SILKS AND TUBS
By DORIS M. THOMPSON
<;£) to McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
t WNU Service)
IT, straightened up from the tub
1,1 of soupy water and shook a hand
free from the warm suds to brush
some straggly hair off her fate as she
watched a sedan come up the road.
Then she wilted her hands on the side
of her apron and picked up the basket
of clothes to carry to the lines strung
across the yard.
She was tired and In a few minutes
Bee Williams would be there with an
other new silk dress and more tales
of her wonderful life in the city. Al
ready the car was turning Into ths
lane. Mil surveyed the wash llapping
on the line; heavy flannel shirts, col
orless aprons and house dresses. No
silks there. Her eyes were bitter as
she turned to greet Bee.
"Hello, Mil. Why, honey, what’s the
mutter? You look as If somethin’ ter
rible was goin’ to happen.”
Mil shrugged. "Nothin’ now could
happen around this here place.”
“Aw gee, Sill, why don’t you come
hack with me? We’d have a grand
time in the city, l-'rank could tlnd a
Job for you easy.”
Mil’s eyes looked almost hopeful,
but sbe>shook her bead. “Oh. I couldn’t
take a chance. I’d never get away
without pa knowin* it, and If he did
. . .” she shruddered.
But he won’t have to know. You
can tix things up on the sly and slip
off during the day when he and Uric
are In the fields. l*a will lend you
money enougn to got mere, i Know
whnt I’ll do; when I get baok Frank
and I'll look around for a place for
you and let you know when to come.
How'll that he?”
Half afraid to agree, Mil nodded as
sent.
“1 must he gettln' hack with the
car now. Don't forget to come to our
party tonight. We’re going to have
the Baxter boys over to play,” she
called as she walked back to the cur,
her cheap red silk dress blowing
around her knees.
Mil remained seated awhile looking
over the barren ureas of Dakota furm
land which stretched on every side.
Scrubby bushes poked up here and
there. She pictured without turning
about the scene behind her. A three
room shuck, hideous and unpalnted,
four rooms, if one counted the pluce
above set between the rafters which
served as a place for Eric to sleep.
Shi- thought of Eric and wondered If
he ever felt as she did.
Her thoughts passed on to her fa
ther; hard Hank Hanson he was
called. For thirty years lie had clung
to his eluim, thirty lonesome years of
hard labor for Ids women folk. First
her mother, whose more genteel rear
ing, unable to stund the grind, had
made her leave twelve-year-old Mil to
carry on her work. Now after sixteen
years of It . . . Mil rose us she
suw her father approuchlng from a
nearby tield. She finished hanging the
wash and went Into the shanty to pre
pare the noonday meal. Her father
entered hut she did not look up.
“Sorta late gettin’ dinner, ain’t ya?”
i uh, I guess so, she answered list
lessly.
“Suppose Bee Williams kept you
talkin’ all morula’. Saw her ear from
the field.’’
Mil finished the supper dishes early.
She had nothing nice to wear to Bee’s
house hut she wanted to go. It would
he her first party In three years. When
she put on her old voile she looked
clean, nothing more.
Her father patched her prepara
tions. “Hope you ain't planniu' on
tukln’ the horse any place, Mil. I’ve
got to go over to Simon’s to borrow
his harness."
She turned without a word and re
entered her small bedroom.
Every day she waited for word from
the big city in the bordering state and
always she was preparing for her de
parture, little things ut a time so he
wouldn't notice. Finally a letter came.
Hank Hanson met the mailman him
self and brought it in.
“See you got a letter from Bee.
What’s she up to now?"
Mil went to her room to read It.
“Come as soon as you can," she read.
“We have found a lady who will wait
for you.”
Bee lmd planned everything. The
next morning Mil sent a note to Mrs.
Williams with the mailman saying that
arrangements were all right for the
following afternoon.
Everything was on the table at sharp
noon the next day. Mil tried to ap
pear calm but her eyes had a really
anticipatory look for the first time
in years. At 1:30 she was ready to
leave and taking a last look at the
only place which had been home to
her she set out for the barn. Half
way there she was stopped by an ox
rited Hammering of voices near the
road. A group of men were huddled
together ns If they carried something.
••Your father’s hurt, Mil. He was
out by the road when Henry Crabb’s
team of runaway horses caught hint.
Will you get a bed ready?”
She stood as still as stone. .‘‘Don’t
take it so hard. Mil. I know it’s a
shock but maybe he won’t be so bad
off." Simon tried to console her.
She turned to re-enter the hut. ‘‘I’ll
fix his cot,” she said in a toneless
voice.
That night Mil went out to the barn,
lifted a straw suitcase from the rig
and brought It into the house. Hank
Hanson's eyes gleamed across at her
in the lamplight as he lay on his cot
near the wall. The doctor said he
would He there the rest of his life, j
WHY -
Parly in Power Rejecled
Adams’ Judges
There is un old story tlmt Presi
dent John Adams continued to appoint
judges until the midnight before Jeffer
son's Inauguration. The Federalists
Imd passed a law creating many new
Judgeships and they were anxious to
have them fdled by men of their own
party. I.evi Lincoln, Jefferson’s attorney
general, went with Jefferson’s watch in
Ids hand to the room of John Marshall,
Adams' secretary of stnte, and found
him signing commissions for Judges.
Pointing to the watch in his hand Lin
coln said that according to the Presi
dent's watcl the 4th of March had
come. This story, which Is well fixed
in the legends of American history,
was told by one of Jefferson's grand
daughters, but it Is not based on his
torical fact, although there is a grain
of truth in It. Adams did actually
make some nominations for Judges,
and the senate confirmed them, as late
as nine o’clock on the evening before
Jefferson's Inauguration. These judges
were known among Jefferson’s follow
ers as John Adams’ midnight judges.
The Democrats, or Republicans as they
were then called, got rid of the mid
night judges hy repeating the law cre
ating the judgeships, and the repeal
of tills law was part of wlmt ttie Fed
eralists denounced ns Jefferson's “as
sault upon the judiciary.*'—Pathfinder
Magazine.
Why Canadian Aviators
Have to Check Compass
In the older and more settled parts
of Canada, the pilot guides ids plane
a great deal by roads, railways, rivers
and oilier natural and artificial fea
tures shown upon Ids map. In those
portions of the country lying imme
diately back from present settlement,
where the topographical survey, de
partment of the interior, has been car
rying on mapping operations in co
operation with the Royal Canadian air
nnd the natural features to a large ex
tent are not shown on the sketchy
maps that have hitherto been avail
able. The pilot therefore has to rely
to a considerable extent upon his coin
pass. This is one of the reasons for
magnetic observations which show the
variation of the compass from the true
north.—Montreal Family Herald.
Why Ring on Fourth Finger
In the Hritish Apollo (170S) to the
Inquiry “Why is It that the person to
he married is enjoyned to put n ring
upon the fourth Anger of his spouse's
left hand,” It is answered: “There
is nothing more in this than that the
custom was handed down to the pres
ent age from the practice of our ances
tors, who found the left hand more con
venient for such ornaments than the
right. In that iF3 ever less employed;
for the same reason they chose the
fourtli finger, which is not only less
used than the rest, hut Is more cap
able of preserving a ring from bruises,
having this one quality peculiar to
itself, that It cannot be extended, but
In company with some other finger,
whereas the rest may be singly
stretched to their full length and
streightness.”—Detroit News.
Why One "‘Touche* Wood”
Did you know that the expression
“touch wood’’ comes from the days
when many old churches contained as
a greatly venerated relic a piece of
the true Cross? The relic obviously
was used in the taking of solemn
oaths, the person concerned placing
Ills or her hand on the wood. In an
age when the church was all-power
ful, all kinds of powers became asso
ciated with such relics, particularly
perhaps the warding off of troubles
and evils by “touching the sacred
wood.” It Is in the latter sense that
the expression “touch wood” Is used
today.
Why White Glove* for Waiter*
The custom of waiters wearing
white gloves harks back to the day of
I .outs XIV. In the palace of Versailles
the kitchens were so far from the
royal suite that food was brought on
heated hea%-y silver platters with
dome-shaped covers. The footmen
wore thick white gloves in carrying
these dishes. As the court did, so also
did its Imitntors.
Why Called "White House”
When the government was consid
ering building a national place for the
housing of its executives, Washington'
suggested that the executive residence
be christened the White House, the
name of the old home of Martha Wash
ington, where lie had gone to claim her
as his bride.
Why the Capital “1”
At the introduction of printing the
various forms in use to Indicate the
first person singular settled down to
the capital I. This is probably due
to the fact that the small letter I i
lacks distinction and appeared utterly j
inadequate when printed.
Why Bricks Are Red
Common brick is red because there
is iron In the clay. Ordinary white
bricks owe their color to llnte. I.lnie
and iron make a cream-colored brick.
Ilrown bricks contain magnesin and
yellow bricks magnesia and Iron.
—
Why Plant* Need Water
The body of a living plant is mostly
water, just as other living things are.
Water is being evaporated all the time
from the leaves and new water to re
place this has to be absorbed out of
the soli by the root hairs.
ALASKA INTERESTS AT
! THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
By Will. A. Steel
Washington, D. C.,
January 21, 1923
j Senator Dill, of Washington,
and Representative Connery, of
. Massachusetts, have intro
' duced identical hills in Cong
ress making an appropriation
of ton million dollars to aid the
States of the Union to pay old
age pensions, at the ratio of
two-thirds by the State and
one-third by the Government.
The bill does not include the
Territories and when Delegate
Wickersham called this fact to
the attention of the men who
introduced the bill they both
agreed that Alaska should be
included and consented to see
| that when the bill was consid
ered in committees that the
! necessary change is made.
—
Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe,
jin charge of the Episcopalian
j activities in the north, and Dr.
■ Grafton Burke, in charge of the
h.ospital at Fort Yukon, have
been in Washington the past
week. They visited the Inter
ior department and entered
their pi otest against the high
lates that are charged for
freight and passenger service
on tlie Alaska Kanroad, and at
the Department of Justice they
made aplea for the reappoint
ment of Judge Cecil H. Clegg
in the Fourth Division.
Peter E. Gisen, secretary
treasurer of the Alaska Fisher
men’s Union at San Francisco,
left for the west today after
spending the past ten days in
Washington. He was here to
advocate the passage of the
Welch bill, which provides
that floating canneries in Alas
kan waters shall operate only
when their owners in Decem
ber shall indicate where they
intend to get their fish in the
following season. Others are
expected here later to oppose
the bill.
Delegate Wickersham was
much gratified recently to re
ceived a wire from the secre
tary of the Kodiak Republican
Club, stating that he was di
rected to advise that in its plat
foim adopted Jan. 4th, the
Club declared that ‘We ap
prove and stand for those prin
ciples and Territorial policies
as promulgated and advocated
by our Delegate in Congress,
James Wickersham, and we
stand for his continuance in of
Chamber
ot
Commerce
-o
Hyder, Alaska
-o
Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
ifice.”
—
A letter from the Secretary
of War, transmitting a favor
able report, dated January 13,
1932, from the Chief of Engin
eers of the U. S. Army, on sur
! vey of Salmon river, at Hyder,
| went to the House Committee
on Foreign Commerce and or
dered to be printed, with illus
tration.
At various times when pub
lic work was being done in
Alaska complaint has been
made that workmen were not
paid the “prevailing wages”.
In a bill recently introduced by
William P. Connery, jr., Rep
lesentative from Massachu
setts and chairman of the La
bor Committee of the House,
provision is made to protect
this class of labor. The bill,
which amends an act that was
approved March 4, 1931, reads
as follows:
“That every contract or sub
, contract to which the United
j States, the District of Colum
I bia, or Territory is a party,
which requires or involves the
employment of laborers or me-I
i cnamcs on ail public works or
! other projects of the United
| States, the District of Colum
bia, or Territory shall contain
| a provision to the effect that
the rate of wages for all labor
ers and mechanics employed by
the contractor or subcontractor
on said public warks, covered
by the contract or subcontract,
shall be not less than the pre
vailing rate of wages in the
city, town, or village of the
State, the District of Columbia,!
or Territory in which such
public work is being per
formed.” A penalty of $5 per
day for each laborer or me
chanic violating the provisions
of the bill is imposed on the
contractor.
In the Jan. 10th Sunday edit
ion of (he New York Herald
Tribune are two pages of pho
to-engravure illustrations of
I Alaska animal scenes. These
! pictures were taken on an ex
pedition i n t o southeastern
Alaska last summer by Arthur
N. Pack and William L. Finley
on the yacht Westward, under
the auspices of the American
Nature Association and Nature
Magazine. The object was to
photograph animal and bird
life and in particular to study
the habits of the Alaskan
brown bear.
On Monday the Senate Spec
ial Committee on Wild Life Re
sources, of which Senator Wol
cott is chairman, held a pro
tracted meeting. Appearing'be
fore the committee was John
! M. Holzworth, chairman of the
American Society of Mam
malogists for Protection of the
Alaskan brown and grizzly
bears. He sought to interest
the committee in the effort to
have Admiralty Island and pos- i
sibly Chichagof Island estab- !
lished as a permanent sanctu
aries or preserves for the bears
and argued “that there are at
i least 5,000 brown and grizzly
bears on Admiralty Island, or
probably well over half the
grizzly and brown bear popu
I lation in Alaska.” Both these
islands are in southeastern
’Alaska, off from Juneau, rich
in timber and mineral resourc
| es, with many settlements, and
| for that reason Delegate Wick
I ersham spoke in opposition to
the proposed reservations.
| which the committee is not ex
I pected to recommend.
I
Don’t freeze white a slow fire starts
Start it quick with old papers from
the Herald Office.
ALASKA NOTES
Culled From the Newspapers
Of the Territory.
Harry Donnelly, of Flat, rep
resentative in the lower house
of the Territorial legislature
during the last two sessions,
has anounced his intention to
file for the Senate short term
seat created by the death of
Senator John Dunn, aciording
to interior reports.
At Anchorage, the Signal
Corps is constructing what is
said to be a new type of direct
ional receiving antenna system.
The antenna is constructed in
three units each strung on 18
fifty-foot antenna poles and
about thirty transmisiont line
poles. The antenna wires will
resemble a huge spider web..
One of the buffaloes in the
herd on Jarvis creek in the in
terior of Alaska was wounded
in the hind quarters by hunt
ers last fall, according to infor
mation received in Fairbanks.
The wound bleeds freely when
ever the animal beds down.
Two other badly crippled buf
faloes are straggling behind
the herd and are believed to al
so be victims of hunters.
A1 Parmentier, old timer of
the North, died recently in the
hospital at Anchorage.
A Woman’s Club has been
organized at Cordova with
Mrs. R. R. Douglas as presi
dent and Mrs. Ella Smith as
secretary.
Individual and savings depos
its in the Bank of Seward tot
aled $390,009 at the close of
business December 31.
Opposition to the consolidat
ion of the Second and Fourth
Judicial Divisions as provided
in a bill pending- in Congress,
is opposed by the Northwest
ern Alaska Chamber of Com
merce of Nome. It says con
solidation of the judicial divis
ions might lead to their polit
ical consolidation, which would
reduce the representation of
both divisions in the Territor
ial Legislature.
William A. McGhee was fat
ally wounded in a gun battle
as he fled from a Juneau bank
where he had held up the cash
ier and obtained several thou
sand dollars in currency. As he
fled to the street, Guy Mc
Naiurhtmi. hank rasbipr fnl
lowed him with a revolver and
fired on the escaping robber,
who returned the fire. During
the shooting, Dan Rolston, taxi
driver, leaped on McGhee’s
back in an attempt to stop him
and was himself twice wound
ed, in the leg and neck, one
shot being from McNaughton’s
pistol. McGhee was shot in
the abdomen and died without
making any statement or ad
mitting his identity, which was
determined from his possess
ions.
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(Owing to poor reception during the
earlier part of the day in Hyder, the
programs printed below will include
only such broadcasts as occur after
5 p. in. daily.)
Program for Wek ending Saturday,
February 13, 1932.
Sunday, February 14
! 5:00 Enna Jettick Melodies, NY
i 5:15 Collier’s Radio Hour, NBC-NY
6:15 American Album of Music. NY
6:45 Buick Motor Co., NBC-NY
7:15 Barbasol Co.; NBC-NY.
7:45 Sunday at Seth Parkers, NBC-SF
8:15 Seiberling Singers, ET.
8:30 Carnation Contented Hour, SF.
9:00 Chase and Sanborn Program,
9:30 Texaco Half Hour, NBC-LA.
NBC-SF.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes; LA.
10:15 University of Washington Edu
cational Hour.
11:00 Silent.
Monday, February 15
5:15 Stock Quotations.
5:30 Pacific Coast Borax Co., NBC-NY
6:00 Maytag Orch., NBC-Chicago.
6:30 General Motors Program; NY
! 7:00 National Radio Forum, NBC-NY
7:30 M.J. B. Demi Tasse Revue.
I 8:00 Amos and Andy
8:15 Vermont Lumberjacks, NBC-SF
8:30 Voice of Firestone, NBC-NY.
9:00 Florists Telegraph Del. Assn. ET
9:15 G. Washington Coffee Refining
Co. Sherlock Holmes, NBC-NY
9:45 The Stebbins Boys, NBC-Clii.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes
10:15 Gold Shield Symphony Hour.
11:15 Globe Trotter.
11:30 Hotel St. Francis Dance Orch
; 12:00 Fox Fifth Avenue Organ
j 12:30 Silent
Tuesday, February 16
! 5:00 Brazilian Coffee Matinee, NY.
15:30 Heel Hugger Harmonies, N.
j 5:45 United Staes Rubber Co. ET.
' 6:00 McKesson Musical Magazine, NY
'6:30 Fuller BruHi Man, NBC-NY
I 7 • (Wl T CUn.'l., n... U XTV
I S:00 Amos and Andy.
I S: 15 Gen. Pet. C'orp. Memory Lane.
S:45 Sperry Smiles, NBC-SF.
9:00 Caswell Coffe Concert NBC-SF
! 9:15 Oldsmobile Melody Speedway.
9:30 Baldy Homespun Melodies.
9:45 The Stebbins Boys, NBC-NY.
10:00 Richfield News
10:15 Fisher's Blend Hour.
11:15 Globe Trotter.
11:25 Hotel St. Francis Dance Orch
12:00 Fifth Avenue Organ Recital
Wednesday, February 17.
5:00 American Taxpayer's League.
5:15 Stock Quotations
5:30 Goodyear Tire Co. Program.
6:00 Halsley Stewart Hour NBC-Chl
6:30 Mobiloil Program, NBC-NY.
7:00 Coco Cola Program, NBC-NY.
7:30 Washington Baker's Program.
S:00 Amos and Andy.
S:15 Vermont Lumberjacks, NBC-SF
S:30 Wesson Oil Snowdrift Sales Co.
9:00 Rin Tin Tin Thrillers, NBC-SF
9:15, Montag Fireside Hour,
10:00 Richfield News
10:15 Fisher's Blend Hour.
11:30 Hotel Olympic Dance Orch.
12:00 Fifth Avenue Organ Recital
12:30 Silent.
Thursday, February 18.
5:00 Fleischmann Sunshine Hour
6:00 The Big Six of the Air. Chevrolet
6:30 Maxwell House Melodies, NY
7:00 Lucky Strike Dance Orch. NY
F:00 Amos and Andy.
8:15 Standard Symphony Hour, SF
9:15 Sperry Smiles, NBS-SF.
9:30 Baldy Homsepun Melodies.
9:45 The Stebbins Boys, NBC-Chi.
10:00 Richfield News
10:15 Mozart Hour.
11:15 Globe Trotter.
11:30 Olympic Hotel Dance Orch
12:00 Fifth Avenue Organ Recital.
12:30 Silent.
Friday, February 19.
5:00 Cities Service Concert Orch.
6:00 Cheesborough Friendship Town
6:30 Armour Hour, NBC-Chi.
<: 00 Pontiac Automobile Co. NY.
7:30 RKO Hour NBC-NY.
j S: 00 Amos and Andy.
; S: 15 Brownbuilt Footlites, NBC-SF
8:30 MJB Demi-Tasse Revue, NBC-SF
0:00 Unon Oil Co. NBC-SF.
9:45 The Stebbins Boys, NBC-Chi.
10:00 Richfield News
10: 15 Olds Motor Works.
, 10:30 Globe Trotter.
10:40 Moonlight Meditations.
11:00 Olympic Hotel Dance T)rch.
12:00 Fifth Avenue Organ Recital.
12:30 Silent.
Saturday, February 20.
5:00 Health Products Corporation;
Danger Fighters, NBC-SF.
5:30 Totem Broadcasters, Program
under auspices of National At
visory Council on Radio in Ed
ucation. NBC-NY.
6:00 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
6:30 Campana, The First Nighter.
7:00 Lucky Strike Dance Orch. NY
8:00 Amos and Andy.
S:15 Gilmore Circus, Gilmore Oil Co.
8:45 F. S. Lang Male Quartet.
9:30 Associated Oil Co., Spotlight
Revue, NBC-SF.
11:00 Globe Trotter .
11:10 Olympic Hotel Dance Orch.
12:00 Fifth Avenue Organ Recital,
j 12:30 Silent.
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