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that it was presented to her, she
didn't want it.
"Oh, I'd love to, but I've got
to do some washing and ironing
tonight. See you at dinner"
she said, and hurried on up the
stairs.
Hes got a heck of a nerve"
Margot said. What does he
think he is, Romeo? Why should
you want to look at a moon with
him? Let the Fricks have him,
if that's his style. Well, you live
and learn every day. I took
him FOR a Spender!"
CHAPTER XVI
Mary had another revulsion
of feeling. Margot Patterson
was just a little TOO hard
boiled. After all, is it a crime
for a man to take you riding
for a change? And he'd spent
$40 or $50 on her already, for
theaterS and after-theater sup
pers.
All through dinner she
thought about it, wondering how
she could tell him she'd changed
her mind. But he made it easy
for her by coming over to their
table while she and Margot
were finishing their coffee.
"I was just wondering if that
washing and ironing couldn't
wait a night. just remembered
that this is the last night Of
that show at the Curran you
wanted to see, and If the wash
ing and ironing could watt"
why don't you go to the
show and then rush right
home?" Margot suggested, with
a not too delicate kick in the
shin Of Mary, "and do the IRON
ing when you get in? I'll be
the Christian martyr and do
the washing for you, with
mine"
Mr.. Holden beamed. Nov
that's mighty nice of you, Miss
Margot-"
Mary felt guiltier than ever.
'Well, I'd love to, but"
"Oh, go ahead, Mary!" Mar
got said.
IF you really want to see
that show, too, Mr.. Holden"
Anything you want want,
too, Miss Mary"
When they were upstairs in
their own room again Margot
said, Tonight he'll ask you to
call him Milton, and then he'll
tell you what a lonely life he's
led and how nobody ever un-
derstood him. And tomorrow
night, the moon still being full,
he'll"
''Margot, I think you're mean!
I've got to treat him halt way
decent when he does so much
for me"
You'll have to treat him
darned carefully if you don't
want him crying on your neck.
Not that it would be such a
calamity. He's a good solid citi-
zen-a little too solid around
the middle, don't you think?
And when he's sure you're as
good as you are pretty he'll Of
fer to make you Mrs. Holden
if there isn't one already. BY
the way, I can look that detail
UP for you-"
I'm not interested, thank
you!"
"You could do worse. I tell
you he has serious intentions,
Mary! I know the look"
well, if he has, haven't"
Mary grinned.
But she couldn't resist trying
the effect of her new flowered
chiffon she had bought last
Saturday. If a man was inter-
ested in her. he'd certainly be a
little more interested when he
saw her in that soft gray, with
its cloudy pink flowers that she
and Margot had finally decided
were water lilies. She had new
gray suede pumps, and a little
coquettish flat gray straw hat,
and because she had not yet
bought the gray coat that was
to complete the ensemble, she
borrowed Margot's dyed squir-
rel.
(TO be cOntinued)
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Features Syndicate, Ine.)
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The Charleston authorities were glad indeed to
provide swift boat to take Richards and the other
two pirates back to the Revenge after their rlotouS
visit ashore. From Governor Johnson'S Office went
O case Of medicines.
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NOW READ ON

Unless she had little luck, and someone loved her
again. if that ever to be-. go
And if it was why couldn't it be NOW? NOW, while
she still ached from the pain Of losing jamie while she was
still homesick for the folks and she sort Of expert
menting marking time waiting for something to happen
. why couldn't she MEET someone now? It didn't have
be rich boy, terribly handsome one she dlon
mean all the things she told MargOt-she wasn't just on
&lA~ oIrnl
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but to save the lives Of our citizens whom
you hold prisoners. Should harm come to any one
of them, shall have your head put up at White
Point" johnson personally saw the pirates of.
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''LOve Blind
Beautiful Mary Shannon
Confronted With An
Age-Old Problem
WHAT HAS HAPPENED

Young and beautiful Mary Shannon secretary IN the
A. A. Heeley Steamship Company, is broken-heGrted
1Ohen sociaHyprominen Janie" Todd, jr becomes en-
gagged to Nesta Granger, one of his o'On set.
To add to Marys sorrOW, her Aunt Whtae, 6roodtm9
over prank her co-1VorkerS played on her, commits
suicide Then Mr. Shannon loses his position. MdryS
parents move to PetGImG but she remains IN Oakland
because of her uork She IVes at Mrs. Henrys oodra-
ina house aUith a friend, MGrgot Patterson
Mary decided to change her mode of hvimg and did,
She OGs going to get all she could out of life like Morgot
4Uko considered 1t aOase Of money to pay 1or your o0"
entertainment. ,
Mutton Holden, an insurance broker bald and tat bnt
a GOOD dresser comes to the boarding house. Au the
rIc ME fnrh
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It was such chest as required two stout men to
lift. The Governor wrote this message TO 60 with
it, ITO Ed Teach called Blackboard the pirate
These medicines are sent you, not to your life
or your sight
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OvercrOwding the Schools
Inviting Disaster

Washngton schools crowded last year and there
many complaints that children not receiving the attention
that they required.
DR. Frank W. Balou superintendent Of schools reported to
the Board of Education Wednesday that the enrolment the
schools the first of this month five thousand IN EX-
CESS of the enrolment February 1 of last year.
In the meantime Washington had done very little provide
necessary school accommodations for this increased pupil load
We building up classroom shortage that mperi the
value of educational system because of foolish belief that
the way to curta the cys budget is to cut the school
preparations.
We have forced additional five thousand children into
school plant that ALREADY INADEQUATE.
Knowing this doing nothing to improve conditions.
The District appropriation bill passed the
carry penny for the purchase of land upon which build
schools The appropriations for continuing construction
meager.
The number of children of school in the city increasing
along with the adult population There every
leve that it will continue to increase
To prevent complete breakdown of the school system
Washington through its civic associations would do well
give thought this continuing increase of school popua
tion and failure to provide school accommodations
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Minister o I AuaA Osu"h
War who speaks for the army,
which dominates the Tokyo
government today.
The Admiral puts the United
States on notice that Japan in
tends to object to the future
fortification of the Territory
of Hawaii or of any of the in
slllar possessions of the United
States in the Pacific.
RENEW DEMAND
This is not an altogether
new position for Japan to take.
AT the Washington Conference,
in the first year of the Harding
administration, Japan proposed
the abandonment of all further
Notifications not only of Guam
and the Philippines and the
islands in between, but even of
the Aleutian Islands and of the
Hawaiian Islands.
In order to induce Japan to
agree to any naval limitation
the United States surrendered
to the Japanese demand except
in so far as the Hawaiian Is
lands were involved.
The Harding administration,
in order to prevent the Wash
ington Conference from being
longer deadlocked by japan
weakly agreed to stop fortify-
ing all of our insular posses
sions in the Pacific with the
single exception of the Hawaiian
Islands.
Japan having greatly in.
creased her naval strength by
the other surrenders made by
the United States to obtain
treaty of naval limitation at
that time was willing to accept
this partial ' surrender to her
demand until she was in a more
advantageous position to renew
her original demand.
Now comes the renewal of
Japan'S original demand. In
the meantime Japan has noti-
fled the United States that the
Washington treaty will not be
renewed two years hence. Japan
has built up her navy to treaty
strength. The dictatorship which
rules Japan today has inter-
preted to the japanese people
the abandonment by the United
States of the Philippine Islands
as being prompted largely by
the fear of the American Con-
gress that unless the United
States gets out of the Philip
pines voluntarily it will be
forced out by the army and
navy Of Japan.
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rior? Why do YOU and l spend
much of our lives with people
whom we can't respect, often
don't even like?
Because you're lonely?
Chances are, that's your an
swer. But there's deeper and
less admirable reason
They did tive do it-because
it makes the going easier for our
laziness, softer for our cuSSed-
ness, SWeeter for our conceit.
SELF-ESTEEM
Our equal challenges us-our
superiors all too often humiliate
us-but our interiors make us
feel Big Shots by comparison.
And that's the deepest hunger
in every life-to feel like a Big
Shot.
Most of us can endure hunger,
cold, rags, physical agony and
mental despair of many sorts,
but we MUST preserve our self
esteem or life becomes blank.
All of which is both natural
and admirable. This human
race would still be a mess Of
peevish pollywogs in some pri-
meval pool were it not for that
divine spark of egotiSm which
makes each one of us want to
strut his stuff.
But some of the methods by
which we attain that strut are
not so hot.
For why should we struggle
and sacrifice to make good with
Grade A citizens if, with no
effort at all. we can attain the
same sense of initiation with
Grade F, merely by letting them
hang around?
So we reason.
Why do Master Mind Males
marry worthless. nitwit females
whose sole technique consists
in cooling - Aren't you Won
nerfool?"
That's why.
THEY GOTTA STRUT. E.
AND THIS IS THE EASIEST
WAY!
But, of course, it isn't really
the easiest way.
TRAGIC WAY
In the end, it is the most
costly and tragic way. For the
Big Mind that ceases to strug.
gle soon ceases to be a Big
Mind, and reverts to the polly
wog status rom whence it
came.
Of all vicious addictions,
none is more deadly than this
yen for interiors.
Look out for a life that
holds no criticism. no competi-
ton, no challenges.
1t will take the stiffening
out Of your backbone, the
wallop out of your blood and
the zip out Of your brain tasteH
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Greatest Show On Earth
Bu John Snure, Jr.

have power to force "crop
adjustment" instead of "crOp
reduction" only.
He based his argument on the
theory that the triple A should
be permitted to sanction in
creased production in certain
areas, as we'll as reduction.
Gray has objected to many
of the Wallace policies. He
vigorously opposed the Secre-
tary of Agriculture on his
money policy.
According to Gray, the pres
ent deUaluGted dollar has been
responsible for about 40 per
cent OF the benefits thus far
received by the farmer in the
Ne1U Deal.
He contends that further de-
valuation would increase the
benefits as the farmer, he says,
would receive a greater income
but could control his expendi-
lures.
Senatorial privilege took .
strange turn recently.
An elevator operator, taking
Senator James F. Byrnes, of
South Carolina, Administration
favOrite, to the subway, heard
the three rings which advise
that a Senator awaits.
The ring came frome the first
floor, the ringer was Majority
Leader Joseph T. Robinson.
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Legion Declares War
In Behalf of AMERICA

The most powerful and active patriotic force in the
United States today is the American Legion
It is dedicated to the creed of Americanism.
It is sody aligned against Communism and every other
imported ISM
It wants peace with all countries-ts members know the
realities of better than professional pac it
knows also that the price of peace is preparedness
Its program for the Nation is founded fancies
It deserves the hundred per support of every and
bensible citizen.
Frank N Begrano r national commander of the Legion
made speech in New York few days ago that charts the
course Government should steer and must steer if
America s heritage is to be preserved
Commander Belgrano said:
"Our land is filled uvith the propaganda of alien
"isn1s. The agents of Communism preach their doc
trine of destruction openly. They haUe invaded
schools and churches They calling openly
for revolution to OUerthroW Government and set
up the political SLAVERY of MoscoU.
"WE OF THE LEGION ARE Modified TO
MAN TO COMBAT THAT MENACE. WE ARE
CALLING TO YOU-TO EVERY PATRIOTIC AMER
ICAN-TO JOIN US IN THIS WAR ON THE EN-
EMKES OF OUR REPUBLIC.
eff Europe wants its Communism, Hitlersn1, Fascisn
any other isn1, let them haze it, Here in America
there is room only for An1erlcanlsn1
And turning the subject dangerously weak national
defenses Commander Belgrano continued
ave demand:
by the London treaty, and the men to them.
&c. standing army of sufficient strength to protect
our shores, supported by National Guard and trained
citizen sufficient to form the nucleus of c
army in time of War
go. An adequate air defense of coasts and pos
sessions"
In days when patriotism often at discount, the
Legion looms up bulwark Of liberty and security great
rock in land weary OF quack experiments and crazy the
orizing.
"Kcep America American and keep it safe for its
people" is the total of uhat this mighty
gdnization stands for.
The Nation may well congratulate itself that such
ganizaton existsa million strongto it of perls at
home abroad and safeguard against the foes of its
household
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Sarcastic people aim to have
the last word; they want to see
the victim SqUirm.
When it seems that the biting
shaft has no apparent effect.
they lose a great deal of the an
ticipated satisfaction.
Sarcasm grows on the one who
uses it.
Pitterress begins to show in
tht doWn-turned mouth.
Look in your mirror and see
If you can detect sarcastic eX-
preston.
You don't like +he looks Of 1t,
so why cultivate something thai
eventually spoils the disposition
and ruins good looks?
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
D.. Syndicate, 1nc.l
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Adams fears his camera
would be seized and that they
might go so far as to eject
him from the Senate.
The old adage of "like
father, like son" seems to
apply in the family of Albert
j. Beveridge.
Albert j., BeUeridge, jr., SON
OF the outstanding Progressive
leader, is the editor of one of
the newest liberal magazines.
Within a few days Repre-
sentative Marvin Jones (D.)
Of Texas, chairman of the
House Committee on Agri-
culture, is expected to receive
recommendations from the
Department of Agriculture per-
tanning to amending laws for
the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration.
Few drastic changes in the
present laws will be advocated,
according to expectations.
Farm organizations, partic-
ularly the American Farm
Bureau Federation, which is on
the outs with the Agricultural
Departments Secretary, Henry
A. Wallace, had hoped that
the A.A.A. act would be
amended.
Chester Gray, legislative
counsel for the Farm Bureau
Federation, has advocated a
change in the wording of the
law so that the A.A.A. would
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for a double play, and would
reach his base in time.
While this complex perform
ance was going on, the short
stop was running headlong
with all his might to intercept
the ball, which was bouncing
irregularly at high velocity. He
weighed his chances and de-
cided for the double play. But
the tenths of seconds were
precious.
All manner of messages had
to be forwarded to the brain
in the last few hundredths of
a second. Every bound of the
bouncing ball was slightly diff
ferent from every other bound,
calling for constant changes in
the orders issued to his muscles.
1t would be no exaggeration
to say that several thousand
messages" had been handled
in the brief interval from the
time the batsman hit the ball
to the time the double play
was completed. Yet everything
was executed with perfect ac-
curacy and SmoothneSs. The
IN NAL mechanism was not
even overloaded.
CONTRACT BRIDGE
This marvellous mechanism
has grown up as a result Of mil.
lions of years of defensive and
offensive warfare. In the far
away days, when man was an
animal with the other animals,
and every creature was likely to
be involved in deadly combat at
any moment, a tremendous pre-
MUM was placed upon accurate
observations and quick action.
And so, throughout the cons of
time, the slow and the inexpert
were killed off and the quick
and the expert survived.
After civilization came, mimic
warfare was introduced in the
form Of games which depended
upon skill and quick action. Of
late we have introduced games
involving no quick physical ac
ton, but instead, quick and &C.
curate mental action.
Contract bridge is the latest
of these. But whether it be a
game with quick physical or
mental action it is still battle
to the death, with no quarter
shown by the opponents.
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Syndicate, 1nc.)
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fort to reach the ball. 1t is
a hard run for him, and there
is doubt whether he can make
it. Unable to catch the ball,
he reaches forward with both
hands, and scoops the ball into
the hands of the second base
man, who has come up to
cover his base. The latter,
catching the ball, with his foot
on the bag, snaps it over to
first, and a double play is
made. The entire proceeding
is over in six seconds.
ANALYSIS AMAZES
The mechanism which accom-.
plished this action fills the
thinking mind with awe. An anal.
ysiS of what went on amazeS
one. First, the Shortstop heard
the crack Of he bat. Next, he
saw the ball start. The "tele-
grams" sent by his ears, and by
his eyes, to his brain had to be
correlated, a decision had to be
made, and orders issued to the
various departments in his brain
which would start his motive
power into action-in the right
direction and at the right speed.
A tenth of a second after all
this initial action, the short
stops eyes had to send in re-
peated messages informing the
brain whether or not the ball
was gaining and how the bounc.
ing on the ground was progress
ing. Also his eyes had to observe
whether the man playing second
base recognized the opportunity
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Every Hour Is Zero Hour
In Traffic

Streets dangerous than trenches
One child out of every three faces the probability being
killed injured automobile accidents before he has reached
the age of S.
This shocking state of affairs revealed by insurance ex-
per studying the circumstances of the $4,000 deaths from
auto accidents last year.
you don't want be the unfortunate one of the three
keep your eyes open and wits clear when you
street when you drive Every hour zero hour Everv
minute contains barrage of danger.
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Once-Overs
Sarcasm Breeds Bitterness = sarcas

Sarcasm Breeds Bitterness
Sarcasm is a two-edged sword!
In the end it hurts the one
who indulges more than the one
for whom the cuts were pre-
pared.
Some people think that sar-
casm has no comeback.
In that they are mistaken.
To be left alone to think it
over is as effective a punish
ment as could be meted to the
sarcastic enc.
1t is not the reply expected.
Sarcasm is intended to stir to
wrath and humiliation-to cut
deep.
To be ignored hurts more than
any outburstn
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Mount Washington, Of the
Presidential Range, is really a
depression in the earth's sur
face which looks high only be-
cause the surrounding country
is so much lower?
the great General Han
nibal was really a woman, and
a five-foot-two woman at that?
one years supply of that
other condiment that comes in
the second jar on a horse-rad-
ish cruet, would not cover one
square foot of a city the size of
Rochester, N. Y?
no one has ever actually
seen Brooklyn bridge? It is
merely an action of light waves
on the retina of the eye.
-eel-graSs, such as is now
used to entangle oars, was once
a delicacy in Egypt?
If you were to inhale stead"
lily for. Is minutes, without
once exhaling, your head would
touch the floor in back of you?
Frederick the Great once
gave a walking stick to Voltaire
which bent double every time
he leaned his weight on it,
which was the reason that Vol.
taire was such a cynic?
the reason why it always
says twenty minutes past
eight" on those big watches
that hang outside jewelers.
shops is because that is actually
the time at the particular mo-
ment when you are looking at
it?
These and 100000 other fasci-
mating facts, you will find in a
little booklet called How to
Roll a Hoop" which I am pre-
pairing for a few friends as a
birthday surprise to myself.
I am verifying each fact as
I write it in, which explains
why it is taking me such a
terribly long time to get the
h00klet ont
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Congress Holds Money
Needed for Defense
By James T. Williams, Jr.

The dictatorship which rules
Japan today omits no oppor.
tunity to discredit the leader.
ship Of President Roosevelt by
giving the widest japanese pub
licity to the views of those
Senators and Representatives in
Congress, who for one reason
or another have opposed the
efforts of President Roosevelt
to build up the Army and the
Navy and the merchant marine
of the United States.
The speeches of those who
follow anti-RooSevelt leadership
in the field of national defense
are exceedingly helpful to the
dictatorship which rules Japan
and iT striving to make the JAP
anese people believe that the
demands of the Japanese gov
ernment in regard to the navy
and kindred subjects will be
hailed with sympathy by large
part Of the American people.
Herein lies the danger of the
existing condition in the rela-
tlons between the United States
and Japan. Nothing that the
Government at WaShington
says in reply to Japan's de.
mands either regarding the
navy or the limitation of the
tortification of our insular DOS
sessions in the Pacific will have
much weight in Japan at this
time.
INVITE CONTEMPT
The only way that the Con.
gress of the United States can
promote peace between the
United States and Japan is for
the Congress to support the
leadership of the President by
actually appropriating the
money necessary to build up the
Navy to treaty strength, to
build up the Army to the peace.
time strength authorized by the
national defense act, to provide
both the Army and Navy with
the aircraft recommended as
urgently necessary by the Baker
Committee and the Howell Com.
mission and to call a halt upon
the Senatorial and Congress
sional Sapping expeditions
against the national defense and
its auXiliaries-our commercial
air transport and our merchant
marine.
The money necessary to do
these things will amount to far
less than the cost in life and
treasure which the American
people may be Iorced to suffer
in the years to come if our good
friends across the Pacific are
lured, either by publicity seek
erS here or the seekers after
autocratic power there. into the
mistaken belief that the Ameri.
can people are content to see
the Pacific Ocean transformed
into a Japanese lake.
No nation can hope to retain
Japan as a friendly neighbor
which forfeits the respect of the
people of Japan.
And any nation that supinely
surrenders its rights and Su-
pinely abdicates it's RESPONSE
bilities in the Pacific is certain
to invite the contempt of the
proud people of Japan and
must expect to suffer the in
evitable consequences of such
a misfortune.
(Cnnvripht 1N2s Tha Wa hinnrn. Tim A.
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m a n knocks
a S h a r p
b o u n d i n g
G rou u n d er
The S h r t.
stop div ve S
&C ros the
diamond to
field the ball,
the man on
first races to
second, while
the batSman
makes a dash
for first The
S h or t S t o p
must make a
I 4 -
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that man."
How many
times h av e
you h e a r d
t h o Sc ques-
t i o n S, or
asked them?
P e r h a p S
they've been
asked about
you!
w e ! l.
W h a t S the
a n S W e r !?
Why DID he
or she mate
with that OBJ
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which rules
Japan today
with an iron
hand, speaks
through h e
Minister of
the Navy, Ad-
miral OSumi.
The views of
the Admiral
are given to
t he W orl d
through his
adjutant and
represent, of
c o ur e, the
views of the
Minister of