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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-02-19
STUPIDITY FOR TWO
BY INES MACDONALD
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Billy Warden sat on the ve,..,
rail half oblivlous to the chatter ~ :.
company about him until Edna r.
their charming hostess, stood 80
him.
DO come In and sing soms,h,.
Billy" she whispered. I'm afraia !,
evenings beginning to drag"
Warden arose dutifully and follow.,
her into the house toward the n,,'
while she announced from the H..
Come on everybody, Bllly's goln, !
sing"
And everybody trailed into the -
where Billy was already running !
the piano keys aimlessly.
"What1I you have?" he asked IN,
his shoulder to the gay assembb,
Something sad--something mushr.
or something frivolous?"
Something frivolous - was ~,
unanimous request.
So Billy's fingers strayed into a su
copating melody as he threw back h,
blond head and sang In his rolllckl.
baritone:
Evening star., 1919-04-27
Bad All Round.

JNEZ IRWIN, a novelist, said in an
= address in New York on eugenics:
'Mergenary marriages are bad not
only for the children. but for the con-
tracing parties as well. The parties
to mercenary marriage fight like
cat and dog.
The poor young husband of one OF
these marriages had a terrific fight at
breakfast on a spring morning with
his rich wife. That afternoon he drove
homo In magnificent new touring
car. He called his wife out to see il.
His good humor was quite restored.
She, however, said bitterly, for the
breakfast quarrel still rankled In her
breast:
Its a fine car. q very fine car, but
II It hadn't been for my money IL
wouldn't be here"
"'Well, my love said the young
husband. III it hadn't been for your
money you wouldn't be here either"
Evening star., 1919-04-27

Orders have come from washington
to bring nothing home" At Gievres.
there is one bunch of twenty-three
carloads Of valuable drugs and sur
gical instruments (arrived late) worth
into big figures. Serbia wants those
drugs. So would anybody. And the1
disqualification material? In October
November it's available capacity was
235,000 beds Il. am not sure that we
owned all the bedding). but the base
hospitals were all our own, 156.267
beds normal, 2a5.52s emergency. and
all required, at least, bedding. Add
camp hospitals, normal, 1894 emer.'
gency, 262,765.
.s. X X ,,..
The Medical Corps had twenty-one
hospital trains in service, acquired
by purchase in England and France, :
with per train capacity of 900 to
400 lying-down cases, although $40
patients have been carried in one
train-and glad of it, you bet! the
buddies. After armistice these same
hospital trains did continual SERVICE.
whisking convalescents and sick
list lucky boys to the blue Mediter-
ranean.
Who buys the bakeries? Their ca
pacity has been 2,943,00O pounds
daily with an average output Of
1,746,S64 pounds. The small hand
bakeries are all over Frjnce, but
the magnificent mechanical bakery
plants, with brand new machinery
from England, the pride of the
A. E. F.. having paid for themselves
in economy Of hand lab ,r, will be a
rich pickup for any one who can
utilize them.
And our coffee plants! Bakeries,
coffee plants and laundries in eighty.
eight French localities. Such laun.
dries are quite apart from the nota-
BILE salvage service at Tours and
Lyon. Where Is the space to list it's
power washers, dryers. pressers, ster-
ilizers. vulcanizers, welters, clinch-
ers. sewing machines for sole leather,
soft leather. fabrics and harness?
The salvage? 1t is like sending
everything to the laundry. They SAL
vaged 1,5s4,o24 undershirts, 846.9s3
breeches, 3s6,072 pairs Of field shoes,
and l don't know how many helmets,
airplane motors, field cook ranges,
harness sets and rubber boots.
The salvage is the glory of tho
A. f. F.
Scrapping is it's neEation!
STERLING HElLIG.
Evening star., 1919-04-27

Signal Corps material is equally ter
rife.
They have $4,000 miles of copper
wire in operating telephone-telegraph
lines built by the Signal Corps in
France. plus the standard line con-
struction material to go with it. Il
do not even mention those magnifi-
cent quad, and printer machines, and
vacuum bulb repeaters.) There. is an
item Of 17.439 telephones issued. and
$3.50 in reserve. They have, or had,
23.422 camp and field telephones in
use and 6,6S9 in reserve; 4,073 ac-
cumulators in use and 1880 in re-
serve: 22.755 switchboards in use and
S,416 in reserve, besides 50.674 miles
of wire cit would seem). outpost and
filledA in-heaven help those WHO dig
it up!
Then belts. field glasses, field wire
less outfits. climbers, pliers. buzz
phones, projectors and tizzies, till
your head turns! This Is not stock
list, but a story. Telephones in opera
ton, 1907. And there is another item
Of 20,33S, with 4,450 in reserve. Wire
Oong line system), $4,000 miles. Wire
strung on French pole lines $500
miles. Combat lines, $4,000 miles. and
buried systems and cables, l don't
dare copy 1t. fearing a mistake.
The Signal Corps and engineers got
baG/. 90 100000 francs ($4.400,000) for
the new American wireless plant at
uSlL.
has bought it.
l make no account of chemical war
fare material, nor of the material Of
the schools, artillery, ammunition.
machine gun and aircraft armament
instruction. ordnance instructors. nor
OF depot bases Of ammunition. l say
nothing of shells or guns or ordnance
stores, except that the latter include
694,906 intrenching shovels, mostly
new: 1sS,s73 hand axes (of which
$4,000 are new): 21S. .325 wire cutters,
mostly used: 23S.706 new currycombs
in depot (second-hand currycombs
are scarcely salable): 177,490 horse
brushes (nobody can salvage the 145.-
600 used ones): 1929 new feed bags
and haversacks, pouches, knives and
forks, spoons and bowls, used, and
brand new in the same proportion.
will not mention the coal stocks or
the gasoline and oil stocks. Most Of
them will be used up. But whoever
gets those vast modern refrigerating
plants at Gievres (5.200 tons). Basl
sens 5000 tons), st. Nazaire I.500,-
900 tons), and in twenty three other
French localities. OF a total capacity
Of 1884 tons, will have something
good.
Nor will I mention Quartermaster
supplies, the mems clothes. new and
salvaged immense stores Of food
stuffs much Of which are being wise
ly eaten; or of tobacco (recently they
had full A. II. F. supplies of tobacco
for 500 days). But, oh, those rolling
kitchens which were to follow the
boys, roasting, frying. grilling bak-
ing, boiling and fricasseeing! And
headquarters ONCE material at Tours
and elsewhere! Heavens. ma'am, the
desks, chairs, rugs, stoves. Ming
cases, screens. typewriters, adding
machines and cuspidors!
Who'll buy the Medical Corps stuff!
Evening star., 1919-04-27

Who will get them?
The little nations are hot for share
ON credit, naturally-Serbia, Ru-
mania and the Poles. individuals in
France and England want to buy for
cash. but the Army cannot seel at
retail.
Why cannot the liquidation commits
sion sell retail?
1t would obviate q lot of low totals
and scrappings. because individuals
compose populations, but. of course,
there's the nuisance Of it. 1t so much
easier to lump things or TO scrap
them.
The big selling has already started.
Monsieur Baruch, technical dele
gate of the United States to the peace
conference" according to the official
"Innrmations Belges of March ~
has signed a convention with the Bel
gian government selling it 1.-The horse
and mule material collected in France
and New York for the A. Il. F.. to-
gether with other material. for the
lump price of 00.0oo.oo0 francs
$lO0, 900, ,0O0)."
What is this "other material?
The eight remount depots which
we took over from the French simply
20 back to them--like the major por-
ton of A. Il. f. horses obtained from
the French on the understanding that
they should receive back what re-
mained of them. In fifteen French To-
calities the A. f. F. built additional
new remount depots, with capacity
of 21,400 animals. plus seventeen new
veterinary hospitals. with a capacity
Of 10.700 animals. There seem to be
3S.149 mules. but despite their glo-
rious record they can scarcely be
worth 500 200. 900.
Does Belgium get some Of our To-
Evening star., 1919-04-27

500, 100000? ,\ 49,. .-.
We erected in France (to December,
d. 1.172 locomotives, of which 1,O55
were standard gauge, and 1900 cars,
of which A,302 were standard gauge.
We built 937 miles Of standard guage
track and 53S miles of narrow gauge.
Concerning track. the principle is
as follows: Before the war the French
government had built numerous bits
of strategic lines. not charged to the
localities because of ne commercial
value to them; but whenever the COM
mercial use grew up to profit by them
as a fact, a balance was struck. On
this principle they will buy our stra-
tegic lines in France at cost, where
of use to them; and the rest we are
free to rip up and take home. Or
sell, or scrap
A. e. F. engineers expended or is
sued in France 100 miles of track
material, and have 500 miles of it
new, in depot. The forestry. besides
paying good money for the fuel, wood
telegraph poles and railroad ties they
cut in France. produced from French
forests (and paid for) lumber and
piles for eighteen new ship and light
er berths in French ports, the vast
port development covered storage)
which you will hear of, 225 miles Of
standard Uroop) living barracks, 127
miles of standard hospital wards, so
miles of standard warehouses, the an
imal shelter at remounts and in ad-
vanced zone, and all the lumber which
is at present junk in trenches, dug
outs, etc.
It's enough to turn ones head, the
money that could be made salvaging
simply that French lumber. What,
then, of those 432 miles Of totalized
troop barracks. frame hospital wards
and warehouse?
Then add the value Of all that port
development.
1t consists (I'm sure to omit some
thingo Of 13,256,351 square feet of
covered storage; fourteen complet ed
berths Of entirely American construc-
tion on cement foundations. plus a
vast uncompleted mass Of dockage;
1o1 great lifting cranes in French
ports, 243 barges and lighters, 81
tugs and floating derricks.
Add 2,110.000 square feet Of covered
storage in advanced sections, 4,S01, 900
square feet Of air service covered
storage (and 77s.0o0 square feet in
advanced sections). $4,000 square
feet Of miscellaneous covered storage,
and then 100000 square feet Of dock
covered storage space. mostly for the
air service.
Now. what about all that? The
French government. between st. Ma
xaire and Monitor has, all laid out
for 1t. by American construction, the
essential material for new Ham,
burg. Col. Sewell said it. don't men
tion forty-nine other French ports.
Who will buy the barbed wire?
We have 10000 miles Of barbed wire,
blown up, tangled or rusted, to be
salvaged and $4,000 miles of new
barbed wire in depot in France. Who
wants the sandbags? They cost a
lot-24.o00,0 ,00o sandbags in stock.
There are 10000 shovels, 5000 bar
rels Of camoufage paint. $4,000 tons
OF bar iron and steel in stock (not to
mention steel sheet. mostly issued
and expended) 10000, 900 feet of en-
gineers' copper wire (plus 5000, 1000
feet possibly salvagable). as0 used
Evening star., 1919-04-27

the fine new vehicles of the American
Army, in current use. each with its
honest record of miles run and some
scarcely more than limbered up. The
French syndicate had bright pros
poets. Why? Because "the A. E. F.
cannot sell RETAIL" said a general, and
there was no other wholesale bid!
The Belgian government sailed in.
Belgium, gutH,d by scientific robbers,
needed complete restocking in motor
cars, and begged to buy the lot.
Every one said yes.
Then the French Agricultural Fed
Grafton came out frantic France, too.
had been robbed wholesale and France
could absorb 100000 foreign-built
cars without injuring the business OF
French makers, incapable of meeting
the demand for years. And so 1t
rests.
How many A. E. F. cars are there:
There have been wild guesses. Here
are the true figures. Passenger Vehl-
cles: Bicycles. 1850; motor cycles
13.s2S; motor cars. 1904 ambulances,
5,516; total. 44.61s. Cargo trucks:
Three-tons and over 1880; under
one and one-half tons. 1858: one and
one-half to two tons. 3.912; total 24,05o.
BY remainder of military discretion,
let us not detail the remaining total
of S,932 special type trucks. including
ammunition, light aviation. artillery
supply and machine gun and gas
tank supply. But there are 219 three
ton tractors. 245 dump trucks. 1884
light repair trucks, 197 artillery re-
pair and 1.011 miscellaneous and spe-
cial.
Evening star., 1919-04-27

engineers tractors and 20 new ones,
100 damaged air compressers and so
new ones and all that iron pipe and
other stuff l mentioned at the be-
ginning.
Evening star., 1919-04-27
Sterling Heilig Writes of
Big Sale of A. E. F.
Stock and Fixtures in
France--Material Too
Cumbersome to Ship
Home Liquidation
Commission. .

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
a. PARIS April II, 1919.
I/TNHEY criticised the idea Of
selling the aircraft in
America as Junk, If they
The American Jewish world., 1919-02-21
ABEL PANN'S PAINT ING S
AND DRAWINGS IN PRATT
INSTITUTE GALLERY.

In the Pratt Institute Art Gal
lery, Brooklyn, is a collection of
paintings and drawings by Abel
Pam, a Russian, who struggled for
his art education against great odds,
worked in Paris under Bouguereau
and Toudouz, and later in Palestine
making drawings for pictorial edi-
ton Of the Bible. He was in Pales-
tine at the outbreak of the war, and
his studies illustrating the terrible
condition of the Jews during the war
are included in the exhibition and
form it's strongest feature.
Although the Bible pictures are
interesting from the originality Of
their point of view, Mr.. Pam is at
his best in showing reality, and real
ity at it's worst. There is no senti-
mental sauce to his account of the
devastated countries of Poland and
Lithuania, and the dreadful suffer
ings of the Jewish refugees, the fear
and horror of the maidens and the
The American Jewish world., 1919-02-21
4()0

of the Jewish Welfare Board, at the
Roosevelt Memorial Service and at a
mass meeting attended by seven
thousand American soldiers on be-
half of the Comrades in Service
Movement, the meeting being at
tended by President and Mrs. Will
son.
The American Jewish world., 1919-02-21
February 21, 1919
RUDOLPH ARONSON DEAD.

New York.-Rudolph Aronson,
for many years prominent as a the
atrical manager and composer, who
was the originator and builder Of
the Casino Theater, Thirty-ninth
street and Broadway, and its first
manager, died February 4 at the
home of his sisters, the Misses
Aronson, 233 West 10Th street.
Mr.. Aronson had been i'll since last
July and hope for his recovery was
abandoned some days ago. Mr..
Aronson was born in New York
City 81 years ago and was educated
here and abroad. While he began
his theatrical career as manager OF
the Metropolitan Concert Hall,
which was on the site of the pres
ent Broadway Theater, it was the
building Of the Casino Theater
which brought Mr. Aronson promi-
nently to the attention of the pub
lie and the theatrical world as
manager and producer OF musical
entertainments. On this theater he
operated the first roof garden in
America. The Casino became the
recognized home of light and comic
opera in New York, and it was
there, under his management, that
"Erminie" was produced and had a
record run of 1900 performances.
Under his management such stars
as Lillian Russell, Francis Wilson,
De Wolf Hopper and Jefferson de
Angels first attained popularity.
Mr.. Aronson was manager of the
Casino for sixteen years and had
also managed the Bijou theater
The American Jewish world., 1919-02-21
THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

profound despair and misery of the
old people.
He refrains from urging his
palette to extremes in the effort to
communicate emotion, depending
upon the slender resources of black
and white, heightened by an occa-
sional touch of colored chalk, in his
most moving subjects. These dusky
little drawings convey his message.
In depicting the Eastern landscape
he is more dramatic in his color
schemes, and this no doubt is due to
the intensity of the atmospheric eff
fects. He says in a published de-
scription of the place: "In Pales-
tine nature is magnifed. The blue
of the heavens is too blue, the rays
of the moon are too silvery. There
the shadows are deep and gloomy
and the light is binding in its bril-
liancy. When it rains the drops
are large. The thunders are more
deafening, the lightnings more
binding, everything is exag-
gerated." This exaggeration of the
natural aspects of scene is puz-
zling to an artist, and Mr.. Pam has
not always escaped the tendency to
empty these intensities of their sig
nihcance; but his work is often fine
ly imaginative as we'll as true to
outer facts.
The American Jewish world., 1919-02-21
THE WAR RECORD OF AMERI-
CAN JEWS
By Julian Leavitt, Director Office of
War Records, American Jewish
Committee.

From the day that the United
States first entered the World War
the Jews of America perceived the
wisdom of establishing an authentic
contemporary record of Jewish SER
vice in the common cause-a record
that would serve the vital needs of
the present no less than the obvious
-historical-needs of the future
To this end the American Jewish
Committee, at it's annual meeting in
November, 1o17-the first since our
entrance into the war-assigned to
its Bureau of Statistics, as a major
function, the task of collecting and
collating all data bearing upon the
war service of American Jews.
Within the year this work has
proceeded vigorously and sys-
tematically in the face of many seri-
Gus obstacles. In the first place, no
official records are available; for the
Federal Government, although it
recognizes the propriety, even the
desirability, of unofficial ventures
like ours, itself refrains, for wise
and obvious reasons, from noting
the racial or religious affiliations of
it's gallant fighters. In the second
place, Jewish quotas, coming as they
do from widely scattered parts of
the country, contain thousands of
men who have naturally drifted
away from Jewish affiliations, other
thousands who have, in the process
of Americanization, changed their
names, and some who, for reasons of
their own, even seek to conceal their
racial or religious identity. The
problem of combing out the service
records of all our Jewish soldiers
and sailors became, therefore, a
work of arduous research, to be
prosecuted through whatever instru-
menta1ities, and in whatever direc-
tions, the limitations of the under
taking would permit
Under these circumstances the
progress achieved in this first year
has we'll exceeded all expectations.
The time has not yet come to cast up
the account, for the information is
The American Jewish world., 1919-02-21

Just before leaving Paris, in
honor of the conferring upon DR..
Stephen S. Wise, of the Free Syna-
cog Of New York City, of the Cross
of the Legion of Honor by the
French Government, the Jewish
Consistory of France called a spe-
cial meeting in the Chambers of the
Synagog Of the rue de la Victoire,
at which, on behalf of the Consis-
toire, Baron Edouard de Rothschild
presented to DR.. Wise a symbol of
the Legion of Honor set in jewels,
saying: CDR. Wise's service to the
cause of France has not been a
boon to the French people but a
blessing to the Jews of France" On
the same day, DIR. Wise delivered
addresses before the Zionist Organi-
zation of Paris, at a special meeting
The American Jewish world., 1919-02-21

The complete equality of the He
brew language with Russian and
Polish has been recognized and pro-
claimed by the Government of Uk-
raine. Hebrew is to have the same
official standing as Polish and Rus
sian, the two languages most popu-
larly spoken. A PRONUNCIATION of
this proclamation was Immediately
followed by the issuance of an Off
cial document in Hebrew, recog-
nizing the individual and national
rights of the Jews of the republic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-11
HOLD OPEN MEETING
American Legion Will Start Memorial
Building Campaign Monday.

The memorial hall meeting of the
American Legion at the auditorium
next Monday night will be an open
meeting. 1t was announced today that
everyone interested in the project be
invited to attend and it is hoped that
a large attendance be recorded.
The campaign for the hall will be
launched at this session. The Ameri-
can Legion has been promised the sup
port of many of the civic bodies and
patriotic societies, and men and
women connected with these organi-
cations and those not connected but
who are in favor of constructing
suitable memorial for the boys who
did not come back and a building for
the use of those who did return are
asked to be present.
Topeka received a communication
from the war department today stat
ing that it was highly probable that
Maj. Gen. William NJ. Wright will be
granted permission to come to Topeka
and deliver the Fourth of July address
here. 1t will be the first time that
the city will have an opportunity of
seeing the general who commanded
and led in battle the two famous Mis-
souri-kansas divisions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-11
TO ADVERTISE NAVY
Big Bunch of Entertainers Coming to
Topeka june 1918.

A twenty-five piece navy band, a
group of entertainers and a movie
operator with equipment will be in To-
PEEK June II and 10. according to Pc
ter E. O'Connor. chief boatswain's
mate, in charge of the local recruiting
station, for the purpose of advertis-
ing the navy and to aid in securing re-
cruits.
The group of entertainers comes d.
rect from the submarine fiotilla now
stationed at Cairo. ILL.,. says O'Connor
1t was hoped that the flotilla might
be able to reach important cities on
the Missouri but it was found that the
river did not afford water of suffi-
cient depth to permit navigation.
The band will parade the streets
giving concerts up and down the ave
nue. and in the busiest sections of
Topeka. They will be accompanied by
the other entertainers who will render
their part of the program at the same
time. O'Connor hopes to be able to
make some arrangement whereby the
movie operator will be able to show
the pictures