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Show Thursday, August 6, 1942 THE NEPHI. UTAH TIMES-NEW- PAGE SEVEN Kathleen Norris Says: By ARTHUR STRINGER W.N.U- - Don't Rob Your Children rttyr"i SERVICE. THE STORY SO FAR: Alan Slade hat treed to fly a "scientist" named Frayne to the Anawotto river to look for the breeding (round of the trumpeter fwan. It 1 bleak country, and Alan inspect Frayne of having something op his sleeve, but Norland Airways needs the Job. Slade and bis partner, Cruger, have been having trouble competing with the larger companies, and Frayne has paid enough to enable Cruger to boy the plane they need. When he thought Norland was going to have to quit, Slade applied for overseas service with the army air corps. Bis application was rejected, but his disappointment has been lessened considerably by the brighter outlook for the business and by the fact that Lynn the local doctor's daughter, Morlock, has decided not to go to England with her Red Cross unit. Now he has gone with Lynn while she gives first aid treatment to an outcast flyer named Slim Tumstead, who has been hurt In a fight. They learn that Tumstead knows about Frayne and about the new Lockheed. It Is a few minutes later, and they are talking about their plans for the fnture. Lynn feels that she must think first of her father's happiness. , Now continue with the story. Bell Syndicate - WNU Features. cloth. The suit is trimmed down to essentials only a topper which can be worn tucked in as a shirt, or as a jacket overalls and an abbreviated romper suit for sun worship. The last named carries a sail boat decoration which can be applied as a bright patch of contrasting color. Pattern No. 8166 is in sizes for 1, 2, 3, and S year olds. Size 2 years set takes 1 material. yards 35 or yards ric rac to trim rompers. Send your order to: 4 31,' SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco Calif. Enclose 20 cents in coins for each partem desired. Pattern No Name Address .- CHAPTER IV "Quite ; "But you mustn't forget," Slade contended, "that you have your own life to live." "That's what I'm trying to rewas Lynn's vibrant-voice-d member," reply. They came to a stop in front of the hospital steps. "Some day," he said with a wave of recklessness, "I'll make you see It my way." If it sounded like a. threat it brought no touch of concern to the hazel eyes searching his face. A smile even hovered about her lip ends. "You've got a harder job than that," she retorted, "if you're flying in to the Anawotto tomorrow." Then the smile disappeared. "By the way, I saw that ornithologist who's flying in with you. He was asking me what I knew about the country north of the Kasakana." "Is he as screwy as he sounds?" sked Slade. "He's far from screwy," was Lynn's slightly retarded answer. "He struck me as being cold and hard and shrewd. And I can't figure out what he's after. It rather makes me wish someone else was piloting him into that wilderness." Slade was able to laugh, as they shook hands. "Don't lose sleep over that," he proclaimed. Then he laughed again. "I've flown some queer nuts into the North." Slade, hurrying down to the air harbor, could see his moored plane being warped in to the landing dock. On the dock itself he could make out Cassidy, of the Norland staff, nd two strange figures, one more massive than the other. But what held his eye was the amount of duffel piled along the dock's edge. As Cruger had told him, they were load all right Even giving him Cassidy's broad face broke into a smile as he handed him the scales-sliFor Slade's glance, at the moment, was directed toward the two men already interested in getting their equipment aboard. He resented the offhand way in which the bigger of the two strangers was clambering about his ship. The worn wolfskin coat that covered the wide shoulders of this stranger made him look shabby and subordinate. When the pilot turned to his second passenger he experienced sense of disappointment touched with shame. For there seemed nothing sinister about the straitened and scholarly figure confronting him. That figure even failed to look foolish. Slade saw a man considerably less aged than he had expected, a man with sloping and narrow shoulders and an abstracted gaze that looked out on the world from behind bifocal glasses. Slade stepped closer. load you're giving me," "Quite be ventured as the man in the bifocal glasses continued to divide his attention between the duffel pile and , checklist in his hand. The abstracted eyes lifted and regarded him for a moment of silence. It was the glasses more than anything else, Slade decided, that gave the stranger bis look of deliberap. tion. "Why does that Interest you?" the stranger inquired. His tone was mild and without hostility. But the voice, and remote, seemed marked by an exotic precision of intonation. It persuaded Slade that he was neither an Englishman nor an American. "This happens to be my ship," the pilot explained as he rested a d fraternal hand on the fuselage. "Ah, then we shall see much of each other," said the other. His smile was friendly but abstracted. "I am Doctor Frayne. And this is my good man Frimy camp-matday, Caspar Karnell." No responsive word came from man in the wolfskin the coat. He merely stood above the cabin hatch, his eyes expressionless. "Caspar Is not shall I say? voluble," observed the Doctor. A mild and forebearing smile wrinkled the scholarly face behind the glasses. "And that, I might also explain, is why we travel together." Slade, after an Inspection of the bland emptiness of Kamell's face, nodded his understanding. low-tone- d sun-fade- e, big-bodi- -- - an arsenal you're taking In," he observed. "They tell me I'm to take you in a white man can know such the Anawotto," prompted the emptiness." The bush pilot found himself bebush pilot. "That is my desire," answered ing inspected with a new interest Dr. Frayne. "It may so happen "That is extremely good news," averred his passenger. "As we fly that we shall winter up north." "Down north," Slade corrected. north, I hope you will give me in"We speak of it here as down north." formation about a country that is The man with the abstracted eyes still distressingly unknown to me." ventured a shrug. Slade resisted the temptation to "With time," he said, "I shall be- observe that it wouldn't be so uncome better acquainted with your known to him by the time he'd country." His movement, as he wintered there. "But you won't get swans as far swung a bag of what had every aspect of mining tools up to his com- east as the bay," he pointed out panion, was almost a dismissive instead. "At least not trumpeters." one. Frayne's smile became more "Prospecting?" questioned Slade. friendly. "I am not interested in prospect"Already," he announced, "you ing," was the deliberated answer. are helping me. And there is another point on which you might en"I am a naturalist" As- - though in confirmation of that lighten us. Is the Anawotto River statement he lifted a case of mount- navigable?" ed bird bodies up to his waiting "No, it's not navigable," ancompanion. Then again the forced swered Slade. "It's blocked by too smile showed itself. many falls and rapids. That's what's "It may impress you as a foolish kept the country closed. Even Tyrprofession. But for many years now rell couldn't get into it." "But there were no planes when I have given my time to the study of bird life." Tyrrell made his survey," observed the scholar. Slade glanced down at the "It's sure empty country," assertthe two bolstered Lugers, the pair of shotguns of dif- ed the pilot, who had bis own memferent gauges and weight that rest- ories of the Anawotto. ed between a scattering of cartridge "That" murmured the swan huntcases. er, "is entirely to my liking." "But you're not jentirely to my "Quite an arsenal you're takliking," was the thought that hoving in," he observed. For just a moment the opaque ered about at the back of Slade's head. Lynn, he felt was right Yet eyes regarded him. "I am not unfamiliar with the be was their Santa Claus, as Cruger North," Frayne announced with a had expressed it He had paid well patience that seemed coerced. "It for service, and he'd get service. Slade dismissed that thought and is well, in case of the unexpected, turned to study the silver-winge-d to be able to live off the land." "Of course." agreed Slade as he Lockheed that rested on the waters watched the firearms being stowed of the Snye. It looked spick and aboard. They were followed by a span in its new coat of aluminum. He realized, as he swung about tent bale and sleeping bags, by condensed foods with foreign labels, by that the man in the bifocal glasses camp equipment and a box of signal was also studying the Lockheed. "An attractive ship," the scientist flares and cased instruments and even two carrier pigeons in a hood- observed. "It was my intention to own her. But in that I was foreed cage. "You've filling me pretty full," ob- stalled by your friend Cruger." Slade smiled at the sharpened served Slade. note in the other's voice. Frayne's face remained expres"You have to scramble for 'era, sionless. observed Cruger's bush-haw- k nowadays," I inconvenience that may "Any partner. recause," be said, "I profoundly "So I am learning," announced gret I had hoped, on arriving the r. He said it casuhere, to purchase a plane. But they ally. But sbme newer timbre in the are not to be bought, I find." voice made Slade think of "There's use for 'em just now," aspeaker's gun pit smothered in tree observed the pilot "We're in the branches. war, you know." The brief northern night was at The eyes behind the bifocals be- its darkest when Cassidy, newly came less opaque. ' made watchman for Norland Air"But here at least" observed the ways, shut off the radio. He sighed man of science, "I shall not see it as he reached for his thermos at the come between me and my re- end of the deal table and drained it of its last cupful of coffee. Then, search." "The office tells me you're after lighting his pipe, he stepped out into the open and blinked about through trumpeter swans," said Slade. "I am seeking the nesting ground the darkness. He wished he could be having a of that noble bird," acknowledged the ornithologist "They are ex- second thermos of coffee. But there eating room in tremely shy and hard to find in the was no bright-lighteoutfit on the edge of brooding season. That is why I go that third-rat- e Nowhere. Its air lanes were as into an empty country like the Anashort of ships as its administration wotto." Slade, not unconscious of the ped- building was short of paint All it y agogic note, felt the need of prov- was, in faith, was a place for a lot of lunaing that his interests extended be- jumping-of- f tics who wanted to dig holes in a yond gas engines. "Ever try for them around the wilderness where the frost went Red Rock Lakes in Yellowstone?" deeper than the gold. It could nevd he asked. "They started a refuge er be classed with those tor trumpeters there not so far airports he'd heard many a pilot talking about back." "A refuge which will be a failure," No, Cassidy decided as he made was the prompt response. "Your his rounds, this was melancholy child of the wilds. place for a man of spirit He didn't trumpeter Is He cannot be adjusted to confin- like the quietness of the hangar ement" Grumman where the His new friend, Slade admitted, amphibian stood surrounded by the seemed to know his bird life all engine entrails the workmen had left scattered about He was glad to right His deepened as he no- move down to the dock edge, where ticed two heavier cases being lifted there was a little sound of water-rilTlaboard. "By the way, are you takagainst the floats of the Post-craing radio or wireless In with you?" that would be going out in Beside it, the "Why should I do that?" Frayne three hours' time. "It is with the lady only remaining ship in the harbor, questioned. swan I wish to converse." loomed the new Lockheed that "But how'll you come out?" asked looked more like the ghost of a Slade. "How'll we know where to plane, in the uncertain starlight than a workaday framework of metpick you up?" Frayne's gaze again became dif- al and linen well covered with fused. paint. It startled him, as he stood watch"That may not be necessary," he "We shall per ing it that anything so quiet could finally explained. haps work our way through to what give birth to movement But as be are locally known as the Barrens watched he saw a shadow detach and come out along your Hudson Itself from the shadowy fuselage. He It Is a country you saw that shadow drop to the near-bBay coast to float and then leap, quick-footemay happen to know?" the dock edge. Slade smiled. "I know it all right As much as (TO BE COSTIM ED) "V. to swan-seeke- . d rough-and-read- high-tone- twin-motor- eye-squi- ei ft m y Size........ &'.: r g.'f .IE w Mm w ill About four months ago 1 went with Mother to a lecture and afterward went in to congratulate the speaker, who is a friend. He introduced me to a young captain, who asked to call on me. By KATHLEEN NORRIS little while you EVERY some mother, or perhaps some mother and father, who completely sacrifice their children to their own whims and comfort, and are rather proud of doing so! They don't understand or even like children, and they make no effort to do so. They leave the children in hotel rooms, or drag them about in hot cars, neglect them, laugh at them, spoil them, criticize and ignore them at will. Everyone knows these badly fed, badly managed children, who are by turns shy and bold, and in odd ways both stupid and shrewd. Children who have been left to nurses whose companionship would in five minutes disgust their parents. Children who are lonely, bewildered and uneasy in childhood, and destined to be lonely, bewil- dered and uneasy all through their lives. Rich Child Suffers Most. These are by no means the children of the very poor. It would seem rather that they are the children of the most privileged classes. In poverty, in the crowded slums of New York's East Side or the packed tenements of the Bronx, there is always companionship, rivalry, excitement; there are always dishes to wash and errands to run and babies to tend. No, it's in the comfortable isolated mansions of the o that childhood suffers well-to-d- most One extremely wealthy girl in whose case I was Interested, hardly saw her own family for the first years of her life. When at seventeen, she was finally permitted to enter the drawing room she was a fat, giggling, embarrassed and embarrassing creature who poke infantile French and German and Italian and so was supposed to be educated, but who told the eligible young man to whom she was Introduced that her favorite game was "jackstones," and her favorite reading the "Oz" books, and who grabbed so eagerly at a box of candy and stuffed so much of it into her mouth that it was decided that Kathryn's introduction to society must be still further delayed. Then there was the case of the unfortunate wife of George the Fourth, a princess raised in a German castle, but so noisy and dirty in her habits that the dignified old ambassador who went to bring her to England as the regent's bride broke it to her as gently as possible that her chances of holding the affections of George would be Improved if she would make a habit f daily baths. Neglected Human Contacts. It is a strange thing that mothers who will spend time and money, who will worry for years over the took education of their children, aften deny them the social help, the limple training in human contacts, in nice manners, in the making and aolding of friendships, that Is so much more valuable. It is a sad :ommcntary upon our handling of rur children that a book called "How to Make Friend and Influence Peooest-lellple" has deservedly been for years. Here is a letter from a girl whose parents are apparently both highly cultured, persons. But low they have failed Bettinaf "My mother is an angel, and my father Is a very wonderful man," writes Bettina, from her noma In the suburbs of a great eastern city. Social-Registere- g v I - I I YOUNG LIVES They are precious, those young lives entrusted to your care. They represent one of America's most valuable assets; for without healthy, happy children, we can hardly hope for the kind of disciplined and courageous adults we need to keep our nation strong. The years of childhood pass quickly, and before you know it your little son or daughter will have grown up. If he, or she, has had love and guidance and companionship, he will be able to face the problems of life unafraid. The rest is up to him. and llicy give you well-traine- "We live in a small but beautiful house with a lovely garden; I went to a school near Philadelphia for seven years, however, so I have no friends in our immediate neighborhood. My father is a scientist and is writing a book; my mother seems entirely satisfied with her flowers, her books, and the company of a few old .id intimate friends. 'We Are Isolated.' "My father's book is about ob scure infections and he is certainly more conscious of them and more afraid of them than most people are. We take a few precautions that are unusual, I suppose, never wearing street shoes in the bouse and sunning the newspaper before we open it, but they are not serious enough to make people think we are queer. But yet we are isolated. "In all my life I never bad a party, or a friend to visit me even for one night," the letter goes on. "Other girls visited each others' families in vacations; this never happened to me. In the summers we go with an old professor and his wife into the mountains. "Everyone is always kind to me; I have an allowance, I know my father is fond of me, and Mother would do anything to please me except that, as the always says, 'Father must come first And Father doesn't like company. Voices make him nervous, dear. He doesn't understand young people.' This sort of thing I have heard all my life. "When I was about seven we went to China to study germs. There were small children on the boat, and the first time I played with them I was hysterically excited, and I had an embarrassing accident and they laughed at me. My mother took me away, to give me a whipping for this misfortune, and my sense of shame was so great that for the rest of the trip I would not play with the others, but played up on Die boat deck by myself. At school I had dear and warm friends, but we are all scattered now, and I don't ever see them. Discourages Possible Suitor. 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