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of wealth, of royalty, of international finance, of the spec-1
(Established in 1876)
j ulators in African raw materials, of the investors in Afri-
— can .plantations.
P ublished E very E ven in g E xcept Sunday by
He was reduced to poverty, his name held up to I
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d ll e i l t l l e loom Ulld telling one of tile most damillUg
stories in the long tragedy of man’s inhumanity to man.
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A WOLF CRY THAT IS NO LONGER REGARDED
OWE NO MAN ANY THING, but to love one another: tor he
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that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. Love worketh no ill to I alar application.
Ins neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.— Romans'
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against jazz.
The City Council has followed
the recommendation of ths teach
ers, and now all dancing* will
be studied in Vienna to the soft
er strains of the violin, the mel
low ’cello and the Iamguorous
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 5.
thrum of the inimitable gypsy i Cross-word
puzzle solvers soon
orchestras.
i may try this new “indoor sport”
! in a dead language.
According to R. J. Scott, in-
| structor in Latin at the Unlver-
I sity of Pennsylvania, he has col-
i laborated with R. G. Kent, of the
Latin department, In completing
a Latin cross-word puzzle book.
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A copy of the new book has been
sent for printing to the Service
Bureau for Classical Teachers at
NEW YORK, Jan. 7. — Raissa Columbia University.
Suits, actress, declares that the
‘‘Cross-word puzzles in Latin,”
saying, “Vanity, thy name is declared Scott, “like those of the
woman!” ¡s all wrong. In her English language, have as their
suit for separation from Guy primary object the increasing of
Suits employed by the Collegiate the vocabulary of the solver, who
School, she claims he spent so proceeds to fill in the words that
much money for beauty treat he knows and also acquires new
ments that there was none left for ones from crqss combinations.
her support. She says he paid:
“Cross-word puzzles' may be
>225 for facial treatments.
composed in any language. I per
$100 for violet-ray hair treat sonally have composed them in
ments.
five languages and could do so In
>50 for an electric vibrator.
more. They are of immense value
>125 for a suit and overcoat. In teaching languages, especially
Her specific charges of in in high-school work.”
human and cruel treatment in
Ten puzzles of different designs
clude:
are included in the new volume.
One blow in the eye — a bruise It will be the first Latin Cross
remaining for several days.
word puzzle book to be publish
. One pinch on the arm, leav ed, so far as it known.
ing a black-and-blue mark.
Profane language on the
Florence — West Coast Power
slightest provocation.
Company takes over Florence
Mrs. Suits, who had a part in electric plant.
‘ The Miracle,” and played in
motion pictures, said her hus
band had over >15,000, >6,000 of
which belonged to her, and yet
he nevey gave her more than
WHERE AND WHAT
>100.
IS HELL?
She claims that when she went
out to buy household necessities,
she always had to give him the
Evangelist T. L. Thuemler
change. She contends he made will tell you exactly how many
her cook meals for as many as persons are in hell at present.
where hell is located, if
twenty-five of his friends. Mrs. Just
the devil is in charge and if
Suits had received >20 tempor the fire burns the meanness out
ary alimony.
of people, or if they must go
on burning forever, and how
you can escape going there.
MEXICAN STAFF RAND IS
Some evangelists would almost
DISBANDED BY CALLES
like to have u!s believe that
hell is so jammed full that
there is hardly standing room
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 7 _ T h e
left. Hear the lecture at the
Mexican Staff Band, which had Adventist church, corner 4th
made a name for itself in the and C streets, Thursday, Jan
United States as well as in'’Mexi uary 8, (:30 p. m. Intensely
interesting and not a dull mo
co, has been disbanded as a part ment
in it.
of the campaign of economy in
stituted by President Calles.
STOP PUZZLE FANS
'Pile expected* has happened. The recent murder of
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---- the work after all of overzealous Egyptian patriots, men
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This theory is given credence, according to the New
WHAT CONSTITUTES ADV ERTISING
“All future events, where an admission charge is made or a York Times, by high officials of the British government
it 1 lection taken is Advertising.
and is doubtless echoed in the American State Department
No discount will be allowed Religiôus or Benevolent orders.
which is also afflicted with the Bolshevik nightmare in
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It has been used too frequently by the reactionary
elements in every nation to camouflage their own pur-
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G. W. McNABB, CHIEF OF POLICE
poses to distract public attention froim their own designs
Almost everyone present at the meeting of the new I and cliicancery.
city council last night was given a distinct shock when 1
In America it reached the stage of absurdity when
three members of the ¿council flatly refused to ratify ! during the last campaign it was charged that so great
Mayor Johnson’s appointee to the office of Chief of Po- an American as Senator La Follette was also a creature
lice, Mr. J. W. Hatcher. The shock came, not "because j of the Moscow regime.
Ralph Greenleaf, pocket billiard champion of the world, has been
those present wished to see the incumbent/Mr. M
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. »ranted a divorce In Philadelphia rrom his wife, Beatrice E. Green
leaf. twenty-five, one year his senior, on grounds of cruelty, Indlgnitiea
removed from office, hut because it was believed that all
SMALL STORE ADVERTISING
and barbarous treatment. Previously she had filed a separation action
that remained to give Mr. Hatcher the position was the :
Consistency is held to he the soul of advertising for In New York, in which she said Greenleafs earnings were 1300 a
week. Later they became reconciled. The divorce action came as a
lormality of having the council vote, and it was thought the small dealer in a pamphlet on “ Small Store Adver- surprise.
Miss Ethelind Terry, American prima donna, has denied a
that the council would easily accept Mr. Johnson’s nom- jtising” issued by the Domestic Distribution Department report of her engagement to Martin B. Jones, Jr., of New York, son of
the president of the Hecker-Jone&JeweU Milling Company Mrs.
¡nation of Mr. Hatcher.
¡of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States.
Louise W. Lewis, heiress to the >60,000,000 fortune of the Ute Henrv
Although we believe Mr. Hatcher to he a very cap-
The Department lays down the general rule that M. Flagler, has appealed to legal counsel and has engaged detectives
to run to earth persons behind an alleged scheme to blackmail her
able man, able to carry out the duties of the office very “ every merchant must make himself known in order to and
her young husband. Lawrence Lewis, from whom she had been
competently, The Tidings at this time wishes to commend ¡conduct a profitable business.” It then goes on to ex- estranged until their unnamed foes threatened froth.
, Mr. McNabb for the efficient police work he has done j plain the methods best adapted to the use of the small store
zie is that the human mind is
while in the local office.
owner by which this may be accomplished.
eager for mental combat. The
It is doubtful if another city the size of Ashland, in
By way of parable the Department points to the dis- cross-woid
puzzle, they say, .is a
the state of Oregon has as competent police protection pised onion. “ The onion,’ ’it says, “ is a plebeian vege- form of challenge, and since it is
cs has been given this city during the term in office in ¡table; tear-compelling, self-assertive and slightly vindi-J simple, millions of minds have
which Mr. McNabb has directed the activities of thekative; a fermenter of domestic strife and a bane upon 1 accepted the challenge,
police force. Working under Conditions which were, at ¡polite conversation. It is to be tolerated, perhaps; not'
BERLIN, Jan. 7. — Vienna,
the queen city of women, wine
Times, far from agreeable, Mr. McNabb has continued to sought. But turn the magic light of advertising upon the!
and song and dance, has declared
give his best at all times, and his best has been well near onion and what happens? It becomes an appetizing,!
open war on jazz music and jazz
perfect.
¡health-giving and blood-enriching gift of benign Nature,!
bands. The Vienna City Council
Working in a city, peculiarly difficult to properly ¡more delicious than the ambrosia of Olympus and as sal-j
has adopted an ordinance forbid
ding jazz bawds at all dancing
police, difficult because of its situation so near the hor- uhrious as the breezes from a forest of-pines.”
schools.
tier of another state, and because of its being a railroad
With this is coupled the advice: “ Although every re-
Since the days of Johann
division point, Mr. McNabb has set a record which is pitition of an advertisement or a letter costs money, oc-
Strauss, the great composer
far in advance of any other police office record in the casional, hit-or-miss advertising is usually a loss, where- NEW YORK, Jan. 7. —If the knowrt as the “waltz king,” the
fabulous wealth In gold of the In
t-tate. Ninety-one per cent of the crimes above petty laE as steady advertising of the right kind is sure to be pro cas
is recovered, a woman will Austrian capital had been the city
eeny reported to the local office have been accounted for. ductive. The retailer whose business justifies advertising be one of the chief factors in re of the dreamy waltz, and later
i.nd the culprits brought to justice. In addition, Mr. Mc in newspapers will do better to run a small advertise trieving the treasure. She is j the city of beautiful operettas
Mrs. Fanny Bandelier and she is motivated largely in waltz strains,!
Nabb has given the county authorities invaluable aid in ment every day than to run a large one once a week.
of the organizers of an ex whose king is Franz Lehart, of
solving Jli'o problems which came before their office.
“ This principle applies to all forms of publicity. If one
“Merry Widow” fame.
pedition now being made ready in
-Did better still, because he believes in preventative au form letters are sent our, it is best to send them regular New
The modern fox-trot, tango and
York for the search.
thority rather than curative authority, Mr. McNabb, it is ly; if handbills are broadcasted, it is best to broadcast Mrs. Bandelier is an authority one-step have almost driven out
waltz. Vienna has more danc
certain, has prevented many crimes, which, in a city them regularly; if window advertising is used, the dis on the culture and traditions of the
ing
schools than any city of its
policed by a man less efficient, would certainly have been plays should he constant and changed frequently. Never the Incas. Senator-elect Hiram size in the w’orld, and more than
Bingham, of Connecticut, also is
committed.
let the public forget you. Never give even your old estah- active
in the search. A. V. Rosell, any of the other continental cities.
Altliough he is still in office because of the refusal 'ishedl customers a chance to forget you, your store, your a direct descendent of one of the Jazz bands imported from
of the council il to 1 ratify
the appointment . of
Mr. Hatcher, goods.”
emperors of the Incas, and G. America, with their “tom tom
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Casanave, brother of the Secre music,” have gotton on the nerves
it is possible that Mr. McNabb may not be removed.
of the Viennese.
The dancing
The times are not rotten just because the children tary of the Navy of Peru, are teachers held a conference and
the chief agents in the project.
DUTY TO REGISTER
know the things you knew at their age.
Rosell computes that there are asked the City Council to forbid
Perhaps we have been too zealous in our demands
more than fifty tons of gold or Jazz music in dancing schools, as
that everyone vote. We have, according to the story
As a general thing you find the softest hearts where naments stored in and around an opening of their offensive
Cuzco, the ancient câpital of the
that comes from Mexico City, where the new President, the hardest hands are.
Incas. The jewels were hidden by
< 'alles, was debarred from voting because he was not prop
the
Incas when they engaged in
gerated, and told of “cross-word
erly registered.
warfare
with the invading Span
tournaments in all the large
Wouldn’t it look as though such a person as the
iards.
cities.”
Fourth Street
President of the Republic would be well enough known, so
Mrs. Brandelier, who represent
It ¡7 a different story today.
sufficiently vouched for that his ballot could be cast
Flory said. The stolid English ed thé Museum of Natural His
Market
man may be seen grimly absorb tory at Cuzco, is well known here.
without suspicion of being irregular?
ed in cudgeling his brain for “a Senator - elect Bingham spent
If the theory of the vote is that every person should
word of four letters representing years at Cuzco representing Yale
he expected to vote—if it is in fact a duty rather than a
a bird’s mouth,” as he rides on University and the National Geo
Mr. Bingham
privilege would not this theory also call for a system
NEW YORK, Jan. 7. — A tiny the bus. In the House of Par graphic Society.
!
discovered
the
lost
city
of Machu
dictionary,
a
little
volume
hardly
that would give the benefit of the doubt, to the voter, as
liament a member surreptitiously
Oil
larger than a wrist watch, is be draws a paper from his pocket Picchu, high up in the moun
against any red tape of registering?
tains,
the
last
city
built
by
the
sold on the streets of New during a desultory debate and
But the tact is that the duty of the voter is not only ing
York like the proverbial hot begins thoughtfully to print let Incas for defense against the
Spaniards.
to vote; it is also to prepare to vote. He must prepare to cakes. Your first guess is cor ters In white squares.
vote so as to cooperate with his fellow citizens iu reason rect—it is being bought by the Coming back to America, J. C. The expedition has the approv
cross-word puzzle fans.
able assurance that the vote is clean, and just.
Boyd, who complies cross-word al of President Augusto B. Le-
This is not the only dictionary puzzles for the biggest newspaper guia, of Peru, and his cabinet.
So, if the citizens of the republic are to cooperate for placed
on the market especially
syndicate in this coun Through his good will and that
a uniform, a regular and a just 1mllot, they must also feel for eross-jword puzzle workers. feature
try, says the cross-word puzzle of Secretary of the Navy Casanave
the duty of seeing that proper regulations are enforced Hardly a publishing house that in reality was originated thirteen all the resources of the Peruvian
for registry.
deals in dictionaries has over years ago by a New York artist. Government will be behind it. Bring your pail and
President Leguia has made it
Doubtless President Calles of Mexico feels this, and looked the field. One firm alone He hit upon the Idea of combin known
that he welcomes not only
get it filled
has sold 250,000 volumes.
takes the lesson to heart—that he did not oversee proper A most remarkable phase of ing an acrostic, a puzzle-poem, the expedition, but all Americans
with a checkerboard.
ly his registration.
the cross-word puzzle craze, and
Boyd is not so sure that the who desire to exploit the natur
If we remember aright, not many years ago, another, one which is baffling psycholo fad is aiding to the vocabulary al resources of Peru.
a President of the United States, was found not to be a gists, is that the cross-word puz of the American people, as he Rosell said there are more
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than 3,000,000 native Incas in
zle
made
its
appearance
in
New
has
been
contended.
The
average
voter of his home state, although 'undoubtedly he was the
York thirteen years ago and fail vocabulary comprises 600 words, Peru who maintain their tribal
most noted citizen of his republic.
traditions, customs and manner-
ed to interest the public. The
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according to Boyd, and creators
of cross-word puzzles aim to keep
all words within such a vocabu
lary.
The cross word has, however,
brought an enormous demand for
dictionaries, Boyd said.
These
new dictionaries, though, contain
more three-letter words than any
thing else, and, while they help
the puzzle-worker, they are not,
in his opinion, conducive to a
greater vocabulary.
Archaeologists are
declaring
that the cross-word puzzle idea
is to be found in cuneiform or
cylinder writing.
It was they
argue, created by the Phoenicians
some 10,000 years ago.
The psychologists are about
evenly divided on the psychology
of the subject. The majority is
inclined to the belief that the
psychology of the cross-word puz-
ismp. Music played on ancient
instruments of the tribe, he stat
ed, has the same compass as Am
erican jazz. .A t the celebration
of - the centennial of the battle
of Ayacurdo, in Peru, recently
General John Pershing represent
ed the United States, and Police
Commissioner Enright, of New
York City, was also an interest
ed participant.
PONCO IN D IA N S CARRY ON
FIGHT IN CONGRESS
PONCA CITY, Okla., Jan. 7—
The Ponca tribe of Indians will
resume its forty-seven-year fight
for indemnity from the govern
ment and the Sioux Indian tribe
in Congress this winter.
They will ask permission to file
suit for >11,000,000 against the
Sioux tribe and the government.
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Saturday
syndicate which created cross
AN OUTRAGED SPIRIT CAN ACCOMPLISH MUCH word puzzles kt that time, short
One man c>n accomplish great, things against en ly afterward discontinued them
because of the public’s lack of in
trenched wrong and cruelty when his weapon may be terest.
t.uly a burning spirit of hatred against injustice and in- What a different story is to be
11 umanity.
told today!
There is the case of E. D. Morel, a Labor member of No form of public amusement
the British Parliament, who died a few days ago in Lon has taken hold the way the cross
word puzzle has. It is almost
don.
impossible to pick up a newspap
To Morel, more than to any other man, was due the er anywhere in the country with
revelations in Belgian Congo, which so shocked the world out finding a cross-word puzzle.
a few years ago, and enforced reforms in the treatment Henry Flory, an American
newspaper correspondent station
of the natives.
ed in London, who arrived on the
Morel was a clerk in a shipping concern in Liverpool liner Olympic this week, said
when he first became convinced there was something rot that the cross-word puzzle only
now has begun to interest the
ten in the administration of the Congo Free State.
But what he soon learned took such a hold on him British. At first It was looked
upon as “another American fad.”
that he quit his job and gave himself up to the exposure Newspapers printed long articles
of that rottenness. Against him were arrayed the forces some of which were highly exag
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