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tion, though complex, is one which il Is to

tion, though complex, is one which II Is to
the interest of all the Powers to settle
Regarding the Slesian tangle, conditions
nre otherwise. The programs Of Great
Britain and France are violently conflicting
on the issue, and this division renders the
participation of the United States Of the
utmost Importance.
The full report of the Interallied Com.
mission. which supervised the plebiscite held
many months ago. should now be available.
Further delay in determining the boundaries
of Upper Silesia and in basng these as
nearly rs possible upon the results of the
voting will simply prolong the unrest that
unqucstonably menaces the fragile peace of
Europe. The voice of the United states
acquires special authority from the fact
that our only interest in Silesia Is founded
upon the desire to see the status OF that
rich industrial and mining region removed
from the sphere of trouble making.
1t is fantastic to imagine that all the
complicated chronological and historical fac
tors of the case can be ideally adjusted"
The most that can be proftably sought Is
judgment guided by sincerity and honesty.
Colonel Harvey has been entrusted with
high responsibilities. The alleged prayer
of Colonel House, "Givc us this day our
daily compromise" recommends itself as a
servceable motto for the whole Council.
In attaining such devoutly wished con
summations with regard to Siesia. it IS for
tunate that the concern of the United states
is selfish only II purposes directed toward
world harmony can be so CLASSIFIED. Ihe
arbitra position which we have attained In
the Silesian dispute is one of the phme
Qualifications of our return to the counBels
of Europe
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HUMANISMS
by WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUy

n fpiE->b OIL hrS. sawyer, vile or Brlg-
- adler General Charles Il. Sawyer, ply
asked her this question:V
After lifetime spent with your hus-
band in his practice of medicine you must
nave become very accustomed to calling him
Doctor: Now that he has acquired his
new title do you stil call him Doctor" or
do you call him 'Gcncral'?"
Il call him neither" rcsponded Mrs
Sawyer, Il call him 'Briggy Dear "
The work of the scicntis, does not ALWAYS
nave TO do with chemical reactions and the
juggling of multi syllable Latin names.
luxe the apple crop. for instance, and
the man who saved that part of it which
grows IN IN" West 1t was not laboratory
science. but figuring out how to get n drou
OF liquid under leaf that saved it.
Dr. Elmer Darwin Ball who is now AS.
sistant Secretary of Agriculture, did the iob
Apple growers In the East protected their
apple trees pretty we'll by spraying them
WITH an insecticide. But out West the cod
ding moths were too thick to be exter.
minated in this way
Inc end of the apple where the bloom
had been was its vulnerable part. No mot.
ter how often the trees were spraypd tho
worms crawled in here and spoiled thc
apples. '''
-, To get the insecticidc back of the leaf like
hoer ht the end of the app.c SO the worn,
would get 1t when be crawlcd in--thnt was
the job. 1t was II small task of n mcchonj-
cal nature. The liquid must be shot hardcr
ana at the end of the apple where the bloom
had been. Wv ''oo'i'
So DR.. Hall rigged up n more yiporo,.
spraying device and shot the liquid from the
direction from which the fruit got its lipbt
Tor II always pointed its blossom end fhnt
way. '"' 'nat
He got the poison where II did tbo ,ro.,.
ana mus saved the apple crop Of half the
nation. '' '"e
When Senator George II. Moses was n bov
OF fourteen he rode with his sister IN
tram from lubcc. Me, where he WINS horn
10 frhhkiih \. H.. where his father ~
Baptlst minister, had taken over n pnstornte
they got to talking with an old rrntin,n,,,
named Austin +. Pike, who that dnW mnh
been chosen United States Senator 'rhaauu hau
ana there an ambition was horn in tho n,inn
of this boy ''' n'ha
Eight years later, after graduating from
l,ar'nouth' he was offered the cLoir 80
,'!r'k III Gh American college in Athens. bnt
''"u 10 reiuse II because Of the family sit.
uatloh ana take one of 50 n wrrk ~ 90 ~
porter on newspaper in Concord H." orto, t".
th"hRht OF Athens as he covered his ov.in,,
mentS on hot summer days. and Of rho iSSm,,
HachIi"hS on the Mediterranean tLot v."niJ
nave h"rn his at this rIAc of year yIo ,.o
Solf'i mat he would go to (,rrCrr orJ H.
style. ''' anu III
ANA now that he is fifty years Old no ho.
nhcK ol MN four years aS American Ni,
i.ter at Athens and il snugly ensconooJ ~
the United States Senate !"
ne believes In nursing concrete ambitior.
-ana hghting for them.
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ALIENS ARE ALIENS

UyHE decision of the Supreme Court of
l. Connecticut that the constitutional
guarantees do not extend to aliens is in
line with other decisions on the same ques-
ton. Certain aliens were accused of en-
gaging in propaganda intended to bring
about a change in the Government of the
United States. They insisted that they
were immune from prosecution under the
provisions of the Connecticut Constitution
guaranteeing freedom Of speech. The Court
says that those guarantees are intended to
protect citizens of the United States and
lthat they cannot BE- twisted into protecting
liens who are doing their best to upset
be Government of the United States.
There Is sotynd common sense in this point
Z view. This Is our Goversx1ent. We
.~st y ~ and we arranged, orderly ways
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are substantiatcd they will be prosecuted
to the full extent of this office.
Watch Former Dry Agents

1T is bad enough to- have booteggcrs cx-
list, but when they exist with the support
and backing of former prohibition agents,
then the affair must be stopped at all haz-
ards. Probably few prison sentences for
these former prohibition agents will be the
cure. If there Is connivancc, we will find
it out, and when we do the guilty parties
will be hailed in without delay.
II am counting upon the support of Will
liam &. Mcconnell, the new Prohibition
Director for this State. l feel that | have
it and with our two departments working
in conjunction | feel we will get good re-
suits.
1--WE cannot end bootlegging in a day
or month. Gradually, however, we will
gain our ends.
Offenders will be brought to justice.
This is the cardinal purpose of the Office.
bringing them in without delay follows. In
this way. and in this way only, can the
respect for law be upheld.
Political affiliations of offenders will
avail them nothing. If they are guilty we
will do all in our power to see them of
to Jail just like any one else
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by which its processes Of functioning could
be changed when we wished to change them.
We guaranteed to ourselves freedom OF
speech that we might say what we would
about the Government as well as about
other things. But we also hold one another
responsible for any abuse of that freedom.
The foreigners who are coming here to air
their revolutionary views do not seem to
understand the genius Of the American
democracy, n democracy which carries into
effect the will of the majority, as fast as
that will can be determined.
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4 HARBOR DAY
A FREIGHTER listing toward the Bro,

A FREIGHTER listing toward the Brook.
n lyn's shore,
Fresh from the hot Levant with spicy
bales;
Past BedOe's Island with a siren roar,
liner swings with Trans Atlantic mails
OF In the Kill Won Kull, with dropping
sails,
A barkcntinc drags on a towline short;
While with her tOpmasts lost in screaming
gales
A clipper from the China coast makes port.
And there are stretching tows that soon will
trail
The inland waterways from IIudson's
flows;
On far canals across the Mohawk vale,
With skylines burning in the sunsets rose,
All these In yistas to our sight are swirled
At this wet gateway Of the western world.
Thomas j. Murphy. In the N. Y. Herald.
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Answers to Saturdays Quiz


l. Tho h"st Transatlantic airshin raoord
rs 1NS hours twelve minutes, The i'm.
made by the British drigible R.94
in July, 1919. The route was frrn,,
Fast Fortune Scotland, to HnzeIburst
Field near New York
can Parliament N'"''
8. A coup d'ctat" is violent or uIeg,,
change in goHcrnrOent. II should he
pronounced GOO -day-tah." 0'u NC
4. The famous declaration. 'Rlchard'a him
self again" 10 by Colley Cibber and
appears in his revision OF Sbann' ,u
speare's "Richard III"
8. Giovanni Lorenzo Bernlni was a noto1
italian painter, sculptor and srcbI
tect. patronage by Pope Urban VIII
and Lows Wv Of France, His datas
are 15oS-168O ''S yates
9. Myr0n T, Herrick is the present Anor,-
can Ambassador to France '''''e''-
7. Kansas Is the Sunhower State
s. An F,steddrod Is a congress OF we,sh
bards "''sh
0. Tommasso Tlttoni Is the present presrder.
America. 80 nv" III
10. Richard. Wagner, the composer, was hor,
In 1851. :" venice
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What Do You Kn0w?


l. Who Is the official head Of the United
States Department OF Justice?
. What West Indian volcano DESTROYED
10000 people?
g. Who was william Beckford and for
what was he noted?
A. How did the Scotch house Of Stuart han
pen TO become royal house o. Eng
land?
s. What Is another name for the star
Polnrls?
G. What IL the meaning Of Ziono
Z How many States compose the Ameri
can Union?
s. what Is meant by the Judgment OF
Paris?
O. Who was second In command TO CoIum-
bus on his first voyage to the New
World?
10 What American President lived in Mon
ticello?
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NlurdprCrS

Murdercrs it seems to
Declining us, are not what they
Criminal Artistry used TO be. The gentle
art Of knocking 'cm off
il losing some of its romantic interest and
onerntors lack the artistry that provided the
groundwork for worth while publicity. The
Elisburg murder Is a case in point. He is
a mean murderer who ISLANDERS his wife to
save his neck Murdrrers of finer instincts
don't get that way, Criminals with an ap-
nreciation Of the nuNnces of effective adver.
tsing would instinctively sense the immi-
nence Of blue note and automatically
avoid il. IT is degenerate age. Crime is
becoming ms prosnic and almost as rrspec.
table as paragraph writing, and wins no
more bouquets.
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The declaration If II prison keeper that
Schuck and James ''do not look like men
Of the murderer type" might cause one to
wonder what the type was like if one were
not convinced that no such type exists. But
if it did and we had 10 make guess at il
we'd suggest minion with extra black caps.
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Partisan dressmakcrs say that the oValN
dccOllcte, which gives the effect of contlnu-
ally slipping off the shoulders. is perfectly
safe to dance In. 'Tis the necessity for as
Surancc argues danger; hut the young per,
son Of today is apparently always ready 10
take Il cnnnCP.
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Conditions at the Old Soldiers Home
at johnson City, Tenn. as disclosed by
Director Forbes, of the War Risk Insurance
bureau, suggests that Shcrman's assertion
should be amended to read, The aftermath
of war, etc.
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Sir Thomas LINTON, 1t is said will again
challenge for the Americas Cup. But the
yachts will never arouse the old time en-
thusiasm until they become salablc vessels
and not merely racing machines.
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There are 2Gl BOB women farmers in
the United States. We have aforetime been
treated to pathetic stories of farmers wives
who were overworked. The next crop may
concern farmers husbands who are being
troddcn upon.
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II, as Samuel GOmpcrs AYERS, the FED.
Grafton of Labor cannot investigate the
Central Trades and Labor Council OF
Greater New York, because every local conn.
ell is supreme in It's own community, then
what is the good of a federation?
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Two members of the British House OF
Commons who have been Investigating pro.
hibitiOn in New York have arrived at the
conclusion that there is no liquor on sale
in that city. IInYCn't thCY any fricnds?
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Now that citizens of Canada and Mex.
leo may enter the United States without
passports, Americans may hope that the
time is not far distant when they will be
permitted to cross the Atlantic without sub
mitting to cross examination.
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The Poles are now planning m i'm.
movable barrier against the Irresistible force
Of the oncOming hungry hordcs from Russia.
Il classic question
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II we are really in earnest in cutting
expenditures we might begin with the army
and navy. 1t would also be Il heartenirt
conference.
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1t is fair to assume that the Voters
League, which senses a return from Eba OF
the Ware ashcart. also smells q rat and
will nip it in the bud
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OF course. Mr.. Borah hadn't the slight
est idea who was going to walk in when he
opened the disarmament door. lie may yet
have to welcome the League he hates.
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The State treasury is temporarily en-
barrassed. according to Treasurer Snyder.
Its embarrassment isn't marker on that
of the taxpayer.
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The reaction of the Bibnlous One to the
campaign planned by Federal Prohibition
Director Mcconnell is that additional risk
is going to add to the cost of bootegger
hooch
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The disarmament conference will itself
be in the nature of an informal conversation
preliminary to an honest to- goodness peace
conference.
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One comforting thing about Secretary
Melons tax recommendations is that they
might so easily have been so very much
worse.
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Rats are fond Of music, says DR.. Green.
man. Perhaps SO. But their finest musi.
clan Is II piece of cheese.
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Do the Black Sox now speak Of Judge
Friend as Friend Judge?
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Confidence is an asset that no politician
admits the lack of.
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Married life isn't always one grand
sweet song for the prima donna.
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SHORT CUTS

The Rainbow ticket ought to bring out
the Colored vote.
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DURING the fearful heat of July it was
- mitigating circumstance to many
child and older boy that the city bathing
pools were open and there was always ap-
parently room enough for one more But
thousands of persons, to whom bathing after
work made all the difference between the
bearableness of life and unbearableness In
those trying days, could not use the city
pools, even though there had been room for
them. The city pools are meant for recrea-
tion. not for cleansing they are imposSi1lc
places for most adults. But the public baths
of the Baths Association provide a clean
and private and comfortable bath at ali
hours of the day and into the evening hours
at a price that Is within the means of very
poor patrons, and under conditions that are
perfectly feasible for any self lf-respecting
citizen.
1t is a great enterprise, public spirited,
practical and far reaching. 1t is worth in
vestng money in; any one of the bath
houses is worth a visit-that at Fourth
and Gaskill streets, or at 1903 Germantown
avenue, or at 7lS Wood street. do not
know where the next one Is to be, but I
fancy the management Is open to suggest
tons.
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T RECEIVED report from Mr.. George
Harrison, Jr., only today giving ME the
data as to how the plan had matured that
was set going more than twenty years ago.
with kindly but indulgpnt skepticism on the
part of some of the then authorities In pub
lie enterprises as to it's ultimate success
Our theory that the thing could ever be
self supporting, for instance. was secuted
1t is more than disappearing now, the
money needed being today simply for more
bathing Ccnters. Every cent of money given
to the enterprise now goes for new buildings ;
the old buildings pay for themselves and a
little more. Consequently every one who
patrOnizes those bathhouscs makes it pos
sible for some one else to have n bath in
a new center, and every subscriber who has
sent in his yearly gift is increasing the
possibilities for more bathers.
The first bathhouse had about fifty
showers. nearly POO baths haze been added
since then. and there are three centers
The patrons of these ccnters paid sos, =
432 - for baths in 1920. This year there will
have been half a million baths taken. and
many hundreds turned away from lack Of
room In the three centers. A new center
must shortly be built which will yield n
larger percentage of profits, perhaps a fourth
of n cent bath, and thus make yet still
another center eventually possible. If il
was n business, the interest paid on the
capita! invested would not yet have reached
n money making basis, but in the course of
another twenty years Mt this rate of in
crease it should be able 70 build new ccnters
on the surplus income of the old ones and
as business philanthropy right now il
has proved It's practicability up to the hit
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ricn and Incompetent college friends
which was meant to be slap at Mr..
Van Britt, our own and only mil
lionaire.
Unhapplly, this fault-findlng had a
good bit to build on, In one way. AS
l have said. we were having operat-
ing troubles to beat the band. With
the rank and file apparently doing its
level best to help out In the new
"public-be-pleased" program, 1t seemed
as If we couldn't worry through a
single week without smashing some
thing.
Lat:erly, even the newspapers that
were friendly to the Norcross manage
ment were beginning to comment on
the epidemic Of disasters, and nothing
in the world but the boss policy of
taking all the editors into his con-
fidence when they wanted to in
vestigate kept the rising storm of
criticism somewhere within bounds.
Mr.. Norcross had read the paper
before he handed 1t over to me. and
afterward he hurried his breakfast
little. When ne reached the Office, Mr..
Van Britt was waiting for the chief.
"We've got 1t in the neck once
MORE" he gritted, flashing up his own
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parcners In tine ouncn, anu the very
last man, you'd say, to get ratified in
tangle-up. Yet here he was, hunched
In chair at the car-recOrd table in
the corner, a staring-eyed, pallid.
faced wreck, with the sweat standing
in big drops on his forehead and his
hands shaking as If he had the palsy.
Morris, the relief man, gave us the
particulars. such as they were. speak
ing in hushed voice as II he was
afraid Of breaking in on Tarbell's
steady rafting Of the key In the Crow
Gulch station call.
'$'Number Four"-Four was the east.
bound "Flyer'-'is five hours of her
time," he explained. "As near as I
can get it. Durgin was going to make
her meet with Number Five at the
blind siding at Sand Creek tank. She
ought to have had her orders some
where west Of Bauxite Junction, and
Five ought to have got hers at Banta.
Durgin says he simply forgot that
the. Flyer, was running late. that she
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The WreCkerS
Blu FRANCIS LYNDE
copyright by Charles Scribners Sons.
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER I-Graham Norcross, rail-
road manager, and his secretary, Jir .mie
Dodds, are marooned at Sand Creek sid
ing with young lady, Shella Macrae
and her small cousin. Unseen, they wit
ness a peculiar train holdup, in which
q SPECIAL car is carried Off
CHAPTER n-Norcros. recorn,zes the
CITY. He and Dodds Sescue Chadwick.
The latter offers Norcro So the manager
IN the hands OF east srn snecn,ators'
headed BY Breckenridge u,,IIlnI I''a resi-,
dent OF the line. Norcrt ss Ia,r'. IN ina,
SHE'LL Maoras IL s'o,pin at to- al city
CHAPTER IIl.-Dodds ove-hsars GOO.
versation between Rufus Hatcn d. d U.s.
tave Henckel, Portal Guy nnan~eis. ~
which they admit co'np.ici,y ia Sn...-.-.
KIDNAPPING, their ooJeut be.ng To az,
Chadwick from attending mee-nS &
directors to reorganize the Pioneer -ilv''
Line, which would jeopardize tiieir inle'-
eSt0.
CHAPTER tv.-To curb ths monoputs
controlled by Hatch and Hencnei. use *,
Tower corporation. Norcro.s ioinle
pany. HE BEGINS to manifest d u.ep i
terest In Sheila Macrae. Locus iear...
that Sheila IL married. but lviHs o.a-
from her husband. NOrcross uUes IA
know this.
CHAPTER v. Hatch. aware that
Dodds has knowledge of his and Henck-
els participation in the Chadwick kid
naptng. offers hum inducements to leave
NorcrOsa. Dodds refuses. Leaving the
once. he 10 knocked senseless. Recov.
ertng consciousness. he learns that Nor
cross has disappeared and y believed TO
CHAPTER vI.--Dodds connects Nor
cross disappearance with Vaccinations
of Hatch and Henckel, and on recover
ing strength sets out to solve the mys-
terry.
CHAPTER VII. = With Kirgan. the
roads mAster mechanic. Dodds gets .
limo on Norcrcss, disaHpearance. They
CHAPTER vm-Tns rescue party dnds
na6 releases Noreroao from captivity 70
which he had been lu!Od. Norcroo4 -
6umeo control Of The Pioneer Snort Line,
s sSss 10 = !ss * e eis -. e sa.as NJ wnes
CHAPTER U.-Dodds follows IN ennis
sSaE Of the Red 1Gwsr people; spying on
hsars { plot 70 put Norcross out OF
bnsinee.. and q the risk Of his hfs frus-
CHAPTER Kat the homo Of sheila
0Acrae Dodde - witness Of strange
actions Of man he believes has de-
elens on the lie Of his friend and boss.
He prspAres 70 defend him.
y . tt