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The Washington times., 1923-09-19
JUDGE UPBRAIDS'
XII KLUX KHAN !.
ACTIVITIES
West Virginia Jurist Lays Law
Iessness to Masked
Organization.

CUMBERLAND. Nd, Sept. ia
Judge A. Jay Valentine, in charging
the grand jury of the Mineral coun.
ty court at Keyser, w. Va, twenty
two miles west of here, yesterday
called. attention to the activities of
the Ku Klux. Khan and said:
LAS far as I am advised it has
never assisted the officers of the
law in enforcement of any law.
The fact that the organization goes
masked is a sufficient condemna-
ton. of 1t and it is to be severely
condemned in its practice of dis
charging high explosives, some.
times dangerously affecting sick
persons and offending against the
quiet and order of the community. /"
He referred to lawless persons
organizing and committing crime,
charging it to this organization
He said If the Khan knows of a
crime it should inform the officers
of the law and If the latter fail it
would then be time to consider
whether such organizations are
necessary.
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DAY.
| ENOUGH IN SAYS
sTEIVNET 7
Electrical Wizard Ayers Man
at Monotonous Task Should
Not Labor More.
BY WILLIAM PARKER,
Cosmopolitan. News Service.

Los ANGELES. Sept. "a
maximum OF four hours day is
all the efficiency to be had out of
q man who is employed at work
which is monotonous to him.
This was the theory advan ED
today by DIR. Charles P. Steinmetz.
the worlds greatest electrician on.
gineer and consulting engineer for
the General Electric Company. DR..
A5tefnmetz is lecturing here before
the Electric Club and other organ.
izations. He is acknowledged by
scientists to know more electrical
mathematics than any man living,
being not only a student of matf1.
ematics. but also creator of matIl-
ematics.
There are no hours for the man
who Is interested in his work" said
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DIR. Steinmetz. Personally I don't
bother about hours. 1 work as
long as 1 am interested, and some
times my hours are very long.
Man Works Too Much.
cat present man is working far
more hours than he should because
he has not learned to utilize the
energy around him. We use only
a small percentage of the energy
of the coal we burn; and the waste
motion in machinery and methods
goes to make up the difference be-
tween an eight-hour and II four
hour working day.
Machinery has been labor's great
est boon, for it has freed man from
labor slavery. Intelligence now is
required to operate labor-saving
machinery and this has in turn
created intelligent working men,
whereas before the invention of
machinery the laborers did not have
intelligence because he had no
need for it.
The possibility Of Harvesting the
suns energy TO DO all of mans
work is still in its infancy. It is
now possible to gather the suns
energy for .spnle purposes, this
I being done by mirrors which reflect
the suns rays. The period has
not come, however, when we must
source of energy. Any feasible
method of converting the SUMS rays
to practical purposes woulC; be at
cost far greater than it is cost.
ing us to generate electricity by
means Of water power.
No Great Changes.
I'VE need not look for any revo-
lutionary changes in the electrical
world. What comes now will be
more in the nature of evolution
There is too much capital invested
to overthrow what has been done
merely to try out a new theory.
Electricity, however, continues
to be The great mystery Of the
universe. 1t Is not found in nat ure
and is not used by nature. The
only time we find it at Ill in
nature is during storms and then
it is not of sufficient quantity for
commercial use.
I'VE have become so used to. the
continual advance in the electrical
world that we are apt to lose sight
Oh what mas Uecuf dccotnEiASnSu'
When Thomas Edison ran his first
wires for electric lighting he used
220 volts, Today the Southern Cal
ilfornia Edison Company here in
California transmits 100000 volts
the largest voltage in the world
many miles. and all this develop
ment has come in the short period
of forty years.
IF this progress in electrical dc
velopment continues at the same
rate in the future that, ii has in
the past, it will not be long he.
fore we will be transmitting cleo
tricity' equal. to. bolt lightning at
will-via a radio process yet to-
be developed-from any one part of
the world to any other part where
it is needed"
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INFANT KILLED IN CRASH,
AUToIST LODGED IN JAIL

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa, Sept. 10.
-E1ichael Carricato, Of Pittsburgh,
is held in Jail here, charged with
mansIaughter. An automobile driven
by him, passing another; on a hill
near here on the wrong side of the
road, struck the car driven by
Norman Eshelman, Of this place.
EshelmaH's infant son was Instant
ly killed, its skull crushed.
.Eshelman and his wife are both
dangerously injured and are in
Chambersburg Hospital. Al two-year-
old daughter escaped harm. Eshel-
mans car took fire and was totally
destroyed.
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FARMER REFUSES TO SELL
HIS PEACHES ON SUNDAY

NASHVILLE, Ind, Sept. 10
John Dobbs has q fine peach crop.
Motorists who drive by the Dobbs
farm in large numbers on Sunday
are tempted by the luscious peaches
and attempt to make purchases.
But Dobbs is not tempted
mo, sir" he says. II won't sell
peaches or anything else on SUM-
day for all the money in the world
There are not enough automobiles
in the world to haul money enough
to get me to sell peaches on Sum
day. 1t would be wang. IF all my
orchard was piled as high as i
could see with money wouldn't
sell peach on Sunday. / wouldn't
barter my soul for gold"
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FRENCH EXTEND LINES
IN RUHR OCCUPATION

PARIS. Sept. 10. The French
have slightly extended their occupa
ton of German soil in the Ruhr,
says a Dusseldorf dispatch to the
semi official Temps.
The French seized mines near
Gneisenau and Scharnhorst and
Preusssn- Evening railroad line.
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;HlNESE GOVERNMENT
REFoPESTS BIG AREAS

S1 III SrIofsfse toonas ,,.,.,.a I'M.
Der annually than 1t is producing
and ignoring the pressing need of
roforestation, the Chinese have
recognized the value Of reforesting
and are applying the principle, ac-
cording to advices received by the
Department of Commerce.
The Shansi government has in
augurated a bureau OF forestry
with six branches and tree planting
on government land is going ahead
steadily. In addition, private land
owners are also planting trees on
all available land.
It is estimated, the report states.
over 100,000,000 trees are being
planted annually. The Shansi gov
eminent hopes to reforest some 30,-
900, 900 acres of land.
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DIR. Steinmetz. Personally I don't
bother about hours. 1 work as
long as am interested, and some
times my hours are very long.
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rGy E.~ekR.~eoe e cN110ER~oao

licked past, and outside in the glimmer
of light Ellis and Pierrepont went quickly
to and fro, testing and examining, making
sure that this shuddering woman would
not escape the rope.
She had been carefully Weighed, they
knew her height and every detail, down
to the strands which were to hang her
had been carefully worked out
There must be no hitch. The law must
not be cheated of it's offender. Rain was
beginning to fall now. Eight o'clock. The
doomed woman rallied a little. Some
toast and fruit had been brought for her,
but she turned from it with loathing.
What mockery it must have seemed
to her, but by this time she was too dazed,
too broken and stupefed to care for the
irony of triviality on the brink of the
great black mystery.
Two minutes to nine, Footsteps! The
door opens and with it chill, raw wind
the blast Of death. Here are Elizabeth
Crisnen, lady superintendent of the
prison, the Under Sheriff, H. H. Gepp, and
the Chaplain, a fine-looking man. He is
visibly moved as he looks at the huddlcd
form.
The huddlel shape that was once
cOmely woman, beautiful and loved,
creature whose bright eyes quickened
mems pulses, is picked up and the pro-
cession starts from the condemned cell to
the specially erected scaffold. A
quick jerk-anl then dangling FORM
Edith Thompson had paid the price.
Of sterner stuff was Bywaters With
out complaint he had passed through the
weeks of weary waiting and hoping. He
saw his last hope disappear when the
Home Secretary's decision was conveyed
to him, and still he bore his burden like
a stole.
Last night of all, last sleep on earth,
whose waking dawn spclt death, found
him still facing the Grim Reaper as one
who would tell the world "No coward soul
is mine"
They say that when man stands in the
shadow of the last reckoning all the scenes
of his past life flash across his mind. What
thoughts were Bywaters's? What scenes.
of happy childhood, of youth, of that
great love that was to spell disaster for
the lover and the loved of that last fatal
scene were his? None shall ever know.
His last sleep was calm. Throughout
the night in that guarded cell he slept
peaceful sleep. He awokc early, and
world enveloped in a shroud of grayncss
and driving rain met the eyes that would
look upon no other earthly day.
He ate little, smoked a cigarette, and
then made ready to meet his executioners
But ere that doom-hour stroked its sum,
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there was one message to be sent. To the
Governor and officials of the prison he
sent thanks for all they had done for him
during the time he had been in Penton-
vile Prison.
Then he awaited the end. There were
no signs of fear on the boyish face, only.
the lips had grown tighter as in one whose
thoughts were TOO deep for words.
A few minutes before nine the cell
door opened. The executioners, Ellis
and Pierrepont, entered, and quickly pin
toned the doomed man. The black cap
was drawn over his face and the grim pro-
cession started fol- the scaffold The way
was short-only six yards-and the con-
demned man walked with firm steps. In
a moment all was over. Frederick By
waters had paid his last debt to society.
Outside the gray walls of the prison
thousands waited. A strange and motley
crowd gathered from the ends of the great
city. So dense was the crush that traffic
was unable to pass along the road.
Seen for the last time before her execu-
ton, Mrs. Thompson made a remarkable
statement of admissions to a close friend
After talking Of the disgrace she was
bringing to her father and mother, she
said 81 would rather it We're all over.
What had | TO hope for had | been re-
pricved-only years and years inside a
prison wall, and then, when | should come
out--nothing!
81 know that | stand nearer to my
Great Judge than | have ever stood be-
fore. Therefore, in what are practically
the last words that will come from me in
this world | repeat that | am innocent of
the crime laid TO my charge.
81 have been a fool, | have been a
pleasure-seeker, | have been selfish, and
| have not always thought of others
might have done; but am not murder
ess nor the associate of murderer.
81 realize that ] have been cruel in my
relations with Freddie Bywaters-that
ought to have had the courage to tell him
that there could not be anything between
us more than friendship, but ! was weak,
hungering for love, and | liked to seek
with him the happiness | could not find
elsewhere.
1898 American Weekly. In
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gulf between them in their outlook on
life and their manner of thinking.
Unable to find romance at home she was
driven to seek for it elsewhere. Not that
it required much seeking. She lived in
the spirit of adventure; The world was
just a wonderful book of romance and
adventure to her, and she the heroine.
From the pages of this wonderful book
stepped a well-groomed, moustached
gentleman of soldierly appearance and
carriage He came into Edith Thompson's
life soon after she found out that her
married life was to be a mockery.
There was something about him that, as
she confessed later, drew her from the
moment she set eyes on him. Their meet
ing was commonplace and casual enough.
He was sitting in subway train read
ing a morning paper, as many others in
the car were doing; she was sitting
nearly opposite, engaged in day-dreamlng.
With a start she realized that some one
was looking at her.
How it happened she was never able
to comprehend, but when she reached the
surface at Regent street she found her.
self replying to questions by the man in
the corner and actually making converse
ton herself.
That day passed like a dream. The
other, who appeared, as indeed he was,
a gentleman of considerable means, pro-
posed lunch at a well-known Strand
dining place. They went there, enjoyed
the meal and the wine and were soon
on the best of terms.
Going up to London in the train next
day her happiness vanished. Would the
appointment so laughingly and seemingly
so carelessly given, be kept? For
moment the thought was agonizing. Her
spirits rose again and her heart beat
faster when she saw the tall form of her
friend outside the subway station.
To a little, quiet restaurant in Soho,
where the walters were discreet and their
movements silent and unobtrusive, they
went. There, in a little alcove, away
from the prying eyes, they lunched.
She talked to her companion with new
ease and freedom. He, emboldened by
her attitude, lost no time in indicating his
feelings. Once his fingers touched her
hand, accidentally, as he offered her somee
thing on the table.
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The touch thrilled her, and she pre-
tended not to notice that their hands
remained thus for a much longer time
than the simple little act warranted. 80"
That day came to an end all too soon.
But another was at hand. It, too, gave
place to another and another-and all the
while they were becoming more and more
sure of the nature of each other. She
never questioned him as to his life, nor
did he say word to her about hers. 4'0S
They were living by themselves in an
other world, where ties did not count. She
had lost her heart to him by now. They
called each other by pet names, adopted
in silly little moment. ''
For a time this love affair was all in
all to Mrs Thompson. 1t made all the
difference in the world to her. She gave
herself up to enjoyment with her cavalier
with unwonted zest. Life had never been
so full to her as it was then. tfi't5
Then she was plunged into temporary
gloom once more. He told her one night,
with many protestations,l that circunl-
stances forbade any further meanings
with her. She was struck dumb at first.
Sne nAu IIndSnSu1 AOOIlSI1y3 IlldI ItLEy
could go on seeing one anothersaiA-
definitely. <a
They parted-he, ELUSIVE and full of
regrets; she, with scarce word, but with
a dull ache in her heart, for theset meet
ings had meant so much to her. e5tt
Up to this time, it must be remembered,
she had never thought of Bywaters IA
possible lover. He was so young. sacc
1t was then that she turned ito
Bywaters with the despairing hape
throbbing in her mind that here she should
find that forgetfulness and love that she
craved above all else. ~A44
At whitehead her love burned in an in
candescent heart With volcanic in
tensity she loved. Little wonder that two
minds were affected under such a power
full, all-consuming acid as that illicit love
of theirs In a different environment
Edith Thompson might have been much
respected woman at this day; but it was
not so decreed. ri
The fortune teller had read the palms
truly; Edith Thompson met her end on
the gallows-the price she paid for her
folly and wickedness.
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&C, NrNS7eMe M<V Co.

fault, and my
greatest punishment is the knowledge of
what fate has been reserved for him.
He has been attacked from many direc
tions, he has been called hard names, but
just want to say that his greatest fault
was that he was a fine, chivalrous boy
who could not bear to Sc a woman un-
happy.
"He saw me unhappy in my married
life, and he thought he would try to make
things different for me. l suppose he
reached a point when he lost his reason
and did the deed that has cost him his
life. have been attacked for my selfish
ness in sacrificing him to save my own
life. | want TO say here, in the presence
of shameful death, that they who talk
like that know not what they say"
The two condemned persons were con-
victed upon the charge of numbering Mrs.
Thompson's husband at Ilford in October
last. and following the quick arrest of the
prisoners the cast attracted wide interest.
The proceedings disclosed an extraor-
binary story of illicit love on the part of
a young man aged twenty-one and of a
woman seven years older than himself,
who, it was proved at the trial, melted her
DacdnOuE W COIIlIluL Tile CTIIIlc VI
Mr.. Thompson was stabbed to death by
Bywatcrs in the presence of his wife while
the Thompsons were walking home on
their return from the theatre, and the
police were not long before they had laid
their hands upon Bywaters and Mrs.
Thompson.
Letters were found in Bywaters's pos
session which showed that there had been
a conspiracy between the couple to bring
about the death Of Thompson for some
time, powdered glass and poison being re-
ferred to as the possible means to the end.
Mrs. Thompson was not good woman.
She had not simply made one false step
which might have been condemned. She
was by nature a wicked woman, and her
affair with young Bywaters was not her
only moral lapse.
Percy Thompson would have made an
excellent husband for any woman. I'm
fortunately he married a woman who was
not suited for him, and there was a wide
Great Britain Rights Reserved.
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After Restless Night With Sinking Spells and Nightmares from
Which Awoke Trembling With Mrs Thompson Was
Weak and Hysterica to Walk from Her Cell to the Gao Two Prison
Scafod Where
She Stood for Moment Door Swag Uncertainty and Then
Sank Limp Heap Underneath the Moose Crying Fredde! Fdde
Are You
New Britain herald., 1923-09-28
YALE SpEEDERS HURT
Auto Party Hits Tree--Three Students Badly Battered And Motor Car Catches Fire in New Haven.

New Haven, Sept 2s-Three Yale students were badly hurt early today lin West Haven when their automobile crashed into a tree. They were Louis Bell Bermingham of Oyster Bay, N. iY., owner of the car, Lawrence Jen- Inings Of Fairfield, Conn, and Fred erick 4 Wallace, Jr. of Plaintield, N. h., all of the class of 1928.
 Bermingharf has a fractured hip, Wallace a compound fracture of the nose and Jennings a fractured right arm and broken nose. All had con- tusions.
 Ther are at New Haven hospital. The machine caught fire and ap- l flames.
 ] The West Haven police attribute the accident to excessive speed in talk ing the turn at Elm street and Kim berley avenue.
 A report from the hospital this af- ternoon was to the effect that an X ray showed that Jennings was more seriously hurt than had been pre- viously announced, that he has frac- tured skull and is now on the danger list
 Hospital authorities also added that Wallace had stated that he was a student and that he was from Plain field. N. J. There are two members of the class of 1926 of the same family and given names. but neither is re- corded from Plainield. N J. : Inquiry was made at the office of Dean Jones of the college as to the identity of Wallace. Neither the dean nor the officers of the university sec retary had received immediate report on the accident.
 West Haven police first heard of i the accident from a milkman who | came across the wrecked and blazing automobile with the three young men | on the ground.
New Britain herald., 1923-09-28
FACE AT THE WINDOW WILL BE SEEN NO MORE George Cooke of Plainville, Dies at Age of 91
 Years
Especial to The Heraldl.

Plainville, Sept. 2s.-George Cooke
 age of s1 years. of New Britain road
 died yesterday afternoon at his home following an illness of several weeks
 The house in which he died was the same dwelling in which he was born and the same spot in which he has lived throughout his life. Had he lived until December 17, of this year
 Mr. Cooke would have been 92. He had never marneid and years ago he was one of the most active farmers in this section of the state.
 Of recent years he has been con- fined to his home because of physi- cal infiirmity and for about the last IA years. he has been seen every day sitting in the window of his home, an old fashioned. large wooden frame building, watching the traffic pass by. Because of the striking picture he made with his hoary head and his long flowing beard, he attracted the attention of all who passed by tthe house. In time. his appearance at the window and the picture which he made as he looked out on the world with his kindly eyes, earned for him the sobriquet of The Face at the Window" and this term became known to motorists throughout the state and in other parts of New Eng land.
 He was noted for hts keen mind. He spent most of his time in reading and those who became acquainted with him, often spoke of his kindly nature especially when he acted in the role of counsellor to the children of the neighborhood.
 He is survived by large number of relatives in Brooklyn, New York, Hartford, New Britain, Plainville and other places. Among these are Mrs. J H. kirkham. a niece, and Frederick w. Porter, a grand nephew. both of New Britain. The funeral will be held Monday afternoon at o'clock from his home and burial will be in Pennington.
New Britain herald., 1923-09-28
HTS SABBATH DAY OF REST?"
Local Minister Says Christ Never So Stated--Sabbath Was Made for Man.

Whether or not the Puritan Sab bath of rest and silence and medita- ton, devoid of pleasure is the correct kind of a Sabbath is the question which will be discussed by Rev Hen ry W. Maier of the First Congrega- tional church Sunday morning In commenting upon his sermon today he said, The Sabbath requirements are puzzling many earnest and thoughtful people. This should be discussed freely and openly There is a difference between the Fundamental principle of the old requirement. and what Jesus said and did about 1t
 According to the old the Sabbath was for rest. Jesus never so spoke of it. He said. The Sabbath was made for man. for mans good, but gave no directions as 10 how it was to be observed.
 What change in the idea of the Sabbath made it possible to change the observance of the day from Sat urday the last day of the week to the first day of the week?
 What would be an observance Of the Sabbath in our times that would make it good for man? That is our problem. let us face it."
New Britain herald., 1923-09-28
LEAPS TO DEATH AS
 HUSBAND SEEKS HER
Forestville Woman, 45 Throws Herself Under
 Train at Camp Station

Forestvilie. Conn. Sept. 2s.-Mrs. Ebert N. Bunnell, 4s. jumped in front of an early morning train from Hart ford at Camp station (Methodist camp grounds) and was killed today.
 She had been mentally i'll for sey- eral weeks, and 9 few days ago took poison, her life being saved by physi- clans This morning she wandered from her home and MT Bunnell was searching for his wife at the time she was at the railroad station. Word reached him of his wife's death while he was in quest of her
 The engineer of the train reported that when he saw Mrs Bunnell jump upon the track he was unable to stop in time to avoid hitting her