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CANADA FACING
ACUTE SHORTAGE
OF ALCOHOLICS
Although: Legally "Wet,"
Country Is in Danger of B$
coming Dry Whisky
Prices Soar.
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Br International Jrtiwa Service.
Dettoit, Mich. Although it is le
gally "wet,; Canada faces the
danger of becoming dry because of
in acute liquor shortage. More
ver, this condition of aridity, liquor
lealers and liquor consumers tear,
a likely to-txist for two years, or,
In fact, until new distillations be
come available.
So serious has the shortage be
come, according to reports reaching
Detroit, that liquor has advanced
greatly in price at government
stores and at legitimate agencies,
and even the bootleggers are charg
ing fancy prices. Symptoms of dry
ness are becoming so pronounced
ts to be alarming. -
- Hiram Walker & Sons are refus
ing . orders, their nine warehouses
having either been emptied or being
covered by orders already booked,
and most of the Montreal agents
are also refusing to accept new or
ders. Walker's had not been dis
tilling for three years, and in the
last year distilled a - comparatively
small amount. Their reserves have
been sold, and while .they are dis
tilling at full capacity' now, the Ca
nadian law will not permit the sale
of whisky before it is two years old.
This is for the cheaper grades. The
better grades are not sold until they
have been htld five years.
Price3 of whisky,--- at legitimate
sources, have risen from $1.75 a bot
tle to $2.80 a bottle in the cheaper
grades, while the bootleg prices ap
proach Petroit's. Some of the boot
leg whisky is adulterated, white cer-
, tain minor agencies in Montreal are
charging $20 a case for whisky, pur
porting be. good brands, and de
livering bottles with broken seals,
full of some unknown breed of fire
water. ,'
GERMANS HOPE
FOR LOWER PRICES
AND MORE FOOD
Bitter Toward Profiteers
. Gardener Refuses toj Help
One Who Fell Under
Horse.
By EAKT.F. C. REKVFS.
Internationnl w Servlee Staff
Correspondent.
Berlin There appears a grow
! ing hope in Germany that the peak
of pricesTiad been reached and that
a slump may occur which will mak
, the problem of living less of an un
solvable puzzle;
y Germany, from the car window,
looks like a peaceful and prosperous
land. Berlin itself presents'fewer,
signs of individual povertythan one
would expect.
x Across Germany I saw more new
construction under way thanU have
seen in England. The fields are close-'
ly cultivated, not so intensively -as in
Belgium, but still with an econ
omy ef space .which is unknown to
us in America. . Farm and village
buildings are strongly built on a .lar
ger scale than is genevAl in Europe.
i and they have a -spick andspan air
as'ihough even the pressure of war
v and the individual economic burdens
that have had to be borne since hau
not prevented owners from keeping
up their' property. .
No Traces of War. N 4
Out of an industrious and seem
ingly happy Belgium, where many
signs of German destruction are still
visible though rapidly being wiped
v out one rides into a Germany that
,to all outward appearances bears no
'touch of war.. Not all the smoke
stacks are clouded, but in a vast
number of plants there are , signs
that the struggle back to, productivity
is being waged with sonic sort oi
success. i
The fields which to inexpert ecs
seem promising arc far below normal
vield I was told, by American food
'rcpresentatis. They say that Ger
many will be underfed for at least
.five years.
Tr ; hoth the ecneral scarcity ot
food and the cost of tha,t which is-
-obtainable. partly due trspeculation
by the "Schriebcrs" pr profiteers,
and partly clue to the unfavorable
exchange rte at which foodstuffs
are imported that is responsible for
undcr-feediflfc.
Profiteer Gets No Aid
There is much bitterness against
the Schrieber or profiteer. He is
ostentatious about his well-being.
He rides, awkwardly, in the bridle
paths of the Tiergarten, brilliant
in new' riding clothes. An American
official, also addicted to riding in the
parks, tells of seeing one of the
clumsy newlv-rich horsemen thrown.
His horse fell upon him, omning one
leg tight. He spluttered and called
. fnr licln A trardener crossed the
path, pushing a lawn mower. He
. topped asd gazedupon the "Specta
cle ot taHen glory.
"Ah," he said, "his horse, lias fallen
chim."
TThrn he calmlv trundled his mow-
onward. Help .;, Schrieber pinned
wilder his horse and possibly sen
cusly injured? It never even en-
tered the gardener's head. Obvious
ly not. V
"When peace was signed and the
frontiers opened," said a woman,
. "hordes of foreigners rushed in. The
mark was cheap. Outside money
would buy things here cheaply.
These people bought and bought.
' Thev bought everything they could
at bargain prices to send out of the
country for a prfet We .had little
enough here. Fcwct things thatwe
need had been manufactured during
the war. But these foreigners bought
and sent Stuff away.- That's why
prices are so high tor the rest of us.
t An '" English" colfege -professor
claims to haveCcli covered a cold
process for vulcanizing rubber by
the use of sulnhurettcr hydrogen znd
rutohur dioxide
"Priricess" Sad Because
'Royal" HubbiesFound Out
Two GletferSwindlers' Dupe Rich Berlin Women Into
Marriage ;'0&tain Large Sams of Money.
By Iutaroatioul New Scrrtoa.
Berlin Three ambitious elderly
German, "princeses" are languishing
disconsolate in Berlin today because
their husbands have been found out
For some weeks the police have
been watching b goodMooking man,
apparently possessed Of unlimited
supplies of money, who went by the
magniloquent name, of "Privy Coun
cillor von Borinsky Bokdanoff
prince of Tartary." '
There were suspicions that he was
possibly a bolshevist agent, owing to
his enormous expenditure.
The police arrested the "prince'' at
a Berlin terminus as heAvas starting
on a long" journey. f
To the .general surprise it then
came out that this prince of Tartary
was really none other than a very
clever swindled Johann Katzek, a
stone mason, aged 45, for whom a
search had long been in progress.
Steals Title Deeds.
Katzck stole some title deeds,
forged a passport and successfully
appeared tn Berlin society as the
prince of Tartary.
He enticed an elderly and wealthy
widow into marriage. Immensely
flattered at her new rank, the de
luded woman gave to Katzck large
sums of.money.
Katzekthen ousome ingenious
pretext induced her to go to Swit
zerland, where she paraded her new
position with intense pride.
Immediately she had departed the
prince of Tartary became engaged
to a second elderly rich Berlin
woman.
Stupid Formalities.
To her he explained that he was
Still in possession of ancestral jewels
valued at several millions.
BOOZE OUTLAWS
BUSY ON BORDER
NEXT TOGAN ADA
Hundreds of Runners, All Gun
men, - Defy Few Custom
Officers in Smug
gling Business.
International News Service.
Island Pond, Vt. Hundreds of
men, many of whom are armed
and desparate, areengaged in smug
gling liquor into the United States
from Canada, according to customs
officials here.
In a smaH weather-beaten custom
office far from the usual run of
travel, in a world apart, a world of
forest, mountains and silent lakes, a
steely-eyed, wiry veteran ot many
encounters with , smuggling bands,
told of the activities of the liquor
runners. On every hand were woods,
and the officer swept his arm out
ward as he said:
"This border runs for hundreds of
miles like this, mostly forest, from
here up around the state of Maine to
the sea. We four officers here have
our regular duties and on top of it
are supposed to stop rum running.
It can't be done. These woods are
full of trails. I know for a fact that!
gangs are smuggling liquor across
the whole boundary.
"We do ' what we car, do all
within our power, but there should
be at least 10 men on border duty
alone. I think that customs offi
cers are best able to handle the bor
der work, for we kriow the border
and kn,ow how to keep track on
wl at is going on. The liquor smug
gled ovc?r the line, to greater extent,
is done in packs carried by groups
of men, sometimes three and some
times more. Ahead of the carriers
a man marches alone to give a
warning in case of surprise or signs
of a suspicious nature.
"Sometimes when there is an un
usually heavy traffic another 'guard
follows up in the rear. In some
cases these men are armed, in others
they are relying on their knowl
edge of woodcraft to circumvent
capture, s.
"In any event, it is a dangerous
tesk We have had a number of
seizures, but the work is beyond the
scope of th few men who are en
gaged in enforcing Nthe laws about
here.
-'Quebec is a dry country. The
liquor smuggled over the line is in
many cases contraband even in
Canada. We .have seized .liquor
which had neither the Canadian
revenue stamps nor seals. Gome' of
the liquor analyzed by our state au
thorities in Vermont was reported
not fit for human consumption.
While some sections of Canada have
a local option to selllight wines and
beers, throughout this section to the
north the sale of whisky is a viola
tion of their laws, 'as it is a viola
'ort.of our own."
First Italian Motor Ship
Here on Maiden Voyage
New York Ona of the new Ital
ian motor ships, the Ansaldo San
Giogio 1, from Palermo, arrived at
New York recently. She is 393 feet
long and has two motors, one at
tached to each of the twin screws.
''They were credited with driving her
at 11 knots. She can make a trip
here from Italy and back on one
supply of fuel and has a deadweight
carrying capacity of 8,100 tons. Two
oil-fired auxiliary ! boilers supply
steam for her pumps and winches.
She is. the first of five sister ships
ordered. i
Secret Is Out, Overseas Caps
Invented to Save Material
Paris The secret concerning
those atrocious "overseas" saps that
every American soldier cursed' has
just come out. The French, first de
creed tfaeir use by the poilus in or
der to consume ihimense stocks of
blue cloth ordered by the minister of
war.,and at the same time to save
the "leather used for hatbands and
visors of the ordinary kepis. The
American army wanted to do away
with the cumbersome brnadhrimmed
hat and adopted the French style. "
Already he was, he said, negotiat
ing5 for' their sale with some Ameri
can millionaires, but the proceed
ings were necessarily prolonged by
"stupid formalities."
Meanwhile,. he added he must live
up to his position, and thus he re
quired money. -
For weeks the woman provided
considerable sums, but eventually,
becoming suspicious, she informed
the police. ,
TM prince of Tartary pretended to
have many distinguished German
friends, especially Prince Lichtnow
sky, former German ambassador in
England.
He quite turned his victims' heads
with his brilliant talk about the
"great world" which he interspersed
with many names of dukes, princes
and statesmen. ,
Had Assistant.
Katzek did not work alone. An
other "prince" assisted him. ,
Stanislaus Leo, really a bank clerk,
appeared in Berlin as' the dashing
Joung "Prince Sapieha Woiwode."
le pretended to have a brilliant
career as an airman.
His achievements quite over
whelmed yet another Berlin woman
ambitious to become a "prirrcess."
"Prince Sapieha" pretended to be
engaged in a gigantic industrial un
dertaking between Germany and
Russia. '
From his bride "Sapicha'obtained
large sums, including the rent and
the price of furnishing a luxurious
suite of offices in a fashionable street.
This princess also finally became
suspicious and informed the police,
It has since transpired, that no
rent had been paid, both the offices
and trie furniture having been ob
tained on credit.
EXPOSES FAKED
SPIRIT PHOTOS;
TELLSJECRETS
Englishman, Scoffing at 'Man
ifestations Reyeals How
, Mediums Fool Public
Debates With Doyle.
By WILLIAM L. MALLABAR,
International Jfew Service Staff Corre
spondent. London Just the way that spirit
photographs are "faked" is exposed
by Joseph McCabe in his book, "Is
Spiritualism Based" on Fraud?" re
cently published. I
According to McCabe fraudulent
photographs showine a "spirit" on.
the same-plate as the picture of theu
sitter nave been a stock-in-trade ot
the pretended medium for the pas
60 years, but of course the methods
of carrying out the fraud have had
to improve with the times.
The Crudest Method.
The original method, it is claimed,
was to expose the plate for half the
required time with a young lady
dressed as a "ghost" leaning on the
back of a chair. When the inquirer
took his sitting he) was then given
the same chair and a full exposure,,llythin!? 0f ;ts vjgor or js likely to
made with the sult that when the
inaic was ucvciupcu jic saw a iiiisiy,
but charming young woman leaning
over him.
Then a medium in Paris named
Buguet made, an improvement on
this. He had a doll constructed
with a lot of removable heads male
and " female. 'Onj4inding out what
kind of "spirit',' The sitter favored
Buguet would excuse himself for a
few minutes and make a half ex
posure of the doll, using one of the
heads as near as possible like the
description of the person described.
When the plate was fully exposed
there the sitter would find a spirit
answering in many ways to the ap
pearance of the one of "whom he
was thinkirfg.. Buguet got a year in
prison for this arid other, frauds, so
his activities came to an end for a
time. ' i
Fooling the Skeptic.
Then the believers.got the idea of
bringing their own plates along and
marking them with secret signs. A
little "ghost" made of celluloid was
eonstrucjd "and this was placed in
side the camera so that the "spirit"
wasm the plate all right.
Then the seekers took to examin
ing the cameras and "this wa the
signal for the "mediums" to once
more get busy. They planted the
"ghpsts" on the .ground-glaSs screen
with sulphate of quinine and again
the desired result was obtained. -Finally,
the' sitter sometimes asks
to be allowed to develop the plate
himself and this necessitates the use
of secret lights whereby a "ghost"
which is already impressed on the
bottom oLthe medium's developing
dish is reproduced on the plate.
McCabe recently debated with Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle at "Queen's,
lir.ll on these and other "manifesta
tions" and in his book he deals-'at
length wjth the photographs snow
ing the face of Sir Conan Poyle's
dead son; alsoiwith the photographs
which have recently been largely
mentioned bearing the ghostly faces
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone.
Woman Designs New Home
Where Housework Is Taboo
tvanston, in. Housewives, , at-
tention! Your millennium is dawn
ing. v
Nearing completion here is a real
model home, with no janitors, maids
or ptfefcr menial servapts essential.
Heat is supplied by a gas thermostat
burner built in the garage. Merely
set the regulator and exit Mr. Jan
itor! Floors are of Italian material
resmbling concrete and wax. Living
and dining rooms and sun parlors
are combined, and the family will
sleep on the roof. One side and front
of the house are mainly of gla..
There is no plaster, the walls being
made of a prepared board with a
flax lining between the rooms.
As might be suspected, this' self
sweeping, self-heating and scli-clean-iii'T
home was designed by a woman,
MissVLeah White. '
THE OMAHA BEE
LONDON TIMES
SAYS II. C.L. FIRST
THOUGHT IN U, S,
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Correspondent Finds America
Distressed at Terrible Cost
finess of Life and ,
' . Extravagance. .
(Br International News Service.)
London The hjghe cost of livSig
in the United Stated the mania for
automobiles the high price of labor,
the whirlpool of juggled millions of
dollars in all activities of life, and
prohibitiorrare discussed to the, ex
tent of nine colunms in the London
Times "American number."
But the London Times corre
spondent found that the H. C. L,
took precedence even over -the pres
idential election. , His conclusions
werev v ,
"But one may be distressed, as
Americans are distressed, at the ex
treme distraction and confusion of
thought and aim and the as it
seems truly terrible extravagance
and costliness of life which cannot,
one fears, continue without catastro
phe, but for which no remedy yet
appears in sight For the first of
these two things it is probable that
the presidential election, though for
the moment only adding to the
chaos, may prove 'medjcinal, by
compelling the people to divide more
or less into two eaual camos and to
focus their attention on some few)
cardinal questions. For the latter
one can only trust to American gen
ius. Prices Intolerable.
"Measured by all precedent the
present scale of living would -seem
to be, for any length of time, simply
intolerable. How itcan be altered
without a heavy scaling, down of
the wages of labor it is not easy to
see; nor how that scaling-can-be at
tained without such a previous in
dustrial crisis as will cause wide
spread unemployment.
"But precedents have a way of
governing little in1 America, at
may be that the people will some
how not only tolerate the intolerable
but will turn it to' such account that
society will settle down to hitherto
unheard of Conditions as peacefully
as and with greater comfort to the
masses than ever before. The
economy: progress of the United
States has, in any case, always been
paroxysmal, periods pf " intense
growth alternating with panics and
fits of abysmal depression. After
each setback, however severe, the.
country never has failed to go on
more triumphantly than ever. ,
New Difficulties.
There are new and disturbing fac
tors in the problem today, it is true.
Tl United States cannot solve its
own difficulties in a vacuum. And
the immense proportion of undigest
ed, elements of foreign populations
seem to expose the country pecu
liarly to infection by the disease of
tiniest 'which is working in all the
world. Nothing in American life,
however, has been more remarkable
in the past than the completeness
with which the old Anglo-Saxon
core of the nation has succeeded in
imposing its character on and dom
inating the whole people. It is nat
ural that an Englishman should see
in its continued dominance the best
assurance of the safety of the coun
try; and there is certainly nothing
yet to show that the core has lost
,e any iess able than heretofore to
hold the people steady.
Giant, 32, Has Man, 74,
Arrested For Assault
Owosso, Mich. David Chafce, 32
years old, described as a physical
giatn, has hal his neighbor, Robert
Bailey, 74 years old, arrested
for assault and battery. Chafee
charges that Bailey hithim in an
argument over a brook, which runs
through their farms In purns town
ship. "
A New Kind
; By LORETTO C. LYNCH.
They tell us that .denying our
selves certain thingsAhelps us to
become stronger moraty. Yet have
you" ever thought , how much more
firm a foundation, how much more
stronsr a foundation the "average
home would stand upon 'if the con-Lshc spc
tracting parties praticed self-deniall hairdre
in an effort tp get the necessary
furnishings for the home before
marriage?
A woman above average intelli
gence has: just told me her tale of
matrimonial woe. It is pathetic. Yet
I am wondering if much of her suf
fering might not have been avoided
if the couple had practiced self
denial before marriage in order to
get together a decent home over
which the specter of debt was not
constantly hanging.
"We had no furnishings whatever
whenwe married. We bought some
on tHfc instalment, plan, and as we
were both very fond of good furni
ture, we bought mojre than we puld
comfortably pay for. My husband
earned a pretty good salary and we
thought we could afford to take a
chance. Things went well for a
while, but then some of the house
hold linen began to need replace
ment. -'And we had sickness. The
cost of living was high. The whole
thing began to get on my nerves.
Every time I saw my husband
smoking a 35-ceht package of cigar-
ette t
couIU not help Dut remind
him that if he would cive up this
expensive habit 1 could, perhaps, re
plenish some of the towels that had
been destroyed during one of his
illnesses. Whenever he suggested a
little much needed recreation, I re
minded him how far in debt we were
for our furnishings. And so he sim
ply got tired of hearing of expense.
He earned the money and it was all
mortgaged up, and of it all in two
years there was net a cent ha felt
free to spend."
That i? the talc. And so they
miarreled. Yet these folks had
Lwithin their grasp the great gift of
happiness. The young woman used
to scoff at other girls who were de
nying themselves some of the silly
things of life so that they might
have o:t band s'me of the staple
ihinss that every well regulated
home need must nave. '
GtRMAN OFFICER
GIVES FIGURES
1 ON AIR LOSSES
7,425 Battles Recorded
1,072,957 Bombs Thrown
j 458 Names on Pilot
Honor Roster. N
By KARL H. VON WEICjAND.
Tnlvenal Service ttaff Correloulent.
- Berlin Germany had 123 Zeppe
lins and Schuett-Lanz air cruisers
in service curing the world war.
When the war began it had 11, in
cluding ' three commercial passen-gcr-catryTng
Zeppelins which were
immediately taken over. .The navy
had 73 in service, the army, 50. Ger
many lost 79 airships during the war,
cf which 53 were in the navy serv
ice and 26 with tlie army.
"Through enemy fire" the navy
bst 23 and 30 were lost by the navy
through accidents and causes with
which the enemy had nothing to do,
13 being - wrecked by storm, 12
burned in their sheds, 4 destroyed by
lightning' and 1 has never been heard
from. The army- lost 17 through
enemy fire and 9 frorrr'other catm,
including also 1 mysteriously "miss
ing." Figures Just Revealed.
These figures, until the armi
stice one of the closest kept secrets
in the archives of the German gen
eral staff, are now revealed for the
first time by Maj. George P: Neu
mann of 'fhe German air organiza
tion in his comprehensive work,
"The German Air Forces in 'the
World War," in the .preparation on
which IS other officers of these
forces collaborated, with official sta
tistics and material from the general
staff. r
The navy Zeppelins andjchuette
Lanz air cruisers made a total-of 482
flights, of which 317xwere recon
lwissaifce in the North sea and 41
attacks on London and other points
in England. The reconnaissances
lasted from -16 to-24 hours in the air.
The "longest time in the a'ir was 96
hours. That was the trip of the
LL-59 to central East Africa.
Naval Casualties.
Casualties through the loss of
navy airships were 389 officers and
men "dead." No "wounded" are
given, evidently there were no sur
vivors. This includes the crew of
the L-19, which the British refused
to rescue after it had been shot
down and fallen in the North sea.
The army airship casuaties were but
52f.fficcrs and men dead.
AVhen the war broke out Germany
kmobilized 218 airplanes. Up o
January 1, 1919, 4 ,637 airplanes of
all types had been delivered to the
army; 2,128 planes were lost in air
battles, and another 1,000 are given
as "missing." ,
Bombs throwiwre given at 1,072,
957. No;7s than 7,425 "air bat
tles" ares ecorded, including 614
enemy oh rvation balloons brought
down. . "J- .: official roster of Ger
man airf jhters with more t'an
three enf.' y planes to their record
has 458 names. It is headed by
Maj. Barton von Richthofen, who
was killed after bringing down 80
enemy planes. Second is Lieut.
Ernst Udet witii 60, who survived
the war. Of 72 flyers who received
the much- coveted "Pour le Merite"
order, 27 wef-e afterwards killed.
French Composers Willing
To Forget War for Wagner
Paris-ZFrench musicions and com
posers are again starting discussion
the old subject of Wagndr, whose
works they cresire to see presented at
the opera. Charles Pons, musical
editor of L'Eclair, makes the point
that a study of Wagner's -scores is
absolutely necessary for the devel
opment of musical talent in France
and that, with this aim, it would be
just as well to forget Jhat Wagner
was German. In any case, remarked
M. Pons, Wagner has been dead
for JO years and, therefore, he can
not be held responsible for crimes
committed during the war.
of Self -Denial
There was Betty, for instance.
She used to spend her little savings
each week on some one or two sub
stantial things that she knew she
would enjoy later on in her ver
own home. She would purchase a
pretty linen piece often for the same
money others no more wealthy than
she spent tor a marcel wave at the
ssers. ' v
Betty and John had a cood start
before they started housekeeping.
They owned enough towels, sheets,
pillowcasetablecloths, napkins and
the like properly to run a home
without replenishing for several
years to come. In their ftrst home
they began by furnishing just three
of the four rooms. They furnished
the kitchen, the bedroom, and
bought enouglf'furiiiture to get along
with for the living room. ,
They started with no. debt. When
there was a little needed recreation
suggested there was no objection.'
They owned what they had. The
little savings had been set aside feu
future furniture and emergencies.
And after five years they are get
ting on famously.. There" is a well
furnished home. And every time
John, takes his after-shower rub
with one of the luxurious bath
towels e calls out, "Bet this cost
some one the- price of several ice
cream sodas."
As I said some time a?o, the idea
of a hope chest may be old-fash-itfned,
but it surely is a good idea
for the girl who thinks more of her
future home than she does of some
one's "giggles. The average poor
girl cannot get together the staples
of a home in the thr.ee or six months
of her engagement
Many girls have comparatively
easy positions and find themselves
with time on their hands for em
broidery or knitting. It is always
more interesting to work toward a
definite goal. Suppose you play you,
arc working for a perfect piece of
embroidery on a toast cloth that is
to be used at a company breakfast
"some day."1 It is surprising how
quickly these little things that go so
far toward making home homey can
be collected in one's spare nr6niciits.
Having a good qtnrt is half the
game in any play. Ha'vinr a good
start with your heme furnishings Is
a big step toward a greater degree of
happiness in marriage.
Knifend Fork Problem
For Japanese Housewife
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Visitors in Tokio at World Sunday. School Meet Will
Also Be Without Beds, Pillows, Chairs, Baths,
Etc. .
London Difficulties which are al
ways likely to arise from the modern
habit of holding world conferences
are illustrated by a correspondent in
Tokio, where the World's, Sunday
School convention will be held in
October. x
Tokio, writes the correspondent,
is a city of 2,000,000 inhabitants, but
they are Japanese, living in Japanese
style. Foreign accommodation is
strictly limited, many foreigners are
obliged to live in Japacse fashion be
cause of the scarcity of houses. The
hotels, too, are inadequate for the
ordinary tourist traflic. v v-
No Solution.
No method of solving the problem
could be found except that the
wealthier Japanese should take1 the
visitors into their homes. Sugges
tions to moor a liner or two in the
bf.y, or to erect temporary dormi
tories were found' impracticable.
4 Buf Japanese homes r.re not
exactly fitted for the reception of
visitors from overseas, nor is it an
agreeable prospect for a Japanese
housewife' to find that for a fort
night she has to house; guests who-
COOLIDGE GETS
SURE 'CURE' FOR"
PRESENT PRICES
Massachusetts Governor De
clares "Work and Save" Is
Answer to Problem of
Living.
Boston Governor Calvin Cool
idge has a'"cure" for high prices. It
is: "Work and save." Says the gev
ernor:' "We are paying the expenses cf
the war. We are paying them by
taxation. Not the rich alone pay,
but the cost is borne by the general
public. s ,
"We tax transportation, but those
that use it pay for it. We tax the
makers of cloth, and those that wear
the cloth havetp pay. '
"There isn't any magic remedy.
We have got to take h-Jld and work
out our salvation.
"It is impossible for us to be
placed in the same condition we
were in before the war, so far as
food, clothing and shelter are con
cerned, because they are not in ex
istence. ' N
"Wages make no difference if
things are not in existence and can
not be bought.
Must Start Saving.
"So we will have to save our
wages, i That is being done in
Massachusetts at the rate of $275,
000 every banking day. We -must
subsequently invest in increasing
the productive capacity of the na
tion. It is 'a long, sJow, laborious
process, but is one which the
American people can accomplish
vH A ...:n t:u
uuu win ailuiiipilMl,
"The government ought to re
frain from entering on new enter
prises. The government has to
raise wages of its employes the same
as others, nd its expenses are much
larger than before the war, ,but "we
can reverse the fCrrm waere under
a year ago in trying to provide work
for the worker and now try to pro
vide the worker for work that needs
to be done. Instead of finding jobs
for men let us find men for jobs.
"There is not much of anything
local governments can do except
dispose of unnecessary extensions
and unnecessary employes. There
is little a city can curtail on and not
much Massachusetts can curtail on.
"The plant has got to be kepW in
operation, but we can stop new
buildings and new highways while
keeping in good repair every public
work that we have.
"Our ability tr? get quickly from
here to Worcester is the result of
people saving their money and
building a railroad. The ability to
buy cheap cloth and cheap shdes is
the result of savinjr monev and in
vesting in clotn and shoe factories.
, "There is plenty ef work in
'America for our people Work now
and save for the future. We never
know when there is going to be a
turn. The present condition; will
continue if we refrain from public
extravagance."
cmjs Plant Million Trees
Tp Fulfill Ancient Prophecy
London One million trees have
already been planted by the Jews in
Palestine, and Jews' from all over the
world w!Tb cannot return- to Pales
tine to live, now that it has officially
become the national homeland, are
asked to contribute to heree fund.
Incelebrating a marriage or ether
function it. has become a Jewish cus
tom to offer in gratitude a tree to
Palestine. Trees hue become me
morials for the dead. When the great
Zionist loader, Theador Herzl, 'died
a whole forest of olivss was, planted
in his memory in Jndea, - between
Jaffa and Jerusalem. Olives were
planted because m the Holy Land
they are called "the eternal trees."
They measure their life not in years,
but in centuries. The proceeds from
the fruit of these olive trees are to
be used to support the University of
Jerusalem.
Shoe Prices Due for
Big Slump, Tannery Say
Kane, Pa. Shoe prices arc due
for a big decrease in the future. So
say tanners here.
" Marked inactivity in the tanning
industry here . continues. Many of
the plants are entirely shut down,
while a number of others have cur
tailed operations. An ovefc-supply
of leather is given as. the cause.
'There is no indication of an ex
tensive resumption of tjfining," one
tanner said recently. "On the other
hand plants are closing and men are
being laid off every dr.y." .
The prices paid for hides has ta
ken a biy; slump-
" ' " " '
have never been in a Japanese house
before, who probably have never
slept on the floor in their lives, and
wjio will want pillows, chairs, knives
and forks, a bath and a real towel,
andnany other small necessities
which' are never noticed until you
l-.ave to do without them,
t Much Criticism.
Because of the great inconvenience
it would cause, the decision to hold
a convention in Tokio has been
much criticised both by the foreign
public and by the missionaries.
The Japanese have kept their own
counsel. As a matter of fact, the
invitation came from them, and
when it was seen that the delegates
could only be accommodated by
being' taken into Japanese homes,
hospitality wasat once offered and
extended in such- manner that the
visitors will never know what a
nightmare their coming has been to
many a Japanese lady.
The number of delegates will be
750. The original number was 2,000,
but many who wished to attend wHl
be unable to do so, owing to the dif
ficulty of obtaining steamer accom
URGENT NEED OF
TRAFFIC RULES
ON DANCE FLOORS
Experts Say "Go-As-You-
- Please" Style Is Physically
Dangerous 'to Conven-'
tional Dancers.
London It was a popular dance
club in the West End of London.
The- beautifully sprung floor was
crowded by men and women in each
other's arms solemnly gyrating to
the scmnd of horsehair drawn over
catgut and the n6use of a tight, dry
skin beaten by a stick.
Suddenly a young man, with an
anxious face and the expenditure of
much physical effort; lifted his part
ner off her feet, held her for a sec
ond high in the air, just long
enough to give us a glimpse of a
backward poised leg in silk stock
ings, and then dropped her and re
sumed the amble.
A little further on two dancers
suddenly revolved with tremendous
speed, operating an acute danger
zone while the operation lasted.
Two' more, instead of progressing-
round the room in the regula
rton way, took an apparent derfaht
in dancing across it to the confu
sion of less unconventional per
formers. Looking around the room I real
ized, as you can prove at any Lon
don danc6 today, that no' two peo
ple dance alike.
No Regulation Steps.
Given an average rag-time tune
some people will Boston, others will
two-step, others will fox-trot with
a smooth, gliding action or a.ierky
lame-dog, dot-and-carry-one effect;
bur-each will maintain that his par
ticular version is the right one.
The fact of the matter is that
nodern dancing has no regulation
steps; it is go-an-you-please danc
ing, an art into, which each dancer
is entitled to introduce anv eccen
tric extravagance he fancies at the
moment. .
To this chaos of the modern ball
room certain dancing authorities
and experts wish to bring, if not
cxder, at least grace. With thi3
object in view a conference of the
foremost dancing teachers is to
meet at the Grafton galleries.
There is a touch of mordant hu'
mor about this. Is it not an in
stance of the blind trying to lead
tne minor
There can be no doubt that 80
percent of the eccentric freak steps
and styles seen in every London
dance club today are due to the
enormous number of dancing in
structors who ever since the war
time dance boom started have hcetn
working off their' own theories of
what a tox-trot and a jazz should
ne upon their unsuspecting pupils.
Everyone His Own Theory.
There is no agreement among
teachers of dancing
What is a fpx-trot?
What is a jazz?
No one knows, but everybody
cnensiies a tneory.
Unless something is done to re-
strain the teachers of freak steps we
shall see ballroom dancing reproduc
ing all of the wild antics of tlstunt"
stage exhibitions.
It would not even now be surnris
ing to see an athletic young man
cast his partner into .the air, catch
hcr upon his shoulder, throw her
away, and execute a wild fandango
wuu ins nana in ner nacK nairl
Dancing is, or should be an expres
sion of rhythm.
Actions, jerky, ugly and acrobatic,
which do not express even the caco-
phonic indiscretions of a rag-time or
chestra, should be barred. I
Only by some standard idea of
what constitutes graceand rhythmic
movement can the wild men and the
"wild, wild women" of the go-as-you-pjfase
ballroom be converted.
When this happens there will be
one danger fewer in a dangerous
world. , j .
Man Steps into Liquor
- Trap, He May Lose Lite
Minneapolis, Minn. Magnus Jen
sen stepped into a "whisky gun"
trap in the basement of a home in
this city and at present he faces
amputation of a leg6r loss of life.
The owner of the home had gone
away for the summer andvleft a
large stock of liquor in storage. Po
lice say he had set the trap to pro
tect it from thieves. A woman saw
Jensen crawling along the street and
reported that somebody had been
hurt in an accident. The trap was
made by inserting a sawed-off shot
gun in a beer case that was not quite
empty and connecting it with a wire
I trio connected with the trigger. '
JEWELED SWORD (
WITH GOLD HILT
GIVENNING
Kansans Present Beautiful
Diamond-Studded Weapon
to Commander Valued
v at Over $10,000.
A jeweled sword with a hiltjof gold
and encased in a scabbard of solid
gold, studded with innumerable di
monds, rubies and multi-colored
sapphires, was presented to Gen.
John J. Pershing, the hero of France,
when he visited Kansas City re
cently. It is said that no finer sword waf
ever presented to a war hero than
this Kansas Citymade product,
which was designed and molded in
the shop of Cady & Olmstead after -two
months of arduous work by a
force of 12 experts.
Fifty Ounces Gold. '
The trophy isv valued at $10,000,
although New York experts have
declared that no firm' in the world
would attempt to duplicate the Per
shing sword for that amount.
,Fifty ounces of pure go! were;
used in the making of the trophy.,
Worked with ifhe gold were 60 s
ounces of silver, while in the decora- s
tions cf the scabbard platinum aud
precious stones were used in an ex-'
travagant manner.
Four platinum stars are stretched
the length of the scabbard, and each
is set with a dianTOnd valued at $600.'
The four brilliant stars are indica
tive of Pershing's rank as full gen-,
eral.
Record of Career. .
Platinum bands were placed on
the scabbard and on these was en-
graved the record of Pershing's "
career in chronological order, from
his birth to his promotion to gen-
eral of the American army.
Eighty-three jewels in all were
used in the trophy, the greater num
ber of these being set in the solid -gold
sword hilt. The trophy was
presented to Pershing as the gift of
the people of Missouri, his native
state. ' '.'i"'
The movement that resulted in u
tile people raising money for the ,
cost of the rich trophy was inaugu
rated by the Kansas City Post on "
November 17 last, and within six
weeks this campaign had yielded
popular contributions from every .
section of the state. There wers
more than 6,000 individual dona'i
tions, the major part of these com
ing from school children, who con
tributed their pennies and their
nickels to the fund for the Pershing
sword.
IRISHLADYSAYS ;
NO BABi KISSING
IN HER CAMPAIGN
Women Have Keener Interest
In Politics Than the
Men Give Them
Credit for.
By EARL C. REEVES,
International Xewt Service Staff Corre
spondent. '
London Lady Greenwood, wife -of
the new chief secretary for Ire
Ian, would run an "intimate" cam- '
paign, if, as has lleen suggested, she .
were to contest a seat for ParhV
. , i j , , . , tit t
mem dui i wouia not De a DaDy
kissing" campaign.
At a time1 when the franchise is be
ing widely extended in Britain and :
Jhe politicians of America are study-'.
ing the problem df the woman vote
as they nave never done before, the
question, 'how to get the woman
vote," is oi unprecedented political (
importance.
As the English wife, of one of the
foremost Canadjan'born politicians ";
in England, and as a seasoned cam
paigner in. aid of her husband, Lady
Greenwood speaks with convietiou 'U.
on the subject of vote-getting meth-'.'-r
ods.
No Canvassing.
"Were I contesting a seat todayi''
she said, "canvassing would play a
slight part in my plans. I should
concentrate on outdoor meetings.
. "I should arrange to meet the men
and talk to them at the lunch hour. .
"I should ask the women to come
and hear my views id the afternoon
when the- housework was finished
and . the children in school. Those .
who were not able to attend meet
ings I should visit in their homes .
rot to gossip on irrelevant subjects,
but to disenss seriously the problems
of the day. Mt
"Much more is expected of a wo -'
man candidate thanof a, man. The
women to whom she appeals for'
votes expect little attentions w3ic.h
men could be forgiven (or overlook-i
ing. . i f
"Parents sometimes like to talk of
how thVjr children are getting .along
in school. I have been asked more
than once about my -own children.
Stay ,On Subject. . -
"But on such occasions there is a
limit beyond which 6ne need not co.
lOne need not, for instance, pick up;
a cnua mat nappens to oe running
about, and kiss it. Mothers woudd
regard such action as an affectation
and would afterward discuss among
themselves 'what some folks will do .
to get a vote.'
"The men, I find, are in deadly
earnest and have well conceived
views on all the vital questions of Jhe
day. The women are more con
cerned about their general welfare S
than about a candidate'! views of
their children.
"They have a keener interest in
politics than men ever give them
credit for.
"Housing, food prices, and the .
prices pf all commodities are pre4
iems which effect them more deeply '.
than anything elsfy and a satisfac
tory answer to such questions is x
more convincing than a kiss on a
baby's cheek."
A new steam power automobile
has a tubular boiler through which
water is circulated bv an electric
pump, heated by a spray of kerosene
or fuel oiJ. t
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