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By Margarita By Bud Fisher By Arthur Pointer By Gene Byrnes i 1 L I BECAUSE he had a problem on his mind that morning Louie didn't give much attention to the man who got In his cab except to notice that he had an old, tired face and looked as though he might have money, and when he heard his passenger pas-senger say, "Grand Central," he pulled out from the curb in a hurry and swung down a side street to Fourth avenue. He hadn't had a decent fare that morning and his time would be up at noon. Grand Central, he knew, would meter about seventy-five cents, and if his fare was in the hurry he seemed to be and he got I him there on time he might get a quarter extra, making it a dollar. At Twelfth street, seeing some kind of a demonstration ahead of him, Louie tried to go down a side street to avoid being be-ing held up, but the street was filled with trucks and he had no choice but to fall in line behind the stalled uptown traffic. traf-fic. His mouth drew down at the corners ! and his hands tightened on the ' steering wheel as he read the signs ! and banners a group of demonstra-; demonstra-; to-3 were carrying. ; "Darn fools," he said. "Ain't we got troubles enough right here with-! with-! out people worryin' about what goes on in Spain and China and them other foreign countries?" A faint smile played over his pas- senger's grim, sagging face. He had j made a large donation to foreign I relief himself, he remembered, ! about three months ago. He could make good use of that money, now. j "You don't believe," he asked, j "in charity?" j "Not that kind!" Louie exhibited I his strong, troubled profile. "Not when there's people in this country ! needing it just as much, as they do over there." THE MAN gazed admiringly at Louie's thick, lustrous hair, the healthy color of his neck and cheek. "You," he said, "look strong and healthy." "I'd be in a pickle," Louie told him, "if I wasn't." "In what way?' Louie shrugged. "You can't support sup-port a family on part time in the cab business." And then, his body seemed to grow rigid between his shoulders, "I'm a blood donor." For a few moments the man was silent; his eyes were reflective. "That's Interesting," he said finally. "I'm sure it's appreciated." "You might think so." Louie gave a short laugh. "The last guy I gave my blood to threw me out of his apartment. He was practically dead. If I'd refused to make the transfusion he would have died. They wouldn't have had time to get anybody else. And yet because I couldn't pay him a month and a half's back rent I owed him he had me thrown out in the streetfurniture, streetfurni-ture, wife and kids everything." "That seems. . . unfair." "Unfair!" Louie's hand tightened over the steering wheel. "How would you feel if the guy that cracked down on you was walking around the streets with your blood in him? And this guy's rich! He didn't need the money. He'd given five thousand bucks to the Red Cross a couple of months before. He's got more real estate in New York than he knows what to do with." Louie put his cab In gear. The parade had moved on. Traffic was beginning to thin out ahead. "I'm ust praying that some day I'll meet j lhat guy. There s some things I'd like to tell him." i "You'd recognize him this man. if you saw him?" "Only by his picture in the newspapers. news-papers. They had him all covered up when I gave him the transfusion. Only his arm was sticking out" Louie crossed Fourteenth street and swung into the outside lane to make "We rot troubles enough i i This Week's Best Fiction i 1 Female servant S To discontinue discon-tinue 9 Golf club II Dawn 13 Skill 14 "The magic city" 16 Prefix: not 17 Note of chromatic scale 18 He defeated Jack Johnson in 1915 20 French for "I" 21 Military cap 23 Powerful deity 24 Sum 26 Unaccompanied Unaccom-panied 28 Two ems 30 Weathercock 31 Public writer 34 Framing in which panes of glass are set 36 Note of scale 37 Group of eight 40 To genuflect 42 Alas! 44 Bones 45 Nook 46 Remote 49 110 50 Ram 52 Cubic meter 53 Pronoun 54 Flimsy 56 Tidier 58 Colloquial: dispute 59 To come out even Vertical 1 Girl's name 2 Siamese coin 3 Indefinite nominative 4 Prefix: half 5 Riding whip 6 City in Chaldea 7 Electrified particle 8 One who shows endurance 9 Cold-weather garment 10 Colloquial: to vex 11 Chalice 12 Archaic: to anoint 15 To mitigate 18 Hoisted 19 House for pigeons 22 Armed band 25 Small pies 27 Comparative suffix 29 Pronoun 32 Exists 33 Negative 34 Parodies 35 Cancels 38 To shun up for the lost time. "But I'll meet him some day," he said. For some time the man behind him gazed directly through the windshield. He seemed to be unaware un-aware of the fact that his face was in full view of the rear-vision mirror. mir-ror. He looked very old, and very tired. "I see what you mean," he said finally, and Louie could just barely hear him above the noise of traffic, "I suppose we do pay too much attention at-tention .to what's going on in other countries and overlook sometimes what's going on right under our noses. But we mean all right. It's easier for us to give to an organization organiza-tion that's rigged up to help groups of people than it is- to look around yourself for people who need help. TF YOU were to meet the man you gave your blood to and didn't know him you might think him a pretty decent kind of a fellow. A man isn't generally thoughtless or bad just because he's rich. Suppose he was caught in a jam himself and needed every dollar he could lay his hands on. Suppose a group of banks were going to foreclose on him and he'd lose everything he had in the world if they did? A fellow like you young and healthy, why, you could afford to lose a million dollars. You could make it back again if you wanted to; and if you didn't want to you could do something some-thing else. "But when a man gets along in life and then loses everything he's been working for for forty or fifty years it's apt to be quite as big a shock to him as it was to you to be turned out of your apartment. In fact, some very good men aren't able to survive such shocks. "For all you know, that man may be dead. You may never see or even hear of him again." With a strange feeling in his throat, Louie turned his cab into Forty-second street and drew up be fore Grand Central station. The guy seemed to know what he was talking right here," said Louie. 1 II Ij U I 5 " 16 I? 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"It's never too late," he said, "to try to rectify those mistakes." 5 ;4 Ten Rules for Happiness You've read, you've thought, you've heard a good deal about happiness. hap-piness. You've seen people seek it, most of them unsuccessfully. You wonder whether there is really any way to guarantee yourself as much happiness as you think everyone has a right to expect. Maybe these ten rules from the Cleveland Academy of Medicine will help. A learned committee from this academy studied the matter. What it sought was a formula for happier living. The rules are: Have a hobby, A hobby is a refuge, ref-uge, a storm cellar into which you can duck when stress and storms on the surface of your life baffet you about too much. Develop a philosophy of life. That simply means to have a guide by which to live. A life without one is j piant without goal, without the com fort of ideals or truth. Share your thoughts. Companion ship is essential to personality and to mental health. If anyone lives too long with his own thoughts they I can generate explosive qualities that destroy. Confess, confide, consult someone you like. Face your fears and have it out. The world is filled with people running run-ning away from fears, but never quite escaping them. Face yours. Overcome them boldly. Balance fantasy in your life with fact. Dream, for all normal beings i must, but balance your dreams with t acts. Don't fall into the habit of I dreaming your life away. Beware of alluring escapes from I your troubles but face them realistically realis-tically and work out a reasonable I answer. Exercise moderately In order that you may have physical as well as mental health. Love wisely, for life without love is life without light. Don t worry. Trust in time and be patient There you have the ten rules for happiness. They seem almost too I simple to be effective. But they are the rules based UDon I eternal truths of human nature and psychology,, and If you will adopt and follow them they will do some 1 interesting tlings to your own life. SlAlCl SPEW TB A P pIeaTOTce" e p ois r 0 a c hqo me A J L A C UB E D E cTk gees jqp E RJ-! H I LE S TJH0 I lE ARAL 0 IT C3 A W Njujc I IV E WY V E R EJE R A S E R A L EfjW Y 0 F I Kg" E R R C 0 B mod e anew eel. jam ' y(,'$t J'.'.'.;;: '.V::!-:U:;i.-::jl HERE'S a crocheted doily to treasure cleverly designed around a center arbor hung with ; five-inch bunches of round grapes and big three - inch crocheted leaves, Completed it is 20 inches and is wonderfully easy to do, Nice as a dining table centerpiece in ecru or white. 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