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j ANOTHER WHITE HOUSE DOG
FA —
; ’ A matter of signal importance to the
American electorate is broached—or rath-
er resumed —in a recent dispatch from
somewhere. The place doesn’t matter;
most readers have probably forgotten
it in their excitement even if they were
calm enough to notice it at the time.
The matter pertains to the succession
of mascots at the White House.
By the way wonder what T .a< 3 Boy
thought about when his administration
on the White House grounds was
brought to an end? Did he think that
he was the victim of an extra-constitu-
tional interpretation of the question of
canine succession or that his case ought
to become a precedent? Shouldn’t
somebody propose an amendment to
make the organic Jaw conform to prac-
tice in this respect as has been done in
so many other respects?
In any case strange things happen—-
or maybe they don’t just happen—in the
purlieus of politics. First Laddie Boy
■was put out of office—somebody of-
fered President Coolidge a fox terrier
and the offer according to a semi-offi-
cial dispatch was accepted “tentatively.”
Then The Light remarked—somewhat
ill-advisedly—that it was about time for
a chief executive of this great nation
to blossom forth with an orange-and-
white bird dog to relieve the monotony
of mere flea-chasers and rat-catchers.
Immediately it developed that such a
step would be highly impolitic as there
are two hostile camps of bird-dog men
each camp being composed of full-
fledged and fledgling voters.
Such being the case it seemed that
President Coolidge was about to put
. over a profound diplomatic achievement
by the process of avoidance. He would
avert the fell wrath of both camps of
bird-dog men—the setter and the pointer
■ —by embellishing and enlivening the
‘White House ground with a fox terrier.
* The recent dispatch alluded to sug-
gests a world of possibilities agreeable
or not —it all depends upon the view-
' point. The dispatch reports that the
has accepted or may accept
or has been offered—the exact status
of the situation doesn't matter—an aire-
idale. It is reported furthermore that
this “dog besides being an aircdale is
a blood relation of Laddie Boy and
has a pedigree ’n’ everything.
Now what d’ye know about that?
What’s to become of the fox terrier?
; Another political disappointment may-
be. Is it possible that the President
after all was about to make an un-
diplomatic move in that he had failed
to take proper cognizance of the fact
that there are two kinds of fox terriers—-
the straight and the wire-haired?
Moreover is it to be inferred that the
airedale is the only genus of dog of
which there are not two kinds with a
camp of uncompromising fanciers for
each? Or is the electorate to conclude
that a sort of dog dynasty has been
set up at the White House so that only
pedigreed relations of the founder are
eligible to the succession?
Pity the President if he has to answer
these questions or even consider them.
By the way—again—what kind of dog
if any ruled the White House grounds
when Thomas Jefferson or when An-
drew Jacljjon was the nation's chief
executive." To be thoroughly and con-
sistently democratic either of those
SATURDAY.
Presidents it would seem would have
had to bi a fancier of cur dogs—for
official example at least. For a cur
.on the White House grounds is about
the only kind of dog that might give
offense only to those voters for whom
offense from the political as well as
from all other standpoints is the right-
ful portion—namely those who go to
the White House hoping to be able to
appropriate for their own uses things
less legitimately to be coveted than
political pic.
CLEAR-SEEING ENGLISHMEN
Frequent reading of English publica-
tions can hardly fail to produce in an
American the conviction that the intelli-
gent people of England in so far as
their judgments arc reflected bv such
mediums take a remarkably unpreju-
diced view of Europe's political affairs.
They seem to stand up for their gov-
ernment when they think that it is right
but to have no hesitancy in expressing
their convictions when they think that
it is wrong.
This refers particularly to expressions
concerning the reparations controversy
between Great Britain and France. One
might have thought that the English
people as a whole or those of them who
realize the economic plight from which
their country is suffering as a result of
non-scttlement of the reparations dis-
pute. would unreservedly endorse the
representations made by their govern-
ment in its recent note to France. That
they have done nothing of the kind
is indicated by various comments in
English publications and particularly by
a comprehensive review the entire
problem as published in a recent issue
of The Spectator.
It is not to be inferred that the side
of France is taken by any intelligent
group in England. But while the Eng-
lish people in general feel that France
is acting most foolishly in occupying the
Ruhr not a few of them it seems hold
their own government partly to blame for
untoward developments which have
threatened to reach a climax in the utter
collapse of Germany and possibly a
super-climax in final disruption of the
entente with whatever dire consequences
that might produce.
It is commonly asserted in England
that France violated the Versailles
treaty when she sent troops to occupy
the Ruhr. But that judgment does not
blind the average intelligent Englishman
to the culpability of his own govern-
ment in events of which that develop-
ment is regarded as an outgrowth. In
fact The Spectator says that the British
government had at first wished for the
success of the Ruhr project. Its culpa-
bility is described as going farther back
than that having been expressed when
Great Britain “joined with France in
going outside of the treaty when the
three towns Dusseldorf. Duisberg and
Ruhrort were occupied.”
Later it is pointed out. France with-
out giving England any warning “sud-
denly dashed out from Mainz and oc-
cupied Frankfort and four other towns.”
The British government protested. The
Spectator recalls and within three days
the French troops returned to their
legal territory. But there was “a certain
hesitation” in the English manner from
which the French inferred “that they
might succeed if they tried again. They
were not mistaken. When they occu-
pied Dusseldorf Duisberg and Ruhrort
we actually co-operated with them. We
thus knocked the ground from under
our own feet *** and the weak point
in the otherwise great and memorable
note of August 11 is the attempt to prove
our consistency.”
Such an impartial survey of the sit-
uation evidencing a determination on
the part of Englishmen to look cold
facts squarely in the face regardless of
considerations of national partisanship
is the kind of survey that all the coun-
tries directly interested in the repara-
tions problem will have to make before
they can hope to reach anything like a
just settlement of the troubles that in-
fest them.
GERMANY DEMANDS DOLLARS
Little by little the outside world is
coming to realize some of the difficulties
experienced by Germany in her attempt
to continue functioning as an industrial
and commercial nation in the face of
rapid depreciation of the mark. Some
people may have wondered why busin»ss
m Get many is not put upon a cash basis.
To some extent that has been done it
seems as a me; u of preventing ap-
parent profits from becoming actual
losses. More generally though the Ger-
mans have adopted old measures of
value—staple commodities that meet
vital wants—so that their paper money
has come to be used onlv as a temporary
medium of exchange. What this means
in inconvenience may be realized when
it is borne in mind that normally money
has a double role—it is both a measure
of value and a medium of exchange.
But there are some transactions in
which cash-on-the-spot payments can-
not suffice to protect the recipient from
actual losses even though the amount
of his charges may be exorbitant at the
moment. A serviceable illustration of
I such cases is afforded by a recent dis-
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
patch from Berlin which describes a
dilemma from which the German Tele-
graph Bureau has taken measures to ex-
tricate itself.
Consider a specific transaction where-
in an American in Berlin offers to the
cable office there a message for trans-
mission to this country. He asks “How
much?” The clerk with whom he is
dealing must answer that question on
the spot; it is a cash transaction. The
clerk knows of course the amount of
the toll on each end of the line; the
two together constitute the total charge.
Therefore he says or used to say so
many marks—and the author of the dis-
patch paid that amount.
So far as the German end of the trans-
action was concerned no risk was
taken; it was up to the cable officials
to use their daily revenues to their ad-
vantage. But how about the American
end? If the clerk in the German office
charged the customer so many marks
for sending the cable would the Ameri-
can office's share of the toll as calcu-
lated in Berlin be sufficient to meet the
bills coming in from this country at the
end of the week?
It depended upon the value of the
mark at the time those bills were paid.
Unfortunately for the Germans it is
impossible to send money—actually con-
vey it—by cable. Even if Germany
maintained a fund in the United States
for meeting such obligations the very
instant they were incurred the charges
on the American end would have to be
paid as each cable message was received
here - any delay at all —one day. or just
a few hours—might make a difference
in the amount due.
For the charges on the American end
are made in terms of dollars and cents.
Consequently the Germans when they
received the bills from the American
cable office might find as they almost
invariably did that the sum they had
received in marks for the sending of
cables to the United States during the
week was not sufficient to meet the
American bills in terms of dollars and
cents the value of the mark having so
greatly depreciated between the dis-
patching of the messages and the re-
ceipt of those bills at the end of the
week.
As a result of such experiences the
German Telegraph Bureau is now de-
manding payment in dollars for all for-
eign messages. Before this practice was
adopted the German Telegraph Bureau
was doing business at a loss —the greater
the volume of business the heavier the
loss. Now with the dollar as the me-
dium of exchange and the measure of
value the bureau should be able to re-
coup as it is reported that foreigners
in Germany are making extensive use
of the cables.
England is going to send over an-
other boat to compete for the cup. Why
not give ’em the cup. Nobody over
here has any use for a cup anyhow.
We call the attention of those mis-
guided individuals who planned to buy
an island and stock it with liquor that
a lot of islands off the coast of Japan
disappeared during the earthquake.
— OG
The old-fashioned idea that some peo-
ple had that the world owes them a
living may be true still but the modern
version is that the world also owes
them a modern bungalow and a new car.
A Wot Id League of Hoboes is to be
organized to bring about world peace
says Dr. J. Eads How. That’s right;
let everybody become a Weary Willie
and there wouldn’t be any fighting be-
cause fighting is hard work—and hoboes
won’t work.
THE LOON.
Tameless In his stately pride along the lake ot
islands
Tireless speeds the lonely loon upon his diving
track; —
Emerald and gold emblazon satin-like his
shoulder.
Ebony and pearl inlay mosnic-like his back.
Sailing thus sailing thus sails the brindled loon.
When the wave rolls black with storm or
sleeps in summer noon.
Sailing through the islands oft he lifts his loud
bravura; —
Clarion-dear it rings and round ethereal
trumpets swell; —
Upward looks the feeding deer he sees the
aiming hunter
Up and then away the loon has warned his
comrade well.
Sailing thus sailing thus sailed the brindled loon.
Pealing on tbe solitude his sounding bugle-tuue.
Sacred is the loon with eye of wild and flashing
crimson;
Eye that saw the Spirit Haw-wen-ne-yo through
the air
Falling faint a star—a shaft of light—a shark
of splendor—
Falling on the deep that closed that shining
shape to bear.
Sailing thus sailing thus sailed the brindled loon.
With the grand shape falliug all a-glitter from
the moon.
Long before the eagle furls his pinion on the
pine-top.
Long before the blue-bird gleams in sapphire
through the glen
Long before the lily blots the shoal with golden
apples.
Leaves the loon his southern sun to sail the
lake again.
Sailing then sailing then sails the brindled loon.
Leading with bis shouting call the Spring's
awakening croon.
Long after bitter chills have pierced the windy
water.
Long after Autumn dies all dolphin-like away;
Long after coat of. russet dons the deer for
winter
Plies the solitary loon his cold nnd curdled bay.
Sailing there sailing there sails the brindled loon.
Till in chains no more to him the lake yields
watery boon.
—A. B. Street.
ijTHE ISLE OF
RETRIBUTION
H EDISON MARSHALL
. ©UIWI»BROWN e COMMNy 1913
Begin Here Today.
Ned Cornet his fiancee Lenore and
Bess a seamstress are survivors of
a shipwreck. They land ou an island
inhabited only by a man named
Doomsdorf and his Indian wife.
Doomsdorf tells ‘hem he has named
the island "Holl” anil warns Ned and
tbe girls that he is master of the isl-
and and that they must be his will-
ing slaves.
Neu defies DoomadoH and the two
fight. Ned however is no match for
the big man's strength and is badly
beaten. Second in command is the
squaw and she proves herself a faith-
ful watch dog for her master.
Bess is the stronger of the two girls.
She makes up her mind to be ready
for any opportunity of escape. Le-
nore seems helpless to cope with the
situation. Now go on with tbe story.
"But I really must get down to es-
sentials. It's so lang since I've talked
to the outside world that I cau't help
being garrulous. To begin with —I
came here some years ago not en-
tirely by my own choice. Of course
not even the devil comes Io such a
hell as this from his own choice.
There's always pressure from above.”
He paused again hardly aware of
the horrified gaze with which his
hearers regarded him. A startling
change had come over him when he
spoke again. His eyes looked red
as a weasel's in the shadowed room;
the tones of his voice were more sub-
dued yet throbbing with passion.
“1 remember gray walls long ago
in Siberia” he went on slowly and
gravely. "I was not much more
than a boy a student at a great uni-
versity—and then there were gray
walls in a gray snow-swept land and
gray cells with barred doors and men
standing ever on watch with loaded
rifles and thousands of human cat-
tle in prison garb. It was almost
straight west of here far beyond Ber-
ing sea and sometimes inspectors
would come stylish people like your-
selves except that they were bearded
men of Petrograd and look at us
through the bars as at animals.in a
zoo but they never interfered with
the way things were run 1 I was an
enemy of society they said—so I be-
came an enemy of society in reality.
Right then I learned a hate for so-
ciety and a desire to burn out the
heart of such weak things ns you!”
lie turned to them snarling like a
beast.
“One day the chance came to es-
cape. While more cowardly men would
have hesitated I pushed through and
out. On the way I learned a little
lesson—that none of tbe larger crea-
tures of the wild die as easily as men.
I found out that there is nothing more
to killing a man that is in your way
than killing a caribou I want to eat.
I didn't feel any worse about it af-
terward.
“I had to come across here. I
couldn't forever escape the hue and
cry that was raised. Ultimately I
landed on this island—with Sindy and
a few steel traps.
“In this climate we can trap al-
most the whole year round. We can
start putting them out in a few days
more—keep them out clear tKI June.
Every year a ship—the Intrepid that
you've likely heard of—touches here
to buy my furs —just one trip a year
—and it leaves here supplies of all
kinds in exchange. But don’t tnke
hope from that. Hope is one thing
you want to get out of yoitr systems.
The Sptain of the Intrepid and the
Japanese crew are the only human
beings that know I live here except
yourself—that know th 're’s a hu-
man occupant ou this island. On
their yearly visit I'll see to it that
none of them get a sight of you.
“Once I was used to working all
day from dawn to dark wi’h an armed
master on guard over me. It isn’t
going to be that way from now on.
I'm going to be the armed master.
The next few days you're going to
spend building yourselves a shack and
cutting winter fuel. Then each of you
will have a trap line—a good stiff
one too. Every day you'll go out
Ain *t It a Grand and Gloria us Feelin’?
nnd follow your line of traps—bait-
ing. skinning and fleshing drying the
skins when you gei to the cabins.
You'll know what it really is to be
cold then; you'll know what work
means too. With you three I ex-
pect to triple my usual season’s
catch building up three times as fast
the fortune I need.
“All my life I’ve looked forward
to a cahnce to give society the same
kihd of treatment it gave me—and
when that fortune is large enough to
work with there will be a new dynasty
arise in Russia.
“When I said to nbanlou hope I
meant it. You have no boat ami I’ll
give yo iy> chance to make one. The
distance is too great across the ice
ever to make it through; besides
you won't be given a chance to try.
"Even if your doting fathers should
send out a search party they will
overlook this little island. It was
just a freak of the currents that you
landed here —I don't see yet why you
weren’t blown to Tzar Island imme-
diately east of here. When they find
you aren t there and pick up any other
lifeboats from your ship that in all
probability landed there they’ll be glad
enough to turn around and go back.
Especially it they see your lifeboat
floating bottom upward in the wa-
ter!”
He paused scanning their pale
drawn faces. He turned to Ned first
but the latter was too immersed in
bis own despair ever to return his
stare. Lenore didn't raise her golden
head to meet his eyes. But before his
gaze ever got to her Hess was on her
feet.
“Don’t be too sure of yourself” she
cautioned quickly. He looked with
sudden amazement into her kindling
eyes. “.Men like you have gone in
the face of society before. Y'ou're not
so fat up here that the arm of the
law can't reach you.”
The blond man smiled into her
earnest face. “Go on my dear” he
urged.
"It's got you once end it'll get
you again. And I warn you flint if
you put or.e indignity on us do one
thing you've said—you'll pay for it
in the end —just as you'll pay for
■‘that fiendish crime that you com
mitted today.
As her eyes met his. straight and
unfaltering the expression of con-
temptuous amazement died in h's
face. Presently his interest seemed
to quicken. It was as if he hud seen
her for the first time searching eyes
resting first on hers then on her
lips dropping down over her athletic
form and again into tier eye. He
seemed lost in sinister speculations.
Doomsdorf had seemingly achieved
his purpose and his prisoners
lay crushed in his hands
A fear infinitely worse than
that of toil or hardship had evidently
killed the fighting spirit in Hess; Len-
ore had been broken by Doomsdorf's
first words. And now all the struc-
ture of Ned's life had seemingly top-
pled about him.
For in this moment of unspeakable
remorse he found he could blame no
one but himself for the disaster
Every year men traversed these deso
late waters to buy furs from the
Indians; he had been in a staunch
boat and with a little care a litt'e
foresight the journey could have
been made iu perfect safety. It was
a man’s venture surely; but he
could have carried through if he had
met it like a man instead of a weak-
ling.
In spite of his own despair his
own bitter hopelessness he must do
what he could to keep hope alive in
Lenore and Bess. It was the only
chance he had to pay. even in th?
most pitiful slight degree for wha»
he had done to them. He must al-
ways try to make their lot easier doing
their work when ho could maintain-
ing an attitude of cheer living the lie
of hope when hope seemed dead in his
breast.
And that is why when Doomsdorf
looked at him again he found him in
some way straightened his eyes
more steadfast his lips in a firmci
stronger line.
“Glad to see you.'re bucking up” be
commented lightly.
Ned turned soberly. “1 am bucking
up” heanswered. ”1 see now that
you've gone into something you cun’:
got aw’ay with. Miss Gilbert was
right; in the end you'll find yourself
laid out by the heels.”
“You think so eh?” Doombsdorl
yawned and stretched his arms. “Just
try something— that's all. And sine?
you're feeling so good. I don't see
why you shouldn't get to work. You
can still put in a fairly good morn-
ing. And you”— he turned with cat
hike swiftness that marked so inanv
of his movements toward Bess—-
"what’s your name?”
Bess in her misery looked at him
with dread. “Bess Gilbert” she an-
swered quietly.
"Bess it will be. Ienore I thins
you call the other —and Ned. Good
thing to know your first names since
we’ve got an uncertain number of
years before us. Well I suggest that
all three of you go out and see what
you can do about wood. You’ll have
to cut some and split it. I've been
lazy about laying iu a winter store.
Much to his amazement. Ned stood
erect pulled down his cap over his
brown curls and buttoned his coat
"I'll see what we can do” he an-
swered straightforwardly. “I have
though one thing to ask.”
"What is it—”
‘•That you let the two girls take
it easy today—and get warmed
through. If you sent them out now
weakened as they are it might very
easily mean pneumonia and death.
It’s to your interest to keep them
alive.”
“It's to my interest surely—bu’
don't rely ou that to the extent ot
showing too much independence. Th’
human body can stand u lot before i‘
gives up the ghost. The human voice
can do a lot of screaming. I know
because I've seen. I don’t mind run-
ning a litle risk witii unman life to
get my way. and I know several
things short of actual killing that go
toward enforcing obedience and queu-
ing mutiny.”
Lenore staring wildly at him.
caught’ her breath in a sob. “You
don’t mean—”
Doomsdorf did not look at her. He
still smiled down at Ned. “You've
never felt a knout have you. on the
naked back?” lie asked sweetly. “I
found out what they were like in
Siberia nnd with the hope of show
ing someone else I took one out—in
my boot. It's half-killed many a
man—but I know one man that it's
completely killed. He was a guard—-
and I found out just how many blows
it takes.” The man yawned again.
“But your request is granted—so far
as Lenore is concerned. You can
leave here here for me to entertain.
Bess has spirit enough to work.”
(Continued in Our Next Issue.)
Pungent Paragraphs
Game is crooked when a gammer
strikes his wife. Queen is marked. —
Detroit News.
Wild life in Indiana is getting wild-
er and wilder. They're making bath-
ing beaches out of all the fishin’ holes.
—lndianapolis News.
“Is be an expert photographer?”—
Very. Why he could take a speak-
ing likeness of a dumb man.”—Phila-
delphia Bulletin.
One has only to look nt the cos-
tumes of the bathers to realize an out-
ing at a beach resort is a skin game.—
Boston Traveler.
It you tell a man he's a slow coach
lie gets sore; when the speed cop ac-
cuses him of being fast he becomes in-
dignant.—Milwaukee Journal.
Another trouble with this effete age
is that flour sacks arc used for dish
towels instead of underwear. —Bir-
mington News.
We have with us a citizen who pre-
fers his trombone to his wife but
when a man is afflicted with trombon-
itis nothing else matters. —Mobile Reg-
ister.
Drink is blamed by William H. An-
derson for his troubles only in the
instance lie is not the man who did the
drinking.—Washington Star.
"Claudine tried on her first pair
of knickerbockers yesterday” said He-
Joise of the rapid fire restaurant.
“Says she's going to wear ’em on a
hike next Sunday.”
“Aw-w-w” commented Claudine.
“And say. you ought to seen her
trying to pull ’em over her head.”—
Norfolk Ledger Dispatch.
The feat of that Frenchman who
has broken the record by whistling
ten hours without stopping shows
there are worse things than dance
marathons.—lndianapolis Star
SEPTEMBER 15 1923.
A Puzzle a Day
CITY IJFE
The letters in the words “city life”
may be re-«rranged so as to form a
single word which states what “city
life” should be but unfortunately
often is not.
Yesterday’s answer:
When the clocks stand as shown
above they will indicate 11 8 12.
and 4 a total of 35. This is the
highest total of hours than can be
registered by the four clocks each
maintaining its proper time.
Where to Go
Motion Pictures.
Palaee—Elinor Glyn in “Six
Days.”
Empire—Pola Negri in “The
Cheat.”
I’rinccss—“The Silent Partner.”
Rialto—“Her Reputation.”
Stock.
Royal—Edna Park and Players in
“Six-Cylinder Love.”
Road Sliow.
Majestic "Lightnin.’ ” with Thom-
as Jefferson in the title role.
SOME NOT IDLE SPECLL.YTIONS
Mrs. Alice Foote MacDougal of
New York secs dimly n probability
that men will have to do the house-
work while the women “go forth to
battle with the world.” In research-
es running as far back as 1880. Mrs.
Mac Dougal has found that during
the intervening 43 years tbe percent-
age of business women in gainful an.l
steady employments has risen from
14.7 to 21 per cent while the per-
of men gainfully occupied has
dropped one-half of 1 per cent. “I
don't pretend to prediet what the meu
will do” says Mrs. MacDougal. "Some
one has to do the housekeeping I
suppose and if the women are other-
wise engaged the men will have to do
it.” But she still sees a chance of
the lords of creation getting the best
of women after all. “Probably t>y
that time” she goes on to say. “in-
ventors will have relieved household
drudgery to such an extent that it
will be pretty easy for the men.”
It is not a bad showing for mere
men—this other one-half of 1 per
cent—under his many and great temp-
tations to “let Georgiana do it.” it
proves that men as a mass will strug-
gle desperately before yielding their
positions and being relegated to the
kitchens of the land. Even though
by that time as Mrs. MneDougal
foresees invention ma.v have reduced
housekeeping practically to a zero
point man born of woman will be
terrified by reflecting that it has been
during a half century of steady in-
vasion for reducing the former house-
hold burdens of women that the wom-
en have been growing more and more
dissatisfied witii housekeeping and
more insistent on getting into gain-
ful occupations in business.
It has been during the latter half
of Mrs. MacDougal's 43 years that
glancing down an alley in any city
residence block mere man has been
forced to see in towering mounds of
tin cans the growing unwillingness of
women to use any of the new methods
of heat-making for the cooking of
foods. Every such mound he must
regard as a monument to woman's
growing discontent and he will shrink
in fear and trembling from the fate
which apparently nothing can relieve.
—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Despicable.
“Of course I love Jack but he'e ths
meanest hubby In the world.”
"How RO?”
“Well he hasn't a single vice I
depend on for pin money.”—London
Mail.
By Briggs
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