Show chains It purchasing it by your The Ogden own! effort your own will and your own sacrifice 'You may at-t- o high office la State but it never come to you without co ' publishing effort You may attain high u Eldreflf Jr A-- z Glismun place in business but it must be Publishers your own effort Your name may An Independent Newspaper Published every evening and Sunday be emblazoned In the newspapers mornJnr without a muzzle or a club of your country but to reach Entered as Second-claMatter at the that one must follow a hard road Postoffice Ogden Utah and only men and women of high Established IS7S courage and stability can attain SUBSCRIPTION RATES T3c to it” Delivered by carrier one month By mall in advance in Utah Idaho ‘Tat is a short sermon and it Nevada and Wyoming Three months ?193 rings true It comes from one Six months 360 who has struggled upward One year All other states floo a month 1 1200 against great odds It comes aso one year to Member of The Associated Press United from one who remained true Press Consolidated Press NEA Service his ideals even though to remain and A B C true made him a virtual outcast The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to tbe use for republication of in the country that later made any news credited te it not otherwise him its prime minister credited in this paper and also the local news published herein Prime Minister Macdonald's Call 222 for All Departments short lecture in George Washington university no doubtr will do the students more good than any single lecture given then It would be fine if the distinguished The Standard-Examiner- ’s Briton could deliver such a lecture in person before many other Platform Standard-Examin- er s' i ss i 15900 Population by 1935 Place on the Transcontinental Air Route Control of a Pure Water Supply to Accommodate 150000 People A Modern City and County Building A Direct Highway te Great Salt Lake The Monte Cristo Road to Rich County A' High School Worthy of the City Another North and South Ar- -terial Highway A Municipal Athletic Field An Aggressive County Road Building Program More Street Improvements In Ogden Improved City Parks A Municipal Golf Course Ogden a City of Beautiful A - Homes LET HEARING BE TULL AND COMPLETE -- v Just when it appeared that the - scandal In the police department had been wiped out by the acquittal of the two police officers charged with drunkenness the situation takes a new and rather sensational turn by reason of statements made before' the city v commission i Sergeant Phillips and Detective Finn who on the preceding day were freed of the charges against them by decision of the city court were accused Wednesday by a railroad man of having caused trouble in his home The two police officers were quick to deny this and In turn accused Charles G Frease who inade the charges of being guilty of having been drunk in public and of having offered to give a drink to a policeman On top of all this County Attorney Sam Blackham made a statement in which he declared rumors had reached him that the testimony or lack of testimony which acquitted Phillips and Finn was part of an agreement to “whitewash” the two accused the Furthermore policemen county attorney declared perjury had been committed in connection with the police court trial jof i ' - " ‘ : groups of young people A SMALL BET DOCTOR By ARTHUR (Copyright BRISBANE 1829 King Features Syndicate IncJ tiie shipbuilders who hired MR SHEARER NOW FIND TO GREAT GERMAN A TIIEIR DISMAY THAT THEY HAVE -- INCREASED THE SEN- RAMSAY MACDONALD DEFINED TO JAIL RESPECTABILITY f VANISHING TIMENT FOR BY RODNEY DUTCUOt NEA Service Writer) WASHINGTON Oct 9— One burial of Etresemaxm truly great statesman the enduring power and emphasizes common sense of the new German republic i There was no military display of any kind Von Hlndenburg aged bepresident of the republic walked enhind the coffin followed by the tire diplomatic corps on foot TIE The funeral procession passed under the arch of the emperors built to the glory of the German impe-- j rial family and until the war reserved exclusively for Hohenzollems - Stresemann was the first com-moner whose body ever passed under that arch excepting Ebert the socialist harness-mak- er first president of the German republic Germany belongs now to thinking Germans and to the people of Germany and is managed for their glory and profit ? i — i The difference between Ramsay Macdonald and some other Important men that talk about peace is well expressed by W R Hearst in an article welcoming the labor prime ministers Mr Hearst says of Mr Macdonald: the “He does not come from classes that send people to war He comes from the masses who are sent THAT IT WON’T WORK f g children taken from play twice a day and forced to suck their thumbs for ten minutes in front of a mirror were successfully cured of the habit which tends to deform their teeth and faces Dr Samuel J Lewis of Detroit said in an ad- to war'i dress to the American Dental association in Washington on WedThose that buy whisky from were horrified at the bootleggers nesday decision of a federal judge holding If mothers can cease fussing the bootlegger’s customer guilty of with aluminum mitts neglect to conspiring to transport liquor In dei bind little hands so they cannot fiance of law reach the mouth or stop fooling A hlghe? court reversed that dearound with other supposed cision and bootleg customers in75 per cent of our “better methods of working a cure great cluding element’’1 were comforted joy will reign in many a home However we are willing to lay Now Senator Sheppard of Texas a small bet that Dr Lewises as dry as the deepest spot in Death yalley suggests amending the Volpsychological remedy will not stead act to make purchasers ' of work We hope it will but we liquor as guilty and criminal as sellers have our doubts It seems alto- bootlegging an amendment of course Such gether too easy a method to com- would strengthen prohibition enorbat a stubborn habit and nearly mously Respectable prosperity would refuse to buy fearing Jail arid every mother wlllthliik so too after buying Thumb sucking to some ex- blackmail But Senator Sheppard’s amendperts is a simple problem like ment probably will not pass many are themselves bootleg colic is to other experts on child legislators customers and don’t belieye in takexone of those When rearing ing prohibition too seriously — perts gets a babe for their very " 84 years old a Weil Nicholas and 24 a and hours that owh day member of fire Chicago’s department babe gets the colic the author- when the burned says Mrs city ity) realizes he knows nothing O'Leary’s cow had nothing to do with the fire and nobody knows about the problem Thumb-suckin- !kb ITS OAXsTGEW-LIK- B &IU FOR ' A DUAL PURPOSE NCR‘ ONLY DOES HE PEARL' FISH FROM THE f " IT BUT HE DISS HIS HOME FAR BACK INI r-- s ! & The common people quaintly and somewhat accurately pictured by Cartoonist Johnson as la rather worried and pushed-about Pleasing legends are attacked but survive attack William Tell never shot an apple off his son’s head but the story has been useful causing millions to take an Interest in struggles for freedom The boy did not stand on the burning deck George Washington did not cut down the cherry tree or say that he could not tell a lie i 5 ’ “ It was pleasant to be back at Woodcot without a skeleton in the cupboard or a hypothetical cousin upstairi It was splendid to be welcomed by my mother who asked no superfluous questions Professor Laxton had already relieved her ‘ mind But Lax ton’s own mind was in a sad uproar He had rushed back to Blatkwater to find Marling flown' According to Mr Fother-bur- y he had suddenly thrown up his job i and gone to London The London address he left was a hotel The hotel knew him not Laxton bad nothing save praise for our (work at Octend We were curious to know how he had hit on Ostend at all' He then traced for us the' chain of circumstance which began with his old lag’s yam and continued with his visit to Prince-tow- n prison at the time of the p lan Richard’s escape Richard had only one correspondent a man named Lincoln an accountant In London They had trailed Lincoln up to a significant point and then lost him Lincoln bad been employed by a well-knofirm of accountants In the city Three years ago he took a holiday of a fortnight and did not return for tl? months When the year had gone he turned up again with na explanation of his remarkable conduct and asked for a reference I The firm liked Lincoln But—no explanation no reference Nothing doing “You need hardly go on Mr Laxton” siid I “Of course the man Lincoln' was the second prisoner in the Doyer affair who gave the name of Philip and Philip was the Englishman who stood behind the gambler’s elbow in the Kursaal and that Englishman was Pell” Laxton smiled approvingly I confessed that I had reached my speculative limit “The 'rest is-matter of prosaic police inquiry The correspondence between Richard and Lincoln was apparently perfectly harmless— but it must have concealed a pretty sub- E Thomas Mitten recently drowned had reorganized Philadelphia’s street car system establishing good relations with labor His will leaves millions for “the promotion and advancement of the cause of cooperation between capital and labor” Rather-difficult program even with 'several millions back of It Labor wants from capital a fair share of what both produce and doesn’t always get it Capital wants from labor earnest cooperation a real day’s work and doesn’t always get it Peace between capital and labor is an issue even more important than peace among nations since it refers to a war that is always on ’ wn -- tle understanding i ‘ The extraor- perfectly reputable may be a cloak for anything you iike I have my suspicions ’ ’ TBut Marling—” We could not fit Marling into a new character so diverse How could a shady fellow from a shady city firm impose himself' on Mr Fotherbury as a parson? “All in due time” said Laxton i‘But Ostend?” Somerfield asked fl can see Marling at Ostend" said I “You recall the living picture of him in the newspaper— the cadaverous man who looked as though he’d been tonsured?" Somer“Yes the miracle!” field exclaimed “Ever since the professor began to talk' about him I've been seeking him looking on at the great coup with his blazing dark eyes But how did the professor see him at Ostend? “I didn’t I only saw Pell and his friend at Ostend They'd come from there— money on them—right in the middle of the crook season If their story was true in substance somewhich they thing had happened' would not reveal even to avoid going to prison But we aren’t halfway Into the Ostend affair And we've hardly begun on the affair of Pell’s death I’ll admit I’m held up There’s only one way through and that’s risky Bur I’m taking IM’ra going to ask Mr Grenofen to write Is a letter” ’ 1 We both looked puzzled his Cousin John 1 don’t mean the v real one” “Oh I But you said yourself one might as wen look lor a needle in fA r letter to Merry-weathe- a haystack” ’ “Yes but if you look with a strong ' enough magnet—plop 1 the needle arrives I $ you’ll write in this sense — not to your Cousin John direct but to Miss ‘Seabroke: something like this: ‘I shall be glad if you will tell my Cousin John that he canct now return to England from Professor with a Laxton' and that his presence and certain information he Can supply are greatly desired He will be all the more anxious to do so since the man Richard of whom he knows Is nbw officially reported dead and will not be officially resurrected You can put in anything else you like—” “Laxton 1” I cried “Do you mean it? You’re giving up the charge—” “Of escape?— yes There’s something more important” (“But the other thing—” : -- You mean Pell?' Ut dear Mr Grenofen I’ve always been quite certain that your Cousin John had no more to do with killing Pell than you had” (Copyright 1929 Wm Morrow' Co)’ But the mystery of Cousin John only becomes the deeper? ConV tinue the stofy tomorrow -- si safe-condu- dinary ingenuity and pluck of Lincoln! — listen to this" 'And Jthen Laxton told us at length about Pell He had earned the usual remission of sentence and was out of prison in May 1926 Having had a shot at his old firm without success he went to another where he was engaged immediately That firm was Smithins Ltd j “Whew I” cried Somerfield “Smithins!”— the firm whose messenger he was supposed ter have helped to kill!” But why? And why did Smithins fall fori it Somerfield wanted to know? f Laxton could not tell us— yet “You remember the defense in ' Mthe Dover case— that Richard and MUSCLES MAKE NOISE Philip Were attacked by a gang kf CAMBRIDGE " England — The whom the dead man was one? Now sounds made by muscles In their how would it strike you if that hap- movements were recently heard pened to be true?” Prof E D Adrian made ft “The first thing is that Smithins when muscle movement A long record Ltd rather lose caste don’t they?’ needle ofpiercing his arm was at“Certainly If the defense of Phil- tached to a loud speaker Sounds ip and Richard was true Mr Philip emanated from it with volume equal alias Pell but really Mr Philip to that of a machine gun These Ernest Lincoln whose initials are records will be used to detennlne P E L who was probably1 nick- effects of sleeping sickness 4 named pell at school— suppose this cool customer goes up to Smitheps Perfopthalmus Schlosserii is tbe and says “Either give me what only fish in the world that can wink want or blow up’ " it Its eye and climb trees j I -- I how It started “Many mills have been offered ex-- 5 emptionifrom taxes which means that they contribute nothing to the expense of maintaining fire police and sanitary facilities “These mills wear out their labor early and so the town acquires an Increasing burden in wornout poor VANDALS OUT ON SUNDAY “Ninety per cent of the charitable The Vandals were out Sunday like a plundering army Atllla cases in Edenton are in the mill the Hun used proudly to boast that where his legions passed grass village” never grew again There are today some places in the hills near Mr Kinnard says in the Edenton Denver where trees that yesterday were brave and gay with autumn News that ten good farmers owning foliage will never again lift their heads They were destroyed Sun- their own homes and practicing diversified! agriculture are more of I day by the Vandals an asset to the community than 200 All along the roads the Vandals whizzed in their cars flaunt- mill workers” red-go- ld : “The - — - cried ’ - I I -- - I “Good heavens!” s” should put down individual 9 1929 as a October Wednesday rather epochal date to be compared somehow with the granting) of the Great Charter or the the police officers of Now all this makes a pile of adoption of the 'Declaration dirty linen that must be aired Independence 0n that date word was given Agreement has been reached to out in high places in Washington hold a hearing That is good two strong senate groups sense and in the public interest that will Join to adopt an amendment Let the hearing be full and com- -' whereby $12000 a year will be William Green asks plete that a rather ugly mess can appropriated to retain counsel to thePresident Federation of Labor American be cleared up as soon as possible' unionize the south” He urges represent consumers in hearings “to all organizations to make definite before the tariff commission RAMSAY MACDONALD’S for work in the south provisions Manufacturers importers exSHORT SERMON The notion that the south everyYou read Wednesday what porters and farm crop producers where objects to labor unions and northern capital is denied Prime Minister Macdonald of hate eminent representatives to welcomes by Clark Klnnard editor of Edenton meet' N C He says: England said when he was pre- present their views at such j sented with the honorary degree ings The humble consumer has “A owned mill by northern capital of doctor of laws frpm George been neglected because he was 1000 persons is no ademploying with not organized and provided Washington university Nevervantage to a town The workers theless those- few sentences are statisticians lawyers and what paid $12 a week work 12 hours a day They have only $12 & Week to worth reading again1 'Mr Mac- not which means that they do spend And now it is proposed that the not contribute donald said: to the prosperity of “I have been'" asked to say government Itself shall furnish the town The money that the mill for the owners is spent not something to you What can I Mr Consumer with an advocate makes in Edenton but at Palm Beach say? I’ve never attended a uni- - The suggestion is as welcome as Newport Paris "The mill workers are not home versity unfortunately One word it is novel But how in the world owners 1 would like to say and one word will the consumers’ counsel know they do not pay taxes Yet have children to be they consumer wants in the educated' atnumerous only You never can acquire any- what the expense public — thing in the world without pur- - way of tariff adjustments? ing their spoils The minute they espied a clump of aspen jleaves they darted to the roadside parked and fell upon the trees With shrill 'cries of delight With hatchets handaxes’ knives and With their bare hands they tore cut slashed wrenched broke tearing away limbs of brilliant foliage bending some trees double breaking off some in' sheer" wantonness Where they passed groves jof beautiful trees were left like skeletons On the Chicago creek road to Echd lake there stood early in the morning a clump of the most gorgeously tinted aspens The frost had turned every leaf a bright Crimson This made them especially desirable trophies for the Vandals These Vandals tearing down the trees probably never thought they were thieves They were stealing property that belonged not to them but to all the people If every person who has the right of public ownership in the trees and rocks of the hills were to go up there and carry away his share there would soon be nothing ’eft of the mountains but a rubble heap of stones and denuded rees But the Vandals don’t care They rape the leaves away leav-n- g the bare scarred trees In a few days they throw away the 3 ranches they carted home go gayly They take away and put aothing in place of what they take No wonder the aspens quake all summer? they know what lutumn means when the Vandals go out hunting -For shame! 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Wall street recovered from its attack of nerves on Saturday continues cheerful Prices go up again and money is “cheap” lending to speculators at 6 per cent Big concerns that have created investment trusts and that boast ! of gigantic profits know that falling stocks would mean their destruction don’t want that — They f4 BEATING THE RENT LONDON — People living in floating flats on- the Thames river between Westminster and Chelsea don’t have to bother with the landlord when rent dayc omes around They are classed as having no' fixed abode and tbe only amount have to pay is a few dollars they for mooring Tees One of the flats on the river has been there for more than 50 years — H Born without a brain a baby lived for two months in Prague - r I 4-- i 4 My of from war and from armaments it is being argued they will be ‘tempted to maintain lobbies wlilchjf they do not actually foment wars or attempt to thwart peace efforts are likely to attempt to oppose any armament reductions A substantial number of cruisers battleships destroyers and submarines is stiU sure to be built Even if we were not to add to our cruiser strength as a result of recent naval negotiations with England our naval vessels become obsolete and Riust be replaced MANY STOPS BEING BUILT Thirteen cruisers are novf under construction These Include (five of the program pasted by congress construction on three of which was recently halted by President Hoover as & peaceful gesture Of these crulsws six are being built in our own navy yards— two each at the navy’syards In New York Puget Sound and Philadelphia The other seven are being constructed by the same three private companies which hired Mr William Baldwin Shearer and sent him to Geneva The American Brown Boveri Electric company ia making three' of them at 'Camden N J Mr Charles M Schwab’s Bethlehem company has tyro at its yards in Fore River Mass and the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry-docompany Is making the (her two at Newport News Va bill stipulated that The eight of the new war vessels should be built in navy yards and the other seven at private yards Contracts are awarded by the secretary of the navy on the basis of sealed bids The lowest bidder receives preference but such factors as the bidder’s reputation required time facilities anh labor situations are also taken into consideration It is ordinarily cheaper for the government to make Its own war vessels in its own yards but as long as congress stipulates that ai certain number shall be constructed In private shipyards the latter have no competitive building from the navy yards Cruisers now under private construction appear to have been as evenly divided as possible between the three companies named as his employers in Mr William Baldwin Shearer’s suit It may or may not be more or less significant Of something or other that they combined to hire Mr William Baldwin 15-crui- j U erne of the best men very kind and loving to us all but he and I differ cm one point—educating the children 11a cams only admail salary and it has been a hard struggle for us to live and be thinks the children should go tor work as soon as they Are school I want them to through grammar have one or two years in high school and then a course in a business college to lit h each of them for life Four years ago my eldest (girl gradu- - ' er ated from public school with honors said she (must find work of some sort but I insisted on her going two years to high and then saw that she had a! business course It meant more skimping rind saving but she got a good Job as soon fas she graduated The usual rate for board and rooms here its $30 per month I told her that if she Would pay me that much I would be satisfied but her father doesn’t DOROTHY £IX think it is fair for her to have so much! of" her salary left for herself while the bal ance of us are so pinched for money but you know ho w girls want think about pretty clothes 'and to have good times what do you MRS K' this? Her-fath- 1 1 i ' ' ANSWER: You are very wise - j in insisting that your children should have as much education as you can possibly give them and in seeing that they aye trained for some specific job be- as the cause that will affect their earning power as live I I You iiave a vivid illustration of this In the fact that your young daughter who has a trade at her fingers’ ends was able at once to get a good situation and that her education enables her to make as much at IS as her father earns at middle age Also the girl will go on progressing and making more while he has reached his limit i The IIrst question that girls and boys are asked when they start out to hunt for work is how much education they have had1 and so parents should if they possibly can put their children through high school and then ai any sacrifice haye them taught some irAde by which they) can I make a living - ! Construction of the remaining ten cruisers of the current program remains to be started The assumption here is that the program will be completed in order to establish cruiser parity with Great’ Britain and that there will soon be more new cruisers needed for j replacements According to a dispatch from Toronto a statement from the Metal Trades department of the American Federation of Labor in this connection said that: “The cold j truth is that Hoover has thrown into the ring the biggest single 'big navy threat since the days of Theodore Roosevelt barring the world war I Plenty of sentiment can be found on Capitol Hill for the construction of all new navy ships in navy yards Of course in the past this sentiment has burned hottest in the hearts of members of congress with navy yards in their own states Just as the private shipbuilders are favored by those with private shipyards In their districts but the recent disclosures have strengthened the navy yard faction HUGE PROFITS CHARGE In the expected fight on the issue the navy yards advocates are likely to make much of the government’s suit mentioned in the? Shearer hearing in which It is charged that the Bethlehem company made upwards of $10000000 in unreasonable and unconscionable profits” on government shipbuilding ' contracts during the war Congress has been urged to cancel all contracts with private! yards in an editorial in Labor national weekly newspaper published by the standard railway labor! brotherhoods which attacks the spectacle of “the shipbuilding interests helping to stop the march toward world contracts to geace for the sake of ships” Building all warships in government plants it says “would end the sinister selfish influence which the lobby exerts on naval policy and at the same time save the govern jnent a deal of money’ ' ' I i i 1' and the fat pay envelopes go to the trained and skillful They invariably command the high wages They are the ones who are never laid off in slack times And so it becomes Increasingly important as competition) grows closer for young people to be fitted for their life work One of the great problems of our day is the delinquent young the boys and girls who will not work and who drift from lob to job is that staying only a few weeks at any place The reason forjthis workers who hate the tasks they do so badly they are unskilled who haye no pride of craftsmanship and who have never found the joy that comes in turning out good work t v ! They never give satisfaction to their employers hence’ g their working days are made unpleasant by and so they grow discouraged and) quit They are) always that their trying to find some new job some) employment unskilled hands and untrained minds can perform 0 ) s 1 It i Police records show that most Of bur criminals are boys and that every year more and more young girls set their feet upon the to hell The lack of technical training in gainful path that leads occupations does more tjian anything else to account for this sad state of affairs These boys and girls crave pleasure and good clothes the that you have to have money to buy They have to earn enough to supply their wants and so they not the) skillthings steal it or get it by other nefarious means -- f t i ‘ I could urge one thing more" than any oilier on parents it is to have their children taught some way to make a living Give them a godd trade and you have given them a Weapon with which to fight the world and take will what they want from it Give them that and you usehave done more than anything else to make them So if ful citizens law-abidi- ng M '1 a - j ! 1 ’ u I! As for how much money your daughter should give you out of l rf her salary that depends upon the girl’s generosity If she pays you for board the usual price in your community she has dealt fairly with you and given all that you have a right to demand but she must be a very selfish girl if she spends the balance of T earnings on herself when the family is in such need I should think her sympathy for her poor father would prompt her to put her young shoulder under the family load and help him bear it You have to teach children to give and to be unselfish and to consider their parents so I would certainly advise you to Impress upon yours that it is their duty and their privilege to pay back for the years of sacrifice you have made for them j hard-work- ed ’ DOROTHY DIX f i i 1m HEAR MISS DIX— I note that you are very much opposed to early V marriages especially so when the parties have very limited means annito start with-f-' My wife and rare celebrating our forty-thir- d versary today Wo married when we were 19 years bf age over the obejetions of both of our parents We were very poor and still are but we lpved each other devotedly and the ensuing years of grinding toil the rearing of a family of seven children under the most adverse circumstances has only driven us closer together Now our children Are grown and are all upstanding men and women forging their way in the world and devoted to mother and father R F L Would ft -be possible to regret our early start? r ' r Mm' is one can ANSWER: i M ' i X: f ‘ In a column such as this only deal In generalities and taking It by and large there can be no doubt that very early marriages are a mistake especially when the young couple have no money j i( Naturally there are exceptions to every rule and! despite the fact that statistics show that young marriages result in divofee oftener than any other there are manystory-boo- k marriages fashion “they and that end in the that are successful t lived happily ever afterward’!a marriage was yours but It takes more love more courage more stamina than many people possess to go through the grueling ordeal that you and your wife have experienced and come out of it with your romance unscathed and your affection undimmed boy-and-g- lri - ‘ j f near-celebiiti- es 1 4--4 ! fault-findin- j f 1 thL tLt 4 By BOBBIN COONS one needs a lot Hollywood— and more than ever these days Broadway has sent so many new faces to the films that It is sometimes difficult for the movie people to recognize all of them by sight and the Broad wayites similarly are often In danger of treading on the toes of Holly woodians whose names they remember vaguely wit associate no faces therewith MM ’ There are literally hundreds of stage and screen celebrities and here now and it is more than the average newcomer can do to keep them properly cataIn any mixed logued in mind gathering a chance critical remark however honest and kindly intended may fall like T N T--1 L There is for example the story of the Broadway star seated next to a movie light who had undertaken in a talkie the same role that the Broadwayite had made famous on ( the stage The modem steel railway rail is SO feet long Count the number of clicks the wheels of your coach makes in a minute Multiply this by 180 and divide the result by 5280 This gives the speed of the train in miles per hour f ill-do- ne I -- -- cLeneare to coMn the technical ed financial and moral problems of our day than anA other one because in this day tiring It is tp begin with the road to success when efficiency is our god there is no room for any but experts No employer wants to bother with bungling amateurs1 Nobody has the time or patience to deal with! those who turn out faulty and ymrk The untrained find it difficult toj get even a chance to work and always have to take the most menial Jobs ' X I period” r ’ i Shearer husband! is I i ck A or WALLING’ P E LINCOLN very words of Pell— that the whole A million francs left four years thing was going to blow up presin a hotel unclaimed! ently” “I daresay He was just putting The man knew he was telling a sensational story and expected us the match to the fuse when someto be surprised Our astonishment body shot him somebody interested 'must have far exceeded his expec- in preventing tbe explosion” ' “Ye-eSomerfield said “Yes— tations So excited were we that he I see But what did he want? Just Yes—he was a Job?” smiled indulgently quite willing to give us the name of “I can’t think so” said Laxtoifc the hotel but he warned us the “I expect he wanted revenge" manager intended to hang on to “Revenge on whom? Seabroke? that fortune till the rightful owner Seabroke who’d kicked him out of presented the fightful receipt The Brussels? Marling who didn’t like money1 itself had of course long ex prisoners? Can’t see any Smithsince been lodged in the bank ' ins in that” In’ the morning we visited the “No But you remember that Pell Hotel des Cynges and saw the man- spoke of having met Marling once ager He was a difficult and Se- before If we could guess where— cretive? gentleman but we persuadlet’s say on Dover Cliffs” s ed him to allow us to look over his “Holy snakes!" cried Somerfield register for July 1925 teUing him “Arid a padre — ” nothing of the purpose of the search “No I told you I couldn’t find We found in this list of guests on Marling in the clerical directory the 23rq of July only two English But I did find him In the directory names They were E Richard and of directors Marling was a direcL Philip of London tor of Smithins” The two men in the Dover affair! “Then what is Smithins ProfesLaxton i certainly had an uncanny sor? A crook shop?” instinct!’-- We sent him a telegram “Very respectable firm "to all apannouncing our return by the boat pearances Simply Smithins Ltd which left at 10 exchange brokers agents — may be ‘ 1 as a dksgjmg implement bill - CHAPTER 37 t SOUNDS GOOD BUT HOW WILL HE KNOW? v- 1 Hi? i things THE BANK ALONG A CRB EXPOSING HIS 4 ‘ j SWAT wrtH i HEAR DOROTHY DDC— We'have four 'children 15-crui- ser - -- Mothers by all means should try the doctor’s prescription and no jdoubt they will for mothers will try anything once to correct conditions most of them encoun ter in rearing the pesky little T the least comforting thoughts that the shipbuilders who hired Mr William Baldwin Shearer are getting out of the public scandal created by Mr Shearer's spilling of the beans is that there Is likely to result an increased sentiment for government -building of American warships muas long as shipbuilders and nitions makers- - can make a profit i I GOVERNMENT-BUIL- WARSHIPS LEGENDS IMPORTANCE OF TECHNICAL TRAINING IN FITTING EXCEPTION ONLY PROVES A CHILD FOR LIFE-O- NE THE RULE THAT EARLY MARRIAGES ARE HAZARDOUS ' “ i you and your wife grewip together and deTobegin wlth same lines and that is the mercy of God that veloped along the doesn’t happen to many couples Generally either the husband or the wife outgrows the other and then the marriage ends sin years ago young divorce or an endurance test Then forty-thras they tthemselves so about much not think did amusing people ee 4 do now i j There were no automobiles few parties people expected to drop out of the running when they got married Women in especial expected to dress plainly and stay at home and rear their children Now the young married set is the gay set and few young married people are ‘content with spending their evenings sifting at home And not 'many people In these days can stand the acid test it of poverty and still keep their love for the one who has brought or home at ease and had who have luxury them Few girls upon who have earned good salaries can stand wearing shabby clothes and doing without amusements after they are married Few young men who have been able to indulge themselves in everything they their salaries wanted before they were married can gracefully see on carfare and bills and household along for skimp go paying cigarette money for themselves So I stand by my guns and repeat that early marriages are always hazardous and that it is safest for a young couple to wait until they are old enough to know their own minds about marriage vand until they can finance their ' DOROTHY DIX marriage safely Public Copyright by Ledger i V |