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FICTION
Cornet 1
THE END OF THE LINE
By CHARLES S. PARK
Nogales was the end of the line for John Todd, and he arrived
there in a blaze of glory the citizenry would never forget.
Nogales, end of the line.
When the three-car train pulled
slowly alopgside the tile-roofed,
stona depot building and stopped,
John Todd moved tiredly from his
seat and from the car. Within him
was a strange depression; a feeling
that for him, too, this was “the end
of the line.”
He walked away from the tracks,
a tall figure in big city dress that
hung on his thin frame poorly. He
followed the traffic and made his way
through the gate in the Internation
al Fence. Long legs carried him
past the slower moving, dark-clad
Mexican women returning from
their marketing in Arizona stores.
He had seen them before. He was
not curious. But he envied them
the comfort of the homes they
would go to, though they might be
only mud huts, with roofs that
leaked and windows patched against
the weather.
He carried no luggage, so the
Mexican customs men barely
glanced his way, and then nodded
him through. He knew where he
was going; this was all a part of the
plan. A plan only half-formed, per
haps, but one that had been long
in the back of his mind. All he
needed to carry it out was nerve.
Desperation was taking care of that.
His hands had a new tremor. To
still it he shoved them deep into
the pockets of his slack coat. Fum
bling there, they found pipe and to
bacco. He stopped, stepped out of
the moving pedestrian traffic into
the vestioule of a curio store, load
ed and lit up. With the pipe clenched
between his teeth and drawing well,
he glanced over the passersby. It
was funny, he was always looking
for a familiar face, yet even friends
were of no use now. He knew what
he had to do and at last, his mind
was made up.
There was even more purpose in
his stride as he left his temporary
shelter and headed across the street
to the ticket office of the Mexican
railroad. He was a young man, yet
hollow cheeks and graying temples
made him appear much older. He
looked as sick as he was. Well,
South Mexico was his last hope, just
as far south as he could get. They
said there was health to be had in
the hot. high climates.
But it was here in Nogales that
the trail branched. Even in Mexico,
where it was said one could live so
big on so little, money would be
necessary. Almost his last cent
went for the railroad passage, but
he knew where there was more for
the taking. So, with the ticket safe
ly in an inner pocket, he moved out
into the Sonora sunset, found a
place to ait, to rest and to wait, and
gave himself up to his own bitter
thoughts.
Somewhat later , he looked up to
find a swift-coming night had fallen.
He was worried that perhaps he
had dallied too long. He pulled
roughly away from a small and
very dirty shine boy who tugged at
his sleeve. He walked across the
street, back into the United States,
and moved by the border officials
with his new assurance to hurry
down the main street of the little
Arizona border town. He glanced
into darkened store windows, looked
into shadows, testing and feeling
the night and the tenor of the town
with his senses.
He walkta past an open door; the
neatly lettered sign that hung above
it read: “Money Exchange.” His
heart action quickened as he looked
inside.
The room was divided by a high
counter. Behind were two objects
that called for his attention. One;
an open safe. The other; a dark
haired girl in a red dress.
She was counting out money to a
couple of tourists. Todd knew that
under the counter and in the safe
there were racks of silver and bills
of all denominations.
He hoped his nerve would hold up,
to provide support yet a little longer
as he continued down the block. He
crossed a street and entered-a small
park. He seated himself on a bench.
The streets were gradually emp
tying. A police prowl car eased
quietly by and its occupants turned
their heads to look at him. He
stared back. Yet at the same time
he felt a coldness around his heart.
Two border patrolmen passed in a
Only Instinctive reaction made
Todd stick out along leg and trip
him up. The same motivation
caused him to dive forward onto the
prostrate figure, to scramble for the
little gun and wrench it from tem
porarily limp fingers. The heavy
blow delivered to the base of the
man’s skull with the butt of the
pistol was a part of the same pat>
tern.
It was then that realization caught
up with Todd. He arose slqwly, feel
ing the pain in his chest a sudden,
live thing. He moved back to the
counter; leaned against it The
room became a whirling wheel, and
he its hub.
He, never heard the girl speak into
the telephone. The shriek of a si
ren was only a high note piercing
the roaring in his ears. But he did
The room became a whirling wheel, and he its hob.
feel her m
jeep and he was conscious of their
scrutiny.
Down the street the lights in the
money exchange went dim. He rose
from the bench and stepped out
briskly. The prowl car had turned
the comer, the patrol jeep was out
of sight. Todd judged the distance
to the International Line; noticed
with satisfaction that the officials
had all moved inside their guard
house. A quick move, a fast sprint,
and the business would be done.
Once across the line he could eas
ily lose himself among the shadows
between the adobe buildings, and as
easily stay hidden until train time.
T URNING abruptly into the
Money Exchange, he saw the
girl in the red dress coming toward
the counter with a tray of money
from the safe. Her eyes were very
wide, very brown, and she was very
pale. In front of the counter, his
back toward Todd, there stood a
man. A tardy customer, perhaps,
but desperation told Todd it was
too late now to back out.
He gripped the pipe in his pocket
and poked the stem of it against
the cloth convincingly. He curbed
the fine tremor that was coming
back to his fingers and spoke in a
voice made harsh and sharp by the
urgency of the moment.
"Put that down and raise your
hands.”
The man at the cotmter jerked
around. His hand stabbed out. Todd
felt a tearing, ripping sensation
high in his chest even as the shrill
bark of a small caliber pistol hit
his ears. In a continued motion,
the man broke into a dash for the
door.
earness, the press of her
body when khe moved around the
counter and placed arms about him
to hold him erect. His knees were
giving away. Except for her he
would have fallen.
He was aware of other people in
the room. But it was her voice to
which he was listening—a soft, mur
muring kind of a voice, full of com
passion. He didn’t struggle when he
felt the blackness coming on him.
It was better so. It was better to
go now, in the arms of a lovely,
sympathetic stranger, than to hang
on a few feeble months more in a
foreign land. Finally to die alone
and unmourned.
And how infinitely much better to
go this way, clean. Life had given
him the best of the deal, after all.
The policemen looked down at the
still figure lying in the girl’s arms,
at fhe ugly purple hole high in the
bony, bared chest. One asked the
room in general; "Who would have
thought a sick old bum would have
the guts to try to stop a hold-up
with a pipe?”
An enigmatic smile lay across the
lips of the dead John Todd. That
was his only answer.
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THE DAY
Grace Noll Crowell
HE day will bring some lovely thing,
I say it over each new dawn,
"Some gay, adventurous thing to bold
Againft my heart when it is gone."
And so I rise, and go to meet
The day with wings upon my feet
I come upon it unaware.
Some sudden beauty without name:
A snatch of song, a breath of pine,
A poem lit with golden flame;
High tangled bird notes, keenly thinned,
like flying color on the wind.
No day has ever fluted me quite:
Before the grayeft day ii done
I find some m&y, purple bloom.
Or a late ling of crimson sun.
Each nigbcl pause, remembering
Some gay.adrcaturous, lovely thin$
by NANCY PEPPER
More Mealtime Menaces.
Ever since we printed a list of six
types of lunch-room pests, we’ve
been deluged with
letters describing
additional types
we overlooked,
along with that
four-leaf clover
you’re always
singing about. If
you recognize
yourself in these
descriptions,
you’d better F. F.
F. F. F. T. (and
if you don’t know, that F. F. F. F. F.
T. means “Fall Fatally on Your Fat
Face Five Times”).
The Thinker—He works his way
doggedly to the counter in the line
(you’re just a few behind him) and
then pauses for Station Announce
ment, or something. Seems he never
can decide beforehand, so you have
to wait until he makes up his alleged
mind. But by that time the bell is
about ready to ring.
The Critic—He doesn’t like what
you have on your plate—and doesn’t
hesitate to tell you so in the most
unappetizing term. Comparing your
tapioca to fish eyes and your spa
ghetti to worms doesn't help your
appetite one bit It doesn’t help his
popularity, either.
The Sob Sister—All during lunch
period, when you want to relax and
have fun, she insists upon pouring
out her troubles to you. The only
happy ending you can be sure of is
the bell.
The Whisperers—Just your luck to
sit next to two best friends who are
in a confidential mood. That means
they whisper furiously to each other
all through the meal, leaving you
out in the cold completely to, feel
like an interloper.
SCRIPTURE; Leviticus 19:1-18; Deu
teronomy 5—8; Matthew 22:34-40.
DEVOTIONAL READING: Pialmi
19:7-14. w
Life and Law
Lesson for October 17, 1948
Dr. Foreman
Y OU, friend reader, probably
know less about what is in the
books of Exodus, Leviticus, Num
bers and Deuteronomy than any
other part of the
Bible. These are
the sections mostly
filled with laws—
“Thou shalt . . .
Thou shalt not.”
You either skip
these entirely or
you say to yourself,
“Well, that has
nothing to do with
me.” If so, you
have been missing
one of the most interesting sections
of the Bible.
Some of these old laws are dead;
but even a mummy can be interest
ing. Call them dead if you like; you
still can learn a great deal about
the times and the minds and th<#
customs of those far-ofi days by
reading the laws which governed
people’s daily lives.
But it is hardly fair to call
them dead. Rather, they have
been honorably retired. That Is
to say, they were admirable
laws in their time and place,
and God’s will was learned
through them.
• • •
The Living Soul of Law
T HERE are two ways of looking
at any law, or you might say
there are two sides of every law,
the inside and the outside, the soul
and the body as it were. The body,
the outside, is the letter of the law;
the inside or soul of the law is the
spirit or principle of the law.
The body of the law, like the
body of a man, >'ies; it is not in
tended to live on and on. But
the soul of the law (if it has
one; some don’t) lives forever.
Take, for instance, that law in
Lev. 19:9, 10. The body of it, the
letter, says: Do ifot be efficient in
getting in your crops. Leave some
wheat in the field. Leave some
grapes on the vine.
Today that sounds rather stupid,
on the face of it, and no good farm
er would pay attention to it. But
look at the spirit of that law: the
wheat and the grapes were to be
left for “the poor and the stranger.”
There was then no Red Cross, no
bureau of displaced persons, no
traveler’s aid, no family service, no
social security, none of our many
modem agencies for the underpriv
ileged. Those who had property
were bidden to have a care for
those who had none.
The duty of society to see that
no one starves, the duty of all
to help those in need, that is the
living soul of this law, and it
still breathes in laws of the 20tb
century—laws of old age assist
ance, maternity assistance, pen
sion plans and so forth.
The living soul of the Old Testa
ment laws can be expressed this
way: The love of justice and the
justice of love. The best and wisest
laws today are those which give
this same spirit its fullest and most
practical form.
• * •
Jesus’ Last Word
T HE Jews figured out that there
were in all 613 separate com
mandments in all the laws com
bined. They used to have interest
ing debates as to which of all the
613 commandments was the most
important.
They came to Jesus with that
well-worn question. Jesus quot
ed only two laws, one from
Deut. 6:5 and the other from
Lev. 19:18. Love God, love your
neighbor, he said. All the other
laws depend on these two.
To this day, Christian thinkers
are not entirely agreed as to just
how far Old Testament laws may be
binding on Christians. But all are
agreed on two points: The basic
principle of these laws is always
good, and that fundamental principle
is love.
• * •
Love Is Not Repealed
T HIS is what Christians mean
when they say that the laws of
God are eternal. We do not mean
that dvery law between the covers
of the Bible can and should be used
as the law of our land today.
What we do mean Is that the
spirit of these laws is immortal,
for the spirit is love, and love
never has been repealed.
Show me a law which helps the
strong at the expense of the weak,
a law which encourages cheating
and selfishness and fighting, and I
will show you a bad law. Show me
a law which encourages and helps
men to deal fairly with one another
and .to live together in peace, and
I will show you a good law. Every
law that helps you love your neigh
bor is a good law; Indeed there is
something divine about it, for God
is Love.
(Copyright by tbo InttraMtional Council
ol Rttigioua Education on baball ol 40
Protestant denominations. Released by
WMJ Features.)
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Increase Hog Profits
Improved Rations and
Cleanliness Stressed
Extra care for the brood sow and
her litter, with emphasis on clean
liness and better feeding, will assure
extra profits whether the herd in
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Proof of that assertion is con
tained in the experience of Joseph
O'Bryan of Hiatville, Kas., nation
ally-known breeder and exhibitor
of purebred Hampshires, who raises
about 3,000 hogs a year, most of
them for market.
Although O’Bryan raises hogs on
a wholesale scale, he keeps his op-
SEWINQ CIRCLE PATTERNS
O’Bryan with part of his herd
of 3,000 purebred Hampshire gilts.
eration on an Individual farm basis
as a means of insuring proper care.
A program of better care and better
feeding for sows .and their litters,
introduced or his farms in the fall
of 1947, already has paid dividends,
O’Bryan reports. With 100 litters
last spring, he raised as much pork
as he formerly raised from 150.
Early in the gestation period
sows were given a special ration of
SO per cent oats, 5 per cent meat
scrap, 4 per cent pelletized milk
product and the balance either com
or wheat. Sows were sprayed and
washed thoroughly prior tp farrow
ing. Clean pens and a brooder for
the little pigs also were provided.
The sow’s ration was changed when
the pigs were about two weeks old,
cutting down oats to about 40 per
cent and increasing portions of
wheat or com.
At ‘less than two weeks of age
little pigs were started creep feed
ing in a low pan or trough. Their
ration consisted of 80 per cent oats,
4 per cent meat scrap, 8 per cent
pelletized milk product and the bal-^
ance coarse wheat. Pans and troughs
were washed and disinfected regu
larly. As the little pigs grow, oats
in the ration is reduced while com
or wheat is increased to about 70
to 80 per cent
Summarizing the program, O’Bryan
maintains that he had much strong
er pigs at birth, with earlier, faster
and cheaper gains and a marked re
duction in mortality.
‘Police Force’
Plenty of organic matter is a good
"police force” for ridding soil of
bacterip that cause diseases of
growing crops. R. C. Thomas, asso
ciate pathologist of the Ohio agri
cultural experiment station, esti
mates that 50 million bacteria / live
in a single ounce of soil. Some of
these are beneficial. Others are
harmful to crops. The good kind
rot the organic matter and release
plant nutrients to build a fertile
soil. The harmful kind cause plant
disease.
Adding organic matter to soil will
help increase the good kind and at
the same time cut down the harmful
bacteria population. Adding organ
ic matter makes the soil a better
home for the good kind so they
flourish and grow. Extracts from
organic matter contain viruses that
make disease • causing bacteria
harmless to plants.
A good soil management program
will increase the soil’s organic mat
ter supply and help free the land of
disease-causing bacteria.
Stinking Smut Remains
Major Wheat Disease
Bunt or stinking smut remains a
major wheat disease even though
science knows how to control it,
demonstrating the need for continual
vigilance in preventive measures.
Plant scientists recommend use
of resistant varieties combined with
treatment of the seed with a reli
able fungicide. Where practical,
the grower should avoid planting
when the soil temperature favors
development of smut in the soQ.
Veat Style for School Sells
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50,000-Mile Trip
For Vacation
A two-year vacation and 50,000
miles, from Alaska to Guatemala,
are ahead of Harold W. Siebens
of St. Louis, Mo. Siebens sold his
business last year on the advice
of his doctors.
He will be accompanied on his
jaunt by his mother, two daugh
ters, a son and radio technician.
They are traveling in two light
trucks, each with a house trailer
attached.
“I’ve always wanted to take a
trip like this,” Siebens said as he
started out'recently, “with noth
ing to worry about but the road
ahead and all the time in the
world.” The first lap of the trip
will take the group to Alaska by
way of the Alaska highway.
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