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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-05-19

After the terms had been read
Facta called the. roll and the head
Of each delegation rose and ssgni,
fed the assent OF bis nation TO the
truce.
Then. wna clash between Tehlt.
cherin and Cosrai over adoption Of
tho report shortly after tho confer.
enee opened. which threatened TO
develop serious proportions.
Tho Russian made sensational 40
cusatlonn against members OF the
economic committee. lie accused
". colrat of barring Russians frem
membership on tho labor committee.
which the commission report sets
w ',altho tho soviet government IL
tho only one in tho world based
upon labor prineipics.-
Tehltcherin declared the eight
hour day should be made compui.
sorry turnout the world. lie said
the economic commission lacked
courage in it's report
Lloyd George had his ffrzt TIT
with the Russians early in the ser,
sion. The Britiah premier was
speaking on tho motion To adopt
the political sab-eommiHsgon' re-.
port.
Turning to tho Russian delegation
no Hald.
when you are asking for
credits, nj the Hnruc or else
where. I advise that you do not
accompany your request by an
explanation Of your doctrine Of
r-pndiatioa Of Orbits"
Tohstohersn started 20 respond
angrsly. but Lloyd George motionea
that he would continue. and went
on:
III Russia wants money. she
must accept tho code OF honor
which has descended to other ma,
tons thru E@nerationa.-
GERMAN DELEGATE
GIVEN APPLAUSE
Walter Rathcnan. Of the German
delegation. was warmly applaudesi.
especially b. the neutrals. whom he
introduced tho subject Of rapara,
tons.
Tho German financial expert said
~1S NdRtI tilAA 1ffuA NRAtl pro
vide basis for world peace. but
warned tho conference that IL
would not Immediately remedy tho
crisis in Europe.
The indebtedness of some powers
was too great Raihonau declared,
for their productive capacity.
Economic reconstruction Is itnpos.
sihle until international debts have
been reduced. he said. urging a
system OF mutual credits.
only common sacrifices can help
tho world recover" Rathenan ex.
claimed. lie was interrupted by
a burst OF applause. In which Lloyd
George was observed 20 take part.
Tho German spokesman said he
hoped public opinion would soon be
dcmobilized from it's post war bit
tcrncss.
The United States. he said. In the
only country that can balance It's
budget
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EUROPE AGREES
TO TRUCE PLAN
Genoa Conference Comes TO
Close
ny HENRY WOOD

GENOA. Mag i0s-The powers
nj Genoa. at final plenary ses-
sion 81 the economic eonfsrsnca.
toslay gave assent 20 Lloyd
Georges proposed temporary
truce for Europe and the Near
East.
Representatives ~ 20 nations
met nj st. George's palace To
compi.se tho woris of the parI~y.
formally accepted the nonaggres-
sion pact
pramicr Faeta. OF Italy. signed the
Document containing the truce agree
ncnt. and by this act each nation
represented ~ the closing session
Ma unsierainnd 10 harn rlpnn al.nnnf
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LII GEE GEE. TIT OFFICE
NANP. sE/:
lis easy for u girl 10 get cred-
II for being good. but It's hard
for her to get cash
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of the MghtyThe Rise of Washington Cobbler De Luxe

through mouth-to-mouth advertis-
ing. and they now wait his
pleasure and pay him cash. Kirch-
ner says he has no desire to de-
velop his establishment. for no
finds his happiness and content.
ment in the satisfaction that comes
with work well done-and done
completely by himself.
One might think that a man
who has made shoes for more
prominent government officials.
jurists. Congressman. money-wis-
ards, social lions, generals. ad'
mirals than any other cobbler on
the present horizon would be bit
up-stage over his hobnobbing with
headtiners.
Kirchner is prideful, but II is
not over the fact that he has walk
ed with kings. BY no means does
he seek to lose the common touch.
His pride lies in the fact that he
has been recognized as an expert
in his line. What greater satis-
faction can come to any man?
He was working on a difficult
last for a deformed foot the other
afternoon.
You want to know about the
work I do for notables." he said.
when, as a matter Of fact. you are
looking at q much tougher Job on
my knee right now. You see, you
are blinded by greatness.
"Ths jobs do for people in the
news are not half as important as
the work turn out for people with
deformed feet. get Ear more sat
isfaction out of making lame man
walk with ease than I do out Of
making a fine-fitting pair Of shoes
for an illustrious person. I like
to do work for big people. Of course,
but 7 don't go out after the busi-
ness-it comes to me-"
To know how deeply rooted is
this desire to do good work you
must look back over Kirchner's
career. Just as great actors have
become great actors because their
fathers were on the stage. so
some Of Kirchner's achievements
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ONE MAN KILLED AND
FOUR WOUNDED BY BEAST.

The female did make off, appar-
entity. at their approach, but the
male turned on them. tore one man
TO pieces, and wounded four
others. Then the rest of the men
rushed in with their spears, pierc.
ing the gorilla through and
through. The skin was so badly
torn that It had not been preserved.
Mr.. Akeley was sorry not to get the
skull.
He had some thought Of stop
ping here and starting off toward
those mountains for his gorIllas,
but the rumors about them were
too conflicting and the distances
too vague. 1t seemed wiser to keep
on to the original objective, where
the natives knew the gorilla range
and had no superstition ABOUT
hunting them.
We heard another story about
gorillas from Monsieur Dargent. a
Belgian administrator, on the lit
tie boat with us, going out to his
post at Sake at the northwest end
Of the lake. He said that four.
teen days journey in the forest
back OF Sake there were gorillas
which had so terrorized the ma
tives that several villages had
been abandoned. He had not seen
the gorillas himself, but he had
heard many stories from the ma.
tives.
This sounded like the good old
demon gorilla Of Du Chsillu's re-
ports, which attacks man on sight
and carries off woman. But Mr..
Akeley was unshaken in his con.
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STORY OF A GORILLA
INVASION INTO VILLAGE.

He invited US to accompany him.
and would have dearly loved II,
but there were the gorillas to got
and Mr.. Akeley's time was limited.
So on we went with the boat next
the Katana, a mission Of the White
Fathers, high on a hill on the
western shore. Here we got the
story Of the gorilla invasion which
had occurred just two weeks be-
fore
For the first time in the memory
OF the mission the gorillas hid
come down from the forests on the
mountains and had ent@sd the
plantations of the natives, where
the natives found them in the
morning busily feeding.
Now. that tribe has a supersti.
ton against killing a ''man-spe,"
believing that the man who does so
will have childless daughters and
that his sons wife will lose her
son. so the men were chary about
attacking the invaders. They tried
first to drive them off with drums
and shouts, and then at the chiefs
orders went in and tried to scare
them off with sticks.
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OF course, that was only in csr.
tain tribes, and it was fifteen years
ago, and where the white man has
power It is finished. But back Of
the mountains is still black mans
Africa, and little can really be
known of what goes on there.
1t was the business Of the young
agent territorial at Bukavu. Mons.
Massart., to travel from tribe to
tribe, sometimes for months ut a
time. visiting the chiefs. persuad-
ing the refractory. strengthening
the bonds OF peace. personifyirs
with all his power that vague but
persuasive thing. the white mans
administra tim
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must be credited to the fact that
his father was in the custom shoe
making business long before him.
He was an apprentice In his
fathers Philadelphia shop In 1851,
and after learning from the best
men then working for his father.
he deliberately started on a tour
OF Europe to learn what the Old
World knew of his business. He
shipped to France. where he had
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sonal concentration through the
cranky whim Of soms unneces-
sary corn.
What man can maintain his com
posure and make sound decisions
IL he is troubled by foot Ills?
And for Congressmen. who. 1t
would appear. spend much Of their
time on their feet. how dreadful 1t
would be should they be forced to
surrender to corns that respect
neither politics. emergencies, nor
filibuster needs?
The alternative Is simple. Once
the great man of Washington has
met up with William Kirchnar,
politics and dignity walk along
without pedal hindrance.
Official Washington has found in
the little shop of a man who has
brought the world path.making to
his door the elusive foot comfort
It had never known before.
The feet of the mighty come to
Kirchner and lose their troubles.
Kirchner Is constantly at their
feet. once q first-time order has
been executed. and yet the mighty
are more truly at Kirchner's feet.
The sharp eye and the facile
finRers of the man who has been
at the custom game since his ap-
premiership In Philadelphia, fifty.
one years ago, recognize and cor.
rect the troubles which Developed
before the hand Of Kirchner came
into their lives.
There are no modern machines
none but a simple sewing machine
in the small room where Will.
lam Kirchner works, but the shoes
that are carried away by the Wallets
of the great are so perfect that
Kirchner never catches up with his
orders. He cuts his own stock,
and does every operation on a pair
of shoes with his own hands.
In the tiny ground floor room OF
a residence at 1923 Tenth street
northwest Kirchner is almost as
completely hidden from the world
as the oft.sung man of the woods
who would build a better mouse
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oy Mol L1dSVluSo ID ooicy'
WE stood on a hill top
w overlooking Lake
w Kivu, feeling we
were looking at last upon
the promised land. For
months we had dreamed of
seeing this lake, reported
the most beautiful place in
Africa.
1t was the last to be dis
covered of the large central
African lakes-rumors Of
it's existence had been
brought to Livingston at
Ujiji by Arab slavers, but
the first accurate knowl-
edge of it was obtained in
1894 by Count Grotzen,
who visited its northern
end. We were the first
Americans to reach its
sheres.
All that day we had
climbed endlessly, higher
and higher, over the last
great barrier of noun
tains. We had crossed the
pastoral basins on the
highlands, an African
Switzerland, where we
wound among grassy slopes
dotted with hundreds of
native cattle, picturesque
black and white creatures,
with wide branching horns;
past lush marshes, where
the golden-crested crane
were preening; past sham
bas of bananas rustling
their suave fronds-an up
land paradise for the dwell
ers in the little grass huts
then on, up and down
and up again in switch
back progress among the
hills.
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no trouble In connecting with one
of the biggest custom shoe houses
In Paris. From there he went
to Lyons and Marseilles. thence
to Geneva. Switzerland. Constan-
tine. Algeria and cities In Italy.
Upon his return to this country
he was coD.aected with q great
house in Chicago. where he was
foreman In the hand work de-
partment. While there he worked
on 100 pairs Of the best hand
made shoes exhibited by the com.
pany at the Worlds Columbian
Exposition, in 1898. for which he
received q personal award and
diploma which he has preserved
to the present day.
Kirchner IL q firm believer in
the value of travel for the de.
velopment Of q young man who
wants to rise in his trade. He
Is confident that his experiences
while ION his own" away from
his fathers shop. were broaden.
ing and well worth the trouble
and expense.
"Ths danger Of roaming" he
said. Ties in the fact that young
mon sometimes get into the
wrong environment But that II
largely their own fault. ! was
brought up to maintain my self
respect, so that when I started
travelling and working in vari-
Gus cities. was not seriously
tempted to forget that my goal
was expertness in my trade"
Another Of Kirchner's beliefs In
that high grade shoemakers don't
need to bother with bookkeeping.
His ambition was to be so good
that people would come to him
with business in one hand and cash
in the other. He has 30 much
work now that he will not make
shoes for any person who can wear
ready.made shoes with comfort.
He caters to those needing special
lasts-and gets a great deal Of that
class of business.
"I once had a shop near the Hcl-
land House in New York. where
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CObbler to Great
Talks AS HE Works
stT'HE last Of Q great mans

"THE last Of a great mans
foot doesn't thrill me be-
cause Il belongs TO q great man.
A last Is q delight to me when
though extremely difficult to
make, It is Just what IL should
be-perfect. II the last is right,
the shoe win fit correctly.
"TF I had q million dollars
left to me. I'd stay right
here among, my Lasts In my lit
tie shop.
tI AM not interested in keep
ing books. My rule is mo
Credit" i do my work and ]
give satisfaction. Why should
I wait for my money! !
shouldn't and ! don't.
soT,RAVEL for . young man
during his early years Is
good or bad for him according
to the environment In which he
places himself. Once i had
learned my trade I did much
travelling, learning foreign meth
DDS. i never worried about .
job because I knew that knew
my business, and because / had
confidence in myself and could
back It up with results. I never
had any trouble finding plenty
Of employment"
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SUCC il S S
SMILES ON
KIRCFINER
| Man Who Spent Fifty
one Years Learning
His Trade Is Recog-
nized as Wizard ON
Orthopedic Work.
BY CLIFFORD MEREDITH.

"M fast-going pink sheet"
Of The Washington Times
- startled home-going Wash.
ington q few days ago with the
surprising headline: Crazy Man
Halts Supreme Court"
An unfortunate inmate of an
asylum. missing several days. had
wandered into the Supreme Court.
at the Capitol. and after an hour
Of silence had suddenly cried un-
intelligible remarks at the pre-
siding Justice. He was quickly
and quietly removed ana the case
proceeded.
The incident has little TO do
with shoes. and yet the fact that
q crazy man so easily halted the
Supreme Court carries a sugges-
tion-especially II on the same
day one has been chatting with
william Kirchner, shoemaker to
Chief Justice william H. Taft
How easy It Is to believe that
an Incorrectly made pair Of
shoes-which you will grant Is
the work of only a crazy man
could likewise completely wreck
the dignity of tho judicial bench.
i, and through pain bring the high
est court in the land to a halt.
Just as they removed the hos
pital patient from the courtroom
to maintain order where order is
most essential. the Chief Justice
himself has removed the possi-
bility of a disturbance Of his per-
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Improving the Cow
Is Governments Job

THE government has tackled
the sob Of improving the
Amsrican COW. Figures show that
cows Of other countries, par
ticularly Denmark, produce
nearly twice as much milk and
butter fat.
OF s0.ooo.o0o grade and scrub
dairy animals in this country
there are less than q million
pure breds. A wider dissemina-
ton of blooded bulls 10 proposed.
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Robbers Sing Hymns
While Looting Store

OMAHA. Neb., June S.-Two
masked robbers who told their
victims they were once in a church
choir, sang the hymn which in
cludes the words. I'VE will come
rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves."
They held up and robbed nine
persons, including q number Of
women, in a drug store here.
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BELGIAN COUPLE FARED
BADLY IN THE JUNGLE.

But even malaria isn't so CHEEKY
while II lasts. and felt that 1t was
no moment for the news which
reached us-of a Belgian couple
who had gone through the Congo
Just ahead of us, DR.. Deriddar and
his wife. They had gone out to
hunt on the Ruinidi plains, where
we were going after we had fin.
ished with the gorillas, and there
Monsieur Deriddar had died of the
fever and his wife was lying des-
perately i'll, mauled by a lion.
Imade up my mind that II lived
through the fever I would avoid
lons-at least avoid going into
grass after them as Madame De.
riddar had done. She had been
finishing the hunt alone after her
husband had gone back to the
camp. feeling the beginning Of
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CHILD SEEMED TO LAD
LIKE STATUE OF SAVIOUR.

The boy had seen the colored
image at the mission and to him
Alice was the living image. So
presently he went away and came
back with a little basket for a
present. We thought 1t very
touching and thanked him Ter
vently. But he was not satisfied.
He made several emphatic re-
marks.
What he say, Mablanga?"
He say now time Jesu Christ
make present" responded Ma
blanga.
So Jesu Christ gave him four
teen cents and he went away
reconciled.
Rwakadiga had some distinctly
advanced ideas. He wanted q
white wife; he had heard there
were many in the lands far away
and he wanted the white people
to write and get him one. He had
sixty-five black ones, but he was
willing to part with them-or
most OF them-for he under
stood the Europeans-all whites
are Europeans--were conserva-
tive, and his men would build her
a house in true European fashion.
He had suggested this both to
Mrs. Barns and Madame Van
sacheghem, and now he endeav-
ored to convey It to me, but my
phrase book was unequal to any.
thing intime. had heard what
he wanted and I understood his
words about writing q letter, but
my boy was too scandalized to
translate his request any further.
There Is no hint of race prob.
lem In Africa--not as far as white
women were concerned. Not one
Of US had ever the feeling Of any
personal timidity.
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They are everlasting,
those hills which surround
Kivu, and they are extra
ordinary. They are grass
crowns, innocent of forest
or deforesting, curving
crests of velvet softness
between the shadowy noun
tains and the cleaning
lake.
BEAUTIFUL LAKE WAY
UP IN THE CLOUDS.
Kivu has a beauty like nothing
I have known. And I saw It first
in a moment Of sheer magic-a
black storm cloud scudding across
the lake with a purple drive of rain
into waters that every answering
gleam Of storm and sky-purple
and jade and peacock blue against
a silver mist Of cloud shot with
rainbows and beyond the storm,
unshine-sunshine ineffably ten
der, ineffably radiant, shining
upon those fairy hills and en-!
chanted mountains.
The lake Is the very summit of
Africa, almost five thousand feet
above the sea- To the north the
country drains into Lake Edward
Snd so to the Nile. to the east into
Victoria Lyanza, to the west into
the Congo basin, and the waters Of
the lake itself rush out south
through the Rusis River down to
Tanganika-
The lake Is deep, over two thou
sand feet in places, and there Is
not a crocodile in It. We went
down to the southeastern end, to
Changugu. and sent a runner for
the little launch, which was across
at Bukavu.
CORDIAL GREETINGS FOR
THE FOREIGN INVADERS.
Changugu is simply one of the
tiny outposts that keep the white
mans way open--a garrison of
about twenty soldiers and a Bel
gian officer. But Changugu was
more than that. II was a home.
1t was Lieutenant Keyser and
Madame Keyser and their little son
JeanJean.
Thsy received this astonishing
invasion with such cordial hospi.
tality that our cook took q COM
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N HlJNTRESS is GUEST OF ROYAL CANNIBAL i'm AFRICA

fever: she had come on several lions
in a gully, had wounded three or
four. who apparently made off. and
in following them up she had been
surprised by a wounded one, who
sprang at her out Of the grass. He
had mauled her and then drawn
back and she had had the pluck
to get out her revolver and finish
him.
We were very social, those days
of waiting at Kissenyi. While our
friends at home were doubtless
picturing us as sweltering in some
lonely, pestilential Jungle, we were
enjoying a climate OF June's love
lest, untroubled by flies or mos.
quitoes. and going to tea at the ad-
ministrator's and to dinner at the
doctors in true European style!
We had another neighbor who
had been more than kind during
my illness, a young Englishwoman.
Mrs. T. Alexander Barns, the wife
of an English hunter and collector.
She was waiting at Kissenyi for
her husband to come down from
the mountains, where he had gone
for gorillas for a group for the
British Museum.
We had not come the long trail
to be turned back now, and IL we
had no chance on the mountains
Herbert promised he would take
the fourteen day trick to Wadikali
to the gorillas Monsieur Dargent
had told us about.
But our greatest sociability in
camp came from our native visi-
tors. Rwakadiga, the chief Of
Kissenyi, was an inveterate caller.
Every morning, Just the busiest
moment Of 1t. would see the long
procession OF spears headed for the
tents, Rwakadiga and his attend
ants in the lead.
Then l would snatch at my
phrase book of Swahili--an almost
universal language-and scan 1t
hurriedly in the hope Of injecting
something in the nature Of CONVEX
sation into the ensuing call.
BOOK OF SwAHILI GIVES
LITTLE HELP IN LANGUAGE.
My book was a hopeless affair.
It abounded in such sterile offer
ings as The foreigner has not re-
ceived his canoes. The
wizard has cheated the ten simple
tons of their spoons. My
blister is not your boil"
But I had added more useful
gleanings to 1t, SO that I was able
to conduct a strictly centralized
series Of remarks concerning my
desire to buy the skins Of animals
and small, clean and beautiful bas-
kets.
we hdu hdu SOtile iueh tldI lHe
natives might think our party
rather oddly composed. but not at
all. It was SIMPLICITY itself to
them. } was the wife with the
child.
And tn. nd not think II strange
that I sh, VIA travel with the child
we were evidently in favor and
II left i1o sultana at home the
other wiv, would naturally poison
her! The mother OF Nuslnga, the
great Mtuesl king OF Euando, was
credited with having poisoned six
of his little brothers o clear the
throne for nim.
ALICE d. NOT THINK
NATIVES rNTEREsl ING.
ao Alice had alwayF 70 trot out
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lariy interested IN them. She did
not see the strangeness which we
did, or think them at all unusual
they were simply part Of the
amazing world which she was
daily discovering and a natural
part Of It to her.
They were not at all frighten-
ing or repellent, but she did get
tired Of the way they hung about
her tent, sometimes trying to
touch her yellow curls.
Some of them thought the curis
were ornaments and wanted to
see II they would come off; 9TH
ers simply wanted to feel that
strange fair hair. But they were
never intrusive or impertinent,
and brought her gifts Of baskets
or eggs. None Of them had seen
a white child before.
One day I saw a boy drop on
his knees. He muttered over and
over a lot Of unintelligible things
in which / caught the words Jesu
Christ. I called the invaluable
Mablanga.
What this boy say?"
Mablanga took off his cap. his
invariable respectful prelude to
speech, and smiled In an abashed
yet amused way. Then. as usual,
when stuck for power for expla-
nation, he resorted to negatives.
mo understand, miss"
II think he say 'Jesu Christ. '"
Yes. miss. One time he 60 to
mission. He see little thing-made
like baby. He say thst Jesu
Christ"