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Evening star., 1920-02-29
40 the editor: Though they
couldn't nobody hardly call
this a medium winter I guess

w tuc cullOT. nOu0n lHcy
couldn't nobody hardly call
this a medium winter ! guess
~ they never before was SO much
talk about spiritulisms and etc. rum
ming amuck and a specially since Sir
Oliver Lodge come acrost the old pond
and begin telling us what he seen and
heard and etc. but l don't genally al
ways take other peoples hear says as
they are liber to let their imagina-
tion run away with them so at lst.
didn't pay much tension to the. talk
but when persons own personal
periences to say nothing about have
ing a few of them yourself why you
can't help from beginning to think
that maybe after all theys something
to it,
So where as ! was a septic few
wks. ago you might say why lately
different things has came up that has
kind of made me turn turtle you
might say and vile l haven't as yet
came right out and Joined the ranks
Of the occults why still and all they's
few things that don't see how they
could of happened on natural grounds
and thought maybe my army of
readers might maybe be interested In
hearing about them.
Well in the 1st place they's been a
couple Of funny incidences in regards
to the telephone like for inst the
other night I was setting In the live
ing rm. monking with a deck of cards
when thought I heard the telephone
bell ring and went out to answer 1t
and says hello and they wasn't no
body answered mo 40 kind of Jig
gled the hook up and down and finely
lady's voice says number and ] says
I don't want no number. you rang
here. "Well," says the voice. 'Thsy's
nobody on the line"
Well for a. minute L didn't know
Evening star., 1920-02-29
Congratulated Either Way.

Copyright, l920.)
Evening star., 1920-02-29

lie was not q new member at all.
1t was Hogs Treadways!
beautiful stunt. A most excel
lent a most refreshing novelty" he
beamed. rubbing his palms with the
most delighted satisfaction. "And
absolutely new to- my experience
to my personal experience. Let us
congratulate, gentlemen. this man.
whose right name 10 Bowater, alias
Standish, alias heaven knows what
besides, and his entertaining accom-
plice, whose real name is Carneld,
alias-well, just now he has taken
the name of Walter Minshull Dress
lar. Between them, by a story as
false as it was undoubtedly moving,
they nearly eased your superabun-
dance of fifteen hundred pounds.
Two of the smartest crooks"
He broke of as the couple made a
rush for the door.
Evening star., 1920-02-29

LONDON, February ~. 1920.
TIME good memory of Old IRON
sides, now spending an honor
able and unseaworthy old age
in Charlestown navy yard, Bos-
ton. recurs in connection with q ship
auction held here recently. The u. 9.
8. Constitution, which Is the name by
which the Navy Department lists Old
Ironsides was built in 1897 and blazed
her way to glory in the war Of 1872
subsequently the department tried to
sell her. but Oliver. Wendell Holmes
minted the nations indignation into
his poem. "Old 1ronsides." The result
was that the department backed wa
ter in hurry and Ola Ironsides still
exists as national memorial.
Britain, however, had no Holmes
when the British admiralty ordered
the shot-riddled hulk Of the 8. g. Riv-
er Clyde to be put up at auction. The
bidding started at $4,000 and. with
advances Of $500 and $3.50 at a time.
the offers crept up to $57,50o, at which
price the auctioneer's hammer
Knocked her down to a Spanish firm Of
marine engineers. The presence in
the auction room Of Commander Ed
ward Cnwin, who commanded this
modern Horse of Troy at v beach,
Gallipoli, in April. 1916, alone lifted
the sale out Of the commonplace.
Probably there has been no landing
in the history of wars such as earned
Immortality for tho River Clyde at
Galllpoli. Five landings were made
on the southern tip Of the Gallipoli
peninsula on that suicidal 25th of
April, 1915. Landings in strength
were made on V, w and y beaches
and .fcints were made at : and Y
beaches. The most cruel of the fvs
was the V beach landing.
beach was a small smphitheater-
like shelf in the steep coasts of tho
Gallipoli PENINSULA. small. circular and
sandy. absut 500 yards aeross. and
dominated by the ruins Of Sedd-el-
Bahr Castle 1t was mined, wired and
commanded by . nuIdsrsus crosse
Evening star., 1920-02-29

man and ast him what was the matter
with the s.65. Its gone" was his re-
ply. Yes" I says hut what about the
1o20?" That's gone too" he says.
cant count the number Of times I
come down stairs in the Am. and hnd
that all the ash trays has disappeared
from where left them the night be-
fore and some times tables and chairs
has shifted around and Of course its
common knowledge that ! Of tho
spirits favorite sports is moveing fur
niture though goodness knows they
never lift a hand to help 4 family
that's moveing from 1 house to An
other.
These is some of the personal in
cidences that has made me look at
the occult in a new light and besides
witch I have heard testimony from
personal friends that know wouldn't
tell me nothing that wasn't true and
/ only wished had space to numerate
all these evidents but suffice me to
say that they's friend = mine in N.
Y. city that swears he seen a couple
OF members Of last years Yale foot
ball team walking on the street in
New Haven the other day and another
friend OF mine Kid Howard in Chi
cago gives me his WORD that he seen
and talked with Jess Willard three
days after Dempsey hit him for a
home run in Toledo last July.
So as 1 say vile I haven't Joined Sir
divers Lodge As yet I don't laugh ont
right no more when people springs
talk OF the supper natural and it
wouldn't only take a few more in
cidences like the above to make this
baby 4 believer.
RING w. LARDNR.
Greenwich. Conn, February 81. .
Copyright 1920. BY the Bell Syndicate, I.e.,
Evening star., 1920-02-29

too but when I went there they wasn't
nobody on the line So here my
friends was incidence where TWO
PEOPLE agreed that the telephone
bell had rang and yet when / come
so how can you acct. for a incidence
like that only on a occult basis you
might say.
Another incidence connected with
the telephone come off in this same
Evening star., 1920-02-29
BY CLAIR PRICE,

LONDON, February ~. 1920.
ME good memory of Old IRON
sides, now spending an honor
able and unseaworthy old age
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Standish and myself were helping
him to chair lie made another ef-
fort to resist US, then sank into 1t.
His arms dropped upon one Of the
little greenfield tables, and he sob
bed, actually sobbed.
Standish, very pale. very moved,
very uncomfortable. turned to VI with
a deprecatory motion. BEST let him
alone" said he, huskily. II was
ally ass. Ought to have known how
he would take 1t. could kick MY
self for such lack Of tact" - ''''t -
Poor fellow. And 1t might happen
TO any Of u.s." said a sympathizer. He
drew Standish aside and beckoned to
the rest.
1T 10 a very unfortunate business
for all concerned" he added, In .
whisper 'He has descended, with
vengeance. OF course. 1t 10 unthink-
able that he should remain here. in
such capacity"
BE sure we shall not see him after
tonight" said annther member. But
we ought not to lot him 20 without
doing something for him."
my affair entirely" whispered
Standish. II have something to say
TO him. and you might as we'll hear
it," F.
Dresslar was fighting hard for some
measure of self-control. He had been
sobbing like q broken hearted child.
l trembled to think through what
fame of fire this once iron man had
passed that he should SO show Us the
poor wreck it had left him. lie rose
uhsteadily, muttered n few unintelll-
eible words. and was turning away
when Standish stopped him.
Hear me out, beg" he urged,
earnestly. "You have no enemies
mere. You helped good many In
your good times. We want to help
you now. owe ypu--well, I owe you
"a, with accumulated interest. Your
last and not your least speculation,
STR"
That Anal. thres-letterrd word
spoken in tone o genuine respec,
honored standish and had the effect
OF hitting the shame sfilleds eyes Of
Dresslar to our own E 2'i''s""
That is mere sentiment" he am
s"sred. finding utterance with dim
cuty. You owe me nothing at all"
disagree" Standieh ins 'sted.
MY idea was TO repay 1t precisely a
huhdredfold; but think l perceive
a better plan. Gentlemen" he added.
iaeihg us, "a wish Was Just now ex-
pressed that we should come TO the
assistance Of Walter Minshall Dress
.ar' who was one Of us In hts time.
= accept that offer. In his natue. Il
SsohssS to double the figure--no mat
Evening star., 1920-02-29
"WELL." SAYS THE VOICE, "THEY's
NOBODY ON THE LINE,

house Ia few wks. before the above.
They's friend of ours lives in New
Rochelle but haven't lived there long
enough to get their name in the SUBJ
urban dream book so day my Mrs.
wanted to talk to this party so with
out thinking she called UP and says
Evening star., 1920-02-29
uE INN sTRA ANGIE
= ~ HOUSE AND THEN A HAMaERING."

Information please and 1t wasn't only
6 or 10 minutes when a voice come to
her over the wire and says This ~
information" an& my sld iaay tainted
away - Il was the 1st time she had
ever had direct communication with
the dead
Well she hneis. eas . hole Of ;.hesa
Evening star., 1920-02-29

what 10 think but finely ] pulled my
self together aud went back in the
liveing rm. and ] hadn't no sooner
than got there when my Mrs, says
who WAS 1t, SO l said Did you thiSk
you heard the telephone bell ring
So she says ~ didn't th!nk 60 ]
know so.. So says We'll ! heard 1T
Evening star., 1920-02-29
Famous Ship Sold as Scrap

nre OF machine guns. Through ito
surf and against its intrenched de-
tenders the Dublin Fusiliers, the
Munster Fusiliers, a half battalion of
tho Hampshire Regiment and the
West Riding Field Company were to
be launched at $50 o'clock in the
morning. They not only had to land
themselves. but their munitions. guns.
intrenching TOOLS sandbaEs. provi-
slons, clothing, hospitals, mules,
horses. fodder-even their drinking
water. The defense could have asked
nothing better.
The tragic story of the rest of the
Gallipoli campaign Is already known.
After the evacuation the Turks pill
LACED the beached River Clyde. and
when the armistice with Turkey was
finally signed on October 80. 1918, her
stripped hulk still lay on the sands
OF v beach, a mute monument to her
moment of glory.
The British admiralty succeeded in
towing her to Malta, and a question
was. asked In the house Of commons
concerning her future. The admiralty
replied that it would cost 500, 600 to
make her s-aworthy and tow her to
England. There the matter appar-
entity lay. while sentiment crystallized
throughout Britain into a demand
that. II 1t were found too expensive
to fetch her home, she might at least
be towed out to sea from Malta and
buried In the Medtterrshean with full
naval honors. s.,'H - .s
But there was no Oliver Wendell
Holmes in Britain to write another
"Oid lrons!des." So the admiralty
iron that was in her.
Copyright, 1820)
Evening star., 1920-02-29

Hello, old man. / hear you are 70.
ing to marry Miss Swift. / congratu.
late you on your aood tSste."
.'Oh, that's all of. Nat going to
marry at all" ..-.. j.,
"Consrscilate you on your coed
sense" .,.r. ~. -. '...-.f.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-06
DORT IS BUILT FOR
 ANY KIND OF ROADS

With the coming of dry weather and the going of frost in the northern tier of states, the road builders ready to get on the job extend the strips of concrete, asphalt and brick which have added so much to the joy of riding and helped to lessen transportation handi- caps' says Earl Mcclure of the Mcclure Motor Company.
 But all roads are not good roads, nor will they be for years to come and it is up to manufacturers of automobiles to deliver vehicles that can traverse any thing called a road
 And that is just what has guided the Dort designers and engineers from the very start. At the time the first Dort made its bow the good roads really could be counted, so it was built for roads that were.
 Features there were that made rid ing comparatively easy and assured the car long life. Those cars still are work ing every day, economically and faith fully. In models which have come since are the same principles, the same scrupu- lcus care in the manufacture of all parts and in their assembly.
 "Obviously cars that are built for hard usage stand up and do not require the professional service that is necessary to keep other cars fit and ready. Access sibility of parts is one of the strong Dort points, for owners are enabled thereby to do much that otherwise would be expensive to them, making their calls on the repair men comparatively few"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-06

exclusively for automobile purposes is the former Kenwood apartment house at 256 West Fifty-sixth street
 There are also reports of several tower ing new buildings to be erected within the next year in the same district, and it is predicted that the time soon will come when the entire Columbus Circle section will become one vast motor show.
 The new Fisk Rubber Company build ing will be one of the sites of the big town. The land and building will rep resent an investment of $7050OO0 on which S. W. Strauss & Co. have under written first mortgage per cent se- rial authorized bond issue of S5,000, 600.
 The owning corporation is known as the 1767 Broadway Company, of which H. T. Dunn, who is head of the Fisk
 Rubber Company, is president Other stockholders include the Wills-Overland the Fisk Rubber Company. The latter will control the entire block, occupying ] large space for it's executive offices and 1 leasing the remainder to tenants in th' ! automobile and allied industries. | The facade will be of brick and lime
 stone, and from the fifteenth to tn, 1 twentieth floor will be a row of mas l sve marble columns. The first floor which will be devoted to show rooms
 will have the unusual height of 21 feet
 and the second floor, which also vii be devoted to stores. will be IA feet 1T
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-06
NEW YORK'SAUTO ROW IS GROWING Fisk Is Putting Up 25-Story Building on Fifty
 Ninth Street

The marvellous growth and expansion of New York's automobile row is attracting widespread attention at this time An nouncement is made that a twenty-five story building, covering the entire block on Fifty-seventh street between Broad way and Eighth avenue, to be called the Fisk Rubber Company building. will be erected at once. It is announced also that a new twenty-story structure to be used for motor purposes will be erected on the site of the Thoroughfare building on the block bounded by Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth streets, Broadway ana Eighth avenue.
 Plans are being prepared, so it is said, for seven or eight-story automobile building on Broadway near F'ifty-fourth street. Another new building to be used
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-06
NO MORE GLARE HERE?

Word is being passed along by 8 member of the City Commission that the 'dimmer law will be enforced. The majority of motorists will be glad tc hear it. Yea, bo
 Birmingham, perhaps, Is the only city of it's size in the country where motorists can ride through the town al night binding drivers and pedestrians by their glaring headlights.
 Motorists in Birmingham regard il as too much trouble to reach for the switch and shift their lights when ap- preaching a brother motorist. Cour tesy of the road? It's a lost art in Birmingham.
 Most everyone who owns car is wondering whether there's going to bt any motoring season in this part of tn. country this year. At the last read ing it had rained 3755 inches of wa. ter since January 1 and there are nc 1. signs of it letting up. Two pretty days in succession is rarity worth not ing. They don't happen any more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-06

the hottest days. that ruins more tires than any other cause, according to ex. perts of the Miller Rubber Company at Akron. O. The facts are that recom- mended air pressures are safe even in the summer.
 By reducing pressure the increased flexing of the tire merely creates the condition which the car owner wishes to guard against. The motorist can well afford the time needed to gauge the air pressure in his tires for the sake of greatly increased mileage.
 Four wivs converted into grass widows in 20 minutes was the speedy record es- tablished by the divorce court at Col vile, Wash, recently.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-06

height. The Fisk Rubber Company will pay net annual rental of s600.O00
 The location of the new building is in the very heart of the automobile sec tion, where the salesrooms of most of the leading motor car manufacturers, tire manufacturers and automobile access sories manufacturers of the United States are situated. In the immediate neigh borhood are the salesrooms of the Chevrolet Company, the Kely-Spring- field Tire Company and the Ford Motor Company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-06
AIR PRESSURE SHOULD NOT BE REDUCED IN T HE SU M M E R TIM E

A timely warning to autoists against reducing the air pressure in their tires during the hot summer weather is now Particularly opportune. This fallacy is common among motorists who do not un- lerstand that radiation carries off any surplus heat that might otherwise be dangerous to the life of tire.
 Even during the terrific grind of the race track when tires undergo the most gruelling punishment. this principle holds It is underinflation even during
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-06
GOOD ROADS
 ENCYCLOPEDIA

Highways Green Book is the title of new book recently published by the American Automobile Association con- taining 525 pages of text and many in- structive illustrations. It is said to be the most complete and useful book of its Kind ever published. In fact it ia an encyclopedia of information on na- tional, state and local highways legisla- tion, development, construction and maintenance. Many of the chapters were prepared or revised by the leading high way authorities of the United States and Canada.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-06
Tennessee Auto Dealers
 Ask Banks fo Reconsider
 Action on Motor "Paper
Kansas City Men Form Association to Handle Their Own Notes on Cars-Loca Members Get Their Houses in
 Order" for Readustment of Conditions

are getting ready to wag their heads and say T told you so" at the present time, We must say that it is time for all of the dealers to "get your house in order" as one dealer put it yesterday, and be ready to face conditions as they exist. The fellows who do have their houses in order are going to ride out the storm in fine shape.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-06

At the conclusion of every marriage in Holland the bride and bridegroom are presented with Bibles at the expense of the state.
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-12-04
The Bosses Applaud.

lne DOSSeS Applduus
He tells them about labor's rights and labor's
duties - and the bosses, who listen and yawn,
and yawn and listen-think mostly of labors
duties The champagne goes to Sammy's head and
he talks about patriotism and Americanism, and
he assails the Russians, and defends American
democracy against the Reds/i in America. And
he is applauded by the friends of the Civic Feder
alton even by Judge Gary!
Gary, at whose mills and in whose town (Gary,
Ind), no organizer of Gompers Federation of
Labor dare show his face. Gary, who engages
thugs and detectives and gunmen, to mercilessly
shoot down workers who dare to discuss labor
affairs or even breathe about the advantage of
organizing or joining a union
Yes, this same Gary applauds Sam Gompers
when he talks this highfalutin stuff the same as
he would applaud vaudeville artist or an occro-
bat Why not? It's amusing and Sany IS an
amusing little cuss.
Only Sammy is an expensive cuss-costing the
workers millions in blood and money. He is the
man that ONCE was worker but long ago
graduated, and now dimes and drinks with the
bosses. The only time that he sees the workers is
when he attends convention and delivers a
papatriotc oration about the evil the "Reds" are
creating and the necessity of fighting them; or
when he stops at hotel or rides in Pullman
and sees his fellow workers" who feed him,
brush his clothes, attend his wants, etc.
That is what becomes of labor leader who no
longer knows want and hunger and unemploy-
ment; who does not know what Saturday night
is without pay enveope-who does not know,
from day to day, whether he will not be denied
the right to work.
But Sam represents the dignity of labor-al-
though that dignity was badly damaged when he
went to the Republican convention to talk about
labor, and they told him to get out. And when he
went to the Democratic convention and they put
few words in their program, just to let the
folks know that Sam had called
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-12-04
Labor Leaders" and Workers Control
By Tom Clark.

Some time ago, John Mitchell, of Civic Fedora
ton fame, died He was the labor leader, who
was made hero Of by the coal miners He was
the man who worked up from the mines, became
an organizer, finally graduating into the rank of
"leader"
He used to meet the bosses at the Civic FEEDER
ation He had banquets with them at fine hotels,
discussed labor troubles and labor affairs with
them, drink champagne, talked about business
matters in general, the possibility of bosses get
ting more work out of the workers and the work
ers getting more or less pay for the work, smok-
ing fine cigars etc. etc.
He was the fellow who used to stand up for
labor wherever the bosses were - in fact he was
considered fit representative of labor.
He received a good salary and the cham
pagne and cigars that the bosses gave him cost
him nothing That he lost all touch with the work
ing class was quite natural. With his salary, he
could ride around in motor cars, live in good
hotels, sleep in Pulmans always have good food
and wear nice clothes
The only time he faced poverty and struggle
and want was when he went to the union meet
ings or jOurneyed to the mining towns There ne
saw the sour faces and bent backs of the miners; i;
the black smokey yards and homes of the people;
the bedraggled wives and children.
But that was easy to forget when he left town
in a Pullman and rode to New York to his friends
of the Civic Federation, where they preached the
Harmony of capital and labor" Harmony which
meant that the worker had better take what he
was offered or the government would take care
of him.
Like all good men, John was promoted and be-
came Public Service Commissioner and finally
died, leaving fortune of more than $S34,00.
Then take our good friend, Sam Gompers. Of
course, one must not even suggest that Sammy is
taking graft. True, he gets good salary, rides
in Pulmans stays at good hotels, dimes and sups
with his capitalist friends the friends Of
labor" - also at the Civic Federation
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-04-18
sOCIAn AID PERsONAn.

Mrs. Fred Shelly and child of Elk
hart, are the guests Of the former 8
mother. Mrs Higginson, 522 w.
Sixth st.
? Mrs. W. ?. O'Nefl and daughter.
Gertrude. 7O6 w. Mishawaka av.
and Mrs. Mary Hubbard, 214 W.
Third ST.. have gone to Chica 20 to
spend a few days visiting with the
formers daughter, Sister Mary An
gele. who will be remembered here
as Miss Angela O'Neill.
Irving ]. Wilson is spending the
day with his grandm other. Mrs.
Esther ShenCfelt, who is spending
the winter at LOganspOrt with her
daughter. Mrs L Z. Rheinhart
Miss Christina Ludgate, Of Chica-
20. is the guest Of her sister. Mrs.
II L HUI, 333 w Lawrence St
Mrs. Peter Van Huffel. of Gales
burg. III. is visiting with Mr. and
Mrs. Emil Van Huffel, 40T n West
street.
Robert MCGOWAN, of the Great
Lakes naval station, is visiting rel
ativcs here
Miss Marjorie Ostrom. 9O3 Home
wood av., entertained a number of
girl friends at a dinner party Fri
day evening on the occasion of her
birthday anniversary.
AIRS. Roman kashmarsld spent
Saturday in Chicago renting cos
tunes for the international concert
10 be given next Tuesday and Wed
nesday.