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New-York tribune., 1921-12-19
Christ Story Told
In Solemn Pageant
BY Village People
Pomfret, Conn, Again Is
Scene of a Passion Play.
With New York Members
of Colony i'm Attendance
snecsos psspasoa to The 7,io,.ws

HARTFORD, Conn. Dec. 1S.-pom-
fret, little town nesting in the hills
Of northeastern Connecticut, rendered
It's tenth annual nativity pageant to-
night to the limited number who sue
ceeded in entering the little town hall
Among the spectators were many New
York and Boston summer residents
who have their country places near
Pomfret and are annually drawn to the
nativity play, originated ten years ago
by Mrs. Charles 0. Thompson as a
series of tableaux and gradually de-
veloped by the actors who fill their
parts year after year as in the Passion
play at Oberammergau.
The Virgin Mary character was
enacted by Mrs. Margaret Murray Ryan,
whose Interpretation of the role made
a profound impression. C. L. Ransome
was the foster Father Joseph, Miss
Esther Gustafson, the artist, was the
angel Gabriel, and the shepherds were
j. Fred Ash, Raymond Herman, Win
throp Danielson and Allen Averill. The
Wise Men of the East were Warren
Averill, the postmaster; Frank Chan
dler and Leonard Watson.
No word was spoken by the actors
and they depicted the full history of
the first Christmas solely by panto-
mime
New-York tribune., 1921-12-19
Undernourished Students
To Get Hot Drinks Free

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Dec. 1S.-A cup
OF hot cocoa or hot milk is to be served
free every. forenoon to any Massachu-
setts Institute OF Techn ology student
who wishes it. DR.. G. w Morse head
of the medical department of the in
stitute, has discovered through a sys-
tenn Of physical examinations that
about 90 per cent of the students are
improperly nourished
Many of them," he said tonight.
"are commuters and have to leave
home early with only a hurried bite
of breakfast or a cake of chocolate
eaten on the way in. They stand in
the laboratory or sit in lectures all the
morning and between IL and II o'clock
they .get dizzy or faint"
To relieve this condition DR.. Morse
consulted the man who has the restau-
rant concession for the institute and
he agreed to supply the hot drinks
free, with cracker which he said
would be made especially for the stu
vitaminesn
New-York tribune., 1921-12-19
Victims of Kansas
Miners Thuggery
Afraid to Testify
Marked Man if I Named NV
Assailants,' One Pleads at
Inquiry; italian Group
of Reds Threatens Allen
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

PITTSBURG, Kans., Dec. 1s.-The
reign of terror which the red element
among the Howat following instituted
in this community m the last two years
is now reflected during the efforts the
states Attorney General, Richard j
Hopkins and c. A. Burnett, county at
torney, are making to bring to judg-
ment those who participated in the
riots early last week. The officers find
it almost impossible to induce any one
to give testimony against the rioters
even though the men themselves admit
that they were brutally beaten and
driven from their work by those who
are accused.
One man, with his head bandaged
his face lacerated and looking all the
worse for the handling the rioters gave
him. was before the officers to-day.
What happened to you?" asked Mr.
Burnett.
WELL" said the witness, some one
hit me behind the ear with club and
another member of the mob pounded
me over the head with my dinner
bucket, which had been snatched from
my hand. Others almost stripped ME
Of my clothing and they scratched my
face and choked me-"
Did you recognize any OF these per-
sons
The witness stammered and hest
tated.
why, think l knew them at the
time" he said, "but-''
"What?"
Il would not like to mention their
names or file any complaint against
them
why not?' Mr.. Burnett persisted
We'll, sir, l would be a marked man
if did. l would not be safe from at
tack and my family and my home would
be in danger all the time
Governor Allen received black hand
letter yesterday. TWAS the first threat
ening missive the Governor has had
since the eour four troops of cavalrs,
were sent into the coal fields to pre-
serve order and protect the homes OF
the miners who wanted to work The
letter said:
We, the picked men of our Italian
group, inform you if you don't discon-
tinue sending strikebreakers to the coal
fields and skab soldiers at oncewe are
going to get you if it takes till 1880"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-19
Emerson Voices Optimism
Better Days Coming for Stage.
He Tells Club Diners

John Emerson. president of the
Actors Equity Association. was the
guest of honor last night at a dinner
IN the Green Room Club, 1877 West
Mr.. Emerson predicted that better
times were ahead for all the profess
slons and business interests connected
with the stage.
1--WE have all had to suffer this sea-
son managers, authors and actors
alike he said-"but l really believe
that out of all this chaos something
very fine is going to come. I think I
see in the near future the actors and
authors, without either of whom there
would be no theater, coming into their
own on the American stage. The in
creasing number Of actors and authors
taking over a part, and in many cases
all of the management Of their inter
ests, argues we'll for the future of the
drama in this country"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-19
Pastor Lets Young Folks
Dance in Church Chapel
Best Antidote for Public Balls
and Sex Plays at Theaters,
Rev. Cilkey Contends
specinl ptanotch to xix Tribna

Special Dtspctch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, Dec. 1s.-The Rev. James
Gordon Gilxey, pastor OF the South
Congregational Church, Of Springfield.
Mass, who Is here on a visit, explained
tS-GsY now be had increased his con-
grsgation from 800 to 1,70o, by permit
ting the young folks to dance in the
church chapel Not only do the young
people dance in the chapel, but the
slders, many of them descendants of
the Pilgram fathers, and the minister
himself, participate in the hops.
We dance all the modern dances, in
Guiding the toddle," said Mr.. GiTkey.
II was the only way to save the young
folks from the dance hall and the sex
problem play Of the local theaters. If
the young people want to dance they
are going to dance, and if you don't let
them dance in the church they will
60 some place else, probably to the
csaheap, dance halls. That accounts for
the depravsd tendencies of our nice
boys and girls to-day. Girls and boys
VINO previously took no interest in the
cnurch are now among the best
workers.
Mr.. Gilkey said the elders were
against the idea at the beginning, but
ne finally convinced them that if they
permitted their children to dance at
OIL 1t should be where dancing would
ee made right.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-19
Garment Union
Insists 1t Would
Welcome Inquiry
Reply to Open Letter De-
ciares Organization Out
spoken Opponent of All
Autocratic Unionism'

Inc international Ladies' Garment
Workers Union yesterday issued a
statement III reply to an "open letter.
purporting to come from a cloak manu-
facturer named Leon Sherman. which
asked that there be an Investigation
of the women's garment industry and
also that Samuel Untermyer. o. coun-
sci for the union, and chief investi-
gator for the Lockwood Legislative
committee, accord the same treatment
TO the garment makers that he did to
the building trades unions.
The reply says that the international
Ladies' Garment Workers Union is the
most outspoken opponent of any form
OF "autocratic unionism." 1t says:
The union in the cloak and suit in
dustry of New York is not opposed to
any time-savins machinery that has
been introduced or that might be intro
duced.
THE union does not fine members
for earning beyond the minimum scale
OF wages. On the other hand, a very
large number Of cloakmakers earn
above the minimum scale and the union
has never interfered.
ne cloakmakers' union does not fine
member arbitrarily for infractions of
organization rules. Members who
gravely offend against the rules of the
union are given the widest opportunitv
to be heard and the fines Imposed are
mild and are never imposed by strikes
or stoppages. The relations between
the employers and the union are pure
~ contractual and conta in no discipli-
nary clauses.
" The initiation fees into the Cloak
makers Il
worker is encouraged to join. AS re-
suit the union has succeeded in organ
lz!ng 100 per cent of the workers.
he union does not claim and has
never claimed a life job right for its
members. 1t always was ready to CO.
operate in the disciplining of the in
efficient workers, and it was one of the
purposes for which the Joint commits
sion in the industry was established by
the supplementary agreement between
the union and the association of June
o. I9Zl, which was unceremoniously
broken by the association.
The union in the cloak and suit in
dustry of New York will welcome a
full and open inquiry into its methods
form OF organization and entire his
tory"
Leon Sherman, women's garu emf
manufacturer of 366 Fifth Avenue. de-
MED yesterday that he was the Leon
Sherman who had sent out the "open
letter. which was first printed in a
garment trade paper. He said he
thought some one else was using his
name.
Max D. Steuer said last night that
his supplemental papers in the unions
injunction suit were ready for filing to-
day. The union attorneys, Morris Hill
quit and Samuel Untermyer, have until
Wednesday.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-19
Prosecution to Ask Reopening
Of Its Case Against Burch

Los ANGELES, Dec. 1s.-The prose-
cutlon tomorrow will ask permission
to reopen it's case against Arthur G
Burch, ON trial here charged with mur-
dering j. Bolton Kennedy, it was an
nounced tonight. The witness whom
it is sought to examine is not that one
for whose subsequent examination per
mission was granted when the prose-
cution closed it's case late Thursday.
Counsel for Burch said they were
ready to proceed with their side of the
trial, which it has been announced will
include contentious that Burch was in
sane when Kennedy was slain and that
he had nothing to do with the slayinp
New-York tribune., 1921-12-19
Pet Cat Goes Mad, Slashes Child,
Bites Woman and Policeman

A tortoiscshcll cat. for more than
FIVE years cherished as family pet in
the home of. Carl Carlson, 5slT Fifth
Avenue, Brooklyn, went mad yesterday
afternoon, and after it had inflicted
severe injuries on Mrs. Adelaide Carl
son. az we'll az her daughter, Frances,
was killed by patrolman Smith, OF the
Fourth Avenue police station. Smith
was bitten and scratched before he sue
ceeded in clubbing the animal to death.
The cat was known throughout the
neighhorhood as sNigger." 1t was the
especial pet of Frances Carlson, five
years old. Frances and her mother
were preparing ornaments for Christ
mas tree while the cat lay sleeping on
a pile of newspapers near by The
child tried to remove one Of the news
papers on which "Nigger" was lying
when the animal sprang at hex, i'm
bedded its claws in her face and bit
Mt her hands when she endeavorcd to
fight it off. Mrs. Carlson dragged the
New-York tribune., 1921-12-19

cat from her daughters head, being
torn and scratched In the effort.
Mrs. Carlson threw the cat from her
and pushed the little girl into hall
way. She then turned to fight the
crazed creature. which again attacked
Ter ferociousy, fastening it's claws in
her blouse and inaicting deep scratches
on her face and throat. In final
effort Mrs. Carlson beat the animal off
and ran upstairs with her daughter
From an upper window she called for
help.
Patrolman Smith entered the house
and was at once attacked by "Nigger, -
the animal springing for his face. He
struck the cat twice with mis- club and
It ran down cellar. The officer fol-
lowed and withstood repeated rushes
before he was able to stun it.
Mrs. Carlson and her daughter were
given immediate treatment to counter
act &C the effect of their injuries in case
1 me cat is proved to have been rabid.
Inc cats body was sent to the Health
Department for examination.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-19
Baggage of Col. Whittlesev
Brought Home bv SIS. T0lo

The baggage Of the late Colonel
Whittlesey, who disappeared from the
United Fruit steamship Toloa on her
last southerly run out of New York to
the Caribbean, was brought to port yes
terday by the vessel on her return to
this port
Captain Grant said the effects of the
late commander of the Lost Battalion
would be turned over to the executor
OF his estate.
"All the facts relating to the disap-
pearance Of Colonel Whittlesevn said
Captain Grant "have been fully pub
lished in the newspapers. I can give
no further information concerning his
death"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-19
Three Held in Auto Plot
Arrests in Hackensack Expected
10 Clear Up Thefts

HACKENSACK, N. j., Dec. is. Ar.
rest OF three men in the act of break.
ing INTO garage here to-day will go
far toward clearing up recent automo-
bile thefts. tho police say. All three
were held in $4,000 bail by Justice Of
the Peace Johnson.
me prisoners arc Alfred Brown
eighteen years old, Hackensack; Will
liam Doran, nineteen. North Hacken.
sack, and Ellis Sayles, who also gave
Hnckensack as his home Doran was
wounded by revolver shot fired by
patrolman when he endeavored to
escape.
1t was said tonight that important
admissions had been obtained from the
men at police headquarters. Sayles is
to have planned the theft OF the Satur-
day receipts which had been locked in
the garage safe.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-19
New York Cast TO Make
Two-Year Tour in sThe Circle

Arrangements have just been com
pieted by the Selwyns for two-year
tour of "The Circle" with the present
company of players now appearing in
the play at the Selwyn Theater. On
January the Somerset Maugham com
edy will move to another theater be-
cause of the Selwyns' contract with Ar
thur Hammersteln for the Selwyn Thea.
ter. in which he will produce "The Blue
Kitten" on the same date.
The Circle will remain in New York
Until the first Of April, and then John
Drew, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Estelle Win
wood, Ernest Lawford, John Halliday
and Robert Rendel will begin their one
tour, playing their first engagement
outside Of New YORK in Boston.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-19
contract Rights
NJ Roads Under
Attack To-day
r,;spuses Involving Car
and Locomotive Repairs
and Common Jobs To Be
Heard by Labor Board
conspiracy, Says Walsh
Companies, in Awarding
Work Outside, Seek to
Evade Law, Lawyer Says

CHICAGO. Dec. IS.--The right Of
~;lwsy companies TO contract work to
s.ms or individuals removed from the
arisdietion Of the Railroad Labor
soard will come before the board TO-
.syrcw, when disputes on nine rail-
n.ds will be heard. The controver-
.,s involve car and locomotive repair
,ork. track and common labor jobs.
rhs action in each case was brought
m employees organizations whose
ssmbsrs formerly did the work now
s,;ug done by outside firms under
.ontract. In most cases the wages
,aii By the contracting firms are less
,har those specified for railway en-
sloyees, situation which. the unions
.autsnd, at cnce throws their men out
II work and removes wage and work
;ss regulations from the jurisdiction
II the labor board.
charscterizing the cases as the most
Important to the employees, the in
.sgrity of the labor board and the pub
Ne that have ever been submitted for
4 decision. Frank P. Walsh, counsel
for the shop crafts organization, in a
statement said that if the railroads
we're successful in their contention it
would mean the destruction of the
Railroad Labor Board.
Charges Plot Among Roads
conspiracy TO avoid the provisions of
shs transportation set so far as it safe
guards the rights of the railway en-
payees and the public" declared
". Walsh.
AThs railroad companies have sue
teeded in covering their tracks in MANY
parts Of the country, but this hearins
should rip the lid of the entire con-
piracy. Unless the law reaches in
With strong hand the general pablic
viii be left open to exploitation in a
manner unparalleled in the worst days
Of railroad abuse and graft"
What is regarded as q typical test
case is that of the Federated Shop
Gratis against the Erie Railroad, which
hss leased its repair work on cars and
locomotives at Hornell, N. Y, to the
Hornell Construction Company. The
shop unions contend that wages have
been arbitrarily reduced by the con-
aruction company below the scale set
By the Labor Board.
Unicns Press Several Actions
The Shop Crafts also have brought
Etion against the Chicago & Great
Western Railroad over the contract
ing Of car repair work at South Park,
Ninn.
Several cases will also be heard on
sctions brought by the United Brother
hosd Of Maintenance of Way Employees
and Railroad Shop Laborers, involving
sts Colorado & Southern, the Indian
Harbor Belt Railway, the st. Louis &
Ssn Francisco Railroad and the Chi
sgo, Milwaukee & st. Paul.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-19
Memorial for War Dogs
Monument for Canine Heroes
to Cost So. 500
Special Dispctch TO The Tribun

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, Dec. 1s.-In
order to perpetuate the memory Of the
war dogs who died while serving in
the trenches and on the battle fields Of
France, the plot holders Of Hartsdale
Canine Cemetery at Hartsdale, near
White Plains, have raised a fund to
erect war dog monument.
The memorial will cost $4,000 and
was designed by Robert Caterson,
sculptor Of Woodlawn. The base of
the monument already has been erected
in conspicuous part of the cemetery
travelled extensively by motorists.
Hartsdale's Canine Cemetery is
Americas first and only animal bury
ing ground and the only one like it is
in Paris,
New-York tribune., 1921-12-19
Stabbed to Death. Wife Held

Joseph Lech, forty years old. a
clerk. of ,l31 East Forty-third Street,
was fatally stabbed in his home last
night. Other tenants of the house re-
ported hearing Lech IN an alteration
with his wife. The clerk was removed
to Bellevue Hospital in q serious CON
dition. He died there later. His wife
is being held on a charge of honicide
New-York tribune., 1921-12-19
Baltic Wants Russian Trade

REVAL, Dec. ia conference of
foreign ministers of the Baltic states,
which comprise Finland, Esthonia, Lith-
uania and Letvia, has decided to work
for the completion OF q commercial
convention with Russia and also to CO.
ordinate and develop an economic pol
icy toward Russia in accordance with
the Riga conference.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-19
Cilicia Given Over TO Turks

CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. IS (By The
Associated Press).-The last French
outposts have been withdrawn behind
Paias, in northern Syria, and the whole
of Cilicia has been restored to Turkish
adm ministration. All British subjects
have departed from the country on the
cruiser Concord
New-York tribune., 1921-12-19
Mother and Six Incinerated

WINDSOR, N. s., Dec. 1s.-Mrs.
Reuben Johnson and her six ckildre,
ranging in age from three to fifteen
years, were burned to death early to-
day in fire which destroyed their
home.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-19

quest that the packers be forced to
arbitrste.
"Thc entrance Of the strike into its
second week tomorrow finds it 80 per
cent effective, despite the importation
of strike breakers into local packing
plants" said John Kennedy, president
Of the union, last night.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-12-01
S0APMAklNG IN DAYS OF. OLD /
Hogs and. Ashes Utilized to Good Ad.
vantage During the Youth Of = :.
: T. - Our 0randmothers.

+: . In the days Of our grandmothers.
when manufactured soap was an ex-
pensive luxury and hard to obtain.
every country housewife made her
own. soft soap, says the Kansas. City
Star. Enough was, made at one time
. to last the whole year. The light of
the moon in March was considered
the proper time for the soapmaking
and q sassafras stick must be used
for stirring.
When the hogs were butchered Tor
the yearly supply of meat the house.
wife carefully cleaned and washed the
entrails and sailed them down until
soapmaking time. Also all scraps of
meat and rinds were saved to be used.
When the ashes were removed from
the fireplace during the winter months
they were placed in large hopper
built for that purpose and kept care
fully covered until about a week be-
fore the time for making soap. Then
the children would carry water each
day and pour over the ashes and start
the hopper to running" to make the
I've for the soap.
When enough I've had run to make
the soap it was placed in large ket-
tie over an outdoor fire and boiled un-
til it became strong enough to "cut a
feather" Then the soap grease was
put in and the mixture kept at the
boiling point and stirred continuously
until the lye had eaten all the grease
and the mixture had become a thick,
soft mass of soap.
The soap was placed in barrels and
used for laundry purposes.
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traveller that his mustache was white
because he had clipped It thoughtless-
sly at new moon. Fortunately he had
waited until the moon was on the
wane to- trim his hair. z*3,s =" ~ 4. -.
! The things that people laugh at
might readily be considered an index
to their development. A specimen of
Albanian humor is furnished by WIS.,
itor who relates how a villager would
ruminate and then laugh uproarious-
~. This visitor took pains to find
the cause Of his merriment A typical
reply was this: Suppose a COW fell
from the cliff opposite Every man
would run to pick up bit for supper.
Then suppose; just as they got there.
all the bits Joined into the COW again
and ran away He burst again into
peals of laughter at his fancy.-Na-
tional Geographic Society Bulletin.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-12-01
School Report.

School report for west school, dis
trict 8, for the third month.
The following pupils were perfect ir
attendance for the entire month: LIE,
Roy, Neila and Verlin Balfanz; Esther
Raymond, Burnetta and Edna Gerth
Henrietta Guderian; Bertha, Walter
and Myrtle Keuther; Edna, Edward
Albert and Alfred Rosen; Alvin and
Hans Strauch.
Arnold Gems, Della and Ernest
Kornman, Ernest Klingbeil, Alice
Hoehn and Walter Hoeft missed but
one day during the month.
The following received 100 in spell
ing for the month: Renata Hamann;
Edna, Albert and Alfred Rosen; Myr-
tie Keuther, Raymond Gerth and We'd
lin Balfanz.
The highest class average in spell
ing was earned by the third grade.
The pupils are busy with their
Christmas seal sale and have most OF
the ten dollars worth sold.
Mrs. Ben Hartman, Teacher.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-12-01
South School, District 3, Program.

South School, District 5, Program
Miss Marion Lundblad and her
school we're welcome visitors at the
south school on Wednesday afternoon
November 90. A short Thanksgiving
program was given with a few special
numbers by the visitors. "The New
Hired Man," side-splitting dialogue
was given by the visitors In a pleasing
manner. It would have to be heard to
be appreciated. The songs and reel
tations given by the south school
showed much hard work and feeling
of responsibility on the part of the pu-
pills. Five seventh grade pupils gave
a one-act play entitled, "sue's Beau
to dinner" The cast of characters
was as follows: Mr.. Jenkins, Reuben
Helm; Mrs. jenkins, Annie Neumann;
Sue jenkins, Ada Hartman; Charlie
(Sue's little brother), Geo. Manke;
Tom Carton (Suc's bcau), Raymond
Manke. The play on the whole was a
characteristic scene of home where
there is big sister, beau and little
brother. At the close Of the program
Miss Lundblad presented a beautiful
picture to the school, bought with
prize money earned at the county fair
this year. Apples and peanuts were
passed around, after which games
were played by the two schools. 4 Az
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invitation to Christmas program
which we hope to be able to accept
was extended to the teachers and pu-
pills in the south school by Miss Lund-
blad and her pupils. - i.
Other visitors at the program were
Mr.. and Mrs. Helm and son, Edward
Mrs. G. B. Gustafson and daughter,
Gladys, and Mr.. and Mrs. W. G.
Pearson of Princeton. Bad roads and
Thanksgiving preparations made it i'm
possible for more of the parents to at
tend the program. However, we hope
to have larger attendance next time.
Gertrude G. Pearson,
Teacher in South School.