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20 miles had sung away under the wheels before Elisa
beth spoke.
81 knew you were crazy when married you," she
said, but up to I'd always thought you just
funny-cTazy. Now think you're crazy-crazy," she
exploded Fifteen hundred dollars for pile Of junk
that won't even novel And that old bandit wouldn't
take the window of it until you'd written
the check! I'll bet the whole thing win collapse the min
ute you try to tow away. Fifteen hundred doarsr'
She beat her little fists on the dashboard and for
ond or two Pete thought she going to gnaw hole
in the windshield
Look, honey" he said Think of it as an invest
men Finding Mercer Raceabout is like finding bale
Of bluechp stocks. It's just money in the bank, that's
all. I'll FIX II up, take me year or so, and wal you
see it then. Some pile Of junk boy. You'll see.''
go on, genius Elisabeth said. you'll fix it up and
then you'll sell it for $1,000 Right? Isn't that the way
the fairy tale goes? She stabbed the radio push button
and ENis Presley came boring through the hot after
noon. Elisabeth turned the volume knob right up
against the stop.
Pete had intended to do the work himself. He
started to do it, and at first he made progress
He stripped the old leather he sanded off the paint he
anonted the rust with smelly wonder chemicals. But
the engine had him licked before he laid wrench to NUT
And what did he know about painting, real painting
that you could look down into like plate glass; without
a trace Of oranee-peel ripple anywhere? What did he
know about diamond-pleated upholstery?
He gave up and, feeling like the trusted bookkeeper
just starting to play the horses he began to sneak away
with little money here little there For starter he
borrowed few hundred on an insurance policy. When
he got lucky tax refund he didn't deposit it, and when
the annual bonus came through he II by IS per cent
before he gave il to Elisabeth. No Martins for
lunch. He nourished himself on tomato juice and cot
tage cheese, told the fellows at the agency he
diet. When Elisabeth went away for weekend, he had
Jim Henderson come over and take the engine to his
shop for overhaul, at reasonable hourly charge that
sounded enough if you didn't let yourself think Of
the hundreds Of hours il going to take. And after
that his existence just descending spiral Of deceit
Finally he told Elisabeth he having the Mercer
put into dead storage he could that half of the
garage as workshop She believed him. He remem-
bered looking into her soft brown eyes and wincing
nwardly he said it. The man came with the truck and
hauled the Mercer of to George Richter, master
painter, upholsterer, striper.
II would be finished any day now From Richter to
Henderson to have the engine dropped in and then,
thing of utter shining beauty, wheeled rarity would
come home. Home, indeed, Pete thought bitterly. A
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and he and Elisabeth had agreed it would have to wait
a while. She hadn't been angry. Elisabeth was almost
never angry.
Oh, there'd been couple of fuses lately about the
Mercer, but those didn't count. You really couldn't
expect a woman to understand why man should have
a love affair with 1912 automobile. He'd given up
trying to explain il.
He tossed his coat on the bed and picked the mail off
the bureau where Elisabeth always left it for him.
Nothing. Couple Of ads letter from his college alumni
association, garage bill Ypes! An alarm began to
clang in the center of his head He stared with Mortified
fascination at the envelope A. J. Henderson Automo
bile Reservations. "She didn't" he said to himself
'She wouldn't" He tipped the envelope over. She
had It open. He snatched out the single sheet of
paper 1t was neatly temzed.
REBoRE BLOCK. INSTALL MAINS AND LTNE-BoRE. $4,000
GRIND ASSEMBLY INSTALL VALVES,
PISToNS, CRANK-SEIAFT, RODS, ETC. 1880
REBUILD MAGNETIC $500
TOTAL $4,000
Sadly Pete put the bill back into its envelope and
stuffed the whole thing under pile Of shirts. He in
a state Of shock. This must be the sensation Of the
master-spy, shouder-deep in the Foreign Office safe,
when the lights snap on and the calm Oxfordian voice
says please don't move should hate to splash blood
on this rug. It's Karabash, y'know." Rug? RHy1
Dreadful word!
His fingers tugeed at his tie. Definitely be told him
SELF have had it. This is what Of deceit, false
hood, concealment. Dammit. why had Henderson sent
the bin anyway? He knew all about wives and old cars
uhe whole thing had had an innocent enough
beginning. He and Elisabeth had been driving home
from vacation in Pennsylvania, he'd stopped at a
beat-up garage to ask directions and there in dank
and dirty corner was the Mercer. II was gray with filth
and ancient paint, the leather hung in ratom tatters
from the bucket seats. there two dozen window
screens stacked all it. but was Mercer all right
and Raceabout at that. Built in Trenton, Mercer
County, New Jersey, from 1911 to 1914. s. 500, guar
anteed to do IS miles hour rs of them left in the
world. the most soughtafter of all American automo
bIes. Worth almost anything. restored
Pete started the easy slow approach with the garage
man. What's that old wreck? Really beatup, isn't il?
Rusted-sold, imagine Might be interesting to have,
though for hobby. Man could fix it up in his spare
time.
The garage man peered at him from under his greasy,
oVerhaneng forehead and let him rave Finally he
spoke. 81 figure it's worth 81 5O0 he said. Them old
cars is valuable today
Pete and Elisabeth drove away in silence. good
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Life Of the Party Is a Wet Blanket

But he wouldn't give me q
reason why. We'd be sleep
ing right in their backyard
and II 1t rained or something
we could 60 In the house. My
brother who Is eleven can
sleep outside in a tent. Is this
fair? c. s. E.
A 15-year-OId girl is q
young lady and shouldn't be
sleeping outside In q tent with
another girl. I can't criticize
your fathers decision-Only
his refusal TO explain his rea-
sOning.
4 4
DEAR ABBY: I am q young
man who would like to get
married but / don't make
enough money. The only way
I could make 1t would be to
marry q girl who had a good
job and wouldn't mind going
fifty-flfty. Is this okay or do
you think the husband should
take the full responsibility Of
earning the whole check?
YEARNING TO MARRY.
When your earning capa-
city equals your yearning ca
pacity, marry. But not until.
II y
DEAR ABBY: Eleven years
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marriage to Nora. His talk
of "buckling down" needs to
be put to a few tests.
Both Dan and Nora seem
to be considering remarriage
because they do not know
which way to turn at this
point in their lives. Nora is
right to wonder" whether
things win be different this
time.
Neither Dan nor Nora
realizes that things don't
change simply because time
and harsh experiences have
passed. It takes active effort
to make changes.
Dan has tried to pinpoint
one Of the marital problems
the couple had in the past.
We have an idea there were
probably a great many more.
1t wouldn't hurt to go over
some Of those old points Of
discord to find out just what
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DEAR ABBY: II this man
wasn't my husband / wouldn't
put up with him for an hour.
We've been married Is years
and he has always had the
idea that he is the life Of the
party. He is really the loud
est mouth in the place wher-
ever we are. He tells the most
vulgar stories right in front
of women (including my own
mother) and believe me he
has been told of more than
once by many people. 1t
doesn't do any good. How can
I get him to clean up his talk
so he won't enbarrass me?
EMBARRASSED.
Your "little boy" because
that's what he Isl is still try
ing to get attention. His ego
Is desperately In need Of
nOurishing. Maybe he needs
a build-up on the home front
instead Of a scOlding. Have a
serious heart-tO-heart talk
with him and get q good psy-
chOlogist to help you.
Nk 4 ~
DEAR ABBY I am q Is
year-old girl and my girl
friend invited me to sleep in
q tent In their back yard and
my dad said ''No-never."
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FAMOUS FABLES
BY E. E. EDGAR

DEBUT: When President
Franklin D. Roosevelt was q
freshman at Harvard he was
once engaged as an extra by
the Boston Opera Company.
He and a couple Of class
mates made their debut in
"Tannhauser." &,
Attired in medieval cos
tunes and carrying long
spears, the sons of Harvard
lined up to await the arrival
Of Tannhauser. Soon the lat
ter appeared, leading q white
charger. He stopped In the
center Of the stage and pre-
pared to sing.
He had scarcely opened his
mouth, however, when the
audience began to litter.
Puzzled, the singer glanced
over his shoulder and OBJ
served to his horror that the
horse was dancing a Jig. A
closer look explained why.
Young Roosevelt. bored by
his role, was tickling the ami
NAL with his spear.
Needless to say F. D. RS
operate career came to an
end that night. Still, In his
little way, he had set a prec-
edent. 1t was the first time
an audience had found some
thing to laugh at in Tam
hauser.
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Dear DR.. Steincrohn: /
have q friend whose father
Is slowly dying Of an incur
able disease. Doctors and con-
sultants agree that nothing
more can be done.
What she can't understand,
however, Is why her family
doctor insists on visiting her
father once or twice q week.
The doctor has even said that
he'll send no bill for these
visits II she thinks she can't
afford to, pay.
Why should doctors, who
are so very busy, have TO take
time out Of their day to visit
somebody they know they
can't help?
Sincerely, Mrs. ID. s.
/ wouldn't say that our rea-
son is similar to the captains
who is the last to leave his
sinking ship. Nevertheless, in
q way, there is a similarity.
When anything animate or
inanimate is doomed, you feel
a responsibility toward it.
especially If you have been in
charge.
And how much greater the
emotional involvement when
your responsibility Is that Of
the life of q human being. I
can understand Just how your
friends doctor feels, Mrs.
D. s. The most difficult part
Of my practice has been visit
ing such patients week after
week sometimes day after
day knowing they were
doomed. All I could bring
them was freedom from pain
and discomfort. But it was
worth the effort. Few doctors
Of the many / have known
would dump a dying patient"
simply because there was no
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went wrong and what could
have been done to improve
things.
Remarriage in this case
might be an excellent idea
II Dan and Nora are ready to
work on a mature level to
achieve success. Instead Of
remarrying impulsively, they
would do well to give them
selves a new period Of court
ship.
It is probable that even
after so many years Of In.
timacy they do not know one
another really well. They
should try to understand
themselves and each other,
and should seek marriage
guidance from a clergyman.
(cOpyYisht. 1858. General
Features Corp.)
Tomorrow: cousht in the middle
Of o Feud.
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AIgue Rig May Supply
Oxygen in Space Ships

into sugar, using chlorophyll
activiated by sunlight to do
the trick. In the process they
give up oxygen.
Powerful Light Used
The experiments here used
a particularly strong strain
Of algae--a type of Chlorella
from Texas-as the chloro-
phyll-bearing agent. For light
they used special new lamps
produced by General Electric.
No bigger than a panatella
cigar, these lamps throw out
light many times stronger than
sunlight, using 1900 watts on
a 277-volt circuit.
Under ideal conditions such
as can be created in the al
gaze machine, the Chlorella
doubles itself every three hours.
Thus it could be a source Of
food-rich in fat an protein
as well as a source of oxygen.
1t appears likely that a work.
able algae machine will be
projected before any space ship
is ready to accommodate it..
It may turn out, as a matter
of fact, that the oxygen gen.
orator will be used first in a
submarine. This will enable a
"pigboat" to be at last what
scientists call a true submer-
sible." 1t will carry its own
environment along with it, ut
terly independent of the world
outside. Up to now, no. sub
marine quite measures UP to
this standard.
Developers Of the algae ma
chine point out that there are
only four ways known to get
enough oxygen to stay sub
merged for long. BY 'long''
they mean a matter of weeks
or possibly months. These are:
l. Compressed oxygen in steel
bottles. 1t appears likely that
this is what the atomic
powered submarine Skate used
in its record-breaking S1-day
voyage under the ocean.
2. Chemicals. A typical chem
ical is the so-called potassium
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-11
By THOMAS COLLINS

Here is a three-year plan
for retirement.
It's not your size. No pat
plan would be. But 1t is a
plan. and with it you can
fashion a road map for your
travels through the pension
years.
Once you have conditioned
yourself to retirement, such o
road map win be valuable.
FIRST YEAR
Do, within reason, what
other retired people are
doing-which doesn't mean
you have to go fishing. But
accept with grace the ordeal
Of retiring: Be impressed by
the watch they give you, say
the company is the greatest
company there is, shake
hands with everybody, and
scram. There's no profit in
being an oddball.
Then get down to the BUSH
ness of these six points, and
consider giving a full two
months to each one Of them
I. Take a trip, nearby II
that's all you can afford, but
to a far corner Of America
If you can swing it. The ex-
perience will help you rout
out of your rose-colored
spectacles the illusion that
prolonged travel is fun.
2. Get your entire financial
situation wrapped up in a tidy
bundle and pack it away.
8. Cement your family
together. Now's the time, If
ever. Call a reunion, play with
the grandchildren, write
letters, send each child q
family Bible, visit and invite.
4. Loaf. You always thought
1t would be delicious. Two
months will teach you a thing
or two.
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and terrible fights. But we
stayed together for three
years and had two children
a boy and a girl.
When another man-a
much older one-stepped into
the picture. Dan and I got Q
divorce and / married Har-
old. This second marriage
turned out much worse than
the first. Harold mistreated
the children and me and I
felt I couldn't stand it any
more.
Harold and I have been
separated for several months
now, and Dan has been COM
ing around to see me and the
children. He thinks ] should
get a divorce and remarry
him. At least he has always
been good to the children.
But I don't know what to
do. I can't help remembering
some Of our fights and I
wonder whether things will
ever be different between us.
Dan FL feel Nora and I
have really learned our les
son. We did marry much too
young and found it rough
going, especially when the
kids were born so soon and I
didn't have q very good job.
We were never able to get out
for any fun and I think that
was what got on both our
nerves.
! have been very depressed
ever since our marriage broke
up and everyone tells me I
would be best on married to
Nora again. If I married
somebody else I would only
have to support two house.
holds and that would be q
pretty rotten deal.
/ have a much better job
now than ! used to have and
I feel / am really ready to
buckle down and do my best
to make q go Of things. Nora
ought to realize she can't just
go on marrying and divorcing
the way she has.
THE COUNCILS VIEW
Dan appears to have con-
fronted some of the practical
problems of his present and
his future, but he has quite
a way to go before he is ready
to make a success Of a new
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chlorate candle" which, in
burning, generates oxygen.
8. Electrolysis. This is an
electrical process to generate
oxygen from the sea water
around the submarine.
4. Photosynthesis. The algae
machine is the only develop
ment along this line to be gen.
orally considered feasible, al
though fantasy writer's have
suggested broad-leafed plants
such as the banana, which
would give a sylvan aspect to
the inside Of a space ship.
All four methods have dis
advantages, the scientists say,
but of these disadvantages, the
algae machines seem the
slightest.
Disadvantage of the COM
pressed oxygen and to a lesser
degree the chemical method is
that Of bulk. The electrolysis
disadvantage is that in gen.
Grating oxygen from water, it
generates twice as much ex-
plosive hydrogen which must
be expelled from the ship, leav-
ing a tell-tale wake.
The worst danger in relying
on the photosynthesis method,
scientists say, is that it might
become infected by bacteria
which would kill the algae, thus
cutting of the oxygen supply.
But the same disposal of the
excess algae-which doubles it
self 8 times a day--is no prob
lem, because the ocean teens
with algae and the discarded
material could not be detected
BY enemy searchers.
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Nogging Wives

Dear DR.. SteincrOhn: I
" 5u would write some
th'r in your column on how
much we poor husbands suffer
AZ the hands of wives who
are always nagging us to take
care Of our health. My wife's
always after me. Better
wear this, it's cold outside"
or Don't eat and drink so
much, you're getting too fat"
One Of two things Is sure
to happen. Either she'll worry
me TO death at an early age,
or she'll keep me alive until
30. But don't get me wrong,
DR.. SteincrOhn, J love her
just the anne. L. X. b..
If you have come to me for.
sympathy, Mr.. L. X. B., you
have made an unfortunate
choice. I happen to cham
pion the wives who are SEN
sible enough to keep nagging
their husbands to take care
Of their health.
Let's face 1t. When it comes
to keeping healthy, many
men (even intelligent ones)
are stupid. Let me give you
some actual examples that I
recall from my own practice.
Here is a man with diabetes.
Two or three times a year
he was either going into a
diabetic coma or into hypo-
glycemic shock. He would
wake up in the hospital
wondering what it was all
about. Simply this: he would
not take the time to regu-
late his insulin injections.
Not until his wife took over
was he actually saved from
hir1celf. (And that probably
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-11
By WILLIAM HINES
Star star Writer

GROTON. Conn, Sept. IL
A box no bigger than a house.
hold refrigerator may be the
giver of life for space ship
crews Of the. future.
The box win contain algae-
tiny green plants like the scum
on a duck pond. These plants,
through the magic Of photo
synthesis, will remove suffocat-
ing carbon dioxide from the
air of the space ship and re-
place it with the oxygen men
need in order to live.
All this is far in the future,
Of course. But experiments that
indicate the feasibility Of such
a rig are being conducted now
In the laboratories Of the Elec-
trio Boat Co. here.
The algae machine--lailed by
some scientists as q major
break-through in one of the
toughest space science prob
lems-was shown in connection
with the International Sym
postum on Submarine and
Space Medicine, now under way
at the nearby United States
Naval submarine base.
Theory Long Known
The theory that algae could
be used to support men in a
closed environment like space
ship or a submarine has long
been held by scientists. But
many feared that the bulk OF
such system would make it
impracticable. A recent esti-
mate was that an algae machine
big enough to provide oxygen
for one man would be about the
size Of a grand piano.
The Electric Boat Co. experi-
ments. however. indicate q
machine only half that size
would support five men.
The secret lies in the two
things that make plants work
--chlorophyll and light. All
plants-algae included-trans-
form carbon dioxide and waite,
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DEAR ABBY
sy ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

ago I had a baby boy out Of
wedlock. When he was seven
months old ! met q wonderful
man and we fell in love. I
told him the whole story. He
married me anyway and
adopted my little boy. Since
then we have had two Of our
own. We have never told the
first boy that his Daddy" is
not his real father. There
would be so many things we
couldn't explain. Are we
making a mistake. Abby. in
letting him believe as he
does? The only ones who
know the truth are my moth
er and my sister.
KEEPING A SECRET
Go right on keeping your
secret. Sometimes q kind lie
is better than a cruel truth.
II the time ever comes when
you have to reveal the whole
story, the boy will probably
be mature enough by then to
understand II.
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(For a personal reply. iDrite
to ABBY In care OF The Eve-
ming Star. IncloSe a SELF
addressed. stamped enpelopeJ
By MeNausht syndicate, Inc
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The FomiIy Council consists Of .
judge, q psyehiotrist. three
clersymen, q newspaper editor, q
womsn's editor and two writers.
Eoeh orticle is q summary Of on
oetudl ease history. The council
reports on problems thot hove
been deoIt with by responsible
osencies and eounselon.
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How to
STOP KILLING
YOURSELF
Visits for the HopeIessIy Sick
By DR.. PETER J sTEINcRoHN

hope. Doctors consciences
are the same the world over.
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FEATURE Rcz
THE GOLDEN YEARS
A Three-Yeor Plan
For Retirement

5. Make an intensive study
Of where you should live. Most
people should sit tight after
retirement. But not all of
them.
s. Finally. 10 months out
into retirement now, put your
life into focus. Blur out the
job, the company, and all that
went with them. You must
cultivate q new perspective.
SECOND YEAR
With your spirit and your
doctor willing, the second
year Of retirement should be
your final physical fling. Till
the land. walk the pavements,
get q job. sod the lawn. A
job for pay will come harder
than it would have on re-
tirement day, but it's now
or not at all.
4 y 4
THIRD YEAR
In the third year of re-
tirement start trying to pin
down the meaning Of life.
It was meant to be some
thing beyond the income tax
and the 8 o'clock show on
television tonight. What?
In writing, in some kind of
music. in poetry, in the max
ing OF masaics in the back
yard, in lectures, in talking
to people in the park, per-
haps in nothing more than
relations with other humans,
set out to express what all
your years Of living have
taught you about what the
meaning Of life may be.
Do these things and all
years after the third will take
care Of themselves.
Copyright, 1858, General
Features corp.)
The Golden Yeors oppeers eceh
Thursday.
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took quite q bit OF nagging.)
High blood pressure patients
have been nagged into not
taking salt with their food:
heart patients into not work.
ing 80 hard and taking the
needed vacations; exercise
minded, middle-aged athletes
into cutting down their golf
from 80 holes a weekend to
10.
AS you can guess from Mr..
L. K. BIS letter. he'd miss
his wife's nagging II she
stopped. He has q bunch
he's better of for 1t.
released BY the Bell snydieatsl
Tomorrow: x-Roys and rcdiotion
feou.
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THE DETAILS

Nora G.-I was married
much too young-at II. My
husband and I had constant
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FAMILY COUNCIL
Man Wants
To Remurry
Ex-Wife
THE PROBLEM

NORA Gil wonder
whether things will be diff
ferent.
DAN FL am ready to
buckle down.
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DEAR ABBY: Eleven years