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EiUbluhed July 4 1892
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A Federal Judge From Kansas j
Richard J. Hopkins of Kansas is a federal judge!
by the grace of God Pres. Hoover and ratification j
of the nomination by the American senate.
Hopkins' nomination was given rough hammering.
He was charged with having violated the Kansas
constitution by seeking a federal office while a mem-
ber of the state supreme court. He was charged with
having caused vagrancy laws to be enforced against
miners striking on demand for a living wage; it was
charged that he had accepted money as a speaker for
the Anti-Saloon league while a state office holder
and that he had failed to account for all the fees
collected during his administration as attorney gen-
eral of Kansas.
Sens. Allen and Capper gave Hopkins a clean bill
of health.
Forty-nine senators voted for confirmation. Twen-
ty-two senator* led by Blane of Wisconsin a republi-
can progressive voted to toss the nomination of Hop-
kins into the senate wastebasket. It is the proud
boast of the holy-rollers that to be a member nun
cr woman has to be "without spot or blemish” On
the surface of things it must be admitted that Hop-
kins of Kansas would not qualify for admission or
admittance into the holy-roller organization.
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Railway Income Show* Increase
According to a bulletin Issued by the Texas rail-
road commission “in spite of the keen motor truck
and bus competition ret railway operating income
for the 10 months ending Oct. 311929 showed an in-
crease over the same period of 1928.
It is said figures never lie.
Read them: Net income. $35023743 or an in-
crease of $279970. In the old days of the populist
party a Kansas editor won nationwide fame by a
Story with this caption: “Whats the Matter With
Kansas?”
All ancient history now.
It would be impossible for a Texas editor to win
even the fame that attaches itself to a shriveled lo-
calism by asking “What s the matter with Texas” for
the simple reason that there is nothing the matter
It is growing by leaps and bounds. Its industries
are expanding at a rapid rate. Ite cities and towns
are moving upward and onward and all its people
who read and think are planning for a high tide
prosperity in the year 1930.
France Back* the Sub
Now it is announced by the voice of the French
parliament that the assembly cannot countenance the
French delegation at the London naval conference
accepting even in principle the abolition of subma-
rines a* weapons of national defense. Mars has not
been placed in his coffin. National defense at least
In France Is as lively as ever. France is not a pacifist.
She is for peace but the leaders of thought in France
insist that submarines are powerful agencies of peace.
They know what happened to Fiance in the dead
years. They do not know what may happen to France
in coming years.
I The Once Over !
I By H. L PHILLIPS
THE WHITE HOUSE FIRE (
fCopyrigfct 1939 by The Associated Newspapers.)
The fire in the executive offices of the White House
brings up the question of Vgasidential etiquette on
such occasions. Should the President run to a fire?
Is it permissible for him to point? Is it proper for
him to cry "Looklt!” when the flames suddenly break
through at a new quarter? Can he get in the fire*
men's way with impunity?
• • • •
Reports of President Hoover's conduct at the fire
are meager but the Impression left in the public mind
Is that he was pretty dignified and at no time gave
way to the emotions without which no fire is real
fun.
• • • •
It was probably extremely formal. Very likely Mr.
Akerson one of his three secretaries first carried him
the news.
• • • •
"Mr. President" said Mr. Akerson ‘'you’ll have to go
to a fire.’*
’ Fire?” repeated Mr. Hoover pretty much annoy-
ed with a thing like that when he wanted to be home
with his family trimming the tree. "Don't be silly."
“It's a very important fire Mr. President and
I ”
"Well let the Vice-President attend it. I can’t be
bothered today. Let Charlie and Mrs. Gann go to it.”
"If you pardon my saying so. Mr. Hoover this is
a fire at which your presence will be expected. There
will be unfavorable comment if you do not appear "
• Why aren't you like Richey? There’s a secretary.
He'd never bother me with a fire. He’d take care of
it himself.”
• • • •
Mr. Newton another Presidential secretary dashing
up all hot and bothered: Oh. er has Mr. Akerson
told you about it?
Mr. Hoover: Yes and I was Just telling him I dan t
see why secretaries don't look out for fires particu-
larly night before Christmas fires without bothering
me about them. „ . .
Mr. Richey a third secretary: You really should
attend this fire Mr. President.
Mr. Hoover: No you'll have to take word that I
cannot attend it. Express my regrets of course.
And Newton I wish you wouldn't smoke those ter-
rible cigars.
Mr. Newton: I'm not smoking any cigar sir.
Mr. Hoover: I'm sure I smelled something burn-
ing.
Mr. Newton:* You probably smell the executive
Mr. Hoover (puttied): Executive offices? Smell
the executive offices?
Newton: Yes. that's where the fire is.
Mr. Hoover: What! Why didn't you say so in the
first place?
Mr. Newton: I thought Akerson told you.
Mr. Akerson: I assumed Newton had mentioned
Mr Richey: 1 supposed both boys had told you
where the fire was. _ ..
Mr. Hoover: Well what should I wear. Is there
any precedent ?
Mr. Akerson: There were no fires under Mr.
Coolidge or for several terms back but I think any-
thing to proper except a silk hat.
Mr. Hoover: Come then let us go!
(The President proceeds to the fire with the usual
escort.)
Europe for Europeans
Representatives of German and Czechoslovakian
automobile companies have formed a European com-
mittee in the automobile industry to fight against the
growing importations of American cars. Early In the
new year another meeting will be held to discuss the
possibilities of forming a continental combination to
combat the trans-Atlantic trade invasion.
Henry Ford has invaded Ireland and Russia. He
is said to have planning an invasion of France. Oen-
eral Motors has Invaded Germany. American in-
vasion while the World war was on drew the cheers
and thanks of Europe.
It was an invasion that saved the allied govern-
ments and their people. It cost Americans *23.000.-
000.000. A trade invasion appears to be different from
an armed invasion launched to bring about the peace
of the world.
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Ural. Rex Dalian! grinned at the pretty nurse.
READ THIS FIRST:
Patricia Blair. Red Cross ambu-
lance driver and heiress picks up an
injured flyer near the American
lines in France whom she identi-
fies. partially as her two brother.
Jimmy. He Is suffering from a
fractured skull and is entered at
the C— hospital as an aphasia vic-
tim. A short time before another
aphasia victim had been listed at
the hospital a youth in a German
uniform who had carried Lieuten-
ant Rex Dallard. wounded Cana-
dian. from No Man's Land. The
youth insisted he was an American
flyer by name Jimmy who had
been captured behind German
lines. At the hospital Lieutenant
Dallard sees Pat Blair is captivated
by her and struck by the resem-
blance between the girl and the
Jimmy who carried him from the
shell hole.
Doctors at the hospital express
the belief that Jimmy might be a
spy an opinion that Is hotly dis-
puted by Nurse Margery Lynne.
At the same time the peculiarities
of the other aphasia case are noted
the injured flyer identified as
James K. Blair appearing to have
lucid moments.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY.
CHAPTER 5
Lieutenant Rex Dallard smiled a
glad smile of welcome as the trim;
figure of Margery Lynne came in-
to view in the open doorway sepa-
rating the small room in which he.
with three other serious cases load
been segregated from the hospital's
main ward. He was 'till weak from
the operation of the morning be-
fore and his injured arm still throb-
bed and ached unceasingly.
But the lieutenant's smile was a
happy smile. Could he not wiggle
his toes now and flex his knee
joints? Two commonplace little
tricks perhaps but quite sufficient
to make one smile with joy and
gratitude.
For it had been distinctly doubt-
ful. previous to the operation
whether Lieutenant Dallard would
ever again wiggle his toes or flex his
knee Joints. And it had been ex-
tremely doubtful whether he would
ever walk again. It h«d been very
doubtful indeed whether he would
come out of the operation alive.
But he had survived the ordeal
and the extraction of three bul-
let* from the base of his spine had
removed the cause of the paralysis
that had benumbed him from the
waist down.
“Top of the morning lieuten-
ant!" • us the greeting his smile
elicited from pretty Margery Lynne
who had Just come on duty as relief
to the acting night nurse a con-
valescent soldier who had been a
hospital orderly before the war.
"Good morning. Good-looking!"
returned Dallard. his smile widen-1
ing to a grin. “It's good for a poor
soldier's eyes so It Is to see you so
spick and span this .early in the
morning!"
•'And I wonder why the poor sol-
dier is so tickled this same early
morning?’’ came the smiling re-
sponse s ‘ Good-looking” tripped
lightly up to his bedside and casual-
ly Inserted a thermometer between
hla teeth thereby stopping his flow
of talk for the time being. Then
as she picked up his wrist prepara-
tory to the taking of his pulse she
added: “By the smug pleased look
he is wearing I’d say he is the liv.
ing picture of the well-fed cat that
licked up the poor baby's cream! I
wonder why?”
If it is possible for the human eye
looking straight up into another
human eye to actually twinkle
then it was a twinkle in the eye of
Lieutenant Dallard that caused
Nurse Lynne to giggle as she stood
holding his wTist and counting his
pulse beats carefully. C maybe it
was just a tiny suppressed laugh.
Whatever tt was it brought forth a
throaty chuckle from the recum
bent lieutenant .... And it was
just this little intimate exchange
indicative of a sense of humor in
the heart and soul of each that
served as an opening wedge to a
real acquaintance between these
two.
And then as she released his
wrist and removed the thermome-
ter from between his lips the Irish-
man gave vent W> a vague sigh.
"And so"' he began with slow de-
liberation. "I look like the cat
that scratched the baby that licked
up the cream that—”
The ridiculous parody stopped
short as if choked in the smother
of the soft palm that pressed down
firmly on the speaker's mouth.
•‘Hush hush!” came the severe
admonishment in a husky whis-
per. "You must conserve your
strength and not talk so much!
Have you never read the sad story
of Ah Said's unhappy fate the
poor man who talked his own head
off?”
No. the loquacious lieutenant had
never read the sad tale had never
even heard of Ah Said and what
was more he never. . . . But could
she tell him anything about his
voung friend. Jim? How was the
boy getting on? Had the kinks in
his brain straightened out yet?
And what sort of treatment was he
receiving? And—oh. yes. there was
something else too that he would
kind of like to know about: that
flyer • 'lap. the brother of the pret-
ty girl chauffeur brought tn the
day he. the lieutenant arrived.
How about him? And the girl—
what had become of her?
Whereupon Nurse Margery laugh-
ed softly her charming features re-
suming their professional serious-
ness. Was the lieutenant quite
sure he liad named all his wants?
There was nothing else he would
like to know that morning—nothing
that he had percharee. overlooked?
“Now. now. Nurse dear be good
be good!" coaxed Dallard. “Be
your own sweet kind self and tell
me what I asked you. For I'm
’ orried about the lad who brought
me in from a living death In that
THE GRAB BAG
December 31 1939
Who am I? What race did I win
last summer? Who won the race
for lighter planes?
What country is said to have
neither policemen nor prisons?
What production was being given
in the Iroquois theater in Chicago
when it turned?
"Behold* I shew you a mystery;
We shall not all sleep but we shall
all be changed.” Where is this pas-
sage found in the Bible?
Today’s Horoscope
Persons bom on this day are
sometimes selfish because they are
thoughtless. They are capable of
overcoming this tendency.
Answers to Foregoing Questions
1. Mrs. Louise Thaden; women's
trans-continental derby; Mrs. Phoe-
be Omlie.
2. Iceland.
3. "Mr. Bluebeard ”
4. I Cor. xv 51.
Star Lore!
ECLIPSE OF THE MOON
By Arthur DeV. Carpenter
A total eclipse of the Moon oc-
curs when the moon in its orbit
passes into the earth’s shadow im-
mediately bac kof the earth from
the sun. If the moon passes but
partially into the earth’s shadow
then of course there will be but a
partial eclipse of the moon. When
the moon is eclipsed it is always at
the time of full moon and is close
to one of her nodes that is. about to
cross the ecliptic. A total lunar
eclipse lasts much longer than a
solar because the moon has to tra-
verse a long distance in passing
through the earth’s shadow.
(More tomorrow)
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WONDER IF HE REALIZES HOW FAR HE’S COASTED?
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shell-hole! How are they treating
him? Tell me won t you?”
And pretty Margery Lynne told
him all she knew about his friend.
Jim in whose defense she herself.-
had taken up arms against her
chief-of-staff. Then she told him
about the flyer and his strange ac-
tions. And she included in this
something she had not as yet. le-
velled to anyone else. In conclu-
sion she told him of the girl chau-
ffeur. Pat. or Patricia Blair re-
garding whom she said he must
have heard in the United Staves.
For Patricia Blair and her twin
brother. James K. Biair Margery
informed him. were the famous
orphan heirs to a twenty million
dollar estate that was being held m
trust for the two until their twenvy-
fifth birthday. And that event ac-
cording to Margery would trans-
pire on the first coming January.
“As for your friend. Jim” she con-
tinued. flashing a cautious glance
around to make sure that none duv
the lieutenant was listening. "I
*^me close to getting my walking
papers on his account.” and she re-
lated In brief the story of her ar-
gument with Dr. Sikes In her re-
ference to the young flyer brougnt
in by Dr. Gordon and Pat Blair
Margery Lynne said:
."If it were not that he was tne
acknowledged brother of Pat Blair.
I would be half inclined to think
there might be something well nov
altogether honest about that young
man!”
In support of her statement sue
gave a recountal of her observations
as previously outlined by her at the
meeting In Dr. Sikes office.
• And that isn't all" she con-
tinued. her voice dropping to a
pitch just loud enough to be heara
by the eagerly listening lieutenant.
••Night before last at seven o'clock
as the night nurse. Decker the
Fame man who has charge of this
room came on duty I happened
by accident to be standing behind a
screen ck*e to Blair's bed. I saw
Decker pass and heard a soft 'pst ’
The night man glanced arouno
swiftly and then tiptoed over to
Blair.
"‘Quick!’ I heard him say in a
sharp whisper ‘give me the dope!'
"The ‘dope' must have been em-
bodied in the words spoken by Blatr
the man supposed to be a victim of
aphasia In its worst form. He spoke
for perhaps twenty seconds in a
low. clear voice. But is wasn't Eng-
lish that he spoke; it sounded to
me like Bulgarian or some other
Slavish tongue. That was all. Deck-
er hurried away and slipped out
from behind the screen without let-
ing Blair see me. A few minutes
later I returned to him with a glass
of cocoa. He drar'- it when I held
it to his Ups. but his manner was
Just as it has been ever since he
came here—with the exceptions I’ve
mentioned— that of one whose
thinking brain is lot working !n
co-ordination with the other parts.
"I haven’t reported this Decker
incident to Dr. Sikes as yet. nor
spoken of it to anyone besides you.”
said Margery in conclusion. "But
what do you suppose it all means
lieutenant? Why these odd lapses
from stupidity to lucidity? And how
come Pat Blair ? brother an Am-
erican born and bred to be talking
some slavish language?”
The lieutenant shook his head
slowly. thoughtfuUy as though the
question were beyond his mental
grasp. After a moment he looked
up.
“There certainly to a large color- I
ed gent hidden somewhere in the
woodpile.” he remarked. Then he
added: “It to almost too much of
a coincidence to accept off-hand
and yefc—heres’ this lad who car-
ried me in from the shell-hole.
Back there in that hole he told of
being shot down in the enemy's
territory his ship and he only
slightly damaged Then his uniform
with his personal letters identity
tag and all are stolen. A German
outfit to left for him. He dons it
and In a day or so makes his get-
a-^ay. He is shot In the arm and
that morning stumbles into the
hole where I am. Later he mentions
casually that his name is Jim
that he was bam at 11:45 p. m. on
New Year’s Eve of the -ir 1883
just twenty minutes before his twin
sister whom he calls ‘Pat’ : 4 a
'dam pretty girl!’ .
“Then comes the big shell and
Jim to rendered non compus men
tis after which ware both brought
here and sometime later in blows
this Dr. Gordon and the girl chauf-
feur with the flyer whom she states
is her twin brother Jim. Her name
is Patricia and like the twin sister
of my friend. Jim. she Is called Pat.
She has recognized the airman as
her brother largely because of the
letters photo of herself and the
Identification tag found in his pock-
ets. His face is nadly disfigured by
cuts and bruises ard without the
letters he might not have been ac-
cepted as her brother whom she
hadn't seen for fifteen months. And
now we have these funny actions
of our flyer lad to eoosider. Tell
me. what the devil la the answer?'*
"Didn’t you ever heer of the
Twenty Million Dollar Twins of
Cleveland lieutenant?” asked Mar-
gery Lynne as if they constituted
the answer to his question.
Looking down at him the girl saw
an expression of wonderment to-
gether -’ith the slow dawning of an
Inner eovictlon creep over his face.
"Hie Twenty Million Dollar
Twins" he repeated thoughtfully
his voice betraying awe. “Well 111
be darned!” _
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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