davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1921-07-17

of society and a twinkle in the deep
blue eyes.
but you do speak English" I pro-
tested.
you know l DON'T" she parted.
I confessed my inability to under
stand her meaning.
81 mean" she continued calmly,
earnestly. that I speak American.
You know the old story about the
sign on the Swiss hotel. English
spoken; American understand
That's what / mean"
I began to understand.
but your English is good" I ven
tured.
She smiled a negative.
You're good to say so. but you
know it's not true. It couldn't be
true. Although.s of course. I was
born a British subject, with an Eng
.lishman my father. I left Canada
when 1 was so young and since then
have lived my-lffe in the States
among people whose English is about
as correct as a cockney's-my own
speech simply couldn't be good
English"
To me the idea was fascinating.
The biggest money-making star of
the flms-to whom the spoken word
means less in SO far as her profess
sional career IS concerned than to
any OF her brothers and sisters IN
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X/oU know many OF US have to
suffer the stigma Of being mig
Gardly-when the truth is we
are not %niggardly at all. I don't know
anything about the man they Joke
most about in this country-Harry
Lauder-because I've never seer any
instance Of his generosity or the re-
verse. But I'm quite sure. off hand.
that he isn't at all the miser our joke
smiths picture him.
Take Charlie Chaplin. Cor example.
Many people say he is downright
stingy. Next to Douglas. l think l
know Charlie as well as I know any
man in the world-and l know he
isn't c~iose-fsted. The truth is that
Charlie. like me. doesn't know how
TO spend money!
Doesn't Want to Have All She Wants
People who critlcise us on this
score don't stop to think that pend
ing money is an art-to be learned
by experience like any other art. Not
only that. spending money requires
time-if n is TO do it we'll. And in
Harry LADDERS case, as in Charles
and mine. we have always been and
are too busy with work to have time
to learn the art OF spending our earn
ings.
I've been working ever since l was
i've years old-very busily working
all the time. My trip to England
was the very first really truly holiday
i had since I was five.
But in fact a dollar is lust as biz
in my Eye today as it was fifteen
years ago-and fifteen years ago a
dcn,'ar was very. cry big,
after several months of insistent
salesmanship methods, an agent of
the Rolls Royce people finally man
aged the other day to get me to sign
a contract for the purchase OF a Rolls
Royce chassis. Ever since I did f.
I've had the most awful time with
my conscience. It seems such a wick
edly e~Itravagant thing for me IN
have done. OF our I have had nv
Packard car for three and a hal,
years. and I've really got much mora
than original value out of tt-and Z,
is still in perfect condition and 7 can
sell 1t at a very good figure. gut
truly I've lain awake lighting with
myself-trytng to persuade mvse,,
that 1 am net riotously ex-travar.,t,
It's not only that I don't know NJ
70 pen money y~eoklessly on mvseIf
there is something else that aIv,v,
serves to hold me In check. 7 krnw
-~instincttvely and by obseryatjor.-
mat there is nothing IN The vo-,d
more dreadful than complete ssti,-
faction.
As a little girl I read christina
Every Day"-and I never torro, Low
terrible was the fate Of the child vbo
made that wish-and got #,
Even as a child I could understand
how such an unending succession n,
Christmasses would drive
mad. In those days Their, scanned
little likelihood that ~
NHS pOSsAu4l4Iy of Effrh a
thing in my wi case would ave-
happen. But now that It has kssn
that ehiid's fate very much befors
my mind.
Makes Believe She Can't Afford
Things
It is a matter of principle with
me-applied every day in the yearI
never to allow myself tt have all I
want OF anything. ] often go down
town TO buy a dress OF hat. Often
! see several I'd love to have. Lets
say rs I hat. for example. 1 buy
one and then see another I'd really
rather have than the one I've ALREADY
bought Do 1 buy the second one? I
90 aot 80 home without II, And
all the time ! wish tereribly that 7
,ouid afford TO have bought it! OF
.1IW5ENA
, 1921-07-17

He travelled 5000 miles to get the Worlds Sweetheart" to
consent.
Hayden Talbot, the Journalist, wanted Mary Prekiord 70
nanate her story to him and knew that it was easier to approach
royalty than movie stars.
On his way he learned that he would need more tact than a
diplomat and the power of an absolute monarch.
Somehow he got both-and Mr.. Talbot tells how his enterprise
overcame many odds and how the famous star was induced to
say YES"
Mary Pickford is a poor little rich gih-beeause she wants to be.
With more money that she can ever spend, she confesses that
she does not know how to spend It.
She knew what hard work was when she a a little tot OF hive
years-and a dollar looks just as big to her now as it did to her WIDE,
eager eyes then.
Bull it is only for herself that she does not know how to spend;
other people ire always welcome to her money when in need
In this part of her story, "Our Mary" tells her philosophy OF
finance and how she breads ever having everything she wants.
, 1921-07-17

other pursuits-seems utterly uncon-
cerned about the matters one would
naturally uppos would most con-
cern her.
Hates Her Pic1Sford Curls.
From my observations 1 venture to
say that Miss Pickford gives to her
personal appearance-putside of the
moments that she is actually at work
making up for work before the
camera-less thought than the aver
age non-professional girl. If-and
she would be the first Indignantly
to deny such a premise-her face Is
her fortune, Miss Pickford is very
careless about the source of her sue
cess. AS a matter of fact, she hates
the famous Pickford curls+or at
least as nearly hates them as she
could hate anything. But candor
compels the admission that hate is
al unknown quality in the innately
gentle little m
For years she has been trying to
get away from the necessity of being
pretty" in her flms-a very grim
necessity imposed upon her ex-
hibitors who have reaped golden har-
vests at the box office because OF that
prettiness-as they think. And I'm
til now Miss Pickford has been un-
able to have her own way about Il;
she has had to yield to these de-
mands. Now, however. that she is
her mistress-in a film sense
h is proving her possession Of the
courage of her W convictions by
making herself in one of her newest
films. Studs" a bedraggled. homeIy.
Gfr1 Chl-h 1frnd 1f4fI- --
The Washington herald., 1921-10-16
MAY CUT FORCE
If OTHER POWERS
MEET REDUCTION
Naval Holiday" Most
Likely Concession of
British Delegates.
FUTURE AT STAKE
Dominions on Every Cont
nent Give English Great
est Interest at Farley.

has every necessary raw material
and food within her borders. She
has transportation facilities that
probably will not be equalled In
another nation for hundreds OF
years. She has the potential man
power and her industries are highly
organized and adequate.
Great Britain and Japan are fully
aware of this and look at IL not as
an altruistic ambition, but an ar
rangement in which the United
States would have everything to
gain and Great Britain and japan
Everything TO lose.
So disarmament may be relegated
to the very dim and distant future
SO far as Great Britain is concerned
Her policy is not one that can be
changed readily!
1t is that she will not consens
to relinquish any Of her posses
sions and that she will not endan-
ger her position OF mistress of the
seas.
A suspension of future navy con-
struction is possible, even a cur.
tailment Of the ships now in opera
ton, but the margin of difference
In the relative strength. or the
advantage that belongs to Grea'
Britain, must be retained.
The Washington herald., 1921-10-16
TO INSIST on RETAINING CONTROL OF SEAS At CONFERENCE


that every ship Great Britain has
laid down sIgce the war. inciuding
two altered during construction. has
been OF, the powerful intermediate
type OF the Hood These ships
have q speed In excess Of 30 knots,
and are officially elassed as battle
cruisers"
on the all-iniportant subject Of
the personnel TO man the ships, Col
Bailou says
Great Britain has Izs,7oo reEu-
larly enlisted men and io.i5S officers
at present In her navy. Japan mas
IS. 500 men and 1870 oficers, with
provision for increase with the com
missioning Of new ships up 70 a
maximum OF 10000 men at the
completion Of her 'eight-eight' pro-
gram. The United States has al
present 100000 men and S.727 on
GERS. with no provision for increase
with the completion OF our three
year program. France has 10000
men and 1880 officers. Both great
Britain and Japan have a more
,humerous and better organized re-
serve than has the United States
The Washington herald., 1921-10-16

virginia capes army airplanes de-
stroyed the German battleship ost.
friesland and the obsolete U. s. bat
tleship Alabama.
The planes were compelled to fly
100 miles to sea and locate the
ships without the assistance of aux
Hilary craft. After reaching the
scene they were compelled to re-
main in the air from twenty-five to
forty minutes before beginning the
bombing, due to regulations estab-
Iished for the test.
These planes carried only 1000
pound bombs.
A T tests conducted since then
IA at Aberdeen proving grounds
= an army plane carried. q
4.OOO-pound bomb and dropped II
with accuracy. The explosion made
a crater twenty-five feet deep and
sixty-fve feet wide, an explosion
that would have overturned any
craft afioat II hitting IL alongside.
or torn It asunder II striking on the
deck.
subsequent tests have proved that
planes can score hits on any OBJ
jective at any height from which II
can be observed. Naval experts
agree that defensive armour against
airplane attack is impractical.
The principles of naval strategy
as exhibited in battles within the
last thirty years means that one
navy or the other necessarily will
be near one of its bases and will be
able to get the support of its air
planes.
Can Repel Attack.
And the more recent tests have
established beyond any doubt that
-. 1850, - ,uooasvf,lIxy attach n
The Washington herald., 1921-10-16
NAVAL SUPREMACY
RACE NARROWED
U. S., England and Japan
Nearly Matched in
Future Plans.
Continued from Page One.

Continues from Page One.
Japanese navy make for a swifter
fleet but the battleships themselves
are two knots faster than ours. The
standard speed Of our dreadnaughts
is twenty-one knots, with our first
oil burners, the Oklahoma and Ne
vada, designed for half a knot less.
Except for the Settsu the Japanese
battleships are designed for 235
knots. We have now laid down the
South Dakota class of % knots but
Japan, with the Kaga and Tosa has
gone up to Is knots. Tactically,
therefore, the japanese feet is in
position to fight or TO refuse at will,
always remembering. however, that
wars are not won by refusing to
fight.
I'm firm adherence to the idea that
all old mixed battery battleships
are obsolete, Great Britain has ruth
lessly scrapped not only every pre-
dreadnaught. but the original
'dreadnaught' itself, while half q
dozen more Of the older vessels still
on the list are marked for dis
posal,'" says Col. Ballou.
u. Ss mas fOwer1ul reserve.
The United States is still hold
ing in reserve the semi-dread-
naughts Michigan and South Caro-
lima the six 'Connecticuts' and ave
New Jerseys a powerful secondary
feet. though useless against dread
naughts. Japan has four old battle
ships of similar type.
las between battleships and bat
tie cruisers IL is noteworthy that
after the battle of Falkland Islands,
in which Won Specs raiding squad
ran was overwhelmed by British
battle cruisers, Great Britain made
haste to alter the design of two bat
tleships already on the stocks and
completed the Renown and Repulse
as battle cruisers. In the pitched
battle of Jutland. however, three
great battle cruisers were sunk by
gun fire, while of the battleships the
warspite, caught with the helm
damned. stood an unusually heavy
hammering and the Marlborough
survived a torpedo hit forward, both
without vital injury. The war SEEM
ed to demonstrate. therefore, the
importance of battle cruisers in
their special line of work and their
weakness in taking part in a pitch
ed engagement with battleships. A
we'll proportioned navy should
therefore have both, and Great
Britain has finally decided that her
four ships just authorized shall be
The Washington herald., 1921-10-16

undertake to come to, her protec-
tion.. But here again there is an
obstacle. An agreement on the part
of the two powers is Of no practical
beneht unless there are ships and
troops to support 1t. so France, in
the event Of exacting such an agree
ment would offer strenuous apposi-
ton 10 a -curtaIlment that would
come anywhere near the danger,
point. H..
TT wO other proposals have been
advanced. but both are entirely
L out of the question at this time
from the British viewpoint
The first is that Of an interna-
tional force and the second complete
disarmament. except for such forces
as are necessary to preserve peace
at home. d.
An internationalized navy and
army would be possible, or practic-
able. only in the event ofan ironctad
agreement between Great Britain,
the United States and Japan. As
suggested, each government would
cahtribute a certain number or
tfoops. These would undertake TO
preserve the territorial integrity of
the other nations.
Such an arrangement is almost
Identical with Article X of the cove
nant of the league OF nations, the
rock upon which It was wrecked in
the United States Senate. Great
Britain would very naturally expect
such an agreement to again be re-
pudiated.
As for complete disarmament, the
millennium and end of all wars, It
is extremely doubtful II 1t will even
be discussed by the British except
as an academic question. Z
THE large number of sincere
persons throughout the world
= who advocate complete disarm-
ament believe it to be entirely prac-
ticable and applicable even at this
time, and many through a misunder-
standing of the aims of the ap-
preaching conference expect to see
It accomplished. But the idealistic
and altruistic views on the subject
in America are regarded as entirely
selfish by the British, and the reason
is not at all obscure
For instance two men have A feud
The one is a giant physically, the
other a weakling. The weakling
has a high-powered rife and knows
how to use II. The other is armed
with only a revolver and Is an in
different shot. The advantage OBJ
viously is with the man with the
rife.
But disarm the two and the ad-
vantage Immediately reverses.
The same is trus of nations.
Geographically. at least, Great
Britain would be a weakling in this
game, IL disarmed.
The United States would be the
giant
A nations real military strength
can not be measured by the size OF
Its army and navy exclusively. Al
the outbreak OF the world war the
largest army in the world and the
greatest man power back or u was
In Russia. Due to wholly made
quate transportation facilities. to nc
means of communication, to the in,
ability of industries to coordinate
the army was the first to collaps q,
In. the event of complete disarm-
ament throughout the world. the
United States would automatically
become the first world power. She
The Washington herald., 1921-10-16

of the Hood type, classihed as
powerful battle cruisers
Would Exceed BrftIsh Navy.
.As between Great Britain and
the United states-it IL hard 20 COM
pare the older ships Of the mother
country with, oor modern ships stip
under construction With both
programs finished. and barring the
further scrapping threatened by
Great Britain. the tonnage IN capital
ships will be practically identical
Under these circumstances our larger
proportion of 'post-Jutland' ships
should give Us a margin Of supe-
rtority even with thirty-three yes
sells against forty Great Brit
aims overwhelming superiority In
cruisers and airplane carriers. not
shown on the table of capital ships.
IL however. an item not TO be dis
regarded.
Great Britain's standard speed is
the same as ours. The Queen Eliz-
abeth' class of i've ships Is a fast
squadron of Is knots. but foIlowing
this the Royal Sovereigns' went
back to 81 knots.
1T must be remembered. however
The Washington herald., 1921-10-16

all OF the preliminary discus
sions Of the conference on hmi-
tation of ornaments public opin-
ion has largely been centered on
naval craft, the cost of construct
ing them, the programs for con-
struction adopted by the various
nations. their relative strength to-
day and number of years hence
when the programs of today will
have been completed
Little has been said of the air
plane, although ii is, of course, in
cluded by military experts in any
discussion of land or sea ornaments.
As a matter of fact the airplane
viii play a more important part in
the approaching conference than
is generally understood outside of
government circles, and in the opin-
ion of many is the greatest single
reason why expenditures for naval
armaments wifi be reduced and the
tax burden materially lightened
Her STRENGTH Disputed.
In the article on this page Great
Britain Is referred to as the undis-
puted master of the seas from a
standpoint of naval ornaments: but
not only in Great Britain is there
grave apprehension as to the
strength of this naval force in
view of the recent developments in
aeronautics as a defensive weapon
of war. Both in the United States
and Japan there is a feeling that 1t
may not prove amiss to halt the ex-
pend1ture OF such large,sums for the
building OF battleships and divert a
portion of II to the stimulation of
an adequate air force.
The reason is obvious.
1t is that an airplane has demon
strated in practical tests the abil-
ity to sink anything afloat.
In tests recently conducted of the
The Washington herald., 1921-10-16

Franco has taken the lead due
to direct subsidy maintained by
the government Commercial planes
can not be easily converted TO war
purposes. except by a.. larger orig
maj expenditures for their sconstruc-
tfon. The industry. however can
oe converted within q few months
from the prodhctioneof commerctai
planes TO war machines.
The Frenih government is build
ing machines for commercial purr
poses that can be converted AZ "a
moments notice to bombing ana
pursuit planes.
Great Britain was not inclined 10
subsidize commercial aeronautlcs
at first, but due to the competition
OF the French was compeileo 10
do SO.
n ERMANY is compelled to con-
fine her development OF air
planes to the commercial
craft. but she is making wonderful
strides in this direction and Is not
only selling her planes TO Japan,
but her experts are aiding In the
establishment Of an airplane INDUS
try thereA
'other nations have closely OBJ
served the experiments >of the air
plane against the battleships con-
Quoted here and have made numer-
Gus tests on their own account.
All of them realize its defensive
strength against an attacking
naval force and there Is feeling
that the time for limitation OF bat
tleship construction is not far dis
tant.
And it is. for this reason that
military experts, who are intensely
realistic, expect TO see q marked
reduction in taxation to maintain
armaments
The Washington herald., 1921-10-16
AIRPLANEs ONLY HOPE TO REDUCE NAVAL ARNANENTs

country that has an adequate air
force. A
Under these conditions navy
such as Is nsintained by, Great
Britain would be powerless in at
tack against the United States, II
the United States had an adequate
air force Its main strength would
be on the high seas at range not
safe for planes to operate.
Just now the planes have limi-
tation Of operation and offensive
strength that Is acknowledged.
While there are pIAnes In Europe
that are capable of crossing the
Atlantic, they have not the carrying
capacity to make them particular
ly useful for bombing, or other Of
fensive' operations after they reach
this side.
The day when a formation or
battle airplanes will be able to fly
| across seas from one nation to an
other Is many years in the future,
so the conference may be expected
to conf1ne itself to what is real and
not go into the realm OF conjecture.
LyVTHAT is real is that of a first
w class battIeship costs about
w $40,000,000 and requires a
complement of about 1900 men. The
finest bombing plane. one capable
of destroying the same battIeshIp
may be built for $4,000. with a
complement of not to exceed thirty
men, including the ground force,
etc.
The relative strength Of the
various nations in airpiane de-
velopment is:
France, nearly double that of
Great Britain. .''.
Great Britain.
Germany.
| United States
The Washington herald., 1921-10-16
FATE OF ISLANDS
HINGES ON ABILITY
'TOOPERATESHIPS
Will Reject Any Proposal
To Imperil Her Com
municatiOns.
SUSPECTS U. S. AIMS
Irish and Indians Questions
Make Disarmament Re-
mote Possibility.
SUSPECTS U. S. AIMS

In f5Uo precious articles designed
10 make the APPROACHING eoHferene
on l!mifafioH of GrmGmeHtS and the
Far East problem clear The Herald
has explained and illustrated NTH
MAPS tie inyoGds on Chinese sod BY
the 5v0rld po5VerS aud the rise OF
JabaEese PO1pcr IN the Pacific.
The first article, Appearing t1ro
treeEs ago, dealt 1Vith the Chinese
ssudfion alone and Sho1Ved ho[U "a,
rious notions haze seised or forced
Chino to grant Iotd and haze used
such eessicnS as bases for ds0eIoP-
mrnt. The second article dealt 1gith
the steady rise of JdPGn to o pace
of sysdomirdrce IN the Far East, the
Succession to German and Russian
territory in the Far East as q result
of tie 7vcrId oar and JGPo"s Gtti-
tgdE touurd ycIinqHishing anything
gained.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-12-10
HOW DO YOU SAY II!
By c. N. LURE
Common Errors in English and
How to Avoid Them
~aETwEEN YOU AND T."

~ ETwEEN you and l." says the
"h careless speaker, Il do not
like that fellow" Probably
the speaker has been taught, in school,
the rule Of grammar which says that
In English all propositions govern the
objective case that Is the word which
follows proposition must be In the
objective case, but he has forgotten
the rule.
Now, "between" is proposition
word used before noun or pronoun
to show the relation between the per-
son or thing named and the idea ex-
pressed by some other word or phrase
In a sentence. And II" FUSED incor-
rectly in the phrase between you and
I'o is a pronoun and should not be
Il" at all, but "me," since me" Is the
objective form Of the personal pro
noun. first person singular.
All of the above, expressed in sim
nile English, means simply this: Never
saw "between you and l." but say "be
tween you and me-"
(copyright.)
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-12-10
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