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Evening star., 1925-12-06
REFUSES TO QUIT JAIL.
Prisoner Dislikes Looks Of Snow
Squall Outside.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WICHITA, Kans., December S.
Sheriff G. Z. Grove and County Attor-
ney Walter Blake are faced with the
unusual problem of getting a man
out of Jail. They got him in. he has
served his time and now he won't
leave. He Is Dayton Stewart, SO.
Sheriff Grove found Stewart running
a small still on his island farm, in the
Arkansas River. last March. He got
six months in Jail.
Last August Harry Castor, assistant
county attorney, offered to release
him on parole. Stewart refused. de
claring:
I'D rather do my time and be a free
agent when i get out. Besides. the
weather Is pretty hot and I'd rather
remain here
A day or so ago. when 1t was snow
ing, Stewart looked out of the Jail
window and remarked:
IT'S warmer in here than 1t is out
there In my shack on the river. !
guess I'll stay here all Winter"
Evening star., 1925-12-06
City Uses Rainwater Only.

There is said to be a crying need for
a modern water system in Jerusalem.
This city of antiquity still depends on
rain water. storing it up to care for
all it's needs from one rainy season to
the other. Every family. no matter
how poor, must buy water. In years
of drought the situation is critical.
Evening star., 1925-12-06
CLEMENCEAU AT AGE OF 80
WORKS 18 HOURS DAILY
"Tiger of France" Sleeps Less
Than Five Hours and Begins
Days Labor at / Am.

By the Associated Press
PARIS. December 5.-Recent re-
ports that George Clemenceau was
critically ill and which, upon investi-
vigorous and powerful as ever,
brought attention to the aged states
mans daily mode of living
In-bed at s o'clock, NJ. Clemenceau
rises between midnight and ! o'clock
Evening star., 1925-12-06

Bols-de- -Boulognc or to Versailles.
Ihen nome. where ii little thin souu
and some fruit make up his dinner.
Clemenceau sleeps only to hours
out of each "a and works a. least IL
Evening star., 1925-01-18

overworked. He was plainly ratified
when he was questioned. He fioundered
good deal Judge Start, in his kind
ly way, thought the young man knew
more law than he was able to tell.
Wilson thought he would never do.
Up spoke Judge Mitchell, afterward
of the State Supreme Court.
I'm going to license him. anyway"
The credentials were issued. This,
probably. was the last time Kellogg
was ever snagged in any legal proceed
ings. Very soon thereafter he began
practice in Olmstead County, and, of
course, made good. Mr.. kellogg, a
few years ago, told of his first lawsuit,
and the story has not been forgotten
by Minnesota meh.
For my first case" he said, II was
to receive SIS in cash and a ride to and
from the Justice Court. The suit was
over the ownerhiD of a horse, and the
owner of the horse was my client. !
rode with him to the court, won my
case and collected SO of my fee, but
on the return trip the horse dropped
dead and I had to walk the remaining
II miles"
He served as county attorney of
Olmstead County for five years, and
while in that office he won a case that
Evening star., 1925-01-18

was in him to be a lawyer. There was
no question about what he should do
when he became a young man. Col
leges were few in 1875, and so he en-
tered a lawyers office to study. He
swept out the rooms, took care of the
fire in the stove, looked up references,
copied letters, read law books and
gradually soaked up enough knowledge
to win the favor of his employers.
They agreed to give him instruction
in compensation for his services. That
was his relation to IL - Eckholdt of
Rochester, Mimi, an old school law
yer, in 1875. He did the office chores
for his tuition and worked out his
board doing stable chores for farmer
When Spring came around he would
go out on a farm and work through
seeding time. For this he got $1S a
month. In the Fall he worked in the
harvest fields.
Within short time the young man
came up for admittance to the bar
He had no diploma and had to depend
on an examination before committee
of lawyers. One of them was c.. NJ
Start, afterward chief justice of the
Minnesota court. Another was c. c.
Wilson, then leader of the Rochester
bar. Young Kellogg was nervous and
Evening star., 1925-01-18

very least, the time of recovery would
have been greatly heightened.
The collapse of bolshevism in Italy
was, at all events, one of the decisive
moments in the history of the battle
of non-Russian Europe with the So
viets. SO much of permanent achieve
ment belongs to Facismo now. With
other achievements, like that of Corfu,
one may speak with less of admira-
ton. Liberals all over the world have
taken arms against later and more
parochia1 acts of violence. 1t is plain
that within Italy there has been a
loss of strength in quarters where
strength was most valuable.
What is not clear now is what could
happen if Mussolini fell, if Facismo
were overthrown; whether, as most
of my Italian friends believe, Musso-
Iini is the sole and single barrier be-
tween Italy today and the same perils
which yesterday were unmistakable
to the eyes Of the nation and of the
world. If that be the case, 1 venture
the guess that he will survive the
present storm.
Yet it is hard to believe now that
Mussolini will ever be able to effect
the transformation which he stroye
for, which was necessary If the man
and the movement were to endure.
Italy Will unquestionably retain him
while she feels herself under the
, menace of the evils for which
Facismo was recognized as the single
remedy. His enemies, taking advan-
tage, in part, of the mistakes of his
friends. have forced him to a new use
of force, which is only momentarily
and in extreme crises tolerable in our
modern national lives. Thus, once 1t
be plain that the dangers he was sum-
moned to abolish are in fact gone,
one must believe Mussolini will have
| to take the road of most dictators-
and not a few Iiberators.
Evening star., 1925-01-18
Public Debt of United States
Now More Than Thirty Billion

rs2s3.s0. In 1912 the Indebtedness per
capita was $49.97. Apportioning out
the items of per capita indebtedness
the report said that in 1922 the Fed
eraI Governments obligations were
responsible for s203.7S OF the total
the debt of States for 1854 and the
debt of the municipal subdivision 10
S71.S2.
The greatest proportionate debt in
crease was in the State accounts OF
oregon, where the increase OF S3s,-
$4,000 in bond issues represented
129,195 s per cent.
The next greatest percentage IN
crease was in the debt of drainage
districts and other municipal sub
divisions Of Florida, which amounted
to 12,49S.S per cent. The actual total
of such subdivisional Indebtedness in
Florida in 1922 was s28,695,O00, and
the increase in the decade was S2S,-
$4,000
The report held that the citizens
of the District of Columbia bore the
Iightest burden OF the public debt
other than national The figure was
So cents. The citizen of Oregon was
at the other end of the scale and
had a per capita debt of S170.69. The
New Yorker was next, with total
of s158.15, while the Californian
owed s142.S1.
Evening star., 1925-01-18
Howe About
Appreciation; Poverty; Rough Guys.
BY E. ". HOVE,
"The Sage of Potato Hill"

r LIVE with g. niece, daughter OF
my brother Bruce. Every after
noon l work as my brothers
Il hired man on the farm, for moth
ing except that l am free to use a
thing we raise. But there is always
surplus, and he sells IT, and gets
the money. This rough work is the
wisest thing l do, and beats golf as
exercise.
1 have frequently acknowledged
also that I am well satisfied with
Adelaide, after 10 years experience
with her. She is quiet, capable, and
generally liked. Wherever I go
am complimented on having Adelaide.
How lucky you are" the women
say everywhere, that you have Ade-
laide too look after you"
And I always express proper appre-
citation; appreciation I have reason
for, as she takes good care of me.
Women say it to me at home every
day; and have heard it in New Zea-
land, Africa, on ships, on railway
trains: always the women are saying
| to me:
How grateful you should be that
you have Adelaide to look after you"
am, have said so many times.
But
Are you familiar with the word
"ornery," which we common people
use? ] not only use IL, but am ornery;
for I have wondered that sometimes
woman does not say: How lucky
| Adelaide Isl"
And woman said 1t once, after ]
| had lost hope.
We were on board Cyrus H. K Cur
| tis yacht for dinner. George H. Lori
mer and wife were among the mem
| bers of the yaching party, coming
| with Mr.. Curtis and Mrs. Curtis from
| Philadelphia to Miami, Fla.
Soon after dinner started. lady ir
| the party began:
| How lucky you are that you have
Adelaide" she said.
Again I expressed appreciation.
| have done it so often 1 have very
good formula.
But what's this hear at the other
| end of the table?"
| It is Mrs. George H. Lorimer speak
| ing She said: We'll, L suppose Uncle
Ed is lucky for Adelaide. too"
| You could have knocked me ovel
with a feather. I had hoped, bu
never expected, to hear a woman
say IT.
| l did not take it as a personal com
pliment, but one for all men; an ad
mission from a woman that occasi
| their woman folks.
| Adelaide has been around with me ;
good deal, and always had good &C
commodations.
If this should meet the eye OF Mrs
Lorimer, 1 wish to assure her tina
l am still grateful: and that othe
men will be when they hear OF he
compliment for them.
| y X *
Real men are able to find satisfac
ton and pleasure in work. The nun
of the wheels in a shop Where every
| thing is going pretty Well-"her
there is honesty, usefulness, fairness
10 everyone-is about the sWeetes
music there is to a man who reall!
amounts to anything.
X
Poverty is bore, but OF al
| troubles it IS easiest to alleviate
Evening star., 1925-01-18
The Story the Week Has Told

and the two combined their forces the
other day, defeated forces of Lu Yung
Hsiang and captured Shanghai, cap
ital of Kiangsu and the most impor-
tant city of China, possession OF
which would seem to justify Chi in
emitting himself tuchun of Kiangsu
again.
Chang Tso Lin is rushing troops
from Manchuria to the aid of Ii Yung
Hsiang, so that the latter may chal-
lenge fortune once more.
One hears that the tuchuns of
Kiangsu, Chekiang Szechuan. Fukien
and Anhwei provinces are leagued to
oppose the provisional government Of
Peking. Presumably WI Pei Flu is
the military chief of the group.
though his name is not mentioned by
dispatches in that connection.
X = x x
United States of America--At the
financial conference at Paris to de-
termine the distribution OF German
reparations payments compromise was
reached regarding the claims of our
Government, of which the following
are the main items:
(a) The agreement negotiated by
Mr.. Wadsworth in 1923 covering re-
endorsement of the costs of our
Cancelled.
(b) Beginning September 1, 1925, our
Government to receive 55,000,000 gold
marks annually out of cash available
for transfer Immediately after certain
named priorities have been satisfied; of
which the most important is the service
of the German exterior loan of 1924
| $780, 100000 gold marks). These pay
ments to continue until the capital sum
Ir,f ha Re nf nf tor
has been reimbursed. OF all goes
smoothly, this should be in about IT
years, our claim totaling about $3.50, :
| 900, 000). Arrears to be carried forward
to the next instalment, which shall be
! increased by the amount thereof; and
arrears to bear simple interest at Az
per cent.
(c) Beginning September 1, 1926, our
Government to draw annually a two
and one-quarter per cent share of all
receipts from Germany available for
distribution as reparations after salts
faction of all priorities Qncluding the
payments just described), provided
that the sum so paid shall not in any
year exceed 45,000,000 gold marks
| (these sums to be applied against the
total which may be allowed us against
Germany by the mixed war claims
| commission).
| My understanding is tnat the
priorities are expected to eat up about
90 per cent of the German annuities.
For obvious reasons the allies were
indeed well content to allow us a
modest share in the Dawes annuities.
The London Daily Telegraph puts it
this way: There is especially keen
qualification at the United States
having become, by acceptance of this
arrangement, directly interested in the
operation of the Dawes scheme, and
therefore of the treaty of Versailles,
upon which 1t Is based, and none OF
the allies can be Indifferent to the
fact that the powerful influence OF
America is now enlisted in support OF
the plan upon which alone expectation
of payments from Germany is founded >
1t may be, however, that the European
Quidnunch are mistaken in this inter
preta ton; that with them the wish
is father to the thought. One may
find amusement more engrossing thar
cross WORD puzzles In txy1ns Il
Evening star., 1925-01-18

The public debt Of the United
States, including that of the Federal
Government and all Of its suodi-
visions multiplied nearly seven times
between 1912 and 1922, 1t was shown
today in Census Bureau figures. AT
the end of December, 1922, the total
was sSO,s45.626,0 900. while at the same
eeriod in 1912 it was but s4'Soo'-
100000.
While the greatest increase ap-
neared in the Federal debt, because
of the war, the debt increase OF
States was nearly three-fold that or
municipalities and other subdivisions
doubled. o1o
The Federal Government in lSlZ
owed s1.o2S,564,0 1000. while in 1872 II
owed s22.155,SS6,o00. The total OF
state indebtedness in 1912 was s345'-
942 600. while in 1922 it was $685. e.
600. other civil divisions owed S5,-
475.954.OO0 in 1912, and s7,754'lSb'ooo
in 1922.
All the figures represented net oeot,
the bureau explained, sinking fund
and cash assets in possession OF the
Indebted units of Government having
been substracted from the total OF
their obligations outstanding.
The debt total in 1922 made the per
capita obligation of each citizen of
the United States, adult or chlld'
Evening star., 1925-01-18

Ludendorff- Hitler crowd GD-that
is, he will command 303 out of 49S
votes.
--latest reports indicate that at
the last moment several of the gen
tlemen named above as having ac-
cepted portfolios backed out, but
leave the passage unchanged, since
the list shown indicates the cabinet
complexion desired by Luther. An
nouncement of that list aroused fierce
protests from the Socialists, who
have threatened a general strik e
Altogether, German political devel-
opments of the week have been con-
fusing and discouraging)
ItaIy-The Communist deputies
who, though not affiliated with the
"Aventine opposition, - have, like the
deputies of that group, this long time
absented themselves from the chamber
sessions, resumed their seats on the
14th, in order to participate in the
discussion of the proposed new
electoral law. Their press having been
silenced, they could not otherwise pre-
sent their views. 1t Is rather expected
that the Aventine opposition will re-
sumo their seats for the same reason
OF course, the Communists made a
frightful hubbub, singing the "Red
Flag" denouncing the government, in
volIing the spirit of Lenin and all that
On the 10th the rump chamber gave
Mussolini a vote of confidence, 307 tC
33, on the issue of the general prin-
ciples of the electoral reform bill.
The government has submitted tc
Parliament a bill aimed at suppression
of the Free Masons, who have always
opposed Fascism. 1t requires that al
| secret associations submit to the police
lists Of members and full accounts oi
their organization and activities. The
most important article of the bill reads
as follows:
"Oficials, clerks and agents of any
| kind in the employment Of the state
| provinces or communes, or institutions
responsible by law to the state prov.
| inces or communes, cannot belong ever
as simple members to associations
clubs or organizations working in 6
secret way. Whoever disregards this
ruling will be discharged from the
service; those who belong to such or
ganizations and are now serving under
| the state, provinces or communeS, mus
| resign their membership"
The government continues its strong
arm methods of dealing with active
disaffection.
Mussolini has announced that new
general elections will not take place
| before November, 1925. probably no
until 1926.
| X X X X
China.-I intimated some time agt
I that Wu Pei Flu, military leader o
the Chilli party, who, late in 1924, was
through the detection of his chief
Lieut.. Feng Yu Hsiang, the Chris
tian general" defeated by a com
bination oe the latter with Chang
Tso Lin, super tuchun of Manchuria
| should not be considered out of tn
| reck oning. AS a result of the victor.
! of Chang Tso Lin and Peng "
| Hsiang, Chi Hsieh Yuan, tuchun o
| the Province of Kiangsu and an ad
herent of WI Pei Flu, lost his prov
ince, being ousted by Lu Yunt
Hsiang, an adherent of Chang rs
| Lin.
But Tuchun Sun Chuan Feng o
| Chekiang Province, an adherent o
WI Pei Flu, maintained himself, AM
Chi 6sish Yuan keDt an Army afoo,
Evening star., 1925-01-18

Nearly any one can get rid Of poverty
sufficiently to live about as comfort
ably as the rich.
My friend, the old musician, writes
me that the author Of books has an
easy thing compared with the com
poser of a great opera.
1 do not believe it. Richard Wag-
ner wrote "Seigfried" as easily as
Dickens wrote "Great Expectations"
Wagner could write a great opera
Dickens could write a great book; it
wasn't difficult for either; they were
born with that special ability. No
really great genius is compelled to
work hard, or take great pains; II is
the common man who takes pains,
and works slowly and with difficulty
1 used TO know Herman Bellstedt.
the bandmaster. I have seen him sit
in his room and write parts for diff
ferent instruments as easily and rap
idly as I write this. He rose to emf
nence as cornet player; as direc-
tor; as an arranger and composer Of
music. I have known him to rear
range and improve so common a thing
as ia Paloma."
with a stroke Of a pen, I once saw
him improve Richard Wagner.
And I suggested the improvement.
musician that the change was an I'm
provement. It amounted to no more
than jumping a chord an octave.
Richard Wagner had great creative
genius: his mode of expression was
music. He could speak the musical
| language more eloquently than 9TH
ers, and with less difficulty than I ex-
perienced in trying to express my
thoughts In words. When music is
| -, = eh niIf
of it.
With every man, something tells
| him what to do. Something told
! Wagner what to do when he was
writing 'Iohengrin"; something told
| Dickens what to do when he was
writing David Copperfeld."
And If you have good direction, you
can do good work.
A banker was taken to fail IN Kan
sas City the other day. and said to
Il love Kansas City and attempted
| too much"
That's more sentimental nonsense.
In this modern day, real men are
| compelled to watch those counter
feits who love their town too much
as they watch bank burglars.
Attempting too much has become
| a national evil; the per cent Of steady
reliable men has become dtsgracefully
| low.
X x
! A man always has more spots on
! his clothes than woman. He gets
them out in the field, where he does
dirty work in hoeing corn or picking
up other items of food. A man IS
| rougher than a woman, because he
does rougher work. 1 went hunting
the other day, and when I came home
was a sight. had been walking
knee deep in mud, and was ragged
and dirty, but had seventeen ducks
hanging to me. A man swears, and
1t is a. bad habit, but he acquired the
habit in cussing some low fellow
who was trying to steal the family
| income.
Copyright, 1929
Evening star., 1925-01-18

are dull and dowie" The emphasis OF
the preacher as well as of the re-
former has been laid upon thou shalt
not Jesus presented a far more in
terestlng program in His great beati-
tudes than that contained in the an
cient law. He substituted a univer-
sally appealing method-yes, a more
hopeful method-for that which was
stern and forbidding.
We recall that He said repeatedly
in His great sermon, "it hath been
said them of old time, but | say unto
you" True, He presents a program
that is so infinitely beyond anything
we have ever known that it seems to
be lmpracticable and unattainable.
AS a matter of fact the program of
Jesus has never been tried. Some
one said when the Great War began
that christianity has broken down" "
The obvious answer was that 1T had
never been properly set up.
X x X x
One thing is growing increasingly
clear, that the world in it's every part
is crying out for leadership. There
are 80 many conflicting systems and
PHILOSOPHERS that the masses of the
people are confused and bewildered.
Beyond everything else, the cry is for
a clear vision ana a more hOpefu I'll
outlook. Nothing is more unpopular r
and yet more commonplace than to
speak of the future in terms of doubt
and pessimism. The hope impulse
that we stand so sorely in need of to-
day and without which we hardly
dare to go on, will not come simply
because we desire 1t. Our hope must
be based on something, and 1t is
growing increasingly evident that it
can only come through the applica-
ton of the teachings of Jesus Christ.
To tell a man that he must exercise
hope for better things will not get
him far unless we can stimulate in
him Il determination to obey those
mighty precepts of life that guaran-
tee to him not only a new outlook,
but a new hope. That is a dangerous
kind OF optimism that hopes for bet
ter things and better days without
any firm resolve to do better things
in order that the fairer hopes and ex-
pectatiOns may be realized. We be-
lieve that the note of hope is su-
premely needed-tra gically needed
today, but let US be clear about it. 1t
can only be guaranteed to us through
a determination on our part to max e
it the logical resultant Of a life of
obedience to the precepts of Christ.
The trouble with most of US today is
that we seek the benefits of Chrfst's
great system while we disclose no
tendency TO follow in the way He
taught. why call We Me Lord, Lord,
and do not the things that 1 say?"
(CopyriKht, 1921
Evening star., 1925-01-18
TIE GOSPEL OF HOPE.


Hebretos vit19: "The Iato made moth
ing perfect, but the bringing IN Of a bet
tor hope did"
~ ERALD STANLEY LEE, in
his suggestive book The
" Lost Art of Reading" writes
striking PREDATORY note
which runs as follows:
"'What are you seeing now% 1
said to the Eavesdropper as he stole
round the world to me.
'Cities-streets of cities, miles OF
streets of cities
land what do you see in the
streets Of cities?'
MEN, and women, and smoke
land what are the men and
women DOING
'Hurrying,' said he.
"'Where?' said ].
S'God knows he answered"
K x x
This is a striking description, not
only of the restlessness of our time,
but of it's objectless and fruitless
tendencies. We are overwhelmed with
movements" We are attempting to
correct the ills of life through me-
chanical agencies. high sounding
resolutions, committees and various
reform institutions.
Probably we are registering 1Some
progress Those engaged in benef-
icent works are doubtless profiting
through contact with them. 1T is a
good thing TO be zealously affected
always in a good cause" No one
questions this. On the other hand,
with all the multitudinous efforts we
are putting forth, are we getting re-
suits that are commensurate? That
We have made progress no one can
doubt. We are not of a mind with
those who believe that We are be-
ginning to disintegrate. The modern
analyst of social, political and in
dustrial conditions who can see
nothing but decay on every hand does
not appeal to us. Again, we are not
attracted by those who believe that
legislation alone will effect a COM
plete cure of the ills that threaten
our prosperity and stability.
Is it not about time that we began
to catch step with Him who knew
what was in man." who saw the
possibilities of his finer development
and who brought him TO higher
standards OF thinking and living by
disclosing to him the better way?
The gospel OF Jesus is the gospel Of
hope.
X x X X
Stevenson recognized this when he
said the Bible for the most part is
cheerful book; it is our little piping
tracts, theologies and sermons that