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would have hurt them both too much.
She thought up another reason for
coming. She said:
when I worked here I used to let
my little boy go into the empty office
next door and look out the window at
the dog In the back yard. They got to
be great friends, and would it be too
much trouble to let Jimmie look out
your window and see if the dog is still
there?"
DR.. Print stopped down and put a
hand under Jimmie's chin and raised
up the little face.
Does he have plenty of mike"
And then quickly he knew the answer
how soon money goes when there is
not enough, how it cannot be stretched
to meet everything, 80 that too often
milk must wait while shoes or stock
ings or undertakings have their scant
and anxious turn. He went on quickly
to say:
And Of course, there must be the
whole grain cereals and the leafy veg
etables, cauliflower, celery, spinach"
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Jimmy said, IT don't like spinach"
and they were then able to laugh.
Or. Print said, "You want to look
out the window at the dog? Well, come
along"
they went into the consulting room
and looked out tine window at the row
OF yards still surviving behind the
private houses on the next street. In
one OF the middle yards a little wire
halred fox terrier used to sit, when he
was not chasing sparrows, wedged in
an angle between the wall of the house
and the side of a dust bin that every
body filled and nobody ever seemed to
empty.
Sometimes the cook came limping
and numbering out to the bin and some
times the butler took a careful step be-
yond the basement door and allowed
the yard to mellow in his presence, and
. couple of young maids were always
running pertly in and out, but none Of
them ever spoke to the little dog.
Only the chauffeur was his friend.
Every day at 3 o'clock the little dog
would begin to listen for the chauffeur's
footsteps coming across the kitchen
floor. He would go to the door and
cock his head, first with the brown ear
up and then with the white, and when
the footsteps began to come he would
wag his tail and then his hind quarters
and when he was wagging all v and
straight up to his ears the tail would
be pumping hard enough to fly off.
The chauffeur would come out with
the leash in his hand, and the little dog
quite crazy with joy, would snatch it
and take it for a run around the yard
with a wide fancy motion of his front
paws that al meant to be comical
and was.
But now, although it vas only 2:30,
the little dog was not in the yard.
Jimmy said, II don't see Scuffy."
Sally said, I'VE never knew his name
so we called him Scuffy."
DR.. Print said, Hell be out. The lady
who owns him e allows him to stay
long inside. Curious old person"
Sally said, when I used to work
late I used to see her eating her din
ner all alone at the end of a long
table with the butler and the waitress
going as hard as though she were q
dozen people. I used to feel sorry fol-
her."
Eyes, she seems lonely. Lately I've
noticed her sitting out there in the
yard every morning in a patch of sun
Sitting there hated and coated and
gloved in her crack of sunshine she
seems desperately lonely. I've been won
dering who she is"
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Jimmy said, But I don't see Scuffy."
DR.. Print said, Hell be out in q min
ute or two"
But in two minutes he had not come
out, or in five, and there was nothing
for Sally to do but to thank DR.. Print
and 60 away.
As soon as she vas out in the street
she knew she was frightened, and Jim
mic began to cry. She could not stop
being frightened. The image Of those
three pennies leaped into her mind like
the sudden sight of three thieves hid
ing in the angle Of a wall. She owed
three weeks rent for her room, and she
had assured the woman to whom she
owed 1t that she was going to be given
a Job. Mrs. Starmart had promised.
"Mummie, I want to see Scuffy."
AL right, we'll 60 around there and
maybe he'll be at the front of the
house."
AS they reached the house a car was
drawing up to the curb and she recog-
nized the chauffeur. She asked him,
What happened to the little dog that
used to live in the back yard?"
HE still lives there"
The chauffeur was young and had a
bright face, and it was easy to explain
to him about the dog. He said, Hes
IN the house today getting a BATH"
His blue eyes had friendly centers
and she hurried to ask, do you know
anyone who wants any kind Of work
done?"
His eyes became questioning.
ANY kind, washing, scrubbing. I must
have work."
He looked at her and the brave kind
ness did not click out Of his eyes. He
said: "The lady I drive for needs a
housemaid, but she's hard to suit. She's
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Sally Lester held her small son tight
by the hand, trying to forget how young
she was and shabby and that only three
dark pennies shrank together like
thieves in a corn of her purse.
She held 50 tight to her sons little
hand that he knew she was afraid Of
something and thought it must be the
traffic in the streets. Every time they
crossed through the snarl Of cars he
said, BE careful, Mummie."
She had said it so much to him that
now he had begun to say it back to her,
as though he realized that in all the
world they had only each other and no
n else, and had to be more careful
than most people, especially those who
had fathers and who belonged to many
and had many belonging to them.
BE careful Mummie."
The traffic cop looked at him and
laughed because this scantling bit Of
boyhood had not yet outgrown a tender
baby forehead while the anxiety gath
cred under it was hard enough to have
been lowering there for so years.
But Sally did not laugh back, for
suddenly she could see the tall build
ing where she had worked, and she was
trying to read some sign of hope on
its pale yellow face. The afternoon sun
lay in a band across its upper stories,
and h thought that was a good sign,
for people an take hope even from a
bright band Of sunshine when they had
only three dark pennies hiding in their
purse.
The doorman saw Sally with a look
that held recognition.
Miss Pallant was there caring for the
jumping lights on her switchboard and
too busy to look up. Farther down the
hall eight or nine people were waiting
for an elevator and managing not to be
pushed from the exact spot originally
chosen.
Suddenly there was a movement near
the elevator and Sally saw the new
girl who had charge Of them, the new
girl who had been hired to take her
place while she was away i'll with the
flu. The new girl was pushing all the
buttons, anxious because none of the
elevators had come down, so anxious
That she could pretend not to see Sally,
whose place she knew she had taken.
The movement near the elevator was
due to the sudden appearance of Mrs.
Starmart. Mrs. Starmart was the SUI
perintendent of the building the mighty
g1ver and taker of jobs, who gave sus-
piciously and took vindictively at the
end Of two weeks of flu.
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He went into the house. He was not
slow and muscle-bound like so many
chauffeurs. In a few moments he came
out and beckoned to her and she went
in holding Jimmy tight by the hand.
But once inside the door she remem-
bered that no one wanted to engage q
woman with a child, so she pushed
Jimmie into a corner near the door and
told him to stay there and not to move.
Then she followed in after the chauf-
feur. The old lady of whom DR.. Print
had spoken was standing at a window
at the foot Of a staircase, a mighty stair
case that Immediately caught the eye
with its marble statues and its whole
vineyards of gilt bronze such as used
to be loaded sometimes into those dark,
narrow houses in the permanent antici-
patton Of the visit of at least a grand
duchess, in the days when duchesses
were grand.
The old lady was trying to thread a
needle. She was tall and determined
to be straight, and although she still
wanted to be handsome, she 10Y had
only her dark eyes to show how hand
some she had been. She flashed her
eyes over Sally. Then she held out her
needle. Here, see if you a thread
this"
Sally took the needle and thread, feel
ing as though her life depended upon
feeding the thin black line quickly into
the small steel eye. But her hand did
not shake, and the thread went through
at once.
The lady said, well, you're young.
Now see if you can sew up the rent I've
just torn in this skirt"
It was a skirt Of heavy black silk
and hung from under an ancient seal
skin sacque, and both silk and fur had
lost their compilations and were full of
a dead essence Of something that long
ago might have been violet perfume,
but which had been smothered summer
after summer in the camphored strong
hold Of an old French trunk.
Sally sat down on her knees and
began mending the torn place near the
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Sally sat down on her knees and
began mending the torn place near the
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She said to the new girl, whats the
matter with the elevator? Why isn't M
down waiting?"
She stabbed the buttons with q fin
ger that grew white to the point OF
cracking.
Two elevators came down together.
Then she saw Sally. "Well, haven't you
found work YETI"
"You said there might be something
in a week or so, Mrs. Starmart. You
thought"
There's nothing at ALL"
But please, Mrs. starmart, you saie'
Il"
Nothing. Nothing at ALL"
She went on down the hall an!
into n of the offices.
Sally turned to 60 out, blind with
disappointment, and stumbled into
someone coming in, and did not realize
it was old DR.. Print until after he had
smiled and passed her. There Is in GER
tain smiles an expression that Is not
only kind, but that seems a guarantee
Of the hearts integrity.
She stopped with her son clutched
in nj hand and her three dark pen
MES in the other, and as she had taken
hope from a band Of sunlight across
yellow bricks, now again she snatched
it from a smile.
She picked up the boy and ran up
the two flights of stairs to DR.. Prints
office, knowing that If she ran fast
enough she would get there before he
did In the elevator. She was sitting on
the bench beside his door when he
came along the upper hall.
from a distance he thought she was
a patient, and she could see him
Strengthening his sad tired face and
stiffening his old cheeks, getting ready
to be professional. He was one of those
forgotten, out-moded doctors who are
said to have lost their practice.
Sally knew very well the disappoint-
ment she was causing by not being a
patient, and she said timidly, Or.
Print, I have a favor to ask you"
He said, "Come in. Come in"
He unlocked the door and she stepped
into his waiting room. It had grown
strange in the short while since she
had seen 1t. There were no longer any
paintings on the walls. and only dark
patches showed where they had hung.
The tall black screen with the bur-
nished silver swans was gone, and the
tables with the delicate carvings and
inlays Of mother Of pearl. And sud-
denly she realized that his plight was
perhaps only a few degrees better than
her own, and she quickly put aside all
thought Of asking him to help her. To
embarass him after Disappointing him
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hem of the skirt. She prayed with tho
needle and thread to be taken by this
woman, to be given work again.
The lady said, "McLoughlin, look
along the stairway and see if you can
find the place where my skirt caught"
Then as the chauffeur went to look
she began to question Sally.
"You worked for Dr.. Print?"
II worked in the building where he
has his office"
What building?"
"Just around the block"
"But Dr.. Print has his office at Gen.
trail Park South"
the building right here behind you. His
windows look down on your yard"
The lady pulled aside the curtain and
looked up at the building whose 10 sto-
ries spread across the sky behind the
house. She stared up, and then she
said, HAS he crowds of silly women
still flocking to him?"
"Oh, no. He sees only q few old
friends now"
Getting lazy. They all get lazy"
She bent down and examined Sally's
stitches. you sew very well. Where do
you come from?"
up state. My uncle had q farm"
"You lev learned to sew like that
on a farm. Who taught you?"
my uncle's wife. We were neal tho
Canadian border and she was French.
What brought you to New York;"
after my uncle died his wife sold
the farm and went back to Quebec. He
loft mo a fam h,,nNroI INIlorc -
came to New York and learned type
writing"
Sally looked up into the thin old
face, wondering if this was the moment
to tell that in the office where she had
gotten her first job she had met jim
mics father and had married him, and
that there was Jimmie who had been
born in a time Of heartache just three
months after his father had died.
But just then the little dog which
had escaped from somewhere came in
carrying in his mouth the towel with
which he was being dried. As he came
shaking the towel fiercely and pranc-
ing with that wide comical motion Of
his front legs, Jimmie came running
from his corne to meet him, crying,
Here I am, Scuffy! Here I ami"
The lady said, "Who is that child7"
Hes NINE" She caught Jimmie and
held him.
But I can't have a child in the
house."
But he's so good. He won't bother
you. Please, he won't"
The lady said, mclaughlin, take the
dog back to cook"
Mclaughlin scooped up the dog and
the towel and went out with them I'M
der his arm. As he passed Sally he smil-
ed and she almost put out a hand to
keep him from going, feeling as Though
a friend and ally were DESERVING her.
But she went on pleading:
Jimmie is SO good. He never bothers
anyone"
And she wanted to add, Hes hungry.
He's only three years old, and he's
hungry"
The lady said, 'It's out Of the ques-
ton. I can't have a child in the house."
CTo Be C%ontinued)
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IN TWO PARTS-PART ONE
SALLY LESTER AND HER SMALL
SON, JIMMY, HAD IN ALL THE
WORLD ONLY EACH OTHER, AND
THREE DARK PENNIES WHEN
THE LONELINESS OF TWO OLD
PEOPLE INFLUENCES THEIR
LIVES.
The Washington times., 1934-07-14

himself, if you get what I
mean. And that's about as
easy as balancing yourself on
q Slack-wire!
The Washington times., 1934-07-14
Bank Relief Loans
No Political Pressure Here

L
The extent to which the bank relief act will
assist depositor Washgon closed banks depends largely
upon the attitude to be taken by Chairman Jones'
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Comptroller of the Currency j. r oConnor in comment
ing the fact that than twenty million dollars remain
frozen in closed institutions has plainly indicated that
his office plans take the matter up with Mr. Jones with the
object of obtaining additional loans with which to pay off
deposit liability.
The administration of the relief passed at the last
session of Congress Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration.
The of that liberal and they place large
of discretion Chairman Jones and those who with
him comprise the corporation.
Already the chairman has indicated that he will deal with
the banks upon basis of the law granting loans
the and liberal appraisal basis wherever possible
Washington in appealing to corporation for assistance
cleaning up closed bank mess occupies peculiar position
which it is well call to the attention of Chairman Jones'
IT IS REALIZED OF COURSE, THAT THE ACTIONS OF
THE CORPORATION ARE TO BE TAKEN ON BUSINESS
BASIS AND NOT ON POLITICAL BASIS YET, IN
GOVERNMENT CONSTITUTED AS Is OURS 1T IS NAT
URAL FOR EXECUTIVES TO CONSIDER THE POLITICAL
EFFECTS OF THEIR ACTS AND TO BE sWAYED. PER
HAPs UNCoNsCIoUsLY, BY THE POLITICAL PRESSURE
WHICH MAY BE EXERTED UPON THEM
We believe that the political factor will dominate the
action of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation under the
Mcleod -Steagall bill Certainly it should not.
Nevertheless there is no politicians from
une which have the will be hand urge Chairman
expedite and increase loans the banks in their
areas
WHEN CHAIRMAN JONES HEARS FROM THESE POLL
T1CIANs, WE HOPE THAT HE WILL REALIZE THAT
WASHINGTON, so FAR AS POLITICAL VOICE IS CON-
CERNED, IS MUTE.
We have here elected officials who interest them
selves in plight of the closed banks depositors
We cannot send imposing delegations with highsoundng
titles to the corporation asking for assistance
ALI. THAT WASHINGTON CAN DO IN THE PREMISES
IA TO PRESENT A JUST CASE FOR CONSIDERATION OF
THE CORPORATION THE CITY HAS SUCH CASE AND
THE CORPORATION KNOWS OF 1T OR WILL KNOW OF
1T WHEN THE TIME FOR INCREASING LOANS COMES.
But we urge Chairman Jones to remember this ct peculiar
situation when politicians bring their pressure to bear
behalf of other communities.
The Washington times., 1934-07-14
End the Delay
Get Rid of the Donovan Case

The delay and yooting in the of John L. Dono
oued empoye Of the National Recovery
il making that Administration aughngstock among the
millions whose destiny it is supposed to direct.
Here is outfit that purports to be settling the labor
troubles of the nation which supposed to be holding aot
the torch the New Deal yet being picketed unfair
to its employees by those who believe that Mr. Donovan
given deal.
One side says that Mr. Donovan discharged because
his activities He president of the NRA Lodge Of
the Federation of Government Employees The other side
that he discharged for other and that his dismissal
justified
We hold brief for Mr.. Donovan We hold brief for
Administrator Hugh Johnson who dismissed him.
But do believe that in all Of the vast machinery which
has been set up under the Roosevelt Administration there
be agency which could resolve the doubt
the merits of the contendng sides in the dispute
There has recently into existence the Labor Relations
Board to the National Labor Board.
The board might well start its activities by settling the
labor dispute within the National Recovery Administration
Let's get rid Of the Donovan before destroys what
little respect left for the fairndedness and constructive
spirit of the National Recovery Administration.
The Washington times., 1934-07-14
Two Great Americans
Tesla and Boas Prove That America Is the
Land of Progress
Nikola Tesla and Franz Boas.

Nikoa Tesla and Franz Boas
These foreignsoundng of two great Americans
two old years. yet young vitality and creative energy
Tesla who has just passed his seventy birthday
since he to America half century ago at the invitation
Of another great American Thomas A. Edison accomplished
hundreds of inventive feats.
The lighting system alternating power transmits
sion and the rotating field and induction motors
children.
Boas of the Department AnthrOpoOgy at Columbia
has just passed his seventy fifth birthday He probably
as much any other living about the origins mankind
He is now studying $50 American Indian languages.
Mankind said Boas his birthday grows and improves
Of the way behaves than because of heredy
Men growing taller for example, because of the
they lead and the sort of food they eat. He says
"There immigrants who here small stature but
by of better food and living conditions have been
known produce second generation of greater size because
of this environment"
Both BOa and Tesla grew their full their great intellectual
stature in this country Their provide proof that Ame
can conditions really do bring progress and improvement in
both the bodies and minds of the Americans both those who
American by birth and those who become American by adoption
The Washington times., 1934-07-14
Bu John ST1Ure, Jr.

In an anteroom OF one OF
Washington's office building
suites, a group Of men recently
discussed in loud tones one Of
the most important problems Of
the day.
Their discussion concerned
money, rather the lack Of it.
The gentlemen who converSed
were moguls Of the Republican
national committee. They were
seeking a way to secure cOntri-
buttons for coming congressional
elections from the die hard
group which still believes in the
leadership Of the Elephant.
At the conclave, Bennett Cor
don, staunch Republican stand
by, told the boys that they must
resort to the proper strategy to
secure necessary funds. Earl
Venable, equally staunch, was OF
the opinion that it wasn't the
strategy that counted as much
as the money.
All they knew was that the
Golfers needed a bit of popping
up, for not only was money
needed to assist in campaigns
but the carpets were getting
threadbare, the rent for the Of
fices was needed and salaries
had to be paid.
In Chicago, Chairman Henry
p. Fletcher has said that they
must raise 100000 to offset the
campaign expenses and bolster
I'D the actual financial credit
of the organization. Thus far,
however, Fletcher has raised
only $4,000 and that is prln-
cipally in promises.
So the boys talked in the
terms of big money. Even a
million dollars was mentioned
at one time in the session.
And while they were talking in
terms of such gigantic figures,
the bank account of the COM
mittee was feeling rather sick.
It tOtalled the gigantic sum
of five dollars!
Senator Clarence c. Dill,
Democrat of washington, one
of the most energetic men in
the Senate, announces he Will
retire from the race and not
seek reelection.
When Dill vacates his place
it will take an active man to
fill it.
Radio trust buster. opponent
of taxation of the little man,
he won a place that few others
achieve.
Sandy haired, sometimes sandy
mustached, he is a young man
of A years. But he kept them
guessing with his activity.
He was a former newShawk,
once a school teacher, and a
good lawyer.
He came to the Senate in 1922
after having served in the
House. In the upward climb he
became more popular and in
1928 when Alfred E. Smith lost
the State of Washington, Dill
won by q vast majority.