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by 100, 900 majority in spite Of organ
lied labor's efforts against him.
1t is true that Mr.. Gompers had the
bad luck to encounter Republican
tidal wave. And IL Is also true that
in spite of Gompers' defeat labor's
voice will be listened to In washing
ton. But the political power of labor
was never less than 1t is today.
On the other hand, the Farmer La
Dor party movement failed utterly.
Neither the farmers nor,l labor voted for
the new party: The labor leaders who
wanted q political movement on the part
OK labor were too radical to form party
OF any breadth. They insisted upon a
platform which made a combination
with La Toilette. and the Nonpartisan
League impossible, so that Gompers,
while his own efforts failed. is able TO
point at the even more conspicuous
failure Of his opponents.
Organized labor remains n method ~
conducting small local strikes. Since
industry ceased In its important phases
to be local and became national. or
ganized labor has not learned how to
make its force felt. Direct action. if Il
may really be said to have been tried,
has failed, or Is utterly impossible. The
independent labor party has failed. The
balance of-power political method Of
Mr.. Gompers has failed.
The country is in the control Of a
party which is not beholden in any re-
spect to organized labor, nor particu
larly friendly to it. Organized labor is
under the leadership of man who is
old and discredited. 1t is waiting for
his decease with no one to put In his
place. IL is entering a period when its
one weapon, the strike. is likely to be
ineffective because of increasing unem-
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by labor. Esch comes from Wisconsin.
and he was defeated not by labor. bur
,,w,.
by La fohe'"'
And ESch was not th" worst enemy
labor might have. He opposed the anti
I'll, nro,,;sior which tho S.nat. nn-
;ntn the ra;Iroad Ia,v and s,,rreaJed In
t"tG ~, /. ai;,";notaI Jto L. rn,Inr.J
na'lns ~ - thn ;nt.rst,,a on,,-
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H,rrrr nt '"'i,i''1;t Vi! p' ,,.bd 'Dn,oS
4n,,t" ~ s+rnngo, anti .o,r;l,o
10 tut mISN tt 'HroaS Iir i.,' a" tbon t%e t%e
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u. S. TTT1L TO LEAGUE.
DECLARES CUBAN

Paris. Nov. 1j.-CBy A. Poo
operatiou by tho United States in the
work of the League Of Nations is vital
70 tho success Of that organization. de =
,lared AriStidCs Agupro. head Of the
Cuban delegation TO the meeting of the
assembly at Geneva. To the editor Of the
Eclair yesterday.
~ think" ne continued. that all
that can be done at Geneva will DC of a
more or less provisional character.
am a partisan of court Of International
Justice. but ell nattona. great as well as
small. must be represented in il. Think
how precs rious is the leagues situation,
owing to the fact thai It does not count
the United States among its members.
''Can anything definite W hatever be
done without the co. operation Of tho
northern republic? The disarmament
problem. for instance. can 1t seriously
be preached at Geneva? How is it pos
sible To arrive at the least decision, and
how can the assembly discuss the Ques-
tion of naval balance without con
sulting the United States
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TODAYS MYSTERY.STORY
BY PHILIP FRANCIS NOwIAN
BY PHILIP FRANCIS

o. The police were at loss. The great
International agency which the financial
interests had retained was at q loss
That was the reason Harvey Hunt had
been summoned---upon their grudging
recommendation.
But the criminal investigator had been
no more successful than they In follow
ing out the blind clues OF the bottle
and the paper. There remained only
the railroad guide.
Harvey Hunt continued to muse over
the railroad guide.
Carlton knew he was making clean
getaway, and that he would have sew
eral days start. Therefore IL is fairly
probable that he went straight where
he was going and did not think IL nee
essary to double on his tracks. You have
been investigating his character. Am
1 right?"
You are" admitted Bartlett. he
was direct In all his methods. I'd say
that if he was going to Atlanta he'd
10 straight there without any other
attempt at concealment than changing
his name, possibly shaving off his mus
tache. and carefully leaving no indlca-
tions behind him"
Then" said Hunt, with satisfaction,
'it would pretty nearly solve our prob
lem IL We knew in what direction he
had gone?"
Yes" said Bartlett. looking hopeful
In spite of himself, "it would only be
n question of combing a few cities for
him then. Henry Carlton is no p!ker.
He's no small-town fish. He likes 70
operate in a city OF some size. He
makes splash in whatever pond he
lands in, and the larger the pond the
less noticeable the splash--uniess there =
somebody watching for it particularly.
Good" calculated Harvey Hunt.
I'VE can tell the railroad by which he
left Chicago and consequently the d.
rection in which he went We can tell
Il from this railroad guide. which. as
you say, contains no mark, not even q
thumbprnt"
Quit your kidding" said Bartlett
How"
Harvey Hunt picked UP the book.
JTHAI traS II that Harvey HHnt dto
W tctlh The railrodd guide to hnd tht
schedule Henry Carlton had c0nSTlted'
The ors1Oer triil appear Tomorrow.
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The Turn of q PAGE

W. y" ~ VI " bSS
THERE was Just one Clue l,.t, and
- that was not a very promising one.
Harvey Hunt picked UP the railroad
guide, which was one OF the few things
Henry Carlton had left behind him.
Sam Bartlett, OF the central district,
laughed.
II hope you don,f expect to find out
from that book where Carlton went ?"
he jeered. TITS a brand new issue. and
there isn't a mark OH II. not even
thumb print, ] knew that before I ex-
amined IL. Carlton isn't the kind of fool
20 check or his train and then leave the
timetable behind for the benefit OF his
puTsuers"
Carefully, almost ginserly. Hunt
turned the book over in his hand. Gently
he opened IL, but only half way. Bart
lett pufed aEgress!vely on his cigar and
puffed audibly as he crossed his fat
knees
Il hope you haven't been so con-
iounded!y rough In your examina alton OF
this book as TO mess up the clue" Har-
Hey Hunt spoke softly .as much TO HIM
self as TO the central district man.
There were some very big financial,
interests in Chicago that were more than
anxious to establish contact with Henry
Carlton They wanted him to explain
Sc'Na'i hl'SuIdE!llSS III Ile nauul9lR OF
funds with which he had been entrusted ::
and more. they wanted cash or securi-
ties 70 the value Of $4,000 10 cover
certain dsappearances in these trust
funds which appeared TO be incxtrlcably
bound up in the disappearance of Henry
Carton himself
Carlton vas bachelor. lie had for
several years been living in an apart
ment hotel When his business assocl-
atcs did not sec him for rcveral days
they went 70 his apartment-and he
simply was not, there. He had not ter
minated hiS lease. Nobody knew where
10 had gone. The apartment vas in
order but It contained not all item o'
Henry Cartons personal effects. except
an empty medicine bottle, n few, blank
!etterheads of seven different hotels in
as many cities, from New Ycrl, to san
Francisco. Maine to Texas.
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Geneva. Nov. IA r-..ort that the
American War Department has in
structed Brizadicr General Churchill to
act confidentially as its observer at the
League of Nations assembly here has
created wave Of Surprie" in inner
league circles.
General Churrhils directed the
American military Intelligence during
he war and has been in Europe several
months visiting American military at
taches and supposedly conducting per
sonal investigation into European artna
ment preparations. That the Washing
ton Government should send 4 military
man OF all men to report on the as
senbly. even for the War Department.
amazed members ~ tnr league, who
heard Of IL today.
lit was stated III official quarters
at Washington last night that Briga
dier General Churchill. who is now III
Europe, has no mission, confidential
or otherwise, to observe the League
Of Nations assembly. He was dis
patched to Europe, it was explained,
Of, behalf of the general staff Of the
army to make an inspection OF Amer
ica's various military attaches.
although il may not be too late
for Washington to change its plans OF
deny Churchill's mission it is perhaps
an opportune moment to report that
American military and naval prepara
tiops are causing more uneasiness within
the league than any feature of Amer
fica'a post program. For severa
months the leagues special armaments
commission has been investigating the
question Of armanents. understand the
league has discovered that the Euro
peau nations and America are today
spending more money preparing anc
training for war than all those nations
combined in 1914. The leagues com
mission has investigated conditions
most thoroughly and is preparing lor
further investigation il the hope Of
Ending common ground for decreasing
armaments.
But the stumbling b!ocl; which the
commission invariably encounters is the
American preparations. Every time thc
, league commission asks question OF Il
foreign government the reply is, 'Why
SIS the United States preparing:
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JEHAT uas II that Hdrrey HHnt did
W Etlh the railrodd guide to fnd the
schedule Henry Carlton had consTted'
The orS1Osr riil appear TOMORROW.
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LabOrS Political
Future at Stake
Continued frrm Page On.

Continued frcm Page One
after the Civil War. Gompers' value to
labor has consisted in his ability to daa |
with the party in power at Washing
ton, 10 threaten it or cajole II. For the
first time i'll his long presidency of the
federation. Gompers has at Washington
party which certainly has no reason
to. be grateful and which does not fear
him. He has done his worst against
It and failed. Labor was never SO
pOwerless, politically, as it is now. The
inevitable consequence of the Gompers
policy has come. The president Of the
4. T. Of l.. has backed the wrong
party.
Gompers Lost Congress- Fights
Moreover. it does not stop with this
Roth houses of Congress will be full
of men against whom GomperS has used
all his energies. In every conspicuous
case OF q senator oI congressman
against whom Gompers has made a fight
except one, that congressman or sena
tor has been returned. The one de
feated congressman was John J. Esch.
Esch was chairman OF the interstate
commerce committee Of the House OF
Representatives. He was lO-author
with Senator Cummins of tA railroad
law and as such was marked for defeat
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The valuation of Mrs Ellen Murphy $
house at 90 South Twenty secoud
street was increased from $500 10
SlIO0. and Vincenzo Severrinu's dwell
Ing at 1876 South Twelfth street from
$25O0 to $4,000. Though her house con
tained only six rooms, while other
houses in the row had eight, Mrs. A.
Pescelli's home was raised to s27O0 from
$500. the valuation which has been
put on the other houses.
Benjamin Cohen. Of 1905 South Mil
dred street, complained that his small
house had been assessed ut $500 in =
stead OF its original $1,000. and Vito
Feoll. of 1000 South Thirteenth street.
that his assessment had been raised
from $500 to $500.
The largest increase from which ap-
peal was taken this morning was that
on Isaac Danzig's home at 4O54 Lam
caster avenue. 1t had been assessed at
$1,000. The new assessment is Sl4 900.
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u. S. ARMY PL1\S
PERTURB LEAGUE

The toii0trirg is tr0ut special
cable Dispatch Of Cart ". Ackcrm0n
aud is reprinted from, f"dnr's P"blir
Ted1er.
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Raises From $500 to $500

: Patrick Meehan. of 553S Oxford
street, and his npighbor, Charles Mar.
! tin. Of 1886 Oxford street, appeared to
I" COMPLAIN that their houses had been
raised from $1,000 to $500
I Mrs. Antonio Jambero, 1925 South
sTwelfth street, protested against having
/, her assessment raised from $24OO 70
, x3AOO. Her house has only six ROOMS,
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Warns Assessors
Against Unrest

, Cshiinued from Page On"
a suburban tax rate, We are taxed the
full city rate.
! The assessors heard protests from the
Twenty sixth. Thirtieth and Thirty
sixth wards.
Mrs. sarah II. Burns, Of 1897 South
Redfield street. declared she represented
every property owner in the 100 bloc.
on South Redfield street.
She said the value OF homes along
both sides of the street for block lad
been raised in assessed value from
s34OO to $+O00
Mrs. Sarah l.. Benedetto, ot Broad
! and Mifln streets, protested her prop
srty had been increased III valuation
4 t,.nn, 10000 IN S1O 800
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ployment and the willingness Of en-
ployers to close down their plants.
There Is not likely to be anti strike
legislation or legislation creating indus
trial courts, not because the party in
power Is afraid to enact It, but be-
cause conditions such as caused the
proposals Of last year have passed.
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Can yop tsolve this problem
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-13

She was dressed for the street in a long ulster, gray furs and a most becoming turban. He wished that she were unbecoming1y dressed or that she had a squint or wore spec tacles.
 He looked supine1y out of the win dow as he spoke his piece.
 Miss Wright, am very sorry to be, ablea to say this, but without ex- ception your room Is conducted worse than any in the school. Unless there is improvement, I shall have to so state in my report to the boapd.'' He paused, but there was no re- ply.
 "It is not your fault" he contin- ued. 'I mean I am sure that you try, but, pardon me, think you are not fitted by nature or by education to be a teachef.''
 "I know I am not" came in stin, small, tremulous voice. "Sometimes am tempted to take up my hat and run away and leave 1t all. Then set my teeth and make a new start" He sighed in sympathy. How often l in the last few weeks he had felt the same way.
 Good night" she said, wearily. as she left the room He watched her from the window as she walked slowly down the street.
 t'I feel as if I had been stealing sheep," he thought, "She's poor, of course, or she wouldn't be teaching. Maybe she has someone to support, and she'll worry over what I said about the board. What business had I putting into Jared's work anyway? |? If he is satisfied with her, what busi- ness was it of mine? was a drivel- ing idiot, and I will tell her so.''' He hurried out. She had changed her gait to a brisk pace. Finally shN turned into a street that led to the river. On the bank she halted, opened her reticule and drew forth a pair of skates, which she began to l put on.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-13

begin to know as much as you about teaching. I wish I had some ska tes.''
 "Oh, I knew you skated.' she cried gleefully. "Ned Warner lives in that first white house. His skates would just fit you.''
 soon returned with a pair of skates, which he adjusted. In silence they glided down the river.
 "You skate beautifully" he pres ently observed.
 "I am glad you think I do some- thing we1l,'' she said
 See herei' he said impatiently, "can't you cut the shop. When I said you weren't fitted to be teach CT I meant that you ought to be homely and old and cross and unin- teresting, and-'' --
 "You didn't mean anything of tho kind" she laughed.
 You know I wouldn't report you to the board, don't you? I wish from the bottom of my heart you didn't have to teach.''
 t'So do I.''
 Miss wrfght-Beth, I love you! you will marry melt wouldn't be as bad as teaching, would it?''
 She looked up demurely.
 q only expect to teach two weeks longer. Didn't you know I was 8 substitute only? Poor Ella Thorne is i'll and I am trying to take her place so she can have her salary "Beth, am an idiot! Why didn't Jared tell me? After all, Beth, dcesn't it put us on an equal footing? :? We are both substitutes, and when our labor Of love is finished won't you marry me?' "Jared warned me not to let you make love to me until we had both finished our school work
 Beth, do you care for me at al1?'' fOf course I care a little,7 or I wouldn't have minded what you said about my teachinS.'
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-13
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masters fondness for girls. quite gave up hope of ever being stroked by fairer hand or coaxed and leased by gentler voice than his mas ter's.
 In this state of resignation he found himself one late winter after noon walking on the frozen country road with his master and someone with gentler voice.
 Fascinating dog of yours," be heard, and then as his master and the girl who had spoken-a girl with ripping laugh, and not at all like anyone he had ever even thought of before-got down before him., he heard his master say:
 "If you really think so, Cynthia, you can have him. Cynthia, dear, l would do anything in the world for you"
 And then FItzie Three, who was carried away at the idea of being admired, jumped up and gave his new mistress dog k1ss on the end of her fair nose. u
 That was how Fitzie Three hap peped once more to be in the posses sion of a girl. Only this time he never went to the dormitory at all, but had to stay at Cynthia's all the time, and, excepting when his former master came to see her, he was forced to stay in the kennels with several other dogs. On the whole, Fttzie 1 Three would much have preferred being back in the dormitory. In the meantime, with the coming of early spring. college festivities abated and the members of the Browning Society sought to reunite.
 "Be sure to have our mascot" !" said the president of the society to Georgie.
 Georgie had told Fitzie One-for 1t was Fitzie Two instead of Fitzfe One who now walked through the woodland pathways with the be- witching Georgie.
 You've got to get hold of Fitzie
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-13
RlBC]4z EE] 5H4 SHE LoyED &aky|

the hired mans ear as the auto was ready to proceed:
 ''It is case Of love at first sight with me. Meet me this evening at s o'clock by the big willow tree just this side of the hotel. Don't fail me-"
 Abe Shearer had never thought much of himself. He had done some big days work and bragged of the record, but he wasn't vain or ego tistical. He was just a farmers hired man and was content with his lot 'e
 But new epoch had come into his life. He had been praised and -fattered by handsome girls. He had won the love Of one of them without ma.ing the slightest effort on his part. He knew for the first time that he was handsome as well as strong.
 Abe's old straw hat was cooked on his ear for the rest of the afternoon. and the family wondered at his su- perior air as he sat at the supper ta- ble. It seemed as itshe had been lift ed up into another sphere. ' Abe was Farmer Baxter's hired man, and he~was therefore under the ry. She noted the sudden change in him quicker than the others, and she knew the reason of 1t. She hedSbeen in the orchard while Abe was at the automobile, and she had heard the laughter of the girls.
 After Abe had finished the milking and put on hds Sunday suit. Mary d1vfned where he was going. She 1 asked no Quisions aAd made no comment.
 She of all the household was awake
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-13

Fitzie One had brought Miss stand> ish-they were engaged, but only secretly. and Georgie promised not to tel1-because Miss Standish want ed to apologize for keeping the dog. II have so many at home," she ex- plained, "that I really shan't miss this one at all. And Davis was SO foolish not to tell me sooner.''
 And then you told Miss standish because FitZie Two asked you?" queried GeoEgie. ~: =
 "Oh, yes, to be sure," said Fitzie One. Hes been after me for two days about it. He's downright fool ish.'
 Georgie smiled. blushed and em- braced the bewildered dog. "oh, I knew he would,'' she said.
 A heavy step on the vicarage ve- randa and plaintive howl made Fitzie Three look up with sudden ex- pectation. Then the front door swung open and Fitzie Two was seen in the hall.
 Hello, Georgie,' he called. 's1've got the beast. Hauled him in on q rope. He's on the porch.'' Georgie, without excusing herse1ts rushed out of the drawing room.
 1T had to steal him from the ken- nel after dark,' lCitzie Two went on. And, honestly, I don't know what | the Standishes have done to him.. You wouldn't know him for the same animal. I tied him 10 a rope. and he's been yelping all the way in.'' .
 "oh, my poor, dear Buster!'' cried Miss Standish, who had overheard. "He's4 stolen Buster by mistake" I The explanation was brief and l hilarious, and after enthusiastic pledges Of friendship on the part of the two girls Fitzie One and Cynthia and the abused Buster started for I home.
 Then, when the little vicarage door was closed, Fitzie Two and Fitzie Three were happy, for Georgie Mars
 ton gave her heart to one and lump of sugar to the other.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-13

except in the third grade. Miss Wright is not qualified to be teach CT, is she?'
 Jared's long hand stole up to his face. His voice was full of sup pressed mfrth as he replied:
 ''Oh, Beth Wright! She.was only graduated year ago. We have got to be patient with the young teach CTS. you know
 "Did you ever visit her room? never heard such a pandemonium.'
 q can't imagine her making or en- forcing ironclad rules, but the chil- dren all like her and she is tact full with the parents-''
 "I heard a reading class
 "Oh, you should go at the drawing hour. She has wonderful success in that, line. She'll come along all right.'
 Ferris went away annoyed and dis turbed in mind.
 Its likely I know a good teacher from a poor one! She hasn't one requisite of a teacher. Jared always was easy. I'll bet he's in love with her, or he'd never overlook such laxity. I'll call her down. I'll show her and Jared, too, that I'm running | things now.' M = : He was so interested in enforcing discipline that he became a constant visitor to the third grade. Each time the disorder was worse. One day when he went in the air was full of paper wads and there was a sound as of ,beehives, but i the teacher looked thousand times prettfer than he had dreamed she could look.
 Miss Wright be said, as he arose to leave, 'I wish you would come to the library after school tonight"
 Certainly" she said, flushing slightly.
 Throughout the day he nerved himself up to the proper pitch for the dreaded ordeal. H ad fme-taoin we'll in hand when she entered the library
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-13

you would hardly know how to ring a doorbe1l, and I'm sure I'd be as awkward as a COW in a 1ady's par 1or."
 T say we are just as good as any body!" shouted Abe as he wiped tear from his eye.
 +Just as good to live and die. Just as good while we stay in our own world. When we get out of it it's different thing. Ale, can you think of me. with my crude education, with my awkward ways. with my plain face, with the little I know of the man and holding a place in socisty?''
 He was silent.
 's"The other day you repaired an auto in which four girls were riding. yYou- got puffed up over what they said. Poor boy, you didn't know that they were having fun at your expense. Your looks and talk were joke to them.''
 Beat 'em!" growled Abe.
 :."'And you dressed up and went away to meet one of them by moon light. She was just foo1ing you. Abe she didn't appear"
 ;; ssBut she said-she said-
 That she loved you. o, Abe. where was your sense! It was all fun and mischief to her. Why should she love yous Your world is for you and hers for her. And when you you 1t was to hang yourself! Abe, there are fools among women. but O.. the fools among men!' T'ss time to get the Dai1s and do the milking" said the young man 28 QA xoaAA .----.---------.