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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-13
DAILY SHORT STORY BUSINESS BEGINS Barney Fleck Was an Office Boy and He Tried to Initiate the Ways of His Boss Who
 Seemed to Ignore Him.
By LAURA B. MKIAfAnE

Exactly fifteen minutes to g Barney Fleck opened the door to Collins, Inc.
 He pressed the electric switch on the wall just inside the door, lean- ed swiftly sideways and scooped up bundle of mail from the soft carpet.
 On the glass panel of the door in front of which Barney had stopped was the word President" and he paused before this symbol of MT Collins overwhelming su- periority as a man pauses before insurmountable obstacles.
 Tossing the bundle of mail to chair he went over to Miss Hilde- brandt's desk and touched it gent ly. A notebook lay in a wire bas- ket on the corner of the desk. a rubber band slipped around the used pages, separating them, like the past, from the thrilled portion A pencil was thrust under the rub- Der band, and the boy ran his forefinger back and forth along the smooth surface of the pencil. Then. suddenly. sheepishly, he bent over and kissed it.
 He turned back to his own desk, which stood diffidently just inside the door.
 Then he went to the boss desk and from lower drawer-a catch all for mans office parapherna- lia-he fished a length of cheese cloth. He ran the gauge back and forth across the desk, lift ing out of its path with his free hand a picture of a woman and two children, all three smiling happily at something beyond the silver frame; walnut letter tray; and a block of onyx pierced by two black-and-gold pens.
 He had no more than replaced the cloth in the drawer when the door opened and his sensitive body seemed to quiver, to sway toward the young woman who had just hurried in.
 On the way to the office he had thought of all the ways he could speak to her, but what he said now was: Hello, Miss Hildebrandt."
 "Oh, hello there, Barney"
 She turned and looked not at him, humbly standing there in his new hat, but at the boss desk. It did not please her. It did not please her at all. She drowned and came over to where he stood: she strengthened the letter tray; brought the ink stand into perfect alignment with the desk pad, and tested the two pens on scrap of paper. Her fingers avoided touch
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GRANTS BAND CELEBRATED

Cuba City. Wis. (UP)-The Cuba City military band, which many years ago played for Gen Ulysses s. Grants birthday cele- bration at Galena, III, recently celebrated its 50th anniversary with the dedication of a new civic outdoor theater and band shell.
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CHURCH 800 YEARS OLD

Scituate, Mass - (UP) - The First Congregational Church cele- brated it's 300th' anniversary re- gently. It has bell in it's belfry which has been used for the past century. that weighs 1922 pounds and is believed to have cost 2S cents per pound.
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Answers to Previous Questions

Answers to Previous Questions CALHOUN served as vice presi.
 dent under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, from March 4. 1925, to Dec. 2S, 1892. He resigned to become senator from South Carolina. L'Ecole de Mannequins. or School of Modelling. trains young women in graceful bodily movement. boise. and balance. There were a few isolated importations of wallpaper before 1700. but that year brought the first consider. able importationS.
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touched it gently"
 was pushed negligently to the back of his head. Examining him cov- ertly, Barney was conscious of a dull sense of hopelessness.
 Miss Hildebrandt, across her typewriter, smiled a shy, welcom- ing tyou've-come-how extraordi- narily-nice' little smile and said Good morning." The boys greet ing followed reluctantly, as if for two pins he wouldn't say Good morning" at all.
 MT Collins did not speak; he barely nodded, just bent his head an instant. With a careless move ment that Barney knew he could never achieve he tossed his hat to the window sill and sat down at his desk. He pushed aside, quite heed- lessly, the things that were there; | opened the package he had brought with him and drew out a photo | graph. It was picture of grave, | level-browed woman and boy and l girl intent upon book. He held
 the picture beside the framed one,
 comparing the two groups. He ex-
 amined them carefully, feature by
 feature, unable seemingly to decide
 which he liked the better-the
 serious or the smiling woman. The
 whole world might have depended upon his choice.
 The boys lips twisted into "a little grin of satisfaction and his | glance fled across the office to Miss l Hildebrandt, his mind saying, That ought to hold you" She was not looking at MT Col lins. She was looking instead at her typewriter, looking intently as if her down-gazing eyes might never lift. And the curve of her mouth was restrained. more re- strained than it was before. Copyright, 1894, The Chicago Daily News, Inc.
 Tomorrow: "Rich Wife" by Norma H. Lazell, tells of a young scientist who married a wealthy girl despite the dire predictions of his friends. He insisted upon working while she passed her days with hobbies. But in the end it was her hobby that saved their ro-
The Washington times., 1934-03-09

what I think of these new
tangled idees."
"You mean you aren't going
to be present?" I asked in gen.
uine astonishment. why, Jud-
son, the mans your suspect"
Cant help that" said Jud-
son moodily. "I'll have one of
my men there and he'll take it
all down geographically. But
I'm going to stay out Of it,"
But, Judson," II hesitated,
for the fellows attitude had me
puzzled. You're not-you don't
think the Inspector doesn't want
you-he's not angry about last
night"
mot a Bit" replied Judson
promptly. "Anderson's prince,
if there ever was one. Called me
up this morning himself and
told me he understood exactly
how it had happened.
But I sure messed it up, Kay.
Half-a-minute later I'd been
there in that hall and caught
who murdered MacNalley and
hit Carroll-caught him right in
the act"
Were some detectives" I said
lightly, for I could see now that
the fellow was actually smart
ing under the unfortunate bull
he had pulled.
CHAPTER XIX
The use of scopolamin, some
times called truth serum" or
twilight Sleep" was at this
time just in it's infancy. Al
though it had been used with
spectacular success in the Far
West, its use was almost prac-
tically untried in the East. It's
history, as one of the major con-
tributions to the science of
criminology, today is almost too
well known to need any eXposi-
ton or great amount of explana-
ton.
It was invented, you will re-
call, by the famous physician
and criminologist, DR.. R. E.
House, of Ferris, Tex, who acci-
dentally discovered it in his
work.
This doctor, while in the midst
Of an operation, happened to ask
a question of one of the attend
ing nurses. and, to his great sur
prise, the question was an
Swered-and answered correct
ly-by his patient, who was
lying on the operating table. to
all appearances dead to the
world.
ETO Bo ContlnN0As
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TROLLEY L|NES|NRA v|OLATORS
SUED IN DEATH FACE Ak NOW

Immediate Federal prosecution
Of NRA violators throughout the
country loomed today, following
a decision of recovery officials
to ask Department of Justice
agents to probe over 5000 code
complaints now gathered in the
files here.
Shortly before this action was
launched, Brig. Gen. Hugh 8.
Johnson had stated that he has
been too gentle" with offenders
against Blue Eagle regulations.
Exact methods for cracking
down" on the thousands of pend
ing cases have not yet been de.
termined, but it was announced
that the legal division Of the
NRA will be greatly strengthened
with new personnel to prepare
for court battles.
General Johnson. it was re-
ported, is anxious to have the
constitutionality of "cracking
down. settled at once in the
courts, so that Federal proSecu-
ton of NRA violators can be
made swift and certain.
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FOURTH. H.DEGREE
Rv K. S. DAIGER

wants. Third degree-and truth
serum. He'll get him good
lawyer and the jury will dis
agree or Sumpin'."
JudSon was in deadly earnest.
There's something in What
you say" I argued. But if
Stokes is actually guilty, he'll
have to come across with the
real story o the murder. That's
the way the stuff works, as I
understand it. You just can't
lie. In that case, you'll have
just so much additional evi-
dence."
mot necessarily" said Jud-
son. Tins got plenty of sense.
He probably has told this fake
yarn so many times now that
he'll tell it again even under an
aneSthetic. That's what he's
countin' on, of course. Say,
Kay, does this stuff affect the
SubconScious mind-like mes
meriSm-do you happen to
know? Could Tim tell anything
that he hasn't already told?"
The SubconScious mind?" I
repeated. Eyes, I believe that
it affects both the conscious and
the subconscious minds, though
I'm not dead certain. I must
ask the doctor about that point.
The stuff sort of paralyzes all
the senses except that of speech,
you see. The reasoning facul-
ties have all been put to sleep
and the tongue just automati-
cally answers any questions that
are asked" \
Il think it's damn hard luck
for me-" answered Judson an
grhy. 1--we worked like the
very devil on this case. Now I
have to stand aside and see
these fools at headquarters
throw away a conviction. Won't
you talk to the Inspector"
Il think you're exagger-
atipg the danger, JudSon,"
I said laughing. Frankly, I
think it is a good thing"
I'm not going" declared Jud-
son. Its outside my line and
you fellows will have to work it
out. Besides I won't show my
approval by being present. I'm
handing out statements to all
the aftsyuoon papaCS S0Hin'
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Suit for $4,000 for the death
of Wilmer Lee Jett, 23-year-old
grocery clerk, who was found
dead on the street car tracks
near Glen Echo last July 81,
was filed against the Washington
Railway & Electric Company and
the Capital Transit Company in
District Supreme Court yesterday.
The declaration charges that
the car which struck the youth
was negligently. operated, that 1t
was moving at an excessive rate
of speed, and had insufficient
headlights.
Plaintiffs in the suit are Earle
e. Jett, of the $500 block Of
Warder st. N. w., and Charles
c. Jet, of the 17O0 block of
Irving st. N. w., brothers Of the
dead youth.
The young mans death pre-
cipitated a lengthy investigation
to determine whether he had met
with foul play. Several persons
were detained by Maryland
police but were subsequently re-
| leased.
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CH|CKIE'SDAUGHTER By E's"o's "'hs''"

don't know how blue your eyes
are and how gold your hair.
There's no other girl in the
world who's seventeen today
and beautiful as you are.
did you ever feel you were
on your knees to another per-
son and wanted to be there?
That's the way I feel about
you, Pippin. Please, please
don't send me back this brace
let. It would mean you don't
want to remember the beauti-
full time we had together. I'm
not sending it, Pippin, with any
remoteSt thought of holding
you. I send it only for remem-
brance and because the days
we had are precious though
there never come the like Of
them again.
II didn't ask if you wanted
my picture. I can't explain
why it seems so important that
I should send it. Perhaps in the
hope that you'll look at it once
in a while, think of me and
long to meet again under a
summer moon on high, high
hill-we shall, Pippin. You're
dear to me. You're very dear.
you'll always be. Forever yours,
Bill"
Pippin dashed a hand across
her eyes. She folded the letter
and blinked.
After a long while she stole
softly to her bureau. She set
Bills picture next to Kevin'S
and stared long while at the
two faces. Both were young;
both had strength. But Bill
was all boy; Kevin looked
man. Kevin's eyes laughed, but
they had power. They were
brave, flashing, imperiouS eyes
that even in a picture made
her pulse race-made her re-
member a day when he came
and knelt beside her. She
could feel his hands strong,
brown hands, on her arms.
She could feel his eyes, teasing,
yet tender. touching to her
very heart. She looked at his
mouth and grew red remem-
bering it's sweetness.
She murmured, aching: ION
my kneeS-glad 10 be tlaaEe-"
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and closed her eyes against
Kevin's face.
She felt near to Bill-tender
to him. He, too, had this lonely
hunger pulling on his heart.
Chickie didn't want her to
keep the bracelet. 1t was too
costly. 1t would give the young
man false hopes. But Pippin
fancied Bill opening her letter
with the bracelet returned. How
dark and forsaken he would
feel
That night when David was
alone. Pippin went to his study:
Don't laugh, Dad. Read this
and see if I can send the brace
let back"
David glanced up with a short,
catchy laugh: "Going to let me
read your love letter girl?"
He took the bracelet and
turned it slowly so that all the
beautiful lights cleaned.
Without opening the letter he
returned it to Pippin's hand He
said, blinking: you're right.
You can't send it back. Thanks,
awfully, for wanting me to read
the letter"
"Oh, Dad, I can keep the
bracelet? I can write and tell
him so?
She stopped down and gave
her father a rapt, fervent kiss,
murmuring so that he flushed:
you old darling! knew you'd
understand"
In a rush of tenderness and
tumult she wrote a long brIm-
ming letter. No wonder the
poets called it the sweetest story
ever told. And he was the first
who yer said so thrillingly II
love you" She would keep the
bracelet for remembrance and
because I love you great deal,
Bill dear. in a gentle. yearning
way and will love you and want
you for a precious friend
always. -"
The lonely lad stopping at a
remote South American port
read Pippin's letter. The world
and all it owned of beauty was
his.
more Tomorrow
Copyright. 1894, King Features
Syndicate Ine.)
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(C0ntinued from Local PGGe)
down with a grin, his eyes
beautiful and put a handker-
chief in her hands: "Me, too,
lady dear. Does something to
your throat. They're sweet,
aren't they?"
For days Pippin was haunted
with sad, wistful regrets. The
old books were closed. The old
relations ended. She would
enter a new world It h e
romantic college world. She
stood at her window, gazing
across sapphire waters and
wondering at the dark mystery
of the future into which she
now felt herself plunging.
Would love come to her?
She wanted a wild, great love
so terribly. She thought of
Kevin and stared, dreaming, at
his dark, winning face.
Then a touching thing hap
pened. 1t was her birthday. A
package came from Bill. He
was far away now. Two months
since he had left. But he re-
membered!
In the package was letter, a
photograph and a bracelet.
Pippin gazed at the blond
eager face and saw a sadness on
the sweet boys mouth; a Wist-
full seeking in Bills eyes. It
made her heart full so that she
wept a little, yet was glad.
The bracelet was a narrow,
delicately carved band set with
diamonds and emeralds. The
jewels cleaned with little
flames against Pippin's skin.
They were exquisite-a rapture.
Sweet Tumult
But it was Bills letter that
swept the girl with this strange,
yearning tumult-this emotion
that hurt, yet was sweet. Her
first real love letter.
"Pippin. dear:
"You diCn't want &"y
I love you. 'I Go me
to write it. F. its IN
day. All day long You'll ,e in
my thoughts. Ill be seeing
you each moment as you were
SO dear and lovely when you
Let me kiss you goodbye. You
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"Oh, yes, that parts all right.
But say, Kay, we're in the devil
of a mess down here. They're
going to give Tim Stokes the
truth serum this afternoon.
We're back Of it and there isn't
a man on the staff who knows
anything about it or who has
ever seen it administered before
except yourself. I don't sup
pose you could cover the story
but do you think you could read
it over after it's written and
make it read sensibly?"
who's going to write it?"
"Well, I think we'll have to
phone up to the Philly paper
and ask them to lend us one
of their men. Somebody that
knows something about it,"
I'm damned if you will" I
shouted, my professional jeal-
ously instantly aroused.
But are you sure you're
able?" insisted Reynolds. We
couldn't afford to have you fail
us at the last minute. Are you
out of bed yet?"
mot yet, but I will be in a
couple of minutes"
"Okay."
"Now, Judson." I said, II want
O drink, a good stiff one. II
you don't have it with you, go
out and get it,"
what do you think of the
truth serum, Judson?" 1 asked
as we proceeded with my toilet.
Don't give it a cents WORTH"
replied the detective promptly.
That's what I came up here
for-to see you and see II
couldn't persuade you and your
paper to call it off,
"Why?" I asked in surprise.
you're so modern and progress
sive. Judson. I should have
supposed you'd been keen for
anything like this. Don't mod
ern scientific methods appeal to
you?"
"I am progressive" COM
planned Judson. But juries
amt. When it's question OF a
crook, you've got to use the old
time ways. I've seen too many
good cases lost by this same
twilight sleep business.
Nov that's what Tim Stokes
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A WOn1anS Viewpoint
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

selves with hay or straw or some
such camouflaging material. and
BY means of an artfully concealed
weapon, about which the duck
poor witleSs bird-knows nothing,
they shoot.
True craftsmanship vanished
from the earth with the inven-
ton of the gun. Neither the lion
nor the elephant nor the deer
gets fair play when pursued by
any two-legged animal with a gun
which can carry death from afar
off.
My contact with SportSmen has
been long and close and friendly.
The typical ones are small boys
with inflated ideas of their proweSS
in field and stream. They dearly
love to visualize themselves as
kindly, tolerant, tender-hearted
beingsEand so they invariably are,
save to the game they hunt. I've
sat with them in their blinds and
in their company tramped the hills
and meadows in search of quail
and plover, and I have yet to meet
one who, if meat was shy, could
resist the temptation to fire both
barrels in a huddled bevy of birds
in thicket. or to take a ground
rake on a bunch of mallards.
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Aid Sought
for Youth
Film Series
Group From Twenty-one
Clubs Opens
Campaign.

The Youth Movies Association be-
gan drive this morning for addi-
tional patrons for its series of Sc
lected motion picture performances
for children at $3.50 on Fridays at
the Ritz theater and at 1920 on
Saturdays at the Uptown theater.
The organization, composed of
representatives from twenty-one
women's clubs, already has pre-
sented three programs of the series.
This week the program will include
Silly Symphony, Our Gang COM
edy, nature film, travel picture, news
reel and other short subjects.
Among the women joining the
drive to acquaint others with the
project are Mesdames Roy Churchill,
Carleton Herberger, Charles A.
Huff, Lehman Dunning, Clifton o.
Page, Gretchen Welliver, j. Paul
Lair, Stanley P. Hayes, Jack Ber-
man, Guy Wainwright, Charles Nu-
gent Paul Hurt, Norman Beatty,
Woodruff Randolph, William Row.
land Alien, Ralph Lieber, Marshall
Dale, Meredith Nicholson Jr, Alvin
Rasmussen and A. L. Fesler.
Others are MesdameS William
Collins, G. M. Garrett, Fritz Schae-
fer, H. Irving Reynolds. Lee Wood,
Laurens Henderson, Herbert Brooks,
Allen Greer, George Swain, Evard
Palmer, William Ellison, Lazur
Goodman, Sam Goldstein, Gene
We've Wells, j. Jerome Littel,
Thomas Harvey Cox, Clarence
Blakeslee, Herman Rhine and Har-
old D. Robinson.
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THE particular male group
u known as our Great Ameri-
can Sportsmen is cunning for this
columnist; hence, after one more
fling, I'm hiding out for the sea-
son.
With the usual last word gen.
orally accorded one of my sex, I
must call their attention to the
fact that they're going about un-
der an assumed name. The die
tionary proves it. My Funk &
WagnaIls, for instance. gives three
definitions for sportsman" "One
who INDUCES in field sports; one
who hunts big game; a partici-
pant who completes fairly, play
ing the game for its own sake
and not necessarily for the prize
awarded"
Without qlibbling we can agree
that, according to its immemorial
meaning, the word signifies one
who at all times deals fairly with
his foe.
And to speak, let us say, from
the point of view of the wild duck,
these men are hunters, not sports
men. The bird never has fair
chance at their hands. They hide
out in blind, covering them
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beautiful was as old as an impulse
among women as hunger. But you
would be very wrong.
There was a period-and not so
remote a period, either - when
young girls were lectured at length
on the wickedness of vanity" The
use of makeup in those days was
a shameful and secret practice. The
wearing of any dress too obviously
designed to allure was regarded as
the mark Of a huzzy.
A girl, if she was still unmarried,
was expected to attract her SWANS
by emphasis on the godly and
spirited virtues she possessed. Any
thing more frivolous was nothing
but an incentive toward impure
thoughts. And a married woman
well, married woman was ex-
pected to wear a cap and rustic
sedately about in low-heeled shoes
>and dresses that swept the floor, to
put net and herringbone necks in
her lOW-Cut dresses and keep her
eyes cast down. It was the obliga-
ton of every respectable matron to
be dowdy.
And that-believe it or hOt--Was
the attitude common to most of the
women of the past IL is true that
rouge pots and eye shadow have
been found in the ruins of remote
civilizations. But they were, in
most cases, the possessions of women
of shady character. Beauty, until
today, has been looked at some
what askance and the artificial en-
enlargement of beauty has been
viewed as downright sinful.
Our grandmothers and their
grandmothers, after all, had very
drab time of it. Most of the gay
and frivolous things of life were de-
MED them as Smacking of impro-
priety.
1t was not their business to charm
their husbands; it was their duty
to give him as many heirs as pos
sible. They held their men close
TO their sides by reminding them
of their duty to be faithful and not
by any effort to make them want
TO remain.
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Club to Meet IN Triton

Indiana Womans Democratic
Club will hold its spring luncheon
and meeting Tuesday in Upton
Bus reservations are to be made by
tomorrow with Miss Sara Henzie,
1907 North New Jersey street. Bust
ness meeting will be held at IL and
luncheon at 1890.
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Beauty Era
Proves Boon
to Business
Installation of Mirrors
by Subway Cited
as Proof.
BY GRETTA PALMER
Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, April 12.-The in
dependent subway system has dis
covered that women ike to primp.
It's income has been increased some
200 per cent by the installation
of mirrors.
Womans desire to be as lovely as
a siren. If possible, is one Of the
most important industrial factors of
our time. The gigantic cosmetics
industry could not exist except for
1t. Much of the advertising business
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Of the " Orl d
would disappear
if we all became
reconCiled to be-
ing frumps. The
Dire s S m a K ing
an d millinery
a n d ia c a |
maSSag e firms
would wilt and
pass away. II
is an impulse
which any bust
ness man must
view with re-
spect.
You mig h I
i'm a CINE that
t h e universal
desire to stay
" TTl1 n q n n