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Show f THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH He did not continue because he was pressed intp silence by a large, MEMO muscular young hand which rested upon his heaving chest. TUESDAY Mr. Franklin Mr. Fernal was saying, firmly, let me ask you what this has to do with our transaction. You are here to deal with a conBARBER By J. T. cern whose reputation is based on McClure Newspaper Syndicate. half a century of performance. WNU Service. We are prepared to fulfill every item in any agreement we make Jake didnt pepper Tim a stiff, efficient click indicated a littered desk. is limited. You may not prefer to in the pracdo business with an old line comof office Pepdeserted tically pany like Pepper Wholesale. Howper Wholesale and Distribution, ever, it was nice of you to call, Inc. and he a door, good day opened She didnt like the smug interoffice to Franklin. Mr. you, memos. Mr. Franklin was being propelled She didnt like this trim efficiency outward with the general technique flaunted at her previously pampered of a bums rush. Now, now, Jake, existence. Mr. Franklin protested, unctuously, She didnt like it that she had to I didnt say I wouldnt sign no answer telephones in Papa Peppers contract here. Maybe I am a little office now that his business was hasty again on the upturn. He smiled. But she did like the chestnut Jake Fernal smiled. haired young man who was making It was in the bag. none two contracts grow where Angelica stood there tingling and grew before. looking at Jake Fernal. This was old A. J.s new business Jake, youre marvelous! management engineer and his name Jake smiled at her, a frosty imwas Jake Fernal. personal smile that was worse than Today Jake Fernal would mount contempt, she thought. But he said, Nice of you to stand up. Miss Pepthe upper rungs on the ladder of success because this afternoon Har- per. Good girl. But,. of course lan Franklin, owner of a string of you see the wisdom of using your prosperous cutrates in the South- own name. Now Mr. Franklin . . . Angelica felt brushed off. east, was scheduled to appear perOld A. J.s daughter! sonally. Jake Fernal was a serious young He was expected to sign contracts which would mean a foraging business executive with a job on his was a silly girl. trip to New York for Mr. Fernal, a She hands andinshe a signal. plpgged resuscitation for A. J., and incidentPepper Wholesale and Distribually would put Angelica Pepper back Miss Pepper speaking. in her natural environment where tion Then she sat lost in (Meekly). she might feel free to be appealing thought. to Mr. Fernal. conAfter a while she was Up to this time she had not been scious that Jake Fernal barely come had appealing to Mr. Fernal. bouncing out of his office. On the contrary. He stopped in the middle of the Now and again there had been an outer room as if halted by some interlude. troublesome indecision. Once he had helped her on with She watched him go back into his a coat. office and scribble something. Long after he had gone out she At another time he bought lunch. She wondered how a man like that got up to examine what he had writmade love and what hed say if he ten. Incredibly this man had in these few hours become a legend. talked. It was Miss Parsons, the ste- A rare enigma. She read: Angies eminently oke. nographer, who explained to her that Find out if free to accept. If fahe never talked. vorable demanded. try to close deal for H. M. Scared? Angelica in New Yrk. Departure, Tue3. C. Miss Parsons. said Probably, H. closes 5:30. Specializes in letters and sales Angelica did a lot of speechless Good at office routine. apit, gags, at pens and pencils. Presclutching parently. she inscribed an indignant adently ironic. was Good! Angelica Hes eloquent. That memo about dendum: AND IF YOURE LATE THE the cosmetics, now. He said, No M. I. C. SOMETIMES ISSUES war pt. And the one about the THEM AT THE HOUSE. YOU phones. Tels: routine form. Give a BIG FAKE! name. Observe strictly. ANONYMOUS She had written him a memo then: And then she went home and inAre you trying by some error of dexed her nighties. judgment to make a robot out of me, Mr. Fernal? Apocalypse, Greek Word, And he had come back with: and The Four Horsemen Employees not in key positions Apocalypse is a Greek word must not waste memo pads. Pis. revelation, and is apmeaning plied chiefly to the Book of RevelaYou snake, Angelica said, grin- tion and more specifically to the last book of the New Testament othning from ear to ear. She wrote Of course erwise called The Revelation of St. between telephone calls you must be patient with me, Mr. John the Divine, which reads in Fernal. Naturally you agree that part as follows: I do not belong here. Slip of fate, And I saw when the Lamb you know. opened one of the seals; and I Mr. Fernal answered quite sober- heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, ly via a pink memo: Come and see. And I saw, and beLife is a game of compromise. On which Angelica had promptly hold a white horse; and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was . demanded: What kind of talk is that, to a given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. And lady? But Jake Fernal would never talk when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, that way to a lady. She chuckled about it until Harlan Come and see. And there went out Franklin came in. He looked around another horse that was red: and with strange disappointment and , power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the suspicion. and that they should kill one earth, to are what you trying pull Hey, and there was given unanother; off here, Fernal? he demanded. to him a great sword. And when office all the Wheres help they say he had the third seal, I you got? Two girls! Why, they tell heard theopened third beast say, Come me that every time somebody calls and see. And I beheld, and lo a The name. different a he gets up on whole towns saying how much busi- black horse: and he that sat in him his had of balances a ness you must be doing. So why hand. And pair a voice in the else am I here? Its a racket. He midst of theI heard four beasts say, A pushed on his hat. measure of wheat for a penny, and Jake Fernal was gaping at him three measures of barley for a penhelplessly. and see thou hurt not the oil and ny; Angelica stood up at the dusty old the wine. And when he had opened switchboard and called Harlan the fourth seal, I heard the voice of Franklin back. I think I can ex- the fourth beast say. Come and see. This is going to And I plain, she said. and behold a pale be hard but Im not going to have horse: looked, his name that sat on and. this town saying that snooty Angeli- him was and Hell followed ca Pepper had to answer telephones with him. Death, And power was given in her pas office. Just a little whim unto them over the fourth part of I answered your old the earth, to kill with sword and of mine. I answered with . phones, Jake Fernal. hunger, and with death, and to the name of Smith, Jones, Green with the beasts of the earth. anything that popped into my The phrase the four horsemen of head. So what? the Apocalypse, says a writer in Jake Fernal didnt say anything. the Indianapolis News, was popuHed probably surmount this larized by a novel of that name by grave crisis by dashing off a memo Blasco Ibanez. It is a story of the which Harlan Franklin could read German invasion of France in 1914. at his leisure when he was doing In the panorama presented, a business with somebody else, per- wealthy Argentinean settled in haps. France, with a passion for collectFranklin was looking at her con- ing, is the central figure. His famPeople in business ily is connected with German famtemptuously. to a have standard, he said. ilies by marriage and this circumought do business without stance complicates the story. The cant People standards. But society women in family represents the country of business they dont know nothing France under the scourge of the about the rules. Well Im on an four horsemen, war, famine, pestilence. and death. honest business FOR Blondes Hold Peace Conference Utah Town Ordinance Prohibits Cheating Preparation Midvale, Utah. for a 1938 revised edition of city ordinances uncovered a law prohibiting any unnecessary labor or business on Sunday, another which prohibited cheating, and one which made it unlawful to drive a horse, mule, or other animal at an excessive rate of speed. 8 Angelica Tung Oil Industry, New in the South, Is on Boom i Blondes from many parts of the United States interested in preserving peace are pictured as they answered the roll call at the first National Conference of Blondes to End War. The purpose of the Blonde Brigade is to fight war. Should America be invaded, members of the brigade will meet the enemy. They are confident that there isnt a soldier in the world who would shoot a lovely blonde. Kids Tell How They Have Won Success in Industry $ Business Men Learn Secret Island, which works in leather, wood, metals and several other meof Success From Boys. dia, told the little business men and York. The nations ness situation. Representatives of 50 corporations, all organized, operated and managed by boys and girls from sixteen to twenty-on- e years, were in attendance at the seventh annual boy and girl business convention. Because many of them are in school or in jobs, the meeting was held at night. Seven hundred and fifty joint owners and employees were present to hear discussions of business conditions in more than a score of manufacturing fields in which they are engaged. The featured speaker was Charles R. Hook, president of the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Rolling te. - women about making a real business something And he shoifld know pay. little business men recently held a what he is talking about for the convention here to discuss the busiNew Oddity shop has paid its stockhold- A new industry Washington. which is expected to bring over $20,000,000 annually to tung oil producers is developing in the South, C. C. Concannon, chief of the Commerce departments chemical division said upon completion of a tour of the Gulf states. Concannon reveals the 1938 crop is expected to yield approximately 20,000,000 pounds of tung nuts. This crop is equivalent to about 4,000,000 pounds of oil, which is less than 5 per cent of the American manufacturers yearly requirements. Tung oil is used in the manufacture of paints, varnishes, linoleums, oilcloths, printing inks and other products. The tung tree is not new to the, A Concannon explained. South, few experimental trees, 30 years of age are still bearing in certain regions, but there are practically no groves of any consequence more than eight or nine years of age. The large majority of groves now properly planted and receiving adequate care are not yet of bearing age. Concannon warned that much money has been squandered in the ventures. tung belt in , v ed ers 20 per cent dividend each year since it was organized in 1930. In addition it paid a bonus to its young employees in each of three years and built up a reserve of $125 over and above the original capital of $50. The 50 cent par value shares now have a book value of $1.70 but you need not try to buy any for there is none on the market. MARATHONER Invents a Gas Mask for Chickens; Test Is Flop London. Reginald Perkin decided that chickens must not suffer from gas attacks in the next war. With canvas, charcoal and leath- er straps Perkin made the first gas mask for chickens. The first public demonstration, however, was hardly a success. There was some trouble over the adjustment of the mask, but at last it was fitted. The chicken insisted on lying down. After a little coaching,, the bird staggered erect. Then came The Methuselah of Marathon, the climax some one arrived to Peter W. Foley feed the chickens and as the masked bird became frantic in its effort to of Winchester, Mass., shown as he diseat, Perkin removed the mask and completed the tance of the famous Boston A. A. left the farmyard. marathon, just to show em theres life in the old dogs yet." He finished Varieties Mount to 21 in slightly more than 4 hours. The in Fruit Tree Grafting winner, Leslie William Pawson, made the route in 2 hours, Berry Creek, Calif. 35 minutes 34 seconds. Foley has Hawk, expert in grafting fruit trees, has produced one tree that looks run in 25 marathons. His wife didnt like a Christmas tree in full dec- know he was running in the marathon although he says she was susoration. The tree contains the following picious. eighty-five-year-o- ld thirty-four-year-o- Charles R. Hook Mill company who talked about business, economic and industrial matters with the other corporation heads. And because they are kids first and young business men second they also listened to Larry Kelly, former end and captain of the Yale football team. Learn Business, and How. These littlest little business men are the operators of companies comprising the Metropolitan Junior Achievement, Inc., a nonprofit organization founded in 1930 to enable boys and girls to learn the principles of business by actually operating companies themselves. There are some 900 companies throughout the United States. To those companies not represented at the New York convention the proceedings were carried in a nation-wid- e broadcast by the National Broadcasting company. No playthings are the Junior Achievement companies. According to Joseph Francomo, treasurer of the Ornamental Gift Shop of Brooklyn, each company is required to operate on business principles and must show a profit. That is, he said, there must be a profit after paying for raw materials, wages, rent, light, sales expense and other charges including allowance for deFrancomo, who is preciation. twenty-on- e and who has been with the Ornamental Gift shop for seven years, was chairman of the convenan tion. fruit-produci- ng grafts: almond, four different kinds of cherry plums, Tilton apricot, flowering peach, Japanese plum, three sweet plums, early peach, freestone peach, Bing cherry, black Tartarian cherry. Royal Ann cherry, Burbank plum, Santa Rosa plum, green gage plum, early apricot and French prune. ld Heads Broken Rock, Ark. More than 125,000 skull fractures occur each year in the United States, according to the Arkansas Medical society. The society said most skull frac125,000 Little tures were the result of automobile accidents. Streamlined Boat for Mississippi i' V I; - Tins streamlined river boat how under construction on the St. L levee is beginning to assume the graceful lines which will make it Ben Barry, twenty-onpresident most beautiful craft on the Mississippi. It will be nsed as a pleas of the Oddity shop of Flushing, Long steamer plying north and south from St. Louis. Does He Know How? e, |
