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Show THE BEAVER PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1938 Us For-- - !ee W. R. MARTIN GARAGE I i ( MILFORD, UTAH IP VW unattractive rooms can be made lieht and Wrv. and you can achieve all sorts of pleasant ects with the artistic use of good paint and Dealer for rn VVV- c: and I CHEVROLET I find out how inexpesively you can your OLD home mto a NEW one! in and Get a Color Card Now! 5 i MACKERELL BROTHERS AINTS . Syndicate. N'paHr 8ervlr. W.Nli GLASS We Do Repair Work on All Makes of Cars LUMBER We Carry Firestone & Siberling Tires & Tubes T Wglfg 1 year's emergencies handled by the American Automobile Association shows "3,200,000 motorists caught with depleted batteries . . . and 2,000,000 had starter difficulties." Don't let it be you this Winter. Have your electrical OFFICIAL COUNT of lost system checked, of course. Buy good gasoline. 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Merely by raising his head Bennle could have looked across the narrow court directly Into the room whence came those sounds. He could have seen the keyboard, with Morrle Neal's nimble fingers skipping over It, and beyond, a flash of bare less as Beth tapped upon the platform. Xow It must not be assumed that l was a matter of conthis scientious regard for duty with him. To he frank, Bennle rather heartily despised his job and on most occasions was quite ready to neglect It for diversion. Ordinarily, too, nothing could have been so pleasantly diverting as to watch Iteth dance, even from this distance and with the foreshortened view. Hut today there existed most unusual, not to say unhappy, circumstances: Beth and Bennle were "on the outs." It had all happened out of a clear sky. For almost a year they had gone together with never a quarrel. And in the past few months plans for marriage had become a frequent topic between them. As soon as Bennie completed his study of wireless, there would be a government position waiting. Perhaps be would be sent to some romantic spot and Beth would go with him as his wife. Bennle found a sort of bitter satisfaction In dwelling on Its finality. They were, he told himself with savage conviction, as far apart as If they had never met. Beth could go her own sweet way, and If It led her right Into the arms of that that rat, Morrie Neal why, all right. He, Bennle, didn't care a snap. She had had her chance last night to choose, and she had said: "Bennle the Jackson, you're meanest, most suspicious fellow I ever knew I Of courser, I'm going to keep on taking the lessons Mr. Real's giving me. What's wrong with that?" So Bennle had picked up his cap and stalked out of her apartment, very coldly. He wasn't the kind to let a girl see that she had hurt hini. Maybe Beth had forgotten about the treasurer's office, right next door to the dance director's, and that Bennie went there several times eacli day to return accounts to the sijfe. Well, If that was what she wanted, she certainly could have It without any more interference from him. He was going to finish his wireless studies in a hurry and then get as far away as possible from Zenith studio and Hollywood and Beth Millard. He reached In the desk drawer for the little manual he always kept there, determined to spend u few minutes reviewing code. As he took It out, his eyes strayed In one fleeting glance to the window opposite. Immediately they riveted there; he sat upright, tense and startled. The shade was being pulled down over the lower half of the window. He just had time for a glimpse of a man's hand on the cord; then it was completely drawn and Bennle was staring at a blank buff square. The music and the clacking tap of feet had ceased. Involuntarily, Bennle's teeth came hard together. At that moment the sound of the piano was resumed. Bennle halted In his tracks, puzzled. Yes, there could be no doubt about It ; now he even heard Beth's shoes again. He faoed around, Irresolute and wondering. Suddenly he stiffened, listening with renewed Intensity. . . . The next Instant he had sprung to the phone and was frantically pounding the switch. "Give me the studio police-qu- ick BEXNIB set TERRAPLANE rnish. i By THAYER WALDO MeCiur I Lif Le Tap Gap i I self-denia- I" Continental Oil Co. Service Stations You get Conoco Service as well as the famous Conoco Products at these stations. Try Conoco Bronze Gas Motor Oil. and Conoco Germ-Process- ed TIRE REPAIRING D- - O. Robinson V - GREASING - Stapley Garage V WASHING V Neilsens Garage Retail Dealers in CONOCO PRODUCTS for Beaver, Utah Two minutes later four men with drawn revolvers preceded Bennle on the rush to Morrie Neal's office. Neal sat at the piano, his face taut and strained. Beth was still tapping feverishly. The door at the far side stood open. The studio policemen rushed across through It. There came a yell, a string of oaths, a sound of heavy scuffling and the thing was all over. The four uniformed men emerged, securely grappling two others whose looks revealed their profession. Beth ran Into Bennle's arms and clung there, crying: "Oh, darling, you're wonderful I I was so afraid !" The treasurer of Zenith studio came out of his office, mopping his brow with a silk handkerchief, and gripped Bennle's hand warmly. "You're a real hero, my boyl" he exclaimed; "tut I don't understand I don't see how you knew! Why, those thugs made Morris and Miss Millard here go on with their practicing and told the rest of us they'd shoot the first one who let out a peep 1" Bennle grinned down Into Beth's upturned adoring face. "Here's where the credit goes," he replied; "if she hadn't remembered how to tap out a message Is Morse code, I'd have been half a mile from here by now, thinking she didn't love me!" The Oilice-HoldIs Your Employe er By RAYMOND PITCAIRN Natiotud Chairman Sciilii('s of the Republic No business enterprise of any importance can depend for success on the knowledge and ability of Its top executives alone. It must rely also on the quality and training of the men In the ranks whether they labor in office or shop or field. Within recent weeks there has become evident a growing conviction that this is also true of government. Both at Washington and elsewhere plans are being discussed for better training of the non-coand privates who hold or look forward to Jobs in the public service. A federal agency has recently recommended such training as a step towards economy and efficiency. Its proposals are supported by private research groups which have studied the problem independently; by colleges of high standing which offer courses leading to careers in the public sewice, and by various state and municipal governments which encourage special training for their own employes. But the one who should be most deeply concerned is the average worker and taxpayer. Why? Because he, in the last analysis, is the real employer. He with millions of his fellow citizens constitutes the government, whether federal, state or local. He doesn't merely share in its benefits; he meets all its bills-inclthe payroll. The higher the Quality of the public service for which he pays, the more he gets for his money. And the service is likely to be higher in quality if his employes are chosen and retained on the basis of what they know rather than that of whom they know. Not only that, but the field is likely to be less overcrowdedtherefore, less costly to the taxpayer who foots the bill. If the American citizen would get his money's worth he must insist on ability not only in the top offices of government, but in the lesser jobs as well. This, too, becomes part of his responsibility as a shareholder in the most important business on uding earth. The office-hold- is his employs. er MICKIE SAYS Vy issue op this paper MARKS THE ElPlRATIOtJ OP A LOT OF SUBSCRIPTIONS MEBBE rOUKS, SO IP M?(V FOLKS WILL JEST TBfJP TO GEAJEWJJG YBR SUBSCRIPTION wrrnour WAtrifJ'Fefz me to SBJD OUT STATEMENTS, . ME'U TU'EOniOR WILL rf FIFTY-FIFT- Y "Here's a prominent woman giving bachelors an awful calling down." "That's right. We married men oughtn't get all the lecturing." MICKIE SAYS r--VELL Wtrui A FOLKA. UEfZE I Speech to GrAun aud HOWtUALLItTART? tT HAt TO DO WITH $QME TWUG-- you FOLKS $HOUU DO At $OOU At rOUR. $UBtCRIPTIOtJ$ EXPIRE HEED I AY MORE ? |