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MODERN DANCES
NOT BEAUTIFUL,
PAVLOWA SAYS
Lack Scope and Satisfy Only
Personal Sensations Be
lieves a Reaction Must
Come Soon.
London, Eng. M me. Pavlowa
the great Russian dancer, does not
see anything interesting in he mod
ern dances, such as the tango, tickle-toe,
jazz and others.
In an interview recently printed
!, here, she says of modern dancing
that it is mere movement for per-
,' sonal pleasure, but lacks the grace of
the real dance.
"When I was in America they ask
nie what I think of the tango, the
jazz and the other what they call
dances. How could I say' " said
Pavlowa. "To me they are move
ments personal amusements but
' not what to us is the dance. To me
it is not graceful, not beautiful. It
is, for women, too familiar!
"Too Close," Perhaps.'
: v "There is no space. On the stage,
; danced by artists as a tour, as an
'exposition framed, too, in space; it
; is quite another thing". But what
suits the stage does not suit the
ballroom; all is different the whole
atmosphere.
"Such dances, in a crowded room,
; no air, very often unbeautiful danc-
i crs all intent on personal sensation
oh; Then, too, with us the dance
is -an ideal: it is not for personal I
pleasure; an artist rarely can satisfy
' her own standard. Woman, too, on
s the stage is she must be elusive,
i " Her partner touches her with re
j. spect as precious--yes, even in a
v passion dance one must respect be
respected in a sense, tor all deep
emotion is grave, sincere.
"Now, you see how impossible it
is for me, as a lover and serious
student of a great and beautiful art,
an art that demands d'gi'ty. ro
mance and restraint, to consider
what you call 'tango, 'bun,, hug?'
and 'trot de f6x,' and What such
funny names t-as dance!"
'Would you ' say these dances
might be conducive to er slacken
; the moral sense?"
; "What is that?"
When it had been paraphrased:
It' Impersonal With Her.
i, "Oh, what question you ask me!
' If a person is how .you say?
sensitive (susceptible) it is impos
sible that the embrace, the music,
the" her brows crinkled thought
fully "the 'atmosphere' and sense
of person make thein. more sensitive.
That is a question that do not affect
an artist, of the dance. To us it is
impersonal.
"I am not Pavlowa oiv the stage
to me. I im a swan or a princess,
or someone elsel and my partner
: is who he dreams he is. The cur-
tain down, I come awake again, for
??the prince and gq home to sup-
1019s1 nc e next evenirig again
is change of 'illusion.'
, "I cannot imagine this 'ballroom
. dancing always the ' same; no
scope, no space! What monotony
opprAssive; wtoat boring! f
"But,? she added with ' a kindly
seriousness, "there are many peo
i pie thatjour kind of dance also
' bores. There are so differen tastes 1
All the same. I think that, because
things lare now so extreme, there
will soon .come a ''swing back.' Let
us hope not also too f extreme."
SECRET AGENTS
AIDING MEN IN
f HEFT OF AUTOS
v
Startlirtg Facts Given Out by
Prisoners as to Higher-Ups in
' System Involving Many. "
.BostoiA The many revelations
from a, trustworthy source in the
Case of Herman L. Barne, who es
caped frlm state prison and then
, suddenly gave himself'up, show that
among the men higher up identified
with a countrywide auto thief .sys
tem are: I
:-i ; Unscrupulous insurance adjusters
who' operate with gangs of auto
thieves.
Alleged agents of certain reputa-
-ble makes of cars who secretly work
with auto thieves and distributors
of -stolen cars on the side.
Certain second-hand dealers. ,.
Business men who deal extensive
ly in stolen cars and who hide be
hind legitimate lines of business in
which they are engaged.
- Dishonest automobile owners
who pay thieves to steal their cars
so that they may collect the insur
jYance money. '
' '. Representatives of insurance com-
- panics who pay thieves bonuses to
recover stolen cars, a practice which
District Attorney Joseph C. Pclle-
" - tier, in the recent case of Jacob
Levy, branded as "the compounding
. ot a felony," and threatened to pro
secute the company in question if it
committed the offense again. ;
Evidence shows that thieves get
but $50 or $75 for cars from the fel
lows higher up who sell them all the
way from $300 to $1,000. These fig
ures were testified to by veteran
automobile thieves in the cases re
' centlv prosecuted by District Attor-
- ncy Nathan A. Tufts and his first
assistant, George Stanley Harvey, in
Middlesex county.
It was alsq learned that in tight
periods of the underworld auto mar
ket cars have actually been sold to
prospective customers several days,
and even a week, before they have
been stolen. ,
According to returns received from
1.184 labor organizations in Massa
chusetts, representing an aggregate
membership of 257,390t the number
of members unemployed for all
causes at the close of September,
1919. was 13.863, or 5.4 per cent
of the total number. This percentr
age is slightly higher than the cor
x responding percentage (5.1) for the
- close of the. preceding quarter, but
V iTl lower than the corresponding
V percentage for the close of Septem
ber in each year of the past decade,
accept 1912 and 1916.
Community Glub in New York Solves Hard
Problem For Coterie of Enterprising Girls
"Liberty" Is the Motto for
ClubTjf Young Women
Who Are "Making
Their Way."
Written for International New Ken-ice,
By MARGERY REX.
New .York Many a fair young
maiden sits by the window of
her western or upstate home and
dreams of, the possibilities that await
her in the big city of New York. She
at times doubts her abijity to con
quer the enormous town in a busi
ness way or thinks her talents will
not be appreciated. But, after all,
there is a still greater obstacle in
her path than those she usually con
siders. She will discover, after a few
weeks here, that writing the great
American novels, or illustrating the
bock someone else has written, or
yet becoming the greatest emotion
al actress Broadway ever sobbed
over, nreehild's play compared with
the difficulty, of finding a roof un
der which to, lay her weary head.
That is unless she be fortunate
enough to get acquainted with the
Ciitls' Community club, which is un
der the wing of the Association to
Promote Proper Housing for Girls.
This will save her many heartaches.
- Sue will find that she can get a
room at moderate cost: a room that
has the necessary attribute of space,
tight, comfort and cleanliness and a
restaurant where meals are cooked
with nourishment and flavor both iii
view; also a place in which to enter
tain men callers and, better still,
cozy little kitchenette to prepare the
midnight meal and a dainty table on'
which to serve it.
LABOR
URGED TO SEEK
FOR DEMOCRACY
Boston Man Thinks Trade
Bodies Should Admit Liberals
To Membership Outlines
Program to Follow.
Manchester, N. H. A much
greater democracy in labor unions
was urged by Greenville S. MacFar-
land, Boston attorney1, who recently
addressed the consolidated labor or
ganizations here. MacFarland gaye
eight points for a labor platform, as
follows:
"If I were in the organized labor
movement I should work for a pro
gram of policy somewhat as fol
lows: -."First. To assure absolute faith in
the carrying out of all existing con
tracts where a moral obligation ex
ists to perform them.
"Second. To make1 the labor, or
ganizations more democraticin their
form of government to the ind that
the officers may be more responsive
to the will of the rank and file and
more careful of his interests.
v Include Intellectuals. '
"Third. To invite into the labor
movement all the intellectual liberals
who work at something useful,
whether it be with the brain or hand,
or with both, and adopt them as lead
ers without jealousy, or suspicion
whenever they prove their loyalty
and competence.
"Fourth. To establish, out of the
alliance with these new intellectual
results, at any expense, an organiza
tion of experts capable ot under
standing the most profound and in
tricate laws of economics: experts
capable of advising on questions of
law, politics, economics, sociology
and publicity. This would be an ex
pensive and elaborate organization
It would be the ereat general staff of
the general movement. But with
out it the labor movement cannot
succeed in this country, where the
employing class is so virile and
where wealth is so concentrated and
where the power of concentrated
wealth is so great and so capable of
summoning together just such a
staff at any moment, as" itirequently
does. Indeed, organized wealth has
for years maintained such a staff.
Join With Europe.
"Fifth. To come dinitely to an
understanding which he workmen
of Europe have already reached, that
there is little or ho hope of making
political progress through the old
political parties.
"Sixth. To recognize once for all
that the progress of the workman is
not to be measured always by tem
porary wages, but rather by such a
social, economic and political posi
tion as will enable him to take his
share of the great increments that
flow from the advance in the arts
and sciences aid the increased pro
ductive power of labor. 'Thus the
rights of labor before the courts
must be definitely fixed, so that the
public .will understand that an atJ
tempt to invade them is a revolu
tionary act and is as serious as a
revolutionary act.
Seventh. Organize 'a political par
ty of all classes who will stand com
mitted to those policies, which from
time to time would be adjusted to
conditions through the advice of ex
perts on the general staff, and fight
with the knowledge that you arc
right in object and righjf in organi
zation and right in metflod, and that
the 'right will prevail in time.
"Eighth. Then patiently await the
results."
A general strike has been pro
claimed in Italy by the National
Federation of Labor of all laborers
employed in state establishments.
This includes arsenals, war and
marine depots, aviation camps,
government monopoly factories for
the production of salt, tobacco, etc.
Today 70,000 workmen are said to
be on strike in Rome, and the move
ment has spread to Milan, Turin,
Venice, Naples and Bologna. Rai
way and postal and telegraph servfn()0 worth of buttons, including fresh
ices are thus tar unaffected and no
disorders have occurred. The
strikers refuse the previous govern
ment offer of a general increase of
10 per cent in their wages. 'Their
demand is a 1,000 lire increase in
the annual pay of all classes of
laborers..
She need no longer fear the
haughty hotel clerk who states, al
most with pleasure, it would seem,
that there are no rooms available
perhaps next week a nice little suite
at $17.50 a day nor need she shrink
from the typical landlady who
doesn't like young ladies about with
all their cookin' and laundryin' and
stayin' up late and burnin' gas.
No Bad Features.
But the Girls' Community -'club
seems to have eliminated for a girl
every bad feature of living in a
crowded city, and it has many
pleasant privileges.
The address is No. 10V East Thir
tieth street that is the number at
the entrance, but there are three red
brick houses in all. The first floors
are thrown into one, with' connect
ing halls, and have a smiling, friend
ly appearance with their pale paint
ed furniture in greens and greys;
with English chintzes and cretonnes
and little red writing desks tucked
away in corners.
Books, a Victrola, piles of maga
zines, well-chosen prints and deep
seated chairs make for the "homey-
ness" of the club. These are the
features visible at rst glance.
After meeting Miss Cornelia E.
Marshall, who is president of the as
sociation, with which the club is
connected, we started on a sight
seeing tour with Miss E. R. T.
Tompkins, director of flic Girls'
Community club.
Has 27 Girls.
"We have twenty-seven girls liv
ing here," said Miss Tompkins, "and
many members who live in the
neighborhood. They, of course,
have the privilege of using theclub
rooms. '
"There are no rules. Twelve is
the closing hour for the house, and
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Honeymoon Without
Husband Is Awful
Boston, Mass. Nix on .he
"honeyless honeymoon." Old--fashioned
honeymoons , with
Friend Husband along are the
best.
Mrs. Grace Nicholas Fournier
is an authority, for she has tried
both kinds.
She is back with her brand new
husband in their apartment-for-two
after a two weeks' experi
ment in "solitary" honeymooning.
Mrs. Fournier, former stenog
rapher at the Hotel Somerset,
married Lon W. Fournier with
the express understanding that
they spend their honeymooning
apart. '
She wanted time to get ac
quainted by correspondence- with
her husband, whom she had
known but a short time.
And she thought she preferred
pitching hay on the farm of a
girl friend to holding hands at
Niagara or doing any of the
other foolish but more or less en
joyable things.
After two weeks of it the hus
bandless bride was ready to ad
mit that it was flat, stale and un
profitable. She advises brides to
je as romantic and foolish as
they like and to never, never go
honeymooning without a hus
band.. .
WOMEN TURNING
SUFFRAGE GRINS
ON MR. GEORGE
rremier Uets Kazzed at
Militants' Meeting Asquith
Soothed.
By WM. L. MALLABAR.
International News grrvlce Staff Com
bpomlent.
London, Eng. "We have, to
stand against the tyranny of sex, of
class, or economics, and, above all,
the tyranny ; of militarism and com
mercialism."
This was part of an impassioned
speech made by Mrs. Patrick Law
rehce at Kingsway hall recently.
Lloyd George,, the prime minister,
was the cause of a certain amount
of ironic laughter during :he course
of the meeting. A message was read
from him expressing his disappoint
ment at being unable to be present
at a meeting in which he was so
"deeply interested." It was fairly
evident that the women present did
nob take much stock in the "depths"
of his regret.
Princess Disputes Kipling.
Madame Suzanne Grinbcrg. one of
the first women to be enrolled at the
Parisian bar,' gave a very excellent
address in trench and in English.
Mrs. Sarojine Naidu, a well-known
Indian poetess, said that the suf
frage movement, by the way it had
extended to India and the East ffen
erally, had proved the falsity of
Kipling's statement:
"East is east and west is west, and
never the twain shall meet.
"Women,", commented the speaker,
have transmuted the impossible into
the regions of' achievement."
Miss Lena Ashwell told of the old
days of militant suffragism. She
confessed that she loathed Mr. As
quith and said that if it had not been
unladylike she would have willingly
punchda his head.
"Women to EndVar
Miss Ashwell was another of the
women who asserted that all the
power ot womanhood would be de
voted "to ending 4he possibility of
warfare. She concluded:
"The intelligence of women is Ko
ine to be used to see that there will
be no more fighting."
Miss Maude Koyden, the woman
preacher who is to be the first of her
sex to deliver a sermon from the
pulpit formerly occupied by John
Lalvin in the Cathedral of Geneva,
touched on the inequalities between
men and women where pav, moral
ity and the pulpit are concerned.
Women from ijouth Africa ani
Japan also gave short addresses.
Each year Americans use $32,000,-
water pearl, ocean pearl, metal, vege
table, ivory, clot'i, bone, composi
tion, celluloid and other specialties.
The bulk ' of thf. m, however, are
made from mussel shells. There are
now 200 plants in this country em
ploying shells in the manufacture of
buttons.
up to that time the house is brightly
lighted and a chaperon if present.
When the girls must be out later
they take their latch keys.
"Few girls stay out too late often,
however. Since all the house mem
bers have a voice in the governing
of it, and are proud of a good stand
ard, any girl who might detract
from that ideal would find herself
unpopular and probably be asked to
leave."
The realm of upstairs had been
reached and all the rooms actually
had plenty of light and space mir
acle in Manhattan. More wicker
and pale wood furniture and flow
ered hangings and bookshelves.
A Basement Cafeteria.
The basement houses the cafe
teria. A huge red brick fireplace is
a cozy feature, and there are yellow
shades with black silhouettes.
Mrs. Robert Townsend presides
here, and. in front of her desk is an
outlay of home-made candies and
crullers to top off a meal.
"Here is something that the girls
love," said Miss Tompkins, as we
came into a tiny kitchenette and
pantry. ' , I
bring in callers in the evening' and
prepare late suppers, and we havea
special corner with a table for that
purpose. They have lots of fun
here.
"The house is nonsccfarian, open
to all when we have room."
The Bureau of Boarding Houses,-)
in existence about eight years, is
connected with the Association to
Promote Proper Housing 'for Girls
whose existence antedates it by sev
eral years. It is a clearing house
for all organized rooming houses
Lists of looms are kept and applica
ons for them are received.
STRONG DEFENSE,
BY GENERAL FOR
HUGE MASSACRE
Labor Paper-in London Issues
Sharp Attack on Ex
planation Given by
Officer.-
BY EARL C. REEVES.
International New Service Staff Corre
londent. London, Eng. The , Amritsar
massacre, in which 500 were killed,
and the explanation of General Dyer
that he ordered the troops to fire
"to save the Indian Empire" have
been made an issue of sharp attack
by the Daily Herald, organ of the
labor party.
General Dyer's statement, "I shot
to save the British Raj," is quoted
by the Herald in an editorial, which
continues:
"Perhaps it is true. Perhaps
British rule in India is so odious to
the natives that thebloodiest fright-
luiness is needed to maintain it.
General Dyer with the kindly blue
eyes) has said so. But if it is true,
1:1 us have done with hypocrisy. Let
us abandon the cant that we are
trustees for the Indian people. Let
us make Ihe outrages we now at
tempt to hide our loudest boast.
Monstrous Defense Line.
"For our part we can not believe
that even this monstrous line of de
fense, worse than the charge it is
intended to rebut, is, in fact true.
''Let the thing be put to a test.
Let us for a time for the first, time
attempt to deal with India as a
free and responsible partner, with
trust in substitution for tanks, au
tonomy for artillery.
"Then, if we fail, if our rule is not
wanted, the choice will be clear; it
will be General Dyer's terrorism or
the abandonment of a lucrative field
for the energies, in business and ad
ministration, of our younger sons.
Our belief in the humanity of our
race is not so exhausted that 'we
have any doubt as to its choice."
in its news colums the Herald
quotes Miss Helena Norriianton. ed
itor of "India, the organ of the
Indian Nation?! Congress.
General Defends Himself Sv
"General Dyer defends himself by
saving there was rebelIion. Miss
Nqrmanton said. "All responsible
Indians maintain that there was no
rebellion, and even Colonel O'Brien,
an assistant to Sir Michael O'Dvvyer,
then lieutenant governor of the
Punjab, admitted that there was no
evidence to support the rebellion
theory.
'"The whole of Tndia is very anx
ious that the British authorities
should not concede that bv merely
making a scapegoat of General Dyer
they can reconcile India. The real
responsibility rests upon those who
traced him in power and condoned
his deeds so long, especially Sir
Michael ODwyer. and, above all,
on the Viceroy, Lord Chelmsford.
"Nothing would placate India
more than the removal ot the Vi
ceroy.
India takes her suffering in a
very constitutional way and ascribed
them' to their true ource Lord
Chelmsford who at th time of this
organized savagery gave carte
blanche to his subordinates, and
therefore must be held responisbje.
The fifth annual report of1 the
Maryland Accident commission
shows a total of 46,875 industrial ac
cidents reported during the' year cov
ered. I his was in excess ot the
number reported in the preceding
year by 4,305 accidents. These acci-
tVnts gave rise to 4,8 claims tor
compensation, or somewhat less than
1 claim to each 10 accidents. I here
were 4,370 claims disposed of dur
ing the year, of which 173 were for
death. Awards amounted to $980,46
in compensable cases, including
medical expenses in such cases, while
an additional amount of $188,W7
was awarded as medical expenses in
cases where no claim for compensa
tion accrued. The aggregate total
from the year's work of the Com
mission was $1,16,466.
A New Zealand experiment of
draining about 40,000 acres of swamp
ands for farming and grazing has
been so successful that the govern
ment is planning to spend $1,000,000
along the same line this year, -
BLAME WIRELESS
FOR DISASTERS
ALL OVER WORLD
French Savants Predict Gen
eral Cataclysm Unless Waves
Are Placed Under
Control.
By t'nlveniHl Service.
Paris, France. It was electrical
wireless waves that caused the fire
which sent a dirigible flaming earth
ward in the heart of Chicago's busi
ness section in the begi'nning of this
year, according to new discoveries
by French savants.
j.iiese scientists say mat tne de
velopment of wireless telegraphy
has made the air a dangerous place
o ny around .m Not only that, but
explosions on eartn wnich have un
til now remained deep mysteries
have, it is asserted, been due to the
same cause millions of volts of un
controlled electiicity floating aim
lessly through the ether.
Among the disasters directlv at
tributed to wireless besides the Chi
cago 'accident, are the following:
Explosion .sinking ships off Tou
lon. Mine explosion at Cardiff two
years ago, costing hundreds of lives.
Fires on several vessels, including
the Voltern, which burned to the
w;ater line in midocean without any
discernible cause.
Wireless waves sent out by the
great stations such as 'the "Eiffel
Tower and the Marconi installations
on Long Island, at London, Hawaii,
Rome and Pekin, race through the
air at a speed of 30,000 kilometres
an hour, it, is asserted by scientists.
Anything which is a conductor
getting in the way of these waves
automatically becomes a menace, it
is said. Thus metal touchinc meta
may set off sparks causing a con
flagration. It is believed that the mystery of
the Chicago dirigible can be ex
plained by the fact that someone on
board was weariner hobnailed shoes.
At a moment when the airship was
passing through an electric zone
these hobnails came into contact
with some part, of the metal floor
ing or with an instrument, setting
ott an electrical spark which while
it may have been practically invisi
ble was nevertheless sufficient to set
fire to the gas bag. 1
Similar explanations are offered
for large fire of cotton stores on
wharves and in warehouses. It has
been proved, experts say, that some
times the iron hoops encasing the
bales become detached and touch
other hoops, thus in an atmosphere
charged with electricity, causing
contact which in turn would cause
a conflagration.
Investigations -on the subject
made by wireless scientists here
have been full of surprises. It has
been definitely established, that elec
trical waves have large influences
on plants' growth.
When the, electrical vibfations are
of feeble intensity, plant life is ac
celerated, it is asserted; but when
they are strong the growth is re
tarded. It is believed that this may
be the reason for the abnormality
ot crop failures since wireless came
into wide use. ,
"In wireless, man is toving with
a force, the extent of which is only
just beginning to be understood,"
says an expert, writing in the Petit
Parisien. "It is of the utmost im
portance that the danger be studied
and a means found to avert it, or
the world may one day be confront
ed with a disaster of such propor
tions that life itself may be extin
guished." "VAMP," 60 YEARS,
SHATTERS OLD
COUPLE'S ROMANCE
Wife, 73, Says Husband, 77,
Infatuated With Aged
Woman Boarder.
.Detroit, Mich. When a young
woman of 60 years steps, between a
-year-oia nusoana aim nis o-year
old tnde ot three months, some re
course must be had to Solomon
like wisdom to iron out the triangle.
George Thomas, 77, married Anna
Thomas, 73, three months ago. After
the first week, she said, George
failed to contribute to her support
and she brought him before the
courts on a charge of nonsupport.
"Sister Cobb" Charms Husband
Mrs. Thomas told the court that
everything had been pleasant at
home until "Sister Cobb" moved in.
"Sister Cobb" and Thomas arc mnch
more congenial now than Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas, according to the dis
appointed bride. She herself rented
the room to 'he interloper and now
is "ccrtainlv sorry she did it."
"You are' 77, Thomas," the judge
said, "and your wife fs 73. Your
lawyer is (4 and Sister Cobb is nO.
Why do y.iu come to me. a mere
youth of '37 years, to settle your
troubles?"
Married Three Months.
Mrs. Thomas said that all she
hears around the house is "Sister
Cobb this, and Brother Thomas
that." She came all the way from
St. Louis three months ago to be
his wife and not his (.housekeeper.
Mr. Thomas even informed Sisier
Cobb evetv time he closed the front
door ot put the cat out, she aid, but
never a word to Anna, his obedient
and dutiful bride.
In explanation of his conduct
Thom is said he had turned over all
the money he could to his wife, but
that he was not able to work much
reason 'A his being ' all broke
up last wmlt r wncn nve tons,oi co;n
loll on run. 1 lie judge reterrcd
the case to a prolfation officer, unrpr
whose direction 1 nomas will require
the 60-vear-old - alleged' trouble
maker to seek another room and will
contribute sufficiently to his wife's
support for enc year.
The total shipping tonnage now
building ii) the United Kingdom ex
ceeds t,he amount of construction in
the United Slates by 1,672,000 tons.
The aggregate amount now under
construction in Great Ilji'ain is
3,578,000 tons the highest amount
ever recorded.
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New Broom" Is Woman's
Untried Political Weapon
Female Politician Declares Women Are Too Apt to
Take Idealistic Point of View Regardless of Prac-
tical Consideration-Hold
Jlen.
New York. Women, as a whole,
wl eventually gain "more from poli
tics than politics can gain front
women. This in general is the judg
ment of Miss Marguerite L. Sm'th
assemblyman from the Nineteenth
New York district.
"Maybe I .think that way because
I've felt so keenly ift the past few
months how much I have to learn,"
said Miss Smith.
"Women are too apt to take the
idealistic point of view cegardles-i ot
practical considerations. When
question comes up for action the
tendency of women is to see only
the ideal solution, irrespective of the
immediate practical interests, h
volved. "Take, for example, the agitation
over protective legislation for wom
en workers. I am just as much in
favor of adequate safeguards and
ideal conditions of labor for women
workers as any woman. But I real
ize that the first consideration is limt
the women concerned continue to
earn a living. And the conditions
of their labor cannot be made too
elaborate and expensive for. the em
ployer, or he will cease to employ
women. Eew women, it serins to
me, will naturally take t his phase of
the question into consideration.
' "That illustrates what I mean
wheYi I say that one of the qualities
women can gain from politics is
breadth of view. At present they are
too apt to go off on one tangent."
"Women hold grudges," she said.
"They hold them longer than men.
And they get them more easily than
men, over more trivial causes. They
sometimes imagine the causes. Can
you see the average man doing that?
lie's too busy to worry over an im
aginary grievance, let alone think
long about a real one. That doesn't
mean that he has a short memory
BOY VETERAN OF
WAR RESEMBLES
FEEBLE OLD MAN
15-Year-0ld Lad Appears to
Be 40 Bayonetted, Gassed
Twice and Wounded
With Shrapnel. ,
Cincinnati, O. Practically a physi
cal wreck, 15-year-old Connie Leven
der, a world war hero, was arraigned
in a lunacy hearing before Probate
Judge Leuders. The youth lookcc
like a man of 40.
Connie's teeth are those of an old
man, his sight is nearly gone. With
hair thin, his head has the baldness
of an old man and his face and hands
are wrinkled all due, physicians
said, to the severe shock received by
his entire nervous system through
the war horrors he saw and felt.
Born in Richmond, Va., December
30, 1904, Connie enlisted as a mascot
drummer boy five years ago at
Sarnia, Ontario, and went overseas
with the Princess Pat regiment.
A' year later he won a medal as a
sniper in Flanders. -s.
' Over Top Many Times.
He went over the top times with
out number, was bayoneted, gassed
twice, wounded with shrapnel and
then lay, unconscious, four months in
a hospital at The Hague, a shell
shock victim.
Discharged because, of disability in
November, 1917. Connie accepted the
advice of doctors that hiking was the
best thing for him.
Stopping at a home near here, he
was' suspected of being insane.
But Connie had a loyal defender in
court. Mrs. C. P'. Austin, of this city,
heard of Connie's predicament. She
had taken him in for'a time when he
appealed for shelter a year ago.
Story Brings Tears. '
Court and spectators alike wiped
their eyes .while listening to a read
ing of the lad's record as written
by Canadian authorities.
"He was fearless. He had re
markable vision at night the' sight
of a cat He did outpost duty. He
was in raiding parties, in big offen
sives and defensive engagements. I
saw him in action, time and time
again, quick and with the judgment
and fearlessness of a man," wrote
one Canadian officer.
"I will care for him." Mrs. Austin
said. "Connie is welcome at my
home. T had three sons in the war.
Two came back and one didn't and
" but the woman's emotions, put a
stop to further words.
Court Grants Release.
Judge Lenders permitted Mrs. Aus
tin to take care of Connie, while the
judge and Dr. Wralter A. Jilson of
the federal public health service ap
pealed to the United States govern
ment and to the Red Cross to aid
the unfortunate war hero.
"Tf the great British government
can't properly care for such a boy
hero as this. Uncle Sam and the Red
Cross will." Judge Leuders de
clared. The accident rates in coal mines
are much lower in England, Wales,
France, Belgium, Germany, Austria
and Japan, because all the miners
n one mine speak the same lan
guage, ihe .polyglot worKers in
American mines are unable to un
derstand the printed or spoken in
structions, and do not have the ex
perience in mining to enauie mem
to understand the dangers apparent
to those who have been brought up
in the mines The pioneers have not
stayed in the mines to work with
the newcomers. This makes it bad
all around. The standard of safety
in the mine is thn standard of the
most ignorant miner or laborer, tie
may cause the accident that will en
danger the lives of all the rest, and,
experience has shown tfiat this is
what frequently happens.
Swedish packers are experiment
ing with paper containers for use
instead of tin cans for, sardines. ,
Grudges Longer Than
A,
for injuries or forgives them readily.
But he doesn't hold the grudge and
worry over it, and look for more
grievances, and roll the irritation up
like a snowball until the atmosphere
is generally glacial and nobody can
get anything done because every
body's got cold feet.
"'e are said to have an instinct
for politics," she said with a smile.
"But it's only the woman willi the
broadest sort of experience who
should go into politics. I don't con
sider that I personally qualify."
"There seems to be a tendency to
discount education just now, and it's
all wrong," she wCnt on vigorously.
"People expect their teachers and
professors to give service for wages
that day labores have long since re
belled against. They expect the
men of first rafP brains, too, to go
into a profession that is underpaid.
1 can't imagine anything more dis
astrous to education and the future
intelligence of America than the
failure of such college fund "move
ments 'as that for $4,000,000 for
Smith college at Northampton,
Mass., the largest college for
women in the world."
"If poltics can give so much to
women just what do you think
women' can bring to' politics?" she
was asked. "A new broom," she said
succinctly. "Why should men leave
all their efficiency methods at home,
when they get a government office?
Why should we have to spend
hours in roll call, for example, when
an electric push button system
would do just as well and save val
uable time? Why shouldn't we bud
get our city, state of national ex
penses, as any thrifty housekeeper
does, instead of spending the
people's money constantly in drib
bles as the need arises?
"We women are used to wielding
brooms. Politics will give us a
larger field to exercise ,in."
AIRPLANES MAKE
DAILY TRIPS TO
OLD BARD'S HOME
Travelers Can Now Visit
Shakespeare Home and Re-,
turn to London In Time
for Dinner.
By JOHN S. STEELE.
(Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Foreign
News Service.)
Lond6n, Eng. Unless the thou
sands of American visitors now on
their way to England are different
from the other thousands who have
preceded them in other years some
thing like 900 out of every 1,000 will
visit Stratford-on-Avon, the little,
town in Warwickshire where Shake
speare was bbrn and where he died
and whose chief industry is Shake
speare s memory. The newcomers
will be more fortunate than their
predecessors, for instead of spend
ing two or three days on the trip
as used to be necessary, they can do
it all between breakfast and dirtner
in London, thanks to the develop
ment of aerial travel. .
Trip of One Hour. '
' I have just had a day in Shake
speareland and it is a wonderful ex
ample of what can be done by mod
ern organization and modern ma
chinery. The tour is organized by
the Lepaerial Travel bureau and will
be run daily throughout the summer,
In the old davs had I wished to go
to Stratford I should have recoken
ed on a three-hour railway journey
each way, which would have ac
counted for. the best part of one day.
By Lepaerial I left the London
aerodrome at 10 o'clock in the morn
ing and was in Coventry, where the
landing was made an hour later, the
distance flown being just over 100
miles.
From Coventry I motored to Strat
ford through Warwick and past
Kenilworth through some of the
most beautiful English country. A
landing can, however, be made at
Stratford if desired and more time
devoted to the home of the poet it
self.
Shakespeare Hotel.
Stratford is just small enough t4
be, seen comfortably in one day and
part of the program is lunch at the
Shakespeare hotel, in a building
which was v the home of one of the
magnates of the town in Shake
speare s day and which stands next
door to New Place, where Shake
speare died.
I saw everything worth seeing in
Stratford, including a matinee per
formance of "The Taming of the
Shrew" at the Shakespeare theater,
5;iid was back in London at 7 p. m.,
without any of the fatigue which is
inseparable from a long railroad
journey.
The highest point in the employ
ment of women by the railroads in
the United States was reached in
October. 1918. when there were 101.
"85 employed by first class roads, an
increase of 66 per cent in the first
nine months of 1918, and of 225 per
cent from the beginning of the war.
Although this number has decreased
since that time there are still many
more employed than before the war.
There are two causes which have
operated to bring about the reduc
tion in the number of women em
nloyes: First, the return' of sol
diers and sailors, who were rein
stated according to seniority, and
second, the general reduction in la
bor force on the railroads caused
bv the necessity of economy and
which resulted in women being laid
off in many cases because of their
Idwer seniority rights. Recently,
however, there has again been a
slight increase in the number of
women employed.
The Greek covernment is planning
direct communication with Rome by
ininrovinar present railroads and
building some new ones that will
connect with a ferry across the Ad
riatic at its narrowest point.
GERMANS SICK
OF MILITARISM;
FED IIP ON WAR
Ruhr Vaey inhabitants Hate
Uniform Which Reminds
Them of the Late Un
pleasantness. By MINOTT SAUNDERS.
Chicago Trlbonr-Oiiinliit Be New Sorvli'f.
Duesseldorf. If the pulse of
the Ruhr valley can be taken to
determine the state of health of the
German republic, the world's most
militaristic people have done an
"about face. They are "fed up" on
soldiering and soldiers. Ihe clarion
call of war no longer has anv music
for them.
The average German in this dis
trict doesn't want to step like a
goose. He is convinced he can
make more progress if he walks like
a man. And anything else military
as done under the old regime is dis
tasteful to him. He doesn't want
soldiers arouird.. That explains why
the people of Duesseldorf have pro
tested so loudly against the coming
of the Green police.
Are All Former Soldiers.
The Greens are employed by the
state and practically all of tlictn are
old soldiers. It also explains why
the reichswehr are intensely hated
in eastern Germany. The reichswehr
remind the working, home-loving
folks of much unpleasantness and
I just what caused their present dis
tress.
For several months after the
armistice the occupationary force..
of the allied armies had some trou--ble
making clear to the Germans
who won the war. But the Germans
know now; at least those in the
Rhineland do. Since the signing of
the peace treaty it has dawned uti
them that they were quite conclu
sively licked. Whatever hope they
had in the balm of President Wil
son's 14 points has been shattered
by the pain of stern reality. Thev
have talked and plotted and revolt
ed, but the mailed hand of the victor
only tightens and they are begin
ning to realize that it isn't going to
do any good to squirm.
' Militarism Started It All.
The doctrine of militarism started
it all and it has lost its popularity,
The professional soldier is looked
upon as a burden to the community
and an unnecessary element in san
society. The people of this district
don't want him around.
. The reichswehr troops are largelj
young men, most of whom were nol
in action between 1914 and 1918
They are making soldiering thtit
business. The men about town who
want to attend to theit business and
hold down their jobs know some
thing about soldiering ,that thesr
youngsters never had a chance ta
learn. For them the game has lost '
its glamor. They don't like the idea
and they don't like' the men who
support it. That's why even the
most peaceful folks predict an up
rising far more fearful than the last
if the reichswehr ever invade thy
neiTral zone again. And that's .why""
they don't want the peace kept by
militarized police.
ABSCONDS WITH
MONEY; WORLD'S "
RECORD SWINDLE
Hungarian Official Offers In
vestments in Money Disap
pears With $90,000,000.
By International Ne Sen ice.
Budapest. The greatest swindle
on record has been discovered
here. A high Hungarian official
named Martin Jellinek, who was
one of the prime minister's entoiir-
age. cheated a number of people, in
cluding skillful money speculators,
of 450,000.000 crowns , (nominally
$90,000,000), and absconded with a
forged British passport.
At the beginiiinsr of Anril rumors
circulated in Budapest that a certain
amateur speculator was in a position
to sell foreign money at about 80
crowns below Jhe ordinary rate of
exchange. Business men were in
credulous at first, but an order for
the equivalent of a million crowns
($200,000) was promptly carried out.
and the news was carefully spread.
Jellinek declared that he could pro
cure any sum of money, as he was
well acquainted with the entente of
ficers stationed in Budapest.
Jn the middle of Mav his aeents
circulated the news that Jellinek wa,.
starting on a trip abroad for fore?8ii
money, and would return in June.
Bankers, aristocrats, wealthy women
and officials placed nearly 500,000.000
crowns ($100,000,000) at his disposal
ti 1 , i r - .
j ncy aiq suit 1UUK111& ior lilB swin
dler. The average number of employes
of the railways in the United States
during 1918 was 1.897.74L as com
pared with 1,780,235 rn 1917, and
1,703,577 in 1916. The total wages
and salaries paid in 1918 was $2.(86,
734,498, as compared with $1,781,
027,002 in 1917 and $1,511,728,926 in
1916. The average compensation per
employe in 1918 was $1,416; in 1917,
$1,001, and in 1916, $887. It is
stated that nearly 60 of the 77 per
cent, or ver $1,175,529,000 increase
in the cost of labor between 1916
nd 1918 went to the individual em
ploye, and that only 17 per cent wa
due to the increase in the number
employed. Accident statistics show
that for the first nine months of
1918. 7,056 persons were killed and
134.730 injured in railway accidents.
In 1917 the number killed was 10,
087 and the number injured 194,805.
In 1916 the figures were 10,001 and
196,722. respectively. Of the per
sons killed in 1918, 394 were pas- ,
jengers on trains, 2,127 employes on
iuty, and 4.535 other persons, of
whom 126 were employes not on
duty, 2,442 were trespassers, 1,506
nontrespassers and 461 persons
killed in nontrain accidents.
By a unanimous vote 20 of the 2i
unions of mechanics employed by
the Xew England and Providence
telephone companies will surrender
their charters in the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers,
affiliated with the American Feder
ation of Labor.
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