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FOR NEWS WANT ADS DIAL 6 FOR THE BANGOR DAILY NEWS THURSDAY JANUARY 11 1934 Big Business elic lUaugnr Daily Jfruis AND Ginger and Sweet ot the Passing Show Daily whig and courier (Established in 1834) REO 0 8 PAT OPT (L 8) BANGOR PUBLISHING CO 170 Exchange St Bangor Maine TWO IN A SHACK Chapter 22 What Has Happened So rrot Member nf The Audit Bureau of Circulation By THORNTON BURGESS A Matter of Self Respect Curious thing about this 1934 New Year business you hear little or nothing about resolutions for the coming twelve-month That used to be the principal stock-in-trade of the humorists ot long ago and many were the satirical wheezes on the subject especially' about the smoker who "swore at midnight of Dec 31 put the old pipe find the cigar box away and went smokeless for about two weeks virtuous but nervous as a hen and ugly as a hungry bear Then to the great relief of everybody around him light up again and become human once more Who self-respect doth not maintain Respect of others ne'er will gain the Woodpecker Postmaster General Farley reports that the gross postal deficiency for the current fiscal year may be reduced to $60000000 in comparison with $112000000 in the past fiscal year Of this $60000000 approxl- mately $41000000 represents ship and airmail subsides Subtract the subsidies and the cost of carrying mail free for various Government departments and it appears that the net deficit for the current year will be as low as $1000000 The Post Office Department Is the largest single employer of labor In the United States if not in the world It had 242000 employes on June 30 last During the fls- cal year ended June 30 1933 2294 postal employes retired with There were 40013 rural routes In operation on June 30 serving more than 6940000 families The rural carriers col- lectively travel 1354302 miles a day Mail is carried by power boats over 239 covering 38000 miles Railway mall clerks made nine billion distributions' and redistributions of first-class mail The income of the dead letter office was $14343030 V2 If that half cent is puzzling just remember that someone may have bought a 1'2 cent stamp Postal savings on June 30 amount- ed to nearly a billion and a quarter dollars an increase of $400000000 in a year Among other things the Post Office Department bought 9764000 gallons of gasoline and 11000 tires in a year Published every morning except Sunday Entered at Second Cles Matter at the Bangor Post Office Price Three Cents per copy RATES BY MAIL All Subscriptions Payable In Advance 1 Year 7 Months SO 3 Months a a 4s 1 Month ae Out of 8(a(t per Month BY CARRIER By Nawa Carrier Routes Payable to Boy par week I 11 MEMBERS OP TH ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to nse for publication all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein All right of republlcallon of special dispatches herein are also reserved Lured to the "Red Tiger" roadhouse by Harold Stokes young -lawyer Judith Bates 'hls stenographer is rescued by Randall Spencer Heze-klah Stokes uiyle of Harold and senior member of the law firm is murdered and the police suspect Spencer The old gentleman leaves his fortune to Judith much to the disappointment of Harold Judith invited to the home of Harriet Alden Madison Randall supposed flnancee refuses to give up Spencer with whome she is oeeply In love roommate Sally Foster alarmed by her long absence has Bob Harley her "boy call the police Judith has started home in the Madison caivThe chauffeur tries to send the car over a precipice with Judith in It but she saves herself by Jumping Judith recovers consciousness to discover a man whom she supposes to be the murderous chauffeur approaching her the people make resolutions any more? Or has that stuff gone into the junk heap of the past along with flannel underwear separate cuffs and the shirt that you put on over your head? Another thing who keeps a diary Ano 3W? now? TO OUR Any maralng year News te net at year dear dial (HI Ne deliveries asada after II a will admit that you work for your food" replied Sammy jly SO Wl Isolation: Independence Twenty-four Even for the first two weeks of January? We remember well when everybody went to or to at the dawn of the bright new year gave up 25 cents 50 cents or a dollar for a cute little book with red or gold edges and pink ruled lines and a place to stick a psncil firmly resolved to record therein the happenings of each and every day of the ensuing 365 And then along about Jan 15 or Candlemas day at the latest forgot all about it And even if they had kept that diary faithfully throughout the year what good? About two thirds of what happens to a man In the course of a year like to forget and the rest usually Is of no consequence whatever Waste of time If anything of importance In the history of a year past that you want to recall ask the newspaper slaves about it their business to superintend the graveyard of the past Even if they are not able instantly to Identify and give exact measurements of any particular corpse or time to dig into the files which are the caskets of forgotten things they can make a pretty good guess at it Pay as you go ia the motto of Hairy the Woodpecker and all the members of his family They ask charity of no one In hard times during the bitter storms of winter they are grateful for temporary help In the way of auet placed where they can get it but they are not accepting this as charity No indeed They consider that they have already paid for or will pay for any such help they may receive Hairy made this very plain to Sammy Jay Sammy had scoffed at his claim of independence by saying that he had seen Hairy taking suet-on the feeding shelf at Fanner house "What I get there I pay replied Hairy with dignity "Pay scoffed Sammy "A lot you pay for You are no better than the rest of us Yet get it because is the easiest food to get Pay for it! When and how do you pay for Hairy tho Woodpecker kept hls temper said he "I pay for it My litle cousin Downy pays for a hat he takes also So do Mrs Hairy and Mrs Downy We pay many times over for all the suet we eat and Farmer Brown's Boy knows it We eat only what we need at the time and except for the sake of a little variety now and then only a hen we can find nothing else When trees are coated with ice we! are thankful for the suet At other' times we work for most of our food' We are independent if I do say IJe said this with pride "I will admit that you work for your replied Sammy Jay "If I had to work as you do I would go hungry most of the time No one really smart aould work as you do when he didn't have to As for paying for the suet you rat don't make me laugh I would like to know how you think you pay I really would" 1 if you retorted Hairy "But laughter doesn't alter facts and I still say that I pay Farmer Brown'4 Boy for all that he does for me And so I have my self respect which is somethipg I wouldn't have if I did as some people I could mention "Meaning demanded Sammy Jay angrily "Is it necessary to mention names?" replied Hairy you mean persisted Sammy Jay growing more angry Senator Borah at all disturbed by the term as applied to Americans who believe with George Washington that this first and most important business is to mind its own business and not mix up in all the dogfights of the Old World Isolation says Senator Borah is freedom of action Let us then have plenty of it What a grand "thing it would have been if we had developed the isolation idea about 1917 and through all those years when we were sending billions across the sea in Then we have been coaxing those debtors to please send us a little on account and they have been calling us Shylocks And too we be under the necessity today of borrowing ten thousand millions to help keep a lot of our own people out of the poorhouse "If found a feather that fits your coat keep retort Hairy and began to Up the branch to ahich he was clinging Tap tn tap went his stout bill Up When he stopped tapping he bW to talk again as if to himself -5 you respect yourself you east expect your neighbors fa Tnyn said he "and the respect of jour neighbors is one of the than that makes life worth lvlng I lase my self respect IH spmewhere and live by myself jj lose my independence I lose bit respect so I pav as I go I aini have paid and I always will" Bv this time Sammy Jay fairly dancing up and down rage 'T've heard enough of that-he screamed "Talk is cheap ft the cheapest thing in the woril You say you pav but I want to bt shown Yes sir I want to be shown I never have seen you pay and I don't expect ever to see you pay Talk prove anything except ing that you have an extremely good opinion of ourself If you me j'ou don't know what you an talking haven't asked replied Hairy "You see what you thick doesn't matter the least teeny weecy bit to me You happen to be one of the neighbors for whose respect I care nothing at all just nothing a all You see I care for the respect of only those whom I Whereupon Hairy resumed hs tapping of the branch and turn'd his back on Sammv Jav (Copvnght 1933 br Judith screamed Involuntarily The approaching figure stopped slfbrt a voice called and a few seconds later Judith was in the arms of Randall SpencerVhlle the moon seemed to beam approval Judith for brief blissful moments forgot all her troubles worries and dangers in the ecstasy of reunion Randall brought her back to a sudden realization of reality by the exclamation: "My Ood Judith you weren't In that car burning down there below were Judith nodded "Jumped Just in time she said She could feel a tremor pass through him as he held her in I close then: I "You must be badlv shaken tip The hut is onlv a little tyav from here Come and rest and then I'll take you "What time is Judith asked watch was i "Quarter to Spencer replied I Sally will be said ccncmedly smiled 1 of yourself for once Youvc had some slight to be worried on jour own I'm thinking Limp- aren't little said Judith trying suppress a wince of pain "I must turned my ankle when I from the car You mustn't Randall I'm too But Randall Spencer had her irt i his ajms as though she were a child and after her first mild protest Judith snuggled down with a sigh of contentment and allowed him to carry her as long as her conscience would permit "Now you must let me she said "I pm too heavy for you to carry me any further It's delicious She kicked and squirmed i i i i I I 3 i i I1 Coming Back But Not Far In 38 years on the city desk ot The News we were asked about 17 trillion questions most of them foolish as to dates and doings of the dead past And to each and all of them we managed to shoot back some kind of an answer When was the great flood on the Penobscot? Judith March 1846 When was President Garfield shot? Saturday July 2 1881 OK But curiously enough the question most frequently asked was: "When and where did Fitzsimmons beat March 17 1897 Carson City Nevada "My "My Judith Spencer "Think cause account ing "A to have jumped Jay li The next story Show 'Of course there ARE people always have been from Samuel Pepys to date who DO keep diaries but most of them are people who haven't (much of anything else to do And most of the stuff they record is of no earthly use or interest Wouldn't I sell for a cent a column MORNING LIGHT GRANGE MEETING a millionairess now and must practice being waited on You see I read the newspapers even in my sylvan seclusion" "Are you sorry I accepted the Judith asked Vith concern "No I think It was a very sensible thing to Spencer replied I understand it from the papers there was another and older will leaving the estate to young Stokes and from what seep of that young gent anybody who gets the best of him has my approval on general principles So far as the money goes though you won't need it if I ever get clear of the infernal mess I'm in I have enough for both of A worried crease came into Judith's forehead dear why you prove your innocence? thev accuse "Beginning to doubt me Hespoke lightly but there was an overtone cf anxiety in hls voice said Judith stoutly tell me you are innocent That is enough for me If I had doubted you I certainly would not have accepted the "I said Spencer putting the coffee pot on the little oil stove In one corner of the shack would have been rather indelicate If you had believed me guilty The papers say I was the last person known to been with the old gentleman the night of his murder I left him alone about half past six We had considerable of an argument but parted on good terms It was a misunderstanding over a business matter that we fought out verbally "Mr Stokes and I were partners as his papers will show in a mining Venture in old Mexico The man who was looking after our affairs out there turned out to be a crook and we both lost quite heavily Mr Stokes rather blamed me because I had recommended the man who proved false tf this trust It was all In good fatth on my part though We had college mates and I had always thought him straight I tried on several occasions to convince tha old gentleman that he was taking an unjust attitude but didn't make much headway until that fatal night I went to hls office determined to make Mr Stokes satisfied even if I had to offer to assume the entire Burden of the loss myself So after all argument had proved unavailing I did just that I wrote out mv check for the amount he had last in the venture and told him I wanted his confidence at anv cost 1 That seemed to convince him He tore up the check said lie was no welcher and would sfrnd hls own lasses shcok hands and declared he was satisfied "When I left soon after that he had started to do some writing That may hae been the holograph will they found leaving his fortune to you I understand it was dat'd the day cf his death Somebody must have visited the old gentleman after I had left and killed him Whoever it was wrote mv Initials in the old man's blood No doubt he 1 had ben lurking about somewhere i heard Mr Stokes and I in argu- ment and thought the circum- stances offered a opportunity as thev to throw the suspicion cn me That all I know' about the Stokes murder case "I wonder said Judith thoughtfully vou to Captain McMahon and told him all this franklv Just as you have me if he wouldn't absolve you from suspicion? It all seems so plain to "You forget mv darling" said Spencer with a smile "that thev have alread- com let ed me in own eves of being the boss of the gangster outfit" that is Judith exclaimed Surelv they have no grounds for real grounds but grounds that thev think arc leal Oh thev're honest enough in their conviction Judith and I cannot disprove their apparent evidence just at this moment I hope to be able to "I can't understand" said Judith but- I trust you Oh I almost forgot to tell I liae engaged Mr Anderson as mv personal attorney' and his first and foremost dutv is to prove vour a large order for anv lawyer" laughed Spencer just now" told him that every dollar of my Inheritance should go to that purnose if it was said Judith "Rannr I bring him to talk to veu? feel that he can help you I have a great deal of confidence in him- and I'm sure he believes in your innocence came to ner and kissed her almost reverently faith and devotion are more than any man deserves" he said feelingly vouVe an angel awfullv trite but it's the onlv word that fits case Some day I'll talk to Anderson smart and straight Gosh the boiling Spencer took pot off the stove and set it with two tin cup on the plain kitchen table with which the shack was furnished He found a package of cookies on the shelf and set them rn table too with a tin of canned milk and a bowl of sugar supper bieAkfast or whatever you want to call it is said and get Judith smillnglv seated In one of the two kitchen chairs which the shanty boasted and reached the sugar Spencer snatched it awav need he teased well if going to pout like that you can hate a this laughed Judith "Just you and me and a tiny shack Who wants to be a She was completely happy for the first time in weeks -Red Hair And Blue Coat The twenty-four-hour system of reckoning time was among the recommendations put forward by an international conference of twenty-five nations in Washington in 1884 but it did not win general favor The nations saw practical difficulties confronting any sudden attempt to number the hours of the day from zero to twenty-four and nothing was done about it then Nevertheless gradually and sporadically in one country and another in one official service or another the twenty-four-hour system has come into use and a movement is nuw afoot to extend it under official sanction in Great Britain No legislative measures appear to be contemplated in the United States but as the convenience and accuracy of the system is demonstrated abroad it is likely not to be long until the United States adopts it for certain services On December 7 according to Nature the British scientific weekly the House of Lords adopted a resolution recommending thatthe Post Office use the twenty-four-hour system and that the railroads be invited to use it in their timetables It has long since been adoptee by astronomers and by the British Army Navy and Air Force: "While the present arrangement causes little inconvenience in private said Nature people will probably agree with the As- tronomer Royal who is supporting the project that the adoption of the twenty-four-hour day would be a small but easily made step in the direction of greater ultimate public Under the twenty-four-hour "system the day begins at midnight and the hours are counted as usual to 12 noon Instead of beginning to count to 12 again in the post-meridian hours the nations that make use of the continuous system count from 12 on to 24 and thus 13 is 1 14 it 2 and so on to 24 midnight In France where the twenty-four-hour day has generally supplanted the old before-noon and after-noon designation not only are letters stamped in accordance with the new system and railroad time-tables made up on that basis but theatrical and concert and opera posters always indicate the starting time thus The proponents of the new system hold that the public would soon become familiar with the new designations of the afternoon hours and would recognize their convenience an assertion that is borne out by the testimony of persons who have lived under the twenty-four-hour system abroad In conversation and for normal social and business purposes in which there is little chance of confusion A and designations would continue to be used In the transition period nor would any alteration of clocks by having two sets of figures from 1 to 12 and 13 to 24 be necessary Public contact would come chicly through railroad time-tables the time stamp on letters and telegrams and possibly the hours for -beginning meetings and shows For those purposes would quickly be recognized as what is now 5 would be recognized as "9:45 and so on NEUBI RG CFNTFR Xemburg Gran So 57 nt It -alar Jan 5 mih orthf Trndlton presiding ThFrt 0 brr tnd fUe xisiiora from ail the rommtUff lead pproei tnd other buMn traotar The Installation ot officer fottowd wlrth Worthy State Gae Keeper YJ Hammond of Eislon Star Gran ten a lnt alltn 'or rer Officer yere installed a foioy: Vi-ter Doan oerer Kevril ateaiard Thomas Mum aaMant ivtemard Leon Co bv chaplain Dorotb Sidehnker treasurer Vwlam Goodrich fhcretarj Hazel Lai eres Mrie Smith Christina Littlffl'M iFiOra Vera Sel ladv aMMant Moa LM "Thursday June 10 eighteen umpty-seven Dined as usual So-and-so called Went for a walk Weather Well what of it? There are signs that the horse is coming back During the decade from 1920 to 1930 the horse population of the United States decreased from 20000000 to 13500-000 but by March 1 1933 it' had increased to 15250000 Having plenty of hay and grass many farmers laid up the car and put the horse to work The relation between the cost of gasoline and horse feed may have something to do with revived interest in the horse One argument for the car was that the horse would "eat his head when not working while consumption of gasoline stopped when the car went into the garage But the State and the Federal Governments lave boosted the tax until the horse may be cheaper though he eats when not working There will always be uses for the horse and a place for him But whether his services are cheaper or costlier than gasoline he never can take the place of the motor car One reason is that he keep step with the world today too slow Another is that he haul the load One big motor van carries as much as half-a dozen two-horse hitches For show under saddle or on the track the horse is Otherwise not so good He may come back but not far playfully and he set her gently down no weight at he protested "but here's where we have to pick our way carefully down the mountainside and if I should stumble with you In my arms we might hoth go down to join that Something was said here the other day about the youthful innocence of the columnists who parade ancient Morning Light Grange met in regular session on Jan 6 with Worthy Master Littlefield in the chair It was voted to send the Worthy Lecturer to the Conference at Augusta and pay his expenses It was also voted to furnish dinner for the Fish and Game Asso-eiaton that Is to meet here in February the date to be decided later During recess Beano was played Literary program was as follows: Reading Sister Dresser reading Sister Lucy Austin recitation little Miss Wildes: story Brother Cronk-hite reading Sister Dorothy Dresser Installation of officers is to held on Jan 2hth and a real old fashioned harvest feast Ls to be served slang and historic gags as brand- smoking car Take hold of my Smith- exrcuf Guv Kimball i An orMer tew nd in the do- 1 in room Fmar meie nen bv 8 'Officer Will Hammond F'ret Haiamffltd Mr Hammond and Mm Hammond and I I recitation Sr Hahimond all of 'star Gran new wisecracks There's the phrase "bawling meaning a vociferous tongue-lashing Just been looking over lively Well hand and go Randall Spencer went ahead on i the narrow path winding down the i steep hillside through undergrowth I 1 1 Mr Bangor Courier of Nov 20 1838 and and scrub trees walking slowly and Mothers therein we find that some of the Maine newspapers "have been bawling out lustily for Mr Ruckles to resign his seat in True enough "there is no new thing under the colds ICKS In treating chi! take chances use VapoRui Dnrini: th- rburil of irl nolriirr bcxilf Ort Bnri Indian reranllv half dim roind In 1937 was found among the rama'n Sterilization in America PROVED1BYX2IGEN IRATiOR! District Attorney Clifford announces that he is ready to get right after kidnapers Let's see are there or were there ever any kidnapers Maine? We ought to be much obliged for all that snow according to experts in extracting sunbeams from cucumbers It may have saved us from an epidemic of grip Well maybe Anyway the snow Is here so the use of kicking Plowing and shoveling accomplish more Gen big soldier man who now bosses the New York police department has started in to drive the crooks and gangsters out of the big town any of them will come down this way? Well no Pickings too lean Dean Ackerman of the Columbia School of Journalism says It was the newspapers that steadied the American people through the depression It was and he might have added it is the newspapers that 'steady the people through everything But they get Tnuch thanks If you like a paper and its editor you admit that it at all bad: ir you like a paper or its editor you get right out in the middle of Post Woodin Is Out i holding Judith's hand Presently they emerged at a lower level from which they could see still further 1 below them the smoking twisted ruins cf Miss Madison's sedan Judith shuddered "When we get to the hut vou must tell me all about said Spencer "Just a little farther down the hill and we reach the woods road that you and 1 drove through i a few nights ago remember? and Ihen only a few steps to my palatial summer heme in the Presently Judith found herself in his arms again and when she protested he only laughed and stopped his stride long enough to kiss the words away from her lips Thus he carried her from the foot of the hill to the little shack hidden In the trees and bushes He laid her gently on the cot that served him as a bed and she gave a sigh of relief and relaxation "I guess I need to light the laughed Spencer got a They had a sUver moon like a new-stamped coin whose soft rays pouring through the small window afforded all the light that Ifcvers needed "Now we must see to that he said presently and gently removed her shoe "It is a bit he said "I have some liniment that may help He got the bottle from a nearby shelf and as impersonally as though he were taking care of a child pulled off her stocking and bathed the swollen ankle with liniment he asked finally "U-hum she confessed "All right that's enough then Now just let me wavih this infernal liniment off my hands" By the he had dene that the ankle was already feeling better or at least so Judith said She was pulling her stocking on as he came back into thp house from the pitcher pump where he had washed hiS hands "How about a cup of he asked brace ycu up after your harrowing adventure have a fire in a Jiffy" "It would be Judith mur-murad suddenly remembering that her at Miss had been wholly foodless and that she had not eaten sipce noon "But I ought not to have you waiting on me get up and make the do nothing of the said Spenper my guest and an invalid besides and the bare suggestion that you make the coffee is an insult to my process as a He laughed "Besides you're With press comment in Canada and the United States in many cases bitter against government in the Republic of Germany in the matter of the enactment of legislation legalizing sterilization in certain cases it may come as a' surprise to those protesting to learn that nearly half the States of the Union and one of the nine Provinces of Canada have had similar laws in effect for someyears It is calculated that to date no fewer thari twelve thousand persons on the North American continent have been affected by such legislation and this without the outcry which has taken place when the government of Germany begins to do likewise in the cases of persons with specified mental and physical defects In Canada it is the Province of Alberta which has put into effect such legislation which is classified as That Province adopted this measure as a protection to the public Extreme cases are concerned under it In the United States no fewer than twenty-three States have legalized sterilization for similar reasons the time during which the legislation has been in effect varying The decision to apply protection of this kind to the public was taken in various parts of the United States no section lacking such laws New England the South the Middle West and the Pacific Coast all have adopted this method of improving the physical and mental Standard New Hampshire is the State nearest to us in which such a law is in effect but its immediate neighbor Vermont has similar legislation and Connecticut has also Of the States West Virginia Virginia and North Carolina form a group with Mississippi somewhat separated Delaware is the only other Atlantic Coast State with an for a like purpose The entire Pacific coast has adopted such legislation the States being Washington Oregon and California Among what might be called the Mountain States are Montana Idaho and Utah Of the Western States there are North Dakota Nebraska Kansas Iowa Oklahoma Minnesota Wisconsin Michigan and Indiana immediately to the south Office square and yell that rotten that is until some day you de cide to run for office Then why then different this abont that Quoddy power scheme: It could sbe put through but the the product couldn't be sold That's what Washington says Maybe Washington is mistaken Hope so In accepting the resignation of William Woodin as Secretary of the Treasury President Roosevelt paid due compliment to Mr "calm practical and courageous action in the difficult days of last Spring and Mr Woodin was of great service to the President in the early part of the administration His conserva- tism was accepted by the country as a barrier against the forces of radicalism in the party When he received an indefinite leave of absence because of ill health it was evident that his Treasury service was at an eno It may not be true that the President had determined to be his own Secretary of the Treasury but it Isv certain that the duties of that office after Mr Woodin became incapacitated were administered by a group whose methods were not those of Mr Woodin The influence of Professor Warren became paramount in the major operations of tHe Treasury Now the old pupil Mr Morgenthau attains the full title of Secretary as Mr Woodin disappears entirely from the Washington picture the finest baker in sxy men whose wives their baking with Ceresou Cercsota eliminates th common cause of (yaking failuf dependable flour that varies to time scienti milled by a unique process fully selected wheats it' is 2 that never varies Always uniform Cercsota thus s5ur perfect results every time you 1 Cercsota is a "Not-Bleached It always comes to you io its During a discussion of the liquor bill when the subject under discussion was the proposed increase of wine quota Representative Knutson of shouted: "The time has come when we should make ourselves independent of the dead beat countries of Europe Do we owe France From all over the chamber arose cries of "No Knutson continued "Jn reply to our requests for payment France thumbs her "hose and tells us to go to Hell The best part of France is the cemeteries in which lie our gallant American boys slain in the Ain't it the truth? creamy white color And your baking that rich wheat unspoiled Kjt bleaching The President of Tajik Republic has been deposed The notation in the Soviet files NOT BLEACHED A 1ab of prehistoric mud bearing marVi of raindrops that fell millions of yes ato is among the new tcqulslt on of a Muum at Yale It bears evidence pasting ihowar falling so long ago i presumably reads "Dictator but not re.