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Evening star., 1923-06-14
TWO IDENTIFY MAN
AS BLACKMA|LER
Women Accuse G. H. Wilson
of Extorting Money and lew.
eIry, Threatening Arrest.

Arrested early today on suspicion
of being the man against whom sew
eral women have lodged complaints.
claiming they were arrested by him
and forced to surrender articles of
jewelry and money. George Hal VIII
son, thirtythree years old, denied
any connection with possible charges
of impersonating police detectiIe
and blackmailing. In addition the
prisoner told Inspector Grant. chief
of detectives, he served as a special
policeman at the Willard Hotel and
Union station during Shrine week,
and that he had resided here for
number of years, although his home
is in Rockingham, y. c.
Following up a report to the police
that the alleged fake detective was
riding in an automobile bearing u
Georgia license number Policeman
Davis located such a car in front OF
1211 ] street. where Wilson and his
wife have rooms. He called at the
house about 2:30 o'clock this morn
ing and asked for the owner Of the
car, saving he wanted the latter to
put d light on his machine. Wilson
then the policeman placed him under
arrest.
Took Victim Across River.
of the numerous reports concern
ing the operations of the alleged
false detective the police have one
which shows that the person in quek-
tion became familiar with a young
woman on the street. then placed
her under arrest and said she would
have to accompany him to police
station. The report further states
he drove her across the river and
forced her to give up an article Of
jewelry.
Detectives Cox and King are con
ducting an investigation OF these
reports The man is said by the
police to have used the names OF
Wiley and Stevens and his conduct
in several instances was of such
nature as to alarm his victims.
Found With Ring.
At police headquarters this after
noon the prisoner was identified by
and Mrs. Lena Van Wrinkle. $40 22d
street. as being the individual who
forced-them TO give up the valua bles.
The former said she gave him a
ring valued al $50 because he eS-
hibited a police badge and frightened
her after driving her in his car
across the river. while the latter said
size gave him SO.
Mrs. Eaggetts ring was found in
possession of the prisoner. the de-
tectives stated. and he said it had
heen given 10 him. admitting he had
met the young lady. A formal charge
of blackmail was preferred against
Wilson. Mrs. Baggett being named as
complainant Wilson has wife and
two children.
Evening star., 1923-06-14
Sports Hat Bands, Is,

Large variety of choice plain and fancy silk
grosgrain ribbon and silk scarf bands: in all the
most wanted coors. Regularly 4oc. Friday only,
25c-Second Fioer.
Evening star., 1923-06-14
GermanyMayLop
Several Cyphers
Off Mark Notes
~ wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright, 1923.

~ wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1923.
BERLIN, June 14.--If the marks
remain at 100000 or more to the
dollar for a few days longer the
German government is going to
turn around. and. following the ex-
ample of Poland, Austria and Rus
sfa, will chop off a few cyphers
from the 100000 and 100000 mark
notes. The German minister of the
treasury seems to be quite up in
the air" in his effort to stabilize
the mark at 10000 to the dollar,
having failed after costing his
bankrupt government $4,000, 900 in
gold.
Several outside experts, including
banker from San Diego, Calf,
have advised the German govern
ment to annul all the German paper
money issued before July /, 1928.
In other words, Germany, if she
acts on this advice, will give notice
to all foreign holders of marks to
cash in their paper marks by July l.
!, The German government, which
may not realize how dishonest this
would be. is acting in self-defense,
but those Australians, South Afri-
cans and Americans who heard too
late that Germany was calling in
her paper money would lose hun
oreds OF thousands OF dollars.
Evening star., 1923-06-14
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia, Maryland and
Virginia-Fair tonight and tomor-
row; slightly warmer tonight; gentle
variable winds.
West Firginia-Fair tonight and
tomorrow; warmer tonight
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
Thermome eter-Y pm,
65; pm. 81; II midnight, So Today,
am, 5S; am, 81; noon, "A.
Barome meter-Yesterday. pm. 29S7;
9 pm. 2s.SS: Il midnight. 29.8S. To-
day. am, 29.SS; am, 1888; noon,
29.87.
Highest temperature. "A, occurred
at noon today; lowest temperature,
b7. occurred at 4:30 am. today
Temperature same date last year
Highest, 20; lowest. So
Condition Of the Water.
Temperature and condition Of the
water at am: Great Falls
Temperature. "A; condition. slightly
muddy
Weather In Various Cities
Evening star., 1923-06-14
The Truthful Statesman
m the Cincinnati Enquirer

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Yes. ! am retiring from public life
on account of sickness" said the old
job holder.
Well, | must say you look pretty
healthy to me" replied his friend
"Oh, ] am well enough" he an
swered. but both my party and the
public are sick of me-"
Evening star., 1923-06-14
The Difference.

From the Ligourian.
The teacher was conducting les
son in history.
Tommy Jones'" she said. what
was there about George Washington
which distinguished him from all
other famous Americans"
HE didn't lie" was the prompt
answer
Evening star., 1923-06-14

Divorces in New York have in
creased 50 per cent in FIVE years
Wives who shoot their husbands have
contributed to the number of separa-
tionS.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-06
YELLOW JESSAMINE.

In tangled wreaths in clustered cleaning stars
In floating. curling sprays.
The golden flower comes shining through the
woods
These February days:
Forth 90 all hearts, all hands, from out the town
To bring her gayly in
This wild. sweet Princess of far Florida
The yellow jessaminc.
The live-oaks smile to see her lovely face
Peep from the thckets; shy,
She hides behind the leaves her golden buds
The holder grown, on high
She curls a tendril, throws n spray then filings
Herself aoft in glec,
And. bursting into thousands of blossoms swings
In wreaths from tree to tree.
The dwarf palmetto on his knees adores
This Princess of the air;
The lone piuebsrren broods afar and signs,
"Ah come. lest / despair"
The myrtle thickets and i-tempered thorps
Culver and thrill within.
As though their leaves they feel the dainty touch
, Of yellow jessamine.
The garden roses wonder as they see
The wreaths of golden bloom,
Bought in from the far woods with eager haste
To deck the poorest room,
The rich mans house, alike the loaded hands
Give sprays to all they meet,
! Till, gay with flowers, the people come and go
And all the air is sweet.
The Southern land well weary Of its green
| Which may not fall nor fade,
Bestirs itself to greet the lovely flower
| With leaves of fresher shade
| The pine has tassels, and the orange trees
| Their fragrant work begin:
The spring has come-has come to Florida,
With yellow jessamine.
Constance Fenimore Woolson.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-06

tending the children is no work at all,
and all other household duties belong in
the category of play or entertainment.
However, lest someone get a wrong
impression of the easy life the males of
Belgian Congo live, it should be stated
quickly that they do all the primping i'll
their respective families, Although they
stay at home-generally speaking-they
do not devote themselves exclusively to
drudgery. While the women are plow-
ing and making the living in other ways,
the men are looking into mirrors, try
ing on new hats and otherwise dolling
themselves up. The husbands are the
fashion plates, albeit as style-setters they
might be onions in the eyes of Amer
leans and other super-civilized peoples.
There is theory Of political economy
that sovereignty is an appurtenance of
the paramount productive power. Now.
if the women of Belgian Congo do all
the work and make the living, it, would
seem that their labor was the paramount
productive. power Therefore, according
to the theory, they ought to exercise
sovereignty. But the missionary says
that they do not. They haven't any
say-so at all in governmental affairs, let
alone equal suffrage. The men have re-
served unto themselves. exclusively, the
right-or perhaps one should say power
to run" the government.
Thus the comparative slavery of the
heather who sat on plow. under an
umbrella, while his wife pushed on the
handles as she walked. is made amply
manifest. And thus is the politico-
economic theory shaken-unless, per-
chance. there is quite bit of work to dc
in African kitchens and nurseries. For,
to do nothing except to make oneself at
tractive, and yet hold the reigns OF gov"
crnment, were glorious combination,
indeed.
However, the sort of civilization de.
scribed by the missionary is by no means
anomalous. 1t has existed in various
parts of the world since the year one;
and it exists even now, in effect, in many
a place that boasts of the highest civil
lizaton, if one detail be omitted from the
description. There are not few women
in America who not only keep the
family going, but endure husbands who
spend most of their time trying to make
themselves pretty" and talking politics.
These women haven't much opportunity
to run" the government. They are too
busy running the ranch.''
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-06
TRYING TO BE A CROUCH

1t isn't easy to be pessimist and
a crouch and hater of mankind in
this world. In fact, the task is so
hard that we sometimes wonder how
the few real specimens that we meet
ever managed to reach the full state
Of hard-boiled perfection. (
OF course we all have the Impulse
sometimes. We see fellow who
wades right through humanity to the
lunch counter, to be served ahead of
those who have stood patiently for
several minutes. Or road hog" tries
to crowd us into the ditch. And we
determine right there to be as thick
crusted as anyone who comes our way.
We draw down our brows, assume a
belligerent attitude and start down
the street.
And then-as like as not-the next
fellow with whom we come in contact
has so much of whiteness in him, so
much of the milk of human kindness,
that we are shamed out of our new
pose. We have to be decent because
he is decent. Our new grown shell IS
of no avail against him; in fact, it
is decided inconvenience. And we
drop it for the saner, truer, more
optimistic outlook that fits our ma
ture.
One such mental cycle will convince
any man that the world is fuller of
desirable traits than it is of the UNI
desirable. and that the crouch is nm
object, to be pitied, but not to be
copied. Journal.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-06
THE JOY OF PUTERING.

To speak of mans work about his
home as puttering is to belittle it, but
the dictionary tells you that putter
is one who starts something, so also
may be a putterer: Postmaster Petty,
feeling the need of exercise, deciding
against a convention vacation, rising
in the twilight Of dawn and starting
to build fence upon his lot in Wild.
wood place, started something. 1t ap-
pears that when the twilight of eve
ming arrived: when the catbird
matched its music of the dusk with
that Of the woodthrush which herald
cd the sunrise, the something that was
started in the early morning was COM
plcted, or almost completed. Subs.-
quent vacation work completed 1t.
and added some grading which land.
scape gardener might have recommend
ed. A good example. for home owners
in these days of shortage Of casual
labor. and the high cost of the casuals.
Calvin Coolidge was spending his
vacation puttering, upon his fathers
farm, when he was called to the
White House. He is considered an
exemplar of the art of living happily,
and constructively. He is said to have
always laid aside 10 per cent of bis
salary as savings. The feat is beyond
the home owner of modest means now
adays who must comb the country
side, or the city highways and byways,
for a casual laborer whenever there's
bit of manual work to be done in or
about the house.
The joy of puttering is not incon..
siderable. As capability is developed
puttering gives man n feeling Ot
achievement that equals, assuredly,
that of the man who yields the put
ter skillfully upon the golf links. No
body nowadays can get the fence
whitewashed by Tom Sawyer's devices.
Louisville Times.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-06
nd Morton interrupted .bimseIf to

and Morton interrupted himself to
answer the call.
"Yes, Doctor" he said; then re-
luctantly, as he turned round eyes
toward Kelsey: "Ye-es- Yes. he's
here, Doctor" After a moment, he
hung up the receiver.
sits Bristow," he said; abe wants
to see you in his office right away"
Kelsey flung himself out of Nor
toms room and down the hall to meet
his anticipated wigging.
Sleek and shining, Brist0w lounged
on the hearth rug, looking down into
the clear flame OF a brentwood fire.
The conference upstairs from
which he had just come had left him
in the best of humor, and he felE in
the mood to play cat and mouse
game with Kelsey, whom he regard
ed as lamentably lacking in finesse.
"Ah, Kelsey?n he said pleasantly,
taking a chair himself and waving
Hospitality toward another one. Sit
down and have a cigaret." He pushed
across the table humidor cont1ln-
ing various brands in the different
compartments.
Kelsey stiffly declined both tie
chair and the cigaret. This unwont-
cd cordiality made him wary. But
Bristow's smiling geniality was proof
against the rubuff.
"Rather late" he said: "but l
was anxious for little talk with you
about yourself" He was grave
now, but kindly. "Although / may
have seemed to neglect You, you
have really been very much, in my
mind. To speak frankly. your pres
ent manner of life is not good for
you; it leaves you too much time to
brood"
Bristow lifted the letter containing
the magazine offer from the table,
and getting up handed it to the
younger man.
Kelsey rapidly glanced over it, but
before he could speak, Bristow took
up his thread again.
II have neither thel time, nor, !"
with a mellow laugh, "the inclina-
ton to undertake it. To much re-
search; too much work altogether
But it struck me that it would be
just the thing for you. i would have
to sign the articles of course, but
that is detail"
Kelsey saw himself pulling Bris-
tow's chestnuts out of the fire! Not
for Kingdom.
"Do l understand" he asked with
exaggerated humility, his mouth still
twitching, that you wish to entrust,
not that hypothetical quantity. your
honor, but your name, your SCIENTIFIC
reputation to my unworthy hands?"
The shaft glanced off, without leav-
ing scratch.
Don't belittle yourself, my boy"
benighly. "You are, l know, an ex-
cellent and well-informed writer"
I'm sorry" Kelsey's tone was
deliberately satirical, but it will be
impossible for me to Oblige you"
think twice before you refuse"
Bristow urged persuasively.
He went on. clothing the same
arguments in fresh phrases; but all
the time he was covertly scanning
Kelsey's face, watching for that
quick CLEAN of the eye which would
show that the other had awakened
to the latent possibilities within his
proposal. .,i'
Continued i'm Our Next Issue)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-06
WHAT is AGED.

The attention of The Evening
Tribune has been called by sprightly
young person Of 63 to- deplorable
tendency of the press to misuse the
word "aged." A headline proclaims
that ali aged woman has been hurt
in an accident, Tie story gives her
age as 43. .r-'
1T is delicate matter TO decide at
what point a man becomes aged. To
make the same calculation with re-
gard to woman requires even more
wisdom and tact. -
Practically all the men and women
who do big things and preside over
great concerns are we'll past the mafis
set by the headline writer. A modern
grandmother dresses with more "chie"
than her flapper granddaughter. White
hair falls daily under tn. shears OF
the bob artist. The golf links are
filled with youngsters Of 65 who can
give their sons handicaps in the game.
What is aged? It isn't, any more.
-Des Moines Evening Tribune.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-06
BOOTLEGGING IN JAIL

NV If bootlegging is disease, as some
Zone, at loss for better definition mas
y, characterized it, then it would seem that
,,,.,.,.tbc law" instead of being specific
leremedv for the affliction, is merely
.;,nostrum. If the "drys" aren't careful,
aiasomebody is going to draw that con-
ss,clusion from such incidents as one re-
,INrcntlv reported from St. Joseph, Mo.
gH A De Kalb County resident under
took to boost the price of Missouri corn
v last year by making and selling what IS
ENTHUSIASTICALLY called white mule" Or
mavbe he was determined to aggravate
the offensive reputation OF that critter.
a-lAt anv rate, he was caught with the
~sgoods. tried, convicted and isolated in
s%thc county Jail at Maysville. The net
result, presumably, was one less boot
aslegger in Missouri. -.
49, A few days ago the same man, still
lone of the states boarders, was hailed
iSssinto court The charge was exactly the
INSANE as that on which he had already
ss".'been convicted. Had the court run out
sg'of something to do, so that it must go
HSback over the docket and try all the old
ss,.acases again? Or was the defendant be-
scing placed twice in jeopardy? Neither.
gsi The defendant had again made and
igsold corn whiskey. Apparently he just
r~eouldn't throw off the habit. Testimony
% ilat the trial brought out some of the eX-
Rcruciating details. He had rugged up a
aSdistillery in his cell, and at the window
sghc had constructed a bar over which
a,he sold drinks to many a customer
.&first come, first served. The dispatch
aas,Teporting the trial omits to say, how
s1,ever, whether this bartender was equip
tpcd with an apron, a suds cloth and
le.,other paraphernalia associated with the
profession.
~, Guilty? Sure. The jury did its duty
and was commended by the court. The
Sentence was two years in prison. But
Tneither the jury nor the judge was en-
rdrely consistent. The defendant ought
Ito have been charged rent. Moreover
THE Internal Revenue Department over
looked an opportunity it failed to put II
III claim for license fee.
z Ssee The judge said that "this is the mos
lircprehensiblc thing that has come be
s,''Iore this court" Doubtless it was. Boot
sngegging is rcprehensible; who woulC
iaGeny it? But that is saying nothing
about the cause. But 'the law" while
.trying to isolate the disease, has done
nnothing to eliminate the cause.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-06
A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE

There are those who say that Firpo
would have Won the worlds pug!istic
championship but for the want OF 4
head" Possibly they know. Nobody
disputes the assertion, at any rate. But
there may be some slight difference Of
opinion concerning the big Argentinian's
latest maneuver. He Graves to become
citizen of the United States.
Ordinarily it might be an insult to a
prospect tive citizen and betrayal of the
questions lack of patriotism to go back
of the Observation-Disclosures papers in
search of an applicants motives. But
Firpo's seems to be an exceptional case.
Yet his latest maneuver is likely to give
rise to a countrywide dispute.
There are those who will say that
Firpo's move to change his citizenship
at this time" confirms the suspicion
that he is afflicted with cranial vacuity.
Why, just think of the glory that await
ed him in his native country! Although
he had not conquered Meester Dempsey,
he had become a national hero by viz
tue of his near-victory. Every brass
band in Argentina would have met him
at the docks to welcome him home. But
Luis Angel Firpo did not go home to
the worship he had won. Why didn't
he take what was coming to him before
proclaiming his allegiance to Uncle Sam
No brains!
Those who are disposed 10 make such
an appraisal might display on their own
part little OF the quality they are u1-
able to see in Firpo If they would think
back bit. For this Argentinian is
All exceptional party. Possibly one 81
his ancestors was Scot:h,aan. Al
tt,ugh not al the lies they tell on 'hc
Scotch are true. there is no gainsaying
that these be thrifty people, and now
adays thrift is praised in the most re-
spectacle circles. Firpo, according tc
pre-fight accounts, is a thrifty man, ano
post-fieht stories have given no evidence
to the contrary In three years OF fisti'
enterprises he had saved 100000. There
fore he was unpopular with those wh'
ike to sec the great White ways Oh tll'
world gilded with somebody else's hard
earned money.
In his one fight in the United States
Firpo made more money than he ha'
been able to garner in many fights else
where. Wherefore, the United State
ought to be a good place in which t
practice his profession. Americans ar
good spenders" when it comes to fight
ing-either doing it themselves, on
world-war scale, or watching just tw
men do it in a squared ring. A millio
dollars at a clip, in the latter case! An
= Firpo is the boy who knows the valu
} Of the dollar.
Z. Perhaps Firpo, considering thes
. things. concluded that he and Uncl
c Sam would make ideal partners-th
c lone Of them furnishing the money, an
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-06
PARADISE FOR LOUNGE LIZARDS

tsasal The heather who sat on plow, under
4 an umbrella, with nothing to do but pull
1.-The bell cord over his mules, while his
..'S,wife' trudgcd behind, pressing the plow-
share into the soil, had nothing on the
; male citizens of Belgian Congo. At least
such an inference may be easily drawn
from story told by Rev. Roy F. Cleve-
land, Presbyterian missionary, recently
returned from ten years stay in the
..wiIds of Central Africa.
In fact, the comparison makes the
aaforesaid heather plow-rider appear to
have been a victim of ruthless oppres-
sion. For the men of Belgian Congo
esdont even have to go near any pillow
They stay at generally speaking
that Island tend the hi1dren, while
the women do the work. OF course
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-06
THE STIRRUP-CUP.

Death, thou 'rt cordial old and rare:
Look how compounded, with what care
Time got his wrinkles reaping thee
Sweet herbs from all antiquity
David TO thy distillage went.
Keats, and Gotama excellent.
Omar Khayyam. and Chaucer lright,
And Shakespeare for a king-delight.
Then, Time. let not a drop be split:
Hand me the cup whene'er thou wilt;
IT is thy rich stirrup-cup to me:
I'll drink it down right smilingly.
Sidney Lanier