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today Earth Thinly Settled. Coal Going Up. Farewell, Delmonicft. * Beware the Tangled Web. ^By ARTHUR BRISBANE^ On this earth, according to the latest figures, there are more than 1.800.000. 000. That sounds big but it isn’t. The magnificent state of Texas, ■With its wonderful “black wax’’ soil going down 20 feet and more, could feed them all by in tense cultivation. Of the 1,800,000,000, more than 40.000. 000 live in 18 big cities of more than a 1,000,000 inhabitants each. Ninety millions of others live in 303 cities of smaller size. America lias the largest city in the world, New York, with 5,620,043. London comes second, with 4, 483,240 and Berlin third, with 3, 803,770. \ Europe has more population than ai y other continent, except Asia. But Asia has more large cities than North America. Europe has six cities with a 1,000,000 or more. Asia has six with a 1,000, 00<> or more/ ■ Where and how will human be ings live 5,000 years from now, \v;hen the earth has 10,000,000, 000 of population? They Will live, of course, on the mountain tops, now wasted, and will fly to their work on the farms and factories m in the valleys and on the hillsides. Mr. Kruttschnitt, head of the Southern Pacific railroad, says coal will steadily increase in price in the future. It Isn't pleasant but you may as well know it. He says the problem is to be solved by using electric power in place of steam, using steam turbines in plilce of old-fashioned engines on our locomotives, or better still, making Diesel engines light enough to work on locomotives. The government ought to be working at those problems. Fortu nately, American inventive genius of the Edison brand will probably take care of the real crisis long before it arrives. We should he living in darkness if we still de pended on whale oil for light Ss we used to do. Kerosene settled that. Gas made kerosene old-fashioned, and electric light has made us for get the whale, kerosene and gas as sources of light. Buruing coal to get heat will, before long, seem as childish as catching whales to get light. Delmonico’s of New York is dead. This writer has seen it gradually travel from Broad street to a location halfway between the City hall and Fourteenth street on Manhattan island. Then from Fourteenth street to Twenty-sixth street, from Twenty-sixth street to Forty-fourth, and now the name is gone. - The old Delmonico came over from Brooklyn, where he had a dairy farm, and started a little place in Broad street. He had the only apartment for rent in New York with a private bath attached. It was occupied by the late Albert Brisbane and his brother, George, and they, much to the indigna tion of their father, paid $20 a week for that apartment eariy in the last century. Nothing so ex travagant had ever been heard of. Now you can rent apartments in New York for $40,000 a year and more with many private bath rooms. -• “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” If you don’t-believe it, ask Mr. Stillman. He married one lady, Miss Pot ter. He met another lady, Mrs. Leeds. He brought suit to prove that one of his children was not his own. He lost that suit. Now Mrs. Leeds announces publicly that her little boy is Mr. Stillman’s own. And she intends to have Mr. Stillman support the little boy. . Mr?. Stillman, now divorced, says her heart goes out to Mrs. Leeds, the lady No., 2, and, if necessary, she will take her (Mrs. Leeds) little boy into her own house and bring him up. And, anyhow, she is going to teach her little son, Guy, to look upon the Leeds little boy as his little half brother. Intimate friends of Mr. Stillman say that he has a headache. Do you wonder? A bricklayers’ strike has tied up *200,000,000 worth of building in New York city. Other strikes are threatened. The tendency to make hay while the sun shines and put wages »’• high as they can be put is natural. Kmployers have the same ten dency. But they are wise in one way. They arc careful not to stop business if they can help it. The cost of building is at the peak. A few more strikes, a little higher prices for building mater ial, a fulfillment of the threat to tie up all the brickyards on the Hudson river in New Jersey and elsewhere, and the goose that has been laying the golden egg of big wages will roll over on her back,, wiggle her W’eb feet, open her mouth, gasp and expire. A great French authority dis cusses German exchange. He says that eventually, when reparations are settled, German money will he wiped out and something else will be given, representing an infi nitesimal fraction of the present value. That’s interesting to the Ger mans. Very interesting to the French would be a careful analysis of the future of French exchange. What is going to happen to that? The franc is now worth 6 rents snd a little over. Unless the French find some better plan than they have yet. devised for settling their German troubles, that same franc, before, long will be worth fi centime* and one centime is not much. Copyright, H.J*, Thousands of Girls Perish by Jazz Mania So Declares Philip Yarrow, Head of Illinois Vigilance Committee—Warns of Dance Hall Danger. By Internall« nal New* Service. Chicago. May 22.—Thousands iff young girls arc sacrificed each year in Chicago on the altars of jazz and modern dancing, rhillp Yarrow, su perintnedent of the Illinois Vigilance association asserted here today. "Tlie greatest inoral danger facing a young, inexperienced girl coining to Chicago, is to he found in the big city's 219 licensed public dance halls.” Superintendent Yarrow de clared. Couples dancing cheek to cheek, in tight embrace, with ttie jazz mu vie tanning their passions, may be seen in any Chicago dance hall, according to Mr. Yarrow. Unprincipled men who frequent such halls make the in experienced girl their prey. "The body to body contact is in decent,” Yarrow said. "It makes ths modern dance a mere hugging match. The nature of the movements was In vented in the brothels of the Argen tine and Carbary Const. San Fran cisco.'' 12.900 Dance Suggestively. Of tlie* average 15,000 couples seen on (he C'hciago dance floors nightly, 12.000 dance suggestively, according to Yarrow. "Jazz music—that word is so un clean 1 never say it in public! It's -i sex irritating curse!” the superintend ertt declared. "Jazz and the dance make a diabolical combination.” In the opinion of Mr. Yarrow, the modern dance is one of the strongest influences in America tending to pro duce national decay. Superintendent Yarrow alleged a great let down in the standards of Amerft*an girls. _Tliis he blames on lack of home restraint, breakdown of spiritual life, evil influences of the movies and the spread among the girls and boys of the false Freudian theory of the harm of sex suppression. The modern child Is too precocious on matters of sex’ Sex Overemphasized. Sex is overemphasized by the young folks. "The movies have mocked morali ty." Superintendent Yarrow declared. "They have revealed to children scenes which heretofore have only been known to married persons." The Illinois Vigilance association is engaged In combatting vice in Chica go, fighting diseases, rescue work among delinquent girls, and scientific sex education. Last year, he said, Mrs. Alice Phil lips Aldrich, superintendent of the welfare department of the association, befriended and helped 701 girls whose troubles were traceable largely to dance hall evils. Hammer Murderess Describes Jail Break <f'onlinu*d From Page One.t Carson. that -we decided to go to Guatemala. There, one night, m.v sister and I had to look ourselves In our room trt keep Carson from com ing in. The hotelkeeper threw him out bodily. Didn't Want to Move.’ "Next, we went to San Salvador. Then Carsen decided we should come here, because, he said, he had a 'little revolution scheme on.' I didn't |want to eorae. I ask'd him: •What « the sense in going to that Godfor saken country where aJi American* are watched carefully?' "But 1 could n't make him see reason. He was too crazy. He drew a gun and said he would kill me j unless 1 did as he ordered. Etta i Mae and I pleaded with him but he only told us we were under his ‘protection’ and must do as ho said.'' Then Mrs. Phillips sent a message to her husband In Los Angeles. “But I want Armour to know." she said* "that In spite of it all. I have been good anil that 1 love him andi always will." ' When Mrs. Phillips made her state 1 ment I'ndersheriff Kugcne Biscailuz and Deputy Sheriff Walter ... Hunter were present. Resigned to Kate. j Slanting rays of a setting sun touched Clara Phillips' face and brought out vividly the lines of weariness and despair that have grown deeper since yie arrival of ihe Los Angeles officers. Though she shed no tears while making her state ment. there was a note of hopeless ness in her voice. And the sullen manner, the indifference which characterized her throughout most of iier trial for the murder of Alberta Meadows was gone. Hhe seemed just wliat she is—a tired woman, resigned to her fate and willing to return home. As soon as the extradition papers arrive at Puerto Cortez, a spei iul mes senger will carry them to Tegucigalpa, when final permission will be given by President Guiterrez lo tuke --the "hammer slayer” out of the country. Etta Mae. Jackson, Clara's sister, will not be released until Mrs. Phil lips has been gotten safely away from Tegucigalpa. Mrs Jackson, however, declares she will return with Clara or “die in the attempt.” Careen’s Cute Doubtful. The fate of Careen is doubtful. Several Honduran officials have inti mated that they will hold him to In vestigate his stories that he has knowledge of a revolutionary plot against the government. It is possi ble that he may be charged with con spiracy. . Police Chief Rates told Under sheriff Biscailuz today that Clara of fered him a bribe of $5,000 to let her escape. A similar offer of $1,000 was made to a member <if the Honduran legislature, he said. A search of the trunks owned by the fugitives disclosed that Clara had a wardrobe which Included a sealskin coat, nine hats, a number of dresses and other clothes worth about $1,500. Mrs. Jackson's trunk contained about $2,000 worth of wearing apparel. 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