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I How do I know? Sometimes 1
think all men are like that"
They were passing Hamilton park.
Across the tennis courts. Mary
Della could see the dance hall
where she and Joe frequently chung
| to each other in moments of
strained ecstasy. Why had Joe
failed to meet her at the poStoffice?
Was he cheating? Should she tell
him that she went to ride with a
perfect stranger? Would he lose
his temper if she did?
u
DUT there were no answers to the
1p questions, Just now, She. slid
farther down in the seat and pulled
the robe about her legs.
Il gather" Robert the Third was
saying, that you don't like young
men who park. -"
"You missed the point" Mary
Della said quickly. "The only boy
friend I've got wants to park every
time we go out together, and usually
does. But he behaves himself. :"
Then
"Wait til I finish. He behaves
himself because he knows the first
time he pulls any horseplay will be
the last time he'll go out with me.
I'm nobody's angel, but I like my
affection in small, sugar-coated
doses. When you begin to hand it
out in hunks, it loses its kick"
Robert whistled softly. "Yowie!
Child, you're a philosopher of the
first water. And petting, suppose,
is handing it out in hunks?"
81 didn't say that" Mary Della
declared. "Petting's all right some
times. if there's anything like love
behind it, even if it's love that
won't last overnight. But what I
mean by hunks is necking. Necking
is for roughnecks and giratfes, not
decent human beings"
you ought to have been a fiction
writer" said Robert. did you, by
the way, ever read any of Havelock
ElliS?"
Sounds like a race horse to me-"
said Mary Della. who is this Ellis
fellow?"
"Oh, he's written quite a bit on
sex. I thought you might have got
ten some of your ideas from him"
n <
II DIDN'T get any of my ideas out
l. of books Mary Della told him
frankly. IT either got 'em from
first-hand experience, or from some
body else who got theirs in the same
old way. You wouldn't believe me
if I told you how many roads in
and around Waterbury I've parked
on, usually with different fellow
until Joe got to be a regular. Put
me in any part of Waterbury and
I'll take you to half dozen places
where petting is going on in parked
cars"
you mean secret rendezvous"
Il don't know what you mean by
that, but I'm talking about country
roads and even Unlicensed streets in
the city. But tn most popular is
probably the old piece of highway
that runs off the main road about
half way to Cheshire"
TO Be C0ntinuedl
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CHAPTER TWO (Continued)

NfAAAAA 7 AfAA Il ~ - N1OtAbAAANCNA}
He crossed West Main street and
continued down Meadow to Grand.
He tried to make out the time on
the station tower clocks as he fol-
lowed the curve of a building around
the corner, but nothing but a star
ling can see the faces of those clocks
after dark, and then he must be
roosting on the hands.
There were few vehicles on Grand
street, and as he passed Library
park he pressed on the accelera-
tor. He shot by the library. crossed
Leavenworth street on the green
light and continued toward Bank
street at 4 good clip.
'Damnl" he exclaimed suddenly.
That girl must be deaf" He blew
his horn. a musical affair made
more to amuse than to warn But
the young woman crossing the street
seemed TO be in no hurry to reach
the other side.
He applied the brakes. The car
rocked dangerously, but lost some
OF its speed. But it still was plung-
ing headlong toward the Indifferent
pedestrian.
Now thoroughly frightened. Rob-
ert pulled at the wheel frantically
in a belated effort to get around
the young woman and put his
whole strength on the brakes.
Somewhere to his left woman
screamed. He felt the car sliding
on the dry pavement, knew at last
it had come to a stop. But the
young woman had disappeared
under the radiator.
Good Godl I've killed herl"
He pushed the door open quickly,
all but fell to the street in his
haste to get out, and ran around to
the front of the machine.
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SYNOPSIS
MARY DELLA CHUBB 49, pretty,
snappY the original exponent Of IT,
works In the clock and watch shop and
lives in a Bank Street fiat with her
parents. Her closest girl friend is
MIRIAM BOBBIN. who also works in the
clock shop. Having been warned BY
Miriam about the RED MASK. brutal
masked slugger who has been the terror
OF parking couples in and around Water
bury. Mary Della goes to meet JOE
SPEAKS. her steady company" in
front OF the postoffice But Joe fails TO
appear and, angry. Mary Della is cross
ing the street alone when almost run
down BY a long. yellow roadster. She
faints Just as the car touches her. A
young. man in Coonskin coat jumps out
hurridely
This Young man is ROBERT HENLEY
CALKlMAN. III. one of THE Calkmans
Of Detroit. Yale senior. and just ac-
cepted as a prospective husband By
MARJORIE MARABEE who lives on
fashionable Cracker Hill Robert is
afraid he has killed Mary Della
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'aThe lesser beasts fee from me, the greater
ones are ready to tear me In pieces" the boy
murmured, half to himself. BLACK men would
kill me with spears. White men, men of my own
kind, shoot at me and have driven me away.
Has the son of Tarzan no friends?" The old ape
drew closer to the boy There are the great
apes he said "They only will be the friends
of Akut's friend. You have seen men want
nothing of you. Let us go to the great apes
our peopleI"
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Days of panic-ridden flight through the jungle
had filed Jensen and Malbihn with jangling
nerves and their native boys with unreasonng
terror. Each new noise behind them sounded to
their ears like the coming of the Sheik and his
bloodthirSty followers. SO, when the naked
white warrior stepped silently out of the jungle,
the shock had been enough TO loose in action the
pent nerves Of Malbihn and he had fired the first
shot
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But it developed that none of the caravan had
seen clearly what they were fighting. One of the
blacks even insisted the thing had been eleven
feet tall with mans body and an elephants
head! After they had conquered their nervous
ness and came to investigate the enemys posi-
ton. in the gathering twilight, they found moth
ing. For by this time Akut and the son of Tar
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The two proceeded in silence for some time
after ASut spoke. The boy was deep in thought
bitter thoughts in which hatred and revenge
were uppermost Finally he spoke: Very we'll
Akut. We will find our friends the great apes"
Akut, who had long sensed that the boy wished
to return to civilization, and was sorrowful be-
cause Of that now was overjoyed. A gr1lnt Of
approval, however, was his only response as he
busted himself searching for food.
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City of Vienna Indulgent
Landlord on Large Scale
Scale

American standpoint are central heat
ing and bathtubs in each apartment.
DR.. Null, head of the city housing de-
partment, explains that the VienneSe
authorities are perfectly well aware OF
the desirability of those conveniences
but could not put them IN without rails
ing the rent to a level bound to prove
burdensome to the class Of citizens the
municipality wishes to assist.
Worker Earns 81 a Week.
"Viennese workmen earn, on an aver
age, 81 a week. If we provided central
heating in our apartments We should
have to rent them for about 50 a week.
Berlin municipal apartments are CEN
trally heated, but they rent for from
$40 to SIS a month. A higher paid
type of workmen lives in them and an
there. We leave each tenant to arrange
his own heating and thus make our
houses available to the least well on
citizens. Though Vienna gets very cold
some Winters we found that in one
building 20 of the 200 apartments were
not heated once during a Winter with
as much as 20 degrees below zero cent?
grade. The tenants could not afford
heat.
Each apartment mas It's paJnnouSe
where hot and cold shower can be had
under peasant conditions for about
cents or q tub bath for IL cents. Be-
sides, Vienna abounds In swimming
pools which many tenants prefer TO tub
baths. so individual bathtubs are not
seriously missed"
The boon Of one of these apartments
is great. II wage earners have employ
ment, the low rental leaves substantial
sums for food and other necessities OF
life If the head of the family is un-
employed, which Is quite possible in q
land where unemployment Is perhaps
more serious than in any other country
with the possible exception Of Great
Britain 100000 in the nation and
100, 900 in Vienna alone), tenure OF
one Of these apartments may mean the
salvation Of the family. a The city al
lows the rent TO fall In bears as much
as three years in ne6sssitous cases.
Eight per cent Of the tenants in these
houses are unemployed.
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of which will be congratulated by thor
ough-paced Boswellians as enthusiastic
ally as would the recovery Of the lost
books of Livy by Latinists, and 30 or
more letters.
The new material will mean an ad-
dition of two volumes to the 10 pre-
viously projected eight so far issued)
of the private papers of James Bos-
we'll" Yes, indeed, Col. Isham Is one
of the most fortunate men now living.
But imagine how disguised would be the
shade of Horny Walpole, "revisiting the
glimpses of the moon," to find such a
How d'-ye-do over Boswell's reliques.
y
GERMANY.-The hop of the DO-X
from Amsterdam to Calshot, South
ampton water, en- route to the United
States, was delayed from the 9Th to the
10th. On the latter date she made the
hop pleasantly in about four hours, be-
ing met and escorted by dozen sea-
planes of the Royal Air Force.
On the l4th she hoped on for
Bordeaux, but engine trouble caused
her to descend toward evening of Les
Stables D'Olonne, on the Vendee coast
Of France, about $50 miles north Of
Bordeaux. She TAXED on for space,
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owned hotels where foreigners are
obliged to stay. Cigarettes of an inferior
quality are rationed, yet Russian to-
bacco Is esteemed in America.
made a firm friend of Russian at
my hotel by offering him cigarettes
purchased for me at the foreigners
store"
Export" he said laconically. "Too
good for the workers"
Difference In Quality.
The same difference in quality can
be noticed in all manufactured prod
ucts sold abroad. Many time have
been unable to strike one-tenth Of the
matches in box bought in Russian
territory. Yet the Soviet matches
which are sold at ridiculously low
prices in Sweden, the stronghold of the
match industry, are scarcely inferior
to the Swedish product
Those Americans who knew England
during the war should have little diff
ficulty in imagining conditions in Rus
STA. The Soviet cities resemble London
in the darkest days of the world strug-
gle-with this difference: there are no
islands Of brightness, no well-dressed
people.
Clothes are almost unprocurable
When wore through stout pair Of
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Malahide, descendant of Boswell, Is
pages of the original manuscript of the
life of Samuel johnson by Boswell and
q wealth of previously unpublished Bos-
well manuscripts. including letters, ETC.,
which manuscripts are magnifi-
Gently receiving the honors of print.
The colonel promises q popular edition
to follow and we ad1ure him promptly
to fulfill that promise.
The other day at Malahide Castle, on
the Irish Coast north of Dublin, q bevy
of ladies were bored Some one sug-
gested croQuet, and Lady Talbot sent
servants to rummage the souterrains for
q croquet set They returned with
crumbling mallets and rusty wickets
and reported that they found them
amid o mass Of musty, rusty papers.
OF course, another Boswell find"
suggested itself to Lady Talbot's olfac-
tories, and so it turned out Whence COL
Isham's new acquisition, which includes
lot pages of the original manuscript of
the life of johnson, the entire original
manuscript of the journal Of a tour TO
the Hebrides 1882 pages, whereof a
third are unpublished natter, an out
line of projected but never written
biography Of Lord Kames, the recovery
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editor said to me: "You are
about to make sad discov-
cry. You are about to learn
that there are no efficient
people in the world"
He went on to propheSy that
writers would consistently
misinterpret my instructions
about articles and that artists
would insist on drawing their
pictures all wrong.
To a certain extent the
prophecy was fulfilled; but,
having been warned in adj
vance, I managed to get along
without losing my temper
often or increasing my blood
pressure much.
If you expect perfection from
people your whole life is q
series of disappointments,
grumblings and complaints.
If, on the contrary, you pitch
your expectations low, taking
folks as the inefficient crea-
lures which they are, you are
frequently surprised by hav-
ing them perform better than
you had hoped.
Too many of us are like that
man in Providence, who prob
ably "bellyached" to every
body he met the next day,
saying that he was tired be-
cause a fool operator in
Chatham had caused him to
sleep in an upper berth.
Doubtless he went home and
"bellyached" to his wife; and
he may still be telling the sad
story, for all / know.
What's the use OF. it all?.
. saanl
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p. and A. Photo.

shoes in the incredibly muddy streets
of Moscow I was told that could not
hope to buy new pair and that !
should have to wait my turn on the
waiting list II I wanted them repaired.
Bread, meat, butter, milk, eggs,
cereals. soap, oil and even medicines
are rationed, where, indeed, they are
obtainable One of the stock Jokes of
Moscow tells of that triumph of or
ganization, the huge department store.
which needs only one man to control
It, He simply stands at the door and
tells prospective customers there Is
nothing to sell.
Lumber Exports Increase.
Look upon this picture and on that"
Outside of Russia are all the commodi-
ties Russians are denied. When I was
in Helslngfors a leading business man
spoke bitterly to me of the ruin of the
Finnish lumber industry upon which
the prosperity Of his country so largely
depended. In 1920 Russia exported
100000 tons of sawed lumber. That
figure has been increased to more than
million.
An increase in production was only
to be expected as Russia recovered from
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slender spire of the Peter-Paul Cathe-
dral and on to the great roStral col
umns erected as landmarks for sea-
going ships.
But no lights appeared in the palace
windows flashing out message Of life
and laughter. No beautiful women In
costly furs drove along the stately quay
of the Neva. The few hungry and ILL
clad passersby had no eyes for the Inn
perial splendor of their city.
With them had stood that morning
in q shivering line awaiting a ration
of sour black bread. Filling enough
cheap and not unpleasant when well
spread with butter. But butter was a
luxury We never saw save in the small
est quantities.
So, too, with other commodities,
which are regarded as elementary
necessities in America and Western
! Europe. Soap I found unprocurable
save in those stores with frosted win
dows where certain privileged foreign
ers-diplomats, technical advisers and
the ike-are, curiously enough, per-
mitted to buy goods unprocurable by
Soviet citizens.
Yet the Soviet has no lack Of oils
and fats. Meat I never saw at the
workers restaurants and canteens, and
only seldom at the expensive state
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game in New York City on December
IS, the proceeds to 60 to the aid Of the
unemployed.
NOTES.-The coalition Catholic-Lib
eral cabinet of Belgium headed by M.
Jaspar has resigned, the cause seeming
to be the vexed old language contro-
versy. According to late adviceS, how
ever, there is good prospect of its re-
construction with only minor changes.
On November II, at the conclusion of
q vigorous debate Of many days, the
French Parliament voted approval of
M. Brands foreign policy, 1913 to 40.
BRAND made q characteristic conclud-
ing speech, asserting confidence that
republicanism would remain ascendant
In Germany and that the Reich would
not repudiate its obligation.
The strike situation in Spain con-
tinues serious. A clash in Madrid on
the 18th between civil guards and police
and a procession of workers is reported.
General elections for a new Cortes have
again been postponed. It is now an
nounced that election of Deputies Will
take place on March / next, and OF Sem
ators on March Is. But, naturally
enough. these repeated postponementS
cause a certain incredulity in some
quarters.
On November 7 the Soviet govern
ment celebrated the beginning of its
fourteenth year. What is to be the
event Of the experiment which In effect
involves the Communicating of raw ma
terialS and the CONSUMPTION of labor
and technical experts, with firing squads
in the offing to encourage the latter?
The world has witnessed no more
extraordinary drama than the operation
OF the five-year plan now In its second
year. Just now some decline of energy
seems observable.
An Indian, Sir Chandrasekhara Ven
kata Raman, professor of physics at
Calcutta University, has received this
years Nobel physics award for extraor-
binary investigations In the phenomena
Of light radiation, etc.
On November IA, Premier Yuko Ham
aguchi of Japan was shot, apparently
by q Nationalist fanatic, crazed with
the notion that the premier had be-
trayed his country's interests in respect
Of the London naval treaty.
On November IS, following clashes
in Havana, between police and rioters,
which resulted in deaths, injuries
to SO persons and considerable property
damage, President Machado Of Cuba,
under authorization granted him some
time ago by the Cuban Congress, ordered
suspension Of constitutional guarantees
as to Havana and its environs for the
period of IS days. The police having
proved insufficient. the army is being
employed to control the situation.
The Preparatory Disarmament Conn
mission Is not speeding toward the
millennium; au contEaire, 1t would seem.
We are told that by atpdy of speci-
mems Of uraninite and Mrmula based
on the rate of disintegration Of RADIO
active elements, Prof. Alois n. Kovarik
of the Yale department Of physics finds
the earth TO be not less than IB52, 00O,-
900 years old, q figure closely agreeing
with q recent computation BY IN as
tronomer OF note. -
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NOTE.-While Soviet citizens wait in
ever-lengthening queues for their meager
rations, RuSsta's bumper harvest is be-
ing sold abroad at cut-throat prices.
Other staples, practically unprocurable
in Russia. are serious competitors in
world markets.
What Is the explanation of this amaz-
ing situation. unparalleled in the his
tory of the world? How far is Soviet
dumping legitimate competition? How
far a deliberate attempt to ruin world
markets in the interests of the doctrines
of Bolshevism. How long can 1t be ex-
pected to last?
Are the Russian people heart and
soul behind the sacrifices their rulers
demand?
These are some of the questions con-
sidered in q series Of three articles
written for The Star and North Ameri-
can Newspaper Alliance, of which this
is the first. by Mr.. Heymanson, journal
list and economist who has Just returned
from an unescorted visit of observation
in Russia.
The second and third articles Of this
series will appear in The Evening Star
Monday and Tuesday.
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VIENNA, Austria.-The City of
Vienna might fairly claim tn honor OF
being the most indulgent professional
landlord doing large scale business
today.
Where else in the world can q worker
get cheerful, light. well kept dwelling
for 3 per cent of his income7
Where else can a tenant without
work stay on in decent apartment
as long as three years without paying
rent. except in the form of promises to
pay when he finds employment?
Although Vienna IS probably the
largest individual landlord outside
Soviet Russia il conducts Its renting
business on the novel principle OF not
only foregoing profit but of making no
provision for amortization.
Rents of the 10000 apartments
already being let by the City of Vienna
and the $4,000 additional apartments
which viii be ready by the end OF
1882, average about 2l2 cents per square
meter COS square feet) per month, to
which is added the small housing tax.
How Rents Compare.
A Chicago landlord would probably
ask $50 for an apartment OF the type
which the City of Vienna rents for ~
q month. That covers all taxes, lanitor
service and use Of an exceptionally Wen
equipped laundry and drying room. Inc
washing ard ironing machinery there
enables housewife to do large family
washing in few hours. Tor that sum
. Vienna municipal tenant wEts . living
room. two sraall bed rooms, Kitchen,
toilet and anse room. The rooms are
invariably well lighted and aired. They
have hardwood floors and are attrac-
lively decorated.
Each nat has its entrance from the
staircase, thus avoiding passages and
the attendant friction between neigh
hors. whicn one encounters SO frequently
n Russian apartment houses. The
newer dats have attractive gas hearths
and ssoal stoves, neat porcelain sinks
afad toilets. All apartments have gas
ro0ters and water supply features gem
eraily lacking Ia prc-War Viennese
RS chief features lacking from 90
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Y STOOD in line one night
at the ticket window in
Providence, waiting to
a take up the lower berth
which I had reserved to
New York. In front of me
was a man who had come
up from Chatham on Cape
Cod, having telegraphed for
a reservation from there.
Through a mistake on the
part of the Chatham operator
the telegram had gone to Bos-
ton instead of to Providence.
If the man waited for the
train to come through from
Boston he would not get to
bed until about 2 o'clock in
the morning. If he got on a
Providence car he would have
to sleep in an upper berth be-
cause all the lowers were sold.
He bought an upper, but not
without a great deal of grum-
bling.
"This is atrocious," he ex-
claimed. "Give me a telegraph
blank. I am going to wire that
operator in Chatham and tell
him what I think of him."
To which the station agent
answered very Sanely: What
good will that do? You're mad
already. What's the use Of
getting two men mad?"
Every hour of every day a
certain number Of things hap
pen which just should not
happen, but do. To err is hui
man.
When / became magazine
editor years ae6 . very wise
ffynnvrfs
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BY RANDALL HEYMANsoN.

- NOW was falling heavily when I
left Leningrad. The hard gray
waters of the Neva seemed about
. to freeze. From the Equality
(Trotsky) Bridge looked across
to the imposing facade of the Winter
Palace, now tipped with snow, to the
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BY HENRY w. BUM.

TINE following is a brief summary
Of the most important news of
the world for the seven days
4 ended November IS:
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