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don't, there's goin' to be wuss Injun trouble.
started right here, than ever begun in any
lnjun camp!"
don't like to recollect that race It went
too deep - seeing my own cousin toeing the
mark for race that meant life or death. He
still looked sick and white, with his freckles
standing out like dabs of paint And he looked
big and awkward, not at all like runner.
1t took Little Bottom to look that part, all
slim and gaunt-ribbed and sort of oily
skinned and not seeming to realize how i'm:
portant it was.
MAYBE a runner needs to be scared in
race like that. Maybe it was pure fear that
sent Hanks ankles smoking over the road.
Maybe it was the prayers of Aunt Ruth,
his mother, who hadn't had word to say in
the matter. Anyway, Hank got to the knife
first, picked it up - and threw it as far from
him as he could. Then he walked off.
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and Little Snake nodded solemnly, then
grunted: Back next year. Bring good boss"
he promised.
It was common talk, that next year, that
all the Utes in the country were wild-horse
hunting, and big tales drifted in of horse
they'd picked up that could run like Billy-be-
damned. We didn't believe it. of course.
Nothing could convince us that, in all the
world, there was anything on four feet that
could outrln Thunder, and yet. nobody
could completely discount the chance OF
what might be found among the hills.
The wild horses then were mighty different
from the few rat-tail, shaggy coated, hammer
headed culls left today. They were bosses,
then; beasts who showed plain the Arabian
strain they come from - HOSES brung over
by the Spaniards, somebody told me. Why,
by mating pair of the wild mares won of
Little Snakes band that year, to old Thunder,
I got me team that would trot mile,
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In our jubilation over Hank, we forgot the
Injuns for bit, but pretty soon Uncle Jubal
found the old chief beside him.
What for?" demanded Little Snake, his
face all a-scowl What for white boy no kill?
My great grandson who is dead he bad. But
this one, he good. Fine boy!" he boasted.
''Surer' Uncle Jubal pushed his hat to the
back of his head, and, a little drunk with
relief, punched the old chief in the spareribs
Hes all right! Take Little Bottom home
and make good Injun out of him. We're
satisfied, if you arer'
Little Snake wasn't satisfied, that was plain
to be seen. Little Snake felt insulted, and
Little Bottom fairly skunk away. for he didn't
know, either, why he hadn't been good
enough to kill.
The whole band would have gone sinking
out of town, for Little Snake was clever
devil, only some of the boys remembered
their BETS BY the time we had all collected.
Little Snake and his braves was riding home,
blanketless, their squaws stripped of trinkets.
and the whole lot would have been afoot if
we hadn't let them keep the sorriest Of their
n19s.
Come back next year," somebody yelled,
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hitched to regular buggy. in three minutes
fat And tell you, me having that team of
housekeeping colts during my counting days,
did lot for you young 'uns of today. 1t give
me the pick of the gals!
But to get back to the HOSES. While we had
faith in Thunder, we got all the races we could
for our black, to keep him in shape. Aunt Ruth
said there wasn't lick of ranch work done,
that last month. Thunder was seven now,
and plumb magnificent animal as I've ever
SEEN And, barring one, I'll never see another
as good.
Uncle Jubal got pretty jerky as the next
twenty fourth of July come close He couldn't
think anything else but racing, and what the
Utes would bring.
Dur we can learn somethin' from the In
juns!" he declared. one morning. ''You can't
ride bareback" to Hank, but we can pure
shed few pounds off your saddler'
And Hank tried to thin himself down -
he'd filed out lot this past year - till Aunt
Ruth got up on her ear and took it out on
Uncle Jubal. Letting your own boy starve,
to win race!" she stormed you ought to
be ashamed"
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Excitement run high, for never had Thun-
der looked so fit and fine. The white folks
would take good look at him. then go back
and try to bet some more. And the Utes took
all corners, as far as cash money and HOSES
and saddles went. When the men tried to
bet their ranches, like Uncle Jubal did, them
1njuns just wasn't interested.
Too much land already" the chief told
Uncle Jubal Then: Bet new boss for Thun-
der. Thunder win. you have two good boss
next year." he said, ingratiatingly.
Uncle Jubal took off his hat and scratched
his thinning gray hair. He put his hat on
again, and rubbed one finger along his fresh
shaved cheek. If it had been his ranch, he
might have said yes without thinking it over.
But Thunder. Good old black Thunder.
you afraid?" asked Little Snake.
Uncle Jubal damned his hat harder down
on his head. mo. by golliesr' he roared.
Let's see your racin' hoss!''
Little Shake nodded, and Little Bottom
went off on the run. The rest of US just waited.
Waited through long hot minutes, with the
sweat gathering under our hatbands and our
shirt collars getting too tight
Yet l was shivering when finally sighted
Tw-i-si-ls
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-. tvo HOSES being % close. but we saw the
. =. huck lean down. and Thunder reared
md squealed. then bo'ted' crossing the finish
- .bout IL lengths ahead.
..r.kes more'n big wind to beat Thun-
der," Uncle Jubal whooped. Takes -"
TIM he stopped, and like the rest of US,
stsrcd out on the track.
Little Britches had whirled the mare and
gone racing back, looking for an opening in
the packed crowd, like he wanted out. Hank
wheeled Thunder. and holler went up when
folks saw the blood streaming down from the
black stations shoulder. Before they had
time to wonder, Hank come abreast the mare
and made crazy leap right on that young
Injrm, crashing both of them to the dirt.
There wasn't any fight. When Hank got
his breath, he just got up and stood there,
al white and shaky, staring down at the
Injun, who didn't move.
The fall had busted Little Bitches neck.
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Uncle Jubal just grinned. Come on down
to the pasture" he said, and after Aunt Ruth
had seen Thunder's hoofs striking fire over
the rocky makeshift training track. she just
wiped her eyes and murmured, well, the
twenty -fourth'Il soon be over"
j HERE was twice as big white crowd at
the celebration that year. and Little Snake
brung all his friends and neighbors, too. He
come up to Uncle Jubal. with Little Bottom,
leading a wild-eyed sorrel.
Good hoss," he said solemnly. rs name
Storm" Again the Utes went the limit in
their betting. They stood back quiet while the
white men searched Little Bottom for knives,
and found none.
Likewise, they took their licking without
any fuss. The Storm-hoss could run. all right
He stuck with old Thunder right up to the
point where our black stallion give out that
extra piece of his heart on the home stretch,
y
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his breath, he just got up and stood
al white and shaky, staring down
Injun, who didn't move.
The fall had busted Little Britches'
-fIe had a mife!" Hank got out,
hoarsely. when his pa come up. When
he saw he was losin', he tried to stab
Thunder's throatw And not a man
there, knowing how the boy loved the
horse. but could understand him pull
ing the Injun down. If Thunder had
turned out to be bad hurt, l reckon
there'd have been a ruckus, then and
there.
lHINcs happened, Of course. They
never had a lot of lnjun trouble in
Utah, them days, and the main reason
was that they treated the Utes like they
was human beings. Now, instead Of let
ting Hank 60 scot free, and calling it
good radiance of a bad Injun, they
talked it over with Little Snake and
his big men. For maybe an hour. the
white men Numbered down on their
heels, and the red men sQuatted, near
the finish line, and had their powwow.
Hank was there, looking ready to be
sick, but not scared. Uncle Jubal looked
ready for anything.
There was a lot of talk. Little Snake
admitted that his dead great-grandson
was an ornery cuss. who had committed
a great crime in trying to kill a fine
boss. All the same. his killing couldn't
20 unavenged, and white mans law
wouldn't do. Finally he come out with
a proposition.
Hank and Little Bottom - the old
chief didn't call him that, but like l
said, / never could rightly get his lnjun
name - was about of an age. They
settle, once and for all, the blood bait
tween them.
They race" Little Snake said, his
black eyes shining knife here" He "
over to the finish line, threw down
Britches' knife. Boys start here" Tn
stalked his scrawny figure down the ros
about hundred yards. "One get knit
other. All done"
mo. by golly!" 1t was Uncle Jubal,
ping his lanky thin frame up like ia
the-box. mo! My boy amt -"
'=They race" Little Snake settled
blanket in a way that showed it was HI
word. The white men looked at Uncle
pure worried. Hank was no special
shakes as a runner, and whether he "
lost, it wasn't a good thing to have you
mixed into. On the other hand, other
folka MIGHT lcae their scalDs If Little
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TOO bad" Uncle Jubal told Little
Snake. Yours is a good boss, but not
good enough"
I'VE come next year." the Injun
grunted. But he didn't start right off.
He looked at Little Bottom, sitting his
nag with hunched shoulders and down.
cast head.
He good boy. He ride good" he
'.sure!" nodded Uncle Jubal. Pine
boy"
Little Snake went away. bordering.
unable to understand.
Sure beats me-" Uncle Jubal said.
as he drove home with our winnings.
Little Bottoms his favorite. but the
old fellow feels ins.,lted, because Hank
didn't use that knife. Well, them
Utes combed the hills and got the best
there was. Reckon we don't need to
worry about anything now, except viii
they dig up somethin' good enough for
Thunder's last race. He'll be eight years
old then, and aim to let him rest, and
start racin' some of his colts" He
sighed.
4HUNDER's last race. Any of us could
have bawled when we thought of it.
l reckon every Ute in the valley came.
that next July. The betting got started
before we even saw what boss they had,
for all of us CIcle-A folks was anxious
to get our bets up, before the Injuns
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carnation. recognized her again. after all those
years BY her hair.
Lots OF men are said 20 have an eye for
blondes. but If Ralph can really spot one 300
years away. he would seem 10 have them all
licked
Anyhow there it was, 357 B. c., and there
were Sextus and Helen allegedy doing a
hands across the Qonianl Sea act and just
getting over the shyness that often besets peo-
pie during first incarnations.
Other headlines OF the time were: Gauls
Defeated in Great Battle by Gen. Rutilius
Armored Divisions Rutilius Refuses ovation,
Gaus Retiring to Previously Prepared Posi-
tons Tactical Withdrawal, Says Gallo Radio
1t is interesting TO note that Rome despite
this victory. soon afterwards suffered inan-
cial panic. even as the ". s. after the last war
Around the same time Sextus ed-he may
have been bit bullish in the market-and
Helen followed him quietly TO the grave.
Fifteen hundred years whipped by, and now
the scene is France. Louis VI is succeeded by
Louis VII The Second Crusade is getting
under way. Abclard is woonC Hcloisc i'm
Paris, and i'm the turbulent Duchy Of Nor
mandy guess what?
Ralph now fisherman is woonC Cracic!
This time it's Helen who ia missing But
she isn't missing as Oracle was before. She
is just waiting offstage in the Celestial Wings
SO to speak long enough TO let things get COM
plcated. Her entrance cue is the marriage of
Sextus (now perhaps called Pierre) and Oracle,
called Oracle.
Day after this ominous event Pierre is
bringing home mess of flet Of sole when he
notices blond girl in wooden shoes trudging
along in front Of him. He can't quite place
the body but the hair is familiar
Where has he seen that hair before
Then it all comes back the panic. Rutilus,
the Gauls-and Helen
With cry he drops the sole and clasps the
maiden in his arms Lacking his tme-machine
memory Helen-for it Is she-is little sur
prised by the imPetuosity OF his approach, hut
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heroine 60 the hilt, It was Karma ne insisted.
Their happy ending would just lGvc 90 be post
poned a few more centuries.
And with that she went oil and killed her
self.
This time Pierre followed her TO The grave,
leaving Oracle TO carry on with the fishing
business all alone and bringing the curtain
down for another 500 years.
It goes up again on the lounge Of Ralph
Gordon Fears Southern California retreat,
Yato Kya. Judging from the name YOU might
suppose that something new had been added.
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~ been exhibited in a Los Angeles divorce
court.
Decorating the apex is Ralph Gordon Fear.
millionaire Hollywood camera manufactures.
and the base angles are occupied respectively
by his first wife Grace and his second. Airline,
whose divorce suit was tried recently.
The same trio was also in operation, it was
testified when Grace divorced Ralph in 1871.
However just 90 say that they have been
playing ring -around-a-triangle for a couple Of
years scarcely covers the case.
According 20 Arlines own testimony, they
have been at il since 357 g. c.!
This triangle, she told the court is a special
reincarnation job, the When-I-was-a- King-n-
Babylon-and-you- -Christian-slave" sort
of thing
According to her, she. Ralph and Oracle all
kept bobbing up like corks out Of the troubled
waters Of history
Oracle. it may as we'll be said right here,
has not corroborated Arline's story. and Ralph
has fatty denied it. So 1t would be well TO
bear i'm mind in reading the following recon-
struction of tho past that the authorship is a
little ambiguous.
Oracle has no connection with IL; Airline
says that all she knows is what Ralph has told
her and Ralph says he hasn't told her any
thing.
In other words. the thing is an Outline Of
History not by H. c. Wells but allegedly by
Ralph Gordon Fear as revealed in series Of
dubious incarnations 10 Airline Peak Fear.
The latter's first terrestrial encounter with
\ the supposed author occurred, she testified, in
Rome, 1900 years ago
He was a legionnaire at the time-perhaps
named ,SextusAand she was a visiting Greek
dcbutante definitely named Helen.
Oracle hadn't shown up yet-indeed, didn't
show up at all for this inning so they were
oblc fr off 10 "A n har
And another nice thing about it was that Ar.
line had the same beautiful blond hair she has
today
In fact. she confessed TO the bewildercd
judge that was how Ralph in the present in
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adds, Alas, how tickle is the memory of
woman!" and proceeds to freshen her recol-
lections.
Both together then face up TO the problem
of what's to be done about Oracle.
Pierre, as quoted by Airline 500 years later
in the Los Angeles court, was for giving Oracle
the ,br1lsh-offA Aftef all, what was she but n
Gracie-come-lately? What did she know about
the night in the Forum the panic Rutilius, the
Gaus? She wasn't even around
But Hclen-Arlne. as she says she later had
it from Ralph, was determined 10 play the
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They Were Married
in Ancient Rome. Airline
Testified d; Then She
Committed Suicide
Over Him in France
800 Years Ago: And. in
One Of The Strongest
Cases Ever Tried. She's
just Sued Him for
Divorce in This
incarnation
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October 81. 1913
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but not according to Airline. The date is now
1889. but the cast is still the same.
Oracle and Ralph are again man and wife,
airline has once more been detained in the
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revealed, we uled again
rolled on and l passed on
too many drinks.
In view Of that descripti'
a question whether her
next morning should be
cred the start of a fourth
nation. II so, it differed FIR,
former ones in that it bega
q headache and, she allege
Ralph right there beside h
He hasn't said anything
the headache but has
vehemently, that he was
room.
Taking him at his wore
Evening star., 1943-05-02
Lear
Continued From Page BID

1940 have found Lear engrossed in elec-
tronics and possible new applications Of
that science to the mechanical and elec-
trical control equipment of aircraft. He
won the Frank M. Hawks award in 1910
for a simple but important aide to aerial
navigation.
few weeks back, he conceived the
idea of remote preselector control cir
cult for aircraft. To operate it, he de-
veloped motor of only one-seven-
hundredth G/700) horsepower, so small
that you could carry several of them in
your vest pocket.
His activity is reflected in his company.
Three years ago, it employed an aver
age of 80 persons, with a net factory
output-exclusively radio-of less than
100000.
Current employment and production
figures are taboo under military censor
ship, but the one runs well into four fig
ures and the other, as estimated for 1943,
high into eight-and radio accounts for
only 8 per cent of the output.
High in War Importance.
Lears mathematical and electrical
genius and his prescient grasp of what
Observation-Disclosures have estab-
lished him in the forefront of America
contributors to the war effort.
Lear's attractive wife, Moya Marie,
born of the stage and possessing the
same sharp sense of kumor that makes
her father famous, is an accomplished
illustrator and writer in her own right
She likes Murphy sal-ahd'" and rare
steaks; is crazy about John Olsen Lear
(after his grandfather), who cuddled in
blankets, blinks and COOS at blaze In
the living room fireplace of their home.
And she confesses she Is "terrincally
wild" about the big, ruddy-faced. fun
loving chap to whom she proposed back
IN leap year 1910.
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the date of the second reahing in the
first session and the final passage in
the third session, then the bill will be-
come law even though the House of
Lords has not consented. This means
that in no case can the Lords prevent
the passage of bill for more than two
years. It would even be possible for the
House of Commons by simple majority
to abolish the House of Lords itself by
this method, but such a change in the
constitution would be thoroughly un-
popular at the present time.
Strange to say, the Parliament Act
which caused such passionate controversy
has been of immediate practical effect
on only two occasions. It was used
to pass the government Of Ireland bill
and the established church (Wales) bill
in 1914, but both these acts were later
repealed because of the war. Since
that date it has never been used. This
does not mean that it has not been
of Importance because the Lords, know
ing that they can be overruled, may
hesitate to oppose legislation which has
a strong majority in its favor in the
Commons. Moreover, during the past
20 years the Conservative party has
been almost continuously in power so
that there has been no serious clash
between the two houses
Making no comparisons with delays
in our House and Senate, Goodhart says
that as legislative chamber, the House
of Lords may be useful in q number
Of ways.
'First," he writes, "it may prevent
hasty or extreme legislation by the
House Of Commons through Its power
to delay the passage Of bill for two
| years. Secondly, It may improve . bill
which has passed the Commons by maxi
Ing amendments both Of form and sub
Evening star., 1943-05-02
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crucial moment in the history of Lords
came in 1909 when it rejected Lloyd
Georges famous budget on the ground
that 1t was grossly unfair attack on
property owners. He observes that to-
day similar budget would be consid-
cred to be on the ltra-conservative side.
and continues:
Power Cut in 1911.
"Thereupon the Liberal government
asked for dissolution of Parliament and
general election was fought in which
the powers of the House of Lords were
put In issue. The Liberals were re-
turned with working majority and they
thereupon introduced the Parliament
bill. This finally became law in 1911
after the King had agreed, If necessary,
to create enough Liberal peers to swamp
the Conservative majority in the Lords
AT the last minute the Lords gave way
and the new peers were not created, to
the severe disappointment Of many
worthy men.
"The Parliament Act contains two
main provisions. The first is that if a
money bill is sent up to the Lords at least
one month before the session ends, it will
automatically become law even If the
Lords do not pass it. A money bill is
one which contains only provisions deal
ing with taxation or the payment or
appropriation Of public money. The word
only" prevents any tacking. so that it
would be impossible to introduce any
radical reconstruction schemes under
this section.
The second provision Of the act is
more important. It provides that Il any
bill Is passed by the House Of Commons
In three sessions, there having been an
interval Of at least two years between
Evening star., 1943-05-02
Home Front

AT home the American people we're
concerned about the effect of the soft
coal strike on the war effort, confused by
the controversy over aviation gasoline
and encouraged by statements on aircraft
and ship production. They were given
food for thought also in the Presidents
comments on the huge military camp and
war industry setup and the relation of
young people to this development in the
postwar period.
The row over high -octane gasoline be-
gan when Undersecretary of War Pat
terson blamed the failure to provide
adequate fuel for aircraft on the rubber
program and the diverting of equipment
10 synthetic rubber production which
was needed for aviation gasoline.
The Truman Committee began an in
vestigation and called Donald Nelson.
chairman of WPB, as a witness. Mr..
Nelson denied that the synthetic rub
ber program was to blame for the short
age. Instead, he testified that ARMY
leaders had underestimated the ouan-
tity of high octane gas which would
as July, 1910, the National Defense
Advisory Commission had urged the
storing OF 100000 gallons of aviation
gasoline as a reserve but that dispute
within the Army prevented any action.
He was followed before the committee
the next day by Secretary of the Interior
1ckes, the petroleum administrator, who
stated that the supply of aviation gaso-
line is higher than the Armys estimate
OF need. He added that last summer
the production program for planes had
been stepped up greatly without any
corresponding effort to increase gasoline
supplies.
His statement concerning increased
plane production was more than con-
firmed in speech made in New York
City by Vice Chairman William L.,