Show TIIE GARLAND "But yon trusted me I ought to have watched I should not have left the kitchen day or night” declared Marface to bis lifting her “Yon have been there most of the cia Shifting SANDS by Sara Ware BASSETT time her Copyright by The Penn Pub Co WNU Service SYNOPSIS The future of the still youthful end eomely "Wtdder" Marcia Howe recently released by death from her idling husband Is a conversational among housewives of the little hamlet of Wilton Eligible baihelors and also are interested Marcia is lonely and has Invited her late husbands alecs Sylvia Havden whom she has to visit her I66n a stranger ea the verge of exhaustion finds his way to Marcia's home Soiietly he aifcs Marcia to hide a pnchtge containShe does so Khshi Winsing Jewelry low town sheriff brings news of a Jewel robbery nearby The stranger give hla name as Stanley He tit Silvia by chance dlt overs the Jewels and naturally believes Heath Is a 8he realizes that Marcia must have hidden them and decides to say nothing putting the gems back in their hiding place Marcia admitn to herself that She ha "trot deep att Interest In her guest but la powerless to overcome It Heath has wired "Mrs I C Heath “ New Tork saving he Is eafe He also orders a mnn named Currier to come at once Sylvia In her room bedecks herself with the Jewels At Marcia’s approach she hides them there CHAPTER haven’t you?” “I went to see them get the boat off yesterday" “Still some one was here Sylvia was in the house” “Yes but she knew nothing about the jew els and therefore may not have realized the Importance of staying on deck All I asked her to do was to remain within call She may have or Into another room" gone upstairs “Wlien she comes hack you can ask Now we must pull ourselves to- gether dear” went on Stanley gently "It la Important that we do not give ourselves away Sylvia may know nothing and If she does not we must not let her suspect" She rose but lie still held her hand a comm m misery every routing thought of conventionality The funmes and magnetism of his touch brought strength It was a new evperleme for during her life with Jason Marcia laid been the oak — the one w ho consoled sustained For a few delicious moments site let herself rest weary and unresisting within the shelter of Stanley Heath's grasp Then she drew away and passing her hand across tier forehead as if awaking from a (beam aim mured: "Id hc'ter go down Sylvia will be " ci tiling "Very lip” well Now keep a stiff upper "I do niv ll best" Kven as she spuha tha outer dqor opened then closed vtlth S bang "Thetc's Sylvia now I must go" The girl came In aglow from her a Ik “I'm door” awfully sorry I banged the slij apologized “A gust of wind I didn't do hope wake up Heath Here's the marketing And Mareln wliat do yon suppose? I hnd took Mr It —7— Therefore a very different Howe responded to Stanley Marcia Heath's summons She was now all gentleness and shyly penitent of himself Stanley again welcomed her with amazement Could man ever fathom a woman's moods he asked himself? Why this chastened and dlstraetlngly adorable Mareln? Well If he could not fathom her he at least was grateful for her under tandlng Nevertheless he did mentally observe he had not dreamed her to he so or credited her with a tiihe the fascinations he had so unexpectedly discovered her to possess “Here I am Mr Heath U'liat can I do for you?"" was her greeting This time Rlie did not hesitate tmt went directly to the chair beside his bed and sat down lie smiled and his eyes she smiled back meeting This was better Heath sighed a sigh of relief "I've beefi thinking suite you went down st'i’rs about ('tinier lie ought to arrive lute ton Jit or e trly bailor lie will start thi row morning he gets m win Although he am ulll not Know in width house he will have the wit to quartered hi Ilian the ordl has nioie Inquire for don't know nary quota ol brains what I should do without him! I shall have him leave the iar In tin village over the delivered has he and after clothing he Is to bring he can take to New York car the noon tram hat the jewels with him’ Tying "1 see” nodded Marcia She did not see Neverthe'ess she the welcomed Intelligence heartily that the Jewels with their damning eviIt was were to he dence If fcvblente The sooner removed from the house they were out of the way the better evidence If they were not damning a were great responsl they at least blllty something were to happen Suppose to them? Suppose somebody suspected they were In the house? "So" ontinmd Stanley Heath “1 think sometime today when you have you'd better get good opportunity shall the cne and brmg it up here then have it here in my room and can any hand It over to Currier without trouble” - Syiv ia has JTlh—ger — fetch It mow a Is splon gone to the village nnd this did chance” cried Marcia "Fine!” "I'll be right lie heard her and hstened to fak" speed down the stairs her step In the room below Then there was silence later she entne racA few moments ing back while and breathless "The gone I" she cried “They’re are not place Is empty! The Jewels there !" her lest Iler terror and the fear collapse produced pallor foreshadowed In Heath that artificial calm bn? some times sees w hen a strong natnrp reins reserve Itself In and calls upon Its control to The man thought only of how he touched Reaching out quiet her her hair be will The jewels Marcia "Hush Don't give way like this I found The whole cannot bear to see you worth your tears not are lot of them “But you left them In my care It shore to hide wai I who suggested them” she moaned And It was a splendid "I know let not that sheriff Idea too I could find of youra peel off my clothes and the diamonds f me He lsn t a man or perhaps of sufficient Imagination I ara not he Is one of far too much did blaming you — notdn the lensUlYe the best we could in the emergency It things” haVe' gon wrong" It' U lid ' fault or youra" IlLsflNlSI “Hush Marcia The Jewels Found” Will Be letter from Ilortle Fuller — that felbark home thnt I've told you about He's sent me a five pound box of candy and he wnnts to come to Wilton and spend his summer vac- a low ation" eyes were shining and she breathed quickly “Of course I don’t care a button for Still It w'ould he rather good Ilortle It seeing ages since fun to see him I’ve laid eyes on hint You know how It Is — you get used to a person who Is always under foot You have to think about him If only to avoid stepping And after all Ilortle Isn’t so on him hnd Thinking him over from a distance he really Is rather nice Come and sample the candy It’s wonderful He must have blown himself and sent to Chicago for It poor dear! I’ll let you see the letier all except tfte part which Is too frightfully silly Yon wouldn't care aboct thnt I don't myself " Sylvia shrugged tier shoulders A Ias this aits Jo tnjk with her and artfully draw from her of the previous day the happenings Inwardly distraught but outwardly rain Marcia took the letter and tried valiantly to focus her attention upon It To her stirpilse It was a manly Intelligent letter filled with town gos sip to he sure yet written In delightfully Interesting fashion "Your Mr Fuller sounds charming” she said as she gave It hack "Oh Ilortle Is all right— In some ways” Patronizingly slipping the letter Into her pocket Sylvia shifted the subject Nevertheless a betraying flush "Now we must colored her cheeks start dinner mustn't we? Don’t you want to ask Mr Heath which way he or boiled? fits eggs— poached prefers And Marcia while you're there do put a pair of fresh pillow slips on his pH The ones he has are frightfully lows It this morn meant tumbled -Ing” as the door behind the elder woman artful young Sylvia smiled "There! That will keep her busy know for a few- moments at least They fit like those pillow cases snake's skin and are terribly hard to on” and get off tshe crept Into the hull and Yes Marcia and Stanley Heath were hear her aunt's She could talking — in on g progen tie J insiftetire— idled to That was all she tests ktiaw: 'The 'pillow s of being taken off ta's Up the stairs flew Sylvia to return a second later the Jewel case swathed In tbs loose wrappings “If I can only scramble It Is there before she comes" whispered she "I shall draw the first long breath I've taken since lust night" An anxious Interval elapsed before the brick was pried out and the case the slipped beneath it Nevertheless and triumfeat was accomplished phant relieved happy Sylvia aet about dinner preparing What a long while Marcia was stayWhy one could change a ing upstairs! dozen pillow slips In this timet “I guess they are tighter than I them I needn't have rushed ns I did" pouted Sylvia “What can she he doing?” When at Inst Marcia returned somewas wrong thing evidently “What's the matter?" demanded Sylvia “Is Mr Heath worse?” “Worse? No indeed What made you think so?" “You look fussed" "Do 1? You’d be fussed had you as I wrestled with those have” was the reply “ Hither the pillows have swelled or the cases huve shrunk frightfully Well they are on now anyway” I’m “Conie nnd get dinner then starved My walk has made me hungry us a hear You must go out this afternoon Marcia It la a glorious day and you need to be pepped upi’’ To her surprise Marcia demurred “Thank you dear but I think I I’d won't go out today rather sit here and rend” “Nonsense Marcia Yqu're getting middle aged and lazy You'll lose your nice slim hipless figure If you don’t watch out” “I'm too tired to go out” "The uir would rest you" “Not today dear” Marcia said with finality "1 have some mending to do and lots of other little things that I have been saving up for a long time Since I prefer to stay why don’t you trump up the shore and see ‘My Unand known Lady’? She Is beautiful you haven't seen tier yet” “I'd love to— If I cannot coax you to go out" on not I'm adamant "You can’t stirring out of this room” "Well If your mind Is made up to that extent I suppose there Is no use In my trying to change it I would like to see the boat" "I'm sure you would Stay as long as you like There will be nothing to Mr Heath will probably do here sleep and in the meantime I shnll get my sewing done" her As Marcia spoke the words mind was busy So Sylvia had not stirred from the on the previous afternoon! kitchen The theft of the Jewels must then have taken place during the night for she was puzzled Nevertheless she hnd no memory of finding anything awryw lien sin came down at sunrise to lay the fire When had the gems been taken ard who hnd taken them? No wonder she to ponder the conun craved solitude was not the however This drum reason she desired to be paramount alone Despite the enigma of the Jewels despite the mystery surrounding Stanley Heath deep In her heart something that would not be stilled was singing— singing CHAPTER VI In the meantime the throng of neighleft in bors Sylvia had precipitately the village post office had received their mall and reached that anticifor gossip which never pated Interval failed to be stimulating Clustered about the counter loitered ' t lie standbys Zenns Henry was speaking: “A mighty fine little girl— that Syhe "A high stepper! lvia" commented We’d ougltter tie her down to Wilton She's so'st she won't go hack west too pretty to he spared from the Cape” “I figger you'd have trouble keepln’ r Joined Sam Nickerson tier here” "She's got a beau In the postmaster Had a letter an' a box her home town of candy from him today Same vvrltln’ an’ same postmark on both of 'em I noticed" "Didn't by any chance see Hip name did you Silas 7“ Fleazer Crocker quired “Wal come to think of It It did catch nty eye V u know how such things will Fuller lies called Horatio Fuller” "Horatio Fuller eh?" Eleazer repeated "Kinder high soundin’ Wonder who he is? From Alton City you say” Silas nodded "That was the address" "Never heard of the place” Capt Benjamin Todd put In Zenns Henry stroked Thoughtfully bis chin "If everybody knew where all the blasted places In the country were what use would they have for mnps? Twouhl put the map rankin’ folks clean out of business Say Eph raim" Inspired by s bright idea “you'? the mail carrier You'd oughter be pnn d on the location of places Where s Alton City?" "Alton nty? ninged ir l know you tnlk anybndy'd think 'twas my job to tote round the country de liverln' letters In person at the doors of every house In the I nited States’ "Hut you must have Some tiotloi Ain't you got no pock bout geography ct atlas nor iwitlon ?'' “I may have a small man' aom wholes carry most everything — Wttb — dehhernHo) — ttptraim'" gr lie began to dsgtige upop tiie ciunte tfe conterffs "tit Jus KJm iU) UK COM li TIMES GARLAND i UTAH (' Chose Proper Handle to Help Bear Other’s Burden 2J8f — There has been much 9 Washington discussion the lilately concerning quidation of the doz-ena of New pend ing Deni Must Stop emergency agencies It Is a discussion t that is timely because first Mr In his plans for the forthcoming a government budget contemplates In the vast outlays represhrinkage sented In the emergency agencies and It Is a matter of political Imsecond port Whether Mr Itoosevelt la reelected or whether there should he a Iteputdlonn succeed him In the White House In January 1!)'!7 somebody must clean up the wreckuge of the soup— which Is what all of alphabetical these various agencies eventually must become They cannot go on an end must Is hnd to the expenditures and that will conclude the oMrutlons of these agencies and further something In the way of permanency for agencies that may be kept must be worked out It Is one of the real problems of government Those who have been In Washington any length of time recognize tha( It Is much easier to establish a government bureau and populate It of a political hue with bureaucrats than It Is to put an end to the agency and semi the pollttcnl patronage boys back home It Is really nil old story to observers here nnd I believe all of them recognize how difficult If not dangerous It Is going to he to dynamite the alphabetical agencies out of ex- istence of them have undoubtedly served and are serving a useful purpose Undoubtedly some of them were needed Mr Itoosevelt long before brought his New Deal to Washington Instead of that fact making the wreckIt easier makes the Job more Job ing difficult It Is very hard to convince plum pickers that their Job Is a temporary one even though they were so when they were appointed Informed It Is more difficult to convince that type of Individual thnt their agency Is not all Important or tint It Is of less consequence than a neighboring agency bearing another set of alphabet leal Some letters In addition ttie plum phkers have their patronage hackers at the capital inand senators The representatives In terested building up their own po Uttcal machines hack home naturally put people In the political Jobs who will bf most helpful In iixMIng that particular representative or senator to Tims It heroines rattier be reelected obvious that even If Mr Itoosevelt seritin various ously tries to liquidate bureaus hoards commisalphabetical sions ami nilmlnisti atlons he has a man sized task on his hands If by chance a Itcpuhllcnn should he elected and Mr Itoosevelt retired to private life he too will find himself crillctzeit cajoled and threatened when lie seeks to squeeze tfit water out of lids structure known as government which was expanded so much In Mr Itoosevdt's plans to meet the emergency I believe It will take the Frankly four years of Hie next I’tesident's term to unseat nil of the excess Job hold 'Long Hard Task ’" nnd eliminate from lie government all of the surplus alphabetical ngem ios In tiie very nature of tilings It cannot Tin answer lies be done more quickly In tiie fact that these agencies pnihnrk that cannot upon ambitious programs Tiie government liororni be halted committed to certain propositions nnd except In war ttme must of them mtis't So however you examine be executed Sam is well Uncle the situation hooked To Illustrate how diffictcit Is the Job o jetting rid of a government ngcncy after It Is once established one need S v not go further than the late Mt or seven months have' elapsed xmee the tmii n oj of (lie fumed Hint U:"h That decsion did the work of wrec Ing N'ltA can ns completely as u homUmll w ro k a boat when a direct hit Is But whether scored rc'ihe It or not we still have In Washington an of almost 2 best ecu NBA organization is It Is true that tmmher jilovees proli ibly only about one fourth of the total number on’ the NBA pnv roil when General “Crack Dow n" Johnson was at the holm- arul guiding llm flight of the Blue Eagle hut it was assumed at least that the Supreme rnprt dec for llie Nit A pay glen made payments roll Illegal at the same time However It ha happened thnt Hie administration Jms found money some place with which to pay this regiment of em ploy cos who as far as most observers have very In Washington can ascertain little conl furtive work to do 1 lie oiga nl ztI ion lias no official sta'iis except such as is given It by various executive or Mr Itoosevelt' dors' It has no authority Anylldriglt does or says has no more fnree than a rephyr Yet thousands of dollars are being paid lis workcis on tile first end there Is flftc nth of every month-awill he DO s ?n that tbee payments ended soon For another example let us go brick to tiie war days In order to prosecute America's part In the TYTrrtd over WBrjthejrqvprnnTrnTTwTfcand operated the railroads gigantic full )n was built up here In organization Washington and representatives of the railroad administration were scattered far and wide throughout the country Commitments were made thut continue even to this day Credit In the form loans was extended to of government the rail lines and several hundred million dollars of that amount rcmnlns uncollected to this day And with all after 13 years we still have a railroad administration operating In Washington at government exjiense Another wartime ngency a bout which little Is henrd but which still Is In existence Is the War Finance corporation It floated bonds anil made loans to prfvate Interests and those commitments have forced retention of a skeleton organization that probably must be continued for several years yet Is complete Job of liquidation One could go on and on in Illustrating how a government agency becomes a parasite on the government structure to remain long after Its usefulness has ceased a burden on the taxpayer It Is "hardly any wonder then with the of "wlmf ' has happened’ In knowledge the case of other governmental agencies that there Is a question of how long It will be before the present emerbe eliminated enn It gency alphabet a blatter of concern what Is likewise the total cost Is going to he before the mens Is finally eradicated We have hnd evidence lately of how to maintain these efforts are Initiated evert when agencies Thumbs Down they are legally dead In WashDecently on NRA there was ington to held a much bnllyhooed meeting which some throe thousand representatives of business Interests were Invited I It was called by Oeorge Berry the top man In what Is left of the NBA The purpose was to find out structure whnt business wanted In the way of a Business did not want revived NBA NBA revived anil the meeting turned out to he a genuine flop There was nothing like three thousand representatives in attendance and the meeting self gnve a good many persons the of being staged for the benefit of of the Anieijenn Federation to which the old NHA entered Mr Berry until lately tiie bend of one of the large union labor organizations did not convince business thut It needed more governmental interference If business went away conIndeed vinced of anything hejond the fact that Mr Berry’s meeting was a flop It with a deep feeling left Washington that It did not want NBA In any form nor did It want any other governmental ngency messing urournl with Its efforts to get hack on its feet The circumstance illustrates better I know how pnruadtlc than anything seek to peragencies in the government One must realize petuate themselves In considering such a ccuidltlon that nil of tliose employee's obviously want to Keep their Jobs In the ease of the attempted revival of NBA the olltIenl fac lor Is Imporsaid It will he Mr Itoosevelt tant Hint when NBA was orremembered ganized It must he regarded as of an experiment nnd thnt If the fulled to work he would experiment he the first to Ray so lie lias not made that announcement yet for It la considered If he admitted that Hie NBA experiment failed to work he would lie one of Ids earlier for defeat admitting pet projects ’right in the face of a I’resldentlal Bollllcians do campaign not like to make admissions of this kind It will tie recalled as well Hint after the Supreme cout held Hip business codes of NBA to he Business and unconstitutional Fights Back the business codes were the vlluls of as mTiolT Hie “Nit A STfTitTure tTTere from tiie pressure exerted on emigre Will to for reconstruction House of some sort of a program to succeed NBA Business did not want It any more then than It does now nnd It was fought buck while the legislation Tiie result was that congress pending passed a law permitting hues of commerce and Industry to organize and frame their own voluntary codes of these codes Jurisdiction was placed til Hie Federal Trade commission That agency was supposed to work In cooperation wlih business and function In deto exercise a Judicial hen the codes were proptermining erly within existing laws against In The Trade commission the last vpar has blossomed forth as a rather sound agency In Its consultations with buxineand I bcljeve mcilts the respect which business generally has for ail of with that respett and it But tiie knowledge that the Trade ccmimlg- siem tries to he fair only five lines of code's of fair Industry have presented approval practice for commission The details of the futile attempt to breathe life hack Into the Blue Kngle have been related at this length to show what the future holds In the way of barnacles on our structure of govIf we have many more the ernment result Is liable to be a cancer and 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