Show I a I I What's in a Name 1 By Vincent Vincen t G. G Perry The village of Wattsville was hardly hardly hardly hard hard- ly large enough to support one newspaper newspaper news news- paper and here it was with two Fred Burnett proprietor managing editor pressman and compositor of the Wattsville Advance walked up and down the little room in front of his plant which lie called the office and bi bit at a match furiously Wattsville Wattsville Watts Watts- ville had been without a paper for a along along along long time and the idea of f starting up a weekly again was originally his He He was sure of that He had come from the city and looked hooked over the plant of the Echo a paper that had hadnot hadnot not been published for ten years and II had decided it was not in good enough shape to put in working order N Not Notto Notto t to be beaten in his effort to make himself a recluse from Crom his ifs friends he Bought out the plant of the Wain Wain- bright Advance and moved it to Wattsville to the little building it now occupied In the meantime the Echo office had been sold by a real es estate estate estate es- es tate broker in the city and the purchaser purchaser pur pur- purI I chaser who wIto had bought the plant j I without looking at it it was coming t to Wattsville to publish a paper To Tomake I I. make mak matters worse in the eyes of Burnett the purchaser was a woman the niece of the Widow Spur of the l village iThe I IThe IThe The idea of the thing was preposterous preposterous j I he thought Nobody could I make the Echo plant work vork let alone alonea I Ia a woman A A- woman was not much i us use usg around a newspaper office anyway any any- wa way There was only one whom ho had ever known that earned her salary salary sal sal- ary and she could do the work of two men Like him she had been brought up in a newspaper office and knew the business from front A A. A to A-to to Z But lh re was not another woman in the world like Norma Cousins he was convinced Just the same same it bothered bothered both both- ered cred him Poor thing If she does know anything about newspaper work she will wUl get a shock when she sees the f fEcho Echo plant he muttered I He was right Margaret 1 Spur lid did I get a severe shock when she saw the Echo plant The real estate I broker had told her it was in i splendid splendid 1 did working order and her aunt had i verified his statement She was foolish fool ish to take the word of either she sho I thought She should have visited Wattsville before making the purchase purchase pur pur- chase as she had intended to do The Thereal Thereal real estate man was trying to make a asale asale asale sale and her aunt didn't know any anymore anymore anymore I. I more about newspapers than she did about automobile she manufacturing she i should h have ve known that Then there 1 was this opposition paper It was Just like an unfeeling man to come and make things miserable for her as s if they were not miserable enough I i. i Why couldn't he stay out But what good would it have done even if he hadn't come with a white elephant I 1 like tho the Echo plant on her hands I She asked herself this question again I and again If Margaret had belonged to another another an an- nn-j nn other profession she would have havo wept but her newspaper training had fortified her for Just such disappointments disappointments disappointments as this one Perhaps the f plant was not as bad as it appeared pear d. d she thought thought- as she started to ge get geU I things in better shape As she i worked over the type cases her mind I I went back to the city and the life me I she had left 1 It was to find an occupation to take her mind off the biggest disappointment I of her life that made her give up her position on the Times i in the tho city and invest her savings in inthe 1 the country newspaper that proved to be so unpromising The winter j before she had been introduced to I Tommy McKay 1 at the ironworkers' ironworkers I convention Ho lie was representing the Tribune and she was reporting the I convention for the Times Tomm Tommy I had a pleasant and attractive way and andas andas t tas as they sat side by side chatting gaily she couldn't help thinking that I I perhaps all the girls that wrote gl o oher her Advice to the Fair Sex column were not as silly as she had thought The next day she missed her car a and d was late Tommy lent her his notes note t so that she would not miss the hm points of the mayors mayor's spec 1 After that kindness she could very well have refused his to the theatre that evening Alt the theatre they went to lea a ca cabar caba bar I H He e was the brightest boy she j 3 jever ever known and his sense of h 11 r appe appealed led to her The next summer they tiley had t t vacation at the same time Lime i aey again at a seaside resort The m light nights helped a lot an and b b be bethey the they had been there a fortnight had decided that they couldn't v well get along without one anoL Their happiness was brought to tou abrupt ending when Tommy was se sefor sent seni for to take a position he had dl for in the North It meant a mug mucK larger salary he explained to Magaret Ma Ma- May garet and would be quite a comfortable comfort comfortable able one for two Margaret had pad pada hI a strenuous nerve nelve racking winter So I had been granted a two JI cation Tommy promised ed to w t regularly to her beach address When Wilen no letters came tho the first week M Margaret Mari Mar rJ garet supposed the position was a alit aliJ lit littie tie harder than he had anticipated d dand and that he lye probably was too loo bu busy getting things in shape to write I lc She wrote to him every days day As the days grew into weeks andino letters came she realized that she sha he was waiting in vain It took a a along time to become reconciled t to tha thought that he wasn't going write and hadn't been sincere She Shedid slid did id not stay out her full time at the seashore hut but returned to her wor works Margaret couldn't help running this tIlis all over in her mind as she worked It dawned upon her her- that she was doing Just what sho had come to Wattsville to avoid Could she ever forget she wondered JI The editor of the Advance stopp stopped in front of the Echo office The blind was up and the door was partly open ope open but no one was in view in the offic His opposition had arrived Ah he thought He was about to pass passion o when curiosity roused up within him It wouldn't be out of place to toca calon can cal canon on this Miss Spur He lie could find o out what she thought of the Echo plant plan Margaret hoard heard the step in the doer doj way and turned around As her ey eymet eyes met the visitors visitor's she uttered a little scream and her handful of type fe to feto toto to the floor J Tommy she gasped Tommy J McKay Norma what are you ou doing hei here he cried in surprise Why Im I'm the owner of this plan pin Margaret Spur You Margaret Spur Isn't Norma Norn Cousins your OUr right name Why Why d dId not you ou answer my letters Jetters p Your letters Tommy I neY rr them Norma was excite excited Tell me did you address them to Norma Cousins M Yes I thought that was your you real name It is only my pen name the name the nan If under which I wrote for the TImeTo Time TimeTo To think I never told you Oll my r right t name But didn't you get my let letters e eters Tommy w No not a letter Then it dawned dawne d upon him Did you know my rig right name isn't Tommy McKay that in b bis is only a pen name too My 1 rl Ig Igname name is Fred Burnett I always thought McKay was yo real name That explains at about did I letters Jetters I addressed addressed them all Tommy McKay care of the N North Northern ern Nugget Margaret was alma almas too loo overjoyed to speak Oh what sillies we have been 5 were desperately ly in love for for forta t weeks were engaged and did Aid nr n not t even know ono one another's names Fred Joined in her laugh Two weeks later the Echo and and i- i 8 Advance became one The rival Jo Joins 0 decided there was enough m ma wv in tho the two plants to make on e good one and after all one p per on r could not run a whole newspaper per even eyen though it was a weekly sa 09 j that there would be no more v 3 in names the first issue of the t Advance had printed at the the t P the editorial column In bold tt ty pC Fred Burnett managing editor N J Fred Burnett news editor I t 1 t t 1 |