Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 208, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 29, 1942 Page: 2 of 4
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warned of that procedure and is
also entitled to an answer to a
letter when he is asked about the
strange doings of office holders
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who pull stunts like that.
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attorney grabs the chance to fore-
close just to add the fee—one
wonders how can the little tax
payer pay off when several hun-
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which was hard to pay.
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for house payment, cattle and
other luxuries that office holders
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ful,” she cooed. "Riletta, it's real-
ly an inspiration just to listen to
him talk."
‘1 suppose he discusses appen-
dectomies with the ease that an
ordinary man talks of baseball,”
Riletta said sarcastically.
“I don’t understand you,” Bee
said, with a shake of her head.
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wrote the "Rights of Man.”
It has been said God loved the
poor common people, that U why _
there are so many of them—but "What have you got against him?
But then, you don’t seem to like
any man. Now I’m different.”
"So I notice.”
"I don’t mind telling you that I
in the same book He warns the
selfish and rich to beware for the
millstones fo God grind slow, but
exceedingly fine.
versation and wished she
go on her way. Somehow,
Miss Irene Lange of Houston
spent eeeecel days with her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lange,
recently.
Clp. Edmond Lehrmann, who Is
stationed at Muroc Bombing
Field, Muroc, California, visited
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
"Dr. Asti is perfectly wonder- terested.
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stopped the car and—well, tried
to kiss me. I didn’t let him, of
course."
Riletta patted her arm. “Well,
Bee, I wish you hick. If you’re
crazy about him, then I hope you
land him.**
She turned and walked away.
Bee, looking after her, smiled
with satisfaction.' She was sure
that Riletta’s pose of indifference
was put on but, if she knew any-
thing about human nature, she j put in an appearance.’ ’
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CHAPTER XI
Bee watched Carleton Ash go
down the walk, then she flounced
into the nurses' home and angri-
ly closed the door after her. Of
all the dates she’d ever had, this
one had certainly been the worst
frost! Of course, it hadn’t been p
real date. She had just taken ad-
vantage of the fact that Riletta
had snubbed Dr. Ash and had re-
fused to come home with him.
Just the same, he might have been
a little less cold and unresponsive!
A few minutes later, Bee met
Riletta down- the hall, and stopp-
ed to talk. What demon possess-
ed hef she scarcely knew. She on-
ly knew that she had an over-
whelming desire to lay claim to
Carleton Ash, thereby forestalling
any hopes Riletta might have in
that direction. .. .
Look Under the Surface
ZpaONT be deceived by the deUilT which the Congressional
Z-Lz banking and currency committees are writing into their
—anti-inflation bills. Look beneath the doo-dads and gewgaws
Zand what do you- find? Exactly. The buck is passed to the
‘Premdent -
The Senate version, which comes closer to having teeth,
would stabilize pay at the Se/>t. 15 level. At that time pay
•■cafes had risen so much above those of August, 1939, that
“buying power was up more than 25 per cent. The Senate pro-
poses to peg it there.
his parents, Mr. and
Lehrmann, recently.
Mrs. Henry Lammert of Clif-
ton spent several days with Rev.
and Mrs. Fred Mgebroff, recent-
ly- k
Melvin Naumann, who la sta-
tioned with the Navy in Galves-
ton, spent several days here with
relatives recently. He accompa-
nied Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Nau-
mann and Miss Em mo Dorothy
Naumann to Clifton the past
week-end where they visited their
mother, Mrs. Gus Bommerfield.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fischer are
the parents of a little baby girl ,
- , „ who was a recent arrival at their ‘
Both Senate and House bills specifically give the Pres- home. ‘ (
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Lange of (
Houston spent the week-end here ,
with relatives, having come to at-
tend the funeral of his aiater, Mrs. ,
. . Paul Schatz. Pvt. and Mrs. Mel-
an enormous burden upon an already overworked vln 8an Antorrio were
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was also sure that Riletta would
now snub Carleton Ash more than
ever.
Even if she could have known
that Riletta cried herself to sleep
that night, she wouldn’t - have
cared in the least. She was es-
sentially selfish and was deter-
mined to go to any lengths to gain
her ends. ,
Gossip travels quickly in a hos-
pital. The following morning, be-
fore Lucy Stubbs came off duty,
she had heard a number of things
in regard to Vivian Snyder’s par-
ty — and she wasn't very pleased
by what She heard.
First and formoet, she heard
that Dr. Ash had failed to keep
his appointment with Riletta and
that he hadn’t evgn seen her home
after the party. She was puz-
zled and annoyed, but she sus-
pected dirty work somewhere.
Without even Mopping for
breakfast, she hurried to her room
to make sure of seeing Riletta
before the latter went on duty.
She found the younger girl
dressing. «
“What’s this I hear about last
night?" she asked at once, "I’ve
heard a lot of rumors, but I want
the truth!”
Riletta raised her eyebrows.
"Last night? Why, therte was a
party at Vivian's.”
"Don’t be evasive!” Lucy said
"J know that perfectly well! You
know what Tm talking about.
When one of the girls came on
the floor this morning, she said
that you didn’t go to the party
with Dr. Ash—and after I told ev-
erybody in the hospital that you
intended to go with him!”
Riletta shrugged. "He didn’t
ident the power to make adjustments whenever, in his opin-
- ion, inequities exist or the prosecution of the war will be aid-
• ed by such changes.
This of course removes all onus from Congress, and
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; President. It makes of the ostensible wage peg a futile ges- here also to attend the funeral of
• ture. , I his mother.
2, Moreover, both bills fix the ceiling upon the prices of
• farm products at parity. But parity is a mercurial concept.
‘ It changes almost hour by hour as the prices of the farm-
* er’s purchases change. ’And the cost of what the farmers
? buy is controlled by wage scales.
By his power to adjust wages the President is given
• complete authority to manipulate both wages and farm pro-
* duce prices.
Therefore, although the committees have given the ap-
pearance of accepting their legislative burden, and fixing
standards for the battle against inflation- in fact they have
i tossed the hot potato to the President.
There is much disagreement as to the formulate which
should be applied to establish these ceilings. Some want
* them high, some want them, low. Perhaps wage earners
should get 43 per cent more buying power now—when there
is little to be bought—than they got in 1929, when our in-
* dustrial plant was booming on civilian production. Let’s
waive that for the moment.
The important thing is that Congress is abdicating. The
legisaltive branch is ducking out and leaving the nasty task
up to the President.
- Mr. Roosevelt may want the power, or may not Surely
. he would appear to have enough work to do, as Commander-
; in-Chief of our armed forces and unofficial chairman of the
board of the United Nations, without this chore.
? Even that is immaterial.
Policy, we repeat, is Congress’ province. It is to make
I national policy that we pay 531 representatives and 96 sen-
*■ ators, provide them with excellent working quarters and
ample staffs.
by WAYNE SPRAGUE J * <,
loat my heart to Dr. Ash the min-
ute I qpt eyes on him.”
"Really?” Riletta laughed short-
ly. "Apparently, you’re, not alone.
From what I hear, there's scarce-
ly a nurse in the hoepital who
hasn't succumbed."
She wasn’t enjoying this con-
versation and wished she could
go on her why. Somehow, she
found it palnfurto discuss the new
Interne. However, Bee wasn’t
through.
"Anyway, thanks to your get-
ting mad at him tonight," Bee
continued, "I believe I made some
headway, I've been trying for
days to get him to pay a little
attention to me but, until tonight
I didn’t have much sucrose."
"And tonight you did?”
Bee's eyes took on a dreamy
look. "Yea—he seemed really in-
He brought me home,
And on the way, he
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"Why didn't he?”
“I diWt know. After I’d wait-
ed more than half an hour, he
■imply sent word by Bee Blake
that he'd been detained.”
“Didn’t he say any more than
that?”
"No.”
"Well, there's something mighty
queer about it! I wouldn't trust
that Bee Blake an inch. I wouldn't
put it past her to distort hie mes-
sage. You mark my words, she’s
crazy about Carleton Ash, and It’s
my opinion she’s trying to cut you
out.”
A picture of confidence, Brig;
Gen. R. M. Littlejohn, Euro-,
pean quartermaster for the'
AEF In Europe, is shown short-
ly after arriving in London.
•‘Cut me out! I don’t want him.
She's welcome to him!"
• So you say! Anyway, the whole
thing burns me up!” *
"Burns you up?” Riletta pre-
tended to be amused. "How do
you suppose I felt when I was "
left here waiting last night. Here
I was, all dressed up and jio
place to go. I finally went along
with Bee."
"Of course you did!" Lucy rail-
ed. "That's exactly what she
planned to have you do. 'Then I'll
bet that .whtip^Dr. Ash Appeared
at the party — he did finally
appear, didn’t he?4’
"Well, Til bet that, when he r
came, Bee managed to monopol-
ize every minute of his time. Is
that true or ian’t It?"
'• “It's true,” Riletta confirmed.
"He evenl*r home
"There! What did I Jell you?
She has set her cap for him, that's
what she’s done.”
"It’s a free country," said Ri-
letta. “After sUl, she has a right
to do that and, if Dr. Ash wants
to be attentive to her, he too has
a perfect right to do ao.”
"But he doesn't want to,” Lu-
cy inaisted. “It’s all her doing.
I’ll bet anything that he’s inter-
ested in you, Riletta . . . Now
don't try to interrupt. You listen
to me! You’re a darned pretty
girl, and he's blind if he doesn’t
know it. All I have to say, Ri-
letta, is that you’re seven kinds
of a chump if you let Bee Blake,
or any other girl, get ahead of ’
you!”
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