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Show I mm ' MAM By n. C. WIRE itury. In. WNU Service , utt inuthward, a new .JSih4 nd Writ F,uT.k.hlt the fog-horn Fr.Wher. and an- JjBaUey too. and his L wa resting hit wind- . (Mi a nun" - be sat spent, alone as . M nonetrate the U t&fle the ripple of guns - wen " pew more and more dis- ,irJTedathisback. Some-''JLi Some-''JLi He wheeled and L Champion loping toward I -:l 'Wh didn't you 3ft CW - . Jitbii! Look!" He held up live. MI aln t area a anon rtined over to mm ana -Hrs all right, boy. Le? Everyone?" fl boss got oac. 100. Ubere." iictl In hii laddie urncu n-v I remembering something, rti-there she is." He point-j point-j pay dawn. "Walt, 11 1 10 right with you I'll go mm trouble!" .k.i" iaid Gandr. "If Pjett." He swung to the I was standing braced i.-.u i ,v.. ni fUJS DUCK UUi SC nucu i reined and dropped be- At cried. "Listen, do L? Lavie told me. I made It was . . . Walt ... it Bdard!- minute." he calmed her. low. Then tell me Just one Did Moaaara uu n anger And Chino Drake I" She staring up. " said Candy, putting out a her. moment her words came In till control: 'Tm all right Imb I told Bent Lavlc that filter was not going to live, 1 ITS too terrible, but be k so jealous of dad, and Bit when he knew Chino was playing traitor, be I teD us. Walt, it was Drake i Bill's rifle from the rack i tt to Stoddard. And Stod- lot Powell with that gun! t he couldn't let Drake live. hi see? He killed Chino and l the fun back in our house tad the whole thing looked CCi doing." roke off; going on then with AH this time Sheriff Battle the cast of some tracks. ere Stoddard's! But Battle inf to prove they were Bill pw," said Candy. "Bill laid open to suspicion by having pot tracks flooded out. You r this time, don't you, that was shielding your fa- KxMed. "I knew that only JiMhere at Outpost cabin, lad and Bill had only talked! unking his silence was profile pro-file other!" I felt that Bent omuch. But I thought it was "I against Bill Hollister. I've faf night and day to get it He is so deaf he couldn't !u any 0f those Drake ojr not, but he has eyes that tithing. Walt, I had ev- to believe he held infor-Uatost infor-Uatost Bill Hollister, and l that information over to breath, "Stoddard can't get away! We can't let him slip out now!" Gandy held her. "He won't You stay here. Don't leave. I'll not be gone ieng." He turned and gathered the black's reins and had drawn himself up into one stirrup, when from eastward across the prairie came the rolling vibration of a pistol pis-tol shot One, no more. Helen blanched, gasping, "What was thatf" Walt stared into the gray morning; morn-ing; it was a minute before he said: "Couldn't mean anything much. But I guess if you'll get on yam horse, we'll ride back together. We'll find Fisher, and he can pick up the loose ends here. Then you and I can go on in." S5 to a sudden rush of CHAPTER XXII THEY came under the-towering wall of the Emigrant Mountains toward mid-afternoon, miles ahead of the cavalcade that moved more slowly behind them. In the windbreak wind-break of timber, Helen leaned heavily heav-ily on her saddle horn. "I guess I'm tired," she said. Gandy looked at her. "It's high time you stopped! I've thought we could rest here." There was much more that he had been thinking, filled with compas sion these hours of watching her cross the winter-swept bench, rid ing knee to knee with him, uncom plaining. But these other thoughts he could not tell her. Avoiding weight on his left leg, he was already sliding to the ground, and then stood near while without reply she dismounted. He pyramided three dry pine cones, crossed sticks over them and had an instant fire. Helen came beside be-side him and they hunched down together, to-gether, backs to a sheltering tree. It was she who spoke first "I don't know where to begin, Walt" "Why begin at all?" be asked, staring at the blaze. "No need.'! She shook her head. "I've got to. I feel so guilty. It's Bill Hollister I want to talk about, of course. Do you mind?" "It's Bill rm thinking of he answered. an-swered. "If only I could have loved him enough to marry him," she said bitterly, bit-terly, "this wouldn't have happened, and he would be living!" Gandy stopped her, covering her hands with his and turning her toward to-ward him. "You can't say that This range war has been brewing a long time. Bill saw what was coming, even saw what would happen to him. He told me." "You mean he knew?" "Absolutely. That's why he called me into this country." Freeing her hands, Walt Gandy stared out across the gray flat of the Emigrant Bench, groping for what he was to say next "Helen, I've been thinking it all over since last night Bill wanted the CC and the rest of us to pull out of this hole more than he wanted anything for himself. He'd be satis-fled satis-fled to quit now. Do you see? I never had much religion of one sort so I don't know how to explain it exactly, but it's like well, maybe you know what I mean about Bill Hollister." So falterlngly bad he spoken, and so from the depths of his feeling that the girl drew her eyes from him; and then impulsively turned and lifted both hands to his face. "You're fine, Walt Gandy; you're the finest that ever could be, and I know now why I waited." He held her close, cheek against her hair; and could hardly believe this way in which his life was to go on. THE END.l 7ITH THE NEXT ISSUE j'Tbtz will meet . . . MIMEW WB1TTZN OF TBS RMCHO I a charming daughter of Old California by Frank H. Soecnrman. Cannon of the ubo Is a serial that wfll thrill you from the Ptalno; chapter and will hold tout Interest annl .J0 tniih wading eretj Mcdflncj word. ; HE STORY centers around the beautiful Carmen ; 4 hedTeutureeome low Henry Bowie. o youthful frontier scout How Bowie came to - Coiiiornia from Texas and aidea the SpdnlsV nch owners In ridding their lands of trouble- m Indians and squatters) how In so doing WOa th heart of Carmen is but a part of this tteat story. P 15 a tale of robust action in the days when a-fisted men were rulers of an empire. Days ' CPtain Sutter and Kit Carson. Interwoven wlh the hlatory of these strong men is the gentle ,,0rY of a great love. DON'T MISS A SINGLE CHAPTER Kathleen Norris Says: Better Days Are Ahead (Bell Syndicate WNV Service.) V DON'T BE AFRAID America is sj free from danger of invasion a the ever was, Kathleen Kath-leen Norris believes. She points out that many years will pass before Hitler can be ready to attack us, and a lot of things can happen in that time. If ha does try to come over here, his invading fleets would be stopped long before they reached our shores. Miss Norris points out. This ivar will end. Humiliations will be swallowed; price will be paid; hearts broken; children starved or destroyed by malnutrition; the dead will be buried; and e great many loud voices will be silenced by death. By KATHLEEN NORRIS TWO pamphlets came to my desk this morning, from the Writers Anti-War Anti-War bureau for Anti-War Mobilization. If your interior economy, like mine, has been in something of a quiver of irrepressible ir-repressible terror over the war news of late, over the horrors that pour in upon us from the telephone, radio, movie news, press, the two treatises together form a fine tonic for today's excitement and hysteria; the "frantic boast and foolish word" of Germany and Italy are affecting affect-ing us all. and we are already looking skyward to see the parachute troops darkening our free skies. A victorious Germany, this article reminds us, won't be much better off than a defeated defeat-ed France and England. Famine Fam-ine is staring all Europe in the face now, victors and vanquished van-quished alike. Policing Task Tremendous. The complete picture of Hitler's policing job would look like this, according ac-cording to the pamphlet. Forty-two million Frenchmen, forty-six million British; seventeen million Belgians and Dutch; plus Norwegians, Poles. Danes. Czechs. Austrians and Lux- embourgers will bring the total to over one hundred fifty million persons. per-sons. "Most of these," the essay states, "are more bitterly opposed to Hit ler than we are they have more reason to be. Turthermore, inside Germany itself all is not well . . . With this threatening mass of hatred around him. Hitler would probably think more than twice before he looked around for more enemies." Friends Now, Foes Later. The article Koes on to sketch the situation of a completely triumphant Germany, holding a very shaky truce with Russia, it is true, for Stalin is none . too comfortable a neighbor, and holding with Italy one of those compacts which, as we ve all seen in the last disgraceful weeks, is all ready to be transferred to any new winner, as soon as that winner is declared. But suDoose all that settled, and the European peoples, one hundred and fifty million strong, meekly herded into line; then we are to imagine Hitler turning toward us. His dead buried, the crippled activities activi-ties of a dozen naUons mended and shakily busy once more, the inev itable famine of the awful winter of 1940-41 somehow survived, and the dictators themselves still alive which is always a big assumption- then they're ready for us. The plan would be to establish a great mili tary base in one of the Central American countries. But hundreds of thousands -of men must Jbe Janded there before a gun can be fired, lines of communication opened, and guns, tanks, ammunition, hospitals, commissary, com-missary, the tremendous staffs of engineers and mechanics made available; ' Raw country must -be opened, and the complete co-operation .of e entire invaded country assured. as-sured. .. And what would 'we' be do-' ing? ' Odds In Our Favor. MaJ. Gen. Johnson Hngood, chief of staff, line of communications, A. E. F., says thnt we have only five ports in the United States at which cricrriy' WfcCs tritiWl rUsemtxsrk:" Alt the while he" was Retting ashore his lighters, barges, piers, cranes, special spe-cial equipment, we would be right in our own country, with inexhaustible inexhausti-ble supplies at our barks. Military experts maintain, nays this authority, author-ity, that our navy and airplanes could stop Hitler long before he got' anywise mar our snores. Obviously, an invading army especially arrosr one of the great oceans, is at a disadvantage. That's why we are as nearly Invincible at home as any country can be. That's why it seems, to many women at least, a foolish thing to carry naval threats too far away from" home. Taking care of ourselves, maintaining maintain-ing a dignified attitude to national troubles overseas that are neither understood by us nor of our making, mak-ing, would seem the wiser policy. It would seem the characteristic American Amer-ican policy. For while we are willing will-ing to help in every other possible way, and have so helped and while we are willing to give political recognition rec-ognition to totalitarian governments everywhere, and have so given it, it is too much to expect a normally peaceful and friendly nation that she be scared into sharing' in wars she did nothing to create. Life Will Go On. This war will end. Humiliations will be swallowed; prices will be paid; hearts broken; children starved or destroyed by malnutrition; malnutri-tion; the dead will be buried; and a great many loud voices will be silenced by death. And when we'll all emerge, adjusted to the new conditions, con-ditions, recognizing a little less power pow-er and pride in this nation, a little more power and pride in that, a tag of territory clipped oil here and attached at-tached there. And for the great mass of European Euro-pean women the day's problem will be what it always was: a Job for the man, a welcome for the new baby, a little less butter perhaps and fewer exchanges of old cars for new; pleasures that can't be kept away where there is health and work and love; reconciliation to new ideas ideas which will be fading and blending and changing into the old ideas before they are fairly accepted. ac-cepted. It Has Happened Before. For the face of Europe has been war-riddled and the boundaries of Europe changed Incessantly for one thousand years. Spain ruled The Netherlands by inherited right; Poland Po-land has been anybody's and everybody's; every-body's; Calais was Queen Mary's; Alsace and Lorraine have to look in the glass every morning to see whether they're French or German; autocracy starved and shot down the people of Russia within the memory of man; nothing that can happen there today can surprise them after what they knew in 1905, and all the long centuries before 1905. Spain has had a dozen insurrections in a hundred years; her kings disappear, dis-appear, reappear, fly again. Napoleon Napo-leon thought he owned Holland and Italy, and sallied gallantly into Russia Rus-sia across what wasn't yet Belgium, in, 1800, In a. generation ox .two,, all. the countries lapsed back to their original positions, if indeed European Euro-pean countries may be said to have such things. So "sursum corda." Which Is one way of .saying:.. ....VJJfJ.. up.,,youi hearts." Our own history is a gallant gal-lant one unafraid, friendly, contented' content-ed' within ftS owti ' bhrders'. '- : Our horthtrn neighbors are united to us by more than one hundred years of friendship. Oiir two great oceans give us a protection that any European Euro-pean nation well may envy. We are not thieves; we buy what we want -amd keep 'the Irwstdshtp of the purchaser. The world laugiied at us when we bought Alaska, at the Gaelic den Purchase, the Louisiana Purchase, Pur-chase, when we made compensation for the Philippines. Mi, ihat was wise dialing. Vr.inre. Spain, Russia Rus-sia aren't trying to s'eal anything back from us. as a r ult. Let the other nations .learn th it lesson and we'll have a better world. lon'l be afraid. A BIT OF FUN er .y 1 1 r mijar. " His' Own Returns "Any surprises among your birthday presents?" "Yes. Wilson gave me a book I lent to Brown six months ago." The moth leads an awful life: he spends the summer in a fur coat and the winter in a bathing suit. - -, His Privilege Winklebrllow d"you go on when you and the wife have an argument? U'you ever hate the lait word? HagglrtonYes always. I apologize. Recount Marriage Registrar Let's see, today's the sixteenth, isn't it? Film Star Say! What's the big idea? It's only my ninth. Solid Mrs. Newed entered the dining-room dining-room and proudly placed the chicken on the table. "There you are, my dear, my first chicken!" she exclaimed. Mr. Newed gazed with admiration admira-tion at the bird's shape. "It's wonderful, darling," he beamed, "and how beautifully you've stuffed it." "Stuffed?" she echoed. "But, my dear, this one wasn't hollow." HOW-T9. SEf 4- Ruth Wyeth Spears cJf , W STITCHES WITH CANDLEWICK NEEDLE AND 4 A 5TRAND5 OF COTTON -M VAuKl r' 4 DOUBLE 4$ IM WATER TO SHRINK lf HEN we last heard of Marty and Bill the curved bottom shelf of that old buffet had not been used. Well, Bill made it into a cornice board for the bathroom window, and painted it blue. Then Marty went into action on curtains to match. Grandmother is an expert at doing, do-ing, old-fashioned candle wicking, so together they made the tufted ASK ME O TT" y Ottering Information ANOTHER f on Various Subject The Question 1. Who wrote the poem in which appear the words: "Stone walls do not a prison make"? 2. Do the Eskimos have a word for any number beyond twenty? 3. When a military man speaks of logistics, he refers to what? 4. Which President of the United States lived to be 90 years of age? 6. Which of the following have the highest diplomatic rank consuls, con-suls, ambassadors, or ministers? 6. A long ton is equal to how many pounds? 7. What are bats classed as, birds, flying mammals or rodents? ro-dents? 8. Where in the United States are the Badlands? 9. Which of the following is a poor conductor of electricity silver, sil-ver, mercury, or copper? 10. Which of the Great Lakes is the smallest, Lake Ontario, Lake Huron, or Lake Erie? Centenarian Must Have Grieved Over Wasted Life It was a great day for the village vil-lage when the oldest inhabitant celebrated his hundredth birthday. And the excitement grew intense when it was learned that a newspaper news-paper reporter had come in search of an interview. After various questions, the answers an-swers to which were prompted by fond and anxious relatives, the press representative asked: "And now, tell me what you would do if you could have your time over again?" There was a long silence while the old man thought. Then he said slowly: "I think I would part my hair in the middle!" Clioose the Best Life is short too short to get everything. Choose you must, and as you choose, choose only the best in friends, in books, in recreation, rec-reation, in everything. Anon. Thi Antwere 1. Richard Lovelace ("To Al-thea Al-thea from Prison"). 2. No. Their word twenty actually actu-ally means "a-man-counted-to-the-end." 3. Logistics refers to transport and supply. 4. John Adams. 5. Ambassadors. 6. A long ton is 2,240 pounds. 7. Flying mammals. 8. To the southeast of the Black Hills, in the western part of South Dakota. 9. Mercury. 10. Lake Ontario, 7,430 square miles; Huron, 23,010 square miles, and Erie, 9,940 square miles. curtains illustrated. They used plain white muslin marked off diagonally di-agonally in three-inch squares. They found the blue they wanted for the tufting in a soft string; type of cotton yarn. The sketch tells you the rest The dipping is what really turned the clipped stitches into tufts; then the curtains cur-tains were stretched into shape to dry but were not ironed. All this about curtains has given Gram the most wonderful idea for something some-thing for a bride's kitchen shower that is coming off soon. It is pretty pret-ty clever, we think. Watch for it, next week. NOTE: Many other old-time stitches have modern uses. Sewing Sew-ing Book 2 contains directions for 42 of these stitches with sugges tions for their use in your home. To get a copy send order to: MKS. BOTH WTETH SN S Drawer M Bedford Bin New Twk Enclose 10 cents tor each book ordered. Nam .M Address Tested Friendship Friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. appella-tion. Washington. I'" IT" '! liwiti iirinm(iim) In SALT LAKE CITY THE IW HOUSE - HOTEL Choice of 'thtDucrtmnatingTrstveler 400 ROOMS 400 BATHS Rates: 2.00 to $4.00 Our $200,000.00 nmodeling and rafumishing program has mad available th flnost hotel accommodations in ths Wst AT OUR SAME POPULAR PRICES. VMrCICKIM DINING ROOM BUFFET MM. J. H. WATIM, totJoW Managers J. HOLMAN WATEMa. W. IOIS SUTTON DINE DANCE MIRROR ROOM EVQY SATURDAY EVBSN3 Happy in Knowing It is a kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy. La Rochefoucauld. Onr Faalts Other men's faults are before our eyes; our own behind our backs. Seneca. Moiart Buried as Pauper Mozart died poor and was buried In a common grave in the ground allotted to paupers, with only the cemetery attendants standing by the grave. When bis widow visited the cemetery a few weeks later it was impossible for her to find definitely where he was buried. Several later attempts to locate his bones also failed.- Mozart died of a. malignant typhus fever, which may have been Induced by his circumstances. His debts were contracted largely through his wife's repeated Illnesses, Ill-nesses, but there is nothing to show that-his family of .four .sons, and two daughters suffered from malnutrition. malnutri-tion. There are fine monuments to taozarf In" Vienna "and" Hi WW birth plate. Salzburg1. Euphrates Rtvrr Longest The Euphrates, the "great river" of Genesis, with its brazen-sounding name, is the longest in western Asia. It rteS '-In the" Amrit'TYiarr highlanos-nnd highlanos-nnd flows dmirn ah mg a wandering pnth nf 1,750 miles to the Persian gulf. Ii;ilylnn of the tojvers stood upon its bunks, s;ivs the London Sunday Sun-day Observer. Ten miles to the west of its present course, in n waste of desert, nre the mounds of Ur of the Chaldecs. At Larsa reigned, King Ariorh, who fought in the Hat-tie Hat-tie of the Kings and was afterward after-ward defeated by Abraham. Strategic Materials Strategic materials are those essential es-sential to national defense, for the supply of which in war dependence must be placed in whole, or in substantial sub-stantial part, on sources outside the continental limits of the United States, and for which strict conservation conser-vation and distribution control measures meas-ures will be necessary. Critical materials ma-terials are those essential to national defense, the procurement problems of which in war would be less difficult dif-ficult than those of strategic materials materi-als either because they have a lesser less-er degree of essentiality or are obtainable ob-tainable in more adequate quantities from domestic sources,' arid " for which some degree of conservation and" distribution 'control -will be necessary. nec-essary. ' Printed Bible The printed Bible was made official of-ficial in England in 1538.' The proclamation proc-lamation is as follows: "That ye toaH -provyde . ' : tine -boke if the holy byble of thc.largyest volume in Englyshe and the same set up in sum convenient place wythin the said church that ye have the cure of, where as your parishioners may moste commodiously resorte to the same and reacle it . . . That ye shall discoragc no man prively or n pertly from the readyngc or her-vnce her-vnce of the sayde byble." Eye Rating Normal eyes are rated at 20-20, which means that they can read a line of a certain standard size 20 feet away. If they can read at 20 feet only a line that the normal eye could read at 40 feet, the rating is 20-40. A 20-60 rate of vision is not considered too serious. That means that if your keen-eyed friends can read a certain line that is 60 feet away, you have to move up to -th 20-foot line before It la legible.., Of course, with that rating, you need glasses, but by no means are you approaching blindness. But 20-70, only 10 feet more, is rated as partial par-tial HmdneSsV and people wtttv a 20- 200 rating, if nothing can be done to 'help-then;' may be able . to- read only by the Braille -touch system, .v. Type Measured Type is measured by the number of points in the height of the face thereof. A point Is approximately oiifl seventy-second ot . iucb , t Actually Ac-tually .013837 inch). There are 096 points In 25 centimeters. " Nonpareil typo, the size generally used by newspapers, is a six-point type and therefore sets 12 lines to nn inch, measuring up and down the column. Twenty-four lines of nonpareil type make what is commonly called a stick. There are usually 10 sticks of type in a newspaper column. |