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New-York tribune., 1922-10-15

first job in spectacular manner, and it was
a spectacular job in itself-shoveling gold
pieces in bank.
Lawson himself tells in some detail about
his getting this job. He tells it in High
Cost Living de luxe edtion-he was fond
of de luxe edtions-which he brought out in
1914 and laid in all its glory on the desks Of
Senators and Representatives in Congress- He
tells that when he was twelve years old he
stopped in bank and, looking through a
grating, saw man shoveling gold. When
the beam tipped $4,000 was registered by tt
ringing of a bell. The man tied up the
money in sack and sealed the mouth Of the
sack with sealing wax and went on with his
shoveling.
Here was job that appealed to Lawson's
budding Imagination. He thought he could
shovel gold better than the man on the job
and vert and told the bank manager so. The
official was so impressed that he hired Lawson
at So week to shovel gold
And, said Lawson to an interviewer a few
Gears ago, 81 have been shoveling gold ever
since
At sixteen Lawson, in his High Cost Liv
ing," says he was the managing director of a
pool to which he and few other minor en-
ployees contributed their savings. Lawson
played the stock market with the money, and
he says at one time they had 100000 profits in
the bank. Then they staked everything on
deal that should have turned the 100000
into 100000. But, instead, $59,841 Of the
profits vanished in a single day, owing to
unfortunate turn Of the market. The young
spectators took the remaining $3.50 and had
dinner at the most expensive restaurant in
town and gave the head waiter the last SIS
gold piece.
Going into his, later exploits, Lawson writes,
in this same personal publication:
q have made five millions between the set
ting of one sun and another"
Il have had executive charge Of deals such
as Amalgamated, when my work was the gath
ering and sharing up Of hundred millions Of
new made money.
II have sat into the four-part division Of
forty-six millions Of profit.
7 have Dopshs and sold .-sssry Dr0minsD'
New-York tribune., 1922-10-15

"Thou shalt remember that big sinners swim
deep and take only live bait"
He appeared in Kentucky one day, and it
announced that he intended to corner the
tobacco crop. Then it was said that he had
abandoned that project, but would organize
huge company, called '"The Peoples Trust to
grow and market the tobacco of tie nation,
but people are still walking their miles after
privately made smokes.
Early in his career--in 188s-Lawson wrote
a history of the Republican party. He had
plenty of money even then, and he got out
one of his de luxe editions, this time of four
copies, giving one to President Harrison, one
to Vice President Morton, one to the Librarian
of Congress and retaining the other himself
The same year he wrote book called "The.
Secrets of Success and also had published
collection Of verses and short stories he had
written for the magazines.
'Frenzied Finance was brought out in
book form in 1905, after its long magazine
run. Most of this book is devoted to an at
tack on certain group in Standard Oil OF
this book he wrote in his foreword to "FIigh
Cost Living:
"A few years back ones efforts at System
exposure was little more than moon baying.
1t was as though one had yelled into Presi-
dential convention: .Mugguggun the Second
was murdered last night by Guggmuggun
Third, who bit off his fifth nose stove ia his
ninth eye and daggered each Of his twenty
three hearts, all being in dense ignorance Of
the world OF Mars and Marian life. Ones
awful revelation would be met with Throw
out the boob disturber,, or .Straitjacket the
loon dreamer" To-day all has changed. Since
sFrenzier Finance the whole American people
have been doing the Systems Mars on q Cow
B ernment ssightseer. To-day we All know that
the System has Ave hundred smellers nine
hundred eyes, and legs without number 4
In his foreword To The Remedy in 1913,
Lawson said: Y.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-15

He gave $4,000 cup as the prize in race
for 9O-foot sailing boats.
His $4,000 steam yacht, the Dreamer, was
model of luxury
Horsemen at the Kentucky Futurity at Lex
ington in 1899, when Lawson was known as the
Cooper King" were amazed when the Boston
fnancier paid $4,000 for Boralma, sent his
commissioner into the ring and put $4,000 in
the pool box on the Lawson horse, which was
the favorite. BoraIlna won, and Lawson took
so much money out of the ring that the specu-
llators had none to buy pools with that night.
The driver was given $4,000 and the stable
hands from $100 to $500 each.
He was tt reatened with jail and was sum-
moned to the witness stand many times, but ne
was net convicted until, as president OF the
Marshfield Agricultural Society, he was found
guilty at Plymouth, Mass, OF conducting a
lottery-said lottery being the putting up of
horse from the Lawson farm as prize to be
drawn by the lucky ticket among $4,000 dis
tributed. Mr.. Lawson was fined $780,
He spent hundreds Of thousands of dollars
in attacking others in advertisements in the
newspapers or in boosting his own stock-selling
schemes. Whether the advertisements were
attacks or boosts, they were written in the
picturesque language which lawson made
his own.
Bronze elephants lined the passageway be-
tween his secretary's Office and his own in
Boston Some forty or fifty Of these elephants
were grouped by the hnancier's Office door.
Lawsons telephone was Of silver and his pri
vate Office was filed with bric-a-brae and
flowers.
He took an evening of and wrote what he
called "eighteen commandments for ministers"
starting with these:
"Thou shalt practice long with thine own
mirror ere thou hold it to the reflection of thy
congregation, as many there are coHvexed and
concaved and true-surfaced.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-15

stock on all the leading American exchanges
and on the leading world exchanges-Lond
Berlin and Pars-up to five million share lots.
II have not in the last thirty-ive years been
off the boards of corporations.
II have organized, capitalized and consoli-
dated corporations, and have financed and
managed old and new ones
II have been managing partner in Boston
and New York Stock Exchange houses. My
wires for personal operations run to scores of
prominent stock exchanges.
II have been no place in Europe or America
in many years where could not within half
hours time have my orders executed for at
least one hundred thousand shares ($10,O0O-
O0o)."
Nothing was too spectacular for Lawson to
attempt in order to attract public attention.
He built a yacht the independence, to de-
fend the Americas Cup--a craft costing him
$500 000-and then destroyed it when it was
not accepted.
He paid $4,000 for the Lawson pink"
This he said was matter of combined senti-
ment and business, for the florist who sold the
right to the newly developed flower bought it
back and paid Lawson $4,000 in addition, ac-
cording to an interview the financier gave out
in later years
New-York tribune., 1922-10-15

"MERRY CHRISTMAS
cartoon by Joseph keppler printed
LaUsons
the of
the life
jecd himself
the "Eerybdy Magazine"
tackon Street
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-06-01

That uses about $3.50 less gasoline
That uses from one-third to one
fourth as much oil.
That is easier to guide.
That is more comfortable to ride in
That has a Stewart speedometer con-
nected on transmission.
That has an oil gauge on dash.
That has a one-man top.
That has a gypsy style back curtain
That has three speeds forward.
That has water pump.
That has a radiator that will moi
freeze when motor is running.
That has Roller Bearings in front
wheels.
That has a slanting windshield.
That has movable windshield glasses
for summer comfort.
That has the Willard Rubber Tread
Battery, guaranteed two years.
That has low theft insurance rate.
That has pockets in all four doors.
That has a handshift lever.
That has both a hand and foot gas
accelerator.
That is easy to start in cold weather
That is noted for it's great pulling
power.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-06-01
AVOID MUCH TRAFFIC
ON AUTOMOBILE TRIP
Census Shows Tuesday Or Wed
neSday as Best Days.
Survey Made by Bureau of Public
Roads on One of Most Travelled
Highways in United States
Start EARLY in Morning.

If you are going on an automobile
trip and want to avoid all possible
traffic you should go on Tuesday or
Wednesday. Such is the conclusion
reached from study Of traffic census
taken recently by the bureau of pub
lie roads, United States Department of
Agriculture, on one of the most travelled
roads in the United States. If you
want to go at an hour when there will
be the least traffic, start between 2
and 3 o'clock in the morning.
Traffic increases in amount steadily
from Wednesday to Saturday, the
census shows, and then jumps into big
volume on Sunday. The volume on
Sunday is about twice that on Tues
day or Wednesday. On Monday there
Is a decided drop from the Sunday
figures and on Tuesday the lowest
ebb is reached.
There is less traffic on the road be-
tween 2 and o'clock in the morning
than at any other time Of day. From
3 o'clock to there is a slight increase:
then a steady climb until II. Between
II O'clock and | there is a slight drop,
and then an increase again until the
peak is reached between and g. At
ter 8 O'clock traffic drops slightly until
when the decrease becomes more
pronounced. by midnight traffic has
almost reached its lowest point
Ninety per cent of the days traf7c
the census Slows rolls over the raaG
between n. m. and 0 p. M and b.
npl l.nnI hpi pnn [ n m and 4 m IN
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-06-01

full saving.
Saline Boomers, all colors, priced.
.7sc, SLIPS, $3.50 and up to $2.e5
Pongee Boomers, priced ...... .$2.95
Extra sizes ............ $50
Silk Jersey Boomers, all coors, pric-
ed ........ $3.50, $2.95, 1925, $3.95
New Sport Coats, just in, made of Eponge,
Flannel Plain and Fancy Baronette Sat
in, Surf Satin and Linen, all priced
$3.50 to $500.
Sport Sweaters in Silk and Wool. all
colors priced .................$ 1895
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-06-01
TheAutomobiIe and Changing Conditions
Everything Speeded Up, Acquaintance Broadened and
Life Made More Pleasant Because
of the Motor Vehicle
By F. E. Dawson
The Passing of the Horse.


but yesterday since Father hitched old Dobbin
the Concord wagon the oldfashoned shay whose th
loose and whose wheel ratified and drove to the
village store with it's hchng posts in front odorous horse
sheds in the
day has gone Now Father drives purring motor
and stops at modern hitchng pos-a curb gasoline
pump Then he gone from home hour; he back
in Is minutes Then he spent considerable time in curryng
horse Harvesting and embarrassing and pot
erng about the stable when going and coming Now he slips
into the of the backs swiftly out of the yard whr
into the road steps the and down the street
flash You hear his horn he swings around the and
before have begun to expect his return here he back
again, with the chores all done.
Machine Passing Every Thirty Seconds.
At first thought it would that everyone and
of vintage that the fact quite
yet what is civilizaon?" asks California writer at
you stand on the street corner and wait for ten
cars 40 automobiles 50 motorcycles Is Bikes dozen
trucks few electric fire engines the police patrol hurry
ambulance and funeral to before dare to make
picture? Then take the statement of actual
one road alone in Massachusetts, 100000 worth of goods
there passed in IA days passenger and trucks
one machine 80 seconds One would step lively
ito cross such road as that
speed! 1t is increasing everywhere
Inc story is told of caught at point where three
roads lnterseced Looking in direction he
car bearing down upon him Turning another direction
saw rapidly approaching automobile. In still another way
there was heavy truck roaring down upon him. Looking up
only one thing to do. He quickly lifted up the cover of
anhoe in the street and dropped into the subway only to be
killed by tunnel train Go where will the automobile is
omn1present.
Startling Motor Statistics
why just look at the actual figures they are given
the stascan of Automove Industries If you start
ing staslcs read the figures of that eminent authority 1t
mas traced them down. to the last and truck though since
the hgures We're published the manufacturers have
ing out their hnshed product by thousands daily According
this authority there the whole world exclusive Of
motorcycles and tractors 2588949 autos Of the total num-
$50 in the United States Duns International ReveJ
says mat IN some OF our states the saturaton point is being
Continued on page 10Y
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-06-01
CHEVROLET
The Economy Car of Quality
Why not pay little more and get car

That has a National Headlight Lens.
That has fine appearing body.
That has a triple baked enamel body
and tenders that will last for years
instead of paint that soon needs
another coat.
That has same size tires front and
rear.
That has a new spiral gear differen-
tial (rear end) that carries a $50
reward for anyone that will break
the ring or pinion gear on test.
That has reduced the price 1895 since
May 9Th and made about 30 i'm
provements.
That has an organization back of it
that is not trying to see how cheap
they can build it but how good they
can build it.
That has a host of satisfied owners
that are very much pleased that
they paid a "little more" Don't
take our word or someone else's,
but ask the owners.
Everywhere you look you see Chew
rolet There is a reason-it is the
lowest priced and most economi-
cal fully equipped car on the mar
ket and the best automobile buy
today.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-06-01
BRACE HOLDS TENDERS RIGID
Device illustrated VIII Help Material.
!y to Reduce Objectionable
Ra+t!in1.

A great deal of the noise set up by
light automobiles is the result of rat
Ting tenders, which, even at moderate
speed, make a horn 50 much excess
weight The drawing shows a fender
brace that not only holds the Tenders
rigid but forms a convenient support
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-06-01
New Navy Tricotine Suits Bought Under Price

We have been able to buy some Suits at
less than regular prices and will offer
them at the full saving to our
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-06-01

above $500 $4.95 hat. Many of these
Coats and Suits are at special prices and
all of the Hats have been more than the
prices quoted.
A $3.50 Hat free with any Child's Coat or
Cape up to $500.
A 1896 Hat free with any Childs Coat,
Cape or Junior Suit above $3.50.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-06-01

for the license plate. A piece of
three-etghths-inch steel rod is thread
ed, for several inches, on each end
and attached, through holes cut in
the Tenders, by means Of nuts, wash
ers, and pipe wedges, which are
screwed up tight against both sides Of
the Tenders, as shown in the drawing
Similar braces may be fitted to the
rear Tenders. Small metal clips
formed from one-eighth or three-siX.
teenthinch sheet metal and held to.
gethor with stove bolts. are used fCI
clanpiHg the license plate to the
brace.-Popular Mechanics Magazine
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-06-01

Suits that have sold at
$3.50 to $3.50 offered at $500
$500 to $3.50 offered at $3.50
$3.50 to $3.50 offered at $500
$500 to $4,000 offered at $3.50
$4,000 to $3.50 offered at $500
We have also bought some coats under
price and they will all be offered at the
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-06-01
China Dinner Sets or Separate Pieces

Heavy white Hotel Ware priced
......... 1Oc, 121ac, 15c, lee, Csc ca.
These prices are less than wholesale values
Handsomely decorated Tin Boxes,
priced 49,. 1Oc, 15c, Csc, 35c, 45c, sec
There is no end of the uses these boxes
have and they are moderately priced.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-06-01
For an Extra Attraction the Two Automobile Show DAYS

We will give free with any Coat or Suit
sold from $1,000 to $500 a string of
$3.50 Beads.
With any Coat or Suit sold from $500 to
$500 a pair of genuine Chanut French
Kid Gloves that have been sold at $500
and are cheap today at $50 to $500.
With any Coat or Suit sold from $500 to
$500 1896 Hat or with one sold
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-06-01
For these days shall offer some extraordinary
values in White Waists

1 lot that has sold up to 81 so, all at 39c
l lot that has sold up to $2.75 all at Sec
1 lot that has sold up to 1895 all at CSC
In each of these lots there are MILDLY
Blouses offered; some Of them are slight
ly soiled or not quite the latest styles but
made of extra good materials, worth much
more than the prices the Middies are Of
fered at.
A lot of Automobile Robes and Steamer
that are good for the house as we'll to
close out because we have no place to
display them.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-06-01

White MILDLY Suits, sizes II to %,
priced at Observation-Disclosures. $2.95 ca.
There are Miss America Suits that have
sold at $685. or more each.
A lot of White Skirts for Automobile
Show days at ...... csc, s. .95, S2.95
That have been priced 1926 to $500.
One of these Skirts with a white waist
will make very che = suit for a nurse-41r
waitress
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-06-01
Swat EN-.

Road hogs in motor vehicles and
Jay walkers on highways are the
two wOrst enemies Of automnhiling
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-12-01
The Greek Executions

In executing six members Of the former ministry for hav-
ing brought defeat Greece by launching
fensive against the Turks the Greeks revvng the
ancient Spartan custom wherein warriors instructed
return with their shieldsemblematic of vcoryor upon
them, in other words to conquer die
The action of the Greeks and barbarc and
has called forth diplomatic protest from the ministers
other powers who probably dread the fashion
executing ministers who lose battles spread But there
more less justice in the procedure all those ministers
and diplomats responsible for knew that execution
awaited them in Of defeat there would be mighty
wars started Indeed, such punishment better
deterrant of warfare than Intellectual disarmament.
These executed cabinet members directly responsible
for the return of King Constantine for the
policy of territorial aggrandzeent adopted Initial
cesses won popular applause although they offended the
Allies and lost their support Not satisfied with having the
Turk banished from Europe the Greean king and cabinet
tried to Danish him from Asia Minor WELL with the result
that the Turk back annihliated the Greek army
massacred the Greek inhabitants banished Greeks from
Asia and reentered Europe driving tens of thousands of
fleeing Greeks before him as refugees
All civilized nations execute the who takes anothers
life Why then should those responsible for 900 murders
escape punishment? Why punish the retail murderer and
Furnishes those responsible for and the executions
step in the right direction Of until King Constantine
is also executed the gulties of them ALL justice will not
have completed the Grecan task.
The part of the tragedy that had the cabinet been
little ucker and the armies successful great honor
would have been showered upon king cabinet they
would be regarded popular heroes 1t because
they provoked and boodshed that ministers paid
the penalty but because they lost the The theory
that is not immoral wrong provoke wholesale human
slaughter provided the ends sought attained the enemy
crushed and his property stolen becomes immoral only
when failure attends the effort grab what is not yours
and to murder those opposing you
The Greek ministers shot because of failure but even
the knowledge that failure death will deter other
ministers from entering upon conquest Were
punishment administered those responsible for the
world would be many years before another world war
would be seriously considered either by ministry
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-12-01

st. Paul-New wage scales
have been negotiated by the
Northern Pacific railway shop
workers association and railway
representing the roads
involved, 1t was announced.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-12-01
GOOD BOOK WEEK
TO Be OBSERVED

Preparations are about COM
pleted at the Salem public library
for a proper observance of Good
Book Week." according TO Flora
M. Case, librarian. The books on
display are especially for boys and
girls. There is an authors list of
20 OF the best books for boys and
girls, voted as the best by librar-
ians throughout the country. and
these 20 books will be shown, as
an aid to those who expect to pre-
sent books for Christmas presents.
Beginning next week. employees
OF the library will give their spe-
cial time to this book exhibit and
be ready to advise those who are
undecided as to the proper book to
give to children.
The Good Book Week" win
also be of interest to adults. The
library has on hand a list of spe-
cial books for adults and will aid
in their selection. The new books
TO be circulated next week are
mostly for children.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-12-01
along State Street

A desirable neghbor is not necessarily good man.
nights
Most actors are the off stage they are on the
stage.
is usually at his best when showing off before
pretty woman.
he agrees with her.
When Saying it with flowers" bunch of forget-me-
nots goes to the man who borrows a twenty.
With poison pie insurance and overcoa insurance it
now reasonably safe to go out to lunch.
radio concert like some selections from phonograph
except you,dont have to change the needle.
It takes man just about half long to change tire
as it does for woman to change her attire.
woman breaks in member of the Ohio Supreme
Court Why not? Women seem to be the Supreme Court
in many State Of matrimony.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-12-01
The Regeneration Of
Malcolm StnY1nOunt;
By Idah McGlone Gibson.

mother, and take look at you
After that wen make some plans
for you.
81 have no feminine relatives.
What would you think of my adopt
ing YOU Maryf"
"No, no, don't do that my Lord.
IL" The color mounted to
Mary's cheeks. "You see 1 IN not
a little girl, as you think l am.
You are. not old enough to be my
father"
She's got you there, Mal,' smil-
ed Parker, "but there is nothing
against you being her big brother"
Pat Mulcahy got up heavily. He
walked around the table and put
his hand on Starmount's shoulders.
"Starmount, he said, I'm mot
working for you yet and so its man
to man. If you do what you say
you're going to do for the Devlin
family, III go through hell for you
and call you the best man 1 have
ever known"
Starmount shook Mulcahy's hand
silently and walked out on the ter
race to hide his feelings. Presently
Mary Devlin followed.
II want to thank you, my Lord"
she whispered nesting her hand in
his, "for all that you have done
for mother and Eddie and me-"
Starmount clasped the little hand
a bit tighter, then dropped it with
out word.
Mary Devlin turned to go. Then,
remembering her company man
ners," she turned and said as she |
curtsied: 81 want to thank you, my |
Lord, for giving us this beautiful
time
As she walked away starmount |
threw back his head and laughed |
silently in pure enjoyment.
Alone again he turned, gazing
in silence at the moonlit beauty
Of the heavens, his thought busy
with the future and with his plans
for a new life. Thought Of Nadia
Courteney and the wild parties of
the past came to haunt him and to
tempt him. Il wonder" he mus
ed to himself, 81 wonder whether
can bid the old life, the old
crowd, the old sensual pleasures
goodbye foreverf"
For a moment fleecy clouds OBJ
'cured the radiant beauty of the
moon. In the distance a dog bark
ed. The sounds of nature at night
'ame family to his ears. He turn
ID to enter the house.
Continued Tomorrow