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Show The Cache American. Lotran. Cache Countv. Utah Desk That Matches Unit Book Shelvei sor.vr; circle keedleitork YOU can saw straight am IFdrive a nail you can make thii useful desk. Combined with curved end units It becomes an important piece of furniture to fill a wid THE BTORY Til I' I FAR: Amos wall space, or it may be used with other matching units as shown, lu tad Us wlfs scute do a farm la SCRCY Croy Mis- CHAPTER XXIII that I am getting along In my story, I am appalled by the number of events I've left out and I see how futile It Is to try to tell an honest story of one's own life. It chn't be done. For Instance, there Is the matter of how many things to put in it. If I tried to put in all. William Harlowe Briggs, of Harper & Brothers, would call me to that 272 NOTE Pattern glvet large dia sixth floor room with Its long table dlrec grams and illustrated tup tioni for this desk. A list of all material! and holy atmosphere, and, in no time required U Included. Unit E In the uppei at all, would have me down on my sketch If also made with this pattern knees, sobbing. Units A and B with Paltcrn 270. Unit ( There is the matter of selection. Kith Pattern 271. Patterns are IS cent) each postpaid. Address requests for pat But how can one tell what is signifiterns to: cant? For Instance, I published for a year a magazine for writers called The Magazine Maker. I sold it at MRS. Rl'TII WYETH SPEARS New York Bedford HiUs a profit, but have wished many times Drawer It I hadnt let it go. How I would lova Enclose 15 cents for each pattern to have it now when the ordered. for writers are so nearly magazines Name trash. Another story I would like to Address.......... tell is of my experiences In the first World War. I was with the YMCA. assigned as liaison man with the Signal Corps. And how, for a time, I wrote the radio version of "Show Boat,' with Lanny Ross as the star. RaUevsd la Sninuteter doubts money hack And I would like to tell of my days WhM new etoaerto icid etoMt ptlnfol. eoffocet tnir if. tear auxud) end heartburn, doctors ueusulf with Chic Sale and bow he wrote f medicine known for preombe the medicines! ike those in Hetmans "The Specialist," and of how Earl symptomatic relief a Sublets, holaxstiet Beibane bnnire comfort in Derr Biggers created the character or doable roar money back oo return of bottle jiffy to oa. 2fe at ail druggist. ' of Charlie Chan, the Chinese detective. Doggone it, I will stop and tell that Earl had visited Honolulu, but the idea for Charlie bad not come to him. One day, long after his return to New York, he went to to Ease Sore, Aching Muscles the newspaper reading room of the New York Public Library, and happened to see a copy of the Honolulu LATUM MENTHO As be was reading it, he saw mention of a Chinese detective connected with the police department. Then and there Charlie Chan was born. Later, when Earl returned to Honolulu, he found that a local Chinese on the police force was receiving great acclaim for being the Chinese detective Earl had based his stories on. The two were photographed together. But Earl didn't tell him that the original Charlie Chan was a newspaper clip- I believa no ont is frea from worry, and that the person who U happiest and who accomplishes most is the one who spends hi time and vitality doing instead of chafing. I believe that most people hunger for approval as the roots of a flower do for water. I believa that praise is just about the most powerful stimulus in all the world. And. unfortunately, about the least employed. I believe that every person la part devil and part pretty fine. And that we must accept these phases as they come. In all the world la there a pleasure to completely satisfying as going back to the very land you were bom on. and walking across it and just looking at it? But I must tell you if not all pleasure, for every Joy haa a few stickers, on the theory of the rose, no doubt. You labor over cornerpost and when you have it finished you're proud of It; there it stands, straight and tall and firm. Then you come back, in no time at all, and it looks like the start of a scarecrow. Or a watergap youve taken pride In, has been swept away and there's only a bundle of loose wires and somebody's hencoop. I seem always to be going home alone, for alas! the old farm doesn't mean much to the other member of my family. My wife haa seen it only once. Carol haa never seen it HEARTBURN fsutest-actin- Cti$T0U Star-Bulleti- n. IE03Q Just Use MACA.. The Amazing Fast Dry Yeast I Use Just tike Compressed Yeast TtcrtfiuiJ S Macs requires no special methods or recipes. It acts so fast, rises so quickly your baking is all done in a few hours. And what a baking it is! Maca Yeast gives bread and rolls a rich, golden beauty, a smooth, even texture and a deliflavor. cious WJeUWit&nt, ' ping. Oh yes I I do want to put in that I was elected secretary of the Authors League of America to serve with Elmer H. Davis who was president; yes, the Elmer who went to Washington. But, such are the vagaries of ones mind, it was not un- til several days after my election that I recalled the first reception where I seized my hat and escaped out a side way. During these years I have come to some conclusions about the art of writing. The chiefest is that it cannot be taught, and that anyone who takes a dollar from you on the promise of making a better writer of you deserves tar and feathers at dawn. And that if you have to encourage anyone to be a writer, you had far better tell him the field is not for him. A real writer is born, and the world does not hold so much discouragement that it can get him down. And it seems to me the best qualities to be found in writing are sincerity and truth. And, quickly, I want to add a third simplicity. All my life I have been striving for simplicity, but I have far from attained it. Sometimes, when I have had the courage to turn back through some of my writings, I could hardly find what I had been driving at For the most part I do not read my stuff over after its printed. It would be just too discouraging. I write it as best 1 can, and as I feel it when it is flowing, and, like a cow when she has weaned her calf, let the thing shift for itself. Well, here are some of the beliefs I now have in my personal credo, although goodness knows! I may heave them out of the window inside d a year. The fatalities among beliefs are astonishing! I believe that most people do the best they can. considering their limitations and their prejudices and the toll their mental limitations have levied upon them. I believe that kindness is just about the finest thing in the world. And, it seems to me, that kindness has its roots in understanding. I believe that most people would rather be kind than cruel, but that their animal inheritance is just beof low the surface and is the cause much of thk intolerable ferocity that human beings so often exhibit toward each other. I believe there is no secret of happiness and that complete happiness is an impossible goal. But that one can get a great deal of satisfacI tion as one goes along by not expect-dry and much by squeezing ing too all the little pleasures. of I believe in the innate dignity be to this bold I and human beings one of their finest qualities. cher-.ishe- Maca saves you extra trips to the store because you can always keep a handy supply on your pantry shel For your complete protection, we date every package. So bake with success insurance! Always use Maca Yeast, the original fast, granular yeast. 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He wrote a dealer training film for an ell company and paid the mortgage. Ills play, "Family Honeymoon," headed lor success, turn. 1 soar when censored by Variety. sleek modern lines also make it perfect for a boys or girls room Those nicely planned compart ments are as easy to make as s box slipped in place and secured from the back. The pattern alsc shows how to make shelves and for underneath compartments storing files and records. Pare Seven Spide and 1 walk over the farm. Some day it will be hers, I suppose. I wonder what wdll happen . . . This is a sample of my homecoming. I get off the train and there is Spide standing on the platform where my father used to wait He heaves my suitcases into his Chrysler no buggy now and we start uptown to the Square. I glance up at the gilt hands on the clock and my mind shoots back to the days when I used to drive by in the hack and stare up at them as if they were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The clock suddenly bangs out the hour, and there is a throbbing in my throat Why is it that an old clock can make a baby of you? Cars are parked around the Square. But what I think of is the battle that once raged there. Yes, the battle of the hitch racks . . . when Pa had said, if they tore down the hitch racks, hed trade in Wilcox. The farmers had won then, but there had been other and later battles and the merchants had finally triumphed. After a time. Pa was back trading again as if no blood had ever been shed. It just about shakes your faith in war. We pass the north side of the Square where Moses Nusbaums store was. Today there is no Jewish family in town. But at the State Teachers College (which has come since those early days) are three Jewish refugee students. My eye darts to the courthouse steps and I think of the heartbreaks theyve seen the days during the depression when farms were sold by the sheriff, and men and wives and children saw them go to the insurance companies. That shakes your faith, too. We pass the Methodist church where I hid in the areaway. But the years have helped me in at least one particular. I am no longer afraid of my fellow man. I like him. We pass the Blue Moon cafe. In it are farmers, eating, and I think of the time we used to eat our cheese and crackers in the back of a grocery store. Yes. times change. Also I think of the time in New York when I stole the girls tip. But these farmers, when theyve finished, will plunk down a tip and think nothing of it. Yes, times change. I pass the house where my father lay like a shadow in the pillows and asked me to pare his fingernails. I think of the featherbed . . . Spide says, You didn't catch cold on the train, did you 1 don't think so. I And I say, guess I got some of that train smoke. "That Diesel smoke's bad. Spide says. h alone, Phcb lived until was upon her. One day she went out to hang her featherbed on the clothesline (or an airing; the bench she was standing on lipped and threw her on the ground. Bones were broken, and in St. Francia Hospital she lay waiting tor them to mend. But before they could do so, pneumonia came and my second mother was no more. The water tower Jump up ahead of me, and my mind goes back to the time that Dave and I clumped by it twice a day; and to the time I sold its story to Jesse L. Lasky. Oh boyl I was a businessman that Here, eighty-fou- r To obtain complete cutting, aewln and flnuhln inilruclinna fur Davenport Sli(V covers (Pattern No. MUI tend I cent In coin, your name, aitdreaa and the pattern number. Dud to an unu.ually Drye demand and Current war Condition, aliflitly more llm for a few of la required In ftllln orde-the moat popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: s IRfl F. NFEM Its Nrw Monttomery SEWING ( day- We pass the white schoolhouse and I think of my greatest triumph. When e I won the prize In spelling Name Addre "Ptl-grim- certainly the Progress dreariest book ever written. I think of what happened next year when a new teacher came among u end offered a prize for the one who turned in the best showing for nine month of spelling. I won the prize that year, too. The aame damned book. It just about soured me on trying to do my best. Studying waa hard work in those day. We moved our lip and whispered the words of the book to in such an Intense effort of concentration that, when we were going full tilt, the schoolroom sounded tike a hive of bee. One day a girl, much older than I, who was going to the seminary in town, came out to our house to stay over Saturday and Sunday. She brought her books along so she could study and be ready for her schoolwork Monday morning. After a while she sat down in a chair by the window and got her book ready. To my astonishment, I saw she wasn't moving her lips. She was just sitting there holding the book and looking at it. Now and then she turned a page. I stared and stared at the mysterious ways of higher education. Our car goes down a swale and I see the exact spot at least I think it is the exact spot where I had the only fist fight of my life. Where I actually struck a person. I wonder if Harlen Kennedy remembers it 1 look down the draw and think of the white weasel that I trapped just about there the one the One Horse Farmer told the world about. The car pulls into the drivelot and the door to the house opens and Nellie Logan (Spide's wife) comes out, and their son Lloyd Logan and his wife Opal, and their children, Robert and Kenneth (Spide and Nellie grandchildren). They are the ones who run the Croy farm. I am home. My feet are on the very soil. After chatting awhile, Spide and I walk out over the farm, just as Pa and I used to do. Theres the very place Jim Vert used to come with his dehorning chute and his long saw. I hump-backe- d can so potent Is memory again almost see the blood spurting out on Jims hands. There is no longer anybody like Mr. Shannon, the neighborhood The farms have grown would dream, now, of one no larger; trying to make a living off forty acres. When we need a man to work by the day, we go to town and pick him up there. Usually hes a pretty poor worker. We miss Mr. Shannon. And theres where the tree stood with the turtledove nest in its arms. The turtledove I killed with a stone and saw the dirt on its dead eyes and, later, saw the starving young ones fall out and be no more. When my friends tell gory hunting stories, I have my own ideas running in my head. And heres the spot where the drummer for the nursery company offered Pa five dollars a day just to drive him around and introduce him to his neighbors. And the spot where Pa refused. It was the first time I ever realized Pa was doomed always to be poor. As I walk I realize more and more that the farm and I are inseparable; that whatever is deep in me came from its roots. There is a similar pattern between us. The farm has been up and it has been down; and God knows I have! are doThe black Aberdeen-Angu- s the so are and Hampshires. fine, ing I see you have I turn to Spide. some Shropshires." Lloyd thought hed try out some." Well, I say with the manner of an expert delivering the findings of dont be too sold on a lifetime, them. Theyie tricky. Going home is a time of adventures. And no two times are the adventures ever the same, as no two days in our lives are ever the same. Once I arrived the day before a very exciting time; at least, its exciting to us. The Womens National Corn Husking Contest which originated in our county and which, until the war, was held every year. The National Corn HuskHen-r- y ing Contest was originated by A Wallace when he was Secretary of Agriculture, buta we started gay occathe Womens! 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