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New-York tribune., 1920-05-12
The Coming 7owe1
"ONE VACANT CHAIR"
If you journeyed much through Broo

If you journeyed much through Brook
lyn-say, about decade syne
Ct sincerely hope you didn't, but, alas!
such fate was mine),
You may have seen Pete Nolan of the
Tompkins Avenue line,
He's the one whose hands were var
nished with long aggregated dirt;
Who displayed rhinestone headlight
fastened to his outing shirt;
Who, whene'er you tried to board his
car, shot forward with a squirt.
He's the one who never gave civil
answer in his life;
Who betongued some frail old woman
quite as though she were his wife;
Who appeared to nurse ambitions to
dispatch you with a knife.
You met Peter? All, thought so.
Well, he died not long ago,
And his Local by collection raised four
hundred bucks or so.
Was that money for the widow?
Truthful Echo answers, No.
No; they blew the whole four hundred
on dinky floral chair,
And across its back was VACANT,
wrought in mammoth letters there;
When the widow gazed upon it, she
just gave vacant stare
Then they asked her how she liked it,
and she feebly shook her head
"Oh, it's grand, but was thinkin'
(you'll excuse me, plcase)," she
said,
pete was almost always standin' when
he wasn't in his bed"
AGRICOLA STRONG
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12
Against Victory Monument

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l am in favor of Victory
Memorial Hall that can be made useful
to the community, but | do not think
at the present tine we should spend
large amount of money simply for a
victory monument. There are lot of
victory monuments in Germany, whole
avenue of victory statues in "Sieges
Alice in the park in Berlin, and if
Germany had won this war there would
have been great many more | would
rather see more stress laid upon the
good things in lfe-service, friendship.
loyalty, justice and mercy, the strong
to assist the weak-instead of glorifv
ing the victor. We can use a great deal
OF money to good advantage at present
to pay better salaries for teachers and
better compensation for government
otficlals, whose salaries. have not been
advanced IN proportion to the high
cost of living. 1t is not fair to under
pay them, nor can we expect good ser
wee without adequate remuneration
We could use money for pensions to
the widows and the disabled, for recre-
alton centcrs, Fairgrounds, opportunity
for free good music and musical in
struction, home gardening, care of the
feebleminded-all these to be given
not so much as charity but as an act
of justice. If we do all these things
l do not think there will be much
chance of Bolshevism or extreme radi-
calism. ADOLPH LEWISOHN.
New York May 8, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12

BY
F. F. Y.

clear, loved nature for the bully times
she gave him.
Beebe, it seems to us, loves nature and
her children simply because they are and
he is.
All that is necessary now, it appears,
is for Mr.. Beebe to place his affairs in
order and die. America will then hail
him as among her great and in all proba-
bility get out complete edition of his
work, sent on ten days approval in re-
turn for the slight effort of filling out
the coupon in the corner of the page.
We feel that we should confess TO still
another difference between the aecre-
dited conductor of this column and his
substitute besides those we have already
made glaringly apparent
We spank F. Sd almost as frequently
as II, Sd probably needs it.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12

job and do his full individual share
in adding to supplies of goods. Then
prices will come down and wages
really go up.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12
The Accommodating SipnDainter

Sir: | write to inquire about the
flelschman Baths. Committing on the
New York Central, cannot fail to see
their signboards. Writing largely
about their pool, at 140th Street they
assure me "lt accommodates 1000" e"
But as l approach the city a smaller
sign states at accomidates 1000" and
their final word at 125th Street. re
peated three times, is that at ac-
comodates 1000' What | want to know
is, isn't there something subtly lack
ing about these accommodation the
nearer you get to them? c. W. c.
He is now Mitchell Palmer follow
ing the lead of Joseph R. Kipling,
Joseph B. Matthews, Thomas w. Will
son, Leon c. Pollock, Frank D. Burnet,
and Enoch A. Bennett.
THOSE UNIFORMS
Twas Spring. and in the Hudson
Lay the lovely men-of-war:
The trees had leaves and buds on
The gobs had leaves on shore
How was a girl to know
1t much too dusk to see
That the man she thought was C. p. O.
Was only B. r. T! PERRY
IF. P. A. has written some sonnets
that Will tit every mood" Thus Mr..
0. 0. Mcintyre, in what he calls a
little free puff in the fifty papers
his column appears in. Mr.. McIntvre
suggested the title for "Something Else
Again." but, while we have not read
the book, we recall only one sonnet.
Perhaps Mr.. Mcintyre, Narcissus-like
read no further than the title.
Dlllgent perusal of an excellent book
discloses these additions to the Douplas q
Tendran True Club: Panl ShookoF.
Abraham Fetched, Ephraim Islike. and
Gideon Madeready.
borden's Milk is rich with cream,
1t keeps us kids from getting lean.
Prize Rhyme No. Il.
Grade H rhyming
1t looks bad for Hoover Practically
everybody in Our Set is strong for him.
AS we see it, the trouble with the
world is that everybody is trying to buy
something for nothing, and to sell moth
ing for something
In a sane world, only few Of us
try that,
F. P. A.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12

You can purchase merchandise advertised In The
TRIBUNE with absolute satety--for II dissatsfac
ton results In any csss The TRIBUNE guarantees
10 pay your money back upon request. No red tape
No aulbbro. We make Good promptly II the
advertiser docs rot.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12
A Serious Shortage

From The Washington PosD
Seventy-nine generals have deserted
Carranza; he has only measly 7.413
left
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12
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Tae Associated Press s. exclusively entitled 10 the
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terein.
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;

We have been pushed into this place.
Though we strive desperately to look at
ease and confident, it its our mentality
no better than its former occupants
| trousers would fit our person. We have
the uncomfortable feeling of rattling
about
The stern parental disciplinarian who
usually occupies this space is taking a
vacation and The Tribune editors in
their infinite wisdom have Summoned us
to pinch hit-we who have been sitting
in the dugout for ever so long, follow
ing Saturday Evening Post" serials
with no hint Of impending doom.
Seeking pleasure and relaxation, we
have just read Frank Swinncrton's
"Nocturne' (Doran), and found little
of either. We are not certain what Hey
wood Broun said of this tale of one
night in the life of two cockney girls.
1t is our impression, however, that he
added his voice to the almost unani-
nous chorus of praise.
II the book had been $50 instead of
250 pages long, We might have enjoyed
it more. We have never been able to
work up any great enthusiasm for the
type of novel that breaks off at a crisis
to devote chapter to the psychological
reactions that a character is expert
encing.
H. G. Wells, one of that group of
British authors who, having made
names for themselves, are doing their
best to aid the younger generation in
acquiring fame, by writing prefaces for
all their books, has written preface
for "Nocturne,' saying it is life itself.
"Seen through his art says Mr..
Wells OF MIR. Swinnerton. "hfe is seen
as one sees things through a crystal
and with less turbidity He does not
want you or any one TO do anything"
Our peering through Mr. Swinnerton's
lens unfortunately stirred up in us an
overwhelming desire to poke the sub
jects on the slide beneath it, or to bel
low at the author:
For Gods sake, stop vivisecting the
poor girls mind and let's get along with
The story"
In his preface Mr. Wells speaks of
W. H. Hudson as one OF his early ad-
mirations. His citation Of this great
naturalist-stylist brings to the top of
our mind again our long held wonder
when Americans will awake to true
appreciation of the work of William
Beebe, who writes of nature quite as
we'll as Mr.. Hudson, and knows her, we
think. more intimately.
There are chapters in Jungle Peace"
Henry Holt that seem to Us quite the
most perfect things that have been done
on the jungle and the open, and the lives
of myriad of creeping, crawling. fly
ing creatures.
If Hudson had been a stockbroker in
stead of naturalist, we think he would
have turned out Iimpd, free flowing
prose with the Exchange as setting
He was naturalist by profession, but
Beebe writes of nature and her children
with the fervor and passion of lover.
Burroughs, Roosevelt, back along the
trail to Thoreau, we can think Of no
one whose work better fulfls the pre-
scription for perfect praying laid down
by the Ancient Mariner than William
Beebe
Thoreau looked upon the out of doors
as a minister cons the Bible searching
for text on which to hang a sermon
hurroughss attitude is more than that
OF the pure scientist Rspsevelt, it is
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12
The Same Old Storv

CFrom The Cincinnati Enquirer
An exchange asks: SIS Mexico wax
ing up?" No; just having another Of
her regular Nightmares.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12
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What endears Mr.. Taft to the public,
probably, is his ability to laugh On the
slightest provocation. "You are not a
dark horse, then, in any emergency ?"
Mr.. Taft was asked. Mr.. Taft, the
Times says, was again stirred to
laughter, and answered "No." We envy
Mr.. Taft that ability. When somebody
tells us an old one and we don't laugh,
or when somebody springs on us some
thing he has read herein and we don't
laugh, we usually lose another friend.
Zippitty-zip! How many there have
been in seventeen years!
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New-York tribune., 1920-05-12

A Fifth Avenue firm is selling out
and advertising that its prices are made
regardless of cost. But that, we find
is true Of most of the things we hap
pen to have bought lately
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12

The only way for a iourneyman bard
to get even with the profteers is to
write one rhyme to the quatran.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12

If somebody makes a play of Zona
Gales Miss Lulu Bett," all we want
are 1ft Of the gross receipts and two
tickets for the first performance. 1t
would, we think, be better play than
Jane Clegg' or Beyond the Horizon" ."
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12

Gasoline is to go up another two
cents becausc-but we don't know why.
Six months ago we swore off reading
the reasons" for increased prices Not
only does it save lots of time; it also
saves person who still has the ca
pacity for indignation lot of futile
fuming
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12
"a Hons CueiiIir-De Quol Cuerir"

Gallons CueiIlir-De Quol Guerr"
Silver white of the shad bush,
Rose-eaf bloom on the hill
Willow-gold at the stream side
Oh, racing thoughts, be still.
Quiet yourselves sink idly
Down to this breadth of grass:
Cease TO Wonderland wonder
Pass not till beauty pass.
LEE WILSON Dopn
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12

A pleasing young person called us
up yesterday to inform us that "Thc
Purple Cow" was not written by Miss
Anna Geld, of the Campus Chorus, but
by Gelett Burgess. And if we didn't
believe her, we could look it up. We
believe her.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12

He is now Mitchell Palmer follow
ing the lead of Joseph r. Kipling,
Joseph B. Matthews, Thomas w, Will
son, Leon c. Pollock, Frank D. Burnet,
and Enoch a. Bennett.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-10-21
Illicit Romance Of
Woman Results in the
Filing Of Divorce

Y Chicago, Oct. 20.-"I'm practically
an outcast," sobbed Mrs. Gertrude
Roell after she had heard her hus-
band, Gustav Roell, manufactures
had filed his divorce suit, naming
James Oliver ii, vice president OF
the Oliver Plow company OF South
Bend, Ind, as correspondent.
"I've given up home. husband
everything for Jimmie" continued
Mrs. Roell. II met him four years
ago and fell in love with him: He
said he would marry me and painted
4 glowing pictures of our. happiness
sitter we had home of our own.
But he was a coward. Without
Nwarning to me, he married another
woman at Petoskey. Mich. and let.
me heartbroken. l had told my hus.
band everything and he did not tel!
me he intended to get a divorce" :.
The bill charges that Mrs. Roe.l
and young Oliver became acquainted
three or four years ago and cites
numerous escapades, including trip
>e,,the Louisville derby. Fourth Of
July celebration in cottage at st:
Joseph, Mich, and other doings Of
! highly sensational nature. includ-
ing some visits to Chicago hotels.
Quite recently Oliver married Miss
Louise Farthington, a southern girl
at Petoskey, Mich.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-10-21
Woman Sought as Slayer
OF Camden Bank Messenger

Camden, N. J., Oct. 20-A woman
ct the tenderloin of Philadelphia is
responsible for the murder of David
S. Paul, the murdered bank messen-
ger whose body was found near
Tabernacle on Saturday. This was
the opinion today of Prosecutor
Woverton of Camden county.
Two men are being held by the
authorities in connection with the
murder. 1t is said the two were
companions Of the Philadelphia
woman, who lured Paul to the spot
where these two robbed him and
beat him to death. Paul disappeared
October S with $4,000 of the funds
Of the Broadway Trust company of
New York.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-10-21
Food Prices in
September Fall
About 2 Per Cent
Some Foodstuffs, Notably
Potatoes and Sugar, Sus-
tanned Marked Decrease
While Eggs Advanced.

Washington, Oct. 20.-The de-
cline in the retail price OF ioodstuffs
during September was placed at 2
per cent by the Department of La
bor's bureau of statistics in its
monthly report today.
Some foodstuffs, notably potatoes
and sugar, sustained a marked de-
crease in price, while others, includ-
ing eggs, pork chops and oranges,
underwent price increases ranging
from 8 per cent for oranges to IL per
cent for eggs. The drop in the price
of potatoes was placed at % per
cent; sugar, 20 per cent; cabbage,
Ia per cent, and coffee, 6 per cent.
The decline in retail food prices,
however, according to the bureaus
figures, did not keep pace with the
drop in wholesale quotations. The
latter were placed at 5 per cent.
Not all of the 81 leading cities of
the country shared alike IN the re-
tail price decline, the drop being es-
timated at per cent in Butte, Mont,
while it was less than fve-tenths of
per cent in Boston, Los Angeles,
Minneapolis, Omaha and Washing7
ton, D. c. Z
The decline was estimated at 2 per
cent in Atlanta, Baltimore, Dallas,
Denver, Indianapolis, St. Louis and
Salt Lake City. and ! per cent in
Birmingham, Chicago, Cleveland,
Detroit, Fall River, Houston, Kan
sas City, New York, Portland, Ore;
St. Paul, Savannah and Seattle.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-10-21
Forty-Two Stowaways
Taken From One Steamer

New York, Oct. 20-Forty-two
stowaways who boarded the steam
ship Logan in Naples were removed
under military guard when the boat
arrived and were taken to Ellis Is
land.
According to immigration officials.
this breaks all records in stowaways
traffic. Officers of the ship said the
men were not discovered until the
ship was we'll on the way to New
York.
Officials of the Phelps line, which
operates the Logan, said they be-
lieved there is an organized ring"
in Italian ports attempting to
smuggle immigrants into America.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-10-21
Severe Battle Raging
Along Dnieper River

Sebastopol, Crimea, Oct. 20.-(By
The Associated ress.)-Severe
fighting continues along the Dnieper
and northeastern front, in the vicini-
ty of Nikopol. Leon Trotzky, Rus
sian bolshevik minister of war, is re-
ported to be bringing up 10 divisions
of communist forces, which will not
surrender as easily as the ordinary
troops heretofore used on this line.
1t is asserted numbers of former
German officers in the Baltic pro-
vinces are offering their services to
General Baron Wrangefs head OF the
anti-bolshevik south Russian govern
ment.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-10-21
Youthful Murderer
OF Nebraska Rancher
Confesses to Crime

O'Neill, Neb., Oct. 20-(Special.)
Floyd Wicks, Rock county mur.
derer, who slew Clyde Patterson,
bachelor ranchman, on the latter's
lonely ranch in the sandhills o,
southern Rock county, buried the
body under the steps leading down
into a cave, then stole Patterson's
cattle and the feed for them. has
been brought to O'Neill and placed
in the Holt county Jail for safe
keeping.
Wicks confessed to the murder a,
Bassett and after signing the confes.
sion was removed to O'Neill for
safety. The l8-year-old murderei
does not seem to be worried in the
least concerning the probable pun.
ishment for his crime and eats and
sleeps we'll.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-10-21
Irish Debate Begun in
British Parliament

London, Oct. 20.-The eagerly
awaited debate on the Irish situa-
ton was precipitated in the House
of Commons today by Arthur Hen
derson, former labor member of the
cabinet, who offered the motion de-
manding an inquiry into reprisals
from the police and soldiers in Ire
land.
While admitting that the armed
forces of the crown had suffered
provocation, the governments pol
icy, Mr.. Henderson asserted, seemed
to him to aim at stamping out ma
tionalist opinion and breaking the
spirit of the lkish people.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-10-21
U. S. Must Spend
4 Billions Next
Year-Houston
Secretary of Treasury Tells
Bankers Association Of In.
debtednes Faced by
Government.

Washington, Oct. 20.-Govern-
ment expenditures of $4,000, 100000
during the next fiscal year were
forecast by Secretary Houston Of
the Treasury department today in
an address before the convention
of the American Bankers associa-
ton, in which he covered a wide
range of financial and economic
problems of the nation.
The secretary outlined the treas
ury's program for handling the war
debt and appealed for 'the strictest
economy not only in our expendi-
lures, federal, state, county and mu-
nicipal, but also by thrift on the part
of our people," adding that the pro-
gram necessitated the maintenance
of taxation latter rhis fiscal year on
a level of not less" than $4,000, ,000,-
1000 annually. He said there were
indications of falling receipts.
Urges Tax Changes.
I'm saying that the aggregate re-
ceipts for the government should be
maintained at high level for the
purposes Indicated" he continued.
II am by no means committing my
self to existing schedules or to spe-
cific taxes. l think it of urgent I'M
portance that there be prompt re-
survey of the situation with re-
form of the taxes, to the v'iping out
of inequities and inequalities and the
assurance of sufficient revenue which
may not be realized if the present
system remains intact"
The treasury's program had been
disarranged, the secretary said, by
"the heavy burdens imposed by the
transportation act" He estimated
the total amount which the govern
ment will pay the roads at $l,00c.-
100000, about one-fourth of which
already has been turned over to
Continued on Page Two, Column One.)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-10-21
'On1ahaCirl
Stolen by
Her Father
Wealthy Ranchman's Effort to
Stop Wife's Divorce Fails;
$4,000 Alimony
Granted.
Violates Order Of Court

Harry E. Tutin, wealthy Stanton,
Neb., ranchman. came to Omaha
Tuesday and stole his daughter,
Mary, 9, from the Central public
school, Twenty second and Dodge
streets, in an effort to get his wife,
Emma Tutin, to dismiss her suit for
divorce in district court.
Judge Sears yesterday granted
Mrs. Tutin divorce and $2S.00O
alimony, citing in the decree the
fact that Tutin has stolen the little
girl and violated an injunction grant
ed by the district court when Mrs.
Tutn filed for divorce month ago.
This injunction prohibited Tutin
from molesting his wife or the girl
Il will spend every cent Ut the
alimony to get my little Mary back"
exclaimed Mrs. Tutin in the office
of A. L. Sutton, her attorney, yes
terday. =
Argued Against Divorce.
She said her husband came TO
Omaha Tuesday morning and
called at her home, 436 South Twen-
ty-fourth street, and tried to induce
her to dismiss her suit for divorce.
II knew it was impossible to live
with him." she said. Il tried it for
nearly 10 years and l don't care to
go through the experience again: |
told him that was impossible and he
left the house"
A short time later the telephone
rang and Mrs. Tutin recognized the
voice OF her husband.
Il have taken Mary from the
school and am going to take her
away where you'll not see her again
unless you dismiss that divorce suit"
she declares he said. "I'll give you
half an hour to decide"
Threatened to Flee.
Half an hour later came another
telephone cali. Mrs. Tutin says she
didn't believe her husband would
make good his threat. She thought
he was "bluffing."
But when Mary did not return
from school at noon she learned
that Mr.. Tutin had called there and
taken the child away. She says he
threatened to flee to Canada,
Immediate action will be taken to
collect the $25,000 alimony for Mrs.
Tutin. Her husbands wealth is
nearly all in rich farm lands.
The Tutins were married Feb-r-
ary %, 1910. at Decatur, Neb.'
charged her hssband with cruel,J
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-10-21
Action Against Packers
POSTPONED to January

New York. Oct. 20.-Action OF the
government against the big five"
packers, charged with profiteering,
was postponed in federal court in
Brooklyn by agreement of both
sides, until January /.
Federal Judge Howe objected to
further delay, stating that it was the
duty OF the government to prose-
cute as quickly as possible. but con-
ceded the point when Assistant
United States District Attorney Har-
wood said the government was ex-
pecting decision from the United
States supreme court involving the
cases against the packers.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-10-21
Hospital Attaches
Die From Poisoning

Oakland, Cal, Oct. 20.-Three at.
taches of the St. Anthonys hospital
in this city died during last night
and today, and fourth is believed
to be beyond recovery as a result
it is thought, of some sort of food
poisoning.
Autopsies were performed in two
instances and analysis of stomach
contents was ordered. The dead are:
DR.. Edith Strong, assistant physi-
clan.
Miss Anna Renas, nurse.
Joseph Freitas, orderly.
Little hope is held our for the re.
covery of Miss Nellie Russell, an
other nurse. Within an hour, after
Miss Renas complained of feeling
abdominal pains, she had died.