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Arizona republican., 1921-12-19

ly high heels. A slight tear in the back of the waist showed that the child had on little else beside the dress, though it was a cold day. Gypsy Clothes
 All of the girls have long hair. They explained that it was against the gypsy rules for them to cut their braids.
 It seems strange to us that these gypsy families, some of whom have expensive automobiles in which, to travel. should keep their children so carelessly clothed. The children never seem to think of their dresses l though on the suggestion of the | teacher they are striving to achieve neatness and cleanliness. 1 These gypsies live in houses during the winter, at least. Some of the | families rent apartment which are | fairly expensive as rents go else where. Furniture bothers them very l little A cook stove and a pile of | featherbeds are the chief requisites. l At night they sleep on and under feather mattresses, and in the day these mattresses are piled up with a cretonne cover out of the way. Most
 of the families sit on the floor and eat at low. long table.
 I. The men of this particular band are
 
 usual, are fortune tellers. One little girl explained that her mother learned
 to tell fortunes in a school in Jerusa- l lem. and that she obtained degree | in the art there.
 A boy of about II years-few of them know their ages-claims to be | grandson to the king of the gypsies This boy. Tanis Miller. says that tho
 king follows the carnivals or parties
 at which gypsy bands meet to enjoy
 themselves. He is in the South now
 somewhere" Tanis explained.
 When he was asked who would bC
 king after his grandfather, he said , His boy"
 No, his boy Is with him." said , Tanis.
 : This seems to make Tanis' success l sion to the throne rather doubtful
 but he is studying hard because ht | says u gypsy king lust be smart an6 know how to dance and make money Most of the children are acquiring r an interest in Americanisn. Int 3 American flag hangs conspicuously II their school room. and they hav'
 learned to salute it. One child, wh'
 was pointed out by another as havini
 been born in Russia, protested. say 1 ing. You stop telling that. l an | American
 | Even when school Is dismissed the! | cling to their reading books and insis on taking them home to read to thei = families. The last little boy ou
 proudly slung a huge black satche t over his shoulder and dropped into ] 3 a little brown primer. With thi
 badge of learning the young gyps. = went out smiling broadly.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-19
By Frederic J. Haskin

WASHINGTON, D. C., Dee. 13- Washington has a gypsy school with T young gypsies, all busily studying the mysteries of the first reader.
 Whether the school will last long enough for the children to find out what happens on the last page of the book depends on the uncertain gpsy temperament. If the call to wander comes tomorrow, the teacher who has been deputed by the public school system to teach the gypsy school may find herself suddenly without a single pupil.
 The young gypsies of the class have travelled through Russia. Brazil. Panama, Mexico, Italy and other countries. They speak a number of languages fluently. Among them selves they break into Spanish. French, gypsy dialect, Russian and Italian
 Yet only two or three of these young lnguists and travellers have ever before been inside a schoolroom. One, who had tried school before in the course of his travels, remarked 10 his present teacher. Mrs. R. V. Wacl- erman. You are good teacher, and learn to read. other teachers nc good.
 Until November s. which was the red letter day when they started to school. none of the children, from the six-year- -olds to those of thirteen years. could read or write his own name.
 They might have gone on lacking this accomplishment indefinitely, ii the band had not stopped in city with the intention of staying all win ter-perhaps. The police reported that the children of a gypsy band were hanging around the streets a hours when all civilized youngster' are cooped up in schoolrooms. Th' school authorities investigated anC than began the process of getting ; troop of gypsy children to school.
 There were so many of the chil dren. and so fantastic was their ap pareI. that a special class was opene' for them in one of the public schools They came, rather eagerly. intereste' in the promise that they would learl 10 read. And they have stuck. Read ing particularly interests them. The labor untiringly over the stories O Tom at the Seashore and Little B Peep. In their month of schoolln they have read e pages of thei
Arizona republican., 1921-12-19
Questions And
 .Ansuers

(Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing The Repub- lican Information Bureau. Frederic J. Haskin. Director, Washington, D. c. This offer applies strictly to iuforma- tion. The bureau cannot give advice on legal. medical and financial mat ters. It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles. nor to undertake exhaustive research on any subject. Write your question plainly and briefly Give full name and address and enclose cents in stamps for re- turn postage. All replies are sent direct to the inquirer.)
 O. What was the specific charge placed against Captain Frystt who was shot by the Germans during the war? It was an odd word that | cannot remember.-G. J. H.
 A Captain Fryatt of the British ship Brussels" was executed by the Germans on the charge of being a Franc tireur Literally translated this means a "sharpshooter." The word was first introduced into inter- national law as result of the organ ization of bands of irregulars or Franco tireurs during the Franco Prussian war.
 o. How old is Arthur Brisbane?- j. W. J.
 A Arthur Brisbane was born De- cember F, 1864, so will be 57 years old next month.
 c. What is used in the manufac- ture of fiber phonosrsph needles?- | w. H. V. s. l A. The forest service says that in most cases fiber needles are manu- 1 factured from foreign tropical woods | which are closely associated witt | bamboo.
 o. What is Basil Kings req ! name?-H. H.
 A. Basil King is listed in Who. Who as King, Civilian Benjamin. ] Basil
Arizona republican., 1921-12-19
A Frivolous Inquiry

In the course of the hearing Saturday of the fourth section application, question was ire auently which struck us as having no bearing ppon the protest against the granting of the relief asked for by the railways. It was not We suppose suggested at the Chicago hearing at the Salt Lake and Spolane hearings and was probably propounded here only to the Southern Californian contingent of the protestants.
 They were asked whether it would not be better f tbaun fl the lower bound rate to the Pacific
Arizona republican., 1921-12-19
IRON ORE DISCOVERED

An iron deposit estimated at 10UO0OO0 Ions, has recently located in the district of Batu Pa hat, Johore Straits Settlements according to East Engineering The is being shipped to Japan there signs Of coal in the district, it is hoped that pig iron may eventually be produced locally.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-19
n@BertonBraIey Daily Poem :. .&MeSMsHSe

The mason nursed d broken heart, A broken heart he could not fix But, practicing his trade and art, He lost his woe in laying bricks. The architect was wrapped ir grief, As deep a grief as any many's, Till in his work he found relief
 And lost his sorrow in his plans. The great composer bathed in woe. He moaned his trouble, night and
 noon,
 Bnt there was work to do-and 50 He lost his sorrow in a tune. Tie poets soul was filled with mU.S. A darkness black as any curse, Til in despair he turned to work
 And lost his sorrow in his verse Yet architect. composer, bard
 And mason, cured the daily need That drove them to their labors hard : An. men are silly folk indeed
Arizona republican., 1921-12-19
By Herbert Johnson

WHILE PLhTlNG AotNsR v@iIA A RupDSR bhLA SOME oT 1aE s7nR plhXeRS DISCOVERED 1AkT 1ueY COULD MAKE cARoMs oSs 1Nt S1RANetR WrIAovI ONCE H,I1iNG MS WATCH PocKeI = AE YopND
 " MOST ANNOYING.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-07

mankind, is sweeping over Russia. A dispatch from Reval says that A provinces are now affected. In two towns in two months 150,000 people are reported to have died, 52,000 of them children. Looters follow the trail of burning homes, armed bands of marauders are stealing food and anything else they can find. Fugitives approaching Moscow are said to have been driven back by troops and waves of poison gas. In the famine districts hun dreds of thousands of people are wandering anywhere and nowhere, seeking food and dying on the way side,
 Starvation, disease and pillage. These are the dreadful heritages that have fallen. to the unfortunate Russian people. What misguided men began, inexorable nature is finishing. Russia struck for free dom and found death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
John McCormack and Caruso


 Now that Caruso has passed on,' John Mccormack has none to divide honors with, Caruso being the only tenor who has ever had as large a following as the handsome Irish man. said Mrs. s. L. Ledbetter.
 "of course the two voices in quality and adaptability could not be com pared, each being so entirely differ ent from the other, for John Mo Cormack as a concert singer has no rival and never will have one, while Caruso as an opera singer was in the same position.
 T heard John Mccormack at the Hippodrome in New York a couple of years ago and paid $3 for a ticket in the third balcony. The stage was packed and damned to it's utmost capacity, 1000 being the seating capacity of the immense stage; while every possible space in the vast amphitheatre was occupied. and the standing room only sign was put out early in the game. l have never seen such an ovation accorded to any singer as John Mccormack had that evening, and his voice is the most beautiful pure liquid gold that I have ever heard. John Mccormack is the greatest of concert artists. just as caruso was the great&t of opera singers"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-07
CARuso IN ATLANTA
Fuzzy Woodruff in the Atlanta c

Fuzzy Woodruff in the Atlanta Con
 stitution.
 And I'll never forget the way he came to bat for Atlanta. I think@it was the season of 1916. He had been engaged to sing three roles and he sang them. Still he fingered in At lanta to enjoy the social activities of the latter part of the week.
 Farrar was to sing at the final per- formance in "Tosca,' but right at the last minute the fair Geraldine devel- oped temperament about something, and without notifying anybody, took fast train back to New York. Hun dreds of patrons began to cancel their reservations for that perform ance.
 The Music Festival association had been depending on "Tosca" to pull 1t out of a financial hole. Under the conditions, it seemed inevitable tha. the association would sustain a severe financial loss.
 Inefe was Just OllS person WnO could save the day-Caruso. Col. w. l.. Peel, president of the association, made personal appeal to the tenor. He had spent-a busy week. His voice was tired and so was he, but he didn't hesitate a second.
 Any role you desire" he told the colonel, and that Saturday night Caruso sang Rudolfo in La Boheme' to as big an audience as the audi torium ever held.
 No wonder all through Tuesday. a black pail of cloud lowered over the building where he sang. No wonder that when the news of his death was flashed through the city. every man and woman of whatever degree in At lanta, ,efelt that he and she had sus- tained deep and personal loss that is beyond the power of man and tims fn fill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-07

I am glad that the tercentenary celebration of the landing of the Pill grims at Plymouth Rock, which for three centuries has been landmark of American freedom, was in every way worthy and carried out with his- toric fidelity.
 I confess that a pilgrimage I made to Plymouth Rock caused my heart to glow with pride, and I only wish that I might have been present at the recent ceremonies when the Pres ident and diplomatic representatives from other countries took part in them.
 Sure. it is sentiment, but this great republic itself was built around it., and is today In spite of the shallow criticisms Of foreign publicists who visit us for a brief space and then return home and talk about the United States being submerged in commercialism, while as a matter of fact the citizens of this country are the greatest idealists in the world. ital of Plymouth county, situated on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-07

Economic conditions are improving in central Europe, but clothing is still so high that only a rich man can afford two suits.
 # # # A young woman who has just killed a man says he's where the dawn comes up like thunder" Ha! She's been reading Kipling.
 x # # A man was fined Ss5 for smoking pipe in Zion City. Whats the pun ishment in Zion for cracking a crib?"
 * # # Now that photographs can be sent across the Atlantic by wireless it will be a great help to the theatrical business.
 A case of beer for what ails you may soon be permitted, but not-why should we repeat it?-in Alabama.
 E # # The Black Sox" have discovered that a verdict of acquittal hasn't made them winter than snow.
 * % # Just when everything was quieting down Lou and Geraldine had to start something.
 * < # A gentleman in Mexico wants to know what he is bid for the person of missing banker.
 # < * When prima donna locks out her talented husband he's justified in thinking he's through.
 # # # British optimism is battling against the secrecy which surrounds the Irish negotiations.
 # # # Lenine enjoys one distinction. He has made the costliest political ex- pertinent in history.
 % # # The south will show more speed when it gets rid of malaria and the hookworm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-07
Roebuck to Bessemer
 on Paved Highway

A PAVED highway that will A connect Tuscaloosa avenue in West End with the South Bessemer boulevard is one of the most im- portant of tho links in the intra- county road system. When this highway is completed there will be hard and smooth thoroughfare all the way between Roebuck Springs and Bessemer, distance of nearly 20 miles.
 The road will pass through Bir- mingham and touch the paved streets of Bessemer, which have been laid or are being laid in or der to make the connection between the two cities extend not only from their outskirts but into their busi- ness and commercial centers.
 When the population of this dis trict may travel at ease the entire distance east and west over paved road it will be worth dozens of dis connected good roads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-07
Glimpses of Caruso

Edward l.. Bernays, Personal Repre-
 New York World,
 When Caruso went on & concert tour to Cincinnati, Toledo and Pitts burg in the spring of 1917, I had the privilege of being his publicity man. Wherever Caruso walked or rode, he was the center of attraction. To be with him was like being with the sun. He obliterated everything else.
 At the Hotel Gibson in Cincinnati four of the largest rooms had been reserved, arranged as drawing room, bedroom, dining room and servants room.
 Tt is too magnificent; let us give bac kone room" he said. T do not need separate dining room
 The retainer of four establishments simultaneously, the owner of 16- room suite at the Knickerboeker, was unbalanced with four rooms in Cin- cinnati hotel.
 A Pittsburg hotel expected him to sleep on a three-quarter bed, with one mattress and two pillows. Caruso demanded double bed, three mattresses and IS pillows or no con cert, The entire personnel was mo- bilized-six bellboys, a housekeeper Hungarian houseman, one hotel manager and an assistant. Closets were ransacked. mattresses were dragged up in quantities. And mean
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-07
CENTRAL EUROPE's RECOVERY

From the chicago NeWS.
 In his very Illuminating letters to the Daily News on "Balkanized Europe" last year Paul Scott Mowrer fully demonstrated that among the most imperative needs in the re- mobilization of that part of the world were the freeing of trade and indus try from government control and the reopening of the frontiers so that normal commerce. between the ma lions might be resumed. These needs, it appears, are being supplied, and it Is largely on this account that the American relief administration, which devotes much of its attention to Poland, Czecho- -Slovakia, Austria, Hungary and the east Baltic states, is able to report that comparison of conditions in those countries year ago with those of the present ''af- lords ground for the belief that eco homie amelioration is slowly being achieved"
 Except in Austria, food conditions in these countries, according to the relief administration, are vastly im- proved, so much, indeed, that there are beginnings of legal free trade in foodstuffs again, and the prospect is that by next year the various gov ernments will be able entirely to re- lease their control of bread and cereals.
 While the clothing situation is still bad there has been encouraging bet torment in many other fundamentals. Railway service fig irnrHoved for both passengers and freight, so much i'm proved, indeed, that industries are now able to count on transportation in their production programmes, in other words, manufacturers can pro- duce goods with the assurance of get ting them to market.
 Coal is relatively easy to get. Prices are lower and there is free coal Tn the markets. And this is due not to marked increase in production or 10 decreased consumption, but rather to the return of sanity and normal methods to the coal trade. The peo- pie no longer hoard coal, or indulge in frenzied speculation as they did a year ago.
 In the field of commerce bills of exchange are moving more freely and naturally. Industry proceeds more rationally and with more confidence. Indeed, to an extent which the relief administration calls most gratify- ing" the people of central Europe are returning to their habits of industry. thrift and sane living. Though they still have a long way to go, they have made good start.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-07
R ow quIeklv the tide turns!

1T 1T ow quickly the tide turnsI 1Hl Two weeks ago, and even
 one week ago. manufacturers, merchants and 5obbers were in g. fit of dispondency and were freely in- dulging in pessimistlc talk. John skeltcn Williams was making speeches roasting the Federal Re- serve Board, and Senator Tom Henin and Senator Smith of South Carolina were blaming the low prices of cot ton on W. P. c. Harding, governor of the Federal Reserve Board.
 During the week Governor Harding talked straight off the bat. so to speak, to the Joint Congressional h. vestigation Committee. He told the facts and the truth and advised that a man had to put up a cheerful face If he wanted credit.
 You can't talk to the banker like you do to the tax assessor" wisely advised Harding.
 "All we've got to do," he further advised, 'Is to get out of everlasting pessimism and quit saying everything is going to the dogs"
 * # #
 And, now instead of everything going to the dogs everything and everybody is going to work. The era of desuetude has passed.
 Within the past three days the col umns of The Herald have been damned with the news of the starting of mills, of renewed Activities. of the pushing of manufacturing plants.
 Youngstown. O., always seems to be the barometer of industrial activ- ities. Ten days ago iron and steel works there renewed operations and now we hear, of assumptions every where. The Tennessee Company here is running it's rail mill at full tilt and 1t is turning out more than 50 per cent of its full pig iron capacity when it's every mill Is In operation and being pushed. Its payrolls are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-07
Oklahoma Cifx

T am just back from my first trip west of the Mississippi river" said Morris Berk ''as 1 went out to Okla homa City to visit my sister. It was a great surprise to me to find such wonderful place.
 T missed the hills and mountains of Birmingham, as the great new cen ter of Oklahoma is built on a plain. It IS a city of banks, churches and movie houses. It looked to me as if there was a bank on every corner, and the churches are many and hand some.
 Four of the motion picture houses are simply beautiful, The people of the state are rejoicing in bumper crops and it looks like it's going to be a prosperous fall for Oklahoma City. There are many lovely homes in the city, but on account of the level ground they have not the pie turesqueness of our Birmingham homes. The west was an eye opener to me-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-07
The Real Stuff

T was glad to see that article in The Age-Herald about 50 per cent Of capacity operations in our steel works, said J. H. F.. Moseley, editor of the Labor Advocate. Tt was very encouraging to realize how much bet ter this district has stood the depres- sion than have others.
 "I especially valued the article be- cause 1t had tone of authority. My old friend Richard F. Johnston is an industrial writer on whom the district can depend, because he gives facts and, although an optimist by nature, presents sound reason for that on which he bases his optimisia.
 When his name is signed to an article I put what is in that article down Mn my books of facts, because I know that Johnston knows what he Is writing about and gives it straight and without bias"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-07
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE ASSUMING
 OF INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES AND PAY ROLLS

gradually creeping to normal, and when its new steel car plant Is thor oughly broken in and running to ca pacity things will simply hum here.
 # % E
 The Woodward Company has sold all the pig iron on its yards and has already blown in one or more of it's furnaces. The ,sloss furnaces are stnl down because of an accumulation of over 10000 tons of pig iron made at high cost; but this will soon be disposed of. In the meantime the sloss Company is operating its North Birmingham By-Product plant and accumulating big supply of coke. This will put the company in fine shape when its furnaces start again.
 $ # <
 The railroads are refinancing, and getting strengthened out with the government, with view to improv- ing their rolling stock and laying new rails where needed.
 Every indication Is that within 50 days everything will be going again and that demands will be greater than at any time since the war pe- riod.
 Instead of unemployment we shall soon have the prosperous working man; and the wholesaler and the re- taller who fails to lay in normal supply will find himself left
 + # *
 Wood & Crabbe, the meal men down on Avenue A, tell me they are making and selling 1000 bushels of meal a day, and incidentally some 30 tons of COW feed. some 10 tons of chops and few tons of grits. Their place is very hive of industry and they are selling everything they can make.
 At the Batterton Coffee Company MT. Schneider tells me they are put ting up and selling 10000 pounds of coffee day besides quantity of tea, spices and baking powder. They
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-07
ABack to the Farm,

T have never enjoyed anything as much in all my life as l have the past few months spent on my farm at Wilton" said Prof. S. A. Ellis, who was in the city yesterday.
 II have farm of 200 acres with the finest watermelons, corn, cab bages. canteloupes and fruits and vegetables of all kinds that I ever saw Our cows are splendid, and we have more buttermilk than we can possibly use. I have put on so much flesh drinking it that I'll have to stop Or overstep Thomas Bracket Reeds definition of gentleman. You recall that he said: No gentleman ever weighs over 200 pounds"