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needed was dolling up, don't know.
You can't look day over IS now"
do you really think SOP" Patience
slipped house dress over her new
wave gingerly. well, it's O lucky
thing you taught me to dance to the
radio, or I wouldn't be much in polite
sassiety. Col. Steele is a marvellous
dancer"
Jan looked suspicious.
You sort of like him, don't you?"
Patience laughed merrily.
Hes handsome, rich and charm
ing. Why shouldn't I? But haven't
told you the best part of 1t. told
him l was looking for secretarial
job and he says he's going to help
me-"
you don't have to go to work, I"
Jan began.
you, tool" Patience sighed. Shell
said the same thing. But you don't
think I'm going to live off you for
ever"
Shells board pays your expenses,
If you feel that way about it. But I
don't see how you can. Ever since I
was a baby you've spent money right
and left on me. My clothes. My edu-
cation. Doctor bills. It's about time
I did something. I'll feel lots better
If you do let me take care of you
while, honey"
"I know" Patience blew a kiss to
her. But I must live for myself,
darling. We don't know how long
this streak of good luck is going to
last We'd better dig for gold while
the digging is good. Then we can
60 back to Green Acres and laugh"
I'll never go back there" Jan
shook her head swiftly. I've been
thinking; we can bring father and
mother here in a few months after
we get all set"
Wouldn't that be wonderful"
Patience smiled with an effort.
Away from all the sand and heat;
| and they'd never have to worry again.
We could have little house on Long
Island somewhere and all be to-
gether"
oh" Jan put her hands to her eyes
swiftly, IF this mess doesn't turn out
right and I can't get another job,
won't it be awful?"
Don't be silly" Patience went into
the kitchenette to get breakfast
Shell knows what he's doing"
But she didn't feel any too certain
I
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much knew about secretarial work he
said he'd give me chance. At as
much o week as I earned in a month
in Kansas"
Jan was sitting on the couch. She
smiled with a great effort, but made
no answer. Patience looked at her
closely and saw that she was chalk
white and trembling.
What has happened?" She dropped
beside her, and put her hand on her
head. Are you sick. dearP"
lin all right" Janell closed
her eyes and lay back. "B-but had
a telegram"
Mothers worse" Patience gasped
fearfully.
"Oh, no." Jan hastened to reaSsure
her. Here it is" She pulled the
wire from her pocket.
Patience's hand shook when she
read it.
Call Plaza 4-sOool. An old friend" :"
Jan laid her head on Patience s
! shoulder and began to cry.
Il thought I'd better CALL" she
sobbed, because it might be impor-
tant"
who was it?" Patience took her
by the shoulders. Tell me-"
Tit was Hi Totten."
Patience felt the world falling about
her ears.
mol" she said nervously. 1T
couldn't have been. He wouldn't
have the nerve"
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U ~OL. STEELE is going to
help me find a lob" Pa
tience said excitedly when
~ Steele had left. Isn't that
grand?"
"The old cradle snatcher" Shell
exploded. I'm sorry I told him you
were my cousin"
Don't be silly" Patience was
amazed at Shells attitude of disap-
proval. Hes just a nice old man
who wants to help an ambitious girl"
Sure" He looked wise. And
who's going to do the cooking and
look after the aparament and take
care of Jan while you're working in
an office?"
She's big enough to look after
herself. I'll be home evenings in time
to get dinner-if get a job"
IT don't like it," Shell opined
gloomily. Jan needs you"
Patience looked annoyed.
Il won't sponge on her another
minute If I can help it. I've got to
get out and make a career for my
self. Surely you can see how I feel
about it."
Shell tried to act resigned. But
they ate their supper almost silently.
had a few more dances and went
home. 1t had been a very important
evening for Patience. She felt that
Col. Steele might really help her.
But when she said good night to
Shell and closed the door she had a
sinking feeling of disappointment
that the colonel had stepped into the
picture when she and Shell we're hav-
ing such good time. Shell couldn't
be jealous, of course. Not Of her. But
she lay awake long time puzzling
over his objection to Col. Steele's find-
ing a job for her.
Surely he couldn't think the colonel
had designs on her! Or that she
wasn't capable of looking after her
self in the big city. Perhaps it was
the champagne. He'd probably be all
over it in the morning. Finally she
i fell asleep.
Jan had awakened and was sitting
up leaning on her elbow watching
Patience when she opened her eyes.
1t was almost impossible to believe
| the girl beside her was her sister.
She bent back and kissed her.
Have good time, darlin'?"
Wonderful" Patience yawned and
stretched. I've luncheon date with
millionaire"
Jan laughed. "a bit touched this
morning after all the whoopee, eh?
! OR maybe it's the new hair cut"
| Patience jumped up and slipped
| into her mules.
You'll believe me when you see a
| limousine and chauffeur at the front
door, guess"
Jan stared. Truly? Who is hep
Col. Sam Steele, the big coal man,
I met him at the Cockatoo Club,
danced with him and got an invita-
ton to luncheon"
"Oh. I'm so happy for you! You've
always worked so hard. think Shell
is an angel to snap you out of it. Why
I didn't have the sense to see all you
Evening star., 1936-06-10
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THE same old bunkl All right, I'll
go. But II you don't finish with him
once and for all, I'll get in touch with
his father so fast it'll make his head
swim"
(To be continued)
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Her Lucky Number.

CHILLIcOTHE, Ohio OP.-Hazel
Temple has IL letters in her name.
She was born April IL to Mr.. and Mrs.
Marshall Temple. She weighed IL
pounds. Their first child was born De-
cember IL. Hazel was their eleventh.
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INSTALLMENT XXI.

INSTALLMENT XXI.
6I ~OL. STEELE is going to
help me find iob," Pa
tience said excitedly when
~ Steele had left. Isn't that
Evening star., 1936-10-19

contemplated Japan will possess not only
augmented access to the heart OF Asia,
but indirectly to Europe. Matching these
Japanese transportation developments in
the Far East, the U. 8. s. r. has vastly
extended its own rail facilities across
Siberia.
How to raise money for Japan's latest
plans causes grave concern in Toxic.
Bankers confess their inability to finance
profitably mere military railroads"
Their misgivings are not allayed by dis
closures that Japan has invested"
$685., ,0o0, 900 in Manchukuo since 1881,
$sl2,0O 1000 of which was spent for
maintenance of armed forces and Sup
preston of banditry"
In an address at Pittsburgh the other
day, Ambassador Saito said that Japan's
all-governing motive in seeking to put
Chinese Japanese relations ION the
right track" Is to "stave of the waves
of communism that threaten to descend
upon East Asia" Apparently the kind
of track" on which Toxic strategists
place principal Importance is one made
of steel rails. Japan is backing the iron
horse.
Evening star., 1936-10-19
The Franking Abuse.

Some day some member of Congress
with authority and q sufficient following
in both legislative houses will, in the
name Of good government, propose and
secure the passage of an act to abolish
the franking privilege. 1t will take
great deal of persuasion to secure such
an enactment. The privilege is so deeply
rooted, so widely used and misused that
it will be veritable major operation to
effect such reform. This matter has
been a perennial source of grievance to
the taxpayers of the country, who are
required to support mail system that
is saddled with the handling of an enor-
nous quantity of free postal matter.
Just at present this abuse is in the public
eye in the exchange of charges between
the political parties that the congress
sional mails are being overburdened with
campaign literature in enormous tom
mage, none Of 1t returning Q penny Of
revenue for the support Of the postal
system.
The franking privilege was established
in this country first as . service to the
revolutionary soldiers in actual service.
It was then gradually extended, first to
the executive body, to chiefs Of depart
ments and bureaus and to some special
clerks. All public documents were in
eluded tn the franking list. It was then
Evening star., 1936-10-19
Japan's Iron Horse.

Japan is evidently an apostle of Theo-
dore Roosevelt's theory of treading softly
but carrying big stick. Thus, while
Toxic statesmen are negotiating with
both China and Russia for adjustment
Of pending controversies-with Marking
regarding Japanese ambitions for crea-
ton of an autonomous North China, and
with Moscow, concerning border dis
putes-the island government announces
q five-year railroad extension program
designed materially to strengthen Japans
strategic position on the mainland of
Asia. At cost of s114, 900 900 it provides
for pushing $500 additional miles Of
railroad track right to the Soviet Unions
back door, where Siberia and Manchukuo
meet. The new lines, which will ira
verse bleak, bandit-infested Mongolia,
will enable the Japanese army to dis
patch troops to almost any point on the
remote frontier within two or three
days. The projected network having
been designed directly by the general
staff at Toxic, Its basic purpose Is unols-
guised.
Since 1881 Japan has built 1000 miles
Of railroads in Manchuria, the total
trackage there now being 5000 miles.
The 81 separate lines comprising the
system interlace some 100000 square
miles, q territory larger than Great
Britain, France. Germany and Belgium
combined. Japan finally will have laid
down 16 times as much rail mileage in
the great northern province as there
was at the end of the Russo-Japanese
war In 1905. With construction now
Evening star., 1936-10-19

Campaign fireworks that once prom
ised to consist largely of duds and squibs
are winding up in pyrotechnicS that lift
the contest to the level of the finest
American traditions. Some hard words
are being banded, but. except for the
usual whispering campaign, the great
debate is being conducted with becoming
fervor and dignity. While he is not
attracting as much attention as more
prominent spellbinders, former Secretary
of State cambridge Colby, speaking as
National Jeffersonian Democrat, is max
ing some of the most polished addresses
coming over the wave lengths. A master
of English, Colby also has an eloquent
delivery and an attractive radio per-
sonality" Oratory of the same cultured
caliber is expected from John w. Davis,
another Jeffersonian, who begins series
of campaign broadcastS tomorrow night.
The 1924 Democratic presidential NOM
inee, founder and executive committee
man of the American Liberty League, has
long been an acknowledge anti-New
Dealer, but until now has not waded into
the 1896 fray.
Former Undersecretary of the Treasury
Dean G. Acheson, who has just been
elected senior fellow of the Yale Corp,
can claim Harvard as an alma mater as
well as Yale. After taking his A. B., at
New Haven in 1915, he received his law
degree at Cambridge in 1918. Following
service as ensign in the World War Navy,
Acheson was private secretary to Justice
Brandeis for year and then entered
law practice in Washington. He returned
to the bar after his brief association with
the New Deal in 1888. Acheson is a
Connecticut Yankee by origin.
4 X y
President Roosevelts recent dinner
invitation to Bishop Gallagher OF Detroit,
Father Coughlins ecclesiastical superior,
is one of those little touches that stamp
F. D. R. as a master politician. The
Coughlinite vote in Michigan is estimated
to be somewhere between 100000 and
100000. There is, of course, no certainty
that the social attention shown to the
bishop will rally the radio priests sup
porters around the Roosevelt nag, but
politicians consider that at least con-
siderable switch of Coughlin strength
to the Wolverine New Deal ticket. both
National and State, must now be reck-
oned with.
Il
BY accident or design, depending on
the way you look at it-another rain OF
A. A. A. benefit-payment checks will de-
scend upon the farming community in
IL States during the course OF the next
10 days or weeks. In other words,
Santa Claus will be making his ROUNDS
in various rural regions Just about the
time the bucolic brethren are getting
ready to motor to the polls. PennSyl-
vania, New York and Maine Will De
among the first to get a slice OF the
$470 100000 cake to be passed around
under the soil conservation program.
Other States which will share in the
initial payments are Mississippi, LOU
isiana, Tennessee, Kansas, Iowa, North
Dakota, California, Delaware and Ver-
mont.
While more farm bounties are in
process of distribution. three OF the
country,s greatest industries-steel, tele-
phone and mail order-have taken action
that also pours timely water on the
Democratic mill by bolstering the recov-
cry argument. United States Steel an
Evening star., 1936-10-19
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Templeton Jones read o long way in
his ancient copy of Oliver Goldsmith's
History of Animated Nature" before he
realized Just what the old fellow had
done which made his prose read so
differently.
They thought more OF conscious
"styie" in those days than writer's OF the
present era. Now it is held slightly in
disrepute for an author to evolve style,
so-called.
He must Just let his thoughts and
words flow nowadays, but in the old times
the evolution of a conscious way Of
writing was considered necessary.
What Goldsmith did, in his natural
history, was to write in cadenced prose
which had a regular beat, almost every
sentence being divided into four Sec
tions, each with eight or more distinct
beats (not syllables).
1t was, in effect, Jones discovered, as
he perused this book little known or re-
garded today, prose in common time,
four-four or fox-trot time, to be exact.
Jones finally put down the section on
the squirrel in metrical form, with this
result:
THE SQUIRREL.
BY Oliver Goldsmith.
The squirrel in form resembles the
rabbit,
Though with shorter ears and a different
tail,
Which is extremely long. bushy and
beautiful.
And serves as an umbrella to protect it
from the injuries of heat and cold;
And, when extended, assists it in its
rapid bounds.
So great is the variety in this animal,
That it is impossible to give an account
of them all;
We shall, therefore, confine ourselves to
the common squirrel,
Which is less than a rabbit, and rather
more of reddish brown,
Though the breast and belly are deli
cately white;
The ears are ornamented with a tuft
of hair,
Deeper in color than upon the back;
The eyes are large, black and lively:
The legs are short, like those of q
rabbit,
But with rather sharper claws.
This beautiful little animal,
Though in its nature wild,
Is gentle and harmless
In its ways;
It's usual food is fruits. nuts and acorns,
Which it eats erected upon it's hinder
legs,
Whilst it's forepaws answer the purpose
of hands.
From its agility and lightness
It seems to approach the nature OF birds,
And will easily bound from one tree to
another
At the distance of thirty or forty feet.
Provident and sagacious in the time of
plenty,
1t always takes care to lay in a good
supply of winters stores;
And, in the hollow of the same tree
wherein it builds its nest.
It secures future support both for itself
and young.
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The nest Is generally formed amongst
the upper branches of a large tree.
Composed of moss, twigs and dried
leaves,
SO completely combined together as to
resist
The impressions of the most violent
storms;
In this nest there is small opening at
the ton
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granted to Senators and Representatives,
and even at one time to newspaper ex-
changes and petitions to Congress. After
the Civil War the privilege was SO ex-
tensive and SO much abused that it was
abolished by an act Of June 80, 1873, an
allowance of stamps being made to the
departments. A few years later 1t was
restored, and it remains today con-
slant and increasing burden upon the
postal service.
There is story extant that member
of Congress once sent COW by frank.
1t is probably untrue, but it nevertheless
represents the extent to which this
privilege has been utilized for the sending
of all kinds of matter of wholly per-
sonal interest through the mails without
charge. Every campaign year the mails
are choked with documents of partisan
character, thousands Of tons being dis
tributed to voters in all parts OF the
country under the franks Of members
Of the two houses. 1t has lately been
charged that between five and six mil
lion letters carrying Republican cam
paign material have lately been mailed
under the frank of one Republican men,
ber Of the House, and counter charge
alleges that about 100000 cards of a
campaign character are now in process
of addressing and mailing under the
frank of a Democratic member.
The postal service has never been self
sustaining, and it certainly never will be
as long as the franking privilege is SO
grievously abused. The cost of carrying
all this material, tons upon tons of it,
is really borne by the public at large.
If the franking privilege were reduced
to actual needs Of the Government, in
cluding even the members of the House
and Senate, it would be possible to ap-
proximate balanced postal budget. 1t
would even perhaps be possible to lower
the rate of postage for private mail mat
ter. 1t would add to the efficiency Of the
postal service, which is now taxed with
the handling of free mails.
During every session of Congress great
quantities of campaign material are print
ed in the Congressional Record under the
extension of remarks" privilege. All Of
these articles may be sent through the
mails under frank. They are not in truth
extracts from the legislative debates.
The words printed were never uttered
in House or Senate, but the moment
they are given print in the Record they
become eligible for free mailing and dis
tribution, sometimes with small, virtu-
ally a nominal, charge upon the frank
ing member for the actual cost Of re-
production.
This is not good Government business.
1t is an extravagant waste, and it is q
reflection upon the supposed efficiency
OF the American people in the manage
ment Of their own affairs.
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just large enough for the little creature
to enter,
But over it there is kind of canopy, or
cone,
Which projects out beyond the ingenious
dwelling,
And completely secures the aperture
from the rain.
In this retreat the tender parent
Brings forth and cherishes her young,
Though it is sometimes attacked
BY most rapacious foe.
The martin, unable to form q dwelling
for itself,
Frequently makes incursions upon the
squirrels abode,
And first destroys the ingenious archi-
tect,
And then takes possession Of her house.
The squirrel is never found In open fields,
Or in low copSes Of underwood;
But chooses its residence among the
tallest trees
And never descends to the ground
But when driven thither by a storm.
In Lapland, and the cold countries to the
north.
They change their habitation at Winters
approach;
And travellers Of known veracity posi-
lively declare
That thousands migrate in bodies at
time;
Neither rocks, rivers or forests impede
them:
And If they find the waters too wide for
them to attempt to pass,
The whole company returns to some
y,aiuhhorgpo fOraSt
To provide themselves, separately, with
piece of bark.
In this manner the little feet puts out
to sea,
Each tanning the air with its bushy tail;
But it often happens that these adven-
turous mariners
Are unable to contend with the fury OF
the waves;
And, instead of reaching the wished-for
port,
Are suddenly entombed in a watery
grave.
Their lifeless bodies are washed upon the
shore,
And the Laplander seizes them as de-
sirable prize:
For their flesh is esteemed as a great
delicacy,
And he disposes of their skins for
penny each.
Il
It will be seen at once that Goldsmith,
with the understanding of true artist,
did not in any sense attempt to write
poetry. or even poetic prose, as it is
sometimes called.
He simply wrote in the balanced style
which was in vogue in his times, and
carried the style bit further by bal
ancing not only one thought against
another, but whole phrases and clauses
against other phrases and clauses.
He further amplified the form by end
ing the clauses with words which seemed
to balance and call for more; some of
these were of one syllable. many the
so-called feminine rhymes, only, of
course, they did not rhyme.
Nor. of course, was there any exact
syllable system used; as may be seen
above. the lines" run from to 20
"Syllables": 1t is more on the order of
Walt Whitman than any one else, but
not that. either
1t is, indeed, simply a cadenced prose,
once the reader gets the idea and hang"
of it. 1t is interesting to observe that
Goldsmith writes his entire Animated
Nature" in this style. 1t does not grow
monotonous. however. but rather lures
one to read on. More authors might
adopt with profit some such stylistic pro-
gram.