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POPULAR IN Japan

p EPORTs from Tokyo are to the effect thai
II he people Of Japan are enthusiastic in praisf;
Of Secretary Hughes proposal for International naval
cuts. but the Japanese naval authorizes are aghasl
at what Japan is asked to do. They point out tha.
Japan is called upon to scrap one dreadnausht that
has been afloat but a short time and Two others ina.
that he United States intends to scrap no big ship
nearing g complexion. The fact is that America hs;
$500 tons each, both Of which have been LAUNCHED
one being 80 per cent complete and the other 20 pei
cent. IN addition the United States proposes to scrap
IS other ships in various stages Of construction
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I. 4ND FORCE

HE problem Of reaching an agreement upon
tic reductions Of land forces will DC by lar
he most difficult question concerning armaments with
which The conference will be confronted. France is
understood TO take the position that her armies can
not BE reduced until Germany has fulfilled all tFG
military provisions Of the Versailles Treaty, and until
Ike menace of the Russian hordcs has been rcmoDed;
M. and 10000 military police. They are all
highly trained soldiers, capable Of becoming non-com-
missioned officers in the event Of a general German
mobilization. 1t IS believed BY some that German
could but an army Of 5000, 900 men in The field; the
nucleus Of which would be the quarter OF a million
men. now under arms.
Russia has $4,000 infantry troops under arms,
and 81. divisions Of cavalry averaging 1000 men to
each division. She has available .OOO'OO more
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possibilities. She will travel and
see life! Poor Lucy.
She meets Roger

John goes out to Africa alone
and six months later Lucy follows.
On the steamer che meets Roger
; who is OF decidedly different type,
"a neither religiolsly pedantic nor
colossally conceited. Lucy Is
warmly drawn TO Roger at once
and wishes bitterly she had not
| promised to come out and marry
John Pat there being no opportun
ity to turn back, she continues on
her journey-and marries John.
Then follows tortures of various
sorts for the sensitive wife. The
MOSQUITOES. fleas, intense heat,
poisons. fevcrs, long dangerous
Journeys, feTocious black people,
Wild animals. snakes. privations-
bring delirium and hysteria IN
time. Lucy hates the tasks that
| fall TO her lot. She despises the
Africans she must hepl teach
through the fearful heat of the day.
In due course OF time he: huS"
bands mission station is threaten
cd With an uprising from hostile
! Arabs. Lucy is sent with an escort
10 safety. John refusing to come
| with her. Roger, who has a con-
| sular commission in East Africa
is sent to Investigate troubles. The
two meet and both are overjoyed
! because Of the meeting.
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Now for a fresh batch of mince pies for Christ
mas.
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The schemino sibyl.

Then begins a renewal Of a
friendship which threatens the
good name OF Lucy because she
travels many miles to safteS under
the added protection OF Roger
without chaperone. FOLLOWING
Johns death In tho expected up
rising. the pair are marriel and IN
due course Of limo bring four
children into the world.
"sibyl'' informs Roger that be
Is "the man who did the right
thing, in his marriage to Lucy
This very fashionable. ultra-vindlc.
tive lady, very much wished
Roger for herself but in view o f,the
fact that Sibyl's 70 year old hps
band did not see tit to die In
time, Lucy captured the prize. So
Sihyl reflects.
In the beginning Of the story
Sibyl deliberately chose an old
man for a husband because he was
! extremely wealthy and she hoped
he would die before very long and
leave her with sufficient funds tc
marry Roger whom she had known
for years. and whom she had plan
ned for years to help carve out 4
career.
Aftor Roger marries Lucy. sibyI
| endeavors to separate them and
this failing, she tries to induce
Roger to becom cher lover. For a
time Roger accepts her aid In
| SECURING employment for him out,
| side Of difficult Africa and later
he tires OF her and breaks off the
relationship entirely. But again
years afterward, he reuews the
friendship and is with Sibyl when
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Chat
"The Man who did the right
Thing"

"The Man who did the right
Thing"
Yosierday-after partakinE Of a
more than plentiful supply OF
turkey or perhaps just plain
chicken, did you venture out into
the terrific lain to the ball game
or did you remain quietly at home
with a new book?
Have you read The Man Who
Did the Right Thing: The
romance was coucocted by Sir
Harry Johnston and is one OF the
just cutters. After spending up.
ward OF ten hours on the book |
have arrived at the conclusion that
the author wrote the title OF his
book before he wrote hts novel.
After persuing carefully a vast
quantity Of adventure IN Africa and
after becoming attached to Lucy"
the heroine Of the romance, and
after learning that Roger" mar
ried Lucy because he was the
man who did the right thing" !
failed to properly appreciate tho
implied sacrifice, IL there CHANGED
to be one.
Tho story runs like this: Lucy
marries John, a sanctimonious I'M
intellectual Englishman. Lucy Is
dear and gentle and imaginative.
She is possessed Of a warm. sen.
sitive heart and in tho ignorance OF
her youth and childish soul, thinks
going out to Africa with John who
Intends to. he a missionary, will he
a wonderfully. beautiful thing to
40 = thing wrnnRhk with EohalnNc
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men who could Be put INTO The field if equipment
sibHiy that the German government may go TO pieces,
the German people either fall a prey to OF JOIN hands
with lhe soyiets and the western frontier of France
suddenly be menaced by a Slav-Teuton horde that
would constitute as great a danger as confronted i in
1914. 1t is possible that a scheme for the reduction
of armies may be worked out, but there is far more
reason for maintaining large Sorees Of men IN some
countries, for a time, Than there is for keeping huge
navies on the seas.
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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
Hoult, W. va. Nov. %, 1927

Hoult, W. Va, Nov. 90. 1929
Editor West Virgin!an:
II was with mingled feelings Of
Iehanc. disgust AMI indignation
that I read Of the attitude Of the
movie proprietors Of Tairmont o
ward the West virginian because
1t would not forbid the better class
of lady citizens OF the city the
right to express through the col
umns of that paper their candid
criticisms OF the pictures
shown: disgust with men--busi-
ness men, lacking business IDEAS
| with such a peanut brain, shame
that l have been a regular patron
of this kind OF people and indtg-
nation that men should dare to try
to stile freedom OF speech opinion
in this day and age. The claim
has often been made that a paper
is not free as they are dependent
on their Advertising to exist and
the advertisers dictate the policy
OF the paper, but this Is the most
dastardly brazen attempt to open
~ dictate that has ever come to
my notice.
There is just one way and only
one way that men OF this kind can
be prevented from being successful
in their attempt to throttle the
freedom or the press and that Is
for the people to give all the more
patronage to the paper and with
hold it from the offend ers. care
nothing about the merits Of the
matter otherwise than that these
people object to people publicly
discussing the merits and dement's
OF their business. 1t was exactly
that attitude that killed the goose
that laid the golden egg for the
saloon men. Others may do as
they please, but as for myself as
long as these men assume this at
tftude toward the West Virginfan
and the good women or Fairmont
l shall cease to patroni@e them re-
Eardless OF the merits of the pro-
! luction shown and shall try to in
fuence others'to the same way OF
thinking.
Very truly yours.
Jas. D. Bowman.
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During the three months, July. August, and
September, of this year we exported to Mexico lO5'-
900 pairs OF mems shoes, 65,0Oe OF women's anH
10000 pairs Of children's, or a total Of 1S@ 600
nairs Of footwear for the people Of that country.
Tina, is one way OF bringing about a better under
standing in that b%enighted land.
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The Charle ston Mail is running a daily feature
with the caption, what Charleston Needs Most
in which prominent citizens are expressing their
ideas OF the things most needful for Charleston.
ono Of the opinions would apply to F.ai"mont as
IL ii hal been written for us. " mnuicip " owned
water plant that will furnish a plenty or good.
clean. pure water at a reasonable price
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Considering tAat a great deal Of West Virginia

Considering tAat a great deal OF West Virginia
and Pennsylvania terrain is honeycombed with
mines. some thought should be given 10 the plan
ming Of our permanent highways. and there should
be avoidance OF territory dangerously undermined.
mine fire near Connellsville has caused
tho closing of a stretch Of the state road,
and engineers are there seeking a remedy for the
trouble. difficulty OF a nature akin TO this. will
probably be encountered ctten.Sthe Caring OF de-
sertei and worked our territory perhaps will give
the most trouble. II might be possible to avoid a
lot OF it, by watching and avoiding as far as feasible
such menaccs, even II the initial cost OF building
be increased by a slightly heightened route.
Now ror ! fresh batch of mince pies for Christ
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Let the delegates to the ornaments conference
be guided throughout the meetings by the sent'-
ments expressed in their opening addresses. and wa
need have no fear Of tho outcome.
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the mud reduced the teams to the
lowest degree Of Visibility
q '
By Golly.
A guy couldn't see number nine
more than about one eighth OF the
time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-05

SOUTH HIGHLANDS--7-room E. 18th St., $5.250, terms. B. r. Eborn, sl6 Empire Bldg. Main S173.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-05
EMPLOYMENT E HELP wANTED-FEMALE 50

WANTED-Lady to be companion to my mother; good pay and good home for the right party. Call at 912 Adam St., Graymont, or address J-30, care Age Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-05
 SECURITY SALESMEN

v T F men accustomed to calling peo- pie in all walks of life; no drones need apply. To those desiring remunerative returns for results splendid opportunity is offered to connect with local company whose securities are meeting with quick absorption by the public. Live wires and high pressure men are what desire. Address o. L. Meyer. 2114 1st Ave. Bir- mingham Ala.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-14
HOLLYWOOD ORGIES
MAY BE REVEALED

Los Angeles. Sept. 14.-Drink and
drug orgies here which nave been re-
ported to the Morals Efficiency Asso-
citation may figure in the San Fran
cisco inquiry into the Roscoe Arbuckle
case. Captain ]. Il. Pelletier, Of the as
sociation and in the war as TN ofhcer
of the United States Interdepartmentai
Bureau OF Social Hygiene, declared that
hc was sending certain evidence to the
District Attorney at San Francisco.
Investigators Of the Morals Efficiency
Association have made several reports
now on file in Captain Pelletier's Of
fees which bear on the situation. One
such report describes a party in which
125 persons, including many wealthy
men not connected with pictures, took
~"After they drank booze and used
drugs freely, men and women danced
in the nude, according to my inVestiga-
tions." he declared. 80,
~ have not found any one with cour-
age enough to appear In court, put sew
eral of those present have given me,
nriyately, the details Of the analr.
When they learned I had the party
under investigation they sent woman
here to pump me. She represented her :
selr os n newspaper reporter, but she
ala not get away with 1t. 1t was TOO
crude she wanted to know how far II
mad gone. ,.,.o5 ho b.s Ia.
oated and stopped tho supply OF liquor
nd has found and soon will stop the
Somrce Of drugs being supplied to the
cIioue to which he refers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-14
REMEMBER ARBUCKLE
As MISCHIEVOUS LAD

Smith Center, Kan, Sept. 14.--Res-
idents Of this county remember FATTY"
Arbuckle as fat, overgrown lad, al
ways seeking and getting into mischief,
but never given to cruelty Of violence.
His natural bent seemed to be toward
acting and the stage, and he was never
happier, even in boyhood, than when
entertaining his friends with clownish
performances.
OF humble parentage, "Fatty" was
born in n sod house in the northeast
section of this county in 1887, and all
his early surroundings were of the
rough. primitive sort. His parents had
a hard time making a living on the
farm, and a few years after "Fatty's"
birth they moved to the city. The lad
always attracted attention by his size
and roguish disposition and his readi-
ness to make friends with everybody.
In school he was quick to learn, but
his teachers constantly were on the alert
to prevent the execution of his pranks.
From this city the Arbuckle family
moved to Santa Ana, Calf, when
FATTY" was about ten years old.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-14
PenrOse Leaders
Back League Slate

Continued from Pass One
first, DR.. John Prester and John Fin
ney; Thirty third, Councilman Robert
]. Patton; Thirty fourth, Director
Caven and City Solicitor Smyth; Thir-
ty-sixth, Representative Daniel J.
Green; Thirty seventh, Oscar Noll ;
Thirty ninth, Thomas J. Weldon,
Fortieth, Mr.. Connel; Forty second,
Andrew Frosch; Forty third, John
Haney; Forty fourth, John Dunn
Forty seventh, Frank l.. Rau; Forty =
eighth, Representative Isaac #. l..
Smink and George A. McElwee.
An important meeting this afternoon
was, that Of the Strategy Committee
Of the Voters League at their head
quarters. The furniture used in Mayor
Moore's headquarters during his cam
paign was brought Of storage today
and taken to the Voters League. The
place has assumed a business-like
busting aspect.
Mayor Moore will deliver an address
tonight before the Republican Women
of Philadelphia in the gardens OF the
Emergency Aid, Eighteenth and Walnut
streets. This will be the Mayors sec
ond appearance on the stump in the
final week Of the campaign.
While the independents are confident
of victory Tuesday, counting especially
on the aid Of the women, Senator Ware
is boastins of success for the fifty fifty
ticket.
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FATTY'S WIFE GOES
TO HIM AS "FRIEND''

New York, Sept. 14.-(By a. -
NJ, Roscoe Arbuckle, who was known
Occasionally as Minta Durfee, left
Sew York today for San Francisco to
boln her husband, II possible, although
she has been separated from MIN ior
five years. .I..,.
"( am going to him because ] think
T. 10 nv duty to be near him. she said:
1T want to help him in every way !
can. 1 don't know just how can DC b.,
~ service to him, but many things VIII
turn up that ! can do.
"When we were married was sew
enteen md my husband was twenty
one That was back in l9Os. Five
Vears ago we agreed to, disagree, and
I received a separate maintenance; IN
formnateiy-or perhaps fortunately, as
van nlcase-there are no children. We
were not bitter against each other. We
simply decided that we would remain
Sond @ friends. Mr.. Arbuckle has been
Sery generous in his treatment of me
in regard to finances. ! have not had
TO work during these years, and last
February he made me present OF
"A reconciliation? That depends
unon whether find that my place is
with him and whether he finds that he
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usual interest when, toward the close
of the session, Coroner DR.. T. B. w.
Leland asked the witness:
"How do you happen to remember
what happened il you had so many
drinks of whiskyT
my memory is always good" she
answered.
When the inquest was resumed in
the afternoon Ira G.. Fortlouis, sales
man. took the stand. He testified that
he was present at the party, but left
before Arbuckle Is supposed to have
gone into bedroom with Miss
Rappe.
Mr.. Semnacher testified that he at
tended the party after trying in vain
to induce Miss Rappe to return to Los
Angeles. He was not present, he said.
during the alleged attack, but came
back later and saw Miss Rappe on the
bed, apparently very i'll.
Semnacher also testified that he Wis
tied Miss Itappe the day following the
party, and she said to him:
Roscoe hurt me-"
He said he did not hear the scream
ing testified to by Mrs. belmont, and
was surprised when he heard the full
details of the party from Mrs. Delmout
the next day.
Before the Grand Jury Mrs. belmont
also testified regarding the occurrences
at the party. She had repeatedly
knocked and kicked at the closed door
behind which were Arbuckle and Miss
Rappe. she said, and finally compelled
Arbuckle to open it. She told Of hav-
ing attended the stricken girl and of the
girls removal to the Wakefield Sani-
tarium from the hotel.
Mrs. Jean Jameson. one Of the nurses
who had attended to Miss Rappe at the
sanitarium, testified that Miss Rappe
had told her that Arbuckle had treated
her roughly and that Arbucklc had
said that he had waited five years for
the girl. At times Miss Rappe said
she did not remember what happened
in the room and at other times she ac-
cused Arbuckle Of hurting her. Mrs.
Jameson testified. DR.. William Ophuls,
who performed the post mortem on
Miss Rape, and Ira G. Fortlouis aud
AL Semnacher, guests Of the party, also
testified
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-14
DEFENDS w. VA. LEGION MEN
Went to "Ald Of Law and Order"
Commander Reports

Wheeling, w. Va. Sept. 14.-(By
A. P.)-Commande ]. Byron Nicker-
son, Of the West Virginia division Of
the American Legion, today submitted
to the national officers report on. the
activities of the legionaries who took up
arms against the men who attempted to
pass through Logan County during the
recent disorders.
Commander Nickerson, in his report
which was made public here, declared
thnt the legionaries went ito the aid of
law and order" and therefore were JUS
tilted. He expressed the opinion that
the cause of the outbreak was the
mine guard system" which, he added,
"is disgrace to the State and justifiess
most anything that can be thought of
to bring it to an end.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-14
MISS RAPPE TOLD
GIRLS OF PITFALLS
Victims Final Advice to Her sex
Warned Against Too Much
Liberty ...
LEAD THE QUIET LIFE"

Chicago, Sept. 14.--Virsinia happe
last advice to the girls OF America gwen
in a newspaper interview, was su'p'"''
up in these words:
"Iead the quiet life.
The interview was printed here uh-
der Miss Rappe's signature as ioi'ow9
"To be real frank, this entire dlscus-
sion, which amounts to nothing raoie
than whether or not a girls enjoy
ment shall be curtailed. vas brought
about through the mistake OF the Eir's'
A priyilege was abused. And now
amends are to be made, 80,
'There Is an old saying-Mr. Lenr.
man made use Of 1t in his comedy
Twilight Baby'-'You can give COW
enough rope It's the same with glrls;
Give them enough rope and they won
know when to stop dancing, go nome
or anything else. , -,.
.aTbe foregoing is radical view,
some of the aggrieyed girls may say.
And yet there are just as many girls
who will agree that they didnt ap-
preciate their liberty, and consequently
overstepped the bounds.
Deno,mces Lounge Lizards
"Tbere is one way of meeting the
nroblem on a fair basis, and that is
through arbitration. And the girls
must take the first step toward the
half-w line. .,
Hardly a city in this land hasn't
a young set that consistently comes
autoing home at all hours OF the
morning. The mothers know this. F'2r
while, especially during the war
when the men in khaki had to be enter
tnined. they tolerated 1t. Now they're
"There isn't a girl Of fair dancing
ability who hasn't been forced to be
civil to the insipid lounge lizard class
that persists In haunting dance halls and
country clubs. Personally, / don't know
why the lounge lizard exists. Even the
cootie. the fly and the ant have a mis-
sion in life-but the lounge -lizard-l
can't explain it.
"The mothers appreciate this. They
want to break the association and break
it right now! ! don't blame them.
Prefers Gingham to Jazz
"where did the jazz baby idea
originate? At the dances, midnight
dances, all night dances. Any sane CIR
knows Jazz baby ideas are all wrong
Baby and / was in the farmyart
scene. a party of tourists came to visit
Mr.. Lehrman's studio.
Zone of the boys whispered to m'
that a young girl onlooker was typi'
cal 'jazz baby I told him I'd rathe,
be the girl in gingham and peel pota
toes. And ] meant it. The mother
know this and want to keep theiI
daughters out of the jazz baby Gle
ment. Who can blame them?
'T think a girls dates should brini
as much pleasure to the mother as t
the girl herself. Any time girl de
cides to have an evenings entertain
ment against the wishes Of mothe
or leaves that mother waiting up TO
her return, the scheme of things is al
wrong, and I haven't much use for tina
girl.
"After thinking over the problem,
isn't hard to see that concessions mus
be made. After all, a mothers wisl
is about the best thing for everybod
concerned.
} "And perhaps it wouldn't hurt an,
of us to be a little more Quakerfied!'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-14
TO RECOGNIZE SOVIET
Norway Plans Acknowledgement Of
De Facto Regime

Christiania, Sept. 14.-Ry A. P.)-
Recognition of the Soviet Government
of Russia as n de facto regime will be
declared by the Norwegian Minister of
Foreign Affairs in the event such appli-
cation Is made before the Norwegian
court during lawsuit between agents
of the two governments.
1t is stated in the preamble of the
Governments bill for the ratification
of Russo Norwegian commercial
agreement that there has been an ex-
change Of notes between the two gov
ernments in connection with the agree
ment and that Norway has promised
recognition under the conditions stated.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-14
ArbuckLe Indicted
for MansLdughter

N'"ahuea from PaEo One
els Hotel. Miss Rappe went to Ar
oucRle's room alone, she said, and then
Nephoned to Mrs. belmont and Sem
nasher to join her.
There, she tetsifed, she met Ar
puckle, Lowell Sherman, Ira G.. Fort
iouis and Frederick Fischbach. There
were many bottles on the table In the
room Miss Rappe had three drinks
GIN and orange juice and Mrs. Del
mont had about ten drinks of whisky.
Two more girls came in, whom she
Earned later were Alice Blake and Zey
Screamed After an Hour
Miss Rappe rose, she said, and
,oom. When she came out Of the bath
room Arbuckle was in his room. He
gosed the door between it and the sit
ing room where the other members of
ue party were.
one heard screams coming from the
room about an hour later, she said,
snd demanded that ArEuckle open the
uoor; He did so. Miss Rappe was
% the bed tearing at her clothing and
III am hurt. I am dying. TIc did
one removed the girls clothing and,
t''led by Fischbach, placed her in a
Ivy OF cold water. This had no eff
s~ and so Miss Rappe was taken to
-1I.ser room and put to bed.
riepuckie kept HIS eyes fixed on the
NESS throughout her testimony.
4. belmont finished her testimony
noon. Arbuckle took more than