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'Saturday
EDITORIAL
PAGE
Che Abilene Reporter-firms
PAGE FOUR
MAY 16, 1942 „
Calls Wallace Speech One of Great Documents of Times
Every Bit Will Help i
It is safe to say that Henry Morgenthau
could not win a popularity contest with the
lower income levels as jury, since he has pro-
posed to cut income tax exemptions to drag
another seven millions under the umbrella.
Nevertheless, his recommendation has
much merit. There are at least two major
reasons why we should extend universal
service to the tax field as far as possible.
‘ First, there is no better way to impress
upon every man and his wife that this really
is their country and their government.
Most taxes are hidden in the retail prices
of commodities we buy. We don’t notice
them. Nobody mentions how much cheaper
each item would be if it weren’t taxed.
As a nation we have thought of the financ-
ing of government as a loaves-and-fishes mi-
racle. Nobody paid, we supposed, except a
few rich and near rich.
Therefore we felt—and many still feel—
. that economy in government is a fetish of
plutocrats. Why should we try to buy ships,
tanks and planes cheaply, just to relieve
some millionaire of a little tax burden? Let
him pay.
Suppose higher pay scales, with stiff over-
time provisions, make war equipment cost
more? Isn’t it merely transferring so much
from corporation stockholders, who don’t
need the money, to workmen who do?
Why worry because the federal govern-
ment alone pays almost 1,700,000 employes,
at the rate of more than a quarter of a bil-
lion dollars a month, exclusive of soldiers,
sailors. WPA, NYA, CCC.
The answer comes when the New Deal
secretary of the treasury asks to have income
taxes brought down to every unmarried per-
son who earns $1160 a week, every family
which receives $23 20 a week.
Second, and this is what Secretary Mor-
genthau had in mind, there is the "inflation-
ary gap” estimated at some 20 billion dollars
for next year which, if not absorbed, will
cause high prices in spite of our ceiling pro-
gram.
Most of this 20 billions will come from
increased war production. A sixth will be
made available by the fact we can not buy
everything we want, for which we have
money.
The best available studies indicate that
our lowest income classes—the people who
never have had money enough to buy more
than a subsistence—the $3000 and under
families—are going to find, when they go to
the stores, that they will have two billion
dollars in 1942 they can’t spend.
The tax collector won’t get much from
these newcomers, but every little will help
to finance the war, to make everybody tax
conscious, and to reduce the margin of idle
dollars available to promote inflation.
Over the Hump
If Admiral Stark’s optimistic statement
proves correct, and we actually are bringing
the submarine menace under control in the
Atlantic, then the tide of this war has
turned.
No layman is in position either to confirm
or to deny the admiral’s disclosure. We don’t
know how many ships were being sunk in
the past, nor do we know how many are be-
ing sent to the bottom today.
For military reasons, which we are obliged
to accept even though we sometimes ques-
tion their soundness, the public has been
kept completely in the dark both as to our
losses and as to the retaliatory vengeance we
have exacted.
We do know, from a long series of official
statements on both sides of the Atlantic, thst
shipping is our worst headache. When we
were attacked, we had inadequate facilities
for supplying our allies, bringing raw mate-
rial into this country, transporting expedi-
tionary forces to the fighting fronts and serv-
icing them while there.
Sinkings have exceeded launchings, so that
as of today we are worse off than we were
last December.
Experts say that one may speculate intel-
ligently that we have averaged a loss of at
least two ships a day. By the end of this
month we expect to be turning out two ships
a day, ready to go to sea with cargoes. On
that basis we would be just about holding
our own.
But two ships a day is only an interme-
diate point. Our goal is to produce 750 ves-
sels this year and twice as many—an average
of four a day—in 1943.
If Admiral Stark is correct, even to the
extent that we can count upon holding the
U-boats to their present effectiveness, then
by Decoration Day we shall have climbed
over the shipping hump and start coasting
down on the sunny side.
Nobody knows what the total will be. At
the beginning of 1941 we had 1150 ships with
a combined gross tonnage of 7,078,000. Last
year we built less than we lost. This year
and next we are adding 2300 craft with a
gross tonnage of roughly 12,000,000.
So by the end of next year we shall have
something fewer than 3500 vessels with a
gross tonnage of less than 19.000,000. At the
beginning of 1941 the British possessed 2664
ships of 16,806,000 tons. Japan, third mari-
time power, had only 898 vessels grossing 4,-
754,000 tons.
Knock off what you will for sinkings. Your
guess is better than any figure that has come
through the censorship. It still will be safe
to say that—if Admiral Stark is right and
we have brought the submarines under con-
trol—from the middle of this year thence-
forward we shall have begun to break the
bottleneck which is handicapping war pro-
duction and preventing us from taking the
offensive against Hitler and Japan.
From Other Viewpoints
That Cleanup
From the Cincinnati Times-Star:
If you are the head of an average Ameri-
can family that has been going along for a
number of years, there is spare rubber not
only in the garage, but on every floor of
the house. In the garage are one or two
worn-out tires. There are sections of leaky
garden hose in the cellar. There are several
pairs of broken-down overshoes in the hall
closet. In a bureau drawer of milady’s bed
chamber is a second-best bathing cap. In the
bathroom is a water bottle that has seen bet-
ter days. A box in the attic contains a teeth-
ing-ring, rubber rattles, rubber dolls which
• no longer have a squeak in them. If you look
closely, you will find other mementoes or
gadgets, even an ash tray set in a miniature
automobile tire.
Government is asking you to turn these
things in. Then the squeakless doll will help
provide wheels for something that, as its
childish possesser used to say, will
Go Boom.
By Raymond Clapper
WASHINGTON, May 16—I‘m
coming back again to this neg-
lected speech of Vice-President
Wallace’s because I can't
help it.
I can't help it because since .
It was delivered last Friday I
have read it over several times,
and each time I have been
more impressed with its depth,
vision end what seems to me
its inescapable truth.
This remarkable speech has
bean strangely neglected. I first
read it before it was delivered
and wrote a thumb-nail place
underscoring some of its high
spots for publication after de-
livery, with the idea that it
would have been printed In full
in the meantime
Yet somehow it was lost in
the shuffle on the news desks
of the country, like Lincoln's
Gettysburg address was tn the
next morning's newspapers.
Washington newspaper readers
saw the full text for the first
time five days late and then
because a business concern, the
International Latex Corpora-
tion. bought a full page In the
Washington Post and as Its ad-
vertisement printed the full text
of the address as a public serv-
ice. ;
TIME TO TAKE THE BULL BY THE HORNS
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Manhattan Moments: Famous Estate Now Lookout Post
By GEORGE TUCKER
NEW YORK-Adolph Zukors
old hen house up on the Hud-
son has become a look-out post
for Rockland County's airplane
spotters
This is s part of a once-fabu-
louis estatethat was some pump-
kins in the old silent days when
the movies were produced large-
ly in the metropolitan area and
California hadn't yet been In-
vented. There were stables,
swimming pools, msnors, gate-
houses, green velvet lawns,
wooded acreage, lush landscap-
ing. High Tor, and some fifty
miles of the Hudson River to
gaze upon
Now the movies have fled to
the Coast and the Zukor estate
isn’t what it usee to be, but the
Hudson still rolls seaward, and
the old ben bouse serves s nob-
ler purpose even than In the
days when the prize Rhode Is-
land Reds cackled there.
Rockland County is proud of
its defense efforts snd the coun-
ty's gentry regularly take turns
during the dark watch to look
for planes and report their pre-
sence to Army Interceptor po-
ints throughout the eastern sea-
board.
You have but to gaze at en-
tries in the lot book to see who
has stood guard and reported
the events of the watch. Max-
well Anderson, the playwright,
did not neglect posterity when
his relief was late the other
morning. At dawn after four
hours on the rook-out, be open-
ed the log-book and wrote. “It
is six o'clock. My relief is already
a half hour late Am I going to
have to stay here INDEFINITE-
LY?"
A swift glance through the
book reveals that some kindly
matron in the district arrived
with sandwiches, doughnuts,
milk and coffee for the watch-
ers
Another shows what effect a,
recent headline had on one
watcher. “Saw mosquito; sank
same ” was the terse report
The watcher then pasted the
dead mosquito into the book, as
added evidence
The Federal Building at 30
Church street gives added evi-
dence of the way war closes in
on the citizens. This is a past
office, a U. 8 Army medical dis-
pensary, and a recruiting sta-
tion for the Army and t be
Navy. When you arrive there
you see soldiers and sailors on
the sidewalk, heavily armed.
They ask you what you want: If
you have any reason for entering
the building you are passed
through the door. An officer at
once ascertains your business
and directs you to a long table
at the right of the foyer, where
your business is again "ascer-
tained" and a button bearing a
number pinned on your lapel If
you lose this number, you better
start wiring your congressman
or make an effort to get to
FDR direct, for you are in trou-
ble You can’t get out without
It. Another officer asks what
floor *ou want, and looks at
your credentials He then passes
you to the elevators, which are
manned by cops On each floor
are armed “receptionists " When
you achieve your mission, you
return to the ground floor,
where an officer grabs you and
directs you through a side door.
As you go out you return your
badge to a cop. This goes for
men in uniform as well M civi-
lians Nobody trusts nutin’.
Property Sales
Total Is $28,050
Eight improved property sales,
totaling $28,050 were recorded in
Abilene last week. The average was
$3,506.
Twelve lots sold for $3,635, an
average of $303
Nine loans totaling $25,750 aver-
aged $2,861.
There isn’t any newspaper
plot against Wallace and I’m
not trying even slyly to inti-
mate such a thing. I’ve been
in newspaper work all of my
adult life and have missed
plenty of stories that passed
right by me and so has every
other newspaper man.
Every newspaper office and
press association desk muffs a
play now and then. Instead of
there having been a plot to
suppress this most significant
address, I suspect that most
newspaper men who handled it
are kicking themselves for hav-
ing missed the story. I go into
this because there are people
who can't see anything around
newspaper offices but dark sup-
pression plots. They mistake a
muffed play for sinister intent
I don't like to butcher this
address by citing pieces of it
again because It deserves to be
read as a whole No public
man has Mid anything more
Important in our time Nor
anything that so much needed
saying. Wallace has said it with
force and eloquence. Best of all
he has not pulled his punches
nor tried to run away from the
realities.
One classic passage suggests
what Wallace means when he
says we must fight for a com-
plete peace as well M a com-
plete victory:
"I say that the century on
which we are entering—the
century which will come out of
this wer—can be and must be
the century of the common
man. Perhaps it will be Amer-
ica's opportunity to suggest the
freedom and duties by which
the common man must live.
Everywhere the common man
must learn to build Ms own in-
dustries with his own hands in
a practical fashion. Everywhere
the common man must learn to
increase his productivity so that
he snd his children can even-
tually pay to the world com-
munity all that they have re-
ceived. No nation will have the
God-given right to exploit other
nations. Older nations will have
the privilege to help younger
nations get started on the path
to industrialization, but there
must be neither military nor
economic Imperialism The
mehods of the nineteenth cen-
tury will not work in the peo-
ple's century which is now
about to begin Indis China
and Latin America have a tre-
mendous stake in the people’s
century As their masses learn
to read and write, and as they
become productive mechanics
their standard of living will
double and treble. Modern
science when devoted whole-
heartedly to the central welfare
has in it potentialities of which
ire do not yet dream."
Can Hitler's conception stand
against that conception? Wal-
lace has outlined the purposes
for which the United Nations
must stand and our side will
rest with a somewhat uneasy
conscience until leaders of the
United Nations make this their
cause. They won’t make It their
cause unless President Roosevelt
takes the lead in seeing that
this is done
And I hope I have not been
wasting anyone’s time in bring-
ing this up again.
Public Records
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Howard O. Gafford and Margaret Cope
James M Henderson and Corinne Brun-
son
FILED IN 1N4TH DISTRICT COURT
Owen Thomas Judge Presiding
Charles F Gibson vs. W J. Bryan,
suit for damages
Aeigese.
Remember Pearl Harbor!—Buy Defense Savings Stamps and Bonds
Commonsense and Elbow Grease Cure Social Evils
By NEA Service
CHICAGO, May 16—The patient
is curing himself, after the best of
sociological “doctors” labored vain-
ly for half a century. People said
that Chicago's ill-famed "back of
the yards"—that drab, impoverish-
ed, crime - ridden, packinghouse
neighborhood that Upton Sinclair
called The Jungle"—could never
be raised to respectability.
• It is being raised—and it’s being
done by the denizens of the dis-
trict themselves, who tackled the
job three years ago. From an in-
cubator of gang crimM. labor riots,
nationality struggles. Juvenile de-
linquency and disease, Packingtown
bids fair to become a Utopia among
industrial areas.
STUDY PROGRAMS
IN OTHER CITIES
They are making a success of
it, these 120.000 Poles, Lithuanians,
Slovaks, Germans, Irish, Ukrain-
ians and Mexicans— because they
have some typically American
characteristics. They’re great "Join-
ers,” and they like to get together
and talk things over.
Their success to date has in-
spired a national organization call-
ed the Industrial Areas Founda-
tion. which Is studying similar in-
dustrial districts throughout the
country and suggesting improve-
ments. Activity is already under
way in Kansas City, Kan. and
South St. Paul. Minn.
Here are some of the achieve-
ments of the Beck of the Yards
Council, made up of more than
200 neighborhood organizations,
since its first meeting on May 3,
1939. It has reduc'd the infant
death rate from 10 in every 100 to
four in 000 It has reduced delin-
quency by finding or making jobs
for more than 2,800 boys; launched
a campaign for better housing; put
in practice a good-neighbor policy
between violently antagonistic la-
bor unions and nationalities that
■might well make Secretaries Perk-
ins and Hull a little envious.
Other accomplishments include
free lunches dally for 2,000 un-
dernourished children: free dental
care for children under 13: trans-
forming an abandoned railroad
clearing into a huge recreation
center; helping finance tubercu-
losis tests: sending several hun-
dred children to summer camps;
providing volunteer probation of-
ficers for first offenders under 16;
paying fees, when necessary, for
aliens 1 receiving first citizenship
papers; securing condemnation of
many rotting, rat-infested tene-
ments; launching a program to
bring a Federal Housing project
to the Back of the Yards.
Although the council of resi-
dents has carried out this program,
the impetus came from two men.
One was Saul Alinsky, sociologist
with the Illinois Department of
Public Welfare The other was
Joseph Meegan, a product of
Packingtown and one of Its play-
ground directors.
The one pooled his scientific
knowledge with the other's Irish
enthusiasm and local pride. To-
gether they decided that the crime
rate couldn’t be lowered until the
social and economic level was
raised. They also decided that the
community should be allowed to
run its own show
OVERCOME DISTRUST
OF “OUTSIDERS"
Meegan’s presence overcame the
neighborhood’s distrust of "out-
siders." Soon they had assembled
most of Packingtown’s numerous
societies to talk over civic better-
ment. Represented were such di-
vergent groups as the Wildcats
Athletic Club and the St. Michial
Young Ladles' Sodality, the YWCA
and the CIO Packing Workers
Organizing Committee, the AF of
L Elevator Operators and Sarters
and the Chamber ct Commerce, the
Holy Name Society and the Mexi-
can Baptist church.
Civilian Aliens Next To Be Exchanged
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and
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Sunday I1«
forming and
nd Sunday
30c a week.
By Mail in West
Texas: Morning and
Sunday or Evening
and Sunday 70c a
month Other Rates
on Request.
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PULP
NFAIRYTO LOVE
By Watkins
E. Wright
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Today's Smile
BARTON. Fla. — (P) — An
Army sergean on leave here got
married as he planned, but it
took a court order to get him to
church on time. He sent his
uniforms—both of them—to the
cleaners. A few hours before
the wedding he went back for
them but found the establish-
ment closed The police chief
said he couldn’t help, but the
sergeant enlisted the help of a
lawyer friend, who obtained an
order from, circuit court author-
ising a deputy sheriff to open
the plant. The sergeant made
it to the altar on time
By MILTON BRONNER
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON. May 15—For all
those Americans in the United
States who have been worrying
about their American relatives
war-caught in Germany — good
news!
Negotiations are at present un-
der way between the United States
and Germany looking to the repa-
triation of American citizens,
whereby civilians now in Germany
and German civilians now in Amer-
ica will be allowed to come home.
The Swiss diplomatic machine is
doing the bulk of the work, as
Swiss diplomats in Washington look
after German interests here and
Swiss diplomats in Berlin look af-
ter American interests there. In
the negotiations there is no con-
sideration of a trade be equal
numbers The whole idea la to
clear out of both countries all the
nationals who desire to return to
their homeland. There are far
more Germans in the United
States than Americana in Germany
For the greater part, Americans
in Germany are people who repre-
sented American industrial and fi-
nancial concerns there. There is
also a fair number who for years
lived in Germany on their Ameri-
can incomes, feeling they could
get more for their money there
than at home They were largely
widows, who favored Munich. Dres-
den and certain watering places.
GETTING MONEY WAR
DIFFICULT
The lot of most of them since
Germany declared war on the Unit-
ed States last December has not
been happy One of the chief trou-
bles has been In getting money
from home Business houses and
banks have been willing to send
on remittances but a barrier has
been put up by the government.
It was not desired that Germany
should get hold of foreign ex-
change that it could use to good
purpose elsewhere
Naturally too there has been dif-
ficulty in communication between
Americans left In Germany and
their home folks The latter have
thus had cause to worry, because
they had no way of knowing for
certain how the absentee* were
faring in a wartime Germany,
with German papers busily stoking
up hate of the United States
This country contains German
nationals of many categories They
aren’t only representatives of Ger-
man firms, but people established
in business here, white collar class
workers, restaurant waiters and a
large number of men working in
the skilled trades >
Most of the little people have
not got the money it takes to trav-
el back to Germany even if they
desired to return Also in their
case and In those of small Ger-
Members tl Associated Press
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acter, standing er reputation at any per.
son, firm of corporation which may occur
in the columns of THE REPORTER
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copy omissions, typographical errors of
any unintentional errors that may occur
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Washington
Daybook
(First of a Series)
By JACK STINNETT
WASHINGTON.-To the thou-
sand-and-one questions about the
sweeping price control order which
places retail celltags on hundreds
and hundreds of articles this
month, the answer is simply “no-
body knows."
Just exactly what will happen as
a result of it? Who will be hurt?
How can the seller of goods or serv-
ice adversely affected beat the
game and stay in business? Will it
(with other measures already in ef-
fect and to follow) solve our Infla-
tion problem? Will it forestall or
necessitate rationing? Will it ne- •
cessitate subsidies? How is it going
to be enforced? . Will "black mar-
kets” become prevalent? .
The answer still is "nobody
knows.”
If there are two people in Wash-
ington who should know about the
price control order, they are Leon
Henderson, chubby chief of the Of-
fice of Price Administration, and
President Roosevelt • himself.
Yet the OPA calls the sweeping
price celling order merely the cor-
nerstone to the wall against infla-
tion and President Roosevelt
warned the nation in his fireside
chat that he would use his execu-
tive powers to the fullest to carry
out the policy laid down. Both
these pronouncements indicate that
the price ceiling is not the end of
it, but rather the beginning. Both
hint that measures will be taken
as necessity arises—but Just what
these potential necessities may be is
not defined The reason Is that
for the most part they can only be
guessed at and it is those guesses,
unofficial and official, with which
I wish to deal, for in them possibly
may be the key to this riddle which
is going to affect more American '
lives than any other law or govern-
ment order ever issued.
It may well be that this nation,
operating through ite democratic
processes, is throwing itself into a
depression in the hope that it may
emerge from the war effort going
uphill instead of down. That at
least is the way one government
economist has described it. If it
isn't a self-imposed depression, then
it is s self-imposed brake on what
might have been the biggest boom
in the nation's history.
The way Leon Henderson tells it.
there's nothing very complicated
about the present inflation threat.
After taxes and savings are deduct-
ed. It is estimated that the Amer-
man business men, It is often true ican people will, this year have
that they have largely cut connec-| $86,000,000,000 to spend BUT the
tions with their fatherland, but
have neglected to become natural-
ised citizens of the United States.
total value of goods available for
purchase is only $65,000,000,000. It
doesn’t take any text book econo-
War Quiz
1 Wearer of these four stripes
on his blue uniform sleeve likely
as not commands an American
battleship. Is his •
rank captain I
rear admiral
commander?
2. Secretary of
War Henry L.
or
M
Stimson was
ar
artillery officer
in the last war
Was Secretary of
Navy Frank Knox a naval officer?
2. R. A. F has raided Skoda mu-
nitions works in Filsen For what
else is this Nasi-held Czech city
famous?
Answers to War Quiz
I. Wearer of four stripes is a
captain.
2 Knox was in the Army, both
in World War I and Spanish-
American War
3 Pilsen is noted for its pale
beer.
mist to see what happens in s sit- .
ustion like that
The spenders bid the prices up.
The sellers boost them just as fast
' as competition will permit The
have-littles demand higher wages.
Earnings in dollars and cents, soar.
And the cost of living—oblivious to
the fact that all that goes up must
come down harder than a land
mine and with much more devas-
, tattoo-tries to hit that limit in the
sky.
That's what the government is
trying to prevent and price con-
trol is a part of that effort—the
part that up to now is going to hit
more people in more places than
anything that yet has happened in
this war
(Tomorrow: Headaches For The
Retailer)
Today's Thought •
Repent: for the kingdom of
heaven is at hand—Matthew
3:17.
• • •
It is never too late to turn
from the errors of our ways:
he who repents of his sins is
almost innocent.—Seneca.
YESTERDAY: Kathleen has
rented her barn for a summer
theater, and now is a little
stagestruck. Joe Neely, her fi-
ance. is a little angry himself,
because Kathleen has postpon-
ed their marriage again. So
Joe makes himself a placard
reading "Kathleen Vaughan is
unfair to love,” and to keep
him off the street in front of
her house, Kathleen has been
— forced to ask him to break-
fast.
Chapter Three
DIFFICULT PROBLEM
“Lizzie,” said Kathleen, "where's
Uncle Frank?”
“He’s fussing with his chickens,”
Lizzie replied. “He’s done et.” She
turned to Joe. "How do you want
med,- and Jon.-on both
sides.
cleaned grapefruit rind Very
well," he said, "that means I go
on with my picketing-out front.
In front of the theater, wherever
■■Yas-r.’ said Lizzie.
"I must say." Kathleen remark-
ed when she and Joe were alone, — ...... .. ..... ..
“that you certainly aren't shy when -you happen to be."
It comes to letting the world know' “Why—you—you—"
what you want.” • HELP FOR JOE
“No,” said Joe." “And if you
think I’m going to be shy about
letting the world know I want you.
you’re wrong—bad wrong.” He ate
his grapefruit in silence. “Now,” he
went on presently, "about this ca-
reer business. Are you still determ-
ined to leave me waiting at the
church?”
■You've never gotten that tar
with me yet,” Kathleen retorted.
“But if you mean am I still de-
termined to find out about- my
talent, the answer is yes — em-
phatically."
Joe pushed aside his
HELP FOR JOE
Kathleen didn't finish. Uncle
Frank appeared in the doorway.
"Good morning, youngsters!” he
greeted. We walked to the table,
picked up a lump of sugar and
popped it into his mouth. "If that
Rhode Island Red rooster of mine
doesn’t walk off with all the prises
at the County Fair in October, I
don t know a prize-winner when I
see one."
stead of the breakfast table."
"It s the same old thing Mr.
Frank," said Joe wearily. Kath-
leen's determined to have a career
—or to try for one, anyway"
"All girls go through the stage-
struck phase, sonny.” said Uncle
Frank „ “Especially girls like my
charming niece who have been
local leading ladies."
"I wish,” said Kathleen, "that
you would stop discussing me as
though I were a symptom, or
something" •
“Sorry, Ducky,” Mid Uncle
Frank.
“And don't call me Ducky!”
Uncle Frank looked at Joe. Joe
looked at Uncle Frank. They re-
alized they were up against a de-
cidedly difficult problem
"Once upon a time." Uncle
Frank began, "I knew an actress.
She was slim, and blonde, and easy
on the eyes—but she couldn’t for-
get herself for a moment She was
reflection the last thing at night of that theatrical gang They Lizzie came in with the coffee pot.
and the first thing in the morn- never get up as early as this.”
Joe stopped frowning He
beamed upon Lizzie, who was just
entering with his bacon and eggs
and hot biscuits. He gave them his
attention Kathleen’s voice coming
to him faintly from the telephone
in the rear of the hall. But he
looked up quickly when she came
back into the dining room.
ing.”____
TELEPHONE CALL
“What has that got to do with
me?” Kathleen demanded
“Plenty!" Mid Uncle Frank.
"You want to be an actress. And
I have learned from experience
that the moment most girls be-
come actresses they consider
themselves something set apart
-something very, very special, and
-well, dammit, Kathleen. I don't
want you to get like,that."
“Miss Kathleen," Lizzie called
from the hall, “you’s wanted on
the telephone."
"Thank you, Lizzie,” said Kath-
leen. And then “Just a moment, I
want to speak to you.”
“Yes’m,” said Lizzie.
Kathleen joined her, and they
moved off together
Joe frowned “Who in beck
could be calling ber—I wonder,”
he said suspiciously.
“Well, sonny." Mid Uncle Frank,
He stopped short and eyed the
two young people "Say, what’s.
going on here?" he asked “You I always looking in mirrors I heard
two look as though you were fac-I that she even had a mirror ar- ____. _ ,
well- ing each other across a trench in-1 ranged so that she could see her “you can be certain it’s not any
“It must have been swell news,"
he remarked, “judging from the
look on your face.”
Chapter Four
DATE WITH DeMILLE
“Oh,” Mid Kathleen. “Fred De-
Mille wants to take me to the
Country Club Saturday night.”
“You mean that was Fred De-
Mille?” Joe gasped.
“Yes,” said Kathleen
Joe laid down his khlfe and fork
He glared at Uncle Frank
“So they don’t get up this early!"
he said. “The devil they don’t!"
Kathleen, uniting happily, Mt
down. “I think I will have some
breakfast, after all," she said when
"One egg—fried on one side—and
two well-done slices of bacon."
“Yes’m," said Lizzie
“I take your appetite. It would
seem,” said Joe A. d the DeMille
guy gives you one "
"Oh, I wouldn’t say that ex-
actly." said Kathleen “But it
does make a girl feel good to have
people appreciate her. Fred said
they were oil so grateful to me for
the way I'd co-operated with
them getting the barn ready "
“Do tell" said Joe sarcastically
“Just like In the movies,” he went
on "City slicker comes down to
small town, says a lot of sappy
things to Ignorant little country
girl—and she falls like a wagon
load of hay.”
"You would have to say some-
thing mean like that," said Kath-
leen
A heavy and unhappy silence fell
upon the room Joe sullenly fin-
ished his eggs. Uncle Frank looked
at him, and then at Kathleen. He
felt that it was up to him to take
over.
"And although she knew I liked
bridge and swimming." he said,
she wouldn’t join me at either."
"Who? said Kathleen
"That actress I was telling you
about."
Ohl"
"Then, believe it or not, a year
later it came to me all of a sud-
den why.”
"Why what?" said Joe.
"Why she wouldn’t play bridge
or go swimming.”
"AU right,” Mid Joe impatient-
ly. Goon" 3
"Bridge is a game that requires
concentration,” said Uncle Frank.
“And the actress didn’t like any-
thing that took her mind off her-
self.”
"But what about the swim-
ming?” Joe wanted to know.
"That didn’t appeal to her. be-
cause it meant she’d have to get
mussed up a bit; you know, make
up, wave in her hair all that.”
“Darned vain, selfish little ex- g
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