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The Washington herald., 1919-02-16

"Whcrc arc YOU going" Abe
asked.
81 am going straight down to
see Henry D. Fcldman and tell
that crook he should get for me
a passport" Morris said.
"You wouldn't positively do
nothing Of the kind" Abe said.
Did you ever hear the like?
Wants to go to a lawyer 10 get
a passport! The idear'
"Well, who would | 60 % then
an osteopath?" Morris asked.
Leon Sammct told rre all
about it," Abe said. "Yon 90
down to a place on Rector street
where you sign an application,
and"
That's just what l thought" :"
Morris interrupted" and the least
what happens to fellcrs which
signs applications without a
lawyer, understand, is that six
months later a truckdriver ar
rives one morning and says where
should he leave the set of Wash
ington Irving in one hundred
and fifty-six volumes or the
piano with stool and scarf COM
plete as the case may be. So |
am going to see Feldman and if
it costs me fifteen or twenty dol
lars, it's anyhow satisfaction
to know that when you do things
with the advice Of a smart.
crooked lawyer, nobody could put
nothing over on you outside of
your lawyer"
When Morris returned an hour
later, however, instead of an ap-
pearance of satisfaction, his face
bore so melancholy an express
sion that for a few minutes Abe
was afraid to question him.
"Nu" he said at last, II sup
pose you got turned down for
being overweight or sounething?"
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I'VE wouldn't do nothing OF the
kind" Abe declared. i've been
thinking this thing over, and l
come to the conclusion that it's
up to you to go over to Paris
and see what is going on over
there"
81 don't got to go to Paris
for that, Abe" Morris said. 81
can read the papers the same like
anybody else and just SO long
as there is chance that the war
would start up again and them
hundred mile guns is going to
resume operations, | am content
to get my ideas of Paris styles at
a distance of three thousand miles
il l never sold another garment
as long as l live"
But when it was working yet,
it only went off every twenty
minutes" Abe said.
81 don't care if it only went
off every Fourth of July" Morris
said, because if l went over
there, it would be just my luck
that the peace negotiations falls
through and the Germans invent
a gun leaving Frankfort every
hour on the hour and arriving
in Paris daily including Sundays
without leaving enough trace Of
me to file a proof of death with.
Am / right or wrong"
"All right" Abe said, "if that's
the way you feel about it, l will
go to Paris"
You will go to Paris" Morris
exclaimed.
Sure" Abe declared. The
operators is on strike, business is
rotten and I'm sick and tired of
paying life insurance premiums
anyway.
Besides if Leon Sammet could
get a passport, why couldn't l."
The Washington herald., 1919-02-16
An BY MONTAGUE GLASS
They Arrive and So Does the President

You mean to say that faker
is going to Paris to buy model
gowns" Morris demanded.
81 seen him on the subway this
morning and the way he talked
about how easy he got his pass
port, you would think that every
time he was in Washington with
a line Of them masquerade cos
'.in,s which Salndt u,r
makes up, if he didn't stop in
and take anyhow a bit OF lunch
with the Wilson's, y'understand,
the President raises the devil
with Tumulty why didn't he let
him know Leon Sammct WAS in
town"
Then that settles it," Morris
declared, reaching for his hat.
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emerged from her shelter at the
foot of the stairs and in rapid
French explained to Abe and
Morris that ALE Paris was cele-
brating with a public holiday the
arrival of President Wilson.
ITS a funny thing about the
French language" Morris said as
she concluded. Even if you don't
understand what the people mean,
you could most always tell what
they've been eating, which if the
French people was limited by law
to a ton of garlic a month per
person, Abe, this lady could so to
Jail for the rest Of her life"
"Attendez!." said the concierge.
"Au dcssus il y a un monsieur qui
parle Anglais."
She motioned for them to wait
and ascended the stairs to the
floor above, where they heard her
knock on an office door. Evi-
IDENTIFY the person who opened it
was annoyed by the interruption,
for his voice-and to Abe and
Morris it was a strangely familiar
voice-was raised IN angry pro-
test.
Now listen" said the tenant,
q told you before that I've only
got this place temporarily, and as
long as l am in here, I don't want
you to do no cleaning nor moth
ing, because the air is none too
good here as it is, and further
moro"
He proceeded no further, how
ever, for Abe and Morris had
taken the stairs three at a jump
and began to wiring his hands CT
fusively upon the principle OF any
port in a storm.
"Well, well, well, if it amt Leon
Sammet," Abe cried, and his man
ner was as cordial as though in
stead OF their nearest competitor
Leon were Potash & Pcrlmuttcr's
best customer.
"Thc English language bounccs
off that woman like water from a
ducks neck" Leon said, which
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q am nearly frozen from open
ing the windows to let out her
conversation" Leon said, "and es-
pecially this morning when
thought could get a lot of letter
writing done without being inter
rupted, on account of the holi-
day"
so that's the reason why
everything is closed up" Morris
exclaimed.
But Christmas amt for pretty
near two weeks yet" Abe said
What has Christmas est to do
with it," Leon retortcd. SJoday
is a holiday because PrcsAfrt
Wilson arrives in Paris"
And you are working here"
Abe cried.
why mott" Leon asked.
you mean to say that Presi-
dent Wilson is arriving in Paris
today and you amt going to sec
him come in" Morris exclaimed.
What for an American are YOU,
anyway"
Say, for that matter, Presidcn,
Wilson has been arriving in New
York hundreds Of times in the
past four years" Leon said, and
l amt heard that you boys was
on the reception committee c1-
sctly."
That's something else again.
Abe said In New York VIC got
business enough to do without
iooling away our time rubbcring
at parsdcs; but President Wilson
only comes to Paris once in a life
time"
And some Of the people back
home is kicking because he comes
20 Paris even that often" Leon
commented
Let en- kick" Morris declared.
which the way some Americans
runs down President Wilson only
goes to show that it's an old say
ing and a true one that there Is
no profit for a man in his own
country, so so ahead and write
your letters if you want 10, Leon.
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when | seen the way you looked,
Abe. l couldn't help thinking Of
what chances concerns like the
Equitable takes when they pass
4 fcller as A-NumbeT one on his
heart and kidneys and amt tried
him out on so much as a Staten
Island ferry boat to see what
kind Of traveller he is"
Listen, MawrusS," Abe inter
rupted, did we come over here
paying frst-class fares for prac-
tically steerage accommodations,
to discuss life insurance, or did
VIC come over here to buy model
garments and get through with
it, because, believe me, it is no
pleasure for me to stick around
country where you couldn't get
no sugar or butter in a hotel not
if you was to show the head
waiter a doctors certificate with
a $Ioo bill pinned on it. So let
US go round to a few OF these
high-gradc drcssmakers, and see
how much we are going to get
stuck for, and have it over"
Accordingly they paid for the
coffee and milk without sugar,
and the dark sour rolls without
butter, which nowadays form
the usual hotel breakfast in
France, and set out for the office
of the commission agent whose
place OF business is the rcndez-
vous for American garment manu-
facturers in search OF Partisan
model gowns. The broad avenues
in the vicinity OF the hotel seemed
unusually crowded even to pco-
pie as accustomed to the con-
gested traffic OF lower Fifth ave-
nue. as Abe and Morris were. but
as they proceeded toward the
wholesale district of Paris, the
streets became less and less trav-
cled, until at length they walked
along practically deserted thor
oughfares.
"And we thought business was
rotten in America" Morris said.
why, there amt hardly one
store open, hardly
Abe nodded gloomily.
at looks to me, Mawruss, that
if there is any new garments be
ing designed over here" he said,
they would be quiet mourning
! gowns, appropriate for attending
something informal like a sale by
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stand, between the time that he
applied for his passport and the
time the government issued it
to him, y'undcrstand, it would
already be the spring and sum-
mer season of I924-I925. So the
best thing we could do is to
snoop round among the trade
and whatever we find the
majority is making up for next
year, we would make up the same
styles also, and that's all there
would be to it"
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not to make the attending credi-
tors say she was her own best
customer, understand me-"
well, what could you expect?"
Morris said, as they toiled up the
stairs to the commission agents
office. THE chances is that up
to a couple of months ago in a
Paris drcssmaker's shop, a Gus
toner arrived only every other
week, whereas a nine-inch bomb
arrived every twenty minutes, and,
furthermore, Abe, it was you that
suggested this trip, not me, so
now that We are over here, we
should ought to make the best
Of it, and if this here commission
agent can't show US no new de-
signs, he could anyhow show us
the sights"
But even this consolation was
denied them, for when they reach
cd the commission agents door,
it was locked and barred as were
all the other offices on that floor,
and bore a placard reading:
FERME
A Cause du Jour de Fete
"Nuw Morris said, after he had
read and rcread the notice a num-
Der of times, what are we going
to do now"
This is the last hair" Abe
said. because you know how it
is with these Frcnc kers, if they
close for a death in the family,
it is liable to be a matt: OF
weeks already"
Maybe it says gone to lunch
will be back in half an hour"
Morris suggested hopefully.
Not a chance" Abe declared.
More likely it means this elegant
office with every modern improve
ment except its an elevator, steam
heat and electric light, to be SUBJ
let, because it would be just our
luck that the commission agent is
back in New York right now with
line of brand new model gowns
asking our bookkecpcr will either
of the bosses be back soon"
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I'VE wouldn't get back in ten
years, III tell you that, unless we
hustle" Morris declared. He led
the way downstairs to the ground
floor where after a few minutes
they managed to attract the at
tention of the concierge, who
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every FIVE minutes she comes up
here and talks to me in French
high speed with the throttle wide
open like a racing car already"
"And the exhaust must be
something terrible Abe said.
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4 receiver in supplementary pro-
ceedings, or a more or less elab-
orate afternoon costume, not too
snowy, y'understand, but the kind
of model that a fashionable Paris
could wear to a ref
cree in bankruptcy's office SO as
The Washington herald., 1919-02-16

What do you suppose | am ap-
plying for, twcnty-ycar endow-
ment passport or one of them ton
tine passports with cash surren-
der value after three years"
"Then what is the matter, you
look so rachmonos?" Abe said.
How should l look with the
kind of partner which I've got
it," Morris asked. paris models
he must got to got. Domestic de-
signs amt good enough for him.
Such high-gradc idecs he's got.
and I've got to suffer for it yet"
well, don't go to Europe,
what do l care" Abe said.
I'VE must CO." Morris replied.
What do you mean, we?" Abe
demanded.
81 mean you and me-" Morris
said. "Fcldman says that just
so long as it is one operation he
would charge the same for get
ting one passport as for getting
two, excepting the government
fee of s., so what do you think
| am going to pay Henry D. Field
man $500 for getting me a pass
port when for s. extra l can get
one for you also?"
But who is going to look
after the store??" Abe exclaimed.
SAY" Morris retorted, you've
got relations enough working
around here, which every time
you've hired a fresh one, you've
given me this blood-is-rcdder-
than-water stuff, and now is your
chance to prove it. We wouldn't
be away longer as six weeks at
the outside, so go ahead, Abe.
Here is the application for the
passports. Sign your name on
the dotted line and don't say no
more about it."
Eyes, Mawruss," Abe said three
week later as they sat in the
restaurant OF their Paris hotel,
in a country where the coffee
pretty near stranglcs you, even
when it's got cream and sugar
in it, y'understand, the cooking
has got to be good, because in
a s2-a-day American-plan hotel,
the management figures that no
matter how rotten the food is
the guests will say: Well, any.
how the coffee was good and get
! by with it that way"
"On the other hand, Abe,
Morris suggested, maybe thc
French hotel people figure that i
they only make the coffee bac
enough, the guests would say
Well, one good thing, while tn,
food is terrible, it amt marker
on the coffee"
"But the food tastes prett,
good to me, Mawruss," Abe said
wait till you've been here :
week." Morris advised him. ANY
thing would taste good to yo,
after what you went through OF
that boat"
What do you mean, after wha
went through" Abe demanded
What l went through, don't be
| gin to compare with what yol
went through, which honcstl,
Mawruss, there was times ther,
!; on that second day out whcr,
you acted so terrible, understand
me, that rather as witness sucf
human suffering again, if anyon,
: would of really and truly hac
your interests at heart, the,
would of give a couple dollar
to a steward that he should throw
you overheard and make an enc
of your misery"
as that so?" Morris retorted
well, let me tell you something
Abe. If you think l was in /:
bad way, don't kid yourself wher
you lay there in your berth fol
three days without STRENGTH
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but Abe and me is going down
town to the Champs Elias and
and give the President a couple OF
cheers like patriotic American sit
sons should ought to do"
I'm especially" Abe added, as
it is a legal holiday and we
wouldn't want to look at no model
garments today"
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entered the office one morning
after the cessation of hostilities
on the Western front.
Al Tzuris" Abe moaned in
reply and for at least a minute
he continued to rock to and fro
in his chair and to make in
coherent noises through his
nostrils in the manner Of a per-
son suffering either from tooth
ache or the recent cancellation
OF a large order.
at serves you right" Morris
said Il told you you shouldn't
eat that Liberty Roast at Was
serbauer's yesterday. 1t used to
give you the indigestion when it
was known as Koenigsburger
KIops, which it is like the Ger
man Empire now calling itself
the German republic; changing
its name amt going to alter its
poisonous disposition none"
That's right" Abe said.
Make jokes why don't you?
You are worscr as this here feller
Zero
What feller Zero" Morris de-
nlandcd.
Zero the Emperor what
fiddled when Rome was burning"
Abe replied. Hes got nothing
on you. You would fiddle if
Rome, Watcrtown and Ogdens-
burg were burning"
I don't know what you arc talk
ing about at ALL" Morris said,
"and besides the fcllcr's name
was Nero not Zero"
That's what you say" Abe
commented, which you also said
that the operators was only
bluffing and that they wouldn't
strike on us in a thousand years,
and considering that you said
his only yesterday. Mawruss, it's
already wonderful how time flies"
Well" Morris said, how could
[ figure that them lunatics is
going to pick out the time when
we've got practically no work for
hem and was going to fire them
anyway. to call strike on u.s."
You should ought to have
igured that way" Abe declared.
Didn't the Kaiser abdicatc just
,eforc them Germans got ready
kick him out"
The king business amt the
garment business" Morris OBJ
.crvcd.
Il know 1t amt" Abe agreed.
Kings has got ,hci. worries, too,
,ut when it comes to laying
wake nights trying to figure out
whether them designers some
where in France is going to turn
,ut long full skirts or short mar
ow skirts for the fall and winter
Il I9I9-I92o, Mawruss, | bet yer
he entire collection Of kings,
ctive or retired, doesn't got to
axe two grains of trional be-
wccn them"
IF everybody worried like you
10, Abe" Morris said, "the gov.
rnmcnt would got to issue sleep
ng powder cards like sugar cards
nd limit the consumption of
lecping powders to not more
han two pounds of sleeping
'owders per person per month
each household"
Well, someone has got to do
he worrying around here,
dawruss." Abe said. which il it
sstcd with you, understand,
&C could make up a line of
amplcs for next season that
couldn't be no more like Paris
esigns than Gen. Pcrshing looks
ke his pictures in the maga-
ines"
"Say for that matter" Morris
aid, I'VE are just as good
uessers as our competitors, on
a. L.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-04-04
Want to Come Back.

Meridian sent an agent of the
United States employment service up
North to see about getting some of
the colored labor back on the farms
He found a great many of these peO-
pie who were in distressing circum-
stances and anxious To get back home.
saying they would never leave again.
Many Mississippi planters are adj
vancing the money to bring the wan
derers home where there is plenty of
work for them. After a while the
colored people will get it fixed in
their minds that they have a better
chance right here in the South among
people who understand them,
than they have in other parts of the
country. Wrong-doers of henious
class sometimes have summary ven
geance taken upon them down here -
but never in the history of the South
have negroes been mobbed by whole
community aud driven out for want
ing to work and competing with
white men, as was the case up in
certain town in Pennsylvania the other
day and as was the case at East St.
Louis. -TuscalOosa News.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-04-04
Legal NONRESIDENT Notice.

The State OF Mississippi,
Monroe County.
Chancery Court, July Term. 1919.
In Re. Guardianship of Estate of
Harold Berg, Minor, Addison
Brannin. Guardian.
To Harold Berg. postoffice address,
Zumbrota. Goodhue County. Mjn-
nesota, or s a xu m d en-, Pr
Lillshamer. Norway. Europe
You are hereby commanded to be
and appear before the Chaucery Court
OF Monroe County, Mississippi, at the
Courthouse thereof in the City of Alb
erdeen, Mississippi, on the Third
Monday III July, A. ID. 1919. then and
there TO show cause. if any. why the
Fourth Annual and Final Account of
Addison Brannin. Guardian, of your
estate. this day filed III the office of
the Chancery Clerk. shall not be APP
proved, allowed. ratified and con-
firmed in all things. and said Guardian
fully and finally discharged, as
prayed for. Said Fourth Annual and
Final Account being now on file in
this office, subject to inspection and
exceptions, If any.
Witness my hand, this the Sth day
of March. 1919
G. G. RAY. Chancery Clerk
Aberdeen, Mississippi.
ID. W. HOUSTON. SR. and JR.,
Aberdeen. Mississippi.
Solicitors for Guardian.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-04-04
Lending to the Government.

1t is to be hoped that Americans
have learned the strength and the
value of Government loans and that
in the future, Americans of all classes
will make heavy investments in
American national securities. The
wealth of the nation would be great
~ increased and strengthened if this
could come TO pass. The returns
from the Fifth Liberty Loan will be
closely watched. The officials who
have the best interests OF the country
at heart are anxious TO see if we have
learned the lessons we should from
the first four Liberty Loan issues.
One of the things that was hoped
for as sort of a recompense for the
war, was that we would continue our
habits of saving. 1t was also hoped
that the securities most sought after
by the small investor in future years
would be government bonds and Sc
curities. The many campaigns have
made the plan OF government bends
plain TO every possible buyer. The
work Of education has been done very
thoroughly. and every man woman
and most of the children OF the coun-
try have had an opportunity to know
Just what a Government bond stands
for and why it il a good investment
1t is for these reasons that the pub
lie is expected to buy heavily. Leav-
ing to one side all such arguments as
the nations need of the money, the
great purposes TO which it is to be put
aud the appreciation of what the
fighting men of America have accom-
plished in Europe, the signally sound
arguments in favor of the Liberty
Loan as good Investment ought to
result in tremendous over-subscrip-
ton.
The farmer, the merchant, the shop
worker. all the people who have a
little money and who want to make
certain that it shall earn something
and at the same time be absolutely
safe. ought to be the heaviest buyers
of such securities. q
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-04-04
Y. W. C. A. PROMOTES
WORLD FELLOWSHIP
Will Send Industrial Commission
to Meet Foreign Labor
Leaders.

The War Work Council Of the
Young Women's Christian Association
plans tn send an industrial commission
of women To England, France and Italy
in April to meet prominent labor lead
ers of those countries with view to
promoting world fellowship among wo-
men.
The commission will he made up Of
Mrs. Raymond Robbins. REPRESENTING
the National Wonfen's Trade Tlfion
League of America Mrs. Irene OS-
good Andrews, American Association
for Labor Legislation; Miss Grace
Drake, National Consumers League:
Mrs James :. Cushman. chairman Of
the War Work Council of the Young
Women's Christian Association Miss
Florence SimmS, Miss Marie Wing and
Miss Imogene Il. Ireland, secretary 30
the commission. all of the " W. G. A..
and Miss Mary ellison, an authority on
employment management.
Miss Florence SimmS says in re-
gard to the commission: The war
has forced upon us the bearing
of international relationships III an
things, and our touch with women in
other countries has made us include in
our international thinking the indus
trial life of women. The war has
wrought 50 many changes in this that
it seems Il timely thing that women in
terested in the larger life of our vo-
men workers should take counsel to-
gether and express their interest with
the hope that certain minimum stand
ards which seem essential TO health
and welfare amorg women may be
agreed upon and obtained
Our War Work Council D.. sending
abroad this womens commission from
organizations in America directly CON
cerned with the welfare and largest
life of industrial women"