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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-11-25

vaudeville that remarkable char
acterizaa0n in The Clod." and
shepherd Of Bargain Row" IN
which she toured the Orpheu-n cir
cult three consecutive seasonS this
very gifted young actress has been
held in enviable esteem by the the
ater going public.
Miss Padden is now presenting a
new playlet. entitled The Cha-wo-
man" and is booked for a four days
engagement at the Orpheum theat-
er starting next Thursday. Wheve-
ever il has been given thus far. cri-
tics have agreed that Maggie Brown
CNIiss Padden's character in The
Charwomar'D. is IN many respects
az dramatically appealing as her
Mary Trask ia The Clod.'
While she is known IS vaude-
villes distinguished star, Miss Pad
denis gifts Of versatility must de-
mand recognition Her present
playlet is a. much of q departure
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-11-25

The Pasteur institute OF Franee
owned 273 horses producing anti
disease serums during the World
War
The white clay and bauxi;es Of
central Georgia may be new sources
Of china clay
The bureau OF standards has de-
vised an electric test for deteruin-
ing the purity or gold
A new machine enables a person
90 make 1900 prints an hour from
one Photographic negative.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-11-25

The superdreadnaugh Washing
ton Is nov the largest ship in the
United STATES navy.
China has adopted airplane mail
service between Pekin and Tsin-
anfu.
4 new ocean liner IS 70 have a
triple wireless plant able 20 send
dispatches from any part Of the
ocean.
A Pennsylvania man has made a
clock composed entirely OF $4,000
pieces OF hund-carved wood.
The railway between Argentina
and Chile crosses the Andes noun
tains az 1O530 feet above sea level
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-11-25

IRON he has role which exacts
neaFy depands upon him for emo
uonal acting lie meets them with
inc highest sort of efficiency. Scrap
Iron has plenty OF comedy, but the
story itself is a grippingIy dramatic
one. strongly tinged with pathos.
Ray plays the role of John Steele.
whose love and respect for his in
valid, widowed mother brings him
20 scorn before his fellow workers
and his best girl. His promise not
10 fight he finally breaks when star
vation is in prospect for his mother
The fight is the best which has ever
been shown on the screen and il
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-11-25

The Jlvaros. OF ECUADOR. wage
constant warfare among themselves
20 acquire wives as spells OF war.
The people OF Tibet measure de-
tarces by the time DO takes 90 drink
cups OF tea
a Frenchman has perfected mo
smallest bicycle motor made o. Do
attached 20 ordinary bicycles.
a silver plating process. require
ing haIf the usual time. has been
invented hy an EuE.Ishma1.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-11-25
STAGE
ORPHEUM

Ever since Sarah Padden gave
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-11-25

huge. tmbered door operated by a
mechanism peculiar 20 Arabia
This village is the fortified strong
hold OF the r0bber Sheik. OMAR
who figures as the villain IN the
picture. A stirring battle IN which
!. 900 horsemen engaged takes place
before the gates OF the mud city.
The Sheik" was picturized from
the novel by Edith Hull. which Is
one Of the present years best sell
ers"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-11-25
BLACKSTONE

Charles Ray in scrap Iron viii
have is fnal showings tomorrow
night. Mr. Ray makes his debut as
director. a goal ne has been aiming
at since ne became a recognized
star.
scrap Iron" is his most ambi-
tious effort 90 date While retain
ing a great deal OF the humor which
has uaade-him so popular, Ia Scrap
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-11-25

from Betty Behave" the comedy
in which she was last seen, as her
character in The Eternal Barrier.
which imn ediately followed The
Clod". A noteworthy cast f. IN Miss
Padden's support in her new play
fa-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-11-25
CASTLE

"ShA1." an irouic but neverthe-
less excrueiat.ngly funny farce ro-
nance about the fringe % the swift
set. brings Ethel Clayton TO the
Castle in her newest and greatest re-
lease. The feature win Doe offered
today and tomorrow.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04

than to keeping them together and
to recognize the duty that destiny
had laid on them.
Clemenceau is no longer official
spokesman Of France, but there is
little doubt that as he renews his
offer of 1918 he again has the
support of French opinion.
He starkly, even brusquely,
brings before the international con-
ference soon to meet the tSupreme
question of whether thisA country
and others, after further reflection,
are now ready to march along the
main road to peace, strayed from
when the Wilson Manchester speech
was delivered and never since re-
turned to.
Perhaps this country is not yet
so ready. If it isn't, if we still shrink
from the word alliance, then we may
scarcely expect remedies from
Washington-will get nothing better
than ameliorations.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04
Colonel Alfred WagstaH

Colonel Alfred Wagstaff was fo-
years a conspicuous figure in the
New York whose life, manners and
atmosphere have receded into the
past. He was a "leading citizen"
in the era when many men were
known as such because of their
many-sided contacts. They were
professional men or merchants or
manufacturers who took the time to
figure prominently in politics, edu-
cation, religious work, sports and
what we now call civic uplift. They
wore all-round New Workers, en-
led to speak for the city because
lived its life fully and were in
many respects a part of it.
Colonel Wagstaff as a youth Of
nineteen led the 10th New York Ma
tional Guard Regiment when it was
called out to suppress the draft riots
Of 1863. He was lieutenant colonel
Of the 18th National Guard Regi-
ment when it entered the Federal
service in 1864. Later he became
chief CT staff Of the Bird Division Of
the 9th Army Corps in the Army OF
the Potomac.
After the Civil War he turned to
the law and then to politics, serving
at Albany for nine years as an AS
semblyman and a Senator. He was
appointed clerk of the Court OF
Common Pleas Of New York County
IN 1892 and subsequently clerk of
The Appellate Division Of the Su-
preme Court for the First Depart
noent. The latter Office he held for
twenty-five years.
Colonel Wagstaf Was Long
Islander as well rs Manhattanite
lie was formerly president Of thu
New York and Brooklyn Bride
Company. For the last fifteen years
Of his life he was president Of the
Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals. He was keen
sportsman, and this interest led him
to accept the presidency Of the
American Association for the Pro-
lection Of Game. lie WIS an active
churchman and for time WIS pres
ident Of the South Side Hospital
These activities measure the qual.
Ey Of his citizenship. He was man
Of commanding preeencc, diqn,Ged
and forceful, preserving also some
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04
A Welcome

The presence Of the German flag
in the harbor is not to be complained
Of. The war is over. 1t is as
proper as it is inevitable to re-estab-
lish commercial intercourse.
But why-as Mayor Hylan did
make the arrival of a German ship
an occasion of ostentatious official
ceremony? Why almost proclaim
the day as holiday? A welcome
so Haunting is inevitably provoca-
tive. Our dead are not yet home;
peace has not yet been formally de-
clarcd
The Mayor is engaged in hot
foot chase of the hyphen vote. AS
he is contemptuous Of natural
American sensibilities, SO he crude
ly thinks he is successfully cajoling
American citizens Of German de-
scent. In fact he insults and in
jures them. They would have
prejudices weaken and die that he
would keep alive for Election Day
use
That the Mayor learns nothing
appears from the following an
nouncement that yesterday exclu-
sively appeared in "The Stats
Zeitung":
mayor Hylan yesterday sent word
to Mr.. Charles A. Oberwager that i.
would give him particular pleasure
to be ready to receive Captain Oscar
Schwambergcr of the German ship
Bayern tomorrow (Tuesday), be-
tween l and o'clock in the after
noon, at the City Hall. This meet
ing was arranged so that Captain
Schwamberger should have the op-
portunity personally to thank the
Mayor for his warm welcome.
Several gentlemen of the recep-
tion committee named by the Mayor,
under the leadership of Tenement
House Inspector Frank Mann, will
get Captain Schwamberger at his
ship and accompany him to the City
Hall and there present him to the
Mayor. After the reception Captain
back to his ship by these same gentle
men"
When will cheap politicians learn
that their clumsy wooing is as Of
fensive to the foreign born as it is
to the native born?
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL PEPYS

October l-As fair day as ever
saw, and with Mrs. Dorothy Parker to
luncheon, and so to the courts, where
S. Spaeth beat me again. and with G.
Grant to dinner. and Peggy Leech
there, very pretty. and so to H. Broun's,
and played at cards, and not home till
IN the morning, and so angry at
myself for staying out late that | could
not sleep till 7.
Up early, and with my wife to
Pelham Manor, and played tennis with
c. Black, and each of us won set.
and then beat NJ. Fitzpatrick, and
then we played doubles until dark, w.
Dyer joining US. To dinner with c.
Black and home early and to-bed.
3-Early up and to the Office, and
met my wife in the subway but she
let inc read the newspapers, so did
not mind. All day at my scrivening
and In the evening with my wife to
see "Thank You"
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04
Unlovely America

From Australia comes news of a
revolt against all things American.
eve don't need her films, we don't
need her books or magazines, we
don't need hcf outlook on life and on
world politics. says an Australian
who signs himself "Pollio.' Over all
American thought and writing
relgns the sloppicst form of inaccu-
racy.' Americans cannot spell it
appears; their ideas arc "slimy,"
their writers are misinformed.
James Huncker is accused of con-
fusng Neptune with Triton and
Salome with Herodias. Their news
paper headlines arc mentally de-
bauching, their poets write such
choice bits as the following:
Watch for these sights.
They are tremendously great
When Sol, in his majesty,
Thus closes the gate"
The critics conclusion, after moral
izing on the fact that America had a
fair start and n good run, and might
have been the greatest nation on
earth, follows:
"Ihe most charitable not al
together improbable explanation is
that it's body has outgrowu lis mind,
1t is AN unreGulated infant-soul in
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04

Do the People Of Hungary Want
Their Former Ruler Back?

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In The Tribune of September
2S appears a short editorial calling
upon the former Emperor Charles to
abdlcate for the sake of the peace of
Europe; the idea being apparently that
the royalist. or at least the legitimist,
party would disappear with him and
Hungary settle down as a republic.
think this is a mistake.
Were Charles to abdicate for him
self and his children (if he can include
them, Of which there seems to be some
legal doubt) it is all that he can do.
He cannot abdicate for the collateral
branches of his house, and the success
sion would simply pass to his brother,
Archduke MaXimilian, as if Charles and
his family had been wiped out by
death To Macmillan the lcgitimists
would then transfer their allegiance
and activities, and that is all the diff
ference it would make.
But this is idle talk Emperor Charles
has not the least idea of abdicating,
| nor, | judge, have the Entente powers
any intention Of asking him so to do.
The Tribune itself remarked not long
since that they have twice escorted him
out Of danger without his abdicatng
They probably consider that his even
tual return to rule is inevitable, as it
is impossible to keep hitting a people
on the head forever in the matter Of
their own government, and it seems
to be the testimony of American OBJ
servers in Hungary that it is the rco-
pie who desire the return of Charles.
Two men have recently said so, both
much opposed to his return, whose
opinion is, therefore, of the greatest
weight: Dr. Edward Steiner and Dr.
Frank Bohn. DR.. Steiner wrote in "Thc
Independent" for September 3: Last
April the people were ready
for him aud, had the Little Entente not
threatened, he would have been received
in triumph. He is the consti-
tutional heir TO the Crown of ST.
Stephen and it will be kept for him
until Hungary is strong enough to
| defy her encircling foes. For that pur-
pose she is seeking an alliance with
Poland, and for that reason she is
guided by France in her plans
DR.. Bohn's article, "The Trend of
Democracy in Europe" appeared in
"The New York Times Current History
Magazine" for July. He says: "The
people, if not the present government Of
Hungary, desire the return of Charles.
If the question were placed before the
Hungarian people with the ballot boxes
open to all. Charles would to-day be
elected, as was Constantine, by COM
Portable majority.'
The Tribune has always stood for
the principle that government should
be by the will OF the people. 1t is that,
and not the form, tnat makes democracy
1t is for that reason that the British
monarchy is a democratic government
and the Russian republic is not.
NJ. HOWARD.
n-Cayuga, N. Y, Oct. /,
1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04
Flushing's S Plea for Links
Land Suitable for Public Coli Course
Near Kissena Park

To the Editor of the Tribune.
Sir: A few days ago you published
a letter written to Major Curran by
"Oldtimer" asking for more and better
public golf links.
Perhaps the 5000 disgusted golfers
to whom he referred might be in
terested in knowing that Flushing IS
trying to have a public golf course
laid out on the property just south Of
Kissena Park.
The Flushing United Association
started the movement last spring
Borough President Maurice f. Con-
molly of Queens has stated that he Is
in favor Of it The Park Department
Of the Borough of Queens has stated
that it viii lay out and grade the
course if the property can be secured.
twenty acres OF the proposed course
comprise what was formerly the old
police training grounds, and this prop
erty belongs to the city The rest IS
rolling land, part of which has been
used for farming purposes. and the
other is uncultivated. The property is
just north Of the North Hampstead
Turnpike, and by crossing east Of the
Jamaica trolley line enough land could
be secured to make an eighteen-hols
course. This tract is easily reached
from Manhattan by iive-cent fare on
the trolley line.
Kissena Park is becoming more pop
ular each year, and public golf course
adjoining it would be a great success
and benefit TO the people.
However, the project is being held
up by the cry for economy
Here is tract Of land that is at
present undeveloped but is liable 70
be laid out as a real estate develop
ment at any time. and yes snort
sighted economy is preventing The
purchase Of it. Queens Borough has
several magnificent park sites that
ought to be acquired now, hu. their
acquisition is also being held up BY
the cry Of economy.
When the citizens OF gfeater New
York wake up TO the fact that they
are really part of the great city ard
that they all must pull together they
VIII have one Park Department, with
person at the head who viii hold the
job from merit, free from political IN
terferonce, man who will have the
interests Of the whole city at heart
and who VIII have the vision to see the
needs of this great city for breathing
places and who VIII plan for many
years to come.
EVERETT p. MARTIN.
Chairman Parks and Trees Commit
tee. Flushing United Assoc alton.
Flushing. \. y, Sept. 90. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04
David Bisphan

A few words in appreciation of
high merit and of gratitude for
gracious accomplishment and potent
influence for good must be sent
after the spirit OF David Bispham,
which took its fight into the beyond
the day before yesterday. In long
career on concert platform and OPP
cratic stage he was conspicuous as
an artist who pursued lofty ideals
faithfully, consistently, zealously and
well. Singers OF greater natural
gifts and more brilliant popular
achievements have labored and died
without leaving half SO large an i'm
press as he upon the art Of which
they were practitioners. He was
equally eminent as an Interpreter
Of songs and oratorio airs, as an
operate performer and as a teach
er, and in all these fields his striv-
ings were directed toward a single
goal-the advancement of musical
culture.
Concerning the best means for the
attainment Of this end he held
strong convictions, from which he
never swerved. Though at home in
the repertorles of German and
Italian oper;. and brilliantly sue
cessful in them, he believed that the
lyric drama of the people of Eng
land and America should employ
the tongue native to those peoples.
He never wearied Of preaching this
doctrine, and whenever it was pos
sible he put it into practice. For
more than decade he was an active
participant in every movement
which aimed at the naturalization
Of opera, and the fact that one pro
Ject after another died and left no
sign gave no pause to his devotion.
At the las5 he was vice president
Of the Society Of American Singers.
which he had helped to it's first
significant success by two capital
Mozartean impersonations The man
IS gone. but his influence will long
ABIDE with US for our good.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04
"Perfect Form

AS they say at the bench shows,
the Mayor yesterday was in perfect
form At meeting of the finance
and budget committee of the Board
of Estimate he seized the occasion
to eXhort all municipal employees to
organize to maintain their present
salary and wage status.
Said he:
"Thcre is a big fight on by certain
interests to cut down municipal
wages, and it is up to the employees
to concentrate their efforts on
maintenance of their present wages"
How truly Hylanesque is that as
sertion-indefinite, involved, inept,
mean! Why did not the Mayor name
the certain interests" he had in
mind-the people of New York,
who employ him and everybody else
on the pay rolls of this great munich
pal corporation? These are the in
terests and the only ones demanding
not that salaries and wages by them
selves shall be cut, but that the
whole cost Of government shall be
readjusted in keeping with the
earnest policy of nation and state
to get back as soon as may be to
a normal and sane basis Of life. And
vnf tlr;c, fo4,o,1o ,,,o,, c4orJ- for;i>
urging the employees of the city
to organize against their employers,
their livelihood, their future and the
wellbeing Of the city. Would he
have these men and women who
work for the city understand that
they are a class unto themselves, eX-
empt from the ineXorable laws
which are duly determining the re-
lationship Of other working men and
women in every field of human en-
deavor?
We think that is what he would
suggest to them, so that when
he and those ne adjures to
organize in resistance arc COM
PEELED to submit to the inevi-
table he may shout, "Not l but the
interests did itn'
Our faith, however, is such that
we believe the vast majority of the
employees Of the city will not be de-
ceived by this manikin of Tammany
and Hearst. They are householders
and rentpayers, and therefore tax
payers. If their costs Of living and
taxes are to be reduced the costs of
their government must be cut ac-
cordingly. They will not organize
against themselves.
Still, as we said in the beginning,
the Mayor yesterday was in "pcrfect
form"
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04

The body Of muscle-bound athlete
though occasionally it resembles
rather a middle-aged matron with
fappers BRAIN
Having thus explained unfortu-
nate America, he urges his fellow
countrymen not to pattern them
selves in politics after William Ran
dolph Hearst. 1t is a candid article,
but diffuse. Would it not have been
simpler for che Australian merely to
have quoted the old saw
Il do not love you, Dr. Fell;
The reason why cannot tell;
But only this know full WELL
/ do not love you, d.. Fell"?
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04

AT this writing it is just a little over
four months since the Board of Esti-
mate concurred in the Board of Alder
mems action approving a tax exemp-
ton ordinance for the City of New
York. Since that day results of the
ordinance have practically silenced its
opponents, even the loudest of them.
In those four months plans for 20,S97
homes have been filed in the five bor-
oughs Of the greater city. This is an
increase III building over the same
period last year OF more than 215 per
cent As we know, it was the exigen-
cies of the war that started the hous-
ing shortage. Bending all its energies
toward the task Of beating the enemy,
our national government decreed that
labor and materials should be mobilized
in war work, while building was prac-
tically suspended. And we have never
yet caught up. Each month for the
last two years, at least up to the be-
ginning Of this spring, has seen the
number OF available homes becoming
smaller, while the number of families,
without adequate living quarters, has
grown steadily greater.
This housing shortage, which tax ex-
emption is helaing to relieve here, was
perhaps more serious in New York
City. ouc to the tremendous population
and congestion thereof, than anywhere
else in the country. 1t wss and still
IS, IN my opinion, the most serious
problem facing the municipal authori-
ties. And its results have been most
demorallzlng to good citizenship.
In the first place, rents have sky
rocketed beyond the ken OF the man of
moderate means. Some unserupulous
landlords have gone to the most out
rageous length in their efforts to Sc
cure all that the traffic would bear.
People are trying to make the most Of
all sorts of makeshifts in order to have
place to live. Apartments built for
one family have been divided and sub
divided again until men. women and
children are crowded into cramped
quarters that arc insanitary and inde-
cent. Patients suffering from such in
fectlous diseases as tuberculosis and
typhoid fever have been and are even
now forced to take their chances of re-
covery jammed and huddled in the same
rooms with their we'll fathers and
mothers, brothers and sisters.
The ordinance, as enacted. provides
for the exemption from local taxation
until January / 1882. of all new build
ings planned for dwelling purposes
whose construction was completed since
April ], 1920, or if not 50 completed.
whose construction was commenced be-
fore April /, 1922. Such exemption was
granted to the extent only of 81 900
for each living room, including kitch-
ems, but the total exemption shall not
exceed $4,000 for each single family
house, or for each separate family
apartment
After the ordinance was passed
some of its opponents declared that. in
asmuch as the. state law had not set
any limitation on the cost of the build.
ing to be exempted, the city ordinance.
in limiting that amount at So 900. rem
dered the ordinance unconstitutional.
However. in it's session last winter
the Legislature settled this question by