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as he had hoped, box of matches with the cigarettes and tobacco in the bag. By the time he had lighted a lamp, found fuel and warmed himself. the storm had covered the roads so that to attempt to return that night would be an act of folly. So Nick spent Christmas In poor Barry's for lorn cabin.
 Fortunately for Nick, he carried, in in his car, 6 box of groceries, bacon. bread and butter as q present to Barry to help through the winter. Much of this he left for Barry on his return from the rest he made his own rather meager Christmas dinner. But If II hadn't been for Margaret's bag, Christ mas would have been a doleful day. in deed.
 When Nick went 10 see Margaret on bis way home on December 26, he found her In a state of real agitation
 sSomehow | felt responsible for the whole thing. said Margaret.
 "You were responsible for the faci that had a rather pleasant Christ mas after all. You kept me from freezing and starving to death. you cheered me with good book. smokes and mouth organ, and kept me from degradation by means of soap and comb. That bag was godsend.
 "Oh. Nick" said Margaret. with eyes very tender. 'l feel as If ! knew you so much better because of this'
 Margaret" said Mex. I've been trying to get up nerve for three months to tell you l love you-to dis traction"
 And ever since you sent me ihe check for the bags I've known l want ed to hear you tell me-. answered Margaret.
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his sister as Peter was discussing a recent play with Phyllis.
 Molly" he said persuasively, coax Peter into the study and see If you can't stay there for little. Run the radio, poke over my treasures. any thing"
 Then he turned to Phyllis. Come" he invited, let's sit by the fire and tell secrets. I'll tell mine first r ne promised.
 .1 love you, Phyllis" he said at last. land I want you for my wife l have imagined you again and again sitting here in Just this way beside me. Have l any chance, dear?"
 Phyllis did not speak for mo- ment and Jerry's heart sank like . plummet. Then. softly, there stole from the study the sweet strainS of "Silent night. holy night"
 Phyllis lifted her pansy eyes to Jerry's and laid her slender hand on the arm of his chair where 1t was In stantly grasped. Every chance in the world" she whispered.
 Later, Molly took Jerry to task. "l believe" she, said accusingly. you as people on Christmas evs jus ..v. lg they wouldn't come
 Her s,other looked sheepish, Then, "Right you are," he admitted. "1 got an acceptance from Phyllis first. how. ever. and gambled on the others be- ing too busy"
 "You're a fraud" said Molly.
 Merry Christmas !" said Jerry.
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sglVx MOLLY" said Jerry Blaine to
 <: !: < <. j. : ': ::| : z E: # <: F: $ : <: kRh his sister. twill you do me little favorT .HE Possibly" drawled Mol ssAN ly. "What Is it?" q Ms%4 Well" began Jerry, "l
 want to give little party m Christmas eve"
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ing served his hostess, devoted him self unreservedly to eating.
 My land," unused grandmother, aghast, "that poor creature must have been fasting for a week."
 But when the Indian pudding, pump. kin pie and fruit cake had been eaten and they were picking placidly at the nuts, the guest waxed talkative.
 How this all reminds me of home when l was a little boy-this room-a facsimile !-and you-how you remind me of mother! It must be great" he broke of sharply, "for you to have your own little home all to yourself eh?"
 The Christmas sun was already set. ting. reminding grandmother that her last day was almost over. With a sudden sob she shed her gallant gar. ment of pretense, and in an over. towering hunger for sympathy, she quavered out her sad little story.
 The gaunt visitor came around to her side and took her hand with clumsy tenderness.
 I'm not the guest you were expect ing but when I saw that dinner-well, you couldn't understand unless you'd lived for three weeks on prunes and toast and skim milk. Anyway, was ravenous from hunger and I haven't had dinner of such pure. unadulter- ated bliss since mother cooked 1t. What I came over for today was to say-er-that-er-why, my wife finds she wants to live nearer the city, so want you to consider this house abso- lutely yours as long as you need 1t. I'll have 1t put In writing tomorrow.
 He shouldered hurriedly into his coat. then halted Irresolutely in the doorway. Maybe. some time." he eentured. uncertainty, you'd be vii. 'ne tO teach my wife to cook"
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Christmas bag for every one of them. Who'll promise Christmas bagT
 "Fd like to help said Nick LOT ring, "only thing is I'm green al thai sort of thing. Do you suppose you could gef someone to make a bag and till if If l paid for it7"
 "Yes; I've thought of that" said Margaret. i've figured out that nice bag can he got up for three dol lars"
 A little later when Nick Lorring found Margaret alone he told her he wanted to be responsible for ten of the bags. "rll send you the check ID the morning."
 Margaret pressed Nick's hand and looked up gratefully Into his eyes. You're the most generous man in the world" she said.
 Nick yearned to take this oppor. tunity to tell Margaret just a little of his ever-increasing love for her. but to do It now, If seemed, would be to taint with self-interest the tenor of his generosity.
 The afternoon before Christmas Margaret telephOned to Nick at his office.
 "t want to tell you, Nick" said Mar garet, that l filled all the bags and they were so wonderful. Each one cost just three dollars. Now l find that there Is just one left over after all the men at the camp have been supplied. As it Is all filled, l can't return the money. hut thought may be you knew of some poor fellow who might like one"
 Nick thought moment as he held the telephone receiver ''1 do know a fellow" said he. "Used to work for us. Then he quit and went to farm. ing over in the next county. Sort Of a luckless fellow. Suppose take that bag over tO him."
 So after the office closing at i've. Nick called at Margaret's for the bag. He planned to drive the fifteen miles to the shack where Barry Smith lived and back before his seven o'clock din ner.
 The cabin seemed deserted. Nick forced window and walked in. But Barry was not to be found. Nick felt In his pocket for match. but matches he had none Then he groped around Barry's room. but was no more sue cessful So with nearly frozen fingers he undid the wrappings from the Christmas bag, opened fl and found.
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Good Christmas
By EDWARD SANFORD MARTIN,
 In Missouri Farmer.

THOUGH doubters doubt and scoffers scoff
 And Peace on earth seems still far off; Though learned doctors think they know The gospel stories are not so; Though greedy man is greedy still And competition chokes good-wi While rich men sigh and poor men fret, Dear mel we can't spare Christmas yet! Time may do better-maybe not; Meanwhile let's keep the day we've got! On Bethlehems birth and Bethlehems star Whate'er ouI speculatons are, Where'er for us may run the line Where human nerges with divine, We're dull indeed If we can't see What Christmas feelings ought to be, And dull again If we doubt It's worth our while to bring them out. "Glory to God; goodwill to ment" Comet Feel it, show it, give it theni Come to us, Christmas. good old day, Soften us. cheer us, say your say To hearts which thrift, too eager, keeps In bonds, while fellow w-feeling sleeps. Good Christmas, whom our children love, We love you, tool Lift above Our cares. our fears, our small desires! Open our hands and stir the fires Of helpful fellowship within us, And back 10 love and kindness win usi
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That was had enough. But Foster Jordan, swathed in bandages from the operation that had failed, knew that Helen could never carry on alone. Ii had been so expensive, that operation that had only served to pronounce his doom more surely. All their savings were gone, and what could the most faithful of wives do, with baby in arms, and blind husband? The cot. tage would go too, and then
 He reused himself from these gloomy forebodings at the sound of her step at the door. And that she should not think him grieving, he began to sing.
 Foster" his wife called, as the door opened, "who do you suppose Is here1 My old chum, Pauline Vest land You know. the costume de- signer in New York7 Paulina. this is my husband that I've written you 50 much about"
 How do you do. Miss Westland. Sorry can't-my eyes. you know"
 "Of course. I'm so glad to meet you, Mr.-may i cali you Fosteri Helen has told me so much about you"
 And oh, Pauline" Helen inter rupted, "here is our baby. Isn't he adorable2' Then in a whisper, Do look more cheerful, darlingl If you don't I'll cry and mustn't do that 1"
 "The doctors give you no hope?"
 "None whatever. But we'll get along Helen dabbed at her eyes with her handkerchief. Eos ter, dear" she said aloud, you were singing as we came in. Won't you sing for Pauline?"
 "Yes, please do."
 "I'm afraid I can't"
 "Yes, you can, dear. I'll play for you" And so he sang.
 At last their guest rose to go. "1 can't tell you how I've enjoyed your songs," she said "Pm so glad stopped off on my way home for the holidays"
 'YOu must come again." Helen an- swered i've enjoyed seeing you so much."
 "Tm pleased to have met you, Eos. ter, and I wish you both a blessed Christmastide."
 Days passed. and 1t was Christmas. Bright and early came special de livery letter.
 "Dearest Helen," 1t began. q have the grandest news for you As soon as I got home phoned to Jud Myers in New York. He's staging a new show that Pm designing the costumes for and has been simply wild for some act :, nut in the heart throbs.
 talked him into seeing that q inger would go over big, and r.. out Fosters voice, so it's all arranged. I am enclosing his check for $500, and If you can be ready we'll all go back to New York to- gether.
 with love for a Merry Christmas, Pauline"
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 "Christmas eve! That's not good night for party, Jerry. People have . habit of being frightfully busy about their own affairs"
 Christmas eve it must be-" insisted Jerry stubbornly.
 "All right Christmas eve 1t shall be. old obstinate. And I suppose the favor you're asking Is my help on that most inconvenient of nights"
 Rather your presence, Molly. As 4 matter of fact. the guests to be are all unmarried.
 "Why not have 1t here at the house?"
 Molly" said Jerry solemnly. "l already have that party planned down to the very last bonbon and the only place I can picture It Is in the old home"
 How many are you asking, Jerry7"
 Seven" came the prompt reply. Besides you. Peter and myself. A comfortable dinner party"
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 h nus have been the affecting pic. trre of those disappointed ghosts of other Chrstmases that impelled grand. mother to sit erect, swab her red eye. lids stiffen her trembling chin and resolve to thrust her troubles into the backgrour '''' Christmas should be over "I Christmas dinner" she plan as If nothing had happened -.iy. I'll invite Edwin's brotherl'
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HERE was sadness in the Jordon's cottage on Indian Hill. Even the merriment of an approaching Christ mas season could not super. sede the fact that Foster Jordan was going blind. uI:i
Evening star., 1932-05-12
BRITAIN WILL PAY
|. DEBT NSTALLMENT
High Official Says December
IS Part Will Be Met Regard
less of Germany or France.
BY NEGLEY FARSON.

By Gable to The Star
LONDON, May 12-From an unim-
peachable authority this correspondent
learned this afternoon that the British
Cabinet has decided to pay the United
States the full British war debt pay
ments due December Is, irrespective of
whether there is a German default or
whether France and the Allies cannot
pay Great Britain.
In view Of Great Britain's decision,
any idea that Europe Is presenting the
United States with d fait accomph on
the reputation of war debts Is dead
This decision win be the background
for the British delegation when II goes
to Lausanne next month for the repara-
tions conferences meeting for which
not much hope is held here.
Too soon after the French elections
the Germans have repeatedly made IL
clear that they will not pay-it is be-
heved here that the Lausanne confer
ence will be unable to make more than
a temporary settlement until after the
elections In the United States.
1t Is believed that the reason why
the British intend paying the United
States in full If the Lausanne confer
ence fails, Is to make gesture to con-
vince America of the good will in
Britaih's intentions, and as prelude to
an Anglo-American currency confer
ence, the demand for which is fast
growing here as a most essential step
for solution Of the worlds ills.
(Copyrfght, 1921
Evening star., 1932-05-12
CONFIDENCE FOUND
. BIG FACTOR IN OHIO
Writer Declares People Are
Hopeful in Politics and
Business.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 1.-THE
budget has been balanced here, thanks
to the economy program of Gov.
George White and a cooperating
Legislature, but the State Of Ohio has
had to come to the rescue of counties
and municipalities in aid of the un-
employed. Balanced budgets alone do
not make jobs.
The Legislature, in special session,
appropriated $4,000, 900 for unemploy-
ment relief. sums being made available
in the form of loans to the counties.
Eleven million dollars was raised by q
tax on gross business Of public utilities.
an equal amount was diverted from
gasoline revenues so that If the counties
wished to do so they could use the
money for purposes other than highway
building.
Thousands of Families Fed.
Nineteen thousand families are being
fed in Cleveland, 5000 families here,
and large number in Toledo, Youngs-
town and Cincinnati. City budgets
plus private charity are being strained
10 Lie uLIIOSt. lie NleNeldDQ COLE mas
been reduced from s24.80 per month to
$4.75 per week for each distressed
family. A virtual moratorium on rent
paying has cut the income of the small
landlord and placed him in jeop-
ardy, too.
But the spirit of the people remains
hopeful. Business men talk of the
future with more confidence every day.
Whether 1t is the fact that the Middle
West breathes different air and. In
almost everything, is contrast to the
cities on the other side of the Alle-
ghenies, or because agriculture is to no
small extent a factor in Ohios eco
nomic welfare-for the farmer can at
least produce the food he eats-the
fact remains that Ohio is talking
politics and prohibition and not so
much sales tax or Federal deficits.
This weeks primaries revealed that
Gov. White, a rugged and wholesome
type, with long record of service in
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Evening star., 1932-05-12
DRIVERS PERMIT ERROR
JAILS MAN FOR NIGHT
Expiration Date Stamped Wrong
Causing Police to Think License
Had Run Out.

Mistake in the stamping of the ex-
piration date of his drivers permit
caused Karl Wolfender. 1406 Chaplin
street, to spend last night in a Traffic
Bureau cell on a charge of driving
without a permit although his license
really has nearly a year to run. He
had been unable to post bond neces-
sary for his release
The error which was reported made
in the Traffic Bureau when the permit
was obtained was not discovered until
after Wolfender had been found guilty
in Police Court.
He was arrested shortly after mid
night by Policeman A. B. Clark and as
his permit showed that it had expired
several weeks ago. he was ordered
locked up.
Judge Isaac r. Hit ordered him to
get new license at once. A clerk at
the TRAFFIC Bureau discovered the per-
NIT had been stamped incorrectly. The
case was dismissed when Wolfender
returned to court.
Evening star., 1932-05-12
WATER SYSTEM DENIED
RIGHT TO USE OWN FUNDS
No Decrease of Revenues, but House For
bids Spending Some of 1t, Forcing I'm
employment Without Saving Anything.

This is the fifth OF a series OF ar
ticles on the District OF Columbia
appropriation bill for 1888, as passed
by the House
ARTICLE NO. S.
TIME extent to which the wave of
economy swept through the
House when it passed the 1888
l. District appropriation bill is
reflected again in the severe re-
ductions made in the estimates of the
Water Department-thatd department Of
the municipal government which fur
nishes free water to the Federal Gov
ernment, throwing practically all ex-
penses of both supply and distribution
upon the water taxpayers and the prop
erty taxpayers.
Altogether the House cut from the
Water Department budget recommended
Evening star., 1932-05-12

by the Budget Bureau items totaling
$80,550. With the exception of $3.50
Of this amount, the reductions will af-
feet such vital elements in the water
service as extensions to mains, main
tenance and the replacement of old and
leaky mains, which are contributing to
the enormous waste of 1871 900 gallons
day
Like the gasoline tax fund, the water
revenues cannot be used for any pur-
pose other than the operation and
maintenance Of the water service. As a
result, the funds the House proposes ia
save will merely accumulate to the
credit Of the Water Department, piling
up a surplus at the close Of the 1885
fiscal year, while needed extensions and
repairs wait at least another year for
attention, In the meantime growing
Continued on Page 8, Column So
Evening star., 1932-05-12
WORLD COURT WINS
FAVORABLE REPORT
Johnson and Moses, Foes of
Protocol, to Press Is
sue in Senate.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The protocol for American adherence
to the World Court was favorably re-
ported to the Senate today by the For
eign Relations Committee, and spon-
sors Immediately sought an agreement
for its consideration early next session.
Senator Walsh. Democrat, of Mon
tana, whose amended resolution OF
ratification was approved, II to 9, said
later:
1T looks as though there is no prob
ability Of getting up the resolution in
the Senate now because of the urgent
domestic legislation. We will endeavor
to get an agreement for its consider
alton early in the next session"
Reservation Added.
Foes Of the Court succeeded in add
ing a reservation requiring that the
other signatories to the Court protocol
formally accept the Senate's ban
against advisory opinions affecting the
United States before American entry
is effective.
Aroused by the action in putting the
protocol before the Senate at this time,
Senators johnson, Republican, of Cali
fornia and Moses, Republican, of New
Hampshire, two outspoken opponents Of
the court, announced they would force
the issue Immediately.
Those voting for the favorable report
were:
Republicans-Capper, Kansas; Reed,
Pennsylvania; Fess, Ohio, and Vanden-
berg, Michigan. Democrats
Virginia; Pittman, Nevada; Walsh, Mon
tana; Harrison, Mississippi; George,
Georgia; Black, Alabama, and Connally,
Texas
Against: Repubicans-Borah, Idaho;
Johnson, Moses, La Toilette, Wisconsin: !:
Robinson, Indiana; Glenn, Illinois, and
Cutting, New Mexico. Democrat-Lewis,
Illinois. Farmer er-Labor-Shipstead Min
nesota.
Senators Robinson Of Arkansas and
Wagner Of New York, both Democrats,
were not recorded on the vote
1926 Reservation Reaffirmed.
Chairman Borah said the adoption
Of the Moses reservation had the effect
of making the resolution of Senator
Reed, Republican, Of Pennsylvania,
previously adopted, reservation.
The Reed resolution reafirmed the
Senate's 1925 reservation that the Court
Continued ON Page 2 Column IL
Evening star., 1932-05-12
MOTION TO UNSEAT
BRUEN|NG IS LOST
German ChanceIIor's Foes
Defeated, 287 to 257,
After Uproar.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, May IA motion OF nc
confidence against Chancellor Heinrich
Bruening and his cabinet was defeated
in the Reichstag this afternoon by a
vote Of 287 to 257.
This was the first of series ex-
pected from the opposition, especially
from the National Socialists. The vote
bore out predictions that the govern
ment would be strong enough TO de-
feat them all.
Session in Turmoil.
The session roared in turmoil again
today, for the second time in the four
days it has been sitting, just as the
vote was coming up.
The speaker, Paul Loebe, announced
that Social Democrat journalist had
been pummeled in the Reichstag lobby
He said he had directed the criminal
police to find out the name of the as
sailant, irrespective of whether he was
a member Of the Reichstag or not.
This raised bedlam among the Ma
tional Socialists and it was countered
by a similar turmoil among the So
cialists, so that President Loebe had tt
suspend the meeting for half an hour
An unprecedented situation developed
when four National Socialist members
refused to leave the hall after the
speaker had ordered them suspended
10 uo n
journed indefinitely without even hav-
ing completed the brief schedule laid
out.
The National Socialist members were
so surprised that they forgot to shout
Instead, they gathered in the halls out
side, talking excitedly, but apparently
unable to agree upon what they ought
to do about it.
Call Expected June 6.
1t was expected that there would not
be another Reischstag session before
June g.
Loebe ordered the suspension of the
four Nazis after hurried investigation
had established that they had par
ticipated in mauling the newspaper
man.
Thirty uniformed policemen, headed
by Isidor Weiss, the assistant chief, ap-
peared. storm of boos came from
the NaZis.
The policemen seized the four men,
bers who has assaulted the newspaper
man and were about to hustle them out
when a number of others gathered about
and assured the chief that the men
would appear In court when they were
wanted. The police withdrew.
Earlier in the morning the Reichstag
passed a law empowering the govern
ment to float an internal loan for Gre
ating employment. No amount for the
loan was set.