The Monmouth herald., July 07, 1922, Image 7

Seven Killed When Coach Leaps From Bridge
Flapper Done
W ith Shifters
She Repudiates Organization Re­
puted to Promote Promiscu­
ous Flirtation.
SUCH A SOCIETY NEEOLESS
She Founded the Original for “ Jazz”
and Pocket Money— Now Busy Pop­
ularizing "Necker" and Other
Slang Phrases.
A close-up view of the wreckage of a wooden couch splintered by a full
Union City, Ga. Seven were killed and 10 Injured.
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FAREWELL TO AMERICA
By II. W. NE V IN SO N
[Correspondent of the Manchester Guardian at the arm s conference.]
[F ro m the Nation and the Atlienæum, London ]
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International conference on ' avenue, gold crimson, and green ; the
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limitation of nrmnnient brought to sudden halt when the green light
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Washington many eminent Journalists shines, as though nt the magic word
from Europe, one o f the most eminent an enchanted princess had • fallen
o f whom was llenr.v W. Nevlnson of asleep; the hurried»rush for the leis­
England. lie has been one of the best urely lunch at noon, the deliberate
known of the British war and travel­ appearance of hustle and hustle In
ing correspondents and Is the author business; the Jews, Innumerable ns the
o f numerous books.
Mr. Nevlnson Bed sea sand! Good-by to outside
came as the correspondent of the staircases for escape front fire! Good-
Manchester Guardian, n newspaper hy to scrappy suburbs littered with
Which holds a unique place In English rubbish of old boards, tin palls, empty
Journalism. Its Influence In politics cans, and boots!
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has given It a circulation nlmost gen­
eral In Great Britain, and Its accom­
Good-by to standardized villages nnd
plished writers and scholarly editors small towns, nllke In litter, In ropes of
make each Issue a piece of literature. electric wires ; long the streets. In
Upon taking his departure from Amer­ clanking “ trolleys," In chapels, stores,
ica. Mr. Nevlnson wrote the following railway stations. Main streets, nnd
“ Farewell” — an excellent exemplifica­ Isolated wooden houses flung nt ran­
tion o f his keen powers o f observation dom over the country! Good-by to
and his brondmlndedness:
miles of advertIseinent Imploring me
In mist and driving snow the towers In ten-foot letters to ent -somebody’s
o f New Y’ ork fade from view. The codfish ( “No Bones 1” ), or smoke some­
great ship slides down the river. Al­ body's clgarets ( “They Satisfy!” ), or
ready the dark, broad seas gloom be­ sleep with Innocence In the “ Fault­
fore her. Good-by, most beautiful of less Nightgown’’ 1 “ Good-by to the
modern cities! Good-by to glimmer­ long trains where one smokes in a
ing spires and lighted bastions, dream­ lavatory, nnd sleeps at night upop a
like as the castles and cathedrals of shelf screened with heavy green cur-
a romantic vision! Good-by to thin tulns and heated with stilling nlr, while
films o f white steam that Issue from over your head or under your hack the
central furnaces and tilt In dissolving haby yells and the mother tosses
wreaths around those precipitous monnlng, until rt lust you reach your
heights! Good-by to heaven-piled of­ “ stopping off place,” and a seud-negro
fices, so elenn, so warm, where lovely sweeps you down with a little broom,
stenographers, with silk stockings nnd ns In a supreme rite of worship!
"Good-by to the house that Is labeled
powdered faces, sit leisurely nt work
or converse In charming ease! Good- "One Hundred Y'enrs Old,” for the
by, New York ! I Hin going home. I am amazement of mortality 1 Good-by to
going to an ancient city of mean and I thin woods, and fields Inclosed with
raoldcrlng streets, o f Ignoble coverts casual pales, old hoops, nnd lengths of
for mankind; extended monotonously w ire! I am going to the lund of a po­
over many miles; of grimy smoke liceman's finjer. where the horse nnd
clinging closer than n blanket; of | the bicycle still drag out a lingering
smudgy typists who know little of | life; a land of persistent and silent
silk or powder, and less oT leisure, nnd to ll; n land of old villages nnd towns
charming ease. Good-by, New York I us little like each other as one woman
is like the next; a land where trains
1 am going home.
are short, nnd one seldom sleeps In
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Good-by to beautiful “ apartments" them, for In any direction within a
nnd “ homes’ ’ ! Good-by to windows day they will reach a sea ; a land of
looking fnr over the city n$ from a vast nnd ancient trees, of houses time-
mountain peak ! Good by to central honored three centuries ago, of cathe­
heating and radiators, fit symbols of drals that have been growing for a
years,
and
of
village
the hearts they w arm ! Good-hy to thousand
frequent and well appointed bath­ churches, built while people believed
rooms. glory o f the plumber's art I in God. Good-by, America! I am go­
Good-hy to suburban gardens running ing home.
Good-by to the land of a new lan­
Into each other without hedge or fence
to sepnrnte friend from friend, or en­ guage in growth, o f split Infinitives and
emy from enemy! Good-by to shady cross-bred words; the land where a
verandas where mcklnic chairs stand dinner Jacket Is a "tuxedo,” a spit­
ranged In rows, ready for rending the toon a “ cuspidor” ; where your opinion
voluminous Sunday papers nnd the Is called your "reaction," and where
Saturday Evening P o st!
Good-by.
Am erica! I am going home. I am
SWAMP ANGEL CLOCK
going to a land where every man's
house Is his prison— a land o f open
fires and chilly rooms, and frozen wa­
ter pipes, o f washing stands nnd slop
palls, and one hath per household nt
the most: a land o f fences nnd hedges
and walls, where people sit nlonf. and
see no reason to make themselves sea­
sick by rocking upon shore. Good by.
Am erica! I am going home.
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New York.— Life la Just brimming
over with excitement for the flapper!
these days. No sooner has the fume j
of oue exploit censed to he a uiue days’
wonder thuu another comes along to
take its place. A few weeks ago she
was reveling lu the glory reflected by
her adoption of the turned-down ga­
losh ns footwenr for promenades on
fair days rather than protection for
stormy weather. Now It's the activi­
ties of the Society of Shifters that have
again turned on her the spotlight of
publicity.
She denies, however, any responsi­
bility for the organization which, ac­
from a trestle, 50 feet In height, at cording to Gertrude Hobtnaon-Smtth
of the Yacathm I M d a t lS h under the
| Dame of Shifters, U prom oting "]iet-
’ | ting parties,” and fllrtntlons. As a
“ vamp,” Instead of meaning an lm- ■ matter of fact, the Interest of the flap­
provlsed accompnnlment to a song, per In the Shifters Is gone and when
means a dangerous female! Good-by the name did mean something to her
to the land where grotesque exaggera­ It was not such an organization ns that
tion is culled humor, and people gaps deserlt>ed by the head of the Vacation
In bewilderment at Irony, as a bullock association, with n Fifth avenue head­
quarters and an ornate badge.
gapes ut a dog straying In Ills Held I
“ We dou't need badges or secret or
Good-hy to the lund where strangers any other kind of societies to have
say "Glud to meet you, sir," and really •petting parties,’ ” said a high school
seem glud; where children whine their i flapper after the latest version of the
little desires, and never grow much purposes of the Shifters, “ und who
older; where men keep their trousers would pay for the privileges of Join
up with belts that run through loops, ing a flirting society when one enn
and women have to bathe In stockings. have one of her own? That’s all Junk,
I am going to a lund of undent speech, so far as we’re concerned. Somebody
where we still say “ record" nnd "con­ may have tuken up the bleu und he
cord” for "recud” nnd "coucud"; where trying to make n regular business of
“ necessarily” and “extraordinarily" It, but we started It Just for n ‘Jazz.’ ”
must he taken at one rush, as hedge-
Inspiration for Pocket Money.
dltch and-rail In the hunting field;
The original Shifters, she explained,
where we do not "commute" or "check” formed by a group of hlgh-school flap­
or “ page,” hut “ take a season" and pers, had no officers, by-laws or head­
“ register” and “ send a boy round"; quarters except In the heads of Its
where we never say we nre glad to members. It was founded, first to pro­
meet a stranger, nnd seldom are; vide new sources of pocket money,
where humor Is understatement, and and secondly lu the spirit of the old,
Irony Is our habitual resource In dan­ fatulllnr schoolboy gnme of "pass It.”
ger or distress; where children nre Her pleas for a different sweater for
told they are meant to be seen nnd every day In the week and several
not heard; where It Is "bad form" to pairs of "last hopper” shoes (those
express emotion, and suspenders are low-heeled, horse and lenther sport
a strictly feminine article of attire. shoes originally designed for golfers)
Good by America 1 I am going home. getting beyond the resources of the
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parental pocketbook, the flapper was
Good-by to the multitudinous papers, , forced to evolve some scheme for pro­
Indefinite of opinion, crammed with In­ viding the nrtlcles without which she
significant news, und asking you to felt herself debarred from association
continue u first-page article on page with her kind.
23, column 51 Good-hy to the weary
So she adapted the old Bnrnum
platitude, accepted us wisdom's latest maxim, "There's one born every min­
revelation I Good-by to the docile au­ ute,” to the Innate predilection of
diences that lap rhetoric for susten every sclioolglrl to belong to n society
ancel Good-by to politicians contend and wear a badge. She took a brass
ing for aims more practical than prln- | clip, such as used In any business
clples! Good-hy to Republicans und nftlce, with the characters "O. K."
Democrat», distinguishable only by stamped on It and with It fastened to­
mutual hatred 1
gether the two ends of the scarf she
Good-hy to the lund where liberals ban purloined from her father's stock.
are thought dangerous, und radicals This clip, worn In thnt way, became
show red 1 Where Mr. Gompers Is the official emblem o f the Shifters.
called u Socialist, and Mr. Asquith The badge aroused curiosity. All the
would seem advanced 1 A lund too girls asked the original group of found
large for concentrated Indignation; a ers what It signified.
lund where wealth beyond the dreams
"It ’s the Shifters’ badge,” they were
of British profiteers dwells, dresses, told. “ It's a new society. Everybody
gorges, and luxuriates, etnuluted und is Joining. Don't you want to come
unashamed! I am going to a land of In? Y’ ou can become a member l>y pay­
politics violently divergent; a lund ing me a quarter. Then I’ll give you a
where even coalitions cannot coalesce; badge. That gives you the right to get
where meetings break up In turbulent as many members as you can.
disorder, und no platitude avails to
Girls of convincing tongues und la­
soothe the savage breast; a lund fierce tent selling ability collected ns high
for jiersonal freedom, and Indignant us $12 a week for membership while
with rage for Justice; u lund where the going was good. The membership
wealth Is taxed out of sight, or for fee ranged from n quarter to as mueh
very slmme strives to disguise its lux­ as the traffic would bear, hut was re­
ury ; a lund where an ancient order Is stricted chiefly to the smaller sum. So
passing away, and leaders whom you
call extreme are bailed by lord chan­
cellors as the very fortifications of
security. Good-by, America I I am go­
ing home.
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Good-hy to prose chopped up to look
like verse! Good-hy to the Indlscrlm
lnating appetite which gulps lectures
as oplHtes, and "printed matter" as
literature!
Good-by to the wizards
and witches who ask to psycho-analyze
my complexes. Inhibitions, and silly
dreams 1 Good-by to the exuberant
religious or fantastic beliefs by which
unsatisfied mankind still strives des­
perately to penetrate beyond the flan)
Ing bulwarks of the world I Good-by,
Americans! I am going to a land very
much like yours. I am going to your
spiritual home.
far as the flapper was concerned, the
held was quickly exhausted.
Wall Street Adopts Shifter Idea.
But In the meantime the Shifters
had expanded Into Wall street. Not
for months had Wall street played a
gniue that so tickled Us fancy. Tin
Idea of getting a fellow to pay from
$1 to $10 for a brass dtp worth u frac­
tion of a mill appealed alike to the
office boy and the head of the firm
and the "etliigliig’' process went mer­
rily on.
Now, apparently, some near 1‘onzl
has capitalized the flapper's Idea Into
a commercial proposition and tins In­
vested money In printing a by-law«:
nud making ornate badges In tin-
hopes of reaping a huge profit. But
the new society of Shifters Interests
the flapper only In so far as It pays
a tribute to her cleverness. She Is
done with It. She has other nnd more
Important matters on bund, the most
Important of which Just now Is the
popularizing of four new phrases, one
she has adopted from the theater and
three she coined herself. From the
theater she has taken the phrase “ I
will so say,” spoken by the French
father who essays American slang In
Irene Bonlonl's "The French Doll.”
The flapper hus discarded "I'll say so"
and her " I will so say" Is her most
cmphntlc affirmative in classroom and
Broadway.
The epithets she ««.as evolved from
her own lexicon nre "Junk," "neckev"
and "heavy necker.” "Junk" Is any­
thing she considers unimportant or un­
worthy of consideration. A “ necker”
Is n "petter” who puts her arms
around a hoy’s neck. A “ heavy necker”
Is a "petter” who hangs heavily on
said neck.
“ Necking parties" have
superseded "petting parties.”
How Music and Other Forms of
Entertainment Are Broad­
casted to Millions.
KEEP CHECK ON APPARATUS
Every Precaution Taken to Keep Out
Foreign Sounds— “ Lletenlng Poet#”
Established to See That Ap­
paratus Works Smoothly.
New York.—TTiere Is much the same
fusclnntlon In going behind the scenes
of a great broadcasting station us 1»
found behind the curtuln ut u tlieuter.
A general working Idea of the op­
eration of wireless electricity ts al­
most universal In America today. At
most every night the general public
has suddenly become familiar with the
Intricate mechanism of such appa­
ratus. The distribution o f upwurd of
a million radio telephones has edu­
cated the public far more rapidly than
could years o f ordinary study. The
audiences which gather dally to lis­
ten In on the programs broadcasted
the eountry over probably aggregate
over n million listeners.
Almost all
ure familiar with the operation of
the broadcasting station.
An evening spent In one o f the grent
broadcasting stations la a rare priv­
ilege.
Most o f us have probably Imagined
the broadcasting station to be a maze
of complicated apparatus with some­
thing the appearance of a factory or
u laboratory. The stage from which
the programs nre broadcasted, to call
It such, Is in reality an attractive
Passion Play to Be Revived
155 German Soldiers
Fell Every Hour of War
A dork made from an 8-Inch. 200-
pound I ’arrot shell fired In the Civil
war on Charleston from Morris Island
four miles away, by the Swamp An-
I gel. the long-distance gun. Is part
of a collection from the estate o f Gen.
Horace Porter, to tie disposed of at
i auction In the near future.
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Berlin.—Forty-six men were
killed and 100 wounded on the
German side during every hour
the World war was raging, ac­
cording to an estimate arrived
at by Gen. von Altrock, from a
study of official records.
Germany's losses totaled Ip
dead were 1,808,548 and lb
wounded 1,246,779. A total of
13.tMi.U00 men were under nrnfli
during the war, o f whom nbotJt
one In seven was killed in battle.
German deaths, caused di­
rectly or Indirectly by the war,
are estimated at 12,000,000.
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Cactus candy Is the latest sweet­
meat to he prepared by confectioners
nt San Antonio, Tex. The heretofore
worthless desert plant Is being used
for making candy, after a complicated
process of crystallizing and purifying.
These girls are cutting with u machine
the raw plant, which is the first step
lu the making of the cactus confection.
Need Schools in Mexico City.
Mexico City.-—More than 00,000 chil­
dren of Mexico City are without school
accommodations, according to news­
paper reports. O f the 100,000 children
of school age In the capital. It Is said
there Is room for only 100,000. Pres­
ident Obregon Is supporting Governor
G a sen of the federal district In Ills ef­
forts to supply more facilities.
Killed by Bathrobe Miehap.
London.—Tripping over the t»«sel o f
his bathrobe, a Devonshire veterinary
surgeon fell downstairs and was killed.
Behind Scenes
in Radio Studio
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Good by to the copious meals— the
early grapefruit, the “ cereals,” the
eggs broken In a glass! Good-by to
orsfers. large and small, to celery and
olives beside the soup, to "sea food."
to auhllmnted viands, to bleeding dock,
to the salad course, to the ‘‘Individual
pie.” or the thick wedge o f apple pie.
to the Invariable slab of Ice cream,
to the cofTce. also bland with cream,
to the home-brewed alcohol I I am
going to the land o f Joints and roots
and solid pudding; the land o f ham
and eggs nnd violent te a ; the land
where oysters are good for suicides
alone, and where «ream is seldom
s«-n : the land where mustard grows
and whlskv flows. Good-hy, America!
I am going home.
Good by to the long stream o f mo­
tors- ••limousines“ or "flivvers" I Good-
by to the signal lights upon Fifth
MAKING CACTUS CANDY
The fsmons passion play of Oberamroergnu. Bavaria, la to he revived for
the first time In twelve years. Anton I-ang. whose presentation of Ihe role of
Christos has made him famous, will again be seen In that part. The picture
shows Judas, played by Guido Vlayer, receiving the pieces of silver from the
high priest.
studio surprisingly barren of technical
apparatus.
The Radio Studio.
The walls or the studio nre hung
with rich curtnlns, which are designed
to he useful us well us ornamental.
Resides lending an air of elegance to
the Interior, they serve to deaden the
sounds which come from adjoining
rooms nnd ut the same time prevent
nny possible echo or vibration.
The studio contains several phono­
graphs nnd the cases for records
whose music Is to he broadcasted.
There Is a grand piano for accompany­
ing the soloists. A number of easy
chairs are scattered about. The floor
Is o f course, thickly covered to deuden
all possible sounds.
About the walls are ranged a couple
of Inconspicuous cabinets of n dark
wood. There are ulso n couple of
desks with switches nnd telephones.
Suspended from the ceilings are two
receivers hung from wires. These
are provided with paper funnels, much
ttie same ns the old-fashioned horns
o f phonographs, which can he readily
adjusted at nny angle or height to
suit the performers. Two or three at­
tendants and the performers and a
very few visitors lire admitted.
A few minutes before the opening of
the performance the mechanical ex­
pert directing the program—he Is
known technically as the “operator"—
calls up the mechanical department
and nssures himself thnt alt Is In read­
iness.
He now signals to an assist­
ant to put the great set used for send­
ing In operation. A few moments later
he goes to the cabinets with their
rows of switches nnd knobs and quick­
ly gives the last touches to the ap­
paratus. The hum of n generator, like
thnt of a giant bee. Is now heard
throughout the studio. Every one In
the room hr.s been cautioned In ad­
vance to keep perfectly quiet; the
raised hand of the operator now In­
forms them that the broadcasting ma­
chinery Is functioning.
Ingenious Checks.
The operator now gives Ids direc­
tions by signs alone. At a signal an
assistant winds up one o f the phono­
graphs, places a record In position and
stands ready to release It. The an­
nouncer now takes up his position be­
fore one of the telephone* at the desk,
and, speaking clearly and distinctly,
hut not loudly, announces the opening
of the program. It Is his voice which
ha* become
familiar to tens of
thousands of t... pie throughout the
eastern states.
lie may he said to
have a speaking acquaintance with a
hundred thousand people who have
never seen his fiice.
One number follows another on the
program. The greatest care Is taken
to have the entertainment go forward
without any delay or interruption of
any kind.
Several Ingenious cheeks
ure used to make sure that the hmatl-
. casting apparatus la working smooth­
ly nnd efficiently. There are a nnrnber
of observers whose stations are known
as “ listening posts" scattered for miles
In several directions which are con­
stantly on the alert.
If they fall to
lienr t h e pr..grata, or It comes to them
I Interruptedly or smothered In quality.
i they will rail up the broadcasting sta-
that between the number* o f the pro-
giam and report the trouble. In this
way the entire field covered hy the
«»th m * Is kept under observation.