6.
Waahln .on. Whether i . Meat
j Roosevelt's new tax program for big
Inheritance levies Uut thro n ;h at
thia session, or gov over until next
year there la little doubt of Its
eventual enactment. . v
The answer to that la simple. It
,, Is Just that there are, and probi ' '
( ,would be In almost any upset whi, i
, i plight occur, enough Totes In bo!!i
nouses of congress to Impose hich
taxes on big fortunes.
' This fact la realized, now pretty
'weU by holders ot these same big
' fortunes, so the most Important
v thing at the moment in h( -.
; . wlll do to 'circumvent the effects, or
; aoicen ine blows, that are certain
m. come.:. :;,':s-: .. .
. i One of the most serious aspects
affects such Institutions as the Ford
Motor company. There are many
(others, : though all ot ' them are
. smaller, but the idea la the same
bi every case where a big business
la owned almost exclusively by one
smau lamuy.
I No one Is authorised to say, of
course, wnat Henry Ford will do,
v as he sees this thing coming. But
tne opinion of shrewd business men
as to what he will be forced to do
la interesting.
The problem would be what Edsel
, Ford could do If his father died sud-
eniy ana tne government demand
; ad, for example, In both estate and
Inheritance taxes, say 80 per cent
t Bow could the cash be provided
iwitn which to pay .this tax? Obvi
ously by doing what Henry Ford
nas fought against all his life, and
,;. fought against successfully, by re
' fusing to have securities of his com-
, pany sold through Wan Street '
i If, for Instance, In Mew of the
certainty of heavy inheritance taxes,
: ora snouid decide not to have such
v a terrific problem put op to Edsel
tome day, for Immediate decision
perhaps at a most Inopportune time
t the thing to do would be to sell
to the public shares of, bis stock,
or bonds la Us company.. ,
Simple Solution
i It the stock and bonds were on
the market bad a recognised value,
and were being constantly traded In,
the problem would be comparative
ly simple. Enough securities could
be sold to pay the taxes. This would
not entirely eliminate the possibU-
., Ity that there would have to be a
great sacrlflce of values. . The public
would know that these stocks and
bonds must be sold In a very short
time, and the probability is that
., the price would decline to far be-
'. low normal. It would be strictly a
. buyers' market
v This sort of thing has been Illus
trated time and again In smaller
enterprises. In fair-sized cities, say
' of around half a million people. It
often develops that everybody "In
the know" realises a large block of
some local stock must be sola, el-
: ways the price declines In advance,
and the person who., must- do the
' selling for one reason or another
nets far less than the actual value
of his securities. '
. In fact one of the reasons many
Investment bankers have always ad-
vised clients to deal only In securi
ties listed on the New Tork Stock
exchange has been that merely be
cause of Its bigness there was less
of that sort of thing possible than
In the case of securities In smaller
enterprises, where the Interest In
buying was confined to a small ter
ritory, t.-. .:'.
But In the real big cases, such as
Ford would: be, New York would
become Just as bad as many of the
mailer communities are now for
small enterprises.
WJI Street Knew
- President Roosevelt's recommen
; dstlon of high : Inheritance taxes
was msde directly, against, the ad
vice of nearly all his congressional
." advisers. ' ,
" Within two, hours after he had
, told newspaper correspondents that
; there Just might be a message to
". M! congress during the day, though he
v declined to say what it would be
' about Senator Pat Harrison, chair-
man of the senate finance commit
, tee, and Cihalrman Dougbton of the
bouse ways and means. committee,
denied to' reporters any knowledge
of a move by the White House to
. obtain higher Income taxes and In
heritance taxes.'.;1'", .."y-();a
Which would seem to prove that
the two chairmen mentioned, beads
respectively of the committees In
bouse and senate which would han
dle the legislation desired by the
President still hoped until the mes
sage actually arrived that they bad
: . dissuaded the President
Bat What Is really of great (a
. terest to newspaper men In- partic
ular and the public In general, the
tip on which .these two chairmen
were Questioned came dlrectlv from
..Wall Street' - " ''.-;.
In fact smart broken operating
on the Mew Tork; Stock exchange
knew almost the precise pattern of
the'Pnuldent's tax plan at the very
momeU-the President was declining
to take newspaper men Into his con
fidence as to what his . message
wonld be about i;; vv
There have been many leaks of
Information In Washington. There
have . been evidences again and
again that speculators on , Wall
Street had advance Information as
to what the administration would
s t , this,
any lu jtlga
i .out Interesting
tl
Of
the
1
rul.
Wi
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IV
c'
1
I
Uentally one of
. being th famous
' a by the house
back. In Woodrow
"a titration. -'i&i
1 itslon news that the
t iu id make a move to
' ..e in Europe this was
'a fall ot 1918 before the
1 u tea got Into the war
v j ; vn In Wall Street and occa-
i a torrlflc crash In the stocks
" , tales manufacturing munt-
i s for the allies. Thomas W. Law
h a of Boston, of. frenzied finance
fame, charged that certain people
had made millions on advance In
formation. . Bernard M. Baruch was
put on the stand, and admitted mak
lng half a million the day the news
broke,: , though he convinced the
committee that he acted on news
from London, not Washington, x
Pinned on Reporters' ; '. -
But the point Is that at the end
of that investigation some five or
six newspaper men were, pilloried
as the real source of the leak. Some
ot them lost their Jobs. Some were
Just reprimanded. All were In dis
grace.. The whole thing was con
strued as a terrific reflection on
newspaper ethics., &-A-;i -
' Everybody in Washington knew
there had been a real leak that
the telegrams Sent by the newspa
per men thus besmirched were Just
an alibi In short that Thomas W.
Lawsoa In essential was right
w una aaministration, Having
watched the Xawsoa and other, leak
Investigations, Is taking no chances.
This was evidenced by the fact
that at 11 KM a. m, on June 19,
the President would not admit what
his message that afternoon would1
be about .'i';!!:'f':';'i,,;t.i:;i
Tet hoars before the stock mar-'
ket closed this writer and several
others were working desperately to
connrm tips from Wall Street re
porters In their organizations that
the President was 'about to pro
pose high Inheritance taxes and big,
aavances on tne Higher brackets
on Income taxes I -r . ,
Relief Plan in PerU
The $1,100 per man limitation
which President Boosevelt has Im
posed on the work-relief program,'
as far as the selection of projects
Is concerned, not only promises to
force a general blow-up In the
whole scheme, but to make a lot
of trouble, politically and other-'
WlSe, -.: 'I;; Vv. .'''I'l
For Instance, the big water proj
ect for central California, for the
San Joaunln .'and Sacramento riv
ers. Recently Senators Johnson and
McAdoo called on the President'
They urged him' to lift the $U00
ban on this project The President
Insisted that he had only $4,000,000.-
000, and that this $4,000,000,000 must
provide work for three and one-half
million men. Hence each project
must put a man to work for every
$1400 spent. -:',0"'.. .-.
The senators urged the President
to consider that purchases of mate
rials, machinery, etc would provide'
work far in excess of the Jobs ac
tually provided on the site of the!
project But the President was un-
moved. . : ..
Later on, however, , he had a
qualm, and wrote Public Works Ad-.
ministrator Ickes, Inquiring whether
the $1,100 would actually ban the
project and suggesting a restudy of
tne whole situation to determine!
this point Ickes himself would not'
"fudge" on the figures. But he gave
some of his subordinates a chance'
to Juggle them. ' . r , :'i 1
At last accounts the' assistants
declined to pull the chestnuts out of
the Ore. They made lengthy reports''
calling attention to the value of the.
project and to the tremendous
amount of employment It would pro-'
viae indirectly.
Carious Paradox . ,
Which brings up a Tather curious
paradox In the mental' processes of:
the President and, some of his ad
visers particularly Harry Hopkins.
itt must Do remembered In this
connecUon that Ickes himself has
no sympathy for this policy he api
proves this particular California
project and is keen for providing ,
employment Indirectly.) . . f
The country hss been divided for
relief work purposes Into some
three hundred odd; districts. Ap
parently the administration) is tn
tng to conduct them as though they
were water-tight compartments. The
number of unemployed In each has
been surveyed, and the Idea is to
provide sufficient employment In
eacn to take care of that situation.'
This policy does. not take i into
account : the fact that a 1 district
which happens to be big In steel
manufacturing would not need work
relief If enough work relief projects
requiring steel should be approved.
In that case the unemployed men
In the steel district would have Jobs
automatically provided for them
Jobs paying much betteshan work
reiier-rgiving then the opportunity
to spend more money, and thus pro
Tide Jobs for still others, etc.
AH of which Is In stranre con-
trast to'thr President's bitter cow
plaint agalnsf the1 Supreme' court'
decision In the NBA case. - For be
touted of the country's beln rele
gated to the horse and buggy days,
and harped on the point that with
Increasing speed of communication
and transportation, nothing could
happen In - Maine that would not
affect Oregon.
Oonrrtihl TTOU Stnrlc ' 4
Above, Artist's Conception of 100 -
Clipper 8hlp. Below, Maxim Gorki, Russia's Largest Plane, Which Crashed, Killing 46W .
By WILLIAM C. UTtEY
BE world, with America In
the lead. Is entering a new
and glorious era of transpor
tation.-' It might - be , called
the Era of Realization of the Fan
tastic. . . ';,' . :,. ..
Not so many years ago In fact
within the memory of children still
In school covers; of magazines of
the so-called "science" and "Inven
tion' type were filled with artists'
startling conceptions of great flying
palaces, then weird In appearance,
which were to tie together the, far
ends of the earth In the' future.
Blase passengers were shown read
ing newspapers, playing chess : or
even shuffle-board while their great
winged carriers cleft the clouds far
above the , vast expanses of ocean.
Novels ot highly Imaginative fic
tion, typified by the "Mars" stories
of Edgar Rice Burroughs, bristled
our spines with high Jinks on oth
er planets where the members of
scientifically superior civilizations
flew about (he faces ot their respec
tive planets In spectacular hops of
thousands of miles at a time.
Such wild literary entertainment
we were wont for fear of appear
ing too silly to our neighbors, to
leave In upstairs bedrooms, reserv
ing the space on the library table
for Dickens, Thackeray, Edgar A.
Guest and the family Bible. And
while deep in our hearts we thought
It was "swell" reading, we knew
that It was really "impossible
stuff!"
Tet before the year Is out reg
ular scheduled passenger service
will be In effect between the Unit
ed Stares and China. Not flying
palaces, perhaps, but at least flying
hotels will .soon link the newest
and most progressive of the great
powers with- the oldest and most
mysterious of nations on another
side of the : world. Surprising
enough, the giant ships of the air
look very much like the artists'
conceptions which graced the sensa
tional press of a few years back.
Most surprising of all, we accept
the real, thing with far less amaze
ment than we did ts Imaginative
forerunner. ' .'
. NhW'ttat the'Ncw Era la actually
upon us, we accept with little won
der the fact that German engineers
are planning the construction of a
transatlantic air liner that will car
ry 1,600 persons.,; This flying boat
will be literally a hotel on wings.
It will sacrifice none of the com
forts of the great ocean liners, with
their ' sport decks, entertainment
facIUUea,.etci';:,j.,,vU;'.,C:..::i;'i,'?i
i i Ship Cars by Air.
There ; will be ! elevators .from
deck to deck. ' There will be room
for travelers to take their own au
tomobiles across the ses wtth them.
Garages will be provided for these;
special hoisting mschlnery will lift
the cars np into, the plane..; ,Vi '-;,
The ocean steamship has Its-supply
of life boats' to turn loose from
the , mother ship In case of emer
gency at sea, and the proposed fly
ing boat will not be outdone In this
respect either, for room will be
provided to. house smaller auxll
ary planes. : These will , take off
from the surface of the eea by a
powerful catapult which will assure
their getting Into ' the air. v 1 3
Thia. ship may sound a little
fantastic to us. but by this time we
are used-to having fantastic- new
contraptions' accepted as practical
facts almost overnight' The Ger
man designers promise, us that sack
a flying ship as this will be ready
for travel over, the ocean, la the
very near- future.
: Hardly less spectacular Is the
American marvel of the skyways,
nylng Clipper No. 7, which Is now
completed as the first ship erer de
.til
Passengsr Trantatlsntle Plane Planned
signed specifically for transoceanic
travel It will begin service, prob
ably on - the route across the . Pa
cine, some time . this summer. It
Is now' finishing tests which so far
have proved It to be equal to the
bullying of the elements, and . the
once forbidding distance between
continents. With Its Inception Into
service the period of pure experi
ment will be over.
xNone of the comforts of rail travel
need be sacrificed aboard the clip
per. Soundproofing of all passenger
compartments reduces motor noise
so that It Is no greater than, the
unannoylng none of a pull man car.
The passenger deck, 43 feet long,
has a celling six and one-halt feet
Ugh, so, that even 'tall men need
not stoop In walking. . x".
Thirty pfasSengers and a crew of
five can be carried. The spacious
lounge and dining room seats 16 at
a time. r For sleeping, the passen
ger seats can : be converted Into
twelve single and six double berths
In case of a "fall boose" there are
four double berths available In the
lounge. , . 1 1
So far It has not been decided
how . to apportion " the ' available
space to passengers and cargo. This
may depend largely upon the popu
larity of lnter-contlnental air travel.
For example, It will be possible with
one scheme of distribution to carry
12 passengers, the crew, and a cargo
of 2,200 pounds on non-stop flights
of 8,000 .mOmit't-mimrvm
The clipper has ; four engines;
whose 8,200 developed horsepower
can climb 1,000 feet a minute with
a load of 81,000 pounds. The plane's
cruising speed at 12,000 feet is 163
miles an hour, but It can do 180 and
more If necessary. It can soar more
than four miles high.
8afsty Clipper Watchword.
Safety has been the watchword
In the design of ; the clipper,.,; If
one of the engines should fall, the
other three could finish the flight
carrying the 61,000-pound burden.
Even If two of them should go dead
at the same time, the remaining two
would maintain the altitude long
enough to allow the captain and his
men an opportunity to make ready
for 'any emergency.- ,:vv? t!? $m
The sea holda no terrors for this
remarkable ship. It could make a
forced landing In a stormy
with more ease than the gray gull
It resembles. - It can land or take
oft in a sea) with , waves running
uve lew uign. - , " i
Former clipper ships have been
assisted In the water by pontoons
suspended from the wings. , No, T
has a supporting device,: new to
American design, wutcn Is called a
"sponsoon" and might be likened to
an additional wing. This sticks out
a short distance from each side of
the body at water' level ; : It serves
to house the fuel tanks, also, . ,
The No. 7 Is larger In every re
spect, than the clipper ship which
recently flew from California to Ha
waii and back again. The latter's
four engines are each of 700" horse
power, totaling 400 less than the
No. T. It has a 114-foot wing spread,
weighs-19,000 pounds' empty, 40,000
pounds loaded, and lta maximum J
cruising range is 8,000 miles. ,.;
The new clipper's wings are ISO
feet from tip . to tip.. It wetsha
28,100 pounds empty and can add
useful load of 27,900 pounds. Its
maximum range. Is 4,000 miles. If
mileage between stops were reduced
the ship' could'' carry 24 "passengers
and a pay load amounting to several
tons to Europe over the route made
famous by Col. Charles A. Lind-
bergh. l'-;:.',; .,:, ';;'
With normal stopping periods In
cluded, a ship of this type could
fly from New Tork to London In
about 83 houti, v-a,nr lao miles
aa rnr. I" -.t f ; " i v,.m the tf,-i a
i ' to ; j i i v Yiiiit to
t 'il L. iljt 1. The tiav
' r 1 I 1 iv lie iwk lute Eut
W' ? t'J,ht and be in London in
t.ii e to s art the bu.:" ,s week first
thlrg !,:omliiy mornliitr,
In: id of a pilot and co-pllet, like
onr li,ud transport planes have, the
clipper ship bag a captain, and a
navigator, for It. is an ocean-going
vessel ' : ,:
, . Automatic Flying. '.
.' Moat of the flying Is done by an
automatic pilot that leaves them two
6fflcerg free to keep close watch on
the course of the ship. The condl-.
Inn .V. l . . . '
uio .. vugiuo . is eDureiy 1 in.
charge of the ship's engineer. Near-'
ly all of thd many Instruments,
gages, dials and Indicators are
banked In the engine room, which' Is'
1
In Germany. Right Pan-American
In the center, of the wing.
No. -7 la truly a symbol of the
steps ahead which have been
made In transcontinental air travel
France Is Unking up even Its most
distant colonies with the- French
capital by means of ships of this
size, one of, which has already been
completed, the Lleut-de-VaUneau-Paris.
This ship Is the largest sea
plane in the world, with a wing
spread of nearly 60 meters and en
gines which : develop ' more ' than
6,200 horsepower. It weighs 87 tons
and has a crew of eight
Service has already started be
tween the French capital and points
In French : Colonial Africa. The
Netherlands have ordered new Doug
las planes tor transcontinental lines.
Service has been going along on
schedule for some time between the
United States and various South
American - points served by Pan
American 4 Airways. .The Graf Zep
pelin Is so regular in lta schedule be
tween Germany and Brazil that no
pne mentions Its arrivals and de
partures any .more. ;;5t'K-it visv'r
, Us Isolated Island . -
Since early this 'year, American
ships have been busy carrying sup
plies of all kinds food, clothing,
cows, chickens, tools and building
materials to once isolated Islands
In the Pacific ocean, so that they
can be converted Into habitable land
ing stations In the most Important
of all the new sea routes, the one
from the United -States to China. -
The longest bop on this Journey
will be the one from California to
Hawaii, a distance of 2,400 miles,
to be covered In a little more than
17 hours, aa the Pan-American clip
per commanded by Captain Mustek
covered It a few weeks ago. From
Hawaii, the planes will go to Guam,
Wake, Midway the Philippine Is
lands and Canton, China. - '
England, France and Holland air
services have attempted to lay the
plans for air services: to China, but
have been stopped at the Chinese
border. Germany alone of the Eu
ropean nations has been able to get
In with air lines. We hold this ad
vantage: Rapid and uninterrupted
flight Is possible across, the Pacific,
while land flight from European na
tions to China face the obstacle of
frequent stops for Inspection when
crossing : ; ; International ' boundary
lines. ' , ,
Russian Marvel Crashes. :
' With all the clipper ships consid
ered, perhaps the most unusual ot
all the giants of the air was the
tir-fated Russian ship, r the, Maxim
Gorki It weighed 42 tons, carried
63 'persons, had eight engines of
total Of 7,000 horsepower; flew
150 miles an hour and cost $4,850,-
000. In It were a complete photo
graphic v studio, a photo-engraving
plant an electrically drlveq rotary
printing press capable of turnlna
out 8,000 newspapers an, hour, a
radio broadcasting' studio, . talking
movie : equipment? - restaurant
lounge, 16 telephones, sn observa-t
tlon saloon, business offices, sleep
ing quarters and a sound amplifier
system. It was used, of course, for
Soviet propaganda purposes. , ,
The crashing of the Gorki with
the loss of everyone on board, dur
ing" maneuvers over Moscow, was
something of a shock to the bulldi
era of all large airplanes.;; It must
be pointed out however, that the at
cldent.waa no. fault .of J&e, Ship: '.A
pilot or a smaller plane, stunting
against orders, ran Into It head-on.
The Insubordinate flier was him
self killed In the crash, i
Not even the sensational maga
zines predicted such unbelievable
wonders as a flying newspaper plant
radio studio and moving picture the-
WMtarm Kwpapr Culon. ' '
&acr v. - . ' - , j i
"1" -''.V '. 0
' jOn a 6hlf Oppoattt
Odd Agriculture !
jBy James J., Montague .
I
HAD almost, forgotten Emll
Lustengarten. Schoolmates, one
bad not seen or- heard from
for thirty years, are likely to be
like that : He was a pleasant sort
larger than I was, and always
somewhere in the offing 4whea the
scnooi bullies picked on me.- In
one way bis friendship was s trifle
embarrassing. . I was the only boy
in school : whom he appeared " to
ilka His other friends were toads
and frogs and snakes and . lizards.
He had a great collection of them
In his father's woodshed,' and used
to talk to them by the hour, not In
the least disturbed If tbefr replies
were unintelligible. The other boys
always Insisted that he would not
have made a friend of me If I did
not share the nature, or natures of
one or more of these animal pets.
They tiied to attempt to make the
noises that these creatures emitted,
or at least Imitations of them, to
Indicate that I resembled them.. Not
when Emll . was around, however..
I "I sick me a rattlesnake on yon
If you bodder my friend," he would
say, and for a time I would be left
In peace. But the Insistence that
I was a member of Emll's menagerie
got on my nerves after a while. I
went Jess and less to bis establish-
jnent .aad v when, .one, day, .Jheard
that ; he and bis parents had 'left
town, I was a little ashamed "to
think that I bad shunned him for
weeks. I found ont at the post of
fice where, be and hla family bad
gone some little town In Arizona,
and, now and then sent him a post
card. Invariably I received a long
reply which narrated his adventures
In the new country, where he said
be and his parents Were' running
a farm. Each letter expressed the
earnest hope that I might come out
there and visit him some day. And
fifteen years later, when It so hap
pened that I was about to make a
western journey, I wrote him that
I would try my best topay- blm a
suori visit.
A letter came by return mall
"Come as long as yod like for,? he
said, "Send me a telegram and I
wUl meet you, I thlnk yoa will
like my farm. Maybe you will go
In business with; me. ' It Is a very
Interesting farm, and It makes
monejf.- It win be good to seeyoo."
He was at the station In a little
car when I arrived. - Be plied me
with so many questions about the
old town and what was happening
mere mat I could not edge in a
question about his farm. . When
we reached hla house It was already
oarr, and arter a cup of coffee and
some ham and eggs he politely sug
gested then It was late and I must
be tired. He showed me Into an ex
tremely, neat little room, and In a
few minutes I was lost to the
world. . s j .,- , .
Three or four flues In the night
t wakened, as one is likely to In
strange surroundings.' ; Each , time
I thought I heard peculiar rustlings
ana otner noises which I tried in
vsln to Identify. They always elud
ed me, and though once or twice I
sat bp In bed and listened, drowsi
ness Overcame , me and I went to
sleep.,: agalit;:..,:'-,;;,,,.
It was already broad daylight
when I finally awoke. - Opening my
eyes to look about me I caught my
Dream, i must still be asleep and
dreaming. On a shelf, behind the
little chest of drawers opposite me
sat a dinosaur, and not. a parUco-
larly ' benign dinosaur. It moved.
To make sure that, the bracing des
ert sir bad not overbalanced me I
reached down, picked pp one of my
shoes, and hied It at the animal
It made a curious squeak, and
leaped nimbly from its perch, bead
ing for my bed. ; .-. ;v . ,
My first instinct was to pull the
blankets over my bead and tiry to
remember some of the prayers that
I had learned at my mother's knee.
Then I remembered that a creature
such as I' bad seen would not' be
held at bay by any blankets. I got
up and stood In the exact center of
the bed; calling sharply to Emll for
help. - ; 'i
:. He hurried into the room. "vvv .';:
-do sorry ne got away on me
last nlRht," he said. "He wont
t e Dn!f he jt scared, but al-
c
i
Mt 8t a Dinosaur,
most-' anything
Will ' scare hlmt'
Doom." i i
The latter was addressed to the-
Intruder, who ."coomed," creeplng-
swlftly to his owner. Emll caught
him by the scuff of the neck and:
tossed him lightly out; of the door.
wnat was mat ' thingr I de
manded, JiV.W
"Joost a nzard," said Emll. "He-
Is called Gila monster, " But mon
ster means big. , He lss not so big, '
ehT Leave him alone and he don't "
bite but make him mad, trouble
maybe. Now let us have breakfast :
Thar breakfast was not a pleas-'
ant meal despite the appetite the
clear desert air -had given me.
Aa It progressed my host kept
picking up Ut-blts from his plate
and tossing them in this or that di
rection, ;; where they were ' deftly
caught up by my friend the Gila '
monster, lizards 'that-, looked Uke- -him,'
Held mice, rabbits, and sev
eral different varieties of snakes.
The snakes, however, did not swal
low the dainties thrown to them.''
Apparently they were merely do--'
tag a little practice fielding. : 1
"Snakes lss funny." said EmlL
"They haf to bat their meals allfe. But i
they lss bogs, and they don't want
no other animal to get nothing, so-
you can't keep them ' out ot the
house when meals lss going on.
tou like to see the biggest ratUer
In Arizona! - - , c
Is he silver I asked, looking
around me anxiously. '"-..--
very much alive. When I caueM
him be bad bit ten . greasers al
ready:! had to fight with almost
everybody around here to save hiss
life yet". - . v
"Where Is ber I demanded.
"Too shall see him soon enough.
Now maybe we go see the wild-.
cat 'He perhaps is more Interest
ing' as snakes.!,"!S'::5.;;:':'.i,,-'t -:;r&
"EmB," I said, "I thought this '
was a farm." :';.:.::'--'., ..,
Sure, It Is a farm. The biggest s
snake and reptile farm In Arizona.
Here I make me more, money aa
any cattle or sheep .farmer' can do.
1 Come, I show you.1
I returned to my sleeping room, "
walked warily and secured a heavy
pair Of boots I bad brought along. ,
Around these, to make assurance
doubly sure, I wrapped some heavy ;
leather puttees. ?-)".'
Emll glanced at my rig contemn- . -
tuoasHr.
"Nobody need be afraid ot
snakes," be said "Lookl"
Before I could stop 'him he tad
picked up a four-foot serpent which
sang a merry tune with its tall the
while. "By the neck yon. bold him I '
a' while,", be said : Ingratiatingly.
Ton will soon learn when yoa and
me is partners here." ' I declined
the ontstretcbed offering.. 1
"What the devfl do you do wltb"
these creaturesr '1 demanded.
"There certainly can't be any de
mand for snakes and lizards." , . ,
"Ity hoy. Nothing you know of It
For the poison many scientists will
bay them, and from us, tor I have
already established what you call
a reputation, oat in the yard I !"
hundreds of others. -Today I
a shipment to New Tork. I I
help me. Just for a etart,
"EmU," I said. "I like o.
I admire you. I hope you. aui.
In this enterprise and make: a l
reputation for yourself. I kno v
yoa will But when I get home I
will dream about these , brute ;,
night after night and wake tip yell-.
Ing for help. And what would h."
pen If I stayed here two days? I
would go mad, that Is what woul.l
aappan.;j-';:ij.v-';: -
"My friend I .1 am, so sorry. I
am so aisappointed. In school e.i
were the only one I liked, an! I
was so looking forward to y
coming, and so-sure you ' would !
It here. And I know you wou?l i
them If you knew them better. , I
It you feel" .."-;, .-...v, .... .
"I do. Emll" I said.
Very well It ta then soon i
wledersehn but maybe, wl; i
go home yoa .will think it r
IT1 do my best Emll" I
And I did. But Emll If
conducting that chamber of 1
by himself. ,
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