THE OMAHA BEE.
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HUGE ZEPPELINS
STILL MARVELS
OF AIR VEHICLES
Germany's Prides Idle . in
Hangars by Armistice Terms
. Workmen Divert Skill
To Pots and Pans.
By ELEANOR JEWETT.
(Chicago Tribune Foreicn Service.)
Friedrichshafcn, Germany Un
doubtedly whatever the fame of
Friedrichshafcn formerly rested
upon, it rests now upon the fact that
there was conceived and brought to
fulfillment a man's dream the Zep
pelin.
IlnrUr the nresent wording of the
treaty of Versailles the dirigibles without blushing or; displaying the
which now lie ready for flight in j least sign of regret. He says that
their huge hangars may not fly. Nor, kissing is foolish stuff. -mav
the workmen, skilled in the Kissing is John Henry's bete noir
fashioning of each delicate part, now
work upon their, creation. Instead
the ships lie idle and the men are
put to the making of pots and pans
and other kitchen utensils.
Coming up from -Switzerland to
Berlin, I went through Constance
pnd several villages along the
Bodensee. half buried in huge
masses of blossoms, for the apple
orchards all through that part of the
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rnnntrv were in tUll DIOOITI, alio
country wnc in tut
stopped at Friedrichshafen for a day
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. , Avir.i.. whit i.rmsnv nas
accomplished in its passenger air
craft. Work in Vast Sheds.
The first Zeppelin was built in a
huge hall which later proved too
small, as the possibilities of size in
these ships became evident to their
builders. The next two halls built
measure 180 meters long, 20 meters
wide, and 40 meters high. They are
vast, airy spaces in which one feels
completely lost.
The first hall, on the day of my
visit, was empty except for a mo
torboat lying perched on wooden
horses in a corner. In the second
hall, however, was the Nordstern
the new Zeooelin which has never
yet been flown. It is a perfectly
beautiful thing. Graceful, slim,
light, strong, marvelously propor
tionedwords fail miserably to de
scribe the absolute grace and power
of its lines. Facts may convey som-;-
thinff 1 " - !
Carries 44 Persons
The Nordstenv measures 130 me-
ters long. It carries 30 passengers,!
a crew of 13 and a captain. 1 he mo
live power is trom tnree juayDai-.ii
engines of 260 horsepower, making
550 revolutions a minute. The nor
mal speed of the boat is 130 kilo
meters an hour. It is the sister ship
of the Bodensee, the Zeppelin which
had been flown many times before
the peace treaty closed downjts ac
tiyities.. , .: ,, ' ; ' .
Both ships are equipped with wire
less telezraohv. kitchens possessing
. ffrelcss cookers, and mail boxes. An
" excellent steward is taken. The pas
senger cabins, seating 30, have un
believably comfortable chairs made
; ; of hollow wood and upholstered in
apricot plush. The walls of the
! cabin of the Nordstern are, done in
old rose. A carpet is on the floor.
One could, were the ship allowed
I to fly, play cards, write letters, tele
graph, eat, drink and be inerry, and
at the same time, for the sum of
650 marks about $3 be carried in
a little less than four hours to Ber
lin. A trip which by train takes a
good 20 hours.
English. Copy Type.
The English dirigible which
crossed the ocean was copied from
the German model, and a great many
of the construction parts have been
j put into English ships. By the way,
the passenger cabins on the Zeppe
lins are heated by hot air supplied
by the engines.. Another feature is
that they are equipped to carry
heavy luggage and. above the pas
senger cabin,- a little to the back, is
arranged a second room where the
engineers can sit and smoke during
their hours off duty. The ships are
made of aluminum and wood.'
, ' , Going from the hangars to the
factory it seemed to me a bit too
bad thait the men who had:- made
, these ships and could make others
i are doomed to turn out piles upon
piles of kitchen stuff. watched
them for a while in Je different
stages of perfecting a'. cheap but
strong and light aluminum kettle
or a pot or a pan. The men as well
as their employers seemed to feel
keenly the almost one might call it
degradation of their new job. .
BLAME PARENTS
FOR INCREASES
IN DELINQUENCY
Too Much Jazz and Too Little
Attention to Children Over
working Judge, Police,
Chief Tells Mothers.
Oakland Cal. The startling in
crease in the " number of cases of
juvenile delinquency is due tOthe
failure of parents to keep step with
their children.
This declaration was made by
i Police Chief Vollmer, in addressing
a mothers ciut meeting nere.
The age which has put jazz in mu
sic, business and domestic pursuits
and made the nervous system a lia
bility instead of an asset, the chief
asserted, must send the parent to
school lest the child outdistance his
elders to tht hall of fame or the
oenitentiary. . '
"The complexities of childhood
are too much for the average, father
or mother, who does not dejve down
into the cause of things," said the
chief. "Moreover, the average per
son is not equipped with scientific
knowledge to diagnose situations
that may arise. It takes an expert
trained in such matters, and for
that reason a public bureau where
parents may bring their children smd
their problems would not only help
the individual but the community at
.large.", ." " , .'- ' - "
.Such a bureau, the chief said,
might either be connected with the
school pi police 'department-';
Has Never Been Kissed
College Youth Declares;
Is He Marvel or Liar?
New York University Student Looks Upon Osculatory
Exhibitions As Waste of Energy; Says Girls Ex-
, pect It; Offers No Substitute in His Kissless
Platform; Brother Says He's Fibbing.
New York, N. Y. Behold! We
have with us today John Henry Es-
quirol, 20-year-old New York uni
versity graduate of a few days, who
either is one of the happiest liars
we yet have known or a new dis
covery among mankind.
John Henry vows and declares
hes never been kissed seriously by
the girls. He admits it, mind you,
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nis cncvai noir, pouueauy scn.
ll'g.
Like the Sweet Girl Graduate, he
is ."standing with reluctant feet" as
regards osculation, And with the
courage of a newborn alumnus and
of 20 years, he promulgates doc
trines which do credit to such a nice
looking young man.
"Really, ''you know," essayed J. H.
from the depths of his Psi Upsijon
house lounge, "a man doesn't enjoy
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! what s thrust at him. The obvious
1 ir aiff firm a) lilt Or
appealing,
Had Chances, However.
"I will say that I have had plenty
of what you might call good oppor
tunities for kissing girls. Any man
has." he modified his statement.
John Henry nestled down deeper
into the cushiony window seat.
Faint catcalls floated down from the
second floor. His fair young soul
shone out as spotless afc a bolt of
white organdy (with 20 per cent
off).
"Really, I enjoy this I think it
is a great joke. I was asked for
my views at a banquet the other
night and someone published them.
"1 was asked what setter ways
I would suggest ior displaying ai-
fection. if kissinz were to be taboq.
I hadn't given that matter much
thought.
"For a man who likes to take lib
erties with arirls I think the field is
a large one today." This was in his
Desi manner. f t
"Girls Expect It."
I hava found that girls expect to
ne Kissen. inoi oniy. as a iukcu m
love, but as a practice . to be fol
lowed in the usual course of evetots
But I think that sort of thing is
futile.
"Of course, if a fine friendship de
velops between a man and girl, it
comes about that-he will kiss her, of
course. Then engagement follows
and marriage-later.
"But aman doesn't marry the girl
who is free with her caresses for
every man she meets. She is just
considered" a 'girl for a good time,'
nothing more. She will be passed by
eventually. . '
I don t believe in being engaged
during college days. It takes a
man's mind off his studies to be
thinking about a girl all the time.
Young Kaiser Wished to Be
The "Savior of the World"
Secret Memoirs of Bismarck Reveal Humorous Side
lights on the Mountainous Egotism of Monarch
In Early Days Wanted 'to Be Gorged on Flattery
Jubilant at Getting Invitation From Czar.
' By S. D. WEYER.
Cable Mw of Universal Service.
Much of what Bismarck, founder
of the German empire, thought of its
wrecker, Wilhelm II, is told for the
first time in an interesting series of
revelations published by the well-
known German periodical, Dio
Deutsche Rundschau, in the form of
memoirs by the late Hermann von
foschmger.
Incidentally, the disclosures con
tain the firjt "inside" story of the
real immediate cause of the break
between the ex-kaiser and the "iron
chancellor," as told by the latter
himself in a conversation with Col
onel von Gersdorff. : r1-
A "Golden Proclamation.''
Bismarck is quoted as saying that
shortly before his retirement there
was a ministerial council presided
ever by the kaisert at which' the
chief subject of discussion was a
proclamation which the emperor
was about to 'issue to his people. As
originally drafted, this proclamation
drew a Utopian picture ot the t inure
of Germany, the kaiser promising
every one of' his subjects a happy
and contented life. The purpose of
the proclamation was, as seen by
Hinzpeter, one of Wilhelm's most
trusted advisers, to make the kaiser
appear Nas a "workers' monarch" in
the eyes of his people.
To this Bismartfk, according to his
own narrative, objected. The great
chancellor, long sirtce" known to his
tory as an arch foe of true democ
racy, made no efforts at the minis
terial confab to conceal his inher
ent disgust for everything that might
be interpreted as truckling to what
ha was wont contemptuously to call
the "rabble." .
Led to Dismissal.
In his talk with Colonel von Gers
dorff Bismarck claimed that his op
position to this proclamation direct
ly ied to his dismissal. He said he
told the kaiser and the cabinet that
one of the guiding principles of po
litical wisdom should always be
never to make promises which could
not be kept. He argued it was im
possible to give the German masses
what the kaiser proposed to prom-
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it- V i r s'.mP,V!,on lna,jthat he was aspiring to regain the
t JZ a T ? hUmar ancellorship. He answered. "Th;
Ct?Kr-1-.d,ss1t,sf.a,ct,ou Precl"dd Siser-and I are contrary natures. At
content,
To this, according to Bismarck.
the kaiser replied he did not wish
"to wade in blood up to his knees"
and be called the "Prince of the
Knout," like his grandfather."
The chancellor countered this by
saying the use of force was, in given
circumstances, a "beneficial social
medicine." 1
, , . "Great World Savior. ;
"The kaier," so Bismarck
1
"What sort of girl do I want to
marry?"
"Well, straightforward, honest.
That is the -most important thing,
don't you think suf And I don't
care a bit whether or not she is good
looking.
"I don't know if I would want a
wife who had a career to follow.
I think I'd rather like her in the
home, but still her ambitions might
not interfere with our happiness."
A fraternity brother passed the
door, eyes gleaming derisively.
John H. refused to be ruffled and
calmly talked of old, old problems.
J. Henry Esquirol announces that
he expects to spend the next three
years studying law in- the New
York university law school.
"Not that I want to become a law
yer though I might be a corpora
tion counsel but I wanj to use
what legal knowledge I (rain in
business."
John looked so young and hope
ful we hadn't the heart to suggest
that a man with such caution in re
gard to the fair sex might be de
pended upon to get along without
knowledge of law.
Companions Kid Him. ,
Esquirol's "lossless" platform has
made him the subject of much "kid
ding' by his fraternity brotners and
classmates. But he refuses, to be
shaken, from his stand. He wouldn't
admit to any affairs of the heart,
though his voluminous correspond
ence, so they say, can testify that
girls are not repelled by h's views.
This would tend to belie his own
words that girls expect caresses.
But John Henry's brother Joe.
now deep in law school," called on
the writer later in the day and ex
pressed a shocking lack of faith in
his brother's stand 'against kissing.
He s a liar, said Joe pleasantly.
Don't you believe everything he
tells you. Gee my mother was
scared when some reporter called up
this morning. ' She feared it would
be something awful." .
Not a mollycoddle or unattractive
student grind, but a good looking,
light haired young man, John Es
quirol has been manager of the
track team, center on the football
team and outfielder in base ball. He
is also a singer and actor of(ab"lity.
Good Man Has Hard Time.
A good man has a hard time these
days, what with girls being so' will
ing to be 'kissed, and then bobbing
up later to say "you don't love me
any more" or starting breach of
promise suits. '
But are you sure you have never
been kissed?" he was asked.
"Well, maybe in games but not
otherwise," he replied.,
Ihis is to testity that it John h.s-
quirol was unkissed at the beginning
of the interview he undoubtedly was
so at its end.
quoted as saying, "cannot await the
moment when he will appear as the
great world savior. His utterances
to the workers, which really led to
our parting of the ways, belong to
this chapter of a diagnosis of his
character. The kaiser promised him
self golden mountains as a result
of these proclamations. I said to
him, after I had deleted the worst
passages '"the best thing your ma
jesty can do is to tear up those
papers and throw them into the
fire.'
. Talking to Bismarck about the
kaiser, Colonel von Gersdorff de
scribed as a psychological puzzle the
fact that the kaiser "who as prince
kept himself absolutely unapproach
able to flatterers, now allows only
servile natures in his entourage." To
this Bismarck replied:
"That is the way of the Olym
pian, Governing gentlemen often
make the mistake of considering
themselves specially inspired; I be
lieve. it was Sigistnund who said to
himself, "You in your holy majesty
will stand above the grammars.' "
Speaking of the kaiser's mentals
qualities, Bismarck, said Wilhelm
possessed the gift of quick compre
hension, but had little judgment,
and was essentially the exponent of
other people's ideas, which he elabo
rated upon. ' .
"Hunger-ior Praise."
One of the kaiser's principal char
acteristics, according to Bismarck,
was his hunger for praise. The chan
cellor told Gersdorff of an experi
ne strikingly illuminating this. The
kaiser after painstaking trouble had.
managed to get himself invited by
the czar to -a second Russian trip.
Triumphantly showing the invita
tion to the chancellor, Wilhelm ex
claimed impatiently: "Well, why
don't you praise me"
"Ygur majesty," replied Bismarck,
"I can praise only that which is
praiseworthy."
- At this the kaiser departed in rage.
The chancellor added to Gersdorff
that the second Russian visit pro
voked only disapproval.
Some time after his retirement
Bismarck was asked about rumori
the first political discission the con
flicts that separate us would be
bound to clash. And to draw the
kaiser into' my way of thinking by
means, of suggestion is to me too;
elaborate and inconvenient a process.":-
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The latest design in motor buses
is the -pay-as-you-entcr kind. paN
terned after the newer type of'streel
cars, and capable of hanlinir 100
passengers,
) The Eavesdropper .
The wind howled down the block
of street that" was dark except in
splotches. Lights were clustered in
flower formations and strung like
beads in front of the movie that
announced "Comedy Laughter and
Fun Not a War Film." The elec
trics had been permitted to remain,
current on, m a window where furs,
staggering in price, might tantalize
eveniivg pedestrians. The candy store
was open, too, with is wares sky
rocketed by the sugar shortage. And
m the second story of the black
building near the corner, yellow
panes indicated activity within; the
Louie Haney pqst of the American
Legion was just coming to order.
Av follower of Leon Jastoff was
interested in the session of the new
post. He had taken up a position
behind the half opened door in an
anteroom where he might see and
hear all that transpired without be
ing seen. He was in an exultant
frame of mind. Did not the head
lines of the few remaining unsold
newspapers down on- the corner
news siaiiu leu oi srriKes over me
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country?? Was it not a bleak night,
with bleak nights and davs to fol
low? Was not the white heat of
patriotism that hid gone with war
times turning to ashes? Was it not
a harassed people with nothing to
lose who overthrew governments?
Ine follower of Jastoff, .hidden
away in the antcrot.n, smiled as he
watched, the Louie Haney post be
ing called to order. What he saw
and heard pleased him. He had been
curious and a bit doubtful about
such organizations forming all over
the country. Now his curiositv was
being satisfied and-his doubts were
being swept away.
Don t you tell me not to throw
my cigaret butts on the floor." It
was O'Leary complaining. He sat
over in the corner a mere kid. Nine
teen, maybe, short, slim, smooth
shaven, though it had been three
days since there had been a razor
blade on his chin. "Don't try to
boss me around that way. I was
through with that stuff when I got
my discharge."
The blonde Johnson, who had
just called O'Leary to task, leaned
over, crouched in prize-fighter atti
tude. The two glared at each other
for a moment and th;n smiled. It
was a part of the boylike banter
that was going on all about the
room. There was a leam in the
eyes of the man who peered through
the crack made by the half-opened
door in the anteroom. Gleefully he
would report to Jastoff the attitude
toward army discipline now escaped
that and the boylike banter.
Occasionally a French phrase was
used. Here and there a flannel shirt
or a navy peajacket or a khaki over
coat lingered. But there were no
reminiscences. It was no G. A. R.
where long-bearded men talked
emotionally of charges ,and raids
and campfires, uttered deep-throated
eulogies of their old Jeaders, sung
ballads of the period through which
they had parsed. The kids in the
room were discussing the selling of
tickets for a dance and the possi
bility of securing a certain- jazz
orchestra for the event.
It was the opinion of the follower
of Jastoff that the G. A. R. tunch
would turn over in their graves if
they could see what had followed
them. In spite of his safe seclu
sion, his glance was furtive as he
studied the presiding officer a
clean-cut youth with rapid-fire slang
and merciless shafts of sarcasm.
The chairman was twisting his face
and yelling at a new arrival at the
door: - I
J'Red Cross funds 1 Have you got
any of 'em, Shilkoski?' Well, bring
'em over here. Why in 'hell didn't
ya report with j'em before?"
Shilkoski, his 'throat muffled in the
collar of a 1920 overcoat, came over
to the desk.
"We're voting on a new meeting
night," remarked the chairman in
the midst of checking up the money
turned in. "Do you go to see your
girl oft Wednesday night, too?"
"Any night that suits the rest of
'em suits me," grinned Shilkoski,
turning .about and starting toward
a seat with the others along the wall.
"Stick with the gang and you won't
get hurt." t
As Shilkoski reached the row of
seats the bunch shoved this way
and that, to thwart his finding a lo
cation, "As you were! Quiet over there!"
rapped the chairman..
"You birds have got to observe
the rules of order better than you
have. When I give anybody the
floor, he's got it until he gets
through talking. You can't all
make motions at once, like you did
last meeting. A motion's got to be
made and seconded." He trailed
off into a monotone as he read from,
a recently secured small volume.
The efollowe,r of Jastoff behind
the door shifted to a more com
fortable position, and a derisive
smirk came to his lips. Such a
joke a gathering of flippant, slangy
yOUtnS Wlin noming on meir minus
but a forthcoming dance to which
they were planning to take "their
girls." Jastoff all along had insist
ed there was really nothing to fear
from the organizations. .Were not
its members up against one of the
stiffest economic problems the world
had ever known high rents, high
priced food and clothes a problem
Lowly Sunflower Is
Exalted to Ranks
Of Real Aristocrats
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Strathmore, Aha., Canada The
sunflower once was a weed; now it
is a crop. It was once worthless;
now it is money in the bank. It was
once cut down and left to rot; now
it is carefully cultivated. It was a
;.lcbian; it has become an aristocrat.
Ihe ugly duckling, as it were, has
turned out a swan.
Twenty-eight head of 11-months
old. cattle have just been sold' from
the supply farm of the Canadian Pa
cific railway near Strathmore. Their
average weight was 721 pounds.
They brought an average of $109.90
each, making the price of this baby
beef $15.23 a hundredweight.
They had been fattened on sun
flower silage. The success of thu
experiment has renewed the inter
est of farmers in sunflowers -s a
fodder and silo crop." The form.i
worthless weed will nod its great
blooms, above hundreds of acres in
Alberta this summer. It bids fair
to become ,one "nf the important
crops of the province, - "
all the more acute for them because
of the months they had given to the
army? He would report to Jastoff
that his snap judgment had been
justified.
And Jastoff, with his knowledge
of civilization throughout the ages,
had alsol insisted that the flaws in
the manner in which the war risk
insurance was being handled' but
played into the hands of those who
believed in no government at all.
And were not these boys disgusted
with the mistakes made in their al
lotments, and their v insurance re
ceipts, and their letters to the de
partment that remained unanswered?
And Jastoff had pointed out the pro
portion of the menwho had been
drafted into the army taken wheth
er they wished to go or not. And
he had often called attention to the
doubted very much that these na
numerous nationalities. Jastoff had
tionalities had fused.
There was no excitement to the
meeting, no thrill, no tenseness, no Victor Kopp, to be truly bolshevik,
n . ' fi i-j.. : .iu.lt ..v.'. u j r
naming oratory, iiicsc laus juauiug
,;th
one another, borrowing each
i other's cigarets, bantering back and
forth with flings of wit and satire
these lads may have been at Chateau
Thierry, in the Argonne wood, at
Chipilly Ridge, but evidence of the
experience was not apparent in the
saucily arranged necktie of the clerk
in the real estate office, the belted
overcoat pf the insurance solicitor,
the rough weather uniform of the
taxidriver, the fancy vest of ths
writer of syncopated songs.
The chairman was speaking. He
was a nervously thin youngster, a
broad smile ever playing on his lips:
"I know some of you fellahs had
a date for tonight, but there's two
or three more matters we gotta take
up. About the Danny Mclntyre fu
neral" the smile twisted, but there
was no altering of the voice 'did
you birds that were appointed go
down there?" - He looked beyond
the desk light with a frown.
A lad by the window came to his
feet. He still wore his cap, a checked
affair that appeared to be several
sizes too large. "We wer all down
thefe." i
Here they were, in the half lit,
half heated hall, by themselves.
Here they were, isolated from plan
ning profiteers, clashing classes, a
wrangling world.
The man behind the half opened
anteroom door decided that "he
would report to Jastoff that it might
have been a meeting of any sort, the
matter most under discussion being
a dance to be held, for which tickets
were to be sold a benefit that
would help provide suitable quar
ters. He would tell Jastoff that ho
was right, the country was in a
lethargy a mere shell,, easy to
wreck. Five million gray-bearded
and serious men, bound together,
might furnish an obstacle against
the pulling down of what had been
built, but ifhis was a representative)
organization of what had replaced
the G. A. R. humph! j
It was growing late. A street car
clanged below. The movie had let
out. The lights' had been (extin
guished in the window that displayed
the high-priced furs. The mah be
hind the aaiteroom door yawned.
"There's one more matter, fellahs.
I've got a resolution here." Tne
chairman carefully placed his cigaret
to the far edge of the desk. "It's
going the rounds, and we'll act on
it here. 'Be it Resolved, That all
aliens who sought exemption from
the draft by taking out first citizen
ship papers and who are now caught
agitating against the government be
immediately deported.' What is you
pleasure, gentlemen?"
"I move you, sir, that the resolu
tion be adopted," snapped-the ship
ping clerk who a moment before
had been teasingly practicing a ham-
meriocK noid . on the. coal wagon
driver next to him.
second the motion, Dlurted a
shoe clerk, who remembered very
vividly a certain night that he had
spent in a shell hole.
"All in favor say 'Aye,' " came
from the chairman like the crack ot
a whip.
"Aye!" . "" !
And the man behind the anteroom
door quaked from the concussion of
the "aye's" roar. Out of the tail ot
his eye he peered to where 30 jaws
were suddenly set firm, to where 30
pairs of eyes flashed danger.. Ihe
dimly lit hall seemed suddenly il
luminated, and one seemed to feel
the presence of the spirits of all the
men who had struggled for the coun
try since its beginning. At first
faint, and then coming nearer, untl
there was a great burst of sound, a
thousand bands could be heard play
ing the country's marching songs in
medley. , .
"Damn itl" the chairman was
saying, the lips on which a smile
swept so easily thin set, "if I had my
way, I'd make that resolution 10
times stronger than it is. I'd like
to get my hands on one of those
and turn him into the
middle of this bunch right now!"
The man behind the anteroom
door peered no more, not even from
the tail of his eye. He could see
the flash of those 30 pairs of eyes
without looking the set of those 30
jaws. He stole .down the dark stairs,
glancing shiveringly ever and anon
back over his crouched shoulder,
and scurried to to report to Jastoff.
Judge Makes Bigamist
Support Two Families;
Labors Overtime Now
New York,1 N. Y. A new ture
for bigamists is discovered by a
New York judge. , '
Instead of sending 'em to the
penitentiary, let 'em keep both fam
ilies; if more, support them, too.
Daniel Domb is a painter. With
his brush he earns a good salary.
He was married firtjt in Poland
and has a. child 4y' this marriage.
He left the wife and came to Amer
ica, was married in "1918 to a New
York girl, from which union two
children are born. .
The Polish spouse came over to
find hubby. She found the new
wife and the two new babies.
Court and a bigamy charge found
Domb.
, "If you go to jail both of your
wives and all of your children will
suffer." said the judge. "You will
contribute $15 a week to the sup
port of the second woman and her
children, and will support your first
and legal wife." '
It is said Dmnh'now. is setting
speed lecords with, the brush.
Bolshevik Leaders Not .
1 Bewhiskered or Unkempt
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Correspondent Visits Soviet Embassy Offices in
Berlin Has Difficulty Recognizing Followers
Of Lenine and Trotzky Regime, C-
By FRANK E. MASON.
International Kenm Serrle Staff
Corrmpoadrnt.
Berlin, Germany Can you spot a
bolshevik when you see one? Do you
know the earmarks of the disciples
ot proletariat dictatorship? Soft col
lar, unkempt beard, uncombed hair,
slouch hat, soiled linen t
Let's beard the Russian bolshevik's
at their official Berlin headquarters.
lrown the Linden, two doors beyond
the old Russian embassy sealed up
like a mausoleum since 1914. at No.
11 Unter den Linden, is the office of
Victor Kopp. or rather- Comrade
Lertine's ambassador to Germany.
Not Unlike a Barn,
Climbing the uncafpeted stairs to
the second floor, we enter the wait
ing room of the Berlin branch of
Lenine Xrostky and company. It is
impressive in its bolshevik simplic
ity; the most proletarian who had
been bred in a barn would feel quite
at home in this barren .space. Five
chairs, two tables and a bookless
bookcase straKele about the im
mense room. Pictureless, carpet
less, it reminds one of a deserted
ward politicial headquarters the day
tollowinz elections,
A boy wearing an American uni
form comes uo to us
"Hello, what are you doing here?"
He looks blank. We try (jerman.
"Are you an American?"
"Nem.";
"Where did you get that uni
form?" "
"Bought it at the postoffice for
65 marks." '
We mak a! notation; our first
bolshevik has neither slouch hat. soft
collar nor unkempt beard. He is
dressed as an American soldier with
"E Pluribus Unum" and the Ameri
can eagle on his buttuns. As we
give him our cards and ask to see
Herr Kopp we wonder why the
salvage officer at Coblenz didn't at
least remove the buttons when he
sold old uniforms to the Germans.
Still No Soft Collars.
We were told to wait. Several
Russians enter the room. They have
neither soft collars nor unkempt
beards. They are smooth shaven and
their old military coats are buttoned
tight at the throat. They converge
in low tones in Russian. One takes
a scrap of paper from his pocket
and begins to write. We hazard a
guess that he is a bolshevik agent
writing a report. They are called
one at a time and disappear through
the door that leads to Mr. Kopp's
office. .
A German business man enters,
well dressed and prosperous. He ad
justs a monocle and reads a thick
document. We surmise he has under
negotiation with Moscow a big
business deal.
Has Beard Trimmed.
We are ushered into the office of
Mr. Reich, assistant to Kopp. The
well furnished, comfortable room is
in sharp contrast to the waiting
World on Diamond Ration
, From Shortage of Output
Exhaustion of Supply From South African Mines
Ne?r Nations Greedy to Buy Diamonds Work
,ing People of United States Form Bulk of Buyers
Prices are Soaring. . -
Are the South African diamond
mints, richest in the history of the
world, which for years have fur
nished 98 per cent of all the world's
diamonds and once deemed inex
haustible, approaching a point
where exhaustion will be in sight.
Rumors that they are have be
come widespread in the United
States. Some diamond men view
them as too alarmist) Others be
lieve them true. That the situation
in South Africa is grave and that
it (has been carefully concealed from
the public are indicated by the fact
that the government recently has as
sumed contfol of the output and has
pla'ced" the world on diamond- ra
tions. . .
"Have.' diamonds reached their
level?" was asked of one of i Chi
cago's biggest diamond dealers. ,
Prices Still Mounting. .
"No," he answered emphatically.
"Prices have doubled since the out
break of the war and are three
times higher han l(r yearsago,; but
they arestill mounting and no one
dares to predict where they will stop.
The cheapest jbywaters or yellow
diamonds sell ,now for $300 a carat.
Diamonds of good " quality bring
to $1,000 a carat,"
"Why?" , " ,
"The shortage in the output in
South Africa is the basic reason.
But at the period of greatest short
age, the demand for diamonds was
never so great. The whole world
is diamond mad. Every nation, even
thou supposed to have been bank
rupted by the , war, are greedy to
buy diamonds. The Uni. d Stat i is
taking at least a third of the South
African output and the working
people in this country form the bulk
of the diamond buyers."
"Is it true that the South African
mines are approaching exhaustion?"
. Exhaustion of Output Near
"Yes, there is no doubt about, it.
How near exhaustion is the only
question. The mines which once
yielded ten carats to a ton of dirt
now yield one carat.
The -shafts already have r ched
a depth of 2,000 'and 3.000 feet and
the deeper they go the fewer are
found and the more expensive dia
mond mining hgcome.-.
The South African ciamonU im-
neys re like inverted cones, ihe
mine owners can tell ffom the tng'e
at which they slope 16 the vanishing
how long it, will be betore they are
worked out Just 1 iw long it will
be depends on the energy with which
they are worked. Exhaustion m ly
not come for several years yet or it
may be nearer than the world real
izes." :
"What effect would the closing
down of the South African mines
have?"
"It would be a calamity to the
world's markets. The ancient mines
room. Mr. Reich has Russian
whiskers; he is a real bolshevik.
But they are well trimmed and show
all the marks" of the daily caressing
of a good barber. The sort, of
whiskers which adorn the "None
genuine without signature" ad for
cough drops, or was it corn cure?
Mr. Reich is stylishly dressed in a
cutaway coat. He passes us on to
the bolshevic ambassador, Mr. Kopp.
a smooth-shaven, virile man of about
40, just a trifle bald. In his smart
up-to-date clothes, well dressed but
not overdressed, he has the appear
ance of a Berlin bank director. He
looks like the type of American fac
tory owner who has an apoplectic
stroke every time bolsheviks are
mentioned.
There is little to appeal to the im
agination seeking bolshevik atmos
phere at the Berlin soviet ambassy.
Let's call on Carl Radck. former
chief of the propaganda section at
Moscow and a member of the highest
soviet council. Perhaps it is because
he is chief propagandist that Radek
believes he should dress like a mov
ing picture bolshevik. Perhaps he has
just grown careless because he has
spent so much of his time in prisons
where there was no soap and but lit
tle water.
Carl Radek would satisfy the
tastes of the most exacting bolshe
vik hunter. You could pick him out
without hesitation even were he seat
ed in a room filled with stage anar
chists. -
Radek's fuzzy brown -fringe of a
beard and unkempt hair frame
delicate, almose womanly face. Peer
ing blue eyes greet you, from horn
spectacles. He wears ail olive flan
nel shirt buttoned high at the neck
where the soiled fur lining appears.
Soft, shiny, black leather breeches
and black leather puttees are very
useful to wear at all times when
one never knows but what he will
be clapped into a cold damp prison
without warning, Radek assures us.
Even Jailor Has Heart.
Radek prbduces three copies of
the Bible from the pockets of the
leather breeches. "Polish, German
and English," he says. "No jailer
s so hard-hearted that he would
take a Bible away fom a bolshevik
When theyVwon't give me' anything
else to read I At out my three Bi
bles and study the English language
by comparing the texts, he explains.
Here are two members ot Kus-
sia's supreme soviet sent out to deal
with the world. Manicured, well
groomed Herr Kopp is entrusted
with , arranging credits and closing
business transactions with the world
capitalists; unkempt Radek goes in
to the slump and agitates the dregs
of society against the same capital
ists. We suspect that between these
extremes to deal with people like
us. Lenine has sent out ordinary,
plainly dressed individuals who look
like us.
We can't tell a bolshevik by look
ing at him.
of India are dead. Brazil's output,
except in carbdnada, is infinitesimal.
Only the South African mines are
left. When they go, there are no
more in sight.
"How would it affect diamond
prices?" .' ' '
Soon Beyond Resell. i
"With an abnormal market de
mand, it would leave prices at the
highest levels in history. The rec
ord prices of today would seem
cheap by comparison. With its sup
ply shut off at the source, the world
would trade only in the dianonds
it has in stock. Dealers wuld be
forced to buy from private owne'rs
to supply their trade. Diamond?
would soon be beyond the reach of
any but the richest people."
There are,- itis estimated,, about
46,355)? 74 carats of cut and polished
diamonds in existence today. This
is 104 ton avoirdupois. vThey"ould
be stored itf an ordinary clothes'
closet or kitchen pantryj'and would
form a pile eight teet in diameter at
the base and five feet high, about the
size of a load of coal dumped on
the sidewalk:, ' -
The South African diamond mines
were discovered in 1867. They have
yielded up to date something like
175.000,000 carats m rough diamonds
This is more than three times the
combined output of all the other
diamond fields in the world's his
tory. , '..,
Simple Heifers Make
Meal From Dynamite;
One's In Milky Way
Jutland, N. J. Until a few days
ago Benjamin Hardesty, farmer,
had among the stock on his
farm two Jersey - heifers. He
has filed a claim with 1 the - Skate
Highway commissian for $125 for
one of the heifers and is keeping
his ears peeled for a loud rf oort
which would enable him to put ir.
another .claim for a like amount.
He complained to the commission
somebody in the highway d-tpar"-ment
left a box in the cow pasture.
Those two simple-souled heifers
casually ate the contents. ' Shortly
thereafter one of them chanced to
bump into a fenct. and instantane
ously, 'if not sooner, became an in
tegral,, part of the Milky way. At
lor tne otner, Mr. Hardesty told the
commission he woi-ld withheld dam
age claims until he is sure the cas
ualties are endtd. This 'second
heifer, he said, has been --wrapped
up like a mummy as a prcauianarv
measure, but if she happens to fall
what with six sticks of dvnomi e
cached inside her; she mny join her
iute companion in the skyward
Wt.Vt - ,
PEACE IS SOLE
AIM OF SOVIET,
SAYS OFFICIAL1
Tells Writer That Imperial
istic Stories Are Infamous 4
Lies; Asks Square
Deal.
By ALBERT LONDRES.
Sprclal to I'nivenuU Service.
Paris, France "All that we wish
is peace with all the world.
"We do not desire to be the enemy
of any nation, nor any individual.
"Stories of the 'imperialism' of the
soviet government are infamous
lies." , ,
The phrases fell from the lips of
Tchitcherin, soviet foreign minister,
and considered the ablest man in
Russia, as I sat before him in his
sparsely furnished office in Moscow
atJ o clock in the morning one
night In April.
Three o'clock in the morning?
Yes. The Soviets work1 hard. They
know no eight-hour law. The lead
ers work hardest of all. Whatever
their aims may be, whatever their 1
desires, there is no gainsaying 'the
fact that they are striving extrarfrdi
narily hard to achieve them. The
day of Tchitcherin was full; not a
minute was to be spared: so he gave
me my interview in the middle of
the night.
Only War of Defense.
When Tchitcherin said "We desire
peace," I pointed out that at that
very moment the Soviets were en
gaged in "war with Poland, war in
the south.
"No, we are not making war," was
his quick retort. "They are making
war on us. . Attacked, we must nat
urally defend ourselves. But we
shall never declare war of our own
volition. We shall never seek to
force down' the throats of peoples
who do not want them the doctrines
which are today making Russia the
happiest nation on earth.
x "What do we seek? Monsieur, we
seek the happines of Russia. We
seek, not the millennium, but its
working compromise. And we be
lieve we have found it.
"Rome was not built in a day.
Neither can the deeply installed
class prejudice of centuries-old Rus
sia be dissipated in a few months.
It is the reform of a nation of ,
300,000,000 persons, which we are
attempting, and such a reform can
not be consummated in one year, or
two. It will take a decade. Of that
we are aware, and so is Russia. It
is the outside world which appears,
to expect of us impossibilities.
Ask for Square Deal.
"But we desire the friendship of
the rest of the world, and we are
ready to prove it. More, we need
that friendship, for Russia cannot
exist without the recognized chan
nels of trade being open to her.
Russia cannot exist without the
Dardanelles being free to Jier ships.
"We are asking of the world
simply a square deal. We are hon
estly striving to form a government,
which in our ideal is the ideal gov
ernment. Naturally, the capitalists
of the world do not wish us to suc
ceed, for they know that success in
Russia would mean the disappear
ance of their dictatorship every
where else. There yoo, have the
reason for the campaign of calumny
which is everywhere directed against
the soviet government.
"But daylight is appearing. It
will not be long now until Russia
will be trading peacefully with all
nations, and the truth will at last be t
known."
FRENCH PAPERS IN
SYRIA DENOUNCE
VVILSONVLETTER
Caustically Dub PresFdent
"Incurable" Arab Press
Praises American Slap
At Imperialsim.
By LARRY RUE.
Chicago Tribune Foreign Nwi Serrlea,
Beruit President Wilson's let.er
to Senator : Hitchcocfr recently
hinting that allied nations afe not
entirely free of imperialistic aims
has been accepted in both France and
Arab circles, as referring to 'the
French occupation -df - Syria and
Cilicia. It is hailed by the Arabs as
a denunciation of the French policy,
while French papers here score the
president bitterly.
The original text of the letter was
published in Arab papers in the
Arab zone most of the Arab papers
in the French zone have been sup
pressedunder thcheading: "Wilson
Tells France to Get Out of Syria."
The La Syrie, a ' new French
paper in Beirut, whise motto is:
"France for' the Syrians and the
Syrians for France," interprets the
letter as conclusive proof that the
"mental condition of President Wil
son is incurable," and devotes two
columns on the frontpage to a har
angue against Wilson and his policy.
The president is causticallv. ar
raigned as having induced Franc
to accept the minfmum concessions
from Germany on the undrrstanHinor
that the United States would come
to the aid of France if the latter
needed it, and n6w it develops, the
editor charges "that Wilson came
to Paris not as a representative of
100,000.000 oeoDle. hut ill thf nam .'
of a man called Jack or Charley.
"It was siniDlv with a ritin nt
the United States that Llovd George,
CIcmenceau and Sig. Nitti have de
cided the fate of the universe," the
article asserts. '
The article concludes: ''
Lure your own malady, Mr
President and take a good time J
Travel. It is a recreation that is good
for the old and senile. But stay
away from Paris. Instead of the
Avenue Wilson you will find the
Boulevard of Decention unA . .u-
; tomb of 1 afeyette you are capable
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