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The Bismarck tribune., 1937-10-22
A BIT OF HUMOR
~ NOW AND THEN
~ Is RELISHED By
THE BEST OF MEN
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

Why Teachers Quit
Currie: Say Al, you're IS minutes
late. You should have been here at
s o'clock.
Burrie: Why, what happened?
They'd Wonder Why
Lines: And why wouldn't you
want to have your name inscribed In
the hall of fame?
Vines: Well I'd sooner have people
asking why 1t isn't there than asking
why it is.
Plain Fact
Belgium: Why did't Jane vote at
the election?
Welgum: Oh. she considers herself
a bit of beauty.
Belgium: What has that to do
with it.
Welgum: She says the election
posters were addressed to the plain
people.
The Bismarck tribune., 1937-10-22
BY FRANK r. KENT

1t may be-and is-exceedingly irri-
tating not only to the Messrs. Co.
hen and Corcoran but also to the
Messrs. Lewis and Hillman, who not
long ago inched the Major out Of hts
headship in Labor's Nonpartisan
League, from which position state
ments gushed from him like water
from fountain.
The truth is the Majors stand
against the proposed board In the bill
isA of real significance. It Is posi-
BILE the president may put pressure
upon the Major and compel him to
"do an Ashurst," eat his words and
fall in line. On the other hand, It
may be that the president may con-
clude that the only way to get any
bill through Is to drop the board Al
together ana have, as the Major
urges, 'just a simple BILL" It Is a
fact, of course, that the immense
The Bismarck tribune., 1937-10-22
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The Bismarck tribune., 1937-10-22
Your Personal Health
By William Brady, M. d.

will questions psrtaining health but dis
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-10
CHAPTER KY

"No," Neal told her quietly. "You're not going to report to the police. You're going to take my ad- vice."
 What makes you so certain of that?"
 ,"Because," Neal said, you're in love with me. Why don't you stop pretending, Martha, as I have?" i. The color rose furiously in Martha's cheeks. Don't be ab- surd!"
 Gerry Neal shrugged. All right. Then you're not in love with me But suppose we get started?"
 Still flushing angrily, Martha piled the breakfast dishes into the little galley sink, and took down her leather jacket from it's hook. Wordless, she got out of the trailer and Neal hopped to the ground after her. Showing the portable steps inside the vehicle, Martha locked the door of the trailer and hurried to the coupe. A grim Gerry Neal was already at the wheel.
 Hop in," he invited casually.
 Her lips compressed in a tight, thiE line, Martha got inside. Then quickly her hand shot toward the pocket in the door of the car. Neal smiled as Martha withdrew her hand-empty.
 T have the gun," he said coolly.
 Mile after mile they drove in silence through the busy streets of Oakland and Berkeley, on through Vallejo, then always bearing north along the coast to- ward Eureka. The country grew wilder, with broad rolling hills and scattered oaks. Then wilder and more ominous yet as they passed the giant redwoods, serene in their strength and their years, making even the coupe and trailer look like the puny toys of a child.
 Once Neal said, Whenever you get hungry, I'll be glad to stop"
 Martha did not answer. She had resolved to give Neal no quarter, no encouragement, now that he had dared to assume she was in love with him. She was angry, too, at his high-hadndedness, at his cocksure certainty. And as the car raced northward, the Air speed Trailer swaying easily be- hind, she resolved to carry out what she had planned days before. "When I was still sane" she told herself bitterly. Before, before IT let 8 man make a stupid fool of me-" It seemed to her now that Neal had overplayed his hand. His remarks in the trailer back there in Oakland had be- trayed him. He was sure of her now sure that she would do as he wanted, and sure that she would believe whatever he chose to tell her.
 But now it was her turn at de- ception. Carefully. as they drove in silence through the towering redwoods, she formulated her plan. She would suggest they stop for lunch, and over the table she would pretend to resign herself to his program. In every way she would attempt to put him off his guard-and then, at the first op-
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portunity, she would turn him over to the police and make a full report about 6peddon and the dis appearance of Betty Haynes. She hoped fervently that the chance would come that evening, at Eu- reka. But, whenever it came, she would use it. She would not be weak again because Neal was at tractive and had professed his love.
 It was well after 1 o'clock when Martha, keeping sullen note in her voice, suggested that they stop for something to eat.
 "Right!" Neal answered non- committally. "I'll drive in at the next likely looking place"
 It turned out to be a lonely hamburger shack on the edge of the road. There was one slat- ternly woman attending, but both Neal and Martha were hungry and the food did belle the woman's appearance. As Martha ate, she searched the little room for signs of telephone, hoped that the woman's husband would enter = showing sufficient height and breadth to cope with Neal. But no man appeared.
 Look here Neal said at last, you can't act like this indefi- nitely, Martha. Why not be hu- man again?"
 Martha looked into her coffee cup absently. Then she made a little gesture of casual defeat. T suppose we may as well be con- genial travelling companions = since you insist that we do travel together"
 That's the way to talk" He held out his cigarets to her, then a light from his pocket torch Whatever you think of me, I'm insisting upon accompanying you because = well, because don't want anything to happen to you"
 Thank you," Martha said quietly. Shall we go on now?"
 Carefully she was taking care not to overdo the role of a woman ready to forgive. She could tell by Meals lighter manner, by the soft glow in his eyes, that he be- lieved she had, woman like, changed within the day. He was surer now than ever before that what he had said in the trailer was true. And this, she told her. self triumphantly, would put him even more completely of his guard.
 That afternoon as they pro- ceeded on their way, Martha talked more freely ' taking it slowly at first, pretending that she was unconsciously warming under his charm. But something cold and hard within her breast kept her to her purpose. Its my turn now" she told herself grinly, and all the white played into Meals conversation.
 Once he stretched his arms at the wheel, turned his head as if his neck were growing stiff, and Martha leaped at the chance she had been waiting for, leading up to gradually.
 You must be tired she told him solicitously. "Let me drive a while."
 The coupe and trailer slowed down. I'm ready to have you take over. Beating this pavement with all the curves of the Red-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-10
THE STORY SO FAR

MARTHA BRITAIN and BET IT HAYNES begin a trip up the west coast tO demonstrate the new AfEspeed trailer. They pick up GERRY NEAL, handsome young hitch-hilEer. Neal tells them he is Co nnset a friend, JACK SPED- DON, at the Long Beach auto camp. But at Long Beach, Neal disappears from the trailer and Spedd0n abducts Betty.
 After repeated efforts to find Betty, Martha again meets Neal and agrees to return to San Fran cisco with him to search for Bet ty. Meanwhile, Martha has fallen in love with Neal, despite the fact she does not know whether she can trust him. In San Fran cisco, Martha finds that neither Betty nor Speddon are registered at a hotel designated for their meeting. Instead, Martha gets a letter, presumably from Betty, ex- plaining that everything is all right.
 But Martha is more and more disturbed. She wants to call p0- lice but Neal protests this move might mean Betty's death. Then Neal tells Martha he loves her. That night Martha slips away from the hotel and parks her trailer at a local auto park. Neal finds her the next day, hints that if Martha didn't love him, she would have turned him over to the police. And Martha replies, ''and that's what I'm going to do." NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
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Brain TWizzIers By Prot. J. ID. Flint

Imagine yourself in this embar- rassing predicament.
 A young man went into his en- ployer's office and asked for raise in salary. The employer, very Shrewd man, said "This is leap year and has 366 days. You work only hours day which is one-third of the day. Therefore, you really only work one-third of year or 122 days. You don't work Sundays so deduct 52 days, leaving 70 days. This company doesn't work Saturdays so we deduct another 52 days, leaving IS. There are 4 recognized holidays so we now have only IA days left and you get two weeks vacetic: each year so it seems as though you don't work here at all and you're mighty lucky to get the money you Go."
 There's no answer to this unless Rou want to pick out the obvious
 aMs in the employers reasoning
 Answer Co Yesterdays Twizzler
 &ussbudget was Micky Martins divorced wife and the little boy was their son. Copyright John F. Dile CO.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-10
Stamp News
 BY 1. s. KLEIN

IF little Alden can have a stamp A issued for it by the British gov- ernment, the proud, better known people of the Isle of Man are de- manding special postage stamps of their own. From 1891 to 1907, revenue stamps were issued for the Isle of Man, and even now this famous island in the Irish Sea has its own bank notes. Great Britain will have only one stamp. of 1h-penny value, in the British Empires special issue of coronation stamps, while New. foundland will add to the colonial series printed for it by the mother country, with special coronation issue of l3 stamps.
 <
 Argentina has corrected the "in- suit" to Chile in a recent map stamp by reissuing this stamp with its Chilean border clarified. But the Falkland Islands, owned by Great Britain, still seem to be part of Argentina.
 s
 New in postage are two special service stamps issued by Czecho- slovakia, for delivery of mail only to the person addressed. The stamps are triangular.
 * M {.
 With increase of postage rates, Japan is changing the designs of it's stamps. That country also is planning a series of patriotic stamps for the promotion of civil aviation. These may be part of the new series.
 NEXT: What French Socialist was assassinated in 1914? 2i
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wood Highway has peen tiresome, all right" But he did not get out of the car to give her the wheel. Instead, he slid beneath her, ht- orally lifted her in strong arms to the wheel. 'TheFe you are !, I might even snooze a while. I was up pretty early this morning to get over to Oakland. I was afraid I might miss you"
 Martha pressed the coupe on, driving at more than her accus- toned speed because she was afraid that Neal might want to take the wheel again. But he seemed genuinely tired. They had not gone many miles before he had dropped of to sleep with his head thrown back against the cushions. Taking advantage of this, Martha stepped on the ac- celerator even harder, anxious to reach Eureka before he awakened.
 Soon she began to see road signs indicating the distance to- the northern California lumber town -22 miles, IT miles, Il miles. With every nerve of her body taut, Martha rushed the coupe onward, fearing every moment that Neal would awaken and notice the speedometer reading.
 Eight miles. Three miles.
 And then, at the edge of the town, Martha slowed down, let the engine of the coupe purr softly as she sWerved into big modern service station. Quickly she stopped the outfit, leaped out and ran to the burly attendant inside the glass enclosure.
 "The man ill that car must be arrested she whispered quickly. And be careful - he's got gun and he's dangerous!"
 En
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-10
STATE SCANS EXPENSE SLIPS

Denver, (UP) - Colorado state officials are brushing up on their arithmetic. Heretofore they were handed a lump sum of money for state business trips. From now on they will get train fare only and submit itemized accounts for eXpen- ditures for which they wish to be reimbursed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-10

A new transport plane for sub- stratosphere flying is constructed without windows. It is built for hy- ing at 30,000 feet and its cabin is supplied with oxygen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-10

NEXT: What French Socialist was aSsassinated in 1914? 2i
Evening star., 1937-03-18
MRS. JANSEN
BACK AS TEACHER
Reinstatement Notice Re-
ceived Of Woman Who Quit
Under Marriage Clause.

The Board of Education received
formal notice yesterday of the re-
appointment of Mrs. Ruth M. Jansen,
who resigned her public school teach
ing post because of the provisions
OF section 213 tthe marriage clause
Of the 1888 economy act.
supt. Frank W. Ballou told the
board Mrs. Jansen already has been
assigned to grade room in the
Congress Heights School.
eve needed teacher to fiIl the
position" DR. Ballou said, "and Mrs.
Jaussen was the one applicant quail
ned to take it."
Mrs. Jansen had applied for re-
instatement after the board held that
new civil service rulings exempted
District school teachers from pro-
visions OF the marriage clause, which
prohibits the employment of both
husband and wife in the Federal
Government.
The Civil Service Commission OBJ
Jected, however, to the boards inter-
probation, and charged the board with
"evadlng' the law. After q pro-
longed controversy the commission
announced it would offer no objection
to the reinstatement of Mrs. Jansen
or Of other former school employees
who resigned because of section 2l3.
Mrs. Jansen was reappointed after
the board was assured this action
would not affect her husbands posi-
ton with the Census Bureau.
Evening star., 1937-03-18

was acting upon the request Of Mrs.
A. L. Whims, DR.. H. c. WhimS and
DR.. c. B. Whims, mother and brothers
of the alleged kidnap victim.
Anderson was arrested In January
OF. the complaint Of Mrs. Louise
Whims Cshoon, who claimed that he
lured her away from her mothers
home at Chapel Hill and held her
prisoner in his automobile for two
days while attempting to persuade
her to divorce her husband and
marry him.
Mrs Cohoon, the wife of Walter w.
Cohoon, Pasquotank County prose-
cutor, testified at hearing in Chapel
Hill that she brought the kidnap
charges in order to protect her name.
Evening star., 1937-03-18

Additional conferences were to be
held today in executive session, with
only administrators and technicians in
attendance.
Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen de-
livered the address Of welcome yester-
day. Other speakers included Chair
man A. J. Altmeyer of the Social Sc
curity Board, Vincent NJ Miles, a
member Of the board, and r. Gordon
Wagenet, director Of the Bureau Of
Unemployment Compensation.
John A. Marshall, director of the
Districts Unemployment Compensa-
tion Board, is chairman of the Com
mittee on Organization, which has
charge Of the conference.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
JOBLESS PROBLEMS
CONFERENCE THEME
Unemployment Compensation Ad-
ministrators From SO States
Meet Here.

Unemployment compensation ad-
ninistrators from SO States and the
District yesterday conferred on prob
lens Of coordination and cooperation
in the administration Of State unem-
ployment compensation legislation at
meeting Of the Interstate Conference
of State Administrators at the May
flower Hotel
Evening star., 1937-03-18
BOYS SUIT DISMISSED

NEWARK, N. J., March 18 P).-
A 14-year r-old boys $1,000 suit
against School-teach for loss OF a
finger while cleaning a school printing
press was dismissed yesterday by
Circuit Court Judge Newton H. Porter.
Robert S. Taylor and his mother,
Mrs. Bertha L. Taylor, failed to prove
James c. Kelvin, a grammar school
mechanical arts teacher, was negli-
gent, the court ruled.
Kevlin's defense was financed by
the State and Newark Teachers As
sociationS. Counsel for the plaintiff
announced appeal would be taken to
.he New Jersey Supreme Court.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
organize the Federal judiciary. Tht

organize the Federal judiciary. The
House Commi. ee has decided to await
Senate action on this program.
Although Mr.. Roosevelt in his mes
sage to Congress referred to the cost
Of prosecuting cases in the courts,
members Of the House Committee said
the proposed survey was not a part of
his program. They suggested, how
ever, 1t would fit In with the portion
touching the lower courts.
Representative Hobbs, Democrat, of
Alabama, sponsor Of the survey, said
court costs were marked by inequality
and lack of uniformity.
II have run into cases where it was
cheaper to pay of an unjust claim
than to use the courts to defeat It,"
he declared.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
SURVEY OF FEDERAL
COURT COSTS URGED
House Judiciary Committee Con.
sidering Proposal of Alabama
Representative.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Chairman Summers said yesterday the
House Judiciary Committee was con-
sidering a survey Of Federal Court
costs with the objective Of obtaining
Cheaper" justice.
The survey, If approved, would be
made while the Senate Is studying
President Roosevelt's proposal to re-
Evening star., 1937-03-18

India's exports to the United States
increased In the last year.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
WOMAN DROPS CHARGE
OF KIDNAPPING BY MAN

Salesman Was Accused of Luring
Her Into Car and Holding
Her Prisoner 2 Days.
BY the Associated Press.
HILLSBORO, N. c., March l8.-
Kidnap charges against William J.
Anderson, 26-year-old Elizabeth City
radio salesman, were dropped formally
in Orange Superior Court yesterday.
In recommending to Judge r. Hunt
Parker that the case be nol-pressed
with leave, Solicitor Leo Carr said he
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Stages Best Is No Longer
Held Too Good for Films
Plays That Enjoy Long Life Likely to Meet
Themselves as Pictures Unless Contracts
Specify Otherwise.
BY Jay Carmody.

pest IN the way OF the legitimate drama no longer too good for
audiences fact
| did that it the
drama challenge
Hollywood OF
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forting for all who are dubious about
youthful actors in the fact that Mr..
Meredith has the great good fortune
not to be excessively handsome. But
the reason that he is 50 generally
liked, as we'll as admired by review
ers Is that there Is no pose or swank
or eccentric mannerism about his
work. Everything he does Is straight
forward and clean cut and without
pretense, and there is something so
comforting in his frank directness Of
manner and entire lack OF esthetic
pretentiousness that it is pleasure
to realize that he is also an eloquent
and brilliant player.
A MONG the newcomers and semi
newcomers Of the season the girls
have registered, without too much
recourse to the assistance OF what rs,
50 far as know, still called sex ap-
peal, the outstanding triumphs. OBJ
viously the finest performance given
by any new player this year, and
one of the most moving given by
any one, is that of Miss Katherine
Locke, as the wistful Bronx secre-
tary putting up that pathetic at
tempt to be very refined in Having
Wonderful Time" Miss Peggy Conk-
lin is hardly newcomer, but she
surely stands among the younger
players, and she is entirely entranc.
ing in eyes, My Dearling Daughter"
Miss Flora Campbell made a decid.
eddy good impression as the daughter
Of wealth who has turned Commu-
mist in Excursion" and hereafter
will be looked for with interest, pro-
vided she doesn't Immediately flee to
Hollywood. Miss Wyn Cahoon was
an attractive military institute belle
in Brother Rat" but already she
has gone to her reward in the screen
capital.
One Of the most interesting portray
ais of the season was that of gallant
latter-day pioneer woman in 900
Were Chosen" by the curiously neg
lected Miss Paula Bauersmith, who
should be better known in the theater,
and I still remember the perform
ance Of Miss Louise Chaffee in the
small role of an austere young esthete
in Stage Door" The most attrac.
tive musical comedy ingenue Of the
season is Miss Grace Mcdonald in
Babes in Arms"
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their extra domestic ambitions, while
there are many more naturally
tempting prospects OF achievement for
men. Base ball playing for one. Then,
too, the oldtime Puritan prejudice
against acting has sensibly died down
in the case OF the girls, while con-
tinuing to a remarkable degree in the
matter Of boys. It still Is looked upon
by many persons as just bit unmanly
for a youth to start painting his face
and pretending he Is somebody else,
even for the sake Of art. A third
cause Is that sort Of natural male
jealousy that causes strong men to
tremble with rage when the name Of,
say Mr.. Robert Taylor, is brought
up. That, incidentally, Is trait that
yotl will not find frequently in wom-
en- when mention Of, say Miss Greta
Carlo or Miss Jean Harlow, is made,
and 1t goes to suggest that all the
cattiness in the world is not to be
found among the girls.
Anyway, there does exist to a vast
degree the feeling, perhaps instructive,
that there is something a little
dubious about actors; that, although
the temperamental qualities that
make for thespian skill are attractive
in girls. they are merely silly in young
men. The feeling, may say, extends
even to critics, with the result that
they are inclined to be just a little
bit harder on actors than they are on
actresses. 1t wouldn't surprise me II
sex had something or other to do with
it, despite the ivory-tower austerity
Of all play reviewers.
l think may whisper to you my
suspicion that, while critics have been
known to express the conviction that
such thing as feminine beauty
should never interfere with ones
Judgment Of acting skill, there really
Is no reason to think that good looks
have ever hurt an actress yet, or have
they caused professional theater
observer to be additionally severe to
their possessor. After all, hasn't the
theater got something or other to do
with the presentation of beauty?
IT CERTAINLY isn't my intention
to suggest that sex has any great
part to play in the verdicts of dra-
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matte criticism. Possibly 1t would be
good thing II 1t did. Here, how
ever, want only to say that it takes
pretty good young actor to attract
particular attention from q metro
politan reviewer these days. When
the players grow older 1t Is a differ
emit thing There Is no instructive
feeling against the actor OF middle
years. A Dudley Digges, for example,
will be acclaimed with all due and
proper enthusiasm, and there Is no
suggestion in any ones mind that 1t
Is just a trifle peculiar for him to put
on false Whiskers and putty nose
and pretend that he Is the late En-
perOr Franz Josef. If he were a
younger man, however, there is the
chance that he first would have to
overcome certain bristling If not
hostile attitude on the part Of OBJ
servers, both professional and anna
teur. 1t is for this reason, I may say,
that 1t strikes me that the general &C
claim accorded young Mr.. Burgess
Meredith is such a great tribute to
remarkable actor.
THAT Mr.. Meredith Is the best
young actor on the American
stage is generally conceded, and no
one seems even particularly grudging
about the admission. AS matter
Of fact, there is no particular rea-
son why the limiting adjective,
young" should be included in the
description, save the natural criti-
cal instinct for moderation in state
ment. For there isn't a better Amer
lean actor Of any age available. and
there is evidence that only Maurice
Evans, among the Wanted English
actors, has performed any more VAL
orously in these parts. 1t is perhaps
true that there Is something COM