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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-19
PARIS.

IAltlS.
NTo wonder His IIighncsss knees
IN shook and his crown-callouscd scalp
prickledl
There, in a cory private dining-room of
the most famous "hidcuway" restaurant
in Paris, lunching tetc-a-tete with the
most celebrated beauty Of the boulcvards,
was Prince Danilo of Moatcncgro, a royal
blood and regal blade and-a married
man!
And there, not ten feet away, separated
from him only by closed door, on which
her eyes were glued with an angry glare,
waited the Princess Of Montenegro, his
wife!
What, in hsrmony's name, could Danilo
do?
If he walked out with his charming
companion, his wife Immediately would
recognize her as Mile Marthc Chcnal,
prima donna OF the Opera Comique,
flame to scar any woman's spirit with un-
comfortable jealousy.
If he walked ont alone, he could never
convince his wife he had been luuching-
in private dining-room- all by himself.
She would insist on peeping in, and no
table.
If he simply stayed whore he was with
Mile. Cheual, they might both Gle of old
age. For the Princess of Montenegro had
served nONce on the manager that she
would wait forever, if necessary, hut she
would sec who was on the other side of
that doorl
And the door was the only exit. It
was, indeed, situation TO chill the blood
OF princeling--evcn such debonnaire,
blithe-hearted monarch as Danilo Of Mon
tenegro, brother-in-law of the King of
Italy and the royal "bad boy" whose es-
capades are said to have inspired Franz
Lehar 70 write his famous opera, The
Merry Widow"
Exactly how Prince Danilo escaped
from his luncheon predicament, exactly
how he not only tricked his wife into be-
lieving he was never ia the private dining
room, but caused her TO apologize pro-
fusely TO Mile. Chenal, is a story about
which all Paris chuckles to-day
And the hero of the story isn't Prince
Danlo at all, but a certain very handsome
waiter named Jules, who, for two min
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-19

Trince Danllo's Franks, Ii Is Whis-
pered, Furnished the Inspiration
tor the Adventures of the Stage
Hero "Danilo" in "The
Merry Widow"
on one aEnl, He carried a cane on ina
other' lie wore heavy fur coat And
he did not walk with a linn. With the
man man was the ravishing beauty, Mile.
Marthe Chenal
The Princess of Montenegro came To
her feet with little gasp fnvoIuntarily
she took step toward the adyancine
couple, she had been so sure the man was
to be her husband Then, blushing with
embarrassment, she mumbled an apology
which Mile. Chenal received with an airy
wave of the hand--and hurried from the
restaurant before Chenal and her compar-
lon had recovered from their apparent
surprise.
1t was some time later that the Prince
or Montenegro ventured from his up-
stars retreat and departed. Gossip saya
his tip to the manager set new mark for
Paris. But the managers tip, declare the
insiders. was n bagatelle TO what Danilo
gave Jules, the waiter, who still regarded
ms greatest reward as the secret that he
had walked arm in arm with Chenai.
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oack, but she observed with a little gloat
Of triumph that the waiter limped. 1t is
believable that the Princess of Montenegro
told herself, "They shall try no trick on
me- If a man comes out of there walking
with a limp, | shall know he is only the
waiter in disguisew
A man did come out. He was tall,
ruddy, distinguished looking. A monocle
was in one eya- He carried an opera hat
The Washington times., 1922-06-18
An Open Confession.


Both these cases prove that dis.
honesty does not pay when It be-
comes general. The contractor
might just-as wen estimate for the
work he really does and the ma.
terial he actually uses for, after all
since his object II to tempt the
purchaser by keeping prices down,
he has to give him the benefit Of
the fraud.
II the purchaser finds him out
and says, for example, "You esti-
mated for galvanized pipes and you
have put In plain ones" the con-
tractor can reply. 'If I had. put In
galvanized pipes I should have had
to charge you more"
In the same way. the bus con,
ductors might just an well have
struck for an increase OF wages as
stolen It. The event proved they
could have got It. But they thought
they could secure employment
more easily by asking for q low
wage and making 1t UP to their
needs surreptitiously.
The Washington times., 1922-06-18
OF the Habit of Painting Human Character with 81
Man Who Snatc1es a Loaf From Bakers Table Is
Sent to Who Takes Bread from the Mouths
of Widows and Orphans and Cred1lous Persons Is
Rum Into Congress America Looked To for Solution

der discipline and tutelage. with
their board and lodging and cloth
ing provided for them. a. In the
case Of soldiers. are normally
happy. well-behaved. useful citi-
zens. There would be q dozen do
grees Of tutelage through which
they might be promoted n they
were fit and willing.
Third. all normal persons who
have trespassed In some way dur
ing one Of those lapsss Of self
discipline which are a. common IN
colds. and who have been unlucky
enough to fail into the hands Of
the police in consequences.
These last snould never be i'm
prisoned. They should be re-
quired to compensate the State for
the injury done to the body polite
by their misdeeds. ana. when pos
sible. to compensate the victims.
az well as pay the costs Of bring
ing them to Justice.
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Dishonest Practices.

II Is one Of the grievances Of
clerks in many businesses that
they have to connive at dishonest
prsctices AZ part or the regular
routine. Of the office: but neither
they nor their employers are amy
the richer. because business aiways
finally settles down to the fActs.
and 10 conducted IN terms not OF
the pretense but Of the reality.
We may take II. then, that the
thief who h In prison y not neces,
sariiy more dishonest than his tel
lows at large. but mostly only ono
who. through Ignorance or stupid
ity. steals IN q way that h not Gus
tomary. X,
He snstches . loaf from the
bakers counter and is promptly
ruin into jail. Another man
snatches bread from the tables Of
hundreds u widows and orphans
and simple. crsduious souis VINO DO
not know ths ways o. company
premstsrss ana, - liksly - nst ~
4 rus me- osasrsnA
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Imprisonment for frauds and thefts

Imprisonment for frauds and thefts
Of the meanest sort. D..
When we consider how complete
ly a soldier is enslaved by mill.
tary discipline, and how abhorrent
military service consequently is to
civilly capable people. we cannot
doubt. even II there were no first
hand testimony on the subject. that
many men enlist voluntarily, not
because they want to lead drunk
en- and dissolute life (ths reason
given by the Iron Duke). or be-
cause they are under any OF the
romantic illusions on which the re-
cruiting sergeant Is supposed to
practice, but because they know
themselves to be unfit for full
moral responsibility. and conclude
that they had better have their
lives ordered for them than face
the effort dntoierabiy difficult for
them) Of ordering 1t themselves.
This effort is not made easier by
our civilization. A man who treat.
ed his children a. every laborer
treated them az matter OF course
q hundred years ago would now be
Imprisoned Tor neglecting them and
keeping them away from school. :,
The statute book IL crammed
with offenses unknown to our
grandfathers and unintellisible to
uneduoated men; and the list needs
startling extension. for. as II.
@. Wells has pointed out, its sfunda-
mental items date from the Mosaic
period. when modern capitalism.
which involves a new morality. was
unknown.
In more obvious matters we no
tice how the standard Of dress
and lodging. which Qualities so
cially for employment as q factory
hand or mechanic has risen since
the days when no person Of any
refinement could travel. az every
body now travels. third class.
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NARD SHAW SAYS: Honesty Varies With Strain Put Upon 1t
Human Character With SCOT and WhiteWash

It 10 the offender of the second
class. too good to be killed or
Gagged and not good enough for
normal liberty. whose treatment
bothers us.
Any proposal to place men COM
pulsorily under tutelage imme-
diately raises the vsfed question
Of what in called 'the indeter-
inmate sentence"
TheS British parliament has
never been prevailed on to create
q possibility Of q criminal being
detained preventively" for life;
II has set q limit Of ten years To-
that condition. +.
This is inevitable as long a. the
tuteiage is primarily not q tutelaga
but q punishment. L.
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By George Bernard Shaw.

Let US look at the other end of
the scale, where the soft cases are.
Here we are confronted with the
staggering fact that many of our
prisoners have not been convicted
of any offense at all; they are
awaiting their trial and are too
poor and friendless to find bail,
while others have been convicted
OF mere breaches of bye-laws Of
which they were ignorant, and
which they could not have guessed
by their sense Of right and wrong,
rs many bye-laws have no ethical
character whatever.
For example, q boy sells news
paper on the premises of railway
company, and thereby infringes a
bye-law the object Of which Ii to
protect the commercial monopoly
of the news agents who have paid
the company for the right to have
q bookstail on the platform.
The boys brother jostles . pas
senger who Is burdened with hand
luggage. and says, Garry your
baggage. sir7" These perfectly In
nocent lads, are sent to prison.
though the officials themselves ad-
init that a sentence Of imprison-
ment is 90 ruipous to n boys
morals that they would rather see
their own sons dead than in prison.
The Washington times., 1922-06-18
Put in Three Glasses.

We may now begin to arrange
our problem comprehensively.
The people who have to be dealt
with specially by the government.
because for one reason or another
they cannot deal satisfactorily
With thsmselves. may be roughly
divided INTO three sectional
First. the small number q
dangereus,S inccrrigibly mischle-
vous human animais. with them
sheuld be associated III hopeless
detectives. from idiots 10 crsnnous,
chronically homicidai maniacs.
second. . body Of people who
oAnnst prvvi1s for or order their
xvs ~ thensslvsa. sut vhs Nm
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Volunteer Prisoners.

In England there ID a law under
which a drunkard. politely called
an inebriate. can voluntarily SEN
tence himself to a term Of deten-
tion for the sake Of being restrained
from yielding to . temptation
which he is unable to resist when
left to himself
Under the existing circumstances
nobody 10 likely 70 DO that twice,
or even once. II he has any knowi-
edge Of how the inebriatss aye
treated.
The only system Of detention we
know is the prison systenn; and tie
only sort Of prisoner we have any.
practice in dealing with IN the
criminal. with his dismal routine
OF punishment In the first place.
Difference in the second place. and
reform in the very remote third
place.
The inebriate volunteer prisoner
very soon finds that he is being
treated a. a criminal, and tries In
vain to revoke his rsnunciaticn OF
his liberty.
( Otherwise, say the authorities
very truly. we should be ovor-
whelmed with volunteers.
This reminds IN OF the Westmin-
ster Abbey verger who charged q
French gentleman with brawllng
in church.
The magistrate. inQuiring what.
exactly. the foreigner had done.
was toid that he had lnsit In
prayer.
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Misleading Inscription.

The first prison ! ever saw had
inscribed on Il: CEASE TO DO
EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL.
But as the inscription was on the
outside. the prisoners could not
read II.
It should have been addressed to
the self-righteous free spectator In
the street, and should have run:
ALL HAVE sINNED AND
FALLEN SHORT OF THE
GLORY OF GOD.
We must get out OF the habit Of
painting human character In SCOT
and whitewash. II lie not true that
men can be divided into absolutely
honest persons and absolutely dis
honest ones. Our honesty varies
with the strain put on II: this h
proved BY the fact that every add.
tional penny income tax brings in
less than the penny preceding.
The purchaser OF q horse or
motor car has to beware much
more carefully than the purchaser
Of an article worth i've shillings.
I. II you take Landru at one IN.
trsms. ana at the other the pris-
onsr whose crime 10 sleeping OUT
that u 70 say. whose crime b no
crime a. ait-ycu oan place every
sane human being. from the mon.
arch to the tramp. somewhere on
sths scale between than.
Not one -of them has . blank
page In the books Of ths record
ing angel. From the people WHO
ten white hes about thsir agss.
Social positiens ana incomes. 10
thess VINO grind the fAcss of ths
pesr, ~ Marry vhflst suffsring
frsa ssnsasisus elssns@ - ~
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AL Pure Waste.

But % much the better n II
does. Sweating may make profits
for private persons here and
there, but their nsighbors have
to pay through the nose for these
profits in poor ratss, police rates.
public health rates trnostly dis
ease rates). and an the rest Of
the gigantic expenditure. all pure
waste and mischief. which falls
ON the ratepayer and Taxpayer
In his constant struggle with the
fruits Of the poverty which he 10
nevertheless invited to maintain
for the sake Of making two or
three Of his neighbors unwhols-
someiy and unjustiy rich.
II civilization II TO be saved for
the FIRST time In history. Il will
have 10 bs BY . much greater 81.
tension OF public regulation and or
ganisation than any community
has hitherto been willing to submit
to. 4 ~
So much for the difficuity Of
the indsterminate sentence. which
is quite manageable. Its Discus
sion has led us to tha discovery
THAI in spits Of the Unohristian
spirit Of our criminal law, and the
cruelty Of its administration, the
mere logic Of facts 10 driving us
y huunans solutionn
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Many Masks Made.

Much Of the difference between
the bond and the free 10 . differ
snce In circumstances only. II q
man h not hungry, and his
children are silins only because
they are too wsii fed. nobody can
tell whether he would steal
loaf II his children were crying
for bread and he himself had not
tasted . mouthful In twenty-four
hours.
Therefore, II We are IN an atti-
tude Of moral superiority to our
oonvicts. n you are one Of the
Serve Them Right and give
Them IIsii Brigade, you, may
Justly Be invited In their Jown
vernacular. either to Come Off IL
or else 90, inside and take the
measure you are melting out to
others no worse than yourself.
The distinction between the
people the criminal law need deal
with and those Il may safely
leave at large is not . distinction
between depravity and good
nature. It 10 q distinction between
people who cannot. az they them
selves put It. 80 straight except
in leading strings and those who
can.
IncurAbls criminsls make well
behaved soldiers and prisoners.
rhs wariof is1%-1s almost emp
tisd the prisons of able-bodled
mon; and In the leading strings
Of military discipline these mon
csassd to BE- criminais.
Some soldiers who were ais
charged with not only ,first-rats
certificates Of their good conduct
a. soldiers. but with the Victoria
Cross ''for valor." were no sesner
cast adrift into ordinary civil life
than thsy were presently found
m the doh pleading thsir military
ssrvie>s and essd slafantsr a. sol
1isrs = nit1p<isa = ssnts.sss &
The Washington times., 1922-06-18

You may say that the remedy
for this is not to spare the lesser
offender but to punish the greater;
but there you miss my present
point, which In, that - the great
majority Of prisoners are not q b:t
more dishonest naturally than
thousands Of people who are not
only at liberty, but highly pam
pered. II Is no use telling me that
society win fall into anarchic disso-
luton II these unlucky prisoners
are treated with common human
ity. =.
On the contrary. when we see
the most Ashamelcssly selfish
rogues and rascals can be granted
not only immunity. but encourage
ment and magnificent remunera-
ton, we are tempted. to ask our
selves have we any right to re-
strain anyone at all from doing
his worst to us.
The Washington times., 1922-06-18

aggravation Of the budget, seems
q conclusive objection.
But II its effect would be to
convert a large mass Of more
or less dishonest, unproductive or
half productive. unsatisfactory,
reckless. nervous, anxious, wretch
ed people into good citizens. 1t is
absurd to object to IL as costly.
It would be unbearably costly.
of course, n the life and labor Of
it's subjects were as stupidly
wasted as they are in our prisons;
but any scheme into which are
read the conditions Of our present
system will stand condemned at
once.
whether the labor Of the sub
ject be organized by the state,
as in government dockyards,
postoffices. municipal industries
and services and 30 forth. or by
private employers obtaining labor
service from the authorities. or
ganized and used productivity 1t
must be: and anyone who main.
tains that such organization and
production costs the nation more
than wasting the labor power Of
able-bodied men and women either
by imprisonment or by throwing
criminals on the streets to prey
on society and on themselves. b
maintaining monstrous capital
istic paradox.
Obviously 1T win not cost the
nation anything at all: II win en-
rich 1t and protect II. The real
commercial objection to It ID that
1t would reduce the supply Of
sweatabls labor available for un.
scrupulous private employers.
The Washington times., 1922-06-18
CHURCHES LIFELESSv
AND STALE BECAUSE
OF OUR OWN LAXITY
impatient, Young Men Have Decided Religion
Means Nothing to Them and They Become
a Little ContemptaOuS Where ChurchgOing
is Concerned.

trees and flowers ana sky and
birds"
yes, but I wasn't here!" the
child challenged her triumphantiy.
II was in Kansas CityT
A TYPICAL MOTHER
AND FATHER.
Later had an opportunity to
talk to this child's mother. and we
brought UP the subject of religion.
I found that her experience had
been typical Of thousands Of other
mothers experiences.
Religion had never meant any
thing to her, although as a child
she had trotted dutifully to church.,
and attended various guilds and
sewing circles under church guild
ance. She had no feeling about It,
one way or another. and when her
children came she gave hem
nothing, because the negative Is
always simpler than than the posi-.
tive attitude.
Her husbands experience had
been typical, too.
He had been overdosed with the
mere outer shell OF religion as q
child: his heart and soul had never
been pierced with its truth. He
had been forced by too strict
mother into ten times the neces-
sary acts Of piety. he had been
sternly schooled In a thousand
suhtleties-made to analyze sIch
intangibilities as states of SOUL"
voluntary and Involuntary sins O:
thought" and the offenses of spiri.
tual presumption and despair"
At about sixteen he realized i'm.
patiently that it all meant nothing
The Washington times., 1922-06-18
IN LOSING HOLINESS WE HAVE LOST MOST PRECIOUS LEMEN
OF OUR NATIONAL DOMESTIC LIFE, SAYS KATHLEEN N(

God. How extremely simple that
is! ...N
isn't It q pity" said q witty
Frenchman, ito condemn Christ's
law as failure without ever q
trtal?"
We laugh at this. q little shock
ed. But when has the law Of
simple love of God and neighbor
had a trial?
During the great religious"
wars? When Crusaders went
forth to murder7 When a clerical
Jury burned Joan Of Arc at
Rouep. or when ciergymen burn.
ed witches on Salem hills? All
these things-these sacrileges-
were done in the name Of Jesus
Christ. -.
We have never given the words
Of this poor. obscure, misrepre-
sented villager prophet q trial.
We continue to 60 on believing
God q furious deity. to be 'paoi-
fled by our lip service.
But He told US we might call
him Father. and ask him that
His Kingdom might come.
THE FACT OF SOMETHING
BEYOND THIS LITE.
As we grow older. We grasp
with more or less distinctness
two facts about life. N.-,
One Is that the spirit is In
finitely more important than the
body. OF this We SEQ simple
examples all about us-the wretch
edness Of sin even with wealth
and power, the exquisite beauty
and happiness Of q humble life Of
service and sweetness.
The other fact is that there In
something beyond: something to
which our blinded souls dimly
strain whether they win or no.
something that makes US as hun
cry for the words Of the Mediator
as We were almost two thpusand
changing years ago.
Nations rise and fall. but the hu-
man heart turns back over and
over again to the mysterious
phrases that live on beyond kings
and emperors. the words that
sprang from the humblest Of livea
and the most shameful Of deaths.
and that princes and powers have
been unable to crush.
In your village, and In mine. In
there q penniless man whose words
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One Glass Difficult.

Until they have, done this they
cannot complain II they find
themselves distrained upon. har-
assed by frequent compulsory
appearances in court to excuse
themselves, or oonsignsd to the
second division. y
It is quite easy to make care
iessnsss and selfishness. petty vio-
ience and dishonesty, unremunera-
tive and disagreeable. without re-
sorting TO, imprisonment.
In the cases whore the offender
has fallen into bad habits and bad
company. the stupidest course 20
take Is to force him into the worst
Of all habits and the worst Of all
company-that is. prison habits
and prison corppany,
The proper remedies are good
habits and good company. II these
are not available. then the Of
fender must be put into the SEQ
ond class, and kept straight un.
der tutslass until he q flt for
freedom
Tho difficulty Lies. Il WIN bs
seen. in devising . means Of deal
ing with the second class.
The first. II easyi too easy, in
fact. You KIN or you ioaes; that
10 all. sra
In the third class snmmonine
and timing and admonishing are
sasy and not nnisohisvous; you msy
worry . man oonsidsrabiy By t.H
serins him about HIS conduct a, J
dunning him for mensy IN . police
court ooossisaAilys but you DO not
parmanently disable hin nnessnv
sa1 physiaauy tAeEshvk
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win be hungrily treasured. whose
name will be a household word.
about whom thousands Of books
will be written. two thousand
years from now7
Is 1t q lie that has lived %
long7
Or did that Man really bring US
a message-the clue. the key to
everything we want to know?
II we could say. Gods infinite
light. flooding our finite minds. Is
the one and only guide we may
ever find in this dark life"
II instead Of trying to give to
the infinite, we could begin to take
from the infinite
II. in religious doubts and per-
plexities. we could gather the
children in mothers room. and
simply and trustfully turn to the
Father for help. for guidance, for
light upon this very question Of
churchgoing or staying At
home
And II we could accustom the
children. and everyone else with
whom we come in contact. to the
name Of God. to the feeling that
goodness is the normal state Of
poor humanity, and that all the
blindness Of the years. all the law
suits. the armies. the resentment
and diseases and sins. were not
meant of God
Then how petty the abuses Of
other people. the little jealousies
and rivalries. the ugly words and
the sullen. hateful deeds Of every
day life would become!
My spirit and yours would soar