Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1940 — Page 30

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By Marguerite Gahagan

CAST OF CHARACTERS

SUE MARY JEFFERSON—ctenographer in a law firm, alone in city, seeknp new friends, STEFANSKI—amhitious, college educated worker, in love with Sue Mary, NICK ALEXANDER-—leader of the ¥Yeuth Progress group. VERA HYLIVER—active worker, combines social and political duties.

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YESTERDAY—Sue Mary's new friends Introduce her to 2 new warld of politics and activity. They are members of a Youth Progress group, having a candidate for election. They preach a strange doctrine. With Joe in a movie, crutades and politics seem far removed.

CHAPTER FIVE ‘ HALF-HEARTEDLY Sue Mary thought perhaps Joe was right Maybe it was only a stupid loneliness that had made her first impression of Nick, and Vera and Natalie and their crowd so exciting and vivid. Mayhe' they were, as he said, “crackpots.” Perhaps she shouldn't go ahead as she had thought of doing. But Tuesday morning—the start of another free day—found her answering the phone, It was Vera calling. “I'm taking you at your word,” she said. “I know you haven't a thing to do today, and we need help. Come on over and help me straighten out the mess at the office. There are stacks of things to file, and piles of papers to type. And lots of people you'll like to Know, And so Sue Marv went to the office. It was hardly that, in the sense that Sue Mary considered offices, It wa$ a dreary room in an cld building that also housed a hall the Youth Progress group used for meetings. Posters screamed from the walls: yellowed and torn posters urging help for Lovalist Spain; “Swing at! the Spring Spree and Help the Cause”; "Mass Meeting to Hear Boris Boukoff on the Five-Year Plan’; “Expose of War Mongers and Wall Street Munition Backers.” “We're getting ready for tha primari Vera said, while Sue Mary stared at the posters, at the

os. still half dozen girls, who with two young men, in shabby clothes, were sealing envelopes, phoning, checking addresses, and clipping stories from newspapers ‘You see,” Vera explained patiently, as though to a child, “we may be young. but we know what we want and we have some intelligent men and women helping us We want some people on the ballot who stand for our principles “Look what's happened in Europe beacause of the monev grabbers. Thev've kept the common worker ground down for centuries and it's only now that they are being liberated “Well, over here in the grand little old U. 8. A., we have a chance to vote and run the country and we're going to have our voice. Fred | King is running for Governor in| the primaries. Maybe that seems unimportant in the whole country, | hut if every group does its job well. we'll have the right men in the key posts all over the nation. Right now our job is to help Fritz get the votes around here. And now, how about typing copies of this letter?” = »

SUE MARY typed and thought. Anvone who could talk with ease and assurance that Vera used left Sue Mary helpless. Politics—that strange word that one associated with headlines and newspaper stories—also left her helpless. As a little girl, she had listened to her grandmother tell about coming out west from New York state in a covered wagon; of seeing Indians asleep before the fireplace in the cabin on a cold night; of hearing her father talk about Abe Lincoln. anc of watching him go off to war while her mother wept. ‘he stories had been endless. making Sue Mary's history lessons later on more than dull pages in books. Her own family had a part in making that history, and a surge of pride had through here.

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flowed But in growing up she had forgotten {hat pride until now, when she was conscious of her duty to take a part he life of her country, A funny way to spend a day off, Sue Mary told herself hours later. when she was back typing again after a breathing spell. The gang had stopped work for cigarets and talk. Talk went on about swiftly moving stream. made the idle chatter office already seem trifling. There, the arrival of young Ross Clark Jr., the son of old M. Ross Clark himself, would throw the entire feminine staff into a dither. Young Clark came to the office on rare occasions. He would dash in and right out. Rut from then on Kitty would gtare into space with that pre-occu- | pied expression in her green eves, | snd Babs would smile knowingly ang whisper to Sue Mary, “Kitty just can’t bear to have a handsome, eligible guy pass her bv like that. I wonder if she ever will make the grade.” Now, typing copies of the ecampaign letter, her thoughts struggled for expression. Around her moved these competent, knowing hovs and girls working with a purposefulness that left her bewildered. Others came and went and the conversations changed with them,

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SOME were upset because there was to be a cut on welfare, “They can't do that,” someone was shouting to Vera. “They can't cut off their measly little handouts and expect the people to tighten their belts and grin. Why, that family’s been on relief for three years—" “Well, if that contract isn't signed | in a month, you can bet we'll be out on the picket line again.” Another voice rose above the noise. She wondered if she would ever be! able to understand things the way Vera did. Ana then Nick arrived. He saw! her as he entered and his eyes] lighted. He came directly to her: past Vera, past the other girls who stopped work for a second to smile. “I knew you'd come, but still it’s nice to actually see vou here with us.” That barely perceptible accent did something to his voice. He sat on the desk and read the letters she had typed. He ran his fingers through his hlack hair in a8 gesture she haa already come to associate with him. “¥ou haveu't leafed, either, litle

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