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The Dfu1lkardSM Wife

get something. In the meantime, what
about little drink"
Martha rose and stood beside him.
Listen, Nick, you know hate nagging
at you. If you start, you won't stop.
You have to be on again in less than
an hour. A matinee isn't an irretriev-
able disaster, but this is Saturday
night"
Nick's face went hard and express
sionless. Sorry, dear-you mean well
M1but have the filters. must have
Martha's voice was low and gentle.
But darling, I'm SO scared. Sam Ober-
stein just called me up to tell me how
it's getting round that although you're
so marvellous, you'll be washed up when
the runs over. No one will have YOU
you are not reliable"
Her husband ignored her appeal. He
looked in the cellarette, found, all the
bottles mysteriously empty, went behind
the screen and took a flask from his
overcoat pocket. He tossed off double
brandy and squared his shoulders. THE
rawlings of delirium, Martha. I'm the
best actor on Broadway"
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Take heed young woman-it's the
IF you were I, Mr.. Oberstein,, what
would you do?" Martha inquired in a
I'D reason with him. I'd point out
what he was doing for himself in a
nice quiet way. I'd beg him to toe the
line for my sake. Why, when nothing
else has any effect, man will toe
the line for"
what good ideas you have, Mr..
Oberstein. Why don't you do it?"
Il talked myself hoarse," he barked,
but amt the woman Won, 1h, he l 4ve heen
doing?" Martha came back at him.
DO you suppose stand aside and let
him destroy himself before my eyes?"
There was a short electric silence.
Then Sam Oberstein said persuaSively
Listen, Mrs. Linley. Three years ago
you was on the road up. If you'd
stayed you'd have been the tops. You
got future. Why not come along and
sign up with me and get back where
you belong?"
Martha sighed How I'd love it,!
But YOU know why I quit better than
anyone else does, knew I'd have to
be on the job all the time knew I'd
have to take care of him. That STU
alton still exists"
women are FOOLS" said the agent
bluntly. But how can you cure them?
You're worth so of a drunken bum
that's all the worse for having talent.
But don't kid yourself your sacrifice
is doing any good. They're on the
edge of kicking him out, and then
youth both be in Queer street."
you're wrong" Martha said violent:
Nv. Hes going to snap out Of it and
I'm going to help him. At present its
out Of the question for me to have a
career. I've got to stand by"
TITS your funeral" said the cynical
voice, when you've changed your
mind, just let me know"
Martha dropped the telephone as II
it burned her. Slipped into a fur coat
and took a taxi to the theater. On
her way to Nick's dressing room she
encountered the stage manager with
an abnormally sour face, even for him.
He said-"I can't get an audience with
our divine Apollo, so I'd like you to
give him a message for me-"
Certainly" said Martha politely.
Tell him he won't last out the run
with that show girl attitude to his
work. What do lines matter If God
gave me beauty?'"
The hot blood burned in Martha
cheeks, But she couldn't blame these
people for their gibes. Nick put them
through flaming hoops Of difficulty
and anxiety. She said simply-"1n try
to tell him."
Nick was sitting before the mirror
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family and she honestly yearned to

family and she honestly yearned to
She arrived at the Linley's. East river
apartment in her conservative black
Limousine driven by her white haired
black chauffeur. Her expensive, but
dowdy black gown, her antique Jewels
and her stately demeanor made Nick,s
artistic modern furniture look ill-at-
ease in its own home She was regally
affectionate with Martha but patron
lied Nick with the lofty airs of one
who considered a Broadway actor less
than the dust beneath the feet Of q
gentlewoman.
Martha knew what to expect when
she read the wounded vanity and
mulish vindictiveneSs in Nick'S' face.
He hated Martha's family for regard
ing him as a pariah and it didn't
flatter him that Broadway hit should
change their attitude. He was still the
same Nicholas Linley their precious
Martha had married.
Martha sat before the twinkling
silver on the tea tray and poured the
tea. mo thank you." said Nick scorn-
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The actors eyes narrowed. He could
cruel. you miss them because I'm a
drunkard. They're coming round be-
cause they see I'm not Broadway
bum, after ALL but a respectable sue
cess; But once they get in the house,
ashamed of me-"
Martha got up and looked out at
the snow falling. She had meant to
ask him to promise to keep sober
while Aunt Murray was visiting. Now
she was afraid to mention it. She knew
it was weak to cry, but her eyes were
wet: .
Nothing to say to that, have you?"
shouted Nicholas, rustling the papers
on the bed.
II don't care whether you believe
me or not" she shouted back, you're
a darned good actor and I'm proud
of you"
Come here" he said. She had mo-
ments of hope and faith when he held
her tightly against his heart.
Aunt Murray was at once liberal
and a die-hard She didn't approve
Of the stage, and in spite of her af-
lection for her niece she had never
taken pride in her career, and had
yet to set foot in the unhallowed in
terror of a theater. But she took
pleasure in flouting the rest of the
fully, I'll have spot of brandy"
Surely not, Nick. You'd like this
marvellous China tea. Try it to please
me-"
But his mouth was thin and his
jaw was set. Martha saw that the less
she said, the less likely it was that
the visitor would notice anything. But
Nick was playing for the intruder's
entire and shocked attention and he
did not play in vain. Aunt Murray
arose abruptly when he tapped her
on the knee and began to tell her a
Rabelaisian story.
my poor child" she said, as she
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put on her ancient sable coat in
Martha'S bedroom, "Why don't you
leave that terrible young man and go
homer"
HE isn't terrible, Aunt Murray. He's
genius q emf that's Why he drinfs9a little.
You see' it, doesn't take much with him.
He's so highly strung. He has ter
rifically heavy part. Without some
thing Of the sort his nerves can't stand
it," -.
Aunt Murray made a scornful noise.
or no genius He'll bring you shame
and sorrow, Martha. No drunkard was
ever reformed. Go back to your father
while there's time and make your
peace with him."
II couldn't leave Nick He needs me.
And in any case I wouldn't humble
myself to father. I'm an artist myself
Of the theater as my home"
Her small face was now as stubborn
as NickS own. Her aunt glared at her.
you should be ashamed Of yourself,
Martha. You're wilful little fool!
However, I shall tell your father what
I have seem and we will see what. he
can do"
,, When the the door had closed on Aunt
Murray there was deep silence in
the apartment. Martha stood for a
while in the hall, breathing hard.
burning with her shame and unhap-
pineSS. Then she went into the living
room. Nick was sitting in a deep white
leather chair by the log fire, his elbows
on his knees and his chin resting in
his hand. IT,.
Martha said: II hate you. Nicholas
Linley. I've never been so Inundated
in my life"
He was in the morose stage now,
suspicious, cruel and sullen He said,
you have your remedy. Plenty of
women in the world for those as wants
EN-. Why not pack up your traps and
go?"
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BY OLGA A. ROSMANTTH
THE REWARD OF A WIFE'S
SACRIFICE TO SAVE A
MATINEE IDOL ON THE
GYMS
IN TWO PARTS-PART ONE

wy HEN the telephone rang II
tore at Martha's raw nerves.
wv She knew It meant moro
w trouble. It was Sam Ober.
stems voice, accusing and
bitter: "Now, Mrs. Linley, you're not
looking after that husband Of yours.
I've had him on top only one season
and he's ON the skids already. I've
just been to the matinee and I'm tell
ing you that was one lousy perform
ance."
Mr.. Oberstein, I've done everything
I can think Of"
He was not listening. She could al
most see his wet black eyes swapping
last September. And not even the Mask
would touch him with a barge pole
now. It's got round he's unreliable.
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8O-ACRE FARM, private water right,
new modern house and buildings electricity.
Four miles from Roman mail and school
bus route, close to timber, near foot of Flat
head lake. Inquire of H. B. HANDL1N, Roman
Mont
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FARMS WANTED
ADVERTISEMENT,

FARM LANDS FOR SALE
.~~~~S~~~~~~~s~~~%~~~
TWO 4O-ACRE IRRIGATED FARMS
near Moiese, Lake county. Write or see
JOHN NELSON, Moiese, Mont.
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(To Be Continued
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40 ACRES ON STATE HIGHWAY
Plenty water, all in crops two-story house.
some orchard. s2.7Oo. Terms. $500 down. w. E.
KOCH, Clinton, Mont.
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8OO-ACRE STOCK FARM in the Cali
spell valley, west of Cusick, Wn.. for SALE
$50 acres in crop: large house and barn Of
fered at sacrifice. Also other good farms
for sale. Write E. E. JONES. Newport Wash
The Washington times., 1937-01-25

for other cities as well as Wash
ington. In some of them money
for housing is so plentiful it is
almost thrown at you-and with
out paying q bonus for it. Here,
that is not true. In most cities
construction costs are lower than
they are in washington. That has
always been more or less true, one
reason being that Washington is
not an industrial city, and another
that its wage level and living costs
generally are higher than in most
American cities.
AS an offset Washington finds
itself growing rapidly, definitely
on the upgrade as to business vol
ume, spreading out and increasing
in Importance in every way, and
enjoying an energetic, visible and
profitable building boom.
1t can't be said that the Gov
ernment'S housing program is en-
titled to all of the credit nor for
all of the blame for these conflict
ing conditions. It can be said that
much of the impetus for the cur
rent building boom-which shows
signs Of having only got well un-
der way-haS come from the Gov
ernment's activities. But it may
be said as truthfully that interest
rates could be a lot lower; that
construction costs are too high;
that the lowcost house is not yet
visible on the local or the national
horizon, and that where rents are
high they will not come down ap-
preciably until new construction
catches up with an existing short
age of houses costing less than
$4,000, including the property on
which they are built.
That's where the real shortage is
to be found in Washington as else
where. It's not in the top-flight
income group, but in the lower
brackets, that the greatest need is
encountered. And that is the con-
dition the Government is trying to
correct here as elsewhere.
The Washington times., 1937-01-25
Rents Graduated

2. For the next highest in
come group, in the garden city Of
Greenbelt, in nearby Maryland,
monthly rentals will range
from $25 to $45 for houses and
apartments containing from
two to six rooms, making the
monthly average per room about
SO or somewhat less, depend
ing on the proportion of the
cost to be charged off as a
Government subsidy. These
rents will include heat, light
water. and space for a garden.
3. For the family which can
afford to pay more for attrac-
tive living quarters at the edge
of the city, the private limited
dividend housing projects IL
nanced through the FILA IN
sured-mortgage plan, and which
are strictly commercial ven-
lures, offer apartments in beau
tifully Handicapped settings at
monthly rentals Of from $lO
to SIS d room. In one OF the
two largest projects the
monthly rents range from
$3.50 to $62.50 for dwelling
The Washington times., 1937-01-25
469 END FIRST.
AID COURSE

Four hundred and sixty-nine
volunteers completed a first-aid
course in December, the District
Of Columbia Chapter Of the
American Red Cross announced
in its monthly report today.
Among them were 1913 policemen,
school and college students.
Six new classes in first aid were
organized and 10 are continuing
their work.
Volunteer workers, including
clothing and hospital units, gave
108 hours Of service in canteen
work, while 26 workers gave 386
hours Of service in seven city hos
pitals and in executive capacities.
Members Of the Junior Red
Cross distributed toys, clothing,
gift boxes, cards, candy, toys.
fruit, and baskets of food to needy
families.
In the life-saving division, seven
classes are now in progress at
various city pools, while IL vol
unteers gave 200 hours Of service
in teaching and in water safety
work.
Volunteers in the motor corps
answered 156 calls, driving 1920
miles and transporting $40 per-
sons. In addition drivers trans
ported clinic patients, children
for singing carols, Gospel Mission
parties and Works Progress Ad-
ministration workers to dances at
st. Elizabeth's, Soldiers Home and
other hospitals.
The Washington times., 1937-01-25
1917 Damage Suits
Against WPA
Recognized
InternationaI News servIce

Lost paintings, damaged thea
ter curtains, wrecked trees, prema-
ture blasting, five deceased horses,
three mules and one COW, 40 auto
collisions, II fires, and Is com.
munications cables dug into by
mistake, constituted the basis for
1877 recognized claims against the
WPA during the past year.
Injured parties III 298 cases
against the CCC found authorities
in accord with the idea that 273
automobile accidents we're the
fault of Conservation Camp en-
rolleeS.
These and sundry claims were
contained today in the annual
presidential message transmitted
to Congress in behalf of depart
mental heads seeking a $4,000 ap-
preparation to satisfy them.
OF the total, approximately 80
per cent was charged against the
WPA and CCC; the Army, Navy,
Post Office, Treasury, Commerce,
and Interior departments only ad.
mitting liability for comparatively
trifling amounts.
The Washington times., 1937-01-25
BeLOW Profit Line

Rents for the PWA's subsidiary
low-cost housing project for col
ored tenants, now in process OF
construction at LangSton Ter
race in the Northeast section of
the city have not been fixed. If
they conform to those in PWA
projects in other cities, the average
will approximate SIS or $6 a room
per month.
These figures are all below the
level of rents for comparable ac-
commodations elsewhere. For this
tenants may thank the Federal
Housing agency and no one else.
OF these projects the first two
will be self-financing in operation,
after charging off part of the
initial cost as a direct Federal
subsidy, but will not earn a
profit. The limited-dividend cor
porations obviously expect to earn
a profit. though not a large one.
First Of all it must be remem-
bered that Washington is not an
industrial city. Neither is it's pop
ulation crowded into a restricted
space in the sense that it is on
Manhattan Island or in the slum
areas of Pittsburgh, Baltimore,
Boston or Philadelphia. It's slums
are neither concentrated nor ordi-
narily visible to the average citi-
zen, but are hidden away in alleys
or the back streets of once good
neighborhoodS in scores of city
blocks.
Beyond this, representing as it
does the slum problem of the Ma
tional Capital, it is traditionally
true that the colored population
of Washington gets the leftovers
when it comes to housing any
where. Many districts in and
about the Capital are restricted
by custom or otherwise to white
occupancy. The large colored
population is dumped into a few
areas, large or small, where
for the most part, they occupy
dwellings abandoned by their
original white occupants, and
which as a rule are far from mod
ern. even though substantially
built.
This problem was attacked more
than 80 years ago under the lead
ership of a Washington capitalist
with flair for philanthropy,
through the organization of two
limited d dividend corporations,
chartered by Congress. Since
their organization, several hun
dred dwellings have been built for
colored residents of the Capital,
most of them two7story duplex
houses-one flat over the other
which contain two, three and four
room units renting for not more
than $50 a month.
D. Appleton Clark is the chief
sponsor of these enterprises. They
have paid their way, earned divi-
dends, and proved successful as a
contribution to the solution of a
difficult problem. Usually there is
a waiting list of several hundred
tenants for the dwellings thus
provided.
The Washington times., 1937-01-25
Public FaUOrs Plan

AS far as it has gone, the houS-
ing program, as it is seen in oper-
alton here, is producing results, is
supported by public opinion and
represents a considerable advance
from the conditions which existed
prior to 1929 or during the depres-
sion. But it still is only start in
the direction pointed by those who
have charted it and are plotting it
in its course.
It is in the public projects OF
the ReSettlement Administration
and the Public Works AdminiStra-
ton and the private projects
financed under the FHA insured
mortgage plan that the most ex-
tensive results of the program are
visible. In the more restricted pro-
gram of the Alley Dwelling Author
ity of the District of Columbia,
engaged in what its executive di-
rector, John H. Ihlder, calls "slum
reclamation" a start has been
made toward substituting habita-
BILE dwellings for the tumble down
shacks and insanitary novels in
which the less fortunate element
of the Negro population finds shell
ter.
All Of these programs run side
by-side without duplication Of func-
ton and without friction. Each
activity is designed to meet a sepa-
rate need. All, as Director Ihlder
points out, are part of a single
pattern. The pattern:
/. Rents of the rehabilitated
alley dwellings Cor those built
as replacements), erected for the
lowest economic group in the
city, range in a characteristic
project from $6.25 to $6.88 per
room per month, making the
monthly rental range for four
room house from $25 to $50.
The Washington times., 1937-01-25

try in Prince Georges county, Md,
about 10 miles from the center
Of Washington. The initial de-
velopment will provide dwellings
for 1000 families. Allotment gar
denS, a 26-acre lake half a mile
long and a quarter Of a mile wide
for fishing, boating and bathing;
picnic grounds, a high school,
community house, mercantile es-
tabliShmentS, library, athletic
fields, Fairgrounds and inn are be-
ing provided as part of its devel-
opment. In the encircling Green
belt" from which it takes its name,
full-time farmers may lease tracts
of varying size on which to con-
duct the usual farming operations.
The community will have its own
water supply. 1t buys its power
from the local utility. The COM
munity lake, which is expected to
prove a source of revenue for the
community as Washington resi-
dents discover its attractions, was
created by damming a small
stream about mile from the cen.
ter Of the community. 1t also is
fed by springs and surrounded by
pines and hardWoods, under which
is a dense growth of holly and
rhododendron. The country is roll
ing in character, 18th the natural
beauty of the Maryland country
side. Total cost approximately $40,
100000. It has not been decided
how much of this is to be alb
sorbed or charged off by the Fed
eral government in fixing the rem
tails. The houses are not to be
sold.
Langston Terrace-PWA hous
ing project for colored families
being built out Of an appropria
tion of $780, 900 on 1877 acres OF
unimproved land in Northeast
Washington. 1t is located on
Benning Road between Twenty
first and Twenty-fourth streets
The land is Sloping. 1t adjoins g
large negro school group and an
area which the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
plans to convert into a negro
recreation center, with golf course,
swimming pool, tennis courts and
field house. Several large indus
trial plants are within walking
distance of the site. The build
ings are to be two-story flats.
group houses and three-story
apartments, containing a total of
1,089 rooms in BIT living units.
Most of them are three and four
room dwellings. This also is de-
signed as a rental project ex-
clusively, under public manage
ment.
Colonial Village-A limited -divi.
dend private project in Clarendon,
Va, across the Potomac from
Washington. Built on a hilltop,
it looks across to the Washington
Cathedral and other structures on
the higher levels of the capital.
A private loan financed construc-
ton. The Federal Housing Admin
istration insured mortgages for 80
per cent of the appraised value.
The total cost Of the project is
placed at 100000. It provides
1888 living units in the form OF
semi-fireproof two and three-story
The Washington times., 1937-01-25
TRAFFIC HURTS
KILL FOUR

1nquests in two traffic deaths
were slated for today, as weekend
fatalities due to automobile acci-
dents in Washington and vicinity
mounted to four.
The coroner's jury will probe
the deaths Of William H. Welty,
Sc, Of 436 Sixth st. s. W., hit by
an automobile while crossing the
street near his home, and Edward
Williams, colored, Sc, of the 1900
block Sixth st. N. W., struck by ar
automobile at Sixth Street and
Maryland Avenue Southwest.
Eric Guy Chatterton, 80, of 713
A st. N. E., died in Casualty Hos
pital yesterday of injuries SUI
fered when his automobile crashed
into a telegraph pole on the Suit
land road near Suitland, Md.
Ohio Wines, IT, Chatterton's STEP
son, was seriously injured in the
crash.
Struck while attempting to sal
wage wrecked automobile near
Oxon Hill, Md, Edwin Cowan, A,
Of Oxon Hill, died yesterday at
Casualty Hospital. Cowan, with
George Higbee, So, also of Oxon
Hill, was working with a tow
truck to right an overturned auto
mobile. Cowan was killed and
Higbee seriously injured when an.
other car struck the tow truck.
Maryland police alleged that
Milford o. Jarvis, of Chillum,
Md, was the driver of the collid-
ing car.
Mrs. Mary MacNeil, so, Of 310
E st. N. W., was near death in
Casualty Hospital today injuries
suffered when she was struck by
an automobile while crossing the
Observation-Disclosures Boulevard
near Berwyn, Md, last night.
Reuben Long, ST, of AZ Marion
St. N w., struck by an automobile
as he stepped from the curb
at Seventh and Massachusetts
Avenue Northwest, is being treated
at Sibley Hospital for head and
face injuries.
James Simms. colored, 10, of
Mt. Zion, Md, who suffered a
possible fractured skull in an
automobile accident near Drury,
Md, was taken to Casualty Hos,
pit0l.
Lester Smith, SO, of the 400
block M St. N. W., suffered head
and shoulder injuries in an auto.
mobile accident at Seventh Street
and Constitution Avenue North
west, and John Daccior, IS, of 222
Eleventh st. S. E., suffered lacera-
tionS to his hands when he was
struck by taxicab at Sixth Street
and Pennsylvania Avenue North
west.