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PAGE FOUR-A ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Published every evening, except Saturday and Sunday Morning. By Atbens Publishing Co. Entered at the Postoffice at Athens, Ga., as second class mall Matter TELEPHONES Business Office, Advertising and Circulation depts... 76 News Department _a_nd DR e isev e 1216 B B. 8ra5we11,.............Pub1i5her and General Mgr. H J. R0we.,,,......,..,...,_.,....,,,......‘.,,Ediwr Bryan C. BRI .. o o pain v osass sMBRREIRE Editor National Advertising Representatives Chas. H. Eddy Company, New York, Park - Lexington Building; Chicago, Wrigley Building; Boston, Old South Building. | Members of The Assoclated Press ' The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper, also to all 10cal news suh\lshed therein. All rights of republication of special rl:g:tches also reserved. Leased Wire of The Associated Press with the Lead ing Features and Comics of the N. E. A. e s e SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN CiTY { i(Except by week or month. Must be paid in Advance.) | One year 80504 IR IS . ikinrsrens st tinsee et ese 3.25 | IR 88, . ... oisesreessnssntrasiisdnonntis s 1.66 BR NERE ~ -ovseiaaavestng Reettovanppantteang .6 DAY WAL .. L. eeiaeaunsitanersasiornpinsts sy A 3 e SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL l Subscriptions on R. F. D. routes and in Towns within 80 miles of Athens, two dollars per yeal. Subscriptions beyond 50 miles from Athens must be paid for at City rate. In certain Towns in the trade territory, by carrier 10c per week. Subscribers in Athens are requested to Call 75 before .7 p. m. Gaily and 11 a. m. Sundays to make complaint of irregular delivery in order to recelve attention same day. I CATTON’S COMMENT I E—' BY BRUCE CATION "™ & 7 No American industry represents the strength and inventiveness of the American production sys tem quite as well as does the auto industry. It is our first industry in economic importance, and it is first also in its hold on the public imagination. Both in its good points and in its bad ones it epitomizes the peculiar problems which mass pro duction has presented to modern society. An excellent study of the industry is to be found in the report recently submitted to President Roosevelt by the Henderson committee, This report js a close-up piculte of mass production in all its strength and all its weakness. As such, it is worth detailed study. The achievements of the auto industry are found to be fairly aazzling. Steadily, year after year, it has been building better cars for less money. In 1929, for instance, only 54 percent of the cars produced sold at wholesale for less than $500; in 1933, 81 percent were in that price class. One large company produced a car a day for each 24 men employed in 1930; today its rate is a car a day for each 16 men. The “spot and flash” welding machine enables L 2 & 2 B RSI s VGI €acCil 49 mcit. The “spot and flash” welding machine enables two men to do what it took six welders to do in 1929. Body framing, which cost $3 in 1929, costs 30 cents today. It cost 60 cents to hang a door in 1929: today four doors can be hung for 9 cents. A whole column could be filled with similar re ports; and they reveal an industry which has made technical strides of almost incredible length. What the auto industry has done in the way oof efficient explcitation of the potentialities of modern mackinery is one of the marvels of the age. But the social side of the picture is less pleas ant. The committee finds that after an auto worker is 40, he is made to feel that he is working on bor dow; in one company only 30 percent of the men ting another are bad. Intensive competition has spurred the speed-up “heyond human capability to produce day by day.” Hourly earnings are high, but yearly incomes are low; in one company onlp 30 percent of the men worked as many as 40 weeks in one year, and only 23 percent earned as much as $1,200, - We get, then, a picture which epitomizes the B WAR T TR XRRRCOR W4e So e great problem of the mass production age—tremen dous technical advances accompanied by the crea tion of extremely difficult human problems. It presents the paramount issue of our era; our necessity for making progress in the social field equa! to the progress which can be made in the field of mechanics. Major Charles A. Shepard, retired army physi cian, is going back to Denver to “start over again” —free, for the first time in five years, of a charge of murder. . It was in 1930 that the major was convicted of murdering his wife. His counsel immediately filed an appeal, and the mill of the law began to grind— very deliberately, as is usually the case. * In the course of time the case reached ithe United States Suprenie Court, which reversed the convic tion and ordered a new trial. This trial has finally been held and Major Shepard has been found (not guilty. One cannot read of this case without reflecting on the shocking injustice which the law’s delay can inflict on a man. Here is a man who has fi nally been declared innocent; yet for five years he has been under a shadow-—under a strain which, to one who has never been through it, ig {almost un imaginable. . “ A legal system which strings a case out to such length is in great need of drastic revision: One of the oddest things about the depression is the fact that the death rate has been falling. When people are going hungry and are unable to pay for medical care, you would expect more of them to die; on the contrary, in such a representative state as New York, the death rate has dropped from 12.4 per 1.000 inhabitants in 1929 to 111 in 1934, © The chief explanation, according to P. 3. V. 08 Porte of the New York state health department, is fairly simple. It is, he says, “the fact that state and federal governments have assumed ever greater responsibility for maintaining of life among the millions of unemployed and their families.” A sharp commentary on Amercan society, when you stop to think of it—the fact that so many people get better attention when they are broke than they do when they are self-supporting. ~ For uncounted years the postoffice has been a synonym for partisan politics. To think of it in any other way is a sort of minor revolution in it self. E Yet Senator Norris has introduced a bill in Con gress which would effectively take the federal Postoffice Deparmtent out of party polities. It pro “wides for a postmaster general appointed for 10 years, who would appoint his own postmasters on a mevit basiz rather than have them appointed nominally by the President, but really as a reward for local party work. Norris' new law is aimed principally at the old custom of having the chairman of the victorious party's national committee also act as postmaster general, with control of the vast patronage at pres ent attached to that office. All efforts to pry Jim Farley loose from one of these two jobs so far have been in vain. Norris' bill would end it not only for Farley, but for the future. It s ems visionary. this idea to make the post office “a business institution based upon merit and efficiency.” Put XNorris has slain bigger dragons than this. " The mountain lion has the widest range of all game animals: it is found from British Columbia to the southernmost point of Scuth America. A single squash vine sometimes has 15 miles of roets. . The province of Sze-Chuan, China, does not have a railroad- : - ————————— ~ Birgds must breathe rapidly, because they are ‘unable to perspire. /-e ;rfi.'i"’*r- . ’ W " & Byery yvear. 9.000 earthquakes shake the earth: Ahe internal pressure is adjusted about once every s e e NOT A SURPRISE VERDICT ( While many did not believe that the !,iur'_\' in the Hauptmann case would find a {death verdict, yet the circumstantial evi- I'(l('n('e was convincing in that the counsel {for the prosecution laid a thorough foun ’dution for placing the guilt of the kidnap ing and murder of the Lindbergh baby ;upon Hauptmann, There was, of course, [an element of doubt in the evidence in ‘troduced in the case, but the character of ‘the witnesses and their testimony for the ‘defense was colored with camoutflage and strongly tinged “of a frame up,” manu factured especially for meeting the on slaught of the prosecution. | It can be truthfully said that the de fense was given every opportunity to pre sent its evidence and to combat in every way the evidence submitted by the state. However, the careful preparation of the prosecution could not be successfully at tacked by the defense which, no doubt, satisfied the members of the jury of the guilt of the defendant. While Hauptmann received a death pen alty to be imposed in the electric chair for the week of March 18, it may be severall months before the sentencee will be en forced. It is quite certain that defense will appeal to the higher courts and through such pro edure, delays of weeks and months are likely to occur, all of which is regular under the laws of that state, but in the end of all the legal avenues, the law is bound to take its course and the verdict, ! as justice appertains, will finally win out! and the penalty imposed by the jury will be enforced. 2 i i The state of New Jersey, through the courts and the offi ials has been untiring in its efforts to run down every clue per taining to the case and the presentation of every detail of evidence has been pre sented in a most thorough and convincing manner. STERILIZATION LAW FOR GEORGIA Georgia is decadent in its failure to show the proper interest in the enactment of a sterilization law. Seventeen states in the union have enacted such laws which have proved a boon to humanity and caused a reduction of crime as well as estopping the propagation of feeble-mind ed persons. In the states that have sterili-| zation laws, the reduction in the numberg of feeble-minded children has been quitei noticeable. While the welfare workers and medical societies have worked dilligently for the passage of sterilization laws, the masses of the people do not seem to realize| the importance of such restrictions, and no definite or concentrated action and or-‘ ganization has been perfected in this state! to urge the members of the legislature to enact such a law. ‘l The Banner-Herald is a pioneer in it3l advocacy of sterilization, believing it to be of the greatest protection for preventing !feeble-mindedness among future genera tions. Posterity should be considered and ;every precaution taken by the present gen eration to prevent the spread of feeble | mindness and diseases. . Doctor S. S. Smith, of this city, has given *much thought, study, and carried on ex 'haustive researches in connection with the benefits to be derived from a thorough sterilization law. His findings have been of muech value in enabling the drafting of a bill for this state. Dr. Smith is much impressed with the California sterilization law, California being the original and first state to adopt such a law. The Banner-Herald hopes that all agen cies and citizens interested in the pro ‘posed sterilization law will write to their representatives and senators and urge them to support and vote for the bill that is now pending in the legislature. WHY ADVERTISING PAYS There are various and sundry ways to trace the value of newspaper advertising. In no instance has judicious advertising in newspapers failed to bring results. Not' only in the mercantile business, but in real estate, insurance, and personal needs. 1 Not long ago, a woman in Paris met with an accident and lost one of her toes. She was anxious to have it replaced with a toe from some human being. She adver tised for a toe and a reply was received from a woman who had six toes on one of her feet which she was glad to have am putated in order to have a mnormal foot. She sold her extra toe to the woman who had only four toes and they were both happy and profited from the sale. However, the Talladega, (Ala.) Daily News tells the story in full, as follows: ‘ “Advertising for what one wants is the quick and effective way to get it. In Paris an injury to a woman's foot made it nec essary to’amputate one of her toes, and to‘ secure another to take its place the surge on advertised. A woman with six toes on‘ one foot was found, and she was glad to get rid of the extra digit, which she not only got removed without cost and grafted onto the foot of the lady who was to lose one of her regulation five, but received pay for it as well. Thus two women were made happy by advertising.” If a small advertisement, in a newspa per, will find a woman with six toes on one of her feet, who is willing to sell one of her toes, and finds a customer for the toe, cuch an incident should be convincing to the public that newspaper advertising pays. &l Ll It has been estimated that under aver age conditions you can get the most miles to the gallon out of your car by driving 35 miles an hour. | A new invention consists of a tiny flash light fastened to a bunch of keys. enabling one to find the keyhole on daik nights. Most earthquakes happen far away from population centers, - . Cont “Plowi ontinuing the “Plowing Under” Idea ( i . _,-V:A_wv -p'v':~. - e 4b9 S : //" -\\\ I \ i ’ 3 / 4o"- C> » : ; N i / st T sk i'. | : Ra Db U | I‘."‘4{“.s.';','&- e (Al "W 1A N it ) ; P, . 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Are we ready to do something about it? : Nationally, the grave situation to which we refer exists on a tremen dous scale. Reduced to our state, to our city, its proportions are as tounding. Now, to state the case, the condi tion involves the reproduction of offspring by mentally deficient adults. Dr, John W. Oden, who for the past fifteen years serveq as superintendent of Georgia's only school for mental defectives, states that to his knowledge there has not been a case on record of a normal child being born from the union of two feeble-minded individuals. In the school at Gracewood now are practically all of the children from more than ten definitely fee ble-minded families. In Richmond county alone there are two fami lies which have heen represented Lby three generations of feeble inded offspring. Estimated figures concerning the feeble-minded in Georgia show that there are today over 10,000 such individuals. Forty per cent of the in mates of our almshouses are feeble minded, Over one-sixth of the male inmates and almost one-half of the women inmates of our prison farms are feeble--minded. 34 per cent of the inmates of our county jails are morons. One out of every six children brought before our juvenile courts is r2eble-minded. Over one-fourth of the inmates of the state reformatory and of the Georgia Training School for Girls are feeble-minded. Over one-half of the admissions to Gracewood (Georgia’s only home for mentally deficient children) are from the in termarriage of feeble-minded peo ple. Each year five times as many people enter homes for the men tally deficient as enter universities and colleges, The maximum number of chil dren cared for last year in Geor gia’'s home for mentally deficient children was 256, and._even now the waiting list is over 900, with 500 of these termed as special menaces to society, Since its existence this home has cost the taxpayers over $50.000 annually. After a short period of detention during which corrective but not curative measures are employed. some of these children must be re leased to make room for others. Remember these young people are not cured. They are gradually ab sorbed by society. The possibility of one of these unfortunates mar rying one of our own children is not at all improbable. The vast majority are not confined, or car ed for at all. This principally, be cause there are mno facilities. A menace to the future of our entire state exists! With many of the more intelli gent of our social order limiting the size of their families beecause of financial econditions, while the number of feeble-minded is allow ed to increase, without control, not only will the tax burden be still further increased, but intelligence itself stands in actual danger of be ing swamped; perhaps eventually wiped out. The Remedy—Selective Steriliza tion. Sterlization is not a novelty. It has had 35 years of successful ap plication in the United States; 'twenty-seven states already have laws for selective sterilization but, because of lack of general know ledge concerning it, there still ex ists even ameng educated people a great deal of misinformation and misunderstanding about it. Such ignorance ‘is the main obstacle in! the way of necessary extension of this humanitarian measure. Ster ilization is not a puniSshment, but a protection, It is performed with- | cut removing any organs or sk»’l =ues from the body: interferes with nc blood or nerve supply; produc'ul THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA rie physical change. It merely clos es the tubes through which the life germ must pass if conception is to resvlt. It does not unsex the in dividual—only makes parenthood impossible; thus relieving unfit men and women from bringing unwant ed defective little beings into the worid for a juvenile court to take fremm them Woulg you sit by with hands folded and allow a child of vour acquaintance to be adopted by a half witted couple? Has not every child the right to be well born? We do not advocate sterilization of insane persons; a person maust have had a mind pbefore he can lose it. Our endeavor is to safeguard! our normal children by prevention of offspring from people confined in state institutions solely because‘ they never had a mind, and who, when let out of these institutions, will produce another generation of imbeciles, We are afforded a gen uine opportunity to serve our state and our city at this time by spon soring the bill now before our leg islature, which would give proper authorities power to sterilize feeble minded inmates of state institu tions. with ‘ - Paul Harrison e NEW YORK — All around the town: Sepian Harlem is having no end of fun with the song called ‘“The Object of My Affection Can Change My Complexion.” And Broadway is beginning to hum “It’s Unbelievable” . . . Paul Whiteman, who never had-+a nick name before he lost so many pounds, is called “Skinny” White man now . . . Before his death, nobody realized\ the Valentino-like popularity of Russ Columbo. Therd's a Russ Columbo club of women here who still meet to keep alive the erooner's memory. In spite of the last two prosper ous seasons along the rialto, the madjority of theaters are owned by banks . . ~ I hear that Mrs. Bruno Hauptmann has been signed for a vaudevile tour at $2,000 a week, with a generous aavance already paid . . . London wants to see Mae West, { and Charles B. Cochrane will present her there in a musical . ««. A night club doorman, Louis Bray, once owned cabarets on Broadway and Miami’'s Silver Slip per, where Texas Guinan greeted the suckers. My favorite master of ceremonies is a huge steel robot named Alpha, who's appearing hereabouts. He talks, moves, even sings and is a great favorite with the chorus girls although he never sends them flow ers. Not a favorite with the stage hands, though, because he weighs a ton. t . New York has Chinese-American, lltalian—American and French-Rus sion restaurants in its league of !nationities. Strangest entente, lthough, is La Cucuracha, adver tised as a “Swedish-Mexican night spot.” Imagine yodelling a rhumba tune! . . . Only way I know to dis tinguish Gloria Vanderbilt from her | twin, Lady Thelma Furness, is that ' the latter wears a string of black lpearls .+ . Fuil name of Margo, the | dancer who rose to movie stardom under Ben Hecht and Charles Mac- Arthur, is Donna Maria Marguerita Guadalupe Bastado Castilla. ~ Joe Cook, the wag, has sent out his greeting cards for next Christ mas . .. Few prominent New York ers are listed in the telephone di rectory. Spares them calls trom‘l cranks and nuisances, Other eve ning, however, President Roosevelt‘ tried to telephone Eddie Dowling, and operators refused to divulge the actor’s private number . . . The Gene Tunneys have econtracted for a new mansion at Palm Beach. Robot M.-C. STATE ATHORITIES WILL GET RANDALL Man Pleads Guilty in Richmond; Waives Ex tradition to Georgia RICHMOND, Va. — (#) — Joes Randall, one of seven persons ar rested here for possessing burglar tools and explosives, pleaded guilty in pqlice court today to possession of the tools. Justice Elben Folkes postponed sentence until March 15 when informed that the defendant was wanted on two charges in Atlanta and had waived extradi tion. Randall will be turned over to Atlanta authorities, and taken to the Georgia capital before being sentenced here. Charges of possession of the bur glar equipment against James Tubrey Smith and John Leland Harvey, former life-term convicts in Georgia, were continued inde finitely. The two prisoners are be ing helq in Henrico Jail, the state deciding to relinquish them to fed eral authorities who want them for offenses in Georgia. Justice Folkes gave Mr. and Mrs. Morris Twyman, of Richmond, and Lois Reid and Elsie McCall, wha gave Macon, Ga. addresses, twenty four hours to leave town, They were arrested in the raids which brought Randall, Smith ang Har vey into the police net. CATTLE SHOWS SAVANNAH, Ga.—(®)—Two fat cattle shows—one in Savannah and the other in Albany—are scheduled to be held early in April. The lo cal show is to take place April 1 and 2, and the one in Albany April 3 and 4. Both events are annual ones the first Savannah show having been held three years ago while the in itial Albany show was given last year. ATLANTA DOCTOR DIES ATLANTA —(AP)— Dr. Mose G. Campbell, 70, died unexpectedly at Lis residence here early today. He appeared in his usual good heaith vesterday and was active through out the day in hig professionzl en gagemernts Guess Game You can still find Adolph Lewi sohn capering around some of the quieter night clubs. He's 86 . . . Angd speaking of oldsters, it tickles me the way two sets of Broadway veterans keep the gossips guess ing—guessing | whether Sophie Tucker and Al Lackay are divorced and whether Mae West and James Timony, her manager-husband are still friends. Poor Earl Carroll! A judgement for more.than SIOO,OOO against him for the decoration of a theater which is no longer his, and even the decorations themselves have long since gone. Renoyed Show ' There'll soon be a new Billy Gal lagher’s for the gourmands and gourmets who recall the cld one, ‘famous for 30 years . . . At the ißeno Merry-Go-Round, with west ern atmosphere and a revelving, ‘roulette-table gance floor. all mem bers of thé chorus (I've been solem ‘nly told) are Reno divorcees. ~ ,Paul Drapper, the amazing danc er, wears neither hat nor overcoat in the coldest weather. Check room girls in the night clubs are glad to see him, however, for he does wear gloves, which he checks at every stop -on his nocturnal rounds . . , Other day I met the step-daughter of Harry Langdom, the movie comic, She’s a fashion model—slo #n hour for underwear posing, $5 for hats—and doing very well . . . Also met a Nashville news paperwoman who smokes cigars Said she ence gave up cigarets for Lent, trieq a stogie, and has puffed them ever since. Ssae Nt N DRI 3 \\' 7372 R TS O (il ] BEGIN HERE TODAY Gale Henderson, pretty and 23, works in a silk mill. She and her 19-year-old brother, Phil, support their invalid father, Steve Myers, who also works in the mill, asks Gale to marry him. She promises to give him an answer in a few days. Gale goes skating, breaks through the ice and is rescued by Brian Westmore, whose fa ther, now dead, built the mill. Brian has come home after two years in Paris to enter the mill. Gale disappears before he learns her name. Vicky Thatcher, 'daughter of Robert Thatcher, general man ager of the mill, schemes to captivate Brian. Gale, at work in the mill, is summoned to ‘the office of Miss Groves, personnel director. Miss Groves makes it plain that if Gale will pass on Intormation about her fellow employes it will be to Gale’s advantage. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXV There was a clock on the book case facing the personnel direc tor’'s desk. It was a smalil clock with a case of dark, polished wood. The ticking of the clock was the only sound that broke the still ness. It went “tick-tick, tick-tick,” and to Gale it seemed to shriek. She knew Miss Groves was wait ing for her answer. Gale looked dwon at her hands, clasped to gether in her lap, and sair, “I— couldn’t Miss Groves.” “Im afraid I don’t understand you.” “I don’t know anything about the meetings you've been talking about,” Gale said. “I've never been to any, and I don’t know anyone who has. But if I did, I wouldn’t want to come and tell about it. It sounds—sneaking to me.” The lines about the older wom an’s mouth tightened and two sharp spots of color came into her cheeks. “Don’t be insolent!” she snapped. “We have ways to cure insolence, too. How dare you sug gest that I gsked you to do any thing sneaping or underhanded?” “1 @idn’t mean that, Miss Groves. I'm sorry it sounded that way. 1 only meant—well, that I'd rather not.”’ “What you meant is that you're an impertinent young woman. You—" The anger died from the woman’s voice but in her eyes there was a chilly gleam. “You will report to your foreman at once!” “wyYes, Miss Groves.’ Gale grose and went out into the corridor. She walked down the long hallway with rapidly beating heart. “It's done now,” she thought. “I'll lose my job now. Oh, why couldn’t T have told her I'd do it? Why didn’t I say something—any thing to make her think I agreed? I could have gotten out of it some how later. I'll lose my job now and what'll T do—?" There was no harsh words from the foreman as Gale had expected. She did not see him again that af ternoon. She went back to work, fingers flying with new energy. She’d work harder, faster, she re solved. She had to keep that job! They coudn’'t possibly live, she and Phil and her father, on the little Phil made. It was hard enough, skimping to make things come out even on her wages and Phil's to gether. Over and over, as Gale jerked bobbins off spindles and clamped them on again she repeated the prayer, “They can’t fire me. They can’t!” It was when she was walking home a little later, walking alone because Steve had stayed behind to talk to someone, that Gale re membered his words of the night before.. Steve had said, *“Brian Westmore was trying to pump you, He was trying to get infor mation so that they could work us harder, grind us down and make more money for the com pany. Youd bettler watch your step.” Could Brian have been respon sible for her interview with Miss Groves? Was it anything she’d said to him that had made them call her into the personnel direc tor's office? Miss Groves had never spoken to her before. Why should she single her out now, just at this time? Gale didn’'t want to believe Brian was responsible. She told herself it couldn’'t be true! And_yet it was a coincidence— Steve's warning and what had happened this afternoon . Gale hadn’t said anything to Steve about it. She didn’t want to tell anyone unless she had to. Unless she lost her job. “If they’re going to fire me,” Gale thought, “I ought to know it pretty soon. Maybe tomorrow—" Vicky Thatcher picked up the long-handled mirror, turned her head slightly, inspecting her re flection. “It’'s not bad,” she said. “Not bad—" The words died away as she tilted the tiny hat more severely. g | “It's- perfect, Miss Thatcher!” Celeste, proprietor of the shop, clasped her hands together. “So new, so smart! And you're ex ‘actly the type to wear it. I knew the minute that hat came in that I wanted you to have it So{ many people can't wear the ex treme, the realy smart hats, but you—oh, it's perfect on you!” 4 Vicky turned the other side of her face to the mirror, raised her! chin. “Yes,” she said, “I think I like it.” She tugged at the triangle of black straw that seemed a com bination of Watteau shepherdess and urchin’s cap. “It's better than any of the others” she said. “How much did you say it is?” ”"“'«l"l‘lh;s:-fylve dollars, Miss That cher—no, $37,50, Such a beautiful SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1935 si)AtAl on ikt © 088 NEA BERVICE, INg. straw—imported. And of poyr ‘ it's an exclusive model. Yoy | see another like it. Jt's absolytel | exclusive with us—" 1 Vicks pushea the silver fox onl she had discarded to one ‘b There was a muff of the «jjv.. s on the chair beside her, \, g up—a trim figure in g 'r,:.u;,.; with unmistakable elegance m',l, simplicity of its lines. She regq, for a handbag that had coma fn Paris and took out a \':mr;: ‘ There was the flash of pybjes . she opened the jeweleqd r-h.\xian took out a powder pufy, Vick powdered her nose slowly ang the case back. “Let me see that b own again,” she commanded. “The Q I thought I liked.” The brown hat was produced flat bit of fabric of eccles astd austerity until Vicky percheqd i . her head. On Vicky the ha sud denly became jaunty and flatie ing. 3 “I'll take it, t 00,” she announca I'm so tired of all the hats T hay I suppose T’ll be tired of these, 1 In a month but I've simply got 4 have somehting new. Put then my account and be sure that thd are sent out this evening.” “Yes, Miss Thatcher. Now {§ there anything else—?” “No. Oh, yes, I need some hod I want the same shade I had M fore. You can send a dozen paj no, you might as well make it ¢ dozen. They don’t wear 4t all, Iy they are lovely and sheer I there’s something else I want, { That perfume you carry—'Be Min The ounce size.” “Yes, Miss Thatcher. The oum size is $30.. It's lovely, isn't i Celeste’s tone implied that S3O g such a treasure was really a trif She smiled as she made notaii on her sales book. Miss Thatch was a customer to be cultivated Vicky drew the fox cape ahg her shoulders and picked up i handbag. “You'll send them out,” she said. “And remembe must have them tonight.” “Yes, Miss Thtacher. 1 kn you're going to enjoy your hats both of them. Come in again so We “are always getting ne¢ things—" Vicky disappeared through door. She walked to the u where a bright green roadster w parked. There was a young mi in the car. He wore a gray i and blue top-coat and he Wi smoking a cigaret, Vicky- said, “Hello, Greg. Is ti a surprise party?’ He noded. “Saw your car | said, “and thought you must somewhere around. I've decided | let you drive me home.” “Isn’t that sweet of you'” Vic smiled. Greg Harmon got out, held i door open for her, and seated hir gels beside her. The car mov away frem the curb, shiftis smoothly through its gears. “I called you last night a couldn’t get vou,” Greg said abrup ly. “I thought you told me Ji were going to be home?” “But I was! The oparator mi have rung the wrong number. “you're sure you weren't o with Brian Westmore. “Greg, how can you?” “Well—were you?”’ “No, of course not. How mat times do I have to tell you I do care anything about Brian Wes more? I have to be nice to him cause of father’s business I tions. T've explained that before wyou've said it,” Gregg admitt “hut it doesn't look like that me. It looks—" 4 “Greg, are you going to be Jé ous of every man I speak to? vou are, I don’t see what T can about it. I've told you I don’t o anvthing about Brian. How Cil I—when I know you? Darling, ¥ are the only man I care about. I ought to know that. Only T like to have you getting f"r"]“ the way you do. It's so foos Greg. . You ought to know thee nobody but you-—~ “You really mean that, Vicky «Of course 1 do.” 1t was two hours jater 1 Vicky, in her bedroom, lifted ! ivory telephone and gave aIU per. A moment later she e “Brian? Oh, T'm glad I caught ¥ in. There's something I want! ask you.” She listened 2 moment, ! went on. ‘‘Well—it's this, Bri Greg’s been making & nuisancé himself again. 1 had to tell B something, 'so I said I had 2 for tomorrow night. Do you § pose you could take me S 0 wheé¥el" «*F: ¢ (To Be Continued) i “Kingfish’s” Soldier Fatally Wounded on Statehouse Grov BATON ROUGE, La. — . Blood was spilled oOnce £ politically trouble-torn Louis when Corporal Hugh L 24, of Houma, La. one f LA tional guardsmen enforcing M al law here, was fatally woull on the statehoust grounds yesterday. A military court ¢ na* which succeeded the parish ner under the martial ] that the killing was ac identd declined to reveal the na= the person responsible for it Major W. D. Shaffel adjutant-general, said in New ° leans that Belanger W= KIS the guard headquarters °7 statehouss grounds when an “g matic rifle in the hands ol ] militiaman became jammed was discharged. He said Be¥T was shot in the abdom- n > : As ftw as an accident.” P® «f don’t think it would do any = ! to advertise the name of the in whose hands the gun ¥ ent "t
