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was peeling off the door and the shut T.
ters and tie place lokcd as il it had
been abandoned for many years.
We found Hammond standing on the
front porch smiling blandly and holding
,hc magic latch key in his hand.
'The boss" he said, told me to
give YOU this key and to take day of
for my pains"
You've earned it,, admittc
Barnes. Here, stick this in you
jeans"
lie slipped gold piece into the
hand of the delighted officer. who went
his way, howing and scraping as if he
had received decoration from Il soy
ercign.
We lost no time in going through the
house and what we found there more
than fulfilled our widest expectations.
1t had been used as Il stOrchouse, and
it was almost filled with silks, velvets
and other expensive goods that had
been smuggled from abroad. Barnes,
with his experienced eyes, recognized
many of the articles, and was able to
name the vessel upon which they had
been brought to this country.
"Tis is one of the biggest hauls I've
ever made in my professional career,
he said, "and even if nothing else comes
of it well make n big hit with the de-
partment. My boy, you deserve promo
ton for this, and you'l get it if have
any influence with the big fellows at
the front"
How about the Red Diamond?" I
asked.
II don't know-lct's look for il. e"
We spent three solid hours in going
through every nook and corner of the
house of hundred kcys--for that is
what Barnes persisted in ca ling it
but we were unable TO find the slight
est trace of the missing diamond
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~ ESTATE OF SALLTE n. sERVER

tNa7g7 ESTATE OF SALLIE n. sFRyER-
- '"ce"S"d-r "tters tocta rnantarv ,,nors
the estate of Salne r, Server Iecaa ..In nss
hay,ng been granted to FIDELITY TRUST
COMPANY. all persons indebted 20 aaia
estate are requested to make payment and
those having claims AGAINST the same 10
present them. without delay, at the oface
street, Philadelphia HSS'nue
VIM. p. GEsT.
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pH''7
ated on MONTGOMERY pike Merton, Is open
for services every First.dav jSunda W
morning. at II o'clock 1t was built $50
Here William Penn worshiped. One of the
oldest, most historical church edifces in
this country. Cordial invitation extended
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RELIGIOUS NOTICES
THE TEMPLE

THE TEMPLE
broad and Berks SITS. U900 NJ
5000 Seats.
RUSSELL H. CONwELL. world famed
lecturer and preacher breaches every
sunday morning U030) and evening e 800.
Persons wish ng to secure regular sIttings
may apply IN the business office of the
temple or phone Diamond B37
biDie School, 2;3O y. IN. Marion Laurent.
sion.
The Bible Union. a Fellowship Glass for
Men and Women. invites all strangers
seek ng Sunday school home to meet
with them
Anna Shaw Memorial Service Sunday
night at Z 40
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ECLIPSE OF MOON SEEN
Clouds Part to Show Luna In Earth,
Shadow

Clouds breaking frequently for short
intervals last night permitted views of
Il partial eclipse of the moon. The
eclipse, caused by the moon passing
through the edge of the earth s shadow
lasted from :5S to Z 30 p. m.
Conditions will be reversed November
%, when a partial eclipse of the sun
will take place. 1t will begin at Z 80
a, m. and last until 1924 a. M, and
will be visible in a large part of the
country.
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,'~za5a' ESTATE OF CHARLES II. SWAN.
- deceased--Letters testamentary unor
the estate of Charles II. Swan, deceaaed
h2ying fnls 5y 5Ien gEanted If e FIDELITY TRUST
quested to NAL Ike paynent, and those having
claims against the same to present them
without delay. at the office of the said Corn.
pany' Nos. 325-331 Chestnut st. Phiia,
VIM. p GEST
PreaIdnnt
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-- Ethical Culture
BROAD ST. THEATRE, sunday II n, IN
- Mr.. Alfred w. Martin
Are There Signs of Moral ProGress?n
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CONTINUED MONDAY)
New-York tribune., 1919-10-09
GUARANIE 6
General Woods Health

At Gary the policy being pursued by
General Wood, man who does not IN
80 dulge in looking over his shoulder when
"A plain duty confronts him, is a simple
one.
He is playing no favorites, taking no
sides in an industrial dispute. He is or
the ground to enforce and apply one
law to all. Leaders Of the strikers have
complained Of having been interfered
with in the orderly enjoyment Of their
e right not to work. General Wood Will
protect them from any further interfer-
ence. Other men complain that they
are attacked when attempting to exer-
else their right to work General Wood
will also protect them from further in
reference He is strictly and sternly
impartial, and the men Of Gary may
work or not work, just as they severally
a please.
During the war no use was made of
the abilities # Genera Wood in Europe.
Instead, he was sent before the Mayo
board to ascertain whether he was physi-
cally fit for any military service. This
] time it was apparently assumed that he
is capable of the most trying kind of
service There is no hint Of any need
to make him submit to another eXamina-
- ion. One does not know whether to con-
rratulate General WOOD on the recovery
If his hea!t,. or the War Department on
its discovery that ideas it once seemed
10 entertain were erroneous.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-09
The Vague Bulletins

No right-minded person will seek to
spy upon or to break down the natural
eserves of the White House sckroom,
ct The World speaks what seems
roper word when it asks for greater
.iearness in the bulletins.
The policy of vagueness which has
Len adopted is having the inevitable
consequence of giving to lovers of gos-
Zip and rumor an opportunity they are
not neglccting. Many invented reports
are in circulation, and although sensible
persons gave them little credence their
spread is harmful There is surely moth
ing in the ethics Of the medical profess
sion which forbids an open statement Of
conditions. The chief cause for the exag
geratons complained of is the failure
of the bulletin makers to take the public
into their confidence. 1t is to be pre-
sumed the physicians have diagnosed
the Presidents malady. Why not declare
what it is?
The Presidents health is matter
Of public concern. The people have a
right to know. For ten days there has
been secrecy, and, as The World suggests,
it is time to abandon it.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-09
ratification
An Apology to Justice Panken

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: My attention has been called to q
news item that printed in the issue Of
The New York Tribune OF October g. 1919,
reporting or purporting to report an ad-
dress made by me on October s. 1919, at
the Lexington Opera House In the City of
New York
1t is evident from the report that no re-
porter was present representing your
paper at this meeting. The statement
credited to me in your issue of October s
never made by me, nor was 1t made,
if my memory serves me, by any other
speaker at that meeting.
The only explanation that can be made
of the tep referred to is that the reporter
you assigned did not attend to his duties
and cooked" up q report of his own; or Is
it to be assumed that your paper will con-
coct report of meeting and publish it,
although it has no basis in fact?
In justice to your readers, to myself and
to Judge Mayer this letter should be print
ed by YOU and given as much prominence
as the news item quoting me.
JACOB PANKEN.
Municipal Court of New York, Oct 7, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-10-09
The Ones Who Suffer
lFron The Monutacturera Recordl

(From The Mdnuydcturers Record
While union labor Is demanding a con-
stant advance in wages and to large ex-
tent this is connected with decreased eff
cheney and shorter hours, the great middle
class Of our people, comprising teachers,
ministers, clerks and those of small fixed
income, based on former accumulatons or
inheritance, suffering more than any
other. For the latter there seems to be
but little chance for change for the bet
ter, since it is difficult to change fixedJ
Investments in way which will yield
larger income, and yet be thoroughly safe
to make up the difference between the
present cost Of living and former prices.
There millions of people in this
country who, through inheritances or small
accumulations after long years of thrift,
had q small income which was sufficient for
their actual needs under the old conditions
prior to the war, but who to-day find their
incomes practically cut in half
There millions Of others. including
teachers and ministers, whose beggarly sal
aries are q disgrace to the country, and
clerks and others whose compensation has
been In no way advanced in keeping with
The higher cost of living.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-09

ers of communism but even moderate
liberals and democrats-many Of whom
were throughout the war sincere
friends of the Entente-are prosecuted
with ruthless brutality reminiscent of
the worst days of Czaristic terrorism.
Italy is watching the Hapsburg prop
aganda with the keenest interest. The
Italians, whose heroism at Vittorio
Veneto inflicted the deathblow to the
crumbling Austrian Empire, will not
tolerate a Hapsburg restoration which
will rcinstate on their northern frontier
their hereditary oppressors and enc
mics. 1t is, therefore, to Italy above all
that the democratic and liberal elements
in the Danubian countries which are op-
posed to Hapsburg coup look for moral
and, if need be, material support.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-09
Our Defunct Air Service
Extracts testimony taken hearing Military
Affairs on reorganization of armv

the material that are used in it, can be used
by the several departments Of the gov
ernment to great advantage in time Of peace.
They can do map work. We are discovering
about ten fires day with the little assistance
that we are able to give now on the Pacific
Coast. have forgotten the amount of
money that the forestry people say has been
saved already as the result of that, but it is
much more than you have appropriated for
aviation this year-much more than you
have appropriated has been saved by that
operation. They can carry the mails on those
trips; they act with the customs people
ard the Coast Guard people; they can explore
places like Alaska; they can establish lines
along the borders of Mexico and Canada !;
and, in fact, they can be used for all sorts
of purposes.
A the same time we want to develop land
ing grounds all over the country, which we
have projected. Because without these the
country is like roads without auto gasolene
stations.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-09
Fifteen Months
Of Waiting

Senator Wadstoorth then asked General
Menoher hoqc soon It aoould be possible to
produce pursuit ai1'plcnes.
General Menoher-About three months ago
we invited bids for q certain number of mod
ern bombers, we wanted to purchase two
hundred, and invited bids, and we got all
kinds of bids We first called in the inventor
Of the machine, the designer, rather Glenn
Martin, and he figured and gave US q price
at which he could furnish hose planes. We
insisted that they must be delivered in fifteen
months. He figured out as an absolute mini
mum that it would take him to tool up his
plant-that is, TO get all tools ready for
quantity production bout thirtyfoUr weeks,
and we could not get him to reduce that by
one day He said that it was the absolute
minimum. He said: at will take me thirty
four weeks to tool up my plant to produce
planes in quantity" Then of course, it
takes some time TO produce them after you
have begun to make them. You cannot turn
them out in five minutes. | have learned only
recently that when the order was given for
the Browning gun, which is a small affair
compared with q big airplane and engine, it
took fourteen months to produce the first
gun.
The Charman-Yes; we were painfully
aware of that.
General Menoher-I am giving that as an
examp Of the time it takes from the issu
ance of the order for planes in quantity to
their delivery.
Senator Thomas-My experience is it took
a good deal longer than that.
General Menoher-I am giving that as the
absolute minimum. We figured out year
and three months as the time, and we had
hard time to get any manufacturers to con-
slider their production inside Of fifteen
New-York tribune., 1919-10-09
What England
rs Doing

Senator New--As a matter of fact. ia Il
true that Great Britain and France have
people down there and have had them there
for some time?
General Mitchell--Some of them have
taken ships and given them away, we are
told, and given free instructions TO get them
going. Take China: there is no reason WHY
we should not help China in developing her
aviation.
I believe that the air service ts being
pushed in England at the expense Of the
navy. The English I k..ow, see and It has
been stated to me often--not only bv air
officers, but other officers-that thew are in
the same condition now with respect to their
ar service as they were with their navy
about four hundred years ago, when they
began building up their sea power.
Senator Fletcher-The Zeppelin did not
turn out to be very great, did it?
General Mitchell Yes, the Zeppelin
turned out 10 be great thing, and Great
Britain knew that it was great thing and
worked just as hard as she could to build
them during the war.
Senator New--The R-34 is DEVELOPMENT
Of the Zeppelin7
General Mitchell-Yes, sir; but it is not
as good as they will be after while, be-
cause they are going at it hard and de-
veloping rapidly. The R-34 is only he
ginning.
The Chairman-Do you imagine the R-s4
would ever have been built and made this
transatlantic voyage If they had not had a
separate air service to go about ito
General Mitchell-Probably not; the air
force pushed it.
The Chairman-I do not mean that it never
would have been built, but would it have
been built within four or five years?
Genera Mitchell-Probably not; the navy
started them but the air force pushed It
along.
The Chairrnan-Do you think It hastened
the achievement?
have had the same thing in this countrv
mad we an air force. We would have done it
before they did. We have better models OF
alrplanes in this country than they have in
England That Martin two-engine machine
is better ship than the Vimy that flew
across the Atlantic not long ago.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-09
RaGfying

The peace treaty in the last article
provides that it shall go into effect when
ratified by Germany and any three of the
principal Allied and associated powers.
The King of Italy yesterday ratified
the treaty, but this is not ratification as
Americans understand the word. 1t ap-
pears that the decree must be submitted
to the Italian parliament for approval
The British Empire is commonly rated
as having ratified. 1t has, so far as
Great Britain proper is concerned, but
Australia has not yet acted, and so no
instrument Of ratification, it would seem,
has been filed at Paris. France, Japan
and the United States not having yet
acted it follows that so far Germany is
the only country which has completed
ratification.
Complaint has been made Of the SEN
ate for "holding up the peace. But it
may turn out, if there is action when
now seems probable, and the ratification
is accepted by the executive department
in the form it is to have, that this coun-
try will be the first of the Allies to
ratify. SO far the Senate has not delayed
the peace
New-York tribune., 1919-10-09
Only Three Days More

You can register this afternoon and
evening from o'clock to 10:30, or to-
morrow, Friday, between the same
hours, or on Saturday all day from 7
in the morning to 10:30 at night.
That is the last chance to register. If
you have not registered by 10:30 o'clock
Saturday night you cannot vote. You
will be unable to play your citizens part
in the unspectacular, but very impor-
tant, judiciary elections on November 4.
Also, if you would take part in the
Presidential primaries next spring you
must, when registering, enroll with a
party. This issue may well prove to be
quite as vital as the actual Presidential
vote year from this November. We
urge all Americans, men and women, to
register and enroll. Never was the coun-
try in greater need of the full voting in
teligence of it's citizens. Never was the
obligation resting upon citizen more
solemn and urgent.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-09
'Moderate Circumstances"

Out in Chicago, where they have enough
divorces to know something about the
science of happiness and unhappiness in
marriage, two much experienced judges
have delivered their opinions and ad-
vice. They agree substantially in back
ing the girl who comes from family "in
moderate circumstances" to make the
most successful wife. The daughter of
a rich household may make a good wife
"if properly educated" But the chances
are al! against such education Similarly,
the poor girl faces certain handicaps.
and she brings to her job less education
and less interest.
So we reach the dictum that "the
daughter of good mother who conducts
her own home, and that means the girl
in moderate circumstances, makes the
best wife 1t is not an inspiring phrase,
moderate circumstances" 1t mas a
fatal sound like that other kil-joy Of
color and excitement and the long shot,
tie golden mean" Not from such mid
~'~ - SA'~ @S~A SsiobShSS CciHcS JIle severe
test or the big inspiration to point the
way TO vast achievement Imagina-
ton is hard to grow In steam heated
semi-detached cottage with every COM
tort and luxury that can be assembled on
ffty-foot lot
But the Chicago judges were not
speaking OF genius, and neither is ma
ton Of geniuses what America has con-
cerned herself about. Genuses make
bad wives and not necessarily good citi
. zens. The greatness of America has
come quite as much from her "modcrate'
masses as from her transcendent leaders.
This Is a new sort Of national greatness
IL can serve very accurately as a defni-
ion Of Americas chief contribution thus
far to the wellbeing Of the world In
d. sum, we have created the largest middle
:, class the world has ever seen It in
cludes the steel worker the plumber, the
entire skilled labor of the country. Right
there IL its prime differentiation from
= the bourgeoisie that our soviet friends
p are 40 fond Of sneering at IT. second
pont Of difference is the quality inherent
New-York tribune., 1919-10-09
Peace WOrk
Of FiierS

The committee then called to the stand
Brigader General William MITCHELL, chief
OF training and operations, icho scas General
Pcrshing's chief Of air operations at the
front. General Mitchell is fier:
The Chairman--Genernl Mitchell, do you
believe in a separate air service?
General Mitchell--Yes, sir.
The Chairman-Do you believe the per-
sonnel of a separate air service be
trained in times Of peace to work efficiently
with the infantry and artillery?
General Mitchell--lt would be much better
trained and be much better for the infantry
and artillery under those conditions than it
can be trained under present conditions. be-
cause air officers would control the whole
service instead of officers of other branches
OF the service, as IL the case at present.
Now. this same aviation. the personnel and
New-York tribune., 1919-10-09
Commercial
Possibilities

Senator Fletcher-You think there are
commercial possibilities in aviation?
General NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., but it must
be developed. think the possibilities are
tremendous in the Southwest l do not think
there is country in the world that has the
hylng facilities of this country. You can
fly here anywhere.
! believe that our commercial expansion
in the sale Of airpanes in foreign countries
should be pushed just as far as we can;
to-day believe we could have had the whole
South American market if we had pushed it.
and there is going to be a great development
IN aviation III South America. Take Chile;
all the rivers run from the Andes down into
the sea, and the ridges between those rivers
and water courses are very high To get
across them the railroads have to go around
those ridges and wind about, but with an
airplane you go right up over them. know
that you can get big development in Chile
and also IN other places. We ought to have
people down there to show them what air
planes are; in other words exploit the whole
country from an air standpoint for them
New-York tribune., 1919-10-09
"W ouLd Put Us
Out OF Dusiness''

Havang admitted that the aircraft industry
is now unuble, through neglect. to produce
airplanes, General Memoher ,ous asked to
state the condition Of the aar servicc per-
sonnet. The testimony follows.
Senator Fletcher-You have been letting
officers out?
General Menoher-We have been letting
officers out, because by the 30th OF September
al Of these officers must be discharged unless
provision is de for their retention, and
there is bill hat has passed the Senate al
ready and is before the House providing
for Il certain number of officers, $4,000 for
the regular army and we viii get about 1900
officers out OF them. | think there is pro-
vision, or amendment, in the House, provid-
in, lol 400 Of those officers for the air
service.
Senator Fletcher-If that is not passed by
the 30th of Septcmber-
General Mcnoher-All of these $500 that
are now in the air service will have to be dis
charged, leaving us 2l5 regular officers with
the air service, all OF whom belong TO the
signal corps, and detailed from the other
branches
Senator Fletcher-That would pretty Sc
rously cripple the air service. would il not?
General Menoher-We would have to shut
up shop, practically 1t would put out of
business, in other words.
TIE Chairnlal other words. general, it
destroys the air service as factor?
General Menoher-As factor; yes sir
There is no escaping that conclusion.
The Chairman-That ought to be under
stood
General Mcnoher-I will repeat that. 1t
will absolutely cripple or put US out of busi-
ness in the air service.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-09

in our whole social and economic scheme
of things-it is not fixed group endur-
ing from generation to generation. Its
membership comes and goes with the
ability of father and son and daughter.
So it is essentially dynamic crowd as
opposed to the static, rather self-satis-
fed, extremely conservative bourgeois
type Of Europe. In short, it's members
still have the American potentialities Of
achievement and success.
The Chicago judges are right. Where
find not only the best wives but the best
citizens and the best hope of America
New-York tribune., 1919-10-09
The British Tip
tFrom The London Morn,ng Posu


Inc plague o. tl-s..--- .- ....~ s'as
Of extraordinary severity. The democrat
tanner is of no USE now that ,ne world rs
been made safe for democracy under -
autocratic rule Of Mr Sm.l e and Mr.
Hodges. l often dine out, writes COT
tributor, and although walters are nov
paid fixed wage for each meal they ser'e
they are more insistent in their demaao
for tip than before the war A dinas
the other night Il cost tne host s2o y
satisfy the walters. and that on the 70
of the provision made for them by -
manager of tie restaurant. who expls'he@
by the way. that one o. the reasons !"
apparent profteerng in wine was thst IN.
had TO get. sufficient out OF that TO pay u
cost of walters wages. Everywhere Il p
alike; waiters demand tips A. the lunche'
to Field Marshal Foch at the Mansion hoas'
the walters even there went round ."
blandly. and almost blun;ly. asked Tor
pourboire. so that lords and ladies' "'''
marshals and generals. and those ausD'
personages. aldermen and common eoun''
men, were seen diving into tneir po'N'"
for the necessary piece Of silver.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-09
Foster Commercial


General Mcnoher. IN conclusion. asked
to state achct in his opinion, ,ccs necessary
to souc the aircraft situation.
The Charman-Wh hat remedy DO you pro-
where it can produce planes and engines Of
the latest approved type within reasonable
period after an order is given?
General NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. from the
government is what have in mind, and that
il going TO mean the fostering Of commercial
aviation 1t would not do for to abandon
the small child that has been brought into
the world; but some time before long it must
at least show some justification for its ex-
istence. At It's inception it must be provided
for for some little while.