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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
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Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of ihe poo:n
he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
~Proverbs 21:13,
A rich man without charity Is a rogue; and per
haps it would be no difficult matter to prove that
he is also a fool—Fielding.
CATTON'S COMMENT
. The Americano always was a hopeful cuss. Hei
still is, even after taking the awful beating that the
- mew-economic-era boys in Wall Street wished on
~ him back in 1929,
worwne Magazine set out recently to find out just
" how much hope he has left. It undertook one nf'
%&. cross-section surveys, Dresenting to a wide
~ range of peopl the question whether it still is pos
sible for any young man Wwith thrift, ability, andt
%gfimuon to go up in the world, own his own home, |
@ng&l enjoy an income of at least SSOOO a year. ‘
. The answers it got are interesting.
%fi*‘"fih unhesitating ‘“yes” came from 39.6 per cent!
_of the people questioned. Eighteen per cent said,
%‘*fil. if he's lucky.” Thirty-four per cent believed
,afim the right answer is “No.” And about 8§ per cent
@W said they didn’t know,
~ Assuming that the group questioned gives a fair
%;mou of national sentiment—and Fortune’s sur
_ veys have a good repuation for that sort of thing—
:; pe said that a nation which feels that way
_is & long way from being disheartened.
f%;z h it amounts to is that just about one-third
~of the populace believes that opportunity is dead.
. Bveryone else—barring a small group that can’i
make up its mind—feels that a hright young fellow
4' gets a reasonable share of the breaks can go
~ Just as high as a man needs to go in this country of
~lf you have begn worrying about the prospects of
revolution, and haye been looking anxiously under
| the bed for lurking Communists or Fascist plotters,
~ those figures ought to put your mind at rest.
~ For revolution, whether it goes to the right or to
%&h"‘leu, is the product of complete, nation-wide dis
gfi;}%bfimem and discouragement. Men throw dem
;kg;;ogmy overboard, scrap their accustomed ways of
* doing business, and entrust their affairs to a Hitler
~or a Stalin only when they are utterly fed up with
© the way their system of society has been working.
. percentages listed in this survey aren’'t static
-of course. If those questions had been asked fout
%\ r's 280, we might have got a vastly different set
~of answers; if they were asked four years hence
.~ we might see another change,
. But the significant thing is that the replies dc
m&» n to reflect the public state of mind pretty accu
_ rately today, as the country emerges from its worsi
pres: ion. And they show that the traditional op
~ timism of the American spirit is far from ended
- Despite long years of unemployment, low wages
s n-existent profits and agonizing doubt, this still
__is a hopeful country,
- Washington dispatches make it seem very doubt
ful that Congress will take any action to limit the
R"" Supreme Court's right to pass on federal legis
?fion. But it is reported that much sentiment is
developing in favor of a law that would increase
?‘, e Supreme Court's work on constitutional cases,
instead of diminishing it,
.~ What is being proposed, in fact, is a law to con
ofl constitutional issues to the supreme court, thus
_ eutting out all lower court delays. 3
i As things are now, if you wish to test a law's
jtutlonality. you file suit in the lower court,
"In a year or so, you get a decision, 'This, in all
1 telihood, is carried along to the supreme court,
ch has the final say.
. Very, very rarely does the ruling of a lower court
~@s to a law’s constitutionality stand by itself.
‘mf;there is good sense in the suggestion that all
~ such cases be confined to the supreme court from
g’i: e start, Decision on weighty constitutional issues
- should be much speedier under such system.
3“ o ———
* It must have occurred to a good many readers be
;}‘:fi;fi:_ that a vast amount of bluffing has been
_going on in connection with German protests over
. the stopping of German merchant ships by Spanisk
~ loyalist warships.
. Germany has made divers threats to use force,
. Such use of force would mean war between Germany
. and the Madrid government, But how under the
“; ning sun could such a war be carried on?
. Cerman forces could not reach Spain by land
_ Without consent of the French army. They could
* mot reach Spain by sea without the consent of the
g British navy. Such consent obviously will never
pe given.
‘.;g': 0, unless Hitler is ready to fight both RBritain
France, he must be running a big bluff, And
- bluffing is sound tactics only when you are sure that
~ mobody will call you.
%} ® water buffalo is the chief source of milk sup
ply in the Philippine Islands.
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The church offered the most opposition to the
Finting art when it began to spread. Digniaries
jgrinters, and state governments enacted measures
A'*i"f.‘f“ "’%fim‘aihgtm o R Q, <t
A SPLENDID SHOWING
Of the many agencies established by
(the government, under President Roose
'velt, the Resettlement Administration has
{proved to be one of the most beneficial of
[the entire group. In speaking of its func-’
\tioning among the masses, the Columbus
{Ledger outlines the benefits that have‘
fcome to those who have taken advantagel
lof' its many opportunities for their better-!
Iment. In part, the Ledger says: |
| “Made loans to 386,000 farm families'
lamounting to $94.300,000, i
| “Made grants to 468,000 farm families’
amounting to $19,300,000, |
| “Made additional emergency loans and
|grants in drought area amounting to SB,-
i:mo,o«m to 256,955 farm families,
“Brought about a reduction of $32,-
1820,0()1) or 25.6 percent in the debts of,
41,480 farmers. |
“Loaned 1,700,000 to enable 55,000
farmers to participate in cooperatives, |
. “Purchased 9,100,000 acres of sub-!
standard ground, and started develop
.ment of this land for useful purposes, ‘
~ “Completed 19 rural resettlement pro
jects, built 2,695 good rural homes, with
‘conslruction going on in 44 additional
community projects,
“In Georgia alone,, it has accepted op
tions on 212,934.22 acres for conservation
land program; made rehabilitation loans
to 25,457 farm families totaling $2,857,-
276.11, and rehabilitation grants to 14,851
farm families for $224,624.98.
“Without aid of the Resettlement Ad
ministration the farmers of Georgia and
the nation would not have enjoyed the
successful year that marked their opera-!
tions in 1936.
“The program, however, carried out
effectively, has proven of tremendous
benefit in rehabilitating the farmers and
in making it possible for many of them
who have gone without profits for years
to operate on a scale which permitted
them to receive substantial returns on
their crops.”
This agency should be continued, at
least, until it has served its purpose|
which, of course, is far reaching in its/
effect in that it has helped those who!
were unable to help themselves, but from
no faul. of theirs, their condition having
been brought about from circumstances
beyond their control. H
WANDERING BOYS AND GIRLS
The absence from the highways
throughout the country of wandering
boys and girls, traveling here and there
with no particular point in view, but
anywhere to lay their heads and to get a
mouthful of food as their chief aims for
hitch-hiking from one place to another, is
notable at the beginning of 1937. .
In 1933, a government survey showed
that more than 50,000 boys and girls be
tween the ages of 16 and 25 were in
transient centers dependent upon charita
ble organizations. In most instances, these
local institutions were overcrowded with
such calls for help, but with limited
means, these boys and girls were given
food and helped in other ways. It was a
deplorable condition and the like we hope
will never again be experienced in this
country. 3 . 3 3 .
However, times have changed and the
number of young people hitch-hiking is
materially reduced. This is the informa
tion given out by the National Youth Ad
ministration directors from fourteen mid
western states, who credit the improved
conditions to the CCC camps, and NYA
efforts with reclaiming many of these
wandering boys and girls.
The improvement of times, as pointed
out by the NYA, is heartening and should
encourage those who are now out of em
ployment to look forward to an early re
storation of business which will in turn
‘absorb the list of unemployed and once
Lmore place the nation on a normal and
substantial basis.
DRUNKEN DRIVERS OF AUTOS
Sentiment is growing strong against
reckless and drunken drivers in all sec-{
tions of the country. In fact, the drunken
driver has proved such a menace to life,’
officers and jurists are determined to
curb the practice, if sentences in jail and‘
in the chain-gangs will have the desired
effect. Georgia is not the only state iN
the nation that suffers from the depreda
tions of these criminals. A North Caro
lina jurist has caused the drunken drivers
of that state to sit up and take notice
before entering his court.
Judge Julius A. Rousseau, will convene
the Superior Courtof Mecklenberg county,
at Charlotte, N. C., this month, There
are 128 cases on the court docket against
drunken drivers. The judge has express
ed how he felt on such cases in private
and in the court room, and at a recent
term of court said: ‘“No convicted driver
shall walk out of this court a free man
by payment of a fine while I am on the
bench”.
If the judges in this state would adopt
such a policy, there would be fewer drunk
en drivers on the highways and fewer
lives would be snuffed out. Judges who
impose fines for such violations are en
couraging drunken driving. Many of this
class of citizens are willing to pay a small
fine in order to have the freedom of the
highways, and do just as they please.
Judges should remember that a drunken
driver is more dangerous to society and to
the public than are hold-up men or rob
berers. The utter disregard for others as
shown by drunken drivers is nothing short
of crime of the most felonous character
and should so be treated by the officers
and the courts.
The first civil airplane transaction in
the United States was completed in 1909,
when the Aeronautie Society in New
York ordered a plane from Glenn Curtis.
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OCCURTOD
A Little of Everything—
Not Much of Anything.
By HUGH ROWE
Judge Vincent Matthews made
a number of the city's em
pounded citizéns happy on
Christmas Day when he issued
an order releasing them from
the stockade.
There were some serving sen
tences, however, that were not in
cluded in his proclamation—those
who were guilty of having heen
drunk and driving automobiles in
a reckless manner. His position
in treating with such cases has
met with the enforcement of the
law abiding element of this com
munity—and justly so. A person
who has no more regard for his
own safety and the safety of the
public, deserves the maximum of
fines and sentences within the au
thority of the Recorder’s court.
| Since the first of the new
~ year, there have been less vio
’ lationg of the municipal ordin
ances than in sOme time, a ma
. jority of cases docketed
~ being that of traffic violations.
A municipal or recorder’s court
is a check valve to crime that can
not be equaled for local offenses,
and even in state cases. The aver
age violator of ordinances, as well
as state laws, has a perfect horror
of going before a recorder, espec
ially, before Judge Matthews. If
found guilty, there is no escape
from a penalty, either fine or sen
tence to the stockade; if not found
guilty, the same unbroken rule is
enforced through a dismissal of the
case. State cases, of course, are
not supposed to be tried in record
er's court, but a considerable
amount of the fines going into the
city treasury, arises from that
source.
While Recorder’s court should
not be conducted as revenue
agencies for the treasury of
municipalities, yet they contri
bute much towards paying
general expenses. |
All monieg received from fines|
in police court here are directed tol
the general fund of the city from
which is paid operating expenses
of the municipality. Athens has a
good city government, officered by,
a body of splendid, high type gon-!
tlemen, who serve the city abovoi
personal or selfish interests. There
are many things of a rnunicipall
character to be wmaugurated this‘
year, which, if brought to a con
e¢lusion, the whole community will
benefit from. Additional street’
lights, extension of sewer and!
water mains, and above all, the
enactment of traffic legislation
that will insure better protection
for the public.
During the holidays or rather,
just before the commencement’
of the Yuletide season, we had !
occasien to go down on Broad |
street, at the intersection of |
Oconee and Thomas streets. |
We attempted to eross Broad!
street, and finally did land on the!
south side, at the mouth of Oconee !
street, but it was a dangerous|
journey, dodging automobiles and|
trucks, traveling from five differ
ent sections. Some cutting corners|,
and others making ¥ight, left and
“U™ turns without regard for speed, |
or otherwise observing traffic
regulations. If there ig a place ir
the city where a traffic light or!,
policeman is needed more, we have !,
vet to find it. Mark a predicuon:i
unless pedestrians are given somse
Drotection, at this point, some citi-|
“Burope May Reopen War Debt Matter”
THE WASHINGTON LOWDOWN
ißanner-Herald Washington Cor
respondent
i WASHINGTON — Senator Roy
]al 8. Copeland of New York has
said that he would be glad to
bury the hatchet with the admin
istration, election results appar
ently having suggested to him
that the New Deal enjoys a cec
tain popularity.
The administration will be glad
to bury the hidtchet, too. The bu
[rial rites, if possible, will be per
formed in the region of the sena
tor's neck.
A certain section of the New
Deal doghouse is being prepared
i for Senator Copeland, in which vir
" tually his only companion will be
{ ths over-ebuliient young Senalor
' Rush DD. Holt of West Virginia.
! The current “era of good feeling”’
| may or may not be what it's
| cracked up to he, but it isn't oe
! ing cracked up at all for Holt or
i Copeland. ;
Copeland, somewhat after the
manner of Holt took a walk in the
last campaign, though he didn't
walk as far as Al Smith. After a
few hard slams at tht administra.-
tion before Tammany’s 150th cel
ebration and refusal to be a del
egate to the Philadelphia conven
tion. he took himself off to the Holy
Land. Suunsequently he endeared
himself to the State Department
by demanding that it protest the
way Great Britain was handling
affairs in Palestine.
Mrs. Copeland made at least one
Republican speech, promising that
several members of her family
vould vote Republican—without
mentioning her husbhand.
It Sounds Embarrassing
The senator is chairman of the
Senate Commerce Committee
which handles merchant marine
logislation, but there’s some doubt
whether he will be as vocal in the
shipping field as in the past. A
few newsparpers recently publish
td excerpts from correspendence
indicating that the senator had
asked for free passes on a steam
ship line to Bermuda.
“ he correspondence showed that
Copeland had obtained, or had
been asked to obtain, certain fa
vors for the Munson line and that
later the line’s representative in
Washington had written C. W.
Munson to the effect that Core
land had indicated & desire to take
a trip to Bermuda with Mrs.
Copeland, It appeared that the
representative had assured the
senator of the ‘“courtesy of the
line,” feeling ‘“sure that Mr.
Frank C. Munson would do this
in view of the very valuable as
sistance we have recently received
from the senator.”
Frank Munson wrote a. few davs
zen is hound to meet with a accident
that will prove gerious, if not fatal
We have no desire to bore
the readers of this column with
criticisms of the danger from
traffic conditions, but it has
grown to a hazard that should
demand the attention of the
officials.
It is truly remarkable that no
one has met with a gerfous accident
or death at this place. However,
to procrastinate in remedying the
hazard, is nothing short of neglect
of duty on the part of those re
sponsible for the enforcement of
the city ordinances, governing and
controlling traffic. There are other
places in the city that should rel
ceive the attention of the city fath
ers, but the intersection of Broad,
Thomas and Oconee streets is oné€
of the most dangerous sections in
the business district of the city,
BY RODNEY DUTCHER
later. that “Sengtor Copeland
would prefer tickets rather thin
rasses, and I am glad to enclose
them in his saver.”
When questioned, Copeland said
he didn't recall the correspond
ence, s,
Ship Bill Attacked
Lzst year Senator Copeland
sponsored a- merchant marine bill
which was licked after being at
tacked as opening the Treasuary
to “an unlimited raid by private
shipbuilders and private shipping
operators.”
Senator Hugo L. RBlack of Ala
bama, leading the fight to clean
up ship subsidy scandals said, “I
suppose a worse bill could be
drawn, but it would be hard to
tell how to go about it.”
I'nfairly or not, Copeland comes
in for more varied attacks than
most senators.
St. Louis newspapers recently
charged that he had used his po
sition—he is elso.an M. D.—to
propagandize there agalnst the U.
S. standard milk ordinance, drawn
up for municipalities by the U. S.
Pullie Health Service as providing
safe standerds of milk sanitation
and opposed in St. Louis by tho
big cairy companies.
Copeland was publicly charged
with “obfuscating the issue by er
roneus comparisons and misleading
omiscions.”
Assailed and Defended
Elsewhere the senator has been
charged with going into secret
huddles with patent medicine
manufzcturers to revise the al
ready weakened food and drug
bill which he sponsored. But, in
his favor, some of the most radi
cel advocates of a strong food and
drug law insist that Copeland
worked hard and honestly for
their cause.
The senator also has been ac
cused of blocking a fair and thor -
ough investigation of marine safe
ty and working conditions and of
supporting the seamen’s continuous
discharge book bill which is re
garded by some seamen as a way
to make easy the blacklisting’ of
union seamen. However, the con
tinuous discharge book was origin
ally sought by -progressive Sena
tor LaFollette at the request of
the International Seamen’s TUn
ion.
All of which is not to suggest
that Senator Copeland is or is not
a much and unjustly abused man.
But in cast any:of you ever de:
velop ambitions to be a U. S Sen
ator, you can realize how hard a
life it can get to be—free trips to
Bermuda or not.
(Copyright, 1986, NEA Service Inc.)
DECATUR, Ga.—(®)—Another
chapter in the series involving in
junctions against the State High
way department will open here
Thursday with Judge James C.
Davis hearing the latest suit
brought by a group of citizens of
the old Eighth congressional road
district, now the Tenth.
Filed by Abit Nix, of Athens, as
attorney, and 22 others the suit
seeks to enjoin the Highway board
from letting $360,000 in contracts.
Judge J. H. Hawkins of Mari
etta recently granted the tempor
ary injunction and set the final
hearing for January 14, two days
after the Talmadge administra
tion leaves office,
He provided, however, that as
he would be out of his circuit un
til January 14, the state might
apply to any other superior court
judge for a hearing. Pet
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Chapter Cne
It was an artistic age, a decadent
age, a romantic age and Bohemian
ism held sway throughout all Paris.
Louis Phillipe, King of France by
the grace of God and the will of the
people, sat the shaky throne of
the Constitutional Monarchy. Politi
cal unrest hovered over the coun
try like a threatening storm, the
chadow of Louis Napoleon looming
ever larger, limned in the glory of
his forebear, that other Bonaparte.
Young Louis Pasteur was working
privately on scientific efi)eriements,
Charles Baudelaire perfecting the
style that was to reach its apex in
the Fleur de Mal and Francois Gui
zot, honored as historian and states
man, arrogantly declaring that the
Frenchman was the only civilized
creature on' earth.
But in the Capitol, pleasure was
the prime decree. Paint d women
roamed the boulevards with effete
paramours, gaming rooms were
filled from sunset to cockcrow,
while Bacchus and Eros cavorted
madly and merrily with their mul
titude of worshippers.
It was such an age as to produce
a Marguerite Gautier, fairest lily in
all the flelds of Paris; a lily who
toiled not, neither did she spin;
whose extravagances were the scan
dal of the city whose beauty the
flame that drew the moth; whose
ga.ssion for waxen-petaled blossoms
ad inspired the sobriquet, “The
Lady of the Camellias.”
On an autumnal evening in 1846,
thie very Marguerite was lolling
against the velvet cushions of her
brougham en route to the theatre.
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The smart clap-clap of the horses’
hooves were an accompaniment to
her companion’s tongue.
Madame Prudence Duvernoy eyed
her reproachfully, her small agate
eyes nearly popping out of their
bags. “Now my dear, let me talk to
you like a mother. You've just been
ill, you're in debt and there’s no
limit to your extravagance. Hun
dreds of francs just for flowers!
The hats and dresses you order
from me of course, are an invest
ment. But you know you won’t be
young forever and it’s high time -rou
looked to your future.”
A faint smile touched Marguer
ite’s lips. In the pale of the eve
ning, her narrow face held a quiet,
exquisite beauty, as if it were a
piece lovingly wrought by a sculp
tor’s hand. “Prudence speaks of my
future,” she thought mistily. “Have
I one? Or is my life to be but an
unfinished symphony of discords,
without a past and with an aborted
present? Ah me. Well, let her
talk. She means well.”
“And,” Prudence hurried on, “I
know just the man for you. The
Baron de Varville, the richest and
most elegant gentleman in Paris.”
Marguerite tilted a slim, white
shoulder, revealed by her thrown
back cloak. There was a gleam in
her luminous, gray eyes. “But with
one foot in the grave I suppose, and
a wig on his head.”
“Not at all, not at all. On the
contrary, he's young and handsome.
And I heard that he’ll be at the
theatre tonight-—what? Here al
ready?”
Glancing about with languid in
terest Marguerite descended from
the brougham and trailed into the
brilliantly lit foyer, Prudence puf
fing at her heels.
All the world, his wife and his
mistress were here tonight, defined
against the red velvet drapes.
Standing near the doors was the
darkly tragic Rachel, conversing
with Gustave Flaubert. Jean Corot,
seldom seen at festive gatherings
was also present. Absently, Mar
guerite bowed — then her heart
skipped a beat. THhere, on the op
posite side of the wide, divided
staircase was a tall, lithe young
man, his eyes, under sweeping black
brows, almost devouring her. For
one fleeting second, she tingled un
der his gaze, had the monumental
sense of the heavens parting.
Then someone spoke to her and
she was swallowed up in a group
of acquaintances. - e
Armand Duval continued to stare
after her, his blood pumping mad
ly through his veins. Lovely, un
known lady of his heart! The first
time he had seen her, she was in
an open carriage dressed all in
white. She had worn an embroid
ered shawl, a single bracelet and a
neavy gold chain. The next time
was at the Opera Comique. Then
again on the Boulevard and now . ..
“That lady there” he said breath
lessly to his companion, Charles,
“the one with the camellias. Who
is she?” o » rtih :
Charles looked and cocked a cyni
cal eyebrow. “Lady? Well, hard
ly. That's Marguerite Gautier.”
Gaston Rieux, on his left, smiled.
“If you've a million in your pocket,
it's easy to meet her.”
*As a matter of fact,” Charles
drawled, “I could tell you all sorts
of things about her.”
Something like a physical pain
stabbed at Armand. His lips thin
ned. “I should refuse to believe one
of them” o
At this verv moment on the bal
cony, Prudence was drawing Mar
guerite aside and nudging her ex
citedly. “There. There’s the Baron
@de Varville. You see?’ Her gaze
TURNER CHAIRMAN
LaGRANGE, Ga.—(®—William
¥H. Turner, of LaGrange, was
elected chairman of the five-man
Troup county board of commis
sioners. of roads, and revenugs
succeeding G. T. Whitley, as the
new county administration took
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY &, 1937,
was fixed on a tall, distinguisheq
gentleman in a long cape, loitering
in the promenade.
“Where 2"
“Over there, looking at you.”
And then, by some peculiar quik
of circumstance, Marguerite's eye.
fastened on Armand Duval. She
took a deep, astonished breath ang
a stinging warmth, like fine cham
pagne, bubbled through her. “So he
really is young and handsome?”’
~ Prudence chuckled. “Didn't i
tell you so? Come, we’ll send him o
‘ note and have him visit your box.”
_ With another backward look
Marguerite sauntered after her, ob
livious to Prudence’ sharp, busi
nesslike arrangements with the
usher to deliver the note, untouched
by the buzz of comments as she
moved past, enchantingly gracefy;
and willowy,
~ She walked like & woman in a
dream, yet was keenly alive to the
gayety about her and the oddly
thrilling promise of the coming
meeting. She had always been
aware of this strange sense, this
ability to divide herself, to be both
the tpa.rtaker of pleasure and the
aloof gpectator as well. Then she
shivered faintly. A ghost at her
own feast she asked herself.
But morbid s(feculation was cut
short as she and Prudence reached
their box. Olympe—gay, exotic
Olympe, who professed to be her
friend—was in full possession of the
compartment.
For a space Marguerite stood hy
in amused silence as the two women
argued and %gbered shrilly over
ownership of x A.
“Oh come, Olympe,” she finally
interposed, “Prudence has her heart
set on my sitting here.”
Suspicion hardened the other's
features. “Yes. And that's what
1 can't understand. Why?”’ Sud
denly she raised her glasses. “My
dear, do you see that gentleman
standing up? In the second row,
on the aisle?”
Marguerite adjusted her own
glasses. And fate again played
pranks on her vision, for it focused
on Armand, who had risen and was
bowing to her. “Yes. Do you know
him?” A tense expectancy.
“I know who he is,” Olympe re
turned with patent excitement. She
watched the man Prudence had
earlier pointed out to Marguerite.
“He's the fabulously rich de Var
ville. Baron de Varville. Look!
He's going out! He’s looking at us.
He's coming to our box!” She flung
down her glasses. “Well my friends,
I'm not going to move. I intend to
stay and meet him.”
Marguerite smiled. “But he's
coming to meet me. Prudence in
vited him to join us here.”
Olympe’s eyes flashed. “So that's
what you had up your sleeve.” She
waved her fan gaily. ‘“Thank you
so much dear Prudence for arrang
ing it. But having done so much
you must really et me see him
alone.” 3 ;
How tiresomely transparent sne
is, Marguerite thought. “Unforcun
ately I like him too,” she said with
ironic sweetness, “Because his . yed
have made love to me all eveuing.
“That’'s a lie! He barely glaaced
at you. I mever took my glas-cd
from his face except for an in«
stant to let him see mine.”
“Perhaps that was the instant ha
smiled at me,” Marguerite said dul
cetly. Then, of a sudden, she
wearied of the bickering. “Comes
Prudence, the Baron must look sos
me elsewhere,
Out in the promenade Prudenc:t
spoke to her, crimson with vex -
tion. “That one! That wvulture!
You go on ahead. Tl try to ge*
another message to him. But if yon
run into him, just try for once in
your life not to be sueh a lady.
Grab him.” R b
“Sometimes you have very good
ideas, Mamma Prudence.” Slowly,
Marguerite moved ahead. Then,
from the corner of her eyes, she
caught a glimpse of Armand, just
behind her. Her pulse quickened
but with no outward sign, she con+
tinued on her way. But she wad
brought up short.
“Do you mind?” she said gently,
tugging at her gown, His foot
;vas planted squarely on the satin
rain.
He colored and hurriedly stooped
to brush away the marks of his
shoe. “Oh good heavens! I'm &0
sorry. Please forgive me. I'm 2
lout! Is anything torn?”
“No, no don’t worry. It oftes
happens.”
Words. Polite questions and ane
swers, while so much was happene
ing. He had straightened up. Ine
voluntarily, he reached out and
touched her fingers. Their eyes met,
There was a lovely, fragile instant
of poetry unspoken, of music un
stx‘x]]lg, of the whole world standing
still.
Marguerite said, ever..so softls
“Were you following g‘@%
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(Marguerite and Armand have
Sfinelly -met. But she thinks him
the Baraon de Varville. Will she
lose interest when she discovers
his real identity? Or has a gres
love been born this night at the
theatre? See tomorro VA~
tic insgtgllment.) oo
yoffice this week. Turner is a tex-
I‘tile executive, and has jusg com
’pleted four years as a member of
‘the board. He was re-elected at
|thé September 9 primary.
The new board . re-elected all
important holders of county offi
ces for another four years, .