Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-17
By JESSIE HENDERSON
speciaI Correspondent Of Great Falls Tribune


Special CORRESPONDENT Of Great Falls Tribune
Copyright 1922. by The great Falls Tribune
New York, April 16.-Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle has got us all excited
| about ectoplasm, which it seems every
one owns. like fingernails or adnoids,
The ectoplasm is matter beaten up
with ether''-the kind of ether that
holds the stars together or apart, not
the kind they give you at the hospital.
And everybody's ectoplasm is an exact
replica of the body. even to the pores
of the skin: leaving it pleasantly and
rainlessly' at death and hanging around
the hereafter at a trance mediums
elbow, all ready to materalize at the
+, proper signal.
In one way, these lectures which the
, author of Sherlock Holmes is giving
about the proof Of life after death CON
stitute a great comfort. In another
way. it's not so good For example,
! the ectoplastic Sherlock Holmes. sleuth-
ing round the next world. must be glad
that when a body becomes a spirit it
retains even its skin pores; it makes
celestial Bertillon system SO much
easier
''Ghostlv fingers on the pans may,
you see, be classified and filed for flu
ture reference. But in another way:
| Those of us who use many pounds OF
| beauty cream because we are not
pleased with our pores cannot get lubH
ant over the prospect of having To
massage our ectoplastic features
through all eternity.
Conan Doyle, however. is absolutely
serious about the whole matter. Very
| tall, florid and blessed with a humor
ous twinkle. he doesn't look as you'd
expect him to look But then. few
people do.
Actress lNdnaps Broker
Meanwhile New York women are
growing more emancipated every hour.
They are usurping mems privileges so
fast that men have to think quickly in
order to keep one privilege ahead of
them. The latest bit of emancipation
by the new woman was that of kidnap-
ing a gentleman and holding him pris
oner for three days. This is what
Il downtown broker complains to the
court that an actress did to him: and
refused 10 LET him go home in spite
of his prayers and his family.
Want Crime Cleaning House
So far as can be ascertained. this is /
the first instance of woman charged
with kidnapping q man, but if only
Police Commissioner Enright.s crime
clearing house were already establish
ed, other eases might crop up among
its files. It is Enright's idea-and IN /
it he is cnthusia stically backed by such
organizations as the republic commit I
tee of 100~-that the United States
should have a national police hureau
and perhaps an international one, at
which crime could be reported from |
which tips on criminals could be sent
broadcast and through which a good
deal of crime might be prevented
This city. pending the opening OF
such bureau, is doing its best TO af-
ford judicial statistics. The police |
commissioner recently said that the /
town was us safe at night as in the day /
time. and the proper retort, given with |
IN ironie lift of the eyebrows. seems 10 |
be lust about correct" Many of the
ho!aups. including the removal of $50 |
600 in gems from a jeweler in the sub
way. have occurred in daylight An I
other jeweler was bound. gagged and |
his shop robbed of S25,000 in stones |
at o o'clock in the evening, 90 feet |
from the traffic officer at Times |
Square.
Business Men Police Town
The Downtown league. an organiza-
ton of some Of the most eminent busi- |
ness men in the city. has offered the |
services tl ito VI It's iiltiHbtIS spy
cial patrolmen. 1t You happen to hear |
two detectives dickering with each
other over a $4,000. 900 deal, or con
versing pleasantly around police box
about the opera season or the country /
cluh-~the Downtown league volunteers /
are the answer.
A clearing house for Ellis Island
grafters wouldn't be such bad idea /
either. Commissioner of immigration !
Todd is paying detectives out of his |
own pocket TO trace the immigration I
inspectors who extort money from inn
migrants and their friends, and, so far, 7
the commissioner has expended three
times his own yearly salary of $4,000. |
Two Orphans; One DOG
Yet, in spite Of nold-ups of one kind /
and another there is balm in Gilead /
One proof occurred in children's court
the other day. when Justice Boyle
after committing an 11-year-old home
less boy to an orphans refuge. paused
to ask why tears stood in the young
ster's eyes Rags" replied the waif.
III miss him something terrible. May
be he'll die since they amt no one to
look out for him.
Rags" proved to be forlorn ter
other jeweler was bound. gagged and
papers for the canine orphan also.
An Angel Up Out of Gutter
And there was Chinatown Gertie.
whose funeral proved one of the most
functions New York has
ever seen. Gertie is n proof of the
Conan Doyle theory that criminals can
get into heaven. A drunk and pick
pocket, Gertie reformed some years ago
and became worker ut rescue mis-
sion When she died. the pickpockets
,fhd franks whom she had befriended