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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1925-12-25

arrange permanent peace on the
Irak frontier and may offer Turkey
loans or commercial credits, of WHICH
that country is in great need. If Tur-
key had any friends in the council,
they were silenced by the report of
General LaidOner, head of the neutral
Mosul investigating commission. He
told Of shocking depredations and out
RACES committed there by the Turks
since last March, and declared that If
the Turks should be given the vilayet
the league would have the blood of
$4,000 Christians and thousands of
loyal Irakisns on it's head
r OUIS LOUCHEUR'S financial
- scheme for France was rejected
by the chamber of deputies, and the
situation became so grave that many
influential journals openly called for
the establishment of a dictatorship to
save the country from bankruptcy.
The franc dropped until it began to
look like an old German mark. To
relieve the rest of the ministry,
Loucheur resigned and Paul DOumer,
president Of the senate finance COM
mittee, consented to accept the finance
portfolio. He said he believed suffi-
cient additional revenue could be OBJ
tanned by the collection Of all taxes
hitherto imposed and promised this
would be done and that the tax dodg-
ers would be severely punished.
DR.. Erich Koch, chairman Of the
Democratic party, was asked by Presi-
dent von Hindenburg to form a new
ministry for Germany. He made the
attempt but failed because the Social
Democrats would not part in a coali-
tion government. The reichstag ad-
iourned until January II.
d ia KHAN, who seized the throne
IN of Persia, was formally enthroned
as Shah Pehlevi Wednesday. Among
the congratulatory messages received
by the former private soldier was one
from King George of England.
A MBASSADOR A. P. MOORE has
"A informed the king of Spain that
his resignation has been accepted and
that he will soon come home. He was
a personal appointee Of President
Harding.
JAMES G. DAVIS resigned as al
- rector general of railways and the
duties of the office, now very light,
were taken over by Secretary OF the
Treasury Mellon.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1925-12-25

JOB WORK AT NEWARK LEADER
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1925-12-25

JAMES C.. DAVIS resigned as al
- rector general of railways and the
duties of the Office, now very light,
were taken over by Secretary OF the
Treasury Mellon.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1925-12-25

D IZA KHAN, who seized the throne
IN of Persia was formally enthroned
as Shah Pehlevi Wednesday. Among
the congratulatory messages received
by the former private soldier was one
from King George of England.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1925-12-25

A AMBASSADOR A. P. MOORE has
"A Informed the king of Spain that
his resignation has been accepted and
that he will soon come home. He was
personal appointee of President
Harding.
Evening star., 1925-08-02
False Alarms Among the Telephone Calls
That Arouse Criticism of Modern Invention

can give YOU a much better trade
now than if you wait till fall. Yes,
but I'm going to wait till fall But
you will get much better deal now
than in the fall. 1 don't doubt it. but
I'm going to wait till fall. Well. let
me know as soon as you are ready.
3. CThe madam answers.) Strange
voice asks is Mr.. Augstein in? What
number do you want? 1 want Great
Neck 1873. Well, this is Great Neck
103. Oh.
Now of course the reader will say
to themself we'll amt they got no
friends that ever calls them UP and
wants them to go on a party or some
thing? The point is well taken but
still and all at the same time sup
pose somebody does call you up and
want you to go on a party why it
just means that You half to go up
and put on pair of shoes and maybe
shave or change your shirt
And not only that but suppose
somebody calls up and invites you to
their house TO play bridge or some.
thing and You say yes and you amt
no sooner hunged up the receiver
when the thing rings again and some
body else invites you TO their house
and 1t is a house where you would a
whole lot rather go than the other
house. why it is bound TO make YOU
wished your telephone had been out
of order a few minutes in the place
OF working SO good all the vile
All and all l can remember living
back in Niles, Michigan, 80 or 40 yrs.
ago and we didn't have no telephone
and neither did anybody else and those
was amongst the happiest days of
my life.
Evening star., 1925-08-02
Giant Power Gable

THE New York Edison Co. an
nounces that it has placed with
the General Electric Co. an order for
a new underground power cable line
to connect it's generating stations in
the Bronx, New York City. 1t will
be operated at 1872. 900 volts.
This is twice the voltage of the
greatest power-carrying cable at the
present time and four times the volt
age of the greatest powercarrying
cable in this country two years ago.
1t will be 3 inches in diameter and
will run in concrete ducts or 5
feet below the ground. 1t will cost
approximately $2,500,0 900.
THE man in the street." said the
statement, may get some idea. of the
Importance of this accomplishment
when he knows that the fire depart
ment OF the city relies on New York
Edison service for the pumping of
water, and that any interruption in
this service during a fire which would
lower the pressure of the water avail.
able for the fire department would i'm.
pose q penalty of S40O a minute ON
the company for the entire period
during which the water pressure was
inadequate.
up to two years ago the highest
pressures used In underground cables
in America did not exceed 81, 900 volts.
In that year the New York Edison
and its allied companies placed in
service a new type of cable operating
at $4,000 volts. Recently another com
pany installed a Sc ,000-volt under
ground cable, which is at present the
most powerful line of its kind used
commercially. While in the minds of
some engineers there is still doubt
Evening star., 1925-08-02

about the practicability of using such
high preSsures in underground cables,
the New York Edison Co, by ordering
a cable of twice the present maximum
pressure, has placed in the field of
everyday practical affairs an electrical
accomplishment which heretofore has
been confined to the realm of imagina-
tive literature.
THE engineering achievement in
volved in the installation of a 1872 900
volt cable underground becomes ap-
parent when it is known that to
transmit power at such high voltage
overhead would require the construc-
ton of steel towers of windmill con-
struction, each the height of a. seven
story building, at intervals of 900 feet
on the streets of the Bronx.
"It would be necessary to build at
the top of these towers great cross
arms carrying strings of nine or ten
porcelain insulator disks, each string
about 6 feet long and supporting a
single wire, and there would be six
such overhead wires. In place of this
avenue of bulky steel structures, the
new cable. which with it's insulation
will be only 9 inches in diameter. will
be placed in concrete ducts or 5 feet
below the surface of the ground, and
the pasSer-by will not even know it is
there.
THE cable to be used for this pur-
pose is known as the Pirelli type,
patent rights on which were recently
secured by the General Electric Co.
from the internationally famous
Italian electrical firm of that name,
and embodies in it's construction the
latest inventions in design of under
ground cables for very high pres
sures."
Evening star., 1925-08-02

Pittsburgh, whom do we see about It?
There is room enough in this prob
lem to keep us busy all morning:
and even when we have got it
straight, we start all over again with
the question of what do we do to get
the seat that we want at the table.
We would like to get ourselves and
Mr.. Snyder and Mr.. and Mrs. Hop
kins from Alberta all at the same
table. Somebody has said to some
body that there's a steward giving
out seats or going to give out seats
somewhere in one of the salons or
somewhere. That's enough for US.
That keeps us hot and busy all morn
ing.
And you viii find, alas, my dear
reader, that no matter what the
guide book says about it, that kind
of worry is going to haunt you all
the way. When you have quite done
with the valises and the deck chairs
and the seats at the table you still
have plenty Of other problems to fret
over, such as
The English customs What do
they do? Do they examine every
thing? VIII they say anything about
those canvas slippers that your aunt
has asked you to deliver to her cousin
in Nottingham tclose to London)? If
you explain that she made the Slip
pers, does that make any difference?
Or, at any rate, can you say to the
man, ooh very well. I'll send them
back to America rather than pay a
cent on them?" In short, the Eng
lish customs-what do they do?
Travellers lie awake at night, and
think of that.
And along with that
At what hour will you land at
Evening star., 1925-08-02
BY STEPHEN LEACOCK.

" HE Summer has been the time
when all the peonle have been
buying their tickets for trip
Il to Europe - thousands and
thousands of them. They say
that just 900 people have been leav
ing on the steamers every week. It's
been either SO, 900 or 500, 900 or 5000
forget which. Anyway, there have
been great many people going.
Some of them have been going be-
cause they need a change of air; some
to improve their minds; some because
they were tired of making money. and
others because they were tired of not
making money. And some again were
going to see Europe before it all falls
to pieces; and others were going just
simply and plainly for a vacation be-
cause they wanted few weeks TO be
really happy.
1t is especially for this last class
that these few words of advice are
written. If you want to be happy
when you start off on a sea voyage
you have got to be prepared to face a
lot of disillusionment. You are going
to find all through the trip the most
striking difference between travel as
1T is pictured in the guide book and
travel as it is in fact.
The difference begins at the very
moment of embarkation. Here is what
is said in the attractive steamship
guide book-done up in colors with
picture of two girls walking on
promenade deck and swaying in the
wind like rushes, while a young man
goes past in flannels and a straw hat.
What" asks the guide book, "is
more delightful than the embarkation
on an Atlantic voyage? The size of
the great steamer, It's spotless decks,
ttc- Il
saloon and its cozy library thrill us
with a sense of pleasure to come. LAS
we stop on board and look about us
at the dancing waters of the harbor,
ruff1ed under the breeze from the
open sea beyond, we feel that now at
least we are entering on the realiZa-
tion of our Dreams"
X X
YES. Exactly. Only, unfortunately,
my dear reader, it's just at the
very moment of embarkation that you
are certain to discover that your black
valise Is missing. Your steamer trunk
is there, all right, in your stateroom
and the brown valise and the paper
parcel that your aunt has asked you
to deliver in Aberdeen when you land
at Liverpool. But the black valise
apparently is clean gone.
You certainly had it in the Pullman
car and your sister remembers seeing
il in the taxtcab-but where is it?
Talk about embarkation on the ruffied
harbor and the unrealized dream!
Who can think of these things with
valise missing and the huge whistle
OF the steamer booming out the time
of departure?
No use asking that man in uniform;
apparently he's only one of the off,
fF-rv ETrl,r
up to the bridge and challenge the
captain. He doesn't know Round
the purser there are 90 people in the
same condition as yourself, over one
thing or another. all trying to get at
him and bite him. There seem to be
Evening star., 1925-08-02

lots of stewards running up and down,
but all they can do is to ask you
what number is your stateroom and
say that the valise ought to be there
A conspiracy, evidently, the whole
thing
The result is that you are fussing
up and down for a half an hour and
when at last the valise is found lin
the next stateroom, owing to the
simple fact that you wrote the wrong
number on it), you are already far
out at sea and have never seen the
embarkation at all.
: Never mind, there's lots of the trip
left yet. After ALL listen to what
the guide book says about our first
morning at sea:
There is an extraordinary ex-
hilration." 1t prattles on, about the
first day at sea From the lofty deck
OF the great liner our eye sweeps the
limitless expanse. All about is the
blue OF the Atlantic, ruffled with the
Zephyrs of a Summer morning We
walk the deck with a sense of resili-
ence, a fullness of life unknown to the
dwellers upon terra firma, or gazing in
dreamy reverie at the eternal ocean"
ON, We do, do we? But I guess not
On our first morning at sea we
have too much else to think of, even
in the calmest weather. than mere
reverie on the ocean. What is troub-
lnig us is the question of deck chairs,
how do we get one?-are they free,
or do we have to pay?-and IL we
pay now. do we have to tip the man?
and which man is it that gives out
our chairs?-and if we want to get
our chairs next to Mr.. Snyder from
Evening star., 1925-08-02

knew it, was In the bathing suit
dept. of the Emporium.
Well, in the good old days when
it was easy to tell the wild flowers
from the wall flowers. the choice of
bathing suits wasn't so much. You
could have snappy black mohair
trimmed with bows of the same and
cotton stockings to match, but of
course that was real daring, hardly
ladylike. in fact. The average girl
merely accepted the conventional dark
blue flannel with a sailor collar
trimmed in narrow white braid, feel
ing sure that even her father
wouldn't object to it. especially If no
young men was present on the beach.
But nowadays picking up a suit
amt so easy, and l had a terrible
time making up my mind would
buy washable bathing suit or one
that hadda be dry cleaned. OF course
there was one-piece swimming jerseys
like any one willing to look can see
plenty of in any Sunday newspaper,
but Hot Bozo. l am far too modest
to wear one of them on account
amt got the figure for it. So it was
up to me to get something dressy
with a skirt and a cape to match, a
rubberized chiffon or galvanized
velvet. you know, something prac-
teal.
And certainly the Emporium had
a big choice, they was showing every
thing from hand picked cretonnes to
table d'hote portion size wooden
swimsters. And not alone did they
have suits, but the most wonderful
bathing accessories as well, including
non-puncturable rubber water wings
that was guaranteed for twelve thou
sand miles on any road, and a book
of original gags to pull while bathing,
such as who said the water wasn't
cold" and gee, but it's fine once
you're in," and etc. All bright say.
ings, guaranteed to get laugh.
There was beach bags big enough
to carry the whole entire beach
away in. and others just large
enough for a powder rag and the
coupla grains Of sand that always
gets into them. They also carried
a line OF sandpaper, indelible ink.
umbrellas with a Jail pattern on 'em,
salt shakers for shaking the salt off
yourself when you come out of the
water, and time tables showing the
next train home from all undesirable
resorts.
WELL, finally the salesgirl showed
me a sort OF india.rubber- ball
costume Of pale scarlet trimmed with
uncurled ostrich feathers, uncurled
in advance see, on account Of the
damp. 1t was the type Of thing that
is very striking if you don't get struck
first. AS a rule / personally myself
would never of bought the kinda
stuff that's meant only to hang on the
hickory limb. But this time l could
see where if I did buy it, I was conner
give the appearance of belonging in
that famous French Show over in
Paris, the Follies Begosh il is named,
or something.
There was a pair of slippers went
with the outfit of the type called mules
on account they are SO stubborn
Evening star., 1925-08-02
BY PRESTON WRIGHT.
TWELVE OLD girl walk
ing I'D Broadway, New York,

L w ESLN C<AIA-o11D GIN " ain
" ing up Broadway. New York.
"A with her chum one day paused
4 4 in front of the old Bijou
Theater and pointed to the
name of Olga Nethersole in huge let
ters across it's front.
My name will be up like that some
day" she announced.
You're crazy" said her companion,
as she pulled her on.
Years later. however. a leading
American playwright, sitting in a
theater in New Orleans, saw the little
girl, now grown into slender woman,
blonde and beautiful. playing role in
a way that appealed to him nightly.
THE very person I need to do the
leading part in my new play" he said
And in the course of a few months
Elsie Ferguson's name was glittering
from a huge electric sign which an
nounced to all Broadway that she was
full-fledged star-just as she had
said she would be.
The man who really was first to see
In Elsie Ferguson the ability to make
good on the stage has passed into the
limbo of the unremembered He was
only voice tester in a musical comedy
production and but one of three per-
sons who helped her to a theatrical
career. but who passed into and out
of her life almost like ghosts-such
casual acquaintance that even their
names slipped her mind.
Fencing was part of the program
of Elsie Ferguson's youth, as arranged
by her mother. In her fencing class
she met girl with whom she became
well enough known to confide her long
cherished hope to be an actress. The
girl happened ts know another girl
who was in q chorus. She introduced
Elsie, then IA, but fully grown, to this
girl, and the latter took her to the
Ehuberts' office.
She was given a tryout. A cynical
person at a, roughly used piano tested
her voice and decided it would do And
next, under her mothers Chaperonage,
she was in rue chorus. She was on
and off the stage. but long way from
stardom. -l
Three years in musical comedy con-
WINGED her sha waited more serious
CaSses Fs~ S:ught and obtained a
Cnance IN a comedy production. There
after she played a number of minor
<oles and served as understudy to a
number of leading women. She had
small part with the late Kyrle Bellew
and a better one subsequently, with
Louis Mann.
Evening star., 1925-08-02

ly the telephone company
are always advertising new
i improvements in their serv-
ice whereby 1t makes it SIM
pier for people to reach each other by
telephone and l suppose the company
feel pretty proud of themself for the
advances they have made. but on the
other hand it looks to me like the
chamber of commerce or Mayor Hy-
Ian or whoever has got Jurisdiction
over, same should ought to put their
IT. down before these improvements
goes much further and not only put
a quietuS on them but go a step past
that and order them to withdraw
some of the improvements all ready
made because as a matter of fact tele-
phoning is a whole lot too easy as it
is and has been for several yrs
At my request or You might say
orders, the little woman kept a record
the other day of all the calls that
day, and as luck would have it, it hap
pened to be a specially light day but
nevertheless will set down the results
and you can judge same for your
sells:
/. For the madam-Strange voice
wanted to know whether he could in
terest her in some fine Florida grape
fruit and oranges from his own ranch
in Florida. Talked for Is minutes be-
fore he give her a chance to say no.
2. Is Mr.. Webb there? No. Isn't
this Manhasset 103? No, this is Great
Neck 103. Oh, they gave me the
wrong number.
8. For the master-Strange voice
said his name was Wallen and he
represented the Woove Lyceum Bu-
reau or something and would the
master consider a lecture tour No,
the master didn't give lectures only
to his kiddies. But we could make
you a mighty fine proposition. MAS
ter hung up by mistake.)
4. For the master-This is Mr.
Cleeye representing the Home for Dis
reputable Cousins or something. Said
he met us once at the foot ball game
Understood we was well acquainted
with Gene Buck and Ed Wynn.
Would we mind calling them up and
asking them to run a benefit on the
evening of July 16? Reply was that
we had ceased to be on very friendly
turns with either of the parties, but
Mr. Cleeve could call them up himself
and Mr.. Bucks number was 155
whereas on the other hand Mr.
Wynn's was 490. Was sure they
would be glad to put on a benefit as
they both revelled in them.
5. (The madam answers) Strange
voice wanted to know if her husband
was in.s Who wants him, please?
Well, tell him it's an old pal of his
from Chicago. But what name shall
/ say? Tell him Charley Gimster. All
right, I'll call him. CThe master comes
to the telephone.) Hello. Hello,
there. Maybe you don't remember me.
Evening star., 1925-08-02
Recognition Of Elsie Ferguson's
Talent Won on Two Continents

hand, she felt sure. She was promptly
at the managers office again in the
stipulated two days.
DO you think you can do the lead
ing woman'S role?" was his first cues
ton.
Yes" she rejoined confidently.
Mr.. Brady looked at her with his
quizzical smile.
Il think you can," he said.
The play was THE Bondsman," and
it's star was Wilton Lackaye.
Elsie Ferguson made good as Lack
ayes leading woman. Still she was
not a star. Then in New Orleans to-
ward the end of the season Edgar
Selwyn, the noted playwright, saw her
act and fell a victim to her charm and
ability.
Miss Ferguson knew nothing of it.,
but stardom now was actually knock
ing at her door. Some time later she
received letter from Eugene Walter,
another writer of plays, and her
friend. telling her that Selwyn wished
to see her in New York
The meeting was arranged Selwyn
took her to the late Henry B. Harris,
who, on Selwyn's direct request, en-
gagged her for the principal woman's s
role in the playwright's new comedy,
Pierre of the Plains" Her work in
rehearsal was so impressive Mr.. Har-
ris Immediately signed her to a long
term contract. When she had finished
with Pierre of the Plains he gave
her the principal role in Claiming
Pollock's Such Little Queen"
She opened in the play as leading
woman. But she made a great hit
Two weeks later, when he was con-
V1nced her success was no flash in the
pan, Mr.. Harris sent for her.
I'm going to make star of you"
he said.
And up went Elsie Ferguson's name
in big, flashing letters in front of the
theater.
Copyright. 1925)