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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-10
THE LITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSf
Tnffor. To NJ Con

n Letter To My Son.
My Dear Son:
You said something rather cur
ious 10 me this morning. 1 can't ac-
count for it. You said you would
like to go TO school. 1 don't know
where you get this quaint strain.
You certainly never got it from me.
1 never liked TO go 10 school. I like
TO talk now about how used TO like
TO go TO school. but as father to
son, l will confess to you right now
that I never did like it.
OF course you may not understand
all this now. the comprehension is
rather limited at the age of two and
One-half years, but If you will not
chew this letter up or swallow e.
and hold it until you reach the age
of reason-if you do reach it-you
will understand what 1 am driving
at.
When your father was n lad he
went TO what was called "the little
red schoolhouse." The only thing
that was true about the title was
that IL was little. 1t was never red,
nor was IT a schoolhouse. or at least
what I now would call a school
house
Now instead Of little. red. school
houses, we have little, red teachers
Each of them with little red theory
all his own. but that is beside the
point. What 1 started out to tell
you is why 1 didn't like 70 go to
school.
In the first place we had 10
CRAFTY" We had TO learn the names
/ OF all the countries in the world and
/ the names Of everything they i'm
ported. For instance, 1 learned that
| the chief export Of some country
which 1 have forgotten now. and
which probably does not exist now
anyway-was sisal. I was % years
\ old before I knew what sisal was
| II the teacher knew he never told
us and I can't remembe that any
/ body ever wanted TO know anyway
I had TO learn 20 bound all the
various countries. II you should
/ ask me TO bound Uruguay or Para
quay today 1 am sure would be ar
I insult TO my teachers memory. But
/ I used 10 be able TO bound il.
could bound all around IT. but
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-10
More Truth
Than Poetry
By JAMES ]. MONTAGUE
FOSTERING MENDACITY.

FOSTERING NIENDACITY.
I've never complained or objected
Or placed any bars in the way
Of officials who yearly collected
A hunk OF my annual pay.
knew that the state had enjoyed
EN-.
And therefore 1 made up my mind
l would never evade or avoid EN-
Because IL did I'd be fined.
But If, as a Harvard professor
Has lately declared. 1t is true
That bilking the income assessor
Is the easiest thing one can do.
II all Of US prove TO be liars,
When our bill OF exemptions we
draw
As the federal statute requires,
1t must be a pretty bad law.
1 thought when my blank was COM
pleted
And I'd dug what I thought was
my share,
I thought repeat had treated
The government folks pretty fair
But when in remote retrospection
The subject again 1 go through.
Perhaps by some vague indirecuon
I held out a dollar or two.
Perhaps I withheld information
Concerning the size OF my roll.
And by this base tergiversation
Imperilled my valuable soul.
I This tax law. I fear. Is pernicious;
It's hideous folly / see
AZ daily I grow more suspicious
That it's making a liar OF me.
Copyright. 1879
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-10
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR a. GUEST
THE ROBIN.

THE ROBIN.
oh, yesterday a robin came a-hop-
ping round my place
And 1 was al the window with a sad
and gloomy face.
And I was feeling peevish and a
thinking thoughts that come
When a fellows Disconnected and
the world is looking glum;
So 1 watched old Mr. Robin as he
snagged a worm or two
And skipped around the garden in
the way that robins do.
His eye was bright and shiny and
his head was in the air.
And if his face was wide enough a
smile had fingered there
The breeze was blowing chilly and
the ground seemed mighty bleak
But the robin wasn't growing that
the hard spots hurt his beak.
And the robin wasn't kicking that
his little feet were cold.
He was happy to be living as his
bits of music told.
He was plump and he was clipper,
and thought 1 while watching
him
Don't YOU ever get the notion that
this fight for life il grim?
Do YOU ever tell your ne.ghbors
while you're sitting IN a tree.
That food is not as plentiful as once
IL used 10 be?
Oh. little feathered sOngster. when
the days are cold ana long
Do you ever waste a minute wailing
everything = wrong
As watched old Mr. Robin al the
business OF his day.
with nobody near TO help him or 70
pass the food his way,
To myself l think 1 muttered:
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-10
MAY 10. 1921
MORTGAGING OUR FUTURE.

Say what we will and scowl as we may. at the
holes in our pocketbooks. the result os taxation in
como and local # now and then happens that some
thing occurs 10 make us smile and thank the
heavens that well of are. While
IS that each year the assessor seems 10 need
a higher and higher rate to county ard
municipal government; that each year, too. the
community debt grows, and South Bend like other
cities. ia steadily mortgaging the future. pilng
mortgage on mortgage until the taxpayer and his
burden begin 20 resemble Atlas holding up the
EARTH yet in the scale Of comparison we in
pretty good shape
How total gross indebtedness of the 146 leading
American cities increased up 1919. latest figures
available shown by the following data furnished
by the bureau OF the census
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-10
The Tower Of Babel
BY BILL ARMSTRONG

his paper for him. then when the
fellow gets through he can ask him.
Wa there anything in the paper ex-
cfting?" Then all you have 10 do IS
10 turn on the machine and wait FOR
vour answer. II there 81 some news
in the parer and your hired reader
saws there hain't, the machine, you
see. will immediately inform you
that your hired reader is lieing his
head of about the matter. All you
have TO do then IS have somebody
el.se kick the stufiings out OF the fell
law and then get IN touch with some
one else 20 hire another man TO take
his pIace. such a machine as this Is
bound 10 prove one Of the most i'm
portant inventions in years. The
incident 7 have just related proves
this beyond the shadow OF a doubt.
If this weather keeps up. the straw
hat season viii soon open with
rush. 1 sees Charley Steele abroad
Yesterday in one. which IS almost a
sure sign Of spring. AS soon as
Andy Weisberg digs up his narrow
one. the well dressed blades Of the
town can consider that the straw
season has been officially opened.
/ They've been using Andy's hat for a
plate TO hold picked eggs in, in the
/ oliver cafeteria during the Winter
months. but the picked egg season
/ is now drawing 20 a close. which
makes it work out just right for
/ Andy and his straw hat
Mr.. Weisberg's temperance IN
I this straw hat Will be formally an
nounced in these columns when II
HAPPENS. Therefore watch for this
! announcement. Subscribe for The
| News-Times. % cents, including the
big Sunday edition. It hardly seems
I enough.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-10

I see some fellow has invented
new machine where you can tell
whether a person is Icing TO you.
ThatH be mighty fine thing and I
know future generations will agree
with me that I am right.
Suppose. for instance. a man is as
tired as I was on Monday. and
doesn't feel himself equal to the task
Of picking up his paper and reading
II. All he has TO do is TO pay some
body else a good fat salary TO read
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-10

10. Hum, It's hard to keep awake
q nice dav like this.
Guess I'll go over and lay on the
court house lawn and put this cut in
the paper to finish out the rest Of my
column:
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-10
Toweling

Why not have something
to pick up in your spare
mOments2
Buy some linen crash, in
white or white with a red
border. and hem it up for
use as hand towels for the
kitchen or for tea towels.
We have it in 29c and 39c
values.
We have glass towels
made up at 29c each, if
you would rather have
them hemmed.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-10

what's the matter now with
me?
If robin can be happy, why should
l so dismal be?
All my troubles are as nothing to
the life he leads out there,
Yet this minute he is singing and
I'm knee deep in despair"
Copyright, 1920
If you don't find the used car you
want in today's paper, look tomor-
row because the used car classifica-
lion is constantly changing. New
cars are being added as the old ones
are sold.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-10

The trouble is not in our laws but in their nom
enforcement.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-10
Something Easy
to Make

Summer demands an
abundant supply of dainty
lingerie which one needn't
be a gifted seamstress to
make. and it is a pleasure
to work on the new FIG
URED SILK BROCHE,
the 80 inch silk and cot
ton cloth at 6qc a yard.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-10
SIGNS OF SpP1Nc

Ordinarily I consider myself quite
an active young man, but there Is
exceptions 10 all rules I don't know
whether its the weather or not, but
Monday I found myself suddenly
seized with a total dissemination 10
work. / haven't smoked such a few
cigarets In months as I did Monday.
1 was too Indifferent 10 light them.
A dandy parade went past the Of
fee in the morning. guess IL was
one OF the first stunts OF the Eagles
convention-but missed the pa
rade. A man was standing in front
OF mo at the time the parade went
by and ! was too tired 20 move over
where 1 could see It.
1 ate no lunch Monday noon. Nv
wife wouldn't bring my lunch down
to me at the office, and 1 didn't have
the ambition TO go out after some.
called a taxi 10 take me down 10
the Jefferson. Central asked me what
the number OF the Yellow Taxicab
company Is / couldn't tell her
without bothering 10 look in the
I telephone book so let it go. It's a
/ shame man can't have lunch at
noon regularly when he desires It.
A fellow came into the office that
wanted TO buy some advertising. He
/ expressed a desire to sign a contract.
but l asked him if ne wouldn't Just
! as soon come back later in the week.
There isn't anything object 10 more
when / hain't feeling okey. than n
\ pen scratching away on a contract.
If some vandal hadn't went and stole
my rubber stamp signature I could
have probably gotten the contract
signed and postronement Of this
piece OF business wouldn't have been
necessary. There ought to be some
law passed that would stop this here
stealing that's going on around over
the country.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-10

and sew the new dress.
Pins. Needles, Tape Meas
ures, buy them all at once
at the Notion Counter.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
BIC West Side
Houses Pass
To New Hands
Eight-Story Lancashire i'm
85th St. Bought by Specu-
lators; Form Company to
Take Over SCHUYLER Arms

The Benenson Realty Company pur-
chased from Harry B. James the Ian
cashire, an eight-story apartment at
35l to s55 West Eighty-hfth Street,
7bx102.S. The structure adjoins the
Dorchester apartments at the north
corner Of Riverside Drive, purchased a
few months ago by q syndicate of ten
ants. Mr. James purchased the prop
erty last July from Lowenfeld g.
Prayer.
The Schuyler Arms, an eight-story
structure at sos to 311 West Ninety
eighth Street, is to pass to new hands.
This is indicated by the formation last
week of the Ninety-eighth Street Hotel
Company with a capital of 100000
and A. M. Williams, Arthur B. King
and Daniel V. Sullivan. as directors.
The building stands on plot 12Ox10O.11.
adjoining the northwest corner of
West End Avenue, and title is held by
Thomas as M. Thompson> of Philadel-
phia.
Friederika Ordmann sold to Arnim
Degener the hve-story apartment,
known as the Sunset, at the northeast t
corner Of Amsterdam Avenue and
Eighty-ffth Street, 1022x30.
Mulvihill & Co. sold for the Ameri-
can Mortgage Company the five-story
tenement, 25x100, 1868 Third Avenue,
to Peter and Mary Marine.
Samuel NJ. Goldberg sold to Morris
l.. Goldstein the story fat 1913 "a
=, Henry Deutsch jr. sold to Frances
Melchner the five-story fat 150 West
Slxtyfourth Street, 33.4x10O5.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
Chance to Buy Estate
On Thousand Islands
Will Be Sold at Auction Next
Month With a Number of
Local Flats and Houses

Realty in four boroughs, besides a
home in the Thousand Islands, will be
sold by Joseph P. Day on his special
sales day in the Vesey Street Sales
room on Thursday, March II. Among
the property are six new three family
houses at % TO % Eighteenth Street,
Llmhurst l.. l., each containing suites
of four and five rooms, and the Thou
sand Islands homestead consists of a
nine-room house on one and half
acres on the St. Lawrence River, near
Granonoque. Ontario. Another absolute
sale IS that Of the tenement. Ill West
115th Street, and the tenement, 378
Willis Avenue, adjoining the north
east corner CT 143d Street, by order of
A. H. Mathews. trustee.
For the estate OF Francis Gels Mr..
Day Will sell the four-story tenement,
sol and SOB East Sixteenth Street,
northeast corner of Avenue A. and prop
erty at 21S Fast 122d Street The
Brooklyn property is a two-sto-y dwell
ing, with ga age, at 2120 Ocean Park
way.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
X cal Estate News

actual operations throughout the coun-
try since the first of the year have
been on a more extensive scale than
mad been generally expected. II build
ing conditions continue TO pick up as
they have since we entered tho new
year, 1921 will prove a record break
ing per!no in the annals Of American
construction
more and more 1t is becoming gen
orally felt that income from impr,med
property is getting on more substan
tial footing than ever before. The
feeling also is becoming more prevae
lent that now is just as good a time
to go ahead with building operations
as later.
"The scarcity Of housing facilities
Is so great that intense activities over
period of two or three years at least
are possible and such activities might
result in less favorable market both
for labor and materials than now
exists. Building at this time, there
fore. is to be encouraged rather than
discouraged. and it seems q safe as
sumption that this sentiment is grow
ing.
While adverse circumstances might
develop which would deter progress, it
would not be surprising If the next
sixty days witnessed the start Of very
intensive building operations through
out the couutrv''
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
$l.5OO.OOO Furs Sold
In Day at St. Louis
Record Session Starts Second
Week of Midwinter Auction
Of Pelts
Special Dispatch 20 The Tribune

ST. LOUIS. Feb. 2s.-The largest
single days sales, overls1 100000 since
the opening marked the start of the
second week of the midwtnter auction
sale here to-day. One item, 1900 ,345
Russian squirrels, brought st,262,9s
The days selling opened with lO2,4s7
wolf pets. The better grades were in
fair demand, the highest price offered
being S12.40.
The selling of the squirrels took up
most of the afternoon session. The
high price was sl53. On the Russian
squirrel prices were up to the May
level of last year, but the Japanese and
Finnish varieties dropped 40 per cent.
Later 7,102 white fox came up for
sale, together with 1858 cross fox, 2,37O
swift fox, 22,852 gray fox. 1853 red
fox. Gal Tibet skins, / 1877 Tibet robes,
166,356 dog mats and 5000 dog robes.
These lots were only partly disposed
Of and their selling will continue Tues
dav
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01

sngs into American basement houses
with passenger elevators.
s. Albert Reed sold to MinRa P. Dur
yea the three-story building 144 East
Fifty-ffth Street, 18.9x1oo5.
Herman L. Krieg sold to Filippa F.
sIovernale the four-story dwelling "a
West i27th Street, 189x10o.
Fitz Howell resold for Susan L.
Fletcher the three-story dwelling 22l
West 130th Street, 1S.9x9e1f, to
Thomas H. Marsh.
The Farmers Loan ard Trust Com
pany sold to the Donald Holding Com
pany the three-story dwelling 425
Lenox Avenue
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
9Th Ave. Corner Store
Rents for $65O.OOO

William A. White & Sons and L.
Hiloon Company leased to the Central
Drug Company, Frank Kaliln, Of the
Gray Drug Company. president, ana n.
Wax treasurer, the store and basement
in the new twelve story Robertson-C Cole
Building at the northeast corner of
Seventh Avenue and Forty eighth
Street, for twenty-one years, at an ag-
gregate rental of $3.50, 600
The White firm and the Brown.
Wheelock Company leased Offices at 43
Exchange Place to II. P. Goldschmidt &
Co., and to the Registrar and Transfer
Company floor at s and Dey Street;
also leased Offices at 100 Hudson Street
to the Kaffee Hag Corporation; at SO
and So Pine Street to X A. Watson g.
Co., and at 80 Broad Street to Saul C.
Maver
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
Ths police watch US pretty

closely"
We went on discussing various prob
lens and told them that had come
from China and had seen the activities
OF their militarists at frst hand.
asked whether they were creating any
sentiment against militarism and inn
perialign.
1--WE don't worry about all that
said one. "1s will pass automatically
with the revolution.b
asked how this revolution would
come and what would they do in the
ting educated. I asked whether they
were depending on tho spread Of edu-
cation to bring 1t about.
Holds Education Too Slow
''No." said another. mot education
Mob action. We can't wait Cor educa-
tion. 1t is too slow and conditions in
this country are too bad"
They turned on me then with ques-
tions. Why was America so reaction
ary7 Wasn't English labor at bottom
bourgeois? Didn't think Bertrand
Russell too intellectualistic
brought up the anti-Japanese
legislation in America and the danger
Of war.
Don't you think the war would be q
good thing?" mere youngster put in.
Don't you think it would hasten the
revolution in both countries9 We
wouldn't mind war"
And when remarked that perhaps
war was too big a price in human suf-
fering even to bring revolution for a
better world little sooner
Aren't you a little bourgeois, too7
he said.
This the Japan where only a few
years ago General Nogi and his wife
committed harakiri with ancient cere-
monial to follow to the grave the En-
peror Meiji. who had just died.
But the Japan also where a few
weeks ago the same Emperor Meiji was
canonized at the dedication of his
shrine and hundreds of thousands took
part in semi ligious ceremonials and
religious rites were perform ed by the
heads Of the government, and to which
the school children and district clubs
now make regular pilgrimage Millions
make pilgrimage TO the shrine, few
dozen brand English labor as bour-
geois and $4,000 only belong even to
the Yuaikai. That pictures the extent
of unrest in Japan fairly accurately.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
Realty Near Jersey
Vehicular Tunnel
In Active Demand
Many Concerns Acquire
New Business Homes.
Anticipating Increases
in Property Values

Buying for investment and occu-
pancy continues active just south Of
the Manhattan epproach to the New
York and New Jersey vehicular .un-
hel now under construction, which will
emerge at Canal Street, with plazas
at Broome and Vestry streets, about
l,oO0 feet east of the river.
The most recent sale is repo-ted by
William A. White & Sons, who. in con-
junction with J.. N. Kalley. sold for
Josephine Alger to George H. Siege
the four-story building, 25x74.9, at 1856
Washington Street. northwest corner
Of North Moore Street. The purchaser
will alter the premises for occupancy
by dealer in butter and eggs.
Confirming frequent reports Of &C.
tivlty in Washington, Greenwich and
Hudson streets, William A. White &
Sons yesterday issued the following
summary of sales made recently by
that Arm:
Nos. APT and 42s Washington Street
to Mr.. We'll; $50 and 332, to Arm
strong and Hesse; 312. sold to Samuel
Smith and resold to Heller Bros; 31l
Washington Street and 1879 Duane
Street, sold to C. V. Smith & Co. and
resold to Richman & Samuels; 215
Washington Street, through to 21S
& Co; 1871, sold to Norma RiesenfeId
and resold to C. L. Russell and others:
III, sold to Nicola Debs (grocer); III,
1l3 and lis, sold to the Che sebrough
Corporation; 323 Greenwich Street,
southeast corner Duane Street, sold to
Bertram Stokes g. Sons; 322 Green
wich Street, northwest corner Duane
Street, sold to I. Litwin & Sons; 1879
Duane Street sold to Smith & Holden,
and rs Hudson Street to Norman RE
senfeld
FREDERICK Brown sold to the Univer.
sal Paper Company for occupancy $40
Eighteenth Street, surrounding the
southeast corner, two four-story
buildings, 25x99 3x344x25. A. /. Sadey
was the broker in the transaction. The
buyers are now located on Union
Square.
A. F. Brombacher & Co, tenants in
81 Fulton Street, have purchased from
Charles E. Osborne and others the
adjoining fve-story building at 33 and
33A Fulton Street, 39x37.2x irregular.
Samuel Kilpatrick resold to John H.
loft, 40x26, with an IL to 107 Charles
Street, 26.10x22
Joel NJ Marx resold to the s & F
Building Company (Siegel & Fein) the
old buildings at the northeast corner
OF Broadway and 126th Street, 115 Ok
55x irregular, for Improvement with an
automobile building.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
Recluse Artists Realty
To Be Sold at Auction
Property of Thomas W. Shields
Will Be Sold to the Highest
Bidder3 Next Month

The Brooklyn realty of Thomas W.
Shields, recluse artist, who died re-
Gently. will be sold at auction in the
Montague Street salesroom on Tuesday.
March IL, by the Jere johnson Jr. Com
pany by order of the Title Guarantee
and Trust Company, executor The
property to be sold consists of Mr..
Shields's former residence, 1877 Clinton
Avenue, a three-story dwelling; 4O2 and
404 Gates Avenue, q two-s story modern
motion picture theater; 406 and 4oS
Gates Avenue, modern two-storv
brick studio building, with two stores
and stage scenery studio, also 40
Gates Avenue, e fve-story apartment
with stores
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
Buver to Alter Houses
In East 10th Street
Will Install Elevator in Three
Dwellings Near Park Ave-
nue. Corner

Leon S. Alrmayer sold for the Van
Wrinkle family the three fve-Story res
licences at lib to 1T East Seventeen
Street, 45.9x1oo.5, just east Of Park
Avenue, to I. N. Phelps Stokes. The
property had been in the hands Of the
sellers since 1879. Some Of the other
owners on the block are Thomas ".
Lamont, Percy r. Pyne, William H.
Rarnum. Maria Z. c. S. Auchincloss.
The property, for which the sellers
clear of mortgage. It IS the intention
of the purchaser to alter these build
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
New Home for Jewish Aged

Zipkas, Wolff e. KudrotF,. architects
have been commissioned by the Jewish
Home for aged and Infrm to prepare
plans for the erection of a two-story
buiidlng at the southeast corner Of
Buslswick Avenue and Himrod Street
Srookiyn 1t will be equipped with
sun porches, dining rooms, diet kitch-
e2s' elevators, etc, for the convenience
OF the aged people who viii occupy
same.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
Armenians and Syrians
Locating in Allen STREE

Isaac Hairy purchased from 7. Monte
fore Levy so Allen Street. a fve-story
tenement with stores, 25xs76. This is
the first sale Of the property in about
twenty years. Allen Street is expert
encing considerable activity Of late,
due to many Armenians and Syrians
setting there in the embroidery, lace
and waist lines Of trade.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
Navv Orders

From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2s.-Navy or
ders issued to-day follow:
Craven, Capt r T. to L. s s Carolina
France, 1t. A. E. to U. S s. OLE.
Genest Bosn. d. to U. S. S. Eagle 81.
Grayson. Rear Adj. c. T. to Washington.
Hupp, 1t. J. B, to Washington.
Morse, 1t O. 60 ". s.. to subchaser 2s4
Motz. Sosn. c., 30 Z. s. s. Eagle 81
O'ConnelI, 1t. e c.. to Mare island
Parker, 1t. a r.. to San Francisco.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
Looks to Record Breaking
Year in Construction
S. W. Straus Says Present Indi.
cations Point to Great
Activity bv Spring

S. W Straus, commenting on the
brilding situation. says:
Indications at present poin. to very
active building operations during the
ensuing spring months.
'An unusual number Of building
projects are in contamination, and