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Evening star., 1919-09-21
SCHOOL FOR "GRAFTERs."
Claimants Taught How to Testify
in Support of Raids on State Funds

NEW YORK, September 20.-Three
men have made confessions in con-
nection with the charges of graft
brought against the state industrial
commission and the state insurance
fund, according to announcement
made today by Assistant District At
tcrney Fred J. Talley. Mr.. Talley said
that these confessions would be pre-
sented to the grand jury Monday and
may implicate other persons of
prominence"
Mr.. Talley said the three men had
described to him how they maintained
a school of instruction where claim
anrs were taught how to testify be-
fore the commission and before the
medical examiner.
Several commission employees. he
continued, informed confederates
when insurance claimants were to
receive lump sums, whereupon the
confederates 'shook down" the claim
ants.
Evening star., 1919-09-21
VARIOUS CLAIMS ARISING
FROM WAR EVENTS PAID
q. S. Government Gave $500, 900
to Caproni, Who Piloted Italians
on Aircraft Mission.

Among interesting claims recently
settled by the finance service of-the
War Department is the payment of
something over 100000 to Giovanni
, Caproni. who conducted to the United
States the Italian mission that came
to investigate aircraft production and
experimental work. especially bqpib
ing planes. in which Caproni is, AN
expert, having perfected the plane
which recen9y flew over the Alps
with nineteen passengers. ,..
/ Another is the payment to the
Canadian government of $4,000 fer
| the movement of American troyps
through the port of Halifax, including
rationS and camp facilities. az
Another Canadian claim just being
| settled is the payment of $4,000 for
! the "crash cases" among the Catra-
! dian aviators who were sent to Fort
| Worth, Tex, to train our men in the
early days of the war. While the
! Fort Worth flying fields were beihg
prepared an American detachment of
aviators was being trained in Canada
by expert flyers of the Royal Flying
( Corps. These later accompanied our
men to Texas to continue the training
and were injured while there. =,
Evening star., 1919-09-21
CONFERENCE MAY TAKE REST
Little to Do in IS Days Bulgaria
Considers Peace Treaty.

I PARIS, Friday, September 10 (by
the Associated Press).-With the de-
livery today Of the peace treaty to
the Bulgarians, who have twenty five
days to consider it and make reply,
the peace conference has little re-
naming business before it which can
be taken up Immediately and will now
mark time and possibly take vaca-
tion for fortnight, pending the es-
tablishment of some government at
Budapest to which the Hungarian
treaty can be delivered.
Frank L. Polk and Gen. Tasker H
Bliss of the American peace delega-
tion will VISIT Rheims and Verdun
Saturday and Sunday. and therefore
no meeting of the supreme council
will be held until Monday. The Dal-
matian and Fiume problems are at q
standstill.
Evening star., 1919-09-21
EXPEDITION COLLECTS
SPECIMENS OF FLORA
Scientific Cooperative Plan to In
vestigate South America Begins
to Bear Fruit.

The plan for cooperative investiga-
tions of the flora of northern South
America which was formed last year
by the United States National Mu-
scum, the New York Botanical Garden
and the Gray Herbarium of Harvard
University is beginning to bear fruits
of cooperative scientific effort. The
first field expedition under this plan,
conducted by DR.. ]. N. Rose, spent the
latteS half Of the year in the south,
mostly in Ecuador. and collected more
than 5000 botanical specimens. DR..
Rose travelled down the interior An
dean valley from San Antonio to Lola,
the route followed by Alexander Won
Humbolt at the beginning of the
nineteenth century and many of the
plants collected by Humbolt in his
great expedition were re-collected by
the recent expedition.
Evening star., 1919-09-21
BY CAPT. FRANK Nj. AMERICA.
American Red Cross Commission tt
Poland.

WARSAW, Poland, August 90
After a two-thousand-mil tour of
Poland and Russia, we have returned
to Warsaw, with just such tales of
suffering and destitution as flood al
most by the hour into this capital to-
day. Upon the faces of hundreds of
children in the orphan homes was that
emaciated look of death by slow
starvation.
I'VE visited Brest-Litovsk. where
the Russian German treaty was
signed in 1917, and found it a scene
of desolation, hunger and disease. Be
fore the war it was one of Russia's s
most prosperous and largest railroad
centers. Today it is a mere skeleton
of it's former self, reduced in popula-
ton from $4,000 to $4,000 through
death, disease and emigration to all
parts of Russia, even to Siberia.
"All of the modern buildings in
Brest are heaps of brick, destroyed
by the Russian army in it's flight be-
fore the German forces in the fan OF
1915. The American Red Cross has
left food, clothing and medicines and
is operating a soup kitchen, and the
American relief administration is do
ing good work by bringing in -four
and other foodstuffs, but no matter
how much relief is sent in. many peo-
pie will continue to go hungry.
Peasants Ragged and Starving.
I'm a. series of forts facing west
ward about three miles outside the
city we came upon $50 ragged, starv-
ing Russian peasants, who were living
in fifteen unligAted dugouts which
were formerly the quarters of the
Russian troops and their ammunition
They had trudgedAback from Russia
and, finding their adjacent villages
destroyed, had simply souatted in the
forts and were far more comfortable
than the majority of people living in
the filthy, disease-breeding novels OF
the city. But they've without
food and many were down with
typhus. In one dugout whole fam
Evening star., 1919-09-21
Children Eat Unpalatable Bread.

'1n Pinsk we went to an orphan
asylum where sixty children were
trying to keep alive on a dark un-
palatable bread. Death was in their
pallid faces and their arms and legs
were like broomsticks. There wasn't
even a sign of commotion as we en-
tered the room, the children had SO
little life left. We walked around to
a house, in one room of which five
out of the total of sixteen occupants
had died in the previous few days.
Their only nourishment was a coarse,
black bread which looked more like
chunks of soil than anything else.
Two of the survivors had typhus and
the others were starving.
"In Vladimir, which is a town of
10000 south of Brest, in the center of
a district embracing 100000, we were
told that the greatest need was seed
for fall planting. They are all peas
ants in this district. They are all peas
! want of seeds and farming imple-
ments. For one planting they need
5000 carloads.
1--WE went out to the front where
the Polish troops are holding off jeal-
Gus neighbors. The troops were great
ly undernourished. but very cheerful.
A piece of hard, black bread and
tin of water>like soup was the
days ration, and the only thing to be
said for the soup was that it was hot.
Yet the troops seemed very happy and
the majority were very young"
Evening star., 1919-09-21
Accepts French Commander.

PARIS. September 20 (Havas).-
Belgium has agreed to,the proposal of
France that French general be given
supreme command Of allied forces on
the Rhine, according to the Journal.
Evening star., 1919-09-21
SUFFERING AND DESTITUTION
SADDEN POLAND AND RUSSIA
Member of American Red Gross Commis-
sion Reports Result of Observations
Made on 2,OOO-Mile Trip.
h a child i'll with small.

lily lived with child i'll with small
pox.
I'VE visited many other towns and
villages, but nowhere did we get away
from the same pathetic picture of ter
rible want, disease, and death. In
kovel. fifty miles nearer to War
saw than Brest, as we walked out of
a hospital where the patients were
covered with table cloths left by the
Germans, the first thing we saw was
a bent old woman in a cemetery dig
ging a grave. Her child of twelve had
died in her arms and there was no
body but the mother to bury her.
"She went up to Pinsk, 200 miles
east of Warsaw in the unhealthy
PTipet marshes, where the Germans
halted their pursuit of the Russians
and dug themselves in. Like Brest-
Litvosk, it has lost half Of its popula-
ton through the war and of those
who are there now many brought ty-
phus and all manner of disease back
with them in their return from Rus
sia. The result is that Pinsk is by
far the most distressful city we
visited
Evening star., 1919-09-21

The course comes in twelve 1essons-twe1ve Little
Gray Books" They at time and the student
fills work sheets that with pen and ink
by staff of trained instructors There nothing arduous
about the course and offers great difficulties, but
it does require application PeImanism has got to be
worked at.
There is no magic" mystery" about it. 1t is
Learned in evening" Brains not evolved by
miracles. Just the stay weak, grow habby,
when used, does unexercised mind stay weak
Or grow habby.
You can take pill for sluggish liver but all the
patent medicines in the world can't help sluggish mind
Pelmanism is "plp system 1t proceeds upon the
scientific theory that there law in nature that
demns the human mind permanent limitations. 1t de-
veops the faculties by regular the
athlete develops his muscles 1t gives the mind gym
nasium to work in it preserbes the work scientifically
The Little Gray Books" are intellectual dumbbels
advertised in England. 1 believe in advertising AS much
as other one thing, it helped to win the war The
gon aided Advertising is the direct method
and the quicker Pemanism reaches the and women
of America the better it will be for the country.
Evening star., 1919-09-21
The Science of "Get There"

IT the science of Get Theregettng there quickly
L 1y finely! Not for alone, but for WELL
Women in commercial pursuits have the problems
to overcome Women in the home are operating
ing every ounce of Judgment energy seafreliance and
say deliberately, and with the deepest conviction
that Pemansm will do what it promises to do Followed
se1fexpression in word thought and action will stop
woogathering and mndwandering 1t will develop mind
character personality, giving AMBITION energy concenra-
ton and self-reliance
Americans need it as much as England needed it.
There are many who "od at forty; too
people who complain about their "uck" when they fail
too any people without ambition who have lost their
nerve; too many sob towards" living under the daily
fear of being fired.
Original thinking is almost lost art We look at
games instead of playing them The less the mental de-
mand the popular the play There is IN music III in
gently Life pieces by deep rns with the neonle
Evening star., 1919-09-21

Mrs. Minnie L. Bray of Carson City.
New. has been named registrar of land
offices by President Wilson.
Evening star., 1919-09-21

Landladies in London are forming
an association for the protection of
their common interests.
Evening star., 1919-09-21
Not a Mere Memory System,

AND the eminent professors did it! Pelmansm today
"A the one known in applied psychology, the
that builds mind as physical instructor builds
truths are old the hills But reduces these truths
to practical puts them into harness for the doing
of the days work
It teaches how develop personality, how build
character. how to strengthen Individuality Instead of
training memory alone will power alone reasoning
power alone recognizes the absolute interdependence
of these powers and trains them together.
not, however educational machine for grinding
standardized brans for realizes that there wide
differences in the minds and problems of men. 1t de-
velops individual mentality to its highest power.
Evening star., 1919-09-21

Miss Margaret Ennis of Arapahoe
county, is said to be the first woman
deputy sheriff in Colorado.
Evening star., 1919-09-21
ADVERTISEMENT.

DELMANISM is the biggest thing that has the
United States in many year With record OF 10000
has been Americanzed at last and is operated by
Pemanism is neither an experiment nor theory For
twenty years has been teaching people how to think
how discover and to the powers of which they have
been unconscious Pelmanism is merely the science of
full action the science Of that mental team play that
the true of efficiency the master key that
l heard first of Pelmanism during a recent visit in
er talk e
Are you PelmaEist?" was common question.
gave me facts By 1918 there were 100000 Pemsnists
figuring in every walk and condition of life Lords and
ment laborers elergymen and actors farmers lawyers
DOCTORS coal miners soldiers and sailors generals
business houses were actually enrolling their entire Stats
in the interest of larger efficiency.
Baden PorueH Enthusiastic
THE famous Gen. Sir F. Maurice, describing "sys
and Adr ord geresord ndo3sed IT, In France
ders and Italy 100000 soldiers of the empire TAX
ing Pemanism in order to fit themselves for return to civil
a~e I i
Wei! known writers like Jerome K Jerome, Sir Arthu.
Great editors ike Sir William @ ROBERTSON
Nco and educators such Sir James Yoxa going
as to suggest inclusion in the British
system.
As matter of fact the thing had all the force and
sweep of religion It deep life, far down be-
meath all surface emotions and bedded its roots the
centers of individual being. 1t astonishing phe
nomenon virtually compelling my interest, and agreed
gladly when certain members of parliament offered to
take Pelman House, growing enthusiasm led me
to study the plan in detail and it is out of the deepest
conviction that make these fiat statements
Pelmansm can and does, develop and strengthen
such qualities will power concentration, ambition, self
reliance, judgment and memory:
Pelmansm and does, substitute Il will" for Il
wish" by curing mind d-wanderngs and <woogathering
It is and say it advsedy, important and neces
sary addition to American education for it takes unda-
truths of the back and brings them back
a Hfe md
Viewed historically, Pelmanism is study in intelligent
growth. Twenty years ago it simple memory train
ing system Time has broadened it. Today it does not
conne to the training of just this function of
the human mind but scientifically exercises and develops
all of the mental powers.
The founder of Pelmansm had idea. He went to
the leading psychologists of England and also to those of
America, and said: II have good memory system. l
think may say that it the best But it
that there is small point in unless there's mind
behind it. You gentlemen teach the science of the mind
But you teach only to those who to And few
come, for psychology locked upon as hghbrow' Why
their minds just as they train their bodies? Why can't
you put all that you have teach into series of simple
lessons that be grasped by the
man with average education?"
Evening star., 1919-09-21


force and higher powers OF concentration will add to the
There is nothing more true than that success and
failure next-door neighbors The success of today
rise to efficiency when he Wills it time
modern life, much less stand still We forward @
drop back. <:
Increased Incomes 81
TALK of quick and large salary raises suggests quackey
but saw bundles of letters telling how II IPelmansnl
had increased earning capacities from ~ to o per cea
With | heard the testimony of employs
more money. Aroused ambition heightened energies e
fuse to let man rest content with well enough Br
are quick to recognize it and reward it. :.
But Pelmansm is bigger than that There's more toll
more nus wholesome % and more intesesting life =
Too many people are mentally lopsided knowing inSi y;
living creatures they are the most deadly have seen
music; people of achievement sitting tongueed in "a a
ignorant of every social value workers whose lives were
dab because they did know how to put color in them
and / have heard and of real inteigence
forced rely anecdotes to keep up conversations.
atty It does away with lopsded developments 1t points
the way to cultural values as well as material success
world it puts wealth of at the service
Of the it burns way the ss
the stereoyped in speech and thought and
action. -, -.
that is the purse of life not merely the copper coins
eoeeon of Unrelated from which the na
vidua1 must make his choice:
some immediate purposehnanciai social educational or
cultural-bu the advantages of the training touch fe
and living at eyery point GEORGE CREELs
Note:-As Mr. Greet has pointed OUT Pelmanisrn is
experiment theory 1t has stood the test
twenty years Its students country the
world Its benefits attesed by hundreds OF thousands
OF men and women in all walks and conditions OF life
In bringing Pelmansm to America the needs OF p,am the
United States have been considered at every point Pia
methods and principles the the t nd
instructors carefully trained in the will upon
every work sheet IT..
are twelve essonswelve Little Gray BOOKS ne course
entirely upon of time devoted to study Hall
an hour daily will enable the student to finish IN three
months. ..l ::
there any short cut the truths taught by Pelmanlsm
An ordinary school education necessary but the pue
importances sincerity of and wilngnessto
work Its rewards rlch permanent ana OF steass's
increasing value but they by application &
HotD to Become Peln,anist
tMIND and Memory is the name 'o the booklet & whcn
fascinating itself with its wealth OF orlgna asG
incsve observation 1t has benefits of its own that WIN
make the keep Every reader OF this page shoud
send for mind and Memory"-Now.
The book, Mind and Memory, IS tree. Use the
coupon or postcard and send for it-NOW
( PELHAM INSTITUTE OF AMERICA es-.-e -
sos Fifth Avenue York. N. Y.
! Please send me- without obligation your free book
let Mind Memory"
Address
! Washington s. s-21
}f3 correspondence strictly confidential
Evening star., 1919-09-21

in them looking the sides. Greater driving
higher powers of concentration will add the
nations -:
There is nothing more true than that and
failure next-door neighbors The success of today
may be the failure of tomorrow, and the inefficient can
efficiency when he wills it. No mark time
modern life much less stand still We go forward Or
drop back. 80.
Evening star., 1919-03-15

2-35 LANDAULETTE,
Repainted and nne mechanical condition; 1uS
the car for winter use. The Luttrell Co.. l21
N. n. ave.
Evening star., 1919-03-15
WANTED-GARAGES.

GARAGE WANTED THAT WILL HOLD
Is or 20 ears. located between 10th and
2Oth st., Eye st. and Mass. ave. NV.
z. ]. QUINN MOTOR CAR CO..
Ills 18th st. NV.
GARAGE FOR SMALL AUTO IN VICINITY
e 1ock Greek bridge. Address Box 295-E.
Evening star., 1919-03-15
WANTEO-ROONS.

TWO OR THREE rooms for Ink. In cieap
home by man and wife, no children; ne. Of
Sc: near ear line; by April j. Address Rcs
So-H, Star office. 1es
Evening star., 1919-03-15
FOR sALE-aARAGEs,

PRUDENTIAL" GALVANIZED ALI-STEni.
tno wood. portable. nreproof. waterproof
PRUDDN CO.. Mass. ay. NV. Ph. rr. 4s26
LET US BUILD YOUR GARAGE NOW
that We have surplus material on hand; also
general construction; Hrst-class workmx nship
estimates given. BUILDER, Hudson Hotel. 20s
WE BUILD GARAGES OF THE BETTNR
elass-metAl. frame. brick. tile or concrete
v. T. 81. BIEN. BIS 11th at. NV. Col 1910.
BILTRITE GARAGE CO.-GALVANIZKD
steel, hollow tile and brick garages. w. n
DOUGAL Sales Manager. III 18th st. Nv.
Phone Main 1884.
Evening star., 1919-03-15
COUNTRY BOARD.

BOARDERs WANTED-private family; five.
min, to station: first-class accommodations;
ali modern improvements; week ends, week and
months; invalids accommodated; practical
nurse attention; refs. exchanged. Address Miss
Bette Ferguson. Bluemont Va.
CHILDREN BOARDED in country and well
taken care of by capable perDon. For informa-
ton call Columbia 263L 36s
Evening star., 1919-03-15
WANTED-B0ARD.

SOME ONE to care for and board child one
wear old. Phone Franklin $50. 16s
BY ARMY OFFICER and wife. near Wardmar
Park Inn. Address BOZ 2O2E. Star olice. 16s
Evening star., 1919-03-15
FOR RENT-ROOMH.
FURNisHED R06MsEContinae1.

1906 10th ST. N.w.-One large. bright. sunny
room; electric light; phone: central location.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-01-01
L.AMorNE.

School begins again to-day after q
weeks vacation.
Capt. jefferson Smith and Deney Smith
have been i'll the past week.
Mrs. Lillian Salisbury has returned
from visit in Ellsworth and Bangor.
A community lunch and Christmas tree
was enjoyed at c, e. hall Christmas even
ing.
Time for the meeting of the Sunday
school has been changed for the winter
to Up. m.
Eben X. Whitaker has purchased the
place owned by John Meader. known as
the John King place.
W. II. Rice and family aud Mrs. Shirley
Holt and family were entertained at din
ner Christmas by Miss Olive Coolidge.
News has been received of the death of
James Bunker, at the home OF bis dangh-
ter in Minneapolis, Mimi. He moved
with his family from this town some
thirty years ago, to Iowa. He leaves n
widow, two sons, Everett and Jesse, and
one daughter, Mrs. Lena Darkin.
Dec. 80. r.
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WEST BRoogLIN.

Miss Luetta Bridges has returned to
North Sedgwick to resume teaching.
George, Harry and Wendell Carter left
Wednesday for Green Lake, where they
have employment.
Miss Alice Duffy left last week for
Woodfords to spend the winter with
Mrs. Roland Sukefortb.
o. Pay Friend, OF the U. 8. s. Satilla.
spent a few days last week with his
parents, Eugene Friend and wife.
Morris Bridges OF the U. S. training
station at Rockland spent Christmas
with his parents, Henry Bridges and
wife.
Gilbert Carter and wife returned home
from Portland Saturday after spending
a few days with their daughter, Mrs.
Hazel Sukeforth.
Dec. 30 r.
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ara in Alsace- Lorraine; that is German
territory taken from the French years
ago When we we're on the firing line We
we're only about fifteen miles ffont Metz.
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COUNTY NEW 5
RLCEHGLL.

The Bluebiil fire company will taeet a.
the club room Jan. for the election Of
officers.
The regular meeting of the village i'm
provement society has teen postponed
I until the first Monday in February.
Beginning next Sunday, Rev. 4. NJ.
/ Trafton will give series Of eight sermons
at The Baptist church on might Scenes
in the Bible"
The installation OF officers Of the James
A. Garfield w, r. c.. sill take place at the
regular meeting Jan. 4. A picnic dinner
will be served at noon for the corps and
their husbands, and members OF the
post.
Pearl o'Brisn, Arthur Piper and A. Il.
Herrick OF Camp Owens, A. I. Cook OF
the u. S S. Waters and Roy st. George OF
the L. S. S. Mississippi, were home last
week on furloughs. Leon Cooper, who
has received his discharge from Fortress
Monroe, arrived home Doc. "a.
The annual week OF prayer will begin
tNfulhEs SHHs - Aht0h HNiftNN
will be beld at the Congregational church
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday evenings.
Wednesday evening each church will
hold its regular meeting. Union services
will be continued Thursday, Friday and
Sunday evenings at the Baptist church.
The funeral of Mrs. Clara f. Townes /
was held at the home Sunday afternoon, |
Rev. II. NJ. Trsfton officiating. Mrs. |
Townes was the daughter OF William II. |
Darling. a noted mine owner and OPP /
orator of this town, and the widow of /
Charles w. Townes, whose death oc- |
CURED just six months previous to her
own. She was sixty-nine years OF age. |
Her kind heart, cheerful disposition and
DEVOTION to her family made her highly |
in the community. She leaves
one daughter, Nellie, of Bluehill, two
sons, Frank OF Bluehill, and Harry, who
5 in service in France; also three sisters,
Mrs. Hattie Cough OF Sedgwick. Mrs.
trace Hunt of Bangor and Mrs. Charles
3rindle OF Bluehill.
Dec 80. s.