Show v V I 1 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING 4 for a long time and he knew that his uncle had known her well taking care of her place when she got older" so he'askedfoT"thstorye It Wu an unusually hot after and tha heat wu oppressive Under the dazzling blue of the sky 'Hay" the red bluff of the old Indian aettlementt which were dotted here and there with the fray and green deer mahoganies of mountain brush and eedara - The wind swept plateau spread as a brown and dusty carpet before the altar of the red cliffa And there in the midst of this desert squatted the little town noon — muttered with-a-UU- M By CLAUDE withrioJittle politeness better-an- d (University -- le The lmii of brushed hii eyes with his sleeve ’cause he didn’t wanna cry ’Bless his heart' mom said and aha an’ some of the others begged her like t’ stay some Just 'cause they was tur'oiii but maw 'cause she figgered they both needed a little attention So the gal Stayed t’ our house a while and one night Judge Jarvis cum and told her ahe’d been left a little piece o’ property by her dad and 'twas hers seein's as how she was the only livin' one of the family to daim It ’lift but reluctance: Web I dunno Susie was someone of whom hsr never tired talking He had liked her a heap and as he said himself: d if I'm ashamed" - He of Loa this day looked at the red brown and green The town was - Susan Sime was to be buried "Dear panorama before him and his shoul “’Member ders drooped his mouth twitched old Susie" they said Susie poor Susie and the beat how strange she wast Well it was teemed to add to his sgonles and it a good thing she died or else— well bore down Upon him with merciless ' they’d have had' to put her In the' Ha undid his shirt an tenacity asylum" Susan as a schoolteacher button and exposed his dry Susan as nurse and other friend and ' ‘ It wasn’t and withered chest leader in the church they’d forgot He aaid as how it wus sitiated over enough that she—well" ' The old tin "Because" as they said "she pn Chalk creek an that it waa a tolman was on his last legs but he got queer an’ she couldn’t take to erable piece of land” had the fighting spirit of his Nordic modem notions" Only one re A amile lit up the old man’s face ancestors He’d show them how it mained who remembered her for as he remembered the happiness of was about her He answered with she was and he and his occasion His weary skeleton-seemethe of east as side if voice on formidable a strong and the nephew to take on new vigor for a his life depended upon retaining his the main store in the shade squat few moments His eyes rested upon on fashion Indian end in to the proverbial pride ting a grasshopper that had Just hopped At 1 "1 calc’late feishow I kin their heels each whittling at a onto a blade of dry June grasa He - piece of cedar post they had Just about 33 year rec’lect ruminated a second and then went settlefence t’ she cum up here this cut from a neighboring on with his tale ment and I guess her kid wsl Be was an old man the sheriff "It would a done yuh good t' see In a been bom had two who She man him a about that was up brung ' brighten up She aid as ol’ cart she bought down- at Koo and raised in Loa He stared with ' how h reckon’d ahe would carry horl eastern the mate died at It her whar (harem unseeing eyes --— someone would look-aftion pathetically fingering the rim warjiat slch' day an’as this lsflt the infant She had courage She she an’ the was hot and grimy of someone’s old felt hat Finally said she’d ruther do that than live kid were dead tired Her cumin' he turned to the young man beside on charity Maw promised tuh look caused the whole county t' turn out him and scrutinizing him carefully after the kid and that fall whut and fer hours after they kept string-i- n' said: “Yuh know Joe I cain’t help some seeds she brung with her with warn’t She was Susie see she in ta see her Yuh aorry fer and some money she had she plantbucks ail the an' young t be ’spected ter know him Just purty ed a middlin' crop of wheal” wanted to see what she was like bein’ returned" ’‘"This last "was a little too much 'sides the old gossips" “Who do yuh mean uncle! Who for Joe's constitution to swallow An old Ford rattled and bumped wam’t t’ be ’spected ter know what! sheriff was — how one frail young woman could down the street but-th- e 'Yuk can’t mean that crazy Suite plant a crop of wheat all alone determined He clenched his wrin Sims what was cryin’ out agin kled fist The old man made a vlcloua jab t some sort of sinners the last time I at his stick and declared on his hon- was a visitin' of you do yuh?" he "Wal she ’splained as how her husband had been buried an’ that or it was so - "Fer" says he "all laughed That was tho one yuh she and him had been on the way the men folk helped her She kinda had a crush on" ‘ ' roped 'em In by the here so as to cum and see her folks "That's the one 1 mean only" and hundreds They in his 1 out was 'fore a as had cum here built her house and bam an’ she a dangerous glint appeared townsfolk was outfitted better’n ‘any of ’em born talked The feeble eyes “she wam’t crazy leastwise when she first cum here and afore they was through Some on mighty consid'rable among them ’em ploughed fer her an some of selves and finally made out to tell no one kin tell ye any diffrent I 'em sowed fer her an’ the kid ud her the truth as how her folks had knowed 'er and I right smart gal ' died one within a year of 'tuther cheer her up when she was low But she was too I wam’t the only one none on 'em got no place with her The pore little thing 'purt near as liked her an' Susy would have fainted but the small ’un up and other than the kid ’cause she war had me if hadn’t been fer the fact kinda brung her to by tuggin’ at v set on not mon-yin- ’ thet she were so gol duraed set agin agin sq finally See she's got her finger He was a settin’ there havin’ two husbands most of ’em quit goin there” The all the while a watchin’ his moth too much religion" The old man old man scratched his ear with an er’s face and feelin’ along with her extra dig at a particularly provokspat at the road T Ruess 'twere She grabbed the little kid an’ held better so but ’member Sue warn’t ing spot and then shaded his eyes ’im tight and then with a choked from the intense heat of the pavecrazy" ’ ment up sob said as how she guessed "Maybe yur right considerin' Sam she’d better go back to hls’n folks ' "She worked right along with us wan’t batty Ya 'member him and I guess" an when we were through ahe'd ma left fer the front together but Here the sheriff stopped to get we got sep'rated seein’ as how he give us a heapin’ plate of doughnuts was sent to a diffrent batt’ry By breath for it was an extraordinary two mile high I reckon an’ a smile m by unk I heard as how he cum that’d warm even the devil's heart long time for him to talk He took back yesternight” one of the whittled shavings to chew That spring she had a bumper crop "That's whut Susie said and I and after reflecting a few moments of wheat an’ sold -- it to the miller ran his worn lingers through his reckoned then when she told me fer a sound good price She was she’d hive a hard time recoverin’ She saved grizzled beard He pulled a slipped mighty thrifty too Susie was so genteel and good She suspender back over his shrunken enough that year t’ buy her an the frame and continued: kid tome new clothes an more always war too sensitive an’ things fected her bad like that” "Then the kid stood up and said seed an' she payed tne men fer the Joe was curious about Susan Sims work She was that Independent right smart: You should help my He'd known the was the town talk mamma Can’t you see she’s tired?’ like" "Dad-burne- rat tre d it-w- ago-whe- ar n - nif i ’ ' The sheriff was somewhat promised to show her her boy afon she died She becum so strict at of Joe’s hoyed bKthia and how no one could smoke or even :lared he wouldn’t finish if he didn’t pay more attention to swear in her being and when aha what he-- was say g: And then adwsiweMrj saw the younger ones- B MORRIS he--him was smoking-shdressing up and declared Utah Student) she was glad as how ber Sam had whispered aoftly: "Joe my boy been takin’ away so ha couldn't be yuh cain’t ‘’maglne how she wor-child Why one lime -- -- made wicked and then the towns that shiped Ezekill Bland ail old crony was she walked dear to our house t’ git men wanted to put ’er away" Tha Juit then passing up the street some goody he wanted whilst he old man picked up a stick lying near “H'lo shuriif how be it with yuh wus a lyin’ aipk in bed An’ he for he had whittled his last ona by cum acrost Did that ' ya today! loved ’er too When he got to be to a mera sliver He grunted and ghost of Susie’s I hear as hdw ’bout 18 he used to wipe ’er dishes Uttered a deep sigh and continued: they got you believin' it Lem wus at night knowin how tired she was "Wal "I used ter go over and help tellin’ me you spoke with Sam Sims —even when he had a chanct to her nd the kinder confided in ma yurself an asked him up to dingo ter the social He wouldn’t have an told me one time as me being ner Ha ha!"— a girl ’cause he knew it’d hurt his an one of her best friends sheriff "Didn’t do no such thing" the old mother" The old man silently that she didn’t want to livt no more to not man replied Tm to old as and toT me as how her call had cum slipped his shoes off be seein ghosts Lem's a tattlin' "Sam tuk the farm over ’bout the I knew ahe weren’t crazy n’ I told fool and alwua wus I’ll be hanged same time the drafts cum fer the them ao Last night she called ma if I don’t beat the tar out of his war You and him an’ Silas an' on tha phona and laid there wus a young hide yet" He arose and Jake and Cy wuz tha only ones that thing in her yard when she went stood shaking on his wabbling legs went ’cause you wuz the only Unout to milk the cow as whut had a to emphasize his determination but hitched fellows out here that war In its mouth Ma and Bishop cig’ret it was too hot a day to use so much Fuller went right over and when ' physically all right" He ruffled and bristled energy The shadow of the store had now we got there she wus a dyln’ Sue like a fighting cock and then com almost reached the garage across said the thing wus like her son and pow d himself once more' upon his the street The intense heat had that had cum Out frum behin’ tha j somewhat and one Could see-t- he bam Itwhere abated tha cows wuz an’ called Wul didn’t mean no harm Just her mother It had Sam’s eyes like jheat rise from the pavement in his dad’s only she said she knew It thought Td ask ya” Zeke continalight undulations as the' shadows He wasn’t in any ued walking cooled the air Joe ran his finger 'warn’t her son though ’cause It had mood to get picked on for he had a cig’ret in its mouth an’ because along the inside of his collar and loosened still more his orange and Just left his wife it was so turrible all deformit and Joe in tha meanwhile was gold necktie With hi hands lit kinda like Frankenstein in the went out to carefully pressed the crease of his yuh know--Wgrossed with watching a young girl then settled he f He tuh look around but we bam the the street malty tore""pahta pass up back against the store "Well himself away and asked: couldn't find none so the bishop “I know all about that but whut went in an’ blessed her an’ this ain’t yuh goin' ter finish!” momin’ she passed away I got a finally did happen to him? That’s The ancient again looked In the I ter want what know" letter this momin’ from the sheriff see seemed he to distance and things n The old man didn’t hear the at Torrey ssyin' they had Identified denied to most mortals lie thought for he was observing the deepa body they’d found as Sam Sims of he could see over the great divide of colors the and his hills here He’d ahot himself In his ening and could it be possible did he sec mind once more wandered He felt pocket was a release from a Susie beckon? His thoughts wanto closer God he ever than done had hospital in Ohio where he’d the to dered back that day when perbeen kept IT years for loa of memtown - commission - had appointed -- before Absently he wiped his ban-spiring forehead with his red ory and it said on it too that he’d ' Susan Sims tothe office of school rehandkerchief not He dana did been all shot up in the war I guea teacher He slowly raised hi hand Susie’s happy now" he mused place it immediately as a tear stole to slap at an irritating fly and then softly out of the comer of his dye - The old man had exhausted himsaid: "Yuh know plungin’ in as-He recalled himself when Joe havself and his head drooped forward that girl did she made time for ing become impatient at his medias the last rays of the sun pene- herself t’ teach her little ono as he tations the question trated repeated through the- rainbow tinted growed up The boy got- so’ he "What’s that eh? Oh yes yuh The mountains were ensky could write and read and do a little life’s Joe know We in a deep purple mist The funny thought shrouded with flggerin’ an’ he loved to be he war dead- - all right ’cause he mahoganies were lost to View and hie mom The neighbors wel quick didn’t come back and Susie took the sagebrush cast fantastic shadows to take e notice of it so they got on at Armistice time so we thought' One could upon the dry ground together and had Mayor White with she’d die But no the good Lord In the of a hear the coyote howling the council t’ go down and ask her seems to ' huv reserved her fer distance and could see far above in t’ teach the other small 'uns uayin' somethin’ else leastwise it seems so the gathering twilight a circling as how they would provide someone She had always been a good woman hawk making its last forage before she ’er for to work her farm Wat and hankerin’ to religion like I said returning to the red tiills Out in hemmed and hawed and said as how but now the begun to go to church the street a girl was driving a few she had got to like farmin’ but the every time the meeting house was - cows down the dusty road mayor showed her it wuz her duty open Stormy weather or no she’d Joe straightened his tie and with the community ' In the fendeddicate always go Seems as if somethin’ behis hands smoothed his hglr 'Hey classes an’ her she begun seemed to comfort her there an’ she uncle who's gonna be the pallcum eo pop’lar they had t’ hold it told me more than once that God bearers?” Even us older in the courthouse She used ter ones got to a goin take her Sam to school and when it wuz over she’d go home and fix NOTICE TO WRITERS dinner fer herself and him EveryIs Attention again directed to all amateur writers submitting manuthing she did she did fer that kid” scripts In The Salt Lake Tribune’s Short Story and Short Short Story Joe grunted with a disapproved Contests that manuscripts will not bo returned unless stamps to cover glance at a couple of kids who were postage are inclosed Neither will The Tribune enter into any correspondlasso-’ ence concerning disposal of such manuscripts practicing to be cowboys by 7 Criticism is made of each manuscript received and this is returned lng a post He shifted his position td tho writer along with tho manuscript if the story is found not acceptwith a slight exertion of his leg able providing return postage has been sent muscles and again relaxed Into his SILENT PARTNER - The old man glanced at the bluffs a moment squinted his eyes to see er e — "i'll NORMS It is a real national misfortune that there Is no codebook for girls and boys ' to study before they embark upon the great adventure of marriage In the older days and civilisations the churches whatever their faults did a mighty ser- had only to discover to her consternation that presently there was going to be a baby to decide desperately thst the whole thing wu a hopeless wreck and to cut her wrists Weil they saved her fend Ban went to the middle-wes- t state in which ahe Uvea to talk to her her father got him job her mother and other adviser talked pretty radically to both him and to Margot and tho two took up their partnership again in a little apartment near the girl's fine gentle helpful mother That wu six year a tgo Now they have a boy fend girt car and a radio and membership in a country club and are as established and happy and devoted a pair as could ba found in tho world They simply hadn't understood that marriage is a job and a hard job They htd thought it wu all a matter of whim fun to get married fun to run oft by themselves fun to he poor and adventurous and darlngt The minute the tun stopped they wahted to atop too Nobody had ever told them seriously repeatedly Impressed it on them over and over again that marriage has its high and holy laws its cod and its honor Nobody had ever told them what to do when things went wrong And yet wu there any grown-unear them who didn't know that aooner or la ter'things DOT la it ever fair to let our children drift on thinking that although childhood hu had it ups and downs and youth its bitter trials and deprivations and disappointments the moment they mar-r- y life turns to roses? Wouldn't it be more sensible to remind them that life In grammar school in high in rotlego hu always been a rather complicated and disappointing affair that taxes headaches social complications the complete bemoney stringencies wildering failure of friends always have been a part of the scheme and always - once-mo- -- self-contr- three-quarte- - -- ’ would have laughed as she kissed him and jeered at his feeble idea of retaliation They would have had both dinners have discovered that they really did not "loathe and either the Bakers or Box and Cox and would have found the bond of marriage cemented just a little closer because of the threatened break ’’ But they aren't taught to be patient and humble and forgiving today They are taught td be reasonable Instead and there never w as a marriage yet that eould be saved by reason! Not unless the participant were wise old folk in the seventies and had learned that nothing in Ilf is aa important aa young impatience makes It and that there are no wounds in marriage that love and humbleneas won't heal The delight of forgiving of being reconciled ia one of the royal prerogative of marriage the power to say “I'm sorry" la more devastating than machine guns and air- craft Spoiled girls develop Into real women tinder tenderness and understanding Unthinking raw cubs of boys grow to be considerate and gentle husbands appreciative of what a wife home chil-- es re ques-tio- vet’-ra- ns - “ 1 - - -- dA f i Franck Looks at Russia lie Hates— ' By L A JUDGES A VAGABOND IN SOVIETLAND ' By Publishers FredHarry A Franck erick A Stokes Company New York ‘City A friend once pointed out to Harry Franck that whfla he had been nearly Everywhere else In the world Jhe had never visited Russia "Another friend added “But If you atay thera only 30 days don’t for Mohammed’s sake go hook about It” So ho and write want stayed 30 daysand here ia ths ght p - -- and ' A e ' is vice when they took upon themselves the responsibility of In itructing the young husband and wife in their duties patience gentleness endurance courage were at French and mathematics are today there was a stand- - JUtbieea Norris ard to maintain Today there is no such standard Many of our youngsters marry without any suspicion that they are bound to meet emotional crises ahead disappointments humiliations differences of Much less are they warned opinion or prepared tor these inevitable rocks in the smooth sea of novelty and excitement and love This is the reason for thousands of wrecked marriages and incidentally wricked homes and lives every year The tragedy we expect we can all face with dignity and intelligence it is the complete unexpectedness of un- happiness that forces the untrained boy into sullen atubbornness and sends the girt weeping home to her mother Nobody ever told them that anyone could be so horrid that marriage waa so hard that life was so disillusioning! A few years ago 1 talked to a weeping bride of eight months who had attempted to take her own life in her She was 21 pretty smart: despair she fell In love tn her sophomore year ‘Willbe? with S penniless boy two years older If boys Instead of being alternately On the day he graduated they were spoiled and Ignored could be Instructmarried and went to live In a three-rooed by their fathers in thoughtfulness bungalow that was furnished only steadiness high purpose the she in furniture had had her by marriage would be different for their r bedroom a bed wives If women would seriously school college two chairs a desk and a dressing tatheir daughters In humility tolerance ble No china no rugs so lamps no moderation and a decent working comfort in the chill fop and winds knowledge of budgets and housekeepof a San Francisco summer The girl'e ing the divorce courts would feel as if the depression were just setting in family cast her off in anger the girl had no job Bitter quarrels and scenesIn other words If there wu mar- -' set in and in October the girl fts f" riage law today then our children to back her mother would know when they were breaking given went Then came a deadlock Both are the law As it is no law exists tor Catholic most of them and they flounder about there was no escape for them through divorce Her lather rein a state of complete confusion the proachful her mother brokenhearted girl angrily protesting that the man hu taught pic--lur- -- bo right to on thing the man shouting back equally furious that all right then ho wouldn’t havt done it if sho hadn't done the other and neither' on tho least aware whtrt the right truth and dignity of marriage lie "Hu he any right to expect me to dine with hie mother twice a week? to go out to the Has ahe any-rlgolf club and have tea with another' man all the time? Oughtn’t a man give his wife enough money to pay the bills he runs up? Am I expected to stay with a man who never comes horns on tlmo tor meals?" These are some of the hundreds of questions they write to uk me One wife of 20 wrote me that she had asked— had been more or less forced into asking— two old friends to dinner against her husband's will In revenge he brought homo three dsys later a couple of men she “loathed end deShe served their dinner spised” played bridge until 11 her heart bursting and then packed up end went home at midnight to mother A hundred years ago if this had happened spiritual resources would presently have come to the aid of both husband and wife Discussing in advance the lirst unfortunate dinner the wife would have said In all humility thkt ahe was sorry she had felt obliged to ask the Bakers and the husband disarmed and mollified would have said that unfortunately in the first flush of anger he had asked poor Box and Cox for the next night The wife e T v her own soul sick with shame Margot lironrf -- a — Here Comes the Bride— Crying B r KATHLEEN JUNE? 1935 book VJhiskcy Hov Golden Treatment Helped Fsltk Ini Wife te Save Husband When All Elea Failed ' ' ‘ i from Leningrad third guidance of Intourist toilrist monopoly that about compelled to de-- ’ From Leningrad he went pend upon to Moscow thence southward on the Rusjolting odorous sian "express” trains to the picturesque ‘ villages of Georgia in the Caucasus where the population is a strange mixture of half a doxen races Then came 'the ports along tha Black Sea and tha crowded industrial cities of the Franck started class under the tHt Soviet State travelers are just ‘ Ukraine Harry A Franck when their unreasonable-nes- s and Ignorance are met with character and dignity W grow one way er we grow another as the years go by The subject interests me unusually at the moment because of Hester Heater was married in a big church with few years ago bridesmaids and music Two years later with beautiful little Paul to rt$e she told us all eagerly why she and Paul Sr had gotten a diHe was a nice fellow but he vorce loved night clubs dancing drinking she liked books and a few friends They just had “nothing in common" and so At 23 Hester must they separated make up her mind to live single or And fell on the give up her religion blithe explanation They had "nothing In common!" What they really didn't have wu character and code These would have saved them anf saved the child to whom ah must eternally justify herself now by belittling his father We ought to teach our children that any marriage can be a failure and any marriage e auccesa We ought to ask ourselves not if they are going to have luck enough to be happy but 'whether or not they have character high principle enough to make a success of any destiny that befalls them (Copyright 1933 by the Bell Syndi- dren mean self-contr- cate Inc) Having thus only a hurried trip u the basis for his volume the author does not pretend to be an authority on the U S R R But he ia a trained and experienced observer of people in many lands and the author of several books of travel Naturespecially InT such a chaotic country as Russia he sees and hears might many things the ordinary tourist f overlook or misinterpret Hu narrative I woven of a thousand little observations on everyday Soviet life It ia written in an easy conver- -' ’ aational style with a ready wit and a Without being ' delightful enthusiasm vulgar it speaks plainly on matters of sex as viewed in Russia and tha many the brighter unpleasant as well "phases of Soviet life In drawing a few conclusions Franck makes the rather unusual statement that he believes Russia is moving awty from Communism The Red revolution got rid of the Tsarist aristocrats with their Indolence and haughty display of wealth but it is nourishing its own peculiar type of nobility the nobility of those In the party's favor who enjoy many of the special privileges and emoluments of office that their counterparts do in capitalistic countries The revolution changed the form of government but it did not change the The average Russian is atilt people what he has alwsys been- a Serious bard working fellow of almost child- - By John’ Wif d fnIntheell thw little httie to—o: ally then An k I leush ed ebilt I'tk end frown Foe JOHN BA8QUfTH18DRINMN An h liko himeolf oar omit And tho world I foot 0 poiodM W it lack knppiMM ini KsseTrestssstfcrBrcskirdi dooDtrooud ll loorotlr 4 Hooo food In Too CK OdorloooooJTootoloo-WkonU— Lode Con Or Aor u (Continued oo Potlowlns Paso) n—fTT Tnk— tho pleroof Cost Nothing to Tty If you bore e bn bond OMI brotbor father or fnond who to etc tun of llquat oottd yonf and addrooo on tho ooupwt bo tew Toe Bior b thankful kf lone Z° He that roe did It Wkot It be don foe othoos I on n of wknt It ohoeld do fer foe Free Treatment Cenpe Fill ia your itomo tod eddroa oe Mask Umo below Tro cijl yet te ooupoyd kiofl it In Dr J W Htiaeo Co IN CfcA Cincinnati I j I I Ohio bkll o will rrceirt k f triol parkore ol the (oldre Trratarnt u I drKTihrd obmr In ylaio acnltd wiodooi I bKEE -Iobooluuly I fit Addrooo I or F O I t -- e JjCIty SUU J -- — |