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The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1921-07-21
DeCrepit Old John ShebeC Took
But One Dose and Did Some
Great Stunts.
GLIMPSE OF DICKS" STAR
Senile Cripple OVertooIc Trolley Car
and Would Have Defeated Police
FIivVer II the Street Crowds
Had Not Hampered Him.

Chicago.--John Shebec, who Is 67
years old, discovered the elixir Of
youth the other day. Before taking
he was stopped, lame, decrepit, hope
lessly senile. After one dose he was
able to hop a speeding street car,
OUTRAGE a fiivver, and stand on his ear.
Mr.. Shebec was first observed by
Detective Sergeants Berndt and
Janaczak at Western avenue and Madi-
son street He was limping.
"Give me a quarter for carfare,
The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1921-07-21
NoveIty In National Airs.

A kindergartner asked Of her pu.
pills which they would like to sing Of
the national songs they had learned
the day before.
A little girl responded; Lets have
the one about America, where the
fathers all took pills and died"
The words of the song were Land
where my fathers died, land of the
Pilgrims pride"
The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1921-07-21
Wool Clip Of West

Winnipeg, Man.-The wool clip for
western Canada this year will be in
the neighborhoOd Of 100000 pounds.
Alberta's wool clip is estimated at
100000, which Is about the same as
last year. Manitoba, Saskatchewan
and British Columbia are expected TO
contribute about 100000 pounds to
the total.
The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1921-07-21

either let at rentals Of from 300 TO
1000 per cent higher than the average
before the war for furnished apart
ments Of the same class, or rented at
an increase of 200 to 300 per cent
above the average for unfurnished
apartments, with the proviso that the
tenant buy the furniture at excessive
figures.
The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1921-07-21
Heavenly Dust Cloud
of Vast Bulk Is Found

London.-Dr A. pannekeck, a
Dutch scientist, has been demon
strating the existence of an in
conCeivably vast object in the
heavens. Its mass, he says, is
2O,OOO,OOOOOO times greater than
that of the sun. He calls It a
celestial gas or dust cloud.
Doctor Pannekeck says this huge
body is situated in the constel-
lation Of Taurus and his csti-
mate Of its size is greater than
many estimates of the combined
mass of the whole universe It
self
The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1921-07-21
He Said Too MutA

Young Wife-The dentist pulled my
wisdom tooth today, so you mustn't
be surprised If you find me stupid.
Hub-Nonsense The Idea that q
wisdom tooth has anything to do with
wisdom is absurd. Why, you wouldn't
be any stupider If you had every tooth
in your head pulled.-BOston Tran.
script.
The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1921-07-21
Elixir of Youth
Found in Chicago

please" he asked them Bierndt
started to explain that transportation
In this City of the Horn may be pur-
chased, theoretically, at a nickel a ride
and, if one is travelling in the sub
urbs outside the precincts Of the city
hall, at s cents. He meant to follow
up this information with a remark that
the old mans two-bit demand was
bit exorbtant. He was interrupted,
however, by a citizen who burst from
the corner saloon.
He Sees a Star.
"YOu old rascal, l just gave you
carfare," shouted the man.
AHA" quoth Bieindt, "come with
me-"
He exhibited his star. One casual
glance at the glittering elixir worked
a marvellous transformation. 1t pene.
trated the ancients system instanter
and invested his feet with a gest for
voyage.
The next instant Shebec was ten
yards away. The instant after that
he was scarcely dlscernibe for dust
Holy haste!" exclaimed Bierndt.
THAT guys exceeding the speed limit.
What he needs is a pair of brakes"
The detectives jumped into their
flivver and tore after the vanishing
Shebec. About a block ahead was
street car, travelling at the rate of
numerous miles per hour. 1t saw
the ancient chasing 1t and tried to get
away.
"Too burned Slow"
No use! With an easy leap Shebec
had achieved the step. Then he
looked behind him and saw that the
police flivver was making better time
than the street car.
you're too burned Slow" said he to
the cOnductOr-and off he jumped. The
particular section of the metropolis
into which the ancient leaped was
bit populated. The abundant citizenry
impeded his progress and made
straight running impossible. In the
zigzagging which ensued the hivver
had time to catch up and Shebec was
apprehended. In his pockets were
found twenty 81 bills and about So in
coins.
81 think I'll enter that bird In the
indianapolis sweepstakes next year"
said Bierndt at the station. "He runs
without gas and never has tire
trouble. He's the fastest thing l ever
saw in pants"
The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1921-07-21
sao,o Home for whlt. aa..

New YOrk.-A $4,000 home 70,
white rats will soon be erected by
the Wistar Institute Of Anatomy. The
building win be entirely devoted to the
housing of the thousands OF rodents
kept by the institute for It biological
research work.
The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1921-07-21
cutleura sOOthes ItehInu seaIp

On retiring gently rub spots of dam
druff and itching with Cuticura Oint-
ment. Next morning shampoo with
Cuticura Soap and hot water. Make
them your everyday toilet preparations
and have a clear skin and soft, white
hands
The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1921-07-21

control. Guf'ey, Gillespie and the old
directors attempted to fight for places
in the reOrganized company. Tide
water asked for their designations, and
called for a receiver.
The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1921-07-21
Stevenson's PRAYER.

Give us to awake with smiles, give
us to labor smiling. AS the sun light
ems the world so let our loving kind
less make bright the house Of our
abitatiOn.-SteyenSon
The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1921-07-21
SHRUBB WILL COACH OXFORD
Engaged for Term Of Seven Years to
Instruct Track Team Of Old
English University.

Alfred f. Shrubb, worlds champion
lOng-distanCe runner, has signed u con-
tract to coach oxford university track
The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1921-07-21
important to Motners
PLACING Them.

JUDGE don't think that women
have always been vain; you know
women were made before mirrors.
Fudge-And they've been before
them ever since.
The Washington times., 1921-03-23

imputation. brought the matter to
me. l told him that the boy in ques-
ton had never carried out his inten-
ton or treated me with anything but
unvarying respect; also that i had
never spoken on, this sacred matter to
any group of boys, only singly and at
rare intervals, and that since we have
been in the large house, ! have only
had such conversations with five boys
in all, always individually.
SICkENED ny INTERPRETATION.
81 also asked him to show DR.. Alb
bott a letteg had received not long
before from a young officer In our
army. saying that the teaching had
given him had been his salvation. DIR.
Abbott. my husband tells me, looked
at this letter and said: That's all
very we'll; but thereafter such matters
will be left to the physical Director
Naturally. / have never held any con-
versation with any boy on this sub
Ject since then. ! have felt sickened
by the Interpretation which had
apparently been put on my motives.
''It IL both unfortunate and sur
prising that. in this age OF the worlds
enlightenment. there still are In ex-
istcnce specimens Of those pure ones
to whom all things even the simplest
and most fundamental of Gods laws,
are impure" f. -"
The Washington times., 1921-03-23
VILLAGE VANlP'S WlES
LAND TOWN HERO IN PEN

DETROIT. March 33.-"The Village
vamp," $4,000 production.
John Middleditch. postmaster of
Lunn, Mich, took the leading role In
such q play and as result received
a three-year sentence at Fort Leaven-
worth Tn which to reflect.
John, according to the testimony,
served twelve years as postmaster of
Lunn. The village Is one Of those
quaint, picturesque towna situated
At a crossroad in Lapeer county, of
the sort where everybody obtains
drinking water from the town pump
In front of the general store.
- John was a respectable citizen.
stood high in the community and
then 1t happened.
He fell for the village vamp Of q
neighboring village. Into her clutches
crept the postmaster. his testimony
revealed. Her hearts desire was an
automobile. a photograph and new
furniture. Unable to resist her
eyes and itching palm, the
helpless postmaster fell. the testi-
mony showed. and making out money
orders to himself, cashed them. using
the money to purchase the objects of
her desire. s
Postal auditors discovered Middle
ditch's shortage and hailed him before
the court. Judge Tuttle, sentenced
him to three years in Fort Leavenworth.
The Washington times., 1921-03-23
CREETERS CLUB TO GIVE
BALL HERE APRIL 8

The Greeters' Club of America, COM
posed of hotel oficials and employees,
will give ball at the Raleigh Hotel
April 3, for members of charters In
the District OF Columbia, New York.
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland,
Virginia, and West Virginia. Plans
for the ball were approved last night
at a meeting Of the local charter in
the New willard Hotel.
The local organization also voted to
send delegates to the national conven-
tion in New Orleans in May. A dele
cation will be appointed to attend a
testimonial dinner to George d. Wor-
thington, national president, in Phila-
delphia- April 2. Ten new members
were elected.
The Washington times., 1921-03-23
French GIVE BONUS
BIRTHS
Council of Seine Votes 800
Francs to Parents Of Every
Third Child.

PARIS. March 2s.-The County
Council of the Seine has voted 800
francs to the parents of every third
Child born in France during 1921. and
has appropriated 10000, 900 francs to
meet the claims.
. A graduated scale has been pro-
vided which gives the parents a sum
for every additional child up to the
tenth. at whose birth the parents re-
ceive $50 francs.
+ The council has also discussed plans
for improving the health conditions
among children. At present 100, 900
children Of the 100000 born annually
In France die before reaching the
FIRST year. ~--
In addition to extensive health work
carried on by private organizations
such as the American Red Cross, the
trench government will greatly in
crease its budget for health work.
There will be an increase of govern
ment insurance of maternity; new
maternity hospitals will be estab-
lished; infants will receive free Pc
riodic medical examinations and moth
ers receive advice as TO child nourish-
ment and care.
The Washington times., 1921-03-23
LAWS
ASSA|LED IN court
Motion Picture Dealers Petition
Questions Validity Of Mary
land Statute.

BALTIMORE, March 23.--The ques-
tion as to the alidity OF the notion
picture censorship law Is raised by
petition filed i'm the superior court
yesterday by Leo G. Garner, of WASH
ington, through Wilson J. Carroll and
Karl +. Steinmann, attorneys. Garner
Is a moving picture dealer. Among
his films was "The Dark Road"
which he leased to theater proprie-
tor on South Broadway after he had
submitted II to the censors and IL
had been returned to his once, stamp
ed and perforated.
After the picture was shown, his
petition stated. he was summoned TO
the Easterro police station on the
charge OF leasing "a film not approved
by the State board of censors. He
asked a jury trial and the case was
sent to court.
The grand jury declined a find an
Indictment the petition also stated,
on the ground that the case was not
within its Jurisdiction. Thereupon
Police Magistrate Seeltzer issued a
new warrant. 1t is alleged, and set the
case for q hearing today.
1t IL alleged by Garner that the
magistrate is without authority and
jurisdiction to try the case and de-
prive him of his right to a jury trial.
It IL contended for Garner that he
has a valuable property right In films
leased to exhibitors in Maryland and
to lay unreasonable restrictions upon
the sale or disposition of property is
contrary to settled law. Therefore,
1t is alleged that the limiting of the
right to exhibit motion picture films
until such .time as they shall have
been approved by a board ds depriv-
ing q citizen of his right freely to
dispose of and deal with his own
property.
1t Is also alleged that the law in
question Is void, as II interferes with
interstate commerce..
The court was asked to grant a writ
OF certiorari taking the case from the
magistrate into court to determine
the question raised. An order was
signed by Judge Gorter for the issu-
4 ing Of the writ forthwith.
Assistant Attorney General Lindsay
c. Spencer said with reference to the
case that he had not seen the petition
and could not reply to II definitely.
Speaking generally. he said the at
torney general will maintain the va
lidity Of the law giving police mag
istrates summary jurisdiction in cases
of the kind without the right of ap-
peal
The Washington times., 1921-03-23
Three Young Women Figure
In Newly Revealed Mysteries

Story of Suburban Library Assist
ants Sensational Rise to Fame and Her Quiet
Retirement Is Narrated by Samuel Merwin;
Inside Facts Regarding Haywood Achison's
Charitable Crime Are Told bylMrs Wilson
Woodrow; Jack Boyle Exposes Tong's Pun
ishment of Capt. Uleaborg; The Red Book
Magazine Acquires All Three Narratives
The Washington times., 1921-03-23
D. c. COMMISSIONERS SEE
YOUNG AMERICA FIRST

The Board Of District Commission
ers last night attended the exhibition
OF young America First" a motion
picture film showing the District
playground activities. at Loew's CO.
lumbia Theater. The film. which will
be shown all this week, was pre-
pared under direction of the District
playground department. 1t Is part OF
a campaign to obtain more and better
Fairgrounds for Washington.
The Washington times., 1921-03-23
NOW GIVEN TO WORLD FOR FIRST TIME

This is the weird and absorbing story. humorous pathetic
and tragic of three young women who known
another Widely different in kind and dwelling far apart then
paths have crossed yet their singular adventures require
telling narrative. fC&~3 "A N1@
Two of these young women occupy similar stations in life
but greater diversity than theirs is often found The t
far unlike the other two than they like anothe
They become the personages of single story because uncon
scously they are linked by single interest h,
The Washington times., 1921-03-23

GIVING elephant bath is big job When Mr.
Elephant out for his spring cleaning it takes
good deal Of work to spruce him up. But broom.
scrubbing brush and scraper do the trick.
The Washington times., 1921-03-23
DENIES SEX TALKS /.
0USTED TEACHER
Head Master Asserts Other Mat
ters Led to Professors
Dismissal. 81

PRINCETON. N. j.. March ga
Prof. Edwin w Pahlow and his wife,
who were dismissed from. the faculty
OF Lawrenceville, returned to this
school yesterday to clear Mrs. Pah-
lows name OF the rumor that she,
IN giving information on sex matters
TO the boys under her care in Ken-
nedy House, was the cause of their
removal.
As they approached the campus of
the school where Professor Pahlow
ilas taught for the last ten years,
Mel Groasdale, tho school proctor.
vent TO meet them and told them
that he had BEEN ordered to keen
them off the school grounds. In the
offing several groups CT silent, en-
barrassed boys watched the Pahlows
as they strode away. Mel" hurried
TO the house of tho headmaster.
Mather A. Abbott, and soon reap
peared.
Il must have misunderstood the or
ders. DR. Abbott says you can so
any place you want, so long as yo,i
don't gather a group of boys around
you."
DISCUSSIONS NOT REsPONsIBLE.
When Professor and Mrs. Pahlow
CdflcO fdItI on ttcdutndStev AODOtI ~
his home, he Informed Professor Pan
low, In the presence of newspaper
men, that Mrs. Pahlow's sex discus
slons were not responsible for his
removal
Mrs. Pahlow issued a statement, In
part, as follows: ..
MY husband and / were drawn to
'l.nwrenceville nearly ten years ago,
largely by the fact that we had no
children and felt great need OF
them. and that the house life, which
Is the great outstanding advantage
OF that school. offered us, in its init
mate everyday association with the
hoys, substitute for parenthood
that was almost as good as the real
thing.
Their mothers were very generous
to me. During the first year one of
them said to me:
T wish you would teach my boy
the things he ought to know about
life; j know other boys are telling
him all wrong. but i don't know how
to go about 1t, and my husband won't
try. .
After that many other mothers
asked the same thing of me, and
finding that in every case boys were
already full of vicious knowledge. ]
tTIe0 10 give all VI tHciu VINO CALuc
to me the basis of a clean-minded I'M
derstanding of life.
BLAMEs BOY FOR CHARGES.
Last October my husband was
called into DR.. Abbott's Office and in
formed that evil things were going
on in our house.
"'Your wife talks sex to the boys
he said, and they get together and
concoct leading questions to put to
her. It's the talk of the school, Ny
husband found on inquiry that our
last years assistant, wishing to have
a boy whom he characterized as foul
and lewd' expelled from the school.
had brought to DR.. Abbott as evil
dence OF the boys low mindedness the
fact that he had heard him tell an
other boy that he was going to pre-
tend ignorance of sex matters and
see IL he could get me to talk to
him; and DR.. Abbott, instead Of see
ing that a boy of that sort ought to
have a horse whipping, apparently
assumed that the low mindednezs was
mine.
my husband. very angry at the
New-York tribune., 1921-11-19
Short of Telephone 6s

A technical short interest in the new
New York Telephone Company per
cent bonds has been an important fac
tor in forcing the issue to large pre-
MUM over the Offering price. Yester-
day the 6s crossed par against an offer
the price Of 81 on extremely active
trading. The drastic scaling down of
subscriptions on the basis of allot-
ments announced by the syndicate
managers in the deal is understood to
have proved extremely embarrassing to
many dealers and individuals. What
happened was this: These people, as
suming that the subscriptions would
be heavily scaled down, put in applica-
tions for much larger blocks of the
honds than they expected to get. Then
they sat down and figured out about
what they thought the basis Of allot-
ments should be. Having done this,
they went out and sold the bonds firm
to customers in some cases, while in
others they sold the bonds in the open
market at the substantial premium pre-
vailing. When the allotments were an
nounced they found they had way over
shot the mark on their own ideas as to
what allotments would he, and, having
sold more bonds than they received
from the syndicate, were actually short
in an advancing market. The expert
ence in this case is, in the opinion of
investment bankers, likely to check the
speculative exuberance Of dealers and
IN ,viCl, sls
New-York tribune., 1921-11-19
Pere Marquette

The governments final settlement
with the Pere Marquette Railway for
$750,000 on claims arising out of Fed
eral control has revived discussion in
the Street of the possibility of payments
on account of the back dividends on
the preferred stock. 1t was pointed
out yesterday that the settlement may
make it possible for the directors to
consider the matter at the regular
meeting Of the board scheduled for De-
cember z. One years requirements for
the prior preference stock are $3.50, 900.
A years requirements for the per
cent cumulative preferred amount to
$621,4 ,45O. There is $12,429, 900 of the
latter issue outstanding. For three
years, representing the period during
which dividends on this class of stock
have not been paid, the accumulation is
81 1854 $50. The company has shown
good earnings this year, and net op-
Grating income for the full year is es-
timated at $6,650000. Other income
will amount to approximately $780, 900.
Fixed charges require in the neighbor-
hood of s2,360,000 for the twelve
months. Allowing for the fixed charges
the estimated surplus for the year is
expected to be in excess Of $4,000, 600.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-19
Buying Checks.
Effort Toward
Lower Prices
Rail Shares Lead Upturn,
Followed by Prominent
Industrials, but There Is
Still Some Irregularity

Once more the financial markets
were subject to contradictory specula-
tive forces. and prices fuctuated ir-
regularly. In the stock market efforts
to forcea reaction continued, but buy
ing impulses were sufficient substan-
TALLY to check them.
A rally toward the close effaced much
Of the losses around midday among in
dustrial stocks, whereas railroad
shares, favorably influenced by the
resumption Of dividends by the Chesa-
peake & Ohio, continued to make net
gains. When the market closed the
average price of thirty representative
industrial stocks was 71.s9. compared
with 1915 the previous day, and that
Of twenty typical rails 65.45, compared
with $3.50 the previous day.
One of the excuses Of traders for
selling stocks in the morning was the
adoption by the House Of the Senate
maximum of so per cent for surtaxes
on large incomes. The House had been
more lenient on capital in it's original
bill, and despite the Presidents recon-
mendation of compromise, it yielded
to the Senate's judgment.
In this connection market operators
were especially interested in the re-
marks of Judge Gary. regarding the
sales tax, at the twentieth general
meeting yesterday of the American
Iron and Steel Institute. Giving voice
to the view that business had been
taxed to death, the steel leader urged
a consumption tax as method Of re-
lief The present tax bill, which is
essentially a modification Of the ex-
listing tax law, gives relief to business
at certain points where the strain was
greatest, but does not give radical
respite such as many financial leaders
have advocated. Although Judge Gary
predicted a great business boom if
the disarmament program goes through,
attention was focused, too, on his
assertion that before normalcy is
reached "there must be further ad
justments."
The easing in time money rates and
the rate on acceptances further en-
couraged investment buying of bonds
and high-grade stocks. American
Telephone and Telegraph stock, for ex-
ample, despite its quasi-investment
character, has been leaping upward
with the celerity of a speculative
leader. 1t reached new high for the
year yesterday, at 116A.
Sterling exchange remained steady,
gaining fractionally and closing at
$4,000. The continental exchanges
were irregular, with moderately
easier tendency. Cotton, which rose
on favorable statistics of spinners'
takings, reacted toward the close, and
Anal prices were points higher to 3
points lower. Wheat prices climbed up
2A to cents bushel higher.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-19
A Suggested Switch

Qucstion--In reading your paper to-day
! read With interest the article on tho
own aen sharss Of
st Paul; also ten of Baltimore & Ohio
and ten of Great Northern preferred. st.
Paul hold at rs. Baltimore g. Ohio at 80
and Great Northern at 9S. I widow
and took these my share of estate
on advice. l have held them to go up.
and have owned them since 1917. ! would
appreciate your advice on this matter. How
can get out OF this? l am dependent on
my income for living. In your opinion
is Pacific Oil good buy? Could / buy
Northern? ] must haye something safe.
as my income Is smali---A. L. B.
Answer-As it is now you are getting
no income on your Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul stock or ON your Baltimore
g. Ohio common. The Great Northern
is paying it's dividends out of surplus.
We advise you to sell all three stocks
and take the proceeds and invest in a
good high grade bond such as the
Queensland (Australia) 7 per cent
bonds, due 1941, now selling slightly
above par. We think that the comm m
stock of even the best oil companies
are too speculative to meet your
requirements. On your total in
vestment in St. Paul, Baltimore
& Ohio and Great Northern you are
getting only $40 a year income now.
You could sell the St. Paul at approx
mately $3.50, the Baltimore e. Ohio at
1910 and the Great Northern at $720, a
total Of $1,32O. Could you not put
about 5000 to this and buy three $500
Queensland bonds, II you could, your
income would be increased from $40 to
$105, and the safety of your investme ment
would be far greater than it is now.