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cheese and berad. Norrie,
please" Lovejoy said to her.
Lets see, Tom wants some
ginger-ale. too. He's going to
have some men in for q game
of poker tonight
Her voice died away as her
eyes fell upon the grocery list
that lay on the table in front
of Norrie.
For Norrie had written down
all Of the things that Tom
wanted. already!
OH" she said sharply. Item
told you what he wanted,
diedn't he?"
Norrie nodded her neat-look.
ing brown head. Yes" she said
in her gentle voice. He told
me at breakfast"
Well. then. there's no need
for me to bother you about it.
Lovejoy answered, wondering
how she kept her voice so
smooth and even. "You just 60
ahead and order whatever he
wants. I'm going downtown
for the day, as soon as I get
the housework done"
There was not very much to
do. Norrie had put the lower
floor into beautiful order. The
new mirrors and the polished
surfaces Of the furniture Shone
like silver cloth. There was
not a thread on the new blue
Chinese rugs. The breakfast
dishes had been washed and
put away.
At half past ten Lovejoy was
opening the door Of Dorby and
Johansson's beauty shop down.
town. Her weekly allowance
was in the bottom Of her hand
bag, and in her heart was q
firm determination to spend
every nickel of 1t that day-on
herself.
While she was waiting for an
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and ran it across her shiuing
pink fingernailS.
If you think my place is
out in the backyard, pulling up
weeds with Tom, you're just
plain goofy, Aunt Emf" she
answered, and she laughed as
she spoke.
But a half minute afterward
she got up and Sauntered into
the baby'S room at the back
Of the house. Through its
open windows she could see the
backyard.
Tom and Norrie had spread
an automobile blanket on the
new grass and they were sit
ting on it with the baby be.
tween them.
Better bring the baby into
the house! It's damp out there
on that grass!" Lovejoy called
out to them. There was a sharp
edge to her voice.
With a frown between her
eyes she watched Norrie pick
up the baby.
"And you, Tom! You've left
Uncle James all alone down.
stairS!" she called to Tom.
You'd better come in and be
polite to him."
There was a funny little .i4uile
on Aunt Ems round high-col-
ored face when Lovejoy went
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Adapted From Marion Davies Forthcoming
All-Talking Picture Play

is or not-and sweep her OF
her feet and carry her away
and
While she paused, wondering
Just what she did want, Bin
made q suggestion.
"And live unhappily ever
afterward?"
Angela was close to tears.
Bill always seemed to get the
best Of her. She stamped her
foot angrily and ran Up the
stairs, declaring "Oh, I hate
you'll"
Bill was subdued for Q
minute. But after all, one
quarrel didn't end everything.
He had seen Dulcy and Gordon
survive lots of them and after
ward they always seemed more
devoted than ever. He could
always seek consolation in the
garden from Mother Nature,
the only perfect woman in the
world because she couldn't talk
back.
Angela felt more at peace
with Dulcy. Dulcy understood
romance. But Dulcy seemed to
have other things on her mind.
She had no more than shown
Angela her room when she ex-
cuSed herself to join the men
in the garden.
II must go down and see
that they are enjoying them
selves" she called, as she hur.
ried toward the stairs. Besides,
I want to talk to your father
about something"
mot about mel" Angela
called after her, entreatingly,
and Bill, in the hall below,
hearing her, exclaimed "Oh
kind heaven, not about mel"
And Perkins, recalling the
pearls, calculated "CripeS, not
about mel" under his breath.
Tomorrow: An Innocent Littl.
Bomb.
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TITS just like you to talk
about the mumps the first time
we meet again." she blurted
out. After we haven't seen
each other since"
Since you gave me the air."
Bill was truthful even when IL
hurt him. "And now that
you've brought that up" he
went on, earnestly, II never cid
understand why you ditched me
so abruptly, Angela"
mo, you wouldn't under
stand" She was frankly scorn-
full. "You haven't an atom of
romance in your SOUL"
Bill was not q romantic fig
ure; he was more Of a vo-deo-
do-do type. Even when most
serious, as he was at this mo.
ment, he looked as If he were
on the verge Of discovering
some hilarious joke.
That's where you're wrong"
he insisted. ave any num-
ber of dreams stuffed in my
head-but I'm scared to talk
about them"
Angela sought to dismiss the
whole affair with q wave Of the
hand, saying, We'll. it doesn't
matter now, anyway. You see,
I'm in love again."
That again" was the only
encouragement Bill had had in
weeks. II he could only get
her to talk about it. maybe he
would get a hint of where he
had failed.
with a romantic chap" he
asked. II mean q chap who
talks about romance?"
It was not the moment to
criticize Angela's hero. Bill
realized that too late.
'Oh, what's the use Of talk
ing to you?" Angela was poised
for flight up the stairs. You
can't understand that a woman
wants someone to tell her how
wonderful she is-whether she
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An Intensely Interesting Story of the.
Romance of a Beaut iful Blonde

stairs, she caught sight Of the
beads which Angela was wear
ing.
MY, what a pretty neck
lace" she exclaimed, her eyes
sparkling with enthusiasm.
Its new, isn't it? Does your
father m anufa cture those
pearls?"
A moment later her voice
rose even higher in amaze
ment.
Real pearls! You don't mean
to tell me that your father
gave you real pearlsl They
must be worth a fortune. I
always say that nobody knows
your pearls are real nowadays
until they are stolen and it
gets into the newspaper"
Even II Perkins, plodding
slowly UP the stairs with the
heavy bags, hadn't heard her
the first time. he couldn't pos
Sibly have missed her as her
voice rose on those last SEN
tences. He shuddered but he
couldn't resist the temptation
just to turn around and look,
as he reached the landing.
Dulcy heSitated, watching the
retreating back of Mr.. Forbes
as she assembled the stairs, and
clutched Angela's arm eagerly.
She Just couldn't keep her mar.
velouS secret any longer.
Angela" she said in an ex
cited whisper. Vincent Leach
is here!"
She was somewhat surprised
by the excitement with which
Angela received that news, and
the reply was not just what
she had expected.
Does father know" Angela
demanded, anxiously. He has
seen him? How long is he 60
ing to stay?"
"GooSe!" Dulcy pressed her
arm affectionately. He came
down for the weekend. And
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She's not any more interesting
to him than Hilda was
She stopped talking, and
swung around in her chair,
peering down into the side-yard.
Tom had come out Of the
house. He was standing beside
the lawn swing, saying some
thing to Norrie.
Norrie'S face was raised, and
for an instant it was almost
beautiful with the smile that
flashed across it.
Let's 60 and look at them"
she said clearly. And with the
baby in her arms, she got up
from the swing and followed
Tome toward the back of the
house.
They've gone to look at
their tomato plants" LoVeioy
said in a disguested tone.
They wasted more time on
that silly old garden!" she
added. THE other night they
stayed out there, working, until
dark"
Aunt EN- made a grunting
sound in her throat once again.
Why don't you show a little
interest in the garden, your
self?" she asked. why do you
let Norrie take your placer"
Lovejoy picked up a buffer
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A decent, respectable married
woman ought to be ashamed to
run around dressed like some
young flapper!"
"Why?" asked Lovejoy. wide
eyed. why shouldn't a mar.
ried woman try to make her
self as attractive as she can
be? That's what's wrong with
a lot Of married women! They
forget to fix themselves up,
and some baby-doll walks off
with their husbands!"
Aunt EN- stared thoughtfully
down into the Side-yard where
Norrie Shane was sitting in
the new lawn swing with young
Tommy on her lap.
The only way that a woman
can hold her husband. these
days. is by her looks and her
pep" Lovejoy went on. dipping
her handkerchief into a box of
Sunburn powder and rubbing
it on her face. "The offices
downtown - the street cars -
every place Is so full Of good
looking girls nowadays that
the old.faShioned wife who
stays at home and keeps house
hasn't a ghost of a chance!"
She waved one of her care
fully manicured hands toward
the side-yard,
Now, there's Norrie, for ex-
ample" she said. "Norrie gets
Toms breakfast every morn
ing. She brings the paper IN
from the porch so that he can
look at it while he's eating.
She spent the whole morning
making strawberry shortcake
because he happened to men
ton that he liked it " and
he doesn't even see her half
the time. Do you know why?"
Aunt En- only grunted.
Because she hasn't any
lure" said Lovejoy, answering
her own question. That's why!
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lust leave 1t to me. I'm
going to- fix everything for
you"
She ran UP the stairs. calling
gaily to Mrs. Forbes, but
Angela fingered, worried.
Her father had been dis
tinctly cross when he found
out that she had had tea with
Vincent Leach Just the other
day. Father was just bust.
ness man, and he didn't under.
stand artists ct all. 1t wasn't
her fault that he had found
a page Of script Vincent had
given her to read and had
thought it was a love letter.
Her father was simply iFnpos-
sible; he never gave anyone a
chance to explain.
If he had only listened to
her, he would have found out
that 1t couldn't be a love let
ter, because she had never had
a chance to go drifting Ian.
guidly in a gondola with Vim.
cent while he read her poems
of passions. the way the man
and the girl in his story did.
They didn't have gondolas in
the hotel where she had been
meeting him for tea while her
father thought she was at the
dentists.
But oh! If she could only
float through the moonlight
with Vincent! She fairly
swooned at the thought.
Bills arrival at that moment
was an abrupt break in her
musings.
"Hullo, Angela"
Her answer was noticeably
lacking in enthusiasm.
You don't have to be afraid
Of me, you know" Bills mat
ter-of-fact voice broke into the
song in her heart. I'm all
over the mumps and my other
childhood diseases"
Every word he said increased
her irritation.
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NOW CONTINUE

who would have spent years in
Jail If Dulcy hadn't gone to-
see the judge again and again,
and induced him to put Perkins
on probation and let him work
for her.
For q while she had enter
tanned her friends by telling
them how funny it was the
afternoon she had interrupted
a golf match to plead with the
judge to let Perkins go; the
judge had acted so queer. But
several of her friends had
stopped coming to her house,
and Dulcy had decided that
they just didn't appreciate the
status Of a man like Perkins.
So many people we're unsympa-
thetic, or lacked a sense of
humor.
Just as she started up the
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CHAPTER XVII

r OVEJOY never knew exact
ly when it was that she be-
gan to be jealous of Nor
rie Shane.
At first it was a JOY to have
her in the house.
For peace and order and COM
fort seemed to flow out in
waves from Norrie's busy quiet
hands. She did things without
any fuss. And there never was
q hair out Of place on her
smooth brown head or a spot
to spoil the whiteness Of her
crisp Starched uniforms.
She took beautiful care Of
young Tommy. She did the
mending and got breakfast
every morning. She never for
got to wind the clock at night
or to set the empty milk bottles
out on the back porch.
She helped Tom bring the
border plants and the tomato
plants from the backyard of the
old house in StallingS Lane.
"She plays I'D to Tom all the
time Lovejoy sold Aunt EN-
rather bitterly the first Sun
day afternoon in the new house.
They were in Lovejoy'S lovely
orchid-and-gray bedroom, and
Lovejoy was sitting with her
back barred to the SUN that
came streaming in thrc4sh the
ruffled organdy curtains.
"I'm trying to get a good
coat Of tan so that I can wear
my new sun-back dresses" she
explained to Aunt EN-.
Aunt En- shook her sensible
head over the very thought of
Sun-haek dresses.
II declare you women will
be running around in bathing
suits pretty soOn!" she said.
"You ought to be ashamed to
wear clothes like that, Lovejc7!
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CHAPTER 5
A Set.Up For Thieves

"WHAT an odd-looking but
w ler," Mrs. Forbes whis-
pered in Angela's direction as
she started up the stairs after
Perkins. IT don't recall ever
seeing anyone like him"
To her surprise, 1t was not
Angela, but Dulcy, who an
swered her.
"Oh, Perkins," Du1cy laughed,
q little self consciously. "Proba-
bly, you never had a chance to
see bartender before prohibi-
ton, did you?"
She hoped that she had d.
verted Mrs. Forbes suspicious.
People were so odd about Per
kins. They didn't seem to have
any sympathy for a poor man
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appointment with her favorite
manicure she went into the
little white-enameled telephone
booth and called Tom at his
office.
Hello" she said crisply, "I
won't be home tonight when
you bring those men home for
supper. But Norrie will be
there-so just ask her for any
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thing you want. She can do
everything much better than I
can. anyway" .....
She hung up the receiver be-
fore he had time to answer her.
Then she telephoned Stephen
Oglebay.
To be continued tomorrow.
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By HELEN KLUMPH

From MARION DAVIES Forthcoming Al-Tnlking
Picture by Wanda TuchOk and EdWin Justus Mayer
based the play, "DuIcy" by MarGs Connolly and
George Kaufman The picture Wiu be shOWn at
Locus Palace Theater.
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about people. He seems to have
a grudge against all the most
perfectly divine people"
'Oh, WELL" laughed Dulcy,
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THE STORY THUS FAR

Dulcy Parkers efforts help people usually resulted in
trouble Gordon Smith, her ance tried his best keep
unfair terms in an important business DEAL to
for weekend that she could fix everything But Ducy
had her way and only invited Forbes his wife, and
his daughter Angela but also acquaintance Schuler
Van Dyke and scenario writer, Vincent Leach whom
she planned to marry off to Angela. To make matters
worse she acquired exconvict butler. From the
Forbes entered the house he rtaed by
thing particularly Dulcys gayey and ruin stared Gordon
in the face.
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he didn't come to see your
father"
But father" Angela pro-
tested. Hes awfully funny
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06
BANKERS CLEAN
UP ON VETERANS
COMPENSATION
Vets Must Join All the
Workers in Fight

Dayton, Ohio,
Daily Worker:
In 1924 the American Legion got
up a compensation for world war
veterans to be payable in 1915. This
was a scheme to help the money
lending corporations. This compen-
sation runs from $500 to $1585 and
each veteran can borrow from $40
to $50 year. He has to pay six
per cent interest annually, and COM
pound interest. Under this plan the
interest eats up the principal and
the veteran gets only one-half of
his compensation and the bankers,
the so-called veterans bureau gets
the other half of 100000 veterans
compensations which average about
$500 each. This adds to the robbing
veterans bureau about $2,300,000,-
900.
Last winter Senator Barley intro
duced bill to pay off the compen-
sation Immediately at face value.
Secretary Mellon fought this bill
hard.
This adjusted compensation GER
tificate is paid off from the war
debt. We should demand the face
value of this certificate and the vet
Grams bureau to pay US the 6 per
cent interest they have stolen from
US.
Workers have given up their lives
for the United States bosses. When
it comes to providing for the fam
lilies of the soldiers who fought for
them, the grafters squirm out of it
thru every crooked means.
Thousands of ex-soldiers are in
the soldiers home at Dayton. No
jobs, no home, no place to go.
1t is up to US to explain to the
rest of the workers the Workers So
cial Insurance Bill proposed by the
Communist Party and make the
masters who are responsible for
unemployment; poverty, misery,
dead and crippled soldiers, father
less families and starvation, to pro-
vide for us.
Every ex-soldier should vote
Communist! Demand that the vet
Grams and their families be provided
for! Fight for the Workers Social
Insurance Bill.
EX-SOLDIER,
Soldiers Home, Dayton, Ohio.
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Reform School For Daring
Read Communist Pamphlet

Edgar read the book again to the
students and this time he was sent
to the reform school for 3 months.
Also his brother Fred, to 6 weeks.
| got off on probation, but was
afraid to start it again.
Want to be Active Fighters.
Edgar and Fred are two honest,
reliable boys who would like to join
this Party. Is there a unit in their
city? Organize one if there is not.
There are many workers in that
city, many who work in the Win
chester gun factory and the Sargent
hardware factory. Plenty of Ne
gr workers reside in that city. The
most populated section is around
Dixwell Ave.
After moving to Washington i
found out there was a Communist
Party at 1887 Seventh ST., NV.
AT an outdoor meeting held at
Eighth and D Sts., Sc, | applied
for membership in the Young Com
munist League. And am now an
active member of this organization
to help out the Negro workers OF
this country to fight against lynch
terror. To nelp solve the unemploy
ment problem.
From your comrade,
JOSEPH OVERTON.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06
REVOLUTIONARY
COMPETITION.

Our workers are working and
building up their country with
great enthusiasm. We have to-
day socialist competition carried
out, thanks to which the workers
are straining all efforts to de-
velop their work, for they know
quite well that they are doing it
all for themselves and not for
the exploiters as was the case in
the past.
Please excuse the briefness of
this letter.
The workers hope to receive
from you, fishery workers, let
ter, from which we could learn in
details how you work and in what
conditions you live.
With comradely greetings,
On behalf of the workers,
(Signed) CA. D. EFIMOV)
OK. A. KORNILOV).
Editorial Note: American fish
ermen, especially those on the
West Coast are urged to CORE
spond regularly with the Soviet
fishermen that sent the above
letter. Send letters for trans
mission to the Soviet workers, to
the Worker Correspondence Dept,
Daily Worker, 26-2S Union
Square, New York.
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happens to be sick and in need of
treatment at a health resort, he
is sent without any charge.
The women workers have very
many privileges: when pregnant
they receive 2 months vacation
before and a 2 months vacation
after confinement. Besides, they
receive from the insurance bodies
compensation for the baby's
clothes, diapers, ETC., and also
some extra money during the 9
months she has to nurse the baby.
We get workers clothes free of
charge. At each one of the fish
cries special dining-roOms for the
workers are established, where
the food is very good and fresh.
The children are placed in creches
and kindergartens. thus, the
mother worker is sure of her baby
whom she leaves in the care of a
trained nurse. The women work.
ers here have all the rights equal
to the men and take part in the
government of the country. And
example of this can serve the fact
that at our fishery the chairman
of the Industrial Committee and
the Managers Assistant of the
fishery are women. The work
ers and their families have all
the rights to study at the differ
ent schools and colleges.
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CUT WAGES OF
MIL WAUKEE BOX
BOSSESLIE
Bosses Hand Out Pros
perity' Slips

Milwaukee, Wise.
The Daily Worker:
Dear Sir:
The capitalist sheet, the Mil
waukee Journal, stated in the press
that wages will not be reduced in
this city and capitalists even had
their photos in the paper to back
up their statement.
Bosses Lie.
Well, some one is a damn liar
and I told the capitalist press what
I thought of that statement. WE'LL
they never printed my letter in the
paper.
I told that wages were being cut
on Cambridge Ave. in a plant but
mentioned no names. Now I will
open a broadside and give the firms
name.
Cut Wages.
Hummel and Downing, manufac-
turers of box board, folding cartons,
fibre and corrugated shipping con-
tanners have cut wages five cents
on the hour. They have a two-ma-
chine board mill here and one of
the worst speed up mills I've seen
from the East to the Middle West.
New men, whether experienced or
not, are hired on at 45 cents an hour
job and paid 40 cents an hour, and
if its 40 cents an hour they pay
them 35 cents an hour.
They operate on three eight-hour
shifts and the men in the beaten
room are speeded up so much that
they have no decent time to eat.
Prosperity, He'll!
Old hands who are still on the
job did not get the cut but oh boy,
let them quit and go back later and
they will get a cut, just as if they
never worked for the company of
ever seen the damn plant.
Every man that hired out at the
mill is given a paper which says,
Greetings, we want your stay with
us to be long and prosperous"
Where in the hell do they get the
word prosperous" to fit in here at
40 cents an hour and work at speed
limit and hardly have time to eat.
Forty cents an hour, eight hours
a day is $500 and four and five
days a week, $3.50 and SIG for
your week end pay. Prosperity hell.
PAPER MILL WORKER.
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have no other place to find work.
Many of the girls that work here
are working as there is nobody in
the family working.
Here is what some girls were get
ting: Buttoners, 2 cents a dozen,
flannel and cambray, cents a doz-
en-; trimmers, A cents dozen; zip
per AZ cents a dozen; trimmers
for flannel lumber jackets, 81 cents
a dozen; putting pieces on button,
8 cents dozen; putting zippers on
lumber jackets, cent dozen; but
ton sewers, AZ cents a dozen; cuff
makers, 81 cents a dozen.
1t takes about half an hour, may
be more for a dozen to be made,
how could a family live on this?
There are about 200 girls that
work from 81 to SO for two weeks,
of course. Some girls are afraid on
account of stool pigeons. The boss
es know if they fire one girl there
are plenty that will take her place.
If everyone stuck together they
couldn't get fired and the bosses
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Washington, D. c.


Daily Worker:
One day as l was walking down
the streets of New Haven, Conn, |
found a book which contained in
formation about the Communist
Party. 1t also contained articles on
"Lynching of Negroes in the South
1t stuck in my mind-the awful con-
dition of the Negroes in the South.
Students Read it.
The next day l took it to school,
and at recess time gathered large
bunch of fellow students and read
this to them about the conditions
of the Negroes in the south.
After 8 days the principal of the
school sent for me. l slipped the
book to my friend, named Edgar
Simmons. The principal asked me
for the book and when I could not
show it to him, he sent me to the
disciplinary school for s weeks for
reading that interesting book in
school.
Two weeks went by and Edgar
was sent to this school by the same
principal to serve 6 months on the
same charge.
Send Brothers Too.
After I had served my time and
Edgar his, we returned to our pub
lie school to resume our work there.