you do with it? It will take a sizeable chunk of your hundred dollars just to get the place cleaned.”

“Not according to my calculations,” chuckled Penny. “Let’s choose our offices and then we’ll discuss business.”

“Our offices?” echoed Louise. “I’m not in on this brain-storm of yours.”

“Oh, yes, you are. You’ll be the editor.”

“But I thought you were that!”

“I’ll be the managing editor,” said Penny gently. “You’ll have your office, and oodles of authority. Of course, you’ll have to work hard keeping our staff in line.”

“What staff?”

“We’ll recruit from Riverview High, concentrating on the journalism majors. Now I think Jack Malone will be our new advertising manager.”

“Jack Malone! Why, Penny, he hasn’t an ounce of push.”

“I know, Lou. But his father is president of the Malone Glass Company. I figure if his son is in charge of advertising—”

“I get the idea,” interrupted Louise. “Penny, with a head like yours, we should land all the important accounts in town.”

“I aim to win several fat ones away from the Star,” Penny said with quiet confidence. “If we don’t, it will be bankruptcy before the first issue of the paper is off the press.”

Louise glanced dubiously at the dusty machinery.

“There’s no denying you’re a genius, Penny. Even so, I don’t see how you expect to get these presses running.”

“We’ll only need one.”

“True, but you can’t recruit pressmen or linotype operators from Riverview High.”

“Unfortunately, no,” sighed Penny. “The first issue of the Times will be printed at the Star plant. Dad doesn’t know it yet. After that—well, I’ll think of something.”

“How do you propose to get this place cleaned?”

“Every person who works on our paper must wield a broom, Lou. After we’ve chosen our offices, we’ll scamper forth and gather our staff together.”