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Texas "OiIionaires."

ALL Texans apparently are ANXIOUS
n to become "oilionaires. Thes
are not satisfied with having the
greatest oil fields in the world. out
are now going out to the far limits
- North American continent to
discover new fields.
DR.. u. w. Beede. internationally
famed cgeologist Of the University OF
Texas has Just returned to his native
heath from a six months exploration
tour along the Mackenzie river
which, traverses that portion or the
country living within the shadow OF
the Arctic circle This long, lone
some and dangerous trip was made
nv DIR. Beede in the interest OF
large producing Oil company with
view Of locating paying oil neids IN
the vicinity of the Great slave lake.
4 well was actually gotten under
way. but the icy blasts from the
polaI- regions swept down upon the
driIlers before any great amount OF
work could be done. During nine
months of the year the territory
around Great Slave lake is a frozen
mass.
DR.. Beede left Texas last May, go
1000 miles by boat up the Mackenzie
river. All supplies had to be trans
ported over the rivers and lakes Of
Canada for more than 1900 miles.
The coming OF spring again will
find this intrepid explorer chaper-
oning an oil we'll drill in the far cor
ner Of Alaska.
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THE JELLY BE AN

him there and fancied that one or two
were even slightly resentful. But at
half past ten his embarrassment sud
denly left him and pull of GREATNESS
interest took him completely out of
himself-Nancy Lamar had come out
of the dressing room.
X X \ +
CHE was dressed in yellow organdie.
~ a costume of a hundred cool cor
ners, with three tiers of ruffles and a
big bow in back until she shed black
and yellow around her in sort
of phosphorescent luster. The Jelly
beams eyes opened wide and lump
arose in his throat. For minute she
stood beside the door until her part
ner hurried up. Jim recognized him
as the stranger who had been with
her in Ben Arrot's car that afternoon:
He saw her set her arms akimbo ana
saw something in a low voice and
laugh The man laughed too and Jim
experienced the quick pang of a weird
new kind of pain. Some ray had pass
ed between the pair, shaft OF beauty
from that sun that he'd warmed him
a moment since. The Jelly-bean felt
suddenly like n weed in a shadow
A minute later Peter approached
him. bright-eyed and glowing.
Hi, old man." he cried with some
lack of originality, ''how you making
out?"
Jim replied that he was making
out as we'll as could be expected.
You come along with me-" COM
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and water, and even perfume. and
I've ruined my powder pun trying to
make it stick to that"
Jim considered the question in some
"Why-I think perhaps gasoline
The words had scarcely left his lips
when she grasped his hand and pulled
him at a run off the low veranda
over a flower bed and at a gallon
toward a group Of cars parked in the
moonlight by the first hole of the golf
course.
uTURN on the gasoline" she COM
manded breathlessly.
WHAT"
For the gum, Of course. I've got
to get it off. l can't dance with gun
on"
Obediently Jim turned to the cars
and began inspecting them with a
view to obtaining the desired solvent
Had she demanded cylinder he
would have done his best to wrench
one out without an instants hesita-
ton.
Here" he said after moments
search. Here's one that is easy. Got
a handkerchief"
Its upstairs wet 1 used 1t for the
soap and water"
Jim laboriously explored his pockets
Don't believe I've got one either.
''Doggone it. Well. we can turn 1t
on and let it run on the ground"
He turned the spout; dripping
began.
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of Ben Arrot in the front seat of a
car beside Evelyn Ware; Nancy Lamar
and a strange man We're in the back.
The Je1ly-bean tipped his hat
quickly.
Hi, Ben" then, after an almost
imperceptible pause-"How v all?"
Passing. he ambled on toward the
garage where he had a room upstairs.
His How y air had been said to
Nancy Lamar to whom he had not
spoken in fifteen years.
Nancy had a mouth like a remem-
bered kiss and shadowy eyes under
mother who had been born in Buda-
pest. Jim passed her often in the
street. walking Small-boy fashion with
her hands in her pockets. and he knew
that with her inseparable Celia Lar
rabee she had left trail of broken
hearts from Atlanta to New Orleans.
For a few fleeing moments Jim
wished he could dance. Then he
laughed and as he reached his door
began to sing softly to himself:
Her jelly roll can twist your soul.
Her eyes are big and brown.
She's the queen of the queens OF the Jelly
My Jeanne of Jelly-bean town.
+ x X
Al $50 Jim and Peter met in front
of Soda Sans and started for the
Country Club in Peters flivver.
"Jim," asked Peter casually. as they
drove along through the jasmine
scented night, can You satisfy my
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A Story by F. Scott Fitzgerald

drowned like man did with Lady
Diana Manners once"
Ibid he do it to please herr"
Didn't mean drown himself to
please her. He just meant to jump
overheard and make everybody laugh.
Il reckon they just died laughin'
when he drowned"
"Oh, I suppose they laughed n lit
tle." she admitted. II imagine she
did anyway. She's pretty hard.
guess-like I am"
You hard?"
Like nails" She yawned again and
added. Give me little more from
that bottle"
Jim hestated but she held out her
hand defiantly.
Don't treat me like girl" she
warned him. I'm not like any girl
perhaps you're right. You got-you
She rose to her feet and moved
toward the door. The Jelly-bean rose
also.
Goodbye" she said politely, good
bye. Thanks, Jelly-bean."
Then she stepped inside and left him
wide-eyed upon the porch.
At 12 o'clock n procession OF CLOAK
issued single file from the women
dressing room and. each one pairing
with coated beau like dancers
meeting in a cotillon figure. drifted
through the door with sleepy happy
laughter-through the door into the
dark where autos backed and snorted
and parties called to one another and
gathered around the water cooler.
Jim. sitting in his corner, rose TO
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from that part up there. Had a big

from that part up there. Had q big
place"
Peter looked at him curiou.ly;
this sort of affected me the same
way"
The JeIly-b bean hesitated.
Il don't know he began slowly
"somethin' about-about that girl last
Diana Manners-an English lady.
sorta got me thinkin!" He drew him.
self up and looked oddly at Peter:
Il had family once" he said de-
family.
Peter nodded.
81 know"
And I'm the last of EN-" con-
tinued the Jelly-bean. his voice rising
slightly and 1 amt worth shucks.
Name they call me by means jelly
weak and wobbly like. People who
wern't nothin' when my folks were
lot turn up their noses when they
pass me on the street"
Again Peter was silent.
so I'm through. I'm goin' today.
And when I come back to this town
it's going to be like a gentleman"
Peter took out his handk erchief
and wiped his damp brow.
Reckon you're not the only one
1t shook up" he admitted gloomily
An this thing Of girls going round
unchaperoned is going to stop right
quick. Too had. too. but everybody'll
have to see it hathaway"
DO you mean" demanded Jim in
surprise. that all that's leaked OUT
Leaked out How on earth could
they keep it secret. It'll be announced
in the papers tonight. DR.. Lamar's
got to save his name somehow"
Jim put his hands on the sides OF
the car and frightened his long fingers
on the metal.
do you mean Taylor investigated
those checks"
1t was Peters turn to be surprised.
Haven't you heard what hap
pened?'
Jim's startled eyes were answer
enough.
why" announced Peter dramatic
ally. those four got another bottle OF
corn, got tight and decided to shock
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Merritt were married in Rockville az
o'clock this morning"
A tiny indentation appeared in thS
metal under the Jelly-bean's fingers.
"Married?'
Sure enough. Nancy sobered UP
and rushed back into town. crying
and frightened to death-claimed it'd
all been a mistake. First DR.. Lamar
went wild and was going to kill Mef-
rift. but finally they got 1t patched up
went to Savannah on the $50 train"
Jim closed his eyes and with an 81"
fort overcame a sudden sickness.
IT'S too bad" said Peter phiioso-
phically. Il don't mean the wedding
reckon that's all right. though don't
But It's crime for a nice girl ike
that to hurt her family that way"
The Jelly-bean let 60 the car and
turned away. Again something was
going on inside him. some inexplica-
BILE but almost chemical change.
Where you going asked Peter.
The Jelly-bean turned and looked
DULY back over his shoulder.
Got to 60" he muttered. Been up
too long; feelin' right sick
oh
THE street was hot at 3 and hotter
still at 4. the April dust seeming
to enmesh the SUN and give IT forth
again as world-old Joke forever
played on an eternity OF afternoons
But at half-past I first layer OF
quiet fell and the shades heightened
under the awnings and heavy foliaged
trees. In this heat nothing mattered.
All life was weather. waiting
through the hot where events had no
significance for the cool that was soft
and caressing like a woman's hand on
pi every one knows that this is the
greatest wisdom Of the south-so aft
er awhile the jelly-bean turned into
| a pool-hall on Jackson street, where
who would make all the old jokes
she ones he know.
Copyright Printed by arrangement With the
Metropolitan Newspaper Service. I,
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Their Ancestors.

A CONGRESSMAN said at a dinner :
A IT detest the war profiteer. One
of these brutes bought last year nne
colonial estate in Virginia. He was
showing a friend OF mine over the
grounds one day, and pointed to
quaint old private cemetery.
"'Those,' he said. are the graves OF
the former owners ancestors.
".Our ancestors his wife broke in.
proudly, are all living.
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Dismal ForebodingS.
BOSTON millionaire was ia

BOSTON millionaire was talking
~ about masterful wives.
"Masterful wives" he said. were in
the minority heretofore, but with the
coming of universal suffrage the ma
iority of wives are getting pretty
masterful.
"Believe me-" he concluded, cit won't
be only in his ONCE that the husband
Of the future, when he starts to dc
Nate. will be taken down."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-02
a Voice for Beauty

DR.. Ralph Adams Cram, whose
voice is for beauty, declares that
ugliness rules US, both in the "ma-
terial and psychological spheres.
Conceding the point as to things
physical, why drag in psychology?
In its newer phases it is young
and tender science and has never
sat to a photographer. No modern
explorer within the realm of the
mind has brought back pictures.
DR.. Cram would restore the old
chapels and monasteries in their old
integrity, to serve as sanctuaries, so
that once again, to use his phrase,
beauty may be linked with life and
art given back its true perspective. )"
From the standpoint of human
habit DR.. Cram is doubtless right.
10 practice an automatic smile is
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the right beginning to make in dis
polling depression, and a beautiful
environment stirs many to higher
act and thought.
But is it true, as DR.. Cram and so
many of our latter-day respondents
are fond of declaring, that ugliness
rules us? In spite of all these
critics, who take melancholy pleas
ure in despairing Of the world, prob
ably there never was time when it
would be possible to demonstrate the
beauty of so many lives. Stories of
crime and ugliness and unpleasant
ness fill the press, but it is the ex-
ceptional that is news. How about
the other side of the picture?
One who is looking for heroism,
for self-denial, for genuine char
acter, even for beauty of average
architecture, which is DR.. Grams
speciality, and for all those miracles
of life and color that give to the
world its interest and charm, will
surely find what he is looking for
to-day, more so than at any other
period. Never has mankind given
as good account of itself as in the
era in which we have lived.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-02
Safe and Sane Flying

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: More power to your campaign
for safety and sanity in civil aviation!
The public is at last awakening to the
consciousness that to fly is not of it.
self dangerous, but that the danger
comes when irresponsible, by light
pilots operate uninspected, poorly
maintained planes.
The HS-2 type of seaplane has flown
for nearly 100000 miles without
casualty of any description to passen-
gers-a record that automobiles may
we'll envy.
In addition to rigidly insisting on
the safety first" creed with our pilots
and mechanics, we are building up at
our school corps of mechanics who
on completion of their courses will
go forth as advocates of the newer
thought in aviation-straight safe
flying, without stunts.
Back up General Mitchell. He has
the right ideal HUGH d. M'KAY.
New York, June so, 1921.
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The Bent Truth

Francis P. Bent, formerly Alder
man from Mayor Hylan's district,
and now On the city's pay roll, as he
works as his honor's publicity agent,
has made a discovery.
He reveals the horrid truth as to
the paternity, birth and adolescence
of the Meyer committee. 1t appears
it originated in foul and fetid con-
spiracy of the traction interests.
First, they bought Governor Miller
by subscribing $580,0oO to his cam
paign fund. Then they brought for
ward Senator Meyer and elected him
SO he might be readily at hand when
needed. Not satisfied with these
iniquities, the next step was to re-
cruit a force of bandits to range up
and down the streets of New York,
robbing and shooting, so as to give
color to the charge that the Police
Department had broken down. In
cidentally, the Interests" not the in
nocent Grover Whalen, filled the
courthouse site with ashes, induced
the Mayor to become amanuensis to
Hettrick, gave Brindell entry to the
City Hall, and so on down the series
of events which led to the appoint
ment Of the Meyer committee.
New York will, of course, be duly
grateful to this spokesman of the
Mayor. He also is friend of the
people. Only the black of heart will
suggest that his revelations are in
the nature of Bent truth. He has
identified the miscreants. Now let
us all be up and at them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-02
Fair PLAY Winning

With the railway employees con-
tinuing at their posts, and with dis
cretionary power placed in the hands
of a committee of five, the outlook
is bright that railway strike will
be avertcd; that as the railroad men
joyfully accepted decisions which put
wages up they will yield to one
which says that changed costs Of
living and fairness to public which
pays the bills not only warrant but
demand a small decrease.
Congratulations may be justly ex-
tended to the railroad men. It is
true that fair play requires accept
ance of the cut. But men arc men,
and in an eager, pushing world,
where it is the habit to look after
ones own interests without too nice
a regard for the rights of others, it
is a notable thing to have great
masses of men exercise self-restraint.
The railroad worker thinks, and
what is even better he is not deaf
to appeals to his sense of justice.
Thus, he is armed against the solicit
tations Of professional agitators who
fatten on trouble. In the present
conditions he realizes he is passen-
ger in a common boat and that he
cannot escape a wetting if he rocks it.
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Certain Trouble
(From The Los Angeles Times

From The Los angeles Tin,es)
The project for an American acad-
envy of poetry and song will not mate
rialize without some friction. Neither
would the institution be maintained
without more controversy. If it were
just a clearing house for poetry it
would be easier; but even that might
furnish argument. There is such a diff
ference of opinion as to what really
constitutes poetry. There is a large
school willing to admit as poetry any
thing which has neither rhyme nor rea-
son. Others who follow such purists
as Bryant ard Longfellow insist that
real poetry must have both. Possibly
it would be best to compromise on q
home for bards and let them tilt before
a non-partisan committee for admis-
sion. Even hall of fame for poet.
might start fight.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-02
Chief Justice Taft

In his extended career William
Howard Taft has filled four con-
spicuous official places-iudge of a
Federal circuit court, Governor Gen
eral of the Philippines, Secretary of
War and President of the United
States. And in all save one he has
served with great satisfaction to the
public.
And for clear reasons. 1t would
be difficult to conceive of a person
with mind more impartial than Mr..
Taft, or better fitted to listen intelli-
gently, without prejudice or precon-
ception, to contradictory debate
and to decide it's issues justly; hence
his high repute as judge. Nor are
there many among US more soundly
human in sympathy or more warmly
protective in the desire to help fell
low creatures; hence his notable
success when called on to start
backward people, preyed on for CEN
turtles by an ignorant tyranny, on
the upward path. Nor has there
been in recent public life an Ameri-
can more loyal or more instinctively
a believer in team work; hence his
great value when he was Secretary
of War and was the right arm Of
President Roosevelt, who was not
averse to making decisions, in the
management and application of i'm
portant policies.
If as President Mr.. Taft found
himself to some degree out of his ele-
ment, it was largely because of his
possession OF the very qualities of
open-mindedness, catholicity and
lack of stubborn dog1natism which
have made for his great usefulness
in other fields.
If advancing years permit, Mr..
Taft may be counted on to be Chief
Justice of the United States up to
the standard of the most illustrious
of his predecessors. He is learned
in the law, is in hearty accord with
the bearing of our institutions which
have weathered the tests Of time, is
a firm champion Of what may be
called progressive juridical science,
and is happily free from that intel
lectual dogmatisnn, akin to the vice of
theologians, that has led some emil
nent judges to seek to over-systema-
tie the law-to dehumanize it by
treating it's doctrines as absolute
and unbending.
Mr.. Taft has such tact and good
humor and has so unconQuerable a
spirit of fair play that he is greatly
beloved by his fellow citizens. These
gifts and this character may not be
the first ones sought for in Chief
Justice, but even the most eminent
judges are none the worse for having
them. With Justice Taft as modera-
tor, it is probable that not few as
perities that mar the harmony of the
celestial chamber, the consulting
room, will be softened, and that not
quite so often in the future will the
court divide five and four.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-02
The Retreat From ysnnid

The recent fighting on the Ismid
front in Asia Minor has been fol-
lowed by Greek evacuation of that
city. Such move by Constantine
was not unexpected. 1t has two
merits from his point of view. If
he renews his offensive against the
Nationalist Turks he will naturally
deliver his main blow much further
south-either toward Eskishehr or
toward Alum Karahissar. Isnaid is
on his extreme left flank and is of
little value to him for offensive pur-
poses.
BY abandoning it he also leaves
The road to Constantinople open to
the Kemalists. Ismid is only about
fifty miles east of Scutari, and the
two are connected by the main line
of the Constantinople- Bagdad rail-
road. 1t would suit Constantine per-
fectly to have the Kemalists advance
toward Scutari and thus threaten
the Allied occupation of Constanti-
nople.
At present there is a state of truce
between the Allies and the Angora
government. A neutral zone has
been iald out east of the Bosporus
and between the Black Sea and the
Bagdad railway. If the Kemalists
overrun it, yielding to desire for
plumber or to instigation from Mos
COW, the Allies will be drawn into
war again with Angora and may have
to call on Constantine to protect the
straits and the Sultan's capital. An
emissary of Tino's is reported to
have told the Allied representatives
that the Greek army would occupy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-02
Peace Day

Both houses of Congress having
passed the Knox-Porter peace res
olution, and Vice-President Coolidge
and the Acting Speaker of the House
having affixed their signatures, the
resolution will to-day be placed be-
fore President Harding for final
action,
April 6. 1917; November II, 1918;
July 2, 1921-these are dates that
will be impressed on the minds of
young Americans for generations to
come. They will be symbols, though
the public mind to-day is not CEN
tered on what will occur at Raritan
and few will stand at attention as
the curtain descends on the war. A
practical as well as mercurial peo-
pie, we know that the war in fact
ended long ago and are not much in
terested in a sweeping away Of it's
legal remains.
But only the superficial will be de-
eeived into thinking this inattentive-
ness signifies indifference to'the war
itself. AS time presses on and the
years give perspective the great>con-
dict, in the nobility CT its issues as
well as in the cheerfulness of it's
sacrifices, looms larger and larger.
We have been permitted to be par
Elephants in great matters. And as
the President signs his name he can
do 50 with the knowledge that he acts
as the representative OF a nation
which has no reason to feel ashamed
of its acts, and which, if a like need
should send its summons a second
time. would do again that which
it did,
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joke on any President" he said. "You
may have realized that there was a lit
tie boy on the other end of that wire,
and he started the conversation by say
ing, is that you, Archer and I re-
piled, No, it is Archie's father Where
upon he answered with evident disgust:
We'll, you'll do. Be sure to tell
Archie to come to supper. Don't for
get How the creatures order one
about!'" he quoted from our favorite
volume, Alice in Wonderland, and pro-
ceeded to run at full speed down to the
breakfast room.