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Show THE : MiiitiiiifxiiiiijiiiiiiJiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiifiii TIMES-NEW- NEPHI. UTAH S, iitiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiii:iiit:iiiii:iitriiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiitii:iiiiimtiiiiii 11 CAPES FOR SUMMER WEAR; FROCKS FOR GIRL GRADUATES Ramsey Milholland A By BOOTH TARKINGTON XVI. 18 That thunder in lle Holt, Ht flint too !t.('j) within it to be audible, lmil come e to the surface now and gradually heard as the thunder of a million feet upon the training ground. The buttles rung shurper; the drums und fifes of tswn and village and country-Hidwere the drums and fifes of a war that came closer and closer to every hearth between the two oceans. All the eld symbols became symbols bright and new, as If no one hnd ever seen them before. "America" was like n new word, and the song "America" iwiis like a new song. All the dusty hlatuncles of orating candidates, seek-lnto rouse bored auditors with "the old flag"; oil the mechanical patriotic of school und church and club; all flaccid things leaped these time-worsuddenly Into living color. The flag became brilliant and strange to sec strange with n meaning that seemed new. a meaning long known, yet never e g known l HI now. And so hearts that thought they knew themselves caine upon ambushes of emotion arid hidden indwellings of spirit not guessed before. Dora lifted listening to the "Stnr-SpIlunner," sung by children of Immigrants to an out-o- f tune old piano In a mission cliibrooni. In Chicago, found herseJt crying with a heartiness in a way different from other ways that she had cried. Among the many things phe thought of then was this: That the banner the children were singing about was In danger. The great country, almost a continent, had always seemed so untouchable, so safe and sure; she had never been able to conceive of a hostile power, mighty enough to shake or even .1nr it. And since so great and fundamental a thing could not be Injured,, a war for its defense had appeared to be. in her eyes, not only wicked but ridiculous. At last, less and less vaguely, she had come to comprehend something of the colossal Oermnn threat, and the shadow that touched this bright banner of which the Immigrants' children piped so briskly In the mission cJiihroom. F.he began to understand, though she could not have told Just why. or how. or at what moment understanding reached her. She began to understand that her country, threatened to the life, had Hung its line those thousands of miles across the sea to stand .and bold Uindenhurg and LudcndorIT hbJ nil their kaisers, kings, dukes nnd crown princes, their Krupp and Skoda .monstrous engines, and their monstrous other engines of men made Into armies. Through the long haze of s misted and the smoke of land mites she perceived that brown line of ours, and knew It stood there Yo-cu- n g sea-mile- that Freedom, and the Nation Itself, might not perish from the earth. And so. a week later, she went home ml came nerrously to Ramsey's mother and found bow to direct the letter she wanted to write. lie was In France As the old phrase went, she poured out her heart. It seems to apply to her Setter. She wrote: "Don't misunderstand me. I felt that my bluer speech to you had driven you t take the. step you did. I felt that I had sent you to lie killed, and that I ought to be killed for doing It, but I knew that you had other motives, too. I knew, of course, that you thought of the country more than you did of me. or of any mad thing I could say but I thought that what I said might have been the prompting thing, the word that threw you Into It so hastily and before you were ready, perhaps. I dreaded to bear that terrible responsibility. I hope you understand. "My great mistake has been I thought I was so 'logical' It's been In my starting everything with a thought I'd never proven: that war I II e worst thing, and all other evils I was were teer. I was wrong. wrong, because war Isn't the worst evil. Slnvry Is a worse evil, and now I want to tell you I have come to see that you are making war on those that tnske slavery. Yes. you are fighting tluwe that make both war nnd slavery. Mid you are rlgr.t, and I humbly and honor all of you who are In this right war. I have come home to work In fW lied Cross here ; I whrk there all day. and all day I keep saying to myself but I really mean to you It's what I proy, and oh. how I pray It: '(rtwl le with you ami grunt you the victory!' Kor you must win and j ou will win. "Forgive me, oh, please anil If you will, could you write to me? I know you have things to do more important than Vlrls' but oh. couldn't you. . rev-itto- it pleasef time there was any talk of war, and you had about as much responsibility for my going as some little sparrow or something. Of course I don't mean I didn't pay any attention to the different things you said, because I always did, and I used to worry over It because I was afraid some day It would get you Into trouble, jnd I'm mighty glad you've cut It out. That's right: you be a regular girl now. You always were one, and I knew that all right. I'm not as scared to write to you as I w as to talk to you, so I guess you know I was mighty tickled to get your letter. It sounded blue, but I was glad to get it. You bet I'll write to you ! I don't suppose ydii could have any Idea how glad I was to get your letter. I could sit here and write to you all day If they'd let me, but I'm a corporal now. When you answer this, I wish you'if say how the old town looks and If the grass In the front yards Is as green as It usually Is, and everything. And tell me some more about everything you think of when you are working down at the IJed Cross like you said. I guess I've rend your letter five million times, and that part ten million. I mean where you underlined that 'you' and what you said to yourself at the Ited Cross. OI, murder, but I was glad to read that! Den't forget about writing anyth'ng else you think of like that. "Well, T was Interrupted then and this is the next day. Of course I can't tell you where we are, because that darned censor will read this letter, but country, and we know what they mean to do to ours. So we're going to attend to them. Of course that's why I'm here. It wasn't you. "Don't forget to write pretty soon, Dora. You say In your letter I certainly was glad to get that letter you say I have things to do more Important than 'girls.' Dora, think I you probably know without my saying so that of course while I have got Important things to do, Just as every man over here has, and everybody at 'home, for that matter, well, the thing that Is most Important in the world to me, next to helping win this war. It's reading the next letter from you. "Don't forget how glad I'll be to get It, and don't forget you didn't have anything to do with my being over here. diploiniiwurd. ami one of their great days Is dawning. CiHunience meiits nru about to be singed. They prove the most engrossing suhjee. In the minds of everybody concerned, with what shall I wear, uppermost among the details under discussion. Having nuiile a little Journey of long befiwe Commencement day peeped over the horizon, the Biyle reporter gathers Mint the first thing for the girl graduate to decide Is the matter of silhouette. She is to chouse in the world of ney fashion has had its plcturs made and Is herewith presented. It is something very new and simple. In a cnie for summer wear, nnd makes Its entry In the company of other pretty clothes for outdooring with every chance to become a favorite. It has taken up with the whim for yarn trimmings and looks as If !t were knitted Instead of woven. There are points that will count in Ha favor, for Fashion hus her eyes glued upon Copyright by Doubleday, Pa 6 Company J 5 iiiiiiii(iiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii:iiiiiiiiiiniiiiii iiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiii::iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiitiiin CHAPTER DKRL'TANTE J j ft j Jf 0 That was it was something else. And you bet, whatever happens I'm glad I camel Don't ever forget that!" Dora knew It was "something else." Her memory went back to her first recollection of him in school: from that time on he had been Just an ordinary, everyday boy, fl Hindering somehow through his lessons In school and through his sweethearCng with Milla, as the millions of other boys floundered along with'' their own lessons nnd their own Millas. She saw him swinging his books and romping homeward from the school house, or going whistling by her father's front yard, rattling a stick on the fence as he and masterful, but shy went, care-freas a deer If strangers looked at him, and.nlwa.v8 "not much of a talker." She had always felt so superior to him ; she shuddered as she thought of It. His quiet had been so much better thuh her talk. Ills Intelligence was proven now, wheu It came to the great test, to be of a stronger sort than hers. He was wise and good and gentle and a fighting man ! "We know what they've done to this country and what they mean to do to ours. So we're going to attend to them." She read this over, innd she knew that Kamsey, wise and gentle and good, would fight like an unchained devil, and that he and his comrades would Indeed and Indeed do what they "came for." "It wasn't you," he said. She nodded gently, agreeing, and knew what It was that sent him. Yet Kamsey had his own secret here, and did not tell It. Sometimes there rose, faint In his memory, a whimsical picture, yet one that had always meant much to him. He would see an old man sitting with a little boy upon a rustic bench under a walnut tree to watch the "Decoration Day Parade" go by and Ramsey Would see a shoot of sunshine that had somehow got through the walnut tree and make a hedarzlement of glinting fine lines over a spot about the size of a saucer, upon the old They Were Soldiers. mnn's thick white hair. And in RamI guess he will let this much by. Who sey's memory, the little boy. sitting do you think I ran across In village beside the veteran, would half close yesterday? Two boys from the old his eyes, drowsily, playing that this school days, and we certainly did sunshine spot was- a white blrd's-nesshake hands a few times! It was that until he had a momentary dream of a old foolish Dutch Krysemeyer and Al- glittering little bird that dwelt there bert I'axton, both of them lieutenants. and wore a blue soldier cap on ita I beard Fred Mitchell Is still training head. And Ramsey would bring out of In the States and about crazy because his memory thoughts that the old man they won't send hint over yet. had got Into the child's beau that day. "If you have any Idea how glad I "We knew that armies fighting for the was to get your letter, you wouldn't Freedom of Man had to win. In the lose any time answering this one. Anylong run. . . . We were on the aide of how, I'm going to write to you again God's- Plan. . . . Long ago we began to see hints of Ills I'lnn. . . . Man every few, days If I get the chance, because maybe you'll answer more thai has ta win his freedom from himself one of "era. men In the light have to fight against "Hut see here, rut out that 'sent you men In the dark . . . That light the to he killed' stuff. You've gt the answer . . . We had the light that wrong Idea altogether. We've got the tnade us- never doubt." big job of our lives, we know that, but A long while Dora sst with the tetwe're going to do It. Therell be mistakes and bad times, but w won't fall ter lo her hand before she answered it and took It upon her heart ft wear. down. Now, you'll excuse me for sayIt was ing It this way. Dora, but I don't know That was the place fiv It. sln-Just how to express myself except already within her heart, where tie saying of course we know everybody would find It when he came Home Isn't going to get back home but lis- again. And she beheld the revetntlon ten, we didn't come over here to get sent to her. This ordinary life of Ramkilled particularly, we came over I sey's was but the outward gHnf mg of a high and splendid spirit, a htrti and give these Dutchmen h I! "Perhaps you can excuse language If splend'd as earth can show. And yet I write It with a blank like that, but It was only the life of an everyday American boy, The street of the before we get back ".'re going to d what e came for. Vhey may not all town were full, now. o( boys Hfce Ramof them be as bad as some of them sey. At first they were. Jut hy In uniIt's a good thing yon don't know what It some if we do. lie .nise would mal.e form; then one saw that rbey were you sick. As 1 any, tbeie mity be quite boys no more. a lot of giwid ones among them; bnl They were soldiers. I TUB END.) we know what they've done to this ffty&scrt3 e r;;1 p t LZlfgL U k Concrete Highway. ou rural social life would be serious. In fact, motor vehicles and the roads on which to use them form such an Important part of our economic and social life that If Is hard to picture to the full extent what would happen. Since all this dependence on highhas come in a way transimrtatlnn brief period of years and with the construction of ll.'i.OOO miles of surfaced highways, 00,000 of which are on the proposed federal-aihighway system, It can be understood what ' further changes will take place as the system grows to ISO.CKX) m!!es m length and other roads are built branching out Completed Something New and Simple. knitted things just now nnd it look as If there were small chance of districting her attention from them. There are several fabrics that might be used for a cape of this kind, as wool or silk jersey cloth, tweed, spongeen. ratine nnd the heavier crepes. It Is merely an oblong piece of goods shirred across the back nnd shoulders and joined to a narrow flat scarf. The loop fringe and cross stitch hand thnf trim It are done In wool yarn. Some very pretty nnU prncticul copes of tweed are finished with a binding of ribbon and there nre many plain tweed capes that make Just the between the piquant nnd demure bouffant skirt. If the maid elects picturesque in a full skirt she may Join It to a rather snug bodice with, sleeves a little shorter tluin elbow length. In necklines there lire the square. "V" shaped, and huteuti lines to be selected according to their becoiuingnesSi and in materials organdie, taffeta, or other crepe weaves insure the success- of this style. They all lend themselves t narow ruffles and puffs, to cordings and' and narrow .ribbon.- seem to be made for them. How sttfllcient unto itself organdie Is, may be gathered from the pretty frock, pictured. In to-b- e - shlr-rin.-- s. d from It. PRICE OF LAEOR FAVORABLE Indications Are That There Will Ba No Drawbacks Along That Line This Season. Labor costs on federal-aiprojects under construction this year indicate that there will be no drawback along this line In the building of roads during the coming season, according to the bureau of public roads. United States Department of Agriculture. The price for common labor ranged around 25 and 80 rents an hour In a great majority of the states, being somewhat lower in the Southern states and going up to nearly SO rents an hour in the Pacific states. The prices of teams reported were In a great many Instances as low as the 1014 level. It Is probable, however, that there will le an increase when the farming season begins, as teams have always cheaier In winter. d - )V-'?r'- V I ' lit "V I) ... i ROADS ARE BIG BLESSING ... ? --.' ' i t 3 T'-'-Jl- The ewt ot keeping up Amer- Automobile Chamber of Com- ican loads and building new ones last year was $4 for every man, woman and child nfter deducting money from auto license So reports the National fees. merce, It Is equivalent to a cent and a tenth a day for each of us. To save that much, few would sur- i.Vm THOUGHT IS NOT REALLY RAPID Tills letter, which she had taken "As quick ss thought" Is an expresnot to dampen, as she wrote, went sion much nsed to denote the itrtiw in plow course to the "American of speed In action, but. like so many forces In France." and popular expressions. thl one Is nils flnntty found hi m whom It patiently leading. Thought, or nt IcsM the mensought. Me delayed not long to answer, tal registering of a wniitlon. Is not nnd In time she held In a shaking band nn exceedingly speedy process, the the penciled missive he hud sent bcr: thought Impulse moving at the comTime and Tble Is the name of a "You forget all that comic talk about paratively slow of 110 feet a w hich Is ow ned and me enlisting because of your telling second, or 7.r miles an h"iir. Light London nenpnper t. women. me to. I'd written my father I was travels nearly nine million times ss controlled entirely a first rhance at the would month and bp hopelessly going swiftly. Thought hm t before ti at day when yon said beiitcti In a race with a motorcar. Kxprlence teaches peop'e lofn of it My mind was made up the first Perhaps a good l'lutration of the things they would rather nut know render even the street In front of their bouse. Risids are about the grrutest hlesaing of civilization, also the . i beairt-st- sV h h l I I ,J ai irmllihi..taai.Vaatilai Floods Delay Work. Quaint a::d Graceful. - rn'e acted federal highway act, is completed there will be a network of roads 180,000 miles in length covering the whole United States. The time required for the completion of the system will depend upon the rate at which the necessary federal funds ar provided, say officials of the bureau ot public roads. United States Department of Agriculture, which administers federal-al- a money. An idea of what these roads will mean to the country can be gained by studying the effect of roads built in recent years and picturing what would happen should they be torn up and left In their former condition. Should these roads go back to their former state nnd the motor vehicles which have come with them disappear there would be many changes. Many suburbanites would have to move Into the city nnd there would be a decrease In value of suburban real estate. Cities would have trouble In getting their fresh milk and food supply. .Much farm lnnd would decrease in value and the effect ' bmnea of thou :ht comparative wave Is to annie (hat n man had an arm ". miles long r.nd that, when he was not looking a friend should rrn- p hl bntvl, llcfore the n: nef of that nrtn became consrloii that Ms bal d bad tteen touched, the friend would have relcsed It. and had time to walk four miles or ent a very extensile dinner Knts City Star d Si 1 $l6w!y, Comparative' Notwithstanding Erprtcsion That Has Become Common. (Prepared by th United 8tte DepartnMat of Asrlculture.) When the federal-aihighway system, provided for by the recently en- ft. - Moves d S M Jj ;5 : I t, Mind When Federal-AiSystem Is Com. pleted There Will Ba 180.C0O Miles of Roads. i'VjV-- . Jus fv f HUGE NETWORK OF HIGHWAYS ' j right sort of accompaniment for spring street frocks. Crepe i'e cblne and heavier crepes and silks are promoted for long ufternoou and evening wraps, and reveal the ape in ninny utodlftcatlons These nre usually lined with crepe de chine In a contrasting color, as bbi' k and gray or blue lining. Dark brown crepe de chine Is spun aored by great Mimes In capes nii.l cae wrna for sfinuncr nfternootis. tllrls In the class of "J2 have nearly reached the end of the long Jour- - whbii the skirt Is Just one rullle after fatiothcr, hiiii edged with a little frill. Is finished In the same The IhhIIi-- wa, and even the short sash of orgiitiille. The variety Is made In (bene 'e fro:ks Is emlless, and thoe of laffeta are bii'lt on the same linos. Millions of dollars of roadhulldlng In northeastern Louisiana has been suspended temporarily, owing to high water in several parishes. The floods may delay roinlhuildlng there for two or three months. Millions Spent en Lincoln Way. Expenditures on the Lincoln highway last year brought the total spent on this highway sine Its dedication In 101.1 to lio.OtiO.OO'l, or more than twice the amount that eras figure! necessary. trans-continent- orriMwl rr votbm nmntn vwntt |