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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-16
Eggless Ell Dorado,
a BucOnLeSs EedUen

Not bad lot-decidedly not-but
rather an average thousand Amer
ican men--well able in their trades
and professions and callings at home
to earn a comfortable living-a
thousand men used to their bacon
and eggs for breakfast-who dis
covered that eggs at the end of that
rainbow were eighteen cents apiece
the bacon priceless-the coal for
their heaters a painful $40 a ton
and the shoes for their babies be-
yond their reach.
81 they scratched their heads and
puzzled. and while the old world moved
on, with its cgglcss breakfasts and shoe
less tots--Quitc the thing in this disnp-
pointing FL Dorado--Amcrior. Jmcn
and their wives could not descend to
levels like this, and the task was to get
back home.
But how?
How could a man who could barely
exist on his earnings scrape together
the francs and the sovercigns and marks
and lay them away for the tickets to
take them and theirs to the other side
where the rainbow's colors are true ard
real-where the gold is gold and bacon
and eggs are bacon and eggs?
ut couldn't be DONE" you say-ard
that's quito right.
And Paris and London and other
centers Of the Old World, painfully
ignorant of the ways Of America which
made 1t impossible for these men to exc
cut their existence where standard!
were low and prices high, began to looh
Spon them rs the standard of stock IN
the United States-and truly they were
"-reason enough alone why they coult
not get along-but the impression they
made was bad over there in that mis-
understanding Europe, with its per.
Wtual poverty that centuries have
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-16

Yet they needed not. American
.nirit was not to be conquered in
snv such fashion as this, but along
came the old law Of supply and de-
,rand and competition with the peo-
,ls Of the old world who could live
t,r a day on a few paltry francs
while these foreigners from the
New World, schooled only in the
standards of prosperous nation,
soon felt the pinch.
American relief workers abroad
found these people crowding in
upon them, clerks and mechanics,
doctors and actors, gardeners and
ananciers-and just plain men who
had arrived with fortunes and lost
them in the fascinating chase for
more.
A thousand men and their wives
and babies, wholesome Americans
all, ex-service men some, soldiers
who saw Europe after the war,
their star of hope, and who stayed
there or came home and then re-
turned to gather a harvest of
wealth.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-16

prospective purchaser and the crash
came.
And johnson and his luggage and his
children and his dogs were loaded
aboard the President Polk and here
they are in America-the oldest boy
seventeen and brought up with no eX-
pectation of ever meeting the necessity
Of having to go to work, and the other
children down to the youngest little
girl possessed of no greater experience
in the demands of the world.
Two men from Honolulu with wives
they had married abroad were passen-
gers on the President Polk when she
arrived with the crowd so universally
disappointed with things as they found
them in Europe. On of these mel
was all prepared to stick In New York,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-16
Chicago Plunger Lost
His Fortune in Paris

At last opportunity had come, he
thought, and in a few more months,
with the plan he had in mind. he would
return to his beloved Chicago with
hundreds OF thousands Of dollars in
place of the "meager" $50, 900 accu-
mutations of his lifetime of labor and
energy.
So he went to Paris and TO the
Bourse and there he plunged into spec
ulation in German marks, And while
he was waiting for his millions TO ac-
| cumulate he travelled through the Eu
ropean watering places, giving little
heed to expense and no thought that the
future would bring anything but wealth
and q mansion on the Lake Shore drive
and everything he had drcama of and
wished for.
The President Polk brought hh "ck
to the United States with not a
penny in his pocket. His health
gone, his nervous system wreCked%-il
true derelict, drifting back home in the
arms OF charity to Il future as uncer-
tain as life itself
But even his responsibilities werf
nothing to those of Edward Johnson, ,
naturalized American, who had beer
in Europe for years, The President
Polk brought him home with the re-
patriation group. johnson and Mrs
johnson and the nino little Johnsons
and-ye gods-a govern.
pieces of luggage and TIN. ~
dogs. Here, indeed, was ~
pInched by the economic condir.c>~>. Of
Europe.
Johnson himself had struggled through
years of training race horses, had be,
come adept, and branchcd out MS {
trainer and breeder. His wealth was
not great. but his family was comfort
able, first in Paris and later in New
market. where he established his owl
stables, with every prospect in the worlC
having the brightest kind of future.
But suddenly the market became bad
the properties became plastered Will
mortgages, and finally when sale wal
arranged that would have saved him thu
JOCKEY Club refused permit to tn
.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-16

taught its people is thing to be ex =
pected and conquered.
And here were a thousand Americans
wandering in their midst giving Eu-
ropeans their most intimate contact
with the United States, and SO they
thought:
Like mother, like SON is a saying
so true that the world must judge large
ly Of mother by you"
Certainly this would not do, and
slowly the individual problem of the
unfortunate developed into question of
international Importance.
Slowly the famous red tape of the
Government of the United States began
to unwind-ever so slowly il must have
been and still must be for these men
and their wives and their little babies
who crave the milk from American
cows and the eggs ana the wheat from
American farms and the coal from
American mines.
But finally the decision came. and
the cry of Repatriation sounded
through France and England and Ger.
many and fell like zephyr from heaven
upon the ears OF the men and wunen
who had had their fill of Europe end
wanted to go back home.
on the morning of December
13, with bitter wind bowling
down the Hudson, the curtain of dny.
light arose and let its beams shine upon
the great hulk Of vessel which had
slipped in during the night and dropped
its anchor off quarantine.
This was the President Polk. another
OF the Shipping Board fleet, decks nnd
raging frozen with the morning ice, but
inside the cabins warm and cheerful
and thoroughly alive with the second
cargo OF reclaimed Americans. 2G1 this
time made happy and brought back
home under this repatriation scheme,
devised and put through by the Ameri-
can Aid Societies in Paris and London.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-16
82-Year.Old Man Lost
E23,OOO in ENGLAND

And surely there was no sadder story
from stem to stern of the President
Polk than the tale of william II. Bees
ton, a pathetic old figure. who bubbled
over with optimism despite burden Of
eighty two years and the remembrance
that sharpers in England had stolen a
fortune OF 5000 pounds sterling from
out of his trusting hands.
All his life this man had been q
clean hard worker. who spert his labor
| in the fields Of Oregon. lie was n ma
tive of England and was naturalized
;.way back in the early seventies. The,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-16
Philadelphia Soldier
Among Those Returning

Mrs. Della Kline, of Philadelphia
was pointed out among the passengers
as n war bride coming to America to
meet her hu,bt nd in Philadelphia, who
had come back some time before. Z.
e. Daily was another young soldier
from the city Of Brothorly Love. who
people, former Jean Andrea. who
beamcd with the thought OF landing in
this country of which she had heard SO
much.
Daily had hoen abroad since
1918, serving over there with the
American EXpeditionary Force and
later striking ONT rs a civilian among
Europeans before the drop in exchange
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-16

in payment for his shave and mas
sage.
But technically and officially he was
"hroke" and as such he Travelled at the
expense of the Government and the
American Aid Of Paris.
Quite n contrast indeed was he to
DR.. G. w. Dodge, former captain of
the Medical Reserve Corps, who served
his country well in Europe and who
remained TO work with the Graves
Registration Committee. 1t seemed ns
if he would be established there in
France for years and SO he sent. for
Mrs. Dodge and the three little Dodgcs,
who journeycd all the way from Cali
fornia to New York and thence t.
Paris. where the family. found Itself
all together again and quite happy
urtil word suddenly came like q stroke
of lightning that the appropriation had
been cut off-the work was to cease.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-16

urY followed the rainbow England
b.von their and themselves
, of gathering riches they dreamed would be theirs
But the they had vsioned gilt the silver tnse
~ necios cobbes laughing hollow mockery
And that they became "broke" and destitute
rsnu old woda pretty muddle>t to be
me Americans thousands of miles from home
desperate if you please
The they had the Of
N thing on nearly away turned
sunlight shadow and the blues son
.tks were flaming reds that warned "Go back"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-16

two years ago word came from England
that his relatives had died and a COM
Portable estate had been left to him. So
he packed up ard sailed abroad and
the old man. ignorant in the ways of the
world, trusted and lost. and although
worth a tenth of million dollars one
day he was pauper the next. Blu.
he wasn't discouraged. lie found work
around an encNmpment of soldiers. He
tended the officers gardens and they
made him an 'hOnorary lance corpo-
rail- And eight times the old man was
promoted. as honorary promotions 60,
10 n two striper and set out to call tie
rolls.
But he couldn't read, and in telling
about it he chuckles and then turns
and asks sadly if his listener doeSn' I
think it too bad he had been deprived
chance to 'advance' in the army of
Great Britain.
He came to America with the small
est kind of n handbag, and blue
dotted bandana kcrchicf about his neck
his hair and mustache snow white
and his pockets empty. And the Red
Cross took him and investigated and
found every word of his story was true.
and careful and sympathetic guide
bought his ticket and put him aboard n
train for Portland, where the people
he served for years We're ready to well
come him home and give him back his
work.
Several OF the stranded ones were
men who went aboard to collect the es-
tates willed to them by departed rela
tives. only to find when they got there
that things seemed to have dwindled
away, and between the deprecated VAL
ues of foreign exchange and the expense
of administration. the fortunes which
loomed large with the sea between were
nothing in actuality, but disappoint-
ment and sorrow.
Staggering through the group in the
cabin of the President Polk was an
elderly man whose hands shook like a
leaf in gale. His shoulders were bent
and his face drawn. one time pros
porous Chicago baker who sold his busi- =
ness with the signing of the armistice,
and leaving his wife and children at
home. took himself off to Europe with a
comfortable fortune Of so 900 tucked
away in his pocket
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-16

and the struggle to maintain the Amer.
lean standards abroad became more Of
a burden than he could bear. "
One thing about these returning
Americans. they did not have any greaS
quantity of belongings to give the GUS
toms inspectors sufficient worry. to keep
them busy, for nearly all OF their De,
longings we're wearing apparel and
the stark necessities of life which come
through duty free.
The furniture of the few who had
any left when the time came to come
back was disposed of and sold. but
Adolph Reifcnstuhl, of Chicago, could
not bring himself to part with a few
treasured old pieces that were rich In
association for him. so he packed them
up and whoever it was who passed
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-16
honand Rpatrzae, DSnoned and h Fortunes Cone Re1n
United States Through Aid of Relief AgeueS fter Find1ng
European "El Dorado" Empty Dream and Srug-
gle for Existence in Pam

And the sharks who wormed their
way into the group were hardly Of tie
calibcr of the big hearted fellow who
insisted he be not named, but who
nurscd young Banks throughout the
voyage and who took his own remain
ing trinkct and ratified it among the iirs,
cabin passengers SO that Banks might
not be entirely without funds when he
reached New York.
There were all kinds Of persons ir
the repatriation group aboard the Pres
idcnt Polk, men who had been doing al
kinds of things to keep the wolf fron
the door.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-16

women there were without penny.
The prospects ut the moment were that
they would be dumped in New York
City to walk the streets in the cold and
depend upon the tender mcrces of the
goddess of chance who had been none
too good herself during the last few
years, but despite this it was IN
extraordinarily happy lot---fnces bright
--forgetful Of everything but the fact
that In an hour more the great steel
sides of that steamship would scrapc
along the piling of a Hobokcn pier aud
there under their feet would be the
United States-surely paradise, real
I'll Dorado compared to the poverty
stricken existence that almost had
crowded the more pleasant things from
their memories.
Yes, the way hnd been paved to bring
them observation-disclosures suddenly
had appeared in the papers of the
European centers instructing Ameri-
cans who wished to 60 home and who
lacked the means to file their applica-
tons with the American Aid.
$1,000 Changed Hands
in One Evenings Game
And it would hardly, be unexpected
that among the group would be found
few charlatans and fakirs who saw
in this a chance to make the United
States their next stop and do so without
expense to themselves although they
might we'll afford it, and the very fact
that the click of dice and the rifle Of
cards sounded nightly in the thrd-class
cabin was proof that in the group were
few with money-and apparently
plenty of it-accOrding to officers Of
the ship who observed the games.
In one evening game with the gallop-
ing worries. $1,000 was said to have
changed hands and the loss Of hum
dred or so Mt the poker table was
frequent enough to develop thorough
dropping off of comment.
| 4 few of the men who saw chance
in the carls to raise their last 50
or so to n fund that might take them
home from New York, succumbcd TO the
temptation and lost. When the final
tally was made it was generally agreci
that one particular man-whose con-
tidential identification card which
accompanied the party listed him as
"a bad actor and ian international
crook" had gotten nearly all. He
had served time in Paris jnils and the
most definite information that could
be gained revealed that the police of
Paris had agreed to turn him out Of
Jail il some way could he found to gee
him to return to the United States.
With him was his wife. fair and young
and pretty and genuinely cunning
baby, whose smile was in marked con-
trnst to the cynical features and poker
face of the gambling father.
1t was strange thing. too. that
out Of crowd of supposedly "desti-
tute" Americans there would appear
one man who daily sent his clothes
to be pressed by the ships valet and
who deposited himself each morning in
the ships barber chair and bowed the
tonsorial artist fairly off his feet the
first day out by offering n 500 bill
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-16
Robbins
to IS in

such things aboard, said "Go ahead"
and on they came. couple of great
big cases that the Red Cross helped
him get to his home in Illinois.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-16

their native homes. And when the. In
dian said he wanted to go to Sithn.
Alaska, the way was found to send
him there to the remaining members of
his tribe. He. too, had a German
bride
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-16

but the other Abraham Kaloma. and his
bride could see no stopping place be-
tween Manhattan and Honolulu itself
and there they went and Red Cross
tickets in their hands
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-16
Cherokee Indian Chief
Makes Big Hit on Ship

There was Chief ITailstorm, a full
bloodcd Cherokee Indian from the Ok
lahoma reservation. who showed un
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-16

Arriving OH the President Polk at
New York were Chief Alvone Hail
storm and his German war bride
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-25
Richmond Girls Score
Success In |. u. Plov

BLOOMINGTON, Ind April 25.-
The Misses Helen Eggemeyer, Jane
Carpenter and Bonita Monarch, of
Richmond were members of the cast
of 125 Indiana university students who
presented THE Jordan River Revue"
a bright and entirely original college
musical comedy, recently at the Murat
theatre. Indianapolis, in a way which
drew favorable comment from Indian
apolis dramatic critics and playgoers
generally.
This pleasant little musical comedy
had all the air of metropolitan pro-
duction," wrote the Indianapolis News
in half-column review of the produc-
ton. ut had, of course, the freshness
OF all college plays, but it had, in adj
dition, an excellent presentation, a real
idea, several unusually catchy tunes
and some good scenery. To one &C
customed to seeing college plays given
by men only, it was a diversion to see
chorus of pretty girls. All in all, it
was good show. If the reviewer has
omitted anything, he apologies, for
everything was worthy of mention"
The Richmond students will appear
again in The Jordan River Revue dur
ing commencement week at Indiana
university, when the show will be pre-
scented before the graduating class and
visiting alumni and friends of the uni.
versity.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-25
DIVORCE IS SOUGHT
BY EATON WOMAN

EATON, Ohio, April 25.-Gross neg
lect is grounds upon which Treva
Locke seeks divorce from Ralph Locke
and restoration of her maiden name OF
Cotterman. The suit was filed Mon
day in common pleas court. The
couple was married in September, 1920
in Paris, KY. and went to Dayton to
reside.
Enter Suit
]. A. and D. c.. Kirnan, doing bust
ness in Celina as Kirnan Bros, have
entered suit here in common pleas
court against Frank Niswonger to re-
cover STA, alleged to represent bal
ance on an account for cigars, tobacco
and candy.
Granted Divorce.
Barbara Medford was granted a di-
vorce from John Medford, following
their marriage in June, 1921, in Eaton,
and her maiden name of Null was re-
stored. Judge Risinger granted the
decree in common pleas court, upon
grounds of gross neglect During the
time they were married, the wife
averrred, her husband drew more than
$500 of her money from bank without
her consent and squandered it, He
married her just to get possession of
her money, she alleged
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-25
RADIO PROGRAM
PALLADIUM STATION

PALLADIUM STATION
Wednesday, April 20, $3.50 D. m.
Especial program given by menu
berE of the Billy Sunday party
In person. "Billy'' will listen in
on the program by his party In
his room In the WestcOtt hoteD,
u. 5. weather forecast
Song, Gin The Garden
Mrs. Asher. Mr.. Rodehenyer
trombone solo. "Safe In The
Arms of Jesus,. III. Rodebeaver
Duet, "Where The Gates Swing
Outward Never"
Mr.; Peterson, H. Rodeheaver
Piano HumOresque. sSuwanee
River" Robert Matthews
Song, "The ReceHsional" ......
Homer Rodeheaver
Mrs. Asher, Mr.. Mathews,
MIR. ROdehcayer.
Duet, "The Old Rugged CrOsss
Mrs. Asher, MIR. ROdeheaver
Tuesday, April rs.
INDIANAPOLIS WIKI
$500 p. m, baseball results
$3.50 p: m- Comics Wonder or
chestra.
$3.50 p. M, time and weather re-
CHICAGO
financial report.
40 p M, children's bedtime story
S:OO-9;0O p. M. musical program.
1900 p. M, news and sports.
SCHENECTADY eastern time)-
700 d. m, market quotations and
weather reports.
1915 p. M, musical concert.
PITTSBURG eastern time)-
1880 p. M, bedtime stories for kid
dies.
7;45 p. m, special news, govern
ment market reports, summary
of New York Stock Exchange
weather reports.
500 p. M, talks on golf and civics,
$3.50 p. M, program by GIee club.
S'OO to S:O5 p. M, news Omitted
Press service).
9:55 to 1000 j. M, Arlington time
signals.
NEWARK IN. il eastern tfme)-
200 p. m, "Man-fn-the- Moon,
stories for children.
1870 p M, talk on part of New
York.
S:O0-1O:15 y. m, concert by the
Westinghouse band.
9:52 p. M, Arlington time signals
DETROIT (MICH.) eastern time)-
300 p. M, news, bulletin on sports
and other events until about q
p. m.
700 p. m, musical program.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-25

leadership of the Eaton club has fallen
to DR.. H. R. Splitter. Many of the boys
are making sets now under his direc.
ton.
Special Program Wednesday
Members of the Billy Sunday party
will give special program for the en-.
tertainment of listeners to the Pal
ladium telephone Wednesday evening
The program will begin promptly at
$50, the usual time, and will include
vocal solos, duets and trios,sa piano
solo and trombone solo by Homer
Rodeheaver.
The United States bureau of stand.
ards has developed a receiving set that
takes its f1lament current direct from
a lamp socket, eliminating a storage
battery
Morse used beeswax as the first in.
sulator for telegraph wires. All the
bees in New Jersey f1ocked to the feast
and another material had to be found
An additional committee of 10 in
the department of commerce, to gov.