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Deily Short Story

‘Success Meets Failure--By Andrew Daw

HE man had nhardiy entered the room before There was

the hopeless stoop

office reception

sorry for him,

Jones felt something of his shoulders

a haut wore, which com And his eyes had ever The man was

were

ECOT

wonder if d The man's 2 fumbling “Oh,” he the floor where “Hey.” said He leaped and filled a paper cup the water on th He knelt pv the put an arm ur ders to raise hin to his lips Slow ‘ elinked conf to his feet.

you coul eves gest

moaned and

closed ure with his toppi er { he lay motionless Jones - in the

water cooler

e floor in

n 1 be all ri he said sorry to trouble There was a slight break

irvinzg-to-be-cheerfut

ight in just a apologetical You like this’ voice

Jones fishing

was “Here is 530 cents help

Suddenly,

will vou huv a meal.”

the nde

onisn

\oer's

rar ATIKE

He was

? face underwent a cha *at Jones “T'll be darned!” ignoring the proffered money If it isn't Jonesy! You remember me don't Bill Tedlev.” : J@nes looked hard. It all right—the Tedley he had known in high’ 8chool. He recognized him now that tired lines had miraculously from his face. “Hello. Bill" shook hand: : : -

staring in ast ment, h

e exclaimed,

was Tedley

the disappeared he said warmly

, and

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HEN A. silence Here hungry, did ‘yon, say to a position? 7 there silence that and failure Finally, Tedley spoke for this outfit long?’ “Seven years.” -Jones “It’s a ‘funny thing,” Tedley commented “I'd never have thought youd end up in a job like this. ‘1 see they've got vou taking care of Yeah, it's a funny

there | was an ‘awkward

Jones groped flor words v, down Rhnd! out,

work. What

was 'Tedle looking for

fellow in such a

Jones didn't know,

was a silence—the kind of

the contrast of success invites.

‘Worked

replied.

It dawned on Jones that there was pity lin Tedley's voice. He started to explain that tending the switchboard was not his regular job. that the switchboard operator was out for lunch, that girl had "relieved her had been called -into the bess’ office for dictation, and that he. Jones, happening other member of the small office for! lunch, had volunteered to handle the few noontime calls. He started to explain, then checked himself. What.did it matter? It was too complicated. Besiaes, why emphasize the contrast B=tween his own success in the world and Tedley's obvious failure by telling him his true important status in the office He remained silent, and listened to Tedlev, who was

the who

, still talking

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WHEN we were . were the sma

the class, slaving, probably measly little salary. Gee, and Tll bet vou are tied down to a wife. a kid. and a house with a mortgage.” “You are rather good at guessing.” Jones acknowledged. “I am married. and I do have a son, plus a morigage.” : “And I'll bet the boy Tedley guessed again “Yes,” Jones meekly agreed “He was : abot to explain that his marriage was happy. gage was nearly paid for, >his boy wasn't really sick— a bad cold.

n in school. vou rtest fellow Jones

for some

sick.”

and that

So’

! something in -his hand—put

to ‘be the onlv!

in | : : y |», In 1932 only 50 per cent of those Now here vou are

that the mort!

just had’ But before he could do wheres”;

~——=1 {I},

Getting a Cup of Waler, He

longer looked starvation |

Tedley, who no near death's door from and the heat, continued. Poor Jones,” he-sighed. “Smartest fellow in the class, and 1 was the dumbest. Yet here you are, an underpaid office slave, and here I am. one of the best panhandlers in town, making good money. Yeah, it's a funnv world,” he mused. and lapsed into. silence—the kind of silence that the contrast of success and failure invites. spoke

A had gone too far.

“I'm not doing so badly,” he said. Things could be Worse. I—" Tedlev's voice cut

50,

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last, Jones up. This

Jonesy, ” “yon always were: a cheerlooking at the Keep it up,

“Yes. him off ful’ bright

always of life.

fellow, side pal.” He put his hand in his pocket fore a moment. withdrew it, and grasped Jones’ hand warmly. “Keep an plugging. Jonesy.” encouraged. “So long, old pal.” Quickly, he turned and left office. + Dazed.

he the staring at

there handclasp.

Jones. stood

by Tedley during that It was a five-dollar bill!

(THE END)

(The characters in this story are fictitious)

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Knelt by the Sprawled Figure

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The $100,000 gold

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IN THE Program of Eugenics for the United States just issued by the American Eugenics Society, this assertion is made after years of re-

BEGIN HERE TODAY Kay Dunn, pretty young nurse, applies for a job as stewardess on Overland Airways. In the Overland office she encounters Ted Graham, veteran pilot of Trans-Pacific Airways. and largely due to his intervention, she is accepted for a trial period. Two other girls, Doris Lee and Alice Miller, are accepted on the same hasis. Kay. excited over winning the job, stops to tel Graham the news.- Graham. whe flies the trans-Pacifie route, ix on his way to: San Francisco. He | shows Kay about the airport. When his | plane arrives and he waves good-bhy, she wonders if she will ever see him again. Kay meets Doris and Alice and the three discuss the day’s events, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

BY DICK MORGAN. CHAPTER FOUR HE east-bound plane left the

Central Airport at 8:05 with the three would-be stewardesses on board. { of gray twill, like the pilots on the Overland Airways. As preliminary instruction they watched the regu- | lar hostess on duty. | She brought the passengers pillows, newspapers, magazines. There | was cotton to be stuffed into ears. | Kay leaned back in the comfortable chair and watched the { twinkling lights of the vast, sprawl- | ing city disappear in the darkness | below. It was a thrilling sight. She | had become used to the sound of |

| the motors, and felt no sensation |

The blond young man glanced i

‘his wrist watch. “Cheyenne.”

P Kay repeated the Indian mame.

“Cheyenne!”

The boy laughed. and leaned diese | “Boy [friend on that plane?

IF WOMEN SHOULD BAND JOGETHER

a "PRE VENT we = :

They wore new uniforms

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

WILL PT, TRO Y ~ DEST. YOUR REN TO LEARN CHIEFLY & FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF OTHERS ? NES OR NO

YES ORNOZ.

search by leading authorities. People in those occupations that require skill, judgment, character, foresight

and mental training which now con-

stitute over half of our people have too few children to replace their numbers, whereas people in the occupations requiring the least skill and judgment are more than replacing their numbers and are thus supplying most of our future citizens. the authorities grant that probably two-thirds of these differences in intelligence are due to environment, but, believe at least one-third is due to heredity and that this trend in family size can only mean a decline in our average intelligence. We regard? this as the question of American destiny.

” ” OF COURSE it will, if all you do is slavishly copy other people’s experience and behavior. But a study of the experience of others is the only way to learn how to do something original—something that others have not done.

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KERR EBY, author of the famous booklet, “War,” maintains that women could stop war if they would only band together because the mother instinct is the strongest thing in the world. He thinks if the mother instinct were mobilized, combined and concentrated, it would stop the ghastly slaughter. This seems to be the world’s last hope. a

Women are all like. They won't let a guy alone even when he’s in the air!” Kay's teeth flashed. “Conceit!” “I don’t think I've seen you on this run before,” he added, nonchalantly. “Just a trial flight? I'm Chuck Jones, co-pilot.” “It’s my first flight,” she told him. “You don't think I'll be sick or anything?” nn o mcs HUCK laughed. “Oh, we’ll have smooth flying tonight — might get some bumps over the Alleghenies, but I don’t think so.”

He looked around and saw the

1 other two girls—Alice and Doris—in

uniform. “What's this?” he exclaimed. “A girl's boarding school!” Kay laughed. “Three of us taken on today. I hope we all make the grade.” : Chuck’s eyes twinkled. “So do I. By the way, what's your name?” “Kay Dunn.” Chuck Jones opened a book and neatly inscribed the name therein. Then he looked up. “Say, that’s a neat combination — red ‘hair and zreen eyes. What's your telephone number in port?” * Kay laughed. “Sorry. any.” He slapped the little book shut

1 haven't

and then stood up. “Okay by me! | But when you get lonely in port just give me a wink. I'll be around.”

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WEN he was gone Kay laughed softly to herself. “The spoiled | little brat! He can’t be more than i 22. In spite of his conceit, though, he’s probably a nice boy.” She settled back into her seat and remembered the look of quiet resolution on Ted Graham's face. She sat quietly for a long time, . until suddenly ‘she turned and saw Doris Lee's angry face close to her. “That co-pilot!” Doris said. “He's just impossible!” She tossed her yellow hair. “I was standing there, trying to learn something from the air hostess when he came by and said we were blocking the aisle. And that's not all. He said, ‘Get rid of some of that excess baggage, sister, Af you're going to fly this line!” 1 turned beet-red, I know, but I'll fix that guy! He can’t get fresh with me! ”

AY looked back and saw Chuck Jones’ blond head close to Alice Miller's. His blue eves were shining, and Alice seemed .enormousiy

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pleased. Her brooding, timid air had somehow vanished and she was laughing at something he had said. ‘In a minute or two the co-pliot rose and walked past Kay without so much as a nod this time. |" Doris scowled after him. Chuck took the pilot's place, and a few minutes later the pilot appeared. He glanced at the two girls in uniform, but, just as he was about to speak to them, one of the passengers, a dowager, leaned into the aisle to say, “Boy!” ’ The pilot jumped as if he had been shot, but he responded cour- | teously. “The plane passes over my daughter’s house near Pittsburgh,” the woman said. “It’s on a big hill. I wonder if you'd go down low so I can see the lights of the house. I'm sentimental about those things.”

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HE pilot's face concealed his mirth. “Sorry, madame, but at that point we can't fly lower than 3000 feet. Government regulations.”

He hurried on toward the rear of the plane. Kay laughed. “I suppose an air hostess has to answer a lot of ‘questions sillier than that. We'll have to learn a lot—about geogzraphy, and time-tables, and government regulations. And what is a gyropilot? Somebody stopped the pilot back there and asked him.” a “Don’t look at the pilot!” Doris said. “He'll think you're flirting with him. These old women passengers spoil them. Every one of |

them thinks he's the Winged Mer- | cury! But we had them like that in the insane asylum, too. There was one who thought he was Johh

Barrymore.”

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AY was not listening to Doris, though she wondered idly how long it would be” before Doris forgot her bitter experiences in the psychopathic hospital. She turned her attention to the passengers. There was a mother with two little boys—one of them asleep with his head in her lap. The other was chewing gum 'and making loud noises. There were several business men, a Japanese merchant, an army officer, a priest, and four school girls. Most of them were reading magazines, glancing out at intervals toward the great blackness which en- | ed them. Back in the rear of the plane two men played checkers.

After a few minutes the pilot came back up the aisle, He nodded

GRIN AND BEAR IT

+ + + by Lichty

“Would I be wasting my time selling insivrance if it wasn't for your own good?”

SIDE GLANCES

By George Clark

“I usualiy work much faster, ma'em, but I'm up with all these modern contraptions in my way.

comradely to Kay. but Doris regarded him with arch suspicion.

» ” = % E stopped to point out the window, and say, “We're over the Alleghenies now—the graveyard of aviators.”

But an hour later the padiensy | gers were still doing the same com- |

monplace things to pass the time. The trip was uneventful. “Nothing ever happens.” the air hostess said, “except once in a while a passenger is sick. It's an exciting life, though. You're never sure just what might be ahead.” At midnight the plane glided to earth at the Newark Airport and the passengers disembarked.

Kay looked #t her wrist watch |

and judged that Ted Graham would

be flying over the High Sierras now. |

Her thoughts spanned the continent and perhaps they reached Ted, for at that minute he sat back in his chair and thought about the three girls who had applied for jobs as

stewardesses that morning. He car- | ried a picture, neatly and precisely closeted in his mind, of Kay Dunn's

face. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1938. NEA Service, Inc.)

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