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'.Never mind my face-why
don't you want a nice young
man to love you? 1 never heard
of anything so plain silly in all
my born days"
{ Il know-but didn't mean it
that way You don't under
stand 1 like Curtis, / sort
OF love him, too, only l don't want
him TO say anything about it
: now-not yet-and he almost
did
He almost did-and he didn't
Now Maisie was mad!
Don't put him off too long"
Rhe said. There's limit to every
mans patience. The time may
come when you want him an he's
changed his mind"
In the morning Joan was too i'll
70 go to work. Only a bad cold,
but Maisie wouldn't hear of her
going to the shop.
Curtis telephoned twice, but
Jean didn't want to see him.
Please don't let him come.
Maisie-wait till tomorrow. III
feel more like it then"
So Curtis went out to the links
70 play golf
Mrs Curtis Barstow also went
out. She went to Sausalito. Its
probably a wild goose chase" she
thought as she sat back against
the cushions OF the big, comfort
able car, waiting for the auto
ferry to cross the bay. But it's
a chance, and I'll not leave one
unturned there must be
something queer, she's so mystic
rious about it besides he
really seemed interested in En-.
Eeflia the other night Now il I.
can just find something -
The worn front steps Of the old
Van Fleet house sagged under
Mks Barstow's slight weight The
door bell tangled eomplai1inglya
After long time there came the
sounds Of shuffling steps, the
door swung open grudgingly.
An old woman with a long vel.
low face. and her checked shawl
tied around her head and in a lit
ne Knot under her chin. stared at
her through the crack
You can wait in the parlor,"
she said when she understood it
was. caller for the Misses Van
Fleet.
How cold it was I'm the long.
high -ceiiinged room. How damp
and mustyl
Tick tock, tick took, tick took.
the bronze clock on the white
marble maptel licked off In esec-
onds sadly.
Once she stood up to 20. 1t was
silly TO wait SO long in the cold,
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nusty room. And still, TO come
all the way for nothing. -
Finally, the door opened, the
old woman with the red shawl
was back. "Miss Evvie is out"
she said, land Miss Babe is lying
down."
But I've come from San Fran
cisco. Couldn't T."
You could come back" the old
woman said, some other time"
She stalked ahead into the hall,
opened the big front door. Good
day, madam Lyla Barstow was
being dismissed like a book agent.
Bang! That was the door closing
behind her.
The chill of the old house had
struck into her very bones. She
sat 20 minutes in front Of the
blazing fire at the Grays', just
the other side of the hill, before
she began to thaw out.
And rude Lottie, are they
always so rude?"
Plump little Mrs. Gray laughed
comfortably. Always. Poor as
church mice. and much too
naughty to associate with any of
us. So Curtis is interested in the
girl sdear. dear. What's she
like? I haven't seen her in years.
Rather a beauty, isn't she?"
Mrs. Barstow nodded. Yes,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-11
Old Folks Say Doctor
Caldwell Was Right

The basis Of treating sickness has
not changed since DIR. Caldwell left
Medical College in 1875. nor since he
placed on the market the laxative
prescription he had used in his
practice. known to druggists and
the public since 1892, as DIR. Cald-
wells Syrup Pepsin.
Then, the treatment of constipa.
ton, bilieusness, headaches. mental
depression. Indigestion. sour stom-
sch and other indispositions that
result from constipation was en-.
ttrely by means of simple vegetable
laxatives, herbs and roots. These
are still the basis of DR.. Caldwells
Syrup Pepsin. which is a cOmbina.
ton of SIENNA and other mild laxa.
tive herbs, with pepsin.
The sim pier the remedy for con.
stipation. the safer for the child nd
for you. and the better for the gen
eral health of all. And as you can
get results in a mild and safe way
by using DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pep.
sin. why take chances with strong
drugs?
A bottle of DIR. CaldwelTs Syrup
Pepsin will last family several
months, and all can use it. 1t is
good for the baby because pleasant
to1Sfhe taste. gentle in action. and
free from narcotics. In proper dose
given in the directions. it is equally
effective at all ages. Elderly people
viii find 1t especially ideal. All drue
stores have the generous bottles.
We would be glad 10 have you
prove at our expense how much DIR
Caldwells Syrup Pepsin can mean t.
you and yours. Just write your
name and address in the special
coupon YOU see at the end OF this
announcement. and send for bottle
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looking into the fire. Her eyes
moist.
Nancy still stood with her back
to the wall. painting. Mrs. Deane
arose, held out her arms and
said:
Perhaps / could understand.
perhaps l could. Come"
With the exception of Mr.. and
Mrs. Deane, and the O'Days, only
two people knew that Nancy
O'Day wasn't Nancy O'Day at all,
that she was Nancy Deane.
These two were Howard Wescott
and Ginger Warden.
Wen just let things run on
as they have BEEN" Mrs. Deane
had said to Nancy, and then she
had brought her to the bedside
OF Montgomery Deane, and repeat
ed it-"we'll just let things run
on as they have been. Isn't IT
better, Montgomery? Isn't IT.
better to keep this secret until
you are up and around again.
Nancy had all she could do
from saving-"Howard Wescott
knows. Ginger Warden knows.
Ginger had promised not to tell.
Montgomery Deane didn't an
swer. Death was written in his
face. Nancy could see it. She
wondered Mrs. Deane couldn't.
Montgomery, do you think 1T
Is better for Nancy to go on as
she has been, living as she has
been? When you are well again
we can take her to Europe and
stay long, long time, and
then
Montgomery Deane wasn't fol-
lowing his wife's words. His eyes
were fastened on Nancy's yellow
head
Come here, girl" he said, "kneel
down here"
Nancy did as she was hidden.
Tell Harrison Jones to come to
me-" he said to his wife, tell him
to bring all my papers. Tell him
to come right away"
Joncs-Harrison Jones. Nancy
tried to think where she had heard
that name before.
On YES. she remembered. Harri-
son Jones was An attorney or the
firm of Jones, Clayburn and Jones.
He had done work for the Wear
Ever Knitting Mills, corporation
lawyer.
Mrs. Deane left the room, leav'
ing her dying husband with his
hand on the yellow of his grand
child.
"I am going to change my Will,
he said. 81 am going to change my
will"
Days. days, days, maddenlng
DAYS that were ever alike for
Nancy.
"We'H just let things run on as
they have been when you
are we'll again we can go 10
Europe take this chic
with us - long, long time"
The words Of Mrs. Deane had
been beating in Nancy's brain for
a week now. and still Montgomery
Deane lay still and white In the
big bedroom in the big house on
Prospect Avenue
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Hes dying; / read it in the
newspapers. That's why / must
see Mrs. Deane. have some
thing to tell her before Mr..
Deane dies. You must call her.
You must
Nancy forced her way past
the maid and threw open the
inner door into the reception room.
The maids eyes were round with
fright.
james," she called. James"
A butler tried to force Nancy
out. She was clawing at his
face like a mad thing when Mrs.
Deane appeared on the landing
above.
James. Miss O'Dayr
All, she remembered Nancy's
name. O'Day. O'Dayi r. h 9
lovely lady this Caroline Glen
denning.Deane, with the cold
light in her gray eyes, had re-
membered her name. She was
sweeping down the stairs toward
them
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for? What's the good Of success
when you're longely; when you
don't really belong to anyone,
and no one belongs to you.l just
growing hard and dry, without
any hope, all the sweet. soft
things denied.
And through the loneliness.
through the foreboding that chilled
her, through the sweet, heavy
scent of the roses, she saw Cur
It's reaching out his arms to her.
With a little sob she went into
them. hid her face against the
rough wool of his sleeve. This
was peace-this was rest-every-
thing she needed. Curtis, don't
ever let me goe
My dear. OF course I went
= Joan, you've never kissed
me : will your"
She gave him her lips, crying
still
Johnnie, don't cry! It's moth
ing to cry about-because YOU
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ing there in the doorway with his
cheeks red from the wind and
long florists box under one arm.
Such a big box, with a hole cut In
one end, and long stems sticking
out, like tails. Roses, of course.
"Oh--I wasn't expecting to see
you."
Cant come in?" he asked,
laughing. and stepping into the
hall at the same time.
Joan kind of wanted to be
quiet today she began doubt
fully, but Curtis always over
awed her. and he was already
pulling off his big coat.
why, Curtis Barstow! Didn't
Maisie tell you to%stay away from
me and my coldip But Joan held
out both hands to him gladly, and
her eyes, the color OF the sea-
green Kimono, were flecked with
happy light. Curtis 81 am
glad you came :. And a box
what's in the box?"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-11
By ROY L. FOLEY

"The newspapers mustn't have
it"
Nancy attacked the heap Of let.
tiers to be filed. the accumulation
of the three days she had stayed
away from the office after she had
learned that Howard Wescott had
q wife.
He had come OF her a day later
she thought of it now, she had to
credit him with the way he told
his story. At least he had been
truthful. He begged her to listen.
He told her that he and Peggy
Spoffard Boyden had planned to
marry before Nancy had comes to
work at the Ever-Wear Mills. He
confessed that at first he had be-
come interested in Nancy. that
later she had fascinated him more
and more, that he had lost his
head" that he had made love to
her when he knew he was deceiv.
ing her.
TO BE Continued Tomorrow
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least, Joan was good that
was something.
~
Joan lay on the couch near the
window. with a magazine propped
up before her. She couldn't read.
She wanted what did she
want? She didn't know. Impos-
sibIe to be lonely with Maisie
busting back and forth every few
minutes, but she was lonely
as lonely as Robinson Crusoe on
his desert isle.
Again. Maisie scolded. "All
that doorbelI does is ring, ring,
ring
why don't you let 1t ring and
not answer it?" Joan grinned,
stretching a long, slender foot IN
its yellow Chinese slipper.
Well. / don't know = habit.
/ guess" and she padded to the
door. still grumbling.
"Ohw IT was Curtis, looking
rather young and sheepish stand
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"Open 1t and seer
ia France roses! haven't
seen them since-oh, for so LONG,
She buried her face in their cool,
wet fragrance. Not since 4 lived
in the old house, with my aunts
they're Iike-1ike home" she
concluded shalxily. And the lone
illness came back. Overwhelming
loneliness, crushing her. frighten-
ing her. Old memories. Mem
cries of the La France roses In
the old garden across the bay. OF
love. and laughter, and another
spring. OF promises that would
never be fulfilled.
Dear, you're crying
mo. I'm mott" she tried to
laugh. but she couldn't. She saw
1t all. Clear as crystal. All the
years to come. All the years Of
loneliness. Growing older and
older. like Hogan in the shop.
Getting ahead" as F'rancine
promised, getting ahead and what
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What DO You KNOW?
ANSWERS TO TODAY'S TEST
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This Dou in History

IN October IL 1918 the British drove the Germans out Of
Iv ION the Se and Schedt Cana ana the village OF
between Scarpe and They also
took five other. important villages. f
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to try. This mplimentary bottle
is forwarded. prepaid without charge
of any kind: -.
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and tight sleeves that Hare out
at the black ina bo that be-
twisted
possibilities really good murder story
going bed Note the nlghtgown
Stitching the
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A Northumberland Hen

dof is said to be twenty our
made the record just oleu
age Although she had lost her sense Oaa
> she still continued to lay
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NOw Go On With The Story.
By Hazel Livingston

Ehose Serial Studio" Nationwide success
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-22
TWO NEGROES ON
NEBRASKA TICKET
Davis and Albert are
Named

Continued from Page One
nominating them on the Communist
ticket and by demanding complete
social and political equality for
them. Davis urged the Negro work
ers to quit the republican and demo-
cratic parties, both now parties Of
slavery, agents of Wall Street and
both equally responsible for the
lynching of Negroes in the South
and the general discrimination
against Negroes throughout the
United States.
Workers From All Parts.
Roy Stephens declared that
ratification convention was tn e
most representative of Nebraska
workers ever held in the state. He
scored Senator Norris and Norman
Thomas, the Socialist candidate, as
supporters and defenders of the
capitalist system.
Prior to the ratification conven-
ton the workers had already coll
lected the necessary number of sig
natures to place the Party ticket on
the ballot in the state.
William z. Foster will speak in
Omaha on Sept. 90 and Benjamin
Gitlow on Oct. %.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-22
aloa Biscuit Co. Cuts Wages and Speeds Up Thousands Workers
.ANdOuTS

The baloney battle between the
mic fundamentalist, Rev. John
goach Straton, who believes the
'0<1d 'was.constructed in a week of
apid1abor on the part of God, and
he odorous Tammanyite, All Smith,
GEMS to be draw. The first round
Yas~undoubtedly won by the Rev.
strstUn when Al Smith refused to
nswer in a public hall the preach
rig charges that he was a high
lowered vice generator. One of
Re seconds, the Daily World, re-
lived the Keeling governor with a
uCket of water when it sent one of
Is inquiring photographers to the
tev. Straton's Sterling Forest Hotel
IT Greenwood Lake, New York.
fere the newspaperman found a
ipeakeasy in Furnishing condition.
The preacher with the insects name
.hereupon countered with the re-
mark that all reporters on the World
ssrena pack of lars" which is prob
ply correct as a general estimate.
Eowever, the bOotlegger maintains
lat he pays his rent only with the
nancy that comes over the har.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-22

Commander Richard Babyfoce
Byrd aoho qoas recently stored in
the rear end of rd1,s-A tldntic
plane and transported to France
a,oao eapects to be shipped into the
Antarctic regions By the aid of a
lot of at,aknoa0n 1oorkers. The capt.
talists Just adore expeditions such
as Byrd's. 1t spreads the air
psychology and keeps the acorkers'
minds off the main ideas. Above Is
DR.. David E. Buckingham who Sc
lected one hundred dogs for Byrd.
Byrd himself has contributed to the
success of the expedition in the
past feao aoeeks by getting beauty
treatments, speaking at Rotary
luncheons and being photographed
IN 1seaU storched uniform.
Jordan Puetz celebrated his 94th
lfbirthday in Milwaukee recently by
chopping wood. The U. S. s. X. has
"a place for aged workers, but it isn't
near wood-pile. It's in quiet
spot in one of the palaces hurriedly
vacated by the parasitical noblemen
who are now gaining a livelihood in
Paris sponging dishes and trying TO
pass checks on Czarist banks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-22

"a, on the election campaign at 13sth
St and Brook Avenue Speakers
KATE, Geffen, Schiffman.
Brownsville Section Y. w. L.
Open air meetings will be held at
the following places:
Hopkinson and Pitkin AYES at
$50. Speakers M. Spector, Clarck,
Greenberg and Craftsman
suffer and Williams AYES. at $3.50.
Speakers: MARI, Lifshitz, Arotafsky
and B. Cohen.
Speakers: Praturck, s. Mellman
Rosemond and NJ. Mellman.
All speakers and open air commit
tees must be at the headquarters at
o'clock sharp.
Section Speakers Class,
All comrades registered with the
class must be prepared to speak on
Sacco and Vanzetti. Bulletins on that
subject are obtainable at 1873 43rd
Street The class will meet to-
morrow a. p. m.
Downtown Y. w. L., Unit 2.
An open air meeting of the Y. w.
L. Downtown Unit No. 2, will be held
tomorrow at 49th St and LIST Ave.
Speakers will be: Marie Duke, Joe
Harris, Len Richman, Rosen, Jensky,
and Max Helfand.
Branch 9, Section 5
meeting will be held OF all mem
bers of Branch 6, Section s, of the
Workers (Communist) Party at $3.50
p m. today at the Cooperative House,
200 Bronx Park East.
Branch 8, Section
This branch will hold a special
meeting today at 5 p. m. at 200
Bronx Park East. Cooperative House.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-22
XPLOITATI0N or
WORKERS GAINS
sS,5O0,o0O PROFIT
Correspondent Urg e S
Reading of Daily
(Bn a Worker Correanonde

by Worker Correspondent
We workers of the National Bis
cult Company work only four and
half days a week. We are forced
to take a vacation one day every
week regardless of whether we want
it or not, as we are being laid off
by the company every Monday. And
you know what that means. 1t
means that the majority of us work
ers can hardly keep going till the
end of the week on such reduced,
meagre wages.
The cause of all this is the horrid
speed-up system of the company
We work all day. like horses and if
we are not finished with the work
we are overtaxed with at the end
of the day we are compelled to stay
on the job and finish even if it takes
half an hour to do it.
Wages Cut Continually.
The cutting of wages and laying
off of workers is continually going
on. The wages of the packers have
been reduced from "a dollars to %
and II dollars per week. Some pack
ers are getting as low as ID dollars
a week, which is just enough to
starve on. Also we are very often
compelled to go to other depart
ments and do various jobs which
should be done by other workers
The bosses say that this is neces-
sary, because there is not enough
work, if so, why do they have q
sign up girls wanted?" While we
are being laid off our company has
piled up nearly S8,500,00o profit fol-
the first six months of this year
The company also bought a new
large plant, the Christie, Brown Co
of Canada. The only way we
could improve our condition of work
and get higher wages for our work
is to organize ourselves and protect
our interests. If we do not do ii
ourselves, surely the company will
not do it for us. There is one paper
in this country that is ready and
willing to help us fight to improve
our conditions.
Buy and read the Daily Worker
every day. 1t will be sold at the
factory at closing time beginning
next week.
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fair on this day and cooperate to
make this affair a success.
Local ~ It. U. e. L.
Local % of the Trade Union Educa-
tional League will hold it's annual
Dance on October 10 at the Park
Palace.
Freiheit GesanEs verein.
The annual picnic and concert of
the Freiheit Gesangs Verein will be
held Sun ay. September 8. at
Pleasant Bay Park. An original
program of songs has been arranged
for the occasion.
Tcor" Concert.
On Saturday night. sept 30 at
Town Hall, 1923 West 43rd St,
concert Will be held for the benefit
of Jewish Colonization in the Soviet
Union and the new Jewish territory
BRO Bidjan."
Rumnnian Workers
Tonight meeting will be held at
101 West 9th Street at s D. m. by
the Rumanian Workers Educational
Club.
Working Women.
Working women will gather at the
Labor Temple, 14th St and Second
Ave, this afternoon. from 4 o'clock
to 5, in Room 80. From there they
will go in a body to the Sacco and
VanZetti memorial meeting on Union
Square. This call is issued by the
Working Women's Federation.
Downtown l. l.. ID.
The /. l.. d. will hold its meeting
tomorrow at p. m. at 35 East End
Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-22
BOMBAY TIED UP
BY HUGE STRIKE
Troops in North Meet
Peasant Resistance
Continued from Page Ore

Continued from Page Ore
Works. The action was in protest
against an ultimatum of the direc-
tors refusing to re-employ some of
the men who already had walked
out.
The movement was sponsored by
Haschandra Bose, leader of the
Bengal Swarajists and new presi-
dent of the Jamshedpur Labor As
sociation.
Industrial unrest appeared today
to be spreading through India. The
English language press blames Com
munism. A manifesto was reported
to have been sent to the Central Com
mittee of the Communist Party in
India by M. N. Roy, exiled Com
munist, advocating the establish
ment of a Communist nucleus in
every factory and agricultural dis
trict to "attack the landlord system
and overthrow capitalism"
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Under that ridiculous system of
living knoaOn as capitalism, the
more you give to society the less
you get. In fact q a0orker doesn't
worry nearly as much about having
pleasant old age as having some
A aOorker is latcky if he lives until
he is rs without having something
fall on him. Then he may make up
any morning and find his lungs
gone. On the other hand you have
social leech like John d. Rookie
teller hanging onto life until he is
SO. His value to society isn't past,
1t never e1isted. He wouldn't know
noao aohich end of a broom to saoeep
a floor a0ith. His idea of gener-
osity is to relieve the aoorking class
of a million and give street
archin neW dime wheneuer a
conteranG,s is around.