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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-07-09
ADAMS AND FOLKES
STAGE LIVELY TILT
I a di d a tie S for Corporation
Commission Meet on Same
Platform Here.
INCUMBENT MAKES DEFENSE
Senator West Also Asks Sun
port in Race for Lieuten-
ant-Governor.
INCUMBENT MAKES DEFENSE

Barring Il little tilt between Eibin
{. Folkes and Bcrklcy -. Adams
candidates for the Corporation Com
nlISSion, during the course of which,
however, neither candidate had the
chance To come back at the other.
ana a somewhat extended speech nv
senator j. T.. West, candidate for
i-icu;cnant-G"vcrnor in which he
made reference to his activities Tor
equalization Of taxes. the mass meet
ing at John Marshall High School
last night. under the auspices of tho
League of Woman Voters. was with
out unusual incident
Commissioner Adams explained his
ATTITUDE in reference tn the uucs.
ton OF telephone rates. which has
been criticized hy Candidate Folkcs
lie said that the rcry good reason
why he did not vote on the proposi
ti"n was that he had not given it
sufficient thought and study. and that
under such circumstances he fcIt that
u" should not give a vcrsict. lie cX-
planned that he could not justly de-
iidc the case upon the opinion Of
others. and that no matter what his
"pini"n might have pccn IL would not
have changed the result. as the other
members oG the commission were a
unit in their verdict.
womldn't Pledge Ills Vote.
My opponent criticizeS me for
staying on my job. and not giving
more attention To my canvass" said
Mr. Adams. Il have been busy, and
nave bccn able 10 devote but little
time To the campaign. but have
written number Of letters and de-
lHcrcd several speeches. But I will
not neglect my duties, for the per-
tormancc of which the State of Vir-
Einla Is paying me. to advance my
political interests. and IL | had TO
pledge my vote in advance on any
important question. would decline
the support of the people who de-
mandcd such thing. Mr.. Folkcs'
platform has but three panks-thc
abolishmcnt of the taX on bank de-
posts: amendment to the ConStitu-
ton so that there might he bond is
sues for construction OF railroads
and that he would vote to reduce
telephone rates in larger cities"
Mr.. Adams said that the Corpora
tion commission was without juris-
diciitn in the first Two planks anu
that pledge To vote on any uucs-
ton in advance was an unhcard- of
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IBy United News.l

CHICAGO. July S.-PegGy Hopkins
joyce is quite satisfied with the
aaSard OF $3.50 month temporary
alinlony made by Judge Joseph SAD
ath in Circuit Court here, she in.
formed her attorney. Weymouth
Kirkland over the Ions distance tc!c-
phone from New York tonight
she seemed. Pleased" Kirkland
said.
AS for himself. Kirkland declared
that the judges decision was very
well written"
Besides the $3.50 month. tho
judge awarded s27.5OO solicitors fees
and $1,000 sui; money. The latter
sum is for Pcggy's use in obtaining
evidence for the joyce divorce tria
which comes up in the fall.
The former "Follies" star hal
asked $4,000 month temporary ali
mony and 100000 solicitors fees and
suit money.
IL was the largest award OF So
licitors' fees and\ suit money ever
made TO defendant in divorce case
in Cook County.
Peggy's millionaire husband. j.
stanley Joyce. Chicago lumherman,
will not pay the money without con.
test. however. His attorney, Alfred
S. Austrian. Immediately upon read
Ing the judges decision, asked leave
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ALLEGES MRS. KABER
OFFERED HIM $4,000
TO KILL,HERHUSBAND
Witness Iestities Woman Sought to Employ Him to
Kun Down Daniel f. Kaber With Car-Physcian
Finds 40 Grains of Arsenic in Plot Victims Liver

Spencer. chemist. showed that Mr.
kabcr's Internal organs bore heavy
traces Of arsenic He gave the re-
suits OF his analysis o. the liver
stomach and kidneys. lie said the
liver contained about forty grains of
arsenic. ) fatal dose OF the poison.
when the system is not Injured to
its use. is generally rated at two
grains. he said. adding tnat It less
amount sometimes is fatal.
Defense counsel made very little
h"adway through examination
of DIR. Spencer in it, attempt to show
that the poison might have come from
cmbalming fluids and powders Sprin-
Killed. over the organs. Questioned by
Attorney William j. Corrigan as Ia
this possibility. Dr Spencer said he
radc AN analysis OF tho cmbaiminp
fCid and found no arsenic. and that
the powder spriulllcd over tho liver
rather would have absorbed moisture
from that organ than have been ah-
srrhcd itself by the organ
"Mrs. Knhrr Had ThiS Done"
Earlier in the day pr. = II. parSon.
In. nrs; physician TO reach Mr.. Kaher
after he had been stabbed. testified
that Mr.. kaber said to him: Mrs
Kabcr had this done" This testimony
corrohoratcd that given by Police
Lieutenant l.. p Miller ana Dr. ". j.
Quirlcy yesterday.
Mre. Marie schwartz told OF going
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lI.v As.oclatrn l.rcas1

CI.;N El.AND. ONO. July s.
Through number OF witnesses to-
DAY, IN. stat. Introduced testimony
tending t" show that Mrs EVA Cath
crime kabcr willfhily planned tn. mur-
der OF her husband. Daniel T.. Kaber
on which Sh" j. being tried on iirst-
dcIr"" murder charge
Crhano Ill Carpo. The last witness
To take tn" stand today, testified
thtt Mrs. kahcr had offered him So
o'Y II hc would get an automobile
ana run MIR. kahcr down with IL.
when he refused to do this. he said.
Mrs. kabcr then asserted She woult.
give him $4,000 I" $4,000 II he would
get Gan- ana Kill him anyway
hi carpo said he introduced Mrs
kahcr tn Ermiuu c"Iaviio. who. tho
state alleges. uhtaiu.d the persons
wh" did the actual killing Mrs. col
:Nito rs awaiting trial on II mrst-d.-
gre" murder charge III Carpo said
Mrs. kahcr made IN" "nor To him on
a downtown street corner as sn.
pointed out her husband in an auto.
mobile ucar-by
offered $500 Down Payment,
When the proposition TO buy nu
automobile and run Mr- Kabcr down
with IT was made to him. hi Carpo
said Mrs kabcr took four $50 bills
from her purse and offered them to
him as first payment on the machine
Previous To III Carpo's testimony.
tn" state had through DR. John G..
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s5a.l. Per cnpitn In Circulation.

WASHINGTON, July S.-Moncy in
circulation in the United States July
amounted to S53.i2 per capita OF
population, according To monthly
statement made public today by the
Treasury. The total was s5.7i4 O65, :
600. y year ago the per capita
amount was S57,1S. and the total. So
0S4.S5i,0O0. the reduction being
brought about through decreased is
sue OF Federal reserve bank notes.
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RAIL LABOR BOARD
AUTHORITY DEFiED
'ennsylvania System Officer
Says Company Will Nego-
tiate Own Rules.
DEALS DIRECTLY WITH MEN
Shop Crafts Federation Com
plains of Company's Failure
to Treat With Union.
tBy .,ssosIaiaa rrcnsI


CHICAGO, July S.-Notificatlon ,ha,
the Pennsylvania Railroad would con-
tnuc negotiations OF ruies in its own
way was served on the Railroad La
Dor Board at the conclusion OF charges
brought 10y the Federated Shop Crafts
thai the Pennsylvania had failed [,
comply with The boards orders.
Charging failure OF tho road to en-
ter conferences with the Pennsylvania
system federation. the unions pro-
tested that the roads subsequent Sc
Lection OF committees to negotiate
rulce. d!srcGarding the union commit
tees was IN violation OF the boards
direction Of April Il to each ROAD TO
negotiate its own rules with its own
employees y. l.. Goodc. president OF
the Pennsylvania federation. told Of
the union methods OF representation
and detailed the shop crafts vote for
representatives..
Says Rond's Plan % success
After attacking the boards dccis-
ions in several Instances. T.. =.
Whittier. assistant 10 the vice -prcsi-
dent. declared the policy Of the road
'' ''''" III '!HlloNtS 10 ScicCi 'Hcir
representatives by :, ballot OF all en-
ploycs had been a success. and the
road proposed TO continue such
methods
Several speakers for the Pcnnsyl-
vania declared the action Of the board
In July. 1920. continuing the national
agreements promulgated by tho Unit
ed states railroad administration WAS
annuiled.
T.. II. Senoff. solicitor for the road,
iConlinmnd on pnrc . Col ID
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JOHN SHELTON WILLIAMS
NAMED SOLE RECEIVER
IHy Associated rrcss.l

AUGUSTA. GA. July S-John SIX kcl :
ION Williams. Of Richmond Va. was
appointed today hy Superior Judge
Henry chammOnd to be sole receiver
of the Georgia and Florida Railroad.
following the resignation of W. L.
sullivan. iangbournc NJ. Williams
and John T.. Lewis. Reason for the
designations WAS not given.
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Arrc~, Law Enforcement omccr.

MOBILE. ALA., July S.Thrcc Of
hccrs connected with Alabama en- :
mere this evening following indict-
mcnts returned by tho Mobile County
grand jury charging trespass after
WARNING. presenting firearms and as
sanlt and battery. y recommc nda q on
that Impeachment proceedings he
started at once against Joseph G..
Bowen, justice of the peace, who has
been working i'm cooperation with
law enforcement deputies here, was
also made BY the grand jury.
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GUNB0ATS ORDERED TO
WITHDRAW FROM TAMPIC0
IRy Associuted rrcss.I

WASlllNGTON, July S.--W Withdrawal
of the cruiser Cleveland and the gun
boat Sacramento from Tampico. Men,
was ordered today ~ the Navy De
partmcnt. In making this announce
mcnt, Secrctarc D,nby said that the
order had been issued hy mutual
agreement with the state Department.
II, was said n the Navy Department
that the sacramento would proceed TO
Galveston and the Cleveland Ia New
Orleans.
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The most attractive outing, C. & O.
Sunday Excursions to Old Point.
Buckroe Beach. Ocean View, Norfolk.
virginia Beach. Three trains, $3.50,
a. NJ. and 12 noon. Cheap rates.
AdYertisement. u. No ~.
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Norfolk, 81 80; Ocean View. s2.65:
Va. Beach. S3."5, r. I. every Sunday,
y. & w. Lv. Broad ST. sta. Sis and
A. M.-Advertisement.
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The New York herald., 1921-10-23

dren--and to all lovers of the old
Wizard in book or play-"that
when Mr. Baum went away from this
world he left behind some unfinished
notes about the Princess Ozma and
Dorothy and the jolly people of the
wonderful land of Or. I am
sure that Mr.. Baum would be pleased
The New York herald., 1921-10-23

The FOG. By William Dudley Pelley.
Little, Brown & Co.
CEVERAL thousand of the several
hundred thousand who read
Main Street" hated the book.
rhey hated it because-welI. most of
the haters could not tell exactly why.
1t was too cruelty Photographic, it had
no story" it depicted the misery of
small town life and left out everything
else. These were some of the reasons
III you belong to the main Street"
matters. incorporated, you are bound to
enjoy "The Fog"
Tnat handy little help to book re-
viewers, Who's Who in America" has
not-yet-hearG of William Dudley
Pelley. But when the Who's Who edi-
TOR gets around to it, he will make
some interesting discoveries. Who's
Who will learn that Pelley once failed
In business to which he was not
adapted; that he began over again
on low paid newspaper job because
he liked newspaper work; that he fell
In love with the newspapers proof.
reader and that he still loves her
after score or so of years, during
which she has presumably corrected
a lot of things besides his copy; that
ne cuts quite a figure in Vermont's
small town journalistic activities; that
after four years of perseverance he
sold a short story for $50 and that he
has sold many others since; that Pei
ley and his wife took belated honey
moon trip to Japan last year; that
"The Fog" is his second novel, his first
being "The Greater Glory"
Like Sinclair Lewis, the author of
"The Fog" introduces his readers to
an assortment of narrow, provincial,
bigoted small town folks and small
town ways His people of Paris, VT,
are true types, drawn apparently from
the intimate acquaintanceships a small
The New York herald., 1921-10-23
The Scarecrow on His Way


that Ruth Plumly Thomson, who has
known and loved the or stories ever
since she was a little girl, has made
this new Or story with all the Oz
folks in it and true to life"
If ever a man was fortunate in the
harvesting of the field he sowed-and
left-Frank Baum is that man. And
if ever the readers Of a good story,
who wanted more, were lucky to get
another book it is the readers of this
Royal Book of o."
There is no sign of patchwork or
paiHful piecing out Of scanty ma
terial. The story runs on like a river.
1t deals with the Scarecrow's effort TO
find out something about his ances-
tors. He had to go all the way through
the earth to get down to the roots
of his family tree, and the first thing
he knew he was called an ancestor
himself
The story's the thing. but all the
way along there are the most delicious
bits of word fun that remind us of
Alice in Wonderland. For instance,
in the land of the slow Pokes, Sir
Hokus has servant named Pid,
which gives him-and the reader-the
vast satisfaction of yelling when it's
time for dinner, "Stew, Pid!" Now
roast. Under those circumstances no
man of sense would care to order
roast. Stew Pid yourself!
The New York herald., 1921-10-23
| STORIES FOR READERS OF ALL AGES
An Opera Singers Progress

mines and cattle ranches and Wall
Street?
"T wish Edgar Lee Masters would
write an opera or that guy Sandburg
in Chicago Burleigh could do the
music, or George Cohan. sandburg
and Cohan!'
Cohan!' exclaimed the stout man
in horror.
".'Well, he'd write something Amer
lean, anyway. We've got to come to it,
tell you. The public isn't going on
forever swallowing a lot of alien stuff
it can't understand simply because it
happens to be labelled classical
"'But, my dear fellow, you don't
mean to suggest giving up the clas-
sizes! Art, after all, is universal
"'Rot. Art is native and personal.
Listen. There was once Chinese
Emperor who ordered the Chinese clas-
sizes to be detroyed because he figured
they were choking the life out of
China. Sometimes i think we ought
to do the same thing-chuck the "clas-
sizes" into the middle of the Atlantic
Ocean and start clean for ourselves. ("
The difficulty with carrying out that
suggestion is that there's too much of
the said classics in ourselves. We
think we are new and radical and mod
ern, with our discoveries Of our souls.
The yourg Egyptians and the young
Greeks thought so too. A good deal
of Burnets novel is as new as Isis and
as old as Plato-though it's lovers are
far from "Platonic." At any rate it
reads well and leaves something to
remember and to mediate.
The New York herald., 1921-10-23

town editor makes. IT is a safe hazard
that the favorite occupation of Pelley's
townsmen just now is a guessing con-
test as to the real life identities of
THE Fog's" fictional characters, for
the story swings along with all the
smoothness and movement of actual
biography; the biography of fictional
Nathaniel Forge. as set down by his
close friend, Bill.
To make another comparison, "The
Fog" possesses inspirational qualities
which Main Street" conspicuously
lacked. Nathaniel Forge starts off in
life from next to nowhere, and after
thirty years emerges triumphant from
out of the fog created by a hypocriti-
cal father, a neurasthenic mother, a
common or garden variety of sister,
a bevy Of village bellies, poverty, bad
home training, and boys size job in
the village tannery. The misery and
sordidness is, however, frightened and
beautifled with pictures of the fine
types produced by the same environ
ment-such as the hard headed tan
ner who loves poetry, the school
teacher who helps Nathaniel hold fast
to his standards, and the old livery
stable proprietor who shows himself a
philosopher and friend. Then, too,
there's the glorious Girl Without-A-
Name and her lovable foster mother.
"He may have been safe as you state"
says Bill,
"But 1 called him out. and he's out
npti
It's showing in hell and there's sand
on the sea
That's the kind of an ump l am"
says he.
The above is culled from Hearts
and the Diamond" a baseball story by
Gerald Beaumont, which is to be pub
lished this fall by Dodd, Mead.
The New York herald., 1921-10-23

THE LARK. BY Dana Burnet. Little
Brown & Co.
the changed goals in fic-
L ton. In the earlier type of
popular novel the heroine found
manor let herself be found by one.
Burnet's heroine finds herself. And
the end of the book is only begin
ming. The reader goes on imagining
Teresa's life as it will unfold after
that transforming discovery.
There is enough action" in this
novel to make a sensational melo-
drama. Yet the real interest is the
inner life of the characters. This de-
velopment is not analyzed fully, but is
rather suggested and left as series
Of unanswered questions.
A nameless baby is left at a Cuban
convent. There she is cared for espe-
cially by one sister-not the least at
tractive parsonage in the book. Then
comes a wealthy American who
undertakes to pay for her musical edu-
cation. He marries her to shield her
from unhappy consequences of his
brothers intensive love making.
Teresa does not understand her twn
feeling for the two brothers. She
thinks she hates the one to whom she
gave herself But her husband is
wiser than she is. He has a strange
clairvoyance. But only after his
death does she realize her true relation
to him. And in her awakened heart
iD; ~
for the first time.
Without any of the machinery of
spiritism the book is full of hints of
the influence of invisible forces.
Teresa happens to be a singer This
fact is only of importance as means
to the end of her self-realization.
Yet her music teacher is himself real
person, with his own questionings as
to Immortality. Here is a glimpse of
the circle in which he lived He has
arranged party" though he hates
that kind Of thing.
Most of the guests were musicians
or had some connection with the musi-
cal world. They were a cosmopolitan
lot, but their names apparently had
been selected from common sources
chiefly italian and Russian This ap-
piled even to the Americans, so that
Richard and Peter and George became
in Difference to professional supersti-
ton Ricardo, Pietro and Giorgio-a
translation absurd in itself and gener-
ally significant of the fact that
America is still largely the musical
dependent of Europe.
Teresa heard one Of the guests-an
oyergrown boy with fair hair and a
snub nose--inveighing against this
provincialism.
cit makes me SICK, he observed,
with youthful candor. You'd think we
hadn't any life of our own to express
America lacks SOUL, said the per-
son he was talking to, pale, stout,
little man with fat hands and kind
of gloomy dignity. She lacks tradition.
She hasn't any artistic background
"No such thing. Plenty of it.
Natural and artificial. Niagara Falls
and Pittsburgh. The Grand Canyon,
the Mississippi River, the Thousand
Islands, Santa Fe and Gloucester,
Mass. AS for tradition, how about the
American and Mexican Indians? How
about Daniel Boone and Davy Crock
ett? Why doesn't somebody write an
| opera about blast furnaces and coal
The New York herald., 1921-10-23
Beat a Land Shark
And Won a Bride
THE SPOILERS OF THE VALLEY.
BY Robert Watson. George II. Doran
Company.

Company.
&c A S surely as there is a wolf-note
~ in some violins, so surely is
there a wolf-note in some
men. Strike the wolf-note and you
set the devils in hell jumping
Philip Ralston intended to help his
partner, Graham Brenchfeld, by CIV
ing him the chance to escape after
he had assaulted banker and robbed
the bank. Instead. he himself served
five years in Ukalla prison.
When he came out. it was his lot
to strike the wolf-note in Brench-
field, who at first recognizes him but
will not publicly admit it.
Brenchfield in the five years time
has become a wealthy land owner,
grain dealer. and Mayor of vernock.
Incidentally he his built his success
on fraud of various kinds.
How Philip uncovers this, follows
the criminal to his death, and wins
the hand of Eileen Pederstone, forms
an exciting tale of romantic adventure
in the valley of the Okanagan in wes-
tern Canada.
As literature. the book is not par
ticularly distinguished, but the author
has the happy faculty of making his
characters live and move and breathe
and cwear-against their back
ground He evidently forgets that a
little Language" goes farther in print
than in speech.
As medium for expressing his own
personal convictions, set forth through
the different characters as mouth
pieces, the book serves him well.
Philip says: Il am just beginning to
discover that fear is the greatest devil
we have to contend with and that the
less we worry about it the less real
and the more a mere bogey it be-
comes"
Again. Brenchfield deprecates the
number of Chinese in the Okanagan.
TO which the editor of the local news
paper replies: "But you know who
brought them here. You fellows with
the ranches, looking for cheap help,
did II. They're likely to rout
us out of house and land before they're
through with u.s."
Eileen Pederstone believes that each
man should work for himself, not in
the employ of another on salary. She
furnishes the incentive that results i'm
a successful real estate business con-
Quoted by Philip Ralston and Jim
Langford as partners, on commission
only.
Comedy Is furnished a-plenty
through Jims antics when he occa-
sionally drinks too much, i'm the days
before he becomes a serious business
man, and by Sol Hanson. the big
Swede in the smithy. For pathos,
there is Smiler. the supposed half
wtted dumb boy. who, nevertheless,
had brains, enough to help others out
of many n difficulty. For friendship,
there Is the relation between Phil and
Jim. AS for love. Phil's early respect
and admiration for Eileen develop
normally and wholesomely into the
deeper feeling, without undue senti-
mentality or eroticlsm, which Is say
ing something these days.
EDITH ADAMS Brown.
The New York herald., 1921-10-23

Edna Ferber has begun work on a
new book, although the memories of
her wonderful mountain climbing
holiday must certainly disturb some
what her efforts to write about plain
people. Perhaps we are wrong. Such
a vacation should inspire an author,
no matter what her theme. But then,
she has other things to worry about.
Her plans for this autumn include
many lecture engagements. Early in
November she expects to be in the
middle West and speak in Toledo and
Kansas City.
The New York herald., 1921-10-23

n W replied: That's his business,
7 | 4 his belief" Paddy swept the Sun
ly school teacher out of the argu
cment by saying that she was in love
with the Paisley person. The poor
child is crushed.
Mrs. Evelyn Scott is the only writer
who is more adroit in depicting un-
pleasant characters. Paddy is thus
described: "But one glance of the
fanny eyes. with their battling quality
of reckless mockery, and Paddy stood
confessed a cynical woman of thirty
eight with youth long since forfeit to
experience. She was vastly amusing,
with a random wit, but the cynicism
that underlay her most trifiing utter
ances had a strange power of blight"
The New York herald., 1921-10-23
One More Or Book
By Frank Baum

THE ROYAL BOOK OF OF. By l..
Frank Baum. Pictures by John r.
Neill. Chicago: Reilly & Lee.