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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-07-16
WAS GONE BEYOND RECALL
Headaear for Which Young Wife Had
Pined Adorned Head Of One
More Fortunate.

Every day for week." the young
wife said wistfully, ''I've gone down
to look at a hat in show window
wonderful hat, Tom; the kind of
hat woman dreams of but sees only
once in years. OF course, knew that
l could not hope to buy it, as it was
far more expensive than we could af-
ford. The price was"
Perhaps we could manage 1t, dear,
if you wish it so much" Tom inter
rupted fondIy. Business has been n
little better the last month. / have
two new contracts for large apartment
houses. How much is the hat?"
"That is dear of yon, Tom," she
responded with grateful smile,
though her eyes grew sad, "but 1t is
too late. Our cook happened to pass
the store. saw her wearing 1T home"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-07-16

nave seen in our great war the way in
which men and women naturally lined
up on the primitive basis. The men
OF the nations, in this country, Eng
land, France and the others, went into
military service. The women took up
the industries.
Now the surprise attendant upon
the news that women were working
in munition factories, were running
streetcars and doing mems work in
offices wouldn't have been so great,
perhaps, if we had all remembered a
little more of our pre-histOry."
Miss Laughlin reminds us that in
his account of primitive races the late
Otis Z. Mason, curator of ethnology
in the United States National Museum,
points out some Of the industries which
began as woman's work. He says:
"The slain deer lying before her cave
or brush shelter or wigwam! She
strikes off a sharp fake Of flint for
knife. BY that act she becomes the
first cutler.
"With this knife she carefully re-
moves the skin, little dreaming that
thereby she is making herself the
patron saint of all subsequent
butchers.
"She rolls up the hide, then dresses
1t with brains, smokes it, curries it,
breaks it with implements Of stone
and bone until she makes her reputa-
ton as the first currier ard tanner.
"With needle of bone and thread of
sinew and scissors of flint, she cuts
and makes the clothing for her lord
and family; no sign is over the door,
but within dwells the first tailor and
dressmaker.
"From leather especially prepared
she cuts and makes moccasins for her
husband, thereby beginning the shoe
industry.
'She was toymaker for her chill
dren, modiste, milliner upholsterer,
wall decorator for her family.
"She was at first and is now the
universal cook. From the grasses
around her cabin she constructs the
floor mat, the mattress, the screen, the
wallet, the sail.
"She is the mother of all spinners
weayers, upholsterers, sailmakers."
Again he says:
"To the field she goes with the
basket or wallet strapped across her
forehead. BY the sweat of her face
she earns her bread and becomes the
FIRST pack animal"
'Home again with her grain or
acorns, she thrashed and ground them
into flour or bran, thereby mothering
the thrashing industry and the mill
ing Where it was impossible to find
caves or natural shelter for her family
she designed and built the first wig
vans and forerunners # houses, thus
being the first architect.
"An the peaceful arts Of today"
continues the account, "were once
woman's peculiar province. Along
lines Of industrialism she was piO-
neer, inventor, author and originator"
As conditions became more settled
for primitive tribes, men gave up their
warfare and entered women's indus
tries. Gradually they look nearly all
Of them. As work was taken from
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-07-16

ton. And if the modern man is go
ing to have visions of the good old
days of the cave man he must be con-
sistent and include in his delectable
dream the real cave woman"
Later, In her apartment in a hotel,
Miss Laughlin went into the subject
with a New York Tribune reporter in
a manner which showed that she has
given much study to the domestic ar
engagements Of the man and the woman
whose wooing consisted of a footrace
and a blow on the lady's head with
some hard, blunt instrument.
eff the men insist on delving into
the secrets of those monolithic prede-
cessors of the New York apartment
i. house." said Miss Laughlin, "then they
must take the consequences and an
swer by what right they can call any
work the work of meA, unless perhaps
It is hunting and fishing. Back in that
ideal period for which the modern man
pines practically all of the work be-
longed to the women. So when our
men talk about mans work I'd like to
know just what they mean"
Kipling is one of the few men who
really understand what the relation
ship of the cave man and the cave
woman was, according to Miss Laugh
lin. AS proof of her contention she
cites his "Just So'' stories, which he
told to his "best beloved" You Will
remember the place where 1t says:
1.-THE man was wild, too. He was
dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin
to be tame until he met the woman,
and she told him that she did not like
living in his wild ways"
You will remember how it was. She
picked out nice, dry cave (proying,
by the way, that there was a cave
woman before there was cave mani,
and she cleaned house properly and
hung a dried wild horse skin across
the opening of the cave and said:
"Wipe your feet, dear, when you
come in, and now We'll keep house"
And the man came in and lay down
beside the fire that the woman had
built and went to sleep.
"But just before he dozed off," said
Miss Laughlin, she probably threw
out his chest and remarked that he
was a cave man himself and believed
that a woman's place was in the
home"
And Miss Laughlin agrees with Mr..
Kipllng in the theory that the motive
for keeping house was the protection
of the baby Long periods without
food. which were bound to be part Of
the life Of a nomadic people, were
hard on the young, and that is the
reason the woman decided to keep
house.
"In the beginning, women did all the
work." says Miss Laughlin. "If we're
going to say that such and such is
the work of one of the sexes we might
as well admit that every man In in
dustry is doing work which was orig
InalIy woman's work.
"The real cave mem were con-
cerned with war and hunting. And
the cave women had the industrial
field to themselves. Only, when war
became less important did the men go
in for industries, and even then they
did 80 on about a 25-75 basis. We
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-07-16
nulIs Of the Pacific Coast.

Along the Pacific coast there are
three common species, the glaucous-
winged, the western and the California
gulls, which are not found in the East
They are white-headed species, not
strikingIy different from the herring
gull.--A. A. Allen, in American For
eStry.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-07-16
Something Missed.

do you remember the first balloon
you ever saw?"
"Quite WE'LL" replied the elderly
gentleman. "Those were the happy
days, but I've always felt that fate
cheated me out of thrill that was
my due"
"How so?"
II never saw n helper get tangled
in the balloon ropes and go soaring
toward the sky, suspended by one leg,
while the blood of 5000 spectators at
the country fair froze in their veins
with horror. Birmingham Age-Hers
aid.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-07-16
whv Daniel ESCAPED.

The Teacher-When the lion found
Daniel in his den why do you think he
didn't eat him up2
The Bright Pupil-'Cause he was so
glad it wasn't Mrs. Lion usin' his den
for SEWN room.-Dallas News.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-07-16
CaNeMen- ard W1neN
II Feminine AnS7Ver 4
the Contention That a
\ W20man'S Place IS J
\ lin tie Home 4

H." SAYS the perfumed youth,
shivering slightly and edging
closer to the radiator, SIN cave
man myself. believe that the
old practice of wooing woman
with club and dragging her home
and making her stay there when
you get her, really better than our
modern practice. We red-blOoded
men are still really cave men at
heart, and would prefer that our
women be clinging vines, as in the
ancient times, instead of getting
out and working at mems work"
New York State Federation of
Business and Professional Won
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-07-16
Iud Tunkins.

Jud Tunkins says that II any Of his
folks actually looked like some of the
pictures in a fashion magazine he'd
send 'em to hospital to get cured,
no matter what 1t cost.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-07-16
Handy Sprayer.

A new pump for spraying flowers or
fruits is operated by attaching it to an
ordinary fruit jar, several Of which
can be provided to hold different
spraying solutions.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-07-16

A torpid liver prevents proper food as
similation. Tone up your liver. with
Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills. They act
gently.--Adv.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-07-16

AS we grow older our prejudices be-
come mellowed and our judgment
ripper.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-07-16
Loyalty mistaken.

Waiter lin Germany Wasser?
American Girl (flustereO-NO, Wei
iesley.-The Bun.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-07-16
The Cost.

The Cost.
"Does it cost much to put up skel-
eton structure" II should think it
would cost lot Of bones"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-07-16

GU cubs was holding a banquet a few nights
ago ana certain gentleman whose name is known
AIom one end of the land to the other made a
speech in which he told the women present he
udnt in the least sympathize with their being
business and professional women. In fact, he de-
clared it his belief they all ought to be at home
looking after the children instead of being gath
cred about banquet table listening to speeches
by him or anybody else.
The speaker didn't use the exact language of
the perfumed youth, but he implied most of it.
Did he get away with it? He did not Paraphras-
ing popular song of pre-war days, "Where there
are cave men there must be cave women" And
there was at least one Of them at the banquet.
She was Miss Gail Laughn of San Francisco,
holding the banquet.
Miss Laughlin looks meek enough, but she isn't.
She followed the speaker just mentioned, and
she said she was pretty well fed up on all this
talk about cave men and clinging vines and wom-
en- having no place in industry; and figurativey,
oh, very fguratively, of course she proceeded
to decorate the face of the eminent speaker with
few scratches
"Often." said Miss Laughlin, "to stop an argu-
ment in public for womans entering this or that
line of mans work the men will smile in a SUI
perior manner and admit they are afraid they
have something of the cave man in them. That
means they can't see any reason why women
should be anything except clinging vines.
But their history is slightly mixed when they
put the cave and the clingng vine in the
same picture. The clinging vine is plant Of a.
later growth 1t is far cry from the cave worn-
an to this delicatey nurtured product of civiliza
New-York tribune., 1920-12-15
Four Captured in Auto
after $50, 900 Robbery
Posse Blocks Road With Truck,
Compels Surrender; Tnnkeep.
er Stabbed by Bandit Gang
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

6pectdt Dispatch 70 Ihe Irt0hno
GOSHEN, N. Y, Dec. 14.-Four men
accused of entering Glenwood Inn, New
burgh, yesterday, stabbing Dan Shields,
the proprietor, and escaping with $780,
900 In jewelry and Liberty bonds in
Shelds's automobile, were locked up
to day in the county jail here.
The prisoners are Eugene Ryer, Of
West Haverstraw, N. Y; John G. YER
rie, of 429 East 117th Street, New York;
Joseph D. Vepesizio, Of Ala East Ninth
Street, New York, and James CAIRO, of
316 East Hath Street, New York. They
are accused Of assault in the first de-
gree.
Ryers pockets yielded $4,414 in cur
rency, 5000 in Liberty bonds and jewel
ry valued at about $4,000. No money
or valuables were found on any of the
other prisoners. Three victims of re-
cent hold-ups by automobile bandits
in New Jersey visited the county Jail
to-day to see if they could identify any
of the four. They failed to do so.
The automobile in which the robbers
made their escape from the inn after
the robbery belonged to Shields, the
proprietor. A description Of the cal
was telephoned throughout Orange ant
New-York tribune., 1920-12-15
Bandits i'm Battle
Fire in Direction
Of 40 Children
School Crowd Scatters for
Safety as Four, Exchang-
ing Shots With Victims,
Escape After Hold Up

While four fleeing bandits and their
two victims exchanged half dozen
shots on Eighth Avenue, in upper Har-
lem, at noon yesterday, more than two
score school children, who had previ-
ously witnessed the hold-up, scampered
for places of safety. No one was hit,
although the bandits, escaping in a
motor car, were firing directly toward
the crowd
The four bandits, young and we'll
dressed and all smoking cigars, had en-
tered the Sheffield Farnla store at 1855
Eighth Avenue. They drew their re-
volvers on John McGinnis, q collector
for the company, and George Fay, chief
clerk, and took from McGinnis a leath-
er bag containing $4,000 and checks for
several hundred dollars.
One of the bandits held the two
victims. while the remaining robbers
got into the automobile. They called
for the fourth and he started toward
the machine, after cautioning McGinnis
and Fay not to make "holier."
The bandits were we'll on their way
when the employees of the milk store
rushed out and began firing at the re-
treating hold-up men.
Three bandits held up the bartender
and several patrons in cafe at 1923
Second Avenue early yesterd One
of the prospective victims dashed out
of door to seek a policeman and
bumped into Patrolman Michael Falvey
of the East Thirty-fifth Street station
Falvey quietly entered the saloon and,
with drawn revolver, commanded the
robbers to hold up their hands. One
of the robbers fired shot, which went
wild, and then the trio fled. Falvey
pursued them, firing several shots, one
of which is believed to have reached
its mark. Later he arrested a man
who described himself as Angelo NAL
ley, twenty-one years old, Of 296 East
Main Street, Bridgeport, Conn. The
robbers got s275 from the cash register
of the saloon.
Maley was held for the grand jury
in $1,000 bail by Magistrate Morris
Koenig in the Yorkville Court.
Mrs. Frederick knight, whose home
! at 731 Lexington Avenue, is only four
doors from Fifty-n;nth Street. dis
covered when she returned at 3:15 D. m.
Yesterday, after only an hours alb
sence, that burglars had ransacked the
place. Two doors had been jimmied
and the apartment was in confusion
In spite of the short time they had
to do the work, the burglars had
packed trunk, carried it downstairs
New-York tribune., 1920-12-15
Open New Hospital Work

The New York Hospital announced d
yesterday that its new department Of
urology, provided for in the will of
the late James Buchanan Brady, uni
versally known as Diamond JIM"
would be formally opened to-day.
Brady stipulated that the residue of
his estate should be devoted to the
establishment and maintenance Of this
department at the New York Hospital.
He made many bequests, one of $780,
600 to Johns Hopkins Hospital, at Bal
timore, and since his death there has
been considerable speculation as to how
much New York Hospital would re.
ceve. 1t is said that the amount at the
disposal of the hospital will be more
than $500,OO0.
The department will be the first OF
its kind in New York City and the
second to be established in this coun-
try. The department will be under the
direction Of DR.. Oswald S. Lowsley.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-15
Boy, IL, Confesses =.
He Is Master Mind
In Brooklyn Thefts
Admits Riiling Cash Regis
ters, Robbing Stores and
Firing a Building; His
Companions ON Probation

Since November: Is, when the offices
Of the Chevrolet Automobile Company,
1916 Third Avenue, in the Bay Ridge
section of Brooklyn. were entered by
burglars and cash register rified,
Third Avenue has had reign of terror
all it's own, and the gossips have wild
ly speculated as to the identity Of the
daring band that has been robbing
stores Of various sorts, and lastly do
stroying building by fire.
Martin Bryne, thirteen years old,
and appearing to be q jovial and per
fectly harmless person, appeared in
the Children's Court, Brooklyn, yester-
mind that had promoted the rifling Of
cash registers, the robbery Of two
hardware stores, dry goods store
and meat market. Martin didn't
seem to be bit annoyed by the &C
cusatlons, nor did he show signs Of
weakening when Judge Robert Wilkins
sternly sentenced him to the House Of
Refuge for an indefinite period, ejacu
lating, incidentally, that Martin is too
dangerous to be at large"
Martins brother, Robert, ten years
old, and Thomas McCarty, ten years old,
of 1914 Third Avenue, alleged accom-
plces of the older boy, were put on
probation. Martin admitted, the police
say, that in most of the criminal opera
tons he played lone hand.
Martin lives at 1907 Third Avenue,
and the offenses were committed in his
immediate neighborhood. He was q
pupil in Public School 102, and it was
there the officers arrested him on Mon
day. Besides entering stores and taking
various amounts, it is alleged, Martin
also was accused of removing $50 from
a hiding place in his own home. The
money belonged to his mother.
The arson charge grew out Of a fire
in one-story frame building in the
rear of the Byrne home. Martin, it
was said, saturated the floor of the
building with kerosene and ignited it.
There appeared to be no particular m o.
tive for this otfense, unless it was a de-
sire for the spectacular. Martin tes-
titled that after the fire got a good
start he experimental with hand e1-
tinguisher in trying to suppress it, but
| failed.
In the cellar of the Byrne home de-
tectives found where the boy had hid
den the loot of his several robberies
There were found butcher knives, table
knives, pocket knives, stilcttos, fash
lights, razors and razor blades in large
quantity. Detectives believe this loot
was obtained from the hardware stores
of J. Blacharsh, 1905 Third Avenue, and
Peterson Brothers, 1905 Third Avenue.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-15

ture theaters throughout the State Of
New York (providing for two matrons
in attendance at each theate~ the fit
ness and integrity OF each matron to
be passed upon by either this Society
fo- the Prevention of Cruelty to Chill
drcn or the License Department Of the
City of New York; and also providing
for the segregation of the children
within the theater under the direction
ard control Of these matrons, we to
pay for tb~ services Of the matrons.
"Mrs. y Grady strenuously opposed
this bill and it was her influence that
resulted in the introducer of the bill
withdrawing same on the floor Of the
Serate. The Organization of the Mo-
tion Picture Theater Owners of the
State of New York then asked Mrs.
O'Grady to support q bill it wanted
introduced to keep children oat of mo-
tien picture theater5, whether accom-
panied or unaccompanied by paren. or
guardian. This she also refused to
New-York tribune., 1920-12-15
Ponzi Lays Aside His Mop to
Become Librarian of Jail

PLYMOUTH, Mass, Dec. 1.-THE
county Jail received new librarian
when Charles Ponzi, quick-rich schemer
became an inmate. After Ponzi had
finished his morning chores to-day he
put his mop and broom away and began
the work of cataloguing the books Of
the Jail library.
AS young man just arrived in this
country he had performed duties Of this
nature for university in the South
several years ago. Sheriff Earle +.
Blake said the prisoner had merged we'll
with his new surroundings.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-15
Cohen Denies
Any Film Deal
With Enrigs gsht
No Agreement Whereby Ar
rests for Unlawful Admis-
sion of Minors to Theaters
Were To Be Held Up
Mrs. O'Crady Criticized
Children Torn From Parents
at Doors of Show Houses
by Detectives, Is Charge

Sydney S. Cohen, head of the motion
picture theater owners organization,
denied yesterday that he had any
agreement with Commissioner Enright,
as charged by Mrs. Ellen O'Grady,
whereby arrests for unlawful admis-
sion of minors were not to be made
until Mr.. Cohen had been consulted.
II called on Commissioner Enright
not to enter into any agreement, but
20 make complaint against the unrea-
sonable actions of Mrs. OGrady's de-
tectives,' he said. Il told the Commits
sioner that children were being torn
away from their parents or other
proper guardians inside the theaters
and that respectable men and women.
about to enter houses with children,
were stopped by detectives and asked
# the children were their own. People
frequently objected to this nigh handed
procedure and told the detectives it
was none of their business, which it
wasn't, and then there generally was
trouble"
Mrs. O'Grady says she was in
structed that members of her staff
we're to make no arrests Mr.. Cohen
was informed 'but were to merely re-
port violations to the commander CT
the precinct in which they occurred,
who in turn was to consult you or the
manager of the theater to find out If
it was agreeable that an arrest be
made. Do you know anything aDout
that?"
Police Consultation Denied
"T have no knowledge of any such
ORDER" Mr.. Cohen replied, nor did l
make any such arrangement with the
Commissioner or any one else In the
department"
HAS any police officer consulted you
before making an arrest!
"No; never"
Mrs. O'Gradys assertion that detec-
ives attempting to enforce the law at
movie houses were shown receipts for
contributions to the police hospital
4und, "indcating that because of this
no police action would be taken against
them" was answered by Mr.. Cohen In
a formal statement He said:
"As to the statement of Mrs. O'Grady
that motion picture theater owners
have made promises of contributions
to the police fund so as to obtain i'm
munity from the police, can only say
that its mere assertion is its own de-
NAL. We are interested in the police
hospital fund only because we have
had the wives of policemen tell US per-
sonally OF the privations the policemen
and their families undergo in time OF
sickness and stress and we as taxpay-
ers feel it is our obligation to the com.
munity to assist shis humanitarian anc
worthy cause.
a met Mrs. Ellen O'Grady but once
in my life. and that was in the latter
part of March. 1919, before the New
York State Legislature at Albany, when
the Motion Picture Theater Owners OF
the State of New York had introduced
into the Legislature a bill relative to
the adrss OF miners to motion pic
New-York tribune., 1920-12-15
City Officials and Miller
Have Conference on Traction

George McAneny. former President
CT the Board of Aldermen; +. Fl. La
Guardia. President of the Board;
Henry H. Curran. President of the Bor-
ough of Manhattan, and Herman A..
Metz, heading a delegation from the
Brooklyn Chamber oe Commerce, all
talked traction matters with Governor
elect Nathan l.. Miller at the St. Regis
yesterday.
Judge Miller and George A. Glynn,
chairman Of the Republican State Com
mittee, with members Of the Women's
Republican State Executive Committee,
will be guests Of Mrs. Charles II. Sabin
at her home, ID East Sixty-second
Street, at luncheon to-day.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-15

got his men in motion in q motor truck.
On reaching q narrow place in the
road the motor truck was drawn up to
form an obstacle. AS soon as the
alleged robbers car came to a halt
they found themselves covered by the
rifles of the posse. They raised their
hands and surrendered.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-15

Rockland counties and G. o. Bush,
Chief of Police Of Tuxedo, and state
troopers dispatched scouts out along
the roads leading into town while they
gathered force with which to stop
the fugitives if they came that way.
One of his scouts telephoned tnat
car similar to Shieldss had passed him
going toward Tuxedo and Chief Bush
New-York tribune., 1920-12-15
u. S. Sympathy Given Chin.

~, WASHiNGToN' a;I;s. Dec: 1.-THE Amer.
nounced to-day, has been Instruct, an
report the number suffering from !. 70 70
of food in China and to express Ar. saek
ica's sympathy to the Chinese peonIa ea' :
the emergency. ~