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Show i PAGE FOUR PROVO (UTAH) EVENING HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 8, 1 9 3 4 "Proclaim Liberty through all the land" Liberty Bell The Herald Every Afternoon excopt Saturday, and Sunday Morning i'uhlislH'd by the Herald Corporation, 60 South First Weet Street, i'rovo. Utah. Kntered as second-claaa matter at the postoffice in Provo, Utah, under the act of March 3. 187 9. (Silman, Nicoll c Ruthman. National Advertising reproaentati ves, New York. San Francisco, Detroit, Boston. Los Angeles, Seattle. Chicago. Member United Press, N. K. A. Service. Western Features and Hi Scrlpps Leapue of Newspapers. Subscription terms by carrier in Utah county, 50 cents tl' month; $2.75 for six months, in advance; $5.00 the year, in advance; by mail in Utah County, in advance, $4.50; outside Utah county, $5.00. New Parties Might Clear Out Misfits A Washington publisher recently called for the formation forma-tion of a new political party in the United States, with opposition op-position to the general trend of. the "new deal" as its main platform plank. Such a party, he says, might be called "The Constitution Constitu-tion Democratic Party," and would replace the present G. O. P. The present Democratic party he would name "The Socialist So-cialist Democratic Party." The reshuffling he advocates thus would give us two brand-new national parties to take the place of the ones we have. It has been one of the axioms of American politics for a good many years that there is little real difference between be-tween the two major parties. It has been equally clear that neither party has been homogenous, and that each one contains con-tains sizable groups sadly out of harmony with the majority major-ity opinion of their fellows. 'fi V To put through a genera! shifting of personnel and principles that would give us two big parties, eaehone more or less united from top to bottom, baser! on widely different differ-ent conceptions of the function of government in the modern mod-ern world, might be an exceedingly healthy development. It is hard to escape the feeling that the actual trend of things today is in that direction. We have the "western progressives" in the Republican party, who are far closer to the administration than they are to such leaders in their own party as Mr Hoover or Mr. Mills. On the other hand, it is pretty obvious that men Senator Glass and ex-Governor Smith are not exactly same kind of Democrats as President Roosevelt. l Continuance of this trend can do one of two things. It can give us two new major pat ties to replace the old our-;, or it can split both our parties and give us a group of half a dozen or more blocs, creating a condition in which no administration ad-ministration ever could have a majority in Congress and in which compromise and a multiplicity of "deals" would be the order of the day. The recent experience of France is enough argument against the latter possibility. A republican govTnmenl works best on a straight two-party system, with the two parties diametrically opposed, as a matter of principle, on most major issues. If we are to have that in the future, it might be a good thing for us to promote some soi t of reshuffling the one this Washington publisher advocates. OUT OUR WAY BY WILLIAMS 'g&Z x M,r,mm'1 WILL X BURN IT UP.ER f wjk . 'l 7h VOU USE IT FER " k, k, STOVE RAGS, L tiff7 Clhp I IMk NTOW7M RIAKin like OVOi (cations SIDE GLANCES - By George Clark Louisiana is fig-fish fig-fish canning en-Kingfish en-Kingfish as t In flow dy, folks! urini; on ; now I rrprise-w it h 1 In-first In-first victim. Sliip lo.nlt (I Willi vegetables loundei ed in a gale mi t ho Atlantic At-lantic co ist the other day Probably Prob-ably bad a cargo of leeks, .y. sf. nffiee vamp, Kara;' that 3 Do You Know? These Curious Things Dur ing the time of the great ! Queen Elizabeth there existed vne of the most curious forms of marriage contract this world '.las ever seen. Traces of it still femain. According to this custom it tvas entirely correct for unmarried unmar-ried persons to choose a companion com-panion from the opposite sex and live together for one year. If they were pleased with one another at the end of that period they remained together for lhe. If not, they were free to make another choice. There was a "mutual inter-changement" inter-changement" of rings at the be-' ginning of this period, and in the end, if these people felt themselves unsuited to their companions, the rings were given back. This custom was prevalent in Scotland even during the isth century and the Danes. too ' practiced this strange custom. Man's vocabulary has grown as he has become more civilized and cultured. There are those writers of today, however, who still - maintain that the finest literature is that which includes the fewest number of words the simplest words and the simplest construction - in other words, writing for the so-called "man of the street." Mjlton. who wrote "Paradise Ust" and "Paradise Regained," had a relatively small vocabulary, vocabu-lary, compared to some of out-present-day authors. In his entire en-tire writings he used no more than S0(0 words. The Hebrew Testament, for all it has to say, uses less than fiOOO words. This book, by the way is considered among the finest literature ever penned by the hand of man. Shakespeare, probably the greatest writer of all time, had one of lhe largest vocabularies ever used His command of words was marvelous, containing no less than 15,000 words. The average person in America uses less than 2o00 words, and many savage tribes in the world manage to get by with a few dozen. Little (irr Gee, tin laiili sim h a nifty she moved the family into it and ' is keeping the flivver in the house. j The man who made a fortune I growing wheat lost it by drinking , corn and raising cane. V- ! KUI.LKT1N Joe ISmigsta rter's sti' f neck is much wots- today. His wile put rubbing alcohol on it, anil Joe sprained it all over again tr.xTng In lick i nc hack of his neck. i .y. .y. .y. SPUING I'OMK I'd like to sing Like the birdies sing. And sit all day in the sun, I've got this poem started And now I've got it do?ie. .y. .y, And then, there was the Provo housewife who took the brown eggs back to the grocer because thev didn't match her egg cups. ..Another movie Hon is reported lo have bitten an actor. The lion's condition is said to be serious. -Y- -co (iee has been on a diet so long she lays ears every time she carrot. f r song of sixpence i i Mi t j I i vm4-rr M nv j 1 .M.Ti....,....T-,a.- REG. U. S. PAT. orr. 4J 193 BY NEA SCRVICC. INC. CHAPTER XLiVlII TT was an odd looking group gath-- gath-- ered In Kate Hewlett's kitchen. Mrs. Hewlett, with a white apron tied over her gray flannel bathrobe, moved from the stove to the table, her heellesa felt bedroom slippers flopping as she walked. Juliet France, wrapped In a rose silk negligee, sat near the table. Her eyes scarcely left David Bannister's Ban-nister's face. He was still wearing hi3 topcoat and he stood In the doorway, almost filling It. "You sit down," Juliet said to Mrs. Hewlett, "and let me pour the coffee." She arose, holding a chair forward for the older woman. Kate Hewlett eased herself Into the seat. "All right, Juliet," she said. "The cups are on the shelf behind you. Now then, David, I want you to tell us the straight of this" He rested his arms on the table. "I'll go over the whole thing once more." he said. "But this Is the last time! I'd like t5 get a little sleep before it's time to get up again." "I'cople can sleep any time!" his aunt said tartly. "But they don't catch a murderer every day in the week and I suppose I should thank the Lord for that! I don't see how anybody could sleep with such excitement ex-citement going on. To think yon solved the murder!" "Oh. no." Bannister objected. 'Not quite that. McNeal and the detectives did the real work. I just played a hunch and Juliet helped " The girl turned, "Why, what did I do-'" he asked. "(lave me the idea that finally made Coleman confess. Don't you remember we were talking the oilier day about where the murderer mur-derer could have hid the gun? You s;:id something about a window box and that set me thinking. I'd figured fig-ured out who it was the nrnn in the old photograph looked like Parker Coleman. The likeness Is really quite- striking if you forget about the mustache. Of course it couldn't be Coleman so I decided It must be seme relative of his. 'You never think of buckv.iieat place like cakes until we come to some this." Little ( vegetable hack her nibbles a Sing a JUST A MAN WHO CAN TAKE IT May In? you know why lA rr body now can lotr A pocketful of rye. .v. i l Pleasant Ciove are in charge 1 the caps, gowns and class pins. William Martin, la ;.s president, 'inducted the meeting. T seemed queer for King to have a picture of anyone ro tated to Coleman, though. That stumped me for quite a while. Of course I knew both men were In love with Denise Lang. But there wa.s something more than that between be-tween them. "Then when T found out King had been trying to blackmail you" (he looked at Juliet) "it came to me he might have played the game more ways than one. I asked McNeal Mc-Neal to check up on Coleman's bank jeeount. We found out he'd been withdrawing large amounts regularly regu-larly during the last year. Amounts much larger than he'd ever drawn before. "That fitted In with the blackmail black-mail idea but. as for the murder, I hadn't anything at all to go on except my bunch. I couldn't prove Parker Coleman killed Tracy King because he'd been blackmailing him. I couldn't even prove he had blackmailed him. "1 kept thinking about the gun Coleman used if be had used it and what he could have done with it. What Juliet had said about a window box kept sticking In my head. It seemed silly but I couldn't forget it. And then when I met Matthew Hollister on the street yes terday the whole thing came to me like a flash. I figured if I could convince Coleman we had enough on Hollister Hollis-ter to pin the two crimes on him, except for the missing gun, Coleman Cole-man would supply that. Oh. I gave him every chance! I knew that If I was right about it he'd bring the gun with him when we went to search the apartment and then hide it." "But why," Juliet France asked, "did Parker Coleman?" "Because King had been black mailing him. Just as I had suspected. sus-pected. Coleman wrote out a full confession and signed It. I read it Just before I came home. The man in the old wedding picture was Parker Coleman's father. King had the picture and some papers to prove Coleman's father had gone through a. bigamous marriage with King's mother. Oh, It was all long ago. I guess it was trne all right of at least Colemaj thought It was. King showed him the papers, told him that if he'd come across with the money he wouldn't make trouble. trou-ble. Otherwise he'd go into court to fight for it, Coleman paid to keep him quiet. "That was all right but when Parker Coleman came back to Tre-mont Tre-mont two weeks ago and learned that King was going to marry Den ise Lang it was too much! He went to see Denise to find out If the engagement en-gagement was really true. Then he went to find King." A GAIN Bannister looked at Juliet. "It must have been a few minutes min-utes after you left." he said. The girl shook her head. "No." she said, "I'll tell you what really happened that nlqht. I went to Tracy King's apartment to get the letters you know about. They weren't letters I'd written. My sis ter wrote themv Tracy King had threatened to show them to her bus-band bus-band if she didn't pay bim 5,000. Helen was nearly wild about It and asked me what she could do. I told her I'd get the letters back. I came to Tremont, telephoned tele-phoned to Tracy King, and he came to the hotel to talk to me. I made him think I had the money and he said if I'd come to his apartment that night he'd ge the letters to me, I went but r took a revolver. "I hadn't been in the apartment more than a few minutes before the telephone rang. Coleman must have been hiding In there. I heard the shot and ran to see what had happened. hap-pened. Tracy King was lying on the floor and there was blood on his face. T was so frightened I forgot the letters and everything else I ran out into the hall and shut the door. Then I went downstairs and out of the hotel. You knew," she said. looking at Bannister, "what happened hap-pened after that." He nodded. "That's the way it was," he agreed. "In Coleman's confession he said he was hiding in the bedroom when King came home. He hadn't made up his mind exactly what to do when you got there. He was listening to what you were saying when the telephone tele-phone rang and before he could hide again King appeared In the doorway. Coleman shot him and hid in the clothes closet. He saw you come to the doorway and then turn and leave. He took his time after that, went through King's desk and found the papers about his father. He found those letters signed "Helen", too, and took them with him. Afterward he burned them. He wined every thine h had i touched to be sure there were ho fingerprints. He was careful about everything but on person saw him. Melvina Hollister! He ma? or may not have known it "then, but I was fool enough to tell him! I'll always have that on my conscience. I actually asked him to talk to Mel vina and see if he could find out whether she knew something that she was keeping from the police. The fear that Melvina had seen him worked on Coleman's mind until he decided he'd have to get her ont i . .L . n . . j' ice way, 100. so ne weDt oack and strangled her." Kate Hewlett had listened silent ly through it all. Now she shook her bead. "My! My!" she said. "1 used to see Parker Coleman when he was a little boy! To think any think like this could happen in Tremont!" Tre-mont!" JULIET raised her cup and then J set it d--vn. "WH1." she said, "now Uini s all settled and th? murderer has confessed I guea I'd better be getliug back to my par ents." "I'd love to have you pt ay Ions er," Kate Hewlett told her. "That's sweet of you." the girl said, smiling, "but you're ben toe good to me already. If there's an afternoon train I think I'll take It." "Well, If you really feel you musr I suppose we can't keep you. David will find out about the trains for you. Pave another cup of coffee David?" He said, "No. I think I'll go up stair now and turn in." But be didn't do that. Hp went into the dinine room and lingered looking out the window. Presently Juliet appeared. "Oh.' she said in a surprised voice. "J thought you'd gone!" "Come here, Juliet." She crossed the room, looked ur at him wonderingly. "Why didn't you tell me your sis ter wrote those letters?" "I couldn't tell anyone thn " '"I wish I'd known it. I--pv hoen a fool hut I hope you ran for give me. I should have known vm couldn't have had nnythlnc In d' with a cheap crook like Tracv King!" Warm color came into the pirl g cheeks. "Now that you do know it." she said softly. "I'm plad. J wanted you to understand" He interrupted harshly. "Juliet you can't go away so soon!" "But I'm afraid I'll have to go.' , "Not right away." he urged. "1 want you to stay. Aunt Kat wants you, too. Everything Is going go-ing to be so different now. Juliet Everything " "Different?" the girl repeated. Bantlster's eyes held herg. Th? flush in the girl's cheeks deepened and suddenly his arms were around her. He was holding her close. "Yes.- Bannister went on. "everything's "every-thing's going to be different from now on. Everything except Just one. I love you. Juliet, Didn't you know that? Haven't you guessed it? Oh. you're such a darling! 1 love you and I'll always keep on loving you. For ever and ever! Juliet?" It was not a question, and yet it was. The girl raised her head. "For ever and ever?" she whispered. whis-pered. "If you'll let me!" Her answer was completely convincing. con-vincing. THE END WOMAN'S Little (ice DKi'.VKTMKNT (ire, F.ditor OKW- GOT IT ' ! eerAS FEW VVT'H" ' FOXMX SOCTT 1 I j&ssf -rA-'c.-, - . '. ' Dear (Joe Gee: Can you q;ive j mo :i fr-vv hinlc: on hii-.v c n:-m. ' age my husband? I've tried everything every-thing and failed. -Anxious. Ha, that's an easy one, kiddo. Just get youi mother to come and live with you. Y- Dear Gee Gee: Please give me a recipe for an appetizing ap-petizing chicken dinner Agnes Okay. Agnes It's very simple, jnst prinkle some cracked corn on the ground. Gee (iee ) . (ice Geo J 'Y' Seniors Elect Class Officers La Priol Myers of American Fork was elected vice president of .'ne senior class at Brigham Young university, Monday. She will succeed suc-ceed Myrtle Sovvards of Provo who is going to Honolulu on an L. D. S. mission. Miss Myers is president of the White Key, girls' service organization at the institution. insti-tution. Officers for various phase of the class activities in Commencement Commence-ment week were also chosen. Helen Cook of Paris, Idaho, vice president of tne associated students, stu-dents, will be general chairman of arrangements. Gordon Braun of Ogden, was given charge of the senior program in College hall June 1, The committee which will select and foster the senior project will be headed by William Haslam of Lew is ton. Louise Niel- ' son of Tooele and Bernard Walk- Is a wife's flirtation 'harmless?' Flirting with your best friend's husband the most harmless thing in the world. But is it? And why did a certain attractive young bride suddenly change her mind about flirtation . . . what was the tragedy trag-edy that taught her the most important rule of marriage? 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