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Mr.. Shoenfeld," she stammered at
last, give never had any real expert
ence. That's why no one will give
me a chance. And you'd star me?"
"Not for nothing" he reminded
her.
CPL work ever so hard" she prom
Used, not understanding.
"Of course you will. But don't
do things for nothing. It's not my
style. You see what I mean, don't
your"
His tone, rather than his words
caused her to flush with shame. "Mr.
Shoenfeld," she said at last, 81 hope
I misunderstood you. All my life
my mothers been telling me good
Yiddish daughter as she puts it, has
nothing to fear from the men of her
own people"
Shoenfeld laughed heartily. "Your
mothers behind the times, my DEAR"
he told her. "a Jews the same as
everybody else nowadays and YOU
ought to know it by this time. A girl
that's been hanging around theatre
cal agencies like you have! You can
think over my proposition if you want
to. Let me know in day or so. If
it's off, no hard feelings, only don't
come around again and expect me to
place you. I've had my eye on you
ever since 1 saw you back at your
college," he added reminiscently.
"And I'll be good to you. I can't
promise no more, cause my wife
won't give me a divorce and in this
damn state l can't make her."
Bessie rose and walked to the door.
When she reached it she turned upon
him face so expressionless and con-
trolled that had he known her mother,
Shoenfeld would have wondered at the
sudden resemblance. For moment
even her eyes seemed dead. 81 don't
think you know any more when
you're insulting a girl" she told him.
give met things like this before but
I didn't expect to find it in Jew old
enough to be my father"
He colored little, slightly nettled,
but managed to laugh it off. Better
think it over" he warned her, "star-
get a foothold somewhere else. Which
if 1 feel like trying to keep you out
VI d JOU. Auu OOll oSc WucIc oil
up,to-date girl like you gets such
stiff notions, anyhow"
"From my MOTHER" answered Bes-
sic, "and I want to find her in the
pawn shop whenever I go back to
her." she added more to herself than
to him. Suddenly her eyes famed
with dreams again. 81 know I could
play RACHEL" she cried triumphant
ly. "I'm like her, poor, unknown and
Jewish. And I've got her Jewish fire,
and her power to suffer and her will
to succeed. You couldn't keep me
from succeeding any more than those
people in the old country could force
my parents to be baptized. 1t may
take long time but some day you'll
find that I'm right"
Then Bessie left the luxurious office
of the car of the theatrical world,
closing the door quietly behind her.
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understand"
Bessie slipped from her balcony to
throw her arms about her mothers
neck. A smile, singularly mature in
its grave sweetness, played about her
mobile mouth. "You don't need to
understand, mamma, my life," she
told her. "You just keep on loving
mel"
Another sitting August night al
most ten years later. In the pawn
shop woman very quiet and self
effaced with deep grey eyes. On the
curb slender young girl with fam
ing red curls and mobile mouth. She
filings back her head like creature
suddenly free from heavy chains; her
hand touches the paper crinkling be-
meath the bosom of her MILDLY blouse,
the paper that promises her freedom
and opportunity. Her face quivers
as she recalls every word of the short,
typed note that has reached her only
this morning-she has been assigned
a college scholarship. . College!
A place to dream and read poetry and
learn to read it-far from the sti-
fling walls of the pawn shop. She
looks through the open door and sees
her mother sitting there so quietly
between the holder filled with unre-
deemed umbrellas and the table load
ed with tawdry ornaments. Bessie
does not know what awaits her in
the golden land of freedom and OPP
portunity- she knows that when
ever she returns to the pawnshop she
will find her mother waiting for her,
a quiet smile upon her emotionless
face, her grey eyes ALT with dreams.
The night of the class play. Bessie,
still wearing the white satin robes
and pearl cap of unhappy Juliet,
leaves her dressing room to receive
her friends congratulations. There
is a stranger among them, middle
aged man with shrewd, hard eyes. He
is clean shaver and dressed in ire
proachable fashion, but to Bessie's
quick eye there is something reminis-
cent about him, something that re-
calls old Nat Levy who always tried
to cheat her father when selling him
junk. But he is introduced by Bes-
sizes very good friend, young Profess
sor Blake, and she cordially gives
him her hand.
'The best amateur actress I ever
met" the stranger tells her ELUSIVE
ly. ever thought of the stage?"
"When I graduate next week I'm
going to begin to look for position"
Bessie answers.
The stranger gives her his card.
"Come and see me if you're ever in
New York." he offers, "and I'll do
what can for you." And Bessie
promises eagerly, for she has already
heard what the name of Max Schoen-
field means in the theatrical world.
Perhaps she would have fingered to
talk a little longer with the maker
of stars, but young Professor Blake
gently yet forcibly took her arm and
led her away. There on the moonlit
campus, her lap filled with the roses
he had sent to her dressing room,
Bessie forgot for little while the
world of glory and opportunity that
some call New York.
When she returned home, Blake
came to visit her. With proud up
lifting of her head Bessie had decided
that if they were to continue their
friendship he must see her against
the sordid, dingy background of her
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Bessie of the Pawn Shop
A Story by Elma Ehrch Levinger
Copyright all rights reserved 1921 by Levnger
A Story by Elma Ehr


his little pawn shop was still tossing
restlessly to and fro, too warm to
sleep. The dingy stores were still
opened, the streets still swarming
with frowsy women, men in shirt
sleeves, half-naked children. Not I'M
like the jewellers of parched Indian
plains, they waited dumb and listless
for the rain to break the fury of the
August heat.
On the curb before her fathers
pawn shop sat Bessie, the Pickering
street light falling upon her tousled
red hair and scrawny bare arms.
Upon her knees she held battered
volume that her father had brought
in that day with a box of other dilap-
idated books, large volume with
thick covers, strange reading for a
girl of nine. Yet through the long
torrid afternoon she had not joined
her playfellows and now in the flick
ering light she still read the book
upon her knees.
"Bessie," woman's voice called
from the open door, voice strangely
musical in that place of shrill cries
of weary, nervous women, "Bessie,
come in to bed"
SIN a minute, MAJ" answered the
girl in Yiddish, using the only tongue
her mother knew. 81 just want to
finish this" Then, smiling with de-
light at the sheer beauty Of the lines
whose beauty she could feel, though
she could not understand, she COM
pleted her first days journey through
Shakespeare's golden land:
"a gloomy peace this morning with
it brings,
The sun for sorrow will not show his
head.
To hence, to have more talk of these
sad things,
Some shall be pardon'd, and some
punished:
For never was a story Of more woe,
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo"
Bessie" the voice from within
called again, "papa's gone to bed and
I close up the store. Come in"
eyes, MAJ" reluctantly. The child
rose slowly, her large grey eyes still
heavy with dreams; she dragged her
feet as she entered the little pawn
shop.
In rocking chair between a stand
filled with unredeemed umbrellas and
a table loaded with tawdry ornaments
and lamps sat Bessie's mother. In
her smooth shaitel, her figure sag
ging and shapeless beneath the faded
but scrupulously clean wrapper she
wore, Mrs. Cohen might have been
any age from thirty to fifty; in real
ity she was only twenty-six, for she
had married at fifteen and Bessie, her
one child, had been born several years
later. She sat there now, quiet,
self-effaced figure, with no seeming
kinship to her radiant little daughter,
until you looked into her eyes. For
in the grey depths of the eyes of
Rivka Cohen, the dreams still burned
unquenched.
"You read too much, Bessie" she
chided, "and out there the light is
bad"
otis too hot in here" Bessie
tossed back her name of red curls.
"And I wanted to finish my play.
Mamma" and her intense little face
fairly glowed, mamma, some day I
will be a great actress like that lady
down by the 'Orpheum.' Then I'll
wear a white dress like hers and
pearls all around my head and be
Juliet" Quickly the child mounted
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1921-09-02
at Rivka Cohen's heart and forced
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at Rivka Cohen's heart and forced
her to speak.
"Bessie, my child" she began,
using the old familiar Yiddish, "why
did this man come to see you?"
She sat upon the edge of Bessie's
bed in the little bedroom above the
pawn shop. The girls red name lay
scattered upon the pillows; her bare
arms, no longer scrawny, were behind
her head.
eve were very good friends my last
year at college," she said at last.
"Does he love you?" with that
simple directness that had always
been between them.
81 think So" A tender little smile
played about Bessie's mouth.
"Will you marry him."
"He has not asked me-"
"But he will. Will you marry
him." Rivka repeated, and subtle
agony colored her quiet voice.
would it hurt you very much it
I did," Bessie asked.
"He is not Jew. You could never
come back to your father and me-"
Rivka spoke quietly enough, but to
the girls sensitive soul it seemed
that wall Of stone had suddenly shot
up between them. "You understand? ?"
Bessie's eyes turned toward the
table where stood Blake's graduation
gift, a set of beautifully bound
Shakespeare. Only one volume bore
an inscription, quotation from her
favorite play, "It is the East and
Juliet is the sun!"-a little thing yet
her face glowed to recall it. Walking
with him that afternoon it had seemed
so easy to exchange her golden
dreams of a vast audience paying
her homage for the picture of SIM
pie house in professors Row" back
in the quiet little college town, an
old-fashioned garden and in time lit
tie children playing beneath the trees.
Forcing herself to face her mothers
question, she knew she loved this man
of another race, far more than she
could ever love again. But did she
love him enough to bar herself for
ever from the little pawn shop which
would always call her back.
"Do not be afraid, mamma" she
answered simply. 81 will never do
anything to keep me away from YOU"
She thought of her promise few
months later as she sat in the luxur-
ious offices of Max Shoenfeld, car
of the theatrical world. The man
was no longer effusively friendly, al
though they had met many times dur
ing her fruitless quest for work in
New York. His eyes were shrewder
and harder than ever as they wander
ed from the manuscript that lay on
his desk to the girls eager face.
"You could play Rachel" he said
thoughtfully. "You're the type I've
had in mind ever since I bought the
play. I've had it in my safe for al
most three years. You've got the fire
and the deviltry and the Jewish in
tensity and when Pm through beating
my conception of the role into your
head, you'll be one of the best stars
I've ever put out. Believe me?"
She clasped her ringless hands
tightly in her lap, fighting for con-
troll before she could speak. "But,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-08

y. tionary measures will do much to cut down loss that takes millions of dollars out of the possession of Americans every year n d leaves nothing in it's place. Prevention is bet ter than regret
 Buildings may be made safer by seeing that the chimneys are without cracks n d free of soot which may take fire and scatter sparks on dry roofs. Flues which may be- come hot should be covered with asbestos and any nearby walls and ceilings protected There should be sheet of metal under every stove
 Fire Prevention Day is on the semi-cen- tennial of the great Chicago Fire While occur ring in a great city, the traditional cause of this fire was one which is liable to occur in the countrywide upsetting of lantern in stable. If lanterns must be used in barns, they should be kept in good condition, set or hung in safe place, and never filled or lighted, in the barn.
 Fire Prevention Day should be made special time for looking over the premises to see that the buildings are in the best prac- tcable shape to prevent and resist fire; that inflammab1e rubbish is cleaned away; and that habits of safety are instil1ed in the hand1- ing of matches lamps, stoves and kerosene and gasoline
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-04-19
Because Of Drastic Stand Taken
in Negotiations With U. S.
Japan May Yet Lose zap.
open SHOP PROPOSALS
ARE MADE BY AMERICA
Had Japan Agreed AdminiStra-
tion Might Have Reluctantly
Permitted Her Have Mandate

WASHINGTON. April ia. L.
Bradford. L. =. staff Correspondent.
Japan may lose outright her Yap
mandate, because of the drastic stand
she has taken in negotiations with the
United States, it has developed Cor
respondence over zap shows that the
proposals that "open shop" be applied
to the island that were made by the
United States on December were
summafily rejected by Japan. Had
Japan agreed. the administration
might have reluctantly permitted the
mandate. Now, however. Hughes has
taken the position that zap is one of
the territories taken from Germany,
that the United States as one of the
victors must have voice in the d 8
posal of such territories. and that she
has had no voice in the Yap matter.
Hughes will not recede or compro-
mise. He has been assured of the SEN
.ate's support.
The American position is strength
ened by the fact that the allies want
America to participate in some of the
features OF the Versailles treaty, the
German reparations question being
one. This government will not par
ticipate, however, until the conten-
tions Of the Hughes mandate note are
met.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-04-19
.HAAN--NEWLY APPOINTED
HEAD KNOWS SERVICE
WHEN HE SEES It
Gained Rank of Captain on Bat
tie, Was Severely Wounded
in Action With SD Division.

INDIANArOLIS, Ind, April H.
"a. PA sailor, n traffic cop, first
sergeant, an assistant provost marshal
and patient in Army hospitals for
almost two years, Albert Il. Ham, new
disappointed head OF the American Le-
gion's national service division, knows
service when he sees It.
Mr. Haan gained the rank of captain
on the battlefield and was severely
wounded while in action with the 32nd.
Division. While in Walter Reed Hos
pital, he studied the plans the Govern
mcnt had made for the wounded, and
upon his discharge last fall was made
a special representative of the Bureau
Of War Risk Insurance.
In Army and Navy camps, he was
instrumental in causing the reinstate-
ment or conversion of S5,00O,000 in
War Risk Insurance. After obtaining
$500, 900 in community war funds for
the relief of Michigan disabled veter-
ans, he made a study of the Michigan
state prison and insane asylum to see
how eX-service men Jared. The result
Of this Investigation was the parole of
14O men with the American Legion
vonching for them.
Mr.. Haan served four years on the
u. S. S. Idaho, being discharged as a
quartermaster, second class. He was
first sergeant OF Michigan infantry on
the Mexican border, traffic cop in
Grand Rapids, Mich, and before en-
tering the lines, an assistant provost
marshal at St NaZairc France. He is
twenty eight years old.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-04-19
Old World Might Find InSpira-
ton for Reconstruction in
Example of Western Peace.

CENTRAL PARK, y. Y, Aprll l9.
gu. P.)--The Harding Official party
arrived at the speakers stand at $50
p. m. for the unveiling Of the simon
Bolivar statue. a salute of p guns
greeted the president.
Rencws BOnds of Friendship.
NEW YORK, April 19.-(U. P.)-
Renewed bonds OF friendship among
the American republics, with the re-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-04-19
GERMANY WILL REJECT ALLIED ULTIMATUM WHICH DEMANDS
TRANSCRIPT METAL RESERVES TO COLOGNE AND COBLENZ
sSTED STATES WILL MAKE FIRST
FLIGHT ACROSS PACIFIC LATE TIL
SUMMER OR EARLY NEXT SPRING
NEW YORK.. April 1e.-tHar.

NEW YORK. April (Harold
d. Jacobs, Copyright United Fress)-
The United States navy, the first to
make the transatlantic flight, will
sent giant seaplane winging across
the Pacific late this summer or early
r"Nt spring. The triplane has been
Under design and construction for
more than year. The tentative route
VIII be from San Diego to Honolulu to
make the Island to Guam. then to
Manila, total Of 5000 miles. Wheth-
er the plane would continue to the
Asian Mainland has not yet been de-
termined II Is planned to begin as
Nembling the plane in June or July.
The crafts wings and hull are being
made at the naval aircraft factory in
Philadelphia. The motors and nacel-
les, or bodies are being turned out by
the Gallaudet Aircraft Corporation, at
enwich. Conn. The propellers
being built in Baltimore by the Am
erican Propeller company. The sea-
plane will have a Widespread OF 1877
feet There will be three propellors.
The triplane will have crew OF at
least 12 men.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-04-19
CALIFORNIA REQUESTS
SUPPORT FROM OTHER
STATES OF THE UNION
Sister State Asks That She be
Given Support in Attitude
Toward Jap Immigration.

SACRAMENTO. Cal, April ia.
PA request that they support the
attitude OF the state of California to-
ward Japanese immigration was sent
&c the governors of all states Of the
non yesterday by Governor William
D. Stephens,
The letter reads in part:
The California legislature passed
unanimously a resolution embodying
declaration OF California's principles
Ia the matter of Japanese immigration
and urging upon the president. the
state department and congress the en-
dor ement and adoption thereof.
AS a frontier state, California is
making the fight OF the nation against
The incoming rush of an alien unas-
liable race which would engulf our
civilization. our traditions and our
ideals. Without the cooperation of the
other states, California cannot hope TO
secure such action as will put stop
10 the future development in this coun-
try of an alien. unassimahle commun-
", which must in time engender racial
conflict and international misunder-
standings. The way to preserve peace
with Japan is to act In this matter with
Justice and decision and to place about
our American citizenship and economic
interests such protection MS Japan
properly places about her own.
In view of these facts, am taking
the liberty Of asking your assistance in
Gpholding Californias stand in this
matter. Your state legislaurea. prob-
ably not i'm session at this time, but
eou can aid in this fight for the pre-
servatiou of the nations interests by
representations to your state delegu-
tons at Washington, urging or recom-
mending that they cooperate with the
California delegation in an effort to
secure absolute exclusion OF Japanese
immigration, under conditions which
viii save any real humiliation to Japan
and will make for peace now and per-
.nIanent friendship hereafter between
this country and Japan"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-04-19
Commission Allows 8 Days to
Transfer ReiChbank Metal to
COIOnge and CObIenz.
ALLIES WILL INSIST ON
OFFER BEING ACCEPTED
In Event Germany Rejects UIti-
matum Allies Will Demand
Surrender Metal Reserves.

PARIS, April 19.-(U. P.)
Germany certainly will re-
iect the allied ultimatum de-
manding the transfer of its
metal reserves to Cologne and
Coblenz branches of Reichs-
bank, is stated at the German
embassy. The rejection of the
three day ultimatum will result
in demand for absolute sur
render of the reserves of 261
million dollars to the allies.
PARIS. April 19.-(webb Miller.
L. p. staff Correspondent THE al
lied reparat.ons commission served a
three-day ultimatum on Germany. de-
manding the transfer OF all the Reich-
hank metal reserves to its Cologne
and Coblenz branches. In the event
iermany rejects the ultlmatum, the
allies will demand complete surrender
of the metal reserves.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-04-19
AUTOMOBILE THIEVES
ESCAPE FROM TRAIN

PORTLAND, April i9.-U. P)--
Naked and handcuffed with thei: legs
ironed together, James Miner ana
Harry Hoafe, both j 6, escaped from a
Southern Pacific train between Duns-
muir and siskiyou. Calf. according
70 a telegram to United States Marshal
Alexander. They were being returned
70 Portland from Los Angeles, where
they were captured in desperate
fight with the police while trying 10
rob a store. They had previously es-
caped from the county Jail here,
where they were held on a federal
charge OF stealing an expensive au-
tomobiIe in Seattle, driving to Port
land. There is snow and 1t is very
cold in the mountains whore they es-
capped and the federals do not believe
they can live without clothes.
Missed NJ Ashland.
The boys in charge of Deputy Uni
ted States Marshal Bassett of Los An
gelees. were not missed until the train
reached Ashland, oregon this morn
ing. They face the federal court
charge here OF violating the national
motor vehicle theft act
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-04-19
CONCERT TO Be GIVEN
BY H. S. ORGANIZATIONS

The Girls Glee Club, the Boys Glee
Club and the orchestra, the three
rusical organizations of the Pendle-
ton high school, will appear in concert
Friday evening at the high school au-
iitorium, in a presentation compl-
:neniary to the public.
The girls club, of which Mrs. S. H.
Torshaw IS director, consists of e5
sir|s, who by appearing in the concert,
substitute for their annual concert
The boys club, the first in the history
# the high school and never before
presented in concert, is comprised Of
- toys directed by Oswald Olson.
rho high school orchestra is directed
by Bert Mcdonald.
Program Is Varied
Following is the program which is
'utiected to change:
Darkcys Lullaby .....,...D Dvorak
;ohlot of Youth ...........L Lecocu
NlnpCt ...- -. Bocherini-A brosc
Girls Glee Club
Mister Boogaman ,.... Richards
The Flag Without Stain 80. White
Boys Glee Club
IL Nilt nay .pit Il I0lCll All
Nightingale ,............. -Saar
Husheen .......,........... Needham
Girls Glee Club
Numbers by Orchestra
A Japanese Sunset ........ Deepen
Serenade ...-..-.......... Drigo
II Trovatore (Selection) 5000. Verdi
Orchestra
Venetian Boat Song ..... Blumenthal
LullahN ,.....,....... Bra Inns
Lovely Spring .......,..... Coenen
De sandman ..-........P Protheroe
Mammys Little Coal Black Coon.
...-....,.... Bellam- Parks
Until the Dawn ......... Parks
Boys Glee Club
Minuet .............. Beethoven
Mooniit Meadows -CZiSulka
Girls Glce Club
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-04-19
PRIMROSE DAY OBsERvrn

LONDON, April 19,-CU PO-
Pr.mroses were worn in nearly every
huttonholc today in memory of the
Early of Beansonsfiold, famous prem
ior and foreign minister who died forty
Years ago, The anniversary of his
death is called primrose Day" ana
Englishmen. almost regardless of party
pol't'cs wear the little pale yellow
flower of whiohh the great statesman
was so fond.