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Nogales international., 1938-08-27
Back At Colossal Task

TINDAUNTED by the frigid reception accorded his
~ liberal keynote speech at the Indiana Republican
convention Bruce Barton is back at his colossal task
of endeavoring to infuse what he hopes will appear
to resemble spark of human sympathy IN the w. w.
P It will be remembered that few minutes after ne
had adrnonished the Hoosier convention to cease
raucous criticism of New Deal measures-Whlch he
said obviously meet universal approvalEa PLATFORM
was adopted with a roar which included all OF the
hackneyed aspersons of the conservative columnists
And within the hour there had been nominated Tor
senator stand pat editor whose fuminations against
social legislation reddened the jowl Of jim Watson
himself.
But those proceedings were cordial by comparison
with the glacial austerity of the Old Guard neWspa
pers whose slightest eyebrow elevation is an I'M
placabe order to the showers What if Barton heads
up national advertising agency and knows MS way
around the Union League Clubs? The New York
Journal of Commerce summed up the scant mention
Barton got for daring to say the e. .. T. must be
"cleaned, chastened rededcated to service and al
so "honest." That paper said: whether Mr. Barton
or anyone else says it. what we would like to see is
return to first principles"
Nevertheess Barton writes in the current Cos
mopoitan that "There is a social revolution at work
in America" And very emphatically he warns:
"Only those will succeed in public life who
convince the masses they able to work out a
permanently fair and righteous distribution OF
the nations opportunities and wealth..
Doubtless" he interpolates, "al this will cause
acute pain to of my many conservative friends
1n0y CulIh dHl fdulCdI IH6y Have HoC OoOH WILL
ing to face the hard fact that while financial power
may abide in the best section of town, the political
power has moved across the railroadtracks
In a recent address this representative of New
York Citys super silk stocking 18th district warned
"Ours the party Of social conscience, the party
of the common people. But reminiscently, into the
far past "we got out Of touch with the people And
unless we get back in touch with them unless they
feel and KNOW (Bartons capitals) that in our
party they will find sincere sympathy with their
hopes and in answer to their needs, will not win.
Make no mistake about it. We cannot pretend"
It is a large order. The few liberal Republican pa
pers openly regard the ad-wrter with harsh skeptc
ism. On the other hand the orthodox G. O. P organs
simply not interested. Typical of their comment
is this from the Woonsocket Call: "Higher-ups among
Republican strategists not ready by any means
to follow the Bruce Barton formula. Barton is per-
sonally popular but the old-timers inclined to
look down their nOses''
An exchange says some nations try to promote
peace with gun one shoulder and chip on the
other
Nogales international., 1938-08-27
THE MAIN DRAG

Nit Simms, candidate for Secre-
tary of State, carrying a rabbit S
foot on his belt. Said it was given
to him by a Mesa woman who
claimed it would bring him good
luck.
Herb Clagett singing.
Joe Wise dancing.
Judge Charles E. Hardy a busy
man attending two weddings.
Joe Wise claiming the Karam-
Abbey wedding Sunday was the
largest attended ever held here.
A Kerby-For-Gove booster
talking politics with Jones-For-
Governor man, and each claiming
victory at the September election.
Marvin L. BurtonS 16-year-old
daughter making campaign speech
es for her daddy, who is candi-
date for the Democratic nomination
for State superintendent of Public
Instruction.
Nogales international., 1938-08-27
Beware Kidney
Germs If Tired,
Nervous, Aching

Are you Run Down, Nervous, suffer Aching
OF Swollen Joints? Do you Get Up Nights, or
suffer from Burning Passages, FREQUENT
PUFFY Eyelids, Loss of Appetite and Energy?
If SO, the true cause often may be germs
developed in the body during colds. , or ny
These germs may attack the delicate mem
branes Of your Kidneys or Bladder and often
cause much trouble. Ordinary medicine5 tic r,;3
germs. The doctors formula Cystex, now
Stocked by ali druggists. starts fighting Kid
ney germs in hours and must prove entirely
satisfactory in week and be exactly the
medicine YOU need or money back is guar
anteed. Telephone your druggist for Cystex
(Siss-tex) today. The guarantee protects
you. Copr. 1887 The Knox Co.
Nogales international., 1938-08-27
MAY LOCATE HERE

Roscoe Farmer of Tucson, and
son Ted, who recently returned
from Oklahoma City, were here
Thursday. Mr. Farmer plans on
buying some property here and
again making Nogales his home.
Mr.. Farmer and family moved
away from here last spring.
Nogales international., 1938-08-27
SAMPLE BALLOTS

Sample ballots for the September
18th primary are now on sale at
the office of the NogaleS Interna-
tional. Special rates to candidates
desiring 100 or more.
Nogales international., 1938-08-27
Flea Bites

Flea Bites
California rebuked for It's bor-
der inspection of fruits for bugs"
We have been through those de-
lousing stations too.
Jealousy Knows No Bounds
"A child played with matches.
Then the firemen came along and
played with the fire.
Nogales international., 1938-08-27

Copyright 1888 by H. Painter)
Solid Leather
Joe Lewis punches from his
heels" That's why he gets so much
kick into them.
No Pay No Juice
Dazzling light can be "subdued"
That's what the guy found out who
didn't pay his light bill.
Rent Free Too
California town boasts not a
single mosquito " The write-up
failed to state that they're all mar
ried with very large families.
Nogales international., 1938-08-27
Profiteerlng

"Coin collector will pay $4,000
for 1894 dimes" What a nerve he
has-that's $189.4O for $4,000.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-01

scendant of one Of the original set
tiers, returned to France to visit
relatives in Toulouse. At the time
of his visit the azaleas Of southern
France were blooming. He was so
impressed with their dazzling splen-
dor that on his return to the New
World he brought home three vari-
cites: deep glowing pink known
today as Pride of Mobile; laven-
der-pink one, and snowy-white
one. Today, gorgeous specimens of
these original plants can be seen
in the Oldest gardens-some of them
perhaps century and half old,
20 feet high, and spreading out to a
diameter of 100 feet Now they are
found all along the Gulf Coast from
Texas to Florida, up the Atlantic
seaboard to South Carolina.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-01
CHAPTER; Ix''.'.s


Horse Dunn sat relaxed, staring
morosely. at..the floor In his eyes a
dark fire gloWed. Wheeler wondered
what ugly and shadowy things the
old man was seeing. Perhaps,
|sWheeler thought The would NOT wish.
to see in his life the like of what
Horse Dunn was seeing, as he sat
looking at the floor.
Finally Horse Dunn jerked to his
feet with an abrupt impatience.
This. is all pipe SMOKE" he. said.
GFor a minute you threw me up in
the air with that bunk. But hell!
You figure Bob come here a way
no man would ever think Of coming.
There's better than "a hundred mil
lion people in this county, and Bob
Flagg is one of 'em, sn..you figure
that maybe it was him got killed."
"Well, we might anyway check
up at Pahranagat. There isn't so
much travel up the Little Mimic but
what we .could find out if Bob Flagg
came that way"
''I'll send Val Douglas over there
tomorrow. I sure don't aim to
leave any stone unturned. But if
a guess is an inch long, you sure
jumped a mile"
Maybe" Wheeler admitted.
Horse Dunn took a turn of the
room and the fighting spirit that had
fared up in his eyes burned low
and smoky again. This country's
gone to hell in a handbasket. I've
never asked for any more than JUS
tice, and I've dealt out nothing less.
But where can you get it now? A
mans hands are tied. There was
more honesty in the old six-gun than
in a thousand courts of so-called
law. I'd give 'em their cock-eyed
country. I'd wash my hands Of the
whole works, and good riddance-if
it wasn't for the girl"
1t always came back to Marian.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-01
"Isn't This Pretty Early?
Couldn't You Sleep?"

have come up or started to come
up!"
II suppose you'd have sold out"
Dunn said, hard edge on his voice.
Maybe and maybe not But /
wouldn't have gone cow crazy,
range crazy, until I couldn't afford
to work my stock!"
Strangely, Horse did not anger.
Wheeler saw that the Old Man
thought his TRADE was merely based
on youth and ignorance, which he
had seen in unlimited quantities be-
fore.
MAYBE" Dunn said now, you'd
have kept the 81 a little one-horse
spread-in the best of shape. But
that amt the question now. We're
where we are, and there's no use
fighting over what went before"
81 can save it yet" Wheeler told
him rashly. II can throw a hun
dred thousand into the o."
'I didn't know you could swing
that much. You got it, Billy"
...%%"What I haven't got of it can
GET"
g Horse Dunn studied him, sadly,
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-01
Aza1eas of the South Imported From
! France; Plant Brought From Toulouse

Azalea time in the deep South is
one of great joy and exquisite beau
ty, writes Annabella Neusbaum in
Nature Magazine. When the azale-
as, evergreen shrubs of delicate
foliage, burst their buds, masses of
flowers cover the bush until, its TO-
liage hidden, the entire plant is
glowing mass of living color.
The gracious charm of old Mobile,
with her quaint old streets and spa
cious avenues lined with agnifi-
cent century-old live oaks and mag
nolias, provides perfect setting for
the azaleas and camellias. Today,
Mobile has beautiful "Azalea
TRAIL" road some fifteen miles
long that leads one through streets
literally banked with. these flowers.
The plants range from two to twenty
ieet in height, the reigning color be-
ing a glorious deep pink.
The history of the azaleas is close
ly interviewer with the romantic his
tory and tradition of the old South.
They came to the New World short
ly after Bienville founded Mobile in
I'LL. From old family records we
find that Francois Ludgere Diard,
native Mobilian and direct de-
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-01

The old man didn't dare lose be-
cause of what it meant to the girl;
he had labored for her too long, in
years that for any other man would
have been the twilight years of his
life.
She came before Wheeler's eyes
now, between himself and Horse
Dunn, almost as clearly as if she
had really been in the room.
Dunn was saying, "Know what I'd
like to do? I'd like to cut out for the
Argentine. Where mans cows
have chance to turn around, by
God. I'd"
Argentine, HE'LL" Billy exploded
at him. "If I'd been running this
outfit, this situation would never
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-01
CATTLE KING DOM
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saddle, and on his own horse, and
at Short Crick."
I'm thinking now" said Billy
Wheeler, "that we can prove that
one way or the other-right here
and now"
"How?"
We've still got his saddle,
haven't WEI"
cts still under my bunk"
''Let me see it,"
Horse Dunn stared at him irrita-
bly, for a moment, then picked up a
lamp with jerk, and led the way to
the clean bare room in which he
lived. BY the yellow light Of the
lamp the fine old saddles on their
racks against the wall glinted clean
ly from silverwork and steel. Dunn
sat down on a box and hooked his.
elbows on the table behind him.
"Horse, how big man is this
Lon Magoon? About my size?"
Hell, no! Not by eight inches.
Little short wiry feller- put you in
mind Of grasshopper, or a flea"
Wheeler hauled out Magoon's sad
die. Billy measured the length. Of
the stirrup leather with his arm
stirrup in armpit, fingers upon the
tree.
II stand five-eleven," Wheeler
said. "Yet these stirrups are too
long for me to ride. Horse, the
man that rode this saddle was over
six feet tall"
Horse came across the room in
two strides and dropped to one knee
beside Billy. Damn it, I know
that's Magoon's hull!"
"You mean it was Magoon's hull.
You can see the short-rig bends
worn into the stirrup feathers. But
since then the feathers have been
let down long, and laced there with
rawhide whang."
Horse Dunn measured the stirrup
feathers against his own arm. Then
he forked the saddle where it lay,
jamming his feet into the stirrups.
'"Tall as me-" he 'breathed, unbe-
lieving. He stared at the saddle in
credulously for several moments.
"Do you reckon" he said at last,
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-01

hammer to those spurs," he said,
his mind on other things. Seems
like they"
'Horse-Coffee was right! The
man that died in this saddle was not
Lon Magoon."
Suddenly Dunn stood up, shay
gy towering figure, staring redly at
Billy Wheeler. "Then, in Gods
name, who's dead?"
Wheeler regarded him without ex-
preston. Within the hour, shad-
owy bunch had come over him. He
knew that he had no proof for the
thing that was in his mind; yet
somehow it stood clear and plain. He
went to the fireplace, and picked up
an old branding iron that had been
in use as fire poker. He squatted
on his heels, and with this sooty iron
began to make marks on Dunn's
clean-swept floor.
Saying that the 81 is here" he
said, marking a cross, land Short
Crick over here; then her, lies that
broken badlands called the Red
Sleep. Seems to me there used to
be a trail across the Red Sleep,
leading over to Pahranagat."
eyes, sure. But"
Horse Dunn waited; Billy Wheeler
studied the floor. Where would a
man be coming from, passing over
Short Crick toward the 81? Maybe
Pahranagat?"
Could" Horse admitted dubious.
ly.
''That little railroad spur ends
there"
Sometimes, Horse Dunn made
a sudden contribution, Lion Ma
COON has shipped few stolen beef
carcasses out of Pahranagat."
Wheeler nodded. From Pahran-
agat the spur runs down the Little
Mimic to Plumas, then-let me
see"
"Cheat Creek, Monitor, Skies
Crossing" Dunn supplied; "and so
to the main STEM"
"And so to the main STEM"
Wheeler repeated. And maybe an
old-timer, saddle man, working to-
ward the 81 by train, would figure
it was better to come by Pahrana-
gat-and there pick up horse?"
s, They were silent, and the back
ground of the outer night seemed
uncommonly still-perhaps because
Old Man Coffee's hounds were gone.
IA saddle-minded man." Wheeler
repeated, coming from = say
Flagstaff. He threw the branding
iron into the fireplace; it sent up a
puff of white. ash, against the black
opening. Horse, where was Bob
Flagg last heard from?"
Dunn's voice came out thickly.
Flagstaff" he said.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-01
Use of Shellac

Shellac is not only used over and
over again on skis, but it takes a
prominent part in almost every
sport. 1t is used on golf club heads
and shafts, fishing rods, baseball
bats and on tennis rackets. Bowl.
ing pins and bowling alleys are also
finished with shellac.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-01

long time. "That's an offer, is it?"
he said at last.
"On one condition. That you give
me a free hand, to hire, fire, buy
or sell, land or cattle, for three
years."
II believe" said Dunn, I'D even
do that"
cts deal, them"
"No! You and nell never make a
deal like that!"
"It's your out" Wheeler told him,
land it's your only out. Let me
take the finance and the outfit-and
all the other ruction falls to pieces"
And now Horse Dunn's eyes
blazed again, and his voice crack
led. "You'll never put a dime in
this brandt"
cts her brand" Wheeler remind
ed him. "You willing to let it bust
up and go down, and the girl and
her mother without cent?"
"Let 'er bust-before it ever
hangs on your dough-"
''But damnation-why?"
"You want to know why? I'll tell
you why! Because you want that
girl! You want that girl-you think
I'm blind? But she don't want you.
I'd no sooner put her in your debt
than I'd sell her to you outright.
You're only making the offer be-
cause you're in love with Marian"
you're crazy! I'm making the
offer because I think I can come
out on it.
"You want the girl" Horse per-
sisted.
"You old fool" Wheeler held his
voice down-"do you think I'd ever
expect to get her that way? Do you
think I'd want her on the basis Of"
Anyway, that's all over and
done, two years back" Wheeler lied.
"Once she could have had me body
and soul. But that's all over.
wouldn't tie myself up, not now, to
her or anyone else"
"You lie," said Horse calmly.
Horse, if you'll let me take"
"Never a dime of your money in
her brand" Horse said with utter
fnality.
Wheeler turned in that night feel
ing old and grim.
1t was still dark as Billy Wheeler :
let himself noiselessly into the cook
shack and lighted a lamp. He found
himself cold biscuits; and in huge
pot on the back of the stove he found
bitter coffee above a. banked fire.
He had about finished washing
down his cold biscuits when he was
annoyed to discover that another
early riser was about. Someone was
walking quietly toward the cook
shack. Hurriedly he blew out his
light, gulped down half cup of
dregs, and let himself out of the
kitchen, anxious to be on his way
without conversation.
Then, rounding the corner of the
cook shack he almost ran into Mar
ian.s
Morning, Billy" He saw that
she was wearing belted overalls and
boots.
isn't this pretty early? Couldn't
you sleep?"
(TO BE CONTINUED)
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-01

CdAs
,;1s
"that Internal old lion hunter would
let down those stirrups, just to get
us balled up?"
Look at the wear on the stirrup
leather. The saddle has been rid
den since the stirrups were let
down."
/ Horse Dunn got up slowly and
went back to his seat on the box.
For long time he sat staring at
the floor. When at last he drew a
deep breath and got up, his move
ments were those Of a man pre-
occupied.
He got out roll Of adhesive tape,
pulled off boot and wooden sock,
and began to tape up the outside of
his ankle bone, which appeared to
be skinned. "I've got to take a
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-01
CHAPTER vIII-Continued
10

Behind Marian's shadoWed silhou-
cite the window glass itself shat
tered, as if it had exploded inward;
out in the brush sounded the ringing
crack of rifle. Then there was si-
lence and the window against which
Marian had stood was empty except
for the lamp-lit CLEAN of it's shat
tered glass.
Wheeler's breath jerked in his
throat; he dropped to the ground
and raced for the house.
In the dark beside the shattered
window Douglas was holding the
girl in his arms, and though she
chung to him, Wheeler saw that the
wagon boss was holding her up. He
heard Douglas say, care you hurt?
Are you"
Billy Wheeler cried out, SIN Gods
name, Marian"
Marian's voice said shakily, "I'm
all right
"You hit?"
emo"
Get a guny" said Val Douglas
crafty. ''We was standing here,
and somebody took shot at"
Wheeler turned and ran for the
bunk house. Half way he almost
crashed into Tulare Callahan.
whats up?"
Get the boys out" Wheeler told
him. ''To hell with saddles, but
get ropes and guns. Somebody fired
into the layout-we've got to try to
stampede over him in the brush"
Behind the 81 layout the buck
brush stood ragged, much of it
shoulder high to mounted man; in
it's crooked brakes the hard sandy
ground showed barren in the light of
the near stars.
With some difficulty Billy Wheeler
restrained Gil Baker and Steve Hur-
ley from squirting their ponies head
long into the brush, as if they were
trying to jump bunch Of steers.
"Stick together, move slow, and
keep stopping to listen" Wheeler
said. That's our only chance"
They trailed into the bush slowly,
single file, Wheeler in the lead. He
had accidentally mounted a horse
that believed in ghosts and it moved
sidelong, stretching its nose warily
at the brush shadows, blowing long
uneasy whoofs. Repeatedly they
halted to sit listening. ~ - = q
For an hour they combed the dark
brush, alternately walking their
horses and listening.
Not until they 'came out at the
foot of barren rise did they realize
that they had wandered almost
mile from their starting point When
you have seen one thicket Of buck
brush by starlight you have seen
them ALL. They had pushed through
a hundred thickets, in which man
could have hidden under the very
feet of their horses--yet in that mile
of country there we're thousand
thickets more. The riders were grim
and tight-mouthed.
Horse Dunn met them at the cor
rails. He had been proving all over
the place, rifle on his arm. He
spoke low-voiced, but no one them
would have crossed him then, any
more than they would have fooled
with 14-hand silvertip. His words
came out as hard as pieces of rock.
go on and turn in, he told them.
"This is most likely all for tonight"
Once they were inside, Horse de-
manded of Wheeler, what the devil
got into Old Man Coffee?"
whatever it was got into him, it's
going to cost us plenty" #
II don't believe he knows a horse
track from a hounds ear" Dunn
declared angrily. "He puts me in
mind of some old s-horn-he
paws and blows and hollers, but
what's he know about it when he
gets through? Nothing"
"I'n1 not so sure" Billy Wheeler
The Washington times., 1938-02-26
2 Young Sailors
'Dunked' in River

O.N.S0 Two Georgetown Uni
versity sophomores shivered in
retrospect today and determined
to confine their sailing activities
henceforth to efforts to remain in
the BOAT.
Harold c. Chaplin, 81, Of Pleas
antvtile, N. Y, and Charles S.
Mulcahy. %. of Chicago, are mem.
bers Of the Georgetown Sailing
Club, which operates on the Po-
tomac River. Yesterday the pair
found themselves doing less sail
ing and more swimming when their
10-foot dinghy overturned, dump
ing them into frigid waters. They
swan ashore and dried out at a
CCC camp fire. .t5
The Washington times., 1938-02-26
AStor Backs
Chamberlain

NEW YORK, Feb. 26 G.Ns0.
Prime Minister Chamberlain OBJ
jective in the present European
crisis is rectification Of the mis-
takes Of the Versailles Treaty with.
out resort to war, Viscount Astor,
member of the House of Lords, said
before sailing today on the
Europa.
IF you're going to fight, it's
a a question of having a worth
while ISSUE" said Viscount Astor.
"IS 1t a worthwhile issue that
the GeZmanic people of Austria
should join the Germanic people
of Germany? Is it worthwhile
issue that the German Danzig be
rejoined to the German Ger.
many?"
The Washington times., 1938-02-26
PRESIDENT GETS
M'NUTT VIEWS
FAVORS DIRIGIBLES

1u.N.SO Philippine affairs and
the grave situation in the Orient
occupied President Roosevelt's at
tention today as he closeted him
self with Paul V. McNutt, U. s..
High Commissioner to the Philip
pines, over a White House lunch
con conference that promised to
extend we'll into the afternoon.
.McNutt, who made spectacular
arrival in Washington doomed by
his friends as Democratic presi,
Dental timber for 1910, brought
to the White House with him a
brief case full OF reports on the
situation in the Far East.
Before flying across the Pacific,
McNutt made a special trip from
the Philippines to China, where
he conferred with Rear Admiral
Harry Yarneu, commander of the
American Asiatic squadron.
Coincidental with McNutt's ar
rival here. reports were published
Of heavy Japanese. infiltration in
the Philippines. The commissioner
declined to discuss this matter
with neWspapermen.
The Washington times., 1938-02-26

U.N.S.1 Government reorgan-
ization-hardy perennial in Con-
greSs for decades-today was in
the Senate spotlight, with a COM
bination of old-lne Democrats and
Republicans preparing for savage
warfare next week.
An Administration bill to give
President Roosevelt broad power
to consolidate, discontinue, curtail
and reorganize offices in the execu-
tive branch was made the "un-
finished business" of the Senate
last night.
Senator Byrd CD of Virginia,
leader Of the forces opposing ma
jor features of the bill. is busy
gathering ammunition for the
fray. At least a week Of spirited
debate was foreshadowed.
Chief target for attack is a pro-
vision to abolish the office Of
Comptroller General.