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The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20
JAZZ NOT NUISANCE,
 ASSERTS ONE JUDGE

LOS ANGELES.-Jazz music is not a nuisance, according to a de- cision by Judge Lewis R. Works, in the Los Angeles county superior court.
 The city of Pasadena had brought suit against social club, whose neighbors complained that its "jazz music jared on their nerves"
 Judge Works said: "Once jazz music might have been construed as a nuisance. It is no longer so construed. If the music disturbs the residents of the neighborhood, am sorry, but this court cannot give them relief"
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20
COUTTS IS SURE SHOW WILL TAKE
 IN UPPER TOWN

In the opinion of Billy Coutts, who returned today, with Mrs. Coutts, from a several-day visit in Fairbanks, the Nenana theatrical company will score big success in the upper town. He predicts that the Auditorium will be filled to ca pacity, for the reason that everyone in Fairbanks appears to be eager to see the Nenanaites perform on the stage.
 i Much interest has been aroused in the production, he says, by the energetic advertising done by Fred Douse. Pictures of the cast, taken in Nenana, have been placed to ad- vantage in Fairbanks windows, and Fred is doing lot of boosting in, dividually, backed by the several Fairbanksans who were in Nenana when the show was presented here.
 Mir. Coutts says further that Char lev Beam is making elaborate prep arations for the entertainment o1 the Nenana visitors upon their ar rival in the upper town this eve ming. He is decorating the Pionee1 skating rink with colored lights ant will stage an open-air festival ther' tonight if weather conditions permit
 MT. and Mrs. Coutts went t Fairbanks on Tuesday.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20
PAPER IS
 ON SALE BY THE NEWS

A shipment of typewriter paper, of the standard American brand, has just been unpacked at The News office, where, it is on sale by the box or in any other quantity desired. The sizes include both legal and letter and the weights range from the lightest to heavy.
 The paper was bought right and is being sold at a close margin of profit.
 The News also has imprinted en. velopes for sale by the box and by the package-all sizes. from baroni al to legal, white and colored, and bond and wove.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20

Dog Harness and Shoe Findings Fowler & Morris.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20

throw down their traps, bait and tin cans unless they receive more mon- ey.
 The sanitary department has es- timated that 1t costs about fifty cents to catch a rat. It is felt that this puts rat catching in the high cost-of-killing class, and to keep up the work that keeps down disease, the chief sanitary inspector is faced with the problem of giving the rat hunters more pay and, at the same time, cutting down the cost per rat to the department.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20
MOTHER SEARCHING
 FOR HER DAUGHTER

Townsite Manager Carl Schmidt is in receipt of letter from Step rin, Germany, in which Mrs. L.. Schollmeyer makes inquiry for her daughter, Mrs. Paula Liebau.
 Mir. Schmidt lost no time in start ing an inquiry, and believes he has located the missing woman in the Kantishna country. He has sent word to the daughter, and has also written to the anxious mother, ap- prising her of the information in his possession.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20

Father Monroe arrived from Fair banks on this mornings train and will hold mass at 7:l5 tomorrow morning in the local Catholic church.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20
CHAIRMAN SUBMITS
 FINANCIAL REPORT

The following statement of re- ceipts and expenses in connection with the Leap Year dance given in Nenana last Saturday night has been submitted to The News for the information of those attending the dance, and the public generally, the statement having been prepared by Mrs. Herman Rosburg, chairman of the committee in charge of the af fair:
 EyronSo-
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20
NURSES ARE NEEDED ...:
 FOR SEATTLE CALLS

SEATTLE.-This city is suffer ing shortage of nurses, according to the King County Graduate Nurs- es' association. There are not enough registered nurses in the city to fill the calls received in normal times
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20
MANY CROSS BORDER;
 TRAVEL ON INCREASE

JUAREZ, Mex. - During 1919, 29,OOO passports, both American and Mexican, were vised at the office of E. A. Dow, American consul here. This figure represents an increase of
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20
RAT CATCHERS DEMAND INCREASE IN BOUNTY

HILO, T. H.-The rat catchers of Hilo are going on strike, unless Chief Sanitary Inspector Charlock can arrange a higher schedule of pay. This is the ultimatum deliv- cred to Charlock by the rodent chasers, who declare they will
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20

Suits mended, pressed and cleaned Underwear renovated Old furs re- modelled, bought and sold. Goods
 called for and delivered. Telephone ! 32 Green.
 D'ORSAY TAILOR SHOP Third and A Streets.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20

60 percent over that of 1918. The past year was one of the busiest in the history of the consulate, ac- coriing to MT. Dow.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20

See J. A. Siippern for new rates on subscriptions and renewals ot all leading magazine. and periodicals. Club rates on application.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-02-20

I have paid all bills for the firm
 known as Bain & Booth, at Pano- rama. Will pay no more bills for Booth. J. N. BAIN. k19
New-York tribune., 1920-01-05
The Refined Touch

Sir: l desire to obtain the aid OF
yourself, your contributors, and your
readers in matter that has caused,
and is causing, me some perplexity.
I was appointed member Of the COM
mittee Of the First Congregational
Church, in this place, to arrange q
Christmas Eve entertainment for 1919.
These entertainments. I may say, are
held in the parlors of the church, and
consist Of music and recitations appro-
pirate to the occasion. When the reci-
tations were selected I Immediately
suggested that we'll known classic, IA
Visit From St. Nicholas" written, as,
of course, you know, by Professor G. c..
Moore, at one time connected with the
General Theological Seminary Of your
city. This poem I had myself, when
quite young girl, committed to men,
ory for similar entertainment, and
I had always regarded it as eminently
we'll fitted for such use. Imagine
also q member Of the committee, OBJ
jected to- having the poem assigned
unless lines 43 and ID were exc{sed.
These lines, as you and all others
familiar with Moore's work are aware,
run as follows:
"He had broad face and little
round belly
That shook, when he laughed, like
bowlful Of jelly"
The lady referred to was seconded
in her contention by one Of the
deacons, and the lines were according
ly omitted. Personally, l much re-
gret the removal Of what appears to
me to be rather a pleasing literary
touch. Hence, l., although no rhyme
ster, have endeavored to hit upon an
amended version Of this passage that
may retain the general sense. My four
attempts are here given:
"He had a broad face and a convex
abdomen
Like the arc bowstrings make when
drawn back by the bowmen."
2.
"He had broad face and a reverse
That stirred when a laugh violated
his gravity"
HE had broad face and a frontal
protuberance
That moved when his laughter broke
forth in exuberance."
ne nad broad face and front
elevation
That quickened when laughter be-
trayed his elation."
,u, With none Of these am satisfied.
They will, however, serve as examples,
IN a general way, of the effect at
which I aim. Cannot you, sir, or some
OF the clever persons among your ex-
tenslve literary acquaintance, hit upon
q better substitute than I have been
able to devise?
~, (Miss) TRYPHosA GRANGER.
Thacherville, Conn, Dec. 81, 1918.
The question has been referred to
Miss Euphemia Hemans Simpson, who
agrees, she says, with the objectinp
lady and the deacon. Her revision
would be:
He had a broad face and far from
atomic
Abdomen that shook when the impulse
was comic.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-05
A Call for Cheap Woolens
the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: MIR. Wood, of the American
"oolen Company, through several OF
the newspapers. announced that a mod
crate priced woolen had been manu-
factured by his company ard had been
offered to the trade for sale; that il
had all the good points Of high priced
fabrics, but that the trade would not
have it, as people were demanding only
the best
If he means that the retail. dealers
would not attempt to sell these goods
he may be correct, but if he wishes 70
convey the fact that the buying public
would not have them he is eligible as
member Of the we'll known club organ
ICED by the late and illustrioys Thee
dore Roosevelt. a's4
If my friends and ] can purchase
good-looking clothing, warm and dur
able, for modest price. we will do so.
and can guarantee to sell fer Mrs
Wood all that his mills can prodsse.
b. /. HIRSnoRN. (
New York, Jan. q. 1890.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-05
The Kaiser as Litterateur

In the Kaiser's marginal notes to
state documents recently published
by Karl Kautsky he self-paints by
his own All-Highest hand for the
edification and instruction Of pos
terity a picture most complete. He
shows what he really is: not, indeed,
sincere and one-minded believer in
his own divine mission-such simple
faith was foreign to this tenth-rate
actor who played being the Hammer
of Gott with one eye on the gallery
and the other everlastingly on the
looking glass. Eternal self-conscious-
ness was with this petty man; bathos
and not pathos is the dominant note
Of his catastrophe fall.
The Kautsky documents reveal the
actor in his dressing room; and they
reveal him as a drunken undergrad
uate, an instance of arrested de-
velopment; he never grew up men,
tally or evolved beyond an over
grown "Corpsstudent." The Ger
man undergraduates are addicted to
practice known as "Anrempeln";
the term might be translated as
aggression without risks; it is a
particularly obnoxious method Of
bullying, dear to the young high
born Prussian, who assaults, when-
ever he can, not his equal, but his in
ferior, physical and social, and
glories in the cheap victory. Listen
to the Kaiser's outburst on receiving
the news about Serbian consterna-
ton caused by the Austro-Hun-
garian ultimatum: Bravo!
The proud Slavs! Just tread this
rabblc firmly on the feet!' Here is
the philosophy Of "Anrempeln" let
loose upon international relation
ships.
Authors have their favorites
among marks Of punctuation. Mr..
Wells has foible for four dots in
which he let's his innucndoes die
away. Anatole France has a pref
erencc for points Of Interrogation.
The Kaiser's wealness--he thought
New-York tribune., 1920-01-05

store good win. It has settled 10000
rent disputes, and thereby helped
both tenants and landlords. It is a
valued agency Of economical concili-
alton and neighborly good under
standing. Why its activities should
not be continued must pass the un-
derstanding Of those who have the
good Of the city at heart.
The crusade against rent prof
iteers was at its peak last September
and October, when the end Of the
leasing year was close at hand. Yet
a vast majority of the renters here
don't sign leases. They may be con-
fronted at the end Of any month
with a demand for higher rents.
They are constantly in need Of the
services Of a voluntary civic or
ganization such as Mr.. Hirsch has
built up.
Moreover, if we may Judge from
the accounts given in the newspapers
Of recent decision in the Appellate
Division Of the Supreme Court in
this department, persons holding
leases may also find themselves no
longer in a position to dispute arbi-
trary election by a landlord who Is
anxious to raise rents. Some leases
apparently give the landlord the OPP
tion to dispossess Objectionable ten
ants, he deciding for himself whether
they are Objectionable.
A lease form Of this sort, if up
held, may work oppressively. The
landlord ought to be permitted to
protect himself against really 6bjec-
tionable tenants who have imposed
on his confidence. He has not cove
nanted to retain such persons. But
he has covenanted to rent his house
or apartment or fat for a certain
period at a stipulated price. It
seems unreasonable to allow him to
declare tenant Objectionable with
out proving him so, merely in the
hope of renting to a new tenant at
an advanced price.
So long as the present shortage Of
housing facilities lasts New York
ers will have to face the ugly rent
profiteering problem. And they have
much to expect from the Hirsch
committees mediatory services.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-05
as aSpectacle
a Protest Against the Cook
County Exhibition,
o the Editor of The Tribune.

To the editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue Of this morning
appears, small paragraph with the
headlind Criminals to See Hanging. -
1t goes ION to state that two hundred
prisoners of Cook County Jail (Ch-
cago) are to start the New Year by
witnessing the execution of one of
their number.
Could anything be more barbaric.
could anything SAVIOR more Of the Dark
Ages, than this act of savagery, in
compelling two hundred men to wit
ness the death agonies of one of their
cpmrades?
= think it will have good moral
effect on the prisoners" saws Sheriff
Charles Peters, who is staging the
CHASTITY affair. "When they are re-
leased from Jail they will have some :,
thing to remember"
"A good moral effect on the prison
e4s-something to remember." Isl
Sheriff Peters SO ignorant of history
that he does not know that the death
penalty has never been a deterrent Of
crime, and that, during the reign OF
Henry VIII in England, when the death
penalty was established for nearly
every petty infraction of the law, mur-
ders and crimes Of various kinds in-
creased twofold? Does the Sheriff
think he can frighten men into being
good, and doesn't he know that the
only real and lasting good must comS
from within. and not from without? &
The most natural effect on those
men, after witnessing such sight,
would be one of bitterness, a detert
mined desire for revenge and deeply
rooted horror Of the whole social SYST
tenn that permits such barbarities to
occur. How much longer are we to
have such unintelligent, unenlightened
individuals in charge of the wards Of
the state? These souls are spiritually
III and need wise and understanding
treatment administered by men trained
for this work, not the stupid mishts
who are now SO largely responsible for
the wellbeing Of our prisoners. 1t cer-
talniy is not going to make better men
OF these prisoners, sending them out
into the world with terrible, soaring
memory and mind filed with bitter.
ness toward those in authority over
them and toward society in general.
1t IS bad economies. 81
What we need il q constructive effort
to make better citizens of our prison
ers, and this will never be accom-
plished by any such bsrbaric per-
1frmance as the one staged in Cook
County Jail DOROTHY HOAR.
Fanwood, N. j., Jan. /, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-05
Rent Pro6teering

In whatever Lighter plight
Mayor Hylan is left by Mr.. Nathan
Hirsch's letter, the thing which
counts most is this. AS Mr.. Hirsch
says: "It would be calamity to
take away from the poor the only
agency which has stood between
them and extortion by unscrupulous
landlords"
The "poor" have no monopoly of
the suffering from such unscrupu-
lousness. Most people who rent are
more or less exposed to. what they
consider extortion. And, since an
individual has little chance Of re-
dress, the creation under city aus
pices Of q Committee on Rent
Profiteering, which can exert con-
siderable noral authority and has
large publicity resources at it's COM
niand, has been warmly welcomed as
an expression Of growing sense Of
community obligation.
Tho rent profiteer is serious
menace In big population center.
He cannot b e6ectually restrained
BIZ legal processes, since what he
Edoes II generally within the letter OF
the law. Some instrumentality Is
needed through which the commu-
nifty feeling can b brought TO bear
to odset ths hardships o1 an abnor-
nal housing situation. Mr. Hirsch's
coamittes hss worked not only to
1rsvsnt isjustiess but also - ~
New-York tribune., 1920-01-05
it strength--was points Of exclama-
tion. He thinks in expletives.

tlon. He thinks In expletlveS.
Count Berchtold's assurances that
Austria did not plan the conquest Of
Serbia he annotated with q laconic
"Jackass!" Prince Lichnowsky's re-
port Of his conversation with Sir
Edward Grey on July 20. 1914, the
Kaiser studded with exclamations
such as &C. Aha! The base de-
ceiver! Arch-base and Meph-
istophelian! But truly English"
In another place he addresses Sir
Edward as "Low hound!" Again,
speaking of the English: "Our con-
suls in Turkey and India, our
agents, etc., must inflame the whole
Mahometan world into a savage up
rising against this hated, lying, un-
scrupulous nation Of hucksters! For
if we are to bleed to death, England
shall at the very least lose India!"
Verify, If style ever was the man,
the style Of the Kaiser is the man
Wilhelm Hohenzollern. And vet,
though he may have been knave, a
lunatic he was not, for no lunatic
could have written down the sem
tence-the only one in the whole vol
urae which betrays an inkling of
true insight: "Edward VII is dead.
but he is still stronger than I, who
am alive"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-05
Gotham Gleanings
l6lE6 zsE0 0lll Sis0af7 E;;nk Sy7I

Jack Wheeler sailed for Europe
last Thursday.
Our thanks to Renewald War
renmatch for his New Years card.
old Frank Fayant had his name
misspelled i'll Fridays N. Y. Tribune.
-A1eck Woollcott of here enter
tanned Mrs. De Wolf Hopper at
dinner one eve. last wk.
Mark Watson has moved to
Phila., where he is now managing
ed. OF the Ladies Home Journal
Maj. Raymond Ives is back
from France after 2 yrs service
there. Ray is looking O. k. and ex-
poets to be civilian in a month
Or so.
We hereby retract thai we
can't see Herb Swope's Office.
Last Wednesday Herb hung a
flag out for It's to see, and now
we KNOW where the office is, but
1t is way down n ear VIM. st.
"nen 1t was announced, through all
newspapers that have the A. P. or the
Y. +. service, that the price Of ero-
ceres would 60 down synchronouslv
with the packers exit from the grocery
business, we regretted the fact that
grocers don't read the papers. "II too /"
writes Fiercrize, "have bemoaned That
Yesterday told my grocer that prices
mad gone down, and asked him whv
ne didn't read the papers, and he said ::
'oh, do, but that's paper talk. /
don't believe it,"
There probably are 5000 900 Of y.
In town, most Of whom appear to be
trying to telephone from numbers IN
the Cathedral exchange.
when every one Is somebody" de-
clares Gilbartisn sage, mo ones any,
body"- Philadelphia Evening Ledger,
The sage's nams was Sir w. s
Gilbert.
You might think that Montague
Glass would try out his shows in
Able, Nebr, or Morris, N. Y.
Do you know anybody whom livea
in Cyril, Ala!
New-York tribune., 1920-01-05
The Coming Tover
.oH MANI"

"OH MANI"
Man has melted the stones and rocks;
Dextrous he is, and sage;
But he cannot build theater box
From which you can see the stage.
"If one-half Of the energy now
spent in sympathy ON murderers and
criminals" said Sheriff Charles w.
Peters, "would be devoted to the
families Of the victims and the other
half to bringing to justice the brutes
who have blotted out the lives Of law
abiding citizens and darkened forever
the lives Of others, this would be
happier and safer world to live in"
The Sheriff accounts for all the en-
ergy, leaving none that might be spent
in making it impossible for men to- be
criminals and murderers. That could
be done by eliminating selfshness from
the human makeup. We have plan
for that; but we don't purpose to give
it away. We want handsome royalty
for it,
New-York tribune., 1920-01-05
Lifting the Embargo

of the Treasury Department un-
allotted credits Of $600,000,000 to
make loans to foreign governments,
and although Congress in March
placed $1,000, ,000, 900 at the disposal
Of the War Finance Corporation to
assist the country's export trade,
Secretary Glass adopted do-nothA
ing policy. He held that the diff
culties Of Europe were exaggerated,
that it was unwise to keep up our
exports by selling on credit and that
there should be no interference as
the dollar more and more went to q
premium.
After following this policy for q
couple Of months the Administration
now seems to have reversed itself.
The War Finance Corporation has
announced it has virtually counte-
nanced four loans to manufacturing
exporters. Locomotives are to go to
Poland and agricultural and electri-
cal machinery to England, France
and Belgium. The credits now Gre
ated are not large ($17, 100000 in
all), but it is intimated that other
loans will follow. The embargo on
exports seems about to be lifted, and
there is less danger of Ameri-
can workingmen finding themselves
without employment.
Coincident with this change in pol
icy Eugene Meyer jr., in his speech
at the dinner Of the foreign press
correspondents on Saturday night,
outlined existing conditions. The
exports for the first ten months of
1919 exceeded those of the first ten
months Of 1918, but this was because
war credits here were not yet ex-
hausted and because Of the large
expenditures by our government
abroad. But the recent heavy turn
in the exchange market has warned
that the credits on this side are ex-
hausted; that if we did not sell
abroad on credit we could sell little
at all, for Europe is not yet ready
to settle balances in goods; and that
the consequence of marked decline
in exports would be glut in the
American market in many lines.
It is to be hoped the change of
policy has come soon enough to avoid
another great shock to business.
Factory managers have been anx-
ious, and it will not be long before
planters and farmers must sow a
new crop. 1t concerns all whether
empty ships are to go out of Ameri-
can harbors. In the end natural
laws Of trade will, Of course, gov
ern, but in the mean time it is desir-
able to avoid violent price changes.
The Glass policy Of inaction has
wasted two valuable months, But it
now seems happily abandoned, and
the turnabout has come before con-
ditions became acute. But pressure
en- the Finance Board to give more
than postage stamp relief should
continue. The board properly may
be called on to provide many times
SIT 900 900 in credits to be expend-
ed in purchases Of American goods.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-05

In all probability the cure must be
left to time-to increased produc-
tion Of overvalued goods and cessa-
ton Of the production Of under
valued goods, to gradual deflation,
and, above all, to the evening up
process which will give all except
those dependent on fixed income
their share Of income increase.