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JtaMatta Drnta (Emits
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
Daily Except Sunday. 25-29 South Meridian Street,
Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 N
MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS.
_ 1 Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos.
Advertising offices J New York. Boston. Payne. Burns A Smith. Inc.
has Irving Lemaux really gone back to the Republican party?
HAD that Greensburg pig that climbed a fence been associating -with
“blind pigs?”
CONGRESS is stilt threatening to pass a tariff bill. The suspense is
becoming unbearable.
EVEN CONGRESS seems to be peeved at some of President Harding's
Cabinet appointments.
LET US HOPE the Taxpayers’ League -will not object to the county
supplying quarters for sick veterans.
PERHAPS those local investigators are making that trip for the pur
pose of determining how bad a street railway situation may become before
the cars stop running.
The Hoodlum
The dictionary says a hoodlum is a young rowdy, a rough lawless fel
low and it further says that the word is of American colloquial use. It
is quite common and there abound hoodlums everywhere, but It is to
another hoodlum that attention is called.
The Big Four railroad runs a train in one or two sections, between the
Union Station in Indianapolis and Beech Grove, for the exclusive benefit of
employes, and by some strange process it has acquired the name of the
Hoodlum, though surely it does not deserve such a characterization.
The train stops at many streets to take on passengers in the morning
end let them off at night. It is often composed of a large number of
coaches, given wholly to the short trip to Beech Grove. These coaches
were once the pride of the railroad and they Inspire respect for their age.
Those informed in the lore of railway rolling stock insist that a consider
able regard is due to them for holding up and functioning at all, after the
years of service to their honest credit.
The coaches are innocent of paint of any late vintage. The short dis
tance which they travel scarcely warrants upholstery or even requires
seating facilities, though probably, in balmy days of youth and newness
there were sufficient.
The train has carried employes to Beech Grove since the shops were
built, and the longer it survives, the greater becomes the riddle of its
name. It Is neither young, rowdy nor lawless. If it were rough it would
Fall to pieces. Only one explanation can be ventured—because It is loved
It is so familiarly given a pet appellation.
There a human tendency to misname those things which are really
near to the heart. A man will call his son a rogue, but would resent the
triplication. He calls his wife old woman, when she is ever young in his
heart. So the faithful, decrepit train, which accommodates so many, is the
tioodlum. It deserves a better name.
Another's Burden
An incident too pathetic to escape notice recently occurred in a Colum
jus (Ohio) hospital. A Porto Rican girl, after over half a year’s painful
progress in building 'up a nose, died just as success was achieved. A
ropical skin disease caused the loss of the nose. Surgeons who were
skilled In rebuilding faces during the war undertook to supply nature s
ieflciency and bad accomplished it, when the ratient, after seeing herself
lepr’red. suddenly died.
Enduring seven long months in the hospital and following the grafting
if skin, just as the object of so much sacrifice was attained, a patient
ipirit was released and could not enjoy the fruits of such skill—in the
lesh. It is at least gratifying to know that the girl saw herself as she had
leslred to be.
Very frequently in life the bu 37 passers by do not realfze the height
if the other fellow’s sorrow. Often, with children and grown-ups, the
rials of the day are mountains Instead of little hills and every fellow’s
orrows seem to be the greatest, especially to him. Sometimes the sense
f proportion is lost and the person is called crazy. Others bear the slings
if outrageous fortune alone, year in and year out, without complaint.
It is not necessary to go far from one's own doorstep to find people
rith burdens fastened upon their back, or, like this young lady, patiently
learing up under adversity, so as to attain what others think nothing of.
(jiy word of sympathy or encouragement to them costs nothing and really
lesses the giver.
Jf one could only know how deeply the desires of another were written
n the heart, and what the achievement really would mean, the world
rould be more kindly. It would not be so Inclined to smile and slight the
lttle things which simple desire yearns for in vain.
The sign of a gentleman or a gentlewoman is shown in the ability to
jut ones self in the place of the other and to realize the Golden Rule.
1 Cruel Hoax
About the thinnest farce which has been perpetrated upon the public
ecently was the alleged kidnapping of a man named Randolph at Shannon,
’a. After several long distance calls and letters and demands for $50,000,
! developed that there was no kidnapping at all, that the man was mis
epresenting the situation and, indeed, that he had not even been held.
The egotist who would alarm his family and friends by such a report,
alselv, is either very neaxly out of hi3 mind, or he is hopelessly malformed
iVntally, for the farce is too cruel to be justified any other way. A ray
f liope is seen in the action of the parents. They refused to pay the
■uro ransom he asked, but did offer a reward for the mythical kidnappers.
I Row the police and postoffice officers are prosecuting this self-consti
luted hero and, beyond doubt, when he i3 through with them he will wish
■hat he had not framed such a cruel hoax on his relatives and near ones.
I Down deep in the heart every one desires distinction. Boys would be
Benerais and policemen. Men would be of large affairs. Girls dress as
Brides and women imitate queens. This is natural and good, for It seems
Ba plant the seeds of success. It causes them to look up. It is the begin
ning of- Ideals which some times approach achievement. But the happy
■mlt ends in the play, not in the enforcement of the unreal upon those
■bout. A Joke is always good, for a while.
B This man either wanted money so badly that he did not care how
Be obtained it, or he did not know when a joke ceases to be one. Anyhow
Be was weak. He played on the fears of parents and wife, permitted them
Bj suffer the torment® incident to the crime, whether or not they were
Beal, all for his own gelfish ends. It is hoped the courts may find a way to
Beal properly with him.
| roubles of the Sterner Sex
■ Whoever reads and discerns the signs of the times will be startled
■y news indicating the necessity of men to stand together, or to at least
prepared, in the new era which constitutional amendments and equal
Bifferage is bringing about. Two instances suffice.
At Syracuse, N. a faithful spouse, who was a former deacon and
■horch official, was recently haled tnto divorce court and there he disclosed
Bis marital experiences, much to the edification of the public. He swore
It answer to his wife’s complaint that she and three of the five children
B-ied to hang him; that they chased him with ropes, clubs and knives
Bed “set upon him and attempted to overpower him.” Neighbors inter
fcrred and prevented a crime.
B This man, according to the report, was a good fellow, but had forgotten
I) provide sos his family for the last eight years. He lived ip constant
I inror of them and still did not care for a divorce. Possibly his fatherly
I Jgard and manly love and long suffering constrained him. But the female
I Brtalnly was the more deadly of the two.
Another incident arose at the Wheeling Inn Country Club, at Wheeling,
I 1. There a man had protected his wife to the extent that he took her
Bito partnership in the ownership of the inn. They continued happy in
le realisation of about $12,000 profits a year since 1918, until lse sug
ested a settlement of partnership business, or at least an accounting.
Ken the wife chased him out of the place with a loaded revolver. What
gedy might have occurred, had he stood his grounds, can only be left
I > imagination.
Well may the sterner sex pause to ask the meaning of su<;h examples
I ’ social complexity! It may be a handwriting on the wall, a call to arms
I furatively speaking. At least it demonstrates the necessity for an awak
xing and a thorough understanding of one’s position in life.
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Ye TOWNE GOSSIP
Copyright. 1921. by Star Company.
By K. C. B.
"Jnst think of two man railing them
selves Americans. one of flhem allowing
five year# to pn**# without wishing to
vote, and another letting seventeen years
go by without trying to rote.'' Extract
from the court remarks of Attorney Wil
liam Klein, the reference being to Jack
Dempsey and his manager, Ja> k Kearns
AND HERE am T.
AM) WE'LL presume.
• * •
I'M A good citizen
• • •
TOR EVERV year
• • s
I GO somewhere.
• • •
AND STAND la line
AND TELL some clerk.
ALI, ABOrT myself.
AND THEN at election.
I GO again.
AND STAND in line
AND AFTER a while.
GET A 1-t of ballots.
AND GO Into a booth.
AXD LOOK at the ballots
AND HAVEN’T any idea.
WIIAT THEY'RE all about.
AND PICK out one.
• • •
THAT HAS names on it.
AND MOST of the names.
• I $
t'D NEVER heard.
• •
AND MARK some crosses.
AND SnoVK the ballots.
• •
IN A little slot.
AND GO on out.
QUITE SATISFIED.
I'M A good American
AND MOST of the time
THE ONES I marked
HAVEN'T BEEN elected.
AND TWO or three times
WHEN THEY TE*b*aen elected.
• • •
IT WASN’T long.
• • •
AND THEY went to prison
AND OTHF.B time*.
WHEN TRET wre elected.
IN A little while.
I’D BH panning them.
AND IF I were Mr. Klein.
I WOULDN'T worry.
ABOUT MR. Dempsey.
• • •
AND MR. Kearns.
• • •
FOR THE chances are,
THEY'D KNOW no more.
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ABOUT WHAT they were doing.
THANJ hare known.
IN THE twenty year*
THAT I'VE been voting.
• • •
AND THAT'S mighty little.
* • •
I THANK you.
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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1921.
Right Here in Indiana
Hohenberger photograph lent by State Library.
“Boot Toe,” Millport knobs, Washington County.
KEEPING HOUSE WITH THE HOOPERS
(The Hoopers, an average American
family of five, living in a suburban
town, on a limited income, "ill tell
the readers of the Dally Times how
the many preseubday problems of
the home are solved by working on
the budget that Mrs. Hooper has
evolved and found practical Follow
them daily in an interesting review
of their home life and learn to meet
the conditions of the high cost of
living with them )
MONDAY.
After dinner the Hoopers family
gathered on 'lie porch to make a final
decision as ot where Mr. Hooper and
Roger and Helen should go for their
camping trip Henry's vacation began
at noon on August 20th and lusted till
Sundsv night September -tth and be and
the children wanted to spend fjvery,
minute cf It in the open.
Now that Auntie Belle bad taken her
departure. Helen wus beginning to bo
more enthusiastic about the camping
plan and leas regretful that her mother
had decideo against their going with her
aunt to the mountains
The firm for which Henry worked
would give him a check for one hundred
dollars representing his ealnrj for two
weeks—when bis vacation begs;- Rod It
was Mrs. Hooper intention to make this
amount cover the expenses of the trip
••over her own living at home during the
two weeks and let the accumulation in
the budget for "Advancement," which
included the item of ' vacations" amount
ing to over thirty dollars, remain intact
with the exception of what she might
and >duci for a trip or two to the nearby
ci'y while the family were away.
‘All I intend to tske cut of the bun
dred dollars,'' Mrs Hooper had said to
bee husband earlier In the evening, 'are
mv usual weekly sums for ‘shelter’ and
'savings' w hich will amount to twenty -
two dollars, and all tho rent we will
place to spend on the camping trip "
"!Ve ought to lay out, as little ae possi
ble for railroad fare," began Henry, as
they opened the discussion as to the best
place to go. ‘We needn't travel so very
far from home In order to get Into the
woods where Roger and 1 can find pleury
of fishing "
“But I want you to go fsr enough
sway so that yon will have a complete
chnng* of climate,” objected Mrs. Hooper.
‘‘Well, wc can get that by going a hun
dred miles from here," replied Henry,
“and I know Just the place. It is on
the other side of the mountain that we
see from the dining room window The
fishing In the river In the locality Is fine
and ho climate t* as different as it would
be if we wont five hundred miles In the
opposite direction toward the const."
“’Well, what will tho fare bo to (Vn
tralia, which seems to b the railroad
station nearest to that point?" asked Mrs.
Hooper.
"I inquired about that at the depot
In the city,” replied Harry, "and for the
throe of us it will coat sls for the round
trip."
"Well, that w-tll be well within your
allowance for transportation," answered
Mr* Hooper.
"But has It occurred to yon, my dear,
that we will have a lot of camping
luggage to carry with us and the
transporting of all that by train will be
a great nuisance and expense.” ‘'Well
you'll just have to travel light,” com
mented Mrs. Hooper.
"But we juust take two ween pro
viators nr.d our bddlng and -nuking
utensils." Henry reminded her. "II will
take some clever packing to get an that
Into shape an l only a certain part of it
ran be checker on our tickets."
"Y*s and we will have to Mr; wagon
to go from the station to our camping
plnre. ’ Roger nd.!<*dN
"Perhaps you'd holier ;•> if you enn
get a wagon and a couple of nurses and
drlva all the way was Mrs. Hoopers
stiff-/’ etion.
“Oh I'd hate that," exclaimed Helen.
“I want to go in rhe in n
“I suppose the train is the more
practical plan," rejoined Henry, but it
doesn't seem rntich like a ramping tr-p."
"Well T se where this vacation plan
is going to bo more complicated that) li
seemed at firat,” sighed Mrs. Hooper.
•‘We will have to take another day at
leapt to talk it over as it is hod time
now.
The menu for the three meals on Tues
day art:
BREAKFAST.
Rhubarb Conserve Cereal
Creamed Cod on Toast.
Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Peanut Butter SandwCh-s
Boiled Klee with Fruit
Radishes . Cos oa
DINNER.
('ream of Poa Soup
Pressed Veal Potato Salad
Sliced Tomatoes and Cucumbers
Strawberry Short Cske
Mrs. Hooper wrote out the following
recipe for the pres-ed ven! as it was cue
of tlie economical dishes that Mrs. Camp
bell was so anxious to add to her files.
PRESSED YEAI_
Have the butcher crack s knuckle of
reel and cook slowiy with a si; o of
onion, two sprigs of parsley and Halt and
paprika to taste. When the meat will slip
Crom the hones chop finely and pa-k in
a mold with sliced Killed eggs. M's of
parsley and sliced s"e- 1 pi- hi -s. C.-k
down the liquor with tho boarrs. to half
a cupful add a ten spoonful of Worcester
shire snore ar-d pour sla-ly over the
meat Let stand till cold, place a weight
on top and cbUl on the t-e. Rerre cut In
thin slices with potato salad -Copyright.
1921.
- _ _
HOROSCOPE
"Tbs stars Incline, but do not compel:”
TUESDAY, JULY 19.
Good and evil contend for sway lo this
day s hcroscop*. according to astrology.
While Neptune and Jupiter am In bencflc
aspect Saturn and Mercury are adverse.
There Is today sn esper'ally promising
sign for oil Interests and It seems that
new discoveries are to be reported.
Editors are subject to a direction of
the stars that will encourage them to
criticise presidential policies and a man
high In the government service will b*
bitterly attacked.
Persons whoso blxjhdate it is should
Ire careful of letters and writings during
the coming year. The young will court
and marry.
I’blidren on this day may be unsettled
in disposition and fond of change i
subjects of t’nncer nro usually clever
and successful—Copyright, 1921.
I)o You Know Indianapolis?
Thi3 picture was taken in your home city. Are you familiar enough
with it to locate the scene?
Saturday’s picture was looking north in North Delaware street toward
Sixteenth street.
CHILDREN HEAR
HEALTH STORIES
Tuberculosis Ass’n Workers
Present Subjects at City
Playgrounds.
More than I.fibO Indianapolis children
heard health stories, provided by the Ma
rion County Tubereulosie Association
and given by the story tellers at the va
: rious playgrounds throughout the city.
during the last two weeks in June, ac-
I cording to announcement today from
, Pearl M. Stanton, recreational director
jof the tuberculosis association. Many of
j the playground supervisors throughout
j the city are in active cooperation with
I the program of child health development,
i which the tuberculosis association has
| made available for all Interested persons
this year. '
| The association, in cooperation with
j the Girl Scouts, will stage anew health
■ marionette play In the afternoons this
week at five of tb erecreatlonal centers
throughout Indianapolis. The new play
Is called “Sally, the Health Crusader,"
and the characters In it are to be taken
by members of the Girl Scouts.— It will
be given Monday at Military Park. Tues
day at College Settlement, Wednesday at
Garfield Park, Thursday at the South
Side Turner grounds and Friday at
Prookside Park.
The tuberculosis association also has
acquired recently "Tiny Tim's House." a
toy theater for use in the recreation cen
ters. It is creating much interest among
the children and Is available for use m
all the recreation centers upon request.
Similar theaters may he constructed at
the recreational centers and Miss Stanton
said the tuberculosis association gladly
will give information relating to such
construction. Many playground super
visors are cooperating with the child
health program of education the tuber
; culosis association Is offering this year
j on the city's playgrounds.
SHRINERS’ BIG
DAY ON AUG. 5
Red-Fezzed Horde Plans In
vasion of Broad
Ripple.
For Shriners. Shrine wives. Shrine
sweethearts and .Shrine children, Friday,
Aug 5, Is the next date of red letter im
portance Taking a day off. forgetting
torturous paths, hot sands—and even
Moosba. the Nobles of the Murat T-mple,
Mystic Shrine, are planning to Invade
Broad Ripple in red fezzod hordes for
| their annual picnic and fun frolic.
A day chuck full of all g -rts of amuse
ments and entertainment Is the Intention
of Potentate S-oonover and those ar
ranging the event. All kinds of games
and contests, airplane flights, music and
dancing, boat rhitng and bathing, ball
ng tugs of war
are just some of the things already on
tbs list of things to do. Aiding In the
wrvlng of basket 1 inches, which Shrine
members will take with them. Murat
: Temple will provide Ice cream, lemonade
and coffee without charge.
At lie tic events for the day. which will
include cocfosfs for men, women and
children, will be under the direction of
Noble A. 3 MacLeod. Three prizes are
to bo given for each event.
Tim Hlirtno band, Murat chanters, the
Temple's saxophone sextette, and the
Shrine orchestra are booked to keep mu
:i|e In tho air. <'bt la entitling finders to
prizes are to bo dropped from an air
plane making special tiights for tha pic
: nickers.
Potentate Scoonover says that all No
i b'es should wear their fez and have their
iit'l Shrine cards.
Free parking for automobile* and the
li-x'king of baskets will be provided. The
! program for the day will start at 1
; o'clock.
Ben Harrison Camp,
/ Adds 360 Members
Starting with 221 members. Ben Harrt
: son cam;), Sons of Veterans, in n member
ship - ampaign, hus Just announced tlml
’ the .2f,0 mark has been passed in the to
tal of new applications, including the IIN
new members InltJated July 2<\ It
notable in this connection that whereas,
i Tib-a go Camp No. *1 has set a total mem
bership of ,VW as its campaign goal, Ben
Harrison camp t*f Indianapolis has far
surpassed that total and is marching on
toward the l.ixiO mark. Already tbs c H mp
Is in a fair way to l>e tho biggest camp
in the world by July MA Headquarters
booth, Pennsylvania and Market streets
open night and day, is tb center of
the big membership campaign.
PUSS IN BOOTS JR. |
_____ Br DaYld Carr.
l'ou remember in the last story the
Elephant Jumped overboard to save tha
Red Ant, don’t ysu, and what a dreadful
time poor Captain Noah was having to
get the great animal back Into the Ark?
"M'e have lost one passenger and are
In danger of losing another. It will look
very strange to lose the largest and the
smallest on the same day,” said poor
Captain Noah, despairingly.
Well, just then Mrs. Elephant came up
from the hold She had overslept her
self and had only now heard of the com
motion on deck. On seeing her mate
swinging from the davits she set up a
loud trumpeting.
“Goodness gracious, Etla," said the Ele
phant, “don't carry on like that. Scream
ing won’t get me out! Get hold of me
and help pull." This was good adx-iee.
and pretty soon Mr. Elephant was landed
safely on board the Ark.
Just then the Weathercock called out
that he could see the little Red Ant on
the life preserver.
"Thank goodness:" exclaimed Captain
Noah, and the Ark was turned in the
direction pointed out by the faithful
lookout. Then Mr. Jonah leaned over
and pulled in the life preserver as the
Ark slowly came alongside and, just in
the nick of time, for the poor Ant was
nearly dead.
"Give him to me." said Mrs. Noah. “A
little Jamaica ginger and a warm blanket
will bring him 'round, I guess.”
"Well, weil'” exclaimed Captain Noah,
as the motherly form of Mrs. Noah dis
appeared down the companionway. “this
ha# been an exciting forenoon." and
then he woped his forehead with his red
bordered handkerchiew and looked about
him. "All you animals go below deck!”
he exclaimed, "or else we'll hare some
body else overboard."
So Mrs Elephant led Mr. Elephant, who
was wet to the skin and shlverirg with
the cold, down to the hold, where she
put him to bed with a hot water bag at
his feet and a woolen nightcap on his
head
“Are you going to put this down in
vour logbook?" asked Puss Junior. "I
think it will make a very interesting
story, and I've heard from old sailors
that they always put down everything
that happens In the logbook."
"Os course. I will,” answered Captain
Noah. "Bring me the logbook, Japhet.
You haven't done anything this morning,
Suppose you Jot it dc-wn I declare, I'm
all tuckered out with excitement and
worry."
"Y’ou'd better lie down 'and rest,
father." said Mrs Noah, eomlng up on
deck. "I have rhe Ant very comfortable
now. and I feel sure he will recover In
a short time.”
So Captain Noah went below to rest,
and the little Dove perched herself on
Puss Junior s shoulder and watched Cap
tain Noah s son write in the logbook.
And what do you suppose be wrote?
IVell. It was something like this, for the
little Dove told me afterward.
The little red Ant fell into the sea
But. oh dear you. and oh dear me!
And then the Elephant with a shout
Jumped in and tried to pull him out,
But he wasn't saved by the Elephant.
It ws, )!r. Jonah who saved the Ant.
And next time I'll tell you more about
Puss on board the Ark.—Copyright. 1021.
(To be continued.)
Beer Shipped to Cuba
BOSTON, July 25.—Cuba may be the
wettest country In the world, but native
Cubans still like American-made beer, as
evidenced by the factNhat 1.500 large
packages of malts were placed aboard
the T’. S. fruit steamer San Pablo, which
sailed for Havana recently. The cargo Is
the property cf American brewing houses
and will he changed Into a little stronger
than one-half of 1 per cent beverage by
the addition of water and a few other in
gredients.
IyjOVIELAMJpp^I
Lillian Gish
MILLIONS LOVK H liR
About Ethel Clayton
"Please tell me ail about Ethel Clay
ton" —tha,t.'B the modest request that,
came to me a'few days ago. I can't com
ply with it, of course, but I ran tell some
things about this pretty Paramount
star.
She has very yellow hair and very blue
eyes, and she is prettier off the screen
than on. She has a frank, charming man
ner, and she makes you feel at home
the moment you meet her. But you real
ize, before you've talked with her very
long, that she isn't really happy. She
doesn't tell you why. but if you're
fortunate enough to talk with her
mother, you learn that It's because her
husband, whom she adored, died a few
years ago, and she's never recovered
from the shock and the sadness. He
was taken ill quite suddenly, and went
to a hospital. After a time she thought
that he was better, and she had left his
room fer a few moments, when, return
ing, she found that he was dead. They
were so perfectly congenial—he was a
director, you know— aud so much in
love with each other that life didn't
seem worth living to her for a while.
Her brother, who Is younger than she
is. and of whom she thinks everything,
came to New York aud took her out W est.
And after a while she went on with her
picture making. She has done well—
we will all bear witness to that. She
has tilled her life with her work, and
the books which she so enjoys, and her
family. Sbp plays with her altogether
adorable dog. and the days slip past,
and she makes the best of them. But I
don’t believe that any one knows how
hard it has been for her to school her
self to meet life with a smile.
She is unusually well read. Oh, I
WARNS AGAINST
METHODS OF
TRADE CROOKS
Secretary of National Associa
tion of Credit Men \Vrite3
Business Men.
NEW YORK, July 25—A warning
gainst crooks who have been using the
names of xvell-rated merchants to ob
tain merchandise has been issued by J. *
H. Tregoe, executive secretary of tha
National Association of Credit Men, who
has sent/ a message to the 33.000 manu
facturers, wholesalers and bankers who
are members of that institution.
Mr. Tregoe announced that the inves
tigation-prosecution department of his
association has just inaugurated a coun
try-wide campaign to block the latest
move made by professional commercial
swindlers who have already obtained val
liable goods by trading on the names of
large concerns. Some of the merchan
dise obtained by the trade crooks has
been recovered by the association.
WARNED AGAINST
SHIPPING GOODS.
Manufacturers, wholesalers and Jobbers
are warned by Mr. Tregoe against ship
ping merchandise to applicants for credit
merely upon a rating without obtaining
a credit report, which in addition v to
showing antecedents of ,the applicants
would give their correct address. Even
though the houses highly rated are per
fectly good, credit grantors should maks
sure that the persons applying for credit
are really connected with the houses
rated and not trading under the same
name at a different address. These
swindlers apply for credit and refer to
rating books regarding their ability to
pay. Findiug the rating to be satisfac
tory, the seller ships the goods to the
address given by the applicants who
maintain fly-by-night headquarters which
often are on the same street as are lo
cated the quarters of the regular mer
chants.
"Mr. C. D. West, manager of the In
vestigation-prosecution department, is
determined to end the newest move made
by these swindlers," says Mr. Tregoe's
statement "Following an extensive in
vestigation. Mr. West reports that busi
ness has been mulcted of at least $500,000
through this practice."
HOPES COl RTS
WILL PUNISH.
Mr. West, who achieved considerable
fame recently when be exposed a schema
whereby commercial crooks trained cats
to set fires, in an Interview said:
"It is our hope that after we have
secured the conviction of these commer
cial crooks that the courts will Impose
adequate sentences. Some of the pro
fesstonnl swindlers against whom we
have indictments have received trifling
sentences. These commercial crooks are
really more dangerous to society than
petty thieves, such, as pickpockets and
shoplifters, as their loot represents many
thousands of dollars. Those dishonest
men are thoroughly organized and have
sufficient funds with which to carry
on their crooked operations, and work
under master minds who furnish the out
let for the merchandise obtained. They
use ‘sucker lists' containing the names of
firms who are not cautious in granting
credit. Commercial crime is in a large
mettsur* new to the courts and is Dot
well understood by prosecutors or by
judges At the present time we bare
a large number of rases pending in the
cdurts which have been delayed due to
the congestion therein.”
Can Stop Paralysis
VIENNA, July 25.—Prof. Wagner Jaur
egg has a reputation as a scientist. At
a conference of German savants at Salz
burg iu 1909 he reported he had arrested
progressive paralysis attacks by large
doses of tuberculin. Now he says he
can do it by the Inspection of malaria
germs. lie works jni: bout the aid of
the mosquito.
know that you hear that about many
motion picture actresse?. bur it really
is true of Ethel Clayton. There srs
long, built in book shelves in her llvtng
rootn. and she is often found there,
curled up in a big cFair with an old
favorite, or anew book which mustn't
lie overlooked.
Her home is a beautiful, charmingly
furnished bungalow; no product of the
interior decorator's art. but a real
home, which shows that its owner
planned it. It expresses her indiridual
ity. end does tt most satisfactorily.
I.ast year she went to the Orient for
a vacation with her mother and brother.
But it proved to be no mere vacation,
for she made it her business to under
stand the countries which she visited,
and after she returned, she sereened
one of Samuel Merwin's stories of which
the scenes were laid in China; it was
called "Crooked Streets,” and was based
on the story. "Dinner at Eight." .and
she was able Vto help materially when
the sets were built —real streets, some
of them were—because she had learned
so much from her jourueyings iu far
lands.
There would be less criticism of mo
tion picture people if the public could
meet Ethel Clayton personally. She is
the type of person who ought to be
making pictures—may she never leave
tho screen. -In her work sha ha*
shown real development, even when
she was hampered by bad stories, as
she so often has been. Not satisfied
with being beautiful, she has used all
(if her ability, no matter how hard sha
had to work, to make her releases show
the characters which Bhe played as real
people, not Just as automatons.
That's all I can tell you about Ethel-
Clayton, Miss G. of Saskatchewan—l
hope It's satisfactory!—Copyright 1921.
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