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IgL-"'.""!""".'."—- 1 — 1 1 - +-■-" Wfe mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmimmm^ ' THE MONITOR _ »• | A National Weakly Now.paper Devoted to the Intereeta of Colored Americana. ___ Pablle’ied Every Thursday at Omaha. Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub lishing Company. ____ Entered aa Seoond-Claaa Mall Matter July 2. 1915. at the Postofflce at Omaha. Nab., under the Act of March S. 1S79. _ THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. | George H# W. Bullock. Business Manager and Associate Editor. | W. W MOSELY, Associate Editor, Lincoln, Neb. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR; $1.25 6 MONTHS: 75c 3 MONTHS | Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application. Addreaa, The Monitor, 2<M Kaffir Block, Omaha, Neb. Telephone Douglas 3224. - - Monitor Starts Relief Fund for Tulsa Riot Victims ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. The Monitor Publishing Company.-...$10.00 Mrs. Alonzo Jackson . 1-00 / Waiters, Blackstone Hotel.. 12.50 Ed. F. Morearty. 2-°0 W. P. Ray, Duluth, Minn.. 100 Elmer Morris, St. Paul, Minn.-----. 100 Mrs. J. E. Miller, Beatrice, Neb. . 100 John Talifas . 1-00 Total . $29.50 LOOKING UPWARD; MOVING FORWARD. rpODAY we are living in perilous i times. It were foolisl to attempt; to disguise this fact. It is ar era of | reconstruction, of readji s, | therefore one of those critict ods I which always occur whea le move forward into larger liu t| is the lesson of history that do people, classes or groups jealou their advantages and perogatives are fearful of losing them and will go to any extremes to maintain and defend them. There hag always been a struggle at certain recurring per iods in the world’s history between two views of humanity, one illustrat ed by the phrase “the divine right of kings,’’ and the other by the phrase “the rights of the common people.’ Phrased differently, it is the struggle between autocracy and democracy. Such times are perilous because of a species of hysteria which affects all classes. This hysteria shows itself in suspicion, hatred and ill-will, more or less general. It engenders an at mosphere which is inimical to sym pathetic human brotherhood. In this atmosphere infidelity and doubt, rath er than faith and hope, thrive. There is aliyays at such times the serious danger that the class or group lower down and therefore the one upon whom oppression rests most heavily will lose its trust in God, throw off the restraints of religion and give the elemental passions of revenge full leash. This is the grave danger con fronting not only America but the wor'd today. Its symptoms are be ginning to manifest themselves among many of our own people. They are questioning the justice and goodness of God in the light of cer- j tain events. This is a grave mis take. The people who lose faith in God is doomed to destruction, it matters not how high or how great they may think themselves to be. Never was there need of greater faith and hope than today. We need to look upward to Him from Whom all wisdom, grace, strength and cour-! age flow, and move forward into the larger, fuller life of American cit- j izenship which is before us right \ here, despite the manifold limitations! against which we must struggle and j overcome, and to which we are di-1 vlnely destined to contribute an im portant share. Never losing faith i heart or courage let this be our mot to: LOOKING UPWARD, MOVING FORWARD. BRIGHTEN UP NORTH TWENTY-FOURTH STKEET rJ'HE MONITOR again desires to call the attention of the City Commissioners to the Deed of better lights on North Twenty-fourth street one of the rapidly growing and im portant business streets In the city. This street is poorly lighted. This is particularly true of the section from 8eward to Erskine, generally, and between Parker and Grant, par ticularly. These blocks are dis gracefully dark. But the whole sec tion from Cuming to Lake needs more lights. The Monitor urges the tax payers and residents on North Twenty-fourth street to join with It in its campaign for more and better lights on this important street. Let those who are with us In this cam paign get busy. Are yofr wtth us? I Speak up. Our columns are open. SIGNS OF THE TIMES * j ALL signs indicate that we are go ing to have a hard winter be cause of the large number who have ► been unable to secure employment during the summer. All prho are working should hold on to their jobs and be as saving as possible. Cut your expenses to the lowest figure. Pass up many things you would like to do and have, if times were better and get ready for a hard and severe winter. Jenkin’s Barber Shop—All work strictly first-class. 2122 No. 24th St. Webster MM. WHAT IS THE BEAL MOTIVE! TS the call of President Harding for a conference looking toward dis armament actuated by any real de sire for the limitation of armaments or by the desire to curb Japan’s pow-. er and influence in the Far East? Certain international questions would seem to indicate that the latetr, rather than the former is the para mount motive for the conference. If, however, it should issue in reducing armament and so lift a heavy burden from the shoulders of the people aB .well as minimizing the menace of wai it will be a cause of genuine rejoic ing. PRESS COMMENT AN IMPORTANT MOVE One of the most important moves ever made with regard to bringing about better relations between the white and the colored people of the United States was recently made by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. In a^recenl preliminary meeting held Wash ington under the chairmanship of Mr John J- Eagan of Atlanta, Ga., the day was spent in discussing the ques tions relating to the Negro in this country. As a result of the discus sion a statement embracing eight points was drawn up and unanimous ly adopted as a program of work. The first four points of this state ment are as follows: “1. To assert the sufficiency of the Christian solution of race relations in America and the duty of the churches and all their organizations to give the most careful attention to this question. “2. To provide a central clearing house and meeting place for the churches and for all Christian agen-; cles dealing with the relation of the white and negro races, and to en courage and support their activities aling this line. “3. To promote mutual confidence I and acquaintance, both nationally! and locally, between the white and Negro churches, especially by State] and local conferences between white and Negro ministers. Christian ed ucators and other leaders, for the consideration of their common ^prob lems. ? “4. To array the sentiment of the Christian churches against mob vlo-1 lence and to enlist their thorough ; going support In a special program of education on the subject for a period of at least five years. The other four points in the pro gram related to the distribution of accurate knowledge regarding the race question, the development of public conscience favorable to thej Negro, the making more widely: known the program of the Council’s commission on inter-raclal coopera tion, and the presentation of the ] problem of race relations and the! Christian solution of it by white and ] colored speakers, and as many meet ings throughout the country as pos sible. The Federal Council of the Chur ches of Christ in America Is compris- j ed of thirty-one Protestant Evangel ical denominations. This constitutes a body which, it it determines earn estly to bring about an adjustment of the race question, can accomplish the task. If the leaders of so great a religious body make up their minds for instance, to stamp out lynching and mob violence against the Negro and tackled the Job sincerely, they could abolish that form of crime in the United1 States within six months 1 —The New Vork Age. Ear Protectors. Rubber em protectors for swimmer? * and persons who have their halt i shampooed have been Invented Oy a 1 Mlrmesotn woman. ‘ -- , < Greece and Rome In Early Days. < 'In the early days of Greece anlf J Rome all the doors of dwellings open- j sd outward. A person passing ojt of i the bouse knocked oh the door before \ •penlng It i % • . - > . . ‘A "-—---———. ADDRESS TO COUNTRY BY Nj\.A.C P. CONVENTION The following Resolution is really an address to the Country and is considered the most important act of each Conference. The National Association for the Advancement of Col ov .d People in its Twelfth Annual Conference, meeting in this great crisis of the world’s reconstruction, would remind the nation that from our very first conference we have planted our agitation and action upon a careful and thorough investigation of the truth concerning the Negro problem. Often when we have published in our organ, THE CRISIS, and in letters and articles in the press, our findings and con clusions, we have been accused of exaggeration. Today we stand vindicated before the world in the revelations of Geor gia, and knowing that Georgia is little if any worse than half a dozen other states, w’e solemnly adjure this nation to give more serious attention and more earnest action to this fes tering social sore. Lynching and mob violence against Negroes still looms as our most indefensible national crime and unless the pres ent administration takes early action by legal enactment it will stand condemned of all thoughtful citizens north and south. Increasingly the Negro at Washington, Chicago, and Tulsa has been forced to give his life in self defense. No man can do less for his family and people and it is a cruel campaign of lying that represents this fight for life as or ganized aggression. Negroes are not fools. Eleven million poor laborers do not seek war on a hundred million powerful neighbors. But they cannot and will not die w ithout raising a hand when the nation lets its offscourings and bandits in sult, harry, loot and kill them. What is the cause of the new conflict of race in Ameri ca? It is not simply a gl owing fcense of manhood on the part, of the blacks, it is increased lack of sympathy and sense of justice on the part of the whites and tlys arises from the snapping of those human bonds which must exist between neighbors. If the Negro child is not educated; if the Negro is segregated in federal departments and Oklahoma cities; if he is publicly insulted by “Jim Crow” cars; if he is treated unjustly in the courts as in the twelve pending Arkansas peonage cases; if in the army and navy the Negro is grossly and continually discriminated against and faces plans for further discrimination in the national guard; if he has no voice in the administration of the law especially as to labor, agriculture and education; and if finally the nation is being honeycombed by secret societies like the Klu Klux Klan, who stir up race hatred by innuendo and appeal to the lowest brute instincts—if all these things are done, how can we help but kill the human sympathy, the spirit of the Prince of Peace, the strong faith and the desire for humble effec tive co-operation which alone can save civilization? Men and women of America, the program of those who would save America from bitter racial hatred and conflict and murder is short and simple: 1. The Right to vote under the same conditions as oth er persons vote. 2. A federal law against lynching and mob violence. 3. Justice for the convicted peons in Arkansas. 4. Equitable treatment for Negro soldiers and sailors. 5. Aboliton of the “Jim Crow’’ cars in interstate traf fic. 6. Free public schools for Negro children. 7. The appointment of an inter-racial commission, of high class, fair-minded men and women representing both races, to make a scientific survey of race relations. 8. The withdrawal of our military forces from Haiti and carefully planned aid for Haiti and Liberia. 9. The weight of our influence to secure justice for the natives of Africa particularly in the former Carman colonies. 10. A world wide attempt to promote peace through inter-racial understanding and eouality, and through a wid er reeognization of the basic ident, y of race and labor prob lems. f The TOWNSEND GUN CO I Sporting, Outing and Athletic Good ! 1514 Farnam St. Douglas 0870 t EVANS MODEL LAUNDRY { ! Forty-five years in the business I 11th & Douglas Douglas 0243 J | Diamond | I Theatre I I **• V I Y I I I | i l I | I * FURNITURE, STOVES, FITXURES Second hand or New Repairing Haulinr; Everything Needed in Home WEST END FURNITURE CO. R. B. RHODES, Prop. 2522 Lake St. rw-x-x-xx-xx-t-x-x-x-xr-x-: W. 1. CATTIN CO. | PLUMBING, GAS AND % STEAM FITTING 2 910 N. 24th St. Douglas 1625 X | For Painting, Repairing | ;; and Window Washing : Call STEPHENS § 2720 Corby Webster 6977 } &K3®etomKX>t« a a a a.a a a ::: I EMERSON'S LAUNDRY t I he Laundrv That Suits All | 1301 No. 24th St. Web. 0820 --— -.. jV.V.V.V,.v.,.v.v,v.v.v.v.v ,;j The Western Funeral Home it •J Pleases * "• And will »erve you night and day ■ f 2518 Lake St. Phone Web. 0248 ■ £ SILAS JOHNSON, Prop. I FUNERAL DIRECTORS ■ .V.W.V.VAVW.V.VAV.W. *®KI^vftCKRKKI>&;;gKKI>SD<r;M>ti(4«IHKDC) A. F. PEOPLES PAINTING PAPEKHANGING AND DECORATING I Estimates Furnished Free. All Work Guaranteed. Full Line of Wall Paper and Sherwin-Williams Paints and Varnishes 2419 Lake St. Webster 6366 H. SCHNAUBER CHOICE MEATS OF ALL KINDS. Pork Sausage a Specialty 1906 North 24th St. Vebster 6564. Phon* Ty. Notary Public In Office N. W. WARE ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR at LAW Practice In Both State end Federal Courts J*.J*. .A.-A. MM * » A. M a a . r w- -r r r •»"CVV,/VW RIALTO ] MUSIC SHOP 1416 DOUGLAS ST. PHONE TYLER 4090 Mail Orders a Specialty *V'V ;C WRITES FINIS TO GUFFEY'S CAREER Wall Street Once More Puts Her Quietus on Man Who Was Too Ambitious. HIS STORY IS SENSATIONAL Nephew of Colonel Guffey, Who Mad* and Lost Many Fortunes, Himself Did Some Very Spectacular Things With Oil Stocks. New York.—When the directors re signed the other day anil the Tide water Oil company, a Standard Oil subsidiary, thus got control of the Guffey-Gillespie Oil company. Insiders knew Wall street once more had writ ten “finis" to the career of a man who "bit off more than he could chew.” The victim was Joe Guffey, more formally Joseph F. Guffey of Pitts burgh. and fully described thus: President of the Guffey-Gillespie Oil | company, with leases covering 2'_’0.0<i0 acres in the Mid-Continent and Texas fields. President of the Atlantic Gulf Oil corporation, controlled by the Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Steamship lines and operating around Tampico. President of the Colombia syndicate, controlled by Guffey-Giilesple and “Agwi" and owning a million acres of I oil lands along the Magdalena river in South America. Director of Itellance Life Insurance company, and several Pittsburgh hanks. Democratic national committeeman from Pennsylvania, promoter and “angel" of A. Mitchel Palmer’s last presidential boom. Former director of sales for the alien property custodian. Uncle Lost Many Fortunes. Hack of this announcement lies a story seldom equaled in American business and political biography. It parallels the story of another Guffey of a preceding generation. For Joe Guf fey is a nephew of old Col. James M. Guffey, also of Pittsburgh, said to have | I made and lost more fortunes In oil ■ than any other person In the United j States. By 1919. when the partnership was reorganized as the Guffey-Gillespie Oil company, it had become one of the largest in the rnidcontinent field. In addition. Guffey & Gillespie, with oth er Pittsburghers, acquired 125,000 acres of oil lands in Colombia, and the I Colombia syndicate was formed. Then “Agwi" entered the Mexican field, organized the Atlantic Gulf Oil company, and elected Guffey president. Boosted Stock to $30. Last summer Guffey found the bears [»ut gunning for Guffey-Gillespie stock, although It had earned $9 a share the I year before. Guffey began the fight i which ended Tuesday In total defeat, j Putting in almost every dollar he had and borrowing $2,000,000, he formed a pool to "peg" the stock with New York j and Pittsburgh friends. Late in February Guffey’s pool tried to rout the hears and boosted the stock from 22 to an. The effort exhausted his strength, and the hears, buying In ! New York and selling by wire in Pltts I burgh, flooded the latter market. When : the price reached 20 the Pittsburgh ( hanks called their loans. The Tidewater Oil company took | over the stock held ns collateral and '! bought enough more to give It voting [| control. Guffey, Gillespie and the old directors attempted to tight for places i n the reorganized company. Tide | ler asked for tneir resignations, and lied t >r a receiver. ,JAVY PERFECTS STAR SHELL Success Marks Its Use as a Substi tute for Searchlight to Locate Enemy at Sea. Washington.—Extensive experiments to develop the use of “star shells” as a substitute for searchlights In search ing for enemy craft are being con ducted by the Navy department with j what some officers describe as con I giderable success. I A "flashless" powder is being used j In propelling the shells from the guns, I The shells light up the sea for a wide j area anil officers explain that, If they t can be projected without a betraying flash from the ship firing them, they | will be a far advance over the search light, as the beams from the latter be tray the exact location of tlie ship projecting them. It Is said that experiments have now | reached the point where "star shells" j that will Illuminate for several mtn | utes a great area of the sea far dts | fant from the firing ship have been I perfected, and along with them a j powder which shows no flame or flash ! when the “star shells" are projected from the slflp. For guns of three In | rhes or smaller, the new system Is said to work almost perfectly, but in the | large guns It Is understood that all j of the flash of discharge has not yet i been eliminated. Bring Out Hoarded Gold. London.—The widespread destitu tion caused h.v reemployment here Is bringing out the gold hoarded by many persons In more prosperous times. .There has been a most noticeable In j crease in the number of sovereigns and half-sovereigns In circulation In the last few weeks. Previously it was only on rare occasions that a sovereign or half-sovereign was tendered. London's First Thostsr. It Is a little difficult to realize that In London, the Mecca of the Engligh i (peaking theater devotee, there was a time when an order was passed by parliament for the compulsory clos ing of these “palaces of amusement" and making It s crime to be present as a spectator at a play. This hap pened '.n puritan times In 1642, when only tvo English theaters existed. TOURISTS ARE ANGRY Extortion Practiced in Paris Arouses Americans. _t French Authoritiee Tell Them the Remedy le in Their Own Hands. Paris—The effect of the high cost of living in Paris upon tourist trade, as Indicated by the growing frequency . of complaints of extortion by Arneri- i cans visiting France, Is occupying the ! attention of the government. The authorities hold that the tour- ; 1st* hnve the cure largely In their own hands, exaggerated prices being due In large part to indiscriminate spending by visitors, aided by the j spendthrift tendency of French prof iteers. It Is admitted that abuses prac ticed In amusement resorts, whore i meals, wine and dancing arc provided. | have their effect upon prices In gen eral, but how to correct that evil without discouraging the most profit able trade Is n question. Undersecretary of Slate l’aisant. discussing the question with Ameri cans. proposes publicity as a remedy. ! lie has Invited American visitors to Join In a protest which will he pub- : Itshed In the Paris press, and he also will take up personally Individual cases of extortion brought to his at tention. The most frequent causes of com plaint nro charges for lodgings In ho tels and apartments. Mr. Pnlsant told the Americans he had decided to ask hotels to publish their rates in the papers. Tills remedy would not, how ever, affect apartments, which are the subject of profiteering on a scale hitherto unknown. There are very few unfurnished j apartments to let, according to the real estate agencies: as fast as vacated by tenants, they are trans formed Into furnished apartments and I either let at rentals of from 300 to : 1,000 per cent higher than the average before the war for furnished apart- \ ments of the same class, or rented at an Increase of ‘-00 to 300 per cent shove the average for unfurnished apartments, with the proviso that the i tenant buy the furniture at excessive figures. THIS MAKES MR. HAYS HAPPY His Policy of Humanizing the Post office Department Result* in Sav Ing a Woman’a Life. Washington.—Postmaster Will H. Hays probably Is the happiest man in Washington today. His slogan “Humanize the Postoffice Department" has been enrried out to what appears to be the limit. Here Is the story: In a little Nebraska farmhouse a woman lay dying for Inck of medical attention. The nearest physician was Dr. Selby at North Platte. True, North Platte was only two miles away, hut between the dying woman and the physician was the South Platte river, flooded to a raging torrent that had swept away every bridge near and far. Dr. Selby had telephoned to every town within a radius of twenty miles. At each turn It was the same dis heartening story—bridges gone aqd no way of fording the turbulent waters. Just when all hope seemed gone. Dr. Selby remembered something. Somewhere be bad read that the post master general was “humanizing'’ the postoffice department. He rushed to the telephone and asked C. A. Sluder, manager of the air mall field at North Platte, to'take him across the river In an airplane. “Sorry.” said Sluder, “but I couldn’t without getting authority from Wash ington first." "But the woman Is dying." the phy j slclnn urged. “In that case," replied Sluder, "we will take you first and get the author ity afterward." So It was that the life of a woman In an humble ’Nebraska farmhouse was saved just because the postofflee department has been humanized. And so It Is that Postmaster Genera! Hays Is probably the happiest man In Wash ington. •’ • Baptists Elect Woman Leader. Des Moines, la.—With the election of Mrs. Helen Barrett Montgomery of Rochester, N. Y„ as president of the Northern Baptist convention, a i precedent was set among the larger denominations of the United States. | Coincidentally, the convention was presided over by a woman, Mrs. M. j Grant Kdinnnrts of Pasadena, Cal., after K. L. Tustln of Philadelphia, the ■ president, had been stricken with 111 I ness. ! _— I - - U- - -- - "Light Blue Hair.” The police, no doubt, will have little difficulty In finding a man Hated In a recent police bulletin In New York as being waufed on a state charge. , “Light blue hair” should tnnke him conspicuous In almost arty crowd.. 8peed of a Projectile. A projectile, weighing 1,400 pounda, which la fired In 14-ineh guna, leaves the gun at a apeed of almoat hair a aiJIe a aecond. At three miles thi apeed baa but allghtly slackened. VIENNA IS AGAIN CITY OF GAYETY __ ^ People Are Fashionably Dressed and Spend Money Freely in Luxury Shops. 60C0 FOOD IS NOW PLENTIFUl White Bread and Fancy Dainties Seen Everywhere, but the Finances of the State Are in a Chaotic Condition. Vienna. — Finance and economic* seem to have parted company in Aus tria. With its money situation chaotic, there is at the same time u generally acknowledged betterment of conditions of living. Travelers revisiting Vienna say they do not recognize'the city of a year ago. The mass of the people are better dressed, and more plentiful food Is shown in their healthy appearance. The green nnd sallow faces have disap peared, and on the whole tin- Viennese are nearly buck to normal as far as external evidence goes. Furls can hardly show a more fash ionably gowned crowd of women than that which turns out for the ring prom enade In the afternoon or throngs the y. high-class shopping district in the mornings. Shops Display Luxuries. The shop display of luxurious wares of every description increases until the Arbelter Zeitung says It exceeds Vicu na's best days of before the war. The same newspaper admits there Is steady progress and betterment in business and get oral eondit' -ns. The famous del? itessen shops are reopening with almost their old-time excellence. The wind >'vs arc tilled with fancy dainties for which the city , was noted, canned stut's of the tiuest foreign makes arc to he bought, Ainerl- . can crackers and biscuits arc common A In the grocery stores, the candy shops I arc restocked, and while lust winter a I pound of sweets was virtually unpro- I curable the linest fresh bonbons now 1 are to be hud in any quantity. I White bread is served in nearly ev- J ery restaurant, and the bakery win- J dows again display the famous Vienna * pastries and cakes. In the poorer dis tricts even the butcher shops and gro cery stores reflect the same condition. Turning to finances, the current statement of the Austro-Hungarian hank speaks for It. There are at the moment 45,000,000,000 crowns In circu lation and 4,000,000,000 outstanding treasury notes issued to the banks for discount. Ftut this cheap money is plentiful. Everyone Is Spending. Everyone seems to have it and to be spending it. Enormously advanced ptiecs for everything seem not to have affected the volume of business. Printing presses are now turning out about 5.000,000,000 crowns a month to meet the government expenses. The current budget shows a deficit "I 5O,(XK),(XJO,U0O crowns. The wealth levy has produced tints far about !),000,000, 000 crowns, half of which was paid in war bonds, lenving enough cash from this source to meet about one month’s t , running expenses for the government Through Its spokesmen and newspn 1 pers tiic government is urging the need ; of haste in the proposed credit plan of the League of Nations hv which j enough foreign capital Is sought to es tablish a bank of Issue whose new cur rency on a gold times Is expected grad j tut 11 y to stabilize the value of the pres ent crown. WOOL INSTEAD OF FEATHERS f Freak Duck Born on Long Island May Be Progenitor of New Breed. Eustport, L. I.—"Fuzzy,” the feuth erless duck, a white Pekin freak, bred by George Frey of the Sunny side duck farm. Is creating great excitement among breeders, who see a way to i make a fortune If “Fuzzy’s” tribe can | be increased. It costs 6 cents to pluck a duck. When n man has 20,000 ducks to pre pare for market plucking runs into money. “Fuzzy" came along more or iesrf ' by accident, but Mr. Frey is dreaming of the “edge" he would have If he eould run a featheuoss duck farm. “Fuzzy" came Into the world queer ly dressed. As he grew older his coat became queerer. Some say It Is 1 down, others think It Is wool. At any rate. It Is short, white' and fuzzy. ! Hence the name. “Fuzzy" will head n pen of breeders | from which Mr. Frey expects eventual | ly to produce ducks that will do away with the expense of hiring pluckera. Plants Beans 900 Years Old. Satina. Kan.—Bev. M. M. Stoltz. li brarian at ttie Kansas Wesleyan uni- ij versity, lias received from Frederick * Broraon, a graduate of the school, some relics from the ruins of Mesa Verde, In the national park, which will be placed In the university mu seum. Among them are some corn, corn cobs and beans that were taken from between rocks where scientists say they have been for 000 years. The cobs 'ook as If they had been picked this year and the corn and beans are In « perfect state of preservation. A Doctor Stoltz lias planted some of the corn and beans and lie declares that be believes they will sprout and grow. Long Thumb—Strong Will. If the top Joint of your thumb la long. It shows that you have good will power. Well-developed reasoning fac ulties are possessed by those people who have thumbs the second Joints of which are long. Thumbs that work easily nre owned by careless, happy go-lucky, spendthrift Individuals. A stiff. Arm-Jointed thumb, however, shows that the person Is keen, tact ful, self-possessed, and cautious—the sort of man who will get on in the world