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New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
Toledo Mail
Bandits Get
100000
S4OO,OOO in Reserve
Bank Notes Alone i'm 9,
Sacks Stolen i'm Hold
Up of Postoffice Truck


TOLEDO, Feb. 17.-Five men, one of
them negro, held up the three-man
crew OF government mail truck on
platform of the main postoffice here
early to-day. transferred nine mail
pouches to q waiting automobile and
escaped The loss is variously esti-
mated by postal officials at between
100000 and 100000 Six of the
sacks were registered and are believed
to have contained nearly 100000 in
Federal, Reserve Bank notes being
shipped by the Cleveland branch. The
other three pouches contained first
class mail from Cleveland, Detroit and
northern Michigan.
Assistant Postmaster Schutt Of
Cleveland, where much OF the mail
originated, said: "a million dollars
might sound exaggerated, but in Fed
eral Reserve and similar shipments
such a sum is not unusual. I was told
the amount taken might reach ST.
100000, but have no means of know
ing if this was in currency, notes or
securities"
Police tonight announced that the
robbers overlooked a mail pouch con-
tanning a 100000 consignment of cur
rency for the Commerce Guardian Bank
here. The shipment was from New
York it was said.
Police Are Baffied
The police are baffled by the rob
berry. Three persons were arrested this
morning in connection with the rob-
berry, but were later released. Postal
officials admitted that they had -'ir-
tually no clews. An abandoned auto
mobile found near the scene of the
robbery was identified by W. P Mil
up as that used, by the robbers, but
Milroys companions could not substan-
tiate the Identification.
Joseph Hughes, driver of the truck,
Paul Weinrich, a transfer clerk, and
Milroy, had just alighted from their
truck, after backing in to the plat
form. Hughes had unlocked the door
and Weinrich had started for hand
truck when five men stepped up sud-
denly from the street, and threatened
them with revolvers.
Get 'em up, boys" they commanded.
Now lie down"
Hughes reclined on the platform fac
ing the truck and watched the bandits
work. Milroy lay on his face Vein
rich stretched out with his back to
the robbers.
The bandits threw the mail sacks
from the mail truck to their own auto
mobile and drove away.
Evidence of Inside Job
According to the postal authorities
the ease and speed with which the
robbers made away with the money
and the familiarity with postoffice
management which they displayed in
picking one truck loaded with valuable
mails from among several others
proved conclusively to their minds that
it was an inside job. Belief was ex-
pressed that the robbers might even
have rehearsed the hold-up, so COM
pleteIy had it been planned.
The abandoned automobile contained
some shotgun shells and an old cap,
but the police believe that these we're
left as a ruse. A study of the situa-
tion, they assert, has revealed the
proba biiity that the robbers used two
automobiles The one found near the
scene was one that was stolen from
garage here a week ago by three
masked men. From it, the authorities
believe, the robbers transferred their
loot to second car to which they
left no clue, and in this escaped un-
N olPSted
New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
Britain Considers Arms
Cut, Says Lloyd George
Premier Tells Commons State
ment of Plans Now Would
BE Premature

LONDON, Feb. II (By The Associated
Press).-Premier Lloyd George, CUES
toned in the House of Commons to-
day as to whether the government
would take steps to approach the Wash
ington and Toxic governments with a
view 20 arranging s limitation of arma-
ments. replied that the question was
engaging the governments earnest at
tention, and it would be premature to
make any statement now.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
Brooklyn Manufacturer
Kills Detective, Wounds
Two Who Question Him
To,0n Lends $4,000
To Needy Unemployed
spectel Dtspntch to The rrtb,,ne

MUsKEGON, Mich, Feb. II.
The city of Muskegon has lent
more than $4,000 to persons un-
employed and in need, taking un-
secured interest-free notes in re-
turn, officials announced to-day.
This new form of charity, they
said, had been extended to about
$50 persons.
Mayor Ellis, discussing the
plan, said that the trustworthi-
ness of would-be borrowers was
investigated, but that the city ex-
pected to lose "a little something
about the amount that chronic
charity seekers cost the city, any
way
New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
kidnap Baby in a Grip
It's Cries Betray Man Who Steals
Landlady's Son

MONTREAL, Feb. 17.-Cries which
came from suitcase being carried
along st. James Street to-day by a
we'll dressed young man attracted the
attention of the police, who found in
the baggage a six-months-old baby.
which Immediately supplemented its
cries with kicks. Investigation showed
that the man had appropriated his
landlady's son and heir.
he was taken to hospital. where
pSyehologlsts concentrated their atten-
ton on his brain cells.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
Autoist Gives First Aid:
Lets Woman Crawl Home
Wife, Found Unconscious in
House, Head Bandaged, Says
She Spent Hour on Knees

F. C. Faber of Freeport. l. l., dis
covered his wife unconscious, her head
swathed in bandages, when ne reached
his home early yesterday morning.
When she had received medical atten-
Lion she said that she had been run
down near her home by motorist the
preceding evening who had got out and
bandaged the cut in her head and ttieu
driven away.
She was 100 dazed to notice the mum
Der on his car and spent more than ar
hour in crawling 10 her home.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
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New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
Chas. [. Davis Shoots 2
Plainclothes Men and
Adjuster Who Quiz Him
in Office on Auto Theft
Then He Calmly
Phones Attorney
Sad Affair." He Says;
Tells Prosecutor He
Shot in Self-Defeuse

Charles T. Davis, president of
Davis & Geek, Inc, manufacturers
Of surgical instruments. yesterday
afternoon shot and killed Detective
Sergeant Joseph Bridgetts, attached
to the Parkville station, Brooklyn,
and wounded Detective Edward ].
McGlone and George W. Koran, an
insurance adjuster, of 705 East 163d
Street, the Bronx.
The shooting occurred or the fifth
floor of the Office building at PIT
Duffeld Street, Brooklyn, the entire
floor being occupied by Davis 6:
Geek The two detectives and the
adjuster had called on Davis, the
police say, to question him regarding
the sale of an automobile which they
alIege he had reported stolen.
Bridgetts was shot twice-once in tie
neck and once through the heart
After ne had fallen to the floor of
Davis's private Office, where his com
panlons lay on the floor, each with
bullet in the right foot, Davis, the DO
lice say, coolly took a seat at his fat
top desk, put his two revoIvers in his
desk drawer, stood his rifle up in
corner and telephoned for his lawyer.
Some one else called the police. Be
fore detectives from the Adams Street
station arrived, however, employees of
the firm had swarmed into Davis's pri-
vate office and had made McGlone and
horan their prisoners They were
under the impression that the three
men had tried to hold up their en-
Dlover
New-York tribune., 1921-02-18

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to-day.
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self with precision; when he is older.
however, he hopes to think and ex-
press the thought as it is. He is vio-
lent in all his emotions; yet often
exercises great self-command His
manner of thinking is noble, as free
as possible from all prejudices; he acts
on the prompting of the moment with
out troubling whether it may please
other people, is In the fashion or
whether convention permits It, All
constraint is hateful to him. He is
fond of children and can occupy HIM
self much with them. He is bizarre !;
in his conduct and manner there are
various peculiarities which might
make him disagreeable. But with chill
dren, with women and many others he
is nevertheless a favorite. For the
female sex he has great respect In
prtncipiis he is not yet fixed, and is
still only endeavoring after a pure sys-
tenn. To say something on this point:
He thinks highly of Rousseau, but is
not a blind worshipper of him. He is
not what we call orthodox; yet this
Is not from pride or caprice or from
important matters, also, he. expresses
himself only to few, and does not will
ingly disturb others in their ideas. He
certainly hates scepticism, and strives
after truth and settled conviction on
certain subjects of the first impor-
tance; believes even that he has al
ready attained conviction on the most
Important; but. so far as I have OBJ
served this is not the case. He does
not go to church; not even to COM
munion, and he prays seldom. For,
says he, 1 am not hypocrite enough
for that. At times he seems at rest
with regard to certain subjects; at
other times. however, very far from
being so. He reverences the Christian
religion, but not as our theologians
present il. He believes in a future
life and a better state of existence. He
strives after truth, and yet attaches
more importance to feeling than to
demonstration as the test OF 1t. He
has already accomplished much; has
many requirements and much read
ing. but has thought and reasoned
still more. He has mainly devoted
himself to bellies iettres and the fine
arts, or rather to all branches OF
knowledge. only not the so-called
bread winning ones. l wished to de-
scribe him, but to do so | should run
to too great length, for he is one OF
whom there is a great deal to be said.
IN one ,cord. he Is Uery remarkable
man"
This remarkable man had no dearth
of affairs. Lotte comes about mid
way in his love cycle, for Goethe had
an early start. There was Gretchen,
whom he met at II, while he was still
living with his father; and Katchen
of his Leipzig student days. or more
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Goethe's theories and practice

years OF research. and the abundance
CT material has been carefully COM
piled 1t is given to the reader with a
precision which is shorn of all those
usual biographical minuti@, irrelevant
and tedious, that only tend to add fur
ther haze to what may be common
misconception of a genius. Owing to
the untimely death of Prof. Hume
Brown the biography has been edited
by Viscount Haldane and his sister, to
whom it's publication was intrusted.
Quite oblivious to any danger to his
moral character" Lord Haldane has
likewise supplied the chapter concern
ing the Second Part of Faust. of which
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Revision
BY c. BLYTHE SHERWOOD.

BY c. BLYTHE SHERWOOD.
Did I say thatg Why, that's
absurd!
Assuredly, it's not my word
That poetry cannot be writ
Unless in tears we audit it!
Why, poetry is made with gait,
With whim, caprice and with
firtate.
Released is poetry on days
Spring shouts down avenues,
ablaze
In peasant colors, Slav almost,
And not the orchid tints we boast.
Poetry's born when in laugh
You face the world, adore riffraff,
Go into glee with buffoon
And madly burst a bright balloon.
Poetry comes when Scaramouche
And you race dales, drunk with
the hootch
Of pageantry and gay bazaar,
And nothing matters what you
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Or what he is, or what is else,
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along
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have they labored to Interpret his work
in all its poetic, artistic, scientific. ped
agogic and philosophic ramifications.
but volumes have been written con-
corning various phases of his person.
ality. Venom has been more conspicu-
Gus than eulogy. With few exceptions
the average English mind, especially,
has been antipathetic to Goethe, and
here it may be well to recall that even
superior Anglo-Saxon intellects have
been guilty of this bigotry. Coleridge,
for instance, refused to translate the
First Part of Faust partly because he
did not consider that "it became my
moral character to render into Eng
lish and so far certainly lend my
countenance to language much of
which l thought vulgar, licentious and
blasphemous."
John Sterling was not so vehement
and he at least gives us a peep into
the logic of his reasoning. In writing
to Carlyle, Goethe's devoted and fer
vent apostle. Sterling discusses his
reading and speaks of looking at the
Life" of Goethe much as a shying
horse at post" He adds, In truth,
am much afraid of him. 1 enjoy and
admire him so much, and feel l could
so easily be tempted to go along with
him." Moreover, he is quite specific
in mentioning that he fears Goethe's
thoroughly, nay intensely, pagan life,
in an age when 1t Is mems duty to be
Christian" Sterling here frankly ad-
.mits his own weakness, and certainly
displays no limitation of intellect in
doing so. In fact, were the truth
less Of their nationality, the majority
of critics whose animus has been
loosed upon this intellectual giant have
been moved by a similar fear-nothing
more nor less than a species of quasi
spiritual defence Fear, however, does
not beget understanding, that first es-
sential of just criticism.
Prof. Hume Brown is an under
standing critic in the sense in which
any one who attempts to write Life"
must utilize his critical faculty Chiefly,
however, he Is a biographer, and
therein lies the great value of this
book. BY which we mean that the
author presents an extremely un-
biased, learned, judicious and alto
gether comprehensive grasp of the
personality and work of Goethe. The
biography has all the earmarks of
The New York herald., 1921-06-19
A WORLD-POETS BIOGRAPHY

personality was the very antithesis of
Goethe's. Kestner was Secretary of
Legation, occupied with daily routine
affairs. and Lotte and Goethe became
inseparable companions during a few
summer months. The calm, deliberate.
unimaginative Kestner, whose great
good sense and kindly temper while
the storm ragged was only equalled by
his profound if simple understanding
has left this singular record of his
final impression of Goethe:
"He has very many gifts, Is a real
genius and a man Of character; he
has an extraordinarily lively imagina-
ton, and so. for the most part, ex-
presses himself in pictures and SMILES.
He is himself in the habit of saying
that he always expresses himself in
general terms can never express him
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works to my own wisdom. but to
thousands of people and things around
me that have furnished the material.
There came to me fools and sages.
bright minds and narrow. childhood
and youth, as well as mature age. All
told me their opinions. how they lived
and worked and what experiences they
had gathered, and had nothing else
to do but to get to work and reap
what others had sown for me-"
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only a few notes were left by Prof.
Hume Brown. And if such rounded
biography does not for all time render
unto Goethe that which is his for the
English reading public, then surely
the Intelligence of that public is at
fault.
When Goethe was about 23 he met
the Charlotte" who went on cutting
bread and butter" in Thackeray's witty
lines. Charlotte was already betrothed
to Johann Chitias Kestner, whose
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No author is completely failure as
long as he retains faith in himself.
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Reviewed by
MILDRED L. BLUMENTHAL.

ROBABLY no man of genius has
provoked critics to such length
and depth as Goethe. Not only
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William P. Marcy of Hartford is at the Marcy homestead for the summer.
 Charles Scranton of Stafford called on relatives in town the first of the week
 MT. and Mrs G. L. Baker entertain ed relatives from Worcester last Thursday.
 Miss Isabelle Scranton of Stafford spent the week with her aunt, Mrs. Edith Boyne.
 Mrs. Harry Palmer, who recently had an operation in Hartford hos pital, is daily improving and is with her nurse and father at the Marcy Homestead.
 According to all reports the social held at the town hall, last Thursday evening, was a great success, both as to numbers and enjoyment. There was an attendance of one hundred and nineteen or more. After every one had been bountifully served with ice cream, cake, etc., jolly program was presented. Lack of time and space forbid a full account of all the fun, but here are some of the features: A musical tragedy, an example of mod ern science, a song by the four GOOps, romance in two acts. Farm Bureau Agent Tucker of Rockville gave a very interesting and helpful address on farm bureau work. He emphasized the fact that the farm bureau consists of the farmers themselves, and the agent is their employee. Also that the farmers get out out of the bureau only what they put into it. MT. Tucker ex- pressed an earnest desire tOhe1p in any way possible, if the people would let him know about the subjects in which they are interested. Among those from out of town, who attended the social were Agent B B Tucker and Mrs. Tucker, MT. and Mrs. Simms of Rockville, MT. and Mrs. Archa Walker and family of EastfOrd, Mrs.A. O.. Griggs and Mrs. Jennie Hamilton of WestfOrd, and Mrs. Clarence Wood of Springfield.
 Children's day was observed here last Sunday. There was a large at tendance to enjoy the beautiful pro- gram prepared by the committee in charge, Mrs. H. R. Howard, Mrs. George Heck, and Mrs. H. A. Coolidge The church was tastefully decorated with evergreens, daisies, roses, and other flowers. Nearly all the children who were to take part in the exer- cises were present, and the following program was carried out: Organ Pre- Jude; DOxolOgy; invocation; welcome, Evangeline Horton; song, Softly and Tenderly," Julia Heck; greeting for Children's day, Inez Booth; Thought fitness" Doris Hubbell; "The Second Mile" Esther Moore; "So Very Tall" Doris Gage; song, Jesus Bids Us Shine" Freda Csatlos; exercise, Days to Keep" Red school; Make Some body Happy" Joe Veigaska; Thanks for Children's Day." Alice Gage;
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