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APIDLT EONET GRQWS
' T LET IT at compound
Oft D. Rockefeller says, "When,
ieag I decided not merely to work
der money, but also to let money
perk for me," He did it, and is
wery selvent.
In Auburn State prison lives a
6a girl baby named Gloria Odell.
ne h a little Christmas tree this
e ,towell and hap y bOYa~M
8sis with her sot That
mother helped the father to mur
der a man that had wronged the
thein her rhood. The father
was executed. mother is in jail
for twenty years.
Next Christmas the girl baby
ioll be out of prison. The law
does not allow a child more than
two years ald to stay in
and the little girl's next Chistas
will be spent in a public institu
tion. She will not be as fat or as
happy next Christmas Js she is
. The Christmas afte that
be uncertain; the ebild may
spend it in heaven.
The prison baby I. net wadlh
her life. On Christmas Day all
the women convicts r past
her. Some cried; all wished her
a Merry Christmas. She may
have doe as much good on Christ
mas Dly as any free man or
What do you think of the law
would care-fr..fax- thi
anyo~ne else?,
Toen d baby to sepata-"
1i fromt mother is stvere. It
eseld aW. stay In twenty
year, of couise. Ear death, or
colorless life in institution, is
the truly "civili " alternative.
Fred Stone, in his entertaining
"Tip-Top," is told that "Au Re
means "good-by" in French.
"Well," says he, 'wood alcohol.
That means good-by in any lan
t delis the audience, but
Lis something more than, wit
sm in our prohibition country.
Frank Tiffany bought half a pint
of "whiskey" on Christmas Da
and divided the half pint with
his brother John. Yesterday both
were dead. It was "good-by" for
them.
Prohibitionists officially ask
newspapers and theaters to sup
s jokes referring to prohi
on. Will the prohibition di
ectors first make less of a joke
of prohibition?
One of the best prohibition
jokes Is the use of the prohibition
club over timid Congressmen,
compelling them to forbid doc
tors prescribing beer for their
patients, while allowing whiskey
-as much as the doctors choose.
Beer is a food, whiskey is a
posn. The kind of prohibi
ion that allows whiskey and for
bids beer will remain a joke.
"What Is courage?" Is It as
eo oa tride in th carg
blowing and thousands looking
on, as to jump Into the sea
after a friend, with no one look
IHon F B. Cros doctor of
the Rockefeller Institute, repre
sent, real courage and will live
as a hero, whatever may happen
r to others.
He went to Mexico to study and
figt yellow fever at Tuxtepec,
weefever exists- all the year
round. Yesterday he died of
yellow fever. Wen he went
to do the work, there were no
bands playing, no uniforms, no
medals or high reward. He
knew It wasn probable that he
would die. "Greater love bath
no maan than this, that he lay
down his life for his friend."
So It Is miitten, and dying to
help that vague thing, the
"human race," requires a very
special kind of courage.
That fine fighting Italian,
General Dias, Is made "Duke of
Victory." The name, taken from
a town and commune near
Venice, where Dias broke the
Austrian advance, is well chosen
by the Italian king.
Catherine of Russia choae les
happily when she wanted to
honor a little boy from whose
arm was taken the smallpox
virus with which the emrees
was lustulated. She named him
"Duke of Small Pox," and untIl
recently, at least, the title still
euisted-a name not easy to live
with. There is a great deal In
11E
I'FLIGHT
ON HIS WAy
TO HAVANA
Easterday Confession. Thought
To Have Impelled "Bond Ring"
Leader td Jump Ball.
y Isee.usi xew. aeie.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28.--"Nicky"
Arnstein, so-called "master mind"
of the $5,000,000 bond theft con
spiracy which stirred Wall Street
so deeply two years ago, has dis
appeared again.
Heeds for Cuba.
It was learned today that Federal
have been on his trail
for several days without success. They
have been told that he left here for
Havana, Cuba, and that he was con
templating extension of his trip either
to Europe or South America at the
time of his departure.
Arnstein is now under $10,000 bull
pending the outcome of his appeal
from his conviction in Washington for
bringing stolen securities into the Dis
trict of Columbia. Inasmuch as a con
firmation of this sentence will mean
that he sust serve the two-year sea
t qe In the FedeaI prison at Alanta
out to him, it is believed he J
ng for eventualities and that
ep is ready to Jumap to South America
or some other point of the compass
from wher- he cannot be extradited,
immediately upon receipt of news of
the court's decision, if it should prove
unfavorable. Announcement of the
decision is expected at any time.
Felows Easterday Ceatemtom.
The disappearance of Arnstein fol
lowed the news that .W. W. Easterday,
the Washington broker convicted with
him in the bond case theft there, had
made further revelations regarding his
operations in a detailed confession in
bankruptcy proceedings before Unitd
States Commissioner Gilehrist.
DECLARES JAZZ GENESIS
OF AMERICAN MUSIC
DETROIT,- Mich., Dec. 28.-Jasc
must be taken seriotesly-because it
is the genesis of Amesacan musical
expression. It has taken' such a grip
on the great mass of people that not
one, not even a gifted musician, can
afford to soff at it. Its popularity
eput be ntural. Do believes Osbourne
MoCCnathy, president of the Music
Teachers National Association, which
opened its forty-third annual conven
tion here today.
"While ia itself vulgar, sensuous,
elemental, even savage at times, Jazz
is the attempt at musical expression
of the melting pot of America," said
Mr. McConathy. "Given time, it will
develop into a form of national com
position that will vie with the great
French and German ideals."
Three hundred delegates from all
parts of the United States are in
attendance.
CAMDEN, N. J., TAXI MAN
USES HAMMER ON HOLD-UP
CAMDEN. N. J., Dec. 28.-Defying
a pistol pointed at him.. William H.
Bishop. taxi driver, early today ham
mr abandit senseless who at
tempted to hold him up after hiring
his oar and ordering him to drive
to a lonely spot. The bandit escaped
later as Bishop was telephoning for
the police, leaving a large revolver
and a package of personal effects.
Bishop believes a hammer is the
best cure for hold-up men.
WEALTHY BROOKLYN MAN.
KILLED BY BANDIT TRIO
NEW YORK, Dec. 28.-Bandits
shot and killed Charles Have.. fifty
four, wealthy Brooklyn shoe sales
man, early today when he started to
fight as they were rifling his
pockets.
Police are on the trail of the trio,
who stopped Haves as he was return
ing frome a visit to a son-in-law's
home.
POISON BOOTLEG KILLS
FOUR IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Dec. 28.-Police today
-re seeking the eogree of the poisonous
liquor, dispensed as Christmas cheer,
which today had killed four persons,
three men and a woman, and left
another man in a serious condition In
Bellevue Hospital.
Thirty-seven cases of alcoholism
have been reported at Bellevue Hos
pital since Christmas Eve.
SOVIET TO ABOLISH
MONOPOLY ON TRADE
LONDON, Dec. 25.--The Moscow
Soviet is about to abolish the gor.
ement monopoly on foreign trade
and grant absolute freedom of eom.
merce abroad, said a Central News
[Y" A
GOOD -FOR F
INDEPENDI
(Reprinted From Yesterd
H UERAN for France!
Thank God there is one nr
tion which Great Britain does
not wholly dominate and whose gov
ernment she does not entirely control
in her own selfish interests.
Three cheers for courageous, inde
pendent, self-respecting little France,
with a population less than half of
ours and a territory less than a fifth
of ours, but with a spirit as indomi
table, as inspiring, as glorious as the
great American spirit of ours
USED TO BE.
Good for France, whose represent
atives are not marionettes workedon
the financial wires of the interna
tional bankers, but genuine, patri
otic statesmen, who think more of
their country and of their people
than they doof al the campaign on
tributioms the international bankers
have provided in the past or have
promised to provide in the future.
Vive Ia franosl May she live loag
among nations and may her valor
and her love of liberty and her pa
triotism and her shrewd sound sense
incease as these 4penat1 qualities
-in other once independent natiob
Sdigaini~lb p that the world shall not
altegethet b1j ne - doormat for
Great Britaid $p wipe her feet upon.
Franoe knos England, but wa
although we have had two wars with
her, although she has swept our
merchant marine off the seas, al
though she tried to destroy us dur
ing our Civil War, when we were
struggling for very existence; al
though she has allied herself with
our enemies and then lied about it
and then been proved to have lied
about it-WE do not know her, and,
if we depend upon our innocent, gul
lible statesmen, never will know her.
France knows that there is not
any suggestion of genuine disarma
ment at the present conference, nor
has there been, nor will there be.
There is only talk of other nations
than England ceasing to arm in a
way which might be effective against
England and which might threaten
England's complete supremacy on the
seas. There is only talk of those
other nations "disarming" in a way
to make protection of their coasts
and their possessions impossible and
resistance to attack Ineffective in
case England should at any time de
sire to discipline those nations.
France knows that England pos
sesses twice or three times the avail
able fleet o' any other nation under
the propor i proportion of naval al
lotment, acause England has ten
times the merchant marine of any
other nation and because she so
builds and subsidizes and utilizes
her merchant marine as to give her
stupendous forces in ships and men
the moment war is declared and her
merchant ships are transformed into
battle cruisers.
France knows, too, that the
strength of the actual battle fleet of
England Is the strength of the battle
fleets of England and Japan com
bined-that England has always put
the lie in alliance, that she lied be-.
fore about her secret -alliance with
Japan, but that the alliance did ex
ist and was proved to exist, and that
a secret separate alliance does NOW
exist between England and Japan,
no matter how much England may
(e about itnor herw many sftnd
(SEI
4' 4
ATRIOTIC,
ENT FRANCE
ay's New York American.)
ton may be deceived by her diplo
matic falsehoods.
France knows that fortiflhatiems
are merely protective armmenta,
not aggressive armaments, and that
submarines are protective and defen
sive armauent,. and when England
and Japan want to deny to ether
nations the right to build fortifios
tions and submarines they want to
deny to other nations the right to
protect themselves whenever Eng
land and Japan in secret alliance
shall decide to dominate not only the
seas but the lands of the world as
well.
France knows that the interna
tional bankers who run our Govesn
ment are not really international
bankers, but British bankers-that
they wre acknowledged and AO
CREDITED agents of England dur
ing the war, and that they are actual
agents of England today, aMough
not openly acknowledged pl .b
Holy accredited.
France knows that t$ tote
proposals of America at the esife
once are really the proposals tEg
land made through the intessa al
wbr _ they e
perate and Include among their
tangible assets when they balance
their books every night.
France knows that whatever is to
be done at the conclave each day is
decided upon by Boot and Ealfour
in private conference every previous
night, and that whatever Mr. Bal.
four decides in the interest of Eng
land and Mr. Root decides in the in
terest of the international banker
our super-statesmen advance n
day as the proposals of America
and that then these proposals, by
way of camouflage and strategy, are
vigorously opposed by Japan, and,
after much apparent deliberation
and pretended hesitation, are reluc
tantly approved by England.
France knows that there is no use
of her remaining at a conference.
where England runs Japan through
a secret alliance and where Eug.
land runs the United States through
the international bankers, and where
England, therefore, has three votes
to France's one.
*Bo Briand preserves his self-respect
and the prestige of his nation by re
turning to France and by holding
out In his own fine, brave country
for the rights and liberties of his pa
triotic people.
France knows, finally, and we our
selves are beginning to know, that
America is getting Into the doormat
class as far as England Is concerned,
and that there appear to be, after
all, some reasons and uses for the
abundant whiskers of our excelsior
stuffed statesmen, because appended
to almost every perfect doormat
there Is an especially bristly brush
box upon which particularly impor
tant and circumspect visitors give
their feet an additional wipe before
standing proudly upon the doormat
and haughtily condescending to enter
the humble premises.
And rest assured, good, upstand
ing Americans-those of you who'
are left-that wherever politics has
provided a national doormat and
nature has created a humn foot
wiper, able and arrogant John Bull
takes full advantage of the "oppor
tunities they aEord.
WILLIAM lANDOLI.P NEARST.
'Sub'.
S* Seei
HARE STER
KING'S WIFE
Mrs. Harold MoCormick Is
Granted Decree on Oround~j
of Desrton.
CHICAGO. Dec. 28.-Mrs. Edith
Rockfeller McCorick fed a bill
for divorce against her husband.
Harold F. McCormick, In superior
cor . She charges desertion.
almost immediately
fied an answer denying deetion,
but admitg living apart from his
The sert Innadiatsly granted
e .wedivn,
Wedgy e it ~ os parks the
point bA knours in
circles for acme time. The news
' ht great distress to their friends
ameng the artists of the Chicago
Grand Opera Company, which they
had sponsored.
Deserted In 1917.
McOouick's bill says they were
married n1895 and lived together
until May 87, 1912. On that date her
husband deserted her, the bill charges.
Hearing of the case began at 11:3
a. m. to day before Judge Charles A.
McDonald.
Mrs McCormick in person came to
the courtroom, accompanied by former
Judge Charles B. Cutting. her attorney.
eCormick, at the office of the Mc
Cormick estate, in the Lalane finan
cial district, declined to comment upon
the divorce proceedings. His secretary
said McCormick had nothing to may
and left word that no questions should
be answered.
Mr. and Mrs. McCormick have two
children, Miss Muriel McCormick and
Fowler MoCormick.
HILL FEUD ENDS FATALLY
FOR THREE AT XMAS PARTY
LONDON, Ky.. Dec. 88.-y.-wit
ness accounts of a bloody battle at
Portersburg, Clay county, Meaday
night, in which 'three an were
killed and two 'others perhape fatally
wounded reached here this morning.
The battle, said to have been
staged at a Christmas celebration at
the home of Thomas Martin, was
participated in by members of the
Bngs and Martin-Phil t clans, who
are now at deadly fued, according to
reports. Those arriving here said
that calls had gone out through the
mountain fastnesses and that fur.
ther bloodshed was feared.
Those dead are Hugh Hammonds,
his son. Samuel Hammond., and
George York. The wounded are
Sol York and his nephew, Ring York.
$2,000 IN GEMS TAKEN
FROM SUBURBAN HOME
Miss Louise Taylor, of Seat Pesse.
ant. Md., reported to the police to
day the theft of more than $3,000
from her home during the latter pert
oForcing a window in the rear of
the house, thieves entered and made
away with a ring set with three
emeralds, a crescent pin set with
thirty-four pearl., a ring set with
five opals and a saapphire ring, be
aides a number of articles of smaller
value. The rohhery was not dis
covered until yesterday.
MAN AMPUTATED THUMB
AFTER TAKING MOONSHINE
PITTSBURlGH, Dec. 28.-After tak
ing two drinks of "moonshine," Nick
Tomasky, Braddock, mat down in the
roadway and amputated his left
thumb with a pair of pinchers after
it had been partly shot away in a row
with Jacob Zellar.
ellar is in the Braddock General
Hospital with a gunshot 'wound in the
leg, said to have been inflicted by
Luis Tomasky, a brother of Nick.
NERO RUNS AMUCK; KILLS
WIFE AND COMPANION
George Samuel Elppe, a negro re
sming at 1105 FirSt street northwest
ran amuck in his home this after
noon, killingC his wife and another
negro woman who was v'isiting in the
place. He used a revolver. He was
a....ted and locked up at No, s
eec *
Agreel
s Ho
Boston Woman Hired
Man To Thrash
Her Husband
If you can't do It yourf, ladies,
hh's a strengarm man 1a do it
for you. This is what Mrs. Ella
M. Whitsbasd did when her bus
eenw
adhe did. Result:
dIIuWy had br in court. The east.
og am* her a bUndr&edolar., anc
*ae says the -m-s- wehr
r p that sum.
PlRITYMENTORS
SUGGEST TRUCE
ON 1(SS IN 1922
Spooning a Sin, and Autos
Merely Bedrooms on Wheels,
They Say.
By JAM L. EI LOALLEN.
Iatere.emal News surtes.
CHICAGO, Dec. 28.-New Tear
resolution for "teen" age girls:
"Don't kiss any man unless you
are engaged to him and not often
then!'
Mrs. B. C. Howell, lecturer on
morals and a delegate to the Inter
national Purity Congress, In session
here, urges the American girl to turn
over a new leaf, reassert her tra
ditional right ,to chivalrous treat
ment in the hands of her masculine
Mends, and tot back to the moral
oode et 1914.
"8pooning," she said In an inter
view today, "never has been so In
dsriminate-never has had such
disastrous results to the morals of
the gls In the 'teen' age.
"I know. For fifteen years I have
been making talks to grammar and
high school girls, hearing their
stories-stories they wouldn't tell
their own mothers. The girls say
the men expect to be kissed; most
girls think It Is all right: they say,
every girl doe. it.' Is it any won
dr that the average age of girls
admitted to the Florence Crittenten
missions has dropped in ten years
from the age of twenty-six to six
teen, with some an young an ten?"
To which the Rev. Wilbur F.
Crafts, than whom there are few
more famous in the world of reform,
added an enthusiastic "amen"
"Blame jazs dancing, the seductive
movie kiss that sets the example,
nd the bedroom on wheels-other
wise known as the automobile," said
the superintendent of the interna
tional reform bureau. "The jam.
palaces are nothing more than cess
pools, the Immodest scenes In the
movies are sucking the souls out @
our girls, and the bedrooms cn
wheels are carrying them over the
raoids."
Dr. Crafts heartily agreed with the
suggestion of J1. Louis Guyon, Chi.
cago dancing master, who told the
delegates that when they go back
home they should call together s
doen substantial citizens and prevail
upon them to register loud corn
plaints when jazz music is played,
smutty songs sung In the theater, or
Indecent dancing indulged In.
"Oet up and walk out," he said.
"The result will surprise you. Hun
dreds will follow."
"Excellent!" said Mrs. Howell.
"But don't let the girl, forget thai
1922 resolutIon-No sponning! Burely
conversation Is not a lost art."
Ex-Gov. Beckett Is Dead.
RA'LEIGH, N. C.. Dec. 18.-Thomai
W. Blckett, former governor of North
Carolna, died at his home here ear!y
oday as the result of a stroke of
paralysis last nignt. Blc'kett was suc
ceeded as executive by Governor Mor
.a.... te. *=m==t.
RI
nent
p eless
REJECTI1
HELD BAR
.TO TREATY
Paris Desgatos Agrmabis to
Capital Ship Ratio. But Ask
Fre. Hand on Ss mabl.
1biamatisem News eers. .
French deiat to the arts
conference, ating on orders from
Paris, wen into today % sst om
sion of the naval powers
to aToues their S. e[SSeg
ce of the 1.75 m e epi
and
in as inferie
nation,
"An agreement on submarines seems
hopeless," mid a member of the Amer
Icean delegation when he went into the
session at 11 o'clock. "The French
don't want to be restrleted in sub
marines and we certainly can't tirs
them.".
Another member of the American
delegation declined to comment on the
outlook, but it was apparent that little
hope is held of reaching an agreement
on submarine.
It is understood, however, that
France's rejection of the submarine
program will not affect her aeceptaioe
of the 1.76 ratio as applied to capital
ships, nor will it prevent an agreement
being reached on other auxiliary craft.
such as ight cruisers, torpedo boats,
carriers and lesser fighting vessels.
Censters em Sasarine Issue.
The whole opposition on the part
of France, it was said by members
of the conference, would be directed
against the submarine ratio, and there
was a hopeful attitude as the meeting
got under way that it would be found
possible to limit some classes of other
craft at least.
The Interpretation that will be
placed on the submarine rejection Is
that every nation Is to be free to con
struct as many submarines as it deems
necessary and desirable. A British
spokesman said today that Great
Britian will consider herself free In
this respect and also with regard to
the development of anti-submbrlne
craft.
Every Indication pointed to the
flat refusal of both France and Japan
to accept the American comnpromise
program on submarines, under which
they would have 31,000 tons of sub
mersible. to 60,000 tons retained by
the United States and Great Britain.
Upon the nature of their refusals.
tations wil be conin ue here i
or whether they wi be idfinitly
postponed to be taken up at some
later and larger meeting of the
powers, as the French hope.
Like the Hughes capital ship pro
grmIs elastic, andsu t Am ra
degates, at least, went into today's
confernce hpng tht th e carac
fusals would be such as to permit a
continuation of the discussions here
in the general direction of a complete
naval agreement.
The Trendh, however, apparently
are inent upon forcing anotr con
today that the present conference
will succeed In imposing limitatios
on auxiliary craft along with the
limitation already agreed upon with
regard to the big ships.
Against Postpomlng Dechlsto.
The attitude of the other delega
tionsu-American. British, Italian and
ment ofte submarinet deiso e
They believe it should be settlj,
the opportunity presents itself. BDo
agreement can only be made by enue
Imous consent, and It appeared todw
that the French will not give this.
The Japanese feel that they have
been placed In an awkward position.
Havin once accepted the 54,000 tons
of submarines allotted them under
the original Hughes program, their
spokesmen declare that it is unfair
and impossible for Japan to be asked
to accept a still further cut to 31.000
tons a. proposed in the Chrilstmas
compromise.
If the submarine questIan ia to
be allowe'd to no~ ove" until sonme fu
Iture coinference, and with It the
Iwhole cues~ne auailiary shis