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VOL. VI.
Ramsey
Milholland
by
Booth Tarkington
Illustrations by
Irmin Myers
Copyright by Doubleday, Page & Co.
CHAPTER Xlll.—Continued.
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He seemed to wish to speak, to
heave with speech that declined to be
spoken and would not rouse up from
his inwards. Finally he uttered words.
“I—l— well. I—”
•'Oh, I know," she said. "A man
or a boy!—always hates to be intrud
ing his own convictions upon other
men, especially in a case like this,
where he might be afraid of some
Idiot’s thinking him unmanlike. But
Ramsey—” Suddenly she broke off
and looked at him attentively; his dis
comfort had become so obvious that
suspicion struck her. She spoke sharp
ly. “Ramsey, you aren’t dreaming of
■doing such a thing, are you?”
•‘What such a thing?”
“Fred hasn’t Influenced you, has he?
You aren’t planning to go with him,
.are you?”
“Where?”
“To join the Canadian aviation.”
“No; I hadn’t thought of doing it."
She sighed again, relieved. “I had a
queer feeling about you just then—
that you were thinking of doing some
such thing. You looked so odd —and
you’re always so quiet, anybody might
not really know what to think. But
Tm not wrong about you, am I, Ram
sey?*
* They had come to the foot of the
Steps that led up to the entrance of
iher dormitory, and their walk was at
an end. As they stopped and faced
|each other, she looked at him earnest
jly; but he did not meet the scrutiny,
his eyelids fell.
“I’m not wrong, am I, Ramsey?”
“About what?” he murmured, un
comfortably.
“You are my friend, aren't you?"
“Yes.”
"Then it’s all right,” she said. “That
relieves me and makes me happier
than I was just now, for of course if
you’re my friend you wouldn’t let me
make any mistake about you. I be
lieve you, and now, just before I go
in and we won’t see much of each
(other for a week —if you still want me
to go with you again next Sunday—”
’ “Yes —won’t you, please?"
“Yes, if you like. But I want to tell
you now that I count on you in all this,
even though you don’t talk much,’ as
you say; I count on you more than
I do on anybody else, and I trust you
when you say you’re my friend, and it
makes me happy.
“And I think perhaps you’re right
about Fred Mitchell. Talk isn’t ev
erything, nobody knows that better
than I, who talk so much! and I
think that, instead of talking to Fred,
a steady, quiet Influence like yours
would do more good than any amount
of arguing. So I trust you, you see?
'And I’m sorry I had that queer doubt
of you.” She held out her hand. “Un
less I happen to see you on the campus
for a minute, in the meantime, it’s
good-bye until a week from today. So
—well, so, good-bye until then!”
“Wait,” said Ramsey. v
“What is it?"
He made a great struggle. “Pm not
Influencing Fred not to go,” he said.
“I— don’t want you to trust me to do
anything like that.”
“What?”
“I think it’s all right for him to go,
If he wants to,” Ramsey said, mis
erably.
“You do? For him to go to fight?”
He swallowed. “Yes.”
“OhI" she cried, turned even redder
than he, and ran up the stone steps.
But before the storm doors closed
upon her she looked down to where he
stood, with his eyes still lowered, a
lonely seeming figure, upon the pave
ment below. Her voice caught upon a
sob as she spoke.
“If you feel like that, you might as
well go and enlist, yourself,” she said,
bitterly. “I can’t —I couldn’t—speak
to you again after this 1”
CHAPTER XIV.
It was easy enough for him to evade
Fred Mitchell’s rallylngs these days;
the sprig’s mood was truculent, not
toward his roommate but toward con
gress, which was less in fiery haste
than he to be definitely at war with
Germany.
All through the university the
change had come: athletics, in other
years spotlighted at the center of the
stage, languished suddenly, threatened
With abandonment; students working
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for senior honors forgot them; every
thing was forgotten except that grow
ing thunder in the soil.
Several weeks elapsed after Dora’s
bitter dismissal of Ramsey before she
was mentioned between the comrades.
Then, one evening. Fred a^ked, as he
restlessly paced their study floor:
“Have you seen your pacifist friend
lately?”
“No. Not exactly. Why?”
“Well, for my part, I think she ought
to be locked up,” Fred said, angrily.
“Have you heard what she did this
afternoon?”
“No.”
"It’s all over college. She got up in
the class in jurisprudence and made a
speech. It's a big class, you know,
over two hundred, under Dean Burney.
He’s a great lecturer, but he’s a pacifist
—the only one on the faculty—and a
friend of Dora’s. They say he encour
aged her to make this break and led
the subject around so she could do it,
and then called on her for an opinion,
as the hlghest-stand student in the
class. She got'up and claimed there
wasn’t any such thing as a legitimate
cause for war. either legally or moral
ly, and said it was a sign of weakness
in a nation for it to believe that it did
have a cause for war.
“Well, it was too much for that lit
tle, spunky Joe Stansbury, and he
jumped up and argued with her. He
made her admit all the Germans have
done to us, the sea murders and the
land murders, the blowing up of fac
tories, the propaganda, the strikes,
trying to turn the United States into a
German settlement, trying to get
Japan and Mexico to make war on us,
and all the rest. He even made her
admit there was proof they mean to
conquer us when they get through with
the others, and that they’ve set out to
rule the world for their own benefit,
and make whoever else they kindly
allow to live, work for them.
“She said it might be true, but since
nothing at all could be a right cause
for war, then all this couldn’t be a
cause for war. Os course she had her
regular pacifist ‘logic’ working; she
said that since war is the worst thing
there is, why, all other evils were
lesser, and a lesser evil can’t be a just
cause for a greater. She got terribly
excited, they say, but kept right on,
anyway. She said war was murder
and there coudn’t be any other way to
look at it; and she’d heard there was
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already talk in the university of stu
dents thinking about enlisting, and
whoever did such a thing was virtual
ly enlisting to return murder for mur
der. Then Joe Stansbury asked her If
she meant that she’d feel toward any
student that enlisted the way she
would toward a murderer, and she
said, yes, she’d have a horror of any
student that enlisted.
"Well, that broke up the class; Joe
turned from her to the platform and
told old Burney that he was responsi
ble for allowing such talk in his lecture
room, and Joe said so far as he was
concerned, he resigned from Burney’s
classes right' there. That started it,
and practically the whole class got up
and walked out with Joe. They said
Burney streaked off home, and Dora
was left alone in there, with her head
down on her desk—and I guess she
certainly deserves it. A good many
have already stopped speaking to her.”
Ramsey fidgeted with a pen on the
table by which he sat. "Well, I don’t
know," he said, slowly: “I don't know
if they ought to do that exactly.”
“Why oughtn’t they?” Fred demand
ed, sharply.
"Well, it looks to me as if she was
only flghtin’ for her principles. She
believes In ’em. The more it costs a
person to stick to their principles,
why, the more I believe the person
must have something pretty fine about
’em likely.”
“Yes!” said the hot-headed Fred.
“That may be in ordinary times, but
not when a person’s principles are lia
ble to betray their country I We won’t
stand that kind of principles, I tell
you, and we oughtn’t to. Dora Yocum's
finding that out, all right. She had the
IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1922.
biggest position of any girl in this
place, or any boy either, up to the last
few weeks, and there wasn’t any stu
dent or hardly even a member of the
faculty that had the influence or was
more admired and looked up to. She
had the whole show! But now, since
she’.s just tfie same as called any stu
dent a murderer If he. enlists to fight
for his country and flag—well, now
she hasn’t got anything at all, and if
she keeps on she’ll have even less!”
He paused in ills walking to and fro
and came to a halt behind his friend’s
chair, looking down compassionately
upon the back of Ramsey’s motionless
head. His tone changed. “I guess it
Isn’t just the ticket —me to be talking
this way to you, is It?” he said, with a
trace of huskiness.
"Oh —it's all right,” Ramsey mur
mured. not altering his position.
“I can’t help blowing up,” Fred went
on. “I want to say, though, I know
I’m not very considerate to blow up
about her to you this way. I've been
playing horse with you about her ever
since freshman year, but—well, you
must have understood, Ram, I never
meant anything that would really both
er you much, and I thought—well, I
really thought it was a good thing,
you—your —well, I mean about her,
you know. I’m on, all right. I know
it’s pretty serious with you.” He
paused.
“Its —it’s kind of tough luck!” his
friend contrived to say; and he began
to pace the floor again.
“Oh—well—” he said.
"See here, ole stick-in-the-mud.”
Fred broke out abruptly. "After her
saying what she did — Well, it’s none
o’ my business, but—but —”
“Well, what?” Ramsey murmured.
“I don’t care what you say, if you
want to say anything.”
“Well, I got to say it,” Fred half
groaned and half blurted. “After she
said that —and she meant It —why, if
I were in your place I’d be darfted If
I’d be seen out walking with her
again.”
“I’m not going to be,” Ramsey said,
quietly.
“By George!" And now Fred halted
in front of him, both being huskily
solemn. “I think I understand a little
of what that means to you, old Ram
sey; I think I do. I think I know
something of what it costs you to
make that resolution for your coun
try’s sake.” Impulsively he extended
his hand. “It’s a pretty big thing for
j’ou to do. Will you shake hands?”
But Ramsey shook his head. “I
didn’t do it. I wouldn’t ever have done
anything just on account of her talk
in’ that way. She shut the door on
me —it was a good while ago.”
“She did! What for?”
“Well, I’m not much of a talker, you
know, Fred,” said Ramsey, staring at
the pen he played with. “I’m not much
of anything, for that matter, prob’ly,
but I —well—I —”
“You what?”
“Well, I had to tell her I didn’t feel
about things the way she did. She’d
thought I had, all along, I guess. Any
way, it made her hate me or some
thing, I guess; and she called it all
oft. I expect there wasn’t much to call
off, so far as she was concerned, any
how." He laughed feebly. "She told
me I better go and enlist.”
"Pleasant of her!” Fred muttered.
“Especially as we know what she
thinks enlisting means.” He raised his
voice cheerfully. “Well, that’s settled;
and, thank God, old Mr. Bernstorff's on
his way to his sweet little vine-clad
cottage home! They’re getting guns
on the ships, and the big show’s liable
to commence any day. We can hold
up our heads now, and we’re going to
see some great times, old Ramsej’ boy!
It’s hard on the home folks —Gosh! I
don’t like to think of that! And I
guess it’s going to be hard on a lot of
boys that haven’t understood what It’s
all about, and hard on some that their
family affairs, and business, and so on,
have got ’em tied up so it’s hard to ro
—and of course there’s plenty that just
can’t, and some that aren’t husky
enough—but the rest of us are going
to have the big time in our lives. We
got an awful lot to learn; It scares me
to think of what I don’t know about
being any sort of a rear-rank pri
vate. Why, it’s a regular profession,
like practicing law, or selling for a
drug house on the road.
“Golly! Do you remember how we
talked about that, 'way back in fresh
man year, what we were going to do
when we got out of college? You were
going to be practicing law, for in
stance, and I —well, f’r instance, re<
member Colburn; he was going to be
a doctor, and he did go to some medi
cal school for one year. Now he’s in
the Red Cross, somewhere in Persia,
Golly!”
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
‘Worthless Painting’ Brings Top Price,
“The Blue Boy,’’ recently bought by
Henry E. Huntington, millionaire art
collector, was painted by the famous
British artist, Gainsborough, as a re
ply to Sir JOshua Reynolds, equally
fatuous artist, who declared that a
picture done in the manner of "The
Blue Boy” would never be of value as
a work of art.
Huntington paid $640,000 for the
painting—the highest price tn the rec
ord of modern art purchssis.—Mo
tor Magazine.
FUND IS URGED FOR
TALLULAH SCHOOLS
CLUBWOMEN BEGIN PLANS FOR
$50,000 DRIVE TO CARRY OUT
BUILDING SCHEDULE
STATE NEWS_OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
- There From All Sections Os
The State
Atlanta.—At a called meeting of the
local trustees of Tallulah Falls school
and officers so the Fifth district club,
held at the 'Woman’s club, it was de
cided to urge the club women of Geor
gia to the immediate beginning of a
campaign for $50,000 to be Invested in
an adequate building program for Tal
lulah Falls school and to pledge ad
herence to this program.
This action, which will doubtless be
followed by the club women of the
rest of the state, was taken as the re
sult of over crowded conditions at the
federation’s school which are said to
be offering a serious handicap to its
usefulness.
Representatives of the Fifth District
club, who recently spent a day at Tal
lulah Falls, came back enthused by
the work of the school and convinced
of the inadequacy of its equipment.
A bigger and better Tallulah Falls
school has been largely the subpect
of discussion in club circles of late.
The officers of the district in vot
ing adherence to the enlarged pro
gram were carrying out the instruc
tions to that effect embodied in a
strong set of resolutions passed at the
full district meeting at the falls in
May.
The largest single item of the pro
posed plan of extension is an admin
istration building.
This will supply all the school fa
cilities, with a library, an auditorium,
a gymnasium and work shops, and
leave the present school building free
to be converted into an additional cot
tage home.
Miss Davis, principal of the Tallu
lah school, who is en route to Chautau
qua, where she will attend the bien
nial as the guest of the Fifth District
club, spoke with great earnestness of
the need of the building program and
much enthusiasm was aroused by the
announcement that Miss Davis wished
to contribute the first SSOO to the $50,-
000 fund.
Mrs. C. K. Ayer announced her own
gift of a live scholarship at Tallulah
and presented Miss Davis with some
elaborate, hand-woven specimens of
South American work to be used as
samples in weaving.
OFFICERS ELECTED
BY OIL MEN HERE
Atlanta. —The selection of Atlanta
as a permanent convention city and
the election of officers for both asso
ciations for the ensuing year featured
the closing session of the joint con
vention of the Interstate Oil Mill Su
perintendents’ Exhibitors’ association
at the auditorium.
Following are the officers elected
'or the Interstate Oil Mill Superintend
ents’ association: F. R. Eisenmann.
of Chester. S. C., formerly vice presi
dent, elected president to succeed R.
F. Rogers, of Unadilla. Ga.; J. H. Mor
gan, of Ozark. Ala., elected vice pres
ident to succeed Mr. Eisenmann, and
O. C. Taylor, of York. S. C., elected
secretary to succeed J. W. Coon, of
Sanford, N. C.
All of the officers of the Oil Mill
Superintendents’ Exhibitors associa
tion were re-elected for another year.
They are W. H. Camp, of Atlanta,
president; A. D. Kennedy, of Atlanta,
vice president and W. Frank Dodd, of
Atlanta, secretary-treasurer.
The annual reports of the officers,
which were to have been read to the
two associations, were dispensed with
because of the absence of Mr. Rogers,
the president, and Mr. Coon, the secre
tary.
One of the most attractive features
of the joint convention was an ex
hibit of modern and up-to-date oil ma
chinery arranged in the arena of the
auditorium. Many people from various
sections of the country expressed
themselves as highly pleased with the
elaborateness of this exhibit. There
were forty-five booths, representing as
many manufacturers of oil mill mach
inery and supplies in all parts of the
United States.
May Benefit From Power Site
Sparta.—ls investigations by the
Hancock county board of tax equaliz
ers now under way are as fruitful as
the board expects, according to a
statement by one of its members, ap
proximately one million dollars of tax
able property to be pro-rated between
the counties of Greene, Putnam and
Hancock will be unearthed. The prop
erty includes the power rights on the
Oconee river of Charles P. Howe, civil
engineer of Americus, where the three
counties intersect
Send S. O. S. Call To Get Packers
Thomasville. —Pelham has sent over
an S. O. S. call to Thomasville for
additional packers so rthe big canta
loupe crop being packed there for ship
ment. With hundreds of packers un
der the immense sheds, there are still
not enough to get the crop packed as
rapidly as it should be. The hot sun
shine of the past week has done much
to ripen the crop and it is necessary
to get it moved as rapidly as is pos
sible. Camilla, Ochlocknee and Meigs
are also shipping cantaloupes and the
Thomas county towns are also ship
ping out many watermelons and the
rush is expected to be at its height.
Boston is also shipping out canta
loupes and many watermelons will
leave soon. At every siding in the
county cars will be loaded and the de
mand for empties is keeping the rail
roads busy supplying them.
First Prostration From Heat Reported
Atlanta.—The first heat prostration
of the season was reported when Mrs.
Walter Mull, was overcome. Mrs. Mull
was returning to her home from a
downtown shopping trip. According to
bystanders Mrs. Mull suddenly collap
sed and fell to the sidewalk in an un
conscious condition. An ambulance
was called immediately and she was
rushed to the Grady hospital, where it
is reported that she will recover.
Drug Addicts Set Fire To Store
Dublin. — Unknown persons, sup
posedly drug addicts, entered the drug
store of Dr. C. B. Manning, of Lovett,
near here, and secured a quantity of
morphine and patent medicines, a
small amount of money and have suc
cessfully eluded officers who have
scoured the country-side for them.
The robbery became known when a
small wooden building, a short dis
tance from the drug store, was set
afire, it is thought by the same parties.
Kerosene had been applied to the
front of the shack and it was blazing
rapidly when an alarm was given.
Wind and Lightning Cause Damage
Atlanta. — Thousands of dollars,
worth of damage was done in Atlanta
when a terrific windstorm swept the
city, putting lights and street-car ser
vice out of commission, uprooting
trees and breaking off limbs, crippling
the telephone system and smashing
windows in every part of the city.
The tower on The Constitution build
' ing was hit by lightning, and bricks
i were scattered for many yards over
I Alabama street. Large trees along
t Auburn avenue were uprooted, and
limbs from trees all over the city
were torn off and thrown across tele
phone an delectric light wires, para
lyzing the lighting and phone service
for a long period.
To Honor Men Os World War
Atlanta.—Atlant service men. living
and dead, are deserving of some sort
of civic memorial in their honor, and
we appeal to citizens of Atlanta to
co-operate with us in our efforts to ob
tain for them this just due,” declar
ed Joseph R. Cooke., vice president of
the Eighty-second Division association,
in discussing plans for some sort of
tribute by the city to the soldiers, sail
ors and marines who served in the
late war.
Madison Organizes Junior Chamber
Madison.—Madison’s Junior Cham
ber of Commerce was launched enthu
siastically. with Judge E. R. Lambert,
of the city court, elected president;
Paul C. Rhoeds. secretary, and T. H.
Burruss. Jr., secretary. Seventv mem,
bers are enrolled. Committees were
appointed and plans laid for a number
of vital civic activities.
Young Boy Injured While Playing
Atlanta.—J. E. McKinney. Jr., four
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J, E.
McKinney, is at a local hospital with
a fractured leg as a result of an acci
dent which occurred at the home of
the boy’s grandfather. W. H. McKin
ney. near the Brookhaven Country club.
It is said that the boy in plavine
! about the house managed to get hold
lof the heavy water cooler, which top
i pled over on him. crushing his leg
—
Army Store Looted During Downpou,
I Atlanta—The United States army
'store, number 106-108 Edgewood ave
nue, was burglarized during the recent
1 storm. It was reported that two negro
, boys were seen standing in the door
■ way while it was raining. When the
, storm passed they walked away with
their arms full of bundles. Their de
scriptions were given detectives who
investigated the robbery, it was im
possible to locate the owner, so the
amount of the loss could not be esti
mated.
Waycross Physician To Speak In Park
Waycross.—Dr. B. H. Minchew. lead
'ing specialist of this city, has been
। invited to read a paper before the
I Tenth International Congress of Otol
ogy, which convenes at Paris July
1 19-22. This congress will be held un
ider the patronage of the Minister of
Public Instruction in France. Pro
fessor P. Sebilea, of the University of
i Paris, is president of the congress.
BONUS TO FOLLOW '
TARRIFF IN SENATE
MOTION TO CONSIDER BONUS
MEASURE IMMEDIATELY AF-
TER TARIFF BILL CARRIED
DEBATE LASTED FIVE HOURS
Adoption Comes After An All Day
Fight To Get The Measure
Before The Senate
Washington —The soldiers’ bonus
bill was made by a vote of 52 to 8
the special order of business of the
senate immediately after the final vote
on the tariff bill, unless it is dis
posed of before that time.
Adoption of a motion to this effect
came after an all day fight at the
outset of which an effort to get the
bonus before the senate failed. Sev
eral senators gave formal notice that
they would continue to press for ac
tion on the bonus ahead of the tariff.
A move to upset the program of the
Republican majority calling for action
first on the tariff was launched by
Senator Walsh (Democrat) of Massa
chusetts, who made a formal motion
that the tariff bill be displaced by the
bonus measure. Senator Watson (Re
publican) of Indiana moved to lay tjiis
motion on the table, and his* motiqp
prevailed 51 to 22. Eight Democrats
supported the Watson motion and two
Republicans voted against it. The roll
call follows:
For the motion—Republicans: Borah,
Bursum. Calder. Cameron, Capper,
Cummins. Curtis, Dillingham. Du-
Pont. Edge, Ernst, Ferald. France,
Frelinghuysen, Gooding. Harreld. Jones
of Washington, Kellogg. Ladd. Len
root. Lodge, McCormick. McCumber.
McKinley, McLean, McNary. Moses,
Nelson, Newberry. Nicholson. Norbeck,
Oddie, Phipps, Poindexter, Shortridge,
Smoot, Spencer, Sterling. Sutherland,
Townsend, Wadsworth, Watson of In
diana and Willis —43. Democrats:
Dial. Glass, King, Myers, Pomerene,
Swanson. Underwood and Williams —8.
Total for: 51.
Against the motion —Republicans :
LaFollette and Norris —2. Democrats:
Ashurst, Broussard, Caraway, Culber
son, Gerry. Heflin. Hitchcock. Jones of
New Mexico. Kendrick, McKellar,
Overman. Robinson, Sheppard, Sim
mons. Smith. Stanley, Trammell,
Walsh of Massachusetts, Walsh of
Montana and Watson of Georgia.—2o.
Total against: 22.
With the announcement of ths re
sult of this vote the bonus row began
in earnest and waged for five hours.
In the midst of it Senator Watson of
Indiana offered a motion that the bo
nus be made a special order of busi
ness immediately after the final vote
on the tariff, and thereafter it be held
continuously before the senate unless
two-thirds cf the senate voted to dis
place it.
A point of order made by Senator
Underwood of Alabama, Democratic
leader and an opponents of the bonus,
was sustained and the two-thirds vote
provision was withdrawn.
After a long discussion the motion
was further modified so that a mo
tion to proceed to the consideration of
the bonus would be in order at any
time. Some opponents of the bonus
supported this motion, but eight of
them cast their votes against it. They
were Dial, King, Myers and Williams,
Democrats, and Edge. Pepper and
Wadsworth. Republicans. Several op
ponents were absent.
Charges flew thick and fast during
the debate. They included assertions
that the delay in acting on the bonus
was for the purpose of killing it; that
those who made millions out of the
war behind an organized and exten
sive propaganda to defeat the measure
and that the Republican majority was
planning to use the bonus as a club
over the heads of opponents of the
tariff measure to shorten debate on
that bill.
Senator Owen Awarded $175,000 Fee
Washington. — The United States
court o fclaims has awarded to Sen
ator Owen, of Oklahoma, and his legal
associates a judgment of $175,000
against the Mississippi Choctaw In
dians. The action was brought to re
corder for legal services rendered and
expenses incurred in establishing the
citizenship of certain Indians in the
Choctaw nation.
Bandits Take All Clothing From Man
Greenwood, S. C. —Clothed only with
an expression of despair, Ben Frazier,
young white man, called at the home
told a story of having been robbed
of every stitch of his clothing by
two bandits on the Abbeville-Green
wood highway.
Porto Rican Governor Wil! Not Resign.
Washington.—A definite denial that
Governor E. Mont Reily, of Porto
Rico had resigned or had given any
evidence of intending to resign, was
made recently by a high official.
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