals | would expect something to be proud of. “You know that plenty of new apart- ment houses and others are financed that way—twenty per cent on the loan for the first year—and a loan of up to a hundred per cent of the job, and if they are go- ing to make the bonds look good to the widows and orphans they have got to make that job worth a lot more. So there is a thriving industry of appraisers who will only ask you how much you would like the house to be worth; then they will sit down and apply their scientific rules and fill a dozen sheets with figures and graphs, and they will hit the figure right on the nose nine times out of ten. They are experts meaning they can prove what they say, never mind whether it is true or not. “ Miss Heyduke was going out of town for a week on one of wished to meet Mr. Cloker first; there was no need for the meeting, but you know how women are. They rely on personalities more than I told Zib, and he refused to give her any of his time; but I prevailed on him to see her on Sunday afternoon. He called her up, and I got on the extension in his outer office. “* At 2:15 P.M. then, madam,’ ‘in the lobby of my hotel.’ “*But how shall | K Cloker?’ ‘I heard him might ask at the desk, madam.’ said. her causes and she on logic. he said, Mr. now you, resignedly. ‘You sigh 1 iving (ream maintains its Creamy fullne ss utes on the face. as soft and fine as if lotion had_ S|} dred and fifty, less your charges; but the mortgage will made for million dollars.’ ““*Who gets the three hun ired and fifty thousand odd?’ “*That’ll be ***T have it,’ she said. ‘You can wear a a red rose, Mr. Cloker.’ lotions, as for ten mit 4. Hairs lie down lue to weak bub- Strong bubbles are essential to support Palmolive bul 1 rt] Ola The ise of be one rose ‘**An ingenious suggestion,’ he growled. ‘But you will let me improve on it, if A t ’ something of the sort is necessary. I shall wear a red handkerchief; I have one, but he thousands are quitting old- les time shaving soaps for it. One of its chief the hairs tor cutting ybles arc oil S0% of its strong they | hairs erect for the cut several ways,’ I said. ‘We need builder and a nored rose. Is that agreed? couple of experts. My piece will be in that “By this time the Styx Trading Com- surplus too. The property will be mort- pany was sunk, so far as I was concerned, gaged to you for a million dollars, and that and I could devote all my efforts to the pro- will be on record; but we will have the jected Heyduke Court. I thought it would customary private participation agreement be a nice touch to give the house the family showing that you really own only six hun- name and make it in the nature of a monu- dred and fifty, and certain parties own the ment tothem. Those little flashes of senti- balance.’ ment are good business, Conway, and I like “This arrangement was not new to Zib, to work them in when they are no skin off of course, as he’s made such deals forty my il preparations. razor s 5 +) an architect, a Very good } eans in irritation ihe palm of Palmolive and olive oil ream leaves Men like the iatubetotry? We worked Shaving ¢ M ide up énd fine condition. formul before we atter-effects. shane tes. denieniel ines Let us prove this t excels in many wé these We r soaps r sOat lave ever tried. We ask your permission to prove ? things —to send you a tube to try. are ive mistakes corrected | ) masters Of soap making. One of ou Palmolive Shavir Pal toilet j is one of the leading ] ;1 worked hard ’ lfin lather 250 times. A . the world. e have : neck, w , suffice storashave. imolive Shaving (ream t mn | uch shaving After Shaving Tale—« 1 leligt rt A we groon ng tree w h ve } Leaves the sk ed that time the MPANY the ¢ ts here for ther € 1O SH anc AVES FI After Shaving T 4 } | } ») \ Ve times; but you know how the old pirate is. He wants everything said right out and put down in black-and-white and no equivo- cation. The result is that he can strip a victim of his last dollar and look him in the eye afterward and smile and tell him he told him so. ‘“**T get my charges on the whole million, I suppose, even though I’m engaging to advance only six-fifty of it?’ “**You have a rich and flaky crust, Mr Cloker,’ I said. ‘“**Don’t take it, my boy,’ he said, lifting a hand. ‘Don’t be blinded by greed for money. Rents are weakening, and this proposed house won’t stand up under those charges.’ “** We'll do this,’ I bargained: ‘We'll give you the last fifty thousand. I don’t know ‘Miss Heyduke put the final say-so up to her lawyer, and I took him for a gallop He was an admiralty lawyer and was not at home on real estate; but you know how people are. They think a lawyer is a lawyer and that he knows everything, including business, when the fact is he not competent in more than a certain part of his own racket. Take one of these big corporation lawyers, for instance, that sits in his office and grabs off two hundred thousand a year—and it may be that he has not been in court since once he fell into a speed trap and was nicked for ten. To send such a legal luminary against one of thes police-court fellows up there in Jefferson Market would be cruelty, and the forty- dollar-a-week specialist would make the is generally Continued on Page 78

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Continued from Page 76 famous jurist miss like a sucker. Well, that s how it was with Miss Heyduke’s lawyer. ind if I was arguing why he shouldn’t libel i ship of mine, he would have me tied and lindfolded and walking the plank in jig time; but when it came to this land deal he was all at sea. ‘So we signed articles in his office. I put up fifteen thousand dollars and agreed to put up thirty-five thousand more within one year, that being security for the rent, and gave her a bond for completion. Miss ileyduke leased me the land as owner and trustee for her brother for a term of ninety- nine years or during good behavior. It was agreed that I should be allowed to mort- gage the land for one million dollars and put upon it a fifteen-story apartment hotel equal in all respects to sample house sub- mitted. We picked one the architect had the cost sheets on. “Burris J. Priestley was our architect. You know Burris, and he is a good man. Ile knows everybody in the city depart- ments and can get plans approved, and that’s what a builder has an architect for. \s far as the plans are concerned, a builder doesn’t know his racket who can’t draw tnem himself, with the help, that is, of a young man who has learned the art of mak- ing ink run out of those queer pens they use 3urris would have to approve payments, so we agreed to pay him five per cent, ora total of fifty thousand dollars. Nobody could fuss about that. Iam not breaching any confidences when I tell you that one per cent is enough and plenty for most city work; and a good man who is somewhat on the nut will take half of one per cent on a big job and hope not to be read out of the party ‘You remember I offered you the build- ing of it and you turned it down. I got Joe Pittore to take it-—-the Bronx builder? There was some talk of a plasterers’ strike, and I figured that Joe could hold them, they being practically all Italians. Joe didn’t feel strong enough, and he took in Sam Israelson, who could handle the paint- ers and light-iron men, since they nearly all belong to his lodge, and O’Mahony, the mason. They got a Russian house wrecker, and gave the carpentering to Cameron & Svensen, and found an American for the structural iron. It was a strong group, and once the Russian had removed his casual- ties and left the cellars broom-clean, those boys took hold of the new building with a will and pulled it right up out of the ground. Yes, sir; they yanked that building up the whole hundred and fifty feet and had fellows sweeping off the strip oak after the foor-scraping machines, and all in ninety lays from the blowing of the whistle. The job cost complete, including Zib's squeeze, the builder’s profit and five thousand cash advance to Burris, a shade under seven hundred and fifty. Since Zib went to only six-fifty, that leaves about a hundred thou- sand dollars paper in the contractors’ hands. “I’m giving you the inside on this thing, Conway, because | am going to want you in the next time and I know you won't broad- ‘ast it. “Well, I was the owner of the skin-tight equity, so | gunned around to see if I could cash it. I wanted to find somebody to take au lease of the Heyduke Court apartment hotel; you know that’s a specialty too, and ‘| had to find a hotel fellow who knew the racket, ‘But the apartment-hotel thing was a ittle overdone just then, and I couldn’t find anybody who would like to sit in be- tween that first mortgage and the ground You see, he would have to pay sixty thousand dollars interest on the mortgage, fiity thousand dollars ground rent, about ty-five thousand taxes, and then he would have to square me. I was willing to take a short ten or fifteen thousand a year rent the house to any re- » hotel man for a hundred and fifty but none of them could le another three months iease twe! and a yea! meanwh THE SATURDAY rolled around and Zib put out his hand for his interest—fifteen thousand dollars. I went to see him. “T said, ‘Mr. Cloker, the time has come to reorganize. In other words, there is a Jonah aboard this enterprise, and the time has come to feed the whales.’ ‘He said, ‘Who do you suggest?’ “T said, ‘I’m naming no names, but we have to cut away about fifty thousand dol- lars from the expenses of Heyduke Court fifty thousand a year, Mr. Cloker. Now, I have no notion of paying the interest that is due, or the installment, so you better go ahead and foreclose and protect the owners of that mortgage.’ ““*Yes, we can wipe out the ground rent that way, Pethick.’ “*That is a contingency,’ I said, ‘that the Heyduke family must have contem- plated when they reached for an income of fifty thousand a year on an investment of only three and a quarter orso. They took a business risk, Mr. Cloker.’ “*T have nosympathy for them, Pethick,’ he said sternly. ‘Wilful waste makes woe- ful want, and I never saw two such wasters. I tell you, Pethick, they made me bleed in- ternally. See that fine woman, full of energy, being exploited for all sorts of tom- foolery. See that worthless young sot, her brother. Fools and their money, Pethick. What would they have done with the fifty thousand a year if they got it? Continued the same lives of sinful waste. “*You say you won’t pay that interest? Very well, Pethick. There'll be a lis pen- dens on that property by four o’clock.’”’ Pethick tossed away his cigar butt and looked up at the clock. It showed six min- utes to twelve. People were entering the auction rooms across the way. He rose, pulled down his gleaming waistcoat, felt his chin whisker and strolled with me to the graveyard gate. “So Cloker foreclosed,” I said. ‘‘ How much of that million-dollar mortgage be- longs to you, Pethick?”’ “One hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars, Conway,” he said musically. ‘“‘That’s what I got for my fifteen thousand cash.” “Not bad. And it’s quite safe too.” “Zib Cloker is behind me for fifty thou- sand,” he smiled comfortably. ‘The first six-fifty belongs to the syndicate of mer- chants that Cloker controls, the next three hundred belongs to my group, and the last fifty is Cloker’s. That’s the participation agreement. So Cloker has to protect the mortgage up to a million and expenses in order to get his money.” “That’sso. And how will you refinance?’ “The six-fifty will be replaced as the first mortgage. We others will then own the house, subject only to that first mortgage. Oh, there will be a few thousand cash to clean up with, but we’ve that ready. If any stranger steps in and bids more than a mil- lion, we’ll let him have it gladly, because he will have to pay us off in cash. But no stranger will do that. He would have to have his financing ready; and no institu- tion would go over five hundred thousand on the house in its present empty condi- tion. Still, I think the house is a buy even at eleven hundred, with a tenant ready to take hold.” ’ EVENING POST “ I always knew Cloker was hard-boiled,” I said, ‘‘but I didn’t know he’d go into a snide scheme like this.” “Why, I resent that, Conway,” snorted Pethick, facing me for a moment. ‘You don’t intimate that there is anything crooked about our deal, do you? There isa private arrangement here, such as there is in many operations, but there is nothing that the district attorney’s office can be in- terested in. I shouldn’t hesitate to lay the whole affair open to him, if there was any point in doing so. The case is simply that the Heydukes showed bad business judg- ment, took a big risk for a big gain and lost out. I don’t deny that certain aspects of the affair are confidential, Conway. You'll remember that, I’m sure.” I had to smile. Pethick is a queer man. In some ways he’s like a child. He’s very shrewd in plotting and executing his jobs, and then he reveals a sort of innocence that is amusing. “Pethick,”’ I said, ‘“‘you should be ashamed of yourself. Here you are, one of a little group of wise men, engaged in send- ing a couple of dumb-bells for all they got. Kid yourself, Pethick, but don’t try to kid me.” Pethick shook his head, “Not at all, Conway,” he said in a round tone. ‘‘We must look at these things in a philosophical way. It’s really a sort of natural selection, if you know what that is. Even supposing there was something off color about the deal, you would still not have the right angle. “You know, Conway, people can do a lot of harm with money. I mean stupid and well-meaning people. Can you imagine what a mess some flathead could make if he had the money of Ford or Rockefeller? Why, some fakers would get hold of him and he would stand the country on its head. Money is power, Conway. A rich man controls the lives and happiness of a great many people. But no flathead is ever going to get very rich in this country, because there are any number of schemers and grafters out to take him all along his route to riches. Those wise men, Conway, con- stitute an unofficial board of censorship, and they don’t let dumb-bells by. If he gets by he’s no dumb-bell. So if we look at it right we see the working of a grand and natural law that if a man hasn’t got brains enough to take care of his money he is a dangerous character, and he better have it taken off him. And that is what I call natural selection. Right?” We entered the main Twelve o'clock struck. Seven auctioneers who had scheduled for that day mounted their seven rostrums, all in the one room, and commenced to read aloud the seven judgments directing and empow- ering them to sell. The statute said that they must read. As the judgments differed among themselves and affected scattered properties, and as they were read in varying tones, the net result was an inarticulate discord, a roar from which no single word might be segregated. Below each stand waited the people commonly interested in the sale or purchase of the particular parcel of realty. They knew all about the judg- ment and terms of sale and closed their ears auction room. sales August 7,1926 with patience until the auctioneer had had his formal say. “What am I bid? Start it!” Only a handful of people were at the stand to which we made our way. “Six hundred and sixty-one thousand dollars and forty-five cents,’’ said the lawyer for the mortgagee, reading the bid from a slip of paper to get it exactly right. Zibeon Cloker stood beside him. “Feeling for a_ stranger,” Pethick, mustering a grin; but he looked very hard at Mr. Cloker. I looked at him too. He was worth a look. He wasn’t such an old man, but there was ordinarily something set and forbidding about him; his hair was still black, and he had most of his teeth, but he had a clinched and resolute face. And he wore any shabby old clothes. But now he looked eminently respectable, good enough for an honorary pallbearer at a second-rate funeral. He had on a black frock coat, and his shoes were shined, and his face was shaved in all its wrinkles and angles, and he wore a secondhand high hat. He must have lent money to some old-time cabby to have come by that lid. In one buttonhole was a gardenia; in the other was a big celluloid button showing the head of a mangy cat there was an inscription, and I managed to read it, but I’ve forgotten it—some animal- loving enterprise. “Six hundred and sixty-one thousand dollars and forty-five cents,’ rapped out the auctioneer, making a bluff with his hammer. ‘ Going!” “Six hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars,’ said the stranger that Pethick had hoped for. “Ah,” sighed Pethick audibly; smiled on Zibeon Cloker. I looked at the stranger—all this, you know, was nothing to me, except as a friend of Pethick. And even there I was sitting pretty; I didn’t care particularly if he lost his shirt, but I was prepared to rejoice with him if he made a killing. The stranger was nobody in particular, just a commonplace young lawyer’s clerk. But while I was studying him and wonder- ing if he knew that he was being fished for, a lady rose from a chair in the rear of the room and came forward and stood by him. She was of mature years, and a man might be very easily suited and still not find her at all good-looking. She was getting a great kick out of the proceedings, such a kick that she couldn’t take it sitting down. Her mouth and blue eyes were open and she was staring at the auctioneer. ““Ah, good afternoon, Miss Heyduke,”’ said Pethick, lifting his hat galiantly. But she never gave him a tumble. “Six hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars!”” bawled the auctioneer. ‘‘Are you all done? ‘dg whispered and he Going! There was a silence before the stand. People interested in others of the seven auctions looked over to see what had stopped the proceedings. They didn’t come over and bid. People who know their book don’t bid over six hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars on anything without knowing a lot about it. The tip had been passed that this was an inside job, a fore- closure for a special reason, and the regulars had not informed themselves further. Pethick stepped to Cloker’s side and took his arm. “It’s our bid, Cloker!” The loan man turned to him, surveyed him with eyes as hard as marbles and as black as cherries, and said creakingly: ‘It’s not my bid, Pethick. I’ve stopped, my boy. Go on and raise it. It’s a steal up to a million dollars, if you can finance it.” “Any more?” shouted the auctioneer. “Going once, going twice! The bid is six hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars, from this gentleman here!” “Here,” said Miss Heyduke, lifting a gaunt hand on which a single large diamond flashed. “For the third and last time! cried the “And the property is is auctioneer. Heshook his hammer. I glanced at Pethick. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 43 (Continued from Page 78 did not warn you of the danger you were Be | yoing to fall and knock him out of a soft running. Until another time?” ae SS ——— as ‘ profit of one hundred and fifty-five thou- He gave Miss Heyduke his arm and they Ohh A » C “ = ” ] y m and dollars. He looked uile incredulous walked together toward the daylight The y eve C an € no omp) oMmise Ks if, i 7 ase ty I “3 - Sold!” yelled the auctioneer, bring- were an absurd couple, but if they liked F on j g ~ _ ee ing his gavel down with a bang each other that was al] that was necessary ; ; ; ; “Buyer’s name, please?" said the auc- Pethick looked at me, and I knew that |j of . j tioneer. he felt it would be altogether fitting and tenée Heyduke,”’ said the lawyer’s proper to pronounce a benediction on th ; clerk. ‘‘R-e-n-é-e H it fifteen thousand dollars of his hard and Pethick was fit to be tied. He grabbed ready that they were taking with them f hold of Cloker, People had to hold him. His underlip trembled childishly , ‘Look here, Cloker,”’ he raved, ‘I’ve been “If you ask me,” I said, plucking two jobbed! But I'll get you yet, Cloker! cigars from his white waistcoat and giving You’ve taken me, but at least you lose him one —pshaw, he'd be robbing somebody fifty thousand dollars of your own.” by nine o’clock the next morning, in the ( “No more than a reasonable wedding best of spirits —‘‘I think you have been present, Pethick,”’ said Zibeon, smiling just naturally selected, Pethick.” blandly into his convulsed face. ‘‘When ‘Natural selection be cursed, Conway you are quite recovered, and on another he said, clenching his fists. “I'll get that occasion, it will be a pleasure and a privilege dried-out Romeo yet, mark my words! I to present you, as an old business associate, have been tricked and betrayed. Honor to my fiancée, Miss Renée Heyduke. We _ and a fair intent is the stickum that holds shall always have to thank you for bringing society together—fair dealing and the y us together. Don’t take your loss so much — sanctity of pledges and hands struck to- iy to heart, my dear fellow. It wasa business gether. By all the : risk, and you must expect an occasional “Be a sport,”’ I said, holding a mate upset, you know. You cannot say that I ‘“‘Smoke up!” : SHORT TURNS AND ENCORES Continued from Page 28 BOWL AND LEARNED THAT A QUANTITY O} been booked by a Hollywood film com BASCO AtUCK HAD BEEN DUMPED INT pany AFTER A GRILLING, JOHN ADMITTED THAT HI ; 5 = oe . WAS THE GUILTY PARTY. HE EXPLAINED HI PALACE on the Dardanelles U Mi n 4 ay \CTION WITH THE STATEMENT THAT HE UNI Housed Afty Turkish demoisell 3 vs he 5 3S ’ “TOOD SAUCE WAS GOOD FOR FISH, HE KNOW Os alee cated BETTER NOW. 9:40 p.m Led gilded lives, The envy of less favored helles No father should object to a few do- mestic responsibilities once in a while. If All over Turkey cuties tried necessary By hook or crook, to break inside ; FLASH To Allah prayed HENRY HAS JUST BEEN WHIPPED SOUNDLY FO! For heaven's aid PAINTING A MUSTACHE ON THE 1 KI pol What bliss to be a Sultan's bride! OF HIS SISTER MILDRED. 9:52 ep = ; ' The Sultan's lovely trousered pets If circumstances should demand I will Smoked water pipes and cigarettes ; } not hesitate to remain home from the office Why should they dote for a few days and give things et the house U'pon the vote Of course, there’s no choice. You wouldn't » s ll such s of suffragett ] my undivided attention. You need not And all such woes of suffragettes ? hesitate to demolish your car to save W f mM) “er} ] ] ly —_— : ; +? ‘ + tir ore They lolled about on soft divans precious little life even if it mean you! SECOND ADD CANARY And toyed with jeweled peacock fans, own life in exchange BOB, THE FEATHERED FRIEND OF THE FAMIL) oe Turk as Ouge But why take chances with wet, slippery HAS BEEN FOUND DEAD. 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Lane asserted that he would buy the first good set of Chippendale chairs of- fered to him: ‘Outside of three places in England,” he added concisely, ‘I haven't seen an honest set for seven years.” Gerald demanded at once, ‘“‘ What do you mean by honest?” “Eight or ten matched chairs with less than 10 per cent new wood in them,”’ Lane replied. ‘‘And the natural surface of time; I mean years of rubbing with no more than wax. I know it’s romantic, no more than a dream, but I still hope to find such a thing.”’ ‘**You are, of course, a very romantic per- son,”’ Gerald pointed out. Mrs. Crenshaw laughed. ‘‘And your pursuit of an ideal is more than touching. But you will, I am certain, realize it.” Jasper Carlin leaned forward. ‘‘ Fairman, I'll be more liberal yet. You can have the eight chairs in my garage. At a great per- sonal sacrifice, supported by the fact that, as I said, I already have five sets, I will con- sent to their sale to you.” Mrs. Crenshaw objected at once. “I think you are very inconsistent, Jasper. You have already promised to lend us Willie Gerald and then you turn around and prac- tically offer him, or as good as him, to Mr. Lane.” She turned to Gerald. ‘‘ My dear Mr. Gerald, you ignore them both and talk to me confidentially after dinner. Mr. Lane knows so much about such things that I’m sure he won't give you a fair price. Experts, I’ve noticed, never do.” Gerald briefly replied that he hadn’t understood he was on the market. He was decidedly annoyed at both Jasper Carlin and Lane. Carlin took too much for granted—this was the first time that his material activities had been publicly al- luded to. “* After all,’’ he permitted himself to say, “Tam not an antique dealer. If Jasper has no place for the chairs, why, I will have, and I'd be very glad to own them.” Ann Carlin gave her husband an an- noyed and commanding glance. ‘I have no idea what you are all talking about,”’ she announced. ‘‘I knew Willie was going to be in Virginia and I asked him to get me any good chairs he happened to see. They were for a wedding present, and I wish I were giving them to my second husband.” That was very decent of Ann, Gerald re- flected; it gave him a pleasant feeling, too, to realize that he meant what he had said about the chairs—he could buy them, and very soon he would have a place for them. He'd give Jasper Carlin a check for sixteen hundred dollars tomorrow— the chairs had cost that—and have them carried over to Rose's. Mrs. Crenshaw was a woman singularly devoid of tact. “If it is necessary,”’ she per- sisted, ‘‘we can have a small private auc- tion, and if there is anything else Jasper has too many of we'll bid on that as well.” ‘“*Do shut up, Olive,’’ her husband mut- tered. ‘‘Ann, can’t we start bridge and get her thinking about the odd tricks? My idea of Willie Gerald is that he ought to be kept exclusively at playing cards, or he’d be good at banking, and not allowed to sell old furniture to the wives of busy and ignorant men.” The moment had come, Gerald realized, for a show of the best good humor imagi- nable. ‘But, Crenshaw, if women didn’t occasionally buy something good what would your houses be like? You must get some dignity into them. And it’s a ques- tion if you are busy about the right things, since you admit the ignorance. Let me show you, tomorrow, why a chair lasts a hundred and fifty or two hundred years and Continued from Page 4 more, and what a beautiful design is; how furniture can be at once light and graceful and strong. It isn’t good because it’s old; it really isn’t; it is old because it was good.” Crenshaw replied, ‘Show Olive, but come in and play bridge now. . . . Fairman, I know you don’t care about it; Ann said she had a lot of letters and bills; so that leaves Olive and Jasper, you, Willie, and me. If you'll agree to let me play a set game with Willie Gerald I'll promise to buy a hundred ancient chairs before breakfast.” He must cut and take his chances with the rest, Jasper Carlin said decidedly. ‘“‘I saw Rose Brincker today,”’ he continued to Willie Gerald. ‘I told her you were arriv- ing today and she sent you her love. We tried to get her to come to dinner, as in- formally as this, but she thought she wouldn’t. In black she’s better looking than ever. Better than ever, Willie. And I don’t know a woman who is more admired than Rose.” Later Gerald’s annoyance at Jasper Car- lin spread to include all Carlin’s largely thoughtless and self-satisfied world; Willie Gerald was sick of it; with Rose he would live very differently. Ever since his years at college he had been absorbed by social prestige and planned his existence, with little money and a background that gave him no assistance whatever, to have a part in it. Rigorously repressing his own in- clinations, he had studied the desires and habits of the important individuals in his class, and very soon, indeed, he had come to resemble them; he managed to wear very much the clothes they wore, he fre- quented the places where they were to be found, he talked like them. Willie Gerald did this without an obvious loss of person- ality; his opinions seemed to be his own as well as those with whom he shared them; he exhibited a correct independence of tone. As a result he was invited to join a purely social and rigidly exclusive college society, and his associations of later years were formed—the weeks on house boats in Flor- ida and short amusing trips to a formal England and informal English country houses. But, Willie Gerald realized, per- haps for the first time, it had been at the cost of a long and ceaselessly maintained effort. While the men, the women, he was familiar with were usually completely at ease, lounging spiritually and morally, he was always watchful, concerned in his cur- rent situation: he had to gamble without losing any large sum of money; he had to be confidentia! but not intimate, infinitely patient and without any trace of personal resentments. What, he concluded, was more difficult than all this was the fact that he could express no ideas outside those held in common by the small unintelligent group of people he was a part of; there was abso- lutely no speculation, no generalizations, among them. All the conversation was per- sonal and carefully bigoted. As he had grown older—he was now forty —this seemed to have become increas- ingly oppressive to him; his interests had widened, but his opportunities had re- mained the limited same. His absorption in antiques had opened new worlds to Willie Gerald; it had shown him the past shifting imperceptibly into the present; a beginning historical viewpoint had added to his knowledge of the present a sense of humor, fatal to his living if it were allowed to ap- pear. And yet, in spite of his patience and understanding, he had been referred to, tonight, practically as a purchasing agent for Jasper Carlin. The fact that this was the simple truth had no bearing on his situation; he had been brought up against a very ugly alternative—either, in essence, to tell Jasper to go to hell, or accept Car- lin’s unintentional intimation of social in- feriority and continue with a diminished position and the mere millionaires. This didn’t involve his ability to make money; that, he felt, was constantly in- creasing; no, it only touched the life that had seemed so desirable, so essential, to him. It was still more attractive than any other; but not in his present circumstances; its essence lay in that sacredly preserved right to be purely arbitrary, disagreeable really, at any time. But all alternatives had been made unnecessary for him by Jim Brincker’s death. Gerald could completely escape the threatening present—with Rose. He made up his mind how, for the next ten years, they would live——very simply, bot} in New York and the country, and he would devote himself to that enlarging of their resources. Nothing at all, except the small- est infrequent parties, for ten years, and then—he drew in a deep breath-——every- thing. A servant brought up a late breakfast tray; and after he had dressed as slowly as possible, Willie Gerald went down to the garage to see the chairs he had bought for Carlin. Gerald’s interest, since now, prob- ably, they would belong to him, had grown sharper. The rcom over the garage was bare and dusty and the array of Chippen- dale chairs, their slip seats covered with a faded red damask, was very impressive. They were uncommonly large, he told him- self, and except for casual surface marks, quite perfect; the back legs were finished with an unusual suggestion of a foot. He couldn’t positively identify them as American, and yet, as he’d told Lane, they were not characteristically English. It was just possible that one of Chippendale’s workmen had found his way to America but not farther north than Maryland~— in the third quarter of the eighteenth century and kept up his trade of cabinetmaking. For a little, Gerald entertained the thought of William Savery, in Philadelphia; but there was nothing in the chairs to support that. Savery’s treatment of wood was definitely different. He turned a chair over and cut a small splinter from a side rail; it was white and very tough in fiber. “‘That’s interesting,’”’ he said to himself. ‘‘Oak.” It was, but at the same time it disposed of all question of American manufacture. The set of chairs was English. That a trifle cooled his enthusiasm for them, Gerald’s opinion was completely opposed to Fairman Lane’s. He thought that, in America, only American antiques could hold and justify their present cost; any- thing that had actually been a part of the life of the colonies, he insisted, must in a very few years be priceless. But English furniture, even the authentic productions of the three great masters of cabinet work, of the three great styles, would have locally no more than a fluctuating value. Willie Gerald was debating whether he would keep the set of chairs or sell them, perhaps to Fairman Lane or perhaps to Mrs. Crenshaw, when he heard footsteps on the narrow ladderlike stair from below, and Lane appeared. “‘T was told you were here,”’ he explained promptly. ‘I thought you wouldn’t mind if I came along to view the discovery.” Gerald said at once that he was very glad to have him look at the chairs. Naturally. Fairman Lane touched an arm with an in- quisitive and sensitive finger; he studied the carving of the design in the splats, and himself turned one over. The upholstered seat was supported by a cross-banding of linen tape, and that he pushed aside. “They are English, of course,’’ Gerald commented. he corne! since “T can see now the blocks are conclusive.” Lane returned the chair to its legs and carefully dusted off his fingers with a hand- kerchief. He gave Willie Gerald a pro- longed sharp scrutiny. Yes, they were English, he agreed. 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Isn’t there a chance they were made by Thomas Chippendale himself?” “They are good,” Lane replied dryly. “T should say the best I have seen. But Felderman and Mortimer made them in London, I should say last year.” “You mean they are replicas!’’ Willie Gerald cried. ‘Duplicates! I can’t believe it.” Fairman Lane had started downward, only the upper part of his body was visible. “Of course you may believe what you pre- fer,’ he replied; ‘‘or even say what you like. Not many, certainly, can contradict you. It just happens that I know. If you will examine them with a greater care you will see that they are put together with screws. Pegs, it has been my experience, were usual.”’ He vanished, leaving a highly unpleasant impression of his opinion of both Willie Gerald and his chairs. There was no doubt in Gerald’s mind of the correctness of Fairman Lane’s asser- tion; in an instant, as though they had been exposed by the drawing of a veil, the chairs appeared for what they were—skill- fully executed imitations. Gerald saw it now in a score of ways. He had noticed the absence of a proper pegging, but ig- nored it, conscious of a confusion in his |; memory about the antiquity of screws. What he had accepted as surface rubbed smooth by long usage and care was no more than a varnish treated with rottenstone. The carving was mechanically perfect. He couldn’t see how he had made such a ridic- ulous, a humiliating, mistake. Sixteen hundred dollars gone to the devil! That An anger at comfortable; not only his pride but his sense of security, his hatred and distrust of | waste, had been rudely assaulted. And yet, in a minor way, he had been Jasper Carlin hadn’t bought dered, would Lane say? How and where would he say it? Lunch was over, all the people staying at the Carlins’ were sitting in an inclosed porch, and that question was answered for Willie Gerald at once. “You know, I haven’t seen those chairs yet,’’ Mrs. Crenshaw reminded him. “But I suppose I’m too late; if Jasper didn’t take them, Mr. Lane will have them packed already.”’ Gerald paused, Fairman Lane was seated looking away from him, and he turned a swift glance toward Gerald. “Oh, no,” he said, answering in Willie Gerald’s place, “‘I wouldn’t pay for them.” Well, Gerald thought, why didn’t he go | on, explain that the chairs were worthless? | That would be like him, a heavy directness of statement which took no account of any involved feelings. But Lane returned to his original position without adding more. Yet, it seemed to Gerald, there was a cer- tain alertness, an aspect that was almost challenging, in his bearing. The truth was it was impertinent; it suggested that he wished to cover the fact that the chairs were valueless; and not, Gerald added to himself, from a permissible effort to hide his mistake, but from a far different and less admirable motive. The thing to do was for him to speak at once, to laugh and admit his judgment had been wrong; to dismiss it as a humorous and trivial incident. Yet he felt it was a very bad time for such an admission; it would give Jasper Carlin, at that psycho- logical moment, the impression that he had a concrete reason for bringing their rela- tionship to an end; he would instantly and finally reach the conclusion that Gerald’s judgment was bad; and Mrs. Crenshaw’s good opinion of him would utterly collapse. People like her, mere echoes, reflections of other more solid facts, were like that. Any- how the time had gone by when he could EVENING POST speak; the chairs, he could see, had already vanished from the thoughts around him. And besides that, it was unimportant whether he made an explanation or not. He had no intention of selling the chairs to anyone present, to anyone at all, as gen- uinely antique. Such an act would be im- possible, unheard of, for him. At the very worst, he’d let them go to some auction where the purchasers would have the privi- lege of the fullest inspection. Fairman Lane, he understood, was leav- ing before dinner, and no one, Gerald was certain, would be sorry to see him go. A supremely disagreeable individual! He had an impulse to follow Lane outside and make his position where the chairs were concerned unmistakably clear. He was now utterly exasperated, and he would have welcomed an actual disturbance. But, he reminded himself, that would not be wise; it was necessary for him to avoid all unpleasantness that wasn’t absolutely forced on him. Nothing Fairman Lane might say could possibly affect his posi- tion, threaten his security of place. He was what he was, and what, after all, was Willie Gerald? A sense of injury, of futility and isolation, succeeded to his anger; and then that was triumphantly banished by the memory of Rose. He looked at his watch; it was past four o'clock, and at six he would be with her; for she had told him to come early. There was so much they’d have to talk about. Only the thought of her freed him from the exasperation of Lane and the spurious chairs. Rose was the answer to everything in his life. In imagination he heard himself explaining to her the humor of Fairman Lane and the copied antiques. ‘‘ My dear Rose, it was plain that he took me for a crook.”’ Her cool, delightful laughter fol- lowed. Rose Brincker was the most aristo- cratic woman possible. Jasper Carlin had said and repeated how well she looked in black; and there had been a secondary meaning, a special application to himself, in Carlin’s words. But of course it would be very generally understood that, with Jim Brincker dead, he’d marry Rose. His old long love for her was known by everyone who knew them and their world. He dressed with his accustomed great care; downstairs he found a bowl of yellow rosebuds, and, with one in his buttonhole, he had a servant ring for a car. The houses where Rose was staying—it belonged to Jim’s mother— was small and old-fashioned, a variously painted wooden cottage, almost Swiss in type, that stood on a bluff over the shining blue water of Seal Harbor. The keen October air, the brilliant light, how- ever, had been softened by the hour; the blue of the harbor was tender; the scarlet of the maples was veiled in a lavender haze. Mrs. Brincker would be down directly, a maid told him; and, with a cigarette, he looked aimlessly over the books on a table. They were mostly modern works of phi- losophy and histories of the day, and in the front of each was written in a firm and clear hand: Rose Leylan Brincker. That surprised Gerald, for he had no memory of Rose engaged with such serious topics; the fact was that he could recall her reading but little. On the contrary, she had been the ordinary socially smart, largely aimless girl and woman, “*Rose,”’ he exclaimed, when she came in, “these are very impressive books with your name to them! Where do you keep the ones you really read?”’ There, at last, was her miraculous laugh. “But I do read those,’’ she assured him; “‘and I like them a lot. Aren’t you fright- fully curious about the reality of things? The one there about microbes, for instance. And why we do what we do. I suppose I never thought of any of it until very lately, but you'd be surprised how well I’m com- ing on.” “‘ Jasper said you looked simply splendid, but he wasn’t even near the truth,’ Gerald told her. He sat close beside her, with her hand in his. Soon, he thought, he would kiss her, but he had no impulse to hurry that perfect moment and act. It was August 7,1926 natural that she would come to him slowly; nothing could be hurried; nothing need be hurried. Willie Gerald saw, with a sharp contraction at his heart, that her hair was definitely gray; her face, with the excep- tion of her eyes, showed traces of grief and time. Rose was—yes, she was about his own age. But her eyes kept the serenity, the untroubled clear confidence, of her girl- hood. He could never decide what their color was; hazel, he had heard, but that was a word without exact meaning for him. They were yellow—but of course they weren’t; and that was as near as he could come to it. She wasn’t as slender as for- merly, either. Time again. His tranquillity was invaded by the feeling that, since years had been already lost to them, they must hurry into an awaiting joy. Willie Gerald carefully put his coffee cup back on its octagonal silver saucer. He was afraid that, in the numbness of misery sweeping over him, he would drop it. had been talking a long while and only very slowly had he come to apprehend her mean- ing; the conclusion of her carefully chosen hesitating words. “When you asked me about the books, Willie, I thought you saw that something had happened to me. That I had changed. And I couldn’t think how I was going to make it clear for you. You see, the trouble is there is so little to explain; so little that sounds sensible or serious enough. I mean against what we both took for granted. We must meet that, Willie, because we did. A lot of people simply knew that if any- thing happened to—to Jim we'd be mar- ried.”’ “Long ago,’’ Gerald understood between us.” “Yes, I remember perfectly. I had a feeling we must be patient. thought it would be for a different end. All that time I loved Jim and you too.’ He interrupted her to cry that was impossible, and she waited until his desperate protest had subsided. “I loved you both,” she re- peated. ‘‘ You were a sort of ideal and Jim was areality. I wasn’t unhappy with him, Willie. I must insist on your believing that. Only I—well, I looked forward to being with you. Perhaps. Some day. I had a curious private conviction about it. “And now, this is what I can hardly bring myself to say to you. It’s so trivial. I don’t want to be married at all. I don’t want to love anyone. Isn’t it humiliating? But it’s true. I feel absolutely impersonal. I’ve simply got to admit to you, though it sounds disloyal, that I like being alone.”’ “My dear Rose,” Willie Gerald ex- claimed, almost hopeful again, ‘‘we have waited so long and we can, after all, wait a little longer. I don’t want to, of course. But if you feel like this, it’s the only thing to do.” “If I were younger, yes. But I’m past forty. That isn’t an enormous age, natu- rally. I don’t mean I’m an old lady yet. I may be full of the silliest sort of folly, but if I am it must come out. No, Willie, you can't count on me. That is definite. It’s so hard to explain! I’m tired is part of it. I just can’t face the responsibility of being in love again; of having to have somecre even you—around. It’s a luxury now to wake up—to nothing, tono plans. Perhaps I'll go to Morocco in November. If I like.”’ Willie Gerald gathered himself. ‘‘ Then you are saying that you won’t marry me?” She nodded, with unhappy eyes. “Then of course you won’'t,”’ he went on. He finished his coffee and the brandy in the glass before him. Illogically, the wretched imitation Chippendale chairs came back to his mind. They were synonymous of his life outside of Rose, without her. Imitation. And now that would reach on and on. *“Anyhow, Willie,” she added unneces- sarily, ‘‘you ought to marry a very much younger person. An attractive girl. You know fifty of them, and at least thirty would marry you at once.” He replied that he hated girls and she knew it. “I believe you are advising me t Lose said, “that was I told you But I Continued on Page 91

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST go August Sales DEALERS EVERY WHERE FEATURE NEWEST IDEAS IN KROEHLER - : See Tt at, 2 fk a Fi ae’ ww ad aunty eeenatinize —— ’ 64 ta F os 63 aa F We 4 OS OB Lee Se C5 ot 4 eA UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE AT SPECIAL PRICE REDUCTIONS UGUST is the year’s biggest month of furniture values. At no other period is it possible to purchase high-grade Kroehler Davenport Beds and upholstered Living Room Furniture so advanta- geously. This year it is evident that dealers are putting forth unprecedented efforts to break all previous August sales records. For months back plans have been formulated. New stocks have been carefully selected. Displays have been arranged. Prices have been adjusted to offer the great- —by slow, costly “small-shop” methods—would cost - Und po. “ est values of the year. No woman who loves hand- you many times more. S wi some, upholstered living room furniture can afford to Right now dealers are offering genuine Kroehler ot with miss the offerings of this annual, national sales event. Living Room Furniture at special August prices, for rstr Remember, Kroehler Upholstered Furniture is cash or on easy terms. comes quality-built through and through. Note the famous You may choose from many handsome period or yg Hidden Qualities to the right. This is construction overstuffed designs. Upholstery coverings are in fine Spris Ed * which insures quality silk damask, tapestry, mohair, jacquard velours, D 1 Hea years of com- leather or leatherwove. ; fort and beauty. You'll know genuine Kroehler-made products by a sha . We use only the the name-plate. If you do not know the dealer who bra ; finest quality of _ sells Kroehler Upholstered Furniture, write us. We will Cust materials. We send his name and a complimentary copy of “The employ highly Kroehler Book of Living Room Arrangements | ‘ i skilled Address Kroehier Mfg. Co., Chicago, or Stratford, Onta Factor | ie ee te ee te | ee V ers and craftsmen. Yet, because we supply millions of homes annually; because our eight great factories produce the largest volume of fine upholstered furniture in the world; because we use the most modern volume-pro- duction methods, our manufacturing cost is reduced to an unusually low point. That is why we build superior quality, yet sell at more moderate prices. Any Kroehler-made piece, if made of identical design, materials and craftsmanship Factory, Stratford, Ontario Living “Room ° Furniture

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST August 7,1926 Any LO UET A AIT does anything which a little electric motor can do is working for 4¢ an hour / There are few hard tasks left in the home which electricity cannot do at trifling cost. You will find the G-E monogram on many electrical houses Ail sea alia sites sable 00 ly yen elleti the hold conveniences. It is a guarantee ‘ — of excellence as well as a mark of toh . - ] . 2 i i . lal or-saving electrical appliances bes. stiited for your Pome. service. GENERAL ELECTRIC

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pes, ‘She was ike al the others hi “ ipe smoker's the same as Fairman Lane and Carlin : ! f the qu Ann Carlir n spite I! Ca ncdne At dir I < r mother me t é ? Direc iain eens subnet! happy at son’s Carlins’, Willie Gerald was burde | wre r harp depre I ne | seq t! ign ( nter . . gp nos ape owt uid tobacco choice sat with an unlighted cigarette the ranks of the é ties bent in an inner vision on the calar ist that é f which had overtaken him. At longer inte e, since S qd rT) nse fs " of 3 r ‘ ’ T° ~ eo Hae ae of meni, . oe Wishes every day was Sunday t only the present but the future now the deta , wri +s eal sent easehpsenetnaeoce ‘ Mey so she could enjoy aroma of ever, were stint temper t tt m | c ‘ MeO RE haat Fp OREN ane peptic: ace ce ar rae his tobacco all day poiute wv wi! nna pied i nr ( l t fied him for so mar é He r out of it! At bottom it was che } ere she we But there, Willie Gerald was f ed t f ! ognize, he wasn’t sincere Willie, I g ' ' himself. His anger was touched v Y ne nad always er é the sm t t irse¢ I ( ' were a part of a standard of desire, of é ed An exceience, he W ] al i 4 ‘ eminent | , For that reason his failure r t i r come a part of that life inflamed |} gall ‘ é e we it It was very well for Rose to ash n o ir , " - why he didn’t work, when Jim Br pe done nothing by the mont f vr? ‘ é ‘ hadn’t lifted a se 1 ind f f my ! f forty years of his life That a e } Fre Renant l ‘ really differentiate Y r e 7 r é about her; it had been equ ent er f eS al ali- admission that he ] y be ged on a es. In New \ A A r different, a lower, social leve Wi \ e Ge r ‘ ‘ ad recognized be é he did. W f \ r f f t! ‘ ] r r ry intenae to stay I! ter 1 ne ‘ Jasper Carlin’s it now, he felt, M Crer f ve an Impossit \ He I t ver might say t n next r I 1 é e ar inced tnat he had ar ¢ ne wasn t ve | ant t i sne n, he wanted He’ urn t n i ‘ vouldr ( ] and f W (y ud ( ( r ‘ ! denly r 1 that there was 1 ince | ye M Re ible “then” before } ette r udn’t think what ( ( f She wou or Some en t ’ . , 4 my the ordir succe ! ry house Willie I r I've but ne couldn t be lea ther ( ‘ t Rose was t inywhere Phat f M l ‘ his failure to get her. v vould ir \ I Yi ti y grow f uld ti ¢ I t out, speculated ove It wou ! - f ed nurt m, nee é l he ir - l i lropped him the othe ght « ‘ tne um and be dan m! il t \ He must, howeve e plar nae , y i ad I nis l y l t t TY T t t \W

oper A ev 1 of the s i ! he ar € 1 Ss But suddenly they se ed t \\ ' ‘ rt le Wha et { it need for a com i tive ‘ | ¢ r ” idn ¢ The 1 1 , } ect 1 nt ! ‘ é tor y l " is nea a t i t 4 I i the posing and lie r S ' ¢ + ierior A la ¢ A i i ! an interior de It would be bett« | for him to open a store on Ma n Avenu } ; at once ‘ He didn’t vant t } + it + anc ft arqauous and too co ning t ( lire i i ( species 0 pat ence ar po eness \\ ? nad spent his adult iife in eliminating fror \\ eG his being. It was time, Gerald saw, f r )

to dress; and, after his bath, he put the i sat mile e s! black pearl Ann Carlin had given him, in a It it lel ¢ iow, the ir 1e! Tit : shirt, the crystal sleeve links Mary Jayne preset r had sent him, in his cuffs; the pumps he —

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Among other things, slave trade is prohibited and no forced labor is per- mitted except for essential public work and services, and then only in return for ade- quate remuneration. A strict control is | exercised over the traffic in arms and am- munition, and the supplying of intoxicating | spirits and beverages to the natives is for- bidden. Military training of the natives otherwise than for purposes of internal police and the local defense of the terri- tory—military or naval bases and fortifica- tions are not allowed. The mandatory must insure freedom of conscience and the free exercise of all forms of worship. All mis- sionary nationals of any member of the League may enter into, travel and reside in the territory for the purpose of their calling. In other details the mandates differ. The Palestine mandate, for example, states that “the mandatory shall be responsible for placing the country under such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of the Jewish National Home and the development of self-governing institutions.’”’ The Zionist organization is recognized as the public body to codperate with the administration in all matters that affect the Jewish National Home and the general Jewish interests. In Irak the British obligated themselves to establish an Arab kingdom. Mess-Pottering A machinery for the supervision of all mandates was set up at Geneva in the form of the Permanent Mandates Commission, composed of representatives of the leading League members. It receives and exam- ines the annual reports of the mandatories and advises the Council of the League of Nations on all mandate matters. The com- mission meets at regular intervals, or when some special emergency arises such as the revolt in Syria, during which the French first bombarded Damascus, thus provoking an extraordinary session at Rome February. Upon the organization of the Permanent Mandates American membership was created and offered to W. Cameron Forbes, former governor-general of the Philippines. Upon his refusal to serve, it was taken by M. Ra- mon Pina, ex-Spanish Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs. We can now take up the major mandates and their operations in detail. First in interest to us is Irak, because of the par- ticipation of the group of American oil companies in the Mosul field, where we were instrumental, as you will recall, in bringing about an open-door policy. last Commission an British sovereignty in Irak has not stirred organized insurrection or caused bloodshed such as obtains in Syria under the French There has been plenty of revolt connected with the mandate, but most of it has been manifested at home. In Parliament and elsewhere in England, those who believe that Britain should clear out of the area refer to the government as Mess- pottering. Mesopotamia is called Mespot for short. They point to the £77,501,804 which represents Britain’s Mesopotamia expenditure since 1920 and maintain that it is just so much money flung into the sand. On the other hand, the government attitude is that Britain committed herself to the nursing of an independent Arab kingdom and that it is a point of honor to see the job through. r . OI poucy Like a Storybook Character Regardless of the ethics of this contro- versy, in which we have no concern, the 3ritish had good reason to exercise their rights in Irak, because it was the theater of one of her most gallant exploits in the World War. Just as this and adjacent re- gions are the cradle of Jewish, Christian and Moslem religious faith, so did it also become the real cradle of victory in the stupendous struggle. Allenby’s brilliant conquest heartened the Allies in a dark hour, and, with the subsequent successes in the Balkans, brought Germany to the realization that her cause was doomed. Thanks to the British effort, Arab self- determination was crystallized. It finds its largest expression today in the kingdom of Irak. Though Allenby deservedly was hailed as the deliverer of Holy Arabia, because he drove out the Turks, the power behind him was Col. T. E. Lawrence, probably the most romantic figure that emerged from the war of wars. Because the average American knows so little about him, and furthermore because he was the godfather, so to speak, or two about part of what is now Irak, a word his remarkable exploit is an « of this narrative. Ifeveras acter existed in real life, it is Lawrence. He is of sturdy Irish stock, he was born in Wales, and went through the Oxford mill without distinction. As a tourist, he first visited Syria and becams interested in archeology. Now began his wanderings in the Near East, when he mastered the native languages and became Arabic the Arabs themselves. When the ish secret service before country for which the sential torvbook char- although in speech and temper>ment a war broke he joined the at Cairo. It was not his extraordinary knowledge British anc Continued on Page 94 Nester Cement Works, the Largest Factory in Palestine

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; Built NLY very unusual experiences attract particular attention. We pay very little heed to the familiar details of our every-day life. We buy the things we need, use them with a certain expectation of service from them, and if they come up to that expectation we give them no further thought. Only when something we buy turns out very much better or worse than expected, do we get excited about it. A tire, for instance, has to surprise you with a whole lot of extra miles beyond your expectation before on Cords Truck Al q — Not Unusual you really sit up and take notice. All the talk you hear about Mans field Tires springs from that trait in human nature The explanation of the discovered fact that Mansfields do regularly deliver those thousands of extra miles is very simple. The great Hardware Wholesalers distribute Mansfields at record low cost and we put the saving into better materials and workmanship. Of course they are unusual tires —and of course they deliver thou sands of extra miles of service anc save you money. THE MANSFIELD TIRE «& RUBBER COMPANY, MANSFIELD, OHIO Ballo r Cord Heavy Duty Cords Regular Cords Fabric Tires to Undersell, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST oa ray ee They go out of their way to tell about it. 1 Sethe shen @ialesl ge nnen Patt * The Cost of Distribution is Lower — The Standard of Quality is Highe ‘ . = ' : but — to Overserve

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Mail the coupon for Free > Book and your dealer's name IS EXCLUSIVE other fine ¢ disappearin is Dut one of ws the ROYAL EAsSy CHAIR COMPANY STURGIS, MICH DOZING EVENING POST Continued from Page 92 were battling brought him some degree of recognition. He was the first to realize that if Britain was to complete her job in Ara- bia and Syria, she must have the support of the Arab nationalists. Due to him, they leagued themselves with the Allies. When Husein, King of the Hedjaz, Shereef of Mecca and Commander of the Faithful, who for years had been a prisoner of the Sultan at Constantinople, raised the flag of Arab nationalism against his old oppressor, the Turk, it was Lawrence who acted as the liaison officer for the British, planned his campaigns and later made him- self uncrowned king of Arabia. When he was not at the front at the head of camel cavalry squadrons, he was speeding in scout aeroplanes over the desert sands or pene- trating the enemy lines disguised as a Turkish woman. The one-time poet, philos- opher and archeologist not only became a first-class fighting man but was literally the right hand of Allenby throughout those historic struggles. The Oil Conference Lawrence formed a close wartime at- tachment for the Emir Feisal, son of King Husein. He saw that this scion of a line that went back to Mohammed could unify the Arab nationalists. When Damascus fell it was Lawrence who rushed Feisal into the famous city in an American flivver ahead of Allenby’s hosts. With French oc- cupation of Syria, Feisal was set up ruler. His position, however, became un- tenable. Ultimately, thanks again to Lawrence, he was put on the throne of the Arab Kingdom of Irak, where he now sits as the modern successor of Caliph Harun- al-Rashid, who put the entertainment into those well-known Arabian Nights. The British mandate for Irak therefore is the prop under Feisal. The cynically inclined regard it as more than a coincidence that Britain got the mandate for Irak at the San Remo Con- ference. The reason is that this gathering of Allied statesmen in April, 1920, is known in history Here the German petroleum interests, represented in the Turkish Petroleum Company, were located. The German share of 25 per cent went to the French in consideration, among other things, of a right to build a pipe line across Syria to the Mediterranean. Of tne remaining participation in the company, England had 50 per cent and the Dutch the balance. I refer to the San Remo Conference not only because it gave the Irak mandate to sritain, subject to a later confirmation by the League of Nations, but because it led to the entry of the American compar into the Mosul area. The San Remo oil agreement froze us out. It was part of what seemed at the time to be a program to exclude the Yankee oil driller from the whole Near East. After the Armistice, the Standard Oil Company of New Yor staff to Palestine to operate under cession granted by the Turkish ment prior to 1914, when the Holy was a part of the Ottoman Empire were prevented from making the British, then in complete As soon as the news of the agreement became kr partment open-door policy, as | as the oil conference. al- 11eS k senta a con- Govern- Land They by occupation. San Remo State De- protests for an result that the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which held the British interest in the Turkish Petro- leum Company, turned over half its share to what known as the American group. You will presently see just how this has lately been translated into a definite working agreement. When I said that skepticism developed regarding Britain’s ambitions in Irak, it many believed that her sole interest was in the oil deposits of Mosul. Whether this was true or not, there is no doubt that it was important for Britain to protect the long Persian flank which is the ld of the Anglo-Persian Oil which the British progress 10Wn, Our energetic made with the is now was because Com- strongho pany, in Government ; owns the trol rn August 7,1926 contr bulwark Irak meant a petroleum. With the province crux of center patch of territory, of Mosul, we and the t the Every situation body has read comprehend its significance. It subject for various reasons has precipitated fri ish and the sporadic warfare settlement of the frontier between Irak and Turkey control, Irak element in F opposition to further occ grows out of our stake in To understand what has h must know that Mosul was ori of Turkey, and was claimed by her after the anti- war. it belonged to economic and other grounds tween Great Britain anc id Turke ey sig Lausanne in July, frontier be settled “eats T A second is was linked with contint a stipulation that nglan upan Mosul ction betweer real } it th apoute Tt but not so many perhay IS a is tha the Turks that may possibly) appene | he Arabs, however, maintained tl Mesopotamia 1923, provi a frie l f ment within nine months, faili dispute was to League was reached, the quested the council to take the it did. A M. kharest; Prime Minister; Belgian Army n Af Wirsen, Count Teleki, former Hunga and Colonel Paulis, of t was named to make be referred to th As Gov of Nations. British eutral commission —c« Swedish Ministe1 on ethr A treat rned action, ym pose hand investigation in the disputed t and submit a recommen lation its inquiry a provisional frontier the Brussels Li parties undertook to respect. out of the who were tians and starting The neutral commission awarded Mosu provided that Great Britain’s mar continued for twenty-five y to Irak, date é until the Arab kingdom is admitted t be League Thi League A treaty between Br cepting gned ye Is strong en inde} agreed to continue Irak. for vendent nz ih answer reasons States ar and was ri raids into Mosul | ' charged with deport rouble general of Nations. The Brussels Line, ng territory witl port cour cil. was promptly > the p at Bagdad on J itified rovisions stays on ough ition. A Close Parallel sondon wher eproauce me 1 mandate sh stand in Mo to exercise the Perhaps the most I can giv I I as those \ to remain : : found ourselves in Irak as successful war set up ag of the constitutional against a tniré overnment ad apte and in a population ideals large sums in bringing order ou and lay eer » have awing as soon as Iral tion of to sts “y on her parall ing the foundations of withdr own feet. A f , I thinl admit contthned on Page 97 a } KNOWT ine was laid down which be T) pee 0 Tur (nr ie yea t frontier mandat iuminating > announced our storn ginally a part at

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06 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST August 7,1926 Traffic experts acclai this adoption of safety Glass symbol of Safety LL traffic authorities agree that the The safety-glass feature is naturally pio- general adoption of safety-glass all neered by the designers who were first to 1round as regular equipment in passenger radically lower the center of mass weight automobiles, now pioneered by and exclu- and so produce an automobile of incom- sive to the New SAFETY STUTZ, will result parable stability; who were first to adopt host eantned 3 in a great reduction of motoring injuries. the improved hydrostatic four-wheel brakes miles in) my developed by Timken; who made their Brougham frame the strongest and most rigid built, floor in Chic with integral steel running-boards or “side- tformance of thi bumpers”; who brought steel into the con struction of their bodies to give maximum strength and narrow, clear-visioned front From the very beginning, every New STUTZ car has had a safety-glass windshield. Then the builders of this surpassingly safe auto- mobile, noting the increasing frequency of newspaper reports chronicling damage from flying glass, decided that the New SAFETY STUTZ should have safety-glass all around. yO essee Mount corner-posts. And the builders of the New SAFETY STUTZ now announce the latest develop- ment in the Fedco System of Theft Preven- tion and Detection. Additional protection designed and constructed under the supervision t of Brewster of New York. All closed bodies And so, safety-glass has been put into every window and window-ventilator, every windshield and windshield-wing of all New SAFETY STUTZ models. This voluntary adoption ot safety-glass, a oO im, | j .demnitv against loss of use Fight body styles, including 7-passenger models, ] ich owner, all without cos automatically ventilated —an exclusive feature ¢ no additional expense to the car-owner, resulting from theft, at the rate of five means that the ultimate step has been taken dollars per day, up to thirty days. PA Ra 2 by the builders of the New SAFETY STUTZ S $ u > to provide the safest private passenger auto- New SAFETY STUTZ models with their , T TZ i, fo J d mobile ever built. And this safety feature exclusive features are now on display every- iS obt un ible In NO Ca;r ¢ ther than the New where. see the New SAI E ] Y = Tl ya ride CTT SAFETY STUTZ. n it, drive it. STUTZ MOTOR CAR COMPANY of AMERICA, Inc. Indianapolis The first and only automobile to provide safety- glass all around without extra charge to the buyer

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Continued from Page 94 nd unde indator League of Natior system allows a wide latitud the relations between the mandatory power ind the mandated people. To Irak we have given greater freedom of constitutiona development than has been done in ar other case. Irak verned by a} 1 elected king and parliament, with the tance of a British high commissions nd British of ils. Her relations with Great Britain are regulated a trea His Britannic Majesty ] ay oved |} tne of ( t Britain and Irak. The protocol, ned in 192 tated that the treaty was became a member League, and in any case not later Parliament, in passed a resolut it Britain should endeavor to obtain the Mosul vilayet—province—as a part of since that vilayet forms a part of Irak on geographical, economical, ethnic and PRRs ae j egic grounds. ‘The treaty had to be approved by thi » of Nations, wh inder the Treaty of Lausanne, the arbiter The League, after Turkish sending a commission to Mosul and con- ch also found itself, argumer! It ng the World Court on ome legal I ts, announced in December, 1925, its n that the . et. up to ap- I mate! the d 1 Brussels I] ne, Is tne tual administrative frontier, I 1 remair part of Irak on conditior that Great Britain submitted a new treat vith Ira suring the continuance of the n lato regime tor twent ve years vould have grown out of her manda t ng clothes I 928 and that our re- ponsibilities, financial and military, would then ceas But could we jeopardize our foster child's future by abandoning her just m t 1 detensi! and ethnographic 4 } SAT H4 \ t € 1osa o the Le ie of Na ¥ 0 t ties we must ‘ t ly lo r na mandate mere ne iu ild be a negation of the whole manda- to T Y ( wh re irds the tutelage of | vard countries not as a profitable The Courtyard of the Citadel of Rachaya in Syria, on the Morning it Was Relieved, After 250 French Troops Had Held it indertaking but as a ed trust of zation ‘What of the I i I ever they have been learning, under the guidance of a few officials, Anglo-Saxon met} f governmer acontempt It iption and i nationa patriotism that yraqdu bringing scattered and j« is tribes int whole. Was all t to be throwr nt¢ the melting pot? In all probability the sult of our withdrawal would hav violent return of the alien Turk not only into the Christian districts of the l but into the whole valley of the To do so, as the British has said, would Secretary mean that we 1 make ourselves ridiculous in the eyes of the League of Nations, contempti- ble in the eyes of the T shor lurks and odious in the eyes of the people of Irak should have betrayed “One word about oil. It has been alleged that the Britis} ment is to secure oil rights in the Mosul whom we j real motive of the Govern- vilayet. Perhaps the best answer is the fact that the Turkish Government ap- yroached the British Government with proposition that the Mosul territory sh be made the subject of a bargain. In re for our withdrawing the just claims of Irak, a British company, approved by His Ma esty’s Government, exploitation of all the oil. They were to bx allowed to construct pipe lines, ports and thousands of miles of railway. “Tf it was oil we have had a concession for all the oil in Mosul, and almost l + was to be given tl were after we could everything else we liked. The reply of the British Government was that they were trustees for Irak, that they were not possessors but mandatories, and that as mandatories and could not bargain away the rights of Irak and her people for concessions to British rustees the, Mosul necessitates an ¢€ xplanation of the plans To bring the story up to date ior oil development in the contested territory. As you have already seen, the concession was originally vested in the Turkish Pe- troleum Company, which still functions, jut on an entirely new basis. The Amer- group half the original British no country has a majority interest, 1d the field, thanks to our intervention, ican has share: will be an open one. No concession of modern times is more with romance and political ad in the right to operate held | h Petroleum Company. It | outlived two empires—the German and the Turkish. Moreover, it was joined with Against 2000 Druses for Four Days THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ven af ariurvon Cnt teers A HOE We ATHEL >. a. SS SS eS fou the A Pe in Oil Compar h } the ] , ghts exce five orthern } nee ¢ i to get the Mosul section for a ] h group. Wher Du r hot weather the bar il Hamid , A en after the } , t y “e t on u to 1 ou I K Ie it JOS, all pub i ; . + + ‘ + + | " ‘ erres irkish M ; comfort of mat Upon a + | T + + + Finance is it Ss time tl } Re Du : nterests began to gaze | hotdaythereis not mor yearning ti 1 Mosu th the result y 7 ’ h l. ae } } ' that tl} natior Englar Germar refreshing than the clean ind Ho ecame ir ed ve, massage, a Nair cut, The Mosul Oil In 1912 Sir I st Cas the Nat na Bank ol titutior gota the tovet he 1 the the interim D’Arcy’s in n what was then Mesopotamia had bee indashampoo. The barber ts tully posted as to hot weather ymforts, and he will cell vouthatthe hair tonic whicl gives that cooling, refresh 1 ing, satisfactory result assumed by the Anglo-Persian Oil Con pany. By 1914 a new Turkish Petroleum |} Company —a British limited corporatior had been organized t ) per cent of stock owned the Anglo-Persian, ¢ cent | t ' | it rou well-groomed ap | nearance, there 1s | nothing better. 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Continued from Page 97 the British and German ambassador it ( onstantinople agreeing to a lease of the Mosul deposits to the Turkish Petroleum Company. This was the only right that he corporation had to live when the World War broke two months later. The Turkish Petroleum matter did not come up again until the S: Remo Cor erence, when, as I have already pointed are was awarded to the French, and the United States, so far as out, the German sh ny oil penetration in Mosul was con cerned, did not get a look-in. It was after the San Remo Conference that our State nt forced the door open and the companies received half the many difficulties lay in the way of opera tion. The Near East was in turmoil; the mandate system had not been codrdinated both Turks and Arabs claimed Mosul; and he Turkish Petroleum Company was wit} it real authority to go ahead. The Turks innounced that they would not recognize ] the company, and Irak was under military \fter Irak became somewhat stabilized, ind when it appeared that Mosul would be eparated from Turkey, Edward H. Keel ng, on behalf of the Turkish Petroleum y, signed an agreement with the Irak Government in March, 1925, whic enabled the company finally to get down to (ine more comp! ation had to be com posed. An explanation of it brings upon the ene a little known and picturesque T, Ex e’ character. Like Sir Basil Zah , Muroy man of mystery and millions, he pulls the lded strings that bind many great cor orations, especially oil, together. I refer to C. S. Gulbenkian, whose interests ex end from Persia to Venezuela. For years was a close associate of Sir Henri W. eTOre him, he was finar al adviser to Abdul Hamid. While acting in this ca erence in London, in which all the furkish Petroleum holdings were repre ented. Walter C. Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, v e spokesman for the Americz agreement was reached by which Expensive Wildcat Work Following the London conference, the jentity of the American group was d osed for the first time. It cor sists of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, the Standard Oil Company of New York, the Pan-American, the Gulf Refining Company and the Atlantic Refining Company. The British are represented through the Anglo Persian, the British and Dutc! | | Dutch-Shell combine, and the Frenc} ) through the with an association of local companies. | recapitulate to show that here is a really and truly international group with an open-door policy for perhaps the first time. The agreement with the Irak Government forestalls any idea of exclusive interests. It provides that the Turkish Petroleum Company may select only twenty-four plots, each eight square miles in area, for development. Four years from the date of the convention the entire area covered by the concession is to be open to any indi- viduals or companies desiring to go in. The Turkish Petroleum Company is re- juired to sell to the highest bidder, under THE SATURDAY EVENING POST government super I idit nal el M t lare-mile tract n the et or \ t t Brit geological and other information acquired ‘ Palest os t, ia by the company must be placed at the d famous Balfour declaration of N mbe posal of prospective bidd« 9 hen A. J. Balfour—-now Lord B In commenting on the terr t ent t message to Lord Rot I ment a well-knowr Ame uy ex] t i transn n to the Zionist Federatior made this statement t me 7 “The four-power t t . extremely expensive and d lt wildcat nd : work for the benefit of others as w I er f themselves The preliminary irve acer : studies by geologists and the drilling of t f« fect le I wells alone will involve in expendit : , m or J yt he If these istif | ’ cam] Wili nave t aU ta t eat nee f ved hy the hera- distances from raiine 1 t ( Judea Brit tro rred the which machinery must be transported ove A the w i. Two Jewish battalions tr kless waste If thed r ome tion t id i I lerable number from the n turn result in substant roduction, Unit tates, were formed in England there will remain the still bigger problem Other units were recruited in Palestin of getting the oil to the sea. In July, 1922, th British mandate for ‘Syria lies between Irak and the Med Palestine, which, as you will remember iterranean, and a pipe line some 700 mile pecified that the mandatory shall be re in length will have to be constructed ever por e for the setting Ip of a Jewish tities to just the cost Some 0 per t the } tich ny tar ont l of Pal of the capacity of this line, with gathe t given way toa iministra- lines, will be available to any out l¢ on t , witl r Herbert Samuel who, by panies which m ght bid for leases and de the NAV wa nstrumental ir ettling the velop production It S an interesting t British genera trike i high com busines gamble, altogether too big f« ir r ner A Jew nd a Zionist. Sam 1e] one company to undertake, but sufficiently wa na peculiarly strong position to help attractive to justify the relatively small the movement participation which each of the severa At the annual! Zionist ¢ nference in Lor companies will be c to make ir ion in 1920 a Palestine Immigration and the next few years.” ( nization Fund was started. As soor e mandate was authorized by the Leagues The Zionist Movement of Nations, the work of building the Jewist The sigr e of tl cooperatic race and in the land where he had under the conditions that I have outlined nown almost continuou oppression fron cannot be too strongly emphasized. Inthe Titus to Abdul Hamid, the Israelite could first place the oper door p) ise establisne at last respond to his immemorial impulse a precedent for future enterprises. Then, and go back to the pursuits of the father oo, the whole procedure indicates the type Palestine became a sanctuary of international comn ty of interests At the close of the war there were | with which the United States may well a th 0.000 Jews in Palestins Toc herself. It is practical, constructive, and thanks to the Zionist movement. the H: ! 1eT es be! i no can Iflage hr tior 2 150 000 FE xter ¢ truism In short, it constitutes a Le lt ¢ r t the ro } des wheres Nations idea wh 1 ited in othe e the } | heroes wandered, have act ties the real econon e ol the een put unde the piow thus d ¢ ng vorid the mmon legend that the Jew was ir After Ira Britair most important ’ e of d gs ‘ 1 th the mandate so nte itiona nterest ind ire affected, r Palestine Here no What was once a suburb of Jaffa boundary d is arisen, but the cor become a th ng town. The present com t between the Jews and the Arabs has’ munity of Tel-Aviv. which was asand dune 1used embarrassment. Events in the Holy n 1920, isa flourishing city of nearly 49,000 Land since the war have peculiar concern nhabitant Like the Jew f old. these for the United States, in that many Amer modern ones made their 1} an Israelites, and many more Americar tructed their own ed dollars, have gone out there to help reé tablish the Zionist State perhaps the great Jews Versus Arabs est spiritual adventure ol modern time America has contributed 65 per cent of the .oads have been buult, agricultura ) $10,000,000 Palestine Foundation Fund for ges founded, put wor! naugurated colonization mortgage and odperative banks and Like the Arab nationalists, the Jews saw building-and-loan ass itions set up. the n the World War the opportunity for Jewish University on Mount Scopus is a a grievance against the Turks. The Zionist real impetus. Since Palestine ntains no case was put in the following extract from oal, an elaborate water-power scheme ha a memorandum to the League of Natior been esta by Pinhas Rutenber " when the Palestine mandate was under Russo-Jewish engineer who has the cor : as nd n. Rutenberg was a t t in the , ( t days and became chief of e of I at 4 Pet t 1 alter the rst t Witl il « r I f wher the advent Bolshe m he tR 1and ite « t in ¢ l J ! home ey base their « I Palestine ever since F ence f J } tate in re Ie te ¢ hg t; id , the but or , ering neer tr } } } ry t ‘ e of h hope prayer _ ee : ( the major mandate ha not spared lers have mar ed t between the Jev = racial rather tha f outnumber the He i y resent the impor- - tance attached by the British to the ur Zionistic State and to the growing Jewish per nastery of the land. Furthermore, th W me stands for Europe and t a . 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There are twenty other Dutch Aids that will Dp h bbing channels VANCLEEF BROS.,Chicago Riayhy} cal Pre 11910 er and Chen lucts Establishe THE SATURDAY Viewed generally, the results in Palestine have been more favorable than in any of the other important mandate regions. This has largely emanated from the zeal that has attended the consummation of the Jewish ideal of nationalism. Britain’s perplexities in Irak and Pales- tine are trivial alongside the maelstrom of tion that has enswirled the French 1S} The mandate on the shores of the Mediterranean has meant the expenditure of billions of franes, sacrifice of thousands f f insurre in 8} of lives, and, because of the bombardment of Damascus, loss of prestige throughout the world; and Syria offers France no op- portunity for large economic advancement such as obtains in her Northern Africa domain. Syria Under French Rule France has always had a traditional po- litical and religious interest in Syria and the Lebanon, which is also included in her mandate. In the World War, Syria was conquered by the British, accompanied by asmall French contingent. Trouble started almost immediately. The ancient menace from without, embodied in the Turks, was quickly followed by an even greater danger from and worse within the country. Britain felt that she had the same obli- gation for the establishment of an Arab kingdom in Syria asin Mesopotamia. With this in view, the Emir Feisal was allowed to set up an Arab government at Damascus. This irked the French, who had been in Syria since the Armistice, and they appar- ently resented British domination and determination in what was becoming a considerable part of the Levant. At the San Remo Conference the French demanded and got the mandate for Syria and the Lebanon. Meanwhile friction had developed between the French and the Arabs and it led to an open break. The French determined to assert themselves by force; Feisal fled to find a uneasy throne in Irak, and in 1920 the French army entered Damascus. It followed that when the mandate for Syria became effec- tive in 1923, the French assumed active sponsorship for a country that was practi- cally in open revolt against them. The hostility has continued ever since. Even with the best conciliatory inten- tions, France was up against a difficult The French inherited stantinople’s anxieties and then some. In Syria there are exactly eighteen differ- ent creeds, distributed over a population of less than 2,000,000. There are Moslems, Druses, which are a sect apart, Christians and Jews. As Leonard Stein, one of the historians of Syria, has pointed out: ‘‘The Moslems include minorities repre- senting every shade of dissent, while the Druses are apt to divide their time quarrel- ing among themselves and fighting their neighbors. In its social structure Syria is almost equally heterogeneous. Between the nomadic tribesmen, the settled fellahin, the feudal landowners, the urban intelli the Levantine traders and the rbaned exponents of old-fashioned learn- ing, there is little real community of senti- ment or interest.”’ This situation was bad enough, but French administrative methods made it worse. With commendable zeal they started out to build roads, schools and dissension less proposition, Con- gentzia, EVENING POST churches, quite overlooking the more important fact that the good will of the natives should be first cultivated. Soldiers were put into every executive post and functioned with uncompromising hand. There is no need of cataloguing the al- most continuous succession of revolts that developed. Most of them grew out of the failure of the French to give the various Arab groups the self-determination which they sought. The linking of the Syrian cur- rency to the paper franc of l’rance was also objectionable. From the outset the most troublesome body has been the Druses, who are fierce and warlike and have most of the irrecon- cilable Arab nationalists allied with them. The Arabs maintain that despite the erec- tion of autonomous machinery, the French know only one rule, which is that of the mailed fist. It has been a case of mandates with munitions. An acute crisis was reached under the high commissionership of General Sarrail, who seemed to rub both Moslems and Christians the wrong way. Among other things, he refused to accept the liturgical honors usually rendered to a French repre sentative in the Levant. The climax came in October, 1925. A nominal independence had been pro- claimed for the Jebel Druz, the stamping ground of the Druses. The French, how- ever, put garrisons in Sueida, the capital and elsewhere, and maintained a strong rule. There was also a French governor, who was charged with trying to break down the power of the old feudal chieftains. When they sent a deputation to General Sarrail to protest he refused to them. This started open insurrection. receive Beirut and the Lebanon also became hostile to the French. The Druse insurgents besieged the French garrison at Sueida. Two columns of French troops who went to relieve it were annihilated. The whole hinterland was now up in arms and guerrilla warfare raged on all sides. Sueida was not relieved for some months. The Damascus Bombardment The Druses swept on to Damascus, the center of Arab self-determination. Various bands of rebels penetrated into the cit) and there was much pillage. Clashes with French troops followed. the and began a forty-eight-hour bombardment Thousands of innocent persons of all faiths were numbered among the victims. The bombardment had quences. In the first place it well-nigh ruined one of the most famous cities of the world. The storied street called Straight which back to Bibli wrecked, and likewise the historic bazaars Mosques that In their extremity French ordered out all their nationals serious conse- goes il days, was { had sheltered pilgrims for thousands of years were riddled by shi . Palace of which housed a noted art and arche- fire. An irreparable loss was the Azm, ological collection. 5 pecause More serious in many respects, buildings can be restored, was the fury of the native their holy shrines and ancient landmarks laid waste Whatever loyalty to the French had existed before the ruthless rain of she entirely peoples, who saw lls was now wiped out. August 7,1926 in England at the time of the Damas cus incident and was amazZt d to near bitter condemnation of the French. It widened the breach between the British and tl French which started in the Syrian occupation. was The Damascus bombardment led extraordinary meeting of the Permanent Mandates Commission at Rome in Febru- ary of this year which reviewed Fren in Syria. The rey of the mandatory and especially its lack of continuity in administration fact that this extraordinary held is an evidence of the gravi situation in the mandated areas Another direct outcome of th affair the recall of General Sarrail Henry de Jouvenel, a well-known Frenct journalist, h rule ort embodies a criticism Damascus was Tr was named as his su Mandates and Discord At the start, Jouvenel raised hi of pacification because he came from civi life. Unlike Sarrail, and a military martinet, he and Great was the who was antic] deputations supp methods outside world, therefore, when known that revolt had started again in ) last and that Midan, asuburb of Damas had been bombarded. The rable, but there was loss of lif ‘onside tion in the main city had been ch and the Druses sin was the first intimatior had begun afresh. Onc French clamped a censi from S t Such is the situation going Instead of impr for concili: has measures to maintain France been compel! drastic Ieconomi question. The or otner system come polit ically a) ause Northern igation of Fr: This narrati f some her demonstr: inion is st a abroad home. Whet tily the overhead r Meanwhile we ha costly complications. Intel aloofness is not without its compensations.

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The cabin launch, for she was scarcely more than that, was cutting across Nassau Sound, running down the channel marks, and beacons visible each from the other on that bright afternoon. ‘A jolly boat,”’ J. J. said. ‘“‘Where did you get her?” ““New Haven, Connecticut. Bought her of a classmate recently hog-tied in holy mat- rimony. He'll be going down to stoke the furnace of his love nest about now. This would be better if we knew just how long we were going to be able to keep it up. So far Rosey’s come across with a quarterly bank deposit, but whether it’s coming out capital is what we’re out to nuns of interest or learn.” ‘“‘What do you know about him?” J. J. asked. ‘Not an awful lot. So far asI could ever see, his occupation has been sporting events, yachts and horses and golf and polo parties, and two or three times a year trying to bully mother into marrying him.”’ 3ut then most of the men she knew were trying to do that,”’ Pax said. J. J. glanced from one to the other of the twins. ‘‘That’s easy to understand. But then twins are almost always better-looking than odd units.”’ ““Were you a twin?” Lanty asked. “Snappy! Yes, I’m a twin, but only mentally. Dual nature in the same con- tainer, like gin and bitters.” She looked critically at Pax. ‘‘In your brother’s clothes one couldn't tell you two apart.”’ “That may come handy for an alibi if we decide to kill Rosey,’’ Pax said. “There's athought. But why are you so ure he’s done you in the eye?”’ “Because, while he’s made our quarterly remittance, he’s so far ignored my request for a statement,’’ Lanty said. }. 3, “That would queer his pitch if there was anything fishy. Rook his nodded. whole show “There's just the point. You can’t get away with the snug little figures neatly ruled off in double red lines under credit and debit columns.” “Of course it’s possible that he may want to give you a glad surprise when he turns over his stewardship,” J. J. said. “Is that the way of this wicked world?” Lanty asked. ‘Pretty, but is it art?’’ Pax queried. They were lunching in the cockpit, Lanty at the wheel and fed as his demands quired by J. J., pilot and stewardess, hrimp salad, honey and | pecans. “Big house boat She reached for the glasses. if it isn’t Hyacinth—Cliff floating pleasure palace. hot time in the old tub ving omelet, s ] | fat paper-she J. looked overhauling.” “I’m blowed Hathaway's There'll be a tonight.” ““Why tonight?”’ Pax asked. “Because there is every night on that flower boat. Mostly noise and breakage though. Cliff's a good sort. Serious minded ‘ond, and a non-drinking anti-prohibi- le gets passive pleasure in watch- ing his guests do their silly stuff. Go down and wipe off that disguise, Lanty. They’re apt to pass the time o’ day when Cliff spots astern. ite tionist. me here aboard.” Pax taking the wheel. ey go up to Jacksonville?” don't think so. Bound straight Jax rather frowns on he good girl of the Florida ty obeyed through for Miami We'ret Dig nose family.” The Hyacinth ing up with a s« that gave her dimensions, verhauled rapidly, com- xt of silent forceful power a certain impressive dignity to ther those of a pretty bungalow than a vessel As she some fifty yards away, J. J. stood up and waved the mega- A handsome man in his the wheelhouse drew abreast phone well-set early thirties came out of and waved back. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST TWIN PROPELLERS (Continued from Page 7 How's “Hello, J. everything?” “Going strong, Cliff. Jax?” “IT wasn’t but I am. When did you get back?” “Six weeks ago on the France. the job again.” “On your way home?” And at her affirmative answer, ‘‘ Well, come aboard for dinner.” ““My shipmates here are coming to my house,’’ which was news to the twins. “They're invited, too, of course. Least you can do when I'm going thirty-six miles out of my course up that darned river to kiss your hand.” “Fair enough; we'll come.” to Pax. “Is that indorsed?” “Yes. All set.” “Grand. Eight bells. And bring your appetites. I grabbed off some terrapin and canvasback and trimmin’s and learned a new step in its home port—Charleston.”’ “That hoedown. They did it in the quarters when grandma was a girl.” “Yes. I remember. Must have you to make me feel that way. Tooraloo. A toute al’heure,”’ and the big Hyacinth cleft on her way, a glittering monument to wealth and luxury and past-master craftsmanship. “Strikes me,” said Lanty, “we’ve struck something pretty soft. Sitting prettier and prettier.” “You seem to have a beau on every barge, J. J.,’’ Pax said. “It’s a way we have in Florida. Also the power of the press. My impoverished family have been entertaining distinguished visitors since Ponce de Leén put us on the map. Wait till Cliff sees you, Pax dear. If he makes the grade you won’t have to bother about Rosey’s quarterly statements. Cliff’s got so many millions that they had to make a machine to order to add ’em up. Here comes the little dog under the wagon.” A beautiful mahogany launch, half- cabined, flawless of finish as a new grand piano, and her flashing bright work stab- bing the eyes, swept past in the bland central wake of the Hyacinth. A quarter- master who had seen the exchange of cour- tesies, immaculately uniformed, rose, hand to the visor of his cap, as she passed. Lanty, acknowledging the salute, saw the name Miss Hyacinth in gold lettering across the broad square stern. ‘*Some swank,” he said. “Not entirely, Lanty. A boat like that needs a tender. Be lenient with the poor little rich boys. I'll wager that right now Cliff's got a lot more things to worry him than you have.” They left the sound for narrow water- ways again and a little later entering St. John’s River, found the tide setting strongly upstream, as J. J. had predicted. Under these conditions the eighteen miles up to the city were quickly made, and not caring to thrust themselves on their prospective host, Lanty found a berth at a yacht wharf flanked by a big garage. The Hyacinth had gone on through the draw to the yacht club. It was by this time dusk, and telling the twins that she would run home and dress and come to fetch them with her car, J. J. went ashore. “Some girl, Lanty.”’ “‘Some is not right, Pax. one.” “Don’t let it bowl you, twinny. I'll bet her stag line is strung out over the road from Miami to Bar Harbor by land and sea, off shore, inside route and the Dixie High- way, all waiting to cut in.” “‘There’s such a thing as cutting out.” “Well, hone your blade, and please haul out that jammed locker drawer. I want to overhaul my slop-chest. If it’s mildewed I'll E “Then go in your slip. could tell the difference.” The twins were in full plumage when J. J.’s throaty hail was wafted from the pier, J., glad to see you. Coming up to Hard on She turned One girl. The No mere man and they stepped out onto the wharf to join her. J. J. wore a long wrap of a fine woolen stuff, vicufia or alpaca, light and soft and fine, the collar and cuffs of kit fox. As they passed through the brightly lighted garage to the street Pax noted this. “What a lovely cloak!” “Isn't it? The kit fox was a Christmas present from a yachting friend who made a voyage last summer into the Arctic Circle, I had it made up in Paris. My yacht pals are always bringing me nice things and sometimes I feel like a hold-up, being jour- nalist of a paper that’s in a way the Social Register of the South. When it looks like baksheesh or paid publicity I have to turn it down.” “That must take some fine discrimina- tion,”’ Lanty said. “‘Sometimes, and sometimes not so fine. Your princely trustee asked me the other night if I couldn’t use a polo pony that wasn’t quite up to his weight. He's brought a string down here. I was crazy for a gee but turned it down. Seemed to smell a tip of sorts.” They got into the car, a little sedan of popular inexpensive type, and as she started J.J. said: ‘I’m glad I went up to Fernan- dina in the bys yesterday. Quite often I do that and bea* my way back on somebody’s boat. Ten years ago a girl couldn’t do that, but it doesn’t matter now. Besides, the yachting crowd’s a better lot than the motor one and at least there’s less danger of being kidnaped.” “Why less?” “Waterways too limited, and you can’t very well hide a boat or lose one in the shuffle unless it’s a standard type, and even then it wouldn’t be so easy.” They drove a short distance, parked the car and got out. The big Hyacinth was tied up alongside, a blaze of lights, the music of a piano player welling out through her screened windows. A quartermaster in blues was stationed at the gangway, and as they went aboard, a well-set man in yacht- ing dinner dress came to greet them. Inthe glow of light Pax’s intuition told her that here was rather more than a good sort. The strong face was more soldierly than sailor or business type, keen, thoughtful, authorita- tive and might be austere, but at this mo- ment seemed to radiate a kind of cosmic friendliness, as though such was the habit- ual attitude toward the world at large. “Good old Cliff,’ J. J. said. “Dear Jasmine.”” He _ stooped and brushed the back of the hand she offered with his lips, a graceful gesture of which few Americans possess the art. ‘“‘Some- thing told me you were aboard that A and P boat.” ‘Sure it wasn’t our mutual friend, the postmaster?” “No, I didn’t stop. of Jasmine in the air.” ‘So did I—of Hyacinth.”” She presented Pax and Lanty as Miss and Mr. Hull. “But why the A and P?” Cliff asked. “Tt’s apt to be misleading’’—he glanced from one face to the other, and raised his straight brows—-“‘but so are the owners, for that matter.” “Their Christian names are Atlanticus and Pacifica,” J. J. said. ‘“‘A seafaring great-grandfather offered that tribute to the millions of waves he’d climbed over. Their short chop abbreviations are Pax and Lanty.”’ Cliff smiled. ‘Is it permitted to use them? Here aboard we have a habit of checking surnames with the wraps.” He looked at Pax with brief intentness. ‘‘Mine’s Cliff, you know.” “We can’t do less after your kindness in asking us—Cliff,’’ Pax said in the pretty intonation peculiar to the linguist. They went into the saloon, to find a gay party assembled. A steward served cock- tails that were in this rare case entirely law- ful. Cliff's boat guests puzzled Pax a little. They were not the type of mundane people I caught a fragrance August 7,1926 she had expected, but had about them some- thing indefinable, endeavor, hard work and a holiday air. Only Cliff’ sister, Mrs. Kane, a war widow, appeared to be the same sort of carefree product as himself. There were two young women, whom to her surprise she presently discovered to be business women. Miss King had a little antique shop specializing in ship models and ceramics, and Miss Satterlee wa a government employe, Treasury Depart ment, from Washington, on a vacation. The two men guests were likewise w« a sculptor struggling for recogn the other a professor of Latin ina New Eng land college, both young and both with the air of recuperating from stuffy rooms. J. J. presently said to her, aside: never asks the idle rich as his guests. He’ got an ethical idea he won't admit that a boat like his ought to give health and pleas ure to people of his own class whose occupa tions or professions don’t furnish suct opportunities. Then he invites luncheon or dinner guests to inject the jazz.”’ This presently was evident. There came from outside a jovial chorus of voices th« tone of which suggested festivities already begun. Then Pax felt herself freeze, and glancing at her twin, discovered that h« also had got the shock. J.J. looked at her and laughed. ‘I say, hadn’t counted on this. Thought they'd gone on along to St. Augustine. But it’ too late to do a bunk.” For in the loud full-chested voice of one of these arrivals Pax was quick to recognize an accent and but now become habitual in the man whost management of Lanty’ was the cause of their presence here. suggesting jecture intonation, once affected her fortune and mr F MR. ROSEBERRY TWINING was startled at pitching suddenly on Pax and Lanty, he gave no more than evidence of the pleased surprise properly in or¢ “Well look who’s here— Pax and Lanty However in this little old world Why didn’t you let me know?” and he hung fora moment in the whether or not a paternal embrace of Pax might be in or out of order She solved this problem by arm a little rigidly, and he compromised by taking her hand in both “My dear child. Is this kind? Not to let me know even that you were in Amer He dropped Pax’s hand and turned “Why rder ” wind, as if uncertair extending her of his. ica?”’ to seize Lanty by both shoulders. didn’t you cable me, 3 “Thought you might feel meet us, sir,’ Lanty said briefly. ‘ We knew you were never long in one place and we didn’t want to upset whatever plans you might have made.”’ “Consideration What brought you South “A thirty-five-foot cruiser. There seemed nothing to keep us North, got in you young rascal’ called upon to carried t extremes SO We tine procession.’ “Grand! Cliff?” “Here and just now. Miss Je kyll a *‘And to whom do you owe Miss Jekyll?” It seemed to Pax a shade of worry showed in Twining’s eyes. **The genial postmaster of Fernandina.” Twining turned to Pax, and this time there was no mistaking a lack of ease in what was generally accepted as a handsome and very masculine face. One had in fact to look more deeply for its blemishes, to catch the man off his guard, which seldom hap- pened. Twining was a distinct type of bachelor sportsman whose associations h: been always of the best in a worldly sense, prominent and popular member of exclu- sive clubs, social, professional and sports. He was in his early prime, and a life spent And where did meet you We owe that to Continued on Page 109

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST August 7,1926 > >MareD we SERVICES De, ( s. Alsberg, for- mer Chief U.S. Bureau of Chemistry, says: “Average bottle of soft drink has ener- gy value equivalent to 3 ounces mashed potatoes or % Ib. tomatoes.”

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THE SATURDAY EVENING found the one TO MEN trudging along the trail search of pipe-peace, Prince Albert looms up like a friendly light in the It says, in language all can understand, that pipe-troubles are now over . . . and over to stay. Good old Prince Albert! Real tobacco for real men, you bet! wilderness. Real tobacco—that’s the answer in a pipe-bowl. Prince Albert is cool as the morning plunge. Cool and sweet and fragrant, with a body that lets you know you’re smoking, but a mildness that pulls down the bars and tells you to go to it! And go to it you will, from morning till midnight. tobacco for me! If you’ve been limping along on three cylinders with a tobacco that can’t make the grade, switch to Prince Aibert. Slip into top speed and open the throttle wide. P. A. can’t bite your tongue or parch your throat, because the Prince Albert process clamped the lid down tight on bite and parch. Just around the corner is a friendly shop where they hand out smoke- sunshine in tidy red tins marked “Prince Albert.” Turn your tiller in that direc- tion. Get yourself a tin of this real tobacco that has brought so much down- right pleasure to millions of men all over the world. Today! PRINGE ALB —no other tobacco is like it! August 7,1926 P. A. is sold everywhere in tidy red tins, pound and half-pound tin humi- dors, and pound crystal-glass humidors with sponge-moistener top And always with every bit of bite and parch removed by the Prince Albert process

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Continued from Page 104 largely in the open air, with athletic exer cises, had kept his rather fair complexion of

al weathered youthfulness. One sav ce that here was a man of good physical régime in whom occasional indul- gences were more than counterbalanced by habitual physical training. Twining’s was a sort of British upper-class county-life habit. He might racket through a gay night, but would sleep on the next morning and have his brisk exercise later in the day No rushing down to a hot office breakfastless, 1d with a swimming, aching head. And if

truth were known, he drank far less than his hilarity would seem to announce. Asa result, he now at forty-five might easily have passed for an out-of-door man of ten years less, and doubtless felt the same. On looking now more attentively at Pax, Twining’s first shade of worry dissolved it- self in a warmth he had no need to affect. He had seen her last rather casually as a

sort of gangling tomboy, holding herself i oof, by no means at her best Now, though a good deal of the boy still lingered, t enhanced more seductive qualities. She had acquired grace and poise, and the stiff nity

ness had given way to su an otter, and was

from Twining’s light piue eyes, the hard eyes of a Prussian guardsman. They passed approvingly over the verte chartreuse velvet gown cut straight across, straight down, and high of skirt, to show the legginess, no longer of the trong boyish sort. Her bare arms, too, were

Pax, extremely femin

he would become in body, felt instinctively the need of a wariness toward Twining that must be not entirely for his management of rs. The generic, then specified to

re of women for

most irst hip. Twining would not be the first man e, and then to race and close blood kin- to shift the object of his desire from mother to daughter, as sometimes also in default it may transfer itself to a sister. But he was adept at this oldest of pur- uits and said easily enough: ‘‘There’s juite a lot for us to talk about, Pax. I'd ost sight of the fact that you and Lanty were grown up on your own.” ‘You were duly notified of that, I be- ieve,”’ Pax said. ‘Yes, officially, but in the press of things t slipped past. However, there’s no harm jone. Quite the contrary, in fact.” Lanty, listening acutely with one ear vhile the other was trying to follow the gen- tle voice of Miss King, to whom he had just

been presented, declined a second cocktail d shot a ng glance at Pax. It was not needed. Both had expected something ot this sort Dinner was announced. They went in inassigned, Cliff detaining Pax with a gen- tle pressure on her arm As you're the little stranger to Florida, and I feel sometimes like the i tant, sort of winter native,

1 my right. Then with J. J. on my left, I'll feel like the youngest. What's the use of being host?”’ He raised his voice a little. “All you noisy ones flock down there at the other end awa) from the salt.

r ourselves talk. glittered but did not groan had never seen such an y of bright and pretty and light un- imbersome dinner things, and this burden- saruine of +) 1e deft service of the

less note extended tot t I eward and his aids. The night was warm, ndows open and with all the screened w ,

ere was anal frescoelement even if tainted slightly by the odor of oil on waters that were not troubled. ‘*Gas and oil,”’ Cliff said,

> pecome the incense of most entertainments. When you take them as signifying dynamic force they're not so bad. I noticed that you've met an acquaintance — Twining.” An old friend of the family,”’ Pax said. “Do you know him well? I’ve known him a long time,” Cliff an- swered noncommittally. ‘“‘ He’ though you'd never guess it

“T shouldn't need t Pax said I'd ere a there, dey ! now it e, he usu manages to get wh “Diplomatiste Another ke that and after in some su I’m apt to offer you the boat ‘Does Cliff suspect him of t ** Where do I come I — J asked at mr t sure But mé . | “You're already i It seems to me I dog Call it my feminine hur once made you the same offer and you ““What’s he doing down here turned it down.” “He came aboard in Charleston and n ‘““Never. It’s merely on file.”’ the run with us to Jeky! Island, where ¢ “J. J. really loves me,” Cliff confided to stopped overnight a nafriend. Mr Pax, “because a year ago whentheytriedto Twining left us there and cr ed to the call her Jazz jut my foot down. There mainland and went on by car to Fernandina, are scads of J but only one J.J. Wher where he to meet a friend, a lawyer of she was cast ir pure g 1 the br e the this t named Dade w i ‘ur r mold.” his speed boat. He told us that this after “*Any more like that,” J. J. said to Pax, noon when we drew in alo e. I think he “and I'll be an Indian giver.’ wanted to talk real estate to Clifford “That,” said Cliff austere r guests, because he started almost a na if you'd said ‘1 omething 1 t ow ed off. Then when he found out want. You can h: t, Pax nor em were rich he dropped it “Half right,” ix The t \ e hir t you, Miss Satter- What she meant was you can have the e most cherished thing that I posse That The id been talking in low voices not the old-time Southern of it.”’ y audible across the table in the “Well, there’s one comfort. Either way 1 e now going on. But as if made aware t goes I can’t lose. Another we of tk y some telepathy that he was the object of and you won't know me And I seem to i hostile discussion, Twining now looked in- feel cares and years rolling off e storn tent for a brief instant first at Miss Sat- clouds when the wind goes west.” terlee and then at Lanty And the boy Lanty at the middle of the table was be caught a lightening hardening in the ing informed by Miss Satterlee as to certain man’s eyes. In an « ) disarm suspi- habits of their host. ‘Cliff has some cur cion | turned t Satterlee with a ous ideas. He believes that there’s a lot gay laugh, as if amused at something she more need of welfare work amongst the had said. He noticed that her face, pretty rich than amongst the poor.” in a¢ L way, had paled slightly, but ” Perhaps he’sright. Moralsalvage, that she f owed his lead, then said: “I’m is. The decent poor haven't time for moral afraid I’ve gone a bit too far.” turpitude.” “You're safe with me, and I think you're She lifford gives t gi rig ized <« as ne ays his taxes, Twining began t ke with the woman 7 . Hi a Py ly signing checks. fe claims that next him a little broadly, to judge from her The Responsibility Ss heaven over one r r wig flus} Miss sSatteriec said: of The sinner t! nan over nine 1 “iW nt have er . , nine just poor ones; his idea being tha ‘ t atch sight of him | Car Owner reclamation of a person of wealth and edu sister’s hand in both his. I don’t like palm- NOI TD TEeCY :; cation may establish the focus of a « ny ng Ciillord was ing, too, and he ( OURTESY mn * “T see. The difference between plant ng took her under his | A! rea al ] , ” ' é r harder job. Sounds rather as if Clif a ; santy agreed, ‘‘especially with reformer of sorts.”’ J. J. under the other wing, when he’s come “I’m beginning to suspect him of that,” almost forty miles out of his course to tuck Miss Satterlee said. ‘‘But if so, his meth- her there ods are unique. Some of his parties are ““He wanted to come here anyhow. His known to wind up shockingly, drunken _ sister fussed about it. Angela's been wa orgies over which he presides jovi but of J.J. for the last two seasor She needr day after he will get after some guest or not going to take C two years to make guests, when they are sick and defenseless up his mind. Two hours would do it.” and have to listen because they can’t escape, “He doesn’t look the impulsive sort,” and put the fear of the hereafter into their hearts.” rapid “‘Does it ever work?” He “‘Sometimes, I think. His personality is rd ir stronger than most people r . Did it € might be amongst us today men and women hound a good dry kernel rich in albumen and a soberly. What few people know is that the be. When the right girl comes along it’s

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strong wing, I should say.

no danger there moldy shrunken one. Well, it must be a lot

ver occur to you, Mr. Hull, that there

of wealth and culture and tremendous hid **T know Cliff as a dispenser of y ar TUNG-SOL LAMP WORKS IN¢ den force, entirely unsuspected, who are gifts,’’ Gwen Satterlee said. “I met him Newark New Jersey secretly carrying on this sort of missionary luring the war and we became friends, and work amongst the folk who have the ability all my vacatior nee have beer to be of tremendous service in doing i t t So natura | made a st “No, not precisely. You mean a sort of of him, a good deal asa child might of Santa e.. secret brother]! ood?” Claus, if he were t get in touch with m ‘“‘That’s it ts He’ fx na f me because he has been so Kind “Don’t think I ever met any.” to me “‘Well, I think there are, and that Cliff is “That’s the strongest sort of lien,” one of them. If so it’s happened recently Lanty said; ‘‘to be helped to be kind So far nobody suspects him. He’s known to “Yes, and the most impersonal in a be kind and there it stoy She lowered _ sens« ecause the giver, wher e Cliff, her voice. “‘Now opposite us is a man of can't bear to spoil it by asking anything the obverse side of the medal] n returr When such a man as some “Twining?” thing of a woman she will be one that owes “Yes. Do you know him?’ him nothing. The mere fact of his having ‘I’ve met him a number of times, in’ sent J. J. son vely presents is, with a America and Europe. What do you know’ man like Cliff, a sure sign that his friend NIG-SOL RLFOCAI about him?” ship stops there.” tect thé, appr “Very little except by reputation. He's Lanty felt that she was right. He nodded; by said to be one of these whoopers up that then as any distinct type suggests its oppo- ni never lose their heads.”’ site, his gaze went to Twining Gwen, ‘You mean the sort to get ina wild party keen in reading men’s thoughts, said dryly, or throw one himself and then go after w! ind, as it struck Lanty, with an edge to her ‘ he wants when all hands are off their oice, “Ye [wining gives his presents — guard?”’ first : Miss Satterlee hesitated. ‘‘ Well, that ‘“Whom has he favored recently?’ 4 sounds rather awful, but it’s my impression “‘How should I know? Trust him to keep of him. He’s in Washington a good deal, a_ his hand in.”’ fy lobbyist of sorts, and from what I've heard Continued on Page 111 L

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Continued from Page 109 A sudden color tla al oh Lanty some red in her face ved returned lor inexperience perce pel previous passage here. Gwer

the more pleasing topic of Cliff by ng In a LOW Voce ‘I hope your lovely siste liking him as much as he is liking and “udmiring her. Clit! deserves that sort of resh unworldly “We Pax is that. Mother kept }

pe ons and sé hools’’: and he added a little bitterly, “*I suppose it’s natural for a vei voung and beautiful woman who r or admiration to dread the constant reminds of a grown-up daughter “Yes, it’s a little hard Even without ealousy there’s always that milestone there’s no getting round. But I sho isa that it has been a good thing for your ue She stepped into her world fresh from the factory.” “Yes. The diffe new car and a usec rence between a 1 one.”’ ‘Look at Cliff’s eyes. Like blue +*7’ le dinner Usually at this stage of tl and looks a little jad Hack eager to be entertained. Like an « claps his hands and says, * be summoned There was no doubt that Cliff was now ioing his own entertaining, trying his best interest Pax and entirely succeeding Observing this, Lar conscious of a

yreat fullness to his yet undiscovered flie am removed before becoming manifest ( not with J. J. and Pax was desertion. the as not in love threatened by or other side asked ighbor

L, y if he were on his way to i and the fell into conversation. nam- yne bruf more than freely served began make its sparkling effervescence m: I's cellars, like his kindnesses, were

iid to be of limitless supply and only of the best. The mere fact of his being strictly l. T. himself might be accepted a health measure, the régime of a man of sense or a onstitutional distaste for alcoholics. But e seemed to get his stimulation vicariously not only mentally but physically. Even his handsome face flushed a little as those about him deepened in tint and } brant voice grew a little louder. Lanty, observ ng these empirical symptoms of vinous exhilaration, wondered if M itterlee right. He reflected that as Federal Filing Otfice she ough could be official in the to know whereof she spoke Also he ( n to wonder a little if she herself might not at this moment be on some rt of assign- ment, the more so a ne had told hin ne on X WeeKS eave i ow i n- fluenza atta Lanty turned again to M tterle« Hlow long have yu heer Washingtor ‘Thirty years ‘I see. Born and brought up there

ne i1upned mat Service If not you ought to be | tarted in the office on le ng hig hoo Mvy grandfather and father were in the same service before me. Both were shot — in the ne of duty lened. “Rea Let’s hope ; n to ” ala n the ela, tr ng ac counterteiters. My father put in hive ears in the Mint metal vell as paper, as an art expert knows an old master Better, I thir We are told at we of vood in the wor De t But that's not Cas ner ) train has peen to look for the off rr stre the best. That sometimes fo the } ( Are you hedg about Twining Again Lanty caught that hard metallic glint, as if heliographed at them diagonally OSS tne Satterlee, yie, ¢ ham] agnealy My She caught the idea, threw back her he hante. The ge

and laughed like a bac caugh Cliff's «¢ ye. Share it, Miss Washington,” he called, No can do

Iiverybody k ed l innit than the joke, I'll bet lwinir } resonant voice

No,” Miss Satterlee ¢ sine he OKe Was funnie because he t 1 it n French as a new one Wie ivhed at it ears ayo in America, where ed Twining told one slight ee ind witt The conversatior : eral, the shouted kind. ‘1 va ? entrée, Which promised well for su ient course On meeting issurance that nt! Na a pi ed what M t east his d The tempo was shoved up from moderato to allegro. To Lanty’s surt e even Miss Satterlee took her foot from the soft peda He discovered that she had a very pretty throat, creamy and round. She caught the expression 1n his eyes ‘Shocked, Lanty? “No. Merely thrilled.” At what?”’ ‘At you. The nhange in your cla profile. What’s happened it “A sort of metam« I MacMonnies, his chef-d’@urre ported from these virtt desirable alien, event the gardens of the Luxembourg.’ ‘I'll call it a compliment. But don’t worry—yet. Wait until we go over to the yacht club to dance And look at Angela Mrs. Kane.” Lanty had already made a surreptitious study of the hostes Her type was ur f dark, dangerous, a beaulé de « hle. the wine had not iat I 1 yw she leaned forv

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tening with a faint sophisticated smile to something that might have been atro is or merely dull being said by Twining. But Lanuty doubted that it was the latter. T ender fingers of her other hand played restlessly with the larger pearls of her splen did string that must have t enough to buy a fleet of Hyacinths Miss Satterlee followed Lanty’s eyes What price pearls like that in term human frailty?) Excepting those of us here present, how many women in the world could not be bought by then Yo pretty women And how many men in a m would re them if they found them ( t? treet Oh, lots, I think I envy our faith It \ { east 4 + ou would by mn ‘ ‘ Lant smiled Does nat t bot 1\ Ned | yave a Ssnor al Pe i nat why I envy you. Not that | uld stea them.’ ‘Aren't you getting re eS Wi nobody’s going to offer me a tring of pearls And we government orkers are frightfully underpaid. It’s in Y il to wear jewels like that Wit the iws we ve got, why don tsome of our leg itors put through a bill making it a m¢ for anybody to sport more than five hun dred dollars’ worth of gems in public, or to

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Y. 211 ators of the Crescent Re = UR Orig THE SATURDAY cat that can’t see in the dark, so the little joker might as well call it a flop. Let’s go.” She rose. The others did the same. But J. J. remained seated. ‘Hold on,” she called. ‘‘It may not mat- ter to the rest of you, but we press people can't be too careful about our reputations.” ‘Yours is safe,” Cliff said, a trifle shortly. You couldn’t reach ’em.” ‘Don’t you believe it.”” She half rose, leaned far across the table and one long EVENING POST white arm reached out so that the hand at its end plucked a hibiscus from the center- piece. “Some reach,” J.’s proved her point. Ladies first.” “Oh, stow it,’ get out of here.” His sister swept past, and it struck Lanty that her face was mocking. Miss Satterlee murmured, “I don’t quite like this.” Twining said. ‘But J. All hands must strip. “*Let’s ’ Cliff said shortly. August 7,1926 Lanty thought of that instantaneous im pression he had got of a bare white arm thrust out directly in front of him, the table. But he merely said, * to be funny and ashamed to fess up said the pearls were imitation.”’ “Cliff was right,’’ Miss Satterlee re- torted. ‘Angela lied.” acros Somebe dy trying she TO BE CONTINUED GENTLEMEN PREFER BONDS “if you If you'll ‘Don’t worry,” grins Tracy; know it, it’s already been spread. take my advice, you'll ‘i ‘I took your advice last Sunday,” inter- rupts Ritter, ‘‘about using a mashie niblick on the short sixteenth and lost the ball and the hole and the match, so I’m a bear on anything you have to say.” “Go on,” shrugs Tracy. and your throat.” In a little while the job’s finished. As we pass out I notices the figure 19” clicked against Fed. Pad. ““Maybe,” I suggests, have a straight tip.” “‘T doubt it,’’ returns Hank. ‘‘ The whole market’s up and Padlock’s getting a few crumbs off the table. Anyhow, we’re over a thousand to the good on the stuff we bought and we haven't lost anything yet on the shares we sold.” “Swell skit, this,” says I. “It’s like being at a ball game, yelling your head off when a guy hits a long one and then yell- when the pill’s caught for ‘It’s your razor ‘‘Parmerlee did ing some more an out.” When I gets home that evening Kate and Lizzie are on the porch with a newspaper between them and hugging themselves with joy. ‘Isn’t it wonderful?”’ they gush jointly. ‘*What is?” I asks, innocent. ‘Federal Padlock,” they duet. closed at 1819.” : ‘I’m already over two hundred dollars winner,” chortles the frau. “On a broker’s books,” says I. ‘ Re- member, chips aren’t worth a thing till they’re cashed in, and until they are cashed in they have no permanent home. Why don’t you gals take your profits and elope with ‘em?’ “We're going to wait until Padlock goes to 50,” chimes in Lizzie. ‘“Aren’t we, Kate?” “Certainly,” agrees the wife. should we sell now?” “Well,” says I, ‘an investigation stretch- ing over a hundred and three years shows that nobody ever went broke taking a profit.” **Yes,’’ comes back the missus, ‘and no girl ever stayed single by getting married— but look at what some of ‘em got!”’ ‘I suppose,”’ I sneers, ‘‘you could have done better by waiting.” ‘I won't answer that,”’ returns the mis- ‘‘on the ground that it might incrimi- nate you.” ‘I think,’’ remarks Lizzie, “‘that I'll have the house done over with my three thousand. What are you going to do with your profits, Dink?”’ ‘My present plan,” “is to wait until I get em. I’m not the kind of a guy that draws to an inside straight and starts pulling in the pot before looking at the card dealt me.” “There is some difference,”’ sniffs the Magruder miasma, “ between playing cards and playing the market.” I admits. ‘‘ You can cash on an inside straight once in a while, even if you don’t make it; but you nearly always lose on an inside tip, even if it stands up.” if it stands up?” de- ‘Look, “Why sus, says I, “There is,”’ ‘How can you lose mands the wife “The same way Joe Flint lost,”’ I ex- by trying to stretch a silk thread into a suit of pajamas. If folks were satis- fied with a small profit they might get plains (Continued from Page 19 away with a little change occasionally, but that’s the house percentage in Monte Carlo or Wall Street. A sucker never knows when to quit. He but never surren- ders.” ““Do I understand,” you're going to sell?” “Nope,” says I. “I’m going to stick until Kate’s mink coat’s gone.”’ **My mink coat!” exclaims the missus. “Yep,” I grins. “I had the check in my pocket to give you for the fur. Instead I turned the dough over to Parmerlee.”’ “Never mind,” soothes Mrs. Magruder. “When Padlock goes to 50 you'll have sables to wear on wash days. Paul’s never wrong on the market and si “Did it ever occur to you,” I cuts in, “that all the hot stock tips come from fifty-dollar-a-week brokers’ clerks and bank deck hands, and never from the Number One boys in the Street? Why isn’t Par- merlee a millionaire if he’s ET dies, asks Lizzie, ‘‘that all right? ‘He hasn’t the money to start with,’ comes back Lizzie. * Bah and a bunch of bologny!”’ I growls. “If he was always O. K., he could pyramid a canceled two-cent stamp into a billion in a month. By the way,” I goes on, ‘‘ you say Padlock closed at 1814. How do you know what you paid for it?”’ “We know our business,” says the Ma- gruder D. D. “Either Kate or Tillie or myself have called up Paul every five min- utes. We got our stock at 17%,.’ ‘Every five minutes, eh?’ I remarks. “You sure are on top of your job.” “Well,” remarks Lizzie, ‘I believe in doing things thorough once you start. Today, for instance, I got out the ency- clopedia and read everything under the heading of ‘Federal’ and ‘Padlocks.’ It was all so helpful.” “‘T imagine,” says I, “‘ you must have got a lot of stuff that will help you in this deal, especially under the heading of ‘ Federal.’’ “T also looked up ‘margins,’”’ goes on Mrs. Magruder. ‘Hank Ritter was all wrong about what it meant. Shall I tell you what oe “No, thanks,” hunch I'll find pretty soon.” Along about this time Hank drifts over from next door, mortgages, and gets an earful of jubilation from the gals. He listens kind of gloomy, then broadcasts a wink in my direction. ‘I’m afraid,” says he, bad news for you.” ‘What is it?’’ gasps Lizzie, turning pale. “The cabinet of Poland,” returns Ritter gravely, “resigned this afternoon.” “Good I breathes hard. “Then we're undone!” ““You always have been,” says the wife calmly. ‘‘Why the excitement? The Pol- ish cabinet always resigns on Tuesdays, Fridays and twice on Saturdays.” ‘Have you any idea,”’ demands Hank, ‘“*how many padlocks Poland buys from this country every year?’ ‘No,”’ snaps Kate, ‘and I don’t know the per capita of spinach eaten there, either. They’re just trying to be funny, Lizzie.”’ ‘I wonder,” says Mrs. Magruder slowly. ‘I did read something about Poland under ‘Federal’ in the encyclopedia today and “It’s true,” interrupts Polish cabinets have I interrupts. ‘“‘I have a out from other sources where he “that I got some heavens, no!” “that but Ritter, many resigned, this one means a great crisis and probably war. It’s almost certain that Portugal and 3olivia will be dragged in. The three countries together bought one million three hundred and fifty-three padlocks from us in 1925, one-fifth of the entire out- put.” ‘Don’t they need padlocks for guard- houses in a war?”’ inquires Lizzie. “Not in modern warfare,”’ said Hank. “Today the padlock is a luxury, and lux- uries are the first to get the ax when a blockade is on.” “Well,” decides the ‘Paul will probably be thing about it.” Paul apparently was, for the next day Federal Padlock closes at 20. We had soid the stuff at 1815, so we weren't sitting so hotsy-totsy on the bear side of the deal. We're net to the good on the fourteen hun- dred family shares, but Ritter and I aren’t happy, especially when Parmerlee drifts over that evening staggering under a bagful of I-told-you-so’s. ‘Did I say 50?” a way station on the press. It’s going to 75 sure. afternoon — that’s Saturday Collins, of Padlock, is going to statement on dividends that'll have the stock up ten or fifteen points at the open- ing Monday.” ‘How do you know going to be in the statement?” ‘Very little gets by us insiders, back Paul. “‘You notice Padlock's going up, haven't you?” “‘Yes,”’ says I, ‘and so’s the whole mar- ket except Eczema Products. Didn't you te ‘ll us that was due for a tilt? ‘There’s a pool operating in it,”’ Wall Street’s white-haired boy. ‘‘They’re smacking the prices down so they can buy in the control cheap. Then they'll give it a balloon ride.” “With just enough parachutes,” suggests Ritter, ‘‘for the fixers. I suppose nothit g like . that could happen to Padlock?’ in their offices,” knowing about frill, to do some- Magruder able he brags. ‘‘ That's just Federal Padlock ex- Tomorrow President issue a » I asks, “what’s ‘ig comes been 9 explains ‘They can’t move a desl smiles Paul, ‘‘without my it.” ““As a matter of Hank, “we'd have all wiped out if we'd taken your tip and gone in on Eczema with a ten-point margin, wouldn’t we have?” ‘It wouldn't have down,” Lizzie, “if Paul had bought the us.”” “‘T suppose,”’ I remarks, Parmerlee could go to a picnic hat and a new suit and keep it from raining that day.” Saturday at noon I gets a phone call from Tracy. “I’ve been tr in touch with Ritter,” where he fact,”’ pursues een gone Says stock for “that with a new sarcastic, ying to get says he. “Know “Yes,” I tells him. golf course, playing his old army game in '61 and back in ’65.” ‘Well,”’ goes on the broker, “ better show up here Monday with a little ‘More dough?”’ [ repeats. for what?” ‘Padlock closed at 20! ‘‘and there's a dividend statement coming out this afternoon that might start the stuff to skyrocketing. I'll have to have margin —in case.” is? ‘He’s over at the out you boys before the opening more dough. ‘More dough * returns Trac y, more Continued on Page 117

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST August 7, 1926 HE above painting was made from an enlarged micrograph. It presents part of the anatomy of a fly as seen by the scientists. The microscope reveals fields of tiny hairs protruding from the fly’s mouth and pendulous tongue. In life these hairs are moist, stenchy—drenched with the most unclean substances imaginable. In that putrescent ooze disease germs thrive. Contact of tongue, mouth or feet of flies will contaminate food, sicken and destroy humankind Last year in the United States forty thousand deaths were caused by flies.

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Continued from Page 112 1aKeES AN CVaSIVe answer apou alniny he matter over with Hank and hangs u \ couple of hours later I finds Ritter blast ng his way out of a sand trap. ‘Nothing doing,’ says he, pron If t shoots up, let him peddle us out.” “You and me both,” I agrees. “I'd love have taken Parmerlee for a ride, but I ve to be s: 1 profits. Hello! What’s he doing here in the sand pit,”’ snorts ny ss we ll hé Hank disgustedly, as Paul approached us on the hot foot excited Look!” seem,” I ‘It would comments dryly, hat somebody moved a desk around the Federal Padlock ling about it. Just what does this squib ) offices without telling you eal. ‘It means,” ders pushed up the rumors and are now ready to pull the That right?” “TI can’t understand it,’’ mutters P merlee. ‘‘My information was straight, and ré 3unk!’’ cuts in Hank. “If a piece of information started downtown straight it would get humpbacked before it got in sight of Trinity Church. There’s no tip in the world worth a hoop-la. What do you figure’ll happen to the stock?” “Tt might drop eight or ten points over the week-end,” returns Paul, kind of mis- “I’m afraid I'll have to more ‘Not from me.” ‘‘Nor me,” adds Ritter. seen the womenfolks? aa Yes,”’ whatever you two decide.” **We've decided,” I tells him, curt soon as what we rasps Ritter, “that some in- stock on phony plug } Ke erable have margin,” I finishes “Have you says Parmerlee, ‘and they'll do “As have up is gone, sell us out. Jim and Lizzie Magruder what they want about it.” “They’re for selling too,”’ He starts away, but I pulls him back. ‘Listen here, boy,” “We know that you thought you had astraight tip and we're not a bit The crime’s not in giving out a tip; it’s in falling for it, just as guilty as you are can do returns Paul. says I sore. and 1 we're in the falling act. ‘Where,” I asks Hank, “does that leav us standing On top of t L™s Ritts “We e set Liz t I 1 ‘ ight to cas} ett Pa . os u atthe! ise t! ‘ What am |! nootir iddie rieve | ignt t brea iteen on t! nole “You're a bear in the market, felle grins ‘put the bur imor the ] ‘ I e and the rest of the crow ‘ ‘ to my place fe er, bu ‘ t ti i and I ¢ t the he t to rub it but Hank take fe I é it her I gues it that ‘ en } merlee couldn't kee t m Trait new straw hat at Don't 1 ¢ r e mistake ‘ W hat ) ) ‘ as A Didn't ip 1yv the me t e did?’ I starts to s} the bean it Ritte gives m¢ the office to lay off and I dos ‘‘Let’s surprise ‘em,"’ says he when we're alone, “‘after we cash ir “If, when and as we do," I tells hin ‘You don’t get anything out of Wall Street until you got it and a permanent injunc tion to keep ’em from taking it back. The stock may not move as much as you im agine.”’ We're both at It moves plenty, though Tracy’s offi I day, and Fed. Pad under Saturday’s close, making pea soup out of our bull margins e when the market opens Mon- starts off eight points For a few minutes it hangs at 12, then it suddenly dips to 10!4 “Let’s get out,” says I to Hank. “Fight points profit s enough.”’ “*Don’t be foolish,” stuff’ll sink it'll be pounded to 5.” ‘**We might as well linger a bit,’’ suggests Ritter. “T thought,” I were off of straight tips “Yes,”’ returns Hank, that Harry really knows something. in with the insiders.”’ ‘I guess his tip’s good, at that,’ By noon Padlock’s around 8, barks Tracy. ‘“‘ This ail day. I got a straight tip whispers to him, ‘“‘we “but I got an idea He's I agrees. with no ‘You boys go to lunch,” “The Padlock directors meet at there'll be another sag after the action on the dividend. By the time you get back the stock’l around 5.” “IT think,” says I to Ritter, “that I'd suggests Tracy. noon and ir ofhicia | enjoy my chow market before we went the } 91 tentior rubbed "7 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST EAT 00 FAT s(4 aes $14.00 Department Stores and Car Dealers B LIMORE “BUILT BETTER" » DOOR and SEAT COVERS Send no mont One Drop Stops most painful corn in 3 seconds Sithouette of a Lauhata Tree, in Hawaii rORK COMPANY i 415

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The Somme is full of Ville This Villers and that Villers.” ‘* Well,” said the captain after ‘{ expected as much. I’m here, however, and I’m going to stay here. My men are tired and I’ve got to get them under a roof and to bed. You must have a few b here, ora cellar or two.” How many men have ‘About a hundred and sixty ‘We can’t doa thing, sir!”’ said the Brit- “Not a thing! This is a British area here, you see, and we're three deep now. We had a battalion of the come in on us yesterday, and just as we had gotten them tucked away a draft for the Canadians turned up. If you had fifteen, or even twenty, I could let you sleep in the hall; but a hundred and sixty! But why don’t you go on to Ansauvillers? It’s only about six kilometers farther. You should have kept on through Chepoix.”’ “Six kilometers!’’ said the captain through gritted teeth. ‘‘That’s six kilo- meters too far. We've been on the march since daybreak this morning and we're done. They haven't had anything to eat but tea and jam for weeks and no one can blame them for giving out. I don’t care if the King of England and all his court are in this town. I’m going to have billets here if I have to turn your outfit out by force!” “You're tired,”’ said the British officer. ““Can’t I give you a little nip?” The captain did not accept. He tinued to speak his mind, airing his views of Camp Cheese, of Winchester, of rations of tea and plum-apple. He spoke of boy-size blankets and ammunition boots that would fit an elephant. When he arrived at the subject of brass hats and the British High Command his language became profane. ‘Here! Here!’’ appealed the British officer. ‘‘ Draw it mild. We have ladies in the house!’ ‘Ladies?’’ gasped the two Americans. ‘Yes, three of them. They’re Sallies, or British Welfare, or something. One of them is a fellow countryman of yours. Aw fully nice girl. The other two are older, and not so--er h’m attractive.” As though this had been a cue, the door opened and a girl entered. She wore rub- a huge and her eyes looked as though she had been recently awakened. She was worth a sec- ond from any man, even if he were not a soldier right off the lines. The captain snatched off his helmet and the lieutenant discreetly stepped behind the table, for his nether garments had suffered in the enemy wire ‘This is Miss Brown,” officer. ‘‘She’s your fellow that I spoke of.” ‘We can see that,” said the captain. The girl smiled upon all. ‘‘I thought I heard Americans talking down here,” she said. ‘“‘What’s the matter? Are you lost, or hav e you run out of gas, or what? “Neither,” said the captain. ‘‘ We've ar- rived with a company of infantry, looking for billets, and the town is full.”’ “The captain was confused in the dark- ness and took the wrong turning,” ex- plained the British officer. ‘‘ Really not his fault, you know. The French ought to name their towns so that a civilized man knows what’s what. The captain was try- ing to get to Ansauvillers and he arrived at Bonvillers.”’ ““Why, you can get to Ansauvillers from here!” exclaimed Miss Brown. ‘‘It’s justa few minutes in the flivver. Why don’t you goon? They have a big silk mill there that they billet in very comfortable.” British officer stepped over to the eyes, erraw,”” he s for Ansauvil- a moment, arns you got?”’ isher. Somerset con- ber galoshes and Guard's overcoat, look said the British countryman It’s really EVENING POST Continued from Page 17 ‘It’s just a few minutes in the flivver, yes,”’ said the captain, “but I’ve got a hun dred and sixty here that have eighteen hours on the road. I’d never get them a hundred yards farther, kilometers. Even if we had billets in the town, we'd them to bed.” The captain crossed the room to a chair, into which he slumped, and rested his head ‘I can’t let them sleep in the rags and they’d be men been let alone six have to carry in his hands. mud. They’re all in de vad from pneumonia by morning. j ‘*My suggestion is to go on,”’ smiled the British officer. ‘“‘Six kilometers isn’t far, after all. And then, there isn't anything else to do. There isn’t a house or a barn or a cellar or a you see, sheet of elephant in my area that has got an inch of space under tg ‘If you'll wait a second until I get a hat, I'll go out with you,” said Miss Brown ‘Maybe, if I went around and shook a few hands and spoke to the men, it might en- courage them.” The captain looked at Miss Brown. had large dark eyes with tears in them. Her soft fine hair floated a little wildly, but she was an American and beautiful, and there was no denying that the sight of her encour- aged the captain. It might have the effect on tired doughboys. ‘It’s a chance,” said the captain without enthusiasm. ‘‘Only I hate to think of your going out in the rain on a night like this. It She Same seems like asking too much.” ‘Not at all,” laughed the girl. ‘All Americans must stick by each other a second and I'll get my hat and put on a few mufflers and things.” A few minutes later the two American officers and Miss Brown crossed the square and walked down the street to where the company lay in the road. The captain had a lantern now, and the rays of it glinting through the rain showed an uncanny sight. The company lay for the most part as it had fallen, squad by squad, in the center of the road. Some of the men had wandered off to one side, trying to find shelter, but the ruined houses had no roofs, and those that sheltered the troops of the Allies were shut tered and barred. The weary men had lain down the walls or in the old doorways, anywhere to find protection from the rain. The lan- tern gleamed upon two of these, their heads together and a against sitting against a wall, torn slicker over their shoulders as a feeble barrier against the downpour. The captain zed them. It was Duff and Barker, ite and drawn in the recogni their sleeping faces wh light **Something has quick,” muttered the captain, “ fit will all be dead!’ He seized the man within reach and shook him vig No response. ‘‘Give us a hand, Blake?"’ The lieutenant took arm and the man bodily to his feet “Wake up!” yelled the captain in the “Snap out of it!’’ He twisted with all his force. remarked thesoldier. He opened his however, and after blinking a while groaning once or twice at the pain of his stiffened legs, he remained erect. The captain and the lieutenant moved on to the next and, with the aid of a few kicks and a little twisting of nose and ear, awakened him. The third man was treated likewise, but the captain, happening to throw the light of his lantern behind him, discovered that there were but two men up the last one they had awakened and the man on whom they now worked. The first man had again slumped to the road. The captain thought of the other hun- dred and fifty-seven yet to be aroused and then went and leaned his head against the cold wall of a house. He had marched just as far as these men had, he had suffered just as much fatigue as they, but being an officer, hundred and lantern done damr or this out first got to be yorousiy. will you, hold of an lifted the sleeping officers two soldier's ear. the soldier “Guh!” "s nose eyes, and and being responsible for the August 7,1926 SALLIES sixty, he was still on his feet while they Iixhaustion, He wanted to lie down, weed-covered sle pt however, now had bette: there old ness left rignt of him. on the stones of that house, and sleep forever. Consciou him as chalk leaves the sponge Captain!” A voice called and a hand arm. He jumped back to wakeful- prised to f still leaning against the Captain!” cried the It was Miss Brown, and she shook the officer’s arm. ‘‘Listen!’’ she cried. “I’ve just thought of I can get these men up! The has a rum issu¢ for the Somersets in for eping. He'll give me a couple of jars, I'm That will be enough, and the Somer | go get up the two with me here and we'll give Tell them that! L’ve soldiers in the ls and rum! ‘Captain! from officer’s somewhere shook the ness, sur find himsel his head house, voice again. something town major his office safe sure sets will never miss it. I'l girls that are each man a drink. learned something been here. Gir about short time I’ve That'll get ’em up! ‘| doubt it,”’ said the captain dully. *‘ By the time I’d yelled that in the tenth man’ ear the first five would have forgotten what it was all about and gone back to sleep again.” ‘Loo ’ said the girl. took tl hand and held it loudly ried. looked at lantern from the aloft. es Ol she captain’ She had spokelr and the ton her voice had ca The two her with men The who had lain down to sleep again was now standing once more, and two others getting to their feet. Dufl had thrown off their slicker and vere getting to their feet. ‘Hey, buddies,”’ called the girl, ‘‘ he: up! I’m going to bring y drink! I’m going to come back i utes with tw 1 recently awakened intense curiosity. first man, were and Barker ou something ti in five mit o other girls and we'll give you a good shot of something hot! Head nutes I'll} ids came up. There ene. White f: within the circle of company stirred. \ female often heard i parts. “Girl!’’ gasped the ¢ Quic " eo DACK p, there! In five mi tered ex: seen just was not n those aptal ‘I think will work! cc now!” “Give me two men to! and I'll be off!”’ excitement. ‘Duff, the town major im. We're all of lady will show you wher »go. ¢ you ri i shot! ] ome on, men, There body up! instant from. the sleeping men. Exclamations could be heard onall sides. EKach man aroused his neighbor ‘Hey, git up! There’s Sallie gonna put out! Up on your feet! ‘“Gwan, lemme Sallies, hell!” “C’m on! I tell yuh I seen her myself I seen one of ’em! Boy, she’s a looker, what I mean! C’m on, git up an’ o’ the mud off us!” “Huh?” demanded others. this?”’ ‘They're some hot feed! Git up an’ o’ the line.’ ‘The hell you preach! Sallies?”’ ‘Sure, Sallies. says she’d knock a man’s eye out. so, Slim?”’ ‘I don’t believe it!” ‘Ah, what’s eatin’ yuh? Didn’t I see her? Didn’t I hear her say she was gonna get two more an’ give us a shot o’ rum?” Here they come!” cried someone from the darkness. Three lanterns bobbed down the street, and in the twisting circle of light cast by each, the infantrymen could see skirts They heard a ripple of laughter 1 every Was response some alone! let’s claw some ‘What's al Sallies gonna give us a let’s git near the head Whadd’yuh mean Slim seen one of ’em! He Ain’t it and a good Continued on Page 122

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THE SATURDAY (Continued from Page 118) clear American voice say, “Here we are, captain; are the men ready?”’ The last doubter got to his feet and, feel- ing ruefully of his three-days-old beard, tried to straighten his equipment and brush | some of the mud from his clothes. “‘ Here are the life-savers!”’ cried the cap- ‘“‘Now how are we going to work “I’m going tostart giving out cigarettes,” said Miss Brown, talking very loudly so that everyone could hear her. “Let me present Miss Annesley and Miss Binton, Captain Mathews and Lieutenant Blake. They’re going to give out therum. You can leave Miss Annesley with me and perhaps start Miss Binton halfway down the line. Have the men have their cups ready.” “But here!” cried the captain, noting that each girl was carrying a huge rum jar, “what became of the two men that I sent to help you?”’ ‘They just beat it!’’ said Miss Brown. I suppose they were afraid I was going to work them. They faded before I got to the town hall.” “Well, now, Mr. Blake and I will just carry that rum for you, and when I catch those two hounds I'll see that they get a chance to break rocks for a few months!” The company was fallen in and the three girls, accompanied by the officers, went in and out among the ranks, pouring a small shot of rum into each cup. Miss Brown had taken all the few cigarettes the town major had, and by tearing these in half she was able to give each man a short smoke. The men in ranks forgot their fatigue, for- “ | got that they were hungry and wet and | cold. | light ripples of feminine They could hear from time to time laughter, a soft a girl’s voice with an American asking, ‘‘Where are you from, Put up your hands now, voice accent so I'll give you a light.”’ ach soldier straightened himself a little more, adjusted his helmet to a better angle. Suddenly a lantern would dazzle him and before him would be a slicker-clad The lieu- tenant or the captain, as the case might be, would then pour out a portion of rum, while the soldier looked at the girl. It was | dark and the girls were muffled against the | rain and cold, but the soldier could see their hands, even touch them, and feel the brush of the slickers against their knees as the girls passed on. “The little one that’s puttin’ out the cigarettes is the best one,’’ the rumor ran. “She ain’t afraid to let a guy look at her.” It was done at last; the rum all gone and the last cigarette issued. “We'll go back now,” said the captain to the girl at his side, ‘‘and find Miss Brown.” He wondered at his companion’s shyness. He had managed to touch her hand several times while pouring the rum into the cup she held; he had taken her arm when they were near the ditch, so that she would not fall, but never a word had she said in thanks. Miss Brown had chattered and laughed and patted cheeks and run here and there, but the other two were British, and that might account for it. British girls were brought up that way. The girl suddenly stumbled, tripped on her long slicker, and would have fallen, save that the captain threw his arms around her The lantern that he It was the captain's first impulse to with- draw his arms, but a second impulse told him to leave them as they were, and see what the little Britisher would say. She said nothing, nor did she try to draw away. The captain could feel her trembling slightly. * Little Again she draw away. girl!’’ he breathed in her ear. trembled, but made no move to He tried to turn her face to- ward his, but she resisted. “‘I’m not trying to kiss you,” whispered the captain. ‘I’m an officer and a gentleman. Just let me brush your cheeks, your hair even, with my EVENING POST lips, just a touch, a memory to take back with me to the hell of the trenches!’’ The girl trembled again like a little bird. ‘Here he is!’’ cried a hearty voice. A light was suddenly thrust into the captain's face, and there was Lieutenant Blake hold- ing aloft a lantern and displaying to a circle of delighted soldiery their captain embracing an unwilling Sally. “Ahem!” coughed the lieutenant. ‘‘ Er Miss Brownis waiting —er—forherfriends. The captain released the Sally instantly and then, taking her arm, he led her to where another lantern marked Miss Brown. “There is no way I can thank you,” said he. ‘“‘You’ve saved my company for me and these men’s lives for their country. We'll always remember it. I'm going to make a report of the affair and you may be sure you'll get your share of credit.’ “Good night, captain, and good luck. Why shouldn’t I help? Aren’t we al] Amer- icans here?”’ She shook his hand with a firm clasp. ‘‘No,”’ said she, ‘‘you can’t come back with us. You march your com- pany out of town while they still feel the effects of that rum. Down to the square and to the left and you're on the road. Good night again—good night.” The three girls went down the street, and when the two lanterns had disappeared the captain turned to the lieutenant. ““Mr. Blake, do you know where is?’’ demanded the captain. ‘*Haven’t the slightest idea, the lieutenant. ‘**Well, don’t feel badly about it, because you'll be on your way there this time to- morrow night or I'll bite my initials in a green bough. Forwa-a-ard, huh!” The company marched off, staggering a little, weaving from side to side of the road, but going strong and good for the rest of the march to Ansauvillers. The men had alcohol in their stomachs, smoke in their lungs, and the word went like a spark of light from one rank to the next that the skipper had tried to mug a Sally and that the shavey had caught him at it. There was more strength in this thought than in a gallon of rum. In the town hall the British officer had gone to sleep again in his chair. He had built up the fire in the stove against the re- turn of Miss Brown, and the heat had put him away. He awakened suddenly to find the lamp going brightly, and Miss Brown hanging up a wet slicker and two long uni- form coats of the kind worn by female war workers. The coats were displayed where the fire would have the fullest drying effect; the girl arranged three wide-brimmed hats on a chair, and pushed the chair toward the stove. ‘‘Ah, back again safely,’’ observed the officer. ‘‘Raining a bit, by the sound. I built up the fire so you'd get a bit of a thaw before you went to bed. Other ladies coming in?” “No” tired.” “‘And they sent you in to hang up their coats and things? Bit thick of them, I'd call it.” *“You don’t know the half of it,’’ said the girl. ‘“‘But then they’re older than I, and after all, those Yanks were my countrymen and not theirs.” “Not very sporting of them to toss you their coats as though you were a lackey,” remarked the officer. ‘‘Can’t I make it up to you? I'll nip out and get some rum and brew you a toddy before you go to bed.” He clattered out of the door and down the hall, while Miss Brown leaned her head on her hand. She was only a child, after all, and it is no easy task to give out a hundred and sixty cigarettes, to light same, to pat ” Blois ” answered said the girl. “‘They were very August 7,1926 one hundred and sixty cheeks and shake the same number of hands, all in a howling storm and in the small hours of the morn- ing. The wood in the stove cracked, water dripped steadily from the soaked garments, and the alarm clock on the wall ticked loudly. Suddenly there was a sharp cry, the door banged open, and the officer leaped into the room. “The rum!” he cried. They’ve stolen all the rum!” “Did you let any Americans know that there was a lot of rum here?” asked the girl. “Why, yes, the two that came in with you. They were to carry the rum, you said. I took them into the kitchen and they car- ried out the two jars I was going to give you. Now the other four are gone! But the door was locked! How could they have done it, and when?”’ “‘T could have told you,” said the girl, smiling in spite of herself, ‘‘not to show my countrymen rum. They'd have it on you if they had to burn the house down. Not sporting of them, was it? Really, I’m awfully sorry, and after you were so decent about giving me the other two jars!” Ah, well,” said the officer, “‘never mind. It’s too late now. There was rum there for a battalion, and if those Yanks drink it all up they’ll never get to Ansauvillers nor anywhere else tonight. Don’t feel badly about it. We’re quits. Your countrymen have the rum and mine the billets. The worst part of it is that I can’t give you a toddy.” A mile or so away two men tramped through the rain and the blackness along the Route Nationale toward Ansauvillers. One marched ahead of the other, and be- tween them was an iron shutter bar, from which hung a burden that clunked and thudded with every step. It was two jars of rum. The other two jars had been cached under a drain to be secured at a later date. These men were Duff and Barker. “What bothers me,”’ observed Duff sud- denly, ‘‘is how the hell we're gonna square ourselves with the Old Man.” “Why, easiest thing in the world,” said Barker. “All we gotta do is to explain that this here Sally comes out an’ says to us, ‘Boys, the other girls allow they can’t get up to serve out rum to no Yanks, bein’ as they’re old an’ will most like get rheuma- tism.’ An’ then we can just say that she asks will we put on these other girls’ coats an’ hats an’ let on to be Sallies, which we done, an’ she told us how to get in the kitchen an’ swipe the rum, to show how grateful she was. An’ here’s the rum to show we ain’t lyin’.”’ “Nah,” said Duff sadly, “it won’t do He'll hang us fer beatin’ it an’ not showin’ up to help the Sally put out the rum, an’ we can’t tell him it was us that was puttin’ it out disguised as girls, because he tried to mug me!” “No!” “Yes! ‘Little girl,’ he mutters in my ear. ‘Little girl.’ He’d been prancin’ around for some time, pattin’ my arm an’ holdin’ me up so I wouldn’t trip over no stones, an’ I had a mouthful o’ muffler so not to laugh. Oh, man! Well, he didn’t get up his nerve for a long time, an’ I was hustlin’ just as fast as I could to get back to the looey an’ the other girl, when I tripped in that damn long coat, an’ then he had me. First I laughed an’ then I got scared an’ then here comes the shavey an’ shoves the lantern at us. That ended that.” Barker’s howl echoed to the sky. *“C’m on, we go,” said Duff. “‘‘I want a memory to take back with me to the hell o’ the trenches,’ he says. Well, if he’d shoved his mush into my four-day-old beard he’d have had a memory all right. Huh! I got one now that a year o’ cook’s police won't fade.” “*Man,” agreed Barker, ‘‘it months’ blind.” The two then went on and the weight of the bar and the two rum jars was unnoticed. “Tt’s gone! ’s worth a six

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FP TUT TEs ‘ain Py WT ATIF" f A lay! / (AE FOUNDLING Continued from Page 13 “He did a stunt that had nothin’ phony _ the colt developed strongly in actuality and seen the t work, an’ ] \ about it. The youngster just pricked |} extraordinar n Spre f eat now. V r 1 ears as though he’d had a bit of sugar ar ‘Look at his legs!’’ Dicky would cry ad the long « ( ( come up the stretch in a home run. Sa\ miringly. ‘* There bone of fine ality, Trial—Saur y his palpitator’s in the right spot. Between hard as ivory, fine as a deer’ Bowery Clever planner ourselves, Jimmy, it was botherin’ me breeders make me tired with their blather was up against it when he tried to pr ti \ | this question of heart. But the kid getsthe about big bone—buncombe! D’you ever turf contests—to write prophet cet hare pluck from his mammy; she was game _ see a head like that, Jimmy? Isn't it a lly one-two-three « we i ) enough till her bellows played out. Now greyhound’s all over? And the ears—fit for four hours yet in the futur this wor I we've got to try Passion an’, if he’s good, a watch charm. You never saw a horse in drous gold-coated son of Nellie | that had iys before the Gre enter him in some of the stakes before they your life with the tips turned in that wasn’t eaten the winds—as the Aral 1) n |} t frier close in the New Year. We've got to boom honest. What? The lipstoothin—temper? _ trial, performed as creditably in a race wit! good er Dander’s stock.” You're away off; that’s courage. Horses second-raters as a garden goat might have We « t How’ll we try the colt?” ain’t bulldogs; the blubber-lipped ones’ re Jimmy Bankes, watching Passion’s « D t “With his papa. The old horse is greased soft. Legs—too much daylight under him? ratic behavior at the post tid That that run the meet ghtnin’ for three furlongs, an’ he won’t D’you ever hear of St. Simon or St. Frus comes of breedin’ to a fiddle-headed brute ish too. I'll have juitin atrial. We'll put eighty-four pounds quin? Well, they ran on stilts. Hamburg? like Dander, Dicky. He's got the old Jimmy a } on Passion an’ one hundred and twenty-six Yes, he was flat, but there ain’t many _ horse's nerves.” Sproat had on the old horse, which is weight for age; an’ Hamburgs knockin’ about.” “That colt ain’t got Dand nerves, al Some I f the colt can get anywhere near him at the There was nothing lacking in the found- don’t you forget that Sproat answered conditior { finish, he’ll do.” ling colt— according to Sproat. The fierce-colored s f the jock by the payment ‘“‘Leary’ll ride the youngster, but where’l! These were weeks of romance, of dreamy were things of terror that glinted evilly in Cus olt. Sau ou get a close-mouthed boy for the other? fiction. In April, Dicky became a sordid the bright sunshine when the mettled colt, Neely’s interest the G We don’t want to sing to the public.’’ person of resource Passion, caught their flash from every sids complex and sinu } H ‘“You'd best ride Dander; you won't dis- ““We'll try the chestnut,” he said, “‘an’ as he was jammed here and pulled there dam of Saur ourage the youngster. Colts’re like bull if he’s real good, we'll skip Aqueduct an’ in and out, in that swarm of sixteen young juarter interest in t ips. You want to blood ’em bylettin’’em give him his lesson at Belmont. Most of _ sters at the starting post; and the bu ke sum of money pa } Ir « k somethin’. You can let the youngster the spielers’l] be up at Aqueduct now, but voice of some strong-lunged man was roar Pa n's two bad ra N kne eep his nose in front—you’'ll know just there’ll be somebody watchin’ at Belmont, ng strange commands: and on thi st hy is danger ' vhat you have in hand with Dander.”’ p’raps, so we'll give ‘em the double cross. back was a human of evil intention, and _ thar iurian and would ive t Next day Passion’s trial was pulled off A little saffron’ll fix the colt’s white face, withal of great treachery, for the iron ir pounds le veight in t iddie. He In Dicky’s hot palm, the quick, nervous an’ we'll gallop ’em in the afternoon. I’ve Passion’s tender mouth was yanked and be a long price the bett finger of a split-second watch tripped never worked the colt yet that I didn’t see sawed from side to sid ind back at } vould e Neely a nce such as he around the dial, “ Click-click-click-click,”’ Slim Neely clockin’ him. HethinksI wasn’t flank a fierce insect stung him—he had He would ba i ive two | ind as the gold-yellow head of the two-yez on. Well, I'll call him down some of these never known the spur in his tr ’ d slipped by the finish post, atouchstilled days. They have a good one in Cusick’s And in front was the strange web « \ A P } the fussy marker of fraction seconds. barn, Saurian, an’ I s’pose Neely’s watchin’ tanglement—the barrier. He had been Great Trial, Jimn “proat glanced at the dial, then muttered for a rival.” - schooled at it; but even then, at that time, this one’s 20 tol. We run for the in exclamation of doubting surprise. The day of Passion’s trial, Neely was at when all was peace and his own gentle only, eh, D “Thirty-seven seconds! Why, Dander queduct, but he had left a boy on watch _ handed boy on his back, the thing had once Not for mine,”’ D ouldn’t do that with anything in hand Imont; he had never lost ht of lassoed him by the throat. Yes, it was a jueezed two hundred from the e'd be all out! My timin’ is on the bum e Bly’s colt danger, something for a horse to avoid t all goe n Pa ? t t What'd you have in hand with Dander, hat night the boy reported to his mas-_ But in avoiding it there was the long whi in’ bet it, Jimn here’s the jimmy?” he continued, as Bankes slid ter: ‘Jimmy Bankes an’ Dicky Sproat heavy of handle, behind there in the a ‘Bet it on the limb, as far out as } rom the horse’s back. tried a two-year-old today. The big horse sistant starter’s hand, that was a greater get it, Di Jimmy pleaded; he “In hand? I was all in. I didn’t draw Dander won the trial, but he was all out; evil. All at once there was a mad rush of the » to 1 to w-——that’s the place f } the whip, for he’d have curled up like a_ they pulled the other one off. They run a_ two-year-olds, like a wolf pack, like beagle mone bet it that he r third.” abbage leaf; butI handrodehimasthough quarter in twenty-four, an’ the colt’s the thrusting forward to a found scent. It wa “ Allright,at 20 tol , reon| t was the Brooklyn Handicap.” best I see out yet. He’s ten pounds better’n the stampeding of a herd. They were ir Jimmy Bankes hurried from the pad “‘T thought you was bluffin’—kiddin’ the the blaze-face one Sproat’s been workin’.”” front of him—on every side of him; and_ to the lawn in front of the grand stand, } oy on Passion.” This information puzzled Neely, but he behind, something struck into his ho ttle fox eyes peering here and there for t} ‘No, the chestnut had the old horse was a man who took the shortest road to It wasn’t running; it wasn’t a race at al rotund form of Gus § taggerin’. He cut out a lick that would’ve — solve a problem. it was a scrimmage. who laid the odds in w cept the best of ’em guessin’, an’ stayed *D’you know that red-headed boy in And at the end of it Dicky Sproat betting—noticket passe with it too.” Sproat’s stable, Jack?” he asked. scratched his head and said disconsolately ist two gentlemer é “Then the time’s right,’”’ Sproat declared. “Yes, sir; that’s Mike Higgins.” that he couldn’t understand it at all. Pas- other, which was not « That night mellow satisfaction perme- “Well, here’s a V; you boys like to be sion hadn't been in the money, even. And and r woul t ited the Sproat ranch; undoubtedly they sociable sometimes, an’ I think Mike’s a_ the jockey said that his mount didn’t seem winr nce or clut had drawn a winning number in the turf _ nice kid.” to have any early speed, but was going a here was Gus, his striking suit of S ottery. Sproat expatiated learnedly upon Next morning Jack had little information bit better at the end. tweed visualizing his great girth ust how the cross between Dander, who for his master; but for himself, and on his Jimmy, because of his racing lore, said |] ted Duoy in | ale traced back through Rapello to Bend d’Or, own account, he had obtained a black eye. simply: “‘This runnin’ ’s all wrong. We'll “Gus,” Bankes said, “* Dick Sproat ind Nellie Bly, whose great-grandsire was His attempt to bribe Mike had led to just throw this race out The colt ran two hundred on Passion. What's he at Ormonde, had produced this colt of great recriminations and the discolored optic. green—he’s on We'll start h to one to D ar promise and present excellence. It was However, Sproat’s boy, before he caught next in the Laureate; there'll be asmaller grinned. “In the racin’ game, D what was called the happy nick in breeding. on, had let slip the information that they field in the stake, an’ it'll bea good prep for good feller—that lets | out; he’s { t’s too bad,” Dicky said, “that we had no new horse in their stable, no two- the Great Trial.”’ away years over mutt horses, ar hadn’t known in time to have nominated year-old except the white-faced chestnut. Disastrous as the first race had ap- nd this bet I n fo th Passion for the Futurity. This youngster Practically, this was all Neely wanted; peared, it had one result of value—it set I’m bad to Saurian. I'll lose a-plenty would win it, bar-accidents. A cool fifty- the chestnut of the trial was undoubtedly the colt thinking. When he went to the romps home; besides, I'd hate to see thousand purse, and that would have Nellie Bly’s colt, and he now had fulfilled post for the Laureate he had matured wor Cusick win anythir settled it for Dander. These horse phi- his early promise and was extra good. And drously. He had thought the whole thing ‘I’ve got D ired ssophers figure a sire’s quality by the being good, how was he to benefit Neely? out. The crackling colors, splashy blotches _ said, sl} ng a hand ir ; pocket amount of money his progeny wins. Now That gentleman emptied his pipe twice of chromatic discord, had shed their ter- Nothin’ doir y. D'’you want we've got to stick Passion in a couple of over this query. Sproat would ask a big fying qualities. me pinched? Besides, D Sproat good stakes.” figure for the colt if he would consent to here was mort im with but eight Dicky took from a shelf a bundle of sell him at all. starters: Passion’s companions were bet As Jimmy t i t 1 hooks. ‘“‘There ain’t many stakes left No, no use to put Cusick up to buying ter behaved. When the barrier shot sk) memo As he open,” he continued, turning page after him; it couldn't be done. In fact better to ward the chestnut colt was in the van—h« t page. ‘Here’s one—the Laureate, twelve let Sproat and Jimmy run the colt, then led, led until a grappling iron took him by = and i \\ hundred added, entries to close February he’d make good his words; then he'd crum- the hind leg and pitched him to his nose i ( twelfth: that'll do as a starter. Then we ple them up like a cigarette. He chuckled It was Jockey Rooney on Saurian that w want a gilt-edged play, something first chop ghoulishly over the plan in his mind that — the grappling iron, and Saurian, gallopir eye rrowe ! i e, | to boom his nibs, Dander. Champagne, was such a certainty—there wasn’t a flaw had cut down the chestnut. ther I t ne f i losed; Expectation, closed; here’s one init. And he would play a lone hand; not It was one of the usual happenings that | 1 Passion—he to 1, tl made to order—the Great Trial—twelve even Cusick in on it. relieve the monotony of fast horses beating housand—closes January second. It’ll ‘‘We'll start Passion a couple of times,’’ slower horses; it was one of the chances of “Go get it, Mr. Ne W he ost four hundred an’ fifty for the colt to Dicky said advisingly to Bankes. “‘We’ll the great game, nothing more. But not Cusi bets on another | the ice the barrier, entry an’ startin’ sweep; pick out as cheap a bunch of two-year-olds knowing the cause, Dicky and Jimn race he’s got one t t with n ut if he isn’t goin’ strong, we can declare as we can find runnin’ an’ let him taste a stared aghast at their wondrous colt tra he’s a thousand ar ther er him out in May for seventy-five.” win; it'll give him sand, an’ that’s what ing the seven others down the stretch. But Swartz half turned and whispered ‘Just as you say, Dicky.” gets the goods nine times out of ten. I'll the gash in Pa n's | t missing t thing t so Passion was entered for the Great give you the office, Jimmy) Cusick think tendon, was ¢ juent ¢ t And as the winter fled before spring, he’s goin’ to clean up with Saurian. I’ve — chestnut’s failure. Continued on Page 128

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No obligation. (Use — a business letterhead) 6°) UO CARBON PAPER HEADQUARTERS 1903 Pacific Coast Address, 406 South Main Street, Los Angeles, Calif. THE SATURDAY Continued from Page 125 standing there. The little man away. “Tt’s not Sam Cusick’s bet; it’s my own money,” Neely expostulated. “That makes it a damn sight worse; when you and Cusick put your heads to- gether, you've got an ace in the hole. I don’t want your bet at all.” “You fat Dutchman! You piker!” Neely snarled. Then he pushed through the crowd to where a tall slim man in a lavender suit stood. ‘‘ What price Passion, Reilly?’’ he queried of this man. “Even money.” “Even money? You're crazy!” “Crazy like a fox; Mr. Sam Cusick’s run- ner. I don’t want your bet.” It was wonderful how the whisper from Gus had carried; it was like the mental telegraph of the savage in the forest. Neely tackled three other oral men, and the three men turned away from him with as little interest as if he had said it was a fine day. Finally, out near the paddock, he found a man—what was called a fringe man—one who was practically ostracized from the coterie of reliable layers, because some- times he did not pay off if he had had a bad day. Even this man had caught the dis- trust. “Passion, Neely? What're you doin’ backin’ one against your own stable? Sam Cusick and Dicky Sproat put their heads together? I'll lay you 2 to 1 the good thing doesn’t come off.” “Two to one!’”’ Neely sneered. ‘Look here, you wise guy, a hundred on Saurian at 3 to 1; an’ settle soon’s the All Right sign’s up. Here!’’ And he surreptitiously slipped the bookie a hundred-dollar bill. Neely walked away, muttering, “At 20 to1 I'd have taken a chance for two thousand, an’ perhaps kept my mouth shut. But two hundred’s no good to me when I can turn three hundred on a sure thing.” Then the bugle called the racers to the struggle; and as the ten juveniles cantered to the post, racing men said in their eager- ness, “‘ This ought to be a great race.”’ There were three colts that might give Saurian an argument—Rapidity, Cashier and Red Moon; either one of these had a chance to beat Cusick’s favorite. Pas- sion—he might as well have been in the barn. Then when these men, rich in turf lore, had arranged it all, the starter cast loose his webbed barrier, and the babe horses, beckoned by fate, proceeded to disarrange the unwise plans of weakling mortals and enact that which the capricious god of chance desired. “They're off!’’ For the space of one, two, three, four, counted deliberately, there was a mixup of the baby runners—all to- gether, like pups at play; then the shape- less mass grew into a wedge. “There goes the favorite,’’ a man said, as a green-and-white jacket drew out. “Favorite nothing!” a voice answered, half muffled by hands that held a pair of powerful glasses. ‘“‘Saurian’s all green; there he is back in the bunch.” “Who's in the lead then?” “Green, white sleeves; look at your pro- gram. What's that--number seven, he is.”’ The horse was drawing out, and the num- ber on the saddle cloth had grown into the speaker’s vision. “Passion,”’ the other answered. “That dub! He might as well be dead; he’ll soon crack up.” At the quarter the cracking-up process was still in abeyance; the chestnut son of Nellie Bly was leaning into his bridle, beg- ging for a loosening of the rein that checked his speed. And behind, Saurian, hampered by Red Moon and Rapidity, was waiting for an opening. At the half, Dicky Sproat stretched out his hand and grasped Jimmy’s arm till his fingers bit into the flesh. ‘“‘By heavens, boy,” he said, his voice husky with emo- tion, ‘‘they’ll never catch the colt now! That’s the way he moved the day he put Dander out of business two weeks ago. The boy’s ridin’ him under a double wrap.” hurried EVENING POST “Don’t, Dicky!” Jimmy pleaded. “If you say a word he’!I fall dead—somethin’ ’1l happen.” “Don’t croak, Jimmy. Now what d’you say? How’re they goin’ to catch him? They’re all at the bat, an’ Ruddy hasn’t moved on Passion. There ee “‘Saurian’s comin’ now, Dicky.” “There, boy, d’you ever see the like of that? Ain’t he a great colt!” The jockey on Passion had tossed his little body forward once, twice; his right hand had twisted with a corkscrew motion at the rein, and the gallant chestnut, with- out cut of lash or tickle of spur, drew away, and as his great gallop swung him past the judges’ stand a length to the good Sproat gave a yell of joy and shook his friend in a frenzy of exhilaration. Then he sprang to the course to care for the gallant winner. A strange feeling of misfortune hung over the spirit of Jimmy. Even now, with Passion first past the post, he couldn’t shake it off. He shivered as the jockey slipped from the horse, took his saddle and weight cloth on his arm and fell in line to weigh in. Just a minute and the ordeal would be past, everything would be over. Two men knocked against Jimmy as they ran toward the judges’ stand. Ah, they were going to object— there was something wrong. He followed them, cursing their heartlessness. At the little gate they leaned over the course railing, and one said, ‘There, Jack! Gad, man, did you ever see a grander colt in your life? He won in a walk, I tell you!” “Ain't it the racing game all over?” his companion added. ‘He belongs to Jimmy Bankes. He bought the dam for two hun- dred dollars, I hear, and the sire was a rank bad horse.” Jimmy turned away, twisting his shoul- ders angrily, as though he would cast from his spirits the dread that was cold and of weight like a shirt of mail. It must be de- nothing could happen now; the boy’s weight would be all right; in these days of precision and perfect scales, wrong weight was rare indeed. Even as Bankes reasoned with himself, the string of midgets that was like a dis- jointed rainbow had wound its way to an end over the scales. Above, a steward put his mouth to a tube, and across the course the numbers of the placed horses were low- ered, a red band attached, and then they shot aloft, and the Great Trial had been run and won by Passion, with Saurian sec- ond and Rapidity third. There was the sign absolute, the red seal of indorsement. All right! All right! All right! The taut nerves slipped, the strain passed, a smile of joy chased the drawn wrinkles from Jimmy’s lips. A minute before he had been poor; now, thanks to the gallant horse, the foundling, he was rich. Yes, there was the seal, the red band. And now he owned a stake colt-—-a colt that was worth twenty thousand dollars at least. The wealth seemed fabulous —four thou- sand won in the bet and Sproat had de- clared him in on that fifty-fifty. And the stake would run at least ten thousand dol- lars; much more, even with the money going to the second and third horses de- ducted, for starters’ money would be added. Then he shivered, for Neely met him face to face, and on the latter's lips was a sneer of hate; and in the hard gray eyes was a snakelike glitter of triumph. “T must be dopy!” Jimmy muttered, as he twisted a path through the mob of peo- ple on the lawn. ‘‘The race is all in; I’ve got the goods. I used to fancy these things when I was wastin’; I’m a bit off my oats, pression that’s ali. ‘‘Now you see, Jimmy my raven,” said Dicky Sproat, ‘‘your rootin’ against our luck was no good. We've copped the stake, an’ Dander’ll top the list of winnin’ sires by fall. And the colt’s all right—he’s no more distressed than if he’d been breezin’ a half. James King asked me to put a price on him just now.” “T s’pose it’s all right, Dicky be!” it must August 7,1926 Then the winner of the big blanketed and led away. Passion’s owners were suddenly taken horsemen as belonging to the fraternity; stake was cognizance of by men who own stake animals are to be con- sidered in the great game. The two stood together on the They were possessed of complacent lawn. Satis- every- faction with the whole racing game thing; it was a jovial old world altogether. Sproat’s nimble tongue rattled on, making plans for Passion. Then the evil one appeared in their gar- den that was filled with orchids and tropi- cal flowers of fancy. The agent of unrest was a messenger from the stewards that that august trio of autocratic power wished to—well, as the messenger said: ‘‘The stewards want you up in their stand, Mr Sproat, and Mr. Bankes too.” When Sproat and Bankes climbed wear- ily up the wooden steps to the judges’ stand, Steward Forsby said, ‘Mr. Neely here wishes to enter an objection to your colt on the score of wrong registration. Now, Mr. Neely,” he added, “did have a horse in this stake?” **No, sir.” **Did you train a horse that was in thi stake, or are you the accredited agent for anybody that had a horse in this stake?” “Tam not,’’ Neely answered. “Then you have no authority to enter an objection against the Mr Neely —that rule is absolute.” Neely stared aghast. He was not a man to be versed in racing rules —trickery wa: his forte. Then he remembered something. “T’m a part owner in Saurian second,” he blurted. ‘‘I owned his dam, an’ Cusick gave me for the mare a quarter interest in her first get, sired by Mugger; an’ Saurian's her first get.” “‘Can you furnish proofs of that?”’ “Yes, sir; I havea letter from Cusick in my pocket. Here it is “Is this document jockey club—the partnership?”’ “‘No, it was a private deal between me an’ Cusick. I’d been ruled off once, Cusick didn’t want it known.” “Ah! We will take it for granted that you are a part owner, Mr. Neely, and allow you to there’s anything wrong we want it cleared up. Proceed.” “Passion is entered as by Dander colt is by Mugger, Cusick’s horse; an’ Sproat just claimed him for Dander.”’ “Stop that, Neely!’’ Steward said sharply. ‘‘How do you know the colt is by Mugger?”’ “‘Because I bred N myself.” “Did Mr. Cusick know about that affair? 3e very careful, Mr. Neely, because this is a serious case.” ““Cusick was away at the time.” “Did you tell him when he came back “No; I forgot. The mare Nellie Bly was to be mine, an’ is “‘T see. We’ll hear you, Mr. Sproat.”’ Sproat and Bankes related all that had occurred about the breeding of Passion; Cusick’s flat statement that he wouldn't breed Nellie Bly to Mugger; that they knew nothing about Mugger being the sire, absolutely nothing, had never even heard it Forsby drew the two other stewards to one side, where they consulted in low tones you winner, hat ran ” registered with the an’ t } , | G make your objection, f pecause Forsby llie Bly to Mugyger Then he turned from his companions and said: ‘‘Mr. Sproat, there is no evidence furnished by this man to implicate you against the rules. You registered Passion according to the knowledge you had of his breeding; but change the registration of Passion to read ‘By Mugger or Dander.’ The race stands as won by Passion.”’” He turned to Neely, adding, ‘‘But Saurian is disqualified for second place and placed last, because that partnership was not registered according to the rule of partner- ship. Mr. Cusick can appeal if he likes.” As Sproat and Jimmy went down the steps, Bankes asked, “‘ Did you know this all along, Dick?” “No, but I guessed it. much.” Neely talks too

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Heminway crouched lower, close to the is face with his hands ick perch of the Zeta frat house girl and a boy were dancing. Inside a led, a voice sang with it, and the But out here on the porch io, and cove red | ano tint rowd danced. , ] : id ‘ r e boy and girl were alone, suddenly, ter-

tion, the hea¢ The girl was born for it, danced like part of him. He could smell but he ould not see the cluster of Mayflowers The girl in his arms

as only a slim, fragrant ghost of a girl in pale organdie limp with the night mist. but her eyes Ss a quarrel, Hie could not see her face, had tears in them; for this v heir first. And what was it all about? And they had had so many never a quarrel before. The girl’s

oice was silver sweet: Not a kiss. Not this kiss. Not yet I told you wh Because it is—it is ng to be a ery spe al kiss It s s mething; it means something. Unless it means to you just what it means to me, you r not ss me t means that you are mine

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‘Poor boy, you are afraid. Don’t be ifraid You do not need to promise. I’! I'll take care of both of : of you. When you need me I'll all alone

be there —anywhere—somehow —always!” Cool arms locked round the boy’s neck, nging, drawing his face down; lips touched his cheek, his lips ‘Woneuer! On) the S voice said It, silver sweet, ering y oignantly, through the ist « as ol the song W! he was a cad a ye Ww 1 Heminwa Could you—-« 1 e him anotne chance? \ 4 t But the next number was beginning. No ri i e ol Ke no prelude told him what he next song would be. Only a hand, ed, Dut careless and idle, played with the kevs of the old piano, striking a chord here 1 note there ave ng the flawed notes The plano was out of use, out of tune Lor his was summer iar a : , , P A girl had stolen alone into the deserted

frat house; a girl who was this summer a Vays alone She had raised only one Close | vn curtal S white ‘ re I it , er tor- rr ove ne Ss. She te ed one key, taking the } ™ it ped he inds in her lay aised ‘ f to the neurtained window and t ‘ ft began to sing D ‘ fh thay /é ng should she sing? What

What other ther song was there, had there ever been in the world, so tender, so warm, so young, 9 Sin so heartbroken, so happy’ Hushed, low

THE SATURDAY EVENING POST STATION STVYX Continued from Page I! as a iullaby or a prayer, Dut you could hear t would come when it

across the wor called you Why did the bey not hear it r leet with Nis and come and k head on her clasped hands? Where was the boy? The boy ? She was not calling the boy that Heminway used to be. She was calling to Heminway, and Heminway could not answer. His voice choked, would not come. But he d on this August day 1 not care; I!

window with light He \ Light touched the wind it, reached her hand on a withered cluster of Mayfl and Heminway could 1 girl, the dim room had vanished. One crashing discord cut through the slender thread of song and broke it. He could hear

g nothing—noth Heminway gripped the little radio with both hands and shook it. He stumbled to his feet, swayed, caught a window sill for support and clung to it. he heard his own loudly. And then

too s lowly, thnrougn an in- 4 - oor. finite blackness to the When Ming Toy made hi vet-looted entrance it nine next morning prompt, ve l- Heminway’s phone was ringing. Toy took

the call in his quarters, then tiptoed into the living room and backed Out with a purr f apology For Heminway la on the I ouis Quinze day bed fully dressed and awake. His handsome new lounging suit was crum pled as lf ne had slept in it and ept badly. Also his face was chalk white and his eyes had ittte amber lights in them which Ming Toy had not often seen there, ‘Come back here, you poor dumb heathen,”” Heminway said kindly, but rather wearily. ‘“‘You didn’t wake me. I've been awake some time. I'll take about three gallons of black coffee. I feel rotten

night I had r ‘Lady,”’ Ming

‘ VOICE mt +t the description was not adequate, “calling you on your phone, my mister. Name of Miss aga tcp “Miss who asked Heminway absently.

e say she call you four times last t, get a busy signa you save her ast night, but she iorgive you Say Shandy’s place get burned up last night, many g Ss get ed And she Ly she never s} to you agalr “She w said Heminway I broke the Waterford vase. Keep your eye out for another. Clean up the mess and tell the fiorist nes fired ne ¢ er sends in

like that again.” Arbutus ‘Me iytlow rs,”” said lem nway, clos ng his eyes ) Lo Ld t fool witht t radio for a while It’s n the bum that it’s getting on my nerves. I shall chu t out ort an expert up to give it a going over And Toy, where are the finders ointing? Just take a look and te ne SIXT) Lrh¢ ero

no nrugged his oulders leerly but very kind out of |} na yw ‘ Lady, he announced elevant **mo in t night y apartment unc + Apartment? Boot set,’ Heminw amended absently. Ming 1 ( not dis- te tne Tr nt inat isa rY miste lr} itis q te sa Heminwa And fe thre voola wan woke aad three ays, to be ! Xx t that was al N thing happened to Her nwa yt h

juite belongs to this s pe ned.

iwa a ai n He nw i t tangle of things to be ae ‘ ett fitted neatly inte that absolut« nt pattern which was Hemiz le \ not It interr ipted, annoyed hin et menow not in the least to matte One girl he looked over and turned dow se at least one new girl to take out each spring, and he had for years been looking as not a gold digger lso he had lost Patsy for a Follies girl who w number

to a Brazilian multimillionaire, whom she ktail party His cur proved to have been had knifed one night at a co and married the morning after rent really nice girl ! months to her father’s chauf feur and had just prteccedicnnt it. Fania Lubitch, the sculptress, the g rl he talked to, had deve lope la May fair bob, and wit}

it an unsuppressed desire to vamp instead of tall She bored him, but of late most girls did, so he kept her on, dined with her twice a week and except for her, saw no girls at all, but the ones employed at hi office and the gir] downstair the new girl room below him.

Hen inway had never spoken to her But though the other pallid young crea tures he met at the door or on the stairs came and went, she seemed to have no en- ravgements no friends; to be always there

Bes and Vays alone So she soon became a fan gure to r though she was a é ague one A face at a window, whicl never looked out, but was bent over work at a table 4 slender, hurrying creature, iden with bundles, manipulated with a curious, defiant grace. If you groped in the dark for a bundle which she had dropped and | ed it uj he s ed but did not spea and intheda ou could not see he S A pale gnost | y He refused this spring not only new g but new jobs. He turned dow: at and Vv nout regret a piace on an internationa ommission to make over the finances of a ratne nportant foreig country A ) he did not open the Long Island bungalow where he always spent his summe H Same, and entire nade I shall be detained ir York.” W) asked Ming Toy, who asked few questions and those direct I Hem- inway could not answer He wanted to st n New Yo n his own apartment new that he ild stay there, 1 St stay there that the ente ot I = VO 1 I id shifted and lay there, d gi ward t, holding |t uiming hu Knew it the least know wh I’m getting old t l nd But M ng | r ¢ gr} He ery grave My mister ¢ g inge Qo lite wor ‘ é r \ ing ( a t eed Her nw “Tdiot’s deligt For this spring only two pastimes amused hin nd bot} ere ? rt} mused himsomu t t t i isnar i of then He walked Bought ! er ing a 4 eat Le twent ears bel the r ( nd wore them. Tox i t int tior 1 t off tye t ne t ne | t ryryve va tatior iw ‘ ned or x ed ar r s cou te alone twa t tol sight or nd of M tta t tI smart littl t t t tire He employed a ‘ é t and continued to wa Soon he 1 beat ! way straight throug patnie Vooas lor that sixth sense which he had lost with his youtn also his second wind and his waist

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EVENING POST line. And he would sing as he walke songs that did not take too much breath or brain; old stuff, his old college glee-club songs. His second pastime was even more child- ish. Heminway was a radio fan. He had ordered a new set, giving con- scientious skill and care to the selection; a fine set, housed in a great, walnut cabinet, cunningly carved. But when Ming Toy announced that a man had arrived to in- him to go to hell,’’ said Hemin-

pay for it and take credit if he ie amended thriftily, “but Iw not take it. This set suits me.” So there it stood on the red-lacquered way. resells 1t, table under the purple lamp—the old port- able set. And every night for an hour, and always at about the same time—at nine , ] legged on the He could not tell rot this habit —who can account for habits? Sut it was a strong, almost a sacred habit. He juggled and broke engagements to indulge it; for would sit cross-

his day would have been as incomplete without it as if he had failed to shave or brush his teeth and hair. That freak dream which he had about the far-distant station used to come back to him sometimes. His trained mind had decided once for all that it was only a dream, and so all the panic and pain of it had faded. It seemed like a sweet dream,

very sweet, and he liked to think about it, and did so more and more. When he had serious trouble with inter- ference and static—and as the set was so crazy, so old, and his hands were so un- skilled, he had much—he used to grin and “‘Am I tuning in on that station?” When his favorite vaudeville team gave some tender and mawkish ballad of | and daisies which had almost the thrill of Id heart songs, he would say: ““Not so good. They do things better at that station.’’ And always he wished that he had dreamed the name of the station. It would seem sometimes as if he had dreamed it. Sometimes he could almost remember it. “It begins with S,” he announced a! ruptly, one evening late in May. “‘What does, heart’s friend?’ Fania Lubitch asked languidly, not turning her head, which was arrat cushions of his Louis Quinze

for the new permanent wave ir Mayfair bob. Fania had an engagement at nine; he I

had made sure of this before he invited her to dinner. But she made no move to go She made no move at all. She sat there her orange smock, with her sandaled feet ) , and a hand-rolled cigarett between two 1, sm 1 fing ind tared at him thri tr vellow- white smoke. § , her small, pale face v the 1 ed eyes, was inscrutable chart ] A almost nine t d Heminway rudely It he added ay of apolog I must be hell downstairs. t was hot And the

as not the heat of other yex nenace » i ht | t n there, those pale creatures that Heminway issed at the door sometimes, slinking iD t t ) t j tnougnt of t trangel\ chintz, wit re : overtime, with iced glasses for Ming Toy’s divinely inspired iced dr t was almost hell Some pt! What's t 6 For the | had to tu rhe nnders nted onet t i tc ‘ p This tir ther TI a ounce \ 5 « ru | echo, drowned at once | pe ‘ 4 'é) God tr le * It’s 1 i dream. It t One »] ! ‘| ! te Oo mu H t } eag tune it t con Present] e 1 st it wou not come t y U golden noté \r w enough. There vas no need of d It message and the meaning , , iit ‘lear now But where ar H "A W ed ) Pr é n ‘ant té me, it i gnt | 1 Iv ou.”’ Aly t m its beaut ! me efior A ead an ir eace r Hey ' tn aad t T re Nf i ’ hal tt had o fet ‘ G 1 inceren ou 1 te ed te TU \ H He ] pre i a ; TI ( } t} ) in y j cena | ting fir H to | eet and grij it ‘ |’ LO t n [ t I had a mn H O1ce i ( it bab ] hushed ped lin i r into Ming T n f Ming Tx } "in iit ' ! e.. Eis ed in O ited it and added that Heminway w ( ne A f l of the ext en ( from Her A of vie i probably fill t tory,and I { ¢ 1 I e not been i i vorid bet € € i deat ere Heminway lingered 1 e give trange ¢ ) r t i tru which yu ( I to | again, you must lose and come empty hands. So Heminway cams iia Continued on Page !

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Continued from Page 134 Those ten days marked the crest of the heat wave, and dying was a more natural process than living and seldom got into the papers, but the doctor did not wish Hemin- way to die. For, though Heminway had eliminated him years ago from his carefully edited calling list and Ming Toy had found his name in an old address book, he was still Heminway’s friend. Also Heminway had guessed wrong in eliminating him, for he had become a big man in his profession. He could perform miracles and not under- stand them or ask to understand; call back a soul from far away and never question where it had wandered or why. And he could pull wires, get ice in carloads when children in blistering streets were sucking at dry hydrants for water, and stretchers and nurses when nobody else could get them and nobody cared. He pulled them, and Hieminway, gloriously delirious and quite ungrateful, was moved to his Long Island bungalow and there expertly served and attended. The doctor said that the move would kill or cure him. Ming Toy opposed it so bitterly that the doctor did not take Ming Toy And so on the morning of the tenth day, when Heminway sat up in bed and, speaking for the first time in a voice which was his own, called for Toy, only a strange nurse answered—a_ very and one. Heminway looked at her and at his surroundings with interest, but without sur- prise, and let her take his pulse, which was smooth starched normal ““You have had a bad case of heat pros- tration,’’ she told him rather severely, “‘and just escaped brain fever, and there have heen complications which we did not un- derstand. But you are going to get well.” ‘| am _ well,” Heminway. She frowned, for this was against all the rules, yet it appeared to be true. ‘“‘I will dress said now and go home.” She explained that he must not leave the bungalow or the bed without the doctor's consent. Heminway did not argue the point. He only looked at her with eyes so like a meek, heart-stricken dog's that she softened and promised that if he would be good all day he might dress at night and dine with her on the screen porch. His eyes thanked her then. “For I have something to do,” he told her; ‘‘something extremely important.” “It can wait,’’ smiled the nurse. Heminway knew that it could not and should not wait; had waited too long al- ready. Yet, as he could not think what it was, could not indeed think connectedly at all, it would have to wait. So all day he was very good. A queer day that was, long asa lifetime, short as a dream snatched at the of waking. Rather a pleasant He ate and drank things which he a moment dream. did not taste, let the nurse read to him in smooth cadenced drawl, no word of which he heard, or lay still and watched the sun creep round from his east window to his west window. At last it reached the west window. Then he and shaved and dressed with an epicurean de- light, but quickly. **Who'ssick now? she saw him. The little meal they shared was not invalid food, but the inspired work of a skilled chef, bored with preparing it. Complete from aspic to iced dessert of un- rose and tubbed "the nurse asked when guessable antecedents, that nurse remem hered it always as her most de luxe dinner and her only téte-a-téte meal With a man who did not once see her when he looked at her; is even more rare, a tactful nurse. “You will like to smoke alone,” she said after dinner. Heminway did not smoke. chair close to the edge of the watched black water suck up the last of the daylight slowly, so very slowly. Then the for she was a pretty nurse, and, which He drew a porch and lights coming out one by one on the Sound, in the far-scattered houses, vanishing like glow worms in the dark or hanging steady lights. Then two tiny lights far below, at the bend of a road that circled the cliff there; almost out of sight, like stars—all the THE SATURDAY nad t no t l he i ing to the ir parked there Heminwa wi t staved there so | > watched it until the radium dial of his wrist watch showed th twas nine. Then he rose and went eagerly into the house It was wind-swept and cool and dark, a but his little writing room at the rear. Here a single desk lamp was lighted and the nurs« sat at the desk, bending over something “My radio?’”’ Heminway said. “Your man, Ming Toy, sent it out. He And it is badly out of condition; the batteries are almost dead But I seem to be getting something. It is just beginning to come through. I don’t know what it is. Would you care to listen in? As I did not wish to disturb you I was had no orders to do so using the ear phones.” Heminway took them and raised them to his ears. He stood erect like a soldier at at- tention, chin high, lips faintly smiling, and held them. The finders, where the nurs« interrupted, had chanced to leave them, pointed to sixty and zero. And the phones burned themselves into his ears. They glowed, thrilled, were almost bursting with the force of the mighty power flung through them. Heminway had words, but a great voice was speaking missed the first two announces an 8S O 8,” The great voice was silent. The air, the world, were silent with it, empty, waiting for that call for help. And yet Heminway was waiting alone. Only Heminway was to hear it. Heminway heard it. A woman's voice, a girl’s voice, very young, calling faintly from far away, but clearly: “Jacky Jacky + “Coming!” cried Heminway. He threw down the He dimly aware that a person in white blocked his way to the door and babbled. He re- moved her, ran round the porch to a gallery at the rear, vaulted a railing, plunged down a path, lost it, reached, without it, the base of the cliff, the road and that bend in the road where a car waited. Small, strong arms helped him into it and the engine, humming and ready, started at once. “‘} have waited here each night since the first,’’ Ming Toy said. phones. Was “You would,” said Heminway. “ We are going xg “T know.” “What—how much do you know?” Heminway asked with a queer little pang of jealousy. But Toy did not answer, only massed the cushions craftily with his free hand and pressed Heminway back against them. He rested there, eyes closed, saving himself and waiting. For Toy needed no direction. In due or- der familiar roads, strange in the dark, in the hurry of this strange night, slipped past them. By the shortest, the hardest way, he flung the car at top speed, too slowly, back toward the town. There it slowed to maddening deliberation for the traffic, threaded through it craftily, and at last it stopped. ‘You have no more need of me, my mister.”’ “‘No,”’ Heminway said, for all thanks, but he gripped the light-fingered hand that helped him from the car and held it. Then without its help, and stiffly but steadily, he walked up the worn steps of the house be- fore which the car had stopped. An old brownstone front with shabhils curtained or curtainless windows on all the floors but one A house mysterious, men acing with secrets, whispering with prom ise, A house whicl ver to have he, Z. Bur- 1 he seemed ne seen before. The house wher« gess Heminway, lived, and } His own house. years. His key stuck in the lock of the front door, resisted him with malicious intent And he must hurry, hurry. He crossed a carpeted hall to stairs; more stairs: they seemed of infinite number. At the top of the third flight, the floor below his own, he stopped. His hands grasped a railing worn smooth by the touch of other hands, tired hands. And suddenly Heminway was not tired. 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He knocked at the door, knocked again, but there was no answer. He had not ex- pected one. He raised both hands above his head and locked them and beat at the door. It splintered, crashed, burst open, and Heminway half fell through it. Into darkness. Black darkness, heavy, airless, though the one window was open. The window was narrow, the room not much wider, not much longer. Heminway stumbled across it, pushed back the flimsy curtain that screened the window. His fingers crushed and tore it, clumsy and | eager; they worked without his conscious direction. For Heminway was praying. “T am not too late?”’ that was all his prayer, but it was a prayer. It was an- swered. For now he saw, in the island of light which a street lamp outside the win- dow made in the dark of this room, a sagging couch bed and on the bed a girl. She lay there very still, a huddled heap of white, one arm thrown across her face. She was spent, starved, exhausted, deep in a heavy sieep which was almost fever, but she was alive--alive. The whiteness stirred with a flutter of breath which was growing stronger. Now she was trying to speak, speaking faintly through half-parted lips, calling, trying to call a name. He could not hear the name, but he knew what name it was. “Jacky,” Heminway said. “It’s Jacky. I came. I’m here.” She was going to wake. Waking sud- denly, quietly, like a child. The arm that hid her face dropped from it. A hand groped toward him. Heminway did not take it yet. Instead, kneeling beside her, he looked at the face on the pillow. Gravely, hungrily, like an explorer feeding his eyes on a country newly discovered and all his own, Heminway looked and looked. A lovely face. White as a wasted flower, tired as a forwandered child’s, but beauti- ful; for it was very young. Nineteen, per- haps. The lips looked younger; their color drained, but a soft bloom still upon them. The hair was not soft and straight. It clung round the low, perfect forehead in a tumble of heat curls. But it was gold silver-gold. The eyes were opening, open, in a flutter of dark lashes; looking through them straight into Heminway’s eyes. As they looked they did not shift or close. They only grew lovelier, wider, deeper. “You came?”’ she whispered. “You did not die?’? Heminway’s voice was low, hushed, almost a whisper too. ‘‘I | thought you must be dying when—when you called me. I thought —but you could not die. I could not lose you twice.” “I do not know quite what you mean by that. But you came—you came. You came just in time. For I wanted to die. I-—I was going to try to. Tonight. Oh, forgive me. But I was too lonely and too tired. I—I tried once before, but I heard your voice calling me. It sounded like a my name, but a new name, a queer little name, a dear name. And I knew that it was your voice calling to me.” “Lily?” “Lily. Oh, you are not a dream? Not this time? You really came? Then say it—say it.” August 7,1926 “Say what?” “What you always do in dreams.” Cool arms locked round Heminway’s neck and drew his head down. Cool lips, never kissed before, touched his cheek, his lips. “Forever,’’ Heminway said, ‘forever.’ Heminway has an explanation. Re- incarnation and other psychic phenomena do not occur in it. It is complete, but simple. Heminway fell asleep on his Louis Quinze day bed that evening in May and dreamed. A dream so vivid, so curious, that it disturbed and possessed him, and his brain, haunted by it and keyed high by the fever of his illness, made him twice, though fully awake, seem to hear over the radio sounds which he did not really hear He dreamed one authentic dream and two waking dreams. An old love which had never died, but only slept in his heart, waked at last and claimed him. Also his subconscious mind, wiser than his poor and petty conscious mind, was aware of a face which he saw and passed by without thinking of it, and of the beauty of that pale young face a new love was born. It came to be one with the old; since love is love and of such stufl dreams are made. It was perhaps a little strange that a girl’s dreams, dreamed alone, should join hands with his own. But the girl dreamed only that a man —+her man—would appear in her hour of need and pledge her eternal loyalty. What else could a girl dream? Wha’ girl has not dreamed it? She heard through her open window Heminway’s voice, calling out loud in his nightmare, and fitted the voice into the pattern of her dream. Ming Toy’s part in the affair was not strange at all. As the perfect servant it was his creed to supply what Heminway wanted when he wanted it and never ask him why. Observing in his master a pas- sion for the radio and a distaste for leav- ing New York, he indulged them, quite simply, as he would have shopped for arti- chokes out of season and found them. This is Heminway’s explanation. You can take it or leave it. You will probably never hear it from Heminway. He does not like to talk upon abstract subjects. He is too happy. Yet his friends do not consider his marriage romantic. He did only what so many lonely bachelors do when they spend a summer in town—fell in love with the nearest pretty face and married it. A girl downstairs; a stenographer out of work. Most happily married men, being petted and pampered enough to indulge them, develop prejudices. Heminway has two He has built a good house in Westchester and runs it handsomely, but in charge of his impressive array of servants he will have only a badly spoiled and aging China man named Ming Toy. And he will not install in that house or any house which h« occupies a radio set. He owned one once which he had to scrap, as the make was no longer on the market and it could not be repaired. He has not cared to replace it; for it suited him. Mrs. Heminway asks him sometimes what was the name of the far-away station which he dreamed that he tuned in on, but he has never told her. He only looks at her with those amber lights in his eyes which appear there when he is puzzled. “*T knew,” he says. “I knew once. But I have forgotten now! . ~—"

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ne, Seen TE _——_— ey ee THE SATURDAY RADIO (Continued from Page 9 pi from them by ten miles of wind swept ice. The Canadian ] essel Government comes here twice a year to bring but in the ice season we It will be government ship. Only a seal fuel and prov ee nobody. time tor the isions, three months befo ng vessel could get in : doctor made ind then, with as a few much could feel at such a distance, Case aS an VUur more inquiries, assurance as he diagnosed the abscess. The diagnos S Was SIM- remedy, for in the medicine chest 200 frigid miles away there alomel and liniment. We were headed in the of Belle Isle, but he d went to the captain and begged hi p directly that way we got. little en- lragement. He the silent, 1 il men of the * expansive observation usually pler than the were only general direction when loctor and I m to turn the sh was one of most got out emotion: north, and the to be , or on bad days of him was a grunt a snort. Meantime the news about Barrett was more serious every day. Finally, in des- peration, I advise id Daw to send a me ssage to the cap tain direct. I worded it It said: ‘‘My assistant is dying. you come at once with a doctor, it will be ught the captain showed a flash of feeling when I delivered this, but he said Several days dragged by. The hourly advice to Daw. Then a message that made us wince in our Symptoms indiceted that blood poisoning was setting in. The doctor himself carried this word to the captain and nothing doctor sent came neiplessness. was starting to make a last despairing ap- peal when that rocky-faced old fellow told him the eaded for Belle Isle and would be there in six or seven hours. with tha V essel was broke the wireless speed record didn’t wait to get Foss S aerial whoop of joy, though, but ran back to gather up blankets, pillows and what com- forts we had on board for the sick man. The fishermen, all sympathy, contributed every » their wives had given them liquid refresh- news. I back Je lly and cake at parting, and even such nent as was carried for medicinal purposes. We came to a stop two miles from Belle Isle and ten of us started to cross the ice to Belle Isle light- 500 feet above sea level, ona the wireless station. The house is nearly mountain of ice and snow. Seven members of our party dropped out before we got to t The doctor, the captain’s son and I, who went on, were gulping for breath at t climb. he top. ' » 6 4 ne end oi the Saving Barrett's Life Daw, literally speechless with joy, led us into the dreariest room I have ever a rickety old cot in the warmest His hair S were COVE red coldest, seen. On corner lay the sick boy was matted vith a and his hollow cheel beard. Emaciated from during every minute of was racked with intense pain and Was shed, | grotesque ghost of a wild man. When he saw us and realized that per- haps help had come before it was too late, he broke down completely. Later the doc- tor examined him and found that three > taken out at once. The was willing to try stubble twenty days in bed, NI n ne nsufficiently nouri ie looked likea 10C- must be a dentist, but teet! tor was not the operation; only, he was reluctant to leave the patient afterward for fear blood ing might set in. Yet he must go on th hin ahin. I had to put it up to Barrett. He might undergo the operation then and there and hanees, or we could carry him back to the ship and drop him at St. John’s I pointed out that the second would be the safer course. I was kneeli was holding to my hand. He but when [| had fin- ished he smiled as well as he could with his swollen cheeks, and said, “‘I’}] stay here. I wouk leave Daw after the way stood by me o take his ¢ ng by the boy ’s cot and he was In Irigntiul pain, he’s He held to this decision, ever Daw pleaded with hi m to go with the shy he operation was tinally performed in the dark little room, with me as the wabbly surgeon's assistant, and in spite of the diff ilties it was successful Before we sailed away we had the satisfaction of knowing that the It was patient would get well tremendousiy exciting to me to , reless had literally saved realize that wir ’s ] ind of the kind, but fe. Since then I have seen dents many inc the thrill is still there. I have seen surgeons wireless, dictating every move less skilled person standing beside to some , ¢ a patient whose only chance for life was bound up in the message coming out of the air. The time will never be when such a thing can seem commonplace to me rom 1907 to 1912 advanced } wireless slowly. One development of 1912 was a radio conference in London, in which the United States, pape with many of the other nations of the earth, took part \t this meeting wireless communication was The term was based upor radiated outward forms of trans first called radio the fact that signals are in all directions in most mitters. In 1912 also came another and greater trage dy than that of the Republi to force commercial and scientific development on ward with unprecedented speed. This was the sinking of the Titanic. News of the Titanic Disaster I came back to New York from the ice fields in 1910, and when John Wanamaker decided to equip his New York and Phila- delphia stores with radio more powerful than any then installed in the commercial field, I applied for the place of operator, would leave my nings free to take a course in engineering at Pratt Institute. So it happened that I was on duty at the Wanamaker station in New York and got the first message from the Olympic, 1400 miles out at that the Titanic had gone down. I have often been asked by m0 were my emotions at that moment. I doubt if I felt at all during the seventy-two hours after the I gave the information to the press associations and newspapers at once and it was as if bedlam had been let loose. Telephones were whirring, extras were be- ing cried, gathering around newspaper bulletin boards. The air was as disturbed as the earth. Everybody was try ing to get and send messages owned sets had relatives or friends aboard the Titanic and they made frantic efforts to learn something definite. Finally, Presi- dent ations in the vicinit) except ours closed down so that we might e in the rece ption of offi- stations because it eve- sea, news came. crowds were Some who Taft ordered all st have no interferenc cial news. Word spread swiftly Vivors was bei r and the station f-stricken and police guard was call held back, but ested in the fate of tl allowed in the wireless Astor, drowned, and the sons of Isidor Straus were looked over my Straus and that a list of sur was quick y stormed by the Eventually a ed out and the curious curious. some of those most inter- e doomed ship were room. Vincent John Jacob Astor, whose father, was among those who shoulder as I copied the list of survivors his wife went down too. I remember praying fervently that the names these men were hoping to see would soon come over the keys, but they never did Much of the phones on my head and nothing coming in It seemed as if the attached to thos phones during the it in that -two hours I crouched time I sat with the ear whole anxious world was sevent ense station. I felt my responsibility keenly, and weary though I was, could not have slept At the end of my first long tryst with the EVENING POST I Golter The CRAWFORD, he MACGREGOR I Ct workmen |! [} teres yy AL \CGREGOR betra of « c G ( of MACGREGOR G Workman n ~ Che test of "How-They Feel MACGREGOR leaci | acmeved because ti ndamental pr les of correct clul str tion have ¢ llowe for ty ve I per lan y i MACGREGORS ' Stow common it 1s to hear some golfer ex I wish I'd used my midiron—might I'd dub claim: “Gee, have known it with Almast all this one club with rne spoon. golfers have some “favorite” club They play nore confiden any of the others—hence it is but natural for such club to deliver the best results. 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And the cam, with its variable pitch, constitutes the almost impassable barrier to road shock, that makes Ross steering so safe and so comfortable. le kk Mail the coupon below for prer booklet “Efficiency in Steering” i list of Ross-equipped cars, buses and trucks Ross Gear & Tool Co., Lafayette, Ind. ROSS CAM and LEVER THE SATURDAY \ EASTER STEERING * LESS ROAD SHOCK STEERING GEARS | EASIER STEERING LESS ROAD SHOCK . . . + T Ross Gear AND Toot Company, Lafayette, Indiana Please send me your rrer booklet,” Efficiency in Steering,” which explains fully the Ross Ce Li f : Name ; | t Ca ] l C] Address j . Car owner [] Car dealer Automotive } am and EVENING POST sea, | was whisked in a taxicab to the old Astor House on lower Broadway and given a Turkish rub. Then I was rushed in an- other taxicab to Sea Gate, where communi- cation was being kept up with the Car- pathia, the vessel which brought in the sur- vivors of the ill-fated Titanic. Here again I sat for hours—listening. Now we began to get the names of some of those who were known to have gone down. This was worse than the other list had been heartbreaking in its finality—a death knell to hope. I passed the information on to a sorrow- ing world, and when messages ceased to | come in, fell down like a log at my place and slept the clock around. The Titanic disaster placed the Marconi Company in undisputed leadership of the wireless field. Investors, realizing the need for radio, put up plenty of capital to give the company new facilities and thus turned this small organization into a large one. The United Wireless Company, one of the small groups which had also struggled along under great handicaps, was consolidated with Marconi, and by degrees more and more ships were equipped, together with coastal stations designed for ship and shore communication. In 1913, 500 American vessels were fitted with radio. The fly in the ointment was that, even though it was located in America, the Mar- coni Company was organized by British in- terests and operated under foreign control. Wireless was not yet a native product. Then a strange thing happened. The American boy discovered a new toy. He found that he could send messages out into space to be picked up by his friend on the other side of town, or even in a neighboring town. He grew so enthusiastic about his vivid plaything that he drew first his big brother and then his father into the charmed circle of interest. In several hun- dred homes throughout the country, ama- teurs united with scientists already work- ing in laboratories to bring nearer the day of broadcasting as we know it now. Occasionally a story crept into the news- papers about some home-town boy in Mis- | souri or Maine or Montana who had got signals of distress from vessels at Imaginative persons, looking up at infre- quent aerials, shivered with pleasurable awe at the thought of modern magic. By 1915 the engineers of the American Tele- phone and Telegraph Company had suc- ceeded in talking by radio from the huge naval station at Arlington, Virginia, to Paris, and in the opposite direction to Honolulu. This feat was accomplished by sea. | using vacuum tubes as oscillators and voice magnifiers. The power of the transmitter was utterly inadequate to signal over so huge a distance except under the most favorable conditions. But radio was be- coming part of the national consciousness. Who Was the First Broadcaster? Meantime the foundation for a great American controversy was being laid. “Who was the first broadcaster?” every- | body asks me. The answer to this questior depends, it seems to me, upon the meaning of the phrase. In a sense, the first radio- telephone message sent —and dozens claim to have sent it was the first broadcasting. Because of the very nature of radio, the message went out in all directions and could he picked up by anyone whose receiving facilities were adequate. I believe, however, that the effort of KDKA, at East Pittsburgh, in sending out the presidential-election returns Novem- ber, 1920, would be accounted the earliest broadcasting on an organized basis of service to the public. The event at KDKA was the result of amateur experimentation by Frank Con- rad, now assistant chief engineer with the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. This man’s job was also his hobby. He was always tinkering with ma- chinery at the office and he had rigged up a set at home. Every night he broadcast phonograph selections for the benefit of August 7,1926 other amateurs who listened in. Finally his audience got so large and enthusiastic that his friends began to say: ‘‘ Look here, you aren’t an amateur any longer. Why don't you take your instrument over to Westing house and start a regular broadcasting sta- tion?” That was the foundation of KDKA. H. P. Davis, vice president of the West- inghouse at Pittsburgh, saw in this humble experiment the vision of a great public serv- ice. He recognized the opportunity for the multiplication of the elementary scheme of 1920 into anational program by strength- ening the power of KDKA, thus increasing its range. The problem was: How was a company furnishing such service to receive adequate return for the great investment necessary ? Mr. Davis submitted his plans to Gen. Guy Tripp, chairman of the board of di- rectors of the company, and received not only encouragement but official authority to proceed with the development. KDKA, since then, has expanded under General Tripp’s guidance and has blazed the trail in many directions, including present-day experiments in short-wave radio-relay transmission and the higher power from transmitting stations use of Wireless a Decade Ago The broadcasting of election returns was an exciting success, as judged by the stand ards of those days. In preparation for the event the Westinghouse Company had sold a limited number of simplified receiving de vices. These were little more than wet bat teries attached to telephone head sets. A few hundred neighbors crowded in to take turns listening to the device. refused to ‘ their own ears and were fairly struck of a heap when newspapers confirmed the tid- ings brought by the head phones. I recall a number of instances of the more or less personal type of broadcasting; that is, of an individual making an effort to reach a certain other individual or group. | was part of one such attempt on May 13, 1914. I left New York that day on the steamship Antilles, on my way to New Or leans to attend a meeting of the association of railway telegraph superintendents which opened May nineteenth. At that time I was contract manager for the Marconi Company. We had been test- ing various forms of the hydrogen-arce radio- telephone transmitter in the Marconi shops and at the Wanamaker station, and as the Antilles sailed along we tuned in on the Wanamaker station and got quite clearly from my colleagues a program of phono- graph music. This afforded great amuse- ment to our party and gave rise to specula- tion that occupied us during nearly all the rest of the trip. We disagreed violently Several said that the radio had gone as far as was possible. predicted part of what has come to pass today. An amateur who was broadcasting mn 1915 was Alfred N. Goldsmith, then of the faculty of the College of the City of New York, now chief broadcasting engineer with the Radio Corporation of America. He was using a telephone transmitter to reach a man in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and every evening when he began to broadcast he called the roll of the states, explaining that he hoped to be heard in all of them He followed the roll call with phonograph selections and got responses by letter and telegraph from almost every state. Gold- smith often broadcast from his home in lower New York, controlling the transmit- ter up at City College by a wire line. That was very advanced for the time. These instances of early personal broad- casting are not related because they were remarkable, but rather because they were typical of what was going on all over the country. So impressed was I with the work of the amateurs and the interest it was arousing everywhere that in 1915, as assistant traffic homes were equipped and Some helieve Others, more sanguine, Continued on Page 145 qo — ree oa ae —_ - —, - = —— a Ss ee OO

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— (Continued from Page 142) manager of the Marconi Company, I sub- mitted a report urging the company to con- fine itself no longer to the ocean. Waxing prophetic, I visioned a radio music box ar- ranged for several different wave lengths which should be changeable with the throw- ing of a single switch or the pressing of a single button. I have that report before me now, for I was so sure its predictions would some day be fulfilled that I kept it in spite of unen- couraging comment. I was writing, remem- ber, not as an inventor, for I have never been that, but as an engineer and business man who could not help seeing the trend of the times. I said: ‘“*The radio music box could be supplied with amplifying tubes and a loud- speaking telephone, all of which could be neatly mounted in one box. The box could he placed upon a table in the parlor or liv- ing room, the switch set accordingly and the transmitted music received.”’ I explained that there should be no diffi culty in receiving music perfectly when transmitted within a radius of twenty-five to fifty miles. ‘Within such a radius there reside hun- dreds of thousands of families,”’ I wrote ex- citedly; ‘‘and as all could simultaneously receive from a single transmitter, there would be no question of obtaining suffi- ciently loud signals to make the perform- ance enjoyable. The power of the trans- mitter could be made five kilowatts if necessary, to cover even a short radius of twenty-five to fifty miles, thereby giving extra-loud signals in the home, if desired. The use of head telephones would be ob- viated by this method. The development of small loop antenn# to go with each radio music box would likewise solve the antenna problem. “The same principle could be extended to numerous other fields—as, for example, receiving lectures at home which can be made perfectly audible. Also events of national importance could be simulta- neously announced and received. ‘Baseball scores could be transmitted in the air by the use of one set installed at the Polo Grounds. The same would be true of other cities. This proposition would be especially interesting to farmers and others living in outlying districts removed from cities. By the purchase of a radio music box they could enjoy concerts, lectures, re- citals which might be going on in the near- est city within their radius.” When Radio Went to War The position of the Marconi Company at that time, as to research facilities, capital and patents, would not permit the carrying out of such a scheme. Furthermore, it seemed a radical departure from anything that had ever been done, and there were many objections from every source as to the technical and commercial nonfeasibility. I had to wait six years to see my dream developed. As we have seen, radio, in its industria] beginnings, followed the call of the sea. In all ages the sea had been the mystery which man had tried in vain to solve. Beyond its dim edges lay land, peoples and continents strange to early humanity. Even the modern, when he took passage aboard an ocean liner, steamed away into silence until reported from shore days or weeks later. By 1915, to supplement the shore-to- hip stations, a number of high-powered sta- tions had been built in the United States for transoceanic telegraphy. Only here, unfortunately, the industry had grown in advance of the art. The key to constant re- liable transoceanic service had not yet been found by those who controlled the basic radio patents. That is, existing equipment did not gen- erate sufficient power in suitable form to transmit radio messages continuously across the Atlantic. Industry recognized the situation, and in Schenectady, New York, for ten years the General Electric Company had been working upon the task THE SATURDAY of designing and building a high-speed, con- tinuous-wave, alternating-current machine which might be used instead of a spark ap- paratus to transmit the breadth of the ocean. At last the experiments Representatives of the Marconi Company of England hurried to this country to ne- gotiate for the sole and exclusive rights of the Alexanderson alternator. In the midst of their parleying came the war. Then, that noforeign country might be permitted to control its communications with the air, the United States Government took over the high-powered stations of the Marconi Company of America. I was thrown in with the other liabilities and assets. And so I was privileged to witness the rebirth of radio and the actual prelim- inaries to broadcasting. Under the stress of a national need, commercial laboratories and individuals poured out their best to the Government. And the Government took what it would, as it must, in the stress of a national emergency. signals across succeeded. Retaining American Leadership The General Electric Company tem- porarily discontinued negotiations for the sale of the Alexanderson alternator and placed its entire development at the service of the nation. The alternator was installed at the government-operated wireless sta- tion at New Brunswick, New Jersey, and remodeled the entire system of wireless transmission. As a result, for the first time continuous and practically uninter- rupted communication was made possible through the air with other nations. A later report of the Federal Trade Commission, issued by the Government, called the New Brunswick station the first on the Atlantic Coast which transmitted radio messages continuously and reliably. Suddenly, thrilled by the knowledge that it could no longer happen, every thinking American awoke to the fact that up to this time the cutting of a cable might nearly have isolated an entire nation. Radio telegraphy took on new significance and be- came a subject of research and experiment in the great workshop of the Government One brick was laid upon another so rapidly that an entirely new structure sprang up in a few months. And then came peace and a problem: Should radio be demobilized? Should the United States relinquish the leadership of the air which American inventive genius, industrial vision and capital had made possible? Should our transoceanic com- munications by radio pass again under alien control? The patent fight was due to begin all over again. The vacuum tube, an out- growth of the Fleming tube, was the heart of radio and the heart of litigation as well. The basic patent was owned and controlled by the Marconi Company of America, but many improvements had been added by others, notably Lee De Forest, to the orig- inal device. Patents for these were in differ- ent hands and the conflicting groups were each refusing to cross-license the other. It looked as if the industry would come to a standstill, because no one person or group of persons held enough patents to go ahead Finally, on April 5, 1919, asmall group of men came together at the call of Rear Ad- miral W. H. G. Bullard, of the United States Navy, the Government’s senior rep- resentative in control of United States radio during the war, and Lieutenant Com- mander $. C. Hooper, then, as now, head of the radio division in the Bureau of Steam Engineering of the United States Navy. Admiral Bullard and Commander Hooper knew that the General Electric Company was about to conclude negotiations with the Marconi Company of England for the use of the Alexanderson alternator. They thought the situation critical for American interests. Admiral Bullard pointed out the “‘dan- | gers that would ensue if the control of the Alexanderson machine should be sold to any foreign government or foreign private com- panies,” and predicted that toturn a system | RUSCO EVENING POST one a id My car stopped in 45 feet going 25 miles an hour! “HONK!” isn’t always enough. You cannot always depend upon the agility of the pedestrian. Just imagine how you would feel if you struck, in- jured or killed him! It certainly pays in peace of mind to drive with superior quality, properly adjusted brake lining After a series of tests made on Jan. 21, 1925, Mr. Thos. J. 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He called it the pa- triotic duty of American industry to estab- lish a wholly American company to meet the competition of other radio interests in the world. Reporting his remarks later to the United States Naval Institute, Admiral Bullard said: “I pointed out that our citi- zens had never played any prominent part in cable communication and that here was a chance to retain in American hands the complete domination of radio communica- tion in the United States, as well as Central and South America. I made reference to a policy of wireless doctrine, similar to the greater Monroe Doctrine, by which the control of radio on this continent would remain in American hands. “The chairman finally announced that as the matter had been presented to them, it would be a most unpatriotic action to proceed with negotiations with the English company, and so far as the directors then present could do so, they would proceed no further in the contemplated sale of the Alexanderson machine.” In this manner was formed the Radio Corporation of America, with Owen D. Young, chairman of the board of directors, and Edward J. Nally, president. Mr. Young, then vice president of the General Electric Company, now chairman of that company, as well as of the Radio Corpora- tion, saw the value of a move which not only would prevent the control of an im- portant machine from falling into alien hands but would afford an opportunity for building around this nucleus a system of radio communication which would take over the patents and going business in this country of a company controlled from abroad, and at thesame time give the Amer- ican public a competitive method of inter- national communication independent of the accidents of war or peace. There followed then mobilization of the necessary patents, and the threatened paral- ysis was averted, but not before the situa- tion had finally impelled the United States Navy Department to write to the interests concerned, appealing for an agreement be- tween the holders of basic patents whereby the public could be freely supplied with vacuum tubes and other radio necessities. Talking to the Whole World After its formation, the Radio Corpora- tion began to build a radio central on the north shore of Long Island —a superpower radio system that simultaneously could send messages to and receive them from the great nations of the world. This giant of radio, with its steel towers covering more than ten square miles of land, was opened on November 5, 1921, by President Hard- ing. The President’s accompanying message was received simultaneously and directly in twenty-eight countries of the world. It read: “To be able to transmit a message by radio in expectation that it may reach every radio station in the world is so marvelous a scientific and technical achievement as to justify special recognition. It affords pe- culiar gratification that such a message, from the chief executive of the United States of America, may be received in every land, from every sky, by peoples with whom our nation is at peace and amity. That this happy situation may ever con- tinue and that the peace which blesses our own land may presently become the fortune of all lands and peoples is the earnest hope of the American nation.” While these stirring events were taking place, I, with all the others who believed in the future of radio, was hard at work. During 1919-20, I was commercial mana- ger of the Radio Corporation, the same position I had held in the Marconi Com- pany. Then on April 29, 1921, I became general manager. The time was near when radio was to take a definite place in American life, and the men were not wanting who could ac- complish this task. Mr. Young was a farm- er’s boy, born at Vanhornesville, in the state of New York; and Mr. Nally, the first president of the Radio Corporation, had started his career in the communica tions world as a messenger boy of ten. It was Mr. Nally, with his experience in communications, who carried out in practical dei il Mr. Young’s vision of a world-wide system of American radio com- munication. He gave me my first opportunity to as sist in this program of development and to find my life work. In his kindly way he tempered the ambition of youth by his mature experience. Gen. J. G. Harbord, who succeeded Mr Nally, came to the Radio Corporation at a sacrifice to a brilliant career in the United States Army. The radio art and industry faced virgin problems of production, organization and service, and General Harbord could offer the highest ideals of public duty and a genius for organization. The measure of his success is best gauged by the present position of radio, both as an art and as an industry. How Radio Works At this point, by special request, as the broadcast announcers put it, I am going to try to tell in a nontechnical way how radio works. I find it difficult, however, to deal with this subject on a strictly nontechnical basis. Broadly speaking, radio broadcasting, or radio-telegraph communication, is carried on by an electric-wave motion which, al- though invisible to the eye, has many analo- gies in our daily life. Thus, a stone dropped into a pool of water creates a wave motion which travels outward from the point where the stone is dropped. Your cook strikes or vibrates a bell to call you to din- ner and the transfer of this signal takés place by sound waves made up of varying degrees of air pressure. These are trans- lated by the human ear into what we cal! audible sound. Your janitor kindles a fire in the furnace and the energy released by the fuel generates heat waves which are responded to by the nerves of the human body. The electric waves used in radio com munication are projected into space by a group of wires suspended vertically or hori zontally which are commonly called an aerial. These electric waves are set into motion by vibratory electric currents, which are made to surge back and forth in the aerial] by the radio transmitter. By the proper form of control apparatus these waves may be radiated outward from the transmitting station in the form of the dots and dashes of the telegraph code, or they may be made torise and fall in et h by the sound waves created by the human voice or by musical instruments. Thus, ir radio broadcasting sound waves are gen erated by the human voice or by music. These are picked up by a device termed the microphone, which, in turn, causes the strength of the electric wave radiated by the aerial to conform with the variations of the sound waves created in the studio by the artists and musicians. The electric waves now travel outward in all directions at the speed of light—186,000 miles a second —and continue in their passage until they strike the aerial attached to the re- ceiving set, in which they produce very feeble currents having the precise charac teristics of the sound waves impressed upon the microphone. So far, the currents in the receiving ap paratus are still electrical. They are so weak, however, that they require amplifica tion. This is accomplished by the use of one or more amplifying tubes, which in crease their strength to the point wher they will cause the detector to function. The detector is the device which eventu- ally converts these electrical currents into audible sounds; that is, changes them into Continued on Page 149 2S. et oe eee See. | _ —— A TT ee SP ae ame

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These sound currents are further amplified, and finally directed into the loud speaker, rom which they emerge in the form of iudible sound or music One hears much in radio conversation of the term “frequency,” but it is simply a other way of denoting the number of waves generated in a second of time tadio has two kinds of frequencies: First, voice, or audio, frequencies, which lie in the range of 16 to 10,000 vibrations a second; and radio frequencies, which vibrate at the rate of 10,000 to 300,000,000 times a second The waves which are projected into space by the aerial at the transmitting station aré radio frequencies; that is, they vibrate more than 10,000 times a second. The sound waves which are picked up ir the broadcast studio and impressed upon the transmitting apparatus by the microphone are voice, or audio, waves, which really represent the notes of the musical scale or the inflections of the voice. Now in order to receive messages by radio the station of the receiver must he tuned to the station of the sender; that is, the wave length of the receiving apparatus must be adjusted so as to be identical wit} that of the transmitting station. This in- volves the process of tuning, and to this end receiving apparatus is invariably fitted with control devices by which the receiving set is tuned to the frequency or the wave length of the transmitter. We are often asked what we mean by ‘“‘wave length.’ In the case of an ocean wave, the meaning of the term is easily un- derstood; for obviously the length of the wave is the distance from the crest of one wave to the crest of the next, or from the hollow of one wave to the hollow of the next. Radio waves, although invisible, also have definite lengths, the length varying with the frequency of vibration. Thus, if we crowd 1,000,000 radio waves into a second of time, it is clear that the distance from the crest of one wave to the crest of another will be relatively short, and actu- ally about 1000 feet. If, on the other hand, we project but 20,000 waves into space in a second of time, the distance from crest to crest will be correspondingly greater, or 50,- 000 feet. Described in another way, high frequencies in radio motion mean short waves and low frequencies refer to long waves. Broadcasting is carried on at wave lengths from 200 to 550 meters. The fre- quencies used, therefore, vary from 1,500,- 000 a second to approximately 550,000 a second, Who Invented the Radio? very now and then somebody wants to know: ‘*Who invented the radio anyway?” The popular idea about any invention is that it must have sprung full-fledged from the brain of some exceptionally clever per on. That, of course, is not true; particu- arly of radio. I am only a layman myself in the scien- tific laboratories and can realize how difficult it is for the inventor and the person for whom he invents. that is, you, me and everybody who owns a radio set- to he- yme really well acquainted. Science has its own language a language usuall) too complicated for the rest of us

sult is that radio owners, as a whole, know ery little about how the radios they have in their front parlors got that way. Yet the development of radio is as full of ro mance as the fact of its existence We must remember that most of the im- provements in radio, or in any other device of the kind, go on, after a certain point, in the great commercial laboratories as part of a daily routine. Bit by bit, new diseov- eries are made, new refinements added and old principles discarded. Often, no one person is responsible for these improvements and so it is not quite fair for anv one person to get the credit at least all of it. e

Another thing to be remembered is that tnere are iong, expensive steps yeen the laboratory demonstration of a phenomenon and its appearance on a shop shelf ready to be sold to you The history of radio can be adorned in definitely with tales of the battered hopes of eager inventors. H. G. Wells wrote of a fight in the air. The past ten years have been a continual battle over the air —a struggle for patents among inventors and for air supremacy among nations. The end is not yet in sight. Every now and agair j ever i \ some judge makes a new decision an‘ month or so a fresh suit is filed Leaving it to His Subconscious It is easy to see why this is the case. The process of invention is one of inspiration or the basis of the path which progress is tak ing. I have never been an inventor, but I have known a good many and I have al- ways been interested in watching the proc esses of their minds Iixcept on the stage or in a novel, it sel dom happens that an invention pops full grown into some genius mind, large as life and only waiting for the proper tools to put it into immediate operation. In other days, before there were so many in the field, it is true that it was possible to credit indi- viduals with certain inventions; such as, say, Whitney with the cotton gin. At the same time, even these inventions could hardly be said to have sprung full- grown from the brains of their inventors They were pieced together patiently, al- most painfully, throughout years of hard study and thought. Sometimes, though not so often as ro- mantic writers would have us believe, a man starts out with the definite idea of making one thing, only to end up by getting a result which, though it may be important, is still not at all what he intended it to be As a rule, invention comes about-- at least modern invention —-something like this: The field in which a scientist is inter- ested calls for some specific improvement. He decides to try to work out the problem, or else is assigned to the task. Perhaps a number of persons in his laboratory are set to help him. He experiments along the line laid out, reads everything he can find on the subject, and finally, having gorged himself with his theme, goes about something else for a while, or perhaps even takes a rest cure so that his inventive powers may have a chance to work during a period of incu- bation. This leaves everything up to his sub- conscious mind. Sometimes the subcon- scious mind is stubborn and refuses to function. Again, it may-solve the problem promptly. Obviously, three or four persons working in this way might get the same results almost at the same time. Who is to say which of these has the best right to it? Naturally the law decides that the man who first makes the invention is the true

inventor, even if he is only a few days ahead of the others. Then the second, third and fourth men come a seems unbelievable to them that somebody has beat them to what they regarded as their very own brain child. Each wants a patent, too, and tries to show a priority claim. And so patent interferences, suits and countersuits begin. long, and of course it Interestingly enough, since broadcasting officially started in 1920, there have been almost no radio inventions of a revolution character. When the war ended, prac tically all the important inventions for transmitting and receiving messages wert in existence. They had only to be refined and adapted and placed in the proper com- binations. This had to be done by trained engineers, as the needs of the public were gauged. Early crudities were due more to lack of knowledge of what was necessary in the way of adaptation than to any grave deficiencies in the fundamental principles of the existing inventions. Editor's Note— This 1s the first of two articles b Mr. Sarnoff and Miss McBride The next will ay pear in an carly issuc THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

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In five min- utes take off the pan and throw it away. The piece of rubber on the bottom of the pan is heat-welded (VULCANIZED) to the tube. 50 MILLION of these patches were used in 1925, You can get the complete outfit, including Clamp and 12 Patch-&-Heat Units, for only $1.50 wherever auto supplies are sold. Slightly higher in Canada and far West. C. A. SHALER CO. MSA. Waupun, Wis., U.S. A. f ‘Branch Factories: Beeston, England, and Montreal CLAMP ON A PATCH AND LIGHT THE FUE! THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE SAVING WAGE August 7,1926 Continued from Page 2 indices to prosperity increase steadily as wages rise, many of us persist in a fear that high wages will gobble us up and destroy everything. Recently I have been wondering if this is not because we still regard wages as an item of cost instead of a form of invest- ment. Certainly it is due to a lack of knowl- edge concerning the economic law of wages, and to the assumptions that normally take the place of specific information. Consid- ered from the point of view of investment, it is possible to show that the expense of high wages is not in the rate of pay, but in the protest and its consequences— the limi- tation of what we get out of the wage. We are prone now to think of this protest only in terms of strikes and lockouts, the visible limitations of production. Actually they represent.only a minor percentage. The major items are to be found in waste and inefficiency arising from the covert dis- agreement between employer and employe as to what wages are. If we can come to an agreement on this point I am convinced we shall do more in one stroke to eliminate the open and visible rupture of the strike than all we have done before. The idea that we have been looking at wages from the wrong side of the road has | been in my mind for some years. It led me, four or five years ago, into the begin- ning of a study of the wage problem which has developed a mere theory into a convic- tion. In my dealings with the labor move- ment I had become impressed with the thought that our progress in the search for industrial peace was being delayed because of a lack of information. There must, I reasoned, be some law which all might grasp, some starting point to set us on the right track. Here was a problem that had occupied the attention of men for all time. Surely the accumulated experience of em- ployers as set down by the historians and economists should furnish the solution. A Steadily Rising Wage Scale So I set out to learn what wages are in the light of economic law, and before long I had made the amazing discovery that no- body had ever taken the trouble to find out. Since then I have delved into all the avail- able records here and abroad, and I have been increasingly amazed at the lack of in- formation. Not only in the matter of wages, but for many centuries in every- thing that had to do with business and in- dustry, historians and economists alike have ignored the builder to write libraries about the destroyer. We see this reflected to a diminishing degree in our own times in the custom of looking down on the worker—a custom once applied to all busi- ness. In view of this attitude it was only natural that work and its pay should have been ignored for so long a period. Yet from the few scattered references I have been able to find, I have become convinced that the rise of man is nothing but the rise of the wage rate. The parallel is to me the most striking thing in history. All through the centuries wages have been going up, if only an inch at atime. The rise has been so ab- solutely unbroken over the long pull that it seems like a law of Nature. | The most easily grasped example is to be | found in our own relatively recent Anglo- Saxon history, because it applies to condi- tions we can visualize. Not long after the war a British economist was a good deal in- terested by the demand then current that wages must go back to the prewar level. Economic restoration, it was thought, would be impossible until that happened. This economist was moved to look back to see if after every great war economic restoration was obliged to wait until wages sank to their prewar level. While he was about it the economist de- cided to go ve ry far back. He was lucky enough to find intact the records covering the building of such places as the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, Windsor Castle, and other old public works in Eng- land. These records showed him that when the Tower of London was built a British carpenter got five cents a day for his wage That was probably the average wage in every trade or occupation. By following these and other records down to the present time the economist learned this: At the end of every period of fifty years the average wage of the British workman in the building trades had advanced from 20 to 40 per cent. The rule never failed to hold good for every period of fifty years, over a stretch of seven and a half centuries Every great war, like the Wars of the Roses, the Cromwellian War, the peasant wars, the war with Napoleon, had naturally sent wages up by drawing off men and making labor searce. During the recent World War wages went up more than 300 per cent. The economist was unable t¢ learn whether former wars had boosted wages to the same extent. But this he did find: That wars or no wars, the wage scale never once failed to register its 20 to 40 per cent rise every fifty years. From Five Cents to Five Dollars In other words, once the working man had climbed to a new rung in the wage lad- der he sawed off all the rungs under him He never descended again unless all civili zation went with him. He always climbed The rate of the climb was often so slow as to be imperceptible to him, but over the centuries it never stopped. And always the rate advanced. It took the worker 750 years to get from five cents a day to five dollars a day. But if we begin with the first records of slavery, back in the earliest days of Egypt and Babylonia, we may be safe in assuming that it took him ten times as long to reach the nickel. Doubtless the rate of pay, and even the right to any wage, fell temporarily, again and again, with many civilizations, during that period of 7000 to 10,000 years before the ending of the Dark Ages and the begin- ning of the present era of enlightenment But even that far back there is evidence that it rose each time a little higher. Ham murabi, a Babylonian king who lived about the time of Abraham — 2200 B. C.—- made provision for a slave to buy his freedom under certain circumstances. The Gree} workman was better off than his ancestor of ovnt gyYpe. 1000 years earlier in Babylonia or | He was regarded as having no soul, but at least freedom was his, or within reach, and he was known as a manual artist A] though slavery persisted, more modifica- tions appeared when Rome conquered the world. Slaves were freed and set up in business by their aristocratic masters. The worker was conceded a soul, and in token thereof he was permitted to mark his grave with suitable headstones. It is a grim commentary on early civiliza- tion that virtually all we know of the crafts men of Rome is what we have learned f these tombstones. Hundreds of them have been dug up in Roman cemeteries scattered all over the lands of the ancient Empire, during recent years. The University of Bologna has published more than 1000 monographs on stones marking the last resting places of dyers, saddlers, wheel- rom wrights and other artisans. They are iden- tified by the implements of the trade—a cooper with a cask, a blacksmith with a hammer, the dyer treading his cloth in the vat. Here was the first evidence in world history of the impulse to glorify « the idea which has made modern America. The fact was passed over by contemporary writers as of no importance. Nobody of any consequence cared for the toiler. The historians did note the formation of asso nes work, ciations by men in the same trade, but or (Continued on Page 153 A tg TE TT et a Ey AT . re...

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST RETR me eo AY 2 ee remeermennnenn ene ~ August 7,1926 \) For maximum production economy, the choice of motor control equipment comes be- fore the choice of motors. This insures the performance of the machine with a maxi- mum saving in the manual operations involved. Be sure you specify control equipment —savings in labor are too vital to be left to chance. aN a 9 Or ee - This booklet ‘Industry's Elec- ( trical Progress'’ puts into ’ concise, interesting form the story of savings through mod ' ern motor control. Write for your copy today There is not much question about equipment going into in- dustry today. Quite naturally, it will be powered with electric motors. For electric motors have proven their worth—their universal use testifies to that. Electric power with its flexibility, its ease of control, has brought a new standard of operating economy, But when you plan new motor drives, when you purchase new equipment—even before you order motors—remember why you are using motors. Remember why they have become the universal motive power of industry. Remember that motors by themselves are only brute force! The savings in labor that you expect—the savings that add substantially to industrial profits—the savings that are the basic reason for the wide use of motors today—these savings come through the effectiveness of correct motor control. Is the effectiveness of your motor drives left to chance? So HOW do you use motors? Do you make sure that you get the proper motor for every drive? Do you insist on the most modern control available to afford the maximum time saving in the operation of the machine? Or do you, like they still do in some plants, just order motors and trust to luck that the proper control equipment is supplied? Competitive conditions today demand the accurate power- ing of equipment. Your plant cannot afford to leave to chance the labor saving that motors can bring. Plan your drives con- sidering the work to be done—that means the choice of con- trol equipment first—the choice of control equipment that CUTLE Of course with motors - but HOW ? affords maximum speed of production—that ties in closest with the manual operations involved. The proper type of motor can then be chosen to give maximum results. ~_— ree Motor control experience as old as motors themselves Since the days when a motor was a curiosity in manufac- turing plants, Cutler-Hammer engineers have been foremost in the development of motor control. The design of control equipment for every type of motor drive has passed through their hands. And because of their experience, practically every new problem of control that ever arises in industry, is passed along to them for solution. Such is the counsel now available to help you bring your plant to maximum production efficiency. Either in the proper choice of new equipment or in the revamping of existing drives, the services of these C-H engineers—to counsel with your plant men or consulting engineers—are at your disposal without obligation. In the purchase of equipment in which motor and control is incorporated as an integral part by the machine builder, you } can be sure of the same high operation economy by demand- ing Cutler-Hammer Control. The familiar C-H trademark on this equipment means that the control has been chosen first— chosen first so that the motor could give maximum satisfaction. The CUTLER-HAMMER Meg. Co. Pioneer Manufacturers of Electric Control Apparatus 1259 St. Paul Avenue Milwaukee, Wis. MMER Industrial Efficiency Depends on Electrical Control

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~ — — Continued from Page 150 because of their significance have were the first trade-unions. possible political and social Some supposed these Other authori- ties say they were purely social. ndoubt- edly, however, they had some kinship with the guilds which were to flourish 1000 years later, after the Vandal had passed. And they proved that the worker, at least, was learning the of his work ‘and learning not to be ashamed of it So long as that recognition was confined to the toiler, however, it brought little ac- tual return to the individual of any one generation. It made him determined to get value he was creating, importance a fairer share of the hut the betterment to his own fortunes was tligible. The was reaped by his childre *n and his chil- dren’s children. Even into our own early American days, and much later abroad, we ill clung to the idea that work was shame- ful. To look down on the toil and the had been the symbol of good breeding and for so many centuries that man without a , so slow as to be neg increase toil r aristocracy lid not struggle The beginning of the aid the foundation for the that a life without work is useless not happen overnight the old idea. But at least the honesty of In our early American works of fiction and other writ ings the references are all to the humble But after the Civil War, when the maginations of men bemmaie fired by the enterprise by discover his error American Republi modern idea It did nany still held to work had been established. ent} touer.,. nossibilities of cooperative freemen, the historians and biographers be- something noble in economic And once that gan to see effort, mental or manual. idea took hold it spread more rapidly than any other in all history. for the first time to our know! man began to hire man, we have here in the United States the phenomenon of employers recognizing and admitting the worker to the Today, f dge since mportance of the whole scheme of things. In rising crescendo dur- ing the past quarter century we have been glorifying labor and the laborer. We have painted a picture for all the world to see of Americ comes president of the great corporation. ‘a as a place where the newsboy be And while it is customary for cynics to say the picture is overdrawn, none the fact that the vast majority of our most vealthy and influential citizens, trade and professional, were poor boys. Half a cen- tury ago and less our rich men were con- facts of humble and he was in poor taste Now the may gainsa\ ealing the origin and a bovhood of work. who referred to these things. hoast of their struggle S Where Wages Go To rhe importance of this recognition of admiration of a group of men who toiled once upon a time and now They have worked that if vou are to hold a commercial position in the work lies not in live happy in idleness their w ay tothe top only to discover United States you must work har rder than ever. Younger workers are coming along all he time, with keen, resourceful minds and better methods, and they will crowd aside the sluggards. When this new competition first began to make itself felt we had much to learn concerning its economic function. For a time we feared i mortgage, and some men tried to stamp out by restraint of trade. A generation was required to teach us that one does not in- crease his own income by limiting that of another. The application of this truth to wages is now being recognized. Wherever it has been accepted as the guiding factor ing a wage rate it has been followed by increased production and bigger profits. The number of employers using it for that purpose is relatively negligible, and it is agreed that the principle cannot become fully operative until it is universal. Yet from the worst side as we feared the in es- tablist look at its results even of the picture. In 1921 we ran into rougl financial weather. Tl} business storm THE SATURDAY lasted two years. Unemployment rose t the highest figure on record. The depres sion was accentuated by comparison with the period of unexampled prosperity pre- ceding it. During that period workmen got the highest wages in history, and our led with tales of the prodigal and reckless expenditures for silk newspapers were fil shirts and other iuxuries According to all the ae pression should have been accompanie d Yet we had There were no bread lines, no soup kitchens. Not only that, but the American worker gave a still better account of himself. It developed that he had not spent all his wartime earnings. He was still able to pay his bills in the vast rules the business by widespread deprivation. irtually no distress. majority of cases. Few butchers or bakers When the era of deflation started, buyers, even be- failed. miraculously there were fore employment became general again and the pay rolls resumed. The paid out in the inflated wages of war production began to come back. Wages always come back any other place for them to go, now that This is money There isn't we have stopped burying treasure only another way of saying that the worker is the big buyer. There are 41,500,000 gainfully employed in the United About 24,800,000 —that is, about 60 per cent of them people States are actual wage ear? ers —skilled workmen, semiskilled work- men, day laborers and servants. Add engaged in clerical occupations and >on a daily nearly 14 per cent, work--the white-collar you get about 30,500,000 people or weekly wage In other words, about a third of the population of the United States lives on the pay envelope or salary basis. When the Pinch Comes The Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that when wages begin to go down below the standard of living a family has set up for itself the first thing to be checked off the list of purchases is furniture. That family stops buying new furniture, new carpets, The next thing to be hit is the ] She skimps on herself first, new dishes. wife’s clothing. because the children must look decent at he husband must look pre- if he is out of work and lation of industries is acknowledged by all mists as a general thing. Specific ire the ones that get home to us. school Then tr sentable, has to find a new job The interre especia econo- proofs During low earnings in the coal fields of Illinois and Kentucky, owing to lack of employment, our records show that furniture Grand Rapids have hac So did the textile mills in Lawrence and other places in » factories in to close down for ack of business Lows ll, Massachusetts. All this is merely another way of saying that low wages in one state mean low wages or no wages in another. A low wage is not alocal trouble. It reaches out far and wide. So does the reverse of low wages. Building is one of the most sensitive of our industries to earnings in other fields that seem to be the most remote. Unemployed workers put off their repairs and new building. In nor- mal times the production of cement will run to 86,000,000 barrels. In a time of slack work it will drop to one-quarter of that figure. Another way to measure the effect of high wages is by population and mass- production figures. The United States Commissioner of Labor Statistics tells me that from 1899 to 1919 the population of the country rose by 39 per cent, but manu- factured foods rose in volume by 91.1 per cent. Textiles rose 90 per cent; per cent; stone, clay and glass products 78.8 per cent; iron and steel 112.7 per cent chemicals 182.2 per cent; metal goods other than iron and steel 196 per cent; mining 128 per cent; and vehicles, includ- ing automobiles, 1273.8 per cent. These increases mean that more and more people in the United States have added so many comforts, conveniences and pleasures to their life. We export only 8 about tobacco 78 per cent of our manufactures and EVENING POST Save Your Knuckles, Ford Owners / When you see a “Hex” itil i a nA Ce ill ii ) ' ii wil i H mil “au i ao ‘ fi SE SOCKET hi WRENCHES Hl HI you'll do neater fl work, and save W Hl time and temper. ) . | IHin, Soc ket wrenches never neve! ] slip } th chew up the nuts on your car, never bark your knuckles That’s why expert mechanics use the socket wrenches almost exclusively. Your car was as- sembled with them. BLACKHAWK —think of BLACKHAWK/ Economy Wrench Set for Fords ; Socket BLACKHAWK Wrenches MFG. CO. for All Cars Milwaukee, W htehardoon’s MINTS They’re pure An ideal summer confection for children and grown-ups, too. Look for them on the counters of CHAIN FIVE & TEN STORES GROCERY STORES CANDY STORES DRUG STORES Get the genuine — ask for Kiehardoon’ MINTS Tuos. D. 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roseeeen== Just clip and mail this coupon NOW ---------- THE SATURDAY More Money What Would You Do With It? Suppose you could add $25.00, $20.00 or even $10.00 a week regularly to your present income —coula you spend it pleasantly and profitably ? Think it over. For if you want more money, there is an easy way to get it—a way that is bringing extra dollars to men and women the country over. What Others Have Done \ll over the land are scattered prosperous, contented representatives of The Saturday Evening Post, The Ladtes’ Home Journal and The Country Gentleman. Many ot them, who devote a large part or all of their time to subscription work, are carning $50.00 a week and more— practically all of them receive from us for their spare time up to $i.soan hour. Yet the popularity ot the three Curtis publications is so great that these subscription work- ers have hardly scratched the surface of the opportunities y Open to live workers in every community. Mrs. Fred. L. Mowlds of Pennsylvania $4.25 extraina single day Mrs. Inez S. Phinney of Maine $8.00 in one day Charles F. Johnston of Pennsylvania More than $75.00 extra in one month What You Should Be Able to Do So here is your chance. If you have even an © hour or two a week to spare, you can turn : them to pleasant money-making. Age is no barrier to success. Whether you are under twenty or more than fourscore, we have a - plan of work that will exactly fit you. Every Month Profits is the time to learn all about our offer. It costs you just the two cents you pay for a stamp: it may be the means of your earn- ing hundreds of extra dollars. Howard Baker of New York $3.25 extra in two hours spare time Your appointment will be per- manent; every month, every year, should bring bigger prof- its for easier work. If you want more money, now THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 446 Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania j I'd like to have more money. Please tell me how I can get it in my spare time. Nam Age Street SO wtiimoas nae ___ State ulinamanciaiieblinasineains EVENING POST 10 per cent of our farm produce. The rest stays here and is consumed. Prosperity is only another word for high purchasing power in the mass, and the only source of that power is wages. Wages in turn are based on work, plus brains—the thing we have learned to call production. Our wage rates have increased with extraordinary rapidity in the United States throughout the history of the country, and particularly during the past few years. But per capita | production has increased even more rap- | idly, save in a few exceptional industries. Heretofore, however—and again taking note of the exceptions—the responsibility for the increase of production essential to the payment of high wages has been borne by the employer. This is not altogether due to the fact that he is better trained or more intelligent than the worker. In the main it is because he has insisted on it as his right. He has wanted it to be under- stood that he would do all the thinking. It is probably quite fair to say that in many instances the employer has been compelled to take this attitude because his workers were unwilling to think. Nevertheless, it is equally fair and obvious that the worker should resent it, and the lower his mental- ity the more this resentment might be ex pected to show itself in the form of poor work. Here is where, in my opinion, we are en- tering a new era of production in the United States. As a result of many de- velopments, notably the exceptional plants where employes have been taken into the management, our old antagonisms are breaking down. Even while the best technical minds of industry are making | revolutionary progress in the development of machines to increase production with a minimum of thought on the part of the operator, the superiors of the technicians are devising plans and launching experi- ments to gain the good will of the worker. It is increasingly recognized that our work- ing population constitutes a vast reservoir of intelligence as yet virtually untapped. Agreed on Essentials Out of that reservoir we have taken the self-made leaders of industry, and in it these leaders have been engaged for some years in a frantic search for help. It sounds trite when we say that opportunity at the top is unlimited, yet even those who make the statement glibly are often un- aware of the extent of the opportunity. We have built up a national literature on the | demand for management men, yet each year the shortage grows more acute and the burden of those in high places increases. What could be more obvious than the re- distribution of responsibility which takes place when workers, by one means or an- other, are taken into some form of partner- ship? It will be even more obvious in the fu- ture. When, for example, we have an entire industry operating on this basis of com- plete coéperation between worker and August 7,1926 employer the production records will tell their own story. I shall not attempt any prophecy as to how long it will require to bring this about, but I am convinced it is not far off. Regardless of the animosities that still crop up, both worker and em- ployer have made tremendous strides to- ward a common understanding. Their spokesmen, at least, are in agreement on the two essential points—-that wages can come only from production, and that pro- duction can be increased by more efficient methods. Both sides are agreed also that the effi- ciency system alone will not yield the de- sired results. The worker has resented it all along because it treated him as a machine. Now the employer has discovered that the most far-reaching system ever devised can- not observe and reason from the observa- tion. He has learned that the dullest of workers may, sometimes out of the natural and human desire to lighten his work, hit on a simpler and easier way of performing some operation. When he is working for an employer who regards wages as charity the employe will keep his idea to himself. But when his stake in the business is well de fined he will demand the improvement. | think the best proof that some of us went too far with so-called efficiency systems which were not efficient is to be found in the fact that we are beginning to laugh at the efficiency expert. The Worker's Capacities The workers are right next to the raw ma- terials. They see where waste can be cut, where improvements can be made. For a long time they could not see, because they did not regard it as any of their business, but that day is gone along with the compe- tition stifler. Wherever the saving —o production-—-wage has paid it compelled the worker to recognize his owt interest in the common effort. One wage earner out of every seven owns stock in some industry. The number is constantly increasing. The element of compulsion is just as evi- dent from the viewpoint of the employer. Sooner or later Europe and the rest of the world is going to get on its feet. That means increased competition with other countries. Wages have gone up in those countries, but I doubt if they will get as high as they are here, or at least not for a long time. That means that we shall have to sell in competition with the products of countries where wages are lower. If we re- duce the wages of American workers we cut our markets. Therefore the only way to meet this competition is to make industry more scientific, to run it more economically, to cheapen production by cutting out waste. Our business men have made astounding strides in this direction, but the most successful of them recognize that they are nearing the limit while the burden is borne by the few at the top. Employment been nas of the untouched capacities of the worker is inevitable. PHOTO. BY FRANK BECKWITH The Temple of Siniwava, Zion National Park, Southern Utah

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NOW for the © f inst time you tun” ae A 4 The first 500 miles is the most important. Do not Flush out your repack with fresh clean grease THE SATURDAY EVENING POST \ 3 Pr - Thousands and thousands of useful miles can now be added to all automobiles. Heretofore cars were often driven from two to four years without ever having the differential or other gear cases cleaned out. Thus gear filings, steel chips, hardened gritty grease, etc., that had accumulated in the years of constant service, daily caused unnecessary wear and tear. Now, by means of the Fry Flusher, Flushing Oil or Kerosene is sprayed into the differential or other gear cases; the vacuum nozzle then removes the old bd > . go beyond that mileage without changing your grease. Sa | grease and filings and the pressure nozzle cleans the gears. New fresh grease is then put in. All in a few minutes! Your car is really renewed and will run thousands of extra miles. Service stations throughout the coun- try are equipping with Fry Flushers as rapidly as we can turn them out. Go to the nearest service station oper- ator in your neighborhood. Ask him to explain the ease and economy with which you can put fresh grease in all your gear cases. MARVEL EQUIPMENT COMPANY, CLEVELAND, OHIO MARVEL EQUIPMENT COMPANY, LTD., TORONTO, ONT. FRY FLUSHERS Car CASeS and watt You have learned the importance of changing the oil in your crankcase regularly. Now | for the first time you can speedily flush out | your gear cases and repack with fresh, clean | grease. Get the habit. Change your grease regularly — regularly — regularly! Lengthen the life of your car ’

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Country Gentleman carries more advertising than do all the other national farm papers, combined! LINES The Country Gentleman 61,080 LINES 18,318 14,547 11,562 2nd NATIONAL FARM PAPER jrd NATIONAL FARM PAPER 4th NATIONAL FARM PAPER 5th NATIONAL FARM PAPER 10,182 6th NATICNAL FARM PAPER 5,122 Total for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, & 6th Farm Papers 60,331 If the record is confined entirely to the advertising of those products whose only market is the working farm itself—dairy supplies; farm implements; heat, light, and water plants; nursery stock and seeds; poultry supplies; sprayers; livestock and poultry—The Country Gentleman’s lead is even greater. LINES The Country Gentleman 14,888 LINES 4,112 3,016 2nd NATIONAL FARM PAPER jrd NATIONAL FARM PAPER 4th NATIONAL FARM PAPER 2,679 5th NATIONAL FARM PAPER 2,140 6th NATIONAL FARM PAPER 705 Total for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, & 6th Farm Papers 12,652 vgQUntty (jentleman The Modern Farm Paper | More than 1,200,000 a month THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA Advertising Offices: Philadelphia, New York, Chicago Boston, San Francisco, Detroit, Cleveland These figures are based upon an analysis of the June 1926 issues which w ade before the figures of Advertising Record Company were available. Some slight differences, therefore, may appear from this statement | SATURDAY EVENING POST

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Index of Advertisers August 7, 1926 PAGE AC Spark Plug Company 82 American Bottlers of Carbonated 106, 107 Beverages ; \merican Chain Company, Inc &3 American Tobacco Co., The 74 Ayer & Son, N. W 100 Bassick Manufacturing Co., The $5 Blackhawk Mfg. Co 153 Bon Ami Company, The IIL Cover Brown Shoe Company 143 Buick Motor Company 98, 99 Bunte Brothers 137 Burroughs Adding Machine Company 123 Cadillac Motor Car Co 35 California Fruit Growers Exchange. . IV Cover Campbell Co., William 133 Campbell Soup Company 29 Carryola Co. of America 128 Celotex Company, The 159 Champion Spark Plug Co 43 Chevrolet Motor Company 16,47 Chrysler Sales Corporation 37 Cincinnati Auto Specialty Co 117 Coleman, Watson E 133 Columbia Carbon Co 128 Congoleum-Nairn In 51 Conklin Pen Mfg. Co., The 75

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The , 141 Crescent Tool Company 112 Cup] les C ! 1600 Cutler-H ( 152 Dover Mig. Co 118 Du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., E. 1. 71 Rastman Kodak Compan 116 eclipse Machine Compar 134 Klectro- Magnetic Tool Company 128 Evans & Co., Victor J 133 Florsheim Shoe Company, Th« 150 Follansbee Brothers Company 139 G & J Tire Company 77 General Electri: 90 General Gas Light Company 105 Gets-It, Inc 117 Gordon-Van Tine Co 149 Hartford Fire Insurance Company 79 Hillerich & Bradsby Co., In 101 Hotel La Salle 122 Hudson Motor Car Company 54,55 Hupp Motor Car Corp 05 Jennison-Wright Company, Thi 146 Johns-Manville In 136 Kelly-Springfield Tire Company 85 Kelvinator Corporation 119 Koken Companies 97 Kroehler Mfg. Co 88, 89 Lambert Pharmacal Company 69 Larus & Bro. Co. 91 LaSalle Extension University 117 Locktite Patch Co lil Log Cabin Products Compan; 103 Manstield Tire & Rubber Co., The 93 Marmon Motor Car Company 61 Marvel Equipment Company 155 Metro Chocolate Co., The 128 While every precaution is taken to insure accuracy, Monroe Calculating Machine Co., Inc. 64 Moon Motor Car Company 120, 121 Nash Motors Co 63 Norris, Incorporated 132 Olds Motor Works 39 Oneida Community, Ltd 2 Ontario Government Publicity Bureau 118 Packard Motor Car Co $1 Palmolive Company, The 76 Parker Pen Company, The IT Cover Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil Ass’n. 135 Pennsylvania Rubber Co. of America In 148 Philadelphia Storage Battery Co 95 Phoenix Hosiery 87 Pioneer Rubber Mills 111 Postum Cereal Company, Inc 110 Process Engraving Co., Inc., The 118 Pro-phy-lac-tic Brush Company 56 Pyrene Manufacturing Co 112 (Juaker S Oil Re ( Re Mur & ( Re st 10) I Spray Comp | l Re¢ l Toba ( pa 0 ] n I s. D 1 R Gear & I ( 142 Royal Easy Chair Co Q4 R el! Mig. ¢ 14 Rutland Fire Clay ¢ l Sanford Mfg. ( 133 SAVE e Surtace Can L/ S | Mig. ¢ I N( Scripps-Howard Ne¢ 144 S ( ( \ 150 Simor Compan) s4 smith & C Spencer Heater Compa yrona Typewriters Inc 14 124

Standard Laboratories, I Standard Oil Ce l ') 131 Stein & Company, .\ 129 Stewart-Warner Speedometer Co 53 Stromberg Motor Devi Compatr 147 Studebaker Corp. of America, T} 67 Stutz Motor Car Co. of Amer In ) Swift & Compar Syracuse Washing Machine Corp 1 Texas Company, The 08] Tide Water Oil Sales Corporat j Tork Company I Pung-Sol Lamp Works In 109 I vinple x Sales Co 62 ersal Picture 49 Vacuum Oil Company 2 Van Cle Bre 10 Wanamaker, John 59 Warner Patterson Co 30. 113 Western Clock Co l Wetmore, Janes & Sugden 133 Willard Battery, The 126, 127 Willys-Overland, Inx ae Wurlitzer Mfg. Co., The Rudolp 158 ““X” Laboratories 66 Yale Electric Corporation 60 we cannot guarantee against the I sil itty of an occasional change or omission in the preparation of this index.

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158 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST August 7,1926 URLIIZER The Poets’ C REG U.S PAT.OFF. S tudto Piano | | | | | Mo N y, The smallest room has space for this dainty piano If there’s vacant space in your home, your studio, your cottage, measuring + feet 8 inches wide, and 2 feet 2 inches deep, you have room enough for a Wurlitzer Studio Piano. Wurlitzer craftsmen have produced an instrument of those amazingly small dimensions that possesses all the fine, full-toned musical qualities for which Wurlitzer has long been famous. THE RUDOLPH WURLITZER MFG. COMPANY North Tonawanda, N.Y. Wurlitzer Dealers Everywhere SEND FOR FREE PORTFOLIO It contains beautiful photos of Wurlitzer Studio Pianos and Players and shows how wonderfully these instruments fit into small rooms. A and up. Payments Studto ee , ) extending over a Pianos period of 24 years. Stu ( pP vers, $445 and up. . « « ° * . . . . Studio Grands, $625, Other Wurlitzer Grands up to $5,000. 4/1 prices f j factory Who yet is young and very weak and blind! ° y ’ See how she stumbles upon every stone! Birthday Greetings J HENEVER a baby is born And the child is a girl, See how she gropes and yet can never The Cat, on the fortunate morn, find! Will contentedly purl: What shall I do?” God thought, and bent “*Prr-uwm, prr-um, prr-um. His head, She will smooth down my fur “What shall I do that she may compre- As I cuddle to her; hend?”’ She'll remember that fish Silent He was a while, then smiled, and Is my favorite dish; said, She will pour me my cream And will sing while I dream.”’ “One whom I love shall be to her a friend.” Did we not meet—that instant —you and TI, Whenever the doctor appears Who but for God had passed, unknowing, And proclaims, ‘It’s a boy!” by? Mary Dixon Thayer. The Puppy will bark, as he hears sei = ped To a Clumsy Lover That announcement of joy: “Ho! Ho! Ho! He will save me my bone, For I'll be all his own; I shall listen to him; We shall romp, we shall swim, J UR clumsy fingers hurt my heart, Your tactless words my mind; You are so blundering, no art 4s Is in you to he kind. You touch the sore spots of my soul When seeking lo caress me. Not all my hordes of enemies And no matter what comes ove We shall always be chums! Arthur Guiterman. Can quite so much distress me. Our Meeting THINK that God, leaning far oul one day, Because I know you worship so From the high window of eternity, Gazed down compassionate—as is His way Because I know that only you Upon the earth, and fired His eyes on In all my friends’ long line, me. If chance or fate should ask you to, I think He said, ‘‘ Behold! She goes Would give your life for mine. alone Mary Carolyn Davies. . Your clumsy finge rs hurt my heart— } But even those pain are sweet, The ground beneath my feet. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST | (More Than Two Million Six Hundred Thousand Weekly) | IS fully protected by copyright and nothing that appears in it may be reprinted, either wholly or in part, without special permission. The use of our articles or quotations from them for advertising promotions and stock-selling schemes is never authorized. Table of Contents August 7, 1926 Cover Design by Ellen B. T. Pyle SHORT STORIES PAGE Replicas for Reality— Joseph Hergesheimer 3 Station STYX—Louise Dutton 10 The Foundling—W. A. Fraser ; 12 The Three Sallies— Leonard H. Nason ‘ 16 Gentlemen Prefer Bonds—Sam Hellman 18 The Natural Selection of Mr. Pethick— Thomas McMorrow 22 Good Men and True—Car/ Clausen 40 ARTICLES Radio— David Sarnoff—As Told to Mary Margaret McBride 8 The Girl From Rector’s— George Rector 14 Europe’s Mandate Burden—Jsaac F. Marcosson 20 Bonding Human Nature—As Told to Myron M. Stearns 24 The Saving Wage—Hon. James J. Davis . 27 British Selling at Home and Abroad— Jesse Rainsford Sprague 36 SERIALS Twin Propellers (In Four Parts)—Henry C. Rowland 5 Immortal Longings (Conclusion)— Ben Ames Williams ; , 30 MISCELLANY Editorial 26 Short Turns and Encores , 28 The Poets’ Corner 158 A REQUEST FOR CHANGE OF ADDRESS must reach us at least thirty days | before the date of issue with which it is to take effect. Duplicate copies cannot | be sent to replace those undelivered through failure to send such advance notice | With your new address be sure also to send us the old one, inclosing if possible your address label from a recent copy. | orner | A ew

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