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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-13
s U FF R A 6 IS I MOVEMENT IN
 CHINA
Educated Women Fighting For Their Freedom From Ancestral Tradition; De nanding Equal Rights With Men.

Shanghai, China, Dec. 13.-Suf- fragists in China?
 In contrast to the modern Chinese fappers, with their dancing steps, bobbed hair and cigarettes, are the educated young women, many re- turned students, who are fighting for the freedom of the women of China.
 Realizing that, while a compara- lively small group of Chinese girls have come in touch with Western civ iHzation, the lives of thousands and on day by day as did the lives of their grandmoth the China National Women's Federation is launching a nationwide flight for the freedom of all classes of Chinese women.
 The demands of the Federation, which are being published in Chinese newspapers throughout China, are as follows:
 1. As men and women intellectually are equals and as women, as well as men, are under the same obligation to serve society, no educational. oppor- tunity should be denied to women, and for the sake of convenience and economy co-education should be adopted.
 pIete domestic freedom the Fedora ton must help free the Chinese wonn- en from tie yoke of their father-in- law or mother-in-iaw.
 3. Chinese women should demand the rights of enfranchisement and participation in practical politics.
 4. Prior to the abrogatlon of the private ownership of properties won- en should be entitled to equal rights of inheritance and succession as en- joyed by men.
 5. Women should be free to choose any calling or profession.
 6. Women laborers must be pro- tected.
 '. Women claim the right to partic- ipate in all organized movements con- ducted by men.
 8. Women claim the right to aid in combating imperialism of the az gressive countries.
 9. Chinese women desire to co-op- crate with their sisters in Western lands to all of these ends.
 The demands of the Federation are being discussed by the women in the Chinese wonen's clubs, the Returned Student clubs, Women's Suffrage Lea que of Shangha the Girl Student Union and at the meetings conducted by the Y. ". c. A. and the mission schools and churches.
 The idea of wonen's clubs, import ed from America, appeals to the Chi nese women, and under the leadership of influential women in the various communities are springing up like mushrooms throughout China And it is through the little groups Of women VI rlecting once CT twice a month that many closed doors are being opened and the ideas of progress are entering
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-13
GERMAN WRITER BELIEVES FRANCE SEEKS ALLIANCE
 WITH UNITED STATES
Declares French Politicians Fear to Lose Booty Taken From Germany-Beeves France Is Worshipping America in Hopes of Having Four Billion Dollar Wiped Of Books.

can clergymen of all denominations went to Paris and in communion with the heads of. French Professionalism. solemnly celebrated the brotherhood with the pioUs, Christian France against the satanic German Empire. However, the real threads of the cross-Atlantlc alliance were not woven by these strange servants of Christ. but by Ambassadors HerricIk and Sharp and even more by the presi- dent of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris, Berry-three gen. tlemen who from the outset belonged to the fanatics clamoring for the de- struction of Germany and who even today are preaching the economic war after the war:''
 Neither in America nor in France the so-called people are asked what they think about alliances and war The alleged national representatives and public opinion are on both sides fabricattons of the financial oli- garchy.
 France owes Wall Street a round four billion dollars A tidy sum, with the present status of the exchange. If Wall Street is expected to let the then France must in return engage in some more American-worship.
 England cannot and will not permit the preposterous, insane hegemony policy of France, in Europe which is gambling with worldwide bank ruptcy So France needs American protection for the unhampered ex- p1oitation of the blue-white-and-red Japan, Eng1and's indefinite policy In sIave-shop of Europe.
 The tension between America and the Pacific and Frances new naval plans and colonial expansion are counted upon by Paris to make the Lafayette Republic a valuable ally for the Washington Republic and an ally who, of course, will have to be paid well.
 America is expected to maintain the French despotiSm and nigger-ru1e on the Rhine, on the Vistula and on the Oder - in defense of the heritage of Washington, Monroe and Madison,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-13
CLAM0R OF OPIUM DEN
 IS PROVED IMAGINARY
Dr. Carleton Simon Shows Resorts Are Souad Unsani-
 tary and Lack Even Comforts; Dirt Is Predominatng Feature and Stories of Oriental splendor Proved
 Fictitious; Poppy's Spell Growing Stronger.

the smokers pipe, Tobacco smokers take pride in their meerschaums. They love to color them and keep them.
 t"The hop smoked dotes on his pipe It is often exquisite1y carved. Here is one with carat eTnera1ds stud ding it's surface.''
 The little affair in which 10 burn hop is attached to long ivory pipe, looked as if carved from dark walnut. But the crafb-shaped lamp was of dark jade, against which the TWO meralds twinkled maliciously.
 Two Classes of Opium Smokers.
 Thcre are two classes of smokers who patroniZe these places. One comes because the drug drives him the other is a 'pleasure-smoker' He says he likes the sensaaion but would be angry if you called him an addict He is one, nevertheless
 Inspector John Coughlin, possibly the greatest detective in the United States today, knowing every crook in every line, told me that if you go to an opium parlor you are bound to a big haul They go to sleep off the nervous tension which has accom- plished the job
 "Of course. many men who smoke have nc criminal records, but the ma torisy who do smoke are on the road to have their names written on a po- lice blotter.
 Penalty Should Be Much Greater.
 IDIS~uSSlLS lIIS pIopoSSu pS@L1 lOH Io Congress which was outlined at the Antf-NarcOtic Commission in San Francisco lately, Dr. Simon said:
 They propose minimum penalty of one year for drug dealers. I say make it 20 years and rid the country of this gentry.
 we must prevent exporting. so the same drug won't be smuggled back to us from South America or some osher place. We should not import or export, but grow what we need in California.
 "The Parole Commission is behind me in believing that dealers should be treated more harsh1y. We have now a minimum of two years in the peni tenHary. But let me tell you of a rreCent case in which a, man was sem fenced to two years. He had made S130, 900 in short time selling drugs He laughed at us and said: What do care for two years in jail?' Of course not Why should he? He has fortune to spend when he comes out. He ought to get 20 years.
 we should have a law making drug selling a constructive treason agains tthe life and liberty of the American people and make the pen ally from 10 to 20 years Then it would stop.'
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-13
COAL BID COMPETITION
 SAVES OHIO MONEY

Columbus Ohio, Dec. Is-The State will probably save $1o0,ooo on coal purchases, it is estimated: as a result of the recent inauguration of the open competitive system of re- ceiving bids by the State Purchasing Department.
 Under this new plan, it is stated, coal will be purchased for State of ices and institutions at the rate of nearly $1 per ton less for nut, pea and slack, and at about fifty cents a ton cheaper for run-of-Iaine With have been received, as against eight bidders on institution coal under the old system.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-13

Berlin, Dec. 13. - France feels lonely. La France is afraid lest the booty which she has grabbed during the last few years will be wrested from her by it's real owner, and that in that case Belgium and Poland will not afford her sufficient support. For apart from those two countries she has not a single friend left in Europe Everywhere she has been ''discov- ered.'-
 So Marianne goes abroad to look for her strong man. She thinks she has found him in Uncle Sam.
 In Paris the only question now is whether France shall form a iaison with Uncle Sam alone - if necessary even against the English neighbor-or whether John Bull Is to be retained as Hover" and is to be made more p1i- able under the whip of jealousy.
 Early in the war the big newspapers of the neutral munitions s-furnishing Dollartica published an effusson which was promptly reprinted by the over joyed Boulevard press.
 "FOreigners always fight for France it read. Why? There is only one answer: Because ts France which forces itself upon the ina gina tion of the whole world and inspires it. Of all the peoples the French are the only one that need no logical reasons or proofs in their behalf-it suffices that 1t is for FranceI"
 AfteTward whoEe troups of Ameri-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-13
WOMEN BOOTLEGGERS
 DEFY PROHIBITION

It is hard to deal with. A dry law agent, without absolute proof. will shrink from molesting a woman oc- cupant of a bootleg car through the may suspect much.
 Orders of dry law agents are to pro- ceed with extreme care in dealing with women And they are using gloves be fore they attempt any tackling of women who have gone in for a slice of bootleg profits and who are extreme ly wise in knowing how to get away with it without detection.
 Since the Govement put the lid on transportation of liquor by truck the bootlegs have gone in for the use of large and expensive cars with plenty of speed when they have to use it and manned by capable women chaffeurs.
 Prohibition officials claim that most of the illicit licquor coming across the Canandian border now Is being trans ported by women in speedy cars which go over the round-abour highways and out of range of the dry law agents
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-13
By IMAGERY REX.

(Written for the International News
 Service.)
 New York, Dec. 13.-The spell of the poppy grows stronger.
 Opium sboking is on the increase in New York City.
 Certain districts contain dens where poor humans lie fettered in wreaths of smoke which arise 1azily from elabo- rate opium "1ayouts.''
 Opium-den-what the words sug- gesti A wicked and gorgeous lux ury, a dim Orieital splendior, cushions of cloud-hke softness, deep piled rugs and magnificent hangings- Thus fic- where a pipe and a pillow wait vis- 1tors off to dangerous heavens
 But fact writes of opium dens, too. Fact writes on bIotters in police stations.
 Fact records as the predominating feature-DIRT.
 From no less a person than Dr;; Carleton simon, Commissioner of ] we have authority for the statement Dr. simon Gives Some Facts.
 "Such joints are sordid, always. I want to dispe1 the idea that they are fascinating says Dr. Simon
 ''Rea1 dens have not even furniture , to garnish their squalor. Wet sheets fumes inside. The hangings do not consume the smoke, but keep it from leaking out and thus betrayfng what is going on within, as well as pre-
 
 Visi 5ors. Often these sheets are wet with vinegar to disguise the odor. ''In all the many raids I have wit messed on joints where women of the underworld gather, marvellous hangings and the divans of great re- siliency do not exist.
 Dirt is always the predominating feature. There may be a plain Jap mat on the floor and a dirty mattress { upon that. Often the mattress upon which smokers recline is thrown over I a horse This is a support which ; holds up a narrow flat board Can't Afford Fine Furnishings. Then there are places kept by pri- k vate individuals which can be had for 'hop' parties. Most of these par les kare formed among the white lights. , Tessie Mamie, Jim and Harry decide : to go to the fiat of some person whom they know will rent shem the place for a smoke.
 Needless to say these establish ; ments can't be furnished expensively, for the occupant must move often. They contain whatever the unfortu- Z nate who is running them happens to possess.
 'But there is one elaborate feature.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-13
GETS $500 FOR ATTENDING
 FATHERS FUNERAL

St. Louis, Mo, Dec. 13-Put this In vorr record book: The legal value of attendance at a funeral is $500:
 If Charles Bording had tahed 10 he would have been the recipient Of only $1 under terms of a will hled in Probate Court here. By his at tendance, says the last will and tesIa- ing, he shall be made $500 richer. who never could warn their country ,1en enough agains ''enang1ing al- Iiances." and in spite of the. sad eX- oeriences that America has had with the Wilson policy.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-13
Women Leaue Nothing Ur,done
 I1 Staging Big Entertainnaent

show in itself. The big number will be a minstrel presented by the mem bers of the 'sIndependent Order of Daughters I Will Arise Again" The talented singers and lively dancers who will appear are Miss Edith Hop kins, Miss Elsie Heath, Miss Ella Tim gard, Miss Ava Grover. Mrs. L. Pink ham, Mrs Arthur Dennison, Miss Ger trude Moore and Mrs. Bab Vickery.
 Mrs. May Utzinger and daughter, Miss Jeannette Utzinger, will have the principal roles in the pretty specially Say It With MuSic' Two NOrwa1k girls, Miss Margaret Jarvis and Miss Beatrice Lowndes, will also appear in this act.
 Mrs. Emmett Beardsley, who has taken an active part in ama~eur the atrica1s for some time, will enact one of the leading parts in a clever little comedy. written by Mir. and Mrs. Co., burn. She will be aSSiSIed by Daniel
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-13
LINING IN JAPAN AT
 LOW EBB. SAYS REPORT

Tokio Dee. 13-That mining activ- ities in the Japanese Empire are at a low ebb is shown by a report recent ly given out by the Mining Bureau of the Departrn ent of Agr 3culture and and Commerce, Serious decreases in the output of such important pro- ducts as iron. silver, copper and sul- phur make 1t apparent that the de- nressfon is widespread. although pos siblv in the case of coal an exception might be made. Even the coal has fallen from 2.017.983 metric torns-in year. while for the first seven months of the respective years there was decline of over 1,6OO 900 metric tons.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-13

Wa ashington. Dec. 13- - Women have become bootleg terrOrS. Women are more daring in law Jreakin so far as the dry laws are concerned, because of the feminine sense, of securiey form intefernce prohibition officials say.
 Bootleg kings, in business since the dry era began, have engaged in so many exploits that their identity is fairly well known to the dry law de fiance hire women as a. cloak for their Operations.
 Women are now employed to ride in limousines and deliver wis&ey ordered by consumers. They are handsomely 3ttired in the latest that fashion de S,rees. They are usually young and pretty In all cities the use of women agents among the more heavily fin need bootleggers is now more general. Con. missioner Hayes of the Treas 1lry's prohibition unit. said that the women angle of enforcement looms as one of it's most puzzhng phases
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-13
ST. LOUIS WOMEN
 USE MOST PAINT

St Louis, Mo, Dec 13-St. Louis women have the old-time Indians completely backed off the boards, ac- cordtng to Edward F. He1big, man ager of this cttys longest wholesale drug concerSn.
 St. Louis women, HeIbis declares. spend s3.0O0,0OO annually for face paint and rouge. The sale here of paint and rouge will average S25O,0O0 per month, Helbig asserts
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-13

Sterling, Kenneth gafowers, and Rob- ert Gandreon- Miss Loretta Perry Mrs. Fred Guerin, Arthur Dennison, and Ray Pinkham will participate in the one act comedy Dinner for Two"
 There are many other short sketches which will make up the de- lightful program and Bridgeport pub- lie may be satisfied that they are of the highest order for all have been direc ed by Miss Elizabeth Cox, well known theadica1 coach, assisted by Mrs. May Utzinger, Miss Edith Haw- kfns, and Miss Loretta Perry. Social dancing will follow.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-13
By FRANK MUCK.

l the Deutsche Zeitung of Berlin.)
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-13

Benjamin Harrison said: "I have I not great learning, but what little I have acquired was paid for from the proceeds of some wheat and hogs"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-13

According to sound authorities, the title '"The Greatest Show on Earth, is soon to change hands, and pass
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-04-15
Cape May County Orphans
Court

On the application OF Leavitt S. Smith, adj
ministrator OF Oscar b. Smith, deceased, for
sale OF lands to pay debts. Order to Show
Cause.
Leavitt S. Smith, administrator OF Oscar
B. Smith, deceased, having exhibited to this
court, under oath, a just and true account of
the personal estate and debts OF said Oscar
B. Smith, deceased, whereby it appears that
the personal estate of said Oscar B. Smith,
deceased, is insufficient to pay his debts, and
requested the aid OF the Court in the prem
ises, it is ordered, on this thirteenth day of
April, A. D., 1921. that all persons interested
in the lands, tenements, Entertainments and
real estate of said Oscar B. Smith, deceased,
appear before the Court, at the court house
in Cape May Court House, on the twenty
second day OF June, next, at ten O'Clock in
the forenoon, to show cause why so much OF
the lands, tenements, Entertainments and real
estate of the said Oscar b. Smith, deceased,
should not be sold as will be sufficient to pay
his debts, or the residue thereof, as the case
may require; and that this order, signed by
the Surrogate, shall be Immediately hereafter
set up at three OF the most public places in
the County OF Cape May for six weeks sue
cessively, and be published at least once each
week for the same time in the Five Mile
Beach Journal, one OF the newspapers OF this
State.
HENRY H. ELDREDGE, Judge.
Harry S. Douglass, Surrogate.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-04-15
Ordinance No. ISL

An ordinance to authorize the issuance NJ
bonds for the construction of PavtIions
and Piers along the Ocean Front in tbs
City OF North Wildwood in the County
OF Cape May.
whereas, in the opinion of the Commor
Council OF the City OF North Wildwood i'm The
County of Cape May, it is necessary and AZ
sirable to erect a Pier and Pavilion at the
ocean end OF New Jersey avenue in said eli q,
and also to erect a pavilion at the ocean end
Of Seventeenth street in said city, both in ac'
cordance with the plans and specifications
prepared by the city engineer.
NOW therefore be 1t ordained, by the Com-
mon Council OF the City of North Wildwood
in the County of Cape May, as follows:
l. Thai there snail be issued by the City of
North Wildwood, in the County OF Cane Nav
bonds of the said city in the principal snm'
of eighteen Thousand Dollars, CONSISTING nj
thirty-six bonds in the sum of five hundred
dollars each, which said bonds shall bear in.
terest at the rate of six per cent. per annum.
payable "semi-annually, and shall be nnm.
bered consecutively from one to thirty.six
inclusive. All of said bonds shall be dated
May LIST, 1921, and shall be payable seriaiiv'
that is to say: Bonds numbered / and )
shall be payable on May LIST, 1923, and two of
the succeeding bonds respectively in numeri.
cal order shall be payable on the first day of
each succeeding May LIST, up to and including
the year 1910. The further details in connec.
ton with the said bonds, and the form and
character thereof shall be such as may be an
proved by the said Common Council.
2 The amount of money necessary to be
raised for the purpose of building and con-
structing the pavilions and piers above mem
toned, and the acquisition of lands in con-
nection herewith, is $4,000.
3. The probable period as determined by
said Common Council OF the usefulness OF the
property or improvement for which the fore.
going bonds are to issued is twenty years.
according to the statute in such case made
and provided.
4. The bonds mentioned above shall be
duly advertised and offered for sale in accord
ance with the provisions OF the statute in
such case made and provided, and shall be
sold at not less han par.
5. The bonds to be issued under this ordi-
nance are to be issued in accordance with the
provisions of Chapter 252 of the Laws of 1915;
Chapter $40 OF the Laws OF 1917; Chapter lO8 OF
the avs of 1920, n such other laws OF the
State of New Jersey as may be applicable
thereto.
6. Under the provisions of Chapter 1OS of
the Laws OF 1920, no Supplemental Debt State
ment is required to be filed prior to the pas
sage of this ordinance, because these bonds
are to be issued exclusively for the construc-
ton of pavilions, piers or other devices along
the ocean front, and the acquisition OF lands
in connection Herewith.
7. This ordinance shall take effect immed-
lately when published according to law.
Introduced April 9th, 1921.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-04-15
Obituary

Mrs. Nellie w. Boyer, aged 70, died
last week at the home of her son, Elmer
Boyer, near Conshohocken, Pa. Funeral
services were held there last Friday,
April 9Th, after which the body was
taken to East Baptist Church, Ken
sington, Philadelphia, of which con-
gregation the deceased had long been q
faithful member. The pastor, Rev. G.
ii. Woolston, preached the funeral SER
mon. Interment was made in knights
OF Pythias Cemetery. frankfort. Mrs.
Boyer had been a frequent visitor to
Wildwood, staying for months at a
time with her other son, Lynn II.
Boyer. Except her two sons no other
near relatives survive.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-04-15
ANCLESEA

Special in writing paper. SOC paper
39c at Leedom's Phsrmacy.-adv.
Mrs. Isaac Smith is able to be about
again, after being confined to her home
with an attack Of indigestion.
Joshua Davis spent several days here
overlooking his property on Seventh
street.
William Kellar, of Philadelphia, is
having a bungalow built by the Harkel
Construction Company, Of Camden, on
west Second yer
Mrs. Jason Buck has returned home
after spending the winter in Pitmsn.
The channel at the mouth Of Here
ford Inlet, which has been filling up
for the past few years aud hindering
the passage of boats at low tide, is being
pumped out by the city dredge.
Jesse Shivers, w. Holmes, Walter
Mason aud several other fishermen
have launched their skifis and expect
to be catching mackerel next week.
Clarence Kellar has returned to his
home on Fourth avenue, after being
away for the past winter.
On Sunday morning the Fire Com
pany extinguished a blaze on a lot at
Pine avenue and the railroad, which
end angered a few houses.
Mrs. Pauline Carlson, Mrs. Fred
Miller, Mrs. Charleabois, Mrs. G. E.
Bradshaw and Mrs. Clarence Brad
shaw, all journeyed to Frankford in a
party on Sunday.