The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-25

business man the same as his father. Why shouldn't he come in the office?"
 No reason" Babs replied calm ly. And he probably could use some extra money. He's probably trying to unload some of his real estate through this airport deal. Anyway that's the talk about town"
 Talk about town I'm sick of it," Kitty said, banging her hands down on her typewriter. Talk around here I'm sick of that, too.
 I'm sick of the way these goy- ernment men keep Snooping around here. This isn't an office anymore; it's a prison, a concen- tration camp. Just because the legal work for a plane and auto mobile factory is done here, every piece of paper has to be checked and filed and guarded"
 What she's sick of, Sue Mary thought, is the way young Ross Clark looks at Vera. And so that makes her sick of the whole world.
 She wondered if he was trying to unload some property for an air port site. She supposed the TYP group would make use of such ma terial. The idle rich trying to milk the taxpayers by selling high-priced land for a site that could be obtain ed more reasonable elsewhere.
 Yes, that would be right up the TYP alley - particularly now that the election was in the offing. The present governor was a former law partner of old Ross Clark. The picture would fit together perfectly. He had appointed young Clark on the committee; he was running for reelection.
 She rubbed her forehead with an inky hand and wished that somehow she could see clearly all the notifications. All she knew was that she sensed danger; that much as she desired to, she couldn't yet break from Vera and Natalie and Nick. There was something that she must find out.
 Perhaps it was hurt pride that was driving her on. And anger at having been outsmarted or de- sire now to prove to herself that she could stop them in whatever it was they hoped to accomplish.
 She wanted desperately to see Joe. She wanted to talk to him, to confess the facts she had dis covered. She wanted to admit she had been fool and hear him tell her that nothing mattered but that he loved her.
 Instead, she had to go to the hall for special meeting of the campaign publicity committee. At that, she thought, it was better than going to the apartment where she would have to face not only Natalie but Vera and possibly Nick as well.
 It was going to be hard to try and assume pose of innocence. She must pretend nothing had changed and her enthusiasm was oVA4A Ah6AA1 4ACA AAGC1C Cob oGlll hccll.
 At the hall she took notes of the meeting for the records and then afterwards, when Vera and Natalie brought out salami, cheese, olives and beer for lunch in the office. she listened to the by-now familiar talk with a new understanding.
 I was blind, she kept repeating to herself. Blind and stupid. A naive child, as Vera said.
 The implications made her break out into cold sweat. She had been hearing these arguments for weeks past, but only now did she comprehend them.
 The whole government was all wrong. It was run by men who were ignorant; men who were driven by personal greed; men who were willing to sacrifice the entire population for personal gain. War, if they forced the | country into it, would be waged | so that the capitalists could make | more money. There was no need | for national defense. Use the l money for welfare. The United l States could take care of itself | against aggressors. No foreign country wanted it.
 The words dinned into her ears, as the discussion became louder. | Talk - talk = talk!
 There were no subversive ele- | ments at work within the coun- try. None except certain govern ment officails. And when the YP in getting Fritz King | in as governor they would be do- ing the nation a real service be- cause he would immediately in- l troduce changes in the state: changes that could well serve as models for others.
 But we have to wake the people l up before we can do anything" Vera said, her face slight and her eyes searching Nick's moody face for an answering smile.
 Well we will. They'll soon see just how far money goes with o1,t O AJ{aL cold