anaheim-gazette 1931-01-29

Anaheim, Calif., Jan. 29, 1931 Fifth Installment Maggie Johnson, whose father is a letter carrier, is the domestic drudge of the humble home where her mother does little except bemoan the fact that she has "seen better days" and her sister Liz, who works in a beauty shop, lies abed late. Maggie has to get the family breakfast before she starts out to her Job in the Five-and-Ten-Cent Store. There’s a new boy at the Five-and-Ten-Joe Grant. He tells Maggie that he has been assigned to work as her helper in the stock room. He seems rather dumb, but Maggie helps him through his first day at the store and shares her lunch with him in a cubbyhole of a place that belongs to a mattress factory next door to the Five-and-Ten-Joe. They are looking over some cheap picture cards. One of them has a motto that strikes Maggie's fancy: "The way to begin the ideal life is to begin." She and Joe talk about that and Joe is surprised that the girl has higher standards than he had suspected. When he goes home that night he is thinking about Maggie. And his home is the home of the owner of the Mack Five and Ten-Cent Stores, though Maggie does not suspect that he is the boss' son. Maggie, at home, begins to suspect that her mother’s complaints are due to that lady’s bell of that happiness depends upon material things, while all the store she continues to surprise Joe by her appreciation of the realities of life. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "A lot of it's bluff," he said carelessly. But he liked her blind admiration, nevertheless. "Does your mother work?" she asked him one day. "My——?" He started, considered. "Not now," he said. "She split a board the other day," he said, after thought. Maggie saw nothing unnatural in this. She visualized a sturdy, bare-headed old woman helping with the family supply of kindling. "What does your father do, Joe?" "The only real work Dad does now as well as I like anythin' about Liz," she might finally decide. The little figure drooped against a length of drab-painted brick wall, the small, hard-worn hands were clasped in one of her rare moments of idleness, and her absently staring eyes wore an unusual expression of sorrow and doubt. Joe's heart pricked him. "I hope you're not beginning something that you can't finish, Maggie!" he said to himself more than once. One day he brought her a long envelope, which, upon opening it in an expectant flutter, Maggie found full of printed "Gs," large and small, cut from magazines and newspapers. "Oh, Joe, it's awful cute the way you learn me!" she said, her betraying eyes luminous, her whole being melting toward him visibly, irresistibly. And she presently reported that her mother and sister had made dry, half-contemptuous reference to the fact that she did not drop the ubiquitous final consonant any more. She told him that he had brought her all her luck. "It was the day you first"—she paused—"first came," she resumed briskly, deciding upon her verb, "that I got on to the ideal idea. And then 'member that you gave me one that night, going home?' Well, I put it up by the clock, and we—we just about live by that card. It's made a difference in ya, an' it's made a difference in me, an' in everything." "I see a difference in you," he said seriously. "Oh, Joe honest—do you?" "Honest, I do." "How?" "Well, in everything. The way you talk, the way you look, the way you act," he said. "Oh, I wish—" she said elatedly— But he saw that her edd and that the little steadied the boxes was. He felt oddly shaken to his own business filled sensation that he make this up to Maggie—the very making up matter further, and it enough. He shook himself could not shake the thou untucky—with the road few blocks away, and one of the State's most back of the roadster. Merrill playing at work the stores he would lay day! More bewildering still glimming to like this play. But eddy, unexpected moments when the Mac with a deep content, the rush and hurry, the yet seriousness of every on in the Mack. Even Sings sometimes t ook J counsels, as they wander to fro. Joe's championship of her from the very begin our fact that made her abstract slave. On a disarray day Maggie first ap might have been called form, he heard the congue the busy girls flung a slides, and congratulate he was partly responsible. She had done no mtrify everyone by discernently, and without pern figuring tickling apron. But the effect was astonishingly looked at at praised her, and the pace "A lot of it's bluff," he said carelessly. But he liked her blind admiration, nevertheless. "Does your mother work?" she asked him one day. "My——?" He started, considered. "Not now," he said. "She split a board the other day," he said, after thought. Maggie saw nothing unnatural in this. She visualized a sturdy, bare-headed old woman helping with the family supply of kindling. "What does your father do, Joe?" "The only real work Dad does now is on a golf course, at a country club," Joe answered scrupulously. "A gardener?" she asked, widening her eyes. "A caretaker?" It was a shame to tease her, but then she was such a simple little dumbbell, Joe reflected. Grimly little face, grimy little hands, mud-coloured apron, and boots a size too big. Maggie was talking. ...but she was quite a swell. She didn't have much money, mind Ju, but he did. Mackenzie was in the business than, an' they say he named' his son for him." There was a familiar ring about these facts; could she possibly be speaking of her employer and of his father? "What on earth are you talking about?" he asked blankly. "Merrill," she answered readily. "Mackenzie was the brains, they say—he was the 'Mack'—but he's dead. But Merrill is the soul of honour, and he not only has the faculty of drawin' "I'll tell you what, Joe, I like you better than anyone else except my own family!" good men about him, but he has made a small fortune out of the Mack, took care of most of her family, an' has kept sev'ral of her relatives out of jail for what they done profiteering in war-time as well! Joe was staring at her, oddly, a slow smile spreading on his face. "Who taught you that piece?" "Everyone knows that." Is—that—so? He grinned. Relatives of his mother kept out of sight her wonderful family, her mother—described as "gentell," her dashing sister, who had such a good job, and her father—without whose assistance Maggie's yearnings toward the "ideal life" would have been crushed in the bud, and whose companionship meant everything to the washer of the Johnson dishes and the keeper of the Johnson kitchen. But you've had hard luck, Joe," she said home? Well, I put it up by the clock, and we—we just about live by that card. It's made a difference in za, an' its made a difference in me, an' in everything." "I see a difference in you," he said seriously. "Oh, Joe honest—do you?" "Honest, I do." "How?" Well, in everything. The way you talk, the way you look, the way you act," he said. Oh, I wish—" she said elatedly—"I wish you could see the difference in our kitchen! Pop an' I ask each other every night, 'Is it ideal?' And we won't go to bed unless it is!" It soothed him to have her so openly, so completely adoring. She thought him brilliant, she thought him well educated, she thought him wise and witty and lovable, when his own failed him. And her laughter! The divine, the imitable gift of mirth had been given to Joe first thought Maggie pretty when first he saw her laugh. She lived in a delicious gale of it. That little soft touch on his coat, that little soft girl-person jumbled against his shoulder for a minute, in the crowded aisle, those black-fringed eyes brimming with mirth and affection—these were all darned agreeable things, his thoughts would agree. A hundred times, a thousand times, he heard her call herself lucky. With her usual eager rush she retailed a hundred reasons. Her health, She had done no more trify everyone by discerningly, and without persevering tickling apron. But the effect was astonishing. Everybody looked at praised her, and the pace went down like a row. It was on this same scale said to Joe, with a calm air: "I'll bet, if you fell into trouble would be with a regular wouldn't it?" How do you mean, lady?" Joe asked. Well, I mean—you need sort of smiling—"Mered—I mean—" she be perplexed—"mean, for there are lots of girls in you couldn't call your name, turning scarlet. No, you might call Joo conceded, "and you smart girls. But, no you're them young ladies." Like school-teachers said Maggie. Yep. I guess school librarians would be very right," Joe laughed. To think a think like that My aunt was a Joo," she said. "Joe, how son who wasn't a lady Somebody must of course you know." Well, reading the papers and magazines for one thing." That helps a lot, and looking for the right way to be quiet and gentle as way nice persons speak of course, there's always a lady puts the feeling fore her own—thinks o Nice things all join they, Joe?" she said, n I don't get you; Miss Here's what I was Sunday in church they about believin' that you ting'an' you have it.it but have it. An' ideal life—I wrote that card. It was in my p I got it all straight. I things go together, don't They da,' he said, think that you were sm Maggio. Continued Next "I'll tell you what, Joe, I like you better than anyone else except my own family!" good men about him, but he has made a small fortune out of the Mack, took care of most of her family, an' has kept several of her relatives out of jail for what they done profiteering in war-time as well! Joe was staring at her, oddly, a slow smile spreading on his face. "Who taught you that piece?" "Ev'ryone knows that." Is—that—so? He grinned. Relatives of his mother kept out of jail, eh? That was probably Uncle Irving and young Irv. He looked at her, musing in his turn. "I'd like to walk Maggie in on the old man some day—or better yet, walk him into the store and introduce Maggie as the fine, independent girl he's always talking about," Joe reflected. "I'd say, You keep suggesting that I get out somewhere and meet a real girl—well, she's real, Maggie. And she's going to step right off the floor of the Mack into the position of your only daughter-in-law!" "I might bluff it anyway," his thoughts ran on. "Maggie's such a little sport, she'd enjoy playing the part. She'd make up for it and carry it off like a comedienne!" But he couldn't play any games with Maggie. The poor kid was falling in love with him fast enough as it was. "It's probably her first crush," Joe thought, watching her not without a sort of generous pity. "She'll have it bad. But it won't hurt her, it never hurts anyone. She was far enough from any appreciation now at all events, as she chattered on of everything she found interesting, sometimes making him laugh, sometimes—oddly—giving him a prick behind the eyes that owed itself to a very different sensation. Maggie had never thought of love, for herself. Her own affairs, indeed, were entirely secondary. But she betrayed herself to Joe with almost every word and glance. "I'll tell you what, Joe, I like you better than anyone else except my own family!" "Don't like me as well as your sister, huh?" "Well, I like some things about you her wonderful family, her mother—described as 'gentell,' her dashing sister, who had such a good job, and her father—without whose assistance Maggie's yearnings toward the "ideal life" would have been crushed in the bud, and whose companionship meant everything to the washer of the Johnson dishes and the keeper of the Johnson kitchen. "But you've had hard luck, Joe," she agreed pityingly. This vexed him, too. Or perhaps the prickling, uncomfortable emotion it aroused, was not vexation, but something deeper—something nearer compunction. Of course he had had a rotten deal. But for Maggie to be the one to see it! "How dye mean I've had hard luck?" Oh, well, every way! You weren't raised for this kind of work—and you hate it, and you keep thinkin' that you'd rather be somewhere else, doln' something else, an' you don't like these girls here in the Mack? "Does your mother cook well?" she asked. None. Doesn't know a darn thing about cooking." Joe confessed. "Don't your father help her none any?" Maggie asked. Neyer. The old man is no more use around the house than a paper monkey! Joe. I do think that's pretty hard on you! Who makes your bed? Oh, anybody. Last night. I had dinner with some friends of our named Russell." Joe volunteered. "And did she give you a good dinner?" Oh, yes—she cooks all right." An odd look came into Joe's eyes. "Her daughter was there." Daughter? An' her husband?" No. Mill—Milly's not married." The daughter ain't?" Nope." Just a little girl, huh?" Nope. Milly's about—nineteen." I guess she's pretty, ain't she?" She's beautiful." But he told himself that he must stop this teasing, when he saw her suddenly daunted face, the gallant efforts she made to appear quite herself. Students of state and financing are expressing number of proposals because that may have the rupting the present mode butting highway revenue While some of these a more or less direct highway problems, many plans are carried out, the nue diverted will create problem than any now state. Several of the suggest legislation include: Taking $5,000,000 annual gas tax, before any distribution proceeds of that tax in state or counties, for the separation of railroads upon county roads and a larger share of highway construction for joint county highway districts. The distribution of oil proceeds of the gasoline cities for street development. A contribution from the gasoline tax to special districts; The payment of interest highways bonds from the gas tax instead of freeways as at present. In addition to the above that other plans are being that would tend to disruc financing program. But he saw that her colour had clobbed and that the little hand that steadled the boxes was itself unsteady. He felt oddly shaken. He returned to his own business filled with a wretched sensation that he must somehow make this up to Maggle. Yet—hang it!—the very making up would carry the matter further, and it had gone far enough. He shook himself physically. He could not shake the thought away. He unlucky—with the roadster parked a few blocks away, and the comfort of one of the State's most beautiful homes back of the roadster. He unlucky—a Merrill playing at work, here one of the stores he would largely own some day! More bewildering still, he was beginning to like this play work. But oddly, unexpectedly, there were moments when the Mack filled his soul with a deep content. Joe revelled in the rush and hurry, the absurdity and yet seriousness of everything that went on in the Mack. Even Smith and Fleming sometimes took Joe into their counsels, as they wandered importantly to and fro. Joe's championship of Maggie helped her from the very beginning—an obvious fact that made her still more his abject slave. On a dismal early January day Maggie first appeared in what might have been called her normal form, he heard the congratulations that the busy girls flung at her from all sides, and congratulated himself that he was partly responsible at least. She had done no more than electrify everyone by discarding magnificently, and without permission, the disfiguring ticking apron. That was all. But the effect was astonishing. Everybody looked at her, everybody praised her, and the packing-room boys Orange County Folk Attend Big Meet For the purpose of discussing and approving proposed legislation affecting their trades, representatives of all Southern California Builders Exchanges will gather at the Pasadena Athletic club January 30 at 8 o'clock. Orange county groups from mortgage companies, building and loan associations, banks, etc., will attend the meeting. NOTICE INVITING SEALED PROPOSALS FOR FURNISHING WIRE FENCE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed proposals will be received by the City Council of the City of Anaheim, at the office of the City Clerk of said City, up to 8 o'clock P.M. of Tuesday, February 10, 1931, for furnishing approximately 1260 linear feet of woven wire fenceing and gates for the City Park in said City. Said fence to be of No. 11 galvanized wire, 2-inch chain link diamond mesh, approximately 5 feet high, with 2-inch O.D. tubular steel posts, 2½-inch O.D. corner and gate posts, and 1% inch O.D. gate frames. Each proposal must be accompanied by a certified or cashier's check, payable to the City of Anaheim, in the amount of One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00), and the cheek of the successful bidder will be held until the acceptance of the fence, complete. Plans and further information may be obtained at the office of the City Engineer of said City, and all proposals must be forms furnished by said City Engineer. The City Council of said City reserves the right to reject any and all proposals. Dated January 14, 1931. EDWARD B. MERRITT, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim. 1-22-3t NOTICE TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE ANAHEIM UNION WATER COMPANY Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Anaheim Union Water Company will be held at the office of the Company at Anaheim, Orange County, California, on the 31st day of January, 1931, at the hours of 10 o'clock a.m. of said day, for the purpose of electing Directors to serve for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting. By order of the Board of Directors. L. J. SHERIDAN, Secy. 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