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The Omaha Bee
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It shouldn't be hard to get hard roads for
Douglas county.
Is it going to be a case of "Tag. Ure it" in
the, police department?
Hope that air service promised Omaha is .
not merely "hot air" service.
If you see a stray bomb be careful not to
cultivate its too close acquaintance.
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Wanted A goat for immediate use. Apply
to head of police department, City Hall, Omaha.
. France may be short of many things, but
there is no shortage of pens and ink at Versailles.
, ' Nebraska is now a great wheat state, but
King Corn is not yet ready to step down off
his throne.
Self-determination is a mighty fine ideal to
keep in view but a mighty hard rule to apply
practically.
What is wanted is a clean-up of Omaha's
police department, whether Kelly appears or
disappears.
' The peace terms with the Turks ought to
include a bath every month, at least for a fixed
period of years.
. It is charged that there is "a lot of vicious
speculation in pork products" in this country.
Some folks always want to hog it all.
Race riots between Welshmen and Hindus
are: reported from Cardiff. East is east and
west is west and ne'er the twain shall meet.
Our amiable democratic contemporary says
it has no love for Commissioner Ure and proves
it by trying to wish the police department onto
him.
Any other excuss or stall that Police Com
missioner Ringer can ring in to side-step the
charges of ineompetency and corruption against
his police bunch?
. : Those German peace delegates might as
well begin to polish up their handwriting if
they want their signatures to be creditably im
mortalized in history. L ;
Remember no strike can be won against a
public sentiment convinced the strikers are in
the wrong and that resort to violence does not
win public sentiment. '
A tense detective story is diverting summer
reading. Readers of The Bee will have a good
one in "The Woman jn Black," soon to start
as a serial in our columns.
Over in France the police prefect in whose
district the stoning of the German peace com
missioners occurred was promptly canned. They
do it differently over there.
Berlin went without newspapers lor 48
hours. Considering events that are going on
now, it seems the Germans might be happier
without reading the newspapers.
7 Mr. Burleson guessed wrong again. His
eleventh-hour prediction of conversion to the
principle of collective bargaining failed to square
him with the Federation of Labor.
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, The war, we are told, has put an end to the
leisure class in Europe which used to be the
patron of art, science and culture, and the re
sponsibility for saving the situation has been
passed over to America. Art follows financial
supremacy. We are it and must front.
Tips for their instructors to supplement the
inadequate pay of college professors is sug
gested by a Harvard students' paper. Wouldn't
that be fine! And the boy dropping the big
gest contribution in the box should Te entitled
to the best examination marks and the cum
laude on his diploma.
English the World-Language
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The latest editions of dictionaries of the
English language published in the United States
contain more words than are found in French,
German, Italian and Spanish combined. A
great increase has come with the advance in
applied science. Take, for example, the sub
ject of electricity or, in a lesser degree avia
tion. It would be wastage to have in every
language a separate lexicon for new terms ren
dered necessary by the development going for
ward along new lines. These changes are rapid
and it would be foolish to cultivate a confusion
of tongues in dealing with them. The com
merce of the world, it is clear, will be prepon
derantly carried on by the nations that speak
English. In international financial affairs the
English-speaking races will be distinctly in the
lead. English is more prominent than any oth
er at the Versailles peace table. It is the tongue
of two of 'what' are called the Big Four in the
weighty negotiations. In its dreams of world
domination the German government required
English to be taught universally in its public
schools. An educated German is , rare who
lacks a working knowledge of English.
Thli entire wqjld may rest assured that the
English language is worth while. It is itself a
composite, but with a virile, admirable founda
tion of its own
FALSE BASIS OF SYMPATHY .STRIKE
In refusing to aid or countenance the pro
posed one-day general strike, planned as a
labor demonstration in behalf of Mooney, con
victed. of complicity in a San Francisco bomb
throwing plot, the American Federation of
Labor has taken a stand which will commend
it to all sober-minded people. This action
shows that conservative labor leaders under
stand the false basis, or rather lack of basis, of
the so-called sympathy strike.
If there is justification at any time for a
strike, it is when it is undertaken to redress the
particular grievances or enforce the special de
mands of the workers who resort to this
method of "persuading" their employers. But
for men to quit their tasks and go on a strike
to emphasize their opinion that a twice-convicted
prisoner has not had a fair trial, is a far
fetched proposition. In principle, however, the
sympathy strike is the same when workmen
without grievances and receiving satisfactory
pay become voluntary idlers in the'thought that
they are helping out other workers who
have gone on a strike to bring their employers
to time. All strikes are costly to all con
cerned, but the sympathy strike inflicts its
damage upon those who are not at fault, upon
the employer who treats his workmen right as
well as upon the employer who abuses his po
sition, and also upon the workmen and their
families, who have no complaint of their own.
Every wage controversy or labor trouble
should stand or fall on its own merits. To
be sure, there ought to be a better way to ad
just such disputes than by stopping the wheels
of industry while the workers go on a strike, but
multiplying strikes as a sign of sympathy is
not apt to be helpful to. labor's cause and the
brainiest leaders of organized labor clearly see
this.
The World's Power to Absorb Gold.
That there will never be a limit to the
world's power to absorb gold, is quite evident
from the unceasing flow of the stream without
any back-flow, regardless of its ups and downs.
According to a recent statement, coming from
a British source, the total annual increase of the
world's supply of gold is in round figures
$450,000,000, of which $300,000,000, or two-thirds
of it, is produced within the British empire. It
must be remembered, however, that the British
empire is a collection of widely scattered ter
ritories in all parts of the globe, and despite its
control of .production, Britain can have no
monopoly of the gold supply, for the greatest
accumulation of gold in any one country is in
the United States. '
What the war has done is to bring about a
very noticeable redistribution of the gold hold
ings of the world, which the peace treaty,
through its financial arrangements, will tend
to confirm. The countries left poor by the war
will require a long time to acquire anything like
their former proportion of the gold used in
commerce and for the arts, and the danger is
not that there may be no call for gold, but that
the high cost of mining as against the de
preciated value of money may check the vol
ume of the output. This is one place where
the operation of the law of supply and demand
is bound to be effective, slow though it may be
in working the result.
General French1 $ Memoirs
The Army as a School.
As was naturally to have been expected, the
drive to recruit an overseas peace army of
50,000 volunteers for post-war duty, is not going
as fast as it would have gone under the stimu
lus of a prospect of actual fighting, but good
progress is being made and there is no reason
why the object should not be attained within
the two weeks set as the time limit.
While our war experience may not have
popularized military service as a permanent oc
cupation, it has demonstrated the benefits of
two or three years in the army for physical
development, salutary discipline, broadening ef
fects of travel, and opportunity for valuable
training along special lines. The new military
service is a short college course in practical
work at the expense of Uncle Sam, which would
otherwise be secured only at considerable cost
in time and money. The army is no longer
the place for down-and-outers who do not
know where else to turn, but is to be a school
for ambitious young men who want to make
use of it as an avenue leading to desirable oc
cupations. '
If these facts can be brought home to the
people, there should be no serious difficulty
in overtopping the mark. of 50,000 volunteer re
Taxes That Should Be Repealed.
Congress is still sticking at the repeal of the
so-called luxuries taxes, the chief argument
against repeal being that these taxes are not
burdensome and the people from whom they
are collected can well afford to pay them. It
goes without saying that what constitutes a
luxury is wholly a matter of definition de
pending on viewpoint for what are now com
monplaces were. the rare possessions of the
fortunate few only a few years ago.
One of the axioms of political economy is
that a tax is a bad tax when it imposes un
necessary inconvenience or annoyance on those
who pay or is excessively costly of collection.
The worst feature of the luxury tax inflicted
by the last revenue law is the multiplicity of
bookkeeping and billing it saddles upon the
merchant, which is merely accentuated in the
little articles, like soft drinks and ice cream
cones, on which the tax scarcely equals the
cost of accounting. If Uncle Sam really needs
this revenue, which is' doubtful, he should de
vise a less pestering way of getting it.
N. B. And what we , say of the so-called
luxury tax applies a thousand-fold to the in
excusable dual system of mulcting the news
papers and periodicals by a two-rate postage
exaction one rate on that part of the paper
sheet covered with reading matter and a higher
rate on that covered with advertisements.
The. California raisin crop is reported the
largest in history. Great news for believers in
the potency of that concoction in whith one
raisin is supposed to supply the "kick."
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Descriptions of Willard and Dempsey lead
to the conclusion that they are cdmposites of
Chevalier Gerard, Hercules, d'Artagnan, George
Washington and Teddy Roosevelt.
Six French fencers were defeated by an
American lieutenant before the Paris Fencing
society. Is there no limit to what these Amer
icans may get away with? I
( London Times' Synopsis of British Com
mander's Review of War Experiences In
Three Parts.
II.
Lord French is a man of strong personal
likes and dislikes, and he reveals them in his
narrative with extraordinary freedom. Joffre
he admired and got on well with: to French he
is one of the supremely great leaders or his
tory. Of the late General Grierson and of Sir
Henry Wilson he speaks in the warmest terms,
tnat snows that it he can blame he also knows
how to praise, and has sympathies as strong as
his dislikes. General Sordet, about whom the
wildest rumors were current in this country on
the strength of a single passage in the official
report on the retreat from Mons, is the subject
of the warmest eulogy. Lord French, at his
first interview with Joffre, immediately after
landing in trance, had asked that bordet s cav
airy should be put on his left flank (for which
he was so anxious from the first), and that it
should be put under the British command. To
this second request Joffre did not accede (at
that-time there was not on either side any ques
tion of a united command), and though he
agreed to the first request there was apparently
some delay in conveying the instructions to
Sordet. that was the sole cause ot the slight
and very temporary friction between French
and Sordet, for whose work he had the highest
admiration. The only French general with
whom Lord French could not work was Gen
eral Lanrezac, the commander of the Fifth
French army on our right flank. Lanrezac he
found lacking in courtesy and a pedant, and
half the narrative of the early days is an ac
count of his disagreements with him. The most
dramatic passage in the narrative is Lord
French's account of the hopes with which he
went to bed on the 21st, and of his motor ride
on the morning of the next day, in which he
discovered that Lanrezac was already in full
retreat. As though that shock were not enough
French received another in the form of a re
quest from Lanrezac that the British should
attack the German flank to relieve the German
pressure. Lord French's strictures, though
severe, are just, and Lanrezac was afterwards
replaced by Franchet d'Espercy. But it is
characteristic of the ' fairmindedness of the
British general that with so many grievances
against Lanrezac he should still recognize so
warmly the "extreme brilliancy" of the Fifth
army's counter attack later at Guise during the
retreat.
The Mistake of Le Cateau.
Lord French avoids any detailed description
of battles, and the chief 'interest of his chapters
on the retreat from Mons is his severe criticism
of General Smith-Dorrien for fighting the bat
tle of Le Cateau against his instructions, which
were to retreat. These, instructions were car
ried out by Haig, whose conduct of the retreat
was masterly, and Smith-Dorrien was not in any
appreciably worse position, indeed, had greater
inducement to avoid delay because he was on
the exposed left flank.
"Colonel Ansell, commanding the Fifth
Dragoon Guards, one of the finest cavalry lead
ers in the army, who fell at the head of. his regi
ment a few days later, gave information to Gen
eral Allenby at about 2 a. m. regarding the na
ture of the German advance. This seemed of
such great importance that the latter at once
sought out Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien and
warned him that, unless he was prepared to con
tinue his march at daybreak, he would most
probably be pinned down to his position, and
would be unable to get away.
"Sir Horace asked Genieral Allenby what,
in his opinion, were the chances he had if he
remained and held the position, ad'ding that he
felt convinced his troops were so exhausted as j
to preclude the possibility of removing them tor
some hours to come. Atlenby's reply was that
he thought, unless the commander of the Sec
ond corps made up his mind to move at day
break, the enemy probably would succeed in
surrounding him. Nevertheless Sir Horace de
termined to fight."
In this battle we lost about 14,000 officers
and men and 80 guns. That the army escaped
at all Lord French attributes to the work of the
cavalry under Allenby and Sordet. The battle,
moreover, made the rest of the retreat more
arduous and destroyed all chance of making an
'effective stand behind the Somme or the Oise.
The whole narrative shows that so far as the
Second army was concerned there was a great
deal more truth in the Times dispatch than in
the contemporary official accounts. Le Cateau
did temporarily break the Second army, and
Lord French's own dispatch at the time is
largely to blame for the misunderstanding of
the situation in this country. In this dispatch
he seemed to exculpate Smith-Dorrien for
fighting at Le Cateau, and he now explains that
when he wrote it he was ignorant of the sup
port rendered by the cavalry and accepted
Smith-Dorrien's own estimatee of the position
of the German forces opposing him. But he
denies vigorously that headquarters ever gave
a tacit consent to the battle.
(Continued Tomorrow.)
Ringer's Claims as, a Republican,
Omaha. June 16. To the Editor
of The Bee: I notice by your edl
torial of today that you mention the
fact that City Commissioner Ringer
had "called you down" for criticizing
his administration on the ground
that he is a republican.
That might be all right if Mr,
Ringer had always "toted fair" in
politics himself.
I strongly supported Mr. Ringer
for city commissioner even in face
of the fact that he used the so,
called "open primary" to break my
back in the race for police judge of
South Omaha a number of years ago,
Mr. Ringer brought out a democrat
as a stool pigeon candidate for the
nomination and he got Just enough
votes to beat me for the nomination,
for a change of about 20 votes would
have nominated me. I did not con
sider that I was under any earthly
obligations to support Mr. Ringer
for city commissioner, but did so in
the hope that he might make a suc
cess of the office that he so strongly
asked for. I am not now criticizing
his administration, nor am I up
holding it. I am simply on the
fence awaiting the final outcome.
I did not consider it fair to the
republicans of South Omaha that
Mr. Ringer brought out a democrat
for police judge and by that means
forced the nomination of a man who
was doomed to defeat from the day
he was nominated for police fludge
on the republican ticket. i
Ringer secured about 100' votes
for his democratic candidate from
republicans, of whom more than
two-thirds would have voted; for me.
I am not such a hide-bound partisan
that I do not at times vote for candi-.
dates on the democratic ticket for
office, but I do think that no demo
crat has any business running on the
republican ticket, nor has a repub
lican any business running on a
democratic ticket. For that heason
I oppose any open primary. There
is one thing I do object to besides
I do not think it is right or Just to
the people of Omaha to import men
to hold down city jobs from other
cities. There are plenty of capable
men In our own city to hold the of
fices, and they ar the ones who
should be considered.
It would not be right for us to im
port a president from. Paris, for we
have one there now; nor Is It right
to import men for city Jobs for a
city of 200,000 inhabitants, from
Chicago or any other city of the
country.
Mr. Ringer ought show a little
political consistency before making
criticism of others in that line.
FRANK A. AGNEW.
Making Friends
We like people instinctively, rather than by
deliberate choice, and we like them because they
help fill out our own natures. Sometimes we
look over our list of friends and wonder why
there is such diversity among the members. It
is because we are many sided ourselves, and
two persons who 'fit well into our own lives
may not have any points of contact with each
other.
If we give thought to our friends, one by
one, we can often discover why we like them
we can isolate the quality that attracts us to
them. When we have found that we will also
find our friend has this quality without being so
aware of it that he makes a boast of it. When
our friends begin to take the attitude that they
have some quality we need we drop them.
While they are unspoiled in those bits of char
acter that help ours we like them. When they
become self-praising in those elements they lose
their attraction. The people who are friends to
so many others are those who can't account for
it they are unspoiled in their possession of
good qualities; and they are fortunate, indeed,
if they continue to be natural.
We like people we can trust, we make friends
with those who fill out our own characters and
we trust those who are natural. If you find that
you are losing your friends look into your own
mind and see if you are not losing some of the
naturalness that brought those friends to you.
Toledo Blade.
Single Track Minds.
Potter, Neb., June 17. To the
Edii;r of The Bee: One of the
most silly attacks on our president
in connection with his noble task
of having a league of nations es
tablished was made in The Bee's
Letter Box by one George Henry
Caigue. In the first paragraph this
worthy critic accuses the president
of using "arguments which are
"characteristic" in defending his
"theories," but is not able to give
something better. His smallness is
shown by the fact that he would
have the president use "arguments"
to defeat the very purpose for which
he is laboring in France.
Then our worthy critic has some
where read the phrase, "single track
of mind," applied to the president,
but does not show in what manner
the words of the president which he
quotes indicate a single track mind.
But, in the view of the writer, it
would have beenbetter for G. H. C.
to have had "a single track of mind"
and the absurdity into which he
plunges himself would not have oc
curred. For look at what he says:
"Posterity" says our presidential
protagonist, (kindly tell me what
that means), "will acclaim my sen
timents as the absolutely right ones,"
a statement that Mr. Wilson has no
more right to make than any ot
the other 100,000,000 of the citi
zens of this country." Granted! But
has he not just as much right to
make such a statement and has he
denied this right to anyone? But
that is not the only absurdity, for
nearly in the same breath he speaks
the same manner of thought in these
words: "The present generations that
will have to fight the wars in which
the league will embroil us." Is
our worthy critic of our president
not here dealing with things of the
future, things of which no one can
know anything about? Of course
the president, who can Judge to a
certain extent the future by the
past, must not speak of what may
happen in the future; no, not while
such minds which have no "single
track," or, better, no "track" to go
on, are around, but arrogate unto
themselves the privilege to deprecate
this in others. Oh, if our critic only
had "a track" for his mind he would
not flounder around so much. Grant
ed that our president has only a
"single 'mind track," or, in other
words: that he has only this one
object in view, namely, to bring
peace, a lasting peace, to the
world, that is infinitely better than
to listen to such critics as our es
teemed friend, G. H. C, who has
nothing to offer in this, his article,
but a little mud.
In the next paragraph this worthy
citizen reverses himself, takes it all
back and accuses the president of
having a "feminine mind," (thus we
already have woman suffrage not
only established, but a representa
tive in the white House, but this
aside), thus implying that the
feminine specie does not possess "a
single track mind," but many
"tracks,' or, perhaps, no "tracks
like himself. He is not clear on this
point. . He then tries to make be
lieve that the writtings of the presi-
The Day We Celebrate.
Francis E. Warren, United States senator
from Wyoming, born at Hinsdale, Mass., 75
years ago.
Mrs. Finley J. Shepard, (formerly Miss Helen
M. Gould), born in New York City 51 years ago.
Sir Adam Beck, chairman of the Ontario
Hydro-Electric commission, born at Baden, On
tario, 62 years ago.
Prince Juan, third son of the king and queen
of Soain. born in Madrid 6 years aaro.
' Rt. Rev. Nathaniel S. Thomas, Episcopal
bishop of Wyoming, born at tanbault, Minn.,
52 years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
The' Masonic grand todge of Nebraska in its
election mane J. J. Mercer, grand master; enns
tian Hartman, grand treasurer, and William R,
Bowen. srand secretary.
About 50 people left for Cincinnati as wit
nesses and participants' at the national turn
fest athletic contest.
Winn Meeeath has returned from the east.
Governor John M. Thayer was in the city
to attend the banquet tendered the press by
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air. c. Kosewarer on me occasion oi ine open
ing of the new Bee building y
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
(Peggy, while watching a movte show,
finds herself drawn Into the picture, and
with the Bronae Oenle, BUI and Balky
Sam, Bhe la pursued by Red Beard and
his Turks.)
"RED PEARD'S BOOTS."
DAILY CARTOONETTE
THISISRFiriEURY-queSS
I'll buy tm straw
LIU:
If. '
Rod Beard Gets Stuck.
RED BEARD still wore his 70
foot boots, but he had done so
much running for a fat man that he
didn't have much strength left. So
Instead of chasing the Genie, Peggy,
Billy and Balky Sam on foot, he
rode one of the horses. He grunted
painfully at every gallop, but he was
bound to catch the four fugitives and
urged his men on to the fullest
speed.
The bandits had learned by this
time that the Turks were not the
ones who had smashed up their din
ner party, and now they, too, joined
in the chase of Peggy, the Genie,
Billy and Balky Sam.
The Genie was very strong, but
all the running and laughing had
taken his wind, and he was soon
puffing like a locomotive.
"I can't go much farther," he
gasped.
"Don't give up, I see a town
ahead," urged Billy.
True enough they were on the
outskirts of a city. Directly ahead
dent are not "clear." but not a sin.
gle paragraph does this worthy critic
proauce to snow where the presi
dent's words were not "clear." Per
haps if he had a school girl
(feminine) would have run over to
him and opened his clouded eyes.
Let this suffice. If you cannot offer
anything better to discredit the presi
dent you are welcome to offer the
best you can, but try at least to get
"a single track- mind" and do not
slide off. Yours for the president
and the league of peace.
H. W. SAEGER,
Evangelical Lutheran Pastor.
Ill Breeding to Criticize.
Omaha, June 18. To the Editor
of The Bee: I notice the article
signed George Henry Caigue, refer-
ing to the utterance of President
Wilson at Suresnes cemetery on
Memorial day. Is it possible that
Mr. caigue does not understand the
English language?
President Wilson's state papers
have been read throughout the civ
ilized world for the last four years
and are generally said to be the
best jjelivered since Lincoln, if not
superior to any that Lincoln is
sued. This is not my opinion, but
the opinion of the most learned men
in all the more enlightened nations
of the world. If Mr. Caigue doubts
this, let him ask the editors of
World's Work, Literary Digest, Re
view of Reviews or any other high
class magazine.
It is too bad that Lodge, Borah or
Mr. Caigue are not president in the
place of Mr. Wilson.
No man gets so large he cannot
be criticized, but it Is the utmost
in ill breeding for us common punks
to say things about really big men,
of whom I think Mr. Wilson ranks
very high among them.
EDWARD EVERETT.
Dentist Tou say this tooth has neve.
been worked on before? That's qur,
for I find small flakes of gold on my In
strument. I
Victim You have struck, my back col
lar button, I guess. London Opinion.
There He Was Stuck, Hands, i'eet
- and Scat.
of them was a large building. On
the side of it they could see a big
siKn: "Sticky Flypaper Factory."
The door stood wide open.
"We must get inside," gaaped the
Genie. "I can't run another block."
Into the entrance they darted,
slamming the door in the faces of
the leading Turks. The Genie quick
ly barred it, and then they turned
to see if their place of refuge was
secure.
They found themselves in a large
storage room. It had a concrete
floor and around the sides were hun
dreds of cans and casks filled with
sticky flypaper, '-'stickum stuff." At!
the opposite end were high windows.
Bang! Bang! Bang! came thun
derous blows upon the door. The
Genie looked anxiously at the wood
en panels. They were shaking under
the attack upon them.
"Those Turks will' break through
in a minute," muttered the Genie.
Peggy thought the same thing and
she quickly began to figure out a way
to escape.
"They'll catch us like rats in a
trap," declared Billy.
"Unless we catch them," ex
claimed Peggy, her eyes lighting up.
Then she explained a scheme that
had popped into her head. Acting
upon it Billy and the Genie broke
open cans and caskets, spreading
the sticky flypaper "stickum" on the
concrete floor. They worked fast,
being urged on by the blows that
were rapidly breaking down the
door. Soon they had a large space
covered with the "stickum," and
they retreated to the window at the
opposite end to see what would hap
pen. "Crash!" the door broke in..
Clank! Whish! went Red Beard's
70-foot boots and he bounded out
into the middle of the floor. Squash!
he landed in ,the "stickum." The
effect was surprising, for the springs
in the boot threw Red Beard into
the air while the boot itself stuck to
the floor. Red Beard bounded a
few feet and landed the other foot
in the "stickum." Again he bounded
up while the second boot remained
behind, jthen down he came in his
stocking feet in the stickum. . The
shock was so great that Red Beard
lost his balancee and sat down. And
he stuck fast. He put his hands be
behind him to life himself and they
stuck, too. There he was stuck,
hands, feet and legs, just like a. fly
on sticky flypaper.
And the other Turks and the ban
dits, rushing in, were caught the
same way.
The harder they struggled to get
loose the more they got stuck.
"Ho, ho, ho! There you are and
that's a good place to leave you!"
roared the Genie, lifting Peggy high
above his head. Looking down Peg
gy saw where the tears of laughter
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had washed furrows in his cheeks.
There was a twinkkle in his eye, a
twinkle that all in a fish she recog
nized. "Bronze Genie! You're an old
fraud!" she cried delightfully.
"You're my own Giant of the
Woods." , y
The Genie winked at her, then to
Peggy's intense astonishment ha
drew her back and hurled her with
all his strength at the white wall of'
the factory. But instead of being
smashed .flat, she went right
through the wall as though It wera
paper. There was a blinding flash
of llghtt that made her shut her
eyes, and when she opens dthem,
therq. she was back in her seat In tha
movie theater.
"My, but that was a funny anrl ,
thrllly picture," declared Peggy's
mother. And Peggy, her nerves still
tingling over the exciting chase, fully
agreed with her..
(In the next story Peggy Again meets
Cinderella.)
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SUNDAY, JUNE 22ND
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