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New-York tribune., 1920-09-19
Of Nations, France, FOR che relief Of
Poland.

Of Nations, France, for che relief Of
Poland.
Dream Fails To Be Realized
at has been the assumption OF the
advocates of the league that the ma
tions composing 1t would be represent
ed by individuals who would perform
their obligations. make correct deci-
s:ons, be free from seltlshness, opposed
to war, favor peace, and be generally
good and free from bad actions and
intentions. So far from this dream
coming true, nearly all Of them have
already been denounced by President
Wilson as being governed by militaris-
tic or ambitious motives.
"The trouble is that human nature Is
the same as it has been heretofore.
Nations will seek their special inter
ests and quarrel about them. The
United States can use it's influence to
promote the general purpose of peace
able settlement of international dis
putes, but when it undertakes under
Article X to guarantee the sovereignty
Of all other nations Of the world, who
are members of the League Of Nations,
it involves itself in innumerable wars
in which we have no national concern" j"
New-York tribune., 1920-09-19

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New-York tribune., 1920-09-19
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Pra raCtiCal Fmn~s

for immediate wear
Gall of them moderately priced> are an
important feature OF the Fur Depart-
rment's Autumn display. Included are
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above the embittered young lover. and
he noticed them not at all, which was
but little less than he noticed the
elderly human couple who observed
him from side yard as he passed by.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burgess had been hap
PLY married for fifty-three years and
four months Mr.. Burgess lay in a
hammock between two maple trees.
That's Noble Dill walking along the
sidewalk" Mrs. Burgess said, inter
preting for her husbands failing eyes.
II bowed to him. but he hardly seemed
to see us and just barely lifted his
hat. He needn't be cross to us, just
because some other young mans prob
ably taking Julia Atwater out driv-
ing"
Eyes. he need" Mr.. Burgess de-
clared: "A boy in his condition/needs
to be cross with everything. Some
times they get so cross they go and
drink liquor. Don't you remember? %
She laughed. II remember once!"
she assented, and laughed again.
X \ X r
A THOUGH Noble had saluted the
- old couple so GROSSLY. thus uncon-
sciously making them. as he made the
sidewalk. proxy for Mr.. Atwater, SO to
speak, yet the sight of them pene-
trated his outer layers of preoccupa-
ton and had an effect upon him. In
the midst Of his suffering his imagin-
nation paused for shudder: What
miserable old gray lives those two
were. Thank Heaven, he and Julia
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in a silent church. AS he seethed
adown the warm sidewalk the soIes
of his shoes Smote the pavement, for
mentally he was walking not upon
cement but upon Mr.. Atwater.
He recalled the little moonlit drama
on the embowered porch. when Julia,
in her voice of plucked harp strings,
told him that he smoked too much,
and he had said it didn't matter; mo-
body would care much if he died-and
Julia said gently that his mother
would: and other people too; he
mustn't talk so recklessly. Out of this
the old eavesdropper had viciously
represented him to be a poser, not
really reckless at all, and had in
suited his cigarettes and his salary.
Well, Noble would show him! Noble
had doubts about being able to show
MIR. Atwater anything important con-
nected with the cigarettes or the sal
airy, but he could prove how reckless
he was. With that, a vision formed
before him; he saw Julia and her
father standing spellbound at a cross
ing while a smiling youth stood d.
rectly between the rails in the middle
of the street and let charging troll
ley car destroy him-not instantly,
for he would live long enough to
whisper. as the stricken pair bent over
him: Now. Julia, which do you be-
lieve; your father or me?" And then
with slight. dying sheer: well, Mr..
| Atwater is this reckless enough to
suit your
Town squirrels fitted along their
high paths in the shade tree branches
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she would say, but suppose You was
TO half to hold the ladder against
thorn bush some day and get stuck.
and not be able to hold no more H..
derS. Then where would We be at
We got to make more jack so as We.
can plant some in the old sock
It's all right to talk" Joe would8
reply. but we ladder holders haven'ta'
got no union and can't make n0S
threats. If i was to ask my boss fof'A
a raise he would come down a few+
rungs and knock me for row of pop--s
lars. Z
That's either here or there" hisa
Mrs. would say, Il know you can't
make no more at your regular job.
but what about your spare time The
magazines is full of ads where n man {
can clean up if he uses his spare tim"
to learn different trades and etc. ana
then works at them in his spare time"
SO finely Joe got tired of hearinl:
her moan and he bought himself Il
copy of magazine and looked through
the ads and marked all the ones thai
promised to learn you how to incrcas"
your earnings. One ad said they would
learn YOU to write short stories and
one of their pupils was making
So.ooo.o0 VI. writing them and h"
called it just play work.
They was another that would learn
you to be a cartooniSt SO as YOU coulL
earn 100000 a yr. in your spare tiln-
Then they was a correspondent school
that give you a choice of whole lot
of trades you could work at in your
spare time. Joe read over the list and
decided he would learn to lac Il L
trainman with pays about 81 200 90 per
annnm and also a textile oversee
witch would net him 100000. The
was another school that would maxi"
a professional photogra pher out of
you and you could snap up $50 per
wk. or S3,640.00 per annun. Still an
other one yet said they was big de
mand for garages and they would
learn you how to run one and You
couldn't hardly help from netting
100000
They was another that would cure
you from Stammering and make you
convincing tafker so as You could
grab 100000 per annum on the chau-
tauqua circus in your spare time. or
you could get so as you could earn
S10,00000 as a lawyer by putting In
your spare time studying law at home
or you could make 100000 Il VT. a.
expert accountant And when you
had a few hrs. off you could canvas
the block for subscriptions to a maya
zine and pocket SS.5G0.00 Il VI. on the
side. And last but not least, if you WAS
shy of money you could sell your false
teeth to a moulting concern out in
Cleveland in your spare time.
We'll" says Joe to himself 'if
they's that much spare time in the
world l am going to take advantage.
l am going to learn the whole works
and live right instead of trying 10
skrimp along on my salary as a lad
der holder"
So this is what that bird done. Every
night when he would come home from
the trees he would lay his ladder to l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-10
GREAT WIRELESS PLANT
BUILDING IN NEW YORK

The worlds biggest wireless plant
to cost $4,000. 900, to be built ar
Rocky Point. n. Y. by the Radio Cor
poration of America, will handle 500
words in and 500 words out minute.
simultaneously, the land wire relay Of
seventy miles from Rocky Point to
the company's office in Broad street.
New York city, being controlled me-
Chemically, the human element en-
terng into the process only at the
point of actual transmission or re-
ceipt.
Five units will be erected, with
another one to be held in reserve for
use in the emergency of severe storm
or other trouble. Each of the units
will have a minimum capacity of
sending 100 words a minute and of
receiving the same number.
The plan is to transfer the wire
less signals directly from tie wire
less apparatus to land wires and send
them right into New York city. to
headquarters. without calling manual
labor into the process at any time.
1t is the design to control relays
the operating work will be done
there, although the machinery of
transmission will be out at Rocky
Point.
Each of the five units of the plant
will serve a separate field. One will
America, another will talk to Ger
many, third will serve France. an
other goes to Italy and the f,f;h viii
Serve Pollard
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town"
shadowy, sweet reproach came
good. Noble?" she asked in a low voice
although no one knew better than she
what trouble such performances got
her into. Noble, you don't mean"
lie made vocal sound conveying
recklessness. something resembling a
reckless laugh. II might go-any
day: Just as 1t happens to strike me-"
But where to. Noble?"
DON'T Well, maybe to China :"
China" she cried in amazement
Why, Noble Dill"
There's lots of openings in China"
ne SAID. "A white man can get a
commission in the Chinese army any
day" ''
And So" she said, you mean
you'd rather be an officer in the Chi
hese army than stay-here?" With
that she bit her lip and ayerted her
lace for an instant, then turned to
him again, quite calm. Julia could
not help doing these little things; she
was born that way, and no lessons
changed her.
julia the dazzled Noble began,
but he stopped with this beginning,
his voice seeming to have exhausted
itself upon the name.
when do you think you'll start?"
she asked.
His voice returned. IT don't know
just when" he said: and he began to
feel n little too much committed to
this sudden plan Of departure, and to
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found purity. and returned to the Ii
brary. He frowned uneasily; the air
seemed family yet Enthusiastically i'm
preenated with Orduma cigarettes
"Curiousw he said as he composed
himself once more to read-and pres
emily the odor seemed to wear away
and vanish. Mr.. Atwater was relieved:
the last thing he could have wished
was to be haunted by Noble Dill.
Yet for that while he was. Too hon
orable to follow such an example as
Florence's. Noble. of course, would
not spy or eavesdrop near the front
porch where Julia sat. but he thought
there could be no harm in watching
Mr.. Atwater read. Looking at Mr.. At
water was at least the next thing to
looking at Julia And so. out in the
night, Noble was seated upon the top
of the side fence, looking through the
library window at Mr.. Atwater.
After a while Noble lit another Or
duma cigarette and pulled strongly
to start it. The smoke was almost
invisible in the moonlight. but the
faint night breeze. stirring gently
waited it toward the house, where
the open window made an INWARD
draft and carried IL heareiiy "oo"'
the library. NJ
Noble was surprised to see Mt
Atwater rise suddenly to his feet.
"Damnr' he said distinctly. He sfnote
his brow, put out INC ''e".
stamped upstairs to his own room.
Fis purpose to ws sssrs w saw might light
% The bedroom window overhead.
Noble watched th that low windo ONE as he he
ttan,,r,,t If the good. peculiar old
aisFCoin swe thsfe shade asd
he smiled to himself at a whlmsicai
thought: What at, f ferm To taae Mr. what hat
wa 20 his feelings, and what would
he do, if he knew that Noble was
there now. benenath his window. and
thinking of him?
IN the moonlight Noble sat upon
the fence and smoked orduma CT
garettes, and looked with inexpressi-
HE fondness at the bright window of
Mr.. Atwater's bedchamber. Suddenly
the light in that window went out.
Saying his prayers now, said No
ble II wonder if
But. not to be vain, he left the
thought unfinished.
arrangement wi,p the Metrcrc,itan Newspaper
+ Copyright. r.. r. Collier * Son. Printed by
Service and Tha Evening Stsx.
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would follow Joe's lead they would be
less talk of strikes and more of bases
on balls.
WE'LL Joe come here to take job as
ladder holder for a man that trims trees
and their owners. He went to work at
s in the A NJ. and got through at 5
with y hr off for lunch, but he
wasn't only getting 81 per wk. and
had family of 9 mouths to feed and
9 carcasses to cloth, so unless he was
holding a ladder against an oak tree
or a hickory and could get a hold of
some acorns or hickory dumbs, why
he went without lunch.
Now Joes wife was college gal
and didn't know nothing about how to
save. She managed to break even
every wk. but she couldn't lay moth
ing aside for a rainy day and you
know how many of them we had here
on Longs Island this last summer.
But she was ambitious and she kept
after Joe to try and pull himself to-
sether and increase his earnings.
1851 per annum is 1854 per annum."
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innumerable family and a costly reti-
nue. of vassals that seems to think
she is anemic and building herself up
at nv expenses
But a little vile ago I run acrost a
old friend of mine who we will call
Joe Cooper as he don't want his own
name mentioned and besides 1 can't
recall it though his face is familiar.
bat any way Joe has followed my it.
steps and moved here from the middle
west and the story he told me of what
he has pulled off is such a good ex-
ample of what a average man can do
if he goes at it the right way that 1
will try and tell your readers the
story so as they can take advantage
of his experience and lift themself out
of the rough. If every laboring man
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called in some countries. the fire.
fly
Herbert talked at considerable
length about lightning bugs, but as
his voice happened rather precocious-
iy to be already in a state of Adde'S
cent change, the sound was not sooth-
ing; yet Noble fingered. Nephews were
queer, but this one was Julia's--and
finally mentioned her, as an incidental
to lightning bugs: whereupon the
mere hearer of sounds became In
stantly a listener to words.
We'll, and then ! says" Her
bert continued-'I says: It's phos-
phorus. Aunt Julia l guess there's
hardly anybody in the world doesn't
know more than Aunt Julia, except
about dresses and parasols and piano
playin' and every other useless thing
under the sun. She says: MY. l al
ways thought it was sulphur" Said
nobody ever told her it wasn't sui
phur. l asked her; 1 said: You mean
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that he must be getting on down
town. His young friend; diverted
from bugs. showed the greatest will
ingness to continue the narrative in
definitely. evidently being in posses
sion of copious material; but Noble,
unostentatiously dropping a cigarette
he had been preparing to light. and
stepping on it. turned to depart. An
afterthought detained him. Where
was it she lost her earring?"
"Who?"
Your aunt Julia"
"Why. 1 didn't say she lost any ear
ring" Herbert returned II said she
always was losin' 'em; 1 didn't say
she did,
X X X
THE peaceful street, shady and fra
grant with summer. was so quiet
that the footballs of the striding Noble
were like an interruption of coughing
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1t should also ought to be remem-
bered that Joe has still got his 1864
per annum as a ladder holder because
the other work is all done in spar"
time. He calls it all play work. And
if the tree trimmer was to can him
some time he should worry But the
best part of it all is that he don't half
to buy night gowns for himself as he
hasn't no use for them.
II all the men that's working for
puny wages was Joe Cooper's we
wouldn't hear no more chatter about
bolshevism and down with the idle
rich. RING w LARDNEE.
Longs Island, Oct. 8,
downright 1920. by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.l
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side and study the lessons that he had
boughten and witch come by mail.
Once a wk he would get out "A set of
false teeth and sell them to Cleveland
for $1,000. At the end of 8 mos. he
had mastered all the spare time trades
and now his annual earnings is some
thing like the following:
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Wealthy But Never Idle
BYsRING w. LARDNER.

"O the Editor: Every time they's
strike in some big factory or
a mine or X. II. Co. or some
thing the employs tries to JUS
tify themselves by saying they just
simply can't make both ends meet on
the wages they been getting and that's
all they is to it. If the owners don't
come acrost with a raise OF a meager
$50 per cent why they will quit for
good and not earn no wages at ali
and see how you like it. Well, up to
little while ago my sympathys was
all with the employs as l know what
II is 10 try and play golf every PM,
ana stu earn enough sugar to sport
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natural darkness over the. town. nor was
he reused to action by any perception
of the plain facts that the other clerks
and the members of the firm had gone
home an hour ago: that the clock show
ed him his own duty to lock up the office
and not keep his mother waiting dinner
and that he would be caught in most
outrageous thunderstorm if he didn't
hurry. No; he sat smiling fondly by the
open window and at times made a frag-
mentary gesture as of some heroic or
benevolent impulse in rehearsal. Mean
while, paunchy with great portents of
wind and wetness, outlandish clouds
came smoking out of the blackened
west Rumbling. then roaring, they
drew on. From cloud to cloud dizzying
amazements Of white fire cracked, stag
gered, and doomed the wireless signals
for assault; then the watts of the winds
were opened. the tanks of deluses un-
bottomed-and the storm took the town.
SO, presently. Noble noticed that it was
raining and decided to go home
With an idea that he was fulfilling his
customary evening duties. he locked the
doors OF the two inner rooms, dropped
the keys gently into wastebasket, and,
dreamily passing by an umbrella which
hung upon the wall. went out to the
corridor. leaving the door of the suite
open behind him; and thence stepped
into the street of whooping rain.
Here he became so practical as to
turn up his collar; and, substantially
aided by the wind. which was at his
back. he was not long in leaving the
purlieus of commerce behind him for
Julia's street.
1t was a tumultuous street. as Noble
splashed along the sidewalk Incredibly
timber, the shade trees were practicing
calisthenics, though now and then one
outdid itself and lost a branch: thunder
and lightning romped like loosed scan
dial; rain Kissed upon the pavement and
capered ankle high. 1t was a storm that
after giving fair warning that the re :
quest would be made: and Noble and
the only other pedestrian in sight had
themselves to blame for getting caught.
This other pedestrian was some forty
or fifty Yards in advance of Noble and
walking in the same direction at about
the same gait He wore an. old over
coat of some flimsy material, running
with water: the brim of his once rigid
straw hat had begun to sag about his
head. so that he appeared to be wearing
a bucket; all in all, he was a sodden
and pathetic figure. Noble himself was
as sodden; his hands were wet in his
very pockets; his elbows akimbo seemed
to spout; he, too. was bucketed rather
than hated atop-yet he spared a gen.
erous pity for the desolate figure strug-
Cling before him. -
All at once Mobiles heart did some
thing queer within his wet bosom. He
recognized that figure, and he was
not mistaken. Next to the one figure.
aud ttuse OF his oWa father and
|mothsr md three Sistarss this stern-
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A ND yet at that very moment
"A young man was seeing sopething
inside girls house little way down
that same street. That same street.
was Julias street. and the house was
Julias.
In the house, in the library, sat MIR.
Atwater, trying to read a work by
one Thomas Carlyle, while a rhyth-
mic murmur came interferingly from
the front porch. The invisible young
man, watching him attentively, saw
him lift his head and sniff the air
suspiciously, but the watcher took his
pantomime to be an expression of dis
taste for certain poetry. and, sharing
that distate. approved. Mr.. Atwater
sniffed again, threw down his book
and strobe tiercely out to the porch.
There sat dark-haired Julia in sill
yer dress, and. near by. young New
land Sanders read a long young poem
in manuscript
.'Who is smoking out here?" Mr.. At
water inquired, not mildly. =.
Nobody. sir" said young Newland
with eagerness. IT do not smoke.
have never touched tobacco in any
form In nay life. loathe it,
Mr. Atwater sniosd once more.
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n YOBLE DILL. at twenty-five,
nj had been seriously in love
" only twice before the col
lapse brought on by Julia At
Evening journal., 1920-03-26
TN WALKED MARY.s

The action OF In Walked Mary,
starring June Caprice, the Pathe fea-
ture now showing at the Savoy Theatre
today and tomorrow Is as dsshing as
the title Judging by the way Il was re-
ceived yesterday, June Caprice walked
right In and took possession OF the
hearts and affections OF those who were
fortunate to get In. The old adage has
II that Fools walk In. where angels
fear to tread" One could not call June
Caprice fool but she surely forgot all
the nice rules OF conventionallty when
she calmy walked n.to a New York
bachelor apartment on the night OF all
nights when merry gaiety was at It's
height. The surprising thing Is that
she walks right in, looks around, and
after the FIRST gasp Is mistress OF the
situation.
Evening journal., 1920-03-26
.nrAR nRrTTlep

or no ordinary Importance is the com
ing engagement OF William Gillette In
Dear Brutus" TO the Playhouse the last
two days OF next week. commencing
next Friday evening.
Mr.. Gillette Is one OF the most prom
ineni OF American actors and his COM
ing to any city Is an occasion for much
pleasure or the part OF theatregoers.
His play Dear Brutus Is from the pen
OF that capable and amiable Sir James
Barrie who has taken his title OF the
comedy from Shakespeare's lines in
Julius Caesar; "The fault, Dear
Brutus. Is not In our stars. but In our
selves that we are underings."
Seats for the engagement viii 60 on
sale next Tuesday evening.
sFRIyOLITIES OF 1920"
Visitors and holiday people and all
Evening journal., 1920-03-26
asrvrN naYS LEAVE.p

II Is estimated that already three mli-
lion people have seen Walter Howsrd's
mllitary-naval melodrsma Seven Days
Leave" which IS scheduled for four
days performance at the Playhouse be-
ginning next Monday evening. II ran at
Sir Henry Irving's Theatre, London, for
very nearly three years and has played
70 capacity during that extended period; ;
this means that considerably over a
million people have seen Il there, as the
Ivceum Is one OF London's largest
playhouses. In New York, during a
twenty weeks engagement at the big
park Theatre, Il was seen by probably
one hundred and fifty thousand more
and all this time It was being played
IN Canads for an entire year and In
Australia simultaneously.
When "Seven Days Leave" opens In
Wilmington next Monday evening. the
playgoers win see the strictly Ameri-
can version OF the play, wherein the
hero Is a young Irish-American in the
British army
Benefits WIN be given on both Mon
day and Tuesday evenings by the local
American Legion and tickets for the
benefits can be procured from the
members.
Evening journal., 1920-03-26
AT THE oARRrCK.

James and Eta Mitchell. who are ap-
pearing at the Garrick Theatre this
week, have an Offering that Is just as
unusual as II Is thrilling Primarily
they are are aerialists OF the most dar-
ing type. while their comedy work, all
OF which Is done IN the air In peril
Gus position, Is very close second,
While occupying opposite ends OF a
see-saw ladder high IN the air, they
perform all sorts OF comical hair rails
Ing stunts. The spectators set the no.
ton that one or both will fall. but they
don't, and do not even lose their bal
snce. The act is full OF thrills and fun.