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Surpassed Statue of Liberty

60 arrive at the fact which I did not realize
~ until this time, that the saloon the natural
theater for such in the days before proh-
bition and that thousands of noble specimens which
used to adOrn the walls of such resorts and impart
certain cultural class to the American pub, long
since have vanished.
Nobody seems to know where they went, although
of them big ballroom floor and
the ladies who frolicked through their leafy des
made the Statue of Liberty look like scale model.
When prohibition came they went away and they
did not reappear in the speakeasies nor have they
reappeared since repeal
1t was a great loss to art in America Citizens
drinking at the bar used to contemplate these fe-
males and at certain stage in their studies would
ask the bartender what was the idea of the lady
gaWking at the swan that way. There would then
follow learned discourse the legend of the
picture which had it, if remember right, that the
swan wasn't natural swan at all, but peasant
boy who wished to marry this lady and due to the
unprmcipled jealousy of prominent prince had
been turned into by the local wizard
The Saloonkeeper great art lover and he
collected these paintings in the course of his oc-
caSlonal trips to the art centers of the old world
with his family after fifteen years behind the bar
with never day off, including Sundays mind YOU
He brought them home framed them in gilt enough
to FURNISH courthouse DOME and never tired of
telling what the artist had in mind just as ne had
heard 1t from the man in the store in Naples
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Set out Like q Pioneer

7 GOT a map. and way down in one corner, just
i this side of Havana. dot labelled Miami,
and, buying a railroad ticket and compartment,
I set off like the old pioneers, to learn just what
might lie beyond the furthest frontiers of civiza-
ton as 1 used to know it. After days and nights
of forcing a trail through fiat country and fordng
swollen rivers we came at last to a settlement Since
it was dusk, I repaired to a native inn.
How do you do?" said the innkeeper, who, &C
cording to the custom of the country, din
ner coat. Surely you remember me. used to be
the head waiter at the old Stork Club in West Fifty
eighth street.
handsome stranger at the next table turned,
and it was Barney Gallant He took me to the bar
because ne thought ! might like to sey Hello to
Mike. who used to be in charge of the little room
upstairs at Moreys-the one that pretended to be
a stock brokers' office the outside door.
You'll like it here in Miami" Mike said as he
shook I'D a couple of drinks. Its just like New
York in the old days of last year and the year be-
fore We've still got prohibition in Florida, thank
heaven! I got away from the big town just in time
I knew repeal was coming. You'll find almost all
the places run by old friends of yours. We've got
good floor show. You knew the boys, OF course,
when they were over in Sutton Place and natu-
rally you've seen the dance team a dozen times
Along about in the morning here you won't be
able to tell this spot from the good Ha-Ha Club
before they made it legal"
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Your Health
by DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

THE greatest thing that can be done about rheu-
u matiSm is to prevent it.
leading British physician who has spent more
than forty years in the study of rheumatism says:
The protection of the rheumatic child. and there
by the prevention of subsequent heart disease is the
important aspect of this work and, at the same
time. the most encouraging"
The fact is that the exact of rheumatic
disease is not vet known For than thrty-fve
years 1t has been urged that the majority of cases
were due to a bacterial organism. but no one yet
has proved exactly the nature of the organism.
AS has been said already the significant facts
established by the studies of the last quarter century
relate to the knowledge of rheumatic conditions in
childhood and the understanding that prevention
must be a constant aim through early life.
A GREAT deal Of the heart disease from which
n human beings suffer is due to previous rheu-
matte infection.
Many investigators are convinced that there is
family predlSpOSltlon TO rheumatic conditions With
a soil suitable TO invasion by bacteria, and with
climate that tends to encourage the growth of these
bacteria, in the human body the likelihood of rheu
matism is apparent
Long ago it was pointed out that rheumatism
occurs more often in children who live in cities than
in those who live in the country. 1t frequent
at low water levels than at high water levels.
should be pointed out that colds and infections
OF the throat also more frequent under such
ditionS.
HOUSES with thin walls, built in damp places
Il Il and surrounded by trees, are about the worst
type OF residence for the rheumatic person. Damp
rooms menace. Those that are warm and
lighted by direct sunlight incline to be the most
healthful.
II long has been acknowledged that seriously in
tected tonSlls afford place where germs get
into the body.
Because OF the extent to which rheumatic condi-
tons menace the world today, leading a cause of
disability IN all civilized nations great organizations
are undertaking studies of these conditions on both
national and international bases.
II only by mass study of this serious problem
that success eventually can be achieved
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VIII Rogers Snaps Horses, Laughs
in His NeW Comedy, Dauid Harun ,

the Cleveland administration are
just as real and true today.
Harum possesses, on the part of
Rogers, keen and honest insight
into qualities of men as we'll as
horses. Harum never went wrong
on a human, but he pulled some
bonerS when it came to horses.
One of the best scenes in
David Harum' is when the Dea-
con swaps a blind horse with
Harum for a pretty tolerable nag.
Harum got his revenge later
when he loaded a balky horse on
the Deacon. Here is clean, Amer
lean comedy which is all too
scarce in fiction as we'll as upon
the stage and screen.
WILL ROGERS makes David
w Harum believable even to
present day audiences. Only
plain, human acting could bring
such results, and that is exactly
what Rogers accomplishes in this
movie.
When the camera winks its re-
cording eye for the last time at
Rogers I will move his David
Harum into my little hall of
fame.
Louise Dresser is careful not to
everyday the role of Aunt Polly,
who keeps house for Harum and
sees that he puts on his over
shoes in bad weather. Her act
ing is just as plain and honest
as that of Rogers.
The love romance is played sim
ply but a little more Electrically
by Evelyn Venable and Kent Tay-
lor. Mr.. Taylor is especially eff
fective as the baShful sutton who
first refused to marry a rich girl.
OF course, the director has not
forgotten the old-fashioned horse
race. The horse that Harum drives
in the race runs only when the
driver sings "Terre-rara-b boom
decay" to him.
Rogers never has been funnier
when he becomes panicky during
the race when he forgetS the tune.
Here is comedy that will live in
the memory of all who see this
picture.
Stepin Fetchit as the groom to
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Worse Off Than Emperor Jones

MIKE was right. Quent dropped in, and Joe and
wi Bill and Swope and the rest will be down to-
morrow But 1 travelled more than a thousand
miles only to find myself back in what amounted
to No q on a Saturday night. 1 was the Emperor
Jones' 1 came out at the same edge of the jungle
at which I had entered. l couldn't get away from
the sound of the drums.
OF course we haven't any famngoes in New
York as they have all the infleld of Mr. Wide
ner's Hiaeah race track. But I'm told they are not
native to Miami They are imported from Cuba.
After a year or so up here they seem to turn
a little paler" 1amingo expert told me. suppose
that's on account of the night life. AS far as
race track goes. the flamngo is the ideal pet. He
never gets out on the track and interferes with the
horses He takes no interest in whipping finish.
You never hear him passing out tips or see him
waddling up to the mutuel windows. In fact, the
famingo can afford to smile at the thousands mill
ing around the plant He is the wiSest bird on the
premises. I said a minute ago that 1 was like the
Emperor Jones I boasting. I'm much worse
on They've taken my silver bullet.
Copyright. 1884. by The Times
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laxative fellow; 'Possible?' as
solitary interrogation; and 'Yes?'
for 'Indeed?' - I should have
marked, so far, no difference
whatever between the parties here
and those I have left behind.
"THE women are beautiful, but
Il they soon fade; the general
breeding is neither stiff nor for
ward; the good nature is uni
VerSal."
But then he was not yet in New
York, which was getting jealous of
Boston's hospitality. He had not
yet seen congressman in Washing
ton.
New York reminded him of that.
A committee of its most doggy
citizens, planning dinners and
balls, dropped him line. 1t be-
gan with words worthy of John
Patrick O'Brien-
Sir
THE citizens of New York, hav-
ing received the agreeable intelli-
gence of your arrival in the United
States and approaching the value
of your labor in the cause of hu-
manity, and the eminently sue
ceSSful exercise of your literary
talents, are ambitious to be among
the foremost in rendering to you
and your lady the hearty welcome
which they are persuaded is in
reserve for you in all parts of the
country"
Dickens and Mrs. Dickens then
said goodby to Boston, he doing
most of the talking. For Stephen
Leacock'S biography recalls that
she was "a good looking but I'M
interesting young woman who in
our own day would be designated
by the adjestive dumb"
THEY said good-by to Boston
l. and thanked it graciously;
thanked young Oliver Wendell
Holmes, young James Russell
Lowell, distinguished old Josiah
Quincy, president of Harvard, and
the young men of Boston" who
had given them a dinner as ora
torical and liquid as ever Papinte's
restaurant knew"
They came on to New York on
Feb. f3, ninety-two years ago this
month, were conveyed to the Carl
ton hotel in Broadway, and there,
as we we're taking our wine"
wrote Dickens, Washington Irv-
ing came in alone with open arms.
And here he stopped until 10
o'clock at night" 1t seems as
though the whole old town had
open arms for Pickwick'S young
father, of whom through all his
life people said: There is a kind
light in his face"
The BOZ Ball'' was good proof.
There were garlands there in the
Park theater and floor space for
5000 dancers. there were popping
bottles and a gallopade. And a
reporter wrote:
The agony is over; the Boz
Ball, the greatest affair in mod
ern times, the fullest libation ever
poured upon the altar of the
muses., came off last evening in
fine style. Everything answered
the public expectations"
Its hero, in a contemporary re-
port, then was thus described:
The author of 'PickWick Pa
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zone of the most remarkable men
in the country"
Good God" said young Mr..
Dickens, they are all sol I've
hardly met a man since my ar
rival who wasn't one of the most
remarkable men in the country"
In Washington, too, he encoun-
tered in full flower what he came
to consider an American institu-
ton almost as distressing as slav-
cry. He wrote:
"As Washington may be called
the headquarters of tobacco tine
tured saliva, the time is come
when I must confess, without any
disguise, that the prevalence of
those two odious practices of
chewing and expectorating began
about this time to be anything
but agreeable. ="
But his hosts did not realize
that their handsome young gen.
tleman and his amiable young
wife were abaShed. In Richmond,
Va, on March Is, 1912, he was
given a warm welcome and a
flood of oratory. He responded
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to take your column 1t could have at the top of
the caption The New Broun' Well perhaps you're
right. But anyway, get out and study the country,
particularly the south. About a year ago I almost
sold you newspaper in Texas. In fact, they
tracted for the service. DO you know what the first
column which you supplied for the
client?"
1t was the one about how I failed to get through
Harvard account of 1unking French? I suggested.
NO; it was an article in which you favored landing
the United States Marines in Georgia in order to
establish race equality. And then you come around
complaining and saying-'You syndicate other peo-
pie Why don't you syndicate me?'"
"Al right I said III travel and study that part
of American life which lies south of Washington
Square
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NelU Saloons ArtLess

I FIND that in the new saloon there is no such
Il art. There is much chromium and OPAQUE glass
but there are no beautiful oil paintings and the
design OF the new bar is such that NOWADAYS there
are not even the wide inviting spaces of mirror
which used to provide canvas for the work of the
ltinerant soap artist.
The soap artist was artist who drew lovely
scenes all IN white, suggesting snow, and of cooling
import, to comfort the citizens as they perspired
over their beers in summer His art was brief and
he knew very well that winter time they would
wash the mirror and obliterate his work But he
drew pictures for the love of doing so and for a
days drains out of the cops bottle which of course
was private stock.
The fine old patriotic Autograph should not re-
main forgotten. have in mind especially the scene
depicting Clusters last stand which hung in thou
sand saloons and stirred a manly resentment and
Warlike love of and country in persons who
mad peered at the massacre through the bottom
OF three or more glasses. Survivors of that period
Will remember the fallen cavalrymen strewn upon
the ground. The Indians crcling close to the
colonel who stood there fighting to the last and
their own impotent rage they perceived the
assassin sneaking up behind him, unnoticed toma-
hawk IN hand, to Stay the gallant officer
The art OF the old American saloon was art that
was art. 1 am a little dubious about the artistic
value of paintings of cowsps and squares and trees
They do not tell much of a story.
Copyright. 1884. by Unite Syndicate 1ncJ
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TodaY's Science
BY DAVID DIETZ =

THE battle over cosnlic rays fared when DR..
Il Arthur H. Compton, Nobel prize-winner in
physics of the University of Chicago speaking in
New York before the American Physical Society,
declared that the Settle Fordney stratosphere flight
Of last summer proved conclusively that the rays
were composed largely or entirely of charged
particles
Dr. r. A. Millikan of the California Institute of
Technology, also Nobel prize-winner in physics,
has insisted that the rays consisted of energy more
exactly of little bullets packets of energy, known
photons.
Dr. Compton said that instruments carried to a
height Of eleven and one-half miles in the Settle
Fordney fight definitely proved his contention.
These instruments included self-recording cosrnic
ray meter developed by DR.. Compton. This instru-
ment made Photographic record of the passage of
the coSmic rays through steel bomb filled with
compressed argon gas and surrounded by four-inch
shield Of fine lead shot weighing 200 pounds.
The measurements made in the upper atmosphere
also revealed the existence of new type of cosmic
rays which either electrically neutral or
posed Of particles heavier than protons the nucile
of hydrogen atoms, DR.. Compton said.
TN addition, the stratosphere data also proved for
the first time the existence of component of the
cosmic rays consisting either Of protons the nucile
of hydrogen atoms or of POSITIONS, that is, positive
electrons. DR.. Compton said
Because these rays must penetrate the barrier Of
the earths magnetic field before reaching the EARTH
only those rays which have energy enough to pene-
trate vertically through half or more of the atmos-
phere are found to reach the earth at all.
1t has been previously known that some of the
rays reaching the earth positively charged but
DR.. Compton said that further result of the strato-
sphere records is evidence that the component Of
the cosmic rays consisting of protons or POSITIONS
whichever it may turn out to be- constitutes most
all Of the cosrnic rays which reach the earth
The type of cosmic ray already referred to-
consisting Of electrically neutral particles particles
heavier than protons are encountered only high up
in the stratosphere according to DR.. Comptons in
depreciation of the fight records
DR.. Compton urged that high altitude
flights with equipment similar to that used on the
SettleForney flight be tried in Canada closer to the
north magnetic pole. He also urged similar flights
over the earth's equator.
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graciously. The newspaper re-
ports said it was fairy scene"
and an Attic supper"
DUT in two months he had had
D3nough of America. His whole
being was as English as the dust
of Rupert Brooke, forever Eng
land" From Montreal on May
%, 1912, he and the lady sailed
eastward.
On the steam packet ahead of
them went his letter to Forster:
How I look forward across that
rolling water to home and it small
tenantry. How busy myself in
thinking how my books look, and
where the tables are, and in what
position the chairs stand rela-
lively to the other furniture
And what our pets Che meant the
four children) will say and how
they will look. We shall soon
meet, please God, and be happier
and merrier than ever we were
in all our lives.
ooh, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Observation-Disclosures"
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Ali equipment of the new store is
modern, according to Chester H.
Jackson, president.
Electric refrigeration is used
throughout the store. Especially at
tractive will be the display of fruits
and vegetables kept at the peak of
crispness by the modern methods of
refrigeration. Bernie Zier is man
ager of the new store.
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on tiger-skin rugs without any
clothes on, or stepping into their
bathtubS or sitting among the
ivy and rushes, peering at GER
tain fowl, preferably swans.
Undoubtedly ladies belong
in any comprehensive repre-
sentation of the American scene
and I would be the last one to
deny that they can be made to
look quite attractive in these
undress pictures which artists
like to paint. But I do not think
public opinion. especially in the
smaller cities and towns, has yet
arrived at the point of approx
ing such works in the halls of
the public schools, the police
stations, and the almshouses
where the new deal intends to
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lection by "jes' supposin' what he
would do if he was tradin' horses
on the next day. That clears
Harum's conscience and makes
everything legal and even moral
to this foxy horse trader.
The director wisely has not
tried to make this picture grand.
He has sought and captured the
real homely qualities of Harum
and and his friends in his home
town.
The bank as created for this
picture is one which could be
found on any American town
Main Street forty to fifty years
ago.
Will Rogers has not modernized
David Harum, although some of
his remarks about the panic in
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ana says 1, 'CnlS IS ike our
London bridge believing, of
course, that these visitors we're
newsboys. But what do you think
of their being EDITORS? And
what do you think of their tear
ing violently up to me and begin
ming to shake hands like mad
men?"
The disconcerting first impress
sion, though, vanished quickly.
The states, just entering the lush
period of industrialism, full Of as
piration and vainglory, with the
modification" Juror over, and no
other stirring common concern to
usurp the tourists place from the
public mind, received him with
acclaim. Adulation, maybe, is a
more exact word, for what the
states did for Dickens makes their
reception for Bernard Shaw last
year seem like deportation papers
handed to him at his port of
entry.
BOSTON hailed him as an in
- ternational idol. His and the
lady's was a public procession to
the fremont House. A Nobel
Prize is ashes compared to what
the states thereafter presented to
the wide-eyed, dark-eyed, sensitive
young gentleman from Kent.
In his American Notes" he
writes more of sociology than of
those amenities early in his visit.
But to Forster he wrote:
How can 1 tell you what has
happened since that first day?
How can 1 give you the faintest
notion Of my reception here; of
the crowds that pour in and out
the whole day; Of the people that
line the streets when 1 go out; of
the cheering when I went to the
theater; of the copies of verses,
letters of congratulation, well
comes of all kinds, balls, dinners,
assemblies without end?"
Even from the far west"
(hardy ones were getting out then
to the Mississippi valley and some
had crossed the river to make
Iowa ready to become a State)
delegation came. Its mission was
that of other delegations from
throughout the land, to invite him
to be a guest of the people.
THE young Dickens enjoyed it
Il immensely. There is no doubt
of that. He could not then fore
see, of course, the chagrin with
which he was to encounter to
bacco-spitting Washington" and
the uncouth first citizens of the
hinterland who talked to him in
terminably about this great
country of ours" He never did
understand those robust billiards
as he understood the far loWlier
creatures of NeWgate prison.
Of Americas response to the
arrival of that young man who
had given Samuel Pickwick and
Nicholas Nickleby to the world,
DR.. Charming wrote:
1T is all heart. There never
was and never will be, such
triumph"
The young man, at first, rel
ished it.
Il will say" he wrote, that
but for an odd phrase now and
then - such as Snap of cold
weather; a 'tongue-y man for a
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hang the paintings produced by the $500 artists.
1 am vague, and I believe the CWA is little
foggy also the matter of whether these paintings
are to be self-hquidating public works or not If
they are to be such, the government will have to
give the communities the money with which to buy
the paintings from the government. But seriously
doubt that even under these attractive terms of
purchase the people would assume the responsibility
for hanging in public places the sort of art which
1 have mentioned.
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BY WILLIAM ENGLE
Times Special Writer

ON morning, when New York young Charles
~ Lady" standing, he later full
the
the Shorelne Of America happily
of impending bewildermnt.
introduced to the continent which
presently
dramatically than has other
forgetting They
the newsree encompaSSed him.
the wharf, Dickens
peril bundles of
nd sol Oh
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Fair Enough
By
Westbrook PeqIer

A SURVEY of conditions in Chicago conducted
strictly in the interests of art, qualities me to
report that the situation in the new-stye saloon
is very punk and to recommend that some of the
$500 artists who have been hired by the government
be assigned to this sort of work Some time ago. in
Washington, detected worriment the fact that
certain of the $500 artists who then were being
engaged to depict the American scene would be
likely to turn in pictures of wellbuilt ladies' lollng