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The Washington times., 1922-08-13
By T. v. o'CoNNoR,

Vice Chairman o United States shipping Board
is puzEing to that representatives OF organized
labor this country should hesitate for one moment
- to support the ship subsidy BILL served as pres
dent Of the International Longshoremens Association for
many wears and have been union practically all
life therefore feel that speak from experience and
with full appreciation Of the workers viewpoint.
ship subsidy bill which Is going to furnish more ships
and furnish more work building ships and repairing
ships and manning the ships certainly ought to be more
thoroughly considered and fully discussed from the
labornp than appears have been done
with reference to the pending legislation
Is impossible properly consider this exsation with
out giving due regard effect upon American labor in
the furnishing of work and better wages In keeping
with the high standard Of living! ..' ... a.
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portance, I will add that ] still
love my Western daddy.
"Oh. Paine. dear Sweetheart
Angel. write to me soon again
and send me one Of your picteres.
and be good and--if you can't be
good be careful! Where Is my
picture now?
FLORENCE"
mo. s74 Dorchester street. South
Boston"
Then came this flippant intro
duction to longer letter:
''It was surely as chemises sure
do make good window tapestries,
or at least I think they ought toI
Wish you were here to give me
a few drinks Of gin and ginger
ale, but no such luck.
Please come hack and wei
dance 'neverythink. Regarding
our love. don't think there was
ever spark. It was always a
flannel
''FLoRENcE."
Then there was this:
Dear Paine:
eft was surely as you say-bad
enough to see each other every
night in the week without having
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Merchant Marine Bill
Boon to Workingnen

A SHIP subsidy bill which Ia going to furnish more
n ships and furnish work to men building ships
and repairing ships and manning ships certainly ought to
be thoroughly considered and more fully discussed
from the aborng standpoint than appears to have
been done with reference to the pending Legislation
It Is impossible to properly consider this legislation
without giving due regard to Its effect upon American
labor in the furnishing Of work and better wages
in keeping with the high standard Of living.
The Ship Subsidy Bill will naturally increase American
tonnage fast this s done work will be sup
hed to the shipyard workers In all departments to the
metal trade workers. carpenters painters boiler makers
and Others and ships completed and put into serv
ice IL naturally follows that additional men viii be re-
quired to man them and keep them in repair
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for the mad deed even.
Mrs. cumminS a1andlady at the
house Of the suicide. said that De
Flemister was weary and discour-
aged over the quest of happiness
among the more rapid set Of the
town, and that he wanted q girl
whom he could really love. q girl
different from the girls he knew,
and the young soldier had added
"I can't work: I can't think; I
can't even study and attend
classes at the pace they all set.
I've got to make my choice. I'm
going to make It alone. y
ISSUED DEATH SENTENCE.
IF any Of them can or teis-
phone for me. please ten them that
I'm not In, or tell them that I am
not living here any longer. I'm
through. I'm going to break from
all my fast friends and all the girls
Iknow."
And he kept his word. far more
literally than Mrs. Cummings
GUESSED. The letters were from
Florence and Ethel and 'Muddie"
and Daisy and Dell and Molly and
.Baby and Dolly and May and
other girls who merely scrawied
scarcely decipherable initials and
many marks for kisses.
OF them all. "F1orence" was the
most frequent writer, and her let
tors seemed to have been read over
and ovoend then saved carefully.
Because she was once indiscreet
enough to give her address, s74
Dorchester street, South Boston,
the girl was identified as Florence
Forsling. a pretty blonde.
REPUDIATEs HIM.
At first the girl Indignantly de-
MED that she even knew young
Flemister, but when her photo
graph. reprinted on this page, was
shown her and few of the letters,
she said. somewhat contemptu-
euslyi
"I may have met him some
years ago. sIf he ever wrote to
me, I didn't keep his letters. 1t
was juR one of those things. you
know. You can't take everybody
you meet seriously. can your"
But there was proof positive that
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Study of English to Be
Required i'm Bavaria
ny Universal Service
BERLIN, Aug. Il


THE Bavarian Parliament has
decided to make the teaching
Of the British language compulsory
throughout the middle schools Of
the country, and to make French
optional.
French had previously been com.
pulsory. but the committee who
made the report on the teaching
Of foreign languages stated that
French culture had passed the
highest peak. and that English
culture was far more valuable. In
addition the British language was
today playing a far greater role in
tho world.
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present condition; that is to say.
to keep In mind the principle that
we would provide an American
wage for American seamen In
stead Of the present competitive
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Il know wnat you are saying.
now. You are saying that I can
not care for you. II you only
knew. I once let you feel my
love as you say, but-let 1t pass"
And here is an excerpt from an
other:
You dear, dear, daddy!!! Can
you stretch your imagination far
enough to understand how very
happy and glad I was to hear
from my ladder
Dearest. what are you doing
now; I wonder, or rather whose
little heart are you breaking now7
I suppose you are having q dandy
time wherever you are and sure
ly would like to take a peek at
you. Well, dear. although have
no further news for you Of irn-
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and put into service Il naturally
follows that additional mon win be
required to man them and keep
them In repair,
Many reasons have been ad-
vanced why We should have .
ship subsidy. I should like 70 pre-
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IT am returning letter as I
promised and because I meant
what I said in it, but / have told
you that you must quit drinking
and acting the way you have
been. You have promised me
many times that you would and
you haven't.
80 until I see that you keep
a promise and be a man, won't
see you. When you have done
these things as you should, will
be again.
YOUR own LITTLE MUDDIE,
FRENCH BABY,
OR KITTY
ANY ONE You WANT"
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wage scale. The result win be TO
increase the efficiency Of our
American ships AZ well m a direct
benefit to labor by furnishins dis.
nified employment
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Florence had taken Paine De F1em-
lister very seriously indeed and
that he had taken her equally so.
For here Is one of many letters
signed Florence, found In the
young mans room:
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TOO MANY GIRLSt-Paine De
Flemister, pictured above. pur.
sued by worldly women, sought
for the girl Of his dreams. and,
not finding her on earth, killed
himself In the hope Of meeting
her in the great beyond.
Florence Forsling, at the left,
was one Of Flemister's most ar
dent admirers, and her letters,
pledging eternal love and beg
ging him to take her, form the
most startling exhibits In the
case.
The other pictures are repro
dueed from photographs found
In the students room and as yet
unidentified. There was an
Ethel, a Mollie. q Dollie. q May,
q Dear Muddie" and others
nine In all-who fitted through
the young mans life, but he
found them all inadequate.
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The ship subsidy bill win natu-
rally iscrease American tonnage,
and as fast as this 10 done more
work viii be supplied to the ship
yard workers in all departments. to
the metal trade workers. carpen.
tiers, painters. boilsrmakers and
sthsrs. and a. ships are oampistsd
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yet? / am sorry for my dear
sweetheart. way out West. Am 1
not the same sweet baby doll?
That Is not for me to say. but i
hope that ! am"
stin another from the stack Of
Florence's notes reads:
Dear Paine:
God bless you and love you
and you know the rest. send
you an ocean full Of love, with .
kiss on each wave"
MUpDIE's LETTER.
Here Ia O characteristic letter
from 'Muddie," whose identity IL
ss yet not revealed:
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RY OF THE ATTENTIONS OF MANY WOMEN ADMIRERS
STUDENT KILLS SELF SEEKING IDEAL LOVE i'm WORLD BEYON

To this a postscript was added:
Love TO you and DO succeed
and be what you should be. Please
excuse haste and poor writing"
MUDDIE NEEDS STOCKINGS.
DEAR FLEMMIE:
your little Muddie Is sick to-
day. don't feel good at all. I
guess you were really glad TO see
your Muddie, were you not?
hope that you soon get settled so
that you won't have to be NOV
ing around all the time.
Listen, Flemmie. I want you
10 get Muddie some silk stock
ings, good ones. black and white
ones, size nine. Also. dear. IL
you don't mind. instead OF going
out to dinner Monday eve let's
stay at two hundred one or
wherever you will be and you can
get some 'refreshment' and ciga-
rettes.
I'VE can have q quiet little time
because Little Mary is awfully
sick and / want to be as quiet
az possible. / will see you Mon
day eve, dear.
.,. with Oceans Of Love.
YOUR BABY"
MUDDIE GETS A JOB.
From Newton, Mass. this letter
came:
my DEAR LITTLE FLEMMIE:
IT have been unable to call you.
dear, as I have been busy, but
after I get used to the work here,
It will be better and ! can get
along o. X. and will see you more
often. II you want to see me.
Lately do not think It makes
much difference to you whether I
do or not and ! also think that
you have someone you love better
than Middle.
IF so, tell me, dear. and I won't
be cross with you. Oh. no. In the
meantime, believe me to be,
YOUR OWN MUDDIE."
TORN LETTERS.
Fragments from torn letters
from "Muddie" read
IT can steal out Of the office
and see you. Don't be cross with
me. dear love, because I want you
very much.
Oceans of love with -"
On another sheet Of paper, this
was written:
MY dear Flemmie and My
Little Son:
Am just over crying and have
Gained myself enough to write to
you. Suppose you will think that
am the meanest girl that ever
lived. but 1t isn't my fault. dear.
IT have tried to get in to see
you tonight. My mother found one
Of your letters which 1 had hidden
under the cover Of my dresser
and she though that you had left
for Boston.
when she found out that you
were still here good night.
She said everything that she could
think of to me. She wrote to Rus.
isel and told him that was seeing
you all the time.
But don't worry, Flemmie, dear,
am the only one that knows
where you are staying and believe
me, 1 am glad that you moved.
Listen, dear. II you don't have
to work tomorrow, Saturday,
morning. I'll meet you at Young's
Hotel alone = there the frag.
ment ends)
SORRY TO MEET HIM.
Again, "Muddie" wrote:
DEAR FLEMMIE: I suppose
you think have vanished, or
something almost the same. bu:
really haven't I'm all o. X.
only very busy.
Have succeeded in getting hish
position and a high class one, too,
am getting awfully tired Of stay
ing at home. though, and I am
looking for q room in town. Hope
things are going we'll at the club,
and that / have missed you often,
but do not know Just what to dc
In regard to you. I do not think
you love me In the right way
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NYNE girls loved young Paine De Flemister, and he
IN none Of them w
- temperamental, romantic student Of Lasky Com
mercia College, with military record for valor in the
world war; he sought the ideal woman Of his dreams
whoever whatever she may have beenand when ne failed
to find her in life he sought her in death!
They picked up his hac dead body on the sidewalk
in front of the where he had lived West Newton
street. South End He had lesped at dawn from third
story window and death had horribly nsantaneousy
big stray collie the first living thing to find the
dead body, and it was the dogs longdrawn howl like
lament for passing SOUL that stirred the and
disclosed the tragedy.
Nine girls loved him. friends said but there ample
evidence to show that the number was conservative
estimate Photographs and letters by the were found
but not last letter from him to anyone not farewell
noG note Of explanation attempted
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@.AS SA~A~A4@s
'P. g.: One-Two-Three
-? Know what ! mean?"
MUDDIE L0yE-LORN.
- The last letter from the mysteri-
GUS "Muddie' read:
DEAR FLEMMIE: BY the
time this reaches you. I may be
miles away. have fully decided
that you no longer love me. or
that anyone else does, 30 I am go
ing away to seek new friends. I
am leaving Monday night sure.
TT has taken me q long time
to decide to go. but there Is moth
ing around here for me. All you
and the rest think about II your
own selves and not for me.
II know you have been kind to
me at times. but 80 have a lot
more, but what want is different
from that. I want kindness all
the time. no matter what do or
what may happen. am going
to look for II. and feel sure that
I will find 1t, although II may be
a long distance from here.
Always believe ne to be, no
matter where you are or where I
am,
your Own Baby.
"MUDDIE."
ETHEL APPEARS.
So passed little Baby Muddie"
out Of the life Of Paine De Flemis-
ter, as Florence and the others
had done, and into the place came
a new girl, of whom this one letter
was preserved:
Dearest Paine: I've received
your letter, and I was glad to hear
from you. How Is every one at
home? Have you seen Florenz?
When you write to me. will you
send me her address, as I lost the
one I had.
We'll, this is quite a nice place
here. dear. like 1t very much
for a rest. I was at dance last
night. You ought to see them
dance here. They are 30 funny
you could laugh your head off at
them.
what did you say about being
good and keeping away from the
men? They don't worry me In
the least. Why should men bother
me when ! have you to think Of
all the timer sra
Well, dear. / just wrote a let.
ter to your rival. Jasper, and one
to my mother. / hope you have
that fiat ready for me when
come home. How Is the rest of
the gang? I must close now.
with all my love and lots OF
kisses, ETHEL"
And with that false rainbow how
ering between them, the youth
flung himself from the window
and ended 1t all--in quest Of u diff
ferent girl!
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dear, and until i do. ! don't know
Just what TO do about you.
why is It we have to meet
each other. anyway? I win meet
you Thursday night II I can. n
I can't. III telephone you. IN
meet you at copley at eight
thirty.
Oceans Of Love.
"MUDDIE.,
.P. g.: One--rwo-Three
-? Know what I mean?"
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NINE GIRLS WE'RE
INFATUATED WITH
VALOROUS VETERAN

Paine De FlemiSter, a Tcmperamental, no
! mantle Student, Was Unsuccessful I'm Quest
: of 'sthe" Girl as Notes and Photographs
Reyeal-He Found All of His Girl Friends
Hindrance and Jumped From window of His
Home.
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GIVEN FIRST AUTO RIDE

William Eyler, pardoner murderer,
is again at his home, near Emmits-
burg, after serving sixteen years in
the Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsyl-
vania. 1t was the biggest hour OF Ely
ler's life, the departure from the pen
itentiary, to which he had been SEN
fenced for life for Il murder in Get
tysburg, Pa, during drunken brawl.
1t gave him his freedom and brought
him his first automobile ride.
Although he had heard of the au-
tomobile when he entered the prison,
the motor car was still on trial. When
ne passed out OF the gates it was i'll
Il high-powered machine, and the eN-
citement was so great that Eyler was
seriously i'll on the trip TO his home.
IL took eight hours to make the trip.
He was accompanied by DR.. Linn Bow
man, moral instructor OF the penlten-
tiary, who was largely instrumental
in getting his release.
The pardoned mans first thought
was to reach his aged parents, who
are over 10 years old. and who are
still living near Emmitsburg.
DR.. Bowman tells a remarkable
story OF the farewell Eyler was given
at the penitentiary. He left the place
last Wednesday, but on the request
of the large body of prisoners he re-
turned Thursday morning to say
good-by TO 100 prisoners. 1t required
five hours to make the farewell.
Eyler has learned to read and write
in prison He has had many offers for
positions
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FIRE AT MT, AIRY
FOUR BUILDINGS BURN-l0SS TO MRS.
R. W. BOWMAN $4,000.

\ two-Story frame house, stable,
shed and a small outbuilding on the
premises OF Mrs. 3. W. Bowman, un-
dertaker, Mt. Airy, was destroyed by
fire Sunday evening shortly before 8
O'clock. The flames leaped across the
street and damagd stable ON the
property OF Charles Glover. For
awhile several houses were in danger
and it was feared that disastrous
fire was imminent. A general alarm
was sounded and a large number of
persons assisted in fighting the flames
The fire was confined to the outbuild-
ings and was finally gotten under con-
troll
The fire started in the shed and
quickly spread to the stable and an
adjoining frame building known as
the dead house" A hearse was re-
moved from the shed but a Chevrolet
automobile was burned. The flames
leaped across a street and communi-
Gated to the stable on the Glover
property Hard work on part of 4
bucket brigade saved the stable after
the front had been considerably dam
aged.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
1t broke out shortly after Charles
Bowman had run his machine into the
building. Allen Hahn, neighbor, no.
ticed Il small flickering light in the
shed and in company with Crawford
Mullinix went to the building to make
an investigation. They found small
fire which at first might have been
eXtinguished with several buckets of
water.
In an incredibly short time the fire
enyeloped the building and quickly
communicated to the stable adjoining.
The dead house" next caught fire. BY
this time 4 general alarm was sound
ed which brought hundreds of persons
to the spot. The fire made a reflection
that was seen for miles. Many per-
sons came in automobiles.
AS soon as assistance arrived Il
bucket brigade was formed and water
was secured from two wells nearby
When if was found impossible to save
the building on the Bowman property
attention was turned to adjoining
property Snow on the roofs of these
buildings helped to stay the flames.
Telephone wires in the neighborhood
of the Bowman property soon fell nrey
to the flames cutting off communica
tion.
While an exact estimate of the
damage could not he ascertained the
loss was placed between $4,000 and
$4,000. 1t could not he ascertained
whether any of the buildings were in
sured.
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HILL To FIGAT HARDING 1924
DECLARES He WILL STUMP
AGAINST HIN IL PRESIDENT
SHIFTS ON DRY LAW

Washington, Dec. 12.-If President
Harding should reverse his clear
and unequivocal position" set forth
when he said modification or repeal
of the Volstead act is the right OF a
free people" Representative John
Philip Hill of Maryland will take the
stump against him in 1924.
This was the positive declaration
of the Baltimore wet leader today in
replying to the attack of George ".
Saloon League OF Maryland.
Colonel Hill also said that he was
correctly quoted when he stated at the
recent wet banquet at the Hotel Rem
merit that he would take the stump
against any candidate for Governor
of Maryland who won't promise in
advance that he will veto any effort
to foist a Volstead act upon the peo-
pie of this State"
Colenel Hills letter bearing on
President Harding says:
The President said concerning the
Eighteenth Amendment and the Vol
stead act, modification or re
peal is the right of 4 free
people whenever the deliberate
and intelligent public sentiment COM
mands. Congress enacts the laws and
the executive branch of the Govern
mcnt is charged with enforcement"
III the President should reverse
this clear and unequivocal position.
and oppose modification or repeal OF
the Folstead act, or if he should in
any way join your league in trying
to foist Il State Nolstead act on Mary
land, l would most certainly take the
stump against him.
President Harding said to us in
the Congress last Friday if the stat
utory provisions for its (the Eigh-
teenth AmendmenD enforcement are
contrary TO deliberate public opinion,
which | do not believe, the rigorous
and liberal enforcement will concen-
trate public attention on any rcqui-
site notification
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JAIL SENTENCES ARE CURBING
AUTO SPEEDERS

Chicago, Dec. 6.-He2vier fines. Jail
sentences and trips through morgue3
and hospitals to view dead and i'll
jured victims of reckless automo-
bilists are becoming effective curbs
in many parts of the Middle and Far
West, 4 digest from the report OF
several States shows.
Fines alone, the reports indicate,
are not effective. In Chicago and
Cook county, despite increasingly,
heavy fines, the death toll in auto
mobile accidents for the fiscal year
ended November 50 was 736, as COM
pared with 660 last year and 542 the
year before. There We're IS autOmO-
bile deaths in November of this year
In Louisville, where II persons
were killed by automobiles in the
first II months of the year, fines also
have failed, officials say. One police
Judge there imposes fines OF - for
each mile per hour on speeders, and
adds Jail sentences if the prisoner
was intoxicated. \ successful cam
paign was launched at Detroit more
than Il year ago when Judge Charles
l.. Bartlett sentenced speeders for
terms of from l to u days. One John
Duval Dodge, wealthy young man.
served five days.
Recently speeding returned tn De
troit and Judge Bartlett began con
Quoting offenders through the
morgues and hospitals to see the re-
suits of speeding. Arrests the week
after trips started dropped from 40
to %.
In Cincinnati jail sentences have
been invoked. and in some cases
drivers licenses revoked.
Cleveland. with 116 death and 23S6
injured in traffic accidents up to the
middle OF November. is employing
workhouse sentences and morgue and
hospital visits as we'll as fines.
In Des Moincs Police Chief Johh
Hammond has ordered intoxicated
drivers held without bail. While
iudges are adding Jail sentences IN
many cases to heavy fines.
Judge George F.. Mix OF ~. LOUIS
vino assesses fines as high as $3o0'
had added a traffic law school to ms
court. o.o+o
In Indiana the Secretary OF state
has revoked six autoists' licenses On
recommendations of courts. and mas
nromised to continue his cooperation
Jrdgp Delbert Wilmeth Of the lndi-
anapolis Court has added lall seh'eh-
ces TO fines on third CONVICTIONS
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BANK NOT RESPONIBLE
FOR STOLEN SECURITIES DEPOSI-
TED IN BOXES IN VAULT.

Under instructions of Associate
Judge Robert Moss, the jury in the
case of James X. Weer against the
Woodbine National Bank Tuesday
rendered a verdict for the defendant,
in the Circuit Court for Carroll county.
The Woodbine National Bank, at
Woodbine, in the southern part of
Carroll county, was burglarized on
the night of May 2S, last. The door of
the vault was pierced with an acety-
line torch. All safe deposit boxes eX-
cept three We're opened and the rob-
bers carried away $4,000 worth OF
Liberty bonds and other negotiable
securities One of the boXholders, Mr..
Weer, of Sykesville. who lost $4,400 in
Liberty bonds. He brought suit
against the bank.
The decision of the court is regard
ed as OF great Importance to all the
banks in the State for it is said if it
IS not reversed by the Court of Appeals
it determines that, unless there is ev-
idence of positive negligence on the
part of a bank, those who may lose Sc
curities placed for safe keeping in a
banks vaults cannot recover from the
bank if their valuables are stolen by
burglars.
Mr. Francis Neal Parke represented
the bank and Mr. Guy W. Steele Mr..
Weer.