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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION ; Capital Answers Urgent Appeal for Farm Help Political Bigwigs, War Workers, Service Folk, Pitch In to Aid in Production of Orchard and Field Crops. By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. 'teaesd tVNU Service, Union Trust Building Washington, D. C. Washington, the town of bureau-crats, of and sailors, the place that tells you what to do and "don't do nothin' " itself but "jes' keeps rollin' along." I know that's what you say about us. But when it comes to volunteering for the emergency farm labor pro-gram how about your national capital? , Believe me, Washington is in there pitching. I use the figure of speech advised-ly for the man who rallied a corps of volunteer farm help which will probably amount to fifteen thousand citizens of the District of Columbia by the time the peach and apple harvest is at its height, is an old Not so old at that for Johnny Jones, formerly of the Phila-delphia Athletics, farm boy from Coatsville, Pa., and now of the de-partment of agriculture extension service, is practically fresh off the diamond; He quit baseball in 1936 and is now back as near to the call-ing of his fathers as he could get. Jones' job is dealing with the farm-hel- p shortage and I interrupt-ed him while he was in batting for a ian help either. As elsewhere there are the boys' and girls' camps which run all summer; there are other vacation camps where grown-up- s stay a" week, get a dollar and a half a day expenses, and earn 35 cents an hour, or at peach-pickin- g as much or more than $3.50 a day at 10 cents a basket, if they are handy. Some earn $10 a day at that rate but they are old hands. Postwar German Underground Seen There is nothing new to Europeans about an "underground monument" which might be denned as a group of persons, united by an idea, which persists as an opposition to a partic-ular government wjth the purpose of eventually overthrowing that gov-ernment. With the defeat of Germany it can be taken for granted that two German movements will begin to burrow, perhaps retiring to "pre-viously prepared positions" in the language of the communiques of a retreating army. They are the Junk-ers and the Nazis. At the present writing, for the first time in history, military con-trol of Germany has been wrested from the hands of the junker-gen- - I f i H . erals. They did their best to act on their ancient adage: "We as a caste, must always live to fight another day." A lost war to them is an incident and considered merely a temporary k on the road to eventual To that end they planned a peace before their ranks were too greatly weak-ened or their resources exhausted. But the Nazis stepped in, wrecked their plans. As a caste they will probably be completely destroyed, their estates and therefore their means of livelihood removed. What many people do not know is that the German high command had their own private funds, voted by the government, which they managed themselves for the benefit of the army. Whether the Nazis have obtained this, remains to be seen. But in any case, you may be sure the burn- - intr natrinticTn nf thnco innlrcrc wrhn Woman marine digs postholes. missing mimeographer because of his own private manpower shortage. He had just rolled oil several thou-sand forms inviting government offi-cials, s, simple citizens and others in the District, to attend his vacation camps which are al-ready rapidly filling. We aren't allowed to tell names of the higher-up-s who volunteer but Jones has helpers who give their Sundays, or longer periods, from the White House staff, the offices of cabinet members, senators and con-gressmen. If it weren't an election year he thinks he'd have quite a showing of the senators themselves. But what he takes most pride in is the service folk. This includes the girls, the WACs and the WAVES, and the Marines and the SPARS, as well as the sailors and soldiers on duty here or convalescing. Tells It to Marines With Good Results The other day a tobacco farmer over the district line in Virginia (Jones' territory doesn't run more than 125 miles from the White House) wanted to clear an acre of survive will keep an underground organization' alive. And then comes the Nazis, with a younger but equally fanatical loyal-ty to national socialism. Their un-derground organizations we know are already prepared. Meanwhile there is a strong sus-picion on the part of many persons in Washington that a third breeding place for totalitarian militarism is being cultivated right here in the Western hemisphere. In the past weeks I have received several letters and one telephone call protesting against the action of the state department in breaking re-lations with Argentina. So far as I could tell the persons who communi-cated with me were perfectly honest. They all stressed the .known fact; that the chief characteristic of the Argentina attitude is traditionally! nationalists. The inference was that the government was not anti-Nort- h American or and should be let alone. As a matter of fact, aside from Argentine's own aims there seems to be evidence that the German Nazis and perhaps some of the Ger- - man Junkers are transferring their wealth to Argentina. thick timber needed for firewood it takes a lot of smoke to cure the tobacco for your smokes. He couldn't hire help locally. Jones "told it to the Marines" (female) and some 50 answered with action. They cut the timber (trees of about 28 inches), sawed it into eight-fo-lengths, piled it up. And soldiers and sailors seem glad to take a week's furlough to go out and pitch hay, get in the wheat and tobacco crops, or turn a hand to any other little chore. They say they consider it a great relief from loafing around a hospital or guard-ing government buildings or doing any other of the strictly military jobs they have. Even among the groups of girls, Jones says you'll find enough who can run a tractor or hitch and drive a team of horses. One group cleared five and a half acres, cut the trees, cawed them up, burned the brush. And there is no shortage of civil- - There is not the slightest doubt that the Buenos Aires government has aided and abetted in the spread of nazi-fasci- propaganda and is that, at this very moment looking sympathetically on the activities of Nazi agents within its borders. The army has long been indoctrinated with Prussian militarism through its officers who have been trained in Germany. Unless the United States takes the lead in applying sanctions in the form of a strict embargo on Argen-tina, we may find ourselves with a d war of aggression on our hands right here in our own hemi-sphere. In the ease of Argentina we may be witnessing not only the growth of a powerful military dictatorship but one which will be used to nourish and sustain the very forces which we have spent our blood and wealth to suppress in Europe an "over-ground" underground. the cattle of other people, but with-out their knowledge or consent! He climbed up into the cab of the truck, read the mileage record-ed on the speedometer, made a note of it in a small book, then got back into his car and sat there reading the Prescott Register until his youngest son, named Henry for his father but, because of his known locally as Breezy, rode into the yard with three s. "Hello," said Breezy, "what brings you out here? Come to preach another sermon?" "No, son. I got over that habit, seein' as how you boys resent it. I've just called socially an' also on a little matter o" business. You boys want some truckin' business?" "We kin use it," Breezy admit-ted. "I was speakin' to Mr. Hamilton L. Henley an' told him I'd take it kindly if he'd use you boys when he had to hire a truck an' trailer." Three days later a doctor on duty at the little local hospital telephoned the sheriff that a Mexican had just brought in a beautiful girl with a bullet wound through her right thigh. "Her name is Mary Suth-erland," he added. "A reporter esssssssssssgssssssssssss THE STORY THUS FAR: Mary Suth-erland Is lured to Arizona by the ads of the Wagon Wheel dude ranch, operated is met at by Ma and Pa Burdan. She the station by Len Henley, whose father. Ham. has purchased the Burdan notes from the bank and feels that the ranch Is his. Len enters the rodeo, drawing Mad Hatter. He rides her to a finish, but Is injured. Mary, who has bet three thousand to one thousand that Len rides the horse, now buys the Burdan equity In Wagon Wheel, outbidding Ham. Learn-ing that Mary does not have the money to pay for the notes, Ham threatens fore-closure. Mary, who is in love with Len, Ma and Pa Burdan and drives to the ranch. CHAPTER Xn Pa Burdan, who had entered with an armful of firewood in time to hear this statemerit', said: "They got a couple o' venal jurors picked an' bought out." "Nothin' o' the sort, Pa Burdan," Ma declared and repeated the local scandal about the sheriff. "Now, 'Ma, that ain't fair. Hank Wade's a man of honor. The trou-ble with his sons is that their mother had Injun blood In her. Jest a little around the edges an" her sons are throw-back- A Injun's got as much honor an' generally more'n a white man, but when the blood's mixed, seems like the worst qualities o' both races Is liable to come out." "Sheriff Wade will be here for an extra special luncheon, Mrs. Bur-tlan- ," Mary repeated and Ma took the hint. "Female o' the species is more deadly than the male," Pa quoted, resurrecting Mr. Kipling from his rag bag of a mind, and escaped hurriedly but not in time to avoid a dipper of water down his leathery old neck. Sheriff Wade arrived at noon, served a release of attachment on Pa Burdan and was by Pa presented to Mary. She found him a small, mild, stringy man with a sort of lost lean friend, you do speak English! That was no accidental shooting and Hank Wade knows it and is trying to cover it up. There's something doing down at the Wagon Wheel ranch." Within an hour he was en route there to investigate! Mary found a peculiar comfort in her decision to do with the Wagon Wheel home ranch what Len Henley had hoped to be able to do. She discussed the plan at length that night with Pedro Pa Burdan could not be pried away from the radio and they made a rough estimate of the probable cost of clearing the land, piling the dead brush, sorting out the mesquite for fuel and haul-ing it in to headquarters, burning the remaining trash, fencing and drill-.in- g deeper and, it was to be hoped, more productive wells on the high-est point of the land, ploughing the land, floating or leveling it and roll-ing it up into checks, and prepar-ing a bed for the grass seed. They figured on digging ditches to carry the concrete water-pip- e along the northern boundary and through the center of the property so that when the control valves on these pipes should be opened at the head of the checks the water would pour out and down the checks. Mary planned to ride again the following morning and Pedro had just led the saddled horses out of the barn when an automobile drew up into the yard and Ham Henley stepped out. He paused with galvan-ic suddenness when he saw Mary, in her rodeo parade costume, com-ing to meet him. "Good morning, Don Hamilton," she greeted him. "You're just the man I want to talk to." "What are you doin' here?" he demanded. "I live here. It's my home. Didn't I tell you I had bought the Wagon Wheel?" "But I supposed you'd gone back to New York." aog wisnuiness about him; he radi-ated humility and she knew he was kind and thoughtful when, their luncheon concluded, he picked the soiled dishes off the dining-roo- ta-ble and carried them out to the kitchen sink. Mary was to dis-cover that, in rural circles in the southwest this saving of the woman of the house a few steps was an al-most universal male practice. She liked Hank Wades for it. She dis-covered that he, like Pedro, had once been an employe of Hamilton Henley's; also, like Pedro, he still was loyal to the old allegiance. He and Mary discussed the cattle business until when the sheriff picked up his deputy and went back to the county seat. In his office he found a reporter for the Prescott Register on his daily round in search of news. "Got a news item for you, son," Hank Wade greeted him cheerfully. "A dude girl has bought Bill Bur-dan- 's Wagon Wheel ranch. Girl about twenty-on- e or two, I reckon, an' a lady. Boy, the minute you hear her speak you know you're lower'n a worm. An' beautiful!" The sheriff whistled softly. "Her name's Miss Mary Sutherland, o' the old Sutherland family o' New York, an' you know they got bar-rels o' money. Look 'em up in the Blue Book. She give me the money for a three-yea- r subscription to your paper, son, an' she wants to join the Yavapai County Chamber of Commerce an' do her part toward promotin' the public weal. She aims to have the biggest an' best herd o' pure-bre- d Herefords in captivity an' she ain't goin' to be in business for her health or for the romance o' the west neither. After visitin' most 0' the counties in Arizona she picks on Yavapai County for its climate an' what-al- l. Yes, sir, she's taken "You merely hoped I'd gone back to New York. Well, I'm here and unless you start a round-u- p within three days from date I'm going to start one. I understand that all it requires is some money to hire men and feed them. I have the horses and saddles now." "You mean that, dude?" "I certainly do." "If you'll agree to leave them on the range until July first I'll send you a check for half the annual rental charged you by the state." "It isn't a question of money," she replied coldly. "I just don't like you." He was a man of quick decisions and, like most of his sex, he shrank from a finish fight with a woman. "If you want to buy those cattle, as is and where is,V he answered, "I'll sell them to you at cost to me." "Go on. Name the terms of pay-ment." "I'll carry you for them and also the deed of trust until July fifteenth next, without interest." "Thank you. That's what I call putting humanity into business and I accept the offer. I must spend considerable money putting this run-down ranch into such shape I'll not be ashamed to live on it and my bank balance will not admit of do-ing this and paying your deed of trust just now. By the way, Pedro Ortiz is here with Don Leonardo's horses and automotive equipment. He informs me he's in your em-ploy." "He was. I told him to come out here when I thought I was go-ing to acquire this property. I want-ed somebody here to keep an eye on things, and I knew the Burdans wouldn't object him here "Didn't I tell you I bought the Wagon Wheel?" from the Register was here when she arrived and he tried to get the story out of her but she refused to talk. Then he tried the Mexican but the Mexican can't speak Eng-lish. Under the law, when a person is brought here to have stab wounds or gunshot wounds treated I have to report to you, so I'm reporting." "Thanks, Doc. Put that Mexican on the Une. I speak Spaaish." Presently a voice said: "Buenas tardes, senor." "Pedro," the sheriff asked in an agitated voice, "which one o' my boys done it?" "The youngest-Enri- co. Dona Ma-ri- a ran into him branding a calf run-ning with a Wagon Wheel cow, so he had to silence the witness." "He didn't do a complete job Why?" "Because she killed him first. So she will not talk to this reporter. All the way to Prescott she wept over to think she must tll vmi j Yavapai County with a bang, aims to socialize a lot an' seems to want to meet her neighbors. Plain, simple girl. I had lunch with her at the Wagon Wheel today an' drew her a design for a barbecue pit she aims to erect She has an idea, if she's permitted to join the Chamber o' Commerce, she'll give the mem-bers an' their ladies a barbecue come spring." The following morning he drove out to the one and a half township range where his sons ran about sev-en hundred head of cattle, and which, in common with his constitu-ency, the sheriff believed was a blind tor their rustling operations. There was nobody around the ranch-hous- e when he drove in, so he strolled over to a shed in which stood a huge mo-tor truck and a trailer of the type commonly used to transport cattle to market since modern concrete highways rendered that method of ihipment cheaper than shipping by rail. He knew his sons had at least eight thousand dollars invested in that truck and trailer and he knew too, that neither the profits from their little cow outfit, nor the size of the spread itself, warranted such an Investment, for it would have been far cheaper to pay a trucker when they had cattle to ship. Of course, he was aware that his sons often contracted to ride other people's cows to market in their truck and trailer but this business was infre-quent; the sheriff had a very strong suspicion that the truck and trailer wart mostly used in transporting course, she is not happy to know she has killed a man, even In "She speaks Spanish and that doc-tor and the reporter do not. Ask her please to keep her mouth closed for both our sakes and you meet me down in front of the hospital in ten minutes. Put the doctor back on the line." When the doctor answered Hank Wade said: "It's O. K., doc. She got hit by a stray bullet from some boob shootin' deer on her ranee ' Bad vound?" "It didn't touch the bone. Lay her up for six weeks or two months." "Thanks for callin' me, Doc." Ten minutes later he pulled up in his official car alongside the Burdan station wagon in which Pedro Ortiz sat waiting for him at the curb in front of the hospital. He got out and leaned in the station wagon and said to Pedro-- in English, "Lemme have ,the details, Pedro. I didn't want to talk to you too long on the tele-phone. Boy, you played your part well and so did the girl." "I asked her," said Pedro, "and she promised she would. She rea- lizes" he switched to Spanish. "Be careful, Don Hank. That reporter approaches." They continued their discourse in Spanish and then Sher-iff Wade returned to his office and Pedro started back for the Wagon Wheel ranch, leaving the reporter from the Prescott Register standing at the curb gazing Interestedly aft- er him, and thinking: "So, my Mex- - until they were dispossessed, pro-vided he didn't cost them nothin'. I came out this mornin' to relieve him." "Have you any objection to per-mitting me to hire him now as my superintendent?" "Glad to have you, for his sake. He's a good, loyal, competent man. I ought to know. I raised him from a pup." "Are you going to remove Don Leonardo's horses from the Waeon Wheel?" "Not until he asks me to. I reck-on he'll feel better about them If he knows Pedro has them in charge." "They're welcome here. I think he will offer no objection if I rjde them." "I'll ask him. If he objects I'll let you know. You got any mes-sage for my son?" "No-- nor do I anticipate having any. And I daresay you find that news very palatable." "Suits me fine, dude." He lifted his big black hat and left and she had a feeling that he was very glad, mdeed, to see the last of her for of course, her future business with him would be transacted through her attorney. 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