FALLON COUNTY TIMES, BAKEN, M ONTANA
Father Loved
Punishment
By FANNIE HURST
(© by M cC lure N e w sp a p e r S y n d ic a te .)
iW NTJ S e rv ice )
O KATHLEEN, ever since she
conld remember, there bad
been something almost unbear­
ably pathetic about her father. Not
alone because be was so good; not
alone because wldowered at thirty,
his middle years had been entirely
dominated by the heritage of a
brood of five ‘young children; not
alone because wltb bands horny
from labor, nightly he wonld un­
dress wltb the tenderness that
would have befitted the wife who
had left him in death, the five noisy,
brawling, often sqnalllng young­
sters, who rode him with t. high
hand because bf his apparently In­
fallible good bumor.
To Kathleen, his second, his
pathos lay rather In the fact that
he accepted It all without question
or rebellion. There were five chil­
dren to be reared on bis meager
earnings as gardener In one of the
towns public parks; five months to
he fed; five small minds to' be
trained; five pairs of feet to be
shod and that was all there was to
It. No grumblings. No complaints.
No stinting In so far as It was pos­
sible for him to provide.
Be was Just the best old thing!
Time and time again, Kathleen’s
conclusions regarding him summed
themselves up In thnt rather defeat­
ed conclusion. He’s just the best
old thing I
Completely unaffected In the way
thnt Knthleen was affected were the
remaining four children of Pat.
Emma the eldest, had no particu­
lar attitude about her father. Thnt
Is, In so far as she felt anything
more than the warm filial affection
dud a parent from a dutiful dnugh
ter. The three hoys, pretty rough,
all of them, from the vagabonding
childhood about the streets, took
their “old man" somewhat for
grnnfed. “ Pnp’s all right
Little
hit of a duh. but Pap’s nil right
Gives me a pain In the neck some­
times. but Pap’s all right."
Not one of the four would have
known quite what Knthleen mennt
had she tried to explain the pathos
thnt cut Into her heart where her
father was concerned His patient
way of plodding off to the park
grateful for coffee If Kathleen or
Emma happened to he up to give it C ivilization H as Laid
to him before he le f t; uncomplain­
H and on D esert T rail
ing and silent If the kitchen stove
I
remember
chromos of tha
were cold when he came down nnd
stnrflng off to work with n roll desert trail with hollow-eyed skulls
taken from the baker’s hag of them of longhorns beside the wagon
at the kitchen door, as he made trncks And now I have seen that
frnl). graded and ditched, with
exit.
signs marked "soft shoulders” and
It wns not often Knthleen let "speed lim it:
forty-five miles.’’
this happen, but the weeks Rhe had There a re skeletons beside rhe road
heen laid up with a broken ankle, now. too—the rusting, crumpled,
time and time again Emmn had wheelless skeletons of old autos,
Inin oversleeping nnd father had upside down.
cone off without breakfast.
On that blue mountain, blue from
He hnd a wav with the boys. too. here, but white sand nnd pale olive
of letting them bully him. He was brush when you get to If, the min­
forever contributing out of his ers used to make little holes and
weekly wage to tide them over this funnels In hope of precious metal.
nnd that dilemma. “Pop, If you Now there In a great white “A”
don’t let me have a fiver this week. on Its crest, visible for miles
I might ns well throw up my Job around. A tribute to alma m ater
and It’ll mean the devil to pay. I from the students of the University
owe the till five and It’s got to be of Arizona.
paid."
The new tenants of the land of
Thnt patient, tired, horny old adventure and straight shooting.
hand sliding down Into the worn The scientific grapefruit grower.
pocket of his baggy trousers I That Thp director of the desert labora­
patient, walrus-shaped, sandy-col­ tory. The professor of romance
ored old mustache, drooping with languages. The mnnager of the ho­
perplexity nnd disapproval. NoJ a tel with white-tiled bathrooms, who
particularly efficient father, as fa­ Is a member of rhe Hotel Greeters’
thers go, wenk with his hoys, vacil­ association. T he lady In a smock
lating In what few demands he who sells Indian art goods. The
made nnd absurdly sentimental wltb owner of twenty-two chain grocery
his girls.
stores throughout the state. The
"My Katy’s the queen of them Income tax e x p e rt The golf profes­
all. My Emma Is a lark of the sional. The A. P. correspondent.
raorntng.’’
The wild young pitcher, who hopes
This because Emmy, with a that a scout from Los Angeles Is
pretty fluty voice which had been looking at his curves and not at the
trained from lessons squeezed, dear beautiful deranged sun setting over
knows how. out of father’s lean the mad blue mountains.—-Robert
weekly envelope, had created about Uttell In the American Mercury.
herself. In the narrow little house­
hold. somewhat of the aura of a
F a m o u s O c e a n R ace*
prodigy.
One
of the famous California
Emma sang. Emma’s voice was
clipper
races
was that of the Wild
something to be treated like a jew­
el In Its casket. That was why It Pigeon, John Gilpin, Flying Fish
THey sailed
was sonietlmes necessary for father and Trade Wind.
against
time,
leaving
New
York on
to go off to work, without breakfast.
different
dates.
Flying
Fish
won,
A body thnt contained a voice must
making
the
passage
from
New
York
not be overt rled or o^rtlred.
Father fell In with that
But to San Francisco In 92 days 4
Kathleen, who wns on night shift as hours, from port to anchor. The
Gilpin made It In 93 dnys from port
telephone operator and did not al­
to pilot, and Wild Pigeon In 118
ways return home In time to fix
days.
The Trade Wind, which left
father his breakfast, would boll and
then sob a little, Inwardly, at the some time after the others, fol­
lowed with 102 days, having taken
patience of fnther. The •dear, tired,
fire and burned for eight hours on
gallant patience of father.
the way. Another famous race was
For eighteen years of widower that between William H. Webb’s
hood, father stood for all this, Swordfish and Donald McKay’« -Fly­
sweetly, a little tiredly, but so un-. ing . Fish. The tatter sailed from
complalnlngly that sometimes It Boston November 5, 1851. and on
seemed to Kathleen he must be thé same dny the Swordfish passed
made of the stuff of saints. Then, Sandy Hook. The. Swordfish ar­
one by one, the boys married and rived In SaD Francisco on Febru­
took tt\emselves and their bicker­ ary 10* I8-5*2! after a passage of 90
ing* 'and their demands and their, days from Boston.
uncouthness and their Inconsiderate
bullytags out of the house; and
C hem ical* C om bat Ice
next /came Emma, who inside ‘ of
twenty-four hours met, fell In.love ; Several states where there Is con­
with,,married and went, off with the siderable snow or Ice on the" high-,
orchestra, leader of a traveling mu-, ways have adopted the use of chem­
steal show, which had come to town. icals in-conjunction with the sand
• -.By; this time, resolutely, there or cinders used heretofore to prevent
began to .take full shape in Katb- skidding. Calcium chloride mixed
teen's .- mind a half-formed . dream with the sand or ashes causes. It to
"whlch'Jiad. lodged there‘ever since Imbed Itself In .the Ice and prevents
she had been old enough to ,cere­ i f . from blovria.ç jiw ay or being
brate »bout the stanted life of her swept aside by massing car*.
T
splitter” and Lincoln himself set current a num­
ber of dignified political nmxims th a t were
adopted as slogans by the orators, such as “A
House Divided Agnlnst Itself Cannot Stand" and
"Slavery Is a Moral, Social and Political Wrong."
“Keep Cool
Grant’s famous "Let Us Ila \e Peace’’ was used
with Coolidge®
to good advantage ns a slogan In electing the
"Man from Appomattox" but the corruption
“ He K ept Us Out o f W ar!"
which marked his two administrations provided
the Democratic opponents of his successor, Hayes,
By El^MO SCOTT WATSON
democratic Itleals had become considerable of nn with the best possible type of slogan. So "Tllden and Reform" echoed throughout the cam­
OW that the Presidential campaign Is aristocrat.
So when the Whigs nominated the type of inau paign In 187(1 ns a powerful rallying cry for the
beginning to warm up, the sloganeers
will soon be busy Inventing apt and that Andrew Jackson had once been—a frontiers­ Democrats. By all the rules of slogan logic, the
easily-remembered catchwords with man, an Indian lighter and a military hero, the brevity nnd the force of that slogan should
s'which to charm the ear of the voter. nation was ready to turn (to state It paradox­ have won for Tllden but election boards and an
.'.Already senatorial groups In both ically) from a Democrat who wns nn aristocrat electoral commission decided otherwise.
In the campaign of 1884 there wns a case of
'parties have chosen from those sub- to a Whig who was a democrat. Unwittingly a
Democratic
newspaper
gave
the
Whig
candidate
history
repenting Itself In that, Just us in the
'mltted In a recent contest mottoes
!{which they hope will advance the the grentest boost It could possibly have given case of Harrison nnd the Whigs In 1840. Cleve­
.„cause of their standard-bearers—the him. Sneering at his Intellectual caliber (which land and the Democrats profited by a blunder
'Democrats with their “Hee-haw I admittedly was small) It said, "Give him a barrel made by the opposition. In thnt year Blaine
. We're coming back 1" nnd the Itepub- of cider In a log cabin the remainder of his was the Republican candidate nnd his Presi­
dential aspirations were favored by his nick­
llcans with their “Prosperity Is Returning—Don’t life."
names of the “Plumed Knight“ nnd the “Rupert
And
what
a
godsend
that
wns
to
the
Whigs!
Throw It In Reverse 1” And already there are
dissenting opinions to the value of both slogans, Immediately the log cabin nnd the hard cider of Debate" ns well as by the tuneful quality of
both of which have been characterized as “un- barrel became their symbols and Harrison’s In- the rallying cry of "Blaine, Blaine, Blaine of
impassloned, uninspired and uninspiring." So It dlan-fightlng record furnished them the ringing Maine." These were offset, however, somewhat
would seem that there’s still a chance to coin war cry of "Tippecanoe nnd Tyler, T ool” Just by "Nosey Blaine," "The Tattooed M an" and
a phrase- which will play Its part In electing our for good measure they threw In a few pointed "Jim, the Penman." the latter referring to the fa­
next President and, If we may judge by past .remarks at Van Buren, such as "Vnn, Van Is n mous Mullignn Letters.
But the fatal blow to Ills chances was struck
history, that slogan may be brought Into being Used-Up Man*' and "With Tip and Tyler We’ll
when
an enthusiastic Blaine supporter, Rev. R
Bust
Van’s
Bller."
They
also
anticipated
the
at the moat unexpected time nnd under the most
unexpected clrcmustances any time between "full dinner pall” appeal to the voter with “Van’s B. Burchnrd declared In a speech that all con­
Policy; Fifty Cents a Day nnd French Soup; scientious Americans should vote the Repub­
now and November 8.
How potent a slogan may be In winning for Our Policy: Two Dollars a Day and Roast lican ticket because the Democrat's stood for
"Rum, Romanism and Rebellion." Blaine was
a Presidential candidate (and also for losing Beef.”
present
at the time but did not hear him dis­
Four years later the campaign witnessed not
onel) Is easily seen by an examination of Amer­
ican political history. The first effective use of only the appearance of the first "dark horse" In tinctly enough to realize the gross error and
the campaign slogan was away back In 1800 a Presidential campaign but also another telling to repudiate this slur upon the religious belief
when the Republican party (which later becnme slogan. The "dark horse" was James K. Polk of of millions of Americans. So the slogan which
the Democratic) raised the cry of “Equal rights Tennessee and the slogan was “Fifty-Four Forty the Republicans hud attempted to tack on the
for a lj; special privileges for none I" in protest or Fight 1” At that time the United States was Democrats proved to be a boomernng and aided
against the aristocratic tendencies of the Fed­ Involved In two disputes, one with-Mexico over In defeating their candidate.
Cleveland’s first campaign contributed "The
eralist party and swept Thomas Jefferson Into Texas and the other with Great Britain over the
Man
of Destiny" nnd "Tell the Truth" to the
office over John Adams, who waB a candidate Oregon country. The Democrats stood for "reoccupatlon of the Oregon country and re-annexa- slogan stock, both of which had a strong appeat
for re-election.
Then followed 24 years of rule by the “Vir­ tlon of Texas." The Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" to the voters.
The tariff campaigns were prolific with slogans
ginia dynasty"—Jefferson, Madison ahd Monroe represented the northern boundary line whtch
—among
the most'telling ones were “Protection
the
United
States
demanded—54
degrees,
40
min­
•—and the Federalist party disappeared from the
scene, leaving only the Republicans, who now utes, north, latitude. What we actually got and Prosperity," “Free Trade and Pauperized
called themselves Democrats, with various fac­ (and not by fighting either, but by arbltratloh) Labor” and “Free Trade and the Destruction of
tions within the party. In 1824 there were four was 40 degrees. So the slogan didn’t mean so American Industries." which the practical Mark
outstanding candidates—John Quincy Adams; much after the election, but It did play a vital Hanna boiled down Into the vote-getting slogan
Monroe’s secretary of state; William Crawford, part in deciding the election in Polk’s favor, as of "The Full Dinner Pall."
William Jennings Bryan, who Is associated In
his secretary of the treasury; Henry Clay, a did the slogan "Polk and Texas; Clay and No
most Americans’ memory with Clay, Tllden and
member of the house of representatives, and Texas" In regard to the Texas question.
Andrew Jackson, a member of the senate.
In the war with Mexico which followed so soon Blaine ns men "who just missed the Presidency,”
In the election Jackson led In both the popular after Polk’s election one of our victorious gen­ had a strong slogan—strong In Its brevity and
and the* electoral vote but did not have a ma­ erals rwas Zachary Taylor nnd from an Incident It’s capability of being easily remembered—In his
jority. So the election was thrown Into the in the battle of Buena Vista came a slogan "Sixteen to One." But it wasn't strong enough
house of representatives and there Clay threw which helped elect Taylor President In 1848. It to win the election for him the first time he
his support to Adams, resulting in his election. was the famous “A little more grape, Captain tried and he never wns able to get another
if •
When the new President Adams offered Clay the Bragg" which struck the popular fancy as being which brought' him any nearer to the White
post of secretary of state, Jackson adherents just what a great military commander would say House.
raised the cry of "Bargain and Corruption l" under the circumstances. What he actually did
Sometimes a slogan will have a “kick-back"
They kept that slogan warm for four years and say on that occasion was the laconic “Give ’em after It has accomplished Its purpose. There is
in the election of 1828 It helped Jackson defeat hell 1" But that dldn^t matter so much as The no doubt but that “He Kept Us Out o f War”
Adams and sent him to the White House, there fact that the combination of the "grape" slogan helped re-elect Woodrow Wilson In 1916. And
. to stay- for eight years. In the meantime the and his popular nlfckname of “Old Rough and then fate decreed that with six months after
•Whig'party had been formed but Its strength Ready" (so reminiscent of “Old Hickory" and his election we should be “in” and not “out” of
In th e’ 1832 campaign was divided and Jackson “Old Tippecanoe”) had much the same appeal as war. "Too Proud to Fight” was another phrase
: araiirWas an easy winner.
the Jackson combination and the Harrison com­ thnt haunted him.
/- 'When “Old Hickory” was through with being bination of slogan and nickname.
As for the slogans of recent years, they are too
¡President he passed his mantle along to his
In the same year w as born a slogan that crys­ familiar' to most of us t’o need much comment
;secretary of state, Martin Van Buren, who was tallized In popular phraseology the most fateful War-weary America turned “Back to Normalcy”
; sleeted in 1886 over four Whig candidates, one movement in American history. It was “Free with Warren G. Harding in 1920. In 1924 when
s*?»•s»>«:/.
■of>them; William Henry Harrison. Then came Soil, Free Speech,„Free Labor and Free Men," the Democrats hoped that.lt was restless under;
' the'famous campaign of 1840 when a slogan Very taken from a plank-In the platform of the Free Republican misrule and i hot for a change, they
'bStt • --definitely: won ■an election. This time one of the Soil party of 1848, -the,forerunner of the Repub­ learned that It had decided to “Keep Cool With
*canflMotes of the previous elec- lican party that nomInated,an<j elected Abraham Coolldge” Instead of--vote--for “Better-;.--Days*
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swept into office on a platform o f'sib- Lincoln‘in I860.' »/The-stirring campaign of 1860 With Davis.” In 1928;the Democrats,1wearing a
■|l^ty;‘•^/.^'^■n••;kndvspngs.•
was fruitful In slogans, as it was one of the bit­ brown derby and slnging,“The Sidewalks of New.
■J- -•'.^via'ffalrr^had'
gone badly
for Van Buren during terest In our hlstoryltpAmong them were, “Mil­ York” asked America to ’ remember. Its “Eight
V-f'iAiCalrs.'yiaa .gone
oacuy xor
’v. ;; h is.’f our^years. „ They had been four years of lions for Freedom,£$pt; One Cent for Slavery," Years of Wall Street” and to “Give Main Street
- i “c o n tln u ed « ecu tiye autocracy, of undlmlnlshed “Intervention Is Disunion-’.’ “Popular Sovereignty a Chance.” But Instead of . heeding this advice
'4 ©fflfel*it' partisanship, f f increasingly violent In- and National Union,’iJ i’Free Homes for Free America voted for “Hoover and. Prosperity.”
Iffa H
the‘fiscal ¡system of the nation,-. Men,” “The Constitution, and the Union, Now What slogans AtUerlCf =will -b e , repeating . this
Lnistratlve abuse of power.’’ and Forever,” . “I^t^IXberty Be National and years will depend upon-who" Is nominated .at Ahe‘
^
?
*nS Tan Buren was pro* Slavery Sectional," andscores of others, on both two. conventions: in Chicago n e x t June and.’whlch
upset the financial sides of the slavery^contiroversy, in similar ap­ will be the better of the two slogans w ill be
y thiV natfoV Then, too, this Presl* pealing strains.' Numerous catch pnr&ses -"were elded at the polls In November.: .',.
;
't’0 b« an upholder.of woven about the title-' “Old- Ab• ” and “The Railf<Bby Western New«P***r Union.)
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father. He was fifty-nine hy now.
rheumatic, subject td spells of
asthma and bent from the long
years- at gardening.
Father must have his day. Some­
how, some“ way. now with the boys
and Emma no longer banging like
so many sacs around his neck, he
m ust’be. given the first respite be
bad known.
Safely bidden beneath Kathleen’s
mattress, were three one hundreddollar bills and a fifty, the result
of five years of saving toward this
end. Given this start, and what
with her capacity for earning at the
telephone exchange where she was
now chief operator, there was no
reason In the world why father
might not retire.
The scheme. amusingly present­
ed, was to be his sixtieth birthday
g ift
There waA to be sure, one seri­
ous rift within the lure. It meant
a continuation of the Indefinite post­
ponement of Kathleen's own ro
mance, one of long standing, with a
young fellow exactly her own age.
proficient In the lovely work of
bookbinding.
Not a highly paid
success Job, as those things go. but
a quiet, beautiful vocation that in
Kathleen's eyes was part of the
very hofie and fiber of this youth
himself.
It was hard the wnltlng. There
had been six years of It already.
But there *had always heen valid
reason, and now, with the father
approaching sixty, more valid the
reason than ever .
With more of srnid reconciliation
to circumstance than rlielr years
wonld presuppose, the ymwgsjers
howed once more to the dictates of
the situation and Kathleen began
rhe dedication of her time, her
funds, nnd herself to her father's
twilight years.
It would all have gone through
very well, the surprise she had
planned for him nn his birthday
when the new scheme for his retire­
ment from gardening, his leisure
nnd his new life In a home freed of
responsibility were to be sprung on
him, except for one circumstance.
On the eve of his hjrthdny. fa
ther married the widow Troop, a
comely nelghhor womnn of fortythree. .with seven growing children
and, ns* she shyly confessed to
Knthleen the Incredible evening
that the Incredible pair eftme troop­
ing home “the hope of more."
Father, seeming thus to love his
punishment. Knthleen nnd the young
bookbinder are married now. and
even ns father nnd the widow
Croop. are living hnppily ever after.
N*tur*’*ir*nüiis—bah» natura elaagyeae
sallow cheek*. Trnly -wwiitarfut mìo »*
follow lliorook h coloa cl— rfag ., Take Mi
—{ U T D t n s I W f M . - to r eg n iate and.
Strengthen rocr*Bmfc»*Ure cis e ne. .The»
complexion and p am trad x o m a in jo u r pahk
•watch the tra nefe rry Hop; Try M lio te i
ei jnjj* l*xaüraa.5.i^ly
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T h e P o e t’* L o t
John Masefield, the poet laureate,
said to an American interviewer in
London:
“The liners nowadays all advertise
their steerage as ‘college cabin.’
“Our new Third Class CollegeCabin,” you read, “arranged exclu­
sively for ministers,- students, pro­
fessors, research workers, etc.
“These advertisements leave out
poets. Poets aren’t even up to col­
lege cabin."
Mr. Marsh laughed and ended:
"Poets are born, not paid.”
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P e c u lia r A fflic tio n
A motorcyclist, riding on a main
road near Weymouth, England, heard
a voice calling from a ditch: “Can
you oil my knee joints?" The cyclist
dismounted and found a former sol­
dier, who apologetically said: “I’ve
got artificial legs, and they’ve got
so stiff through sleeping out In the
rain that they won’t work."
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“Some time ago I
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ever I would feel
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i#
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F o r (roe m edical advice» w rite to Dr«
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N ails M e n d B ro k e n B o n es
Connecting the ends of fractured
bones with metal nails was demon­
strated recently by Dr. Lorenz Boehler at Vienna, Austria. Doctor Boeh;
ter exhibited X-ray pictures of th£
method and presented a number of
patients. One was a woman over
eighty years old, who Is now able to
walk normally.
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