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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 2S,
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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-
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. 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.
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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
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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
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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.
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