The producers news., 1927-04-15

In ny Near mamie that | fear
wiz make you very sad | am oo,no
20 20 quit TINS Job as the Spokesman
secretary" And | says. INV Codp
and my knees is like to give awav
Yes" he says, "what il bannonod
Is that some of the brass Lipgs i
come to me with n nronosit;as - :,
IeellS Is tney are planning a great new
praSS trust that is to include ali tbe
p@raSs @ mines and mills of the entire
country and they are scared the NH
nc may not like it and NAV mako q
tuSS and force the Spokesman to do
something about it and SO tbev have
asked VIII | come and be their head
press agent and fix the stories tbat
Vney VIII tell to all the newsnaners
ana they have offered me lust about
Jhfee times what | am getting nor,,
,io1 e ohly from the government but
rom private funds Of them that is
put me here to manage the Spokes-
man Tor them. And so | am going
to take this new job" Q V'' .
Wen ! am so weak that I have to
5eG ON a bench and / says, ooh Mr.
Edgerton ! will be lonelyl"
And he says, "That is lust what 7
want to say that you are to come
With you Mr.. Edgerton but Just
"To Chicago for that is whore tho
brass trust is to have its Offices"
But OH" says, "what would do
in Chicago?" '' w
You will be Free" he saws. "and
so will | because whv." he CO.. 80
when you are in private business
you can have some fun and YOU do
not have to worry about lot of old
meddlesome Matties and old women
IN pants that is watching evervtbing
you 90. And you and me can have
little apartment and be as iollv nc
TWO turtle-doves." And while he saws
mat he IS put his arm around me and
ne says, 'Oh Name / am sure fond
OF you for you are the gamest kid
ever got to know and wouldn't YOU
llke to have a nice little love-nest and
with nobody to look out for but lust
me-"
Well Nom ! am trembling all over
because 1T is all so sudden and after
all ! do think that Mr.. Edgerton
Is a nightly fine man and I have
never had nothing so lovely MS nm
apartment and he is holding me close
and ! can hardly think straight but
! says, "Oh Mr.. Edgerton do not
tempt me- | says, "for | have al
ways been good girl and always
gone straight"
Yes, he says, "but there Is no
thing wrong with this for we are real
friendsp'
But you have got a wife," | SAYS.
But she does not care for me She
IS Interested in that syker now
But that is only for moment"
says, and she does love you | know
for ! have saw it in her face and what
rs more ! know that you love her be-
cause else why should you Of been so
Jealous of the syxer? And then too
have got a fyansay and YOU know
he is a good boy"
But my God Mamie will YOU 20
and throw yourself away on a ship
ping clerk what kind of life is that
for an intellectual girl like you that
is learned to understand all about in
ternational affairs ?" he says. "Why
you will go and live in some hole with
him and you will have eleven babies
and spend your life over a washtub
and it is a crime"
Il know it is hard" | says, "but
you talk about the plain people and
what they think"
"Oh to tell with the plain people!"
he says. "That is all bunk and YOU
know it"-just like that he says it
and OF course | am shocked and | do
not want him to keep his arm around
me then.
! says, "Mr Edgerton," saws,
you are going now to be shirt
suffer or whatever you call it for
the brass kings and so | suppose YOU
have got TO feel like that about the
plain people and trample them be-
meath your heel" ! says, "but | am
going to stay one of them like / have
always because there is my Nom and
Pop and my kid brothers and sisters
and good honest boy that / have
promised to wait for. And | am very
much obliged to you and | like YOU
very much as ] have always done but
it makes me sad to see that you are
going to be cynical and lose all your
IDEALS | says.
And so then he sees it is no use
and he says, "Then you are going to
stay a Field Grammarian Name 2"
/ says, about that | cannot tell"
| says. Would it be right for me
to keep the job if / am not doing no
work for you and the Spokesman ?"
"Oh Name" he says, "you are too
fine a patriot to be living in these
degenerate times. OF course you can
keep the job for you have earned
hundred times the salary and if that
poor little shrimp in the big white
house had the sense to of took your
advice you would Of saved Him for
another term. But now ! don't know
what will happen to Him"
! says, "ls He going to have some
body TO write His speeches for Him ?"
My God Of course" he says, chat
poor Fish He could not write a speech
for an Epson Salts convention"
"And then who is TO do it?" / says
and he tells me that Mr. Grandaddy
Prows is got back from Europe and
him and Senator Buttles is had a row
as to which is to name the new Sec
retary and so they have left it to Mr.
Edgerton as usual and he has picked
out a newspaper friend Of his and he
says, Name you will have to stand