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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-03-05
Coolidge Appoints rour

Ia contrast to the huge PATRONAGE
roll OF Mr. Harding are the Appo a.
i've perqulsites Of Vice. PreSiden, Go Al
lldge, whose immediate appolntmeM
comprise only his secretary. ele-A
page boy and a private tele ra d ~
orator. Their salaries total $500
year The Vice President himself r..
ceiyes $4,000.
Among amhassadorships regarded as
certain TO he fillel by Mr Harding
ara those 10 Great Brltian. Frame
Italy. Spain, Japan, Belgium Braail
Chile. Argentine, and Peru. MAny
new ministers also are to be rees,ab-
iIshed with Germany. Austria, Mex
leo Turkey and Bulgaria Appoint
L sl;s also will be made to those
Countries.
Among appointments IN immedist
or early prospects are seven member
of the shipping Board AZ $4,000 each.
TWO members Of the Interstate Com 4
merce Commission at $1,000 each,
five members OF the Federal Reserve
Board. $4,000 each. three members
u the Tariff Commission al $500
zach; two members of the Federsif
Trade Commission at $4,000 each.
some OF the nine members OF the
Railroad Labor Board at 10000 and
tour members OF the Federal Farm
Loan Board at $4,000 each.
For the nino Supreme tcus
justices also may be appointed hy
prasilen. Harding
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Evening star., 1921-10-30

mountains on horseback. The noun
tains seen in many of the back
grounds are the Sierras and some
Of the peaks are capped with snow
the year round. When this produc-
tion was made the company was
working at the foothills of Mount
Whitney, where 1t was so hot 1t was
difficult to keep the makeup on. On
the top of the Sierras, however, there
was a terrific blizzard raging and
snow was clogEing all the mountain
Evening star., 1921-10-30

Mu Phi Epsilon Musical Sorority
Presents
Jules Falk Estele Wentworth
ViOlinist. Soprano.
Masonic Auditorium
Monday, November II, 1921, $3.50 pm.
Reserved seats, 81 and $1.50, at
r. Arthur Smiths. Inc.
Evening star., 1921-10-30
EFFORTS MADE FOR
SCENIC EFFECTS

TN the filming of scenes of Pauline
Frederick's new picture, "The
Sting of the LASH" Miss Frederick
and her company went to Lone Pine.
a little town in California. and from
there packed into the desert and
Evening star., 1921-10-30
passes. The blizzard. in fact. is no.
ticeable In many Of the scenes

1t took a salary of $4,000 a week to
WOO VIII Rogers from the Kleig
lights of Hollywood back to the
speaking stage. He is considering a
Shubert production offer, after his
vaudeville engagements have been
filled.
Evening star., 1921-10-30

THE Great Rroxopp." a new COM
edy by a. A. Milne, has been placed
in rehearsal by Iden Payne. II is to
nave an early production.
The mirror., 1921-11-17
STEALING AN ISLAND
Selected

MOT very many years ago Ariri
~ was bit of no mans land
though marked on the chart, its
existence was ignored by the Powers
it had never been inhabited, no flag
had ever been raised above its beaches
of dazzling coral sand.
Then a day came when two
Frenchmen shrewd traders and
planters of coconuts in the Tuamotu
spoke of Ariri. Here was an island
capable of an annual hundred tons of
copra, and claimed .by no man; they
would plant it and reap the rewards
of enterprise. The chief difficulty
was to find a superintendent to take
charge of the project; it needed a
white man, but white men willing to
undertake task of such poignant
loneliness were not ito found every
day in Papeete. AS it CHANGED, their
man was at hand.
The natives called him Tino-per-
haps his name had once been King.
Years among the islands had obliter-
ated whatever stamp of nationality he
might have possessed. Tall, strong,
and of fine presence, with full blond
beard and eyes of reckless blue, a
great singer and dancer always the
merriest atea~feast and tbe idol of the
women, remarkable linguist and
story-teller, drunken, brave, witty,
and unprincipled. Tino was type
which thrives in Polynesia.
When they offered him the position
of superintendent at Ariri the two
Frenchmen were not without misgiv-
ings. But the agreement was made
and in due time schooner sailed into
the Ariri lagoon to land Tino and a
score of Raiatea boys with their wives.
The Frenchmen took care to leave no
boat capable of putting out to sea, but
as there were houses annd sheds to
build they left considerable variety
of tools and gear, in addition to
years supply of medicine, food, and
clothing. In seven months time, with
the help of his men, Tino cut down
trees, sawed out timber and planking,
and built forty-foot cutter-st sturdy,
fast, and seaworthy. Tino bade his
men farewell-promising to return
and set sail to the westward, fearless
and alone. His only instrument was
compass, and yet he made the pas
sage to Fiji-twelve hundred miles
in fifteen days.
| forgot to say that before his de-
parture he had ordered the top of
tall palm chopped off, and on this
stout Aagpole had hoisted home
made edition of the Union Jack. In
Fiji he wasted no time. At the Office
of the High Commissioner of the
Pacific he announced that he had
taken possession of Ariri in the name
of the British Empire, and petitioned
that fifty years lease of the island
at nominal rate-bc given him. The
request was granted; few days later
Tino was again at sea, still alone, and
headed for his little kingdom.
The story is that he bought sex
tant in FIJI, but at any rate, some
thing went wrong and (Pags $, Ool sJ
The mirror., 1921-11-17
llwater, Minnesota, Thursday, November II, 1921.

again, but they had no vision of the
future.
Eighteen eighty-nine was the great
est corn. year of all Kansas history,
but the price went down until corn
sold at 10 cents per bushel or less and
was burned for fuel all over Kansas.
A few years before, the people of the
state had plunged into debt with
recklessness seldom if ever equalled
and now pay day had come and TO-
cent corn and Accent wheat to pay
with. 1t is not very remarkable that
the people saw red, and talked of the
altar of Marhmon, the great red dra-
gon and the "crime of 49," The
words of the agitator fell on fertile
ground. The Farmers Alliance
spread like a fire on the dry prairie
driven by the high wind.
Too late the Republican leaders be-
came alarmed and decided that the
way to retain power was to get up
platform about as radical as anything
suggested by the Alliance and then re-
lease the candidate from all party al
legiance and authorize him to pay no
attention to the party caucus. The
concessions only caused derision and
jeers on the part of the Alliance men
and it was in this frame of mind that
Alliance delegates met in the spring
of 1890 to nominate candidate for
Congress.
Jerry Simpson went to the conven-
ton as delegate, but his name had
not been mentioned as probable can
didate. S. NJ. Scott, of MCPHERSON,
the author of pamphlet on the sub
treasury, was the man to be nomi
mated, but Scott could not get it into
his mind that it was possible to over
come the majority of $4,000 rolled
up by the Republicans only two years
before and pushed the profered honor
aside. Jerry Simpson had been called
on to make a speech and caught the
crowd. With Scott out of it the dele
gates turned to the ex-sailor and nom
mated him. They builded better than
they knew. Under the conditions then
prevailing Jerry Simpson was an ideal
candidate. He was good talker,
possessed of ready wit and with an
instructive and correct appraisement
of the value of publicity.
A correspondent of the Wichita
Eagle accused him of wearing no
socks. Jerry did not attempt to deny
the charge and charged in turn that
his opponent, Col. ]. R. Hollowell,
wore silk hose. He wove this skill
fully into his speeches and reused un
bounded enthusiasm by the turn. He
confessed his poverty, and his aud
ience, carried away with the zeal of
crusaders, threw the few dollars they
had in their pockets onto the plat
form to help pay the campaign ex-
penses of their candidate.
Jerry was good story teller. His
stories were not new, but an old story
well told is often as effective as a
brand new one. He covered the Re-
publican platform, adopted at Dodge
CITY, with ridicule and amid howls of
delight told the following story: A
lew and an Irishman were crossing a
stream in a boat when it occurred to
the Irishman that he would convert
the lew. He demanded that the de-
The mirror., 1921-11-17

scendant of Abraham renounce his
faith and acknowledge the divinity of
Christ and the Virgin Mary. The
Jew refused, whereupon the Irishman
threw him out into the water. He
came up choking and spluttering and
tried to climb back into the boat but
the Irishman refused to let him in un-
less he would confess and give up his
'heathenism." The Jew still refus-
ing, the Irishman showed him under
again and held him there until he was
almost drowned. AT last he let him
come to the surface, gasping and al
most speechless. When he was able
to talk, seeing no evidence of mercy
on the part of the Hibernian, he said
that he would renounce and confess.
"Oi'm glad to hear that" said the
Irishman, "but Ohm av the opinion
that if liver yez get to land, yez will
take it back, so Ohm goin' to drown
yez now and save your immortal
SOUL" The application was that the Re-
publican party should be killed while
it was in repentant frame of mind.
The result of the election was
surprise even to the most sanguine of
Jerry's supporters. A Republican
majority of $4,000 was succeeded by
a Populist majority of more than
5000, and Jerry Simpson suddenly
found himself one of the most talked
of men in the United States.
To his credit let it be. said that he
did not lose his head. In Congress
he rapidly acquired polish and was
recognized as the leader of his party.
His political views broadened; his
crudities of speech were mostly aban-
doned. He held his own in the rough
and tumble debates in the Lower
House and gained favor with the then
Speaker of the House, Tom Reed, of
Maine.
In 1892 he was reelected, but the
Populist party had already passed the
crest and was on the decline. His
majority of more than 5000 was re-
duced to less than 1000 and two
years later was wiped out entirely
when Chester |. Long defeated him
by comfortable majority.
In 1896 the free silver issue swept
over Kansas and Jerry was elected for
the third time, but with the sub
sidence of that he was defeated and
retired from public life. 1t may be
said for him that while he was an
original Greenbacker he never was at
heart in favor of free and unlimited
coinage of silver at the ratio of l6 to
l. Naturally possessed of keen and
logical mind he saw, the fallacy of the
argument in favor of fixed ratio be-
tween the metals, but believed in the
Greenback theory that there should
be no intrinsic value in money.
Jerry was naturally radical both
in politics and religion. Before he be-
came especially interested in politics
he was known to his acquaintance as
"free thinker" or infdel. In his
lake experience he had learned to be
very fair rough and tumble fighter,
although never inclined to quarrel.
Jerry Simpson was man of more
than ordinary native ability, char
acter such as could only be produced
in a country of free speech and the
open door of opportunity.
SgsaEseF-g--
The mirror., 1921-11-17
A NATIONAL CELEBRITY
Selected

!, N MONG the unique and remark
~ able characters brought to pub
lie notice and notoriety by the
political upheaval Of thirty years ago,
no one attained to greater fame or
secured wider celebrity than Sock
less" Jerry Simpson, of Madison
Lodge" as the facetious newspaper
reporters dubbed him.
Jerry was born in the province of
New Brunswick in 1912 of Scotch
ancestry. His father migrated to the
United States, when Jerry was very
little boy, and settled in the state of
Michigan. Although of an alert mind
and possessed of a real hunger for
knowledge, Jerry's educational oppor
tunities were exceedingly limited. He
was illiterate, so far as the branches
taught in the schools were concerned,
but was a voracious reader and, en-
dowed with remarkable memory, he
managed to store his mind with more
than the ordinary equipment Of really
good literature, so that he was en-
titled to be called well-read man.
At the outbreak of the Civil War
Simpson enlisted, but served only a
few months until discharged for dis
ability. After the close of the war he
became a sailor On the Great Lakes,
and gradually rose to the position of
captain on lake freighter, position
which requires large degree of re-
sourcefulness and courage. During
fearful storm his ship was driven
ashore near Ludington and it was
largely owing to the masterful cour
age and GOODNESS of Jerry Simpson
that the lives of all the crew were
saved.
During the seventies he decided to
go to Kansas and settled in Jackson
County, where he engaged in farm
ing and stock raising with some sue
cess, but concluded that there were
better opportunities in the free-range
country and went to Barber County
along in '83' or '84. It was an un-
fortunate time to get into the cattle
business. He had hardly got fairly
started when the terrible winter of
1886 came on and nearly wiped his
herd off the face of the earth. His
cows died faster than he could skin
them and spring found him nearly
broke. He had come to the county
with some $4,000.
In 1886 the Union Labor party
was organized and the old-time
Greenbackers, of whom Jerry was
one, promptly joined it. Jerry had
already demonstrated some ability as
asspeaker in country lyceums and the
like and his party in Barber County
selected him as its candidate for the
legislature. / happened to have the
honor of running against him and
while defeated him it was not vic
tory to blow about.
Two years later he was again a
candidate and, as that happened to be
the year when Kansas rolled up Re-
publican majority of $4,000, Jerry
was buried under the general land
slide. There were those who pre-
dicted that he would never come back
The mirror., 1921-11-17

N MONG the unique and remark
~ able characters brought to pub
y lie x,o4ico and xaofoxiafu hu th q
The New York herald., 1921-10-27
COLLECTION FRAUD
CHARGED IN COURT
Magistrate Simpson Agrees to
Summon Timely Service
Society.

An investigation of the Timely Ser
vice Society, Inc, Of 1872 Nassau street,
began in John Doe proceedings yester-
day before Magistrate George w. Simp-
son in Tombs Court, and at the end OF
the session the Magistrate informed
James j. Wilson, Assistant District At
torney. that he would be glad to issue
any process that would bring to justice
the persons connected with the society.
Mr.. Wilson said that he would ask for
a summons charging violation of the
section of the penal code referring to
fraudulent charitable enterprises.
Mrs. e. II. Chase of the Lexington
Hotel. formerly employed by the So
ciety as supervisor of unemployed. said
the society's solicitors received 33 1-3
per cent of their collections. Her duties
were to visit department stores and try
to obtain positions for unemployed, she
said. George Masservy, head OF the so
ciety kept the books, according to her
testimony. She said J. r. Weisheimer,
original owner of a farm in New Jersey,
which Masservy alleged was the property
of the society. told her last Monday that
only 500 had been paid by the society.
Mrs. Chase said there were on the farm
three buildings and three shacks, but
she knew of only two unemployed men
being sent there.
Ed Latimer OF 347 Ffty-third street.
Brooklyn, a former service man. testi-
fed that after he had been convicted of
soliciting and had received suspended
sentence from Magistrate Simpson.
Masservy had given him a certificate to
act for the society under the name Of
Edward Ferrell. Magistrate Simpson
after that testimony said:
"The only place for frauds and
cheats is in jail From the testimony
this whole scheme appears to be a fraud
on the public and on unemployed men
who were promised jobs. The issuance
of this certificate defrauded the public
as to this collector" The hearing will
continue to-day. I'D
District Attorney Swami gave clean
bill of health yesterday to the Carry
On Association, an organization for the
assistance of blind and crippled war
veterans. of which Mrs Wendell Phillips
of 271 Madison avenue is national chair
man.
The New York herald., 1921-10-27
u. S. ON LOOKOUT FOR
TRUCK STRIKE HERE
Chance Seen of Their Quit.
ting With Rail Men.

Charles Bendheim. Commissioner OF
Cancellation in the Department of Labor,
appeared yestei day before the executive
committee meetins OF the Merchant
Truckmen's Bureau indicat'i g that the
Federal authorities are watching closely
the possibility OF q general trucking
strike In this city in conjunction will,
the impending rail strike.
Mr.. Bendhaiin was informed of the
refusal of the delegates of The Interna-
tional Bro.heri iood OF Transfers to meet
with the bureaus committee and OF the
truck owners intention to wage an open
shop fight IL The unions continue their
present attitude. II is expected Mr.
Bendheim win get in tou9n with union
leaders to-day with n view 10 bringing
about meeting.
Following n meeting Of TIE executive
committee OF The Truck Owners Asso-
citation telegram was sent to Gov. Mil
ier asking his aid In the prevention OF
. tieup on November 1.
The New York herald., 1921-10-27
PEGGY'S DOUGHNUT HOLES
DECLARED SLEEP ROBBERS
Court Told Uncanny Whistling Is Caused by Workers
Blowing Rngs-Not So, Says Sinker Queen
Savory Testimony Hastens Magistrates Appetite

The Cadi Tobias, dispensing justice
70 Washington Heights, had before him
yesterday a magisterial problem so
peculiar, so quaint, as to be comparable
only 10 the case of the Two Pretzel
no less learned some years ago.
Before the divan OF the excellent
Tobias there appeared yesterday citi-
zenry. mostly of the so-called gentler
sex, who complained loudly and bitterly
of the singular sibillations that rob
them of sleep, an uncanny whistling.
shrill, persistent unbelievably penetrat-
ing and provocative. One of these COM
plainants. calming herself. informed the
Cadi that investigation had gone to show
that the extraordinary, sleep destroying
whistling was caused by the doughnut
making employees of Peggy Lee Stokes.
The Cadi raised his eyebrows a full
inch. no mean achievement even for
learned judges.
Can this be so?" lie asked.
1T would seem so. Your Honor" was
the reply. THE whistles go, like a
dozen peanut stands. 1t is impossible
TO sleep of nights. What could produce
such sounds except the pursed up lips
of the doughnut makers shooting air
holes through the centre Of their fluffy
morsels?"
what could indeed?'' mused the
court.
"Piffle.' said Peggy Lee Stokes.
Doughnut Queen of Washington Heights.
'rhe whistling these folks complain
about Is made by revolving motor
which watts up a flue the sweet smell
of my dainties. The police, the health
authorities and inspectors from, 1t seems
The New York herald., 1921-10-27
WOMEN IN NAUTICAL
SCHOOL HOPED FOR
DR.. T. P. Graves Suggests
Doors Be Opened to Femi-
nine Students.

There are a small number OF women
tan district. but none is a graduate OF
the New York State Nautical School,
which graduated yesterday twenty-three
young men at the Maritime Exchange.
But there is a possibility that In some
future cruise of the schoolship young
women may go along, let go their peak
halyards and things and win third Off
GERS diplomas or. perhaps, certificates
as third assistant engineers.
That is what DR.. Frank p. Graves.
State Commissioner OF Education. inti-
mated yesterday when he hoped that the
nautical school doors would be opened
to women of the State.
Twelve young men received from DR..
Graves diplomas as third officers and
eleven the right to be third assistant
engineers. This is the list of officers:
Frank Eain. Bay Shore, l.. T.. Reg
inald Butcher. Staten Island; Thomas
Carman. Jr., Bay Shore; James II. Con-
way, Hudson, n. Y; Raymond Fl.
Fratz, Haddon Heights, ~. j.. Stanley
Fl. Greenshields, White Plains: Arthur
Hairless, New York city, Arthur O. ia
cobsen. Brooklyn: Jean p. Plumlet, New
York city; John II. Reeder, Brooklyn
OrTeSJ H. >. SIilItIl, new ICTh CITY, dhu
james w. Taylor, Newark, ". J.
The new engineers are: Donald NJ.
Burns. Pasadena, CAL; George Flynn,
Brooklyn: Albert z. Forbes, Ballston
Spa; Theodore Holmes. Richfield Park,
N j.: Vincent ]. Newman. Whitestone,
L. r. William B. O'Brien, Staten Island ;
Everett f. Smith, City Island: Walter
n. Stark, Brooklyn; Paul A. Switzer,
New Rochelle: G. F. V. Clute and Ralph
White Rrook1yn
The New York herald., 1921-10-27
ASK SHIPPING BOARD
TO REDUCE PRICES
Steamship OWners Present
Request; Confer NoU. 8.

The American Steamship Owners AS
sociation. at a meeting yesterday at
which II. Fl. Raymond, president of the
Clyde Mallory Lines presided, unani-
mously favored a readjustment and re-
duction in the prices of all ships sold
at high war and postwar rates by the
United States Shipping Board. The ac-
ton of the meeting was communicated
TO the Shipping Board. which will con-
slider the subject at conference on
November 3.
The association approved a plan to
Increase the budget to cover new and
increased activities. A committee was
named by President Raymond to recon-
mend a policy to be adopted on a uni
form International bill of lading. The
committee consists Of J. Parker Kirlin.
general counsel of the association, chair
man; w. Averell Hartman, chairman
OF the board of the United American
Lines p. A. s. Franklin, president of
the International Mercantile Marine
Company: Alfred Gilbert Smith. presi-
dent of the New York and Cuba Mail
Steamship Company. and Edgar f..
Luclenbach president Of the Lucken-
bach Steamship Company
The New York herald., 1921-10-27
SIX SENT TO PRISON
FOR STORE THEFTS
Three Men and Three Women
ConUicted of Shopliffing.

Three men and three women were sent
to prison yesterday for shoplifting by
Justices Herman. Herbert and Freschi
in Special Sessions.
Frank Moore, n clerk, got four months
in the workhouse for stealing a hand
bag at Gimbers. Frederick Durles, q
driver, got six months for stealing six
silk shirts from the same store. and
Edward Mccormack four months for
taking two sweaters. All the men live
at a Mills Hotel.
Virginia Brooks was sentenced TO
fourteen days in the workhouse for
stealing a pair of cuff links at Macy's.
Irene Bateman OF 242 East Forty-flrst
street and Sadie Williams we're con-
victed of acting together In the theft OF
a silk bag at Altman's. Miss Bateman
will serve four months in the workhouse
and the other woman. who has long
police record, was sent to the peniten-
tiary for from six months to three years.
The New York herald., 1921-10-27

to me, half dozen other city depart
ments have been around to inspect this
motor"
And what did they say? inquired
Cadi Tobias. helpfully.
"'What nice doughnuts, lady.
Couldn't we have another plateful? VI
course your machine is Q. X That's
what they said, Judge. You never saw
such eaters as these city officials. l
wonder if they eat like that wherever
they go?'
The court reflected. Decisions in Is
sues so weighty as this one are not
made In a thrice. Finally His Honor
spoke:
II shall assume that the doughnuts
do not whistle of their own volition. !
shall further assume that the holes in
them, about which this court with other
citizens, have often wondered, were not
made by blowing with the lips. | must
assume that the noise of which these
persons complain was made by ma
chine. I will therefore adjourn TINS
case until November 10. by which time
you will have the defects In your
whistling motor corrected
AS the Doughnut Queen. who became
interested in doughnuts when she went
"over there for the Salvation Army
ana began to make and hand them out
at the front. was leaving the enclosure
the Magistrate said plaintively
"You did not happen to bring some OF
the evidence to court with your
"why no." said Peggy Lee Stokes.
81 am frightfully sorry I didn't
$50 am IT, replied the court. Il can
scarcely recall a case that has made me
hungrier."
And he went to luncheon much earlier
than usual.