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'BIS SOUTH MAIN STREET. McALLEN. TEXAS.
. Entered at ‘McAllen. Texas, ax. Second Class
Batter, under act of Con? _>s*. Mjarch 3. 1879.
Wednesday. October 16, 1935
McALLEN DAILY MONITOR
> MEMBER of THE ASSOCIATED press
The Associated Prrss is exclusively entitled to
the use for publication of all news dispatches
credited to it or otherwise credited in this paper, j doubtful enough to make any western
.and also the local newt published herein.
honrfr of licking him, far be it from !
him to deny 1^e phance.
There is a^fcther “if” to be eonsid-j
ered in guessing whether Norris will
run again. Bow about the new deal j
and the architect thereof? Suppose,;
come time fof.filing papers, it appears (
that President Roosevelt still is certain ;
of renoraination but his re-election
MODERN
WOME
N
By Marian Maya Martin
NEW YORK
INSIDE QUT
By Don O’Malley
sm
JUST LUCE HOME
-j*
LEAGUE OP
NATIONS
NEW YOl
Oct. 16—Broadway
keeps dishing up evidence to prove
the free-and-easy days are return-
ing . . . Opening night tickets have
A. R. Kli.MT, Editor
SUBSCRIPTION R VI
Carrier Delivery
Dally and Sunday -,-v-
By Mall, per year .
Is it usual among <ihe younger working women
to scoff at housework, and are the younger
. ,r men Inclined to agree with them that it is the'soared to the t&.so level for, the
State pivotal. Norris IS about the new - ; j 0ftpn think the younger crowd do feel , first time in several year's, and tic- j
dealest of all newdeal Republicans. i that f0r certainly letters m much the same! ket scalpers were getting as much
Would he content himself with mere
speech-making in trying to keep Ne-
wc a month! braska in the pew deal line; or would
*5 oo! he not feel that running again for the
I senate would be' sounder strategy.
. ..li_ . , j .__, „ ... Even a lowly movie opening—
was dusting my desk and I remarked that she,. ^ Qf ,.A MIdsumrner Ntghf.
would make a good housekeeper for some wor. Dream-._chan.ed an $11 top,
thy young man. Her cheek reddened. *1 would- I which mean8 that hot doug^h is
n’t keep house for any man.” she said—in a ■ i,urnjng up somebody’s pockets.
The Safety Meeting
Norris mav* be all set to retire next i voice lust a tittle too loud. "What do you think; • • • EUssa Landi is going to be (
~ a' . . ' . . % -i._______l e—rt V 1 1___1 Irfl I I - .. „ A.i.n.. In r. nau* uhl >U’
j organiza-
lointed out
have been
automobile
-V
U .-‘year. So waj Vice President Garner 1 Icam«d stenography *>r? i intend io take
It would be hard to r verestimate , . , T . , care of myself apd have a career It was a
either the sotemnilv of last night’s awhlleLba<*-j $as anyone heard any ,hort speech and wen delivered
either the solemn of last ni^ni 8 Garner retirementtalk lately?
safety meeting at Casa de Palmas ho-j
tel or the earnestness cf those repre-
sentatives of Valley civi
tions who attended it.
The mere fact, as was
at the meeting, that then
fifty five fatalities from
back on Broadway in a new show
| “Tapestry, in Gray” . . . Fair Eiissa
j rose to movie fame after her stage
"Instead of criticising this statement I *P- | gm^and.*
plauded it. I know of no greater waste of time ha8n>t b ' n ln lhe flesh since,
than housekeeping, and I dften wonder why wo-
so far thi s year, was
accidents here
enough to give pause (
present and to make of thfi occasion a
most i in
j every one
solemn one. Probably th
presHive recital was that o
toil, of the* Mr Allen' fire
who* a few days after he
rated this movement,
double loss in his family
¥ ROT ILES
F-O f ?T o d a y
By Tflbot Lake
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< Lord BfedeiuPowell Founded
/
A Boi; Scouts
. ft *
, That blind fellow who plays
I men waste a minute on the million and one rot. the accordian on the Broadway
j ten little jobs around a home Their reward is • )jeat t„,w cunnily patrols the music j
J-light and the work monotonous beyond des- j shows. . . He gets the coin by play
l priptlon. Meals are prepared and eaten Chairs **-
I are dusted and everybody takes it for granted
! that women should be glad to do these things
! just because she is working in her own home.
| My stenographer fcs typical of her age and gen. ; [^"site ^' MaklBoiT Square Garden
continues to be a popular hang-
out. . . At a py hour if the day or
nip lit you'll always .find curious
sidewalk gawkers peering through
the windows in hope of catching
a glimpse of the Mahassa Mauler
. . . Jack still packs a wallop for
j the great public.
AI1C • * *
ing' the hit songs when the crowd
come out.* * * There’s going to be
a countrywide chain of Jack Dem-
psey chop houses, according to
latest rumor. . . Dempsey’s Tavern
tration, and In some respects it is a wiser gener-
ation than any we have ever raised.
“Men nowadays have marriage, babies and
homes in mind to a greater extent than the wo.
men. The word has been passed down from mo-
ther to-daughter that houMkeeping yields no re.
j turn worth mentioning—that husbands take it
for granted that their wives should toil.
Boy Scouta artftaken very much lor
] Chief Brit- granted these d*A’:s. The movement is
Jepartment, | part of the . adtfcational system, and
jad inaugu- j both boys and 'patents accept it as
buffered a something tfiat. -lias always existed.
through an i However, this kind of training for men have had all the best of everything tor
avoidable automobile accident. j boys attracted^very little attention un-1 years, but the tables are being turned. Th^y
The nec essary steps leaking to the j til after the tprn of the century. Fcrjare be;ne uP"fit ™<j^' Callln
formation of a Valley wfi safety or- j this reason i.t& interesting to consider j &m & marrl* maa Jup"fmy wife can stop
Sanitation were taken last night after'the founder o^.the Boy Scouts, Lieut.-1 keeping house any time she sees fit. i wouldn’t
it was pointed out that no one com- Gen. Lord Rqla'ert Baden-Powell. i ask anybody with human intelligence to makr.
mu nit V. alone, can accomplish the j |gs n0 wonder the Boy Scouts idol- dish washing a life callingMaybt‘ I m a radical
task that is ahead. It will require lize the Genef<!; 'think of his exciting
the concerted efforts of aj|l ccmmuni- j background. ^aden-PovVell, has real
ties to bring about an alleviation of Indian blood^ln liis veins, being lin-
eally descended from Pocahontas and
John Rolfe, t&e Englishman who took
his Princess feto Britain with him | — ~
when he left ^ie Virginia colony. This ThP zeaioui
is supposed ^account for his natural "
a
the present deplorable cqnditions.
Just what steps will be taken will
depend on the recommendations of a
committee appointed last night and
conclusions of a meeting to be held at
Mercedes next ’ Tuesday night. The! love for scouflng. a love which has
committee will be| working through-1stood him irti good stead during his
out the- week. The Mercedes meeting j seventy-eight -years of activity.
*■» ; . 1 1 ‘ - 7 . ■ # > -
should b«* weH attended, fqr, out of it: His career is just the sort to fire the
may come* some a4tk.ii that will save | Imagination of a boy,, for he entered
many lives and make our highways j the British army at nineteen, and soon
safer for all of us. (after found himself in IndU, where he
The McAllen chamber of commerce, had every opportunity to- follow his.
has undertaken no mofe important' bent for tracking dow,n animals and
work than this. It has united the Val-jgetting familiai|with the terrain. This
ley in a noce^gary jjgfetv effort and it Jgbjjity, soon led-jto/his appointment as
has set in motion rtiachlnery that mayjhead of the semits. He used to send
well result In the enactment by the j newcomers fift^n miles out in the
state legislature of better and more'wild and let th£m find their way in.
stringent highway regulations. j His further Activities read like a
-----4------— * i jnovel I .a tour qPduty in Afghanistan,
The Norris Question Mark |an int'elligenc^pfficer in southeast
i Africa a stretcl^bf three years in Mal-
If the Republican high conimand|1a anll them ba&i to South Africa as a
| but 1 tii ink the young women will back me up,
and possibly their worn and weary mothers who
have slaved for years for practically nothing.
—Fair Play.”
Every girl longs, at one time or another, for
a career Not many of them are willing to sac-
i rifice happiness for it and not many really find
career.
zealous young stenographer responsible
for this discussion is likely to change her mind
before many years. Indeed. I shouldn’t, were 1 \ expert Then Alex goi' hold of the
an eligible young man, want to run the risk ol I "Three Men On xa Horse’’ script-
proposing to her right now if I did not want j ,\nd today he's already made his
her to accept me.
I agri? with Mr. Fair Minded that being a
cook and bottle washer is apt to be thnkless
job nd a very monotonous one, but I must say
I think filing clerks are just as poorly paid and
SPLURGER—What happens when
a guy living from haind to mouth
suddenly ctmaes into a million dol-
1 la is? You’d expect inflation to hit
the personal ego, grandeur and
splurge to creep into ways of liv-
ing, and all the rest of the things j
that the story books (tells us fol-
low in the wake of! unexpected
wealth.
Alex Yokel is one (fellow, huw’-
ever, who won’t contribute mucji to
that particular kind of saga. A year
ago he was just one of the thou-
sands struggling ori Broadway,
waiting for a brbak. fie picked up
odd jobs in the theater and as pub-
licity man, and was delighted when j
a restaurant firm pit id him in j
meals for his service*- as ballyhoo l
s%4
• tils b, raiu4 raw* IMbA la .
has correctly diuKiiosed what happen-
ed in Nebraska when Senalor George
have just as dull sledding
A clever stenographer can go far and have
an interesting life, but dinnertime comes even
to clever stenographer, and there is not always
someone waiting to take her out. Grabbing one's
dinner at a soda counter or even dining nicely
alone isn’t my idea of a hppy ending for the
dy
Enjoys the Fussing
Even an executive! woman might enjoy fuss,
ing around her own kitchenette and cooking her
self an occasional egg. I still think that women
should know how to co©k They might have to
do it even if it is only on .the maid's nightout
And I still cannot quite see why young mod-
ems resent the idea tltat they should have to
keep.house and why th**y should prefer working
in offices rather than around their own,homes, j new stunt came along, but just out
with the second well
first million
on the way.
What are the changes? Well, Mr.
Yokel brought some new under- J
shirts, a new overcoat, some extra
gas for his modest automobile, and
a summer bungalow at Atlantic
Beach, ln u moment of extrava-
gance he bought three new suits
and a little additional haberdash-
ery. He still lives in a small’, sin-
^THlNG6uttO^
* jfln€T DORfln
_*_ f. IfU bf l mHa4 gy»>4»rate tot
regimental maj$r to fight the Boers
II wasn’t until'1!) 10 that Lord Rob-
Norris last ran fori re-election, a stren-’jert was ableto clevote all his attention
uou.s.efIfn i to stavi* off any premature ; j^ov; Scout movement. He resign-
anti-Norris operations next year looksfrom aprny and went to work
to be in or»k‘i\ Experience would teach J with a vim. He had been planning
them that daring Norrin to run ai?ain |'an( organization for years that would
is not a safe business, even if he >sitedch 'boys a cleaner life through
. , in I i j , fifty years, it’s fun enough when one is young
Close tit i ;> years olu. i knowledge' of the woods and fields, < ,
| Kopwicuge wi me uuu ;and the weather s fine and when one may dine
1 Except for what he took as a dare, jso he put it into effect. at wj], and not nrst scrutinize the right hand
gflu room at a midtown hotel. The
rest is cached.
Yokel’s learned what a depres-
sion means,
* * *
HONORAY DEGREE—I’ve got to
Hand it to Richard Maney. For
years Dick has been known as
perhaps the smartest theatrical
press agent in the business. Some
months ago he took over the del-
icate operation of putting Billv
Rose’s new circus show, "Jumbo,”
into the public eye. Every day a
Maybe I’m wrong, but experience has shown me
that there are very few women without a dash
of domesticity in their make.ups and that there
is something of the homemaker in the kind of
r, girl irfi want to marry,
ating around gets pretty tiresome in forty or
His original , Hbv Scout movement
now has 2,000,Ob() members.
You Am Your Child
By JANE HERBERT COWARD
Norris was ready to call it quits with
active politics six years ago. He is
supposed to be of much the same mind
now. jThe role of chief thorn in the!
side of party old-guardism he has
played so consistently for 30 years or
more must Lave b*t*n a wearing one.
The senatorjhas. plenty of laurest to j
retire .upon. -Ills ponding project for
setting up a sort ol statute ot limita-
tio’ns of the'supreme court’s powers of
veto over acts of cqjigres^ looms as a
long-haul matter. At his ago he hard-
ly could expect to see it through in the js ^xcused because pf "backache
senate.
Restraining* anti-Norris Republicans
Edwin .is very £8$ at making excuse* If serv-
ed something tvhlc| he does not especially care
f..r, he finds ft.easy, and convenient as a rule,
to “develop’ tutgm'yache. Or if mother asks
him to pifk up strewn toys at a time when
he would rather be doing something else, he
side of menus. But it’s pretty dreary when the
weather is bad and the fluids are low, and one
has become so satiated with public dining that
i going out to dinner seems a burden.
| I don’t blame any woman for side-stepping
I housework of the old drudgery sort. Pressing
buttons isn’t so difficult, however, and that s
the way figuratively speaking, one does now.
adays to get some sort of action
I’m all for the girls having careers if they
have what it takes but I am also for them hav-
ing in reserve some practical ideas about boiling
an egg and an instinct that tells them what-to
do with a potato in order to make it palatable.
If they never live to put thi sknowledge to the
test fine and dandy, but knowing how isn’t
much of a load to carry through life.
ot plain, stubborn orneriness I re-
fused to pay any attention.
But Professor Manev’s latest pre-
stidigitation slays me. He put a bis,
bold ad in the papers offering to
Kive an exclusive private perform-
ance of “Jumbo” to anyone who’d
pay $10,000 for the privilege, with
the provision1 that no one else be
allowed in the audience. Already
one goofy guy wants to accept if j
he can get an aisle seat, and an- j
other zany is interested only if he’ll j
be allowed to bring his girl along, j
And then there’s that sign over
the Hippodrome gate: "Through I
these portals pass the niost beau- 1
tiful horses in the world." Profes- j
sor Maney knows his oats. <
When .Inlinii) Anthony turns
up in tin* little town of Burnt-
wimh! and start playing golf at
the country club, no one knows
just who In* i» or wli^rc he came
from. Alma; Whit laker, daughter
of laiwsou Whittaker, one of. the
town’s leading eltizens. golfs
with him and xooii realizes that
she is falling in love with him. But
Johnny raises the sivret of his
past as a barrier between them.
Alma’s father wants her to marry
Sig Rorudike, who Is e<nniiert.-:t
with the local hank.' When sig
proposes to her just before leav-
ing on a trip to < liieago. s|m*
turns him down hut sa.\s that,
if she should change her mind,
she will see hi m off the next
morning. Instead, she pla>s golf
with Johnny.
chIaptur III
Miserable tjhmighls followed Al-
pc') along every step of that
strangely solemn early-morning
I round of golf. She could not help
I hut face thej truth: She was hi
I love—terribly! in lovi—with John-
| ny. But lie had chosen to erect a
| barrier bet we* n them, beeaus-* of
(something in his p:rst—something
apd les eyes were Herious.
. oil, I can’t tell you. John-
firmly
‘1 .
| n y: "
Johnny’s arms closed ahdut her
j tend*! ly. Then, as Alma raised her
I ti ar-il rem hoJ ey* s to his, a sud-
! den, breath-taking light dawned on
j him. . t
j “Alma,” he whispered wonder-
ingly, doubtfully. "Alma . . .” ,.
Blindly, t'lieir li]is met, and dur-
ing the breathless ecstasy of that
first kiss, the golf roars . the club .
In a--'., far in tin- distance, hnd all
j of Birrntwaaod and its smupi hypo-.
| critical social system. fa<Md into
I an indistnict. unimportant blur.
‘‘Alma,’’ Johnny sai<l *pr4sently,’
gently releasing her.- ' .limit . . .
how did this happen? I I didn’t)
no an it to he. I Pm sorry!" In
foundered helplessly.
| "You’re sorry you kis>p*id roe.
j Johnrfy ?" Alma Uemandi d. iirt<l he
fliuchesl heforo the scorn jin her
* Johnny agreed quietly, "hut your
| family wouldn't let you. You're a
i Whltitaker; your mother wan a,
; Falkan. And never, in thi* little
| town, could you break the social
pattern. You cafi’t escape it."
"Then I’ll .leave this townj. I’ll
go away, and build my, own Ufe,
my own happiness! I won’t be a
sacrifice on the altar of silly, stu-
pid snobbery!”
"But would you-be happy, Alma?
That’s the question. You’ don’t
know the heartache that can come
<
from a violent break with one’s
family and friends.”
Alma turned away from him la
exasp* lation. and started toward
the clubhouse. Johnny wearily fol-
lowed her. *
"Well,” he said flatly, "we might
as well go some place and have
break last together, anyway.”
Th- y drove,' in Alma’s roadster,
to the log drug store owned ami
operat'd by her father. As they
took scabs at the soda fountain, a
mJiidb—aged clerk -jr her fatherf*
.right-hand i/ian — appeared. He
looked worried about something.
"Have you seen your father this
rtioring, Mis* Alma?” Jie asked.
"We thought he must be playing
golf with you, but they said at the
club that lie wasn't.”
“My fath-r?” Alma said sharply.
‘Why? Did you phone the house?
c said miserably. *>T'l!
orry for that., Alin#*. How
\ when 1'vei dredrjiied ,,i
u ... . It’s just’ that—”
ou have a pa.*-t that's a
ik, and vou thin k v.i
\ 7^.
The most coririfon alibi of all. however. —ill—---4-j---
"My feet hurt *’ If anyth ng-needs to be fetched | QUt hift tonguei t0 show that he did not care
in Nebraska from loo brishlv scramb- from Uie backyard^ Edwin’s feet immediately I gfypraj grown-ups passing by shook their heads
‘ , *..,,' . . j start hurting of try sending him upstair* to! and exchanged amused glances with one an,
illlK -Io»* the toga he might be ready j lhe bathroom to !wash his hands, and the same Qther But il was no j0ke for Henry or for those
lay aside, may be difficult. With the 1 affliction seizes liim. So that as a rule mother who had ^ out t0 mock him, with their last
ad-interim national committee organi-i'vihds up by compromising: .She invite* him to breath if necessary.
zation whooping it up to arouse battle i come to the kitchen Sink. For most cases, how- The gang parading on the opposite side of
I it line thnmIw-1 cver there is nd such alternative to whicn the street> trailed Henry all the way home
ardor all along the paity line thumbs . nother may teson ^ eixher she lets the ma*. i when Henry disappeared into his house, their
downing a drive at Noll is in NebrasKa ttr drop. ,,r when she feels equal to it, sbe J singsong chorus waxed even louder For they
Would be out' of key. i maks him do hef bidding
Jt is a reasonable guess that any Ne-j Last Sunday/^ad asked Edwin to go to the
v DoivnbU/xiJ. in uhiK* stationers i.ke'a good boy and see about ’he
braska re*ular Kepubluajk in «, newspaper n..t been delivered. -My
ears the distant humming ot presiden ; ^eet hurt ” Ed^tn, blurted before he realized
tial bees may sound would teel that|wbat h*» was saying "Your feet hurt?” Dad was
licking Norris w< uld be aijdne. dram-! angry He woiistf have thrashed yie boy but
wav of making his. debut on the Ibis better ^frdgijent
' — - - boy needed to cure him
atic
Frying out
had to make sure that he would hear them, in
case he went 'down into the cellar or far into
the back of the house They were out to get j
his goat. |i - *
Insid. Henry broke dt>wn and cried. His
mother did nor have to ask what was the mat-
ter She could hear A wave of hate for the
told him that what the i dther children arose in her. "Don't you care,
>f making such ex* 1 darline.’" she told Henry. “Just don’t pay any
KNIG IITHOOD—The new stream- ^ ,
lined ferry boats to Staten Island j IvA
will have a separate women's I 1 '
smoking compartment. A1 Woods
has submitted to pressure and will i
allow women to serve on the ma- j
tinee juries in lii.s iday,> "Night of j
January ltithj”
It’s about time stibway-pushlnrr
New York showsd a little gallantry.
Typing Practice for
Entries to Contest
Gladys Sedwlck, typing spopsotr
announced Monday that typing
students who were eligible for en-
try' in t-he 1 nterscholastit* League
Contests, would begin practice this j
week. Practice will be held every
afternoon with the exception of
Friday, under the supervision of
Mis.s Sedwlck.
darling, . .
nt that would really teach anentioji to them. They^-e horrid; they're nasty
children.”
I,” Dad added sympathetically.! It was comforting to hear mother say that.
national political stage. ........ —,
Uauvimi | t . .11 I CUSeS WH.S pUnH
of office a chap avIio was head-ana-1 R ieSs0n
forefront of the 1909 Republican in- j - ‘That’s too ( „ „ ______________ ________________|____
SUrgenCy m«>V« ment in th^ house and • e-pec ally "II a beaut.ful day because Vou ■ por that was exactly .how Henry himself felt J Myatt.
will-have to sSJy indoors and rest them alL about those children When mother called out!’ All of the students have been
Fifeen students in Senior High
school are eligible for active par-,
ticipation in the contests. They in- j
elude Violet Dalberg, Kate Fegette j
Juan Guerra, Richard Wowe, Ger- !
tfude Thoresln, Raymond Weise-1
han, Henry Whittenburg, Shirley ;
Virginia Bell. Frank Giendenning, ]
Donald. Hill. Max Mill. Nadine '
Sheppard, Dale Stroud. Joyce Mil-
ler, Bruce McGuire, and Vernon
\
I
1
or not they “qual-
ify.
Whose trant cl ^ f Jnsnrircn- mornln® ’ Utrd |ad-lhe b..y take off his shoes , for them tQ gQ away Henry stood bes.de her'urgy-d to tryout f<»r the typing
ized with tht shifting Ot the msurg and ^ui on his’-ledioom slippers He played up; with a fing^r inlo each ear The children gavel trials to help attain speed and ao-
cy theater frgm house to senate would t( him in short.,He called his bluff And by sojher the .-raspberry" and then resumed their j curacy4whether -
be something to boast aboyt. Several doing proved to (the boy how it waspossibie ior . ,han,.
Nebraskans have tried it down the I an excuse to wfek against him. Edw;U is not
, i „ m Unr* Ui -ill ! »l> to l,'>’ that eUMj5e again, leastwise on Dad
years—and got nowhere at all. A chUd WOh is too »n to obey is in no condi.
The records - do not know tha. L-ot| £or play ..
George Norris ever was* much ot at
hand at sports. Yet. the
manship in the way he
the matter
When other children tea*e your child. --Ute
him by the ltand and go find out why- Perhaps
your Henry is a bully or bossy? He cannot get
lwav with it if he is OtheV children will mock
and tease him That’s how the mob treats a
f fluid. .
ol.. W snorts-1 Six -vfar old 1<>ft his compan.ons in
n ^ 1 hurry and in a hufr As he crossed the street spoiled child to teach hifn how better to g.ve
time he sai
ter his retirement. Last
saiffTnaT if*anyone; wanted the
. »i j hurry and
nanuieu started walking toward his home, they be.
Last | cnanting. ^Henny. penny; Henny, penny.'
Null" Da net* in tUd Cliurcli
SCHIERKE. Germany (A*)—The .
ancient wooden church of SchierKr !
in the Hartz mountains, built in j
16S1, has been turned into a rec- j
reation hall for tourists and there j
The clerk looked ivorrie<i. “We haven’t been able to lo-
cate your father anywhere,” he told Alma
that he would not reveal to he/, should fhake our present jind f-i-’
J( hnn) grinned as she flu'bbed ture miserable because of rtf” sb-*'
an easy <lri\'q;” and laid a symri.i-ir-u: In; quickly, pulling Irnr'f hand
thetic h'an-d ojn her shoqider. f:«,m hi* grasp.
"What’s on y-our ntirtd this; "Not exactly.” Johnny *photc.*t»*d
morning. A Stria ’* Y«mi can beat that uneasily. It’s that I’ve noihing to
with both eyei shut!”.. j (offer you, Alma." He riti-djed and
Absurdly, sjie began, to'cry. and ' *Utrcd off a ro*s the rolling land-
Johnny be a pie distressed. j.scape.
"Hey! Whaf-s all this? What’c j "is your version of lbv
'isn't he at home?”
"'Xu. We’ve phoned everywhere.
Dr. Randolph wanted him—staid It
was tugent. But we haven't beers
able to locate him anywhere, and
no ope ha* seen him.”
i "Where's I lie telephone?" John-
i ng*demanded irritably. “I’ll find
j out about this Alma. You order
} breakfast
Alma ordered, and then went to
stand beside Johnny as be called -
one number after another, in a
futile e f f o r t to locate Lawson
W hittaker.
"Your cook says he left the house
at about six--thirty,"! Johnny said,
between calls. "Drove away in hit
car. Haven't you any idea, where
he might have gone?”
"No." said Alma.
.Sh»* was suddenly filled with a
strange .-/prehension, as she thought
back and remembered little things
that.had made little impression on
h*r at the time but that now took
on new significance. She bad no-
ticed that her father seemed wor-
th'd and preoccupied lately, and
she h:t<l urged him tu stop working
late at night over papers and books
«j that- he brought home from th«
store.
And always there had been Big.
Always, after Sig had said good
night to her, he had gone to talk
i w.th her father, and she never '
| knew atf What late hour their bunt-
i ness discussions ended.
I "Johnny.” she said suddenly.
I ‘T^t’s go to the railroad station—
| find out from the agent if Dad wk»
j there to see Sig off on the early-
morning train!”
(To be continued)
|--:-
1 • • J*.
j Assembly Enjoys Fine,
; Sophomore Program
the nutter, Alma?”
"Nothing, johnny,
t-tir.ed, I guejs. I—1
breakfast, and ...” -
"Nix, infanjt,” Johnny
I-r-l’m
haven't
sa id
Members of the sopkomore claws
of McAllen High school were In
charge of the program presented
in th*- Tuesday assembly, which
Was announced by -Maynette
Kreldler.
Margaret Nordmeyer accompan-
■ led at the piafto by Mrs. Paul Jon-
t he kind ! «*• two tM^los. “Chinese Rose".
that goe^’shoppinfg for financiali*nd "Rosary." Following her 8tin-
ratings and social imporkance?'*’ | Linzey played a flute solo,
lie demanded scornfully. "Beeaus? j'_Th« Kwl«* Boy." and Lucy
that L*n't my i<tea of lov-je! If
i
and take. A wise parent will - not defend her
is much dancing in what was the berlv.
nave of the old building. The con- \ Uncle
"Youj aren’t
Jonathan one
fooling your
hit. , Now —
Henry turned ,to hi? erstwhile friends and put go-between for peace.
:hild against his gang. Rather she will act as K.regation outgrew the
atructure.
ancient | what's it all about?” His hands
.‘held her slim ’houldera gently.
!ove a man, I’d live on-an ajh heap
—in a shanty—until I coi|ld h«'tpi
him fight to . something better.
I’d . . ,
"You would, Alma darling,"
Thompson gave a reading entitled
"Tony Buys a Car”. A piano aolo
ky Uoylle Wheelberger - and taro
songs by the girls glee dab “I
Love Life” and "Bar Light” con-
cluded th* program.
- —. v.
■A.
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