OCR Text |
Show r PAGE FOUIT PROVO (UTAH) EVENING HERALD, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 14, 1 9 ., 4 The Herald Every Afternoon except Saturday, and Sunday Morning i'ublisbed by the Herald Corporation. BO South First West Street, Provo. Utah. PJntered as second-class matter at the postoffice in Provo, Utah, under the act of March 3. 1879. dilnian. Nicoll & Ruthman, National Advertising representatives. New York. San Francisco. Detroit, Boston, L.oh Angeles. Seattle, Chicago. Member United Press. N. E. A. Service, Western Features and the Scripps League of Newspapers. Subscription terms by carrier in Utah county, 50 cents the month; $2.75 for six months, in advance; j.l.OO the year, in advance: by mail in Utah County, in advance, S4.f.u; outside Utah county. $5.00. "Proclaim Liberty through all the land" Liberty Bell Employment Remains Our Major Duty A lot of far-reaching consequences can grow out of an innocent-looking little declaration of policy. If you dig back far enough, you will find that most of today's turmoil about the proper functions of the NRA hinges on our new assumption assump-tion that the national government has a direct and inescapable ines-capable duty in regard to its unemployed citizens. This assumption grew up during the depression. It's worth remembering that it is a comparatively new thing in American life. By the old tradition, the government was supposed to keep its hands off such matters. If industry couldn't employ the men it normally employed, there was nothing in particular that Washington was expected to do about it. We found that that didn't work very well. The presence pres-ence in the country of unemployment on a huge scale was too great a strain on the social fabric. So we became convinced con-vinced that unemployment was a thing which the national government must take in hand, and this conviction found expression in the official pronouncement of the new administration. admin-istration. t, T, -l That is what brought us to our present tangle in the NRA. Industry, says the administration, must hire more men. It must do this by the process of shortening working hours, and it must raise wages at the same tinK. so that the men whoso hours are cut will not suffer any decrease in income. Industry replies that it cannot do anything of the kind and operate at a profit; and there is no reason to doubt that, in many, many cases, this is the exact truth. What, then is the alternative bearing in mind the all-important all-important fact that care for the unemployed has been accepted ac-cepted as a government duty? The alternative, clearly, is for the government, to go on making jobs for the jobless. If private industry can't do it, the government must. The enormously expensive CWA must be continued, even expanded. More millions must be pumped into public works. And the money for this must come from taxes which, in larre part, must be collected from industry. These are the choices that face us today. They present about as tough a problem as industry and government possibly pos-sibly could be asked to solve and they arise, ultimately, because of our new belief that unemployment is a direct concern of the government. Bright Moments In Great Lives One of the largest public re-j ceptions tendered Gen. Neville,, hero of the defense of Verdun, during the World war. on his postwar post-war tour of America, occur- J red in one of the Los Angeles i hotels. ! The more prominent members ! nf the mnvin? nirture colonv were ! among invited guests. Will Rogers i and Charlie Chaplin met at the I door of Gen. Neville's suite. Chap lin wearing a fussed and rather perturbed expression. "I suppose we're expected to say a few words to the general,' he confided to Rogers, "but for the life of me, I can't think of the best way to start the conversation." con-versation." Rogers paused a moment, ear- Famous HORIZONTAL 1 Who is the famous fa-mous actress in the picture? 13 Tiny particle. 14 Tree having tough wood. L5 To depart by boat. 16 To chip. 17 Not bright. 18 August (abbr.) 20 Ovum. 21-Cow's food chewed a second sec-ond time. 23 Pair. 24 Northeast. 25 Sable. 26 Fourth note. 27 Southeast. Answer to Previous Puaszlo UC qlimiciaIm ah oE nsSsi e Ah OlEDUlMAre It enijp lWtJn A.Bgfe SIR MALCOLM CAMrWll ISIJDIOiA TlOiNlAl 40 Genius of the body. il Peat dust. 42 She now appears ap-pears in . 28 Marched cere- 44 Principal, moniously. 45 Cry of a wild to Each. goose. U On. 46 Upright shaft. 13 Lacerated. 47 Threefold. 34 New England 48 Pest. fish. 49 Baking dish. S5 Shoot of '' 50 Pine fruit. plant. 51 Indian sect. 36 Lion. 52 Bell sounds. 19 Mvself. 53 She achieved 7 S ! 10 11 12 I" $ 4 6 6 7 eT" p 110 jti is j I b-- n r 1-11 m l I rfl 1 1 11 nestlv considering the problem. "Well," he said, "you might ask him if he was in the war, and which side he was on." Sfc Washington Merry-Go-Round : S (Contolnued lrom Page One) wealthy educational foundations to nut up the. money. McCall is reticent about details, but inside word is that the Carnegie Foundation Founda-tion has come across and to the tune of $100,000 for the first year. One thing McCall IS not secre- 4.: i . : . i c a. . i . i i live ituoiit is uiie icici. Liia.t ne hopes to be the institute's first i president. The school is to be non-partisan Actress 1C She was bom in ,. U.S.A. 17 State of lasting. last-ing. 19 She is one 0' our nftresses. 21 Mongrel. 22 Manufactured. 25 Ventilating machine. 26 House plant. 28 Seed bag. 29 Destiny. 32 Blue grass. 35 Metal mviiey 36 Alley. 37 Deer. 38 All right. 39 Ignobly. 41 Anxieties. 42 Invigorating sua C HL A LDP AML P1 tea iBiE IAIc IHi fame in VERTICAL 2 Scope. 3 Male deer. 4 To cut off. medicine. 5 Type standard. 43 Greek epic 0 Deposited. poem. 44 Bill of fare. 45 Entrance way. 47 Male cat. 48 Cry of a sheep 49 Golf device. 51 Before Christ. Distinctive theory. Exclamation. Like. Sun god. Seventh nole. To glide away. 52 Afternoon. Howdy, folks! It's a little early for wild geese to be honking their auto horns outside apartment houses most every evening now. if. if. if. if. Up to the present, the messages mes-sages from the Byrd expedition in the Antarctic have sounded exactly ex-actly like all other messages from people away from home, except for one thing. Not once have they said, "Wish you were here." 1 LEADERS OF MEN i Herewith is presented a photo of Eglert ('. Fleacake, another I'rovoan who is working tireless ly fo make the city an even letter let-ter place in which to live Mr. Fleacake is spending all his spare hours ai the city and county building lobbying for an ordinance intended intend-ed t o relieve men-about-tow n of a needless-worry. needless-worry. If passed, the law will require all hotel proprietors to post in plain sight at the foot of the bed: (1) The name of the hotel, CI) the name of the town (3) The date, (4) What -time it is stating whether morning oi evening. if, if. if. If. Avowal of the Loveiorn Conductor: Con-ductor: "Ticket from me, lady: T carfaie you in a big way'" if. if. f. if. j LI'L (1EE GEE Li'l (Jee Gee is just as sappy as ever. If fish is really a brain food then she must be about 10 herrings her-rings in arrears. f Another trouble with this country coun-try is that the only great open spaces are around the fire hydrants. hy-drants. if, if. if, if, I Utah County woman, 92 years old, recently used the telephone i for the first time In her life. It j gave her a "thrill,' 'she said. j She must have gotten the right j number. I if. if, if. if. OMIGOS1I l Sign on store window) YE OLDE RADIO SHOPI'E "I'm jcoming down with the flu, ' warned the house-wrecker's assistant, as he started descending descend-ing from the roof. if. if. if. if. Two tablets dailv after meals. Do You Know? These Curious Things The Christmas tree is primarily primar-ily a development of the Rhine valley. For 200 years the custom cus-tom of using the tree was confined con-fined to that territory. From 1608 on, the custom spread like wildfire all over Germany. j jtom f the Cnristmatree until ; 0nppn Virrnria married the Or- : man prince, but thereafter it : was verv much the stvle at ! Christmas in England. J, France picked up the custom from the Germans. During the war of 1870, the Germans cele- 1 brated Christmas in Notre Dame, j and "the German soldiers brought with them the custom. The ' French liked the idea, and adopt- i ed it. But they use the .whole ! tree, roots and all, planted in a ' tub. The German emigrant brought the Christmas tree to this country and we, like the English have adopted it and have made it one of our institutions. and non-political. About 100 young; men will be brought to Washington for a three months first hand study of the government. govern-ment. Students are to be selected along lines similar to those for Rhodes scholarships. The enterprise enter-prise will be known as the National Nation-al Institution of Public Affairs. SHAKE-IP A big shake-up impends in the NRA national compliance board. This is the agency created by General Hugh Johnson several months ago to handle enforcement problems of the Blue Eagle. Its director is William H. Davis, mop-haired, mop-haired, heavy featured Maine-born patent lawyer, who came to the NRA originally as a deputy ' administrator. ad-ministrator. In the latter job he made good. As compliance director he hasn't Blunders have been frequent. His latest yas the barring of striking employees of the defiant E. G. Budd Auto Body company of Philadelphia from participating in a workers' poll. This was the last straw. Under the famous Section 7a, Roosevelt, Johnson, and Senator Bob Wagner, repeatedly have held that striking workers had a right to vote in plant elections. Davis, over-ruling; even the White House, proposed a new precedent. Organized labor hit the ceiling. The embattled Budd workers threatened another strike, plus court action. Johnson promptly ordered the election called off, pending an investigation. Whether Davis departs the Blue Eagle roost entirely remains uncertain. un-certain. But as national compliance compli-ance director he is finished, fn fact, the compliance board. as a separate division, will soon disappear. disap-pear. Its work will return to the supervision of Johnson's right bower, Donald R. Richberg. OUTpUR WAY IL. : WHEN VOU SIDE GLANCES jrs . . . . 1 1 r ! ; r ' - J ' PEG. u. s pat. orr. J xf down cosmetics as business eTcnense?" Dixon Junior Sponsors Applied Patriotism Program By PAUL STAPLES A program of applied patriotism, patriot-ism, to promote better citizenship, citizen-ship, is being used at the Dixon Junior high school of Provo. "Patriotism means more than saluting the flag;. It includes tak ing an interest in civic affairs aryl society as a whole," declares J. F. Mower, principal. Interest iit school, city, state and national affairs af-fairs and good citizenship, are being be-ing created through clubs, programs pro-grams and teachers to student relationship. re-lationship. Miles of Smiles Miles of smiles are needed to help the country back to normal, is the belief of the Dixon students. stu-dents. As good citizens they are promoting a bigger and better smile contest where each home-teacher-student group enters contestants con-testants in its four divisions. The broadest, most peculiar, most attractive at-tractive and personality smiles will be judged A motion picture history is being be-ing made of the student body activities ac-tivities and will be shown to the students and parents at the end of the school year. Peanut busts, picnics, ballgames, dances, etc., will be taken, and the completed picture will be named "Miles of Smiles." Courtesy is good citizenship and a Courtesy club has been organized organ-ized in the ninth grade to aid in promoting it at the school. Every two weeks the club meets to hear some speaker discuss courtesy and related subjects. Students become be-come members by invitation. Entering a class room tardy, talking in the library, throwing paper on the grounds or in the halls ' of the building, sitting so that other students have to crawl over, are a few of the forms of discourtesy forbidden at Dixon. "Courtesy applies to all acts, at the school, and the fine results are obtained through example, faculty facul-ty and students participating," states Mr. Mower. CUT IT OUT-NOW, doggonit! jus MA MAKE HIM SIT LIP, SO HE CAW BE SEEM. HE'S JUS' TRYNA MAKE PEOPLE THINK, I'M COMFTUBBLE, GOTTA START SUMPN . THOSE -.t - By George Clark Off . - V, PEG. U. S PAT. OFF. O 193 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. SCIENCE Authorities on air transportation transport-ation now state that speeds of 500 miles per hour are not only practical but highly desirable in the upper reaches of our atmosphere. atmos-phere. It is estimated that circumnavigation cir-cumnavigation of the globe need 'require but tVo days and that this is now possible if present-day present-day knowledge is applied. Such a mode of travel would be of incalculable in-calculable value to all the people of the world. Such a country as India, now a week's speedy travel lrom England, might become but eight hours away if such a method meth-od of travel were used. The French government is now experimenting experi-menting with a "stratoplane" designed de-signed to travel in the "upstairs" air. One of the things which is the greatest drawback to travel in this section of the atmosphere is the necessity for securing sufficient suffi-cient oxygen for a gasoline motor. mo-tor. The air is thinner too, and necessitates a propeller with a controllable pitch, in order to take advantage of the engine's power. Services Are Held For Pace Infant Funeral services for Quinton Hodson Pace, two-months-old son of Thomas B. and Esmee Hodson, were -held Sunday at the Deseret Mortuary chapel, Bishop W. O. Facer of the Fifth ward was in charge. A vocal trio, composed of Mary and Bernardine Richins and Mary Alice Mortensen, rendered 'Faith, Hope and Love," "O My Father" and "One Fleeting Hour." K. E. McEwan opened with prayer and the benediction was offered by Charles Crandall. Remarks were made by W. Ray Ashworth and Interment was in the Provo city cemetery, where the grave was dedicated by S. A. Pace. BY WILLIAMS ARE My FEET TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS j Arlington Spiilsbury pleaded ; guilty to running through a red ; light signal Tuesday in the city j court and was fined $2. Police Chief John E Harris signed the complaint against Spiilsbury. Driving on March 10 without a j tail light on his automobile cost David Cordner .$1. He forfeited the $1 bond in court Tuesday. Married flirts 7 MABEL McELLIOTT ClfAPTKi: XII J ILA held her white arm out and Derek slipped the bracelet over it. He turned her hand upward and kfs.-vd the pnlm. "It suits you. Loveliness." he told her. Lil-.i smiled. All her life she had bemi smiling sweetly when people ! talked to her like that.. It was like the bree.-e blowing or the sun shln-ing. shln-ing. She expected it. It was part of her vory ristoncr. You didn't have fair flu nre, li! Imir and an exquisite a Tanagr. 1' figurine, for not hinc. The bracelet was of flawless workmanship. There were sapphires sap-phires in it and diamonds of the fust water. Ou Lila's chaise longue in the cherry and white room upstairs up-stairs lay a supple fur wrap, another an-other jiift from Derek. Queenlike, I,i!:i accented all this- as her just ilt. p. Derek said, "I wish wo could have dinner here, all by ourselves, hv the lire. I wish we needn't . . ." Lila frankly stared. "What? Not So to .Marko's? Ridiculous!" "I know." Derek set his jaw. "I-Jn't if " Rut that's what I wish, lust the same. Lfs call him up . . ." She interrupted him, horror-struck. horror-struck. "Derek Rliss. you'll do nothing of the sort. Offend Marko! Hp's expecting us. Resides, it'll be fun. I'm looking forward to it. I Kt that new cream lace at Sylvia's ju:-f to wear today." "Oh. I suppose you're right. It's 1 duty." Derek shrugged his shoul-Jers. shoul-Jers. "That's a darling," Lila approved him .softly, having made her point. "Run along and dress. Marko insisted in-sisted on having dinner at a ridiculous ridicu-lous hour five o'clock but I suppose sup-pose one must do mad things on Christmas day." Derek. went upstairs on laggard feet. This, he told himself rather drearily, wasn't Chrintmas. Why, as a kid. back home in Vermont, he had loved all the panoply of the season: the tree, smelling spicy and tantalizing; the carols in the snow; the candle-lighted windows everything every-thing about it. He had ren (he smiled to think of it now) liked to ro to church on Christmas day. The little old meeting house had had a apecial holiday odor, compounded of flr Roughs and resin and wood-amoke. wood-amoke. Well, no one he knew nowadays now-adays went to church. On Christmas Christ-mas they behaved much the same as any other day of the year. They had cooktails, told the same old Jokes. "TT'S a deadly life. I hate it," grumbled the young man to j himself, shaving before the crystal mirror n Ji3 modernistic dressing Tom; fd fet ?e ew' ?, h,B eart heartfl. thai would go BEWIND THE SCENES IN WASUINGTQN BY RODNEY DLTCIIKH EA Service Stnff ( orre iindf nt Y-ASHINGTON. The war between be-tween men and vnion broken out again on this '., keeps Washington oi 1 --i:. w s In a constant fret. Each of the variiu n-wspa p.'M -men's clubs Ik'.s had ih. t- t!--issue up in recent v.-.ks In j years they've k r a d u a I 1 1- -v. torced to riounic tin-it' tin-it' the other s. Inn tin- n : 1 fcored 110 ains in tlii- uiiit'i'-disputes. uiiit'i'-disputes. Tin- National Pit s Club's In-' concession was installation o; ladies' dinine; room. iuit- separate sepa-rate from the rest of the club, lor vhich ives and other i-lativ- were picn cards. Two organizations organiza-tions of newspaper women later asked and received cartN. Hut ?he dear lu arts i e in lo; .1 setback . Suddenly, aftt-r repeal, aro-" ill inSUipent ir,o eineiit (,f !:!':.-hers !:!':.-hers to abolish that dinitiL loom. Certain um hiv.ilroiis tents d -nianded tint the loom be 11-' .1 for a bar. Tl; pr -! r ! i!'.-' familiar aiKuni'i.t that the i,'n 'liusf be kept as a a le t 11,1 1 . a!,' ie wives couldn't pee. t r;i t-. Their ftreiiLith was o ticai at :ho aiirual incctin:; and at a s i-lal i-lal jneetinp on tlw i--ue that tV ladies' dinnic 100111 was ir in half and tlv i "st of i lie sj,;;, tised for a 'taproom" bin jnn uvh tor a idii pie of 1 a ble-. The Newspaper Club. more radical, foucht over tlu q!ietii n jt i.dmitt'mu women to m.-mbi 1-hip. 1-hip. The proposal 1 . j -1 . two to )i'e. Aiiu the ( h a m pio 1, - ol vi,;'n' (-'iiiality bo-d ;o ibo .-vim .-vim denianded a letuue lrom lumc ti'nl fireside. on with it. There was uothiug else to do. angel Lila bless her heart for an and a beautv! was used to I hi sort of existence. "I'll tut those Weaver kids are having fun." he told himself, with a fc'eaiu of huinur. "I bet they've got a toy tree with silver balls and j all the ret of it." He liked Cypsy. j He thought her "a good sport." I Tom seemed a nice chap. too. What I a game they had made of the little : supper at their house that Sunday ; night! He had thoroughly enjoyed himself. Lila hadn't, though. Funny Fun-ny how women were about the social so-cial racket. Now, he'd been brought j up very simply. himself. His father had been the village doctor and there had been nn frills about his boyhood. Lila was different. She wasn't content unless she had real lace on the tincerbowl doilies. Cypsy's little party had bored her, phe said afterward. Not that she wasn't fond of Gypsy. She was. "But we must have them over here," she had decided. "They just can't do any entertaining in that little box of an apartment. It's ab- surd to try." Derek had opened his mouth to protest but had stopped, just in 1 . -. . n II. . 1 - t r- InriminrT t li I n . . V, . . ! I iinip , j ic nan iciu uiii. 1 11 I ua auuui t ! Lila, She hated to be disagreed 1 with, isot tnat stie iiadn t a wonderful won-derful disposition, said Derek loyal- . ly. but she was just spirited . . . imperious. Rather nervous, too. the?e days. He rather thought she smoked too much, though he didn't like to suggest that. He had worked himself into a more cheerful frame of mind by the time he'd finished shaving. A glance out of the high windows assured him of the fact that it was snowing again. Cood enough! That, at any rate, insured the Kris Krin-gle Krin-gle touch. Lila was beautiful in the soft . , , . it 1 1 was to have her! He d been a fool , t to think he could keep her all to , . ., . f, ol himself this afternoon. She was iui luu luveiv 10 Mciy uiuuvii. rjpiir: party at Marko's was in full swing when they arrived. Marko Mar-ko had the entire top floor of an exclusive apartment hotel in the east sixties. A man servant with an impassive face let them in. He was a new one. Derek had never seen him before. The noise struck him like a blow, when the door swung inward. Noise of radio music, of heightened human voices, of slipping feet. People were dancing. danc-ing. Marko had a crowd, as usual. Lila was in her element. She called greetings to half a doren people in the foyer as she passed through. Derek felt a nervous twitching in his cheek. Well, after a drink or two he wouldn't mind the racket so much. That was one comforL His host greeted him. Marko was in high feather. He was bubbling with gaiety. Had Derek seen the tree? Ah. he hadn't? But he must at once. Someone take Mr. Bliss to the dining room. Lila. whispered Marko in the younger man's ear, had chosen the decorations for him. Charming! Everyone admired them so. Derek, in the wake of a blond youth he remembered seeing in Marko's private office the week before, be-fore, found the tree no familiar affair af-fair of laden fir boughs and tinsel, but an artificial one, a modernistic tree in silver, all angles. Blue stars appeared at intervals In its travestied branches. Derek stared, but there was no admiration in his eyes. Was this Lila's Idea of a Christmas tree? Almost he shud- EY DUTCHPR T' 'HE dumb:u-.-s of .ii,ivm, alwavs a favorite top:.- o capital r-onveratio:i. is ettir.c as especially heavy 1 ide at tlr. s. sion. Chief reason-: Tii hie test elect ion of 1 " - br-'i'ii;1:- :: quite a tew Strang" ;v, uufi;, with, the t ide. Cap rules and ompl'e v .. sei vieni e result in pas-age bv if. ins,, ot' vitally important ti:-..-- wnich members don't :'.,;. !. : debate, and don'' 11 tide. -'a'd. 1 "Dm mb. d ri v.-n ..v:!f' : d Terv. ll of Texas the .e,;-. o c . v. ''n vnti-d against the c " 1 ' ! : e- . i-1 a ; 1 .11 1 1 ::)- up to t h. e v o' 1 s- t . ! 1 a : w . ot: v 1 ess men who w.i; stat.d it no m the herd . Yo-.i a it i 1 .'. 1. o..d man down, and 1 1 t :..-. on-- 111.1v list for:1.- ' 1 1 - : ha ( t i ng U ish,. d - -;::. ::' !v fo at! l a. t u !in i 1 thenw I t t . i; t j. 1 Sh j k r n !; o Let in'., a !' . d : n r and s M in.neota. u . t h a ? a 1 m ni y wa o 1 l i a . w h 1 1 I i a i t d wnh. a s -a ! ' . 1-' u I m . r c . f ; . 'old sawmill op i a ' . at. so i : -e 1 . m m o 1 1 :i: o: e 1 he N I ! A lutnb. .' H. ; im o! i'f !:;iv i i 1 u 1: ii ' i ai 1 v bottle in his : - and who the 1 . i 11 U 1 a t . A ri'.W dl...'.el p P 1 e oaldn t .r.iwii into Constitu- Moii H..11 heard lloosevelt'g NRA sjw e( h oMtsjdc . lourtesy of the White House chauffeur, who turned on 1 h - p 1 - s j , .. ., , 1 , , 'a 1 a d io et 1 Or them. . . . ( ; 1 011 1) o II 1 . re : . , e . (i. t t ), , no ! i n t -. o-H (-ri, w it Ii I e I p! , Cs ;j , n. i lie ; 1 ! ,e- -mall b. - t l,e cam. u it,i r.il ly l;t: "Kittle Man. What sion. i 1 "opy 1 it ti t, 1 ! 1 : 1 u ! ; N c 1 '. In. dered, but renieinliei ed himself In tjme "Clever, isn't It?" He recalled himself, and nodded to the youth beside him. The evening wore on. Dinner, a many-coursed affair, was Berved toyed with, ended. Derek noticed plate after plate carried away uu touched. The glasses were filled and emptied. The red ros.-s drooped in their silver vases. Marko was taking them all to a revue, one of the gayest. That De rek and Lila had seen it more than once three times, in fact did not matter. The party filed down the aisle after the second act had openpd. occasioning much ssh-ine ' and craning of necks among the rest of the audience. Derek found himself next to a young woman In ire blue satin. She had brown curls For no good reason, she reminded him of Cypsy Weaver. She flirted with him outrageously during intermission. He was prop erly gallant, said all the ripht things. Under his mask of Impassivity, Impas-sivity, he was terribly bored. a ,HAT was wrong with him. anyhow? any-how? Last year when he'd been wooing Lila, he hadn't minded the noise and the racket. It had all seemed part of living. His head felt hot. empty, aching as he handed Lila out of the car and followed her into the entrance of their building. A clock some place, not far away, struck four. The city was bathed in moonlight now. The snow had stopped. Two scrubwomen, on their way to work down the avenue, stopped to call "Merry Christmas" to each other. Derek envied them. "Merry Christmas!" Christ-mas!" And they really meant It! "What's wrong with you, dar lirS' Lilas tone was fretful. She , . . . . , . , , 1 slipped out of the sleek Lrown fur 1 , , , , I and Derek caught it. "You ve been , , . 1 glum as an oyster all eveninc. I ra sure everyone noticed it The life of the party." He flung his coat down and ripped rip-ped open his tie. "I don't know. It just went dead on me." She cocked an eyebrow at him. "Snap out of it, youug fellow me lad. Marko likes bright faces about him." Marko! Was he ever to behave as he wanted? Was he tied to the chariot of Mammon forever? Derek choked bark some bitter words. "What dfd you say?" Lila had gone into her own room now. Her sweet, fretful tones came to hlrn dimly. "Nothing, dearest. Only I'm sorry if 1 was a wet blanket." He came to stand at her door. She was in pale rose satin now, her slim arms glimmering through cascades cas-cades of creamy lace. She patted back a yawn. "You were. Don't let it happen again." Her tone was ever so gently humorous, but he sensed the real warning Vehlnd it. "You had a good time, anyhow." She bridled. "Naturally. I like Marko's parties. They have so much zip to them." "Is that what you call it?" Derek was thoughtful, but Lila chose to accept the remark as sarcasm "Don't be clever in the dawning, pet." She gave him her cool cheek to kiss. "I'm dead. Good night." Derek went down into the high ceiled living room to finish hla eigaret He would have to be up early, and to the office, but somehow some-how he did not want to go to bed and to sleep just now. He wanted to think things out. Whither wu he drifting? (To Be Continued) ; WITH RQDN |