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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1919)
1 4. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 2S, 5 C WILD CHASE TO HONG KONG ENDS WITHlORGES Father Sends Son's Closet , Friend In Pursuit When He Elopes With Attractive ' Matron. ' New York, Nov. 22. Jordan Lawrence Mott III proved a shining Example of what not infrequently , happens in the case of a young man with too much money to spend ani tiot enough work to engage his at- . . tr. j w r iciiiiun. ' nt marnca juiss waronn . W. Tatkin of South Braintree. Slasf., by whom he had a son. . But'when he became acquainted with Mrs! Browne, wife of Walter Browne, a prominent and wealthy resident of the fashionable sec tion of. Flushing, Long Island, and began to receive from her let ters starting "My darling boy," and alluding to him in their text "My Honey Boy" theliome ties strained i aim snapped. , He and Mrs. Bowne deserted their homes in May, 1912 and fled , for Gibraltar on the British freighter Indradene, he booked as a purser and she as a stewardess. r Hot Trail to Hong Kong. Mott's father was furious. He gave a $10,000 letter credit to Hec tor Fuller, his son's closest friend with intructions to pursue him to mc uttermost parts ot tne eartn and fetch him home if possible. So while the eloping couple were crawling toward (jibraltar- on the lumbering freighter, Fuller boarded the swift Mauretania in pursuit. He was flelayed in Paris and reached Gibraaltar after Mott , and his companion had left. Then followed the chase clear to Hong Kong, with Fuller always behind the fleeing patr. At Port Said. Colombo and Singapore he barely missed overtaking them. 1171 i.. .i..... :.. u v ItllCU lie 1I1CI ItlCllI IU AAUUg Mott .flatly refused to return. Thereafter Mott and his compan ion removed to.Japan, where reports indicated he entertained lavishly and Id a gay life. , Occasionally he sent a post card to his wife, in one of which he informed her, a maga zine he had started was "going fine and the goose is hanging high." Two- Divorces Follow, In September, . 1913, Walter Bowne was reported to. have di vorced his wife in Trenton, N." J., win'lc' he was enjoying the gay life in Japan. . ' ' y ' .' ' , s .' J. L. Mott. III., was reported to have received $947,508" from, his father's estate, and large sums from other sources, but when he visited America in September, 1918, nis wife had him served with papers in - .. i: ...u:.u sVia rharcrtA' hat h ViaH Tlrtf ' nrn c - tr . vided for her son or herself. Supreme court Justice Seeger .granted the separation decree at White Plains, N. Y..' allowing Mrs. Mott $625 a month alimony. Since that time trace of Mott and his companion was lost. "Next War" a. Cataclysm .Uriless West Recognizes . ' Its Obligations to Orient England and Japan Now Literally in Each Other's . .Kitchens Chinese Wage a Factor Night and Day Shifts Keep Beds Occupied Day and Night Attendants Die in a Year. - . By BASIL MATH"EWS. pritlsh UoTcrament Official nd On of ine lirtl jniormea mwri n . the r Kait. L'ondon, Nov. 22. When Japan became an , ally in the great war, when hundreds of thousands of Chi nese laborers were brought to Eu rope to work behind the lines, and when more than 1,000,000 Indians voluntarily joined the British forces, it became clear that we could never hone to solve the problem of thje east by continuing the detached pol icy of the past. Now England and Japan are liter ally on each other's doorsteps in deed, in each other's kitchens. ' The whole trend of events shows that in the future the whole of the vorld's political and economic ac tivity will center around the Pacific instead of around the Atlantic. So that when the next great war comes (if it ever does come) it will be a gigantic world fight for exist ence, fought out on eastern soil, and in the eastern seas, but with the mightiest 'nations Of the west also engaged in the life and death strug gle. ' Depends Upon West. Whether there will be a war, whether the problem of the east will continue to develop- into an increasingly perilous problem, de pends 4 entirely upon the policy adopted by the west. The indi vidual who fancies that the west can 'cut itself adrift from the east is a Rip Van Winkle. . Even the east itself is awake to the futility of such a policy. Japan has made silch vast and rapid-'strides that the whole civ ilized world, stands aghast at her marvels of achievements. These ire the conditions which we have got to realize, and I would particularly draw attention to their economic nature. I China is possesed of sufficient coal to, last the whole world on its present consumption for one thou sand years. In. addition she has an inexhaustible reservoir of cheap la bor. . ' Chinese Labor Wage. A miner is paid approximately 35 cents per day. They live in com pounds in the, vicinity of the col lieries, and when they have paid all living expenses they have about 4 J cents per day lett. Coal sells at the pitmouth at from $1 to $1.50 per ton. . .In close proximity to the coal fields' are enormous resources of iron, which can be mined, made into pig-iron, transported to the Pacific coast, and delivered at a price that will compete . to ad vantage with the famous Bethle hem 'product. Japan- also possesses tremendous natural resources which it is'' de veloping by means of cheap labor. There are 500,000 female workers in Japan, 300,000 of whom are under 20 years of age, and many whom are mere children.' - Severity per cent of them work on an indentured system f four years. They "live in" as it were, in the factory quarters, and work in day and night shifts. Beds Never Idle The day workers rise from' their mattresses, which are immediately occupied by the night workers coin ing from the factories; so that the beds are never cold. So terrible are the conditions un der which these women work on night shifts that in one week they lose considerable weight. "None," writes aa eminent doctor, quoted in the Japan Year book, an official vol ume with a preface by Count Oku- ma, "can stand the strain more than a year, at the end of which time death, sickness or desertion is the inevitable outcome." Out of 300,000 women, only 80,000 ever get home again, and of the re maining 120,000, the majority live immoral lives, seeking to escape the drudgery of the mills. . Of tffe 80,000 who do manage to reach home, one in every six is suf fering from illness; at least a quar ter of this number are suffering from the. "white scourge" consumption. '"Drenched in Women's Blood" We wear; the .cotton goods that they produce goods that are drenched in the blood of women; goods, that have thinned the cheeks and snapped the buddinz strength of little children. It is only right to say that the Japanese government is extremely sensitive to Western opinion and is also afraid of the possible growth of socialism. New legislation is be ing introduced to modify these evils, but its operation will take time, and it must be carried further. In the meanwhile we of the west must face things as they are. The labor situation is a world unity. The east is awakening and British labor must realize that there is something bigger than the "international," and that is "interracial." World-Wide Co-Operation. There has got to 'be an acceptance of the principles of the world-wide co-operation, under which the labor of all races and of all nations shall co-operate to produce for the good ot each those things which they are best fitted to supply, i If the west endeavors to tell the cast that her economic development and expansion must not go beyond a certain point and even then only along certain lines which commend themselves to her, the the grim war tragedy still in our minds will be but a spark compared to the flame that will sear the whole world. Th boundless resources of the east, together with its endless sup ply of cheap laborr form a menace that cannot be evaded, but must be dealt with. The alternatives ' are Christian co-operation ;in friendly expansion or competitive hostility J ending- m chaos. ' ' TUESDAY NAMED AS GIFT DAY IN OMAHA SCHOOLS Annual Thanksgiving Dona tions by Public School Chil dren to Be Distributed Jo Organizations.. The annual Thanksgiving dona tions which will be made at public and parochial schools Tuesday morning, will be collected and dis tributed by a general committee representing the following organi zations: House of Hope, Old People's Home, Child Saving institute. Visit ing Nurse association of Omaha, Creche, City Mission, Father Flan agan's Home, St Vincent de Paul society, St James Orphanage, South Side Social Settlement, Salvation Army, Volunteers of America, As sociated Charities and Negro Old People's Home. J. T. Fitzgerald is chairman of the general commitee. , Children who give shoes are re quested to tie them together, as it was difficult last year to match some, of the shoes received in the dona tions. ' All donations will be hauled from the schools to a central station, where they will be apportioned to the organizations and. institutions represented by the committee. , House Shortage So Acute V',. i Keys to Homes Auctioned y Sydney, Nov. 22. So acute lias the shortage of houses become in New South Wales that the govern ment has drawn up a scheme for state housing under the direction of a minister for housing. At Forbes it is proposed to demolish the local jail and to erect on the ' site a dozen houses out of the material So numerous are the applicants fot houses that tenants, prior to leaving rented premises have conducted from their balconies auction sales for the possession of the keys of the house. The government intends erecting 5,000 houses in Sydney for sale to purchasers on easy terms. Issues Call for; Rivers and Harbors Congress toMeet in December Washington, Nov. 22. The call for the 15th convention of the Na tional Rivers and Harbors congress to be held, here Decemben 9, 10 and 11 was issued today by Senator Joseph E. Ransdell, president of the congress, and-, Secretary S. v A. Thompson. N "The theme of our 14th conven tion, in February last, was the whole broad- subject of transportation by road, rail, water and air," said Sena tor Ransdell. . "This convention is called, not to .discuss general prin ciples, but to decide upon the spe cific provisions and the exact lan guage, to be included in the legis lation needed to protect and develop water transportation and to secure co-operation between railways and waterways," he added. "We will have before us for consideration not only the work of the sub-committee of the special committee oil trans portation legislation but the rail road bills prepared by the- com mittee headed by Senator Cummins and Representative Ecsh. "An extraordinary opportunity is presented to take a long step for ward in securing the results for which we have been working for so long. The committees of congress which have charge of the legisla tion for the control of the railways are ready to include therein proper provisions for the benefit of water ways. 1 "It is up to us to decide what legislation we want and . then use every legitimate effort to secure its enactment.". Soy's Nose, Cut Off by Glass, Replaced by Doctor Windsor, Eng., Nov. 22. Wil liam Robertson, a stable boy, liter ally lost his nose for three-quarters of an hour, but he points to it in proof that it's as good as ever to day. ' " " Falling glass cut his nose off. He was taken to a hospital, where the arteries were tied. "Where is the1 nose?" the surgeon asked. , ,! The . doctor's son cycled to the stable and found the nose in a box stall in the straw. The boy hurried back and the surgeon worked so skilfully that the original Robertson nose is now in place and unmarred. The Castle, Paper of . Arnov Prisoners. Dies1 New York, Nov. 21. The Castle, the. paper of the military prisoners at Governors Island, has been dis continued by. a War Department or der. Since 1915, when Chaplain Waring became sponsor of the ini tial number1, the Castle has each week cheerod the 300 men confined there. .Sine the war the number of of prisoners has increased to 900 and the scope of the little magazine increased correspondingly. The Castle wats edited, written, "set up" and distributed by the men serving sentences. Lack of funds was given as the reason for the order suspend ing the publication. Denver Park Authorities Declare War. On Sparrows Denver, Nov. 22. The board of managers of Denver's public park system is seeking suggestions on the best method of warfare against sparrows. At a recent conference of city park superintendents it was de cided that the sparrow roust go, if the song bird life of Denver was to continue. v ' , Many suggestions were made at the conference as to how the song birds might be protected and how the sparrow might be exterminated. $mkm&rr.. -$iiffm I ears . wm uMm www iv k: rlt mil mAimM of Dependability IT takes time to build great things . and time has proved that only the really great survive. 22 year of substantial arid progressive development made the Olds Motor Works' a bulwark of strength that's why the word "Oldsmobile" on a truck or auto mobile' signifies the same depend able worth that "Federal Reserve" doe on a bank note. The Oldsmobile Economy Truck has thoroughly demonstrated its efficiency in. th light hauling field it is designed and powered to the average load and applicable to any variety of work city or country. 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