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Adame ýt k ~h li ousi J 3sw~ ' k u " 1: rwifs~fa ~9P~~~·3I 60 t m. 'iiZiiu bt ýe eb rCI~~·Qs s LL - iprl: WO ik ~'iB M1 t t m a- Y rrS .b 4 N. 4'4 - Ik, as I suspected, qlmer had been done hesr I was ·todest that the scene ft he tragedy would be the room dl reety wder mime. The aereams I had h -ead the shot--hd seemed to c- thrm uner my very feet. A 'll the lights In the tfrot of the eall were BruasL the sittlng room was is darie. As I reached the dear, ary iars sought -the butta.. mai ma the fre of lght illuminated ie i0em I ltherb hastily about me. tLe wasne am theme, but my ne .-fira.nmew wee me that the door St ibs mD sft, sestae sd larly to . iR i th. ,apuesa mt above. was - .f Gqpw to linct the ln.re. s amt toI nspect mte to sofa., a- room, at tg Mb ssedel, emamiu of the sttalg ms: ae. too. was darkaues, nad a t turied the lights, I stood Sea t Imm; lm, ee p to the anner fillpr .mand h, ' iae r e were Wee sand sart n. oerm was -ttwin uder her, and the other hand was eashl at the tfroet at her el where a blotch at ghastly red isSl h` peth o the shoet that I i Nine' la.m.', asm Mr. Wick's uaige b Abed 1m!' 's beef murdered, I ased; "set i- a* Iar her t see i there e s lfscarr 1e sat I saw ha °tler rwhMtth reat the aaseteosifruti asers. M4 'hap mea l t' lr or tiew m telephnee at ~ipS ee aM a while wemiagar~hbedat be Wi la M bar so,' I k the ;_ t'" IT X9` 24 "Mr. Nelson and me just discovered her body. What's that, sir?" Just what Mr. Kent's reply on hear ing the shocking pews had been I had, of course, no means of knowing, but whatever it was, over the superintend eat's face came an expression of in credulity and amazement. "What do you, think," said Mr. Wick, turning to me; "he says for me to call up Headquarters at once." "Of course," I said, "it is the only thing to do." Nevertheless, as Mr. Wick waited for the number, he kept shaking his head and muttering under his breath something that sounded like: "To think of his telling me to call in the police I" With the doctor summoned and the police sent for, there seemed to be little else for us to do but wait, so Wick and I sat down together In the rear sitting room with the elevator boy still on guard at the door. "Whe was Miss LutanT" I asked. "Why, Daisy Lutan, the actress," saId Mr. Wick in surprise. "I sup posed everyone knew her." "'ve heard about her," I hastened to say, "but I had no Idea that she lived in the Granddeek. Did she live here alone?" "She keeps a maid, an old woman that has been with her for years." "Where's the maid tonight?" "Out to the movies, I s'pose. That's where she goes every night when Miss Luatn isn't playing. When she Is, she goes to the theater with her." "Then Miss Latan is not playing now?" "Not for the last month." "Bad there been any one here with hbe tonlght? 'TI ask the elevator boy." "John says she came In alone about ltsea' minutes ago," said Mr. Wick when he came back. "She went out 'W of Her Type Always Have a Ma"*tWWef $ s* do s was 1YkYII r ,ea. tlsr w ife she case ak * ut In as hieesi tat That's Uslut suppose the arartiar *a·se-ir&) agpgga the WhrmdetWW a t I g~ i- o au ?.ll riilu'u;ilr ~ rrLro;Cil bal: i z,. + t. ti~ri~~ e~g he. arst - . ' I .x _o -, bfs~gi A.4 .~ ... ..tP As we waited the three of as eart ted about the crime and about the dead actress. From the conversation I learned that at the height of her me teoric career on Broadway Daisy Lutan had become the wife of the young son of a very rich family. "His parents in sisted that she had trapped him into matrimony and after long legal wran gling she had been divorced about a year ago. She had received a large sum In settlement, and this with her earnligs as an actress enabled her to live in luxury. "Hadn't she a sweetheart now?" I asked. "Better make it plural," sneered the doctor. "Women ob her type always have a lot of men friends." "No men ever came to see her here. Im positive of that," said Mr. Wick. "Of course not," said the roctor sar castically. "The reputation of the Granddeck apartments must be pro teted at all costs." As we talked two detectives In plain clothes arrived. They viewed the body and proceeded to question the doctor. "How was this woman killed?" "By a revolver shot right through the heart." "Who Is she?" "Daisy Lutan, the actress." "Who did lt1" "It must have been a burglar," to terjected Mr. Wick. "My theory is that she came in -anapeetedly and found him at work." "Who fund her? "These girtlemen," said the doetor. Including both Mr. Wick and me with a wave of his band. The detectives turned to Mr. Wick first "Tell us about it," see to them di rected. "My name is James Wick." he began as it he was reciting a familiar lessen. "I am the superintendent of the Granddeck apartments. I was In the elevator about half an hour ag when I heard a woman screaming rad then the sound of the shot. I took out my revolver and got of at this foor to in vestigate. At the door I fountd Mr. Nelson. He. too, had heard the screams and the shot and thought they came from this apartment. I took out my pass key and we went ii." "Were there any signs of the bur glar?" asked the other man. "No, we looked all through the apartment and found no one." "Was anything mtisslng? I waited with bated breath to hear if Wick would tell of having ftond the wall safe open. If he did not I felt it would be conclusive evidence that there was something he was trying to conceal. "I didn't notice anything missing," he aid glibly. "I wouldn't know, any-R how. I don't know wat studf she had here." "Who would know?' "Her maid might. She's out now. Generally she's , home by eleven o'clock." "Did she keep only the one se~nat Only the maid and a ebauf ur." *es de was tr elsla In the _yet r She'd gone out'll &ebt 'about ssen ia her owpemr. MShe .es hems Inexeetedly to -iM re ta so more t half asm hbour a s." "DIishe cmeLshem ela ." "lime she was alme. At least the ht haps tlad e un I d18i nt see-her wer ans ae I'wassee insavs tm WV* was lyng.! - was toha lew ame an mo a s tah oe oM -a- aesm heeissl W ywhdre Blla "e wn as we webtut one whont jbe e`e w. w. e t th: i it .ta m,,, tmm-t ._-llwr .:e ua i a e am h it s sn ~~wem 6~i wad ·~ithcS~bhi~` t2 ou w~~l~hais~ *ad .-i ;r y, ~:'S ·-·I~ -?·= ··t.t;r-~;··~ ~ace~ rr~i~~ ~·g~.~a~It~*~f7:~ PROBLEMS FACING STRICKEN WORLD Shall Chaos or Reconstruction in Europe Follow the Great World War? HUMAN NATURE VS. IDEALISM Comunnistic Theory of Ownership of Land. Put to the Test in Rusoia, Has Preved Dire Failure In Practlee. Article XXVI. By PRANK COMERFORD. The boalabeik goverament seized ia dustr; the working men took over the facetories. It was pert et the plan of communIsm. The promise was that the selaliuation of Industry would ia erase production and free the Work ors from exploltation. The owners and managers were driven from the plants. These men were of the bourgeois elam. They had no place In the new scheme at things. They were "tainted" with sccess. They had Intelligently and edkcently built up their industries. This was enough. The bolahevtk gv enrmet denied them dtisenship anad drove them trom the enterprises they had balt. D erything was to be owned n common; private property ot al hinds had been abolished. The men who worked In the factories or mill were at be their own bo.es. They were part ao the state, and the state owned and operated eveqthing. T.e .r eriment of Se factory was t hbe by committee, every man was the equal of every other man; orders were gtmen and orders taken with this thoauht to amind. The result was lasubordia tie. Nvery. man was bees; all ,e tam banished; system made esaves- Ddrwa with sstem I The hbusles brains having been driven out. bnsb ordinatiun having come tIn, prodte ties decined ntil- It almost cased. many workers gave up in dIagnt sad returned to their lages. The exodes tfrom Petrograd was marked. Prnot to 1915 Petrograd was a city of nearly ,000,000. In 1918 its population had shrunk to lees than 00,000. lam. tories osed. Again the theory of comnmntalm, when pat to the tet. faild. Trotsky Had Renedy. Troty. In comfending the iore ad I the bolshevik prqram to meeodEtdli soealise nduitry, charged it to the sabotage at the tB. Dy I this be weat that' the bohetlhe , &iwe the specdafla the ohI and maaegsa ut has yoat eat .1 - mess; that the wdinkg msa, awt haI- I lag the ma er .Inthem sIme L Mpa·· ! mlsii m mmml@W 1 lp eu r a. le midag l petortd oat the e-M - ti 60 be peset~ia Beed. tee an I t weI bsad·img eduuik i . i wiL~t tll 10006 bicb~lt be sits Whot t-l end et NO I -- .m. 15 1i -" nom km l e 4e ,I ; '.ito t . tbmQ i't- O i*cfSS Qf. -a tom 0. lf2 -r s rrt a. i tt is t rrrr~t; w .I -c~a4d id-.·i th e t -iirj tor 11e 46 Mm r t li tit fle swiu W te -d ~1 t, 'ktok Yi·YL~j to " a~ D· ' 1psF Mdto .* rid 1~L~~b I~I p bei~ - i *t kml 95S~ these men leave the door of the school different men in aspirations and am bitions. Take them back to the fac tories and in nine cases out of ten you will find that you have made mana gers, foremen, experts out of them, and that they are conscious of it There will be some few whose great idealism will Inspire them to go back into the shop and work for the com mon good. Such men are the excep tions to the rule. The great majority will insist upon recognition of their greater skill and demand compensa tion for it. Their thoughts would be "Now that I am skilled and educated. now that I take on my shoulders a larger and more important responsibil ity, I am entitled to increased conld eration and a larger reward. Why should I be put on the level with the mee who haven't the capmacty I have and who do not shoulder the same rr sponslbllty I 8,T' Trotsky's pima - minds me of the Intensely maternl hen, that after practicing on white door knebs. discovered some *g In a bare, and with great enthusasm be gn to set. In the course a time her patlenee and motherhood were reward ed. As s- as her brooed was able to walk she took them eo an emes sten to the river bank to give them a worm banquet. When she rached the iater edge she was startled at smng her young ones paddle late the water and withet even so much as a gere by. swim eod The test of the eommunist theory i whether or not, when put to prctUes it Increases preodutie. The ther ot the communist is that It will In erese productl by anduelg mas wsw because they are their am bhaes and are guaranteed an eua share in the production. The paee tiet fact which upsets the theory is that human beings are moved to work by thei desine for gm. Human be Ipgs have this stratin i their oe. It ts organle: tt s a part of them. I do not reer to eed. I mean hat al expereance proves that human beogt are l.ividualists. The average ma thinks of himself and his tntetrses a dsom times to the one time he stht. Sthe general nterest o mscety. This Is tree even of the mo who give muct thought and has much eoem for ate eomsa good. He may be gasermo to a falt, but he wants 1 aeulee the thins ent then give t (seupstitl, netwithstandimn al t theories of the easliss to the esm try quickets lft si. a Wmates 9S to work, makes fr progeass. Ifl where about no we gee in sr daBQ eauoesces evidence of ais at. Lifb is a gamble is the san that va0 mthing is tmeerap; use Iuset Ia tain. Ie ma- can yam or hisb tsoerrw. While I a mtu a Atamst. f et see f awr ow sa and fro a the du thmiIbO t -ae things to pts uer, we bave no coatrei. it Is the 4eRt o man is p vile 4. aa t fnehiib meese.w to - w ii , w hue ku him buen t " a ab ter with evray e beer ·p---- CIMiqi- ftr . ;.: E&wr -tik~w~cSi-~ i~fb -- ;i iWWi 4-P~i - L~ ~ ~-i - - w ~i- - .u_,.: ' ~77, -~1~ "6 ~M *Wi