Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 3 February 1938 — Page 6

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STATE CHANGES! BUYING SYSTEM Townsend Announces Drastic Change In Purchasing System Indianapolis. Feb. 3 — <U.R> Disgusted with irregular opera- ' tions in the state purchasing sys- ■ tem, Gov. M. Clifford Townsend today announced that drastic I changes will be effected The governor was aroused by re-1 ports that the state received ii

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] lor merchandise for its institutions j utter contracting for the best. And Ihe was particularly Incensed by | the methods of letting the state printing contracts. He named his executive secreI tary, Dick Heller, to work with [ Charles M. McAlpin, the state purI chasing agent, to develop new I rules and procedure to eliminate I I objectionable practices. Townsend said he was particu- | larly irked by the so-called "alli or-more” method of bidding for contracts for state supplies. For , example, the food for the 20,000 1 inmates of the state institutions. Under this rule the bid of a I concern for several items up for purchase must be successful for all of the items or it can be awarded

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CHAPTER I IT was six o'clock, and for the better part of an hour now, Alec Graham had been waiting for Gina to show up. He had just about decided she wasn’t going to and that there was no point in his being bored any longer by this intolerably dull party at the Ritz, when she came through the door, saw him, and hurried toward him. In the time that it took her to cross the room, he saw that she was wearing a last season’s suit, and one of those ridiculous new hats, and that she looked tired but, in spite of the hat, quite lovely. He thought, waving to her, “She is thirty-one and she looks older and she knows nothing about clothes, but she is the most carelessly beautiful woman I ’ have ever known.” Then she came quite up to him and slipped her hand through his arm and said, “Sorry, darling. I simply couldn’t make it sooner. The duchess was on a regular rampage." “The duchess” was their special name for any wealthy dowager whom Gina happened to be painting at the moment.X “Why stand for it?” Alec sounded unwarrantably angry, and Gina knew instinctively that he was annoyed because the party, a publisher’s tea. had proved as dull as he had expected, and because she was wearing a hat which was unbecoming to her. “Why didn’t you just push her head through the canvas and walk out on her. You don’t need the money. . . .” Gina laughed. She had a light, silvery laugh that came naturally, without effort. “Don’t be an idiot, Alec. I can’t afford to get a reputation for smashing people’s halffinished portraits over their heads. And Ido need the money. I always need money. I am one of those awful people who always need their next commission no matter how fat the last one was.” Then she asked, “How’s the party? Pretty bad?” “Atrocious." said Alec. “I don’t know why I bother to come to them.” He honestly didn’t know. Didn’t know why he continued to come to these literary teas, to stand around in crowded, noisy rooms, drinking cocktails he didn’t want and talking trivialities with people he didn’t like. Or did he like them? He had once, certainly. Once these had been the people he had yearned to know. Whose friendship and approbation he had coveted more than anything else in the world. They had been, and still were, the success- i fui people. The clever ones. The important ones. That small, inner circle who created or produced or I criticized or financed the books and art and theatre of a country. Once, to have been able to mingle with them, to be accepted by them, had been almost too much to hope for, almost too much to strive for. What | had he. an awkward farm boy, edu- . cated superficially at a state univer- I sity, to offer these great ones? He had come humbly, depreciating his i talents, but he had stayed to outshine them all, . . Five financially successful plays ' and three artistic failures had done

a contract for none. This has re-1 suited in concerns putting in high i bids for supplies of which the ■ state uses little. The average of | all the items is the contract figure. In other words, bids by companies for specific items in which they specialize virtually are ruled out. “No business concern in the world would stand for such a thing,” Townsend said. The state printing contract ■

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The- theory that American Indians could be of Asiatic, origin is substantiated by veriflcatldn of a trip by dogsled across Bering Strait made 25 years ago by Max Gottschalk, now captain of an Alaskan trading Schooner and resident of Nome. Department of Interior officials have checked the captain * story of the perilous journey from East Cap*.

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that for him in less than twelve years. And so today, with his thirtysixth birthday still two months distant, he was a success. He was one of them. And for some time now he had wondered why he had worked so hard, why he had cared so much, why to be able to come to a dull party like this and make bright remarks to people who were only there that they might make bright remarks to him had seemed so feverishly desirable. Not, of course, that he thought all this in the fraction of a minute that he was saying to Gina that the party was atrocious. What he actually thought was probably: "I am bored. I have been bored all the afternoon. I am bored a great deal of the time, lately.”

.'Wi $8 JRHwAor \tip “I’m meeting Barry Bedard in an hour and having dinner with him.”

And he thought even this with no great vehemence but rather with a casual acceptance. So he said now ■ to Gina, “I would have left hours ago only you said that you would drop in if you possibly could and I stayed on the chance that you would. Let’s beat it over to Twentyone and have a quiet drink and then go on somewhere to dinner.” Gina’s face became instantly regretful. “Oh, darling, I’m so sorry, i but I can’t possibly. I only stopped 1 by for a minute because I’d half promised you I would. I’m meeting Barry Bedard in an hour right here I and having dinner with him. We have to talk over some changes his mother wants made in his father’s

i situation is particularly bad, the I governor said, because "all-or- ■ more” provisions are written in I the legislative act governing the department. Since companies cannot bid on specific items but must aim for the contract as a whole with a low average, Townsend »sld 1 there was no doubt that the stata is paying much more for its printing supplies than necessary. I The governor added that he is

picture. I think this time shes , going to have the mustache removed entirely.” Humor touched her eyes and mouth for a moment, and then she said more seriously, “If Id known, Alec, if you’d said anything about dinner, but you didn’t. . . • “I know, I suppose I just took it for granted that you’d be free. . . . Beneath his quick disappointment at not being able to spend the evening with her, Alec was remembering vaguely that it had been years since he had bothered to make a definite dinner engagement with Gina. Usually when he wanted her to dine with him, he simply sought her out and if she was free she dined with him, and if she wasn’t, he was disappointed but never acutely enough to be any more definite about it the

next time. Yet, once they had been in love with each other . . . once they had even planned to get married and spend the rest of their lives together. Gina was smiling at him, that quick, light smile that had once stirred his pulses so exqu.*.ely. “Well, I usually am free. It just happens—” “I know,” grinned Alec ruefully. "It just happens that you’re having dinner with Barry Bedard. Well, let’s go somewhere then and have a cocktail. Not here, someone is sure to swoop down on us, the is alive with people we know.” (To be continued) < vpyrlfht 1937, by King Fcaturw Syndicate. Ida I

asking the state board of accounts to Investigate the printing contract law and make suggestions for a new act to the 1939 legislature. Other objectionable practices Townsend cited were: Opening sealed bids privately by the state purchasing agent instead of openly in the presence of the i bidders and the public. Public opening of sealed 'bids is a law for

Siberia, to a point on the Alaskan coast 75 miles north of Cape Prince of Wales Gottschalk s companion for part of the journey Bill Schroeder fell through the thin ice and died while being taken back to Little Diomede island Scientists point out that Indians could have made the crossing just as Gottschalk did

L SYNOPSIS 1 Al»c Graham, 36. is a sueeassful 1 playwright. Gina W‘».n, .til ■ X'■• •“ The party is boring, so they | tide to slip away for a long chat. CHAPTER II They went to a quiet place around the corner and fell at once into th easy, desultory conversation of old friends. Gina said, linking slim, talented fingers about the stem of her cocktail glass, “W hat do yo hear from Tommy? Is he coming home soon?” . Tommy was Alec’s young nephew. Twelve years before, Alecs sister s husband had died in Kobe, Japan, and she had come back to America with her young son. At that time. Tommy had been a shy, slender boy not quite twelve years old. Now, three years after graduating from Yale, he was doing well at a mining engineer’s job in South America. Alec said, “Tommy’s contract is up this month. There’s a chance he may not renew it.” “In that case, he would be coming home, I suppose.” Gina knew that Alec missed Tommy more than he ever admitted, that, with the possible exception of herself, he was by far the most important person in Alec’s life. Alec nodded. “Yes, but I don t imagine he will. And even if he did, it would be only for a month or two . . . then he’d get another job and go tearing off to the ends of the world, again. I reconcile myself,” he added quietly, "to never seeing much of him any more when I discovered he had his heart set on being a mining engineer.” “All the same,” said Gina, “I wish he would come back, even if it were only for a month or two.” And she thought, “He would if he knew how much it would mean to Alec ... if he guessed how lonely he gets for I him. . . She said aloud, “Did you have a good summer? Did you stay in town or take that house on Long Island?” “I stayed in town, but I didn't have a particularly good summer. I finished the play in July and I missed you like the very devil all ! through August. New York was unbelievably dull.” It had been. With Gina in Ohio the summer had dragged interminably, and some time during her absence he had come to see himself, abruptly and uncompromisingly, as a man no longer quite young, who had never really struck his roots deeply anywhere, who had no pattern for living or, if he had one, then so trivial and casual a one that it was not worth considering seriously. He had been born on an lowa farm and he had chosen to be a New York playwright. But all his life he had been more concerned with the making of money than the writing of

the state highway commission. i Refusing to receive bids from firms or merchants who are po- ■ litically "wrong." Gauge specifications that give the purchasing department and bidders too much latitude. Townsend has authority over state purchases not specifically regulated by law and he said he will exercise it. Purchasing agent McAlpin said that state institutions probably had

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clays. And now he had plenty of money and not much else. Eyen his relationship with G.na had become so casual that at the end of a long separation he neglected to make a definite dinner engagement with her, taking it for granted she would be free to dine with him. Looking at her now, in that expensive suit she had undoubtedly chosen hurriedly and carelessly, in that hat which no woman, even as beautiful a person as Gina, could survive, he wondered what she had made of her life and if, like him, she ever regretted those early unfulfilled plans for marriage, the life they might have shared. He thought that, being* woman and emotionally dependent, she probably had. Yet her lifqhad been full and satis-

f * SI /X v I t ’X ■ s 9 I "Speaking of relatives,” Gina added swiftly, "I have one I vuM 1 to you about.” S

fying. More than anyone he knew, 3 she seemed to be happy and content. - She was invariably tired, rushed, ■ and it some times seemed to him,she ■. lived her life in a perpetual state of s confusion; yet whenever yo\i were 3 with her, she was gay and interested 9 and vital, and you forgot that when • you first saw her you had thought 3 that she looked tired and lx little old 1 and that, without wanting to, you ’• had somehow felt sorry for her. n She smiled at him. “If New York k was so dull, why didn’t you get out d of town, then?” ;- “Because any place I might have f got to would have been even duller.

i received inferior goods other than those contracted for by the state. “That is up to the receiving | clerks in the state institutions.” i he said. "I forward specifications of the articles purchased and it is I up to them to see that the right merchandise is delivered. In many instances these receiving clerks are low salaried employes and I fear that sometimes a $5 bill or a quart of good whiskey might make them approve inferior shipments.”

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family,” -I <• ext air “which didn't m.grate MM Wes'. ■ - its tion.” “I see. Male or female" “Oh a'girl. Very you* teen, I believe. She war’ll the stage." “My God! She must bei “Not so naive as you sup Her letter was intellip rather touching. She sari not bad-looking ar.d hasio malic ability and :s wtiiraj hard." (To be continual) ;»iT 1.*4

Slight Fire Damag In Dentist’s Firemen were called to al office of Or. E. P. F'.edl before 9 o'clock this moni c'oths lying near a gas id ignited The'lames were el ed with only little damn ing. Miss Jeanr.e CantjtbeX tiats assistant, was tn i!»l the titrne.