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CHAPTER I—K. C. Rlckard, an engi
neer of the Overland Pacific, Is qAlled to
the office of President Marshall In Tuc
son, Arts. "Casey" Is an enigma to the
office force; he .wears "dude" clothes,
but he had resigned a chair of engineer
ing In the Bast to go on .the AM as a
fireman and his promotion had been spec
tacular. While waiting for DUrsball-Rlck
ard reads a report on the ravage® of the
Colorado, despite the efforts or Thomas
Hardin of the Desert Reclamation com
pany. This Hardin had been a student
under Rlckard and had married Oerty
Holmes, with whom Rlckard had fancied
ha was In love.
CHAPTER ll—Marshall tells Rlckard
the Overland Pacific has got to step In
to save the Imperial Valley and sends
him to the break. Rlckard declines be
cause he does not want to supplant Har
din, but Is won over. "Stop the river;
damn the expense," says Marshall.
CHARTER in— Rlckard journeys to
Calexlco, sees the Irrigated desert and
learns much about Hardin and his work.
CHAPTER IV—At the hotel he meets
Mr. and Mrs. Hardin and Inncs Hardin.
Hardin's half sitter. Disappointed In her
husband and an Incorrigible coquette,
Mrs. Hardin sets her cap for her former
lover and Invites him to dinner.
CHAPTER V—Rlckard visits the com
pany's offices and takes control. He finds
the engineers loyal to Hardin and hos
tile to nlm. Estrada, a Mexican, son of
the "Father of the Imperial Valley," tella
him of the general situation.
CHAPTER Vl—Rlckard attends a
meeting of the directors and asserts his
authority. Hardin ragee. Estrada tells
Rlckard of his foreboding that his work
will fall. can't see It finished."
CHAPTER Vll—lnnes Is discovered In
ber garden. She tries to cheer up Hardin,
Who Is furious against Rlckard.
CHAPTER Vlii—A family luncheon of
the Hardlns which throws light on them.
CHAPTER IX—faardln discovers that
Rlckard is planning a levee to protect
Calexlco and puts htm down as Incom
petent. Oerty thinks her lord jealous.
CHAPTER I*.
The Rival*.
From the window of the adobe office
building of the company, Hardin saw
Blckard Jump from the rear platform
of the train as it glowed Into the sta
tion. He noticed that the new mana
ger carried no bag. „
"Wonder what he's decided to do
abqnt the headgate. He dlgn't waste
much time out there." Hardin # was
fidgeting la his seat, ills eyes on the
approaching figure.
Rlckard passed through the room,
nodding to his offlce force. The door
of the inner offlce shut behind him.
Hardin stared at the blank surface. He
moved restlessly In his swivel chair.
Did the fellow think a big thing like
that could hang on while he unpacked
his trunks and settled his bureau draw
ers? He picked up a pencil, jabbing at
the paper of his report. He covered
the sheet with figures—three hundred
—six hundred. Sir hundred feet.
Whose fault that the intake bad
widened, doubling its width, trebling
Its problem? Whose but Marshall's,
who had sent down one of hit offlce
clerks to see what Hardin was doing?
Wouldn't any man In his senses know
that the way Maitland would distin
guish himself would be by discrediting
Hardin, by throwing bouquets to Mar
shall; praising bis plan? They all go
at It the same sickening way! Offlce
clerks, bah! Sure, Maitland had ad
vised against the completion of the
gate. Said It would cost more In time
and money than Hardin's estimates.
"Thanks to Maitland It did," growled
Hardin, scrawling figures over the
page. "By the time Maitland finished
monkeying with that toy dam of his
the river had widened the break from
three hundred to six hundred feet. For
that, they throw mud at me. Oh, It
makes me sick." Hardin flung his
broken pencil out of the window.
Rlckard re-entered the room. The
question leaped from Hardin.
"The headgate—are you going on
with itr
Rlckard looked curiously at ths
flushed antagonistic face of the man
"Art You Going On With It!"
be hod supplanted. The thought
crossed his mind that perhaps Ilardlr
had taken to drinking. It made his
! answer curt.
"I don't know."
"You dou't know!"
"I have uo report to make, Mr. Har
din. until I see the gate."
"And you went to the Crossing with
out going down to the headgate?" Har
din did not try to conceal his disgust
"I did not go to the Crossing."
"Didn't go—r Hardin's mouth was
agape. 2*hen he rudely swiveled his
chair. The door slammed behind Rlck
ard.
Hadn't been to the Crossing? Then
where In Hades did he go? He halted
Maclean who was passing him.
"Are you going to the Crossing to
morrow?" Hardin knew he should be
too proud to betray his eagerness, bnt
the words ran away with him.
"Not tomorrow. Mr. Rlckard Just
told rie i.e might not be able to get off
until next week."
•' Hardin's nnger sputtered. "Next
week. Why does he rush so? Why
doesn't he go next year? The Colo
rado's so gentle, lt'd wait for him, I'm
sure. Next week! It's a put-up Job,
that's what it Is. Oh, I can see through
a fence with a knothole as big as your
head. He doesn't want to finish the
headgate. He wants to put off going
until it's to 6 late to go on with It; I
know him. 6e'd risk the whole thing,
and all the money the O. P. has
chucked Into It, Just to start with a
clean slate; to get the.glory of stop
ping the river himself. It turns my
stomach; It's a plot." The lower lip
shot out.
Mac Lean's attention was deferential.
He had always liked Hardin; all the
fellows did. Out he was jumping off
wrong this time. He'd brought it all
on himself.
"He said something about a levee'for
the towns. He's got to investigate that
before he goes to the front."
"A levee? Well, wouldn't that Jar
you?" Hardin addressed the stenog
rapher in the transparent shirtwaist.
"Does he think we're going to have
another flood this season? Thinks It's
going to reach the hotel nnd wet his
clothes? Take the starch out of his
shirts?" He flung out of his chair,
throwing the papers back Into the
drawer.^
He stamped out of the office, mad
clear through. To this crisis they had
sent down a dandy, a bookman who
wanted to build a levee. Oh, hell!
"They'll come crawling after me to
help them after this fellow's buried
himself under river mud, come calling
to me as they did after Maitland failed.
'Please, Mr. Hardin, won't you come
back and finish your gate!' I'll see
them dead first. No, Til be fool enough
to do It. I can't help myself. I'm a
Hardin. I have to finish what I've be
gun."
It was not because this was a pet
enterprise, the great work of his life,
that he must eagerly eat humble pie,
take the buffets, the falls, and come
whining back when they whistled to
him. He told himself It was because of
his debt to the valley, to the ranchers.
The colonists were about desperate.
Who could blame them ? The last year's
floods had worked havoc with their
crops; this year had been a horror.
The district they called No. 0 was a
screaming Irony of ruin. The last de
bauch of the river had made great
gashes through the ranches, had
scoured deep gorges which had under
mined the canals on which the water
supply for NA 0 depended. The suits
were piling up against the D. R„ dam
age suits, and they hold up his gate,
while he gets the curses of the val
ley. And Mr. Rlckard thinks he'll
build a levee!
He flung himself on the couch In the
tent. Oerty was laying a careful
cloth for supper. A brnve, determined
smile was arranged on her Hps. The
noon storm had passed. She hummed a
gay little tune. If there was anything
Hardin hated It was humming.
"You'll have your dude to dinner all
right," her husband announced. "He's
In town."
"Yes, I know," rejoined his spouse.
"I had a letter from him yesterday.
From Imperial."
Tom sat up glaring. "He wrote to
yon from Imperial?"
Ills wife misplaced the accent. She
misunderstood Torn'* scowl. It was
the old story over again. Whenever
those two men came together the old
feeling of Jealousy must be revived
again I It was unpleasant, of course,
very unpleasant, to have men care like
that, but It made life exciting. Life
had been getting a little stale lately
like a book of obvious, even* plot.
Rlckard's entrance Into the story gave
a new Interest, a new twist. She
bummed an air from a new opera that
had set the world waltzing.
Hardin's thoughts did not touch her
at the hem. He was at the headgate,
his gate. What the deuce had Rlckard
gone to Imperial for? If he wasn't the
darnedest ass! Imperial! And the
gate hung up!
"For Cod's sake stop that buzzing!"
The happy little noise v.as quenched,
tones, entering at that moment, heard
the' rough order. Slie looked Implor
ingly at hor sister-in-law.
"Supper's on the table," cried Oerty,
the fixed, determined smile still on ber
lip*.
CHAPTER X.
A Desert Dinner.
Innes Hardin was completing her
simple toilet. Not even to please
Oerty would she "dress np" for the
dinner. It would have been easy for
her sister-in-law to postpone It, liow
could she expect Tom to go through
with it I - She couldn't understand
Oerty I
An hour ago, hearing distinctly the
whir and splssh of egg-beating, she
had run over to the neighboring tent
The clinking of the cake tins had sud
denly silenced. "Exctlse me, won't
you?" Gerty's voice had come from
the lean-to, the little kitchen shed.
Tm lying sowgT.
GRAHAM, N. THURSDAY. APRIL 3, 1919
"Lielng, yes I" grimaced the Hardin
mouth to Its reflectlorf in the mirror.
How many times that had ahe
been repulsed by a locked door, a sud
den curtain of silence or a "Bun away
for a while. I'm trying to catch a
nap.'' Easy now to see why Oerty
had wanted to "hold the reins" that
week !•
She didn't need to pierce those can
vas walls to know that there had
been feverish activity for this dinner.
A new gown woqld appear tonight,
made secretly. An exquisite meal,
and no one must comment on Its elab
oration. Twice Tom and die had
been asked to take their lupch at ths
hotel. "Because of a headache!" A
headache I
Tom's wife could not even shon
openly! Bundles had always the air
of mystery, never opened before Tom
or herself. She must have yards of
stuff laid away, kept for sudden emer
gencies.
"She can't help It. It's her disposi
tion. She can't help being secretive.
Look at your face, Innes Hardin I"
What was it to her, the pettiness of
a woman, whom an accident of life had
swept ujxui the beach beside hert
Oerty was not her kind, not the sort
she would pick out for a friend. She
was an oriental, one of the harem
vwomen, whose business It Is In life to
, please one man, to keep his home soft,
his comforts ready, keep him con
vinced, moreover, that It Is the deslr*
of his life to support her. Herself dis
satisfied, . often rebellious, staying by
| him for self-Interest, not for love —ah,
that was her impeachment. "Not lov
j Ing!"
j Soberly she covered her plain bras
! slere with a white waist of cotton
ducking. leather belt and crim
son tie she added self-consciously.
I "Where Is my bloodstone pin?"
I Hadn't ahe spent an hour at least
matching that particular leather belt?
But he was a man. In The
headgate held up; It was too bad.
Silent, Bodefeidt, Wooster, Orqnt, all
\>t them fighting mad because of the
leadiock at the Heading. All up In
irms, at last, against Marshall, be
:ause of this cruel cut to their hero,
Hardin. Her eyes glowed like yellow
amps as she recalled their fervid par
tisanship.
"Only one man who can save ths
'alley, and that's Tom Hardin." Woos
;er had said that; but they all be
leved It. The loyalty of the fores
nade her ashamed of her soft woman
'ears. For there were times when
ihe questioned her brother's ability.
3e had a large, loose way of handling
:hlngs. He was too optimistic. But
hose men, those engineers must know.
!t was probably the man's wsy of
rweeplng ahead, ignoring detail. Ths
ferdlct of those field-tried men told
ler that the other, the careful, plan
ting way, was the offlce method. Blck
ird, as a dinner neighbor, she had
!ound interesting; but for great un
lertaklngs a man who would let a
3erty Holmes Jilt him, ruin his life
for him! The whole story sprang st
ast clear from the dropped Inquendos,
She adjusted a barrette in her
imoothly brushed hair. Blowly shs
talked over to the neighboring tent.
Oerty frowned at the white duck,
Oerty Frownsd at ths Whits Duck.
"You might st least have worn youf
blue.l"
"You're elegant enough for ths two
of us. Isn't that something new?"
Oerty said carelessly thst she hsd
Dad It for a long time. For she had
bad the material a long time! It
wasn't necessary to explain to bei
husband's sister that It had been
made up that week. She hoped thai
ihe didn't look "fussed up." Would
Mr. Itlcksrd think sbe wss attaching
sny Importance to the simple Uttl*
visit? For It was nothing to him, of
course. A man of his standing, whom
the great Tod Marshall ranked so
high, probably dined out several times
each week, with white-capped molds
and candelabra! If Tom bad only
made the. most of his opportunities.
What a gamble, life to a woman 1
She made a trip Into her bedroom
and took a reassuring survey In bei
mirror. The lingerie frock woold look
simple to a wan who would nevei
suspect It of band-made duplicity.
Her glass declared the hand-whipped
medallions casual and elegant. And
a long time ago. a lifetime ago. Blck
ard had told her that she alwsys
should wear blue, because of bee syea.
Innes from ths nekt room could hear
Oerty teasing Tom to wear his Tux
edo.
"Isn't one dnde enough for you?"
growled her surly lord. Innes recog
nized the mood and shrank from the
ordeal ahead. It was the mood of
the Hardin in the rough, the son of
his frontier mother, the fruit of old
Jasper Olngg. whose smithy had been
the rendezvous for the wildest roughs,
the fiercest cattlemen In Missouri.
"I'd let him see you knew what's
what, even If we do live like gipsies."
The answer to that was another
growl. Innes could hear him dragging
out the proceas, grumbling over each
detail. That confounded laundry had
torn his shirt. lie hsdn't t decent
collar to bis nsme. Where was hi*
black string tie? If Oert would Jceep
his things In the lowest drawer! Hang
that button) Oerty emerged from the
encounter, her face very red. Innei
could see her biting her Hps to keep
the testa back as ahe put the lirat
touches' to the table.
"She's tired out," though'. tVj alater
of Tom Hardin. "-She's prohabi?
fuss id herielf to death over "this din
ner."
A few minutes later Blckard ar
rived In a aack suit of tweeds. Gerty's
greeting was a little abstracted. How
could she make Innes understand to
tell Tom to change his coat? The
duty of a host, she suddenly remem
bered, waa to dregs down rather than
up to the chances of his guest. She
regretted bitterly her Insistence. Was
ever anyone so obtuse as Innes? .Mr.
Blckard would see that they thought
It a big event. Bhe was watching the
curtain where Tosi would emerge.
And his coat was a style of severul
seasons ag& and absurdly tight! She
made an unintelligible excuse and
darted behind the portiere.
Tom's face was apoplectic. He was
wrestling with a mussed tie; the col
lar showed a desperate struggle.
Getty made wild slgnnls for him to
change ' his clothes. She waved a
hand indicating Blckard; she pointed
to Tom's sack suit lying on ths floor
where he had walked out of it.
"What Is it all about?"
"Bali," whispered his wlf*. Again
the wild gestures.
"Well, aren't you satisfied? Don't
I look like a guy?"
ne could be heard distinctly In the
next room. Oerty gave It up In de
ipalr. She dabbed some more powder
9n hor nose and went out looking like
i martyr—a very pretty martyr 1
Blckard praised the miracles of the
tent " Gerty's soft flush reminded In
>es of their old relation. "Exit Innes,"
■he was thinking, when Tom, red and
perspiring, brought another element
it discomfort Into tho room.
Oerty ushered them Immediately to
:he table. She covered the flrst mln
ites which might be awkward with
ler small chatter. Somewhere she
lad read that it was not well to make
ipologles for lack of maid or fare.
3esldes Mr. Blckard remembered
Lawrence I That dreadful dining
■oom, the ever-set tablet How she
md hated It, though she had not
mown how fearful it was until she
lad escaped.
"We are simple folk here, Mr. Blck
ird," she announced, as they took
heir places around tho pretty table.
That was her only allusion to deflclen
.•les, but It covored her noiseless move
nents around the board between
:ourses, filled up the gaps when she
nade necessary dives Into kitchen or
primitive Ice chest, and set.the key
'or the homeliness of the meal Itself.
The dinner was a triumph of apparent
llmpllclty. Only Innes could guess
he time consumed In the perfection
if detail, details desr to the hostess'
■earL The almonds she had blanched,
>f course, herself; had dipped and
lalted them. The cheese straws were
ler own. She did not inako the mis
ake of. stringing out endless courses,
in Improvised buffet near at hand
nade the serving a triumph.
Blckard praised each dish; openly
is was admiring her achievement,
nnes, remembering the story Oerty
■ad told her In dots and dashes, the
itory of the old rivalry, glanced cov
rrtiy at Tom sulking at the head of
lis own table.
"Poor sulky Achilles," sho thought.
•Dear, honest old bear!"
"Innes!" cried Mrs. Hardin.
She turned to find that the guest
vas staring at her, Sho had not heard
lis effort to Include her In the con
rersatton.
"Mr. Blckard asked you If you like
t here?"
"Thank you—why, of course I" Her
tnswer sounded pert to- herself.
Her sister-ln-law hastened to add
hat Miss Hardin was very lonely, was
'eally all alone In the world; that they
Insisted on her making her homo wltb
them.
Innes had with difficulty restrained
* denial. After "all, what other hom«
had she? Still the truth hud been de
flected. She recalled the sacrifice It
had been to cut her cpMege course in
srder to make a home In the desert
for the brother who had always so
'gently fathered her, who had helped
ber Invest her small capital that It
might sjiell a small Income. She re
called bis resistance when she had
called In a mortgage; who could watch
| that mad scapegoat of a river playing
pranks with desert homes and not
yearn to help? Not a Ilardln. Bh
still gloried In remembering that six
had at least driven one pile Into thai
rebellious stream, even If. when slit
left the valley It would be as a bftrnd
winner. She was prepared. She wa»
a good draftsman; sho would go at
an apprentice In an architect's office.
She had already settled on the archi
tect !
"Are you going to Los Angeles
soon?" She beard the new managct
address bis host.
"I'm taking orders!"
There was another n.vkwnrd mo
ment when Ilardln pushed bark hl>
plate declaring he hml reached his
limit; It was too big a spread for him!
It was Ihe stupid rudeness of the
small had Uiy; even Inne-t flushed for
her sister-in-law.
With resolution Oerty assumed con
trol of the conversation. Her role
sounded casual; no one could have
suspected It of frequent rehearsal.
They must not talk of the river; that
wos taboo. Itiillrond matters wers
also excluded. Equally difficult
would be reminiscences of Ijiwrence
days. So she began brlgbtly with a
current book. The theater proved a
wife topic, rnd by that natural rout*
they reached New York. WIK
had never been farther east than Chi
cago, was grateful to play audience
Hardin, who knew his New York per
haps better than either, refused to IK
drawn into the gentle stream.
Things must be kept sprightly. lla
Mr. Blckard met many of the vallej
people? And it was then tin? sbs
threw ber bomb toward the listening,
silent Hardlns. She would like Mr.
Blckard to meet somo of their friends.
He said thst he would be delighted,
but thst be was planning to leave
shortly for the Heading.
""Of course." She did not give her t
husband time to speak. She meant
afterward 1 She was planning to give
something a bit novel In his honor.
She refuxed to see the glare from the
angry man In his outgrown dinner
coat. She did not glance toward the
sister. What did Mr. Blckard think
about a progressive ride?
"It sounds ves( entertaining, but !
what do you do?"
There was a loud guffaw from Tom.
With deepened color Oerty told her
Idea. A drive, changtng partners, BO
he could meet all the guests.
"I think It will surprise you to find
so many nice people lp here; It cer
tainly did mo. One doesn't expect to
find coqgedlal people In a new country
like thla."
Blckard remembered that he had
to get back to his hotel. Ho bad let
ters to write. It had been a splendid
dinner! And what a wonderful home
she had made out of a sand-baked lot,
out of a tent! He spoke of the roses .
and the morning glories. His eyes
fell on the open piano, the reading
table with the current mngnzlnes.
Now he couldn't understand why they
ever wont to that hotel!
Gerty's eyes were shining as deep
pools of water on which the sun plays.
She looked almost Infantile as she
stood by the two tall men, her head
perched blrdllke. "Oood-by! and 1
hope you'll come again!" „
Of course ho'd come again!
"And you will let mo know when
you return, so that I may set the data
for my party?"
Innes did not get his answer. She
had been observing that he was nol
taller tbnn her brother. He looked
taller. He was lean, and Tom was
growing stocky. Sho wished he would
not slouch so, his hands In his pock,
ets! In Tucson, before she knew thnt
•he must dislike Blckard, sho hud had
an Impression of vlrllo distinction, of
grace, a suggestion of' mustered mus
cles. He had known that It was hci
brother ho wos supplanting—did bs
get any satisfaction from the fact thai
It was tho husband of tho woman who
had Jilted blm? Anywny, she did not
like him. She could never forgive a
hurt that was done to her own. Sh«
was a Ilardln.
"Innes! Mr. Blckard said good
alght I"
Sho gave blm tho tips of her cool,
browned fingers. Her eyes 11(1 not
Hsr Eye* Did Nat Meet His.
meet his; she would not meet tbsl
laughing scrutiny.
"Good night, Mr. Blckard."
•ponujjuo.-) oq ox
LEAGUE DISCUSSION
CAUSED NO DELAY
DELIBERATIONS HAVE ALWAYS
BEEN HELD AT NIGHT OR
DURINO ODD HOURS.
PRESIDENT IS WELL SATISFIED
The Revised Covenant Is Practically
Finished and Is In Hands of Com
mittee for Pinal Drafting.
President Wilson, who lias virtually
been silent since his return to Paris,
believe* the tlmo Is opportune for a
statement which will allay apprehen
sion over the delay and show tho re
vision of the covenant of the league tit
nations had proceeded at night res
slons, without sny Interruption to the
other main questions. j
President Wilson Issued the follow
ing statement:
"In view of the very surprlrtng Im
pression which seems to exist In some
quarters that It Is tho discussions tit '
the committee on the learue of na- :
tlon that are delaying tho final formu
lation of peace, I arn very glad to take
the opportunity of reporting that the
conclusion of this commission wers
the first to be laid before tho plenary
conference.
"During the last few days the com
mission hsa been engaged In an effort
to take advantage of the criticisms
which the publlcstion of the covenant
has fortunately drawn out. A com
mittee of the commission has also had
the advantage of a conference with
representative* of the neutral states
who are evidencing a very deep Inter
est and a practically unanimous desire
to align themselves with t*ie league.
"The revised covenant is now prac
tically finished. It Is in the bands of
a committee Tor the final process of
drafting and will almost Immediate
ly be presented a second time to ths
pabllc.
"The conference of the commission
have invariably been held at times j
when they could not Interfere with |
the consultation of those who havs
undertaken to formulate the general j
conclusions of the conference with re- '
" 1
I■ : - • ;
gard to the many other complicated
problems of peace. So that the mem.
bers ot the commission congratulate
themselves on the fact no part of their
conferences have ever Interposed any
form of delay."
SPIRIT OP OLD GERMANY
SHOWN IN MARKED MANNtR
Berlin.—General Hoffman, real vie
tor at Tannenberg. and General voa
Lcttow-Verbeck are forming a new
volunteer corps as a division of guarda
to preserve order at home, and pro
tect the frontiers of the empire.
Before the Bismarck statue In Keon-
Igplatz, the national onion ot German
officers, with the Imperial colors at
the head of which was a band of offi
cers playing the kaiaer hymn, formal
ly made an oath of allegiance In the
form of a resolution regarding the
frontiers of the empire founded by
the "Iron Chancellor."
1 Just ss the procession was paasing
the British embassy, General Lndes
dorff turned the corner from Vaterden
Linden. Some one recognised him and
! in an instant he was surrounded and
there were wild cheers. Ludendorff
was obviously perturbed by the dem
onstration, which In the present mood
of suapiclan sgalnst him entertained
by many can do him no good service.
NAMES OF 6,800 SOLDIERS
80 PAR LISTED AS MISSINCI
Washington.—General Pershing re
ported to the war department there
are still 5,500 officers and men of the
expeditionary forces listed as missing.
This total compares with the British
official figures of 161,008 missing, sad
the French of 290,000.
All of the 6,500 names have been
reported as "missing" In casualty lists
already published, the report said. Dis
interments of bodies from Isolated
graves in the central isolated ceme
teries is furnishing additional identi
fication in a number of cases.
BERLIN GOVERNMENT PROTEST
ANENT LUDENDORFF INCIDENT
Berlin,—The government has pro
tested to army officers «gainst the
demonstration they gave for Oeneral
Ludendorff on the ground that It haa
given opponents ian opportunity to
assert that everything Is the same in
Germany as under the former emperor.
If Ludendorff asked for a tribunal to
hear his case, the_ government, It Is
announced, would 'grant his request
and would see that It was composed
of Impartial persons.
AUSTRALIA FIRMLY OPPOSED
TO JAPANESE AMENDMENT
Paris.—William M. Hughes, the pre
mier of Australia, made the state
ment to the Associated Press that he
wss unalterably In opposition to the
proposed Jspanese racial equality
amendment to the covenant of the
league of nations or to any form of It,
however mild.
"Australia," Mr. Hughes said, "can
not this proposal which strikes
at the very roots of the policy that
we have maintained so long."
GERMAN OBJECTIONS MAY BE
DISREGARDED BY THE ALLIE!
Paris—The Temps ssys that th
allied and associated government!
seem to have decided to disregard
the German objections concernini
Dan*ig and to land, by force If neo
essary, Polish troops st this Baltic
seaport.
The newspaper adds that coo
earning the question of the Pol Ist
frostier the silled governments seen
Inclined to create about Danzig s
neutral state In order to avoid attach
in* this pnrt of the coast either U
j Germany or to Poland.
BUILDING ACTIVITIES IN
SOUTH SHOW IMPROVEMENT
Washington.—The reports to th
department of Isbor from Its fleH
sgents this week show a decided Iro
| provement In building and construe
tlon activities.
"A decided optimistic tone Is fount!
In reports during the last 10 days." I
The southeastern states show great
er Improvement than any other group
New York city leads with the soutl
j next, it will be some days before th»
south Is hack to normal.
j -GRAVE SITUATION" EXISTB
IN FOREIGN RELATIONS
Berlin. —The allied note regard In I
the landing of General Heller's troopa
at l>antlg has created a grave situ*
tlon In foreign relations, the ultimata
effects of which cannot yet be eetl
mated, says a dispatch to The Voe
slsche Zeltung from Weimar,
! Before dispatching its reply, th«
'message adds, the government con
j [suited nl! the party leaders, and they
are said to have given the Germ as
answer their unqualified approval.
INCREASE OF 20 PER CENT
ON IN TELEGRAPH CHARGES
Washington.—lncrease of 20 per
cent In domestic telegraph rates, ef
fective April 1. were announced by
Postmsstcr General Burleson.
The Increase was agreed upon at a
meeting of the Federal Wire Board
and was made necessary to meet "the
Increased cost of operation, occasion
ed by wsge increases now In effect,
made during the past year." Mr.
Burlenon added that the advance
would be "barely sufficient" for this
purpose.
THREAT 18 MADE BY DEBS TO
TIE UP COUNTRY IN STRIKE
Akron, Ohio. —Kugene V. Debs, so
cialist leader, threatened to call a
general strike of his party through
out the country unless he Is granted a
rehearing In the courts 'on charges
upon which he was convicted under
I the espionage act. Debs was confined
' to bed with a bad attack of lumbago
, at the home of Mrs. Margaret Prevey
i here, when notified the United States
' had refused him a rehearing.
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Graham Church Directory i
Graham Baptist Church—Rev. h,- ffl
U. Weston, Pastor.
Preaching every first fcnd thjMgg|
Sunday* at 11.00 a. m. uad 7.09
m.
Sunday School every Sunday aIjJH
9.45 a. m. W. I. Ward, Supt. raj
Prayer meeting every Tuesday atM
1M p. m.
— i. ■' . sga ':3m
Uraharn Christian Church—N. Maift-Q
Street—Rev. P. C. Lester..
Preacning services every B—'':4a
»ad ana t ourtn Uundaya. at UjK9
a. m.
Sunday School every Sunday at J
10.00 a. M.—W. K. Harden, Super- |
lutenaent,
Mew Providence Christian Church ;|
—Xnorth Alain Street, near Utpot— -g
Rev. P. C. Lester, Pastor. Preach
-1 uig every Second ana four lb Sunr h
oighta at s.uo o'clock.
Sunday School every Sunday at I
MS a. m.—J. A. HayUli, ttuperin- 4
undent.
Christian Endeavor Prayer Meet' M
mg every ihur Ay night at 7.16.
o'clock.
Priends—Wort] ot Graham Pub- 1
Uc School, Rev. John M. PermVr; f
Pastor.
_ Presetting Ist, id and 3rd Sun- !■
day* at 11.00 a.K and 7.00 p.
Sunday School svery
9.4S a. m.—Belle achary, SujSfH
tendent. •
Prayer meetii every ThtrT?
evening at 7.30 :lock.
Methodist Br iconai. South
Main and Map Streets, Rev.TCa
R. Edwards, P tor.
Preaching av ry Sunday at llMl M
a. m. and at I.** p. m.
Sunday School every Sunday it'f
9.16 a. in.—W. B. Green, Supt. •,3
M. P. Church—K, Main Street, i
Rev. R. 8. Troxler, Pastor.
Preaching first and third Sun- 'f
days at 11 a. m. and 9 p. m. ' |
Sunday School every Sunday at 'I
9.44 a. m.—J. L. Amiclt, Supt.
Presbyterian—Wat Bin Street-*
Bev. T, M. McConnell, pastor.
Sunday School every San day at i
a. m.—Lynn B. Williamson, 8u- 3
perin tendent.
. Pwabytarian (Trsvora Chapel}— J
J. W, Clegg, paator.
Preaching every Second and 1
Fourth Sundays at 7.59 p. m.
Sunday School every Sunday at 1
tM p. m.—J. Harvey White, So- 3
perlntendent.
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