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IODAV <ind
frank PARKER
STOCKBRIDeE
!old to fiitht^Urted work' on this hujje first consideration in' startinjf or rua-
iPaintin)' while the war was still sro-jninjr any -bank. Real banker* lie
inp on. It was shown to miflions in a awake hiffhts/worryinK whether they
I special building- in Paris for years af-jousrht to lend money to Tom, Dick or
ter the armistice, and has been i Harry, and whether the Widov Jones'
irought to Chicago fo!* moce millions (deposit is safe. We need fewer banks
I and more real bankers.
. , - I hope that everybody who goes to i ——— ^
>1 the Chicago fair will make it a point I USHER \T WHITE HOUSE
to sec this magnificent jiicture. And I %. . i . «», .. r.
My congratulatjons to ‘ Ike Hoover,
I hope e^-erybody who reads this will go
’ to (’hicago this summer. I know of no
'wny of spending a vac.ation more in-
I Lcrestirigly and more, usefully.
THHtTEFNTH INSTALLMENT
The story so far: Joyce Ashton,
fmnr^rrr.ographer. Tn a skidding taxi
cab accident in Chicago, suffered loss
of merw.ii y. Two years later she woke
one nio-.-mog after a fall from her
horse to f;nd herself, under the name
of F'riiis. married to Noil Packard,
rich California fruit packer. She de-
lennine*! to tell nobody of her predica
ment but set about learning what she
could of her life in the interval. From
tnd c -nvoiy^ation of her friends and
iettt r.^ in her desk she gathered that
yhe had Veen a heartless, pleasure-1 ov-
the previous evening.
Joyce had been curioip
‘Abbott, the one woTiTah i'Jett seenVed
{tion did not weaken.
s to see Joyce Her thoughts swung rour»iV
Neil. “What was she gr>;ng to
to like, and the meeting with her had continue indefinitely living
in
come two days after her conversation
with Ethel about the dinner for Rhoda
Maitland. It was nearly five o’clock
and Joyce, dressed in riding clothes,
was waiting for Neil to come- home
and take a ride with her before dinner.
She had just left^he mirror in the
living-room when she heard a motor
and looking out saw a small, shiny
black road.ster drive up to the door.
The girl who got out was dressed in'
white linen with a white felt
same house with him as they had been
irnilossible. She- had 'not
i.'oing was
TAXES ___
The state of New York has abolish-, RECri VTION
eil a:] personal property taxe.. That, There is going to'be a lot of contm
.»is a stf p in-the right diroctioT; Kl>0'le versy ov
To this unfair tax. and industry. I am one of the
the i I call it unfair because it presses op '»b!-fa.'-hionod Americans who believe
the poor more than on the rich. Tlie the less the government has to
tax assessor can count the farmer’s''**’ "’**^*’ busines.s th^-better. I think
chief usher of the White Hou.se, who
h.as ju.st finished his forty-second year
of service there. His real name is Ir
ving H. Hoover, and when Benjamin
Harrison, yras president he was a
young* electrician. Mr. Harrison had
the first electric paab^buttons in.stall-
.er the PXQtKLJals-^tbe^TTivr-li^^ House. Young Hoover
to regulate all kinds of busi-j did the job. They got'out of order so
known what she was undertaking cattle < and hogs, his horses and his
liig vt/ung woman. One letter that 1""iin a white telt sport
troubed her was from a woman sign-i and white buckskin oxfords. She
ing herself Sophie, blaming Frills for was certainly rather pretty, with- her
not giving a home to a baby Sophie i ■'*’”»** features.
when she made that decision
“I sujipose I .‘hould have gone awa;
in the first place,” .she thought fis-
couragedly; “I can’t rcali7.e in.side cf
me that I’m married to Neil Packard
and I keen having the feeling that
there’s something all wrong about liv
ing with a man so intimately and yet
not so intimately. I’ll ne»or lose that
feeling of uncomfortable shyness ana
.strangeness, I know, until . . . unless
—oh, dear!”
;hat the less the
do with busines.s
that more of our business trouble is
due to too much governmental regula-
maohinery, but what the rich man has,
in his safe-deposit box it^ stocks bnd ithe pa^t than to too little. But
bonrW is'out of sight .afuf he cart/and ' ^ am afraid I am one of a small- mi-
am afraid I-am
iieos lie about it. ' hority just now.
Revision of all our old tax-methods ^ Thei-e are some things, however,
is ip the aiiV I thTik it is a mistake Uvhich properly. should be regulated,
for a state to Ibipose a retail sales Those are line.s of busme.s.s which in
tax. as so many have done lately. I ’theia nature are more efficient as mo-
in the sales tax, because it /hopolies .than in competition. That
bcliev^
often that the president thought there
ought to be an electrician on the job
all the time. He picked “Ike” and
H >over has been there since.
“Ike” is responsible for all the his
toric relics in the presidential man
sion, for the management' of the do
mestic staff and the supen'isibn of all
formal social functions.*"He receives
all distinguished visitors and escorts
them to the president. And he is
pretty nearly the most |>opular man
in Washington.
wa.s caring for. Could it be her baby
Theie might be among them a few
She also found her- herself to the ordeaK of meet- congenial spirits but she did not feel
ing another stranger who was not a I any too hopeful. Yet after all, what
stranger. ^ ! did it matter? She reproved herself
“Sorry to bother you.'Frills. but I’m alb'wing the standaixls T>f
out on business this afternoon,” began .-Xinsworfh to influence her.
rt .\!n.-’.vi)r*h, a poet whose work she | the girl, smiling in a half-apologetic, lb* was nothing to her, she told her-
a~dmfr^. Wh«n Jdyc^w-1 hBtL-dfiftsm'YaHhinnr‘*and:^yo«r
the list T Had
beai's^ equally on everyone according^would include railroads. telegi*aph and-
to how much he sjiends; 'out I think it i telephone lines, electric lighting and I
a state power systems—everything which de- i
i pends upon a public franchise. Then j
ought to be a federal and not
tax
WAN T S
Frills wondered!
.<elf inv 'lved in an affair with a man
riiir.e i Maitland. In San Fianci.sco,
where -^lie went while her husband
was aw ay on business, she met Rob-
prodUcts -as are irre-
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t at neiT !;ome.~ sHe decided to be pleas
unter t.
this l:t.
was patheta-ally anxious to w in back j camp up in the Sierras and so^ the
I'rills’ ./-.e. * committee is planning a big fair and
IS on the list 1 had given'Hie to call
than Frills had been. Button. We want to rai.se a lot piore money .A
was dangerous, too, for Neil I this^ year for the Orphans’ V'acatiorj^ was
.she
startled
(N v\ tio On With the .Story).
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Far ;r the hills Joyce had found a
1 Itle group of pines on the edge of a
towering redwood grove. When she
lay down on her back (n the warm
^unshine and looked up through tV <
pines at tlu- blue sky, she felt as if
siie w.M-e floating in space.
.'-^he lay thinking.of Neil, and with
ii little thi-ill of satisfai-tion she de-
<-ide<l that he show'ed no evidence of
missing tlu* old P’rills.
She bad now met practically every
one w ho moved in their circle in .Man-
zjinita and had found «>iit enoiigb of
sat there motionless, she
to see a “man appear.
With a little gasp of astonishment
Joyce recognized Robert Ainsworth,
entertainment. We want to find out j “Do yiui temembei me ?” asked
what you’ll do for it. Will you enter , Joyce.
the horse show and take on one of the “Oh Lord, how like a woman! Of
'act.s in the evening?” i course I remember you, worse luck!”
INFLATION
inquiring^iend writes to ask
^ me how it will benefit the country to
have the Feileral Reserve banks issue
(three billion dollars of new- money to
4 take np l^vemment bptfdyi The
I swer is that these bonds are now- held
I Vy bunks which are handicapped
j liaving so much of their deposits tied j
up in these “frozen assets.” If the; /
I banks can turn them over for new
sMC,bf natural
placable, like oil,, coal and minerals,
should not be left-to whoever wants
to grab them off, but placed under
governnignt restriction or .stimulation
of production, as circumstances' de-
z.
' - Hut that is about as far as
FOR RF^NT—(i-room house on .\cade-
my street. .Apply to J. A, Bailey. Ic
W.ANTKD—To buy 20 usetl radios and
used parts. (Jash waiting. Special
price.s on Fdectric.-F'ans. For radio re-^
pairing try the Radio Exchange. 2p
- -- ZFOR SALl^—Htn'e^Pfrland-China pigs,^
,^ or will exchange for field peas. W’.
bv I bke to go in govjfrnmental control of;
or
J. Henry, Jr.
6-29-5tp
FOR RENT—.My brick store and fill
ing station in fi-ont of State Train
ing school. .A nice location on main
LA.MONT
cash, tlu'y can use the money to lend ' “'Tom” I.umont, partner in J. P.
foi- productive enterprises. And there and company, / international' fuived h^hwuy. See me at once. J. L.
is ju.st as much behind the new cur-, bankers, is proud of the faCt that he Wright. ‘ Up
i-ency as behind the bonds that is., was a newspaper reporter before he
circumstances so
by safely in mo.st
their bisliuy and
that she-could get
i uses.
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'Hi.* 'oontli \yas nbt yet up but
Joyc*', '.‘fninarizing her imjiressions
T.nd tiv* .nowiedge she had gather* l,j
IVlt fnuT .-1* had given Ikm- envir(*n-
ment a ftu-- study and was enlith-d to
*lraw i'« i- c*r,clusions an*! plan h*'i- fii-
t ur*.* .-mil--i without furtlu’i- lesearch.
Kir-’, -i- to .Neil. She had riiade a
numb‘1 i f enlightening and cheering |
<ii.seov. rx-'s eonceiming hini. He was I
• U'votc I 'o golf but dill-not care forj
ilancing; lie liked li<iuor but never'
*irank to j-xcess, and he disliked risque
stories luorq than most of his ac-
quaintaiic,Vues.se«l. He believed in
taking one’.s part in the life of the
commun.ty but he would have been
happy t^'n'tay at home four evenings!
«tut of A week to enjoy the quiet pleas
ures of i»i-i'.ate life.
On h* ; .eturn from' San F'rancisco
- the g**\-ernment’s credit.
w-as a banker. Lately he has been tell
ing the world what’s wrong w-itm
PAINtlNO—WORLD’S LARGEST i banks
The laigest picture ever painted on, We have the worst banking
I' eanvas will Ih> one of the star attrao-j'n the world, Tom Lamont
Wright.
WHAT DO
P. S. Jeanes
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(ions on the .Midway at the Chicago
I (Vnturv of Progress exposition. It is
'* '(>2 feet long and 1-') feet higji and de
pict.'.. against a background that
show,' all the famous battlefields of
-■i''rance, six thousand individual heroes
f of the Worhl war.* Every one is" a per-
fiit portrait,
(treat Fnuu-h
says, ar.d
lie ought-to know. He a*lvocates bring- ,
ing all^ the commercial hanks of the
nation into the F'ederal Reserve sys-!
teiu, under governmental contr*)!. |
1 do not see how anyone exeept some'
little man who wants to pose as a big
lii ui by i-untiitrg a bank on his (twn. to |
■gratify hlk vanity, can olfjeet t*) tliat.'
DO’
A Laxative that costs
only or less a dose
.NE.XT .TIME yoUi*^need medicine
to uf't on. ihe bowels, try Thed-
ai-tists who wei'*>
‘Do you^remember me?” anked Joyce.
too .SuMie crooks might, hut there aren’t'
— - :o many crooks in the banking busi-
knew he wa.' in ihuuHy earnest. | nc'S as some fidky< think, and they
“S«.iu*‘m-** s-.ispendi‘(r!” she gia\*dy lue gifting v.ee*li]M out. '
i(‘torti‘d. Their *‘y*‘s imd with mutual The main cau.s*> *d" o'ur system <>f/ln-
a moment, and then depi-ndt-nt,
tlu* con\ersatu)»Z.-i so’t of
^Imtuu'v of
(n\j»|tvo\al foi
I -loj .-e lightly t urned
it*i tht* woihl of hooks
uiiall, W-eak hank.- ha.s Ueeii
local prid**. .Safety (d’ the
depositors (*ught to be th*
■tt-Hu'k-Dt-aiight. TT Itrings
“luii-k relief and rs {uiced witblu
rraih ol‘ all. Black-Draught is
one''of the least «‘xi»e'usive laxa*
tiv's tliat yon cart find. A Lbasamt
|i;n Ka-ge eoiit-rins J~> or more dose.s.
BelH'shin.g r**li*“f frvuu coii.stipa-
(ioa t rouhlfs for only a cent or
1 . J dose that’s why tbon.'ands
ol nil n and women piefer Tbed-
ford’s r.'lack l >iaught.
Joyce li.stened* to
mixe.l emotions.
w'ay and smiling pleasantly as
.'he had liiiee more been forced tor face 1-spokt^, “but I’m not riding any more
this appeal wdth'he added w-ith such [irofound gloom
jthal .loyce giggled. “Yiiu’re my pub-*
“Of course. I’m . . . Tm interested >'*'** know!” He looked at her
” began Joyce slowly, feeling her i^nd bioke into a ijmde. Here
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she* -Pb'a***’
turn her
horse and
!em of hei relations with j in shows and I’d rather not take part
He had telejihoned and call-1 in any entertainment, but I’m . . . I’d
the jiio'
Maitlan!
ed ae-.e -al times the first day while , like to help in any other way.”
she wu' out, and on the second morn-1 Her acquie.scence was received with
ing, just a- .she was ready for a ride j Jfi'»t^fully effusive thanks. The girl
»)n Ro'.ia, he ha*l appeared and ! then rose, hesitated for a moment and ! lead Rosita away.
caught 1:-I loyce let her thoughts ! ■'<aid, with a little wistful aii- whichlunch myself
tlwell d.eamily for a moment on .Mait-| Joyce felt instinctively was ijol whol- jjjake good coffee
land and iii.stinctively she found her-|ly genuine. “I wish we might Ik-
l(‘t me take youi-
into the corrul.” j
“But ... I w-a,s ju.st thinking w hat |
a nice jilace this was to eat my lunch,”,
said Joyce doubtfully. j
“Dh. but wait till you have tasteil]
my coffee,” he protested, starting to'
“I’m just going to |
and I really cun
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.self comparing him with .-corn to two
men — Robert .Ainsworth and Neil
i'ackard. .Measu’-e*! by Ainsworth’s
FtBiraard?. Maitland had no chance at
all--it was .dmost unfair even to coni-
I>are them.
Maitland h^d once or twice attempt
ed to reoiv. ;i the subject of their love,
but Joy**.* hud continued to treat him
with such unmi.stakahlc* coldness that
he w U' mifled and finally let her
alone | Joyce, how are
In hei- thoughts she no'w Came liack.j'^haking hund.s
w ith a i|i;icbenihg of he* pulses, to the
problem <>J' her relati»»n.' with Neil.
frieiul.s. I ilo so like to be friend.s" with
every one. If there’.s anything I can
do . . . I’m .so .sorry,”
Who was this girl anyhow? won-
*lered Joyce, .slightly exasperat*‘d by
her meek manner. There had evident
ly been some unpleasantness between
Frill.s and her. But before she h-ud to
speak she w-as saved by the anival of
Neil.
“Well, look w'ho’s here! Hullo,
you?” hi
cordially
He w’us back in a sui prisingly short
' lime and said, “I never eat anything
**\cept bread an*l butter and fi uit an*i I
j coffee for lunch but l' have plenty *)f i
truck in the shack' and I can make
y
anything you .like. Orders taken until
two-thii-tv.”^
“Oh, plea.se *ion’t think of getting
'anything for me except coffee,” pr*)-
itesteil J«)yce tjuickly, “I have my
[sandwiehes which I really must eat or'
exclaimed, 1^9’'^’*’’*'* Icejings would be hurl.”
with her. “W*dl, the i-offee will he done'in a
loyce Abbott, of course! j Tew minute^. .Sjt down or standiip or
“Well, why not sit down? What’s'do whatever you f*T*l like doirg. Ju.st
h * me pi-
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They, hil l gone out together the eve- your hurry?” went on .Neil in his
nir.g ’ efoie, and cooked a Camp supper j heartiest manner, “what do you
high up.*m a Ijill.-^ide overlooking the'know? How's the car working?”
valley. They lingered until it was “Oh, it’s just fine! but I must run
dark, watching ihv^tars creep out uiong niovv. I just came to ask Frilbs
into their places. loyc-e, hugging her if, she’*l help’on the affair lor the Or-
knees. .-lit an«l breathcrl'tn-the peace phan.s Vacation caHvpir J/ood-jye and
and quiet, while Neil stretched out-' thanks ever so much.”
clo.se to her, smoked a pipe and play-^ “Oood-’iye,” said Joyce., She spoke
TlTir^cnrir w-ith Dickie’s- eicra. .-,Zi.ullly.. uyoi:ie,,bi^a.yjiC*_jih..e_cp_uld not
Su.htenly Neil had rolled over, to- Hhink of anything to .say than because
ward Joyce, and. putting his abms -he wished to be di.sagreeable. Neil ac-
a-ound her wai.st, laid his-head *)n her companieil the caller out to her road- thought a man’.s necktie should match
lap. Joyce leaned back restinu her step. Joyce, watching surreptitiously, hi.« .socks, I’ve had to warn casual vi.s-
weight on her hands behind her and was again amu.sed to see the interest itors not to a.sk him question.s.”
did^not touch him. She had lately* with which Neil listened and the ap-, ‘•Well, I’m glad he isn’t around be-
avoided every slightest demonstration j pealing little glances Joyce Abbott cau.se I want to ask—” ^
of affection toward him, for she had'threw at him from her expressive blue^ “Dh, I know. You want to ask^how
come to the disconcerting conclusionieyes. I hapjien to be here. You,want to
more than once that Neil was finding' “I’ve got her nilmber,” thought how extraordinaiy it is that we shoul^j! ||
lent ym with the key.' to
t he city."
H** I mi the cof-Cfe pot on a.s lie
'poke and .loyce a.'ki**!, “Do the key.'
«*f the city include p**rmission to ask
questions?”
'“On all free admis.sion daysT ye.s.
Excejit, of course, when (^'laiid .Alficd
is aiouud. He’.', ju.st a little hit qiieer
that. way E'-er—aince he threw the
mother of fivi^ children into the brook
because she a.iked him whether he
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it harder and harder to keep hi* feel-j Joyce,- “she’s the ultrafeminine sort; nieet here, after meeting in an equally
ings in check. I clings and 'makes the men feel j extraordinary manner in San Fran-
She could not help realizing that it ( big and strong and masculine.” ci.sco. You want to get personal
was
both unwise and unkind for herj
You
are perfectly charming, Joyce .Alston, i H
and I’m terrified of you. If 1 sdeni to 3
be talking a lot and at random you’ve' II
to slip her hand in his, to smooth back I Thinking over the past month,
his hair, to do any one of the dozens (Joyce was conscious of a baffled feel-
of little caressing things which she j ing of dissatisfaction when it came only yourself to blame. My well-known
found herself, in her liking and pity to her knowledge,of Frills’own past, ipoi.se is shattered.—”
for him, involuntarily and quite inno-( In another direction also Joyce felt He broke off aliruptly, and Joyce
cently inclined to do. | herself checked. She was no nearer; (jropped,limply into a chair. Nothing
The slightest motion of this sortlaccomplishing her purpose*of getting could have surpri.sed her more than
sent a flame of hope leaping into i back her baby than she had been when _ to hear Robert Ainsworth talking to
Neil’s eyes.\ \ ■'’be received the first letter from So-i her in this manner.
How long'could this go on? It was phie. A .second letter had arrived that “Well, go ahead and tighten the |a.
becoming more and more difficult for morning—exasperatingly vague, very (clamps',” he continued. “You’ve heaped^ ||
them both. Joyce trembled a little to shoct and again minus an address, coals of fiie on my head by your sun-'
rwall the tenseness with which Neil .Joyce townehted herself trylrrg to ny acceptance of everything — haul
Fad finailv released his hold on her solve the problem, but her dcteraiina- me over them’.” He smiled but Joyce
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In accordance with the by-laws, fines will-be
charged on all delinquent payments oh stock
installments and interest. Fines will be imposed
if payment is* hot made on or before the fif
teenth of each month; and in the event that
the Association has to pay the insurance or
taxes for any stockholder, to protect. Joans
made by the Association, a charge will be made
for this service.
All stockholders are requested toTnake their
payments to the Associations on their due date,
as well as pay their insurance and taxes prompt
ly, so as to avoid these fines which will be strict
ly enforced.
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