The Syracuse Journal, Volume 28, Number 15, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 8 August 1935 — Page 6

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WATCH the CURVES By RICHARD HOFFMANN Copyright by Richard Hoffmann WNU Service

r SYNOPSIS Following his father's bitter criticism of hie idle life, and the withdrawal of financial assistance. Hal Ireland. only son of a wealthy banker, finds himself practically without funds but with the promise of a situation in San Francisco, which city ho must reach, from New York, ’within a definite time, limit. He taken passage with a cross-country auto party on a "share expense" basis. With five other members of the party, an attractive girl, Barry Trafford; middle-aged Giles Kerrigan; Sister Anastasia, a nun; and an Individual whom he instinctively dislikes, Martin Crack, he starts his journey. Barry’s reticence annoys him. To Kerrigan he takes at once, but ho la. unable to shake off a feeling of uneasiness Ho distrusts Crack, although finding his intimacy with Kerrigan ripening, and he makes a little progress with Barry. CHAPTER ll—Continued •Then I wasn't wrong. We can start all over again.** “AU over." she said. Her shower •topped and Hal's came more strongly. Then she made a squeak of horror. “What now? Bed-Jacket wet?” “No, but I’ve got a chlU and no ♦owe). Gosh! What would Lubltsch do?" "Keep the chill." said Hal, “youTl need IL I’ll toss yon a towel over the top." He reached the harsh, gray towel Kerrigan had got for him and swung an end of it into her compartment “Got itr “Oh. thanks." she said, “a lot“ “You’lJ remember this and not be boompslsh with me tomorrow?" “Yes. Na I mean I won't be whatever you said. I’m sorry I was." -Don't be." said. Hal. “All right I won't." Then, In a moment, her soft ’ olce said, “I’m going now.’ Good night Thanks for a lovely shower." ' Hey. my towel." said Hat “You want it back?" she said, mildly incredulous; “Oh. goodness, yes." “But—" she paused and Hal waited a moment “It’s my towel, isn’t it?" he said without sympathy. The end of the towel flopped into sight “It's wet," she said. “Good night" "Good night. Barry," hf said. He stopped his shower and took the towel. It was damp, faintly fragrant as he brought It near. He hesitated: Why was It wrong to use it? The sparkling of his gray eyes went faintly sober; and, folding the towel, he stuffed It Into the pocket of his slicker. Suddenly Barry’s voice came cas- ’ uatly over the top of the partition again. “What's your first name?" “Oh. hello." he said aa if she'd caught him at something. “Hal. Henry. Hal. Why? No, I didn’t mean that" “Didn't mean what?" “The •why.’". “Night" she said. “Pleasant dreenma." t “Same to you. uh—Garba" He heard her door close and latch. Slicking the loose water from his skin with his hands, the impulse to chuckle kept nudging comfortably at his stomach. And we shall meet again, I trust CHAPTER 111 Wednesday The mpruing light looked washed, the air carried the semblance of refreshment from the night, and the rich smell of the exhaust seemed hopeful as they started off, aiming for breakfast at some near town. Miller seemed to thin* nothing had changed since yesterday for. after he had lashed the luggage under the tarpaulin behind, he climbed Into the driver's place. “Not today," Hal said to him. “Better try your invention. In back." They hadn’t gone a mile down the road before Mrs. Pulslfer hurled the debris of her eye-open!ng orange at her raised window. "Shouldn't do that." said Pulsipher. “Dangerous" “Oh. dangerous pussycats!" she ’ snapped at him. Hal looked over at Kerrigan whose eyes were smiling as be peeled a peach with a large knife; The knife caught Hal's eye; the single, tapered, four-inch blade was set to a handle of natural stag-born, also tapered, with,'a ring at the thick end. * "Nice knife." he said. ‘ ■ “French," said Kerrigan, regarding It "Laborers use ’em to cut their breed at lunch and each other Saturday nights." Ts that what you’ll use to—when you round out your collection F Kerrigan gave an innocent, generous smile. “Might.* he said. He finished his neat peeling of the peach and held It over the wheel where Hal could see it “Manage that?" “Oh, thanks." said Hal, and took It The car, with Its age. ailments, and unnatural load, was cranky, and Hal guessed it might be a good thing that the driver’s rear-vision mirror didn’t give him Barry’s face to look st Instead it showed Sister Anastasia's, tranquil and immaculate, below the oblong of the back window. And when Hal glanced up. out of an habitual alertness for motorcycle police, he saw the nun’s head occasionally turned toward Barry, her lips moving, her expression one of comfort, of trust ♦f intimacy almost. He strained his ears for a hint of what they might be talking about, but their murmurs were unintelligible among the dry and labored songs of the car’s antiquity. Hal remembered yesterday’s sense of portent, of the shadow of something impending— like a presence with them. It had been odd, almost-vlvld. and he had been half watting for it to come again. If It came, and be could see Sister . AnastaMa look like that - her made deep, limpid, cool round

the traces of an unforgotten sadness near her eyes—the feeling wouldn’t make him uneasy again. And it might not come. Purged of his own confusion of spirit, with Miller’s outrageousness on the road and his sleepy thievery disarmed, the atmosphere was healthier. There were possibilltiesjo look to: Barry, with her first defenses relinquished; be and Kerrigan running their own expedition from Detroit after today and— He must get Kerrigan at lunch time and decide what was best to do about Miller In Detroit: turn him off loose, try to get him blacklisted with the agencies. If they bothered with blacklists, or let the police have a go at him. The man oughtn't to be at large, and yet It might . i . “Say." came Crack’s indolent confederate murmur close to Hal’s ear: “thought any ’bout what you’ll do to this bird Miller?’ • • • • Hal snatched a bite of breakfast and. to save time, went off to have the car sustained with water, gas, and oil while the others either Joined or watched the Pulsiphera celebrate the earnest ritual of eating. Barry’s eyes were soberly, internally thoughtful again: and the transient civility that had stood in them for a moment when Hal met her look was no recognition of

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"Must You Be So SolemnF* Ho Said. their advance of the night before.. When Rte came back to the breakfast place, she gave him her polite recognition and would hare turned away If be hadn't held her eyes with the steady, curious twinkling of his. She raised her eyebrows—simple, cleanly traced, barely curved —end prompted him. “What?" “Must you be so solemn?" be said, j "Ton look as if you couldn't remember whether you'd turned off the gas at home.” She smiled without especial Joy. “The morning's always solemn," she said. "Everything’s so clear " “How everything?" •Oh. strength." she said, "and fear and things like that In the morning you know It's silly to be afraid of the dark, but you know that when the dark comes you'll be gfrald again." “Are you afraid of the dark?" She shook her bead a little. “Not In the morning." she said. "Kerrigan wants a paper. If I find a place open, do you want one?" Not a personal favor. Hal bowed, with a smile as politely reticent as hers. She left him. and Hal rummaged In i the car for a tire gauge. Then Miller J came out. blinking in the sun. “Got a tire gauge?" Hal said. “Sure." said Miller. “Throw it on all round and see what we've got. will you?" Mrs. Pulsipher came through the door then, followed by Sister Anastasia and Crack. Miller half turned his grin toward them, and said with hie air of sleepy cleverness: “You're drivfn’. Whyn't you do lt?“ Hal looked up smartly: at once Miller's bleary grin was less certain of Itself. Waa the man possessed of some animal loathsomeness that could affect others? Hal couldn't think there wad enough energy of wplrit for that behind the glazed eye*. He commanded Mlller’a flimsy effrontery with his eyes, conscious that the golf ball in Crack’s lazy hand" had stopped joggling. as if sharing Its master's curiosity to see what Hal would do. “Check the tires." said Hal quietly. As he watched Miller go for the gauge. Hal's hands hung clear of his body, carefully, as If he had been handling sewage. So this day too was started with something wrong, something almost stealthy In It—something besides the Infirmities of the car and the heat that grew to a slow embrace of everything in the hazy, still landscape. To get to Detroit quickly, to be quit of Miller and the car—that was the focus for urgency. Miller might, under his unwashed stupor, pose ess some faculty for making Hal discontented with his own skin. At least there was no point In trying to tell what made it till this man was dropped. The engine was little by little making up Its mind to quit, discouraged by the brevity of easier gradients end cowed by a team of three big busses that charged down—a fierce happiness In their flapping tarpaulins—from the Alleghany summits. “This is bad enough," said Kerrigan. “But think of hopping the Atlantic. Listening for the horses to cool off

every second for thirty hours would harden all my arteries, give me a million dollars’ worth of persecution complex." And over his shoulder he asked Miller, “What’s the matter with thia studio-number of yours, Robin Hood?" “Little warm," said Miller, like a doped horse-trader. "How far do you reckon it to Detroit F There was a sort of laxy triumph in Crack’s saying, as If he had a map and a speedometer in his lap: “Between three and three fifty. ’At’ll make It a long trip for today." “We're going to do it" said Hal, "If we have to trade this barge for bicycles." After a long, laborious time, the car churned out a last flat sneeze, and a solid sign by the road proclaimed a summit, with statistics to prove it. There was no higher land visible ahead. And a can and half of water sent the car off to the less rigorous dips and climbs of the Mississippi Divide like an old dog remembering the smell of spring. It rained as they dipped down the last rolling land of Pennsylvania to the straight roads of Ohio. For two miles a short passenger train hurried darkly along the straight track that converged upon the straight road. Kerrigan musing on it, Hal glancing at him and at it with a pleasant sense of intimacy deepening between them. Then the locomotive cried exasperation at the crossing. “Train cornin’," Pulsipher murmured. Miller chuckled. “I seen that quite a ways back." he said. And for another two miles It raced away on its divergent course, white bursts from the whistle followed by Its faint screws for crossings—hurrying urgently under its blackened breath as if it had the whole country to cross before night Then they came to Akron, a spread of buildings that grew Irregularly higher toward a nubbin of the tallest in the modern style. Mrs. Pulsipher knew R was Akron by the smell of rubber. The city had lunch places, and that was important It was near three o'clock. Miller frankly distrusted the “Tea Shoppe" that had caught Mrs. Pulsipher’s bright and hungry eye, and he wouldn't go In. But the lady made it hard for the others—impossible for John—not to follow her. The dog had dragged Barry down the street on a good scent and Hal and Kerrigan let the others fill one table, avoiding the solicitation of Crack’s lazily hopeful look. “You and the princess aren't atili walking round each other stiff-legged, are you?" said Kerrigan. “Wouldn’t be sure," said Hal. watching the friendly, brown eyes quizzically. “WhyF “Ob, I haven’t got any Kreuger blood in me." said Kerrigan quickly. "I just wondered if we could begin having a happy time —the three of us—or whether I bad to be a referee." “I think she’s a grand girl," said Hal. calmly. “You’ll forgive my asking what Kreuger blood's got to do with it." "Kreuger made matches once along with a Mr. Tolk" said Kerrigan. Hal laughed and started to say something. but then Barry came in to them. Her unstudied smile of pleasure at having been waited-for barely Included Bal in its beginning, and the end of it with a leisured drooping of the eyelids. was all for Kerrigan. And that piqued Hal smartly, even while be pretended to chuckle to himself. I know a weakness to yon, beautiful. and Tm still going to use It But he found himself watching her carefully, alertly, as if he might miss something pleasant “First” said Kqyrigan, when they’d sat down, “we ought to agree to be sociable." Barry glanced up from her menu tn innocent Inquiry. T thought we were." she said: "aren't weF “All right we an " iald Kerrigan. “You admit it Then let us bare onr hearts to each other, even as—" “Oik let’s order something before that" Barry said. “The body, you know." "Yee." said Kerrigan, on a sigh, T know the body, to my sorrow. What is yours havlngF Hal suspected Barry of putting Kerrigan off in whatever he had been about to suggest; but when tbe waitress shuffled away, she said to Kerrlgin: Ts It painless—your heart ideaF “To us who are pure there yeu," Kerrigan said. “Here’s what I thought —just for an awfully good romp. Each of us gives a short biography of him-, or her-, self, you see—like tbe suburban obituaries in the city paper—“ “Jolly." said Hat (TO BE CONTINUED) Gotha, Teutonic People, Warlike and Unsettled The Goths were a Teutonic people who in the First century A. D. appear to have inhabited the middle part of the basin of Vistula river. In what la now Poland. They were probably the easternmost of the Teutonic peoples, says the Boston Post According to their own traditions, they had come originally from what Is believed to be Swedea They do not enter Into Roman history until the Third century when their frontier seems to have advanced considerably farther south. The Gothic peoples were warlike and not very settled, consequently they had probably not developed agriculture to any great extent From the Third century until well Into the Seventh century the Goths were constantly at war with the Romans, ard a great part of the Roman territory was conquered by the Gotha, who were to turn overcome by the Roman culture, and the Gothic identity therefore disappeared.

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Let Our Motto Be GOOD HEALTH ~ BY DR. LLOYD ARNOLD Professor of Bacteriology and Preventive Medicine, University of llHnou, Colles* of Medicine. MWOTBWWiWMMMm*

SUMMER TIME IS HEALTHY TIME Fifty years ago people looked forward with apprehension to the ap-

spring and spread like forest fire until tbe onset of cold weather In the late fall downed them. Every family bad one or more members 111 each summer with some type of diarrheal disease. Flux, they called It And if a family escaped a long spell of fever, they considered themselves fortunate. Colic and diarrhea were the general rule for infants A baby’s first summer was a hazardous time; babies were expected to have diarrhea while teething, and they were not expected to show much gain in weight during hot weather. My great-grandfather died of cholera in the southern part of Illinois In 1853. He was buried on an isolated plot of wooded ground on a high bluff overlooking a running stream; his body was carried across fields during the night so as to avoid people traveling the roads. Many cholera victims were buried in this summer, and many of the small Isolated cemeteries we now see were started with one of these cholera graves. It is hard for us to comprehend the fear and dread of illness suffered by our grandparents during the hot months of the year. I can remember very well my grandfather telling me how the early settlers moved from place to place in their covered wagons, driving wliat live stock they possessed, seeking high ground to keep away from “chills and ague." This of course was malaria. They did not known then that mosquitoes carried malaria; they thought malaria was in the night air of low places. Now we look forward to the summer months with pleasant anticipation. We expect to be at onr best until the fall colds, grippe and ipfiuenza strike us. We take it for granted that we are to spend our leisure time out-of-doors, free from all illness and in a state of well-being, mentally as well as physically. Illis change from fear, depression, worry, anxiety and sickness to cne of pleasant outlook, has been brought about in an orderly and scientific manner. Medical and sanitary science has closed up tbe avenues and highways hg which tbe germs causing summer diseases travel from the sick to the healthy. Germs cannot fly, walk or crawl. They must be carried in some vehicle. The first vehicle in importance is water ; tbe second is milk. ' Germs in water do not grow and multiply, but are passively carried trom one place to another. Germs in milk, however, do grow and multiply; hence milk Is doubly dangerous, being both a vehicle of travel and a good culture medium. Purification of the drinking water and proper disposal of sewage have been responsible for the reduction in waterborne diseases. Pasteurization of milk has destroyed the disease-producing bacteria in our milk supply and given us a safe, wholesome milk for human consumption. The pasteurization process consists in heating tbe milk to a temperature that will destroy all dis-ease-producing germs; it does not change the physical or nutritive properties of the milk. Pasteurization of milk has made us milk conscious in every way. The producers of milk have found it profitable to keep tbe milk clean from the time it leaves the cow until it is delivered to the consumer. This is as Important as pasteurization. Typhoid fever was everywhere fifty years ago. When the largest cities began to purify their water and to dispose of their sewage properly, typhoid was pushed back to the small cities. Then as these communities did the -a me, typhoid was pushed still farther back to tbe smaller towns and villages. where It now has its chief hang-out Typhoid fever is spread through the excreta of man coming tn contact with water, milk or food. Tbe fewer people sick the fewer germs are scattered about Two out of each hundred recovered typhoid cases, however, continue to excrete the typhoid germs in their stools. These persons are called chronic carriers, and are now the principal reservoirs of typhoid germs. The department of public health to Illinois, in conjunction with the University of Illinois, has recently developed a method of X-ray treatment that will cure many of these chronic carriers. So these germs get another knockout blow. Infantile paralysis and sleeping sickness are the two summer diseases we now dread. They are much more difficult to control than the diarrheal diseases, for they are diseases of the nervous system and are caused by germs too small to be seen with the microscope. Science will eventually win over them very soon, we hope. But even to epidemic form, their fatalities will not begin to approach the magnitude of the diarrheal fatalities of fifty years ago. • Western Newspaper Vulon.

Science Before War During the war, Australian soldiers trench-digging near Beersheba on the road to Egypt turned up ancient pavements with Christian signs and inscription*. For a week the Australians, continually under airplane bombing by tne enemy, dug away, carefully raised it and dispatched it sateiy to Cairo. Documents Date Back tn 16S0 On file in the archives division of the state library in Richmond, are official documenta of the colonial gov-

Log Cabin Effect in Crocheted Rug

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