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The Washington times., 1922-08-06
TOKYO, Aug. s,

COOLIES who prepared the Aka
saka palace for occupancy by
the Prince Of Wales on his recent
visit here, went on a strike for
higher wages.
The coolies, Of course, were
kicked out summarily, their jobs
filled by others and the work con-
tinaed without hitch.
The incident. however, is vastly
significant-indicat of the astor-
ishing change that has occurred in
Japanese thought within the las.
year or two-of the tremendous in
crease in independent attitude
that is coming to the so-calle6
"lower classes"
Many observers think this move
ment may result in very great
social uph eavals and perhaps wide
spread violence.
Coolies are unskilled workmen
of a low social scale. They are the
mob, the mass, the great unwash-
ed" Their inheritance has been a
teaching of blind obedience to any
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Campus Deflapperized ).
AS Teachers Convene

doesn't merely have to shake herd'
curly head when she gets out ofw
bed, slip on her dress and be onsd
her way. There's hair to be gotten II
out Of crimpers and a bit Of laceod
must be carefully adjusted at the1s
throat. There's breakfast to be
esten--s sensible meal with regardsG
to calories. vitamines. starch and 81
all the other things taught in the's'
domestic science olasses-not the o.
fiapper's ''Choc late bar, please" 30
The teacher is not a matinee girl. NJ
The Field Museum and the Art In.Tu
stitute are her haunts. Then there7H
is stiff work to be done In the H.
brary. earnest attention In Glasses. -
That's the summer cs.ed, who, In. -
cidentaliy. doesn't roll her own" ~
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DON'T ROCK THE BABY, "
SAYS LONDON DOCTOR

"The doctor who derides cradle
rocking has to meet strenuous
opposition from parents and
nurses, but IL he carries his point
the day will come when they will
turn in their sleep and call him,
blessed" Vigorous rocking, DIR.
Sundell adds. may be harmful to
the child in more direct ways.
An official Of the st. Pancras
School for Mothers explained yes
terday the best way to send
baby to sleep. Tuck him up
warmly" she said, "and see that
he is thoroughly comfortable both
inside and out. All mothers who
come to US for education in child
welfare are at once told how
harmful the practice OF rocking
their babies is. We use banana
crates for cradles-without rock.
ers: indeed, do not think you
will find a creche or welfare cen.
ter in the country where the era
dies have rockers or the system Of
rocking, is approved" =
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Japanese Workers Are i i
u ~
4 Showing Rebel Spirit

and all authority. Two genera
tions ago their heads were chopped ,
off IL they even looked like the
thought of disobedience.
japanese tradition teaches them.
as. 1t does all Japanese, that the
Emperor is divinely descended.
Their religion and their loyalty to
their ruler are interwined. Any
thing connected with the Imperial
House is little less than sacred.
And yet, such coolies, carrying
furniture Of the imperial household
20 the Akasaka palace dropped
their loads of imperial furniture
and refused to work any more a.
the Akasaka Imperial Palace un.
less they got more pay'
The "old-timers" here simply
gasped. and could scarcely believe
when they heard the story.
ut is an astounding revelation
OF a new spirit by a class who
have heretofore had no spirit at
ALL" foreign observer OF pro !
longed experience said. "No one
can predict what a development Of
that spirit may bring forth"
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"They always left tsssther." he
said. y
But the dream Of orange bios
SONS and wedding chimes was dis.
tined to be foully dispeiled. Henry
one day visited q dentist to havsw
costly work done on his teeth.Y
Nothing was too good for Henry
by this time. He was already en-
visioning himself as the greatly
emancipator OF the common people.s1
the Moses who was to lead them ,
out of the wilderness Of economic
depression. At least he liked to 20
pose in this euphemistio character.ri
As has been said before. Henry
went to visit a dentist. And Miss
Booths chances of marrying the .
boy wonder" became nil. For 2
Henry met and fell in. love with D
Miss Josephine Hayes, the dentists, :
assistant.
1t was then that Henry demon
strated his cold -bloodedness and de-H
termination to permit no one tol
stand in his way. He calmly In
formed Miss Booth that he could
not marry her, and a short timeh
later took Miss Hayes as his wifedt
But he prided himself on being :
fair" and he made Miss Booth
housekeeper in his mansion.
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CHICAGO, Aug. 8,

THE summer campus Of the
University Of Chicago is differ.
rent from the winter campus, not
because II has green lawns and
shade, but because it's "deflapper.
ized."
Dignity invades the halls and
dormitories soon after the com.
mencoment exercises. whom teach
ers take possession Of the class
rooms that only few days ago
swarmed with bobbed hair co-eds.
Teachers come to learn, while CO.
cd flappers come to piay-snd do,
There Ia no feverish rush to
classes now. It's different story,
for the sedate "schoolmarm"
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son solicited In no uncertain man.
ner that Money will always be re.
funded. II you're not satisfied you
get your money back" so clients
Of Greene declare.
Born in Lawrence on April 8.
1888. the son of Robert F. and
Elizabeth Santry Greene, the boy
got only a grammar school educa-
ton and then hoped to Boston.
His first Job was at the fountain
of a Roxbury drug store.
He left that after a few years
Of soda Jerking to sell therapeutic
products for Armour & Co.
In 1918. Just twenty-five years
old, he lunged into the public eye
when he established the Old Colony
Foundry and Fence Company. only
to drop It during the war and form
the Commercial Finance Corpora
ton with a capitalization of sew
eral million dollars, organized for
the purpose Of bringing the better
kind OF financial opportunities
within the range of the small In.
vestor," the company dealing with
the financial side of the automobile
industry.
DEALT IN MILLIONS.
It was 1915 when the company
was launched and going. and
Henry, the soda suds hardly dry
from his hands, began to deal in
millions with the reckless abandon
with which he had once crushed
eggs for a coffee nog.
So successful was the CONNER
cial Finance Corporation in inter.
esting the common people that In
the first nine months of it's exist
ence It loaned $1,5OO,o00. So on
October 28, 1919, willing to let the
Bostonians see as much Greene as
they could. Henry spread out.
launching The First Peoples Trust,
the best known OF all the Greene
wizardries, capitalized at $30.o00,-
900 and maintaining at rs Hunt
ington avenue elaborate suites of
offices, in the most sumptuous OF
which the boy who a few years be.
fore had on Saturday nights
knocked off a s12 pay envelope
saw life roll by from the throne Of
the mighty.
In July, 1921. less than two years
later, Henry. having taken all his
financial playthings under one par.
ent organization known as the II.
v. Greene Company, Inc, found
himself in hot water when the
Boston Legal Aid Society, through
Attorney Taylor. filed suit on be-
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man L. whipple. George A. Rich,
Patrick q. Sullivan, Guy w. Cur
rier and Anse Edwaldsen-
Back In 1917 It Ii alleged that
Henry Greene started to mulct the
public. How fast he worked can be
readily seen from the manner in
which his companies multiplied,
almost a. fast - ths famous
guinea pigA
Enough to know that in five
short years 90. 900 persons became
intimately acquainted with Henry
Vincent Greene, and $4,000. 900
rolled into the Golfers Of the COM
panies born In his fertile brain.
Today by the side Of his comely
young wife he can sit and contem-
plate his prize herds, his rolling
acres. his imported cars and liver
led help.
BARRED IN TWO STATES.
Maybe the clink Of ice in the
shaker or the sizz Of soda on the
lump Of ice cream might be .
comfortable feeling at the minute
to Henry ". Greene, inasmuch as
for years Henry has been skating
on rubber" ice.
Up in Maine and New Hamp-
shire, where live what city folks
like to call rural bodies, they
showed Henry and his schemes the
gate years ago.
I'VE don't want you." they said.
Nothing was said about Henry's
affairs not being strictly honest,
but 1t was just I'VE don't want
you" So Henry's highly-trained,
valuable statesmen never got per-
mits to sell stock in the get-rich-
quick ventures.
Then two years ago Attorney
General J. Weston Allen busted
himself into the intricate workings
of the Greene company, and for
months there buzzed through the
financial district conjectures as to
how long the boy wizards marvel
Gus operations would continue.
PROBE AFTER COLLAPSE.
The Attorney Generals investi-
cation followed the collapse Of the
\ Massachusetts, Motors. Incorpo-
rated, a Greene subsidiary. Half a
million dollars was the loss figured.
and the former soda jerker prom
ised to personally make every
nickel OF II good.
From time 20 time there popped
up in court suit after suit from
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tant service to my clients and t.
my country as we'll as to my family
and to myself
"In other words, his connection
with this organization had en-
abled him to follow the same
ideals and practice the same iden-
tical principles that had charac-
terized his ministerial career"
A STRIKING PARAGRAPH.
The pamphlet concludes with
this salient paragraphs:
This is the ethical side OF II. V.
Greene Company-service to its
clients in securing for them the
full earning power OF their dollars
service to our country by put
ting John Smiths dollar to work
alongside OF John D. Rockefeller's
millions for our common pros
perity; and last but not least-ser-
vice to ourselves by insisting upon
the highest standards Of truth,
honor and efficiency"
"Ninety.nine per cent salesman
ship" was the way a banker
summed UP the Greene game.
WOMEN HIS AIDES.
Henry rose to olympian heights
in the world Of finance partly by
using women as stepping stones.
Furthermore, in at least one in
stance the wizard promised
matrimony to a woman who ad-
vanced money with which to start
him on the path to fortune, only
to break the engagement later and
marry another.
Being an exponent" OF the
square deal" Henry made
PREPARATION" It is said, by present
ing the woman with house and
placing her on his payroll at Sl25
a week.
The woman is Miss Mary c.
Booth, Of No. 3 Holborn park, Rox-
bury, formerly bookkeeper Of the
Old Colony Foundry & Fence Co,
Greene's first business venture,
now employed in the same capac-
ity by the H. v. Greene Co.
Henry was always fair, how
ever, refusing to show any dis
elimination, and borrowed money
freely from men as well as
women. Having convinced HIM
self while ladling out sodas that
he was a superman and therefore
above human frailties, he neg
lected to repay these loans in a
number Of instances.
BOUNTY OF WOMAN.
Henry's experience as the re-
cipient Of women's bounty oc'
CURED some years after he had
given up soda shaking for various
druggists in Lawrence and Boston.
After a short period with Ar
mour & Co., in the laboratory de-
partment, he became a partner
with his uncle, John J. Greene,
at 43 West street, in the Old
Colony Foundry q Fence Co.
Henry took this opportunity, he
told people, to obtain outdoor
work, to improve his health.
Miss Booth. who then roomed
at the home of friends in Rox'
bury, was engaged as bookkeepeE
She was somewhat older than the
wizard" who even at that time
was beginning to manifest his
ability to get money out OF others.
The attitude OF quiet self.confi-
dence and belief in his star.
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half OF $50 investors. mostly for
eIgners. charging conspiracy. gross
mismanagement and false and
fraudulent misrepresentation.
In all, thirty court actions were
directed against the company, six
suits having been pending.
It was revealed then that
Greene's first failure, the collapse
Of the Old Colony Foundry & Fence
Company, had been followed by an
attempt to become a world finan.
cier as head of ''The Allied Ma.
tional Bank" but that authorities
at Washington had nipped the bud
before it bloomed.
UNDISMAYED BY PROBES.
1t took more than national bank
officials to throttle his dreams and
shortly he was launched and din
ing with Boston's blue stockings.
his motor purring before some Of
the most fashionable of the homes
OF Back Bays elite.
Financial Investigations, quits
and every other ENHANCEMENT
caused no ripples on the calm Of
the boy wizards life. His many
companies somehow always man.
aged to show slender margin on
the right side Of the ledger, and
the ex-soda clerk went along
serenely.
How we'll Henry sold his goods
can be CLEANED from a little pam
phlet entitled "The Ethical Side of
Our Business" Read:
within the past year the II.
v. Greene Company has attracted
to its employ hundreds Of success
full business and professional men.
Among its 1900 statesmen and
sales managers are many former
executives, physicians. surgeons,
attorneys, school principals, minis
ters of the Gospel. a great many
e having left positions and vQcations
of many years standing, which
were paying them upward Of $12,-
900 annually. This would carry
the presumption that a great many
of these men were attracted more
by the ethical side of>our business
than by anything else.
"As one minister recently ex-
pressed himself: The most salts.
flying aspect Of my connection with
this company has been, not my
increased income. but the oppor-
tunity this company has offered
me Of rendering what earnestly
believe to be q genuine and impor.
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hume. Jerome Schouer. Ivan Skin
ner, W. Harold Hitchcock. Andrew
A. Badaracco, e. c. Becker. Fred
erick A Hinchcliffe. Abraham L.
Howard. John e. Locatelli, William
U. Sherman. Alfred l. West, VIII
liam ]. Townsend, Edward @. LET
fler. Walter p. Sprigg, Alberto
Gonzales, Edwin L wayman,
Adonis d. Howard, Samuel L.
Powers, John II. Sherburne. Sher.
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THE WIZARDS WIFEl -
Just as her husband rose from
soda fountain to swivel chair and
the mastery Of millions, so Mrs.
Josephine Greene ascended from
the position OF attendant In a
dentists office to become mis-
tress Of the $400, 900 manor pictured
above. But the great estate has
been attached now, as the stock
promotions are failing, and the
Greenes are living in modest
cottage, waiting for the clouds to
roll by.
investors who charged they had
been defrauded in the purchase OF
stock and alleged failure to get
proper returns or their investment
refunded, as promised. There was
the rub in stock sold to the gt,lli-
BILE.
There was a "joker" in every
contract made for sale of stock.
The purchaser always bound
himself to printed conditions on the
back of each contract the last line
of which always read:
mo agreement Is made to re-
purchase the shares herein sold
or to resell the same or to refund
any money paid hereunder. No
authority is given any one to make
alterations in this Agreements"
Yet every salesman who cold
stock in the former soda jerker's
many companies informed the per.
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which even then characterized
Greene, impressed Miss Booth. and
his appearance and personality
fascinated her. He in turn was
attracted by her. or at least gave
that impression. and they became
sweethearts.
Greene was q frequent visitor at
the Wyatt house, and the couple
were almost inseparable. They
lunched together nearly every day.
and when the firms finances were
low Miss Booth went through"
for the eats"
She was glad to do It. and Henry
accepted as a matter Of course.
why shouldn't people pay for his
support? Was he not Henry Vim
cent Greene, a man destined for
great things?
WEDDING WAS EXPECTED.
In the meantime he and Miss
Booth were constantly in each
others company. and while no en-
gagement was announced, their
friends were given to understand
that they were to be married be-
fore long.
According to Thomas Wyatt. at
whose house Miss Booth roomed,
the wizard" called for her regu-
larly in his roaring speed car.
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w by DR.. Charles e. Sundell
that the practice is a foolish one.
The baby who is rocked to sleep.
soon needs it as "a doper wants
cocaine to relieve his nerves, and
the mother thus becomes a cradle
slave. 49,
DIR. Charles E. Sundell expounds
his anti-rocking theory in AL
article on "Sleeplessness in In
fants." He is physician to the
Evelina Hospital for Children AMI
physician in charge Of the chill
dren's department of the Prince
of Wales General Hospital, Tot
tenham.
Rocking is unnecessary" as
serts DR.. Sundell, but the baby
first likes It; then he expects 1t,
and very soon will not go to sleep
without It. Then the misguided
mother finds that she has forged
fetters for herself.
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CLERK RISES i'm FEW YEARS TO A $50 600 MAGNATE;
STARTED AT $12 WEEK. NOW HE is SUED FOR $14OOOOOG
MADE HIS FORTUNE
BY LURING GULLIBLE
WITH HIS. SCHEMES

Money Poured Into Henry Vincent Greene's
Lap i'm Streams Women Were His Stepping
Stones to the Realm of High Finance i'm the
City That Developed Thomas w. Lawson.
His Rise Was Unusually Rapid.
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GAVE JILTED GIRL
A HOME AND JOB
WITH HIS COMPANY

Promising MatrimOny to One, He Broke the En-
gagement and Married Another-HiS Wife.
Like HE, Ascended i'm Social Scale, She
Having Been am Attendant i'm Dentists
Office-Lived i'm a $400,000 Manor.
~- BOSTON, August S.
m EN- years ago Henry Vincent Greene earned $12
week jerking soda in State street fountain.
Today the Henry Vincent Greene is fight
ing law suit for $4OOOooo brought against corporations
controlled by him, in which $30OO00O0 is declared to
have been invested. .....
Ten years ago Henry Vincent Greene suavely smiling
"Thank you 81 to patrons of the fve-cent Fountain
Today the Henry Vincent Greene soothing at the
e14 000 900 lawsuit though it tailors dun
And the remarkable development Of the that
developed Thomas and the meodramatc Ponz
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LONDON, Aug. I

" ones to sleep are warned
w by DR.. Charles e. Sundell
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wHIPPLE INVOLVED.

Named with the thirty.four.yesr-
old wizard are J. Henry Neal. Will
liam r. Sampson. william r. Ken.
ney, Edmund c. Campbell. Austin
NJ. Pinkham, Henry p. Robinson,
walter q. Burns. william L. Ter.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1922-08-25
YOUNG MAN SLASHED ACROSS
BACK IN KNIFE FIGHT SAT

j. A. Rix. Of the Rix Furniture q
Undertaking Company, motored over
10 Brownfield and Plains Saturday,
on business. Nh Rix learned while
in Toxic that two young men had
gotten in a quarrel over fifty cents
difference in the price of pair Of
spurs, one Of them used his pocket
knife in trying to win the argument,
making three almost fatal slashes
across the back of his victim. The
names Of the boys are not known
to US, but the one who did the cut
ting &c: away from the crowd, sad
died his horse and was away before
officers had time TO catch him. He
was found at Wilson later and re-
turned 70 his home.
Rix's going 20 Brownfield and
Plains Of course had no bearing up
on the fight, only that he brought
us the news Of It's happening.
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WORK BEING RUSHED ON
CALVARY HORSES STABLES

The stables for The horses of
Battery G. 1875 Field Artillery,
mntcrial .hods and storage ware
house are being rushed 90 complct-
ion, and according 10 n. II. Griffin,
will be- ready for occupancy within
a few days.
These buildings are being erected
on the Fair Grounds, and will add
materially 10 the appearance of the
place. The sheds, we understand,
win be used by the Fair Association
for exhibit use during the Fair, rs
the horses can be cared for in pri-
vatc stables during the fair days,
this being the consideration made
by the fair management and Army
officers in getting suitable loca-
ton for the stables.
We are glad indeed that the peo-
pie of Lubbock have taken hold
Of the work OF erecting the neces-
sary buildings in getting the Battery
located here, and that is one Of the
most creditable pieces Of work that
has been accomplished by our bust
nessmen in some time.
Just when the horses and pieces
Of artillery viii be brought here is
not known. but the officers are eager
90 have al preparations complete
for caring for them. and II IS pos
sihle that as soon as report Of the
completion Of the stables can be
sent 20 the department the animals
and equipment viii bee rushed here.
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SIMMONS PURCHASED STOCK
TO BE PLACED IN NEW BLDG

f. c. Simmons. manager Of the
Simmons Furniture q Undertaking
Company. returned last week from
Evansville, Indiana, and other mark
e points. where he purchased a full
and complete stock Of merchandise
70 add with his already well selec-
ted stock 20 make that business
show up when placed in the new
building being completed on Broad
way.
According 70 Mr. Simmons, the
building will be ready for occupancy
about the first Of September, and ne
Is going 70 have everything rushed
into the new location, and made
ready for the inspection by their
customers in the least time possible
Simmons is one Of the young
businessmen Of Lubbock, who is
going after business in an aggres-
sive manner, and we are sure the
people viii appreciate the many
new and beautiful articles he pur-
chased for this stock.
He recently purchased a beautiful
ambulance and pail bearers coach,
which is one Of the most beautiful
motor vehicles Of its kind in West
Texas, and ipsomuch as there Is
a great demand for the use Of such
vehicle here, Mr. Simmons will no
doubt find that he made a wise in
vestment in its purchase.
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LAMESA HOUSE OF RIx CO.
is GETTING ON THE MAP

Clyde Brannon, Of the Rix Furni-
ture q Undertaking Company OF
Lamesa, was here Sunday, and took
home a motor hearse for use in La
mesa.
The Xix Company is among the
aggressive business firms of West
Texas, and Il may be known that
wherever they go they put a little
more 60 and pep into business than
usual, and we are sure the people
Of Lamesa are glad to have Xix
house located there
According 20 Jed Rix. manager
and originator Of the Lubbock
house, which has outgrown the orig
inal house at Big Spring, the COM
pany Ia 10 keep the Lamesa house
stocked with the very latest goods
at all times, and the prices VIII be
In line just the same a. IN the two
houses at Lubbock and Big Spring.
Mr.. nrannon Is live wire, and
has that same enthusiasm 20 well
known In all the Rix employees.
We assure the people u lamesa
that in the organisation there % q
nlx Furniture store, another hua.-
meas has started in that city wnieh
VIII add materially % the develop
ment of that city.
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AMARILLO MAY DAM
THE PALO DURO CANYON

Amarillo. Aug 23-Like Abilene,
like Stamford, Amarillo must solve
lbs water problem or remain station
cry as a city--a city with possibly
the brightest future Of any city IN
.he Southwest
r. Bank Jones. city engineer Of
Amarillo, in an address before the
kwanls club few days ago adj
vanecd his opinion as to Che means
Of settling the unsavory situation.
Bank Jones would dam the PalO
Duro canyon south Of Amarillo
whore the stream s $50 feet WIDE
with "a GO-f0oi dam Chat would i'm
pound CONSERVATIVES mate three
billions gallons Of surface water
The palo Duro has two froshets "a
vear Tint would twice annually f.il
The great reservoir. The water
could be- pumped 90 Amarillo econ0-
m.cally The total cost Of the pro-
iect as estimated by Mr. Jones would
be about S1,l0O.000.
Amarillo has - deep wells, which
are only partly supplying the exc
panding needs of the city. These
wells are yielding only about go per
cent % their potential capacity Ell
forts 10 develop wells north Of
Amarillo 20 supplement the supply
have proved Intellectual, be said.
The city commission IS now giving
exigcnt study % the needs Of the
city and will shortly take some ac-
ton to relieve the distressing stua-
ton. 30 was intimated Amarillo Is
one Of the fastest growing cities in
Texas. In every part Of the city
new buildings are being erected and
large manufactures desire 20 estab-
lish plants but are continually ha-
rassed by the bugbear Of scant
water.
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